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Posted: 10:01 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012
The most expensive Senate race in Ohio history is on track to be its nastiest evidenced by the onslaught of negative ads and heated debates between incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel.
Money from outside groups has fueled the battle since December 2011: More than $24 million has been spent against Brown and $12 million against Mandel, according to the campaigns. The ads play to party faithful more than independent or undecided voters, experts say, and debate arguments Monday and Thursday followed suit.
The rhetoric escalated with both candidates calling each other liars during a debate here Thursday, the second of three planned for the race. The candidates were asked their positions on job creation, hyper-partisanship in Congress and military funding but used much of their response time to attack and define his opponent.
Brown called Mandel "an elected official that has fallen far short on the honesty integrity quotient," and Mandel said he took personal offense to the comment.
"Senator, you're a liar," Mandel said. "You're lying to the people of the state of Ohio. You're falsely attacking me and I won't stand for it."
PolitiFact Ohio, the fact-checking arm of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, investigated more than 50 claims by the two candidates over the course of the campaign. PolitiFact found Mandel's statements true or mostly true only 32 percent of the time, while Brown was accurate 62 percent of the time. Mandel's six "pants-on-fire" false ratings made him the state record holder, according to the Plain Dealer.
"He kind of wins this crown over and over and over," Brown said during his time to answer a question about bipartisanship. "What he's citing out of the Plain Dealer is not quite right, but Josh Mandel, as we know, has trouble telling the truth. We just can't trust Josh Mandel to tell the truth. We just can't trust Josh Mandel to do his job."
Dan Birdsong, political scientist at the University of Dayton, said research shows candidates' attacks on each other can backfire.
"They're trying to walk a fine line between being passionate and not coming off as condescending to the other candidate," Birdsong said. "For the partisans, the level of civility may not matter that much but to the people who swing the election they might have another view."
Birdsong said both candidates are targeting their message more toward partisans than independent or undecided voters, and with the economy showing signs of improvement, both campaigns have time to focus on little things such as Brown forgetting to pay property taxes or Mandel not paying payroll taxes for his treasurer campaign employees.
Polls show the race is still one to watch. Brown has led Mandel in every poll except four in which they tied, and an average of all polls calculated by the website Real Clear Politics puts Brown ahead by 5.2 points. But Brown has only cracked the critical 50 percent a handful of times.
Experience may be more of an issue than age. Paul Beck, political scientist at Ohio State University, said Mandel's young face and short resume may give voters pause.
"Mandel is pretty fresh to the office of treasurer and one wonders if he isn't moving too quickly in terms of trying to advance his career and for some voters that's an issue," Beck said. "They'd like to see him be more seasoned."
Brown, 59, beat incumbent Republican Mike DeWine for the Senate in 2006 and previously served in the U.S. House and General Assembly and as Ohio Secretary of State. Mandel, 35, was elected state treasurer in 2010 and previously served two terms in the Ohio House and two tours in Iraq in the Marine Corps.
Mandel began running for U.S. Senate just months after being sworn into his four-year term as treasurer. Asked about this concern, Mandel turned the question on Brown.
"The experience we definitely do not need is what Sherrod Brown has shown," Mandel said.
"That question is sort of emblematic of the whole campaign where he simply doesn't answer the question," Brown said.
Among the attacks, the candidates were able to speak some substance about their plans. Mandel pushed the "no budget, no pay" plan to withhold lawmakers' pay if they don't pass a budget. Brown said he's committed to Ohio bases, citing his work with the base closing commission to benefit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The candidates plan to debate one more time, on Oct. 25 in Cincinnati.
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—By Tim McDonnell
Most experts agree that slowing climate change is going to have to involve some kind of price on carbon dioxide pollution. Although the last attempt to pass a federal carbon price in the US failed in 2009, some of the world's most-polluting companies haven't let down their guard. A report last week from the nonprofit Carbon Disclosure Project found that 29 companies that operate or are headquartered in the US are planning for the future by using their own internal carbon price.
So how much do these companies think carbon pollution is worth? Not every company released a specific number, but we plotted those that did on the chart above. As you can see, there's quite a broad range, with the price officially recommended by the Obama White House ($37 per metric ton of carbon) falling north of the middle. For comparison, we also included the current prices in British Columbia (which levies a flat tax) and the European Union (which operates a carbon credit-trading market). An oversupply of credits on the EU market has recently driven the price to record lows, below where most economists believe it can be effective in curbing emissions. But a decision yesterday by the European Parliament to slash the number of available credits is expected to drive the price up 35 percent over the next year.
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—By Brentin Mock
This story first appeared on the Grist website and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Nelson Mandela, who died last week, is best known for his fight against South African apartheid. But his long walk to freedom also included steps toward solving this mammoth problem called climate change. He envisioned a world where all people are able to live a fully dignified life, with clean air to breathe and clean water to drink—and where poor countries are not left with the repercussions of rich nation's dirty ways.
Six years ago, Mandela founded The Elders, a cross-cultural group of leaders from across the globe, including former President Jimmy Carter and former United Nations Chief Kofi Annan, to forge human rights-based solutions to worldwide problems. One of the group's top priorities is climate justice, which is not only about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also about ensuring the protection of those people and regions most vulnerable to the worst of climate change's impacts.
—By Patrick Caldwell
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is in China this week for her first international trip as the head of the agency. During her four-day tour she'll stop by Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong and will meet with her counterparts in the Chinese government to discuss how the two countries might reduce their carbon footprint. "The U.S. and China represent the world's largest economies, the world's largest energy consumers, and the world's largest emitters of carbon pollution," McCarthy said last week in a speech previewing her trip. "I'd rather not be the largest energy consumers or the largest emitters of carbon pollution, but since we are we're going to get together and we're going to talk."
The world better hope the planet's two dominant superpowers can find a way to curb their pollution. The US, which is responsible for much of the rise in emissions during the twentieth century, is certainly one of the world's leading villains when it comes to global warming. But China is now, by far, the world's top producer of climate-destroying pollutants. The country claimed the top spot in global carbon emissions in 2007, nabbing the reins from the US. (To be fair to China, the US emits far more carbon per capita.)
Combined, China and the US produce nearly half of the world's carbon emissions. This chart breaks down the percentage of global CO2 emissions from 2008 by country:
China once lagged far behind the other major polluters in the world. But as this chart from the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media shows, the country's emissions have risen steeply ever since the late 1990s:
As things stand, China's exponential increase in emissions won't abate anytime soon. Even as the country leads research in renewable energy and explores a carbon tax, it's not enough. "Over the next two decades or so, China will belch out nearly as much CO2 as it did over the entire previous 160 years combined," the Economist wrote last month.
Carbon emissions from the US have leveled off and even dropped slightly in recent years, thanks to increased fuel efficiency in cars and cheaper natural gas. Good news, but the US will need to reduce, not just flat line, its carbon use if the worst calamities of global warming—cities wiped out by rising sea levels, volatile storms, droughts, etc.—are to be averted. But even if US politicians can muster the will to pass meaningful legislation tackling climate change, it will all be for naught if China's emissions rate continues to skyrocket.
—By Chris Mooney and Asawin Suebsaeng
In a just-released report, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has taken an extensive look at the scary side, the dramatic side…let's face it, the Hollywood side of global warming. The new research falls under the heading of "abrupt climate change": The report examines the doomsday scenarios that have often been conjured in relation to global warming (frequently in exaggerated blockbuster films), and seeks to determine how likely they are to occur in the real world.
So here's a list of some of the most dreaded abrupt changes (where abrupt means occurring within a period of a few decades or even years), and the probability that they'll happen—even if nothing like the Hollywood version—before the year 2100:
As seen in: The scientifically panned 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow.
What would happen: The great overturning circulation of the oceans, driven by the temperature and the salt content of waters at high latitudes, transports enormous amounts of heat around the planet. If it is disrupted or comes to a halt, there could be stark changes in global weather patterns.
Chances it will happen this century: Low. For future generations, however, The Day After Tomorrow might be slightly less laughable (if still wildly exaggerated). In the longer term, the NAS rates the probability of a disruption as "high."
As seen in: The over-the-top Category 7 and the even more over-the-top Sharknado.
What would happen: The frequency and/or intensity of extreme precipitation events—including heavy rains, damaging flooding, droughts, and hurricanes—would show a relatively sudden increase. The consequence would be not only the potential for more weather disasters and their associated costs but also, the NAS warns, the possibility of "increased conflict" following disasters. No Category 7s, but still something worth worrying about.
Chances it will happen this century: According to the NAS, we can already detect a clear trend towards more extreme flooding, although trends in other extreme weather phenomena, such as droughts and hurricanes, are more murky for the moment. As for an abrupt change this century? NAS rates the outlook as "moderate."
As seen in: The 1995 Kevin Costner classic Waterworld.
What would happen: Here is arguably the scariest global warming scenario—the collapse of all or part of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, leading to rapid and extreme sea level rise. (But no, the continents would not disappear as in Waterworld. Not remotely.)
Chances it will happen this century: Fortunately, this risk is not likely to materialize before 2100, according to the NAS—with one possible exception, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which contains the equivalent of three to four meters of sea level rise. The NAS judges that an abrupt change here during this century is "plausible, with an unknown although probably low probability." In the longer term, meanwhile, the probability is high that some of the great ice sheets of the planet will indeed melt substantially and drive sea level rise on a scale measured in meters, rather than inches.
As seen in: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (which isn't directly about global warming, of course, but is definitely about heat).
What would happen: Heat waves can be devastating. Not only can they kill significant numbers of people (and spark conflict), but they also can imperil agriculture and water supplies.
Chances it will happen this century: According to the NAS, a climate-related trend towards more intense and frequent heat waves has already been detected. And the outlook for an abrupt change for the worse in this century is "moderate."
As seen in: Amazingly, to our knowledge Hollywood hasn't made use of this one yet.
What would happen: One oft-touted climate fear is that undersea Arctic deposits of methane hydrate will be destabilized or even explode, releasing large volumes of gas into the atmosphere that, in turn, trigger rapid global warming. This scenario is particularly frightening because methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. By worsening global warming, an Arctic methane "bomb" would also increase the risk of other dangerous abrupt climate changes.
Chances it will happen this century: "Low," says the NAS. Over the longer term, however, the risk rises to "moderate"; and when it comes to a related threat—the release of stored carbon from the thawing of northern permafrost, which would also amplify global warming—the long-term risk is "high."
As seen in: The 2012 Imax film To the Arctic (yes, a documentary).
What would happen: The loss of summer Arctic sea ice has profound effects, ranging from opening up dramatic new opportunities for shipping and resource exploitation, to reshaping ecosystems and native cultures, to changing global weather patterns.
Chances it will happen this century: The NAS considers the ongoing changes in the Arctic region to be an abrupt climate change that is already upon us. So you can watch this one in a documentary, or even in satellite images.
—By Chris Mooney
Just before Thanksgiving, many conservatives seized on a new study examining the climate views of members of the American Meteorological Society. It's no secret that there's a schism between climate scientists and weather forecasters over climate change, and the study captured this, to skeptics' delight. The fact that a sizable percentage of AMS members disagree with mainstream climate science represented "the latest in a long line of evidence indicating the often asserted global warming consensus does not exist," according to Forbes blogger and Heartland Institute fellow James Taylor.
Yet a closer look at the study—conducted by researchers at George Mason University, Yale, and the AMS itself—shows that its main punch line is quite different. The research was chiefly focused on trying to understand why the meteorological community as a whole (the AMS includes climate scientists, academic meteorologists, forecast meteorologists, and general atmospheric scientists, among others) features such disparate views on global warming. And one of its principal findings is that AMS members who publish less peer-reviewed climate research, or less peer-reviewed research in general, are more likely to be climate skeptics.
Far from undermining the scientific consensus on climate change, then, the new study could be said to strengthen it, by defining who's a relevant expert in the first place. "You listen to the scientists who really know the field in question," says George Mason's Neil Stenhouse, a Ph.D. student and the study's lead author. "And previous studies show that if you ask the scientists who really know climate change, there is high consensus on human causation."
Similarly, after sorting AMS members by their climate expertise as well as their scientific publishing record, Stenhouse's study found that this seemed to have a big impact on their views about climate change. "93% of actively publishing climate scientists indicated they are convinced that humans have contributed to global warming," noted the study's authors. By contrast, among "nonpublishing" climate scientists, only 65 percent believed that humans have contributed to global warming.
Something similar occurred with a different set of experts within AMS: meteorologists and atmospheric scientists. Those who published a lot on climate change, or a lot on other aspects of meteorological science, generally showed much higher conviction that humans are contributing to global warming (79 percent and 78 percent, respectively) than the "nonpublishing" experts (59 percent).
And there's more bad news for skeptics who want to cite this AMS survey to bolster their case. You see, the study also showed that conservative political ideology is a big factor behind the denial of climate science by some meteorologists—ideology was a consistently bigger influence on meteorologists' views, in fact, than their level of scientific expertise. This finding of a major role for ideology, write the researchers, "goes against the idea of scientists' opinions being entirely based on objective analysis of the evidence."
The irony, then, is considerable. Even as climate skeptics cite the new AMS survey to claim there's no scientific consensus on climate change, the survey itself calls into question whether disagreement among meteorologists has much to do with purely scientific considerations in the first place.
Ever since the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, world leaders have agreed on 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees F) as the maximum acceptable global warming above preindustrial levels to avert the worst impacts of climate change (today we're at about 0.8 degrees C). But a new study, led by climatologist James Hansen of Columbia University, argues that pollution plans aimed at that target would still result in "disastrous consequences," from rampant sea level rise to widespread extinction.
A major goal of climate scientists since Copenhagen has been to convert the 2 degree limit into something useful for policymakers, namely, a specific total amount of carbon we can "afford" to dump into the atmosphere, mostly from burning fossil fuels in power plants (this is known as a carbon budget). This fall, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change pegged the number at 1 trillion metric tons of carbon, or about twice what we've emitted since the late 19th Century; if greenhouse gas emissions continue as they have for the last few decades, we're on track to burn through the remaining budget by the mid-2040s, meaning immediately thereafter we'd have to cease emissions forever to meet the warming target.
The study, which was co-authored by Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs and published today in the journal PLOS ONE, uses updated climate models to argue that the IPCC's carbon budget would in fact produce warming up to twice the international limit, and that even the 2-degree limit would likely yield catastrophic impacts well into the next century. In other words, the study says, two of the IPCC's fundamental figures are wrong.
"We should not use [2 degrees] as a target," Hansen said in a meeting with reporters on the Columbia campus in Manhattan. "It doesn't have any scientific basis."
A better target to avoid devastating climate impacts, Hansen said, would be 1 degree Celsius of warming (only slightly above what we've already experienced), although he readily admitted that such a goal is essentially unattainable. According to IPCC estimates, human activities have already committed us to that level of warming even if we suddenly stopped burning all fossil fuels today. A grim, but perhaps more realistic, vision of what the end of this century will hold comes from the the International Energy Agency, which predicts that temperatures could rise as much as 6 degrees Celsius by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.
—By Molly Redden
The Environmental Protection Agency has released its to-do list for 2014, in the form of its annual regulatory agenda. And it calls for tackling some controversial environmental questions that Congress has been unable to resolve, including how to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants and whether energy companies should be required to disclose the chemicals they inject into the ground during fracking. While the plan has some gaps—Bloomberg BNA has pointed out it's noticeably silent on coal ash, a toxic coal-burning byproduct that has been responsible for several recent environmental disasters—it could have far-reaching environmental benefits. Below is a summary of the EPA's biggest goals in the new year.
Carbon caps for power plants
Between now and September 2014 the EPA aims to finalize its rules for capping greenhouse gas emissions from existing natural gas and coal-fired plants, which together produce a whopping 40 percent of the United States' carbon emissions and one-third of its heat-trapping gases. Controlling smokestacks emissions is critical to addressing climate change, but carbon legislation is a non-starter, even in the Democratically controlled Senate. The EPA rules are bound to be challenged in court and they'll invariable fuel allegations that Obama—and his vulnerable Democratic allies on Capitol Hill—are waging a war on coal. But, presuming they survive, they could be historic.
While the caps for existing plants have yet to take shape, the White House recently called for limiting new coal-fired plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour—60 percent less than the average coal-powered plant releases—and gas-power plants to 1,000 pounds.
All across the country—most recently, in the state of Texas—local battles over the teaching of evolution are taking on a new complexion. More and more, it isn't just evolution under attack, it's also the teaching of climate science. The National Center for Science Education, the leading group defending the teaching of evolution across the country, has even broadened its portfolio: Now, it protects climate education too.
How did these issues get wrapped up together? On its face, there isn't a clear reason—other than a marriage of convenience—why attacks on evolution and attacks on climate change ought to travel side by side. After all, we know why people deny evolution: Religion, especially the fundamentalist kind. And we know why people deny global warming: Free market ideology and libertarianism. These are not, last I checked, the same thing. (If anything, libertarians may be the most religiously skeptical group on the political right.)
And yet clearly there's a relationship between the two issue stances. If you're in doubt, watch this Climate Desk video of a number of members of Congress citing religion in the context of questioning global warming:
Indeed, recent research suggests that Christian "end times" believers are less likely to see a need for action on global warming.
And now new research by Yale's Dan Kahan further reaffirms that there's something going on here. More specifically, Kahan showed that there is a correlation (.25, which is weak to modest, but significant) between a person's religiosity and his or her tendency to think that global warming isn't much of a risk. Perhaps even more tellingly, Kahan also found that among highly religious individuals, as their ability to comprehend science increases, so does their denial of the risk posed by global warming. Here's some data he presented:
"I have to say, those effects are bigger than I would have expected," wrote Kahan of his findings. The researcher went on to say that he isn't sure why greater religiosity predicts greater denial of climate change. But in his data—with a representative sample of over 2,000 Americans—it clearly does.
There are two major possibilities. And there is probably some truth to both of them.
There is the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" theory. In other words, anti-evolutionists and climate deniers were both getting dumped on so much by the scientific community that they sort of naturally joined forces. And that makes sense: We know that in general, people gather their issue stances in bunches, because those stances travel together in a group (often under the aegis of a political party).
But there's also the "declining trust in science" theory, according to which political conservatives have, in general, become distrustful of the scientific community (we have data showing this is the case), and this has infected how they think about several different politicized scientific issues. And who knows: Perhaps the distrust started with the evolution issue. It is easy to imagine how a Christian conservative who thinks liberal scientists are full of it on evolution would naturally distrust said scientists on other issues as well.
Further research will no doubt unravel what's going on here. In the meantime, we can simply observe: In the political science wars that have wracked America for well over a decade, both sides are consolidating their forces.
Churchill in northern Manitoba bills itself as the the polar bear capital of the world and its tourism-based economy depends on it. But as climate change forces the polar bears inland in search of food, attacks on humans are increasing. Can this small community continue to co-exist with the world's largest land predator? Suzanne Goldenberg reports from Churchill where its bear alert program uses guns, helicopters and a polar bear jail to manage the creatures. This trip was supported by Explore.org, Polar Bears International, and Frontiers North
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Unless it's immediately proceeded by the word "no," the phrase "good news" rarely appears these days in stories about climate change. But in a year in which we found out that our oceans may rise this century by as much as three feet and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is higher than it has been in nearly a million years, there were still some bright spots. And in preparation for Thanksgiving, we've compiled a list of four environmental developments for which you can give thanks. You can see even more on Twitter by searching the hashtag #ClimateThanks.
1. The US and the World Bank will avoid financing coal-fired power plants abroad.
Burning coal is among the dirtiest ways to produce energy and quickest ways to accelerate climate change. So this July, when the World Bank announced that it would limit funding for new coal-burning plants to "rare circumstances" where countries have "no feasible alternatives," green advocates were thrilled. At the same time, the global development giant also reversed its opposition to hydroelectric power, which many environmental activists had pushed as an alternative to cheap energy from coal. Last month, based on an announcement President Obama made in June, the United States Treasury Department also ceased financing any new coal projects abroad except in cases where coal was the only viable option for bringing power to poor regions. The US and World Bank decisions only affect coal projects that use public financing; around the world, many are built with private money. But a Treasury official told the New York Times that the Obama administration felt "that if public financing points the way, it will then facilitate private investment."
2. The White House will push carbon limits for new and existing power plants.
Natural gas and coal-fired power plants are responsible for 40 percent of the United States' carbon emissions and one-third of its greenhouse gas emissions. The country can't address climate change without regulating this sector of the economy. In his June speech at Georgetown University, President Obama announced that for the first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency will propose rules to cap carbon emissions from existing power plants. His administration also pushed forward a rule to limit pollution from new power plants, which had stalled last year. If the EPA finalizes the rule and it's upheld in court, it would limit new coal-fired plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour—the average coal power plant releases 1,800 pounds—and new gas power plants to 1,000 pounds. Obama said the rules were necessary for the US to meet its pledge to bring greenhouse gas emissions down by 17 percent—or below 2005 levels—by the year 2020.
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The LSU AgCenter has developed a mobile Web application, also known as an app, that will allow soybean farmers to easily identify weed, insect and disease problems in their fields by just grabbing their smartphones.
Known as the Soybean Field Guide, the app can be easily accessed on a smartphone, such as an iPhone or an Android, or on an electronic tablet, such as an iPad. The app can also be viewed on a laptop or desktop computer.
"This is a one-stop shop," said Jim Griffin, AgCenter weed scientist and the principal author of the weed information. "This app will help farmers identify the weed, insect or disease that's causing problems."
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The app contains nearly 200 photos of weeds, insects and disease symptoms – some that can be viewed at different stages and at several angles.
The app also includes information about when and how to scout for these problems.
"If a farmer is out in his field, he can easily compare what he's seeing to the photos," Griffin said.
"This is the first of its type aimed at southern field crops," said Rogers Leonard, AgCenter associate vice chancellor. "There is not another one like this in the South and maybe in the rest of the country. We believe our soybean farmers will find this app extremely valuable."
The Soybean Field Guide app, which is free, is a website than can be viewed through a Web browser at http://soybean.lsuagcenter.com/. If viewing on a smart phone or mobile device, the app will automatically provide a way to add a shortcut icon to the device screen or a bookmark for ease of viewing at any time.
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Pickup Plows Into MN Bar, Sending 5 to Hospital
LITTLE CANADA, Minn. (AP) — A pickup truck has crashed into a Twin Cities bar, sending five people to the hospital.By Associated Press , May 30, 2012
Larimore Motorcyclist Injured in GF Crash
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Thief River Falls Man Hurt in Crash
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GF Woman Hurt in Rollover Near Erskine
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Oslo, MN, Man Seriously Injured in Rollover
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Fargo Man Killed in McVille Crash Identified
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If the bill successfully traverses the gauntlet of legislative scrutiny, those caught in possession of 28 grams of marijuana or less will be subjected to a $25 civil fine as well as having to forfeit the marijuana and any paraphernalia used to consume or carry it.
Matt Riddle has had his battles outside the ring as well. The UFC suspended him last February for testing positive for pot, despite the fact that he's a state-sanctioned medical marijuana user in Nevada. Pot is forbidden; but testosterone replacement therapy isn't.
Reason and emotion are the two drivers of decision-making, so it is not surprising that advocates for and against medical marijuana try to appeal to both the head and the heart.
Across America, lawmakers are eyeing tax revenue from legalized marijuana. In a few days, the Colorado Department of Revenue is due to report how much marijuana tax was paid there for January, the first full month of recreational sales anywhere ever.
Though industry insiders remain cautious, the move illustrates a commitment to eliminating challenges inherent in a cash-flushed cannabis business.
If this happens, Puerto Rico will become the first American territory to legalize medical marijuana and decriminalize marijuana possession.
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Most individuals associate investing in the marijuana industry with opening a marijuana dispensary are starting a colossal grow operation. But it just so happens that making greenbacks off the green rush may be easier than one might think.
Brown could have waited until Friday, March 7th -- when delegates arrive at the LA Convention Center and begin caucusing and partying -- to file for re-election, then come by the convention with an 'oh, by the way, look what I just did.'
Even when Republicans weren't shooting at their own feet this week, it appears they were conducting a circular firing squad instead. The 2014 campaign, in other words, is off to a raucous start... and it's only February.
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ASM35: The Complete Musician / Anne Sofie Mutter, violin [38 CDs / 2 DVDs]40 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2011-10-15 Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Violin no 3 in G major, K 216; Concerto for Violin no 5 in A major, K 219 "Turkish"; Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K 304 (300c); Concerto for Violin no...Performers: Bashmet, Yuri [Conductor/Viola]; Borucinska, Krystyna; Giuranna, Bruno; Harrell, Lynn [Cello]; Ma, Yo-Yo; Meneses, Antonio; Moll, Phillip; Muller-Schott, Daniel; Mutter, Anne-Sophie [Violin]; Orkis, ... Conductors: Karajan, Herbert v.; Sacher, Paul; Lutoslawski, Witold; Ozawa, Seiji; Levine, James; Previn, Andre; Penderecki, Krzysztof; ; Masur, Kurt; Mutter, Anne-Sophie; Gergiev, Valery; Krenz, Jan Ensemble: ; Trondheim Soloists (Trondheimsolistene) August 23rd, 2011 is Anne-Sophie Mutter's 35th anniversary on stage. DG fetes the violinist with this limited edition set of 38 CDs in original jacket...continue... read more
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MELBOURNE, Australia (February 25, 2012) – The 2012 ISU Short Track Junior World Championships continued in Melbourne today with competition in the ladies and men's 500m and the relay semifinals.
Team USA's men – John-Henry Krueger (Pittsburgh, PA), James Rodowsky (Annapolis, MD), Adam Callister (Salt Lake City, UT) and Claude Gilbert (Spring Valley, NY) – took 2nd in their relay semifinal with a time of 4:07.428, qualifying the squad for tomorrow's final round. Korea won the semifinal with a time of 4:04.194. Team USA will face Korea, China and Hungary in tomorrow's final.
Gilbert, Krueger and Rodowsky skated the 500m for Team USA. Gilbert and Rodowsky skated through to the heats, but did not advance to the quarterfinals. Krueger advanced through to the semifinals, but skated a 42.342 to take 4th in his heat, and did not advance to the finals.
In the ladies 500m, Sarah Chen (San Marino, CA), Sally Chea (Midlothian, VA), and Kendal Pumphrey (San Clemente, CA) took the ice for Team USA. All three ladies advanced from their preliminary heats, with Chen winning her heat with a time of 46.834.
Chen took 4th in her next round heat, and Pumphrey took 3rd, neither skater advanced to the quarterfinals. Chea had the 3rd fastest time in her heat and qualified for the quarterfinals, but did not advance to the semifinals after taking 3rd in her quarterfinal heat.
The ladies relay team – Chen, Pumphrey, Chea, and Jacqueline Chen (San Marino, CA) - took 3rd in their relay semifinal (4:28.705), finishing behind Korea (4:11.997) and Russia (4:24.080). With their 3rd place finish, the ladies did not advance to tomorrow's relay final.
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You will need to purchase blades. I don't think it comes with a blade but it might come with a #10. Either way you will need 2 #10 blades. Or 2 #7 blades. The higher the number on the blade the shorter the cut. A #10 is going to cut real close. Now they do sell specific horse clippers but I don't know brand names. They have a much wider head too.
Listen, why do you want to clipp him? Don't you have a shedding blade to get all that extra hair out. You might want to ask at a riding stable what they recommend. Judy
I'm clipping him because he's not able to shed his hair out like he used to. It's been up to 110 degrees here in FL with the heat index and he just can't shed it out.. I've tried curry combs. shedding blade.. you name it. It sometimes happens with senior horses where they lose the ability to shed as they should. Handsome is 23 yrs old.
I purchased the Laube clippers at Lori's recommendation and it came with a #10 wide blade, plus I bought 2 additional #10 blades. I looked high and low for people to clip him and could not find anyone, so I did it myself. It just got way too hot here for me to wait any longer.
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But i've used Lister Liberty clippers for the past 7+ years, never had any problems with them, must have clipped over 150 with them now.
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Catacombs are human-made subterranean passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire.[1] Many are under cities and have been popularized by stories of their use as war refuges, smugglers' hideouts, or meeting places for cults.
The first place to be referred to as catacombs was the system of underground tombs between the 2nd and 3rd milestones of the Appian Way in Rome, where the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul, among others, were said to have been buried. The name of that place in late Latin was catacumbae, a word of obscure origin, possibly deriving from a proper name, or else a corruption of the Latin phrase cata tumbas, "among the tombs". The word referred originally only to the Roman catacombs, but was extended by 1836 to refer to any subterranean receptacle of the dead, as in the 18th-century Paris catacombs.[2]
Around the world[edit]
Catacombs in the world include:
- Austria – Catacombs of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
- Australia – Catacombs of Trinity College, Melbourne University [source?]
- Czech Republic – Catacombs of Znojmo
- Egypt – Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (or Kom al Sukkfa, Shuqafa, etc.) in Alexandria
- England – Catacombs of London and others
- Finland – Catacombs of the Helsinki Orthodox cemetery at Hietaniemi cemetery
- France – Catacombs of Paris. Mine workings were used at end of the 18th century and had no religious purpose other than as an ossuary for storing the bones of cleared graveyards.
- Ukraine – Odessa Catacombs
- Italy – Catacombs of Rome; Catacombs of Naples; Capuchin catacombs of Palermo and others
- Malta – Rabat Catacombs[3]
- Peru – Catacombs of the Convento de San Francisco, Lima
- Spain – Catacombs of Sacromonte in Granada
- Slovenia – Catacombs of Huda Jama near Laško and others
- United States – Indianapolis Catacombs
There are also catacomb-like burial chambers in Anatolia, Turkey; in Sousse, North Africa; in Naples, Italy; in Syracuse, Italy; Trier, Germany; Kiev, Ukraine. Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, Sicily were used as late as 1920s. Catacombs were available in some of the grander English cemeteries founded in the 19th Century, such as Sheffield General Cemetery (above ground) and West Norwood Cemetery (below ground). There are catacombs in Bulgaria near Aladzha Monastery[citation needed] and in Romania as medieval underground galleries in Bucharest.[4]
In Ukraine and Russia, catacomb (used in the local languages' plural katakomby) also refers to the network of abandoned caves and tunnels earlier used to mine stone, especially limestone. Such catacombs are situated in Crimea and the Black Sea coast of these two countries. The most famous are Odessa Catacombs and Ajimushkay, Crimea, Ukraine. In the early days of Christianity, believers conducted secret worship services in these burial caves for safety and reverence for the dead. Later, they served as bases for Soviet World War II guerrillas (see also Great Patriotic War). Ajimushkay catacombs hosted about 10,000 fighters and refugees. Many of them died and were buried there, and memorials and museums were later established (it is now a territory of Kerch city).
Catacomb decorations[edit]
Catacombs, although most notable as underground passageways and cemeteries, also house many decorations. There are thousands of decorations in the centuries-old catacombs of Rome, Paris, and other known and unknown catacombs, some of which include inscriptions, paintings, statues, ornaments, and other items placed in the graves over the years. Most of these decorations were used to identify, immortalize and show respect to the dead.
Although thousands of inscriptions were lost as time passed, many of those remaining indicate the social rank or job title of its inhabitants; however, most of the inscriptions simply indicate how loving a couple was, or the love of parents and such.
Paintings can also be seen throughout the burial chambers on the walls and ceilings. The paintings conveyed the same ideas as the inscriptions found throughout the catacombs.
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In recent years unique strains of bacteria have been discovered that thrive in catacombs, inducing mineral efflorescence and decay. These include Kribbella sancticallisti, Kribbella catacumbae, and three types of non-thermophilic (low-temperature) Rubrobacter.[5][6]
See also[edit]
- Blyton, Enid "Five go to Smuggler's Top" Hodder and Stroughton (1945) ISBN 978-1-84456-678-5
- Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Carol L. Neuman de Vegvar Roma felix: formation and reflections of medieval Rome Ashgate (14 March 2008) ISBN 978-0-7546-6096-5 p. 33 [1]
- Nicholson, Paul Thomas (2005) "The sacred animal necropolis at North Saqqara: the cults and their catacombs" In Salima Ikram (ed) Divine creatures: animal mummies in Ancient Egypt. American University in Cairo Press, 2005 pp. 44–71. ISBN 978-977-424-858-0
- ^ Other examples include a Neolithic long barrow, an Ancient Egyptian necropolis, or modern underground vaults such as the Catacombs of Paris.
- ^ "Catacombs", Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed 10 July 2010.
- ^ "Maltese Catacomb Complexes". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
- ^ "Romania Libera:Network of tunnels under the capital city". Retrieved 2008-10-23.
- ^ ScienceDaily, Bacteria Cause Old Buildings To Feel Off-Color 28 October 2008
- ^ ScienceDaily, New Life Found in Ancient Tombs, 1 October 2008
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Brad Richardson, editor-in-chief of the Claremont Independent, a Claremont McKenna College student newspaper, wrote last week to urge students to support a partial separation between The Forum, another student publication, and the Associated Students of Claremont McKenna College (ASCMC). Richardson explained why removing The Forum from the direct authority of the ASCMC would be beneficial for the publication and for the Claremont community: The reform measure consists of two main points: "The [Forum] Editor-in-Chief will no longer be an employee of ASCMC" and "The [Forum] Editor-in-Chief will no longer be chosen by the election committee of ASCMC." Under the current system, the Forum editor-in-chief is placed in an untenable […]
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Over on Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic blog The Daily Dish, Senior Editor Conor Friedersdorf challenges Claremont McKenna College's (CMC's) policy on "Acceptable E-Mail Usage" in his post "The Right To Disparage My Political Views." Thanks to Friedersdorf for linking to FIRE's February Speech Code of the Month on one of the Internet's most popular blogs!
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I recently reported on two Claremont McKenna College (CMC) students who were "banned" from Pomona College after they asked questions of a Planned Parenthood representative during a publicly advertised event. They videotaped their questions and the answers, and they turned off the recorder after being asked to do so. But a week later, they were publicly disgraced (though not by name) by two Pomona deans for having been "disruptive" and "attempting to create an antagonistic space." Pomona and CMC are closely related neighbors in the Claremont University Consortium, which offers benefits and privileges to students enrolled at any of the […]
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