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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. -- A New Jersey man feels "pure joy" at winning a $338 million Powerball jackpot but has no idea what he will do with the money -- except buy a car, to replace his feet as his primary mode of transportation, he said.
Dominican immigrant Pedro Quezada, 45, and his wife, Ines, appeared at New Jersey lottery headquarters Tuesday to officially claim the prize. Both came in jeans, accompanied by four of his eight siblings and two nephews.
The former bodega owner-operator, who came to the United States from the city of Jarabacoa 26 years ago, said his mind is not clear enough yet to figure out how he will use the money or where he might live.
He did say he could use a good car. Asked what kind of car he has now, he said, "My feet."
Lottery officials said Quezada had decided to accept the winnings in the form of a lump-sum payment worth $221 million, or about $152 million after taxes. It's the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history.
He showed up Monday afternoon at the liquor store in Passaic where he purchased the ticket, not knowing if he held the winner. The ticket was validated at 4:17 p.m., giving him less than 24 hours to weigh his future as a multimillionaire before appearing at the news conference.

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The Utah Jazz have agreed to trade Ronnie Brewer to the Memphis Grizzlies for a protected 2010 first-round pick, a source close to the situation told ESPN.com on Thursday.
The deal gives the Grizzlies yet another athletic swingman and allows the Jazz to save money.
Utah had a bit of a logjam at Brewer's position. His $2.7 million salary was essentially double that because the Jazz are over the luxury-tax threshold.
Isn't this a trade we should have done? I realize Ronnie is having a down year, but folks on this site have long talked about Brewer as a potential "poor man's" Rudy Gay. I would think we'd give Utah their pick back for him.


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Central bankers are gaming gold: Eric Sprott
Some people may look at the stock market and see economic recovery. Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management and Sprott Money looks at myriad other economic indicators and sees an economy still in decline. Despite his suspicions that central banks are keeping gold prices artificially low, he tells The Gold Report that he favors gold, platinum, palladium and especially silver, over the near and long term.
The Gold Report: The price of gold has dipped under $1,600/ounce ($1,600/oz); silver is below $30/oz. Is this a case of living by the sword and dying by the sword, where precious metals prices only go up in a bad economy and are doomed to languish when things go well?
Eric Sprott: That is an interesting question because I do not know what it means to go well these days. I see things going from bad to worse economically, and so do many others. Walmart just announced that January 2013 was a lousy month and its start to February was its worst in years. Apple's iPhone manufacturer Foxconn just announced a hiring freeze in China because of a decline in iPhone production. Italian industrial production new orders were down 15%. You can feel the recessionary malaise setting in.
Weakness begets weakness, and there are only two ways to stop weakness: Fiscal policy and monetary policy.
No one has any room for aggressive fiscal policy anymore. The U.S. is looking at sequestration. We just had a 2% tax increase. There is nothing left in the cupboard for fiscal stimulation. On the monetary side, we are at 0% interest rates, and we are printing money nonstop.
We are entering a period of steady decline in economic well-being, notwithstanding the suggestions of central planners that H2/13 will be great. They always say the second half will be great because they know the first half will not be.
TGR: In your opinion, what are the most important indicators of what is really happening in the economy?
ES: There are many indicators: Rail car loadings, car sales, personal income, consumer sentiment, to name a few.
Granted, most of the consumer sentiment numbers have been OK, but a lot of those numbers follow in line with the stock market. Anyone who thinks that 70% of the population is better off has to be mistaken. The 2% increase in withholdings on someone's salary implies a much bigger impact on his or her discretionary spending because a lot of spending is dedicated to things that do not change: Mortgage payments, insurance costs, the cable bill. When you knock 2% off the top, it could affect discretionary spending by 4–5%.
The one indicator you do not want to watch is the stock market because it is part of the financial fabric that the central planners are desperately trying to hold together. Not a week goes by without a crisis. Four weeks ago, it was Banco Monte dei Paschi. Three weeks ago, the third largest bank in the Netherlands had to be bailed out. Last week, Peugeot had to get a loan from the European Central Bank. Now the largest homebuilder in Spain has declared bankruptcy.
TGR: Which takes us back to the first question: If there is no recovery and the economy is still languishing, why did gold and silver both drop last week?
ES: This will sound like a conspiracy theory, but unusual things are happening in the gold and silver markets.
For example, on Feb. 19, nearly an entire year's supply of gold traded on the Comex in a single day. The same volume of silver trading happened on the commodities exchange. You and I both know that the people selling that much metal cannot deliver it because it is just not available. Yet somehow they are out there, pounding down these contracts and keeping the price suppressed.
I would hypothesize that the central bankers know their policy of printing money is the most irresponsible thing imaginable, and they are suppressing gold and silver prices to hide their irresponsibility. When one is printing that much money, gold and silver prices are the first things you would expect to rise. If we saw gold going to $2,000/oz, the price of oil would probably go to a new high and the price of agricultural commodities would go up. Then you would have a huge inflation problem on your hands.
Based on my research, I believe the Western central banks have been surreptitiously supplying gold to the market. I say this because the demands I see for physical gold are way beyond the supply of gold. The annual gold supply has not changed in 12 years, and demand just keeps increasing from China, India, the U.S. Mint and silver and gold coin sales; even the non-Western central banks are buying gold. Where is this gold coming from? I think the Western central banks are selling gold to keep the lid on the price so everyone thinks their monetary policies are benign. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The Brighton Pavilion MP announced she would be standing down as leader earlier this year to make way for a new generation of activists to enter parliament.
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The night of gut-busting food and fun is almost here.
Wyandotte Patch is joining forces with the to host from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at First and Elm.
Patch will be hosting a Coney Fest, featuring coneys from . The DDA will be hosting the comic portion of the night.
Throughout the night, there will be comic book heroes walking around, along with free comic book giveaways. Live entertainment also is on tap. There will be games and activities for the entire family.
Proceeds from "Comics and Coneys" will be split between and the . Volunteers from both groups will be in attendance. To entice the community's support, the first 25 people to make a donation of at least $5 at either charity's booth will receive an exclusive Patch swag item that won't be available elsewhere.
Here is a list of the highlights that will be available Friday night. Details are subject to change as the event draws nearer, so check back for the most up-to-date information.
All of the events listed below are free unless otherwise noted. A portion of the proceeds from all of the paid events will be split between the two charities.
Wyandotte Patch: Stop by to spin our prize wheel where everyone walks away a winner. You also can play Plinko to win raffle tickets for one of three prize packs.
: Kids can stop by here for all sorts of fun and prizes. There will be a craft table where children can draw small pieces of a comic, which will be strung together at the end of the night to make a long comic strip. Kids also can color "Art," the 2012 Wyandotte Street Art Fair mascot. Superhero masks and comic-related crafts also will be available.
: Get your delicious grub here. Coneys are $2 each or enjoy a combo for $4, which includes a coney, bag of chips and pop.
: Some of their supporters will be hard to recognize as they'll be dressed up as comic book superheroes. Kids (and adults, too) can pose for photos with them. Kids also can strike out at the Blessings' booth by bowling on their four-lane alley.
: The music heard during the event will be courtesy of the veterans, who are hosting DJ Jay Rainey. He'll be spinning tunes from the 50s, 60s and 70s throughout the night.
: Representatives from will be offering five-minute chair massages. The massages are free, but donations for charity will be accepted.
Airborne Bouncers: Take flight on a trampoline and bungee jumping unit. It's sure to be a hit for the whole family. This is a paid attraction.
: The famed Wyandotte artist will be sketching onsite and giving away drawings to kids. He'll also have prints available for purchase. Miello is a comic book artist that's involved in a number of projects, including one locally where he has rendered "Art," the 2012 Wyandotte Street Art Fair mascot, as a comic book superhero.
: Get your hands a little dirty here by helping the DCA create a huge chalk art project.
Facepainting by Shannon Wilson: Want to go home looking better than when you arrived? Let Shannon showcase some of her art–on your face. The talented artist has had her work displayed at . And now you can be one of her walking masterpieces. This is a paid service.
Soodles the Clown: Find Soodles wandering the lot from 6:30 to 8 p.m. so she can twist you your favorite balloon animal.
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Love Wyandotte: Volunteers from some downtown businesses will be handing out information on their new shop local campaign, "Summer of Independents."
Dueling Banjos: Performers Al Allotta and Bill Jackson will play from 7 to 9 p.m. in front of .
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CATEGORIES Comedy, Paramount, Remakes and Sequels, CinematicalSomething in the water over in France has got Jack Black loose-lipped. First he lets it out that Angelina is indeed having twins. Now, according to film-industry.biz, he's claiming there's a sequel to School of Rock in the works. There's even a script already written, and Black is anxious to return to the role of music teacher Dewey Finn. But it's not a done deal just yet. As he explained from the Cannes Film Festival: "In a few weeks we have to decide if we go through with the project or not."
I may be one of the few people who didn't love the original School of Rock, but then, I'm one of those curmudgeonly fellows who can't stand Jack Black in anything. Of course, after watching his Eddie Murphy parody in the awesome new R-rated trailer for Tropic Thunder, I'm starting to think he could do some right in the film world. Or, maybe he has that one really funny moment and a whole lot of obnoxious moments, as usual.
However, while I'm still planning on seeing Tropic Thunder, regardless of Black's presence, I'd probably also return for another School of Rock movie for the kids, who are as enjoyable as they are talented in the first film (while I didn't love the movie as a whole, I did really like the soundtrack thanks to those real-life kid musicians). Of course, there will have to be a whole new crop of young musical prodigies for the next one. As for the possible return of other talents, Black provided no additional word on whether Richard Linklater would be back nor if the finished script was penned by the first film's screenwriter, Mike White.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Vikings are warning fans to be wary of counterfeit tickets to Sunday's regular-season finale against the rival Green Bay Packers.
The Vikings say because of the team's ticket-scanning process, a fan who buys a counterfeit ticket might not be able to enter the Metrodome and could be subject to investigation.
Fans caught in the stadium with a counterfeit ticket will be ejected and could be arrested.
The Vikings say counterfeit tickets are sold over the Internet and by ticket-sellers near the stadium on game day. The Vikings remind fans that the only authorized outlets for Vikings football tickets are the Vikings Ticket Office, Ticketmaster and the NFL TicketExchange.
Minnesota would clinch a postseason berth with a win over the NFC North champion Packers.
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Communication Superhighways Can Shrink Trading Costs 50%
The difference between manufacturing cost and the consumer price measures the major cost of most products, distribution. Typically, manufacturing costs are under 20% of the final selling price.[1]
With mail-order shipping charges from 2-to-5% of retail price, no one would pay intermediaries 3-to-5 times the production cost when it is feasible, in this communication age, to study the products on an Internet database, contact the producer, buy the item, and have it shipped directly at 30-50% today's cost.
A large share of American and European consumer products is imported. But, if full and equal rights were attained worldwide, meaning equally-productive labor will be relatively equally paid, production would be primarily regional.
Shipping half way around the world what could be produced next door is economic insanity. Once the common-sense principle of equal pay for equal work worldwide is accepted and put in place, it will be much cheaper to produce and distribute regionally and those shiploads of identical consumer products meeting and passing each other on oceans and highways—consuming enormous finance capital, industrial capital, labor, resources, and energy—will be history.
Besides doing office work at home, with that same computer one can search for, and order, one's share of larger and more expensive consumer durables. Shopping requires information and middlemen are primarily in the information business.
On the Internet, it would be possible for producers and consumers to trade directly and cheaply again, just as face-to-face trades for thousands of years. The monopolization of distribution with its army of intermediaries would disappear.
Internet trades are surging 22% a year. As those marketing channels become operational, prices for middle-priced to expensive items will drop 50%.
Currently America has 10 square feet of retail floor space for each shopper while Britain has only two square feet. That surplus retail space will disappear as Internet shopping rapidly lowers costs to a fraction of current levels.
A great shakeout of the retail industry is inevitable. The buildings and support infrastructure for at least 30% and possibly 60% of what the developed world today considers necessary for distribution will be available for productive uses. An efficient, productive, and sustainable economy is possible.
Bill Gates, who accumulated $60 billion because he understood communications technology better than most, said, "The information highway isn't quite right. A metaphor that comes closer to describing a lot of the activities that will take place is the ultimate market."[2] That is the market we are describing.
Communication Superhighways Informing Both Labor and Capital
Along with databases, one or two TV channels should be reserved for direct communication between those offering investment opportunities and investors looking for them.
As everyone with savings would have access to investment information stored in those databanks, money monopolists would be bypassed. Individual investors would put their risk capital in innovations that went unrecognized by regular loan institutions.
If the investments were truly productive, investors would receive much higher than average returns. However, if their claims to insight were not valid, they would not be able to hide behind the protective shield of monopolization.
An entrepreneur who had obtained community approval and initial investment capital from the bank, they need both now, would deposit a prospectus in a databank. Investors would study the various investment plans, buy shares in the most promising, and have their accounts automatically debited, all without intermediaries.
Talented workers would look over prospectuses, which would include labor needs and incentives, and, if they saw where their talents would be used productively and profitably and assuming they had fulfilled their contract to train a replacement, they could transfer to that new job.
Labor would be mobile and free, not dispossessed as in a reserve labor force, as their right to their share of the efficiency gains of technology is assured through restructuring property rights as it applies to nature's resources and technologies offered to all for free.
In that modern industrial society, each worker would work only two to three days per week outside the home.[3]
If a replacement were not immediately available, other workers at the factory could double their pay by working five days a week. Strict rules of later time off to compensate would have to be followed. Permitting doubling up on established jobs would appropriate the labor-rights of others and subvert the economy through again creating a class with superior rights (though in a much subdued form).
Just as today, the underemployed would be denied their share of social production while those working excessive hours would have more than their share.
For their risk, the original innovators, investors, and worker owners would receive the initial higher profits plus the increased values of a successful company.
Through sharing in the profits, workers and management who bought stock through deductions of 10-20% of their wages would be well compensated. The profit potential would increase their desire to maximize efficiency and provide incentive to look for new industries to develop."[4]
Others would quickly analyze and duplicate the innovative production or distribution process and prices would fall to just that required to compensate the innovators, labor, and capital.
Through low priced products, equal pay for equally-productive labor, and rights to a productive job, each member of society would be receiving their proper share of wealth provided by nature and the efficiency gains of technologies which are gifts of nature nurtured by inventors' labors and talents.
Communications Superhighways could Eliminate Monopolization
Assuming the world breaks out from under the many forms of monopolization being continually structured into unequal property rights law, specifically the current privatization of those efficient low frequency spectrums, this means a 99% reduction in cost per unit of communication capacity is possible and technology is still rapidly advancing.
When communication superhighways reach each home, it is possible to educate a population for as little as 5 to 15% of what is considered normal today.
The developing world has the opportunity to make an end run around those nations whose valuable communication spectrums are monopolized and their brick and mortar schools fully operational.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA, and Google, combining their expertise and money, designed an indestructible, WiFi and cell phone equipped, $200, laptop computers for developing-world governments to provide free to children to keep at home and take to school.
School systems within the wealthy world have taken note. As those inexpensive computers will have free linux operating systems, monopolized, expensive, operating systems will eventually be discarded to the dustbin of history.
It is possible for a nation, or the world, to establish a communications superhighway where everyone can talk to anyone in the world for the penny per minute calculated 30 years ago.
With operational costs for individual service now cheaper than accounting (Green Economics) costs on phone calls and broadband connections can be borne by society.
Already VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) users speak to each other across the world for free and the reception on the other side of the world is clearer than local landlines
By a community providing the worldwide communications system—just as they now provide roads, sewers, water systems, ports, and airports—those efficiencies can be attained.
TV and radio stations can stream their programs onto that information superhighway (satellite and fiberoptic landlines will cover the world) and eliminate the need for down-stream booster stations.
Consumer choices will expand exponentially as overseas TV and radio streams their programs onto that highway.
The shakeout within the developed world will be at the same pace as those information highways are installed. As their infrastructure is just being put in place, the developing world bypasses that shakeout.
To compete, the former down-stream booster stations must provide more interesting programming. Take Oprah Winfrey for example: Her Chicago station would no longer need booster stations to reach their loyal viewers. It is not likely that any of those stations can create a program to pull an audience from her or other popular programs.
Outside those loyal listeners, the market for programming without advertising will trump the advertising stations and the now-out-of-work TV and radio stations, unable to gain a broad audience, will have to produce programming for a narrow, single-interest, audience.
Major news networks will face the full brunt of competition as alternative news from around the world becomes available to all. Democracy Now, Link TV, Mosaic, BBC, Al-Jazeera, INN Report, Indymedia, documentaries, and news from all countries in all languages would present a view of the world that many citizens within the information-insulated wealthy world are totally unaware exist.
Those major news networks will have to address those various views or become irrelevant. Perception management will be severely constrained and control of the citizenry to protect the wealthy and powerful may become impossible.
As few people can handle such an overload of viewing choices, sports will gravitate to one bloc of stations, music and sitcoms will each gravitate to their blocs, and the viewers will further subdivide into regional and other subdivisions such as a bloc of channels with pay-to-play movies.
Stations forced to close will be picked up by NGOs and political groups for pennies on the dollar. Formerly forced to the margins, dedicated progressives, environmentalists, sustainable-living researchers, permaculturists, Greens, the peace movement, minority rights, labor rights, women's rights, children's rights, antipoverty, and a thousand more causes will be able to reach the citizenry with their views of the world over those same information highways.
Politicians must address questions brought up that were previously kept off the table. Alert viewers will have hard questions; those answers will be available, will be voiced, and will be understood. Propagandists will no longer be able to create justifications for war and full and equal rights with peace and prosperity for all will be possible.
Communication Superhighways Eliminates Intermediaries and Reduces Trading Costs
The difference between manufacturing cost and the consumer price measures the major cost of most products, distribution. Typically, manufacturing costs are under 20% of the final selling price.
With mail-order shipping charges from 2-to-4% of retail price, no one would pay intermediaries three to five-times the production cost when it is feasible, in this communication highway age, to study the products on an Internet database, contact the producer, buy the item, and have it shipped directly at 30-50% today's cost.
A large share of American and European consumer products is imported. But, if full and equal rights were attained worldwide, meaning equally-productive labor will be relatively equally paid, production would be primarily regional.
Shipping half way around the world what could be produced next door is economic insanity. Once the common-sense principle of equal pay for equal work worldwide is accepted and put in place, it will be much cheaper to produce and distribute regionally and those shiploads of identical consumer products meeting and passing each other on oceans and highways —consuming enormous finance capital, industrial capital, labor, resources, and energy—will be history.
Besides doing office work at home, with that same computer one can search for, and order, one's share of larger and more expensive consumer durables. Shopping requires information and middlemen are primarily in the information business.
With the Internet, it is possible for producers and consumers to trade directly and cheaply again, just as face-to-face trades for thousands of years. The monopolization of distribution with its army of intermediaries would disappear.
Trades over the Internet are surging 22% a year. As those marketing channels become operational, prices for middle-priced to expensive items will drop 50% or more. The savings in distribution alone should reach those savings which is on top of all the savings we have shown as possible in other sectors of the economy.
Currently America has 10 square feet of retail floor space for each shopper while Britain has only two square feet. That surplus retail space will disappear as Internet shopping rapidly lowers costs to a fraction of current levels.
A great shakeout of the retail in-dustry is inevitable. The buildings and support infrastructure for at least 30% and possibly 60% of what the developed world today considers necessary for distribution will be avail-able for productive uses. An efficient, productive, and sustainable economy is possible.
Bill Gates, who accumulated $60 billion because he understood communications technology better than most, said, "The information highway isn't quite right. A metaphor that comes closer to describing a lot of the activities that will take place is the ultimate market." That is the market we are describing.
Big-ticket, Infrequently-Purchased Items
Autos, appliances, furniture, farm equipment, industrial equipment, and major tools are all big-ticket, infrequently-purchased items whose buying requires accurate information but not the promotional-persuasive advertising hammering at us incessantly.
We trust and get information from experience and we make the most important decisions by observing products in daily use. In a communications commons, customers would make purchase decisions by dialing a database containing all manufacturers and models of a product.
That database would have information required to make an informed decision—energy efficiency, noise level, hours of useful life, price, and other features.
With tests by independent researchers, such as Consumer Reports, note the pressure this would put on manufacturers to make the most efficient products and stand out in this all-important master index. Buyers would, at their leisure, study engineering specifications, styling, and actual use of the product on their television or computer.
Once a decision was made, they would only need to punch in the code for the desired order—such as model, color, and accessories—and a databank computer would note the closest distribution point where that item was available. Or buyers could choose delivery from the factory.
The bank account number, thumbprint, eye-scan, thermogram and/or signature of an Internet shopper would be verified by a master computer and that account instantly debited.
If a credit line had been established at the local credit union or bank and recorded in an inte-grated computer, credit needs would be handled simultaneously. The process, not involving advertising, sales, or banking labor, would greatly reduce transportation, storage, and sales costs. Pressures on resources and the environment are correspondingly reduced.
Product guarantees, maintenance, and repairs would be taken care of by local private enterprise under standardized guarantees.
Direct trades between manufacturer and consumer eliminates intermediaries and guarantees high-quality products at the lowest possible price. Both seller and buyer would save time and labor as information through advertising is eliminated. The current time-consuming exchange of information would be replaced by consumers studying at their leisure.
This would conserve millions of acres of trees and eliminating impact on the environment caused by manufacturing paper, producing brochures and distributing that information, including a large percent of the retail establishments themselves makes this thesis important to the sustainable development movement.
Every qualified producer would enjoy the right to place his or her product or service in the databank and pay a very small percent of gross sales out of cash flow.
In place of millions of dollars up front to advertise through the present openly-monopolized media, there would be only a small charge for entering the product information in a database.
To eliminate clogging the databanks with useless information of producers no longer in busi-ness, regular minimum payments would be required to retain the privilege of selling through this integrated communications network.
This would break the monopolization of production and distribution by huge corporations. Starting up a truly productive industry would become quite simple. A new company's advertising would have full billing alongside major entrenched producers.
With consumers having easy access to all choices, a few wealthy corporations would no longer decide–through promotional-persuasive, titillating, advertising–what the public wants.
In the United States, once direct contact is established between producer and consumer via product databases, it would only require roughly 100,000 railroaders, possibly one million truckers, and a system of organized freight terminals to distribute the nation's production.
It would be a freight postal system just as with Christmas packages today and we all know those shipping costs are modest. The item would be delivered or consumers would receive notice of the arrival of their purchases and pick them up at the local freight terminal.
There are normally several trucking companies in any moderate-size city, each complete with loading docks, storage capacity, dispatching equipment, and staff. The following shipping pattern is already operational:
1) Shippers punch into a common-use database loads to be shipped;
2) truckers with computers punch in their location, freight preferences, and where he or she would like to deliver the next load;
3) the computer shows where the loads are, the type of freight, the required pickup and delivery times, the rate per mile, etc;
4) the trucker chooses a load, informs the computer, and records his or her identifica-tion number;
5) and the computer records the acceptance, removes that load from the databank, provides a contract number to the trucker, and informs the shipper.
There will be no need for duplicated dispatching services, loading docks, storage facilities, equipment, and personnel. Competitive monopolies created by the minimum capital requirements for trucking companies are eliminated, placing independent truckers on an equal footing with corporate truckers.
The nation's freight will quickly settle into flow patterns and be moved as regularly as mail by the cheapest combination of rail, truck, ship, and plane.
Transit time between producer and consumer would be a fraction of that currently through jobbers, wholesalers and retailers.
Small item would be three days in transit and large up to 10 days but, at one-half the price plus pressure taken off of resources and the environment, they and society are well paid.
Manufacturers' on-time delivery of parts to the factory that greatly reduces storage and finance capital costs will have been expanded to on-time shipping to consumers.
Those within the retail system who formerly bought, stored, advertised, and sold these products are available to engage in productive labor. Society will eventually attain an undreamed-of efficiency.
Well over 50% of the intermediaries between producer and consumer will eventually be eliminated and, assuming society was alert and restructured labor's working hours and other crucial adjustments, all would be free to share the remaining productive work with employment outside the home of only two to three days per week.
Once those productive jobs are shared, the average workweek reduced, and labor fully paid, the small amount of time necessary to labor for one's share of the nation's wealth would be the proper measure of the price of products and services.
Our continued research concludes that an efficient economy using modern technology of production and distribution could reduce employed working hours by at least 50%.
That potential reduction in costs through elimination of unnecessary labor and productive labor being fully paid is the meaning of Adam Smith's little-noticed insightful statement, "If produce had remained the natural wages of labor, all things would have become cheaper, though in appearance many things might have become dearer."
Inexpensive, Small, Frequently-Traded Items
The markup on perishable groceries is about 100% while the markup on small consumer durables is several hundred percent. There is a competitive sales monopoly at work in the latter.
Taking full advantage of modern communications would remove all purchases above an intermediate price range out of the wasteful, duplicated retail outlets. Simultaneously, through access to these products in databanks, the consumers' choices would be increased.
Groceries, household supplies, cosmetics, knickknacks and most small, inexpensive consumer items would be most efficiently distributed through the present retail outlets. The breakeven point would be in the lower range of the intermediate-priced occasionally-purchased items.
Wholesalers would keep the quality and price of all products posted in a databank. Once trust had been established, retailers would check those bulletin boards for the best buys. This would eliminate the need for many jobbers and other salespeople.
Shopping as a Social Event Entails a Cost
Shopping is recreation for many people and a status symbol for others. Those status shoppers would have no trouble finding merchants to accommodate them.
To compensate for the additional labor, showrooms, and storage, the products would cost more which is properly accounted for under socializing and recreation (Tupperware, Avon, or social status at Tiffanys).
The majority would surely choose the most direct and least labor-intensive, cheapest, method of completing a trade. The savings, which in final analysis is a savings in labor time, could be spent on family events, dinners with friends, socializing with neighbors, etc.
Reserving TV Time for New Products
While innovations on a familiar product would be readily presented to the public through a databank, totally new products would require special access to the public.
Novelty buffs comprise a large segment of the population, and there are few who do not have some interest. Complementing other methods of familiarization, demonstrations of these creations accessible in a database would be quite popular.
Once a production-distribution infrastructure is in place with society energized and accustomed to that standard of living, promotional-persuasive advertising becomes wasteful.
Rather than titillate the consumer with thousands of toys to be played with and discarded, it would be much more socially efficient to abandon promotional-persuasive, titillating advertising and permit people to advance to a higher intellectual, social, and cultural level.
The maximum average living standard within the capabilities of the earth's resources and ecosystem can be calculated. Society could, and should, use those proven promotional-persuasive methods to educate people about the waste of the current production-distribution systems.
Just as many in the developed world have already abandoned the "conspicuous consumption" lifestyle, a rational lifestyle would be made popular.
Many items—cigarettes, alcohol, and chemical-laden processed foods—lower the quality of life, spending social funds on their promotion is economic insanity. The captive public, captivated by the power of the enormous wealth appropriated from them by the monopoly system, paying for the debasement of their lives should be eliminated.
Driving a $60,000 luxury automobile while others are driving $20,000 cars may draw admiration today, but if society were taught that this was at the expense of humankind's survival it would incur broad disapproval.
The resources saved and pollution prevented by that refocused social mindset would be essential to the survival of thousands of species, to humankind's quality of life, and most probably to our own.
With a communications commons functioning under the inclusive property rights of full and equal rights reducing production and distribution costs 60% and adequate compensation to the innovators being 10%, the public would, measured in hours of labor required to purchase a product, benefit by a 50% or greater reduction in the price of consumer products.
Through the reduced income of a shorter workweek matching the reduction in living costs there would be no loss in living standards. Societies which decided to forego a throwaway society and opt for a fuel cell, hybrid car, bicycle economy and other efficient transportation systems would provide a quality lifestyle with even less labor.
Global warming is fast becoming the world's most serious problem. We sincerely believe that a sensible world society, designed to reduce pollution, reduce greenhouse gases, and still provide a quality life for all, can be designed with each employed outside the home two to three days per week.
The human animal has tremendous energies which must then be channeled into pleasurable pursuits that do not consume precious resources or pollute the environment.
The simple analysis we present now is duplicated in other articles. Each economically balanced nation or region could feed itself and avoid food purchases from other regions, and simultaneously improve soil fertility if they converted from monoculture to permuaculture farming.
Thread for cloth can be obtained from prolific plants such as hemp. So fiber for clothes is also properly obtained through soil building permaculture.
Quality homes built from locally produced rammed earth (today ceramic interiors), rock, or brick last for centuries.
So the highest quality food, fiber, and shelter are all obtainable locally and security for all demands that, witness the hundreds of millions anticipated to starve as we speak with globalized food supplies under the control of a few corporations.
The simplicity of adequate food, fiber, and shelter provided locally being primarily an exchange of local labor, exposes the true costs of modern societies, freedom to go anywhere and do anything one wants.
Most industries beyond food, fiber, and shelter are built to sustain those freedoms even though the most important needs for a fulfilling life, family and friends, are near that home.
If all are to share in freedom as understood within imperial economies, distant pleasure travels must be spaced. A culture of family, friends, and cheap transportation should be encouraged.
Three wheeled gas-electric cars are being designed which use no gas on local transits and can cross the United States on 10 gallons (Aptera Electric Typ-1 e – Video Test Drive). A thirty mile local commute would cost about 30 cents to plug in at night and charge.
With about 10% the resources and labor to build and a life-span of twice today's cars (small fiberglass bodies are easily rebuilt), both local and regional travel could have been affordable, relatively non polluting, and, as everything in that Aptera car beyond the computer was on the shelf to use 40 years ago.
This means the only reason Americans were driving SUVs and pickups was their ego and the $8,000 profit per car automakers were making. Smaller cars earned only $1,000 profit and these fiberglass, almost pollution free, electric cars would not have earned a $500 profit.
But it goes far beyond that electric car. Study current freedoms closely. Titillating and extravagant life styles (conspicuous consumptions) are the cause of pollution, resource depletion, and, in a final analysis, even wars.
This is being carried further forward. Companies consisting of nothing but advertising, they have no factories, are all over the place whose only purpose is to sell you something at a very high price that has nothing to do with your basic living needs.
If you had never heard of them, you would never have felt a need for what they had to sell. Those products have common features, you do not need them, they titillate your interest, they feed the ego of you and your peers, and they are enormously expensive. In short, it is only the conspicuous consumption as practiced by the wealthy for centuries.
That is a huge untold story of massive waste (at least within Europe and America) that global warming, resource depletion, and war elimination activists should be studying closely. Obviously there is enough on this earth for everybody if we abandon the current monopoly structure and the wars fought defending it.
One of the purposes of this blog is to gain your perspectives and input on the massive waste only to feed egos. So please study these articles on this massive economic waste, its elimination, and how to restructure.
We now turn to how Patent Profits Collected Through the Stock Market
Those crucial 170 words describing an honest, efficient, capitalist economy. Does anyone have the ear of President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Team?
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[1] Paul Zane Pilzer, Unlimited Wealth (New York: Crown, 1990), p. 44.
[2] Steven Levy, "Bills New Vision," Newsweek, November 27, 1995, p. 68.
[3] Besides my work see that of Charles Fourier 180 years ago and Thorstein Veblen, Bertrand Russell, Lewis Mumford, Stuart Chase, Upton Sinclair, and Ralph Borsodi in the first half of the 20th century. Late 20th century writers describing the same phenomenon are Juliet Schor, Seymour Melman, Samuel Bowles, David Gordon, and Thomas Weiskopf, Jeremy Rifkin, Andre Gorz, Hans-Peter Martin and Harold Schumann, and numerous European authors.
[4] Ibid
More pages in the "The Simplicity of Eliminating Monopolization of Technology" section
- Invention, a Social Process
- Half the Efficiencies of Technologies are lost
- Communication Superhighways Can Shrink Trading Costs 50%
- Monopoly Patent Profits Collected Through the Stock Markets
- Communication Super Highways Educating the World for 5-to-15% the Cost of Brick and Mortar Schools
- Monopolization within Social Structures


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Botsford News Release
Farmington Hills, Mich. (July 10, 2009)---The Radiation Oncology team at Botsford Cancer Center treated its first High Dose Rate radiation therapy patient Wednesday morning.
The patient, Toniessia Daniels, a 54-year old Taylor woman, received partial breast irradiation with the MammoSite Radiation Therapy System. The treatment is a relatively new tool in treating early-stage breast cancer patients following a lumpectomy.
"While our first slate of HDR patients will receive the Mammosite therapy, we will soon begin to use HDR brachytherapy to treat prostate and other cancers," said Ted Tenenbaum, the Botsford Cancer Center Administrator. He went on to explain that HDR brachytherapy involves the insertion of a radioactive source into tissue to deliver radiation therapy directly to the tumor or tumor site thus avoiding damage to healthy tissue.
There are additional advantages to the use of HDR for breast cancer patients. The more commonly-used external beam radiation requires a daily visit to the Cancer Center for five to seven weeks. MammoSite therapy calls for two treatments per day for only five days. A small catheter delivers radiation into the cavity in the breast where the tumor was removed and targets the area where cancer is most likely to recur. The treatment is used for breast cancers that are small, localized and do not involve lymph nodes.
The Botsford Cancer Center opened in January 2009.
Botsford Hospital is a multi-specialty 330 bed hospital and verified trauma center located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The campus also houses an imaging center and a comprehensive care cancer center. Botsford Hospital is also home to an extensive medical education program and is part of Michigan State University's statewide campus system. Botsford Hospital each year cares for approximately 16,000 inpatients and more than 60,000 emergency and trauma patients with a team of 2,500 employees, 300 volunteers and more than 600 physicians. A not-for-profit hospital, Botsford provided almost $10.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year.
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Sun Sentinel: Montreal's Koivu a good fit for Cats?
From Steve Gorten: Koivu, who made $4.75 million last season, is 34 years old, but is a two-time All-Star and a three-time Olympic medalist. And despite missing 17 games last season because of a foot injury, he still totaled 16 goals and 34 assists, including five-game winning goals. He has averaged 60 points the past four seasons. W4E say: No. Way. He's an inspirational leader given his bouts with health issues, no doubt, but far less effective on the ice. Witness his team's inability to make a dent in the playoffs. Montreal's done nothing with him in the lineup. Though this probably has far more to do with the Habs' management than the captain himself, are the Panthers in a position to take such a chance? Florida must win now. The luxury of a rebuilding process is unavailable to them in this market; they've been rebuilding for a decade. "Strong" leaders from the late '90s/early '00s simply aren't an option. It's either coming from within (Stephen Weiss?) or via acquisition of a modern-day captain.


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Thank you to all the Frosty Participants, Sponsors, Volunteers and Spectators. This was certainly a Frosty to remember.
If you were on your way but not able to get to the Frosty in time due to the traffic delays on I-75, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us with "Stuck In Traffic" in the subject line.
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Style Map
Daily Dispatches From The Global Scene
Thom Browne's foray into womenswear is one of the most eagerly anticipated debuts of the upcoming season. Style.com contributor Tommy Ton got a sneak peek at the natty goods. [JakandJil]
Kate Moss was in London last night to debut her last collection for her Topshop line. Moss and Topshop's Sir Philip Green both say their collaboration will be going strong again in the future. Until then, the final collection will include some past-season best sellers, as well as new product like fur-trimmed dresses, feather stoles, sequined jackets, and tons of florals. [WWD]
Veruschka doesn't have too many kind words for the Giles Spring '11 show that she walked in this past London season (left). "I didn't like the makeup in the show, and didn't think much of the dress," the sixties super told the Daily Mail. The shoes didn't tickle her much, either. "In the sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk." [Huffington Post]
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a six-point plan to stimulate the fashion industry today, including programs to aid up-and-coming designers, fund pop-up shops, and provide training, networking, and financial skills for burgeoning businesses. The guy's bucking to become the patron saint of New York fashion. How long till we see a hizzoner menswear collection in tribute? [Daily Front Row]


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Another must have- Single Ended Triode is a universal binary AU plugin with three separate unusual and useful modes of distortion. Asymmetrical, class AB and class B. A versatile sonic seasoning kit completely under your control!
Single Ended Triode is $49.99.
Try the demo of this to see if it'll work for you! You're not allowed to use the demo for actual work. It politely mutes itself briefly every couple minutes, and that's the only thing it does to spite you. It won't expire or do anything to you, and when you get the actual plugin, throw away the demo and put the real version in its place and most software should replace saved instances of the demo with the real thing seamlessly, retaining any settings. Please support my cooperative, unhostile demos with sales of the real software.


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Financial Aid and Scholarship Information:
There are many resources available to help students finance a college education. One of the largest misconceptions about obtaining a university education is that it is simply too expensive for many to afford. Below, we have gathered some financial assistance resources and some links to Migrant –Specific Scholarships.
This is the website where one completes The Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Once you have completed the application, you can check the status of your application, make corrections to a processed FAFSA and get other information.
FAFSA4caster will help you get an early start on the financial aid process by providing you with an early estimate of your eligibility for federal student aid. In addition, FAFSA4caster will increase your knowledge of the financial aid process and provide information about other sources of aid.
This website provides information on the largest source of student aid in America. These programs provide more than $80 billion a year in grants, loans, and work-study assistance. Learn more about and how to apply for this aid.
The following is a list of scholarships designed specifically to assist migrant students as they pursue their higher education goals and aspirations. Please read the descriptions carefully to see which apply to you.
The Gloria and Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children:
The purpose of the Gloria and Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children is to assist financially those migrant youth who have the potential and the desire to further their education to achieve their personal and career goals. Eligible applicants must be entering or enrolled in college or other types of post-secondary programs, high school dropouts, or potential dropouts. The Scholarship fund gives migrant youth across the country a chance to make choices regarding their careers and future through grants ranging from $150-$500.
Frank Kasmierczak Memorial Scholarship:
The purpose of this scholarship is to serve as a living tribute to Frank Kazmierczak, a long time migrant educator, by offering an annual award in the amount of $1,000 for post-secondary scholarship assistance to a migrant student who wishes to pursue a career in teaching.
Berrien Fragos Thorn Arts Scholarships for Migrant Farmworkers:
Funded by a bequest from Berrien Fragos Thorn, creative arts scholarships have been initiated in order to foster and encourage the creative talents of individuals with a history of migration to obtain work in agriculture.
Migrant Farmworker Baccalaureate Scholarship:
The purpose of this scholarship is to provide financial support to a deserving student with a history of migrating for employment in agriculture who has successfully completed one year of college. This support will cover expenses beyond what the youth is entitled to in federal/state and other scholarship assistance. This scholarship is designed to assist the youth in obtaining a baccalaureate degree without being encumbered with substantial debt.
Margaret Raley New York State Migrant Student Scholarship:
The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize the educational achievement of migrant farmworker students with a history of migration to and/or within New York State. This award of $500 will be offered annually to an individual student or the amount will be divided among two or more students. The award is supported through resources from the Gloria and Joseph Mattera National Scholarship Fund for Migrant Children.
Robert Apicella Migrant Scholarship for Public Service:
The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize a migrant farmworker senior high school student from New York State needing post-secondary scholarship assistance who has demonstrated a caring and giving attitude toward another individual or community with a $500 scholarship.
The purpose of this scholarship is to honor a migrant farmworker student from New York State needing post-secondary scholarship assistance.
The purpose of this scholarship is to serve as a memorial to Aurelio "Larry" Jazo, a long time migrant educator, by offering an annual award in the amount of $500 for post-secondary scholarship assistance to a migrant farmworker student who as a recent migration to Illinois.
Juanita Crippen Memorial Scholarship:
The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize a senior high school student from a migrant farmworker family in Franklin, St. Lawrence, or Clinton Counties in New York State needing post-secondary scholarship assistance who has demonstrated a caring and giving attitude toward another individual or community with a $500.00 scholarship.
Association of Migrant Educators of Texas:
The AMET Scholarship program is designed to assist high school migrant students who have a history of migration and have the potential and desire to obtain a college degree. Awards will be available in August, when student provides proof of enrollment or admittance to the college or trade school.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund:
This link provides information to The Hispanic Scholarship Fund. The HSF is a general college scholarship designed to assist students of Hispanic Heritage obtain a college degree. Scholarships are available on a competitive basis.
LULAC National Educational Service Centers:
Since 1973, LULAC National Educational Service Centers (LNESC) has committed itself to providing high quality educational opportunities to the Hispanic community. Here you will find information on our educational programming, leadership training, and scholarships. Please look around our PROGRAMS and EVENTS sections to find opportunities in your area. Find the office nearest you under our CENTERS.
MALDEF: (Mexican American Legal Defense Fund)
These scholarships do not require a social security number, legal residency, or citizenship in order to apply. Contact each scholarship provider for details about updated requirements and deadlines.
Estas becas no requieren ni seguro social, ni la residencia legal, ni la ciudadanía para que los estudiantes apliquen. Ponte en contacto con el proveedor de cada beca para investigar los requisitos y plazos vigentes.
College for Texans:
The "Paying for College" section of this website offers very helpful information on everything from the financial aid process to federal Tax Credits and Other Programs available to students and/or parents.
Yo Si Puedo:
Esto es la Iniciativa de la Casa Blanca en la Excelencia Educativa para Americanos hispanos. Encuentre información para sobresalir en la escuela en todos niveles del grado.


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Well, it's a weird week for random news about George Lucas' "Star Wars" prequels, so let's just jump into this.
Remember Jake Lloyd? He was the young child actor who was plucked from relative obscurity (he was previously best known for starring opposite Arnie in the holiday movie "Jingle All The Way") to become young Anakin Skywalker in "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace." And it seems it ruined his childhood. Chatting with The Telegraph (via The AV Club) he reveals, "My entire school life was really a living hell - and I had to do up to 60 interviews a day." But that's not all, as he adds, "Other children were really mean to me. They would make the sound of the light saber every time they saw me. It was totally mad." Too bad Harvey Weinstein and his "Bully" documentary weren't around back then.
But Lloyd saves the best of his burn sauce with this passing shot at Lucas, "When you have something like that there's a lot of expectations for it to meet the standards of the public and I don't think George did that. For me to go back and watch it now would be kind of creepy." We agree Jake, but don't tell that to superfan Topher Grace, because it seems this guy has had way, way, way too much time on his hands.
Last night, a very select group of folks were invited to a screening of Grace's fanmade, 85-minute cut of all three prequels titled -- wait for it -- "Star Wars: Episode III.5: The Editor Strikes Back." If you want an exhaustive rundown, head over to /Film who were there, and detail the changes and additions (for example, Jar-Jar Binks gets about one line and some deleted scenes are added in what is apparently an action-heavy version). But we have a couple of thoughts on this. Firstly, it says something about how empty that trilogy is that it can be hacked down to under 90 minutes and still presumably present the same scope. But secondly, would anyone care about this if it was done by some kid in a basement in Muncie, Indiana?
Fan edits -- especially of the "Star Wars" films -- are done all the time. Seriously, you can find a zillion of them right now. The only reason this got some attention was that it was done by a famous guy who invited some people to come watch and write about it. The thing is, it's pretty common. Steven Soderbergh has been known to recut films for his own amusement or to learn something (he's done "Heaven's Gate" among others). We did a fan edit of "Watchmen" that ends right after the opening credits. But honestly, we can't imagine any version of those "Star Wars" prequels is worth watching.
Anyway, you'll probably never see Grace's version due to the iron legal fist of George Lucas -- the actor says he has no plans to upload it or screen it publicly without approval from the filmmaker -- so this will forever pass into a legend...or just be a footnote about the guy from "That '70s Show" who showed his edit of the "Star Wars" prequels that one time.
rka | May 24, 2012 6:34 PM
I think Topher Grace just wants people to forget about how bad his Venom performance was in SpiderMan 3. If anything George Lucas should retaliate by editing him out of SP3 lol
Yod | March 7, 2012 9:31 PM
Funny that The Playlist would to ask why Grace's Star Wars edit would get attention when that's exactly what The Playlist is giving it. So, why are you reporting it, The Playlist?
Benjamin | March 7, 2012 5:54 PM
This article was thoroughly hilarious, but I enjoyed myself an extra hard giggle after reading, "we did an edit of Watchmen that ended after the opening credits."
rodie | March 7, 2012 4:05 PM
I for one have enjoyed several fan edits posted online and am interested to see Grace's, mostly because it reads like it jives with the ideas I've always harbored for a re-edit (starting it with the Darth Maul battle and the death of Gui-Gon, for instance). The prequels have far too many issues to be edited and kept as three films in any sort of coherent or fulfilling way. What Grace has done to condense all three into one swift feature-length movie is probably the best route to go, and frankly I've never seen that idea completed before. If a version like that exists online, please PlayList provide the link.
Zinjo | March 7, 2012 3:25 PM
RE; Christopher Bell,
Outside of Star Wars and ILM, what influence "if any" does Lucas have in the film community anymore?
He could have spent the last 20 years being the producer he always dreamed of having, but instead chose to re-invent the Star Wars films at nausium and build the SW merchandzing empire. George, we are tired of Star Wars, stick to producing new stuff and be "that producer" that every aspiring director wants to work with.
Christopher Bell | March 7, 2012 2:18 PM
I wonder if Lloyd should be throwing Lucas under the bus when it seems like the former child-actor is now pursuing a career behind the camera.
The Playlist | March 7, 2012 2:14 PM
My alternate headline:
Topher Grace Edited All 3 'Star Wars' Prequels Into An 85 Minute Movie. Congratulations?


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The lure of New Orleans always revolves around the city's utterly unique And we almost lost it there for a second. But tens of thousands ofCreole food and Delta music. For example, tell your clients to start their locals and out-of-state volunteers to this day won't give up on the cityday with the Eggs Bayou LaFourche atop andouille Cajun sausage at following Hurricane Katrina, just like Holland and Italy won't give up onBrennan's on Royal Street, with a couple of Mr. Funks (champagne, their singular sinking cities: Amsterdam and Venice.cranberry and peach schnapps). Follow that with the flaming Bananas But maybe you're thinking, enough of Katrina, already. Surely theFoster desert, which was invented here, while the jazz clarinetist plays people have moved on and we can talk about something else. Here'sin the courtyard. the thing, the storm is now part of the city's cultural fabric as much asCan I get an amen? That's probably the most iconic dining experi- beignets and Bourbon Street. Most locals will sit you on their front porchence in New Orleans' gastronomic ginormity, alongside obligatory stops with some sweet tea and talk your ear off about Katrina 'til the sun setsat Emeril's, Paul Prudhomme's, Antoine's, Arnaud's and/or Galatoire's over the bayou, because it was a momentous time in their lives. A ton of(bring a jacket). good stories to be told, too, about how so many people came togetherBut there's more to N'awlins than all that good eatin'. There's the in a time of need. And some scary tales about being stuck in your atticlacy wrought-iron, antebellum architecture of the French Quarter and while the water's rising and live gators are swirling below. And more sto-Garden District. And there's the whole muddy Mississippi soul thing—a ries of loss. The boys in the band got all kinds of inspiration for singinggumbo-like mix of Huck Finn spirit and Robert Johnson pathos. In ef- the Blues for the next century.fect, this is America's most original city and most European at once.


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Kirk Herbstreit Varsity Football Challenge (tounge n cheek)
Exciting HS matchup or well disguised recruiting ploy??? All I know is Chris Carter(OSU) is sidelining St. Thomas Aq. Herbei's name is on there (OSU) and I don't like even the thought of LJ and Co. treading accross goal lines for is Buckey Stadium... When does the classic show up in Tallahassee?


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Audio: Race-mongering Rep. Diane Watson channels Ray Nagin
Tipster JP passes along audio from a Black History Town Hall meeting last night held by Congressional Black Caucus leaders at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
California Democrat Rep. Diane Watson, in discussing D.C. representation, channeled New Orleans Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin. Partial transcript:
Did you know your representatives can not vote? They can only vote in the committee as a whole. So what you're going to have to do is declare the District [of Columbia] something like a state so they can have a proportional representation who vote. But that would give this district two senators and there are a lot of people on that floor who don't want to see that occur because if there's a chocolate city, this is it.
Here's the audio:
In other words: The White Men and Women in the US Senate are blocking proportional representation for D.C. to keep black–"chocolate"–people out.
She really believes this poison. And she sat there at Howard University spreading it to black college students.
Commenter greenfairie: "D.C. has been called Chocolate City for years because of its large black population. But the usual agitators use race as the reason why D.C. doesn't have statehood." Yep.
I remind you that Rep. Watson is the same racial demagogue who attacked Ward Connerly for marrying outside his race:
"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black. I said that."
Watson is supporting Hillary Clinton, but I have a feeling she'd get along swimmingly with Michelle Obama.
The Ferguson feeding frenzy
August 20, 2014 06:59 AM by Michelle Malkin
Read and remember: Meet the cops who gave their lives
August 14, 2014 10:28 PM by Michelle Malkin
Hilarous video montage: Al Sharpton unhooked on phonics
May 8, 2014 11:56 AM by Doug Powers
Jesse Jackson's dalliance with accuracy
January 25, 2014 11:28 PM by Doug Powers
2nd suspect nabbed in murder of World War II veteran Delbert Belton; others arrested for harboring
August 26, 2013 08:54 AM by Michelle Malkin
Categories: Feature Story, Race Hustlers, Race relations


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Opposite Views on Climate Feedbacks (and perhaps the answer lies in the middle)
Just how much warming should we expect from rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs)? The answer largely hinges on how much extra warming might be generated by the initial warming—that is, how strong (and in what direction) are the feedbacks from water vapor and clouds.
By most estimates (including climate model outcomes), these feedbacks are positive and result in about a doubling of the warming that would result from greenhouse gas increases alone. By others, however, the total feedbacks are negative, and imply that the total warming will be less than the warming from greenhouse gas increases alone, and only a fraction of that which is commonly expected.
The ultimate warming experienced across the 21st century will depend on the combination of greenhouse gas emissions and how the climate responds to them. The feedback issue is an essential part of the latter, for it spells the difference between a high climate sensitivity to greenhouse gas doubling (say 3-4ºC) and a much lower one (1-2ºC).
As to where the answer lies, the devil is in the details, and in this instance he is hard at work, as the processes involved are exceedingly complex—difficult to not only to fully understand, but even to adequately measure. In a "Perspectives" piece in a recent issue of Science magazine, Andrew Dessler and Steven Sherwood attempt to put to rest any notion that the feedbacks on global temperatures are anything but positive and significant. Dessler and Sherwood point out that the role of water vapor plays the largest role in the feedback process—higher temperature (from greenhouse gases) lead to more water vapor in the atmosphere which leads to even higher temperatures still (as water vapor, itself, is a strong greenhouse gas).
But actual hard evidence that water vapor is increasing in the atmosphere has been hard to come by. Dessler and Sherwood review the recent literature on the topic, including an important contribution from Dessler et al. published last year, and conclude that there now exists sufficient evidence to conclude that atmospheric water vapor is increasing very much in line with climate model expectations and that this increase produces roughly twice the global temperature rise than does anthropogenic greenhouse gas enhancement alone. Meaning, of course, that all is generally right in model world, or as they put it: "There remain uncertainties in our simulations of the climate, but evidence for the water vapor feedback—and the large future warming it implies—is now strong."
But apparently Dessler and Sherwood didn't convince everyone that this is the case. One notable person who was less than impressed that this was the whole story was Roy Spencer, who has himself been working on the feedbacks issue. Spencer points out that water is actually involved in two feedback processes—the first, through water vapor as described by Dessler and Sherwood, and the second, through water droplets, or, more commonly, clouds. Changes in the patterns (horizontal, vertical, and temporal) and characteristics (droplet size, brightness, etc.) of cloud cover play an important role not only in the earth's climate, but in how the climate responds to changes in the greenhouse effect. And, as you may have guessed from their ephemeral nature, the behavior or clouds is not particularly well-understood, and even less well modeled.
Spencer has been looking into the cloud part of the feedback processes. Over the past several years, during the period when Dessler et al. (2008) finds a positive feedback from increases in water vapor, Spencer, in his investigations, finds that cloud cover changes produce a feedback in the opposite direction. And when he adds these two effects together, he finds that the total feedback from warming-induced changes in water in the atmosphere to be negative (that is, the cloud effect dominates the vapor effect). Granted, Spencer's investigations are far from complete and even farther from being generally accepted, but they do raise important concerns as to the ability of examinations of short-term behavior to diagnose long-term response (a situation relied on by both Spencer, and Dessler and Sherwood). Spencer concludes that "unless you know both [vapor] and [cloud] feedbacks, you don't know the sensitivity of the climate system, and so you don't know how much global warming there will be in the future." Virtually the opposite sense of things than that put forth by Dessler and Sherwood.
Obviously, the final arbiter will be the earth's climate itself, as it is the true integrator of all forces imparted upon it. But, still today, we struggle to even accurately observe the finer details of how it is responding to the changes to which it is being continually subjected. And we are further still from understanding the processes involved sufficiently to produce unassailable models of the climate's behavior, much less future projections of its response response (as evidenced by the recent slowdown in the rate of global temperature increase despite ever-growing greenhouse gas emissions). And so the process of science continues…
[Breaking news: A new peer-reviewed paper has just been published in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology, by researchers Garth Paltridge and colleagues which finds that the increase in atmospheric water vapor that, according to Dessler and Sherwood most definitely accompanies the increase in temperature, is absent in one of the primary databases used to study climate behavior—the so-called NCEP reanalysis data. The authors admit that perhaps there are errors contained in this dataset which may explain their results, but as it stands now (and unless some errors are identified) the reanalysis data supports a negative water vapor feedback. Paltridge et al. conclude:
Negative trends in [water vapor] as found in the NCEP data would imply that long-term water vapor feedback is negative—that it would reduce rather than amplify the response of the climate system to external forcing such as that from increasing atmospheric CO2. In this context, it is important to establish what (if any) aspects of the observed trends survive detailed examination of the impact of past changes of radiosonde instrumentation and protocol within the various international networks.
Lead author Garth Paltridge describes the trials and tribulations of trying to get this result (which runs contrary to climate model expectations) published in an enlightening article over at ClimateAudit, including how at least one of the Dessler and Sherwood authors knew of Paltridge's soon-to-be-published results and yet made no mention of it in their Science piece. Hmmm, so much for an open discussion of the science on this issue.]
Dessler, A.E., and S. C. Sherwood, 2009. A matter of humidity. Science, 323, 1020-1021.
Dessler, A.E., et al., 2008. Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L20704.
Spencer, R., and W.D. Braswell. 2008. Potential biases in feedback diagnosis from observations data: a simple model demonstration. Journal of Climate, 21, 5624-5628.
14 comments
- 1 jae { 03.05.09 at 12:41 pm }
Well, I would add that the fact that temperatures have not increased for over 10 years (air or oceans), despite continually rising CO2 levels, should at least make one question this positive feedback hypothesis. Where's the beef?
- 2 TokyoTom { 03.05.09 at 12:49 pm }
Chip, three questions:
- what is your view about what the paleodata tell us about long-term sensitivity, including "'slow" climate feedback processes not included in most climate models, such as ice sheet disintegration, vegetation migration, and GHG release from soils, tundra or ocean sediments?
Jim Hansen has said that "Paleoclimate data show that climate sensitivity is ~3°C for doubled CO2, including only fast feedback processes. Equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, is ~6°C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and icefree Antarctica." (see the link at my name above)
- even if sensitivity is low, aren`t we looking at at least two doublings?
- why is it that you and Pat never seen to write about ocean pH? Is this just something you guys have never looked at, and so act like it`s safe to ignore?
- 4 Andrew { 03.05.09 at 11:34 pm }
Hansen's estimates aren't the only game in town, Tom, and some more recent estimates are lower:
Anyway, this paleoclimate derivations rely on the presupposition that CO2 was a major rather than bit player in the glaciation cycles (the justification for this reminds me of ID: "What else could explain it other than CO2/A Designer?) which maybe rather popular but hardly proven (we just don't have the data to make such attributions.
- 5 TokyoTom { 03.06.09 at 7:40 am }
Chip, my understanding is that Annan was doing a Bayesian analysis of the short-term sensitivity estimates that are used in the models. If so, then he hasn't factored in the possibility that Hansen raises of a long-term (centuries/millennia) equilibrium sensitivity, including slower surface albedo feedbacks, of ~6°C for doubled CO2 for the range of climate states between glacial conditions and icefree Antarctica. Doesn't sound like you address this possiblity either.
- As noted, its all seems that you are ignoring that, even if short-term sensitivity is low, that we run a very good chance of having two doublings.
Why speak narrowly on solely "estimates of the strength of the water vapor feedback and on-going research into these estimates" to a lay group that is interested in the big picture? Why not provide a bigger picture?
- Such a bigger picture would also include the ongoing rapid ocean acidification, which will only increase as we continue to pump up CO2 levels.
- So: "As to where the answer lies, the devil is in the details, and in this instance he is hard at work, as the processes involved are exceedingly complex—difficult to not only to fully understand, but even to adequately measure" – we don't really know where we're headed. BUT, just as for ocean pH, "let's hope things adapt (as they have in the past)" (ignoring that past adaptation to ocean pH was on the scale of very long periods, and not a few decades/centuries).
Maybe you can help me to better understand, in the face of all this uncertainty, that you consider the ramping up of our global limate experiment to be the "conservative" thing to do? Or are you encouraging wishful thinking and do-nothingism simply out of resignation?
- 7 Rob { 03.06.09 at 8:23 pm }
"Well, I would add that the fact that temperatures have not increased for over 10 years (air or oceans), despite continually rising CO2 levels, should at least make one question this positive feedback hypothesis. Where's the beef?"
This is true, as long as you take 1998 (a major El Nino year) as the starting year for your analysis. Looked at over other time frames…. not so much.
- 8 Andrew { 03.07.09 at 11:26 am }
Rob-What time frames are appropriate and which aren't? After all, it would be rather important to determine the answer to this question, wouldn't it? Well, the point, as I see it, that the "pause" over this period makes is that warming is not accelerating (as Gore and pals often claim) but proceeding at either the same rate as it has since 1979 or perhaps even slower.
Tom-why exactly is Hansen's "long term sensitivity" estimate better than Annan's short term estimate for policy purposes (or Chylek and Lohmann's for that matter)? Your accusing Chip of believing in "do nothingism" implies you think something can be done-well, how do you propose to provide energy for the world while drastically cutting emissions? If you are so worried about Ocean pH, perhaps you should poor truck loads of Heartburn medicine into it? Feel good solutions feel good, but they don't work at all.
- 9 russ { 03.10.09 at 12:37 am }
The Real Problem is Not Tomorrows CO2 But Yesterdays CO2
EU President says environmentalists want to command human behavior. Hearing the president of the EU frame the context of "global warming" in this context is most welcome. It inspires comment. He is both right and wrong. He is quite correct in his observation that the dark green movement has been and is exploiting global warming and climate change to seize power and run modern society back to some stone age fantasyland. He is utterly wrong to equate this with the notion that there is no problem with fossil CO2. There is a big problem only its not bearing down on us at the slow pace of changing glaciers, it is much near than that.
While many international leaders debate or work toward emission reduction strategies and carbon capture and storage the real problem is not tomorrows CO2 but yesterdays CO2. Nor is the central problem the role CO2 has in Global Warming.
We must turn our attention to the 1000+ gigatonne carbon bomb, two centuries of accumulating CO2, still mostly in the air as it takes centuries for airborne CO2 to equilibrate with the rest of the planet. Reports call the alarm of ocean acidification, adding acid flames to the raging fires of fossil CO2. What's missing is mention of the best, only, means to fight ocean acidification and CO2 in the air.
Just 500 gigatonnes of yesterdays CO2 has reached the oceans where Revelle's Rule tells us 80% of CO2 ends up. The first carbon bomb will be exploding in the ocean for more than a century even if we stop the emission of new CO2 today. No amount alternative energies, recycling, bicycling, or "clean coal" will tend to the first carbon bomb. Sure lets reduce the size of the second bomb but first things first. Here's how.
ONLY ocean replenishment and restoration can enlist, as allies, the most powerful force of nature – the ocean plants, the bloomin' plankton. But high and rising CO2 in the air is not only responsible for ocean acidification worse it has fed green plants on land making them greener, bushier, and living longer making them "good ground cover."
Ground cover improvements have reduced the amount of dust blowing in the winds by 1/3 in just a few decades. For the oceans dust in the wind brings vital mineral micro-nutrients that terrestrial Yin (dust) is just as important as rain, the Yang, blowing from sea to land nurturing plant life. Since earth and ocean satellites went aloft 30 years ago we've measured decimation of ocean plants, 10% are gone from the Southern Ocean, 17% from the N. Atlantic, 26% from the N. Pacific, and 50% from the tropical seas. Just yesterday, a few decades past, ocean pastures grew more verdant consuming 4-5 billion tonnes more CO2 each year than today.
Today, as stewards of our blue planet, we must replenish ocean micro-nutrients to restore the verdant ocean pastures. If we bring the ocean plankton blooms back to levels seen only 30 years ago those plants will annually convert billions of tonnes of CO2 into ocean life instead of acid ocean death. Those verdant restored ocean pastures will deliver 7 times the CO2 reductions called for by the Kyoto Protocol.
To begin, and we must without delay, the work requires only tens of millions of dollars, to succeed in a matter of a decade requires only a few billion dollars. In the bargain the restored oceans will feed everything from tiny krill to the great whales and everything and everybody in between – fish, seabirds, penguins, seals and us.
Replenish and restore the oceans without delay.
- 10 Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (Part II)—Global Sign-Up — MasterResource { 05.07.09 at 7:34 am }
[...] models, produces the greatest warming by the end of the century—about 4.5ºC (although the world abounds with observations that suggests that this temperature rise is overblown, but that is the subject of [...]
- 11 Houston Chronicle: Knee-Jerk Climate Alarmism, Policy Activism w/o Economic Analysis — MasterResource { 05.27.09 at 1:00 am }
[...] CO2 emissions, casting the high-sensitivity models in a harsh light? Some very interesting work on feedback effects appears to explain the reasons for the models' overestimation of anthropogenic warming. And [...]
- 12 Lana Lang { 02.18.10 at 12:46 pm }
Andrew said:
"Tom-why exactly is Hansen's "long term sensitivity" estimate better than Annan's short term estimate for policy purposes (or Chylek and Lohmann's for that matter)? Your accusing Chip of believing in "do nothingism" implies you think something can be done-well, how do you propose to provide energy for the world while drastically cutting emissions?"
Why should the longer-term view including ice-sheet disintegration be included? It is really in order to consider the longer-term effects over the next few hundred years, and consequences for future generations, rather than just your lifetime.
You ask; "how do you propose to provide energy for the world while drastically cutting emissions?" – and I would infer this point suggests you believe in resignation; that nothing can be done. Obviously there are ways to provide energy while cutting emissions; it's called renewable energy.
- 13 Why is Water Vapour, the Most Important Greenhouse Gas, Ignored? | Dr. Tim Ball { 05.04.11 at 7:05 pm }
[...] a positive feedback and is at the center of the debate of climate sensitivity. Evidence shows the positive feedback is wrong and climate sensitivity is overestimated. Negative trends in [water vapor] as found in the [...]
- 14 Hair Loss { 07.22.11 at 5:26 am }
Hi Very informative page, I will be back to view more. Keep up the good work.J
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