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As the end of my NATO deployment to Zagreb approached, I became anxious. The Air Force still hadn't named a replacement for me. It was part of my job to get replacements as our people's tours ended. I'd been successful so far—except for my own position. The tasking fell again to HQ United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), so I began making almost daily phone calls to the Director of Personnel, a Colonel Douglas I'd worked for in the few months I'd been assigned to the headquarters.
USAFE finally provided the name of my replacement. That was the good news. Colonel Douglas said, "Now you may have to stay a little beyond your tour of duty there, Cheryl, a couple of weeks, say. The major replacing you is married and his wife is at a school right now. They have some little kids too. When she returns we want them to have a few weeks together before he leaves for Zagreb."
"Will she not get back before the end of my tour date?"
"Well, yes, but then they'd only have about four or five days together."
I'd only had two days of official notice before I had to leave my home, which I didn't bother to mention to Colonel Douglas. Instead I said, "But sir, by regulation I can only stay on temporary duty 179 days." Air Force policy at that time limited deployments to 120 days if possible, but I'd always known that wasn't going to work in my case.
"But you could volunteer to stay longer, Cheryl."
I took a deep breath. "No sir. I'm not going to do that."
"Well, think about it, Cheryl."
The days dropped off—not quickly but steadily—until I was a week away from my departure date. The daily phone calls with Colonel Douglas had become more and more difficult. He cajoled, then pushed, coerced, threatened to have me involuntarily extended for a month if I wouldn't volunteer for an additional two weeks. I kept refusing and usually ended these calls wanting to cry. My own major command was betraying me.
Six days to what should be my last day, I made the usual call. Colonel Douglas started up right away (he'd stopped the cajoling part days ago). "The Ramstein wing commander insists we give his guy more time with his family before he goes. This is short-notice, you know."
I snorted, but not into the phone. And whose fault is that? You've known about this tasking for months. But I didn't say it, just swallowed and gave the speech I'd practiced all morning. I spoke directly and honestly.
"If it were just me, sir, I would volunteer in a heartbeat. This is a great job, great people, and I'm rolling in dough with all the temporary duty allowances."
I meant it. I loved the job. I loved Chris and Christine and Frank who worked with me. I loved my Army bosses and coworkers. I loved the folks from the other services and all the different nations working one very worthwhile mission together. And I'd actually started thinking, along about the time the crocuses began to pop through the dirty gray snow, that I could learn to love Zagreb and its people.
The colonel started to say something, but I interrupted him. "Just hear me out, sir." I stared out the window to the Wall of Shame surrounding the old UN headquarters, looking for courage there. "It's not just me. I'm a commander. I have a squadron at Spangdahlem that I'm responsible for. How would I tell my flight chiefs, my NCOs, my bosses, that I'd volunteered to stay away longer?
"More importantly, sir, I have a family too. I have a husband who has supported me cheerfully throughout this deployment. You've met Lynn, sir. He's been counting every day, because the only guarantee he's had from the get-go is that I would at least be home in 179 days. How do I tell him, 'Oh honey, I decided to stay a couple of extra weeks so this other family can have more time together'? I understand you can extend me involuntarily. If you do that, I will salute smartly and do as I'm told. But I cannot, I will not volunteer."
He was silent so long I began to wonder if we'd lost the connection. But when he spoke, he said mildly and with determination. "You've made your point, Cheryl. Your replacement will be there in four days."
I went out for a cigarette after that call, exhausted from the emotion of it. It had finally hit me that what seemed obvious to me, so obvious I didn't have to mention it, the colonel had completely forgotten: I too had a spouse who suffered because I was gone and whom I longed for every day.
Air Force men were expected to come with the appropriate spouse and family adjuncts. But I was a woman. The Air Force preferred its women single. But it was a new world.
[1996, Major]


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Caption: Simply replacing the connector in the IV system in patients with central lines could help reduce deadly bloodstream infections, researchers at Georgia Regents University have found. Dr. Cynthia C. Chernecky, a Professor of Nursing at GRU and a corresponding author discuss the study.
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On Thursday, April 12, the St Thomas University School of Law held its First Annual Public Service Awards program. Dean Douglas Ray introduced the Program by stating "Today we celebrate the difference a lawyer can make in a community and the particular difference our students make in this community." Dean Ray noted that St. Thomas Law students provided over 15,000 hours of volunteer service to the community and that the 39 students in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program helped more than 500 hundred low and middle income taxpayers and military personnel file returns and receive over a million dollars in tax refunds, earned income credits, and education credits. Dean Ray also welcomed and thanked the dozens of public-spirited lawyers and judges who supervise law students in their pro bono work.
Pro Bono Commendation Certificates were presented to the 42 students who each provided more than 100 hours of volunteer service to the community as part of the law school's Pro Bono Leadership program. Some had provided 500 and 600 hours of service. Dave Sooklal and Vladimir Larios from the Immigration Law Clinic and Joseph Hunt from the Tax Law Clinic received Outstanding Clinic Student Awards and Victoria Mendez of the Office of the City Attorney in Miami, received the Outstanding Supervisor Award which recognizes an outstanding lawyer or judge who supervises students in their pro bono work.
Keynote remarks were delivered by Dade County Bar Association President Andrea Hartley, Esq., a shareholder in the Akerman law firm and former Chair of the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Group. In congratulating the students for their efforts, she stressed the importance of volunteer work by the bar and the difference a public-spirited lawyer can make in the life of an individual and of a community.


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AOpen AK89 Max / AK86-L (AMD 64) Mainboard
by Dean Barker (3/29/2004)
AOpen has long been known for offering a variety of products emphasizing stability and advanced features for the mainstream computer component and peripheral market. One of the many products they produce are mainboards, designed for numerous chipsets and platforms. Today we take an opportunity to look over a couple of the Athlon 64 boards being released from AOpen based on two competing chipsets. The two boards we have for review are the AK89 Max based on the NVidia nForce3 chipset and the AK86-L based on the VIA K8T800 chipset.
Both of these boards share many of the features AOpen has developed over time. Some of the more noteworthy of these are the EZ Clock, WatchDog ABS System, SilentTek Noise Reduction Technology, SilentBIOS Noise Reduction Technology, EZ WinFlash and their EZ Restore. Each of these is worthwhile and deserves some explanation. So before we jump into the specifications and differences of the two boards we just mentioned, I want to take this opportunity to explain some of what they have in common as far as the features I listed above.
EZ Clock: AOpen has followed suite with several other mainboard manufacturers in offering software to change overclocking settings on the fly that previously you would have had to adjust from within the BIOS. EZ Clock is exactly what it sounds like; it allows you the ability to change the CPU front side bus as well as the clock frequencies and voltages for AGP, VGA, PCI and your DRAM with ease.
WatchDog ABS: While this is not necessarily a new feature to AOpen, it is a very noteworthy one. What the WatchDog ABS does is it detects your system when it POSTs. If the system fails during POST, the WatchDog ABS reboots the system and resets your system to the detected factory settings for your processor. This comes in handy if you are overclocking and lock your system up. Without the WatchDog, you would be opening up your case to clear your CMOS if you served up too much sauce on your overclock.
SilentTek Noise Reduction: Most of us have seen the rheobus units that automatically adjust fan speed based on the temperature read from a thermal probe. SilentTek is effectively the same thing but it ties the mainboards onboard hardware monitoring and fan headers together for the same end result of controlling a fans speed. This can be set between the fully automatic Smart Fan Control, manually setting up the scaling of fan speed to temperatures detected or selecting a fixed speed setting for all times.
SilentBIOS Noise Reduction: This is effectively the same thing as the SilentTek except it runs while the computer is booting up before the operating system is loaded. Its settings are adjusted from within the BIOS to Smart Fan Control, full speed or fixed speed to affect CPU Fan 1 and SYS Fan 2.
EZ WinFlash: Flash your BIOS from within Windows instead of with a floppy. Nuff said.
EZ Restore: Most of us are familiar with Window XPs System Restore which allows you to change your settings to be what they were at an earlier time. EZ Restore functions along the same lines except it is done within the BIOS. The value here is if you are playing with drivers/settings and hose up your box to the point you cant boot up your OS, you arent screwed. Enter the BIOS on POST and give yourself a do-over.
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Zeroing in on America's pension problems
- Written by Charles Sims Jr.
MONEY MATTERS Many Americans are familiar with Social Security's projected shortfall and the public debate on how to fix the program's finances. Going forward, fewer workers will support a larger number of retiring baby boomers. Without some combination of tax increases and benefit cuts, Social Security's operating deficit is expected to exceed $800 billion over the next 10 years.
Some of the nation's public- and private-sector pension plans are facing similar financial challenges. Unlike defined-contribution plans such as 401(k)s, pensions are defined-benefit plans that promise to pay lifetime benefits to retirees based on length of service and their pre-retirement salaries.
Pension plans that become severely underfunded could eventually fail, leaving participants without the retirement incomes they were counting on, or transferring the burden to taxpayers if a government bailout is needed.
Here's a closer look at how pensions operate and why more of these retirement plans may be under pressure.
Dealing with deficits
Investment losses from the 2008 financial crisis reduced public pension assets, and some states chose not to make their full-recommended contributions. An estimated $800 billion in unfunded liabilities for public-employee pensions has been reported, with individual state funding levels ranging widely from 40 percent to 80 percent.
A long period of low interest rates has taken a toll on private-sector pensions. The funding deficit of the 100 biggest corporate pension plans rose to $411.8 billion at the end of 2012, and the plans were 76.4 percent funded (on average). A funding ratio of 80 percent is usually considered healthy.
Low rates affect the calculation of a plan's funding ratio by increasing the value of future benefit obligations (or liabilities). Such liability losses have more than offset investment gains that exceeded expectations in three of the last four years. For individual companies, a loss of funding status typically results in a charge to their balance sheets at the end of the fiscal year and increases pension expenses the following year.
Repercussions for retirees
To help reduce pension costs, 45 states have cut benefits for teachers, police, firefighters, and other public workers. Because most major changes affect only new workers, much of the savings won't be realized for several decades. Twelve states, however, have reduced benefits for current retirees, including nine that suspended cost-of-living increases.
To help control costs, some corporations are closing pensions to new employees, freezing benefits for current workers, or terminating plans and offering lump-sum payments. Many companies are switching to defined-contribution plans in which the workers bear the investment risks.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a U.S. government agency that provides basic pension benefits for participants of failed private-sector plans. The PBGC is funded by insurance premiums and recovered assets, not tax dollars, but is itself operating under a growing deficit in recent years.
Because most private-sector (and some public-sector) pension benefits do not rise with inflation, a fixed benefit amount that seems adequate initially might cover a much smaller share of a retiree's living expenses after 20 years.
Public and private pensions are operating in a difficult environment, and some plan sponsors may not be able to keep all the promises that were made to workers. Therefore, when assessing your own retirement income needs, it might be wise not to depend solely on a pension.
(Charles Sims Jr. is president/ CEO of The Sims Financial Group. Contact him at 901-682-2410 or visit www.SimsFinancialGroup.com.)


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the greatest man alive. frequently wears v neck t shirts, has a large forehead, and is an art director. see doug mennen
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by Cap'n Dougo the Corn Craving Caterpillar May 23, 2004
busting your butt, going above and beyond the call of duty working on the computer over internet due to a screw up usually by some other party.
sorry honey i won't be home for supper because ebay loused up all 4000 of the listings in my store and now i have to work a few extra e-miles to get on track.
by em bee kay August 31, 2008
French for charming but used today as any and all of the following: Ladies man, Romeo type, Man-whore, sexy, Hottie, ect.
Also the name of singer, dancer, actor, and member of The Heartbeat boys.
Also the name of singer, dancer, actor, and member of The Heartbeat boys.
That guy in the club, dancing with all the girls, is such an emile.
by Cheerchick98 August 21, 2008
One of the pubic hairs on a mans balls.
I have finally gone through puberty. I have many emiles on my balls.
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Please click here for contact information for each school's HIB specialist.Please click here for the NJDOE HIB Guidance document.
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Toddlers often seem irrational, unreasonable, finicky, and frustrating, but sometimes I think all that screaming would make sense if I had a good interpreter. The next time you feel your blood starting to boil while you wait for "ME DO IT!!" as your toddler attempts to put his or her their shoes for 20 minutes, or "MINE!!" to loosen their grip on the candy you just said they couldn't have, try seeing things from your kid's perspective. It may still be irrational, but at least it will make you smile. And if you do, then they probably will too...hopefully.
1. Don't ask me why I stuck something up my nose. I know there is no good answer to that, but I'll try to come up with a creative reason if you keep pushing. And that one won't make any more sense than "because I could." ("I thought if I put a red pom-pom up my nose it would make me Rudolph!")
2. No means no! It also means 'yes,' 'I think so,' 'maybe,' and 'I need a nap; for the love of Fisher Price won't someone find me my blanky!'
3. Getting my face wiped with a warm washcloth is exactly like getting power washed with with an industrial sprayerand don't even try to tell me it isn't, you terrorist.
4. That tantrum I threw in the middle of the store? That wasn't me. This darn body is so new it just goes on the fritz sometimes. I can't help it. I contacted the manufacturer, and we're trying to work out the kinks.
5. Don't tell me not to do something I haven't done yet. If I haven't tried it, you just gave me a great idea, and the fact that you said no makes it even more exciting.
6. I peed on the floor not because I can't pee on the potty, but simply because I don't feel like hanging my tushie over a gigantic hole filled with water that may or may not suck me straight into the vortex. Frankly, I can't believe anyone can poop with that kind of pressure!
7. Spreading stuff all over me is just how I eat. Just because you've lost the ability to taste through your skin doesn't mean I should hide my talent. Don't be a hater.
8. Brushing my teeth is like minty dessert on a handy stick -- why wouldn't I want to swallow that?
9. Band-Aids are just big stickers. Blood should not be a precursor to getting one...or five.
10. It doesn't matter to me where you work, how important you are, or if you are a size two. All I know is that you are the most wonderful person I've ever met and that you love me. (Although it totally does matter what kind of car you drive - why have you not purchased that stretch limo with wading pool and sippy cup wet bar yet?)
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Ronnie Corliss, wife of William (Bill) Corliss. Daughter of Joyce Lewin and the late Armand Lewin. Stepdaughter of Robert (Bob) Schwartz, WWII veteran. She was confirmed at Temple Sinai. She graduated from Roslyn High School and NYU. Sister of Harley Lewin. Mother of two wonderful sons, Dustin Ross and Evan Ross. She had many friends in Aspen, Carbondale, Roslyn and New York.


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Global warming dirt-carbon peril models are wrong, say boffins
The world may not be doomed after all, according to top American dirt scientists. Soil-dwelling microbes, expected in climate models to go into CO2-spewing "overdrive" as the world warms, refused to do so in experiments. Researchers started a greenhouse warming experiment in Alaska's boreal forest in 2005. Credit: Steven D …
There's alwas the possibility....
While we humans are very good at trying our damdest to bugger-up the ecology of this planet, whether it be poisoning the sees (not that it matters any more because we've dragged out and and/or killed anything and everything that actually lived in there), raping the rain forests, over-farming fragile local ecologies and turning them to desert, throwing toxic waste all over the place, and pouring oil into the sea, etc etc, it might just be that the planet is actually more robust when it comes to the climate. Could it be that if it wasn't, then we probably wouldn't be here in the first place?
Oh, hang on - where's the tax revenue opportunities with that way of thinking?
Re: There's alwas the possibility....
>>Could it be that if it wasn't, then we probably wouldn't be here in the first place?
Good (and oft' posed) question, while there's obviously no actual answer for this question, you must take two things into account when considering the possiblities;
1. Some species have died out
2. As the population and useof resources increase we have a greater impact on the environment.
Number 1 is often dismissed as, "Well dinosaurs could hardly be in control of their fate, could they?" meaning that they couldn't have protected themselves from environmental issues as they had no control of their environment, while this is true, does this mean we do? and if we do have control of the environment (make it better) then we obviously can make it worse.
Number 2 is the big unknown that people fuss about, while it's almost predictable that every few months somebody will come of with [yet] another fact that may affect the environment and turns out to have a minor (or no) effect, this is because, yes the world won't jump two degrees if you buy strawberries that were grown in a heated glasshouse, it's the cumulative effect that we just can't predict, but it's just common sense to do something that has less impact on the environment (no matter how minor).
Damn! another thermogeddon theory gone
if this keeps up, the next ice age will be here later than expected in 1970. Larry Nivens story "Fallen Angels" might be closer to reality than first thought.
Paris because she is a more reliable model
That sounded...
Too much like you're interested in science - prepare to be turned in to the authorities, you enemy of nature!
Good book that - though of course I read it, many years ago, on my palm pilot rather than on paper.
So where's the big conspiracy then?
Here you go. US Government funded research and the results for this one particular experiment show results that show one particular aspect of climate change isn't as bad as was feared.
Is it covered up? Are the scientists being condemned by global warming jihadists? No. It's science. They did research and published the results. I'm sure they're not in fear of their jobs for publishing this and I'm sure there wasn't political pressure to make their results fit in better with the big picture.
Perhaps you shouldn't just assume there's a huge conspiracy of climate change people wanting to hide the evidence that it's all a load of crap. Maybe, just maybe, the 90+% of scientists who think we should be worried about it are actually right.
Jolyon (waiting for those thumbs-downs from the clarksontards)
Science, for a change
But its fair to say that the majority of science reports that are published in the mainstream media are heavily biased, regardless of subject. Even if global warming is of purely human origin, most of the research I have seen only covers a miniscule area/ test sample, and then expanded to predict global meltdown next year. The sad fact is that very few scientists are truly unbiased, and try to make fact fit their beliefs. This works for both the pro-global warming and naysayer camps. People get pissed off when they see half-baked research, or misquoted research, used to fit personal belief rather than accurate science.
The first piece I saw on it was back in the 80's, and it confidently predicted that by the turn of the millenium the UK would be reduced by a few small islands made from Snowdonia, the Penines and the Scottish Highlands.
Really? Did it take long to ask ever scientist? or is that 90% just a figure pulled out your ear.
Or by the brackets comment are you just trolling?
Doesn't need to be a conspiracy.
Seen stuff like this before. It will be published. People will talk about it a bit. It will be forgetten. Chances are that there _might_ be similar follow-up reasearch somewhere, but probably not. I'm not suggesting that there is a conspiracy, or trying to work out the reason why things have happened the way they have, I'm just remembering what I've seen.
The overwhelming opinion that I form is that the climate change models have a number of inconsistancies in them (the model says one thing, but reasearch papers say another). We really don't know that much about how the climate works. Also what the climate is doing now, it has done cyclicly several times in the past, long before man's industrial or automobile revolutions.
As for Clarkson, he is humerous to watch occasionally, just like squirals that eat fermented fruit.
Warning - irrational thinker alert...
"...Perhaps you shouldn't just assume there's a huge conspiracy of climate change people wanting to hide the evidence that it's all a load of crap. Maybe, just maybe, the 90+% of scientists who think we should be worried about it are actually right."
Perhaps you shouldn't just assume that 90% of scientists think there's a problem any more. As new evidence like this comes in, and as the original 'evidence' in the IPCC report is comprehensively trashed, proper scientists change their minds.
Activists, who are also the ones who started this whole crazy claim that truth depends on the numbers of signatures you can get on a petition, tend not to change their minds when presented with contrary evidence.
I wonder which one you are?
this is just yet another in the "show one side of the story" elreg science report. Nothing wrong with this article, but you never see any articles on here showing the other side.
Good Point :-)
Agreed Jolyon.
Also - I was under the impression that the Reg (or some of it's journos) thought that *all* these computer models were not trustworthy or meaningful and require plenty of FUD layered onto them.
e.g. The recent article on the Volcanic Ash and the Met office.
This new model/research is apparently trustworthy AND meaningful.
It seems to me as though it matters which way the evidence points round here as to which science stories get positive or negative commentary.
In order to get more balance and seem less partisan, I'd like to see the Reg use a respected and authoritative source/journalist/scientist to help them them with some real expertise on their coverage of climate related stories.
What do others think?
Cover up?
Well, the proof is in the pudding. What really matters is that this work and its effects on the science are openly discussed in the next IPCC report. We'll have to wait and see, but I'm not holding my breath.
Unfortunately the IPCC reviewers appear to have a tendancy to sideline anything that dilutes their climate change message and replace it with some alarmist nonsense about glaciers.
well, to be fair
To be fair, the research hasn't been published yet. Let's see what happens a week in!
90% of statistics are made up 90% of the time.
iHate, because I'm sure Jobs is behind it all and he believes that Adobe is causing climate change and the only way to solve it is to rid the world of everything non-Apple and turn us all into polo-neck wearing eco-techno-hippies.
Red herring?
Not that I'm a believer in immediate and drastic climate change, but isn't this a bit of a red herring? If the locals are having trouble with the heat they'll either adapt or get replaced by heat tolerant Southerners or Lowlanders, depending on the spot, and it will be status quo again re carbon turnover.
Personally I reckon we could do with a few more degrees after the winter we've just had.
Simple Conclusion
The only conclusion we can draw from this is that scientists actually know very little about the whole dynamic of CO2 induced climate change. And yet most of them (at least the scaremongering, politically motivated mob) present all their theories as hard fact. Of course even the bits the scientists admit they aren't sure about are presented by politicians and the media as had fact as long as they can be used to spread FUD.
So we now have a body in the UK responsible for statistics and they enthusistically brow beat politicians who misuse or misrepresent statistics. What we also need is a similar body which can call politicians to account for misusing or misrepresenting scientific research.
Slightly more complex conclusion...
Actually most of "them" present their findings with regard to anthropogenic climate change in terms of a balance of probabilities. This bit of research is good news, as far as it goes. However the balance of probability remains is that human activity is affecting the climate. Combine that with the precautionary principal and it is rather to early to say "Oh that's OK then we don't need to change the way we do business."
In all the forecasts I've read, 'just a few degrees' (assuming we're talking celsius here) of human caused warming is the _problem_, not the trigger for the problem. Any further warming caused by carbon being released from soil after that initial few degrees warming is more in the 'icing on the cake' column. 'Just a few degrees' of human-caused warming is liable to produce enough problems all on its own...
You're missing the point
One of the problems the doom mongers have is that even their worst case theories can only come up with a change of a fraction of a degree over decades. It doesn't matter if you look at it from the point of view of their political masters taxing us for carbon usage or their own ongoing funding, nobody is really going to panic over half a degree over 50 years. However if they add in some positive feedback loops then they can claim a few degrees over the same period.
This latest research takes away one of their positive feedback loops and effectively reverses it. The fact that life has survived this long would suggest that there must be negative feedback loops in operation within the whole climate system otherwise once the temperature rose in the past it would have kept going up. It didn't it rose a bit then came back down. Take for example the period during the viking expansion known to some as the "little climactic optimum". During that period history tells us the weather was warmer to the extent that the coast of Greenland really was green. The extended period of warm weather greatly aided the Viking expansion. If the possibly discredited theory of increased soil enzyme activity were true then the temperature would have kept on going up and up back then, but it didn't.
The fear, and many of the predictions, is of a "tipping point" where the amount of CO2 we've added to the atmosphere causes heating that causes CO2 production by nature to increase, causing more heating, that causes CO2 production by nature to increase etc. etc. This is called runaway warming.
Knock on effects then include the salinity of the ocean being reduced due to ice melting, ice melting causing shifts in major currents like the gulf stream, increased water vapour accelerating heating, desertification changing weather patterns, extreme weather events, sea level rises and more. For this to be consistent with historical records, this would have to somehow lead to an ice-age (there are various ways to get there).
If increased warming due to increased anthropogenic CO2 emissions does not cause as much increase in CO2 production as predicted then the models are not correct even to within their error limits, and runaway warming is less likely. It's an interesting result.
Well, sure, but
Well sure, but we seem to be talking about different problems. As far as I know the whole 'runaway warming' concept has always been something of a supposition, and - as I said - the understanding I've got from casual reading on the topic is that mostly scientists are worried about the direct increase in warming caused by human activity. I didn't get the impression that, if there's no runaway warming, there's no problem.
Quick !!!
somebody tell the goverment so they can hide it because it makes them look silly !!!
Dunno about looking silly, but now there are carbon trading schemes in existence there's real money involved and lots of it. Carbon trading may or may not have been an ingenious way to create value out of something that had no intrinsic value, but if there is real money involved anyone on the receiving end is going to be vigourously defending it.
If we could convince enough people that there was value in used cigarette butts and chewed chewing gum, imagine how clean the streets would be.
Humanity is doomed long term anyway.
You really think ANYTHING you say will stop humans from their pittifull, selfish, selfdestructive behaviour??
It does kind of make sense
Having organisms that keep their environment stable is an ideal way of surviving. If CO2 raises the global temperature, than why would an organism output more CO2 in a warmer climate? Cooking your environment is not a good to thrive.
We can relax and let those farts out after all.
Which goes to show just how clever good old James Lovelock is.
Were seeing the same effect here - the soil is regulating itself
I agree... But that is not the point.
The global warming stuff IS an elite scam.
The trouble is they are being found out now, so there will have to be a war or a new disease release to ensure that total control continues to move in their direction.
must be quite a shock to all these scientists to discover that having been around for 4.5 billion years, the Earth's ecosystem is actually fully developed to cope with such changes and maintain it's balance which has kept all of us alive for the last few million years
Of course we won't know the real problem(s) until it happens.
Models are only so good and, almost by definition, cannot be as complex as the thing that are trying to model and, lets face it, the earth is a pretty complex object.
I hope my children (etc.) won't judge us too harshly.
I hope that experiment's properly controlled.
There are a lot of other factors beside temperature that change inside a greenhouse. Off the top of my head: rainfall, humidity, wind speed, available nitrogen, UV exposure, light intensity / diffusion... It doesn't look like an awfully well controlled greenhouse to me.
Sorry to swim against this mass tide of skepicism....
....but I wonder if the scientists in question monitored CO2 levels inside the greenhouses? It seems to me that a closed environment like that would result in a rapid rise in CO2 to the level where soil microbes' metabolisms might slow down?
Just a thought, like. If the results are surprising, look at the method, first and foremost.
Re: Closed Environment
As they are simply using wood and polysheet (from picture and article), then you cannot create a fully "closed system"; ie - no air (N2, CO2, O2, trace gases, etc) in or out.
An actually, the whole point of having it with in the "greenhouse" is to ensure that CO2 is concentrated to the points that the models predict must occur to produce run-away warming.
So, although it is not a closed system, the whole point of the experiment was to see the results of the microbes metabolisms when the level of CO2 rose.
So, yes - your surmise here is exactly what the experimenters thought, and directly opposite of the expectations of this aspect of the climate models. Thank you. You are not swimming against it - you concisely expressed what the tide is trying to explain.
Imagine that. Yet another feedback mechanism
embedded in the web of factors that holds everything together. Who'd a thunk it?
Answer: At least 50% of commenters here at El Reg.
Same old bias from el reg
You only ever seem to report on climate news that reinforces your predefined narrative. For example, I've yet to see any coverage on El Reg of this story:
Dr. Andrew Weaver, one of the most respected climate scientists in Canada and one of the best climate modellers in the world, has launched a libel suit against the National Post newspaper and its publisher, editors and three writers. The suit is for "a series of unjustified libels based on grossly irresponsible falsehoods that have gone viral on the Internet."
Iceland to the rescue!
If Eyjafjallajökull and Co. are anything like Tambora, we'll be looking for all the degrees we can get.
So if the earth warms by 5 degrees...
...we'll be just fine and dandy because these microbes won't cause the release of as much carbon as was originally thought??
From the abstract..
"We conclude that the soil-carbon response to climate warming depends on the efficiency of soil microbes in using carbon."
..and i'd advise reading some of the paper before going along with the, somewhat strained, conclusions of this article - or at least the apparent inferences made.
Please do not disturb the animals
Don't prod the nutjobs like that... they'll claw at you for having the temerity to exhibit some intelligence by not taking the idiotic ramblings of the Reg at face value and looking at the source.
Tricky stuff this proper science
Takes time.
Needs careful evaluation.
So it seems *another* assumption that *all* these models seem to rely on is not quite as the developers *assume*
What should make *any* one livid is *not* that a fairly small group of scientists have scared *millions* out of governments promoting their doom watch agenda or that government plan to collect *billions* to "fix" the problem.
It's that they didn't run these sorts of apparently elementary tests to anchor the models *first*.
Thumbs up for some proper science conducted in a hysteria free way.
A bit of good news.
Hope it extrapolates across other CO2 producing species.
Hmmm, so far, one sensible comment and a whole bunch of clueless, wannabe-politicians. What a surprise.
Computer models << Reality
It's impossible to *reliably* model what will happen because some latent lifeform will spring up under the new conditions, and either eat or belch CO2. They don't know. They do not know. They don't know.
Or to quote comic Lewis Black (on a slightly unrelated topic): THEY DON'T KNOW!
Life will continue
I'm getting fed-up with this run-away end-up-like-Mars green house effect. All the carbon we are burning as fossil fuels existed before in the atmosphere, and it was life forms that removed it an put it underground. Hence if we put it back into the atmosphere there is no reason not to believe that life will continue.
Sorry for boring you Bob
But it's a run-away end-up-like Venus greenhouse effect.
But what life?
Assuming man-made global warming is a real affect (which I have an open mind on), the argument that there will still be life on Earth at the end of it all offers little comfort.
If human activities do actually lead to extreme and continuing climate change, either we will decide to stop at some point, or the changes will force us to. Wars over scarce resources will disrupt civilisation, industry will cease, the population will die out etc etc. Maybe there will be a global nuclear war for good measure.
Whatever, there will still be life at the end of it, just not necessarily human life. I am playing devil's advocate here, but under this model gaia won't save us, it will kill us for the good of the planet.
I know zip but I deny it !
I see we have the usual share of folks who don't know much about the science but who are sure that climate change is a hoax / a conspiracy / another excuse for a tax.
Have a read of this news item from Reuters: http://bit.ly/bjdVIM
Healthy scepticism.
I'd rather have healthy scepticism and defend that against the tirade of doom merchants insisting our extinction is inevitable than automatically believe whatever publicity mad media whore shouts the loudest.
I'll be the one looking at the facts or lack of and leave others to hide under the bed crying like a little girls.
The nature or nature.. :)
Even if Good would give as full perfect equations how does Universe work - we as humans
will not be able so get perfect results with the power of all supercomputers together..
Why ?
The closest of reality description are differential non linear equations and we can not calculate
results with enough precision. So even our knowlage is absolute and measurment and equation
are perfect we do no have perfect results ! But it is not all...
The randomnes and chaos appears in simplest problems and even simplest calculations are
unpredictable in long distance of time !
Hence our knowlage is not perfect and we do not have absolute supercomputers and rules and
mesurments and chaos.. we struggle to predict the weather for the next day !
Whoever says it can predict the climate is a next Nostradamus or weapons of mass warming owner :)
Hope it would help.
I always thought the overdrive theory was related to the methane locked up in the ground in Siberia and under the ocean and whatnot - when you get past a certain temp the permafrost melts and releases stupid ammounts of methane and you have a big problem because it's way way worse than CO2.
Never heard this theory before, not totally convinced by the commonly accepted science part.
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23.So they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. 24.Then they prayed, "Lord, you know everyone's heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen 25.to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs." 26.Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles."
Since the passage identifies the candidates as "of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us", Joseph was a member of the wider circle of disciples.
Further identification of this shadowy figure is insecure, though in Christian tradition, he is numbered among the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1-24. No names are given among the Seventy-Two or Seventy Apostles of Christ—depending on the manuscripts—that were sent out in Luke 10.1:"two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go." Nor is this "Joseph the Just, son of the 'sabbath'"—as his name translates— identified as one of the adelphoi of Jesus— however this Greek word for "brothers" may be interpreted—in this one passage in Acts in which he appears. Nor does such a "Joseph Justus" appear among the disciples in the lists given in the synoptic gospels, unless he were represented unrecognized in some way under an alias. It would appear to be an inexplicable choice made by Peter among the assembled adelphoi.[1]
However, there are both a Joses and a James the Just among the adelphoi of Jesus. Joses is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark 6:3. Where the passage is repeated in Matthew, 13:54 - 57, "Joses" is rendered "Joseph" instead. Robert Eisenman has read this shadowy figure of "Joseph Justus" as either a not-so-subtle cover for James the Just, or a cloned conflation who represents in a single figure all the Desposyni—rejected, according to the author of Acts in favor of an otherwise unknown Matthias.[2]
In Christian tradition, this Justus went on to become Bishop of Eleutheropolis, where he died a martyr and is venerated as Saint Justus of Eleutheropolis. The location provides a date for this legend, since the site of Eleutheropolis was a mere village in the 1st century, whose inhabitants were slain and enslaved with others by Vespasian in AD 68 (Josephus).[3] The site was refounded, as Eleutheropolis, in AD 200 by Septimius Severus. The first historical bishop, Macrinus, can be found in the 4th century, when Eleutheropolis was an important city.[4]
- ^ Acts 1.15, translated in the New International Version "believers"
- ^ Eisenman 1997
- ^ Bell. Jud
- ^ Bishop Demetri Khoury, A Cloud of Witnesses: Saints and Martyrs from the Holy Land, page 628


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Definitions for saintlyˈseɪnt li
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word saintly
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
saint•lyˈseɪnt li(adj.)-li•er, -li•est.
like or befitting a saint; holy.
Category: Religion
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Princeton's WordNet
angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted(adj)
marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint
"angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother"
holy, characteristic of a saint
Sophie led a saintly life.
Origin: From saint +
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like a saint; becoming a holy person
Saintly was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was named Australia's champion racehorse in 1997. A giant chestnut gelding by Sky Chase out of All Grace, he was bred by his trainer, Bart Cummings, who owned him in partnership with a Malaysian businessman, Dato Tan Chin Nam. Saintly gained the moniker 'The horse from heaven' due to his name and his partnership with jockey Darren Beadman, who at the time was a proclaimed born-again Christian. Saintly broke his maiden as a two-year-old, on 19 April 1995, and returned in the latter part of the spring, at three, where he won three races, including the Listed Carbine Club Stakes at Flemington. He opened the new year by defeating the well-performed Juggler in the Expressway Stakes, and won the Australian Cup two starts later. He was then placed behind Octagonal in the Rosehill Guineas, the Mercedes Classic, and the Australian Derby, and finished in front of Nothin' Leica Dane and Filante, in what was considered a vintage crop of three-year-olds. At four, Saintly was runner-up to Filante in the Warwick and the Chelmsford Stakes, won the Hill Stakes at his third run back, and was surprisingly defeated by Adventurous, Hula Flight, and Nothin' Leica Dane in the Craven Plate and The Metropolitan. In Melbourne, however, he found his best form. He charged home to beat Filante in the Cox Plate and backed up 10 days later for an easy win in the Melbourne Cup. He was just the fourth horse to complete the double in the same year, following Nightmarch, Phar Lap, and Rising Fast, and preceding Makybe Diva.
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He led a saintly life; a saintly expression.
- heiligeAfrikaans
- كالمَلاك، يُشْبِه القِدّيسينArabic
- непороченBulgarian
- santoPortuguese (BR)
- svatý, posvátnýCzech
- fromm, heiligGerman
- from; helgenagtigDanish
- που μοιάζει με άγιο, αγιοπρεπήςGreek
- de santoSpanish
- pühalik, pühaklikEstonian
- روحانيFarsi
- hurskasFinnish
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- כְּמוֹ קָדוֹשHebrew
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- szentHungarian
- salehIndonesian
- líkur dÿrlingi, háheilagurIcelandic
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- seperti waliMalay
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- دبزرګۍ په توګه، دولايت په توګهPashto
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- svetačkiSerbian
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- evliya gibiTurkish
- 聖徒(般)的,聖潔的Chinese (Trad.)
- безгрішний, святийUkrainian
- پاک، مقدسUrdu
- thánh thiệnVietnamese
- 神圣的,圣洁的Chinese (Simp.)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stock prices are slightly lower at midday on Wall Street after manufacturing contracted unexpectedly in China this month.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 10 points at 15,297 as of noon Eastern Daylight Time, a loss of 0.1 percent. It had been down 127 points in the early going following steep losses in European and Japanese markets.
Traders attributed the early swoon on Wall Street and in overseas markets to the slowdown in China's economic engine and worries among investors that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its economic stimulus program.
The Dow is still up 16.7 percent this year.
The Standard & Poor's 500 fell five points to 1,650, or 0.3 percent. The Nasdaq composite fell five points to 3,457, or 0.2 percent.
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Though Amazon finally agreed to begin collecting Tennessee's sales taxes in 2014, the company long avoided and aggressively contested that responsibility. So the notices that Amazon has begun sending its Volunteer state customers to remind them of their legal duty to send the sales taxes they owe to the state treasurer will likely come as a surprise to many. The company's interim step towards a fair tax policy may be wasted motion in too many instances -- many purchasers just won't pay a tax that isn't collected at the point of purchase -- but at least it points in the right direction.
Amazon, eBay, Overstock and other online retailers should always have been required to collect state sales taxes, just as their bricks-and-mortar competitors do. That they escaped that responsibility as they grew into marketplace giants is an anomaly. It was wrongly perpetuated, however, due to a myopic U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1992 that said tax-collection duties only applied if online companies had a physical presence in their customers' states. Since most didn't then, and still don't, their sales surged on that unfair cost advantage. It can't be ended soon enough.
The tax-collection disparity is grossly unfair and harmful not just to brick-and-mortar retailers, but also to the communities which depend on local retailers' physical presence for jobs and state and local commercial tax revenue. Roughly 68 cents of every consumer dollar spent in local retail stores stays in the community and gets cycled through many local hands.
Distant online retailers, by contrast, contribute little if anything to these critical economic factors. Indeed, online purchases generally only send consumer dollars out of their customers' communities. The harm that does is counted in lost local jobs, reductions in local economic activity, shuttered stores, and declining state and local budgets.
State and local governments and consumers have at last begun to act to stanch the economic loss. Their advocates have built spreading support in Congress for enactment of the proposed Marketplace Fairness Act, which would authorize states to require online vendors to collect state and local sales taxes on purchases in their jurisdictions.
Such a national policy would help level the economic playing field for local retailers, and help state and local governments recoup vital lost sales tax revenue. Though the act, co-sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander, got stalled in election year politics in 2012, it is scheduled to be reintroduced in the new Congress.
In the interim, state governments have been persuading Amazon and other large online stores to agree to collect sales taxes. Eight states -- California, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Kansas, North Dakota and Washington -- already require Amazon to collect online sales taxes. Arizona, Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts will begin doing so this year; Tennessee, Indiana and Nevada will begin next year, and South Carolina will start in 2016. Georgia, Alabama and other states are sure to see the results, and begin promoting tax fairness for their own state and local businesses.
Consumers here, and elsewhere, would do their community a service to begin paying the state's use tax -- the equivalent of the sales tax -- on purchases from out-of-state vendors and online outlets. The problem is that too few citizens are aware of their states' decades-old use tax. And many states, including Tennessee, have not made a serious effort to enforce use-tax collections.
Amazon apparently doesn't intend to aid that cause here. Though it's sending out reminders to its customers that they owe the state use tax, the company is not sending the state a list of its customers and the value of their purchases. Without that vital information, Tennessee officials are not likely to be able to collect those outstanding sales taxes.
Tennesseans could help boost the viability of their local retailers even more by embracing the independent book store campaign theme: If you saw it here, buy it here, and help us stay here. That would curb "showcasing:" the practice of shoppers who want to see, touch and feel a product before they buy it, so they go to brick-and-mortar stores to see the product, and then order it online to save the sales tax.
That's an abuse of retailers and the jobs, convenience and economic vitality they provide. And it's certainly not worth the false savings shoppers think they get.
Amazon has some pretty amazing robotization plans for their warehouses. Over the next several years they should be able to reduce staffing by a high percentage. At that point Tennessee will begin to wonder about all the subsidies that were given to Amazon to locate in Tennessee.
With Tennessee having one of the highest sales tax rates of any state in the country, on-line shopping has been more attractive to me the past few years. Why would I want to pay sales tax to an on-line company and often shipping charges then wait a few days to receive the product, when I can drive down the street and purchase it for about the same price? Our state's choice of tax revenue is short sighted.
Our state's choice of tax revenue is supported by a Supreme Court decision from the 1920s. It is one of our greatest financial and legal advantages. Other states will end up with state income taxes for individuals. Those tax plans cause people to lose their assets in tough times. Our plan only taxes people when they advance economically. Wake up and get the facts.
While you're getting some facts, you might want to look at the article on Carey Brown. In it, we see a smoking pile of marketing phrases that imply severe consequences for Chattanooga's employees. For example, we see an attempt to get us to buy into the phrase "location based servers." As though "cloud computing" takes place on a computer that has no location.
Where are these cloud computers? Try Shanghai. If you are on a Microsoft Computer, run an instance of netstat and see if your computer is calling Microsoft's data center in Communist China. It's built into the operating system in Windows 7.
How does this affect you? Check-Into-Cash has a data center right here on Amnicola Highway. A Times-Free Press reporter's article directly states that they are "moving away" from "location based servers" at their Terenine facility.
When they pull the plug on those servers, where do you think local jobs are going to go?
Communist China. And, they'll go there all while cloaking themselves in good marketing phrases like "cloud computing." Know where your data goes. Your data is yours. You have a say in it. That's part of the reason why we pay taxes: we are the responsible owners of goods and services which include the information we use to get the transaction done.
Too bad about Check-Into-Cash's implication that they will engage in employee dumping. No programmer should have trusted those people anyway.


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City Hall claim: Former parks official helped lover win Millennium Park restaurant deal
By TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter October 21, 2013 12:09AM
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration says a former Chicago Park District official improperly helped her lover win a 30-year deal to operate a restaurant in Millennium Park bankrolled by friends and supporters of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley.
In its lawsuit to break the deal with Park Grill, City Hall says Laura Foxgrover "unduly and unfairly influenced" the selection process by helping her child's father Matthew O'Malley and his partners land the deal 10 years ago.
Foxgrover says in a deposition in the case that she recused herself from negotiations between the park district and O'Malley's group — but she didn't tell park district officials she was lovers with O'Malley and became pregnant while the negotiations were under way.
City officials say she took part in the selection process even after writing her recusal letter, and they have testimony and copies of emails to back that up. She disputes that.
"I was a conduit for information," Foxgrover said in the daylong deposition she gave on July 24, saying she conveyed information between parks Supt. David Doig and the district's negotiators with O'Malley's group.
Foxgrover is the daughter of a former Cook County judge and, like O'Malley, grew up in Beverly. She was married to someone else and working at the Chicago Firehouse, a steakhouse O'Malley opened in a building he acquired from the city, when they began having an affair, according to her deposition. She left for a job with the park district in 2001 while O'Malley was preparing to bid for the Millennium Park restaurant.
Ed Uhlir, who oversaw development of the park, was on a selection committee that evaluated the restaurant proposal and says Foxgrover "was essentially staff" for the committee. In a deposition last spring, Uhlir said he didn't know about her relationship with O'Malley and that, if he had, "I would have asked that Laura Foxgrover be eliminated from ever having any dealings with the committee at all."
He said "the Park Grill seemed to have insider information going — looking back on how they presented themselves, what they presented, it was all perfect."
He said someone tampered with his evaluation form, raising the marks he gave Park Grill's bid. He also said someone scratched out ratings on all the evaluators' forms regarding the amount of money the park district would get from each proposal.
The bid that would have given the park district the biggest payout came from the owners of North Pond Cafe, who proposed to partner with venture capitalist Bruce Rauner, an Emanuel friend now running for governor.
O'Malley and his partner James Horan got a 20-year deal for the restaurant, with two five-year renewal options, and free water, natural gas and garbage collection. And they didn't have to pay their annual base rent of $275,000 until the restaurant recovered its construction costs. Those were selling points they used to attract investors, who were told they could expect a 20 percent return over 10 years, according to Horan's deposition, taken July 15.
Investors included Daley cousin Theresa Mintle, a CTA official who went on to become Mayor Emanuel's first chief of staff, and her husband Michael Toolis, an architect who is on the restaurant's five-member board of directors with O'Malley and Horan.
Months after the O'Malley and Horan group landed the Millennium Park restaurant deal in 2003, city officials say they realized the agreement included some land owned by the city and not just park district-owned property, though the City Council never approved that. That's one of the points the city now cites in trying to scrap the deal.
That issue resurfaced in February 2005, when O'Malley and Horan were summoned to a meeting with Daley's top City Hall lawyer, Mara Georges, two days before a Chicago Sun-Times report revealed O'Malley's relationship with Foxgrover.
"All of a sudden, we're getting called over . . . and told that we aren't supposed to be here," Horan said in his deposition. "How could you possibly say that? You guys have been in constant communication and negotiation. This has been approved at every level of the city, and now you're throwing this letter we're not supposed to be here? I mean, please."
City Hall tried to redo the Park Grill deal, which so far has paid the park district nearly $2.6 million — 2.7 percent of the restaurant's total revenue of nearly $96 million since January 2004.
And the Cook County assessor's office tried to make the restaurant pay property taxes but lost that fight before the Illinois Supreme Court, which ruled three years ago that the restaurant didn't have to pay taxes because it had a concession deal, not a lease.
City Hall tried to reopen talks with Park Grill two years ago, when the Emanuel administration learned O'Malley and Horan planned to sell the restaurant to the Levy Organization for $8 million, a deal the park district refused to approve. The city then sued.
O'Malley said he turned to Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) for help.
"It was about asking for guidance," O'Malley said in a July 25 deposition. "Guidance in trying to understand . . . why the park distirct . . . is not approving a change of manager" to the Levy organization.
Foxgrover left the park district about six years ago and went back to work for O'Malley. O'Malley and Foxgover, both 45, got married in June, with Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, the alderman's wife, officiating.


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OdonataSyllabification: O·do·na·ta
Pronunciation: /ˌōdnˈätə, ōˈdänə- /
Definition of Odonata in English:
1An order of predatory insects that comprises the dragonflies and damselflies. They have long slender bodies, two pairs of membranous wings, large compound eyes, and aquatic larvae.
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- In contrast to YOY perch, predator-sensitive prey in the diet were dominated by Trichoptera, Odonata, and Coleoptera larvae.
- Associated fossils include other disarticulated insect remains such as Diptera (true flies) and Odonata (dragonflies).
- The Odonata appeared for the first time in the Permian.
1.1 (as plural noun odonata) Insects of the order Odonata; dragonflies and damselflies.
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modern Latin (plural), formed irregularly from Greek odōn (variant of odous) 'tooth', with reference to the insect's mandibles.
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