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GroupAMGI is an Independent Music label based out of Illinois specializing in all genres of music. We provide label and artist management to aspiring artist and labels on the rise. Artist on AMGI include-- Vizion 100, A Price, Boss Major, Cutty Stylez, AR Stackz, Faith J. Label partners--G&S, LLR, Ova Eat'n Ent. Video and Movie Production--GLIQUID. MOEST.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Hip Hop Pop R&B RAP Rock Singer-Songwriter Soul
GroupAccording To Our Records (ATO Records) is a record label committed to artists and building their careers. ATO seeks out talented songwriters, musicians and performers for whom there is genuine passion and belief. ATO is steadfast in our commitment to maintaining that focus with the priority for the label being sufficient time and attention to develop each artist and each release.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Rock
GroupFine independent music since 1986.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Folk Indie Rock
GroupBarsuk Records is an independent record label based in Seattle, Washington, started and still managed by the members of the band This Busy Monster, Christopher Possanza and Josh Rosenfeld, in 1994 to release their band's material.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Pop Indie Rock
GroupRepresents 4AD, Matador, XL Recordings & Rough Trade RecordsSite Wide Tags: Alternative Dance Electronic Folk Hip Hop Indie Pop Indie Rock Pop RAP Soul
GroupBig Picnic Records, distributed by Sony/RED, launched in 2013. The label has a strategic relationship with Paradigm Talent Agency. Paradigm's Marty Diamond will provide A&R support to label general manager Patti Hauseman. Big Picnic's first release was the Shoestring EP by British singer/songwriter WALL on April 2, 2013. Influenced by artists such as St Vincent and Patti Smith, WALL takes her lead from women with a strong sense of identity. Favoring rudimentary recording equipment over state-of-the-art studios, WALL creates sparse soundscapes, with only muted bass lines and scattered keyboards to frame her voice. Pitchfork said of the EP's title track, "'Shoestring' feels like having a necessarily intimate conversation in a busy public place: there may be bigger and louder things going on elsewhere, but right now hearing what Wall has to say is the only thing that matters." Big Picnic's initial roster also includes Foxes and JOHNNYSWIM. Foxes is the alter ego of the London-based singer and musician Louisa Rose Allen. Her debut single "Youth," with its resplendent synths, industrial percussion and by turns searing and soaring vocal, garnered more than two million combined Soundcloud and YouTube plays, and 13,000 Hypemachine 'likes,' plus synchs on CW's "Gossip Girl." She followed it up with the "Warrior" EP in the summer of 2012, and is the featured vocalist on Zedd's fast-rising EDM single "Clarity." JOHNNYSWIM is the Los Angeles duo of Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez. The two began writing and singing together in 2006 and found that their similar influences of folk, soul, and rock blended together lusciously. Nashville's daily newspaper, The Tennessean, describes JOHNNYSWIM as "a mix of Lauryn Hill and John Mayer."Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Rock Rock
GroupSince 1994, Bloodshot Records has championed music that lurks between genres; the good stuff nestled in the dark, nebulous cracks where punk, country, soul, pop, bluegrass, blues and rock mix and mingle and mutate. Bloodshot artists work over American roots forms with chains and velvet gloves with little regard for formality or protocol; they aren't afraid to molest and caress these forms to take music into uncharted and exciting waters. Bloodshot and it's artists share a punk/DIY ethic of expression. Bloodshot's artist roster includes: Bobby Bare Jr., Detroit Cobras, Scott H. Biram, The Bottle Rockets, Deadstring Brothers, Gore Gore Girls, Wayne Hancock, Graham Parker, The Silos, Waco Brothers, and Wee Hairy Beasties. From Bloodshot's shabby offices on a bleak stretch of the Northwest Side of Chicago, the label forges ahead in an environment hostile to the little guy, keeping its steel-toed boot on the throats of the forces responsible for the free fall decline of the contemporary music scene.
GroupBrassland is an artist-operated label started in 2001 by Alec Hanley Bemis and twin brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner. We began with a pair of debuts by Clogs & The National, but our goal was to develop a community of creative folk, and the family has grown to include work by Nico Muhly, Buke & Gass, and Doveman among others. We like music that transcends genre. We encourage collaboration and creation among an evolving community of creative folks. We like musicians who play well and possess the elusive tonic of personality.Site Wide Tags: Alternative composed music and jazz contemporary classical Folk Rock
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GroupThe Eleven Seven Music Group is a full service physical, digital and mobile music group operating with global sales, distribution and marketing capabilities via offices in London, New York, Los Angeles as well as Canada, Germany, Benelux, France, Italy, Spain, Nordic countries, Japan, and Australia. The label group continues to build on its model of research-based marketing strategies targeted directly to the fans, building out from that base. Driven by a core group of thought leaders, the independent mini-major has in-house marketing, promotion, publicity, digital media, International, sales, tour marketing, production, video promotion, creative services, business management, web design, advertising, development and other services to support every release. With its namesake label, Eleven Seven Music, boasting internationally notorious names like Motley Crue, Sixx:A.M., Papa Roach and Drowning Pool, among others and its Alternative/Indie Rock label launching talent like Nico Vega, Dirty Heads, Midi Matlida and Oh No Fiasco, The Eleven Seven Music Group has all the bases covered for the future of rock music.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Rock
GroupGlassnote Entertainment Group is a full service independent music company founded by Daniel Glass, one of the most accomplished and respected music people in the industry. His devotion to music and the artists that create this magic is what drove him to create the new company. Through Glassnote, Mr. Glass has created the next-generation Music Company. It can be looked at as a rebirth of the great independent record companies, Chrysalis, Motown, Atlantic and Island, but built for the ever-changing marketplace. Glassnote is an artist centric music company that appeals to the creative nature of individuals. We seek out and attract artists and producers who are independent by nature- artists who want to take ownership of their careers and are willing to work with a label to contribute to their success. With its communal spirit, exquisite mix of artists, musically driven management Team and its ongoing working relationships with top tier producers, agents, managers, mixers, engineers, disc jockeys and songwriters, Glassnote is a destination for great artists and will continue to flourish in this next evolution of the music marketplace.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Pop Rock
GroupInnovative Leisure is an Independent Record Label based out of Los Angeles and home to such artists as Nosaj Thing, Hanni El Khatib, Nick Waterhouse, Rhye, Feeding People, Allah-Las, Tijuana Panthers, Classixx, Crystal Antlers, Superhumanoids & More. http://innovativeleisure.net/Site Wide Tags: Alternative Electronic Indie Rock
GroupInitially founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the celebrated Knitting Factory club in lower Manhattan, Knitting Factory Records, along with the new Knitting Factory club in Brooklyn, was reborn in 2009 with the acquisition and re-release of the Fela Kuti catalog. KFR also encompasses the catalogs of Instinct Records, Shadow Records, Shimmy Disc, and Evolver Records. In partnership with Partisan Records, a Brooklyn-based artist-run label, Knitting Factory Records strives to honor the music of an eclectic array of relevant artists drawn from both the past and the present. We think Fela said it best: "Music is the weapon. Music is the thing of the future. Music is the weapon of the future."Site Wide Tags: Afrobeat Alternative experimental Fela Kuti Folk
GroupFormed in 1990 originally under the name Mascot Records, and then Mascot-Provogue in 1999, the Mascot Label group has always maintained a dedication to integrity and success. After adapting the name, Mascot Label Group in 2010, the organization has been the umbrella label for the following four record companies: Mascot Rock label with artists like Volbeat, Gojira, Black Country Communion, Black Label Society, and even intergalactic superstar Bootsy Collins. Mascot Records is proud to have brought Volbeat to success from scratch starting in Europe. Thanks to several focused campaigns Mascot was able to achieve over 10 platinum and gold records. Their attendance at headlining shows went from under 100 to 10,000 people in just 3 years. Mascot=92s success was not limited to Europe, as we also brought them from infancy to over 100,000 records sold and over 500,000 tracks digital in America, selling well over 1,000,000 records in worldwide. In June 2012 we reached number 1 rock album chart entry in UK with our band Black Country Communion, as well as top chart positions in 10 European countries. Provogue Leading blues/rock label with Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Gov=92t Mule, Warren Haynes, Robben Ford, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Walter Trout, Jonny Lang, Leslie West and Robert Cray. Provogue prides itself on farm raising international blues icon, Joe Bonamassa from the ground up. Perhaps the most humbling tale of success is remembering that Joe had been playing for 50 people in London in 2007 only to turn around and sell out the Royal Albert Hall (5,000 capacity) in 6 minutes in 2009. Additionally, Bonamassa has collectively sold over 1,000,000 albums in Europe and charting the last 8 records in at least 10 countries. In May 2012 Joe Bonamassa latest studio album charted nr 2 in the overall album charts in the UK. Music Theories Recently founded progressive rock label with bands like Flying Colors (Prog super group with Mike Portnoy and Steve Morse), Spock's Beard, Memories of Machines, etc. Music Theories is co-run with the German manager Michael Schmitz, one of the founders of Inside Out, one of the biggest Prog labels. Cool Green Recordings Recently founded alternative/indie label with Australian desert rockers Tracer, biggest Dutch alternative band De Staat, underground favorites Crippled Black Phoenix and the well-known cult band Masters Of Reality, featuring Chris Goss (co-writer/producer Kyuss /Queens Of the Stone Age).Site Wide Tags: Alternative Blues Indie Rock progressive rock Rock
GroupNinja Tune, Big Dada, Counter Records and Motion Audio Records.
Ninja Tune is an independent record label based in London, England (with offices in Montreal and Los Angeles), created in 1990 by the duo known as Coldcut.
NINJA TUNE: Amon Tobin, Bonobo, The Bug, The Cinematic Orchestra, Coldcut, Daedelus, Deco Child, Dj Food, Dorian Concept, FaltyDL, Fink, Grasscut, The Invisible, Jaga Jazzist, Jesse Boykins III, Jono McCleery, Kelis, Kid A, Kid Koala, King Midas Sound, Lee Bannon, Letherette, Lorn, Machinedrum, Martyn, Moire, Mr Scruff, The Qemists, Raffertie, Slugabed, Szjerdene, Toddla T, Wagon Christ.
BIG DADA: Bang On!, Camalot, Congo Natty, DELS, The Infesticons, Infinite Livez, Jammer, Juice Aleem, Offshore, Paris Suit Yourself, Roots Manuva, Speech Debelle, Thavius Beck, Two Fingers, Wiley, Young Fathers
COUNTER RECORDS: Andreya Triana, The Heavy, Pop Levi
MOTION AUDIO: Lou Rhodes, Grey ReverendSite Wide Tags: Alternative Electronic
GroupHere at Omnivore, we share an insatiable appetite for music. We believe that the music of the past lives on in the music of today and the music of tomorrow. Our releases contribute to the ongoing conversation between artists and their audiences, each a part of the other and all partaking in the never-ending musical journey. We don't know what's around the next corner, the next chord change, the next surprising lyric, but we do know this: music is essential. Music sustains and satisfies. It feeds our souls, fuels our hearts, and sends us off to look for more. If you're hungry for inspiration and adventuresome in your appetite for music, we invite to you dive in.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Comedy Country Folk Jazz Pop R&B Rock Soundtracks
GroupPartisan Records is a Brooklyn-based artist-run independent label dedicated to the unique visions of those we are so privileged to represent. We believe that artistry in its many forms essentially has a singular purpose: to create and share the next new story. At Partisan, our artists create the stories that others will tell.Site Wide Tags: Alt-Country Alternative experimental Folk Rock
GroupPhoto Finish Records is an independent record label located in New York, NY. The label was started in 2006 by booking agent Matt Galle. Photo Finish is known for its diverse roster including punk bands, indie rock bands, and hip hop artists. The label's first release was in November 2006 when they put out the debut Envy On The Coast five song EP. Shortly after, they signed Danger Radio, and released their EP and full length record. Photo Finish saw huge success with their next signing, 3OH!3. The band's debut album WANT debuted at #88 and peaked at #44 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Their hit Don't Trust Me soared to #1 on the Top 40 Charts and ended up selling over 2.5 million digital tracks.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Electronica Hip Hop Indie Rock Pop RAP Rock
GroupIndependent label based in Omaha, NE. Home to Bright Eyes, Cursive, Tokyo Police Club, The Good Life, Sebastien Grainger, Land of Talk, Son Ambulance, Neva Dinova, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor, Beep Beep, and more.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Rock Rock
GroupDead Oceans / Jagjaguwar / Secretly Canadian Offices located in Bloomington, New York, Austin, London http://www.deadoceans.com http://www.jagjaguwar.com http://www.secretlycanadian.comSite Wide Tags: Alternative Electronic Fine Arts Folk Rock
GroupSub Pop is an independent record label founded by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington in 1986. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Pop Indie Rock
GroupSumerian Records is a cutting-edge rock label based in Los Angeles and Washington, DC started "By Artists, For Artists." While the brand is most known for being the staple for modern day progressive heavy music, Sumerian continues to diversify their roster beyond any one genre. 2011 saw the label have a Top 10 Billboard release w/ Asking Alexandria hitting #9 as well as a critically-acclaimed #1 iTunes Short Film in 7 countries that saw three music videos all connected as a story. Sumerian Records is a true lifestyle identity among fans, having over 270,000 likes on Facebook which puts them in the top 5 of any record label on the social network, beating out Roadrunner, Epitaph, Victory and many others. Sumerian has their own stage each year at the Rockstar Mayhem Festival Tour and is one of the highest merch sellers of label shirts in the business.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Hardcore Heavy Rock Metal Rock
GroupTemporary Residence Ltd. is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, NY. It was founded in 1996 in Baltimore, MD by Jeremy deVine. To date the label has released over 200 albums in a variety of genres that can best be summed up as "the weird side of slightly normal." It is home to an array of innovative and influential artists, including Explosions In The Sky, Pinback, the Books, MONO, Eluvium, Zammuto, The Black Heart Procession, Ultraísta, William Basinski, Grails, Maserati, Coliseum, Young Widows, and more.Site Wide Tags: Alternative ambient experimental Indie Rock Metal Neoclassical Punk
GroupThe End Records is a record label in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in alt/indie rock and metal.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Indie Rock Metal
GroupThe Summit Church Music (TSCM) is the in-house record label for The Summit Church located in Raleigh-Durham, NC and are distributed by Redeye Distribution. We are home to Matt Papa, Hank Murphy, Summit Kids and flagship artist Summit Worship. TSCM's goal is to create relevant, engaging, artistic and God-honoring music for all seven days of the week. TSCM entered the market with a bang as Hank Murphy's album "One" debuted on the Billboard Heatseeker chart #30 in September 2013.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Christian Contemporary Indie Pop Worship
GroupTouch and Go Records is an American independent record label established in 1981 and based in Chicago, Illinois. In 1991 Touch and Go established a sister label; Quarterstick Records. Over the years, Touch and Go / Quarterstick has been home to bands including Big Black, Shellac, Slint, Pinback, CocoRosie, TV On The Radio, The Jesus Lizard, Calexico, Negative Approach, The Meatmen, Mekons, Rachel's, Urge Overkill, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Classical Indie Rock Punk
GroupSite Wide Tags: Alternative emo Indie Rock Punk Rock
GroupVictory Records is one of the top independent rock record labels in the United States with a staff of 40 located in Chicago. The company is a fully staffed record company (www.victoryrecords.com ) with a music merchandising division (ww.shirts-now.com), direct to consumer sales operation (www.VictoryMerch.com) and sister music publishing company (www.anothervictory.com). Victory started as a hobby by Tony Brummel in 1989 with $800.00 and no music industry experience aside from being in bands in the underground hardcore punk scene. In 1993, Victory became a full time operation. The company is solely owned by Brummel and has never had any outside investors. Since 2013 Victory has sold close to 13,000,000 albums worldwide. The company specializes in all genres of rock music from alternative and indie rock to hardcore, punk, ska and metal. Victory has always been a vehement champion and protector of the independent music sector.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Hardcore Indie Rock Metal Punk Rock Ska
GroupVirtual Label provides direct access to all the major and secondary worldwide digital service providers. We provide significant value for our artists and labels by not only identifying new services but by actively marketing to existing services and being at the forefront of all emerging services worldwide. We are very proud of our ability to secure significant visibility for new releases and catalog on iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Rhapsody, Spotify, Other Music and more. We have excellent relationships with the key DSPs and provide the human touch so often missing with many of today's digital distributors. Our standard contract with our labels is short-term with a reasonable fee and monthly accounting. We can (and do) provide this service to artists and labels that are not distributed at physical retail by Virtual Label LLC. We have built our digital business by focusing on music that we love and by referrals from our existing clients. We utilize Consolidated Independent in the UK as our digital warehouse and delivery partner who quickly and easily can deliver our 25,000+ track catalog worldwide to new services. Similarly, Royalty Share provides our labels with digital accounting that is accurate and easy to use. http://virtuallabel.bizSite Wide Tags: Aggregator all genres Alternative Blues Children's Distributor Electronic Jazz Reggae World
GroupWarp Records is a pioneering independent English record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record store, alongside producer Robert Gordon,[1] the label (whose name was chosen because the original name, 'Warped Records' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone[2]) soon became home to artists who would be highly influential in shaping the future of music.Site Wide Tags: Alternative Electronic Indie Rock


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'Climate change is like Y2k!' - Oz senator
The Australian government's debate about climate change and carbon pricing has taken a turn for the silly. The government's bill to repeal the country's price on carbon is stalled in the senate, to the frustration of the government, which led to this (as reported by AAP via the Murdoch press): "Liberal senator Ian Macdonald has …
AL GORE is my shepherd; I shall not think.
He maketh me lie down in Greenzi pastures:
He leadeth me beside the still-freezing waters.
He selleth my soul for CO2:
He leadeth me in the paths of self-righteousness for his own sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of reason,
I will fear all logic: for thou art with me and thinking for me;
Thy Gore's family oil fortune and thy 10,000 square Gorey foot mansion, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a movie in the presence of contradictory evidence:
Thou anointest mine head with nonsense; my mindless conformity runneth over.
Surely blind faith and hysteria shall follow me all the days of my life:and I will dwell in the house of ALGORE forever.
If you really want to impress me, sit in your car in an enclosed garage for 30 minutes, then emerge and tell me how unrealistic a threat pollution emissions are.
I hate it when people go on about a Y2K hoax. I worked for an airline and we spent a lot of time and money making sure there was no issue. As part of our testing at the start of the project we mocked up an airport with check in counters, baggage handling, display boards etc. Then let the clock tick over to 1 January 2000. People couldn't check in, display boards showed the wrong flights. bags went to the wrong gates. All because the systems thought that it was a Monday and not a Saturday.
We then fixed all the issues ahead of the 1 January deadline and then spent the evening monitoring all the systems across Asia making sure that everything was working. Finally got back to the hotel around 6am after everything had checked out.
Y2K nearly destroyed my marriage
I was working as a contractor in bank at the time and for 18 months I was fly in and fly out 12 hour plus days replacing the old system with one that was Y2K compliant. I even ended up riding shotgun when it went live waiting for the first ATM/EFTPOS transactions to start flowing. I ended up having to do a patch on the live production system, THAT was scary!
It totally stuffed me, but at least I ended up with an awesome amount of frequent flier points and help with a good holiday.
Tools like this senator have no idea and it is extremely dangerous that these idiots get elected.
Re: Y2K nearly destroyed my marriage
lucky sod. All I got was a little overtime and the joy of watching nothing happen multiple times as I logged into servers around the world at 23:55 local time. Nothing like staggering home in the middle of the first day of a new millenium reeling sober with fatigue. At least some old servers got needed upgrades, which I suspect covered much of the reason for new hardware. Just happened to be Y2K compliant also.
I was at Mrs Macquarie's Chair with a perfect view of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. The biggest Y2K concern in the assembled crowd was that the fireworks might not go off (although I like to think they were triggered by a coyote with a plunger).
Yes, the climate is changing.
No, it has nothing to do with carbon dioxide, because a gas comprising 0.04% of the atmosphere is not going to affect it.
What people are annoyed about is the carbon trading, which was going to make a few people rich at the expense of many.
rent seekers
Amazing how something marxists are supposed to hate is now part of the ex-marxist/now greenie salvation plan. As for CO2, yep, dihydrogen monoxide has twice the concentration in atmosphere and contributes much more the the real green house effect. Yet a lack of same is one scare the AGW lovers use to threaten the unbelievers and children. Wheres the irony icon ?
Iron makes up approximately 0.008% of the human body by mass. I suppose we don't need to regulate that, either, since it's such a small amount and won't have any effect?
Iron deficiency and heavy metal poisoning from iron overload are clearly things that Doctors have made up to scare the masses and we really have nothing to worry about!
lets try one more time
@AC. Analogy is not proof. Not even an argument. Aside from that, the toxicity of trace amounts in humans can be tested, unlike oh I dunno, AGW prostignations. BTW, I am surprised you did not use selenium as an example. The required dose, about 100 atoms, is about the level at which it becomes toxic. Would be a much better non-argument.
That's you opinion, it's not supported by empirical evidence.
Please, provide link for peer reviewed research that support your claim. The last time I've checked, thousands or studies come to a 98% conclusion that human play a significant role in climate change.
Re: lets try one more time
"Analogy is not proof. Not even an argument."
It wasn't intended as proof or an argument. It was intended to point out that the statement that 'a small amount has no effect' is flawed logic. Maybe you should work on honing your understanding of satire...
"BTW, I am surprised you did not use selenium as an example."
Because selenium is not produced naturally within the human body. We get the selenium we need from our food and other sources of external contact. Iron was chosen as an example because it does occur naturally in the human body, i.e. as a component of our blood, and is therefore a better analogy to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere!
oh there are differences
Y2K, one could do real repeatable tests to demonstrate that some machines _would_ have problems.
So far, AGW, climate change/whatever has had proponents make sellable scare stories but never been able to demonstrate accurate predictions. yes, sure models adjusted after the events to explain them. Always after the events. So far, Oz head panic merchant predicted the end of big rains, 3 months before the sky fell i for two years. The current back pedalling on warming real soon now, its just delayed , smells of a hope that sooner or later AGW disaster predictions will come true, as all disasters do if one waits long enough. Finally, if there really was the threat AGW proponents claim, they would be actively pushing for workable alternatives. So far, the result has been the shutdown of nuclear power stations in Germany and Japan with payments to keep gas and coal plants working, years of delays in other ex-western countries for updating nuclear plants and lobbying for massive taxpayer funded green power generation that do not provide affordable base load power. This puts the cost of energy up,making it harder to keep an economy growing so there is money for when the carbon fuels of all kinds do run out, which is not contested.
The exception is a command economy where there still seems to be some grasp of the need for affordable energy to maintain tolerable living standards. Anyone who thinks life on a subsistence level is enjoyable is in need of help to heal their self hatred. Might sound great, until you break something or your children get sick.
We cynics who distrust everybody without a testable hypothesis find being labelled as idiots or worse because we don't go along with the stranglehold panic pressure groups have on the bureaucracies of governments more than irritating, There used to be something called the spirit of the age. Group think is the closest phrase left in the shrivelled newspeak that passes for sound encoded dialogue in this dark age Mk2. No need for conspiracies, simple group pressure and stupidity explain enough disasters, especially those committed by the clever and trained. Read up on human factors in aviation accidents or that marvelous book The Hinge Factor. As for the current crop of oz pollies, dunno how we did it, but worst ever of all colours.
Re: oh there are differences
"We cynics who distrust everybody without a testable hypothesis"
Riiight, I suppose you live on a mountain, but this guy doesn't:
"More recently, President Tong has spoken of climate-change induced sea level rise as "inevitable". "For our people to survive, then they will have to migrate. Either we can wait for the time when we have to move people en masse or we can prepare them—beginning from now ...""
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati
So If you want to test the hypothesis: talk with people like him how you can test it without him having to leave his birthplace.
Re: oh there are differences
not quite, but in a fire and drought prone area, so climate matters to me. Also lived in a low lying island area where I know still know some of the people who would be made homeless if the AGW turns out to be true, if the erosion from mangrove loss does not get the island first. However, for your edification, please read that misread/non-read tome by Charlie Darwin with testable hypothesis on atoll formation. Then explain why a hypothesis that has failed to predict anything in advance has anything to do with subsidence. Also, apply the first rule of inquiring minds. "How do you _know_ that ?"
Re: oh there are differences
President Tong, like most other third world "leaders" have their hands out for "compensation" from the evil westerners and "climate change" is the tool by which they mean to achieve this windfall.
Of course he is going to say something like that, even if it is patently untrue.
The fact is that Kiribati is growing not shrinking.
Re: oh there are differences
"We cynics who distrust everybody without a testable hypothesis find being labelled as idiots or worse because we don't go along with the stranglehold panic pressure groups have on the bureaucracies of governments more than irritating."
I don't have a problem with people being cynical or skeptical and wanting to see some sort of evidence.
What I don't care for is people who stubbornly insist that without that evidence then there isn't a problem at all. It doesn't take any sort of special 'Spidey-sense' tingling to realise that all isn't right with the world. You only have to look at all the extremes of weather that we've been seeing over the last few years to know that something hinkey is going on!
We seem to get a lot of new records for whether conditions that are the (hottest/coldest, dryest/wettest, lowest/highest, longest/shortest, best/worst) since records began these days...
Re: oh there are differences
I think of myself as a skeptic. I *want* scientific evidence. But in the case of AGW, I don't think it's possible to get that. After all, how can you scientifically prove what will or can happen on a global scale until it happens ? Extreme weather conditions now are not evidence or proof.
OTOH, deniers can't prove anything either... So my stance is basically : less consumption (of meat, electronics, and car). It won't make any difference on a global scale, but it does make a difference in my wallet. Reducing my eco-footprint leaves me with more money to spend on the essentials. See icon.
@Tabor - what we do know
Is that the climate has been different in the past. We can be pretty sure it'll be different in the future. If nothing else the fact that the continents are moving (and that is measurable) will take care of that. The real problem is people acting as if we being responsible or not is even relevent. Even if all our industry is responsible for a component of current changes in climate stopping it all tomorrow isn't going to stop any of the other natural processes that will be responsible for equally dramatic shifts in climate that threaten the comfortable civilizations we are used to.
As a species we really do need to get over the notion that we're at the centre of everything.
Re: oh there are differences
There are differences between Y2K and Climate Change, and I suggest that one of those differences has trapped your thinking.
Nassim Taleb of Black Swan fame essentially cries foul on making predictions or even trying for repeatable tests within extremely complex systems where you cannot possibly know all the inputs/outputs, particularly over time. He calls this Extremistan. Within bounded systems where you can understand what is going, predictions are safe. He calls this Mediocristan.
Your testable hypothesis position is fine in Medocristan, and for structured experiments, but falls over in Extremistan.
An example of extremistan is the famous Turkey problem. If you are a Turkey bred for thanksgiving then for most of the year you are happy, well fed, and protected. The farmer who raises you is your friend and carer. Then on Thanksgiving he chops your head off. Repeatable observations and prediction confirm all is well - until they don't.
Climate Change is Extremistan. Y2K was Mediocristan (in a symptomatic sense anyway, not necessarily in the outcome after the deadline - but we could tell that the clocks were going to stop working, and when and how they were going to stop working. Essentially we knew that thanksgiving was coming and that on that day something bad was going to happen, but not what that would be. We don't have that luxury with Climate Change).
In Extremistan the best way to proceed is avoid messing with the system you do not understand, and also to try to not leave yourself vulnerable to whatever strange things will eventually befall you - design for robustness or even better, antifragility (a subsequent Taleb concept). Therefore I believe the best approach to dealing with Climate Change (which I accept as occurring, and that acceptance is supported by vast reams of published and peer reviewed evidence, even though systemically predictable outcomes and effective modelling cannot be reliably derived from that) would be to try and rein in the potential causes of divergence - in this case excessive fossil fuel consumption etc. How? Renewables and ETS would be a good step, carbon sequestration would also be useful.
Nuclear power would also be an option - but not a preferable one because it has its own known raft of unpleasant issues. It also comes with a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the public mind, and strong ideological opposition from the more extreme Green elements. It should not be a first choice. It could be a part of an integrated solution or a stopgap. It may yet become a last minute panic option.
Another issue with asking for provable results on Climate Change is that by the time you can really, categorically state we have an issue, the momentum will be very difficult to reverse, and may lead to attempts at direct intervention (eg. particulates) which risk having their own unknown effects. Thus a wait and see approach is terribly risky, whereas a sensible and staged shift to renewables and lower impact manufacturing etc will not only help to address climate change risks by seeking to be as close to the non-industrial status quo as we viably can, but will probably lead to a more robust and competitive energy and manufacturing market in the long run.
I do agree though, that to accept you need to act on Climate Change does mean we take the risk of wasting a lot of effort and time we didn't need to waste. But given the foreshadowing we have, the costs of inaction are truly terrifying. Really. Death on a biblical scale. WW3 level horror.
Lastly, and back on the Y2K issue - I am also very annoyed at people that think it was a hoax. I was a programmer and I worked on stopping that issue - and I know firsthand that we would have had some sort of trouble if no action had been taken, likely big trouble. But because it was dealt with, many people just choose to think it was never an issue at all.
People respect and recognize a disaster repaired, they don't respect and recognize a disaster averted (except in cases where the dodge was narrow and so usually obvious).
Re: @Tabor - what we do know
True enough, except that normal climate change events will be slower to manifest and thus we can adapt more easily. Barring crazy outlier/black swan type events like Super Volcanoes erupting anyway.
When climate change bites, it will probably bite hard and fast, tap into amplifying feedback loops and may nail us just as encounter other issues which would be challenging to deal with even if everything were normal (e.g. ever increasing population).
The idea that humanity can't cause climate change at a truly influential level is false humility that is not supported by the current peer reviewed consensual position on the matter. We not only can do it - we are. I'm not talking about models, I'm talking about current factual evidence. We have dead zones in the ocean, obliterated species, a hole in the ozone layer, and ocean acidification. These are facts. Whether they will get worse is somewhat speculative but their existence is fact, and directly attributable to human action.
I guess what I'm saying is that as a species we really do need to get over the notion that we can't have monumental effects on our environment.
Not all Aussies are clueless
This makes for great reading, from Australasian Power Technologies Publications in Brisbane
I recommend the articles starting on Page 1, Page 19, Page 23 and Page 26.
Re: Not all Aussies are clueless
Right, so a magazine for power companies (which essentially all are reliant on cheap coal) that explicitly states in its leader:
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information contained in the magazine or the consequences
of any person relying upon such information. The contents
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Is more reliable than a council of scientists??? I am curious how you get this kind of information in such an obscure publication? Are you a paid AGW denier? I have an article for you to read (in the Guardian, a well known publication with a somewhat larger circulation):
The climate denial industry is out to dupe the public. And it's working
Think environmentalists are stooges? You're the unwitting recruit of a hugely powerful oil lobby – I've got the proof
Re: Not all Aussies are clueless
Well, first you would need Global Warming before claiming it was caused by man.
Too bad the facts don't support the first part of the trick.
Of course, you have only to wait, I'm sure we will have ice-ages, mini ice-ages and thaws for millions of years to come. I'll bet there was some idiot at the end of the last ice-age saying "look, all the ice is melting, we're all going to drown, It's all your fault with your fires"
Re: Not all Aussies are clueless
@Paul J Turner
The amazing hypocrisy of non-scientists using things like ice ages and climate cycles in defence of their position is that such things are only known because of all the scientists who spent years doing painstaking (and sometime dangerous) research across numerous inter-related fields. These scientists who you evidently believe (because you take the historical occurrence of ice ages as a fact) are the same ones you simultaneously say you do not believe.
Worse, you use the evidence they have collected and the work they have done as 'proof' that they can't be trusted.
I don't mean to be rude but you, and others who make similar statements are using the findings of climate scientists to call into question the findings of climate scientists. In doing so, you ignore the fact that understanding ice ages, climate cycles and the causes of these, is a key part of the evidence for man-made climate change.
No one is suggesting that the planet's climate will forever be static but for human influence, but given the knowledge of how climate changes can cause feedback loops, even small additions to natural processes stand the chance of having comparatively large effects.
On a more specific note, the entire (public) argument of the coalition appears to be that it will cost money to address climate change. Or, rendered in the current political language, "be bad for the economy". And that's the crux of it; because addressing climate change will cost money in the short term, climate change has become the proverbial 'political football'.
I wasted nearly 500k trying to prove we ddn't use any dates
trying to prove that NONE of my systems used a date to do anything but write a log entry. Ran greps using every date related term we could think of, and every standard c or java library call etc etc,, the auditors were coming back with requests. Even rolled clocks forward on test servers and user machines to prove we didn't have a problem, and still the auditors wanted even more evidence. Finally I just threw the source code at them and told them to run their own damned tests. I wonder how many really unnecessary were made by IT departments under the guise of y2k to get some long deferred maintenance done.
Re: I wasted nearly 500k trying to prove we ddn't use any dates
So none of your stuff used a non-compliant BIOS? Including Windows and *NIX 486/P5/P6 systems?
We found that about 60% of our user base were not Y2K compliant. Changing the hardware fixed a lot of problems. Getting them to switch from versions of MS products prior to Office 95, and then patching the 95/97 versions solved many of the other issues. Code that we had written was OK.
Re: I wasted nearly 500k trying to prove we ddn't use any dates
"trying to prove that NONE of my systems used a date to do anything but write a log entry. "
Ditto. I explained this ad nauseum to the management plus clients but they still insisted that everything be tested. This is for a bunch of routers FFS. Routers have no need to refer to times or dates other than for writing to logs yet I was forced to sit down and reconfigure dozens of routers with different OS revisions combinations and "prove" that they would not suddenly forget how to shuffle IP packets around because the date had changed.
Re: I wasted nearly 500k trying to prove we ddn't use any dates
Don't understand the down votes.
2 systems read exchange alarms and wrote details to a DB , another system then read that DB & updated users screens or issued a command to display/flash a coloured light in the exchange control room.
1 system issued commands to exchanges to update subscriber data to exchange (eg connect 02 5555 1234 to LI3-123 )
1 system updated other exchange data (call routing tables)
1 system acted as a dumb terminal to allow users to manually issue commands to exchanges
The hardware and OSs this ran on was certified y2k compliant - yet I managed to genuinely bill 500k to this project (loooong conference calls in which 1 had 2 minutes of reporting & 2 hours of listening to other people explain why their projects were behind, plus several flights to head office in Melbourne + fares & accomodation ).
All politicians should be IQ-tested before allowed in.
"All politicians should be IQ-tested before allowed in."
Maybe if we applied that to voting booths we would get better politicians?
....and experts understand the climate change problem.
That's so funny.
You missed out the "think they" between "experts" and "understand".
"Experts understood the Y2k problem, and experts understand the climate change problem".
Well the former is reasonable, the latter is scientistic hubris.
And jumping in early looks a shambles.
We are being charged for eco-communists/eco-corporatist nonsense which will have no significant impact even if the assertions are true, and probably have no measurable effect; anyhow AGW looks a stupid idea, because the scale looks all wrong compared to natural causes and counter adaptions.
We all know what happened with India, worse quality, both for service and less mature development, I've experienced this myself for both; net result, higher costs overall.
Y2K - I worked at a major Bank involved with desktop systems. I started raising the potential Y2K issue in the early 90's proposing that we require vendors to certify new hardware and software Y2K compliant - nobody was interested 'till it got into the press, late 90's. Then panic ensued.
I was co-opted onto the working party, we found and fixed loads of issues. Incidentally the requirement to identify all the "locally developed" (by non IT staff) systems turned up all kinds of other buggy code - for example, the widely used discounted cash flow spreadsheet had been giving the wrong answers for a few years.
It was a costly exercise but without it there is no question but that there would have been problems and it was a very useful housekeeping exercise too, delivering spin-off benefits. And it was one of those IT project rarities: On time, to specification and within budget. It is a bit galling to then find the success is branded as a spectacular non-event, a confidence trick and a massive waste of resources. Maybe we should have left one or two time-bombs in place with a quick fix up our sleeves so we could "solve" the problem early on 1 Jan to wide acclaim and to justify that rather well paid night-time bank holiday overtime.
Climate change - too many of the arguements are emotional. You can't run a clinical style double blind test when there's only one patient so we have to fall back on the precautionary principle with all its inadequacies. So lets put that aside.
Energy costs are increasing as geological hydrocarbon resources become exhausted. The cost of a barrel of oil now is about 3 times what it was 10 years ago, in the long term that trend is going to continue.
One day we'll run out. If we don't want to freeze we need other energy sources. That means renewables and nuclear. Both come with their own different set of problems but running out isn't one of them. Neither generate CO2 so if that is a cause of climate change, problem solved. We may have concerns about nuclear but even if UK were nuclear free, what if one of the French stations, just across the channel, were to go bang? After all we were affected by Chernobyl 2000 km away, Welsh sheep farms were only given the radioactive pollution all clear in 2012.
A switch to nuclear and renewables might also be regarded as grounds to block fracking, I'd be happy if it were deemed unnecessary, the resource would at least be "cash in the bank" for future generations should it be needed.
The problem is that the lead times for nuclear leave an energy gap which will otherwise need to be filled by imports. New nuclear capacity should have been ordered 10 years ago.
Irritating grammatical point
What really irritates me is the insistance on referring to "deniers". Denier is a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibres. What that has to do with climate change is beyond my comprehension.
Possibly the word the writer is seeking is denyers?
Re: Irritating grammatical point
To take that a bit further, what is a "climate denyer" anyway? It seems to come up everywhere in this sort of discussion, as a nicely dismissive term for anyone who is even the least bit sceptical.
I think nobody who isn't certifiable will deny there is a thing we call climate, so "climate denyer" at face value makes no sense.
I think nobody who isn't certifiable will deny that it changes. Always has, always will, that's what climate DOES. So even if we take "climate" to be short for "climage change", "climate denyer" still doesn't make sense.
Using "climate denyer" to describe people who aren't quite convinced WHY climate changes, is just really sloppy language.
The only people I can think of who sort of fit the "climate denyer" description are the ones fighting tooth and nail to STOP our climate from changing any further. Now isn't that ironic, ms Morissette?
Isn't it Interesting
That reporting in the media still has that air of desperation and hysteria, so they are able to sell more papers or online adds. Really makes you think that nothing in the media business has changed in 13 years
The denigration of CO2
The author of this article has fallen for the anti-CO2 propaganda, as he betrays in the sentence: "Alas, there are plenty of interests fighting to protect their business from any action whatever to reduce atmospheric pollution."
He is not talking about carbon monoxide or sulphur dioxide here, the real atmospheric pollution that killed people in industrial Britain, well within living memory. Bizarrely, pollution these days refers to the vital gas carbon dioxide, thanks to the government sponsored nonsense that refers to CO2 simply as "carbon", and shows it in the form of a tarry footprint. Well, if they insist on showing carbon dioxide as something made of carbon then I suggest diamonds would be more appropriate. This planet would thrive in an atmosphere with 1000 ppm of it, and that concentration would mitigate the effects of ice-ages and mini ice-ages too. The real climate change to be feared is, and always has been, global cooling.
Re: The denigration of CO2
well put AC. Lowering my cynicism a tad, the wikipedia article on the famine beginning in 1315 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315-1317 is suggestive that cold is a problem, not a warmer world, unless one is of the Erlich school of pessimism.
I am still dumbfounded at the charge energy companies want business as usual. Companies, understandably, love the idea of guaranteed profits without having to deliver something reliably in return. Having rent seeking made out to be a public good is astonishing.
Re: The denigration of CO2
"The author of this article has fallen for the anti-CO2 propaganda"
Yep, I started reading this and then thought to myself, "this reads like a Chirgwin penned article" <scroll><scroll><scroll> "yep, thought so"
RC is an AGW true believer. Your logical rebuttal is likely to fall on deaf ears.
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What a load of crap. Y2K was a man made problem. Global climate change is a natural phenomena that has occurred since the planet was formed. The climate has always changed and always will change. The point being adapt or die.
If we compare man's ability to change the climate to man's ability to program computers pre-1999 we can estimate the calamity that will occur with man's manipulation of the climate. Going down that road could very well lead to a large ball of ice orbiting the sun. Oopsie.
The computer models used in the global warming scenario can be proven to be 30% accurate. Basing policy decisions on data that weak is like playing Russian roulette with four bullets in the gun - a 66% of disaster.
The best analysis I've seen on climate change ties it to a 100,000 year cycle in the variance of th earth's orbit around the sun. What is anyone going to do about that, pray tell?
Australia introduced a "Carbon Tax" last year. The purpose was to make Australians pay just a little bit more for mostly electricity related products - nothing you'd notice, or course - and in return completely fix the weather for the better.
I'm pleased to report after only one year the weather is already smashing, and a healthy industry has bloomed in rigging up subsidized home solar farms.
Congratulations Julia Gillard, Penny Wong, et al. And good for their friends who've done well from the solar boom by being in the right place at the right time. Who could see that coming? Only a genius.
This is how it's done.
@General Pance
The thickness of sarcasm makes it a little difficult to get through your post so let me counter with my own:
The avoidance of short-term pain for political expedience is always an excellent strategy for the long-term prosperity of a society.
It is a fact that, at some point, humankind must transition to cleaner energy sources. Like many such decisions, we will always have an excuse why we do mean to do it, just not quite now. It doesn't matter what the almighty economy is like - it will never be the perfect time. Now, the economy is not strong enough. Once it starts recovering, it will be too delicate to risk. Once it has recovered, then it'll be: "we'll cripple the economy".
Any do you know what? That would be fine if the pollution we are spewing into the atmosphere (or planning to pump into the Great Barrier Reef) only affected 'the economy'. But it doesn't. It effects everyone; even (amazingly) those people who don't own mining companies.
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My son Derek has been working hard this summer to remove invasive plants around our property. They are found in our CRP prairie, in the woods, and in other unmown natural areas. The most invasive plants on our property are garlic mustard, bush honeysuckle, oriental bittersweet, and burning bush.
Not all bush honeysuckle are invasive, though none are native here. I have a planting of winter honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima) that is not an escape threat in the Midwest. It is known for its small white fragrant flowers that occur in early spring.
Candice Miller, University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator in northern Illinois, wrote the following about the exotic bush honeysuckles.
The invasive bush honeysuckles were introduced to the U.S. for use as ornamentals, for wildlife cover, and for soil erosion control. These exotic bush honeysuckles Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle), Lonicera morrowii (Morrow's honeysuckle), and Lonicera tatarica (Tartarian honeysuckle) also have fragrant flowers in early summer. As you drive along highways near wooded areas, you'll notice the pairs of fragrant, white or pink tubular flowers, followed by bright red berries. Birds love these fruits and will widely disseminate seeds across the landscape.
Bush honeysuckles are upright, generally deciduous shrubs that range from 6 to 15 feet in height. According to the US Forest Service, exotic bush honeysuckles are relatively shade-intolerant and most often occur in forest edges, abandoned fields, pastures, roadsides and other open, upland habitats. Woodlands, especially those that have been grazed or otherwise disturbed may also be invaded by exotic bush honeysuckles.
The many problems with exotic bush honeysuckles are the following (US Forest Service fact sheet):
Have some of these invasive shrubs on your property? Removing these shrubs is very important to restoring our native habitats. Removal can be done by a variety of mechanical and chemical methods. See this fact sheet for a list of management options: http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/loni1.htm. More information can be found at http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_009128.pdf
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What: Nightfall concert series featuring Shannon McNally.
When: 8 tonight. Ryan Oyer Band opens at 7 p.m.
Where: Miller Plaza, corner of M.L. King Boulevard, Cherry and Market streets.
Admission: Free.
Phone: 265-0771.
Venue website: www.nightfallchattanooga.com.
The Ryan Oyer Band is fronted by local Brit-pop influenced singer/songwriter Ryan Oyer, a frequent performer at area open-mike sessions.
For more information, see his website at www.reverbnation.com/ryanoyer.
Listening to Shannon McNally is a bit like straddling the point in the Mississippi River where the waters divide to lap on either shore.
On the one hand, the slight twang to her vocals and the occasional slide-steel whine hint at a love of alt-country and folk singer/songwriters such as Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan.
On the other, her soulful croon and a back beat of rolling organ and shimmering guitar hint at the equal influence of artists such as Ray Charles, Nina Simone and The Byrds.
That sound mimics McNally's wide-ranging career, which started in her native Long Island, N.Y., shifted around the country from Los Angles to New Orleans and finally came to rest in the heart of northern Mississippi's hill country in Oxford.
"I write American music, and those are all pretty critical places," McNally said in a recent phone interview during a break from touring with North Mississippi Allstars and Black Crowes lead guitarist Luther Dickinson.
Tonight, she will headline Nightfall for the concert series' first show after a two-week break for Riverbend.
McNally's first love was the "powerful" songs of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. She said she found the Gainesville, Fla., rocker's music tremendously emotionally affecting when she attended a concert at age 15.
"I remember thinking very, very specifically, 'Oh good God, I want to do that. I want to be that guy right there. Sign me up, coach,' " she said, laughing. "The songs were so powerful, and at that time, there was nobody bigger."
Over the course of a career that has seen her supporting artists ranging from Dr. John and Charlie Sexton to Stevie Nicks, McNally has established herself as a hard-traveling, no-nonsense songwriter.
She said the no-nonsense bit is her guiding light when it comes to writing new songs.
A former student of anthropology, McNally said she continues to feel an almost academic need to study people and craft sincere songs that reflect the truth and force people to think.
"So much that is pushed at us in our culture is so patronizing," she said. "People deserve better, and I think there are people out there seeking that out. If there are, I want to deliver that.
"For everyone else looking to have a good time, we can do that, too."
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[From drag, an automobile (slang). around Bahrain International Circuit (BIC BIC
See: Bank Investment Contract ) as officials are expecting 33 liners to dock at Khalifa bin Salman Port (KBSP KBSP Kinzua Bridge State Park (Pennsylvania) ) starting this November for the new cruise season.
Those who are willing to brave the winter cold and experience Bahrain's landscape will be taken to Jaw in luxury buses and will then set out on a 10km trek across the desert with experienced guides until they reach the Sailing Club in Zallaq.
"The tourists will begin the trek first thing after they disembark dis·em·bark
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"Along the way, they will see the Tree of Life and other attractions, including oil wells and other installations.
"There will be a small refreshment break at the Tree of Life after which they will walk again until the Sailing Club."
The journey would take up to three hours, during which tour guides would also explain the historical importance and background of the Bahraini desert.
"The predominantly German tourists have been extremely enthusiastic about such treks taking place and we plan to give them an experience of a lifetime," added Mr Mathias.
He also revealed plans were in the pipeline to take groups of tourists for a drag racing experience at the BIC.
"Modalities for this are still being worked out but we hope these can be completed well before the cruise season begins in October," he explained.
The initiative comes in line with efforts by the authorities to lure back operators and tourists for the new season.
Mr Mathias said selective groups were earlier taken on the trek, but would now be extended to cover all cruise tourists.
"We have the experience and guidance of experienced Bahrain Road Runner chairman and local adventurer Adnan Al Qassab to help us and he will accompany the tour groups."
Bahrain has already agreed to halve port fees for cruise ships to offset increased insurance charges for docking in Bahrain in the wake of the unrest, which meant that each cruise operator will have to pay an additional $300,000 (BD113,129) over the course of a season.
Other incentives were also agreed to ensure a successful season including discounts worth tens of thousands of dinars by tourism companies, while passenger charges could be waived by the General Directorate of Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs (GDNPR), which could act as a "sponsor" for each visitor arriving on a cruise.
The organisation will also continue to waive crew charges and will look into the potential of waiving other charges.
In addition, shipping or port agents who handle cruise liners coming to Bahrain have pledged to slash their prices of up to BD700 by 25pc.
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GDN Global Disaster Network (Yahoo group) had reported that at least 33 stops by cruise ships had been confirmed at the KBSP, including Aida and TUI tui: see honeyeater.
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George Osborne: UK economic recovery is on track
Chancellor George Osborne says UK economic recovery is "on track" despite "challenging" global conditions.
He was responding to the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) upgrading of its 2010 growth forecast, but lowering of those for 2011 and 2012.
Mr Osborne said the UK economy was moving towards "sustainable growth", with more exports and investment.
Labour said this year's growth was the result of its policies. Coalition cuts plans were a "reckless gamble".
The chancellor's autumn statement to MPs was being eagerly followed by financial markets looking to see how well the coalition's deficit reduction plan was coming along, especially in the light of events in Ireland and elsewhere in the eurozone.'Plan working'
The OBR - formed in May to make an independent assessment of the public finances ahead of each Budget - has revised its growth forecast for this year from 1.2% to 1.8%.
But it has lowered its estimate for 2011 from 2.3% to 2.1% and that for 2012 from 2.8% to 2.6%.
Do 152 pages of numbers, charts and sometimes impenetrable text change the terms of the argument over the economy that rages daily in Westminster?
The OBR's reduction of the numbers of jobs set to disappear in the public sector at the very least makes it harder for Labour to throw accusations at the coalition that jobs will be recklessly slashed without care or attention.
And the estimates that private sector jobs will more than compensate for those which disappear underlines that. Yet it also raises a different question for the coalition, one that is not asked too often. Should public sector jobs be maintained just because the taxpayer can afford to pay for them?
The coalition will cling to the predictions that employment and GDP should go up year on year. And they will welcome the independent judgement that it is more likely than not, that the government will balance the books in the tight framework they have set for themselves.
But there is nothing in the report that suggests anything buoyant about the economic picture they expect in the next few years.
Labour will continue to point to sluggish growth, and what they term the deceit upon which the coalition's argument is based - that their action has brought Britain 'back from the brink' - an idea they continue to reject.
The OBR has cut its forecast for public sector job losses over the next four years from 490,000 to 330,000.
But it said it expected total unemployment to rise to a peak of just over 8% in 2011 - in line with previous forecasts - before falling to just over 6% by 2015.
Delivering his statement, Mr Osborne said the UK was "moving from an economy based on debt to an economy where we invest and export".
He told MPs the OBR's assessment was that there "will be no double-dip recession", with "considerably higher" growth this year than it had predicted in June.
Mr Osborne also said: "After the deepest recession since the war, the greatest budget deficit in our peacetime history and the biggest banking crisis of our lifetimes, recovery was always going to be more challenging than after previous recessions.
"But the message from the Office for Budget Responsibility is that Britain's economic recovery is on track. The economy is growing, more jobs are being created and the deficit is falling."
The chancellor announced the government was publishing "the most significant programme of corporate tax reforms for a generation".
"We propose to make the UK an even more attractive location for international business and investment, by reforming the outdated and complex rules for controlled foreign companies," he said.
And, from April 2013, there would be a lower 10% rate of corporate tax levied on hi-tech firms' profits from newly commercialised patents, Mr Osborne added.'Better than 50% chance'
The OBR has slightly reduced its forecast for public borrowing in the current financial year to £148.5bn from £149.5bn.
In its report, it said: "Our central forecast is that the economy will continue to recover from the recession, but at a slower pace than in the recoveries of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
"This relatively sluggish medium-term outlook reflects the gradual normalisation of credit conditions, efforts to reduce private sector indebtedness and the impact of the government's fiscal consolidation."
It OBR added that the government had a "better than 50%" chance of meeting its mandate to wipe out the structural deficit - the gap between spending and taxes - by 2015-16.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Alan Johnson accused the coalition of risking the UK's future prosperity with its programme of spending cuts.
He added: "For families up and down this country, a jobless recovery will be no recovery at all."Jobs concern
Mr Johnson also said: "This autumn statement does nothing to alleviate the effects of the summer recklessness that led the chancellor to gamble with our future."
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "George Osborne may claim that the Office for Budget Responsibility has vindicated his approach, but he must have missed the forecast showing unemployment little better than static for the next three years. What is the point of economic policy if it does not include getting people back to work?"
But John Cridland, director-general designate of the CBI business group, said: "It is reassuring that the OBR has confirmed the CBI's view that we are on an upward growth trajectory. This should be able to deliver a rebalancing of the economy and sustainable job creation.
"The statement has also provided encouraging signs of a more competitive UK corporate tax regime."


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Chlorhexidine Gluconate Oral Care for Adults Experiencing Trauma
This study has been completed.
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Toby L. Anchie, R.N., MAEd, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 23, 2011
Last updated: December 5, 2013
Last verified: December 2013
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Detailed Description:
Examine the use of 0.12% Chlorhexidine Gluconate as an adjunct to current oral care protocol for trauma patients on ventilator support to decrease the incidence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia and oral bacterial load.
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Drug: Chlorhexidine gluconate
Other: Toothpaste
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Evaluating Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Oral Care for Adults
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Pneumonia Wounds and Injuries
Drug Information available for: Chlorhexidine Chlorhexidine acetate Sodium gluconate Chlorhexidine hydrochloride Manganese gluconate Chlorhexidine gluconate HibiclensU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Effectiveness of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Oral Care for Trauma Patients [ Time Frame: 18 Months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Examination of number of participants who do not develop oral bacteria and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia when an oral rinse containing 0.12% Chlorhexidine Gluconate is used as part of a oral care protocol.
|Study Start Date:
|July 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Standard Oral Care Regimen
Current oral care protocol includes the use of 1.5% H2O2-coated swabs every four hours, toothbrushing with toothpaste every 12 hours, and use of continuous subglottic suction apparatus.
Other: Toothpaste
Brushing the teeth, tongue, gingiva, and oral mucosa twice daily with toothbrush and toothpaste.
Experimental: Chlorhexidine Oral Care Regimen
This study will compare our current oral care practice with the use of Chlorhexidine Gluconate 0.12% (Peridex, 3M Corporation) Twice daily in addition to regularly scheduled oral care as a means to decrease the incidence of VAP utilizing evidence-based strategies.
Drug: Chlorhexidine gluconate
0.12% Chlorhexidine Gluconate 15ml Twice Daily, administered via toothbrushing and swabbing teeth, tongue, gingiva, and oral mucosa.
Other Name: Peridex
Detailed Description:
To see a significant decrease in the bacterial load in the oral mucosa and subsequently, a decrease in the pathogenesis of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia through the use of an oral rinse containing 0.12% Chlorhexidine Gluconate as part of an oral care protocol. Current oral care protocol includes the use of 1.5% H2O2-coated swabs every four hours, toothbrushing with toothpaste every 12 hours, and use of continuous subglottic suction apparatus.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adults admitted to ICUs located in Tower Two Critical Care Units: Medical, Surgical, Medical #2, and Trauma Intensive Care Units.
- Patients will be randomized to either treatment or standard group based on day of admission to Intensive Care Units. No limitation regarding gender, race, and ethnicity so that the sample will reflect "typical" Trauma population.
Exclusion Criteria:
- All patients admitted under "Doe" Status
- All patients with acute cervical spine injuries or facial fractures that oral care will create further harm to the patient (physician order stating "no oral care to be given" will be in chart)
- All patients with Oral Trauma or Oral Surgery
- All minors (Study will be completed in Adult Critical Care Units)
- Patients with allergy to chlorhexidine
- Patients without Teeth, or with fewer than 6 teeth
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01382446
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01382446
|United States, Arizona
|St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
|Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85013
Sponsors and Collaborators
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
|Principal Investigator:
|Tracy Thomas, MSN
|St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
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Keywords provided by St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 24, 2014
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|Responsible Party:
|Toby L. Anchie, R.N., MAEd, Accountable Executive, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01382446 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 23, 2011
|Results First Received:
|July 24, 2013
|Last Updated:
|December 5, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix:
Mechanical Ventilation
Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
Oral Care
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated
Cross Infection
Lung Diseases
Lung Injury
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Ventilator-Induced Lung Injury
Chlorhexidine gluconate
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Dermatologic Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Therapeutic Uses
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