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ROULEAU, Sask. - Stars of the hit Canadian TV series "Corner Gas" are pumped to reunite for a new movie, and say it's like seeing family again.
Brent Butt, Lorne Cardinal, Nancy Robertson and the rest of the cast are back in the fictional town of Dog River (a.k.a. Rouleau, Sask.) to shoot a feature film based on the series, which ended in April 2009.
Butt says it feels like only a few weeks have passed.
"It's getting back together with family, but it's family that you don't have tremendous psychological issues with, so it's all great you know," laughed Butt.
"It was great. The cast, we were all looking forward to seeing the crew. You come in, you see people every day for six years and then you kind of go your separate ways and you really miss these guys."
Butt, who was born and raised in Tisdale, Sask., was a standup comic when he created "Corner Gas" in 2004. He starred as Brent Leroy for six seasons.
The comedian says he wanted to do a movie after the TV series ended and the script has been in the works for a while. But just because time has passed, doesn't mean the characters have changed and that's by design, he says.
"I was always against growth ... I seriously was. It sounds glib when I hear myself say it, but I was actively against these characters growing because thematically this is about a group of people who don't like change. They don't change much. They like their situation and they're kind of adverse to change," he said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"We've come back five years later and it was a conscious decision to say they're still here, kicking around. They've been here all this while."
Still dishing out sarcasm from behind the cash register in the gas station is Wanda Dollard, portrayed by Nancy Robertson.
Robertson, who is Butt's wife in real life, says being surrounded by the cast and crew and back in Saskatchewan helped her to get back into character. It's like going home to visit family for Christmas or Thanksgiving, she says.
"I know everybody in the business says 'Oh we're like a family and blah, blah blah,' but it really is," said Robertson.
"For six years, we spent half a year together on location, living in the same residences, being driven together, travelling for promotion. You cannot help, working 13 hours a day, you cannot help but become a family, that's just an automatic and it's just a nice plus when you think the people you're becoming a family with are pretty great."
Robertson says she was a little nervous at first because she wanted to make sure she was bringing the same elements to Wanda as on the TV show. But, she jokes, Wanda hasn't changed.
"I don't think any of the characters really have, which the beauty of the world out here. Everything just keeps going along," she laughed.
"Well, she's changed in the sense that she's heavier and she's older. That's the change."
Lorne Cardinal, who plays police officer Davis Quinton, waited to shoot his next scene with Robertson and Tara Spencer-Nairn, who plays officer Karen Pelly. He leaned against a gas pump and turned his face toward the Prairie sky, soaking in the sunshine.
Cardinal says reuniting for the movie was like "getting the band back together." The rhythm came back once the cast was in the same room, reading through the script, he says.
"I was little nervous about it, but once I donned on the polyester and got the hair just right, it was pretty seamless. It was nice to know it was still there," said Cardinal.
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(Tuesday, July 3, 2012) From The Sports Network Final Score: Portland 2, San Jose 1 Portland, OR (Sports Network) - Jeld-Wen, sweet Jeld-Wen. Danny Mwanga and Jack Jewsbury each scored their first goals of the season as the Portland Timbers extended their home unbeaten streak to six matches with a 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes on Tuesday at Jeld-Wen Field. Winless on the road this year, Portland won for the fifth time at home against two losses and two draws as it ended a three-game win streak for San Jose. The Timbers have not lost at home since early April. The Earthquakes, who have the top record in MLS, lead the league with six road wins. San Jose had won three of its last four on the road. Portland (5-7-4) held the trump card against San Jose (11-4-3): Jeld-Wen. Mwanga scored in the 29th minute, his first goal since joining the Timbers in a trade with the Philadelphia Union in June, and Jewsbury added his first this season in the 59th. Making just his second start and fourth appearance with Portland, Mwanga hit the post in the second half. Eric Alexander also hit the post for Portland. San Jose tried to make Portland pay for its near-misses, as Alan Gordon pulled a goal back in the 74th, but the Timbers held off the 'Quakes and MLS scoring leader Chris Wondolowski. The Earthquakes remain comfortably atop the Western Conference and the Timbers moved five points off the bottom and even with Chivas USA for seventh. Portland will try to end its seven-game, year-long road winless streak at Real Salt Lake on Saturday. San Jose visits FC Dallas on Saturday. 07/04 00:58:10 ET Powered by The Sports Network. |


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Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios: The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban OaxacaDiversity characterizes the people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Within this city of half a million, residents are rising against traditional barriers of race and class, defining new gender roles, and expanding access for the disabled. In this rich ethnography of the city, Michael Higgins and Tanya Coen explore how these activities fit into the ordinary daily lives of the people of Oaxaca. Higgins and Coen focus their attention on groups that are often marginalized—the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellectuals. Blending portraits of and comments by group members with their own ethnographic observations, the authors reveal how such issues as racism, sexism, sexuality, spirituality, and class struggle play out in the people's daily lives and in grassroots political activism. By doing so, they translate the abstract concepts of social action and identity formation into the actual lived experiences of real people. |
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If you've been watching The City, you're fully aware of how skinny Allie is. Despite the fact that she's a model whose "supposed" to be small, her weight was on everyone's mind on last night's episode, especially Kelly Curtone! Her incessant questions as to whether or not Allie was all right were uncomfortable to watch, so I can only imagine how she must have felt to be on the receiving end.
Even though Kelly claimed to simply be worried about her, do you think it's ever appropriate to talk about someone's weight — heavy or small? As we all know, body image is a very personal matter, but does being a concerned friend mean asking the tough questions sometimes? Or should this topic be completely off limits unless someone comes to you for help?
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Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee looked into the idea of a commission to investigate possible criminal conduct by the Bush Administration. It was a curious affair, with Republicans joining together to criticize the commission concept on the grounds that it might get in the way of efforts to prosecute the Bush team. Daphne Eviatar of the Washington Independent summarized it this way:
"If there's reason to believe that these Justice Department officials have given approval for things that they know not to be lawful and sound, go after them," [Ranking Member Arlen Specter] said, referring to recent memos released from the Office of Legal Counsel that authorized extreme and arguably illegal executive powers. "Some of the opinions that are now disclosed are more than startling — they're shocking." The revelations, said Specter, who's a former federal prosecutor, are "starting to tread on what may disclose criminal conduct," he said. The witnesses called to support the Republican position seemed to agree.
David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, called a truth commission "a profoundly bad idea, a dangerous idea, both for policy and for me as a lawyer for legal and constitutional reasons." Such a commission "is to establish a body to engage in what, in essence, is a criminal investigation of former Bush administration officials," he said. Matters such as the interrogation and treatment of terror suspects and domestic warrantless wiretapping, however, are "are heavily regulated by comprehensive criminal statutes." Any such investigation, then, "ensures that the commission's activities would inevitably invade areas traditionally the responsibility of the Department of Justice." Rivkin went on to strengthen the case for a criminal prosecutions by arguing that if a commission were to unearth evidence of criminal activity and not prosecute it, it would leave former Bush administration officials open to prosecution abroad.
Of course, the Federalist Society and its network have adopted it as an article of faith that inquiries into abuses of presidential power by Republicans are a bad idea–which makes sense given how often these inquiries tend to come to a focus on Federalist Society members. But Rivkin is plainly correct that a commission and a team of federal prosecutors are likely to cross paths and get in the way of one another in sorting through the Bush mess.
The comments seemed to have clear impact on Senator Patrick Leahy, though perhaps not the way the Republicans imagined. After the hearing was over, he drew back on his vision of the role of amnesty in the process, suggesting in an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that immunity would only rarely be granted and then in consultation with prosecutors at the Justice Department.
The hearing therefore seems to have been quite constructive: it has bridged differences between the House proposal backed by Speaker Pelosi, which is hostile to amnesty. The Leahy proposal hasn't yet been reduced to writing, but it sounds more like the Conyers version every day.
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Ongoing verification of a multiphysics community code: FLASH
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When developing a complex, multi-authored code, daily testing on multiple platforms and under a variety of conditions is essential. It is therefore necessary to have a regression test suite that is easily administered and configured, as well as a way to easily view and interpret the test suite results. We describe the methodology for verification of FLASH, a highly capable multiphysics scientific application code with a wide user base. The methodology uses a combination of unit and regression tests and an in-house testing software that is optimized for operation under limited resources. Although our practical implementations do not always comply with theoretical regression-testing research, our methodology provides a comprehensive verification of a large scientific code under resource constraints.Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Former TV weatherman Anthony Watts, who runs the popular global warming contrarian website, "Watts Up With That", was convinced that many of the U.S. network of surface weather stations had serious flaws in their siting that was causing an artificial warm bias in the observed increase in U.S. temperatures of 1.1°F over the past century. To address this concern, Watts established the website surfacestations.org in 2007, which enlisted an army of volunteers to travel the U.S. to obtain photographic evidence of poor siting of weather stations. The goal was to document cases where "microclimate" influence was important, and could be contaminating temperature measurements. (Note that this is a separate issue from the Urban Heat Island, the phenomenon where a metropolitan area in general is warmer than surrounding rural areas). Watts' volunteers--650 strong--documented the siting of 865 of the 1,218 stations used in the National Climatic Data Center's U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) for tracking climate change. As reported in Watt's 2009 publication put out by the Heartland Institute, the volunteers "found stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat." Watts surmised that these poorly-sited stations were responsible for much of the increase in U.S. temperatures over the past century, due to "a bias trend that likely results from the thermometers being closer to buildings, asphalt, etc." Watts concluded, "the U.S. temperature record is unreliable. And since the U.S. record is thought to be the best in the world, it follows that the global database is likely similarly compromised and unreliable".
Figure 1. A poorly sited temperature sensor in Marysville, California, used for the USHCN. The sensor is situation right next to an asphalt parking lot, instead in the middle of a grassy field, as it is supposed to be. The sensor is also adjacent to several several air conditioners that blow their exhaust into the air nearby. Image credit: surfacestation.org.
Analysis of the data disagrees with Watts' conclusion
While Watts' publication by the Heartland Institute is a valuable source of information on siting problems of the U.S. network of weather stations, the publication did not undergo peer-review--the process whereby three anonymous scientists who are experts in the field review a manuscript submitted for publication, and offer criticisms on the scientific validity of the results, resulting in revisions to the original paper or outright rejection. The Heartland Institute is an advocacy organization that accepts money from corporate benefactors such as the tobacco industry and fossil fuel industry, and publishes non-peer reviewed science that inevitably supports the interests of the groups paying for the studies. Watts did not actually analyze the data to see if taking out the poorly sited surface stations would have a significant impact on the observed 1.1°F increase in U.S. temperatures over the past century. His study would never have been publishable in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Figure 2. Annual average maximum and minimum unadjusted temperature change calculated using (c) maximum and (d) minimum temperatures from good and poor exposure sites (Menne 2010). Poor sites showed a cooler maximum temperature compared to good sites. For minimum temperature, the poor sites were slightly warmer. The net effect was a cool bias in poorly sited stations. The dashed lines are for stations ranked by NOAA, while the solid lines are for the stations ranked by surfacestations.org.
Fortunately, a proper analysis of the impact of these poorly-sited surface stations on the U.S. historical temperature record has now been done by Dr. Matthew Menne and co-authors at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). In a talk at last week's 90th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Dr. Menne reported the results of their new paper just accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research titled, On the reliability of the U.S. Surface Temperature Record. Dr. Menne's study split the U.S. surface stations into two categories: good (rating 1 or 2) and bad (ratings 3, 4 or 5). They performed the analysis using both the rating provided by surfacestations.org, and from an independent rating provided by NOAA personnel. In general, the NOAA-provided ratings coincided with the ratings given by surfacestations.org. Of the NOAA-rated stations, only 71 stations fell into the "good" siting category, while 454 fell into the "bad" category. According to the authors, though, "the sites with good exposure, though small in number, are reasonably well distributed across the country and, as shown by Vose and Menne [2004], are of sufficient density to obtain a robust estimate of the CONUS average". Dr. Menne's study computed the average daily minimum and maximum temperatures from the good sites and poor sites. The results were surprising. While the poor sites had a slightly warmer average minimum temperature than the good sites (by 0.03°C), the average maximum temperature measured at the poor sites was significantly cooler (by 0.14°C) than the good sites. As a result, overall average temperatures measured at the poor sites were cooler than the good sites. This is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Anthony Watts in his 2009 Heartland Institute publication.
Why did the poorly sited stations measure cooler temperatures?
The reason why the poorly-sites stations measured cooler temperatures lies in the predominant types of thermometers used at the two types of sites. An electronic Maximum/Minimum Temperature System (MMTS) is used at 75% of the poor sites. These MMTS sensors are attached by cable to an indoor readout device, and are consequently limited by cable length as to how far they can be sited from the building housing the indoor readout device. As a result, they are often located close to heated buildings, paved surfaces, air conditioner exhausts, etc. It turns out that these MMTS thermometers have a flaw that causes them to measure minimum temperatures that are slightly too warm, and maximum temperatures that are considerably too cool, leading to an overall cool bias in measured average temperatures. In contrast, only 30% of the "good" sites used the MMTS sensors. The "good" sites predominantly used Liquid in Glass (LiG) thermometers housed in wooden shelters that were more easily located further from the buildings where the observers worked. Since the poorly-sites stations were dominantly equipped with MMTS thermometers, they tended to measure temperatures that were too cool, despite their poor siting.
Figure 3. Comparison of U.S. average annual (a) maximum and (b) minimum temperatures calculated using USHCN version 2 temperatures. Temperatures were adjusted to correct for changes in instrumentation, station relocations, and changes in the time of observation, making the trend from good sites show close agreement with poor sites. Good and poor site ratings are based on surfacestations.org. For comparison, the data between 2004 - 2008 taken by the new high-quality U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN, black dashed line) is shown, and displays excellent agreement for that time period. Image credit: Menne 2010.
Independent verification of recent USHCN annual temperatures
Clearly, the siting of many of the surface stations used to track climate change in the U.S. is not good. To address this issue, in 2004 NOAA created the U.S. Climate Reference Network, a collection of 114 stations in the continental United States for the express purpose of detecting the national signal of climate change. The stations were sited and instrumented with climate studies in mind, and can provide an extremely high-quality independent check on the old USHCN network. Each of 114 stations at 107 locations (some stations were installed as nearby pairs) is equipped with very accurate instruments in a triplicate configuration so that each measurement can be checked for internal consistency. As shown in Figure 3, the USCRN air temperature departures for 2004 - 2008 are extremely well aligned with those derived from the USHCN version 2 temperature data. For these five years, the the difference between the mean annual temperatures measured by the old USHCN compared to the new USCRN was just 0.03°C, with a mathematical correlation coefficient (r-squared) of 0.997. Menne et al. concluded, "This finding provides independent verification that the USHCN version 2 data are consistent with research-quality measurements taken at pristine locations and do not contain spurious trends during the recent past even if sampled exclusively at poorly sited stations. While admittedly this period of coincident observations between the networks is rather brief, the value of the USCRN as a benchmark for reducing the uncertainty of historic observations from the USHCN and other networks will only increase with time". The authors finally concluded, "we find no evidence that the CONUS temperature trends are inflated due to poor siting".
Crediting Anthony Watts
The surfacestations.org effort coordinated by Anthony Watts has made a valuable contribution to science, helping us better understand the nature of the errors in the U.S. historical temperature data set. In his talk last week at the AMS conference, and in the credits of his paper, Dr. Menne had some genuinely grateful comments on the efforts of Anthony Watts and the volunteers of surfacestations.org. However, as of this writing, Watts has made no mention on surfacestations.org or on wattsupwiththat.com of Dr. Menne's study.
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Quoting atmoaggie: Possibly. I usually go with the Heritage Institute or Brookings for good, divergent positions...those are just examples. Gotta' run, but I'd like to discuss that one day, Atmo! |
If interested... Link http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/10af.html |
Quoting CaneWarning: The controversy and debate, by now, should have moved beyond whether climate change is happening and whether it is caused by man. By now, the debate should be about the solutions, and what to do to mitigate or adapt to climate change. Unfortunately, some people simply shoot down radical ideas as soon as they see one, and we're still stuck at step two. Delay in action due to debate is as serious as deliberate inaction due to political lobbying. If this has proven anything, it only proves that our traditional ideas about politics do not work and that conservative thinking can no longer survive on this planet. Denial is now funded by large corporations and governments, who care nothing for their people and everything about their mony, investing on a resource due to run out in a few decades. Too much politics have been injected into the scientific debate, which should have ended 20 years ago. Global warming doesn't care what your political party is. To solve this global problem, we need global cooperation. The faliure of the Copenhagen Conference solidly demonstrates that global cooperation is currently not possible due to all the political lobbying. |
Quoting tornadodude: He referenced my old screen name - HOG. |
884. JeffMasters (Admin) 9:15 PM GMT on January 26, 2010 ya really like firing this bunch up lol |
Threats to national security - Crimes against Humanity 'Grassroots' Opposition To Clean Energy Reform Bankrolled By Foreign Oil, Petro-Governments (Updated) Clean energy legislation passed by the House, now pending in the Senate, faces fierce opposition from the proprietors of fossil fuel companies, and much has been reported on how domestic oil and coal companies have flooded the debate with money, lobbying, and misinformation. These opponents of clean energy reform claim to be "standing up" for American jobs and security. However, according to an investigation by ThinkProgress, many of the lobbyists and right-wing operatives engineering the attacks on clean energy reform either work directly for petro-governments, or work for companies in the business of importing foreign oil: – Nigeria's Bayelsa State, the region of the country producing much of its crude oil, is registered with the Carmen Group as its representative in DC. (Update: The Carmen Group later informed ThinkProgress that it no longer represents Nigeria.) The Carmen Group is run largely by employs lobbyist David Keene as a Managing Associate, who also manages the American Conservative Union. (Update: The Carmen Group's Managing Director Richard Masterson tells ThinkProgress that Keene "does not work for any energy-related interest at the Carmen Group.") Keene has lobbied against clean energy reform and used his conservative organization to generate "grassroots" opposition to legislative efforts to move away from a fossil fuel based economy. Although the extent to which the Carmen Group "provide[s] general representation before the United States Congress" is unclear — as Justice Department disclosures indicate — the Nigerian state has lavished Carmen group lobbyists with $903,450 in payments since 2006. According to a report produced Monday by the State Department, Nigeria is at risk of becoming a haven for terror and extremism. In the past, Keene, the coordinator of the CPAC convention, has been caught auctioning off conservative grassroots support to his corporate lobbying clients for as much as $2 million dollars. – The lobbyist-run front group Americans for Prosperity is perhaps the most active anti-clean energy group in the country. In addition to working furiously to orchestrate anti-clean energy themed tea parties, Americans for Prosperity is running anti-clean energy legislation ads, anti-climate change science ads, and is even barnstorming around the country with anti-clean energy "hot air" rallies. The organization was founded and is bankrolled by David Koch of Koch Industries, a major refiner of oil. Through Koch Industry subsidiaries — Koch Supply & Trading and Flint Hills Resources — Koch imports crude oil and unfinished oils from a variety of foreign sources, including from Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. – Currently, FreedomWorks is focusing their energy activism on supporting the status quo reliance on fossil fuels. Throughout 2009, as FreedomWorks leader Dick Armey organized tea party opposition to clean energy reform, he simultaneously worked for the lobbying firm DLA Piper on the account of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. According to disclosure forms filed with the Justice Department, the UAE paid Armey's lobbying firm at the time to help maintain the "development of UAE energy resources, which represent about 10 percent of global oil reserves." – Oil companies have attempted to demonstrate popular support for fossil-fuel dependence by hosting "Energy Citizen" rallies around the country, where employees of oil companies are bused in for large events. The "Energy Citizen" website claims that converting a clean energy economy would mean "less energy independence." Ironically, the main sponsor of the Energy Citizen effort is the American Petroleum Institute, which is a trade association for companies like Chevron, Exxon Mobil, and Sunoco. These companies, in turn, are highly dependent on foreign oil imports — from countries including Algeria, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Venezuela. For perspective, Exxon Mobil imports 27%, Valero 29%, and Chevron 36% of its oil from Persian Gulf countries alone. As a report by Rudy deLeon and Dan Weiss has argued, "America's dependence on foreign oil transfers U.S. dollars to a number of unfriendly regimes, while robbing the United States of the economic resources it desperately needs for domestic development and American innovation." It is alarming, though, that American lobbyists — funded by foreign oil — are working furiously to continue the status quo that is putting the nation's security at risk. http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/13/foreign-oil-tea/ |
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Quoting tornadodude: Why is JFLORIDA talking about me in your quote there??? Quoting JFLORIDA: I think we just need higher quality posters round here. That means not putting up with the ridiculous stuff no matter what. Facebook is still there for that. I remember a poster HOG that was treated poorly a few years ago by the clique crowd - my how things change. |
I do find it funny that the director of the IPCC has benefited from statements made by the IPCC because of his businesses. It's also funny that he has no formal training in this field. |
Quoting JFLORIDA: Quoting JFLORIDA: Quoting JFLORIDA: |
Quoting AstroHurricane001:i let ya know in july if the globe is warming |
Quoting StSimonsIslandGAGuy: See post 907. I was typing and all of a sudden it posted itself! |
Attribution of climate change from forcings: Comparison of different forcings, including solar activity and CO2 concentrations to the observed temperature changes: |
Quoting atmoaggie: Quite. But you would then admit that global warming is in fact anthropogenic, with the slight distinction that it is caused by tarmac (for cars that use and burn oil), poorly insulated buildings, especially air conditioning (powered by electricity from the burning of coal) and global urbanisation (which could potentially have one it's causes in big bad polluting industry)... Of course the above is slightly tongue in cheek, but really the global warming crew don't base _all_ their views on US temperature measurement, many places around the world are already in big trouble with a shifting climate, and it's perfectly possible the shift is manmade in some form or fashion. I agree that to some extent CO2 has been made the bad guy, but it is a common factor in a lot of good and bad "ethically sustainable" issues. And on a lighter mood: Why did the chicken cross the road? .. He finally learnt to look both ways first! |
Quoting Ossqss: That's how most things in life work now unfortunately. |
Quoting atmoaggie: Apparently so, especially if he gets his buddy who is funded by the same group to do a peer review! |
Earth is warming - We can all agree on that probably. The reason for the warming is the cause for controversy. |
Quoting KEEPEROFTHEGATE: My point is that this El Nino season has produced more snow in parts of Texas than here. I'm blaming global warming. :) |
Quoting atmoaggie: so you believe in AGW then? :P how many heat islands does it take to screw in a light bulb.. |
Quoting AstroHurricane001:don't start complaining of lack of snow or ya might jinx us kinda liken this cold but snowless winter |
So the science does not matter, it is only about the money, regardless of the findings? What have we come to......... |
Quoting AwakeInMaryland: Ahh, yes, but, if a PhD, published scientist was working at an industry-funded think tank, is it at all possible for him/her to conduct good, valid work? |
Boy I sure see some of "the pot calling the kettle black" in here right now. |
Quoting CatchMeifUCan: CO2 concentrations 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age: 180 ppm CO2 concentrations in 1800, near the start of the Industrial Revolution: 280 ppm CO2 concentration today: 388 ppm The CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have increaced 100 ppm from the end of the last ice age to 1800, a span of 19,800 years. Since then, in 200 years, it has increased 108 ppm. It's obvious that human activity is having more of an effect on CO2 concentrations, and eventually on climate, than the natural cycles. |
Earth is warming, but it is not due to man. |
Quoting futuremet: Wrong. We are in fact currently in a solar minimum cycle (which currently ends). Even though the solar activity has very little outcome when you compare it to the other forcings of climate change. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle |
Quoting JFLORIDA: 20,000 years ago no one lived near a MMS thermometer. Now, most MMS thermometers get an anthropogenic signal. ;-) |
Well now we know what Watts has been up too.. geez really 107 pages.. |
Dr. Masters posted what I was thinking, but wouldn't dare post. I know of those people...but being a Beltway Brat doesn't put a Ph.D. or scientific credibility after my name. Thank you, Dr. Masters. (& thnks for cookie, T-dude.) |
Quoting CaneWarning: Much of the criticism of the IPCC comes from its being too conservative in its forecasts. It predicted a sea level rise of less than 1 metre by 2010, but as we saw that the Pine Island Glacier has reached its tipping point the real sea level rise may be much greater if all of West Antarctica becomes destabilized. Quoting futuremet: The real "political agenda" is from the oil and auto industry lobbyists, who outspent the environmental groups 14-to-1 to promote their message of climate denial. The Bush Administration also funded that. Quoting futuremet: Solar activity is the short-term forcing of climate, while CO2 emissions are the moderate-term driver. Anthropogenic GHG emissions took over from solar activity as the main cause of climate change from the mid-1970s onward. The difference between solar maximum and minimum corresponds to a difference of slightly more than 0.1C in global temperature trends, and now that it's picking back up we should see the acceleration that's been largely missing for the past 10 years. |
Quoting AwakeInMaryland: answered :) |
"The IPCC was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 (New Scientist) magazine article. It was also revealed that the IPCC%u2019s controversial chairman, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, described as %u201Cthe world%u2019s top climate scientist%u201D, is a former railway engineer with a PhD in economics and no formal climate science qualifications. Pachauri has been accused of a conflict of interest after it emerged he has a network of business interests that attract millions of pounds in funding thanks to IPCC policies." Link |
Quoting txag91met: Whoop! (Right on, to you non-ags) |
Quoting Ossqss: This would be worth a post on, if it had been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Instead, it has been published by the "Science and Public Policy Institute", which according to wikipedia "is not obliged by law to reveal, and does not reveal, its sources of funding". The organization's Executive Director is Robert "Bob" Ferguson, former Chief of Staff to Republican Congressmen Jack Fields (1981-1997), John E. Peterson (1997-2002), and Rick Renzi (2002). The science advisors include a number of well-known global warming contrarians who have a produced decades of mis-information on climate change for organizations on the receiving end of substantial grants from the fossil fuel industry. It's a classic example of the type of material the Manufactured Doubt Industry puts out. Jeff Masters |
Quoting tornadodude: I sent you mail but you didn't answer back. I want a cookie. |
JF, you'll never guess it, but you have mail. why no response? |
Quoting JFLORIDA: Most of the stations that show no warming are rural ones, if that is what you are asking. Which takes away from the CO2-forcing argument, actually, as CO2 is a well-distributed gas and should have the same effect at rural stations as urban/suburban stations. But that wasn't the point. Point was, there are a lot of stations that do not show any warming, as opposed to Astro's thought on the matter. |
Quoting AstroHurricane001: This is what causes global warming, not us humans. We are in a sense being misanthropes when we believe in AGW. |
Regardless of whether these stations are warming or not - we need a massive upgrade to our climate network. Some of these stations are in horrible locations and poorly maintained (actually a large percentage). |


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Listening to the songs, Bruce Springsteen might present as someone steeled with both determination and a sense of purpose. Actually, he says, doubt surrounds him the same as anyone else — until he takes up the microphone to sing.
"My music, and what I do on stage, is usually the best of myself," Springsteen tells Le Grand Journal. "The rest of the day, you're confused, struggling along like everybody else."
The seemingly ageless Springsteen will join his E Street Band for 15 announced tour dates across the U.S., beginning on April 8 in Cincinnati, after a series of shows in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
"Your higher self steps forward, very often, in art," Springsteen says of his experience performing. "It's nice when that can happen in politics, in relationships, anywhere. Of course, we don't have as much access to it, and as often as we would like. I think there's a struggle to keep that on the high side."
While still in the middle of these latest tour dates, Springsteen will issue a four-song EP of music called American Beauty. The project, featuring previously unreleased originals, arrives on vinyl in time for Record Store Day on April 19, 2014.
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Liberals are all about the separation of church and state, until combining the two furthers the agenda, then they are all about it.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) told the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC on Wednesday that Sharpton and the pope are "on the same wavelength."
McDermott's observation on what he perceives as the similarity between Sharpton and the pope came up in a discussion of food stamps.
McDermott noted that when Jesus fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fish, "he didn't charge food stamps."
Yeah, that's right.
Democrat Representative used the example of Jesus feeding five thousand to food stamps.
The ridiculousness continued:
"When Jesus had those five loaves and two fishes, he didn't charge food stamps. He didn't ask anybody how much money they had. He fed them because they were hungry, and that's really where we ought to be," McDermott said in response to Republican critics of the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
So, now we're supposed to feed America's hungry through supernatural means?
This is incredible. Democrats really do think money just appears out of no where.
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i'm serious
quick sand/toe jam/green bottles/waving
and i'm going to throw in flight/paring/plug/catapult/Greg
do it.
Professor Plum
For: She Who Weakened
i poured a poesy
from a jar in a field
full of two-petaled
flowers that were
not mechanical
boxes filled with
churning lubricant,
but she
had on a dead
man's shirt.
the sun was just
coming up, and
our shoes were
covered with dew.
I remember purple
plaid blankets
and her beaming.
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Mandolyn ... (12/15/2014 7:32:00 PM) -
Michael Oliver (10/19/2014 2:52:00 PM) A smooth sentimental in the best Iaiah Berlin sense - makes one want to say ah and yet one knows these episodes. Cool (Report) Reply
Mandolyn ... (10/1/2014 6:44:00 PM) i just read this just now
and i have to say something positive, is that ok?
first off that opening line is something i want to put in a jar.
she had on a dead mans shirt
dude, you write cool 'n junk! why are you holding out on us?
i'm about to tell everyone to grab their pitchforks and go after your writing hand.
GET ON YOUR HORSE! in fact, here's some words for your next one: quick sand/toe jam/green bottles/waving
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Chinedu Dike (9/18/2014 5:23:00 PM) Highly imaginative piece of poetry. The last sentence l remember purple blankets and her beaming is very romantic and I love it so much. Lovely poem. Thanks for sharing. (Report) Reply
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After a big 25-10 win in Game 1, the Sweetwater volleyball team suddenly ran into trouble in its non-dis-trict match against Miles here Tuesday. But all was well at the end as Sweetwa-ter outlasted the visitors in a five-game thriller, winning 25-10, 23-25, 20-25, 25-23, 15-12 in a match that took two hours to finish. Sweetwater (14-8) excee-ded its 2013 win total with the victory, which wasnŌĆÖt secured until Kensi Chown-ing collected her 23rd kill in Game 5 to end the match
Read the full story in Wednesday's print edition in Sports.
Sweetwater High SchoolŌĆÖs JV volleyball team swept past Miles 25-19, 25-21 here Tuesday. Sweetwater did not play a freshman volleyball match on Tuesday.
The Sweetwater High School tennis team members are, standing from left, Colt Bewley, Brandon Martinez, Marc Butler, Megan Dean, Virginia Carley, Valorie Munoz, Lizzy Hendrix, Zac Bax; seated, Gisela Solano, Naomi Gonzales, Rebecca Gonzales, Aubry Delacruz, Alicia Hernan-dez, Hannah Mahan. Not pictured is Tyler Stacey.
Two of the four Sweetwater Middle School football teams came away with wins in season-opening games this past week. The eighth grade Red and White teams both won big against Breckenridge, while the seventh grade Red lost to Breckenridge. The seventh grade White lost to Dublin in their opening game.
See the full story in Tuesday's print edition in Sports.
All three of Sweetwater High SchoolŌĆÖs volleyball teams played dual matches Saturday at Lubbock against Lubbock Monterey and Midland Greenwood, and the varsity and JV teams return to action today when they play host to Miles star-ting at 5 p.m. SweetwaterŌĆÖs varsity starts at 6:15 p.m.
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IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kareo, Inc., the cloud-based medical office software provider for small medical practices, announced today the closing of a new $20.5 million equity investment led by Stripes Group with participation from existing Kareo investor Western Technology Investments. This new funding is in addition to the $18 million previously raised, bringing Kareo's total funding to more than $38 million. Kareo will use the new capital to launch Kareo Billing Services, a technology-enabled revenue cycle management solution for small medical practices, and is extending its market reach and leadership position through new investment in sales and marketing.
"This latest investment is another key milestone for Kareo and our efforts to deliver intuitive and affordable medical office software and services to our small practice customers. We welcome Stripes Group to Kareo's investor base and Ken Fox, managing partner of Stripes Group, to Kareo's Board of Directors," said Dan Rodrigues, founder and CEO of Kareo. "We are looking forward to working with Stripes Group alongside our existing investors as we pursue the next exciting phase of Kareo's growth."
Kareo's latest fundraising marks the close of a record-breaking 2012 for the company, during which time Kareo doubled revenue and its employee base while surpassing 6,000 customers representing over 16,000 providers.
"Stripes Group was attracted by Kareo's unparalleled track record at building and deploying cloud-based software into the small practice medical market. The company's growth rate over the last few years has been phenomenal and is a testament to the strength of Kareo's ability to execute in an area where many have failed," said Fox. "We have considerable confidence in Dan and his team and are proud to be part of an amazing company and its ongoing efforts to help small practices thrive and prosper."
Small medical practices are known for creating intimate, long-standing patient relationships that focus on a continuum of care. Kareo enables physicians and administrative staff to streamline office management by simplifying billing, scheduling and recordkeeping. By easing the administrative burden faced by small practices, Kareo enables physicians and their staff to increase their focus on patient care.
Kareo Billing Services
Responding to market demands for improved billing services for small medical practices, the company has launched Kareo Billing Services. Kareo's convenient front-office tools are now combined with a dedicated team of medical billing experts whose sole purpose is to help medical offices get paid for the important services they provide. Unlike traditional approaches, Kareo's model brings the ultimate flexibility, giving physicians the options to choose a full-service plan, software only plans, or migrate between the plans as the needs of the practice change.
"With all the pressures of running a medical practice today, our customers need companies who will adapt with them," said Rodrigues. "When practices have staff and expertise to do their own billing, then our software is perfect for them. When they face challenges and need our billing help, then our people are ready to step in."
To ensure a seamless transition to Kareo Billing Services, Kareo has developed a Customer Success Program through which it works closely with customers to learn existing processes while establishing a plan to optimize these processes by leveraging Kareo's cloud-based software and billing services team. Practice optimization can take the form of electronic claim form submission enrollment, establishing standard fee schedules, logging payer specific contract rates, setting up appointment schedules, and mapping workflows from any integrated electronic health record applications. Following the rollout of Kareo's Billing Services solution, small practices often experience significant improvements in billing collection rates and timing as well as the benefits derived from eliminating the complexity and hassles of directly managing the billing process with insurance companies and patients. This is another way Kareo helps small practices reduce administrative burdens while shifting focus to their core mission of patient care.
Kareo Medical Billing Partner Program
Kareo also announced the creation of the Kareo Medical Billing Partner Program. This new program is targeted at the more than 600 billing companies that use Kareo's Practice Management software today; one of the largest established billing company networks in the U.S. Medical billing companies can take advantage of new Kareo benefits and support designed to help them grow their businesses and deepen their relationships with their customers.
By offering Kareo Billing Services and the extensive choices available through Kareo's Medical Billing Partner Program network, small practices will have multiple ways to address their unique needs – such as specialty expertise, advisory services, and local presence.
Both the Kareo Billing Services and the Kareo Medical Billing Partner Program are currently available in the U.S. For more information please visit www.kareo.com.
About Kareo
Kareo is the only medical office software and services provider dedicated to serving the small practice. Kareo believes that, with the right tools and support, small practices can do big things. Over 16,000 medical professionals count on Kareo to manage their offices intuitively and affordably. Quick to set up and simple to use, Kareo's cloud-based software helps doctors get paid faster, keep cash flowing, and see the financial big picture through medical billing and practice management tools. Founded in 2004, Kareo's mission is to free doctors' hands for important work of patient care. For more information on Kareo, visit www.kareo.com.
About Stripes Group
Stripes Group is an entrepreneurial growth equity firm that makes $10 million to $100 million minority and majority investments in Internet, SaaS, Healthcare IT and branded consumer products businesses. Stripes was founded by entrepreneurs to be a resource for successful entrepreneurs. We invest in rapidly growing businesses that are market share leaders with proven business models and annual revenues in excess of $15 million. Visit www.stripesgroup.com to learn more.
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Donald De Line (Green Lantern) is producing what is basically an origin story of the mythical wizard. The film will trace Merlin's journey from being a boy washed on the shores of Wales with no memory and no home, to him becoming a young man learning to use his powers and ultimately defender of the natural world and eventual mentor to King Arthur.
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Whitworth had studied at Oxford and worked as a journalist at the Times of London before heading west and enrolling in UCLA's screenwriting program. He worked as a reader for ICM and, for the past year, for Harpo, which afforded him time to write in his spare moments.
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