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With a stay at Provident Luxury Suites Fisher Island in Miami Beach (Fisher Island), you'll be close to South Pointe Park and Port of Miami.
This 4-star condominium resort is within close proximity of Miami Beach Marina and Jewish Museum of Florida.
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This Miami Beach condominium resort has its very own private beach. Provident Luxury Suites Fisher Island features a golf course and a fitness center.
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Hi everyone. I've got several varieties of tomatoes (Big Boy, Super Beefsteak, Steak Sandwich) growing nicely in cowpots. As a matter of fact they are growing so well the roots are exiting the cowpots, so this weekend I think I need to do something fast. Our estimated last spring frost isn't until the end of April. I was going to put them in-ground at that time, but I'm thinking instead of transferring them to containers and keeping them in my bay window where they'll get sun. I've been trying to research the size container I should use. I'm imagining it'll be different for each variety because they each grow to different sizes. The Big Boy is estimated to grow 8-10' tall! Does anyone have any idea what size pots I should be looking at?
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- Posted by sprtsguy76 Santa Clara Ca. 9b (My Page) on Mon, Mar 21, 11 at 1:28
So what your saying is your considering growing them in containers rather than in the ground right? If so I would recommend 10-15 gallon size containers for just about any indeterminate tomato. You can go smaller but the smaller you go the more you will have to water in the heat of the summer. And if you really want them to thrive check out A1's 511 soil mix. Damon |
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10-15 gal? Wow! I would have def gone too small. Thank you. I'll check out the soil mix also. |
Why not put them in larger pots now and plant them in the ground when you expected to do it. I plan to pot up two or three times before I plant my tomatoes in the ground. |
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Hi ljpother. Have you tried this before. I thought about potting up (which I think I may end up doing) but I worry. I know tomatoes transplant well, but I wonder if they would suffer as a result of multiple transfers. |
Repotting stimulates them. I would repot at least 3 times before they went outside. I live in your zone and many times I couldn't put them out until late May. You need to make sure the weather is stable and the soil temps warm or they will rot. Don't even try to grow them indoors unless you have a greenhouse. I use a regular bagged mix for tomatoes. They grew like weeds! Jane |
- Posted by margaretmom 6 (My Page) on Fri, Mar 25, 11 at 23:01
I never knew that! I thought re-potting in general was stressful (and therefore deleterious) to plants. I'm so impatient about putting them outside, but I'll wait till May also. I really would feel awful if I lost them. Margaret |
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Every year Dalby Regional Arts Council is privileged to host a number of performances at heritage listed Jimbour. This year two events will take place inside the homestead with the rare opportunity to enter the home of the Russell family. The history and ambience of the Drawing Room provides a unique and special setting for the intimate concerts.
The gardens are open to the public for a small fee, with a recent addition being the interpretive 'Living History Walk'. For more information on Jimbour go to www.jimbour.com.
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After all my strategy for OCCI was to follow Google's example with GData by adding some necessary functionality (a search interface, caching directives, resource-specific attributes, etc.). Most of the heavy lifting was actually being done by AtomPub, thus avoiding a huge amount of tedious and error-prone protocol writing (around 20,000 words of it) - something which OGF and the OCCI working group isn't really geared up for anyway. This is clearly a workable and well-proven approach as it as been adopted strategically by both Microsoft and Google and also tactically by Salesforce and IBM, among others. Best of all adding things like queries and versioning is a manageable workload while starting from scratch is most certainly not.
But what if there were an easier way? Recall that the problem we are trying to solve is exposing a flexible interface to an arbitrarily large collection of interconnected compute, storage and network resources. We need to be able to describe and manipulate the resources (CRUD), associate them with each other via rich links (e.g. links with attributes like local identifiers - eth0, sda, etc.) and change their state (start, stop, restart, etc.), among other things.
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Actually we're not talking about exposing the resources themselves (that would be impossible) but various representations of those resources - like Plato's shadows on the cave walls - this is the "REpresentational" in "REpresentational State Transfer (REST)". There's an infinite number of possible representations so it's impossible to try to capture them all now, but here's some examples:
- An Open Virtualisation Format (OVF) serialisation of a compute resource
- A platform-specific descriptor file (e.g. VMX)
- A complete archive of the virtual machine with its dependencies (OVA)
- A graphical image of the console at a given point in time ('snapshot')
- A video stream of the console for archiving/audit purposes (ala Citrix's Project Iris)
- The console itself (e.g. SSH, ICA, RDP, VNC)
- Build documentation (e.g. PDF, ODF)
- Esoteric enterprise requirements (e.g. NMS configuration)
- http://example.com/
.atom (using filename extensions)
- http://example.com/
;content-type=text/html (using the full Internet media type)
But what about the links? As I explained yesterday the web is built on links embedded in HTML documents using the A tag. Atom also provides enhanced linking functionality via the LINK element, where it is also possible to specify content types, languages, etc. In this case however we want to allow resources to be arbitrary types and more often than not we won't have the ability to link within the payload itself. This leaves us with two options: put the links in the payload anyway by relying on a meta-model like Atom (or one we roll ourselves) or find some way to represent them within HTTP itself.
Enter HTTP headers which are also extensible and, as it turns out, in the process of being extended (or at least refined) to handle this very requirement by fellow down under, Mark Nottingham. See the "Web Linking" IETF Internet-Draft (draft-nottingham-http-link-header, at the time of writing version 05) for the nitty gritty details and the ietf-http-wg list for some current discussions. Basically it clarifies the existing Link: headers and the result looks something like this:
Link: <http://example.com/TheBook/chapter2>; rel="previous"; title="previous chapter"The Link: header itself is also extensible so we can faithfully represent our model by adding e.g. the local device name when linking storage and network resources to compute resources and other requisite attributes. It would be helpful if the content-type were also specified (Atom allows for multiple links of the same relation provided the content-type differs for example) but language is already covered by HTTP (it doesn't seem useful to advertise French links to someone who already asked to speak English).
It's also interesting to note that earlier versions of the HTTP RFCs actually [poorly] specified both the Link: headers as well as LINK and UNLINK methods for maintaining links between web resources. John Pritchard had a crack at clarification in the Efficient HyperLink Maintenance for HTTP I-D but like most I-Ds this one seems to have died after 6 months, and with it the methods themselves. It seems to me that adding HTTP methods at this time is a drastic (and almost certainly infeasible) action, especially for something that could just as easily be accomplished via headers ala Set-Cookie: (too bad the I-D doesn't specify how to add/delete/modify links!). In the simplest sense a Link: header appearing in a PUT or POST could replace the existing one(s) but something more elegant for acting on individual links would be nice - probably a discussion worth having on the ietf-http-wg list.
Organisation of Information
Looking back to Atom for a second we're still missing some key functionality:
- Atom id -> HTTP URL
- Atom updated -> HTTP Last-Modified: Header
- Atom title and summary -> Atom/HTTP Slug: Header or equivalent
- Atom link -> HTTP Link: Header
- Atom category -> ???
- Free text search via a Google-style "?q=firewall" syntax
- Taxonomy via categories (already done for Atom) for things like "Operating System" and "Data Center"
- Folksonomy via [user] tags (already done for Atom and bearing in mind that tag spaces are cool) for things like "testlab"
Structured Data Formats
HTML also resolves another pressing issue - what format to use for submitting key-value pairs (which constitutes a large part of what we need to do with OCCI). It gives us two options:
- application/x-www-form-encoded which is simple but quickly gets messy with encoding and non-ASCII characters
- multipart/form-data which is less efficient but will handle pretty much whatever you throw at it (including large files)
RESTful State Machines
Something else which has not sat well with me until I spent the weekend ingesting RESTful Web Services book (by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby) was the "actuator" concept we picked up from the Sun Cloud APIs. This breaks away from RESTful principles by exposing an RPC-style API for triggering state changes (e.g. start, stop, restart). Granted it's an improvement on the alternative (GETting a resource and PUTting it back with an updated state) as Tim Bray explains in RESTful Casuistry (to which Roy Fielding and Bill de hÓra also responded), but it still "feels funky". Sure it doesn't make any sense to try to "force" a monitored status to some other value (for example setting a "state" attribute to "running"), especially when we can't be sure that's the state we'll get to (maybe there will be an error or the transition will be dependent on some outcome over which we have no control). Similarly it doesn't make much sense to treat states as nouns, for example adding a "running" state to a collection of states (even if a resource can be "running" and "backing up" concurrently). But is using URLs as "buttons" representing verbs/transitions the best answer?
What makes more sense [to me] is to request a transition and check back for updates (e.g. by polling or HTTP server push). If it's RESTful to POST comments to an article (which in addition to its own contents acts as a collection of zero or more comments) then POSTing a request to change state to a [sub]resource also makes sense. As a bonus these can be parametrised (for example a "resize" request can be accompanied with a "size" parameter and a "stop" request sent with clarification as to whether an "ACPI Off" or "Pull Cord" is required). Transitions that take a while, like "format" on a storage resource, can simply return HTTP 201 Accepted so we've got support for asynchronous actions as well - indeed some requests (e.g. "backup") may not even be started immediately. We may also want to consider using something like Post Once Exactly (POE) to ensure that requests like "restart" aren't executed repeatedly and that we can cancel requests that the system hasn't had a chance to deal with yet.
Exactly how this should look in terms of URL layout I'm not sure (perhaps http://example.com/<resource>/requests) but being able to enumerate the possible actions as well as acceptable parameters (e.g. an enum for variations on "stop" or a range for "resize") would be particularly useful for clients.
This is all well and good for individual resources, but collections are still a serious problem. There are many use cases which involve retrieving an arbitrarily large number of resources and making a HTTP request for each (as well as requests for enumeration etc.) doesn't make sense. More importantly, it doesn't scale - particularly in enterprise environments where requests via proxies and filters can suffer from high latency (if not low bandwidth).
One potential solution is to strap multiple HTTP message entities together as a multipart document, but that's hardly clean and results in some hairy coding on the client side (e.g. manual manipulation of HTTP messages that would otherwise be fully automated). The best solution we currently have for this problem (as evidenced by widespread deployment) is AtomPub so I'm still fairly sure it's going to have to make an appearance somewhere, even if it doesn't wrap all of the resources by default.


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September 8, 2009, 9:44 AM
By Mark Warren
Joe McKendry
In early August, forty-eight hours after returning from a sensitive mission to North Korea that freed the American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, Bill Clinton ambles into the sitting room of his house in Chappaqua, New York, in jeans and sneakers. About to turn sixty-three, looking fit and a little bleary from the week's exertions, he sits down to talk about the legacy of his presidency. The occasion is a new book by Pulitzer-winning writer Taylor Branch, who met in secret with Clinton at the White House starting in October 1993, and almost every month of his presidency thereafter. The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President will be published in October. Clinton has now been out of office longer than he was in, and his perspective on that time is what we've come to talk about. But his views on the present quickly asserted themselves as well.
ESQUIRE: Nine years ago, just as your presidency was coming to an end, you told Esquire that you described one of your achievements as a return to presidential activism. Can you give us your assessment of that activism now, with the perspective of time?
BILL CLINTON: I think that's still true, and I also thought my presidency rescued the reputation of government. Keep in mind, the Republican ascendancy in national politics that began with Nixon's election in '68 really began with their massive gains in the congressional races in 1966 and was based in the beginning on the social debate — the silent majority, the tensions over race, over the war, with women, all of those things. Then when Reagan came along, he reinforced all that but also had a wholesale assault on government. The EPA was terrible, trees actually caused pollution; the Agriculture Department was crazy, ketchup was a vegetable. The whole idea was that government would mess up a two-car parade, therefore the only thing it was good for was cutting taxes, laying concrete, and supporting the Defense Department.
And so they had this — it was more nuanced than that of course — but the whole idea was to divide the American electorate in ways that worked to their advantage and then make the people deeply suspicious of anything the government did. So then what I tried to do was take the rhetoric they had used and flip it to show that they said they were for a balanced budget, but they actually quadrupled the deficit, the debt of the country; they said they hated government waste, but look at the waste of the Defense Department, and that we could actually have a smaller, more efficient, but far more active government that dealt with the problems of the late twentieth century. And I tried to promote a vision of reconciliation and community that would go behind their politics of division. And I tried to reverse the income inequality that had been getting much worse since the 1970s. In a funny way, their policies made it worse, but that helped their larger argument that government couldn't do anything.
So I was essentially trying to launch a new progressive era by reigniting government activism tailored to the realities of the late twentieth century. And to get us pointing into this new era in a way that would bring people together both politically and economically and put the country back in a position to lead the world for peace and prosperity. And I think, you know, we did pretty well with that. We had this huge reaction election in '94 because they weren't over their government cynicism and the turnout was low, and the Democrats, you know, we couldn't pass health-care reform for the simple reason that the Republicans had a filibuster-proof margin in the Senate.
Incidentally, almost everything anyone today writes about this stuff is wrong. It's a classic example of how in a war, the victors get to write history.
Basically, everybody who writes about this stuff today repeats the health-insurance lobby's line from 1994. Like: "The bill was long and complicated." The bill took out four hundred more pages of federal law than it put in. They say we forced a bill on Congress — untrue. I asked Congress to write the bill, and Chairman [Dan] Rostenkowski [of the House Ways and Means Committee] demanded that Hillary send him a bill — a complete bill. He said, "I won't take it up if you don't. We don't know enough about it, the interest groups will eat us alive, we'll modify your bill, but you've gotta send us a whole bill." It was the demand of the most important committee in the House of Representatives. And yet I've read over a hundred stories saying what a terrible mistake we made, it was all our doing. We did what Congress asked us to do. We also got two bills out of two committees for the first time ever. Harry Truman tried to do this, Richard Nixon tried to do it, Lyndon Johnson didn't even try, with the biggest congressional majority in history. He didn't even try — he quit at Medicare and Medicaid, because he knew how hard it was.
And so I think I had difficulties, but I think, in general, we restored people's faith in government.
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December 15, 2010 by Rex Vogel · 2 Comments
'Tis the season for Christmas light displays. Below is a selected list of ten of the best places in the U.S. Sunbelt to see Christmas lights and other seasonal displays. No guarantee, but they're all worth a look—and don't forget to pack your digital camera and tripod.
Dates: November 26-December 31, 2010; closed December 25
General information: Stroll through 3 million sparkling lights and over 928 displays throughout the 65-acre Garden estate. The Bellingrath Home is decorated in its holiday finery and poinsettias encompass the Gardens. Nightly choral performances held on the South Terrace.
Admission: Magic Christmas in Lights Only $12.00; Magic Christmas in Lights and Bellingrath Home Tour $20.00; tickets available for purchase online
Directions: Located 20 miles southwest of Mobile; from Interstate 10, take exit 15A (Hwy 90 West/Theodore exit). Travel approximately 2 miles and turn left at the Bellingrath billboard onto Bellingrath Road; 6 miles south on Bellingrath Road and turn left into Bellingrath Gardens.
Dates: November 18, 2010-January 1, 2011; Friday and Saturday, 5:00-10:00 p.m.; Sunday-Thursday, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
Admission: $5, seniors $4
Directions: Located Los Abrigados Resort & Spa, 160 N. Portal Lane, Sedona
102nd Annual Christmas Boat Parade
Dates: December 15-19, 2010
General information: Multi-million dollar yachts, kayaks, canoes, and other small boats light up the harbor as a dazzling array of holiday lights and music fill the air. The Christmas floats wind their way some 14 miles around the harbor to give viewers in restaurants, yacht clubs, on public beaches, and in private homes an incredible sight that has delighted millions of people for a century. The Christmas Boat Parade has been hailed as "one of the top ten holiday happenings in the nation" by the New York Times.
Admission: Free
Directions: 2010 parade route; starts off Bay Island at 6:30 p.m. and ends at the same site at approximately 9:00 p.m.
WildLights Holiday Lights Festival
Dates: December 17-23, 2010; December 26, 2010-January12, 2011, 6:00-9:00 p.m.
General information: A festive light display featuring more than 750,000 twinkling lights that turns the desert into a holiday winter wonderland. Special visits from Santa Claus, live music, wood-burning fireplaces, hot apple cider, hot chocolate, s'mores and more!
Directions: Located at 47900 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert
Admission: $8.00; Living Desert members, $6.25; children $5.75
10th Annual Space Coast Lightfest
Dates: November 23-December 31, 2010; 6:00-9:30 p.m.
General information: A holiday themed drive-through event at Wickham Park featuring shimmering lights and dazzling animated displays.
Directions: Located at Wickham Park, 2500 Parkway Drive, Melbourne
Admission: $10/car
19th annual Fantasy in Lights
Dates: November 19-December 30, 2010 starting 6 p.m.
General information: Nestled amidst wooded landscape of Callaway Gardens, Fantasy in Lights is the Southeast's most spectacular holiday light and sound show with more than eight million twinkling lights. This spectacular show has attracted almost two million visitors since it opened in 1992.
Directions: Located in Pine Mountain, 60 minutes southwest of Atlanta and 30 minutes north of Columbus
Admission: Rates vary with date selected and range from $16.00 to $25.00; advance sales offer a discount over same-day purchases
South Carolina
21st Annual Holiday Festival of Lights
Dates: November 25-December 23, 2010
General information: A 3-mile driving tour through millions of sparkling lights and hundreds of light displays at James Island County Park.
Directions: Located at James Island County Park on Riverland Drive in Charleston
Admission: $10/car
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Looks great, you sure pack a lot of plants in there, many of which look like they need to come in for the winter, where do you put them all? You must be either single or your wife loves plants too. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Thu, Jun 7, 12 at 6:03
That's looking quite good. I like the Red Ensete. Unfortunately can't get any of those around here. |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7b (My Page) on Thu, Jun 7, 12 at 10:58
Thanks Bradleyo! They all go inside and no one really like the idea of it, but for some reason my family tolerates it for 3-4 months. I guess I owe them big time! Thanks Tropicalbreeezent! What area to you live in? Im near NYC and they are really commonly sold at the nurseries here, they are one of the more commonly available bananas. They are usually really expensive but I got mine early in the season so it was an okay price. The same exact plants that are the same exact size as the one I bought are now being sold at the same nursery for more than double the price! Thanks for looking everyone! |
Great pics as usual. Not sure what's up with your Madagascar palm. Mine has already flushed. May need to change the soil with some cactus mix. |
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Your yard looks great. I sent you an email. I have an ice plant ready to trade. I also got a chance to visit ariemas nursery. |
- Posted by central_cali369 USDA z9b/ Sunset z9 (My Page) on Fri, Jun 8, 12 at 11:34
Great plants! You obviously put a lot of time into your plants! |
Lot's of good stuff...don't know where to start... My Saba looks the same but is tearing it up right now,so Nice variegated Agave! Your P.geayi will need about a week or more of 80F + highs to break loose. We were lucky to get exactly that in March and that did it for both the P.Geayi and P.Lamerei. I like the deep color of the Ensete,they are one of the fastest "Banana" plants IME and don't seem to require as Great pictures! |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 12 at 11:09
Thanks Chadec! I hope the madagascar palm doesn't disappoint me. I left it out on a cold night but the leaves werent even damaged. I'm keeping an eye on rot just in case although I'm assuming the worst and hoping for the best. Thanks Dennis! I wont get a chance to check my email until later tonight, Ariemas had some nice things last time I was there! Thanks Central Cali! It definitely takes up a lot of time in the spring and Fall, then when summer comes its just water and fertlizer! -Alex |
- Posted by tropicalzone7 7b (My Page) on Sat, Jun 9, 12 at 16:58
Thanks Jim! Sorry I didnt see your response. I notice that we both reply to messages at the same time pretty often, haha. We got about 2 days in the mid 90s already this year (and more than our fair share of cool weather), but I'm hoping that once (if) the 80s every get consistent the P. geayi will finally flush! I wanted some blooms this year! I agree, Ensetes are definitely one of the fastest growing bananas and I think part of the reason for their fast growth is their cool tolerance which gets them to start growing in the spring when days are only comfortable and not opressively hot. The sabas should get some good growth in with the warmer weather this weekend and hopefully warm weather will be permanent soon! -Alex |
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PARIS, September 13, 2011 (AFP) - The husband and coach of French cycling legend Jeannie Longo, who is under the spotlight for missing three drugs tests, has been accused of buying the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin), according to reports Tuesday.
Former professional Joe Papp, an American who turned to supplying banned drugs to cyclists after being banned for doping himself, claims he supplied Patrice Ciprelli -- Longo's husband and coach -- with EPO in 2007.
The claims were made by Papp in a two-page report in French sports daily L'Equipe, which features examples of emails and faxes sent between Papp, Ciprelli and a Chinese supplier of the drugs known only as "Chen."
In an interview with the paper, Papp claims Ciprelli contacted him to order 80,000 iu (units) of a Chinese version of the drug -- called Eposino -- in April 2007.
Papp said: "I sold EPO to Ciprelli around this time. He contacted our website and specifically asked how much it would cost for 80,000 iu of EPO to be sent to France. He mentioned it was for his wife."
The French Cycling Federation (FFC) said it would launch an investigation into the claims and provisionally suspended Ciprelli from all coaching duties.
"In accordance with the federation's anti-doping rules and given the gravity of the accusations we have decided to open disciplinary proceedings against Patrice Ciprell," said a statement on www.ffc.fr.
"[T]he FFC president has also decided to provisionally suspend Mr. Ciprelli."
Speaking to RTL radio, Ciprelli and Longo's lawyer Bruno Ravaz hit out: "It's crazy. Patrice Ciprelli totally denies any implication (in the affair), for him it's all a bunch of lies.
"Jeannie Longo has never had anything to do with doping, so I can imagine how stunned she was when she heard this."
Longo's name is never mentioned in the correspondence, and there is no proof that the athlete ever saw or used the banned drugs in question.
However, the accusations threaten to further tarnish the previously unblemished career of France's most famous female cyclist.
The 52-year-old Longo, widely expected to retire after the London Olympics in 2012, is a 59-time national champion who has won the women's Tour de France three times and claimed a total of 30 medals from the Olympics and world championships combined.
Last week, it was revealed the doyenne of the women's peloton had infringed strict anti-doping rules concerning athletes' whereabouts three times during the past 18 months.
Longo was warned three times by France's National Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) for failing to warn officials of her exact whereabouts ahead of random tests, and informed she could be banned for between three months and two years.
In a statement addressed to AFP last week, the Frenchwoman said she had nothing to hide.
"I've been tested more than any other athlete in the world and not once has there been cause for any suspicion on my sporting integrity," said Longo.
"I'm confident the French cycling federation will treat this matter in an impartial and objective manner."
The latest accusations, however, threaten to bring a premature end to her career altogether.
According to the report, details of the accusations made by Papp have been handed to the US anti-doping authorities and their French counterparts at the AFLD, which in turn has contacted police with a view to launching criminal proceedings
In France the use, possession and supply of any kind of banned drugs is a criminal offense.
Papp wrote on his Twitter account @joepabike:
"Speaking of regrets, w/ respect to the article in today's l'Equipe (http://goo.gl/1DAl7), I regret my involvement w/ doping and would never mix with it again, ever, if given a do-over! It was the worst decision of my life - which it nearly cost me, by the way - and so I tell my story to encourage others not to deny the terrible risks and unimaginable consequences of doping. It's simply not worth it!
"And while it was years ago, I confirm that Ciprelli purchased EPO from China and that it was delivered to France."


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Next week Judy Breck has agreed to host the next Carnival. Send your entries before Friday midnight PST to mobilists AT googlemail DOT com. For detailed instructions and archives about the Carnival of the Mobilists, please visit the mobili.st website.
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Cablegram unnumbered SAN FRANCISCO, 29 November 1947, 3.36 p.m.
Reference your E.126.
1. E.112 Pacific bases. Plimsoll has been directed to stay on and take up Far Eastern Commission work and have [1] semi-official conversations on Japanese treaty procedure. You should wire him to sound out the United States State Department on the present position over bases with which I am not fully acquainted. I still adhere to the view that nothing definite should be done until the peace treaty as it would give over emphasis to the defence aspect.
In any case the Prime Minister could discuss the matter with Fraser on his visit to New Zealand. I have a strong objection to any surrender of sovereignty or control in South Pacific unless at least Australia is party to arrangement and obtains rights which would not be less than territorial. Under the circumstances I should consult the Prime Minister on the matter, which should cause little delay. Plimsoll might be consulted on this too.
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(Albany, NY) –New York State Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz, Chair of the Assembly Mental Health Committee will be holding Public Hearings across New York State in an effort to investigate the reports of abuse and maltreatment of those with disabilities who reside in State-run facilities. These hearings will take place in Buffalo, Albany, Long Island and New York City.
"The developmentally and physically disabled community of New York State is our most vulnerable community. We, as legislators and simply as decent human beings, need to protect them from any type of cruelty or abuse. We cannot allow these individuals to be subjected to negligence, disrespect, or physical and mental attacks," stated Assemblyman Ortiz.
The abuse was first reported in March of 2011 in a New York Times article. This article detailed the numerous violations and offenses committed by those employed at New York State Facilities for the developmentally and physically disabled. What was most appalling was the lack of retribution, punishment, or even dismissal of the employee at fault. More often than not, employees are given a simple slap on the wrist and transferred to another facility.
"As I have stated in a previous press release when the article was first published: We need to take a serious look at the way things have been run and make some meaningful changes. Together with Senator McDonald, I will be introducing a package of bills designed to protect those who have no voice to advocate for themselves. We also will be holding public hearings to investigate these reports," said Ortiz.
The Assemblyman encourages public participation in these hearings. "If you would like to testify at a hearing, please contact my Albany office at (518) 455-3821. If you know of someone who has been affected, please testify. We need to give a voice to the members of our community who are unable to advocate for themselves," stated Ortiz.


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I usually keep it civil in here, but some idiocy is just so intolerably idiotic, that its author needs to be verbally slapped around.
So I need to speak bluntly now.
Jamese, exactly how stupid and self-hating are you? No, really. I'm not being facetious, or trying to use comic effect. I want to know just how shallow your brain is.
In response to my little post regarding Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's oil threat to the United States, you posted this in my comments area:
Just a wild guess, but that sort of belligerent bullying is probably part of the reason that billions of people in this world loathe America. Explaining to him why it's in his best interests to remain Dubya's loyal puppy is one thing, but outright threats should he choose any other course of action is a little pathetic.
The de facto ruler of an oil-rich theocracy threatens the jobs (and, implicitly, lives) of the people of the world's oldest continuously-functioning democracy, should we not cut back our support for the Middle East's only democracy.
The next day, an amateur pundit sitting in his basement, with power over no one but a cat, reminds said leader which country holds most of the trump cards.
And you think I'm the threat, Jamese? You are so lacking in thought, so reflexively anti-American, so knee-jerk deep in self-hatred for having a decent life in a decent country (Canada), that you cannot distinguish the powerful from the powerless.
You are unable or unwilling to distinguish between freedom and theocracy, between wealth borne of work and wealth borne of luck, between decency and thuggery, between the victim and the victimizer.
The US gave you Gloria Steinem and Camille Paglia.
Saudi Arabia gives you the abaya.
The US gave you the constitutional republic.
Saudi Arabia gives you sharia.
The US gave you freedom of — and from — religion.
Saudi Arabia presents never-ending jihad.
Free press/al-Jazeera. Gay civil unions (and someday marriage)/gay executions. Sexual revolution/female genital mutilation. NAFTA/OPEC. Free elections/Idle rich royalty. Democrats vs Republicans/Political parties are outlawed. Supports democracy in the Holy Land/Pays bounties for suicide bombers.
Need I go on? Do you get it yet? You can no longer make any claim of ignorance. Let's see if you're still as stupid tomorrow.
Your comments, should you wish to make them, will be welcome here. But you won't be coddled; not by me. I will no longer suffer fools gladly, just because they read my work.
As Bush might tell Abdullah this afternoon — I'm sorry I had to do that, but you left me no choice.
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1. Joe Stocker
Good grief, you can control your cat! My cat controls me. Is there a Jewish conspiracy to dominate all the pets of the world? Does the Gay Mafia have a dispensation to control the Poodles?
April 25, 2002 - 4:16 pm Link to this Comment -
Correction: I can, if I so choose, control when and what my cat eats.
Of course, he can so choose to claw my eyes while I sleep.
April 25, 2002 - 4:32 pm Link to this Comment -
3. Rick Vaill
Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes! Pure poetry.
April 25, 2002 - 6:42 pm Link to this Comment -
4. KathyK
I agree with the previous poster, but I'm biting my lip on the subject of male genital mutilation.
April 25, 2002 - 6:58 pm Link to this Comment -
5. Lileks
While looking on her site, I came across this entry:
Words Fail Me, Laughter Comes Through
"Clad in 'a long black ballgown' national security advisor and terrifying harpy Condoleeza Rice offered President Bush a "flawless performance of Brahms at Monday's presentation of the National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals.
"Her piano accompaniment of famed cellist Yo Yo Ma during a performance of Brahms' violin sonata in D minor prompted a standing ovation and a congratulatory kiss from the President. (Where's Matt Drudge when you need him?)
"Proving that she's not only stupid, but also coming totally unhinged, First Dingbat Laura Bush called the performance 'a prayer for peace.'"
How much do I have to drink before I understand this? I can imagine an Aryan Nations site getting upset that a Black woman would play Brahms with an Asian, and get a buss from the POTUS, but why is this so deeply offensive to everyday American women?
Words fail me; the BACK button on the browser comes through.
April 25, 2002 - 7:09 pm Link to this Comment -
6. David Brown
Al-Jazeera!!! that needs a retraction, as that network isn't run out of Saudi Arabia (besides some of the woman on that channel don't actually wear Abayas. the saudis must have heart attacks when they see such an abomination . If you're going to attack a country's unfree press, try to actually attack its own press. This error is particularly grievious with a perfectly good House of Saud propaganda paper waiting to be insulted.
Arab News, for those moments when you just really need a reason to despise the nation a little more.April 25, 2002 - 7:30 pm Link to this Comment -
7. David Paglia
So lemme get this straight: Entity X tries to blackmail Entity Y into refusing to support Entity z in its fight for its existance…and this makes Entity X the bad guy???
Who is this Jamese alien and what does the sky look like on the world she's from?April 25, 2002 - 7:39 pm Link to this Comment -
8. Liz Le Mond
Right on! I suppose the only reason we tolerate the house of Saud is because dear ol' Osama's family is next in line, and heaven knows what would happen then…
Wouldn't it be great if we could politely ignore those people?April 25, 2002 - 7:51 pm Link to this Comment -
9. redsugar
could i get you to speak to my cousin, sugar? he marched in that thing last weekend, and now he's sending emails with "take back palestine" all over them. i don't know whether to cry or smack the poor boy.
April 25, 2002 - 8:07 pm Link to this Comment -
10. Stephen Green
Tanya, the answer to an either/or question like that is usually "yes."
April 25, 2002 - 8:15 pm Link to this Comment -
11. Mike
Ouch! I'd offer the use of those steel-toed boots we were discussing the other day for use the next time you need to deliver a righteous ass-stomping like this one, but it's more than plain that you don't need 'em…
April 25, 2002 - 8:54 pm Link to this Comment -
12. susanna
That's one of the finest rips I've ever seen. Is there a Blogger Rip Hall of Fame?
April 25, 2002 - 9:17 pm Link to this Comment -
14. Mandy
Actually. it's a gas station's restroom with a flag!
April 25, 2002 - 9:45 pm Link to this Comment -
15. Tim
How I wish that GWB would tell the "prince" to gallop his camel back to the desert and start digging. We do know who our friends are.It is time to call the bet.
April 25, 2002 - 9:50 pm Link to this Comment -
16. Tom Maguire
Sorry, I still can't get over that cat.
April 25, 2002 - 10:03 pm Link to this Comment -
17. Andrea Harris
"Terrifying Harpy Condoleeza Rice"?? What, did Condi cut Jamese off in traffic or something?
Seems as if there are some people who would rather be burned in a fire than have their keister saved by someone Not Of Their Political Beliefs.
April 25, 2002 - 10:28 pm Link to this Comment -
18. Craig Schamp
I'm sorry I tuned in so late. Glad to see your 33-year-old bad attitude focused at the Castro apologist and Unclear-On-The-Concept Canadian.
April 25, 2002 - 10:46 pm Link to this Comment -
19. Stephen Green
I'm not 33 for another hour at 12 minutes, damnit.
Leave a 32-year-old in peace, won't you?
April 25, 2002 - 10:48 pm Link to this Comment -
20. Allen Rausch
Mr. Green;
Your emotions clearly got the better of you with this post as you made a serious factual error within it.
You claim to control your cat? That, sir, is patently absurd. Anyone who owns a cat knows who the true master of the house is, and it ain't the one with two legs.
All the other stuff, though – Right on!
April 25, 2002 - 11:01 pm Link to this Comment -
21. Stephen Green
Please note that the second Comment here is a clarification of my position regarding the cat.
April 25, 2002 - 11:03 pm Link to this Comment -
23. Stephen Green
Thanks, John. I'm drinking my way through it.
April 26, 2002 - 12:11 am Link to this Comment -
24. Addison DeWitt
"Bills 32. He looked 32 ten years ago, he'll look 32 ten years from now. I hate men"
- Bette Davis as Margo Channing in "All About Eve"
Mature Male Response: "Neener Neener"
P.S. Happy Birthday
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25. Kat
I am owned by 4 cats, and I can tell you that once they take over, you will never be free again. Luckily, they love me and treat me well. As long as the food dishes are full, and the catnip is plentiful, of course.
As for Jamese, I have met her kind many times. She is of the type that so lacks any kind of self-esteem, talent, or original thought, that Jealousy rules her heart and mind. We should probably pity her, tho', since she most likely had a horrible childhood filled with pizza, movies, soccer games and cheerleading practices, and parents that would do anything for her, except pay attention……..April 26, 2002 - 6:42 am Link to this Comment -
26. Ben
Correction: the U.S. Constitution DOES NOT guarantee "freedom from religion". Except in the wet dreams of atheists and secularists, of course.
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27. Stephen Green
Ben, please don't become the Jamese's obverse — it's not becoming.
Freedom of association automatically presumes freedom to disassociate. Simple logic dictates, and all that.
Freedom of religion presumes you may choose no religion.
Now go peddles your snake oil elsewhere.
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28. Scott H
From jamese's comments on the Words Fail Me, Laughter Comes Through post about Condoleeza Rice:
"No matter how competent she may be (and don't mistake me, I fear her, but I bow to her intellegence and talents) I'll remove my own kidney the day America elects a black woman. Maybe in 100 years.
"Posted by jamese at April 26, 2002 08:21 AM"
I'd pay to see jamese remove her own kidney — especially if I can pay by electing Ms Rice…
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29. Ben
First of all, please don't link me with that Jamese guy. There's no need to hit THAT far below the belt.
Second, I am not disputing the freedom of association. What I AM disputing is the idea of "freedom from religion," at least as it is commonly described by self-described secularists. You can associate with whomever you wish, and by no means should public schools, etc. be shoving religion down the throats of anyone against their will. But the idea that
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30. Stephen Green
I have no problem whatsoever with public displays — even on government property — of the Ten Commandments, crosses, Stars of David, Nativity scenes, what have you.
If it was unfair of me to lump you (and it was), then I'll ask not to be lumped with the ACLU on this one. Fair?
When I speak of freedom from religion, I simply mean that if I don't want to join, then I don't have to. And if some church doesn't want to take me in, then they don't have to, either.
I'm no fan of billboards or feminine product ads, either — but I know they can swing their fists right up to my face.
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31. Ben
I wasn't trying to link you with anyone — sorry if you got that impression.
Like "affirmative action," "born-again Christian," and a million other such terms, "freedom from religion" is a phrase which is commonly understood to have connotations far beyond its literal meaning. In this case, this is mainly due to the fact that it has been co-opted by groups like Americans United for the Separation of Church and State to collectively describe their anti-religious agenda. That is what I was reacting to.
Obviously, this is not what you were supporting at all; sorry about the confusion.
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32. Jim
"spirituality is a basic element of the human experience and can not simply be done away with at will. "
I've been doing fine so far.
Interesting that we're talking about freedom of religion in a thread about a country that has no such ting.
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33. Sandra
jamese's from Canada? And she's complaining about the US electing a black woman to the highest office? Now, as an American, I am certainly ignorant as to who the leader of Canada is, but I can say with certainty during my brief time on this earth, the Candian leaders all looked white to me! Put up or shut up, jamese.
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34. Ben
Jim — I would argue that your lack of religious belief is, in fact, your particular spiritual viewpoint. Who are we? Where did we come from? What happens after death? These are the questions that we all ask, and we find our answers based upon our spiritual belief system. A person who believes that we are an accident of evolution and that we entirely cease to exist after death comes to this conclusion based primarily on the fact that they believe there is no God. In other words, even total atheists have to come to certain conclusions about these core spiritual questions. So, yes, spirituality is a basic element of the human experience.
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35. Jim
And I would argue that by that logic, I must define myself by all the ways I'm not an Eskimo.
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36. John Tabin
Ben: "Bears crap in the woods."
Jim: "By that logic, a dog is a mailbox."
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Back in the land of sand and 102 degree fahrenheit summers!
Cooling off with some indoor shopping and champagne brunch over the weekend.
Stay cool and Happy Shopping! xx
I started this list two years ago as I gentle reminder to myself to create a well-lived life.
This year I have rounded up two more things I have learned as I turn a year older…
1. Make wise investments. In relationships and real-estate.
2. On Friendships, put value on quality over quantity.
3. Delay your reaction when emotion's high.
4. Don't make hasty decisions. Extend the deadline and sleep on it. Your mind is always clearer the next day.
5. Travel the world like a traveler and not like a tourist.
6. Make friends with people that come from places you don't know about.
7. When you feel like sleeping. Sleep. Your body needs it.
8. Vitamin C cures everything. Take it everyday.
9. Ask as many questions as you can and recognize that you don't know everything.
10. It's always the simplest answer. Always.
11. Never save your expensive china and crystals for special guests. They'll never come. Use them everyday. You are that special guest.
12. Buy the best mattress you can afford. You spend a third of your life in it.
13. Buy the best couch you can afford. You spend the remainder of your life in it.
14. Enjoy food, drink and live well, you only get this one shot at life.
15. Read as many books as you can.
16. Be careful with words, you can never take them back.
17. Spend time alone and learn to love your own company.
18. See people in increments. You'll always like the people you don't see often.
19. The odds are always in your favor when you talk less and listen more.
20. When you are in pain, stop thinking about the pain.
21. Spend money on things that will improve the quality of your life.
22. When people don't feel right. Walk away.
23. Invest your money on good skincare. Your face is what you face the world with.
24. Buy Italian leather. There's nothing better.
25. When traveling, always ask the locals what their favorite restaurant is and eat there.
26. Live below and within your means. If you can't pay it in cash today, then you can't afford it. Simple Math.
27. What people think, say or do is a reflection of their own reality (from the Four Agreements). It's not your business and it's not your problem.
28. Never compromise your standards and principles, at the end of the day that's all you have.
29. Marry the one you like. Love sometimes goes out the window. Like stays.
30. If you are sure of who you are, then you can shop alone.
31. Always watch over the people you love and make sure that they know that.
32. Sometimes, friendships are meant to dissolve. When it does, gracefully let it go.
33. Manage your expectations. The things that are important to you are not necessarily important to others.
Live well and Keep Smiling! xx
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It has been a long time since I had spent an ample amount of time at a Tod's store. I was checking out driver moccasins when this D.D. Leather Bowler caught my eye. The easy styling of the delicate dark blue calf leather is so buttery soft and surprisingly light. The detail of the stitching and the classic, n0-fuss shape of this bag is essentially simple and in a very understated way, elegant.
Rediscovering this Italian brand could not have come at a better time. I think as you get older, you tire easily (read: you have a revulsion to carrying anything heavy) and you simplify your decisions more and more. The feel of this expertly crafted leather spoke to me because the sensation it gives off is genuine and straightforward.
I am starting to ascertain that I may be potentially over this whole "IT" bag debacle. Opting for sensible choices that fits the life I am creating for myself incorporates the absence of emblazoned logos, flashy hardware and useless frills.
Comfort and design trumps artifice.
A bag is a bag is a bag, sure. But this naturally refined Italian classic, in my book, will always remain unpretentiously beautiful for the years to come.
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Time for the GOP to become green
Rob Sisson is president of Republicans for Environmental Protection. All opinions expressed are his own.
(Politico) News flash: Republicans believe in protecting the environment. And we believe in playing it straight with the facts.
There are plenty of us green Republicans out here, including leaders like Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman — President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to China — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois, to name a few.
As Huntsman said last year, "If we're going to survive as a party, we need to focus on the environment."
But protecting the environment isn't just political expediency; it's core philosophy. We don't think it's a coincidence that "conservative" and "conservationist" sound so much alike. And we don't think it's a coincidence that many of our landmark environmental bills — the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 — were signed into law by Republican presidents.
It was President Ronald Reagan who negotiated the 1987 international treaty to safeguard the Earth's protective ozone layer by phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons.
That's why it is so frustrating when my fellow Republicans today play games around one of the most important environmental issues of our time.
Climate change is real, it's caused by humans, and it will create serious risks for our nation's security, economy and quality of life — and sooner than we think. That's the unmistakable message from scientists who have devoted their professional lives to understanding how human activities affect climate. One of them is Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, a climate research scientist at Texas Tech and a devout evangelical Christian.
She is co-author of a forthcoming report that will document the stunning effects climate change will have throughout the United States — such as the climate of my own state of Michigan becoming like what North Texas experiences today. I'm not kidding — look at the report, from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, when it comes out shortly.
This is serious business and deserves a serious debate. Some Republicans — Reps. Mary Bono Mack of California and Bob Inglis of South Carolina come to mind — are thoughtfully engaged, but many on our side of the aisle have chosen politics over prudence. That's why I reluctantly have to call out those Republicans who continue to spread the false claim that capping greenhouse gas pollution will — supposedly — cost American families $3,100 every year.
The National Republican Congressional Committee started playing this game in March. It claimed this bloated cost figure was based on an MIT study.
But the author of the study — who surely ought to know — said the NRCC was way off base. Here's what the author, professor John Reilly, said about the NRCC claim: "It's just wrong. It's wrong in so many ways it's hard to begin."
In letters to House GOP leader John Boehner, Reilly asked the NRCC to stop using this false number. He said that a correct estimate of the costs was far below NRCC's number, which was based on a sloppy analysis that was riddled with errors a freshman economics major would have caught in a heartbeat. Reilly also pointed out that his study analyzed a generic cap-and-trade bill without any cost mitigation provisions.
The House is now looking at a very different bill to fight global warming pollution. What do we know about what that bill would cost?
A recent EPA study estimates the cost at $98 to $140 per year for each household. Even with the legislation, however, total household spending would still increase nearly 20 percent by 2020.
The economy will be bigger in 10 years than it is today, which climate legislation critics often fail to point out. We can afford to invest in energy efficiency upgrades, develop more renewable energy and take other important steps to stabilize the climate that we all depend upon.
So to my fellow Republicans, I say: Act like real conservatives. Be honest about the science and about the facts. Take responsibility for fixing a real problem. And let the world know that today's Republicans want to be remembered the way we recall President Theodore Roosevelt — as people of honor who stood up to conserve the world we live in for our kids and grandkids.
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You know what would be the greatest thing for this country, the economy, and the environment; put a solar panel on every house in America. A expensive proposition, but the savings in the long run should be well worth the effort and cost. By installing a solar panel on every home, energy bought from a "Mega" energy company like "Duke" would be reduced, saving the household money. Also, less power would be produced, or need be produced, which should lower demand for fossil fuel used in power production; less pollution in the air as well. In the National Security sense, such a smart grid would enable Americans everywhere the ability to keep power in any sort of emergency, such as a natural disaster. The people in Kentucky who went for almost 2 months without power because of an ice storm would be able to survive with less assistance.
Installing those panels would create more jobs in two different fields, manufacturing and installation. To me it seems the most logical choice. Why not add a small wind turbine to catch wind when possible? More jobs, less fossil fuel used, less pollutants in the air, and greater national security while lessening our dependency on oil, who cares if its foreign; a transition off of fossil fuels would have to be done eventually, why not make the transition now, especially since job creation, and lessening the burden on the middle class are the two greatest needs facing America today.
I agree about the inherent merits of solar power. There's an article here about China spending $440 billion on solar subsidies by 2020. Solar energy is not just an option, but it corrects a number of systemic problems that interfere with employment.
A person does not have to be a licensed electrician to install solar cells. Let's keep things that way. A person is not restricted by an exclusive dealership. Anybody with a reasonable amount of education can enter the industry and be involved in its growth. We can keep union interests from limiting another market. Plus there is widespread world-wide acceptance with a rapidly growing supply of affordable cells.
Right now solar panels are mounted on houses or outside on separate foundations. In the future I believe that the panels will be within the house structure itself while the outer skin will be a glass pane. So this can extend the life of the panels dramatically in cold climates. In warm climates this isn't much of an issue. In hot climates power companies can move into commercial solar energy production using heliostats and towers. It is already happening.
Germany is moving into solar not just to produce energy but to create jobs. Solar energy creates a lot of jobs. For those interested in security, having a power supply for critical government buildings not dependent on the grid or limited fuel supplies can be really useful. The communications system involved in command operations can operate even or really low light. Also, battery technologies are improving along with electric vehicles.
So this is all about embracing the good. It is a moving target that will penalize those that stand still. Solar projects are expensive. So all of the money goes into the projects, and those people working on the projects receive the money, which goes right back into the economy. Have we forgotten what growth-thinking is all about. Green is capitalism. If government officials want kick-backs from big industries, that's actually one of the hallmarks of communism.
"Climate change is real, it's caused by humans, and it will create serious risks for our nation's security, economy and quality of life — and sooner than we think."
Get Real Rob!
I just love it when people say human activity is responsible for climate change. Humans are responsible for 3% of the total carbon production each year. The rest is all natural. If you think Humans can change the climate by manipulating that 3%, then you have bought into the Green Industry propaganda and are on your way to making a few people rich at our expense. I am all for cleaning up our pollution. Carbon is the least of our worries. We dump pollutants into our water, air and land that make carbon look like cotton candy. We do not need the Al Gores of the world to distract us from cleaning up these toxic pollutants just to make them rich from their investments in Green Industries.
You want to save energy and get off oil and coal? Remove incandescent light bulbs from our market and invest in the production of an inexpensive LED replacement light bulb. This would save over 20% of our total electrical energy consumption. Also, do not be fooled by "hybrid" auto technology. Today there exists a sports car which runs on a diesel power plant that gets 100 mpg. I own a 1988 Honda Civic that gets 33mpg and it has 210K miles on it. What has our auto industry produced in 20 years that gets better mileage? A heavy, high maintenance cost hybrid. In 1998 a car was featured at the Detroit auto show by an independent that used a flywheel energy storage power plant similar to what stores the power of our solar powered satellites. This vehicle had a rage of 300 miles on one "charge", a true plug and go vehicle. And with the advances in energy recapture (when braking) and solar energy production we can minimize the amount of "power plant" electricity the vehicle requires. The idea of your car "charging up" while sitting in the parking lot at work is not a thing of fiction. Our auto industry can do this if they are motivated by something other that the private oil industry and greed.
The idea of Mr. Walker's is not far fetched. The idea of distributed power generation using wind, solar, and geo-thermal, depending on what combination works best in your area, is not out of the question. It would raise the cost of a home by about 10K yet that home would produce enough energy to take care of its energy needs (no electric bill) while producing extra to return to the grid. This excess would be paid for which in turn would pay for the maintenance of the equipment. With today's advances in technology this is very feasible and could easily power a plug and go transportation industry.
I suggest you not believe me and research this on your own and when you are convinced email your Congressmen and the White House and tell them what direction you want them to go. I have. Since the government owns most of the US auto industry, it should not be that hard to spend the billions it takes to retool on retooling the industry to produce vehicles that will actually move the US in the direction we want to go…away from oil and polluting toward an improved environment and lifestyle. We really do not have to give up one for the other.
Great article. Keep getting the word out.
Good for you Rob! It's apparent that most of those in the Republican party have been blinded not by science but by $$$ bills plastered over their eyes by groups with an economic interest in keeping our energy production status quo. Regardless of scientific facts that no one is 100% certain of, this revolution has been coming for a long time now and if your fellow Republicans don't hitch on for the ride, they'll become a new model for the girl in Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale."
And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale.
"Republicans for Environmental Protection" ROFL !!!
That like "Prostitutes for Chastity"
The GOP has no viable candidate for high office. They have a severe talent deficit, along with the financial and policy deficits they left the rest of the world with. What has happened in the last 10 years in the US and the world has been incredibly and inexplicably destructive. I find myself thinking "why" and "who benefits from this utter destruction" We have gone from one extreme to the other. We have gone from completely unregulated markets to Government more or less seizing private companies and capital. I find it compelling that a majority of Americans now identify themselves as Independents, and this is where the next wave of political talent is going to rise. If they survive the onslaught from GE and Viacom and News Corp. This is why the internet must remain free, if the internet falls under Government control freedom as we know it will be forever silenced. Our way of life has already been severely undermined and damaged. The People really cannot take much more, and need to readjust their expectations and plans for the future.
Phoenix 1 says that Republicans have no viable candidate for high office, which is true, because entirely too many "party conservatives" shunned the brilliance and forthright philosophy of Dr. Ron Paul. Not only that, but there are some of us out here in the States who think that Dr. Paul was sabotaged by both the bought-and-paid for network media and by some within his campaign.
OK, so that is all over with and the 'new age' of O'Bama is here and we're stuck with the fake Irishman from the utterly corrupt Chicago political machine. Hooray.
House Republicans appear to be functionally clueless, and that at a time when Speaker Pelosi is slowly cooking in her own juices !! In the minority, the Senate's Republicans seem to be almost wholly tongue-tied, too.
Social conservatives have almost nowhere to go, and pro-business conservatives seem to care only about money and are therefore willing to follow 'the shilling' to "coin a phrase." Going green on energy conservation and solar energy is, hopefully, something these poor dinosaurs can and will grasp and understand. And soon.
Putting green energy technologies into our homes and into our businesses — if any small businesses can survive the Pelosicrat socialist onslaught — makes more sense than any other strategy which has been offered so far. I'm with Rob Sisson on that, for sure.
"Be honest about the science and about the facts." I suggest you differentiate between slanted data and facts. Global warming is a natural event—in this case, this planet has been warming for 12,000-years. There is no data (flawed models do not count) that proves man and especially the U.S. is THE cause. This is green politics. We need to be better stewards for sure, but understand, you do not reverse a natural global event. Put the monies and efforts in the right direction where "global warming" is concerned. I suggest you dig deeper into this issue; it is not what the media and PC scientists say.
I wouldn't leave the installation workers unregulated. America has a quality problem because of the flood of cheap products from slave labor countries. To set America apart(once again) we need to focus on quality. To instill and protect that image of quality, we need to train, teach, and educate the installers. If nothing else, they will be professionals with a documented ability they can use for future work.
as for George
You are right, the Earth warms and cools in cycles, much like a clock. However; like any clock, man ( and his carbon based industries) can reach up and move time forward, that is, effect the earth to move into a cycle much sooner than NATURE intended.
If you do not think so, then you deny the power man has over this planet.
If you think man has power over this planet, then we need to error on the side of caution and preserve this beautiful world, our only Eden, the only home we have in this Universe.
Even the animals of the earth know not to destroy their home. What does it say about humanity as a supposedly intelligent species when our actions are dumber than the animals we are supposed to be king over?
No way. Human-Induced climate change is a hoax. We have had warming, but not beyond natural variability. In fact, artic sea ice has recovered and we are on a cooling trend since 2003. Yeap. It's true. Don't fall for the CO2 alarmism. But don't discount man's ability to modify the environment. Leaded gasoline, CFCs, etc, DHT, all modified the environment with negative consequences. You can fight the green fight, but don't get sucked into thinking CO2 is the target. We need to focus on much more scientifically verifiable, immediate-impact matters. Like why MTBE is in breast milk. Like why toxins in the environment are killing off amphibian populations. Interestingly coal also gives off toxins when burned. But other materials do not. Remember the warming alarmists are proposing a warming of 0.2 degrees per decade. That little amount is within the error bars of their statistics. We simply must hold off on the CO2 debate, but put forth a very competent, thorough, toxin-focused agenda. Such an agenda will have far more dramatic and immediate rewards.


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Some males, like myself, live in a world of unmarried contentedness. We eat, sleep, and defecate as we please, with little to no regard for the opinions of others. We live to please our wretched excesses, watch the Simpsons, and eat Pop-Tarts. This is the intended condition of man.
There are some who choose to leave our ranks and cross the line into marriage. They are unaware that their sweet, wholesome fiances will be transformed into a fire-breathing Nagzilla whose accursed commands will incessantly pour forth like some beating drum of the damned.
When men chose to traverse this course in life, they must first be punished by their friends.
My friend Tim got married last year, and we made him eat some nasty SPAM. This was a gruesome, unnecessary exercise that managed to get the message across to him. Now, my old bunk-mate Karl is getting married in a week or so, and this weekend was his turn.
A few folks (including Tim) went to the grocery store and purchased a package of the most disgusting-looking meat they had ever seen in their life. It was called "maw":
When we slapped the wrinkly flesh onto the grill, it's sizzling gave off a pungent aroma that was less-than-appetizing. We poured some BBQ sauce on it to fix that, and Karl's once-sunny demeanor began to sour as he reflected on what he was about to consume. After a bit, the maw began to inflate distressingly, and a quick bit of online research revealed that maw is hog stomach. Perfect! When we flipped over the maw, stomach juices poured out of it and were licked up by the flames.
When Karl was finally forced to bite into it, he spent about a minute chewing on one bite. He reported that it had the consistancy of a fatty tendon. We commanded him to swallow and eat another bite. The maw had the characteristics of a deflated football bladder – it's elasticity was sickening to the eye. To Karl's credit, he gave it an honest try, but couldn't eat more than a bite or two before we called it off.
Someday, maybe years from now, when Karl is married and his soul has long since been deadened to the pleasures of this world, Karl will look back fondly on the maw. Yes, he will long to return to the maw, perhaps even calling out to the maw in his sleep. Though it will now be too late, Karl will cry out in sorrow and hope for one last bite of its rubbery, stomachy goodness.


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Feb 28, 2013 12:25 AM by Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is pledging $100 million to help the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others fight polio around the world.
The Seattle-based Gates Foundation says Bloomberg is set to announce the donation to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative on Thursday. The group has a six-year plan to eliminate polio.
Polio is a vaccine-preventable disease that has been eradicated in most countries, but it still causes paralysis or death in parts of the world, including Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Gates and Bloomberg foundations have also collaborated to reduce tobacco use, and to encourage family planning and modern birth control.
Bloomberg's website says he has donated $2.4 billion to a variety of causes over the years, including $330 million in 2011.
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