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Oct 5, 2011 3:38 PM, with Bennett Liles
Does anybody do any video recording in there at all?
Yeah we get a lot of that. We've actually done some movie shoots with Paramount in there and we've done a lot of TV—the occasional artist will bring two or three cameras in and do a shoot for the show as well. Well now having the Eclipse, if they want I can just have them bring a hard drive if they want the audio or I can send it to track out but we also have the three-way mic split as well. If we get a TV truck I can give them their own split. [Timestamp: 6:17]
Now on the power situation sometimes lighting and audio can have problems with each other—how has that situation sort of evolved at your place?
It's not bad. I don't have...I have a whole separate for the lighting because there are 96 dimmers and they're separate from audio. Now as far as audio goes, I'm only running it off of 100 amps because the L-Acoustic amps—two LA4's are only 30 amps—they're less than 30 amps actually because they're entirely separate feeds too. I've never really run into too many problems that way. [Timestamp: 6:51]
OK you've got main house and a separate monitor mixer. Where do you put the lighting control?
There's actually a lighting booth up in the balcony. Most of the time there or else we'll set up...there's enough room up at FOH. If they prefer to do it from the floor then we'll set them up right next to FOH too. I can patch in downstairs. There's a DMX patch on the first floor in the balcony and in the booth. [Timestamp: 7:13]
Well, it sounds like a pretty easy place to handle everything without any huge challenges.
Most of the problem is it's a 32x16 stage so the biggest challenge really is when I get a really large number of people on that stage and then we're trying to wire everything and keep it clean and give everybody a little bit of space. That's the biggest challenge I've ever really come up with. We had an awards show where I had 12 bands and video and podium mics, and that's when the digital console really started to shine for me because I soundchecked 12 bands in the morning in any order they could show up and then just sequenced it inside the play list and sequenced all my MC mics and my video playback and everything, so by the time rehearsal was over with I just pressed "next" for the entire show. [Timestamp: 8:06]
Do you have any really fast turnarounds in that place where you have to do a substantial reconfiguration just right away?
Yeah a couple of times—we've even had a university convocation. The local university's outgrown their local theater and I had a show where we loaded out convocation by 4:30 and we're doing load in by six o'clock and that was with the FOH and monitor mix positions they had to be restored—the stage had to be restored. So I've had a couple days like that and generally we throw more labor at it to make it possible. [Timestamp: 8:41]
Well it's great that you can be flexible on that. Do you send audio feeds anywhere in the place, say in a separate sound environment?
We do through the paging system. The paging system on both theaters will talk to each other. It's the original system that when they built the house and the patch bay in the theater next door will also talk to a patch bay that I have too so I can send program sound to any dressing room in either theater and occasionally we've had to do that from the opposite theater. We'll use my theater as rehearsal and staging area kind of thing so we'll have the Com and paging system all patched together. [Timestamp: 9:21]
Well, it sounds like it would be great working in a place about that size with as many different performers. It would be just enough to keep things interesting.
Oh yeah for sure, for sure. I'm really enjoying it. Some days are a lot of work but it's a rewarding job and I've got to work with...up close with some really great artists. [Timestamp: 9:39]
All right. Steve Foster with The Studio at Hamilton Place, Ontario thanks for taking the time out to tell us about how you do things there.
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His case against O'Shea may be highly circumstantial, Rohrbough says, but the official version makes no sense. If the detectives truly believed their story, why did they fight him so long before releasing Dan's clothes? Why did they dawdle for more than a year over releasing detailed ballistics data, even after a judge ordered it released?
"I believe they're still hiding information," he says, "and trying to make the evidence fit their story."
Rohrbough doesn't expect the review of the evidence now being conducted by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office to resolve the issue. No one from that office has bothered to contact him, he says, to find out what evidence he might have about his son's death.
Investigators promised that the sheriff's report would provide a detailed, "minute-by-minute" account of what happened at Columbine. The report's timeline was dutifully accepted by media outlets as an unimpeachable chronology of events. Yet a review of the source materials upon which the timeline is based, including dispatch and 911 calls and video surveillance tapes, suggests otherwise.
A case can be made that Stone's office fudged its timeline to make it appear that Jeff-co deputies took swifter action to try to engage the gunmen than they actually did ("More Whoppers From Jeffco," October 25, 2001). But the report's minute-by-minute tracking of the killers' movements during their 47-minute rampage is suspect, too.
Consider, for example, an episode the sheriff's report never mentions: the arrival of two Denver police officers on the west side, early enough to engage a suspect at the west entrance. The two had spotted a gun barrel, presumably Harris's carbine, sticking out of the doorway and fired at it; the suspect retreated.
When did this happen? Jeffco's timeline states that Harris was at the west doors, trading bullets with deputies Neil Gardner and Paul Smoker, at 11:26 a.m., well before any Denver officers were on scene. Harris never returned to the west doors, according to the timeline.
Could he have come back after the library massacre, which ended at 11:36? The timeline says the two gunmen were in the science area at that point, on the opposite side of the building. How about after their three-minute appearance on the surveillance video, trying to set off the bombs in the cafeteria? Possibly, but the timeline has them heading for the office area, a long way from the west doors. Then they're back in the cafeteria at 11:57 before heading upstairs to the library to commit suicide.
The official account of what Harris and Klebold were doing whenever they weren't actually captured on audio or videotape is hazy, at best. Many aspects of their plan of attack remain a mystery. Investigators do know that their cafeteria bombs were set to go off at 11:17; when the bombs failed to explode, the sheriff's report says, the gunmen's actions became increasingly "random" and inexplicable, right up to their suicides.
But maybe it wasn't quite as random as the report would have us believe. The report offers no explanation for the library massacre, why the pair decided to return to the library, or why they chose that particular moment to kill themselves. Yet Harris's journal writings, first published by Westword last December, show that he had planned from the beginning to go into the school to "pick off" victims at will. And the pair may have had a special reason for returning to the library before their deaths: A photo of the timing device taken from one of the bombs police found in their cars shows the alarm set for noon.
The library is an excellent location for viewing a fireball in the parking lot. Perhaps they hoped to see their cars explode, killing rescue workers and police.
When that didn't happen, maybe they decided it was time to go.
They told grieving families that their children's bodies were boobytrapped and couldn't be moved. They told the parents of one boy that their son never knew what hit him. They told the parents of another that their wounded son fell to the sidewalk and waited there for one to two minutes, until Klebold came up and shot him again. And they didn't bother to correct the rumor about which girl said "yes" when the killers asked if she believed in God, not even as the story spiraled into a media legend about martyrdom.
None of it was true. Years later, some Columbine parents are still seething over the bad information they received from the police and how it poisoned their relationship with the investigation.
"The boobytrap story was, for me, the most difficult thing to bear," says Ann Kechter, mother of slain student Matt Kechter. "I cannot to this day understand why they would say something like that."
Some early gaffes, such as the boobytrap reports, may have been a simple misunderstanding. When investigators first tried to move Klebold's body in the library, unexploded "cricket" bombs began to tumble out of his pockets, prompting the rest of the crime-scene processing to be conducted with a high degree of caution. But other bits of misinformation have persisted for years. The Kechters have been waiting patiently for months for the results of sophisticated tests that would explain the burns on their son's body; they recently learned that investigators aren't sure those tests were ever conducted.


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We're building a shingle style house in an area of nice new homes of varying architecture and on a golf course. We'd love for our house to look like they built the course up around it instead of just like another new home, so I'm looking for ideas to make a new house look old, both on the exterior as well as the interior. For example, one idea was to get the old was to transplant Vanhoutte spirea for the front like this one:
http://www.ozarksgardens.com/pv/FOdWH/38/25/mYdfHT/jIkATisdDWCLIko/old-fashioned-spirea-jpg.html The house will have an open floor plan, however, so I guess I'm looking for it to look like an old house that was redone while keeping with the original architectural feel of the house. As I say that, it sounds confusing. Am I on the right track here and does this make any sense? |
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- Posted by carpecattus (My Page) on Sat, Oct 15, 11 at 18:48
Hubby and I are in the midst of planning a shingle style "beach" home and I've found several helpful resources so far. One is the website www.houzz.com - lots of wonderful photographs, with the ability to create ideabooks for personal future reference. (I've created nearly a dozen "idea books" - bathrooms, kitchens, flooring, fireplaces, landscaping, shingle homes, etc..) You might take a look at the book "Creating a New Old House" by Russell Versaci which explores why old homes are so appealing and how to incorporate those elements into a new home. Another book which features a lot of shingle style homes is "Nice House" by Samuel White - lots of good exterior and interior photos, which is helpful when looking for landscaping ideas as well as architectural features. "New Old House" magazine, which comes out every other month, is dedicated to homes which have the rich look and character of older homes, but done with modern lifestyles in mind. (You might try to check these out at your local library before buying them, to see if you really find them useful for you.) You might also check out the website www.connorbuilding.com - they are a company that specializes in creating authentic, historical New England style homes - they have lots of photographs of their homes which can give you some ideas as to what makes an older, traditional home look so appealing. In doing our research we're finding the main factors that will help make our home look "established" is the quality of the trim work and windows; we're realizing we can't scrimp on these things. In regards to the landscaping, choosing "old-fashioned" plants like hydrangea, lilacs, boxwood, etc. should go a long way to give your home an established look. Best wishes on your new home! :-) |
Carpecattus that was an extremely helpful response. Gracias. |
We are currently building a shingle style house and ditto to all Carpecattus said. We are contracting this house ourselves and have to make all the design decisions we are debating between cedar shingles and fiber cement shingles. Our previous house was done with certainteed vinyl shingles. What are your thoughts on this? |
Thank you for mentioning houzz.com -- I've now fallen in love with that site. We are in the process of picking shingles also so I would also be interested in ppbenn's question. |
- Posted by carpecattus (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 0:27
In response to the shingles questions, in researching shingle siding for our future beach cottage we've decided we will be using Alaskan yellow cypress (also called Alaskan yellow cedar). It's a slower growing wood, so it's denser, and is very rot resistant. It naturally weathers to a silvery grey (but doesn't turn black like red cedar); paints or stains are not recommended, so it's fairly maintenance free. When installed correctly they should last 40 to 50 years. My husband and I built an arbor 20 years ago using Alaskan yellow cypress and it's held up beautifully, despite lots of rain and shade - no signs of rot. Check out cedarbureau.org for some great information regarding the differences between red, white and yellow cedar, as well as detailed instruction manuals regarding the proper installation of shingles. |
- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 10:18
Here is a link that might be useful: stern
- Posted by laurensmom21 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 14:18
I'm loving this post! We are hopefully going to start building a shingle style home in the spring but we are still working on a floorplan with our architect. One of our problems has been scaling things down. Most shingle style floorplans I've see are HUGE. I'm hoping we can still get the look we want for around 3000sqft. another site that has great inspiration photos is pinterest.com . It's an online pinboard basically, but you can type in anything to search on. I also love the Boston Design Guide's directory of architects, builders, etc... That's the holy grail for eye candy imo :) Would any of you who have already started building care to share your floor plans? I'd love to see them! Thanks & good luck to everyone! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Boston Design Guide
- Posted by kateskouros (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 19:51
kateskouros I just love the pic of your house. We were all set to go with Nichiha in July however we could not find enough supply of the Sierra Premium stained in any color. We had several distributors searching and when the distributors had a meeting with nichiha reps about the new Frontier line the remaining Sierra line was pulled.Nichiha wanted to keep remaining inventory in case of warrenty issues. We could still get the Sierra in a primed but you lose the black line definition between shingles. We would then have to paint. Price has been a consideration as the Nichiha has been highest per square of the fiber cement. Same as real cedar. and more expensive to install. DH is favoring real cedar |
- Posted by SpringtimeHomes (My Page) on Sun, Nov 6, 11 at 20:20
I ditto kateskouros. Anyone building with shingles needs to be aware of the constant maintenance that ANY wood based shingles require. They generally require extensive attention every four years or so. For those on the East Coast, consider Poplar Bark. Extremely low maintenance and long lasting. No pressure washing or restaining required with a much lower environmental impact. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Picture of home with Poplar Bark siding
We used Nichiha primed shakes on the central portion of our home. I'm attaching a photo and I think this was taken before the shakes were painted with 2 coats. Our paint color was only slightly different from the primed color! We have combined the shakes with board & batten, stone with brick accents and brick at the foundation. |
My photo was in my preview and now its gone! Let me try again |
- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 7, 11 at 11:47
The Shingle Style was, among other influences, a reaction against the Stick Style that had a lot of vertical trim, separating walls into panels, many independent massing elements, projecting rakes with decorative braces and juxtaposition of different materials and finishes. In contrast, the most common characteristics of the Shingle Style are continuous unbroken shingle siding that "wraps" the building like a blanket (no corner boards but window trim), rustic field stone below the first floor line or at he lower portions of chimneys, brick chimneys, ganged double-hung or fixed windows with multiple rectangular panes in the upper half, classical elements like decorated panels and columns, thin eave detailing, close rakes, prominent gabled and hipped dormers, decorative shingle shapes, and flared shingles at belt lines and tops of foundations. |
- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 7, 11 at 13:35
This is the classic Shingle Style Hamptons beach house used for the film "Something's Gotta Give" with Nicholson & Keaton. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Shingle Style photos
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December 14-25, 2009
If you aren't familiar with this fund raising campaign you might want to read more about its origins at Chez Pim's blog here and all about how to participate here. December 14-25, 2009
In a nut shell, Pim reached out to her fellow food bloggers and their audiences in response to the devastating tsunami that hit southeast Asia 5 years ago and this effort has evolved into supporting the UN World Food Programme. This years focus is one close to my heart for a variety of reasons, as the proceeds will be going to a " new initiative at the WFP called Purchase for Progress (P4P). P4P enables smallholder and low-income farmers to supply food to WFP's global operation. P4P helps farmers improve farming practices and puts more cash directly into their pockets in return for their crops. This will also help buoy local economy by creating jobs and income locally.... More on P4P at http://www.wfp.org/purchase-progress."
This is where I have the pleasure of telling you that Fabrizio and I are donating a 2 night stay with us at Bella Baita, (Bid item code: EU35) our mountain retreat in the Italian Alps. We know you'll want to wander around our neighborhood, breath in the fresh air and savor the spectacular French border views that are to be had in our "off the beaten path" inn here in Piedmont, but we've got a guided market tour in Pinerolo in store for you as well. You just need to make sure you're here for Wednesday or Saturday morning as you won't want to miss out on this tempting part of the offer. You'll feel like a local as we shop our way through this twice weekly outdoor market that has been held in the same location for over 1,000 years.
We'll sample some of the local cheeses, but we'll be spoiled for choice as there are just so many to choose from and plenty of local fruits and vegetables to go along with or pick up all the ingredients for a picnic lunch later.
That is, unless we spoil ourselves with a trip to our favorite cafe with all the killer pastries and the chocolate shop that makes their own version of Nutella that will have you checking your baggage allowance to see how many jars you will be able to bring home.
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Have William's Hybrid and Manzano pups, looking for tropicals.
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.- "The Pope denounces the ecological crisis but does not belong to the church of Al Gore," wrote Giuliano Ferrara, director of Italian daily Il Foglio, in his editorial column after reading Benedict XVI's message for the World Day of Peace. Ferrara described the papal message as being "of great culture" in its reminder that man must be valued above all other living things.
The Pontiff's message underscores the threats to the environment and the necessity of taking decisive action to find long-term, inter-generational solutions to the crises of today. It also provides parameters for the role of the Church and individual Christians in combating the environmental and economic crises, pointing to a renewal of values and morality without losing sight of the "distinctiveness and superior role" of human beings over nature.
"Benedict XVI," wrote Ferrara in his analysis, "in no way denies human abuse of nature," but in affirming the ecological crisis, neither does he share "the environmentalist religion or environmentalism as a religion."
"The Pope has another faith," Ferrara explained, one "based on the transcendence of a God that creates man in his image and likeness to entrust nature to him ... he has, evidently, no need for replacement beliefs, of ideologies feigned as science."
The Holy Father's letter included a warning against sacrificing the sanctity of man and applying an attitude of absolutism to nature, giving it equal status to mankind. To this, the director of Il Foglio added that such a mentality of reducing the person "to nothing more than a particle of nature... excludes, (at times) even with the approval of scientific certainty, the self-conscious freedom of humanity."
The Pope credits the differentiation between humankind and other animal and plant life to the God-given unique physical and meta-physical constitution of men and women and their capacity to govern and protect the creation entrusted to their hands, explained Ferrara.
Benedict's caution against "pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man's salvation in nature alone" is not merely words to be heeded by the faithful, Ferrara emphasized in the editorial. Instead, readers should also read them as a "sign of civilization and culture, an interesting syntax for us laymen and modernists (and postmodernists)."
"Indeed we too, for a long time, have been intellectually scorning and criticizing, based on rational arguments consistent with the Biblical tale, the magic environmentalism of the gurus and the militant organizations who foster a global redemption, especially when dubious, manipulating emails are exchanged as part of an idolatrous dance, supported by powerful interests with no true magic whatsoever," wrote Ferrara.
Il Foglio also published an article in its Wednesday edition on the the deception of certain scientists and politicians who have falsified statistics to sway public opinion in their favor in the global-warming debate.
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Medical Anthropology and Global Health |
The Department of Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University, a leader in the field of Medical Anthropology, announces an exciting new programmatic emphasis in Medical Anthropology and Global Health that aims to train a new generation of scholars to meet the challenges of our increasingly globalized world. Since the inception of medical anthropology, the world and anthropology have changed. Increasingly, the local is interconnected with the global through the movement and exchange of peoples, cultures, popular ideas and practices, goods and capital, science, technology and ethics.
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Dr. Katia Almeida receives the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Teaching
Congratulations to Dr. Katia Almeida, recipient of the 2014 Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award is presented annually to two faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching. A full length interview was recently featured in The Daily, click here to read the full article.
Outstanding examples of strength of the faculty in our department
In addition to members of the anthropology faculty who conduct cutting-edge research they are also outstanding examples of strength in teaching and mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students. Congratulations to the following faculty for being nominated for the awards below.
Drs. Katia Almeida-Tracy, Eileen Anderson-Fye, Gabriella Celese, and Janet McGrath were nominated for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is presented annually to two faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand was nominated for the J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring. This award recognizes the positive impact Case Western Reserve University faculty and staff have on the lives of students.
Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand was also nominated for both the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Teaching and the John S. Diekhoff Award for Graduate Mentoring. These awards are presented to four full-time faculty members who make exemplary contributions to the education and development of graduate students at Case Western Reserve University. Two awards are given for outstanding mentors and the other two for those who excel in the teaching of graduate students.
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Dr. Goldstein's A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, 1955-1957: Storm Clouds Descend has just been published by the University of California Press. In this new volume, Goldstein draws on never-before-seen Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs and diaries, and invaluable in-depth interviews with important Chinese and Tibetan participants - including the Dalai Lama - to offer a new level of insight into the events and principal players of the time. Click here to read more in the Fall 2013 issue of The Anthropologist. Dr. Goldstein was also featured in an article in The Daily, "Anthropology's Melvyn Goldstein publishes new book on Tibetan uprising."
Dr. Korbin is co-editor of the recently published Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective, a five-volume collection that supplies readers with a thorough overview of the complexities and implications regarding the scientific and practical pursuit of children's well-being. Dr. Anderson-Fye and 2002 alumni, James Spilsbury, are among the chapter authors.
The Department of Anthropology is now a member of the national anthropology honor society of Lambda Alpha...
The Department of Anthropology is now the Ohio Theta Chapter of Lambda Alpha. The paper work for charter membership will be submitted at the end of this semester. Please consider joining! Lambda Alpha publishes a journal every January, in which 55% of the space is reserved for student publications. There is some amount of research funding available for both undergraduate and graduate students. Alumni of the CWRU department may become members if they are within five years of graduating. Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand is the faculty sponsor and adviser for the group. Christie Ellis and Aaron Sepulveda are the Co-Presidents. For more information about membership requirements and how to become a charter member click here.
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I planted a Josephine back in spring of this year. Was growing well for first year in. I was weeding out my roses of which it was planted next to, and what happens? I accidentally cut off the top of the clematis vine! There is about 6 inches of a single stem sticking out of the ground now. Ugh!
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I had the same thing happen to me. My dad and I were doing yardwork this weekend, when he proudly proclaimed "I got that damn vine off the crabapple tree finally!" I said, "oh the white clematis I planted in May that finally started to climb in the direction I want!" That's ok, maybe next year...arg. |
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There's a little line in the core rulebook which says something like "future quests may allow your threat to go above 50". I was just wondering when, and why, you think FFG might introduce this rule.
I suppose one obvious idea is that they might eventually allow us to have more than 3 heroes in our party. And then i was thinking of these new battleground ideas that they've started talking about in the next cycle… do you think they will introduce it then? If it's going to be a big battle, then it makes sense for us to have bigger parties. How can we have an epic battle with only 3 characters? They should let us double our numbers, and have the battle go on for ages, all the way up to 100. Little enemy cards can then chip away at the locations adding 1 and 2s, and bigger enemy cards (war machines?) can come in and do massive damage to the locations, maybe a whole 5 or 10 at once.


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Thanks to Louis Vuitton, checkerboards are Spring 2013's It pattern. We loved the graphic column Kirsten wore to an Art of Elysium gala earlier this year.
Classic leopard spots look even better in blue. We're still lusting after this Louis Vuitton pajama top Kirsten wore last year.
This earth-toned Honor number the star wore to the UK premiere of her film Melancholia was awesomely autumnal.
Kirsten opted for a retro look while promoting Bachelorette in NYC, pairing a classic striped fit-and-flare dress with similarly vintage-inspired cat-eye sunglasses.
This graphic lattice-patterned Louis Vuitton maxi was a perfect choice for the brand's Parisian boutique opening.
Kirsten knows that patterns look equally good when worn on one's toes.
Stripes and dots in the same ensemble? Sure, if both are subtle, like Kirsten's here.
It takes a brave lady to wear bold yellow from head to toe—but Kirsten hit it out of the park with this fun floral look.
On some, a tiered plaid dress and asymmetrically-buttoned cardi could read as matronly. On Dunst, it's downright darling.
Kirsten made Dorothy Gale-esque blue gingham look fresh during an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in 2011.
The actress looked incredibly elegant in this navy polka-dotted blouse and white floor-length skirt at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
Kirsten took a risk in this floral navy top and swirly mint skirt in 2011—and we think it paid off.
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Why Stephen Harper is probably incapable of recognizing the reality of climate change
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is fond of declaring that Canada is an "emerging energy superpower". We heard it again this week on his trade trip to China.
In his eagerness to export Canadian oil and gas, Harper seems remarkably blasé to the reality of climate change.
For many years, this has puzzled me. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence should recognize that ramping up the use of fossil fuels will cause more rapid global warming because burning oil and gas increases levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
This year, approximately 30 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases will be released.
As anyone who's seen Al Gore's movie knows, these molecules, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat on earth. A warmer planet shrinks glaciers, which reduces river flows, and creates the possibility of massive food shortages in China, India, and other countries. Anyone with an ability to do some routine arithmetic should realize that we're facing a looming international emergency.
You need look no further than the monstrously large forest fires that have scorched Russia, Greece, Spain, and Australia. Meanwhile, farmers in Afghanistan have switched to growing poppies, which are used in heroin production, because an ongoing drought makes wheat cultivation next to impossible in some areas. And climate-induced migration is leading to enormous bloodshed in parts of Africa, including the Darfur area of Sudan.
Here in B.C., we're also seeing the effects. The mountain pine beetle has wreaked economic havoc by chewing through pine forests because warmer winters couldn't kill these pests. Salmon runs are threatened. Snowpack levels will decline, which will undermine electricity production.
And through it all, Harper dithers on dealing with climate change and promotes more exports of oil and gas.
Recently, I came across a neurological and psychological explanation why seemingly intelligent people like the prime minister don't want to wrap their minds around climate change.
Keep in mind that Harper is the son of an accountant who worked for Imperial Oil. He probably grew up in a home with a high regard for the fossil-fuel industry.
Author William Marsden explains in his recent book Fools Rule: Inside the failed politics of climate change (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) that the when the brain is confronted with tiny changes to familiar patterns, it "quickly emits fear signals that can disrupt attempts at rational thought".
Quoting McGill University neurologist Lesley Fellows, Marsden notes that there are parts of the brain that enjoy learning new things, but other areas summon anxiety when familiar habits are disrupted.
"Climate change poses a complexity of stressful challenges with which few people know how to deal," Marsden writes.
Fellows explained to Marsden that "nebulous" threats, such as climate change, are not handled nearly as well by the brain as are immediate threats.
Next, the author describes the research of Yale law school professor Dan Kahan. He has demonstrated that people seek out expert views that conform to their world view, regardless of what scientists may have reached a consensus on.
"Kahan's work helps explain why the deniers of man-made climate change have been so effective," Marsden states in . "It doesn't take an expert to persuade many people that the experts are wrong. The deniers need only toss out a few pseudo-experts and a crowd gathers."
In a 2010 study published in the Journal of Risk Research, Kahan explored why this is the case. According to Marsden's book, "people who believe strongly in hierarchy, authority and, oddly, individualism are predisposed not to believe the scientific consensus that human activity is causing dangerous changes in the earth's climate systems, because man-made climate change poses a threat to their vision of absolute freedom."
That's not all. Marsden then highlights a predicament that we've all encountered from time to time.
"We are also faced with the problem of stupidly confident people," he writes. "These are the ones who always believe they are the smartest guys in the room and there is no telling them anything."
It turns out that David Dunning of Cornell University has studied these people. Marsden quotes him saying that much of it "has to do with the fact that stupidity tends to breed unbridled confidence".
Fools Rule includes this passage, which should be posted in offices across the country: "Their incompetence 'deprives them of the skills needed to recognize their deficits.' In other words, they are just too dumb to know how bad they are. Conversely, smarter people tend to have less confidence in their skills because they are smart enough to understand their weaknesses."
So what does this have to do with climate change? Those with "an overly positive view of yourself as a sort of self-made genius" are extremely threatened by any evidence that counters this self-assessment. Dunning told Marsden that climate-change deniers "desperately and repeatedly cling to small but often meaningless discrepancies in the science as proof that they're right".
"Dunning says that people who regard themselves as a work in progress—in other words, they are trained in critical thinking—are far more likely to respond positively to new ideas and criticism," Marsden writes.
To sum up, Fools Rule shows that people's brains have trouble processing new information that disrupts established behaviour patterns. This leads to anxiety, which can be alleviated by ignoring the new information. People also have a tendency to seek out experts whose opinions conform to their world view.
Those of a more hierarchical and individualistic bent are less likely to accept the scientific consensus on climate change.
Moreover, stupidly confident people can't recognize their own shortcomings and lash out at anything that brings these personal deficits into the light. And those with more humility and critical-thinking skills are apt to adjust their views in light of new evidence about climate change.
So what does this have to do with the prime minister's recent trip to China?
Most people wouldn't consider Harper to be a particularly humble man. The prime minister is also a strong individualist—as demonstrated by his admiration for free-market economist Friedrich Hayek—with a hierarchical view of the world. And Harper has formed a close friendship with one of Canada's leading skeptics of human-induced climate-change, University of Calgary political scientist Barry Cooper.
It's fair to suggest that Cooper is an "expert" who has mentored Harper—perhaps because Cooper and Harper share a similar world view.
The prime minister is no dummy, but he certainly meets some of the measures in Marsden's book for those who fail to recognize the seriousness of global warming.
It leads me to believe that Harper doesn't appear to have the mental and psychological capacity to wrap his mind around the potential consequences of climate change, which could kill millions around the world.
Instead, Harper is a climate-change enabler who promotes greater and greater consumption of fossil fuels, both at home and abroad.
All this speaks to the need for more open-minded, humble people—and especially those who like to see themselves as "works in progress"—to get involved in federal party politics. It's the only way Harper will be defeated in the next election.
Because as Marsden's book amply demonstrates, a new course on addressing climate change is essential if we're going to save more human lives in the future.
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"Stupid Stevie
He da MAN!
Throw this country in da garbage can!
You don't like it? You gotta live with it!
Cuz Stupid Stevie don't give a shit!"
(* or ideology)
The right wing has elevated ignorance to a noble state of being, and we will all burn in their hell on Earth if we don't stop them quickly.
Here in B.C. I say publicly that I will vote for the party that promises to keep Northern Gateway out and will commit to banning tankers off out coast.
And then based on a book rather than any papers or published journals that i can see. One wonders how you are ever taken seriously as a journalist.
Don't get me wrong I don't love Harper but I find this article bordering so close to the line of one man's opinion trying to be portrayed as fact to take it very seriously.
They claim to be Christian but want to leave the poor to fend for themselves...no government or universal healthcare or social safety net the very things the poor need and use the most,
They claim to worship God yet they destroy God's creation the Earth with Big Oil turning Alberta into a Moon like environment devoid of life - Oil Sands.
They claim to be great fiscal managers but go back to Cash Envelope Brian to present day = Record Deficits.
Neo-Cons are in fact are not Christian in their treatment of others and the poor, they support policies that destroy the Environment that "God" created and they worship $$$ Big Oil & Big Corporate Banks.
The very things Jesus in his Christian teachings was against!
However, if people do things which impact too much on the climate we will add to the climate change.
the other issue is air quality. We might want to think about air quality even if we don't believe in climate change. /When you see all the pollution streaming out of factories you do have to wonder how this is affecting our health.
I personally believe humans are negatively affecting the climate. If we don't modify our behaviour, future generations may well regret it. As it is there are already areas of the world where people are regretting climate change but they don't have much to say about it.
The world can simply not sustain our current use of natural resources, changes to the air quality, and increased human reproduction.
Now Harper, I don't think he can change because of more than how his brain is wired. If he admits there is a problem then being a fairly intelligent person he would have to do something about the problem. it is easier to believe god will provide and take care of things.
We don't WANT climate change crisis to be real so here is proof of academic exaggeration: There are literally millions of people comprising the global world of science so if climate change crisis were true, we wouldn't see the MILLIONS in the science world sitting on its thrones while dozens march against climate change in the streets. We don't have to hold this spear of CO2 fear to our kids backs anymore but that doesn't mean we ignore the planet. We just do it like real progressives, not fear mongering neocons. Pollution IS real. We get it. But death for our children or their children from a Human CO2 climate crisis was not real. Thank goodness. REAL planet lovers have moved on and are happy and relieved a crisis wasn't real after all. Let's face the future with courage, not fear.
Content is just as intelligent.
Canada and its Prime MInister were voted "best nation" and 'best leader" by the EU International Committee when I was at the London Conference in July I think that a Georgia Straight junior stringer taking shots at our Prime Minister is a stretch. Why not concentracte on Victorias pouring 7 million gallons of raw sewage daily into the ocean..OOOHHH thats not for discussion. Junk science column again,
"As anyone who's seen Al Gore's movie knows, these molecules, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat on earth."
If you look at the data plotting CO2 against temperature from 1895 to the present day,the correlation is zero. Most of the points that Al Gore spoke of in his movie have proven to be false. Too the degree that the film was labeled by the courts in England as propoganda and not scientifically valid.
"Meanwhile, farmers in Afghanistan have switched to growing poppies, which are used in heroin production, because an ongoing drought makes wheat cultivation next to impossible in some areas."
They grow poppies in Afghanistan because of climate change??? You got to be kidding.
All these comments about the psychological state of confident people who deny reality and lack critical thinking I think tells you more about the the state of the author then Stephen Harper.


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I have a problem. If it were up to me, I'd eat chocolate chip cookies every day, all day, no question. We all have our weaknesses, and I'm not ashamed that cookies are mine. These were made quite a while back and I kept meaning to post them!
Chocolate chip cookies are the classic Grandma dessert that every family seems to have recycled for years and years. Sometimes they really do date back to my 'great great Grandma used to make these' to the best kept secret recipe being torn out of local newspaper, revealing itself to be just as delicious twenty years later.


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Baltimore Warehouse Owners Plead Guilty in Scheme to Steal $1 Million of Nickel Imported into the Port of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland - Gregg Lee Purbaugh, age 50, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today and his business partner, Kenneth Trainum, age 44, also of Baltimore, pleaded guilty on April 20, 2012, to conspiring to transport stolen nickel briquettes stored next to their warehouse, which had been imported through the Port of Baltimore.
The guilty pleas were announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein and Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
According to their plea agreements, Purbaugh and Trainum opened Bear Creek Warehouse Company in 2006. Their primary customer was an international mining company that shipped cargo containers of nickel to the Port of Baltimore from its mines outside the United States, then stored the nickel in the Bear Creek Warehouse. Beginning in 2006, Purbaugh and Trainum began removing the mining company's nickel from the warehouse, setting it aside to sell later. In June 2006, Purbaugh approached a co-conspirator to sell the nickel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The co-conspirator contacted the owner of a Pittsburgh scrap metal company who agreed to purchase the nickel from the co-conspirator.
From 2006 through 2011, Purbaugh sold the co-conspirator a total of 80,000 pounds of nickel worth approximately $1 million, for the scrap metal price of $8 per pound. Purbaugh arranged the delivery of the nickel with the co-conspirator and the scrap metal dealer. Purbaugh then arranged for his driver, who lives near Pittsburgh, to drive a truck to the warehouse, which Trainum then loaded with the stolen nickel. Each load typically contained 6,000 pounds of nickel and the shipments took place at least twice a year. The co-conspirator paid Purbaugh in cash, which he divided with Trainum.
On November 2, 2011, agents from Homeland Security Investigations saw the driver enter the Bear Creek Warehouse parking lot. Purbaugh unlocked a shipping container adjacent to the warehouse that contained unmarked sacks of nickel briquettes. Trainum removed one of the sacks of nickel with a fork lift and loaded it onto the truck. While Trainum was unloading a second bag of nickel, HSI agents intervened and secured the stolen nickel. During the subsequent search, agents recovered 15 bags containing approximately 30,000 pounds of nickel which had been diverted from the mining company's shipments.
Purbaugh and Trainum each face a maximum penalty of five years in prison. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. has scheduled sentencing for Trainum and Purbaugh on August 9, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., respectively.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended HSI Baltimore for its work in the investigation and thanked Assistant United States Attorneys Gregory R. Bockin and Martin J. Clarke, who are prosecuting the case.


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