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"I used the juice from a jar of sauerkraut instead of the vinegar (try it - you'll LOVE this idea). I also used an enormous amount of honey (8 or 10 tablespoons): I just poured it over the top of the roast. The result was extraordinary. Served with baked red potatoes, sauteed kale, and the rest of the sauerkraut. The kids and adults LOVED it an..."
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KARARI (KAUSHAMBI): Continuing with his relentless assault on the BSP led UP government on corruption, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a potshot at the ruling party on Friday and said that "the elephant (BSP symbol) in the state eats grass as well as sugarcane and sugar mills".
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Meatloaf in a fun muffin ! Submitted by BOINGO Carbs: 11.4g | Fat: 4.4g | Fiber: 0.6g | Protein: 12.8g | Calories: 138.3
This is one recipe for cauliflower everyone will love! Submitted by TERRYN3 Carbs: 6.2g | Fat: 4.3g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 2.9g | Calories: 68.8
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Great Substitute For Mashed Potatoes Submitted by COWGIRLSRM Carbs: 5.1g | Fat: 0.2g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 2.9g | Calories: 28.5
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This version of Chicken alfredo may be skimpy on carbs, but not on taste! Full of flavor and guaranteed to be filling! Submitted by BLSAWS5 Carbs: 3.1g | Fat: 36.5g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 12.3g | Calories: 384.8
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Yummy. Quick and easy too! Submitted by BINGOSMOM Carbs: 0.9g | Fat: 7.4g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 25.1g | Calories: 178
This a flavorful "casserole" without the noodles and rice found in traditional casseroles. Sorry no photo with this one... family ate it too quick! Submitted by JOEKNEE Carbs: 6.9g | Fat: 12g | Fiber: 1.2g | Protein: 26.9g | Calories: 240.1
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A quick, easy and healthy meal in minutes! Submitted by DEFREYTAG Carbs: 3.3g | Fat: 8.8g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 24.4g | Calories: 195
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Good crockpot meal for a cold day. Use whatever color bell peppers you like, I use yellow and orange. Ground beef is fine, but will add calories. Turkey cutlets can be subbed for the steak to reduce calories and fat. I use two kinds of meat to add flavor and texture. Submitted by CYNDIDAVISUSA Carbs: 8.6g | Fat: 4.8g | Fiber: 2.1g | Protein: 34.6g | Calories: 215.1
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Originally from anniesrecipes.com. May reduce calories more with lower fat cream of chicken soup. Submitted by LSLOCUM1 Carbs: 3.7g | Fat: 6.6g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 20.8g | Calories: 162.1
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Spanish dish best served over rice Submitted by GIZMOCAT1 Carbs: 12.7g | Fat: 22.9g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 14.7g | Calories: 309.9
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Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Low Carb Cookie adaptation. Submitted by GOONYWOO Carbs: 8.1g | Fat: 11g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 3.3g | Calories: 119.5
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On 3rd September 2011, my dearest cousin Gwen got married to Davy and I took some pictures on their special day. She looked breathtaking and it was a beautiful day! They picked one of the most sunny days in all of summer (which is quite a hard thing to do in Belgium) and the food was the best Italian food EVER! Everybody had fun and EVERYONE was dancing, unbelievable!
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The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
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Narrow, tree-lined fairways, undulating greens, and a flowing creek that dips in and out of play make Elm Creek Golf Course more challenging than its nearly 6,000-yard length might suggest. The balanced difficulty means golfers of all ability levels can enjoy an afternoon on the course.
Course at a Glance: * 18-hole, par 70 course (par 71 from the red tees) * Total length of 5891 yards from the back tees * Course rating of 69.0 from the back tees * Course slope of 125 from the back tees * Four sets of tees per hole * Scorecard
Early in the spring, when the threat of snow still hovers over the state of Minnesota, the golf course at Sundance Golf Banquet Bowl is open. Later in the fall, when the threat of snow once again looms and golf carts begin to go into hibernation, the course remains open. Over the years, the 18-hole, par 72 course has become reliable place for determined golfers to battle for being the first or last of the year to sneak in a round. Recently, Sundance augmented its links with a bowling alley, inviting visitors to escape the elements and pick up some strikes in the process. Away from all the competition, the facility's bar and grill refuels tanks with popular house-made pizzas, half-pound burgers, and plenty of beer and cocktails.
Designed by prolific course architect Joel Goldstrand, Rum River Hills Golf Club's 18-hole course weaves through 6,308 yards of water-lined fairways and undulating greens. Water hazards present challenges from the very first tee, where aggressive players may choose to lay up or drive balls over a pond to cut the corner off of a fairway that dog-legs right, setting up a favorable approach onto a green 413 yards away. Rum River Hills tests players' short game with undulating greens that take golf balls through more sharp turns than a golf cart driving through a grocery store.
A full-length driving range allows players to warm up before they take to the course, and the club's PGA instructors offer lessons for those looking to improve their swing mechanics. After a day at the links, course patrons can drop in at McDuff's Restaurant, which serves an expansive menu of salads, burgers, steaks, and pizzas. Inside the sunlit dining room, 11 TVs let guests catch up with live sports, while outdoor patio seating caters to those hoping to reverse engineer the technology of the lawn mowers maintaining the course below.
Course at a Glance: * Designed by Joel Goldstrand * 18-hole, par 71 course * Length of 6,308 yards from the farthest tees * Course rating of 71.0 from the farthest tees * Slope rating of 117 from the farthest tees * Four tee options
Staffed by experienced golfing professionals and computers who've sworn allegiance to the three laws of golfing robotics, GolfTEC's motion sensors and high-speed cameras monitor swings and break down each individual's form on a high-definition video display. Sensors chirp with approval whenever they detect the perfect stroke or an especially witty golfing joke. GolfTEC's certified teaching professionals will point out flaws and strengths while providing golfers with tips on how to permanently improve their game from tee to green.
Golfsmith's online and in-store showrooms house an almost endless list of golf gear for men, women, and children alike. Clubs, balls, and accessories from brands such as TaylorMade, MacGregor, and Callaway give players precise control over their game, and polos and long-sleeved shirts from Nike and Snake Eyes garb players in course-appropriate attire now that tuxedo T-shirts no longer qualify. Along with the extensive collection of equipment and golf bags, Golfsmith also carries GPS systems to give players a high-tech edge.
National Sports Center is one of the few places in the world where you can step from verdant fields onto stretches of ice. Eight ice arenas?four Olympic-sized, four NHL-sized?comprise more than 148,000 square feet inside the Schwan Super Rink. And as for the fields? The National Sports Center was originally conceived as a soccer complex, and it still boasts 52 fields. The Guinness Book of World Records has certified National Sports Center as the largest soccer complex on earth.
Hockey and soccer still only make up a small portion of the sports that are playable at the center. Those same soccer fields might host rugby on one day, lacrosse on another, and ultimate disc the following week, provided the discs have not flown south for the winter. The ice rink might host figure skaters as well as broomball teams. At the center's outdoor cycling velodrome, brake-free bikes race each other along a canted track, thrilling crowds every Thursday from late May to September. And of course, there's the Victory Links Golf Course, a 400-acre expanse that's home to an 18-hole championship course, a grass driving range, and an 18-hole bent-grass putting course. Players of all stripes can sign up for leagues and lessons in their favorite sport, or check out everything from expos to fitness classes on the calendar of events.


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Best Cup Of Hot Chocolate Ever
by Chris Malone
posted Dec 5 2012 5:05AM
OK, talking about hot chocolate when it's 80 degrees outside doesn't sound appealing but I'm hopeful it will cool off before Christmas. To me, a favorite Christmas memory is a cup of hot chocolate. As in the grits world no respectful fan would use instant, so here is a recipe for the best hot chocolate ever...at least for me! :)
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Use Solid Chocolate, NOT Cocoa Powder.
This is the most important thing to do. It's how you end up with something creamy and beautiful instead of disappointing and gritty and chalky. It's why the hot chocolate in Europe tastes like love and happiness.
The Chocolate Should Be Dark Chocolate.
Semisweet, bittersweet, or something in between (in terms of % cacao content) will all work. Dark chocolate makes a drink that's less sugary and more intensely chocolaty than if you use milk chocolate. And if you start dark, you can always adjust the balance by adding milk or sugar until it's just right.
Use About 2 oz. Chocolate For Every Cup Of Milk.
For a full batch of hot chocolate, that means you'll use two 4-oz. baking bars (the standard size you find at the grocery store) for every 1 quart (4 cups) of milk.
Use Whole Milk.
Or low-fat if you're feeling virtuous, or half-and-half if it's a special occasion. Skim is sad; cream is overkill. You want something right in the sweet spot.
Use Any Sweetener You Like, But Not Too Much Of It.
White sugar is not interesting. Try brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup instead. Maybe Sweet 'n Low, if that's how you roll. You don't need a lot, since this situation is pretty rich already — just a spoonful or two.
Heat Up The Milk And Sugar First, THEN Add The Chocolate.
You'll melt the chocolate into the milk once it's hot. This way there's no chance of overheating or burning the chocolate by melting it over direct heat; it's the same idea as making a basic chocolate ganache (hot cream + chocolate).
You'll Add The Chocolate And Any Other Ingredients When The Milk Starts To Bubble.
Throw your favorite ground spice into the mix to add a little drama. Here are some ideas:
chile powder
cloves (not a lot, this stuff is hardcore)
pimentón (smoked paprika) — have not tried this but WHAT IF it was amazing
You Can Use Cornstarch To Make The Hot Chocolate Extra Silky-Smooth (optional).
This moves things in a slightly more pudding-esque direction. Set aside a little of the cold milk while the rest is heating (about ½ cup) and whisk in the cornstarch (2 to 3 tsp. for 1 quart of milk) until it's smooth.
Add this mixture to the pot full of hot milk after you add the chocolate and whisk, whisk, whisk to make it smooth.
Always Add A Pinch Of Salt.
Yes, really, do it. It truly wakes up the chocolate and makes the whole thing more delicious.
If You're Sleepy, Add Caffeine.
Dissolve 1 Tbsp. instant espresso powder along with the sugar and milk, or just replace some of the milk with regular brewed coffee. This is actually delicious whether or not you need a pick-me-up; coffee has magical chocolate-flavor-enhancing properties.
If You Want To Be Sleepy, Add Booze
If you haven't thought about adding whiskey or rum or Kahlua or amaretto or peppermint schnapps to your hot chocolate, maybe you should. Pour a respectable glug into the mix to heat up just before you serve it. If you add it at the beginning, the alcohol might evaporate, which would be a tragedy!
Last But NOT Least: Never Forget Marshmallows.
They could be
DIY 'mallows
...Or giant 'mallows...Or adorable rainbow mini 'mallows. Whatever floats your cocoa.
Recipe adapted from
Southern Living
Baked Bree
Serves 4
8 oz. (two 4-oz. bars) dark chocolate
4 cups whole milk
1 Tbsp. brown sugar (or other sweetener) + more if you want
pinch salt
2 tsp. cornstarch
booze of your choice
1 Tbsp. instant espresso powder
ground spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, chile powder, etc.)
1. Chop chocolate into small pieces. The smaller they are, the faster and more smoothly they will melt.
2. Optional: If using cornstarch, whisk with ½ cup milk and set aside.
3. Heat milk, sugar, and salt in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir occasionally.
4. When milk begins to bubble around the edges, stir in chocolate and whisk until smooth.
5. Add cornstarch mixture and any other add-ins. Whisk until smooth and steaming hot.
5. Pour into cups and top with all the marshmallows you can cram in there.
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I'm willing to bet that "Comic Book Heroines" has never been a category on Family Feud because Wonder Woman is not only the obvious answer, it's practically the only answer. Meanwhile, mainstream films have spent so much time and money on male superheroes that they have to mine the dregs for new franchises. It boggles the mind that we have a Green Lantern movie and yet, we have never managed to bring Wonder Woman to the big screen. (And no, "Catwoman" and "Electra" do not count.) As least now we have "Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines." This thought-provoking and inspirational documentary about what a superheroine could and should be is a good start.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's film covers the history of the best-known comic book heroine and how the image of strong women has morphed in the media since William Moulton Marston created her in 1941. There are so few female comic book protagonists (super or otherwise), that Guevara-Flanagan has to include basically all media to have enough to talk about. We have had some proud moments ("The Bionic Woman," Ripley, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and some embarrassing moments (The Spice Girls). Regardless, when you stack it all up against the sheer volume of male-oriented stories, it pales in comparison.
"Wonder Women" asks a lot of seemingly obvious questions that have somehow eluded us. One such question is, "What are the consequences when women become strong." For women, there are always consequences. The film gives us a staggering statistic: Of the 157 female characters in action films, half are evil. The ones who are good end up dying in self-sacrificing ways, giving their lives for the dominant male heroes of the story. When Jean Gray becomes Dark Phoenix in "X Men: The Last Stand," she is the most powerful mutant of all. But, because of her womanly ways, she is too weak, both mentally and physically, to control that power. And so she must die. The body count that Thelma and Louise leave behind is a drop in the bucket compared to what the Punisher gets done before breakfast. And yet, they have to die because there is no room in the world for a couple of lady vigilantes. After fighting tooth and nail for 3 films, Ripley ends up killing herself to save a fucking men's prison colony.
In case you couldn't tell, "Wonder Women" got me really riled up. The fact that women are mis/underrepresented in media is not news, but when you see it all laid out in chronological order like that, it's pretty infuriating. Interviews with Lynda Carter (the "Wonder Woman" TV show) and Riot Grrrl pioneer Kathleen Hanna explore how the culture changed over time. "Ms. Magazine" founder and famed feminist, Gloria Steinem, beautifully orates how important it is for young girls to have super role models. Indeed, the film is filled with interviews with a multitude of smart, eloquent women explaining what should be evident but is so not: Girls need super heroes because they need to know that their gender is not an obstacle.
To drive the point home, the film also spends time with a couple of whip-smart young fan girls as well as a woman who wants to share Wonder Woman's message of "Justice, compassion and friendship among women" with her daughter. She has a tattoo of the Amazon goddess to remind her every day of her own strength.
It's not just the message of Guevara-Flanagan's film that stirs. This is a well-paced and beautifully edited documentary, which deftly utilizes clips and photo animations. With a paltry 65-minute run time, it's the first time in recent memory that I have wished a film were longer. This just drives home how parched we are for quality female-helmed and oriented films.
The good news is that there are some promising up-and-comers. They spend some time with students in a Seattle film program for girls. The students make their own film from start to finish. There are some very talented young ladies nipping at the heels of that big boy's club known as the Film Industry. Here's hoping they are able to break down the penis-enforced wall. Better yet, I hope that by the time they graduate from film school, their gender isn't an issue at all.
It's the personal stories that really got to me. I'm a tough nut to crack in terms of crying at a movie, but when the little girls started talking about what Wonder Woman means to them and how their moms are the real heroes, it was Niagara-fucking-Falls. If you have a daughter, it is a moral imperative that you show her this film as soon as possible. One little girl says that her mom "basically saves people every night" as a paramedic and that she would like to someday do the same. A fourth grade girl with a slight speech impediment talks about how Wonder Woman helps her through the pains of adolescence. "Sometimes I get picked on at school," she says. "But I just tell myself, 'Keep going, keep going, you're going to be more.' Because some day they're going to be wishing that they treated me better." You're goddamned right they will, kid.
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Doug Brunell on Sun, 1st Apr 2012 9:53 pm
Wonder Woman is far from being practically the only female super hero (Elektra, for the record, was an assassin before she got all good on us. Likewise for Catwoman.) Batgirl, Storm, Supergirl, Ghost, Sue Richards, Raven, Ms. Marvel, The Cat, Phantom Lady, Black Cat, Spider-Woman, Rogue, Marrow, She-Hulk, Spider-Girl, Scarlet Witch, Electrogirl, Wasp, Black Widow, Valkyrie, White Tiger, Moondragon, Mirage, Magma, Starfire, Black Canary, Tigra, Jubilee, Zantana, Marrina, Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde. That's the list I came up with without even thinking. Granted, there are far more male super heroes, but part of that is marketing. More males read comics than do females. Is that due to the fact that there are fewer female heroes or do to the fact that women aren't interested in stories where people beat the crap out of each other? Tough call, but there are plenty of kick-butt females out there (The Bride from "Kill Bill" comes to mind), and they are better written then the men. Now I think there is a lot of room to grow in this area, and while this film is something I am going to seek out, it sounds like the filmmakers didn't really dig deep enough. Of all the men in action films, how many of them are evil? Why didn't the filmmakers go more in-depth with the female heroes? I don't know how in-depth they go into the creator of Wonder Woman, but his story along has all kinds of feminist ramifications, as do the overwhelming amount of bondage covers/storylines Wonder Woman was part of in that beginning era.
Jessica Baxter on Wed, 4th Apr 2012 12:20 pm
They do cover the bondage aspect of early Wonder Woman as well as how Marsden envisioned (and hoped for) a matriarchal society in the future. They do mention many other female superheroes but point out how they are all subservient/inferior to the male superheroes in some way. I didn't want to summarize the entire movie, just touch on some of the major points. And don't even get me started on how Quentin Tarentino portrays women.
I suspect there will be many men who make the same argument as you that not as many women read comic books (there was one such guy at the screening I attended, who clearly didn't pay attention to the movie AT ALL). But that is NOT because girls don't like to read about ass kicking. This fallacy is what this movie is about. It interviews a handful of girls who are into ass-kicking ladies, but also shows many more at cons and at Wonder Woman day in Portland. Nonetheless, this movie isn't trying to convince men that women read comics. Clearly, no matter how many girls and women attend cons, there will always be men who swear that comic books are just for boys. This movie is for the girls who are already into them and need to know that they're not alone. As a secondary purpose, it's for girls who would be into them, but don't know it yet.
Doug Brunell on Sat, 7th Apr 2012 11:28 am
I am going to check this one out. I may not agree with all your views on it, but I do want to see where it goes. I'm still not convinced that all female heroes are subservient to male heroes, but that is a discussion for another place. I am, however, curious about what you think about Tarantino and his portrayal of women. You have me intrigued.
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Defense Transformation:
Preliminary Observations on DOD's Proposed Civilian Personnel Reforms
GAO-03-717T: Published: Apr 29, 2003. Publicly Released: Apr 29, 2003.
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DOD is in the midst of a major transformation effort including a number of initiatives to transform its forces and improve its business operations. DOD's legislative initiative would provide for major changes in the civiliean and military human capital management, make major adjustments in the DOD acquisition process, affect DOD's organization structure, and change DOD's reporting requirements to Congress, among other things. DOD's proposed National Security Personnel System (NSPS) would provide for wide-ranging changes in DOD's civilian personnel pay and performance management, collective bargaining, rightsizing, and a variety of other human capital areas. The NSPS would enable DOD to develop and implement a consistent DOD-wide civilian personnel system. This testimony provides GAO's preliminary observations on aspects of DOD's legislative proposal to make changes to its civilian personnel system and poses critical questions that need to be considered.
Many of the basic principles underlying DOD's civilian human capital proposals have merit and deserve serious consideration. The federal personnel system is clearly broken in critical respects--designed for a time and workforce of an earlier era and not able to meet the needs and challenges of our current rapidly changing and knowledge-based environment. DOD's proposal recognizes that as GAO has stated and the experiences of leading public sector organizations here and abroad have found strategic human capital management must be the centerpiece of any serious government transformation effort. More generally, from a conceptual standpoint, GAO strongly supports the need to expand broad banding and pay for performance-based systems in the federal government. However, moving to quickly or prematurely at DOD or elsewhere, can significantly raise the risk of doing it wrong. This could also serve to severely set back the legitimate need to move to a more performance and results-based system for the federal government as a whole. Thus, while it is imperative that we take steps to better link employee pay and other personnel decisions to performance across the the federal government, how it is done, when it is done, and the basis on which it is done, can make all the difference in whether or not we are successful. In our view, one key need is to modernize performance management systems in executive agencies so that they are capable of supporting more performance-based pay and other personnel decisions. Unfortunately, based on GAO's past work, most existing federal performance appraisal systems, including a vast majority of DOD's systems, are not currently designed to support a meaningful performance-based pay system. The critical questions to consider are: should DOD and/or other agencies be granted broad-based exemptions from existing law, and if so, on what bas; and whether they have the institutional infrastructure in place to make effective use of the new authorities. This institutional infrastructure includes, at a minimum, a human capital planning process that integrates the agency's human capital policies, strategies, and programs with its program goals and mission, and desired outcomes; the capabilities to effectively develop and implement a new human capital system; and, importantly, a set of adequate safeguards, including reasonable transparency and appropriate accountability mechanisms to ensure the fair, effective, and credible implementation of a new system. In our view, Congress should consider providing governmentwide broad banding and pay for performance authorities that DOD and other federal agencies can use provided they can demonstrate that they have a performance management system in place that meets certain statutory standards, which can be certified to by a qualified and independent party, such as OPM, within prescribed timeframes. Congress should also consider establishing a governmentwide fund whereby agencies, based on a sound business case, could apply for funding to modernize their performance management systems and ensure that those systems have adequate safeguards to prevent abuse. This approach would serve as a positive step to promote high-performing organizations throughout the federal government while avoiding fragmentation within the executive branch in the critical human capital area.
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Insight into Subcontractor Selection Is Limited, but Agencies Use Oversight Tools to Monitor PerformanceGAO-15-230: Published: Jan 29, 2015. Publicly Released: Jan 29, 2015.
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Federal Subcontracting:
Further Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Pass-through ContractsGAO-15-200: Published: Dec 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 22, 2014.
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Implementation by the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior's Bureau of ReclamationGAO-15-253R: Published: Dec 18, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 18, 2014.
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2014 UpdateGAO-15-224SP: Published: Dec 17, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 2014.
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Federal Subcontracting:
Linking Small Business Subcontractors to Prime Contracts Is Not Feasible Using Current SystemsGAO-15-116: Published: Dec 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2014.
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Federal Data Transparency:
Effective Implementation of the DATA Act Would Help Address Government-wide Management Challenges and Improve OversightGAO-15-241T: Published: Dec 3, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 3, 2014.
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Three Departments Reported Varying Degrees of Impacts on Operations, Grants, and ContractsGAO-15-86: Published: Oct 15, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 14, 2014.
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Program Evaluation:
Some Agencies Reported that Networking, Hiring, and Involving Program Staff Help Build CapacityGAO-15-25: Published: Nov 13, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2014.
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Federal Real Property:
Strategic Focus Needed to Help Manage Vast and Diverse Warehouse PortfolioGAO-15-41: Published: Nov 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2014.
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Jesse James:
Glad that worked out... GENERALLY people are honest I think, and they return a box that isn't theirs... It's so easy to transpose numbers but it's slightly less excusable on packages since, and that's even more so true right now since deliveries are slow for the USPS after Valentine's, but crap happens.
I had my carrier trying to get me to get my brother's wife, who lives out the road from me with her mother right now, to return a package she delivered to them on accident... Apparently calling her wasn't getting her to return it to the local PO or even leave it out for her to pick up.
I guess that means it's somehow up to me to track down my brother's soon-to-be-ex for her to get the package back to deliver it to the right person. ::)
Isn't opening someone's mail a federal offense?
Jesse James:
--- Quote from: JediJman on March 11, 2014, 01:00 AM ---Isn't opening someone's mail a federal offense?
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Big time!
Is It Illegal to Open Someone Else's Mail?
Anyone else get an email about the new changes going into effect today for sellers?
Upshot for me is no more free BIN listings for toys. That SUCKS, 90% of my sales are through BIN auctions. eBay was pushing these types of auctions for awhile and now they're pushing for auction style listings. I don't see why they can't stop jerking sellers around. Without us, they have no business.
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It's time to call Warmists "deniers"
Because they deny both science and fact to push an agenda that is demonstrably false. Yet have the temerity to call those who are skeptical of their claims "deniers". And, of course, they have their "scientific" mouthpieces as well. For instance:
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently released its "State of the Climate in 2012" report, which states that "worldwide, 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record."
But the report "fails to mention [2012] was one of the coolest of the decade, and thus confirms the cooling trend," according to an analysis by climate blogger Pierre Gosselin.
"To no one's surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control," writes Gosselin. "But their data shows just the opposite."
Well of course it does. It's not like we haven't seen this sort of thing from them before. It is "Headline" science. It's also Chicken Little Science. Always the alarmist. Always the problem … a problem that only government can fix, of course. And a problem that also includes you losing some freedom of action. You know, the usual prescription.
Then there's the confusion:
Although the NOAA report noted that in 2012, "the Arctic continues to warm" with "sea ice reaching record lows," it also stated that the Antarctica sea ice "reached a record high of 7.51 million square miles" on Sept. 26, 2012.
And the latest figures for this year show that there's been a slowdown of melting in the Arctic this summer as well, with temperatures at the North Pole well below normal for this time of year. Meteorologist Joe Bastardi calls it "the coldest ever recorded."
Oh, my … an "inconvenient truth". Now what?
Well, because the facts don't support the usual assertion, AP was forced to retract a photo and caption:
The Associated Press had to retract a photo it released on July 27 with the caption, "The shallow meltwater lake is occurring due to an unusually warm period."
"In fact, the water accumulates in this way every summer," AP admitted in a note to editors, adding that the photo was doubly misleading because "the camera used by the North Pole Environment Observatory has drifted hundreds of miles from its original position, which was a few dozen miles from the pole."
I guess they were out of distraught polar bears hanging on to a sliver of ice or something.
And then there's this:
NOAA also reported that the "average lower strastospheric temperature, about six to ten miles above the Earth's surface, for 2012 was record or near-record cold, depending on the dataset" even while the concentrations of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, continued to increase.
But don't worry … the real science will be ignored. Why? Because a certain set of politicans are sniffing the wind and they smell an opportunity to create a tax out of thin air. And that, my friends, is all it takes. Politicians and junk science … a marriage made in hell.
Cold Fusion?
So, there's this Italian guy named Rossi who has a little device he calls the "E-Cat" reactor tube. He says this reactor tube produces a Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR), or what the rubes call "cold fusion". Rossi has been a very secretive little fellow about his device, and has essentially been classified as either a crank or a scam artist—and has a white collar conviction record. So, he's not especially trustworthy. He's been challenged to submit the E-Cat to independent testing, because his claims about seem too good to be true.
Well, apparently he did. A team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, and Bologna University in Italy have uploaded a paper to Cornell's xarchiv pre-press archive server entitled, "Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device", in which they say they observed the E-Cat in two tests, during which says things like, "the E-Cat HT2's performance lies outside the known region of chemical energy densities," and it's "at least one order of magnitude above the volumetric energy density of any known chemical source." To wit, the paper says the team observed "observed power production of 2,034 Watts thermal for an input of 360 Watts."
Not everyone is convinced, of course, and there are still troubling references to Rossi's "industrial trade secrets". Skeptics are saying the physicists who took part in this are being hoodwinked by Rossi.
But if—and it's a big if—the paper's observations are true, then this is big. Really big. Still, it would've been nice if, in addition to the physicists, the team had taken a good journeyman electrician along, to look for the simple stuff.
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What? We've lost no ice mass in Antarctica? But "consensus" said we would!
And, as we've said for a while, "consensus" is wrong. I won't call it 'scientific consensus' because there's no such thing. And, as you'll see, there wasn't much science involved in previous predictions anyway. But first the news according to The Register:
Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time – and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
"Previous ocean models … have predicted temperatures and melt rates that are too high, suggesting a significant mass loss in this region that is actually not taking place," says Tore Hattermann of the Norwegian Polar Institute, member of a team which has obtained two years' worth of direct measurements below the massive Fimbul Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica – the first ever to be taken.
You don't say. And why is that?
It turns out that past studies, which were based on computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance, overestimate the water temperatures and extent of melting beneath the Fimbul Ice Shelf. This has led to the misconception, Hattermann said, that the ice shelf is losing mass at a faster rate than it is gaining mass, leading to an overall loss of mass.
The team's results show that water temperatures are far lower than computer models predicted …
So let me see if I get this straight … previous "scientific" studies were based in models that used no "direct data for comparison or guidance" and led us on this unscientific wild goose chase for what, 20 years?
But don't expect this to stop anyone. Scientific findings? Bah, humbug. They're meeting right now, under the auspices of the UN, to save the world from the dire predictions the same sorts of models have forecast for our future – most likely based on about as flimsy a basis as these models were.
The rational among us know that. The 'environ – mental' crowd, however, will ignore this as they have every other bit of actual contrary evidence and we'll continue to hear them claim that we're losing antarctic ice mass at an alarming level (because remember, that sort of land based ice mass is bad because it will raise ocean levels and that fits their worldview and their agenda).
Science per se is not at all something they worship – unless it says what they want it to say. If it doesn't, they feel free to ignore it and pretend the contrary info comes from charlatans and "deniers".
ICYMI: Global warming appears to have stopped 16 years ago
But, of course, it is one of the Obama administration's priorities (could it be because a carbon tax would most likely kill even more jobs?). Bottom line?
The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and sea, was issued quietly on the internet, without any media fanfare, and, until today, it has not been reported. This stands in sharp contrast to the release of the previous figures six months ago, which went only to the end of 2010 – a very warm year.
Of course the figures, as mentioned, were "quietly" released without an media fanfare. None. They were just plopped out there.
Die-hard warmists aren't going to pay any attention to it though. Just watch. Those who claim "science" should trump and we should be doing something to curb our carbon footprints really don't care about science.
Does it matter that campaigners and the media are actively peddling disinformation? For the most part, probably not, as the public is by now used to such nonsense on just about every subject from unemployment figures to Barack Obama's birth certificate. But there is one group that should be very concerned about the spreading of rampant misinformation: the scientific community. It is, of course, thrilling to appear in the media and get caught up in highly politicized debates. But leading scientists and scientific organizations that contribute to a campaign of misinformation — even in pursuit of a worthy goal like responding effectively to climate change — may find that the credibility of science itself is put at risk by supporting scientifically unsupportable claims in pursuit of a political agenda.
Absolutely. But back to Roger Pielke Jr's question at the beginning. Does it matter that politicians and the media are actively peddling disinformation? Yes, in fact it does. Because they are able, if they convince enough people, to force us to pay for one of their revenue schemes with the false science they peddle. So yes, it does matter. But his point about scientists is important as well. It is the scientific community that should be up in arms about the fiasco that global warming, or as warmists now prefer, "climate change", has been presented. Pure, grant peddling, hogwash.
Dr. Judith Curry at Georgia Tech says:
The data confirms the existence of a 'pause' in the warming. The impact of this pause within the climate dynamic community has been to focus increased attention on the impact of natural variability, particularly the impact of internal multi-decadal oscillations in the ocean. The new climate model calculations for the AR5 have focused on trying to assess what it would take to accurately simulate these multi-decadal ocean oscillations and how predictable they might be. These new observations and climate modeling results will hopefully impact the the IPCC AR5 deliberations so that we do not see the same overly confident consensus statements that we saw in the AR4.
Got that? They don't even know what it will take to simulate the "multi-decadal ocean oscillations". That should tell you all you need to know about the efficacy of the previous models which so "over confidently" claimed both viability and consensus. As we've since learned, they had neither.
Final nail? Oh, no. Zombie warmism will be with us until the newest man-made apocolypse is "discovered".
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Damn global warming!
This … this … this just can't be!
Antarctica has broken the record for the greatest sea ice extent ever measured at either pole. If current trends continue, the Earth will be completely covered with ice much faster than the climate models predicted.
It has to be nonsense, right? Is it the Onion? We all know ice is melting and sea levels are rising … the media tells us so. And then there's Al Gore, the voice of reason. We all know this can't be true. Just ask us:
OK, so the floating Arctic ice cap appears to be shrinking. Catastrophe if it goes on, right? As white ice reflects heat into space, past a certain point more and more heat will not be reflected, more and more ice will melt. Past such a "tipping point", the ice cap would never recover – it would vanish completely, taking with it the ice cover of Greenland which would cause huge rises in sea levels and Biblical flooding worldwide. Not so much, according to the latest research by German climate scientists.
Really? You mean, the ice isn't melting? The world won't flood? It's not getting warmer?
What's that you say? You have actual science to back that up?
Real world measurements are the best tools we have at our disposal to monitor what impacts, if any, our use of fossil fuels is having on earth's climate. Measured temperature increase has stopped for over a decade despite large increases in carbon dioxide. Loss and gain of sea ice in the Arctic is directly tied to cycles of warming and cooling ocean temperatures. Antarctic sea ice is increasing. Antarctic temperature is not increasing. The number of hurricanes around the world is not increasing and the strength of hurricanes worldwide is decreasing.
Antarctica's temperature is not increasing? You'll probably claim sea temperatures haven't risen either:
Using data from the Climatic Research Unit of the UEA, it appears sea surface temperatures may explain Antarctic Sea Ice at record levels. SST in the southern hemisphere have a cooling trend of -0.068C per decade over the last 15 years.
Oh, my. The sea has been cooling for all these years? But what evidence do you have that there's more ice?
Global average sea levels fell by 5mm last year, presenting an inconvenient fact in a climate change narrative that warns of severe long-term threats to coastal settlements. The 5mm decline was almost twice the rate of the 3mm-a-year average increase recorded over the past 20 years and three times the 130-year average rise rate of 1.7mm a year.
Wow … so how do we hide that decline?
Just askin'
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Oxygen isotope ratio cycles support skeptical climate change view
Anthony Watts publishes the following chart over at Watts Up With That:
It has nothing at all to do with CO2 but instead with Oxygen isotopes (O18). Why is that significant in the climate debate?
Oxygen isotope ratio cycles are cyclical variations in the ratio of the abundance of oxygen with an atomic mass of 18 to the abundance of oxygen with an atomic mass of 16 present in some substances, such as polar ice or calcite in ocean core samples. The ratio is linked to water temperature of ancient oceans, which in turn reflects ancient climates. Cycles in the ratio mirror climate changes in geologic history.
Connection between temperature and climate
The 18O/16O ratio provides a record of ancient water temperature. Water 10 to 15 °C (18 to 27 °F) cooler than present represents glaciation. As colder temperatures spread toward the equator, water vapor rich in 18O preferentially rains out at lower latitudes. The remaining water vapor that condenses over higher latitudes is subsequently rich in 16O.[2]Precipitation and therefore glacial ice contain water with a low 18O content. Since large amounts of 16O water are being stored as glacial ice, the 18O content of oceanic water is high. Water up to 5 °C (9 °F) warmer than today represents an interglacial, when the 18O content of oceanic water is lower. A plot of ancient water temperature over time indicates that climate has varied cyclically, with large cycles and harmonics, or smaller cycles, superimposed on the large ones. This technique has been especially valuable for identifying glacial maxima and minima in the Pleistocene.
Steve McIntyre notes:
Oxygen isotope series are the backbone of deep-time paleoclimate. The canonical 800,000 year comparison of CO2 and temperature uses O18 values from Vostok, Antarctica to estimate temperature. In deep time, O18 values are a real success story: they clearly show changes from the LGM to the Holocene that cohere with glacial moraines.
Given the high reliance on O18 series in deep time, one would think that paleoclimatologists would be extremely interested in a publication of the Law Dome O18 data and be pressuring Tas van Ommen on this point.
But despite the apparent opportunity offered by Law Dome, there has been virtually no technical publication of a high-resolution O18 or delD isotope series.
That's not to say, however, it wasn't offered:
On its face, Law Dome, which was screened out by Gergis and Karoly, is an extraordinarily important Holocene site as it is, to my knowledge, the highest-accumulation Holocene site yet known, with accumulation almost 10 times greater than the canonical Vostok site. (Accumulation is directly related to resolution: high accumulation enables high resolution.) The graphic below compares glacier thickness for some prominent sites for three periods: 1500-2000, 1000-1500 and 0-1000. its resolution in the past two millennia is nearly double the resolution of the Greenland GRIP and NGRIP sites that have been the topic of intensive study and publication.
A Climategate email shows that Phil Jones asked about the omission of the Law Dome series from the IPCC illustration in the AR4 First Draft. I asked the same question about the AR4 Second Draft. They realized that the Law Dome graphic had an elevated medieval period and thus, including it in the graphic would – to borrow a phrase from the preparation of AR3 – would "dilute the message" and perhaps provide "fodder to skeptics".
Why would it "dilute the message" and provide "fodder to skeptics"? Well look at the chart. A clearly defined Medieval Warm Period and no hockey stick.
Speaking of "inconvenient truths".
Much more on the subject here.
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Coal powered, er electric cars, not as efficient as EPA claims?
Why I'd be shocked, shocked I tell you if that was the case.
The Green Machine is now exposing how the US Government can choose to create data that disobey the laws of thermodynamics so that the worthless government policy of favoring plug in vehicles over gas or diesel powered vehicles can be supported by the public. Yes the US EPA chooses to make 34.4% equal to 100%.
Hmmm … I'm hooked, let's see why:
The EPA allows plug in vehicle makers to claim an equivalent miles per gallon (MPG) based on the electricity powering the cars motors being 100% efficient. This implies the electric power is generated at the power station with 100% efficiency, is transmitted and distributed through thousands of miles of lines without any loss, is converted from AC to DC without any loss, and the charge discharge efficiency of the batteries on the vehicle is also 100%. Of course the second law of thermodynamics tells us all of these claims are poppycock and that losses of real energy will occur in each step of the supply chain of getting power to the wheels of a vehicle powered with an electric motor.
So the 118 mpg equivalent that the EPA allows the Honda Fit is nonsense? Tell me it ain't so!
Well it is simple the US EPA uses a conversion factor of 33.7 kilowatt hours per gallon of gasoline to calculate the equivalent MPG of an electric vehicle.
Dr. Chu Chu of the Department of Entropy is instructing the EPA on thermodynamics in coming up with the 33.7 kwh per gallon. On a heating value of the fuel 33.7 kwh equals 114,984 BTUS which is indeed the lower heating value of gasoline. The fit needs 286 watt hours to travel a mile and the Green Machine agrees with this for the 2 cycle US EPA test with no heating, cooling or fast acceleration. Using this amount of energy per mile and the 33.7 kwh "contained" in a gallon of gas, the EPA calculates the Fit gets 118 MPG equivalent.
All of these calculations are in fact flawed as the generation of electricity, the transmission and distribution of electricity, the conversion of the AC electricity into DC electricity, and the charging and discharging of the vehicle batteries all have energy losses associated with these activities. The average efficiency of power generation is perhaps 42.5%, the transmission and distribution efficiency is perhaps 90%, the AC to DC conversion and the battery charge discharge efficiency is about 90%. Multiplying all these efficiencies one can calculate that the overall efficiency is 34.4% to get electric power from fuels at the power station into stored electrons within the plug in vehicle's batteries.
On this basis the 118 MPG equivalent is 40.6 MPG actual for the Honda Fit which is not much of an improvement to the gasoline version of this vehicle that has an EPA rating of 35 MPG combined for city and highway driving.
Uh, that's quite a little downgrade in performance, isn't it? Nothing like being 190% off, EPA.
However, I am glad to see the administration has finally taken the politics out of science and has "real" science again serving the public's best interest.
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Climate change skeptics have "the highest degrees of science literacy and technical reasoning capacity"
Shocking I know. In fact the findings are exactly the opposite of what those doing the study expected to find (via Nature.com):
As respondents' science-literacy scores increased, concern with climate change decreased (r=−0.05, P=0.05). There was also a negative correlation between numeracy and climate change risk (r=−0.09, P<0.01). The differences were small, but nevertheless inconsistent with SCT, which predicts effects with the opposite signs.
Contrary to SCT predictions, higher degrees of science literacy and numeracy are associated with a small decrease in the perceived seriousness of climate change risks.
Or to simplify, the difference between the believing herd and thinking individualists.
Speaking of the herd vs individualists, that takes us to the second claim:
If cultural cognition is merely a heuristic substitute for scientific knowledge and system 2 reasoning, reliance on it should be lowest among those individuals whose scientific knowledge and system 2 reasoning capacity are highest. SCT thus implies that as science literacy and numeracy increase, the scepticism over climate change associated with a hierarchical individualistic world-view should lessen and the gap between people with hierarchical individualistic world-views and those with egalitarian communitarian ones should diminish.
Not valid:
Among egalitarian communitarians, science literacy and numeracy (as reflected in the composite scale Science literacy/numeracy) showed a small positive correlation with concern about climate change risks (r=0.08, P=0.03). In contrast, among hierarchical individualists, Science literacy/numeracy is negatively correlated with concern (r=−0.12, P=0.03). Hence, polarization actually becomes larger, not smaller, as science literacy and numeracy increase.
Contrary to SCT's predictions, highly science-literate and numerate hierarchical individualists are more sceptical, not less, of climate change risks.
These results won't slow down the alarmists or stop them from calling skeptics scientifically illiterate. But it will allow skeptics to laugh in their face when they do.
Another in a long line of alarmist myths about AGW put to death by …. science.
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New UN IPCC report drops AGW as the cause of climate change
Roger Pielke Jr notes that the new IPCC report covering climate change seems to take the skeptical argument to heart and stick much more closely to actual facts and what is really known empirically. Says Pielke:
The full IPCC Special Report on Extremes is out today, and I have just gone through the sections in Chapter 4 that deal with disasters and climate change. Kudos to the IPCC — they have gotten the issue just about right, where "right" means that the report accurately reflects the academic literature on this topic. Over time good science will win out over the rest — sometimes it just takes a little while.
His examples from the report:
A few quotable quotes from the report (from Chapter 4):
-"There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change"
-"The statement about the absence of trends in impacts attributable to natural or anthropogenic climate change holds for tropical and extratropical storms and tornados"
-"The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses"
The report even takes care of tying up a loose end that has allowed some commentators to avoid the scientific literature:
-"Some authors suggest that a (natural or anthropogenic) climate change signal can be found in the records of disaster losses (e.g., Mills, 2005; Höppe and Grimm, 2009), but their work is in the nature of reviews and commentary rather than empirical research.
Maybe he's right. Maybe, finally, science will "win out". And I also hope that the administration that has said it will use science in its policy making process will now actually do so.
Hello, EPA?
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Fraudulent attack on Heartland Institute exposes Alarmist desperation
Sometimes it is interesting to let a story play out for a couple of day to see what's what. A couple of days ago I noticed a story on a blog which supports the Goresqe AGW nonsense with a story headlined "Heartland Insider Exposes Institutes Budget and Strategy".
Listed under the story are a number of documents which Desmog Blog claims to be from an email package sent to contributing members of the Heartland Institute.
I sent the link to Jim Lakely, an old friend and communications director at Heartland. I've known Jim for years and wondered if he'd seen the story at the link.
He wrote back quickly saying "yes" he'd seen it and it appears that one of the documents is a fake.
That's about the time I decided to sit back and watch while taking the time to read the documents for myself. For most of them, nothing was particularly surprising and certainly there was nothing particularly damning. If you're familiar with the Institute, everything mentioned in the documents was pretty well known except perhaps some of the donor information Desmog chose to expose. Obviously it was too important in their opinion to release the information quickly (apparently they released it within hours of getting it) and to heck with privacy concerns. These are the "bad guys" for heaven sake. They don't deserve the same rights or respect Desmog would most likely demand for themselves. After all, they take money from the Koch brothers.
But to the fake document. You can see it here.
What was missing from this collection of documents was something really damning. Something Desmog and their ilk could point too and condemn the Heartland Institute.
Well, conveniently, there was this "confidential memo" which fit the bill perfectly. It made statements like this:
Development of our "Global Warming Curriculum for K-12 Classrooms" project [emphasis original].
Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an effort to develop alternative materials for K-12 classrooms. We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools. Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. His effort will focus on providing curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain – two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science. [emphasis mine]
After reading that, you're supposed to believe that the dastardly Heartland Institute is against teaching science and, of course the further implication is that AGW is "science" while the skeptical side is anti-science. Of course that belies the fact that the Heartland sponsored climate conference this year, open to everyone, was billed as "returning the scientific method" to climate science, not abandoning it.
And can you imagine pitching "dissuading teachers from teaching science" to donors who have previously sponsored your effort to get the complete science out there?
Warren Meyer comments at Forbes:
For those of us at least somewhat inside the tent of the skeptic community, particularly the science-based ones Heartland has supported in the past, the goal of "dissuading teachers from teaching science" is a total disconnect. I have never had any skeptic in even the most private of conversations even hint at such a goal. The skeptic view is that science education vis a vis climate and other environmental matters tends to be shallow, or one-sided, or politicized — in other words broken in some way and needing repair. In this way, most every prominent skeptic that works even a bit in the science/data end of things believes him or herself to be supporting, helping, and fixing science. In fact, many skeptics believe that the continued positive reception of catastrophic global warming theory is a function of the general scientific illiteracy of Americans and points to a need for more and better science education.
Is the Heartland Institute developing such a curriculum? Yes. Is it designed to point out that the topic is "controversial and uncertain" and therefor be used to dissuade teachers from teaching "science". Hardly … what's the point in developing the curriculum then?
In fact the curriculum is designed to present those parts of the science of climate change that don't fit or contradict the faith based nonsense being taught and pushed by the alarmist side. You know, the "inconvenient truths". Controversy and uncertainty have and always will be a part of science, but certainly nothing which would stop it from being taught. This Rather-gateish attempt is the left trying to discredit an institution which has mounted a threat and is actually taking action against its alarmist creed.
Why do I compare it to Rather-gate? Two reasons. One, the fake doc. Heartland acknowledged the authenticity of all the documents but one. That document, it unequivocally stated, was a fake:
One document, titled "Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy," is a total fake apparently intended to defame and discredit The Heartland Institute. It was not written by anyone associated with The Heartland Institute. It does not express Heartland's goals, plans, or tactics. It contains several obvious and gross misstatements of fact. [emphasis original]
Check out Anthony Watt's analysis here. You'll see some Rather-gate like problems with the document. Then read Megan McArdle's (who, btw, is not a skeptic) total destruction of the memo.
Finally, again to compare it to Rather-gate, at least one journalist has decided to cool it for the moment, given the document that is the most damning is said to be fake. Heartland is pleased with that, however Warren Meyer made a little bet at the end of his Forbes piece:
If the strategy memo turns out to be fake as I believe it to be, I am starting the countdown now for the Dan-Rather-esque "fake but accurate" defense of the memo — ie, "Well, sure, the actual document was faked but we all know it represents what these deniers are really thinking." This has become a mainstay of post-modern debate, where facts matter less than having the politically correct position.
Andrew Revkin, the journalist in question, has indeed backed off for the moment, but:
Is Revkin himself seeking to win my fake-but-accurate race? When presented with the fact that he may have published a fake memo, Revkin wrote:
looking back, it could well be something that was created as a way to assemble the core points in the batch of related docs.
It sounds like he is saying that while the memo is faked, it may have been someones attempt to summarize real Heartland documents. Fake but accurate! By the way, I don't think he has any basis for this supposition, as no other documents have come to light with stuff like "we need to stop teachers from teaching science."
Expect to see the argument that the document does indeed expose "the core points" when, in fact, it does nothing of the sort, but instead implies things not in evidence in order to discredit the Heartland Institute and characterize it as an activist organization instead of a think tank. What this attack essentially says to me is that Heartland has finally achieved the level of "threat" to the AGW crowd.
Some things never change.
Well, except the climate.
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