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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL: I know you have -- or I think you just recently here in the last few minutes met with Admiral Locklear, General Thurman. So you're up to date on, I think, that, and I'd be glad to respond to anything you want to talk about there.
A couple of things. One, George thought it would be good to get some time with you all regarding the shutdown and anything that you want from me on that and anything else you want to talk about.
Last night I left the dinner a little early before the entertainment started to spend some time with Deputy Secretary Carter and our comptroller Bob Hale, acting General Counsel Bob Taylor just to get prepared for what we thought maybe coming, which now we know is in fact where we are.
Tonight, I have another conference call with them -- with the three of them to just assure that we -- we're all on track and we are prepared to do all the things that we need to do as people come to work tomorrow morning. Well, I guess it is tomorrow morning there, but they will be coming into work here in just a couple of hours.
You all have, I suspect, a pretty good assessment of, not only what happened, what didn't happen, but what this means generally for the Pentagon. And what will happen is, first, as you know, the president signed into law the exemption of our uniformed military. They will be paid regardless of how long this goes. And they're exempt. And so, our uniformed military are taken care of.
As to our civilians, I know Bob Hale, comptroller, noted that we'll probably have to furlough about 400,000 DOD civilians. And when they come to work here in a couple of hours, those that have been designated non-exempt will be told and will be asked to go home. And those who have been designated exempt will remain on the job and will be paid.
Our lawyers are now looking through the law that the president signed, along with the Department of Justice lawyers and OMB, to see if there's any margin here or widening in the interpretation of the law regarding exempt versus non-exempt civilians.
Our lawyers believe that maybe we can expand the exempt status. We don't know if that's the case, but we are exploring that, so that we could cut back from the furloughs some of the civilians that had to leave. We will continue to work on that. I don't know of the exact time frame on when we'll have recognition of where we think legally we are. But it's a priority that we have and that we're working on right now. And it's, in fact, the priority in our general counsel's office. I think that gives you, at least, a general assessment of where we are.
Now, just a couple of comments about it. I expressed myself, I think, rather directly on our flight over here about the irresponsibility of shutting down the United States government. I've been asked about why during my visit here to South Korea.
It does have an effect on our relationships around the world, and it cuts straight to the obvious question: can you rely on the United States as a reliable partner to fulfill its commitments to its allies? Here, this great republic and democracy, the United States of America, shuts down its government.
The Pentagon, even though we are exempted, our military, has no budget. We are still living under this dark cloud of uncertainty not knowing what's going to happen. This reflects on our missions around the world. It reflects our allies' questioning our commitments. It affects our planning as we are in the process, as you know, of preparing a 2015 budget as we are preparing for further significant cuts under the current law, Budget Control Act 2011, which means $52 billion in additional cuts. But all this is -- is uncertain.
Now we're going to be able to fulfill our mission of keeping this country, the United States of America, secure. And we will fulfill our mission of maintaining the alliances we have and our troops in South Korea, and Japan, and other treaty obligations.
But it does cast a very significant pall over America's credibility with our allies when this kind of thing happens. It is nonsensical, as I said on the plane. It's completely irresponsible. It's needless. It didn't have to happen. And I would hope that our Congress can find a new center of gravity of responsibility and start to govern, as is their responsibility. And it puts -- it puts us all in a very difficult spot.
And I think if -- just the human tragedy this has heaped on our civilian employees and -- and government employees across the spectrum. And as I said on -- on the plane, our security, United States of America's security, is not just relying on a strong military. Yes, you start there. But all these supporters in [inaudible] government are part of that support of our security.
And to think of what this is doing to these civilian employees and their families, in our case, and many other civilian employees in other agencies, they've -- they've taken furloughs already this year, administrative furloughs. Now we have legal furloughs.
This is going to impact the future of a lot of our employees. I've had -- I've had a number of senior civilian employees in DOD talk to me last few months about their futures. Their spouses are not happy. They have families. "How can we rely on a paycheck? How can we rely on a future? How can we rely on a career and a job when this is the way we're going to be treated?" And I don't blame them. And I don't blame them.
That human dimension often gets lost in this great arena of debate in Washington, what we're doing to our own people, what we're doing to the people who make the government function. Institutions don't function. People function. People make things happen. And if you don't have quality people, if you don't have people, then I don't care how interesting the theory is of government or political debate, it can't function. You will have a dysfunctional system, a dysfunctional government.
So this is serious, and I want you to know how I feel about it as secretary of defense. I know General Dempsey has talked to many of our people here in South Korea today. He has sent out on his Facebook and Twitter accounts his thoughts on this. All of our leaders, not just military, but our civilian leaders are upset about it because of what it's doing to our own people.
All right, with that, questions.
Q: Mr. Secretary, I just wanted to clarify one or two quick things. You talk about possibly expanding the civilians who would not be furloughed. Do you have any sense of how many that might involve?
And you said something about the ones who are -- are exempt from the furloughs. They would be paid. But do you know of -- will they be paid on time? Aren't they going to be not paid unless Congress allows that?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, let me take that first.
Q: Okay.
SEC. HAGEL: And then I'll get to the second.
It is my understanding that the same category that was included in the law that the president signed, our uniformed military being paid and paid on time. It would also apply to our exempt civilians, those who are exempt and coming to work would be paid on time just like the uniformed military.
As to the question of how many if we can find some margins here in the law, how many civilians we could call back, I -- I don't know. I think it -- we have to, as we are doing now, go through this and find out where the universe exists if it does to be able to expand that exempt list of civilian employees. And then that'll get us to the next steps on how many. We would obviously call back as many as we could possibly call back within the -- within the framework of complying with the law.
Q: Mr. Secretary, I know you said U.S. military will continue its missions --
SEC. HAGEL: Yeah.
Q: -- to secure the United States. But, you know, 400,000 people all of a sudden leaving their job, the backdrop of sequestration, the inability to plan very well, given the money coming from Congress, how much risk does this put on U.S. national security?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I -- there's no question that it impacts our mission. We're going to fulfill our -- our overall objective and mission of national security. I don't think there's any doubt about that, and that, by the way, includes the universe of the exempt civilians. So we're not doing away with all civilians.
Q: Understood.
SEC. HAGEL: So -- so we've still got a pretty significant number of civilian employees that will be coming to work. So we're not jeopardizing our security.
But -- but my point is this. As we plan for the future, as we plan for the downsizing which is already under way, has been by law and because of sequestration, when you take that number of civilian employees out of the mix of every day planning and working -- and they all work with these kinds of things -- you're going to impact readiness. You're going to impact a mission. There's no point in kidding about that.
But America should not be concerned that their security is now in jeopardy. It is not. It will not be.
GEORGE LITTLE: Do you have time for one or two more?
Q: Can you give us a sense -- you mentioned readiness. Can you give us a sense where these 400,000 people are going to come out? Is it all, sort of, readiness, maintenance? Or -- or what's going to get hit by the lack of --
SEC. HAGEL: Well, it's a -- it's a whole universe of areas that we designated, as you might recall last week. I think you all were briefed on some of this. We went through the process. We started it actually two weeks ago of classifying non-exempt versus exempt. So those statuses were pretty much defined by the end of last week in anticipation of worse case scenarios.
But I would leave that to Bob Hale to really get into the details -- answer your question. But generally I would say that it would apply to areas that do not have a direct bearing on our national security in conducting that national security and supporting those national security missions.
Now again, I said generally that not only DOD, but other agencies of government help with that too. So it's thinning out a support base. But anything that would jeopardize the security interests of this country we wouldn't do, and therefore, could legally comply with being exempt.
Yes? You had a question.
Q: I did. You talked about some of your senior DOD officials --
SEC. HAGEL: Yes.
Q: -- and expressing concern. And -- and so many civilians have already been furloughed. What would you say to them?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I occasionally have been a pretty good salesman in my life on a number of things. And I first tried to reassure them of their future, but I'm also very honest and always have been. I don't play games with them. I mean, the fact is, if you look at just what's happened in our government the last year in 2013, it's not very reassuring to people who have begun to build very promising, important careers. And their families rely on that, their wives, their husbands, their children.
And to see this kind of uncertainty now become almost a regular dimension of their career is very unsettling. And I don't try to convince them otherwise, other than -- I do believe this -- that we'll get through it.
I do think that we will find a new center of gravity of governing in the United States of America. I think we are seeing an evolving new coalition of governance start to appear. It'll probably take one election cycle or two before it's there.
But I do have confidence in our country. I do have confidence in our people. I do have confidence in almost a uniquely American self-correction process. We can fix our own problems, and we always have -- doesn't mean we always will. So those are the kind of things I say to them. But it's a serious problem.
Tony, and then we'll --
SEC. HAGEL: -- go. All right.
Q: For two years in a row, you've got sequestration affecting the department. The public has not been outraged. It hasn't pressured the law makers to roll it back. Now you've got shut down. Law makers haven't been pressured by the public to stop it. What do you contribute that to? There's a general sense of anti-government, apparently, that it's falling on your head, it seems like, in large measure...
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I don't think it's just DOD, but it's -- you're right, Tony, it's across the government. There's no question that there is a very strong anti-government feeling in the country. But it's also anti-institution.
You've heard -- some of you have heard me talk about this before, citing Gallop polls and others, the confidence, trust level rating of institutions in this country, in the United States of America, are as low as they have ever been except in military. The military still is up in the 70s. Everybody else is -- is at record lows.
When you have a society that has lost confidence in its institutions and its leadership of institutions, that's a serious problem. Now, I don't think there's anarchy coming. I don't think there's civil unrest coming, so I don't want to exaggerate.
But you're right. There's a very anti-government, anti-everything feeling in this country. I see it everywhere. I hear it everywhere. I hear it from friends everywhere. And I think it's -- it's just a large sense of people having great apprehension and mistrust about leadership.
When you look at the last 12 years -- and, by the way, this is not to blame anybody or any party or any leader. It's just the way it is. United States of American has been through, still is, involved in the longest war it's ever been in, our 12th year. We got out of one of the longest, Iraq, eight years, we'd ever been in. We got hit with the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, and most Americans were not alive.
So when you just take those three components and so many other thing that have happened in the last 12 years, you get to a point here, I think, where Americans have really been shaken and our off balance in many ways.
I believe we'll come out of that. We're just too good a country. Our fiber's too strong. Our people are too good. We have this self-correction process within our system. It is difficult now.
And the other part of this, I think, too, Tony, that has really shaken people's confidence in government and everything is how complicated the world is. I mean, you look at the Middle East. We've got all these people who have -- oh, they're so smart. They have their strategy on how to deal with Syria and how to deal with Iran. And so, why don't you just take the cook book -- the blueprint, and that's the way to fix all these problems.
Well, it's not. This is a very complicated world that we live in, very complicated. And it's going to get more complicated. So people think their institutions, government especially, have failed them. And in many ways, we have.
But I think the other part of this is -- and then I'll stop this long explanation -- is that most people alive today in America, of the 230 (sic) Americans were born after World War II a by vast majority. The expectations that we have -- and I was born right at the front end of the baby boom generations -- generation -- the expectation level that we have been born into has been as high as any generation probably in the history of man. And that all affects how people see the world.
It's not that I'm -- at all that I'm defending institutions or leaders. Institutions make mistakes. Leaders make mistakes. But it has now come together at a time that we've rarely seen in modern history.
Did you have a question?
Q: Well, I'm somewhat interested --
SEC. HAGEL: And then I'll get --
Q: -- in your observations as someone who's served in the Senate. For example, you no doubt remember encountering Senator Cruz during your confirmation hearing. And he's sort of the mastermind behind this strategy that led to the shutdown.
I'm -- what are your observations, a former senator, about how that body has changed and how the Congress has changed?
SEC. HAGEL: Well, I'm not going to tread too -- too far into that arena. I would just say this. You all are pretty astute and experienced observers of the Congress, and you'll come to your own conclusions of whether it's changed or not.
I do worry, though, about the essence of governing in a democracy and that we have -- we've seemed to lose, and that is consensus and compromise. No democracy can govern itself without consensus and compromise. It is impossible. And we seem to have lost that. We have seemed to have lost our way in that being an objective of governing. We have seemed to have lost our way in the objective of governing.
Most members of Congress, I think most people who hold public office regardless of their party or their philosophical persuasion, present themselves for office because they have some feeling about where they think a city or a state or a county or country should go. And they have some philosophical sense, meaning that they have some appreciation and obligation, responsibility, for governing, actually governing, making tough choices, making the big decisions, working with other people to make it work.
We've lost a good amount of that. We'll get it back. But that has -- that has changed.
MR. LITTLE: Thanks, everyone.
SEC. HAGEL: Thank you.


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2014 Jenks Leadership Program Service Projects
The culmination of the Jenks Leadership program is the service project. In teams of 4-6, Jenks participants design and execute a service project during the third module of their Jenks experience, using the skills and tools they have learned during their first two modules. Rather than assign a project to each team, students are given the opportunity, as a group, to choose an issue they are passionate about and come up with a creative approach to effecting change. Below are examples of a few successful projects.
Eagles Take Action
Eagles Take Action is a day of service geared towards first year students built around the idea of introducing them to community service at BC and showing them the meaning of leading a life of service. With this project, we aimed to present new students to the Jesuit core value of "men and women for others" and Jenks Leadership Program's emphasis on servant leadership. We partnered with organizations such as JumpStart, Haley House, Edison School, and Boys & Girls Club Dorchester, all of which have preexisting relationships with BC groups. By selecting this diverse group of organizations, we were able to cater to the individual interests of each volunteer and provide them a more meaningful experience. These tailored service opportunities offer a comfortable and friendly environment to foster community and build friendships outside the BC sphere. We ended the day with a panel of students with diverse backgrounds in service, on and off campus, who were able to provide insights about their experiences on volunteering and community building. Although small in its maiden year, we hope that the project will continue to develop and have a long lasting impact on all participants for years to come.
Hygiene for the Homeless
Our group aims to make a donation of hygiene products to the Woods Mullen homeless shelter in Boston. The shelter is run by Friends of Boston Homeless (FOBH), a non-profit organization that supports solution-oriented programs to help the homeless move beyond shelters to lead independent lives. The purpose of our service project stems from every member's aspiration to help the homeless community in Boston since a large proportion of that community is made up of teenagers and young adults our age. We identified that Boston's homeless shelters were lacking in hygiene products, and this concerned us the most since hygiene plays such a large role in health and quality of life. Therefore, we decided to fund raise and buy the products under the mentality of promoting the health and wellbeing of the Boston homeless community. We pride ourselves in our transparency philosophy when we fundraise, where each of our donors understands what type of hygiene products can and will be bought with each donation. In addition to the donation of hygiene products, we also hope to develop a lasting charitable partnership between FOBH and Boston College.
Our project is to promote sustainability on campus. To do this, we designed a two-pronged campaign centered around Recyclemania, a five-week-long nation-wide competition between colleges and universities to achieve the highest recycling rate. The first component of our project was a promotional campaign that aimed to utilize social media as well as more traditional publicizing methods to increase awareness of and participation in Recyclemania at BC. To do this, we created a Facebook group in which we posted our weekly rankings in the competition, held a poster design competition and posted the winning poster on campus and online, got articles published in The Heights and The Gavel, and held an Instagram "Caught Green-handed" competition. The second component was an event in The Mods. We replaced the tops of the recycling bins with new blue tops, and had passerby sign the inside of the tops to "leave their mark" on BC, and provided information about recycling at BC as well as food, reusable water bottles, and Recyclemania pins.
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Katharina Schreiber is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she has taught since 1985, and served two terms as Department Chair. She received her PhD from Binghamton University, and has also taught at the University of Connecticut and the University of Arizona. She began her field research in the central highlands of Peru in 1974, and has dedicated a large portion of her investigations to the pre-Inca Wari Empire. She is the author of the 1992 book, Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru, as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Since the late 1980s she has worked extensively in the Nasca region of the south coast of Peru, and is the co-author of two books on the ancient hydraulic works there: Irrigation and Society in the Peruvian Desert (2003) and Aguas en el desierto [Waters in the desert] (2006). She has also conducted investigations in the Cuzco region and at Machu Picchu on Inca archaeoastronomy, and has published several articles on Inca culture. Her fieldwork has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. She has been the editor of the journals Latin American Antiquity, published by the Society for American Archaeology, and Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology, published by the Institute of Andean Studies. She is the editor of the Iowa Series in Andean Studies for the University of Iowa Press, and she has just completed a three-year investigation of Wari imperial sites in the upper Nasca region.


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Tunis — The third Airbus A320 airliner purchased by national carrier Tunisair is expected to land on Monday afternoon at Tunis-Carthage airport. Named Aziza Othmana, the aircraft has a 162-seat capacity, including 32 in business class and 114 in economy class, and an economical cruising speed.
According to Mr. Faouzi Moualhi, Director at Tunisair, the airliner cost 60 million dinars and provides more security and comfort for passengers with some components manufactured in Tunisia by French company Aerolia .
In a statement to Tap news agency, Mr. Moualhi announced that the company will take delivery by the end of 2017 of all the aircrafts acquired as part of the purchase contract concluded with French Airbus Group worth 1 billion euros (about 2 billion dinars) and providing for the purchase of 16 aircrafts, including 10 Airbus A320, 3 Airbus A330 and 3 Airbus A350.
He went on saying that the company is to receive in 2014 two Airbus A 330 airliners and a third one in 2015. The new aircrafts, Mr. Moualhi said, will be used for long-distance flights such as Tunisia/New York, Tunisia/Montréal and Tunisia/China, adding that the old A300 aircrafts will be sold as part of an international invitation to tender.


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Pro/con: Should climate change have been a campaign issue?
November 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Yes: Candidates' silence was politically reckless
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November 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Yes: Candidates' silence was politically reckless
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This is an issue where some conservatives really show their ignorance, or if it isn't ignorance it is just refusal to believe the evidence—somewhat like the way they refused to believe Nate Silver's (and others like him) election projection. Willard was shocked (shocked!) when the results started coming in and he wasn't going be elected president. The same conservative entertainment complex is lying to the Fox News and the right-wing radio audience about climate change. Climate change is real, but as long as some people on the right remain in their bubble, they will keep believing the people who are lying to them.
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I truly expect that very few people are denying climate change is happening. Geological evidence proves that climate change has been happening since before this planet developed an atmosphere. BTW: Did you notice that "Global Warming" went out of favor by the alarmists right away because the scientific community wouldn't buy into that term but scientists would agree that climate is always changing so the alarmists switched to using "Climate Change" because scientists would then agree that yes, the climate is changing, as it has been doing for billions of years. What is in question is the degree to which human activity (specifically US citizens) impacts climate change. Citizens of the United States realistically cannot change enough to compensate for all the foolish pollution practices still occuring in the Amazon, India, China and many of the developing third world, not to mention natural occurances such as deep sea methane eruptions and volcanic activity. For the alarmists to blame the US citizens for solely impacting the climate is to overlook the rest of the world which is assinine and therein is why the debate develops.
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Ulysses wrote, "For the alarmists to blame the US citizens for solely impacting the climate is to overlook the rest of the world which is assinine (sic) and therein is why the debate develops." That is just a silly statement. I challenge Ulysses to back that statement up with an example of an "alarmist" who blames the United States solely for climate change. BTW, I have no problem with the term "global warming."
Ulysses's post is nonsensical—it is just a bunch of words thrown together into a paragraph that doesn't even really address the issue. There is no debate within the scientific community that human activity has affected this change in climate—the peer-reviewed (I repeat, peer-reviewed) studies that support that fact are overwhelming. Today's global warming deniers might as well deny that the earth orbits the sun as well, because it is almost that silly to still be denying the scientific evidence. Anyone who has access to Google shouldn't be so uniformed, but I guess they are so committed to their ideology, that they would rather side with liars than the scientists.
The following link is from NASA. (The same people who faked the moon landing)
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I meant to type "uninformed," but I accidentally typed "uniformed." I try not to be the type of person who finds a typo or a misspelling and then says, "you misspelled a word so your argument is wrong and you are an idiot." I try to give people (even people who I disagree with) the benefit of the doubt. I pointed out Ulysses's misspelling only to show that the mistake was his and not mine. I know a lot really smart folks who really can't spell all that well.
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And 25 years ago the Chicken Little "the sky is falling" alarmists were crying about Global Cooling. The world was going to freeze over and all life would die. Or are you too young to remember that alarmist cry? Alarmists are always alarmists and need an issue to justify their existence or else they don't feel worthwhile. You might want to "follow the money" when talking climate change. Al Gore, remember him and his factually inaccurate "An Inconvenient Truth" movie. Well that movie has been debunked and probably should be filed under fiction nowdays, but it served its' initial purpose. The movie started the cash flow into Al Gores own Carbon Exchange business. He might have been just a little more believeable if he hadn't gained millions upon millions of dollars from pushing bad facts to further the scare for his profit. Yup, just follow the money and the inconvenient truth becomes clear.
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Not that climate science should be entertaining, but try this series on Youtube (that is an internet site General) Climate Crock of the Week , it was created by a grandson of a Minnesota miner. It will give plenty of clean answers to goofy claims like the 'little ice age'.
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Oh Ranger, I am so embarrased for you. In your post you deny the existence of the little Ice Age (which did in fact happen, was world-wide and was about 1300 thru the year 1850) and as such really impunes your presumed intelligence. Yes I was wrong on one point: The contemporary ice age scare I was referring to was 38 years ago, approx 1972 to 1975 not the 25 years ago I mentioned and you can Google that any time you want to prove yourself wrong. At the time there were droves of scientists verifying the data and then along with the media climbing on that bandwagon too. So yes the Chicken Littles like you come along each generation and embrace any issue that makes their existence feel worthwhile. Apparently the next batch of Chicken Littles are now trying to drum up support for a new ice age coming at us. The only thing that these scares prove is that climate is indeed changing, as it as for millenia, and that nobody has a crystal ball to really see what is next.
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There were never "droves of scientists" verifying the global cooling theory. It had very little support in the scientific community – the only reason it got any publicity at all was due to a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 40s to the 70s.
The only similarity between global warming and global cooling is that you don't understand either of them. You might as well be saying that since the flat earth theory was proven wrong, the round earth theory must also be wrong.
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News just in from the Bubble, another Global Warming denier uses the 1970s people were writing about "Global cooling" argument. The anti-science caucus stands and applauds.
Of course, a survey of the literature published in 2008 notes that even back in the 70s, the possibility of global warming dominated the literature, see http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1
and there was very little discussion of global cooling.
So, yes, another Bubble Theory that does not actually conform to those darned inconvenient facts. 😉
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Alarmists simply know that if you truly want to make someone act on an issue quickly, you need to make them afraid of it. The only way to make them afraid is to over estimate the effects.
To say that there is no need to take measures to prevent us from having an effect on the climate just because the people trumpeting the problem are alarmists is rather dismissive. It is naive to believe that we could not possibly do enough to affect the planet in a negative manner.
Addressing the issue now is the smart thing to do.
You could bet on climate change never happening, but if you are wrong the consequences could be disastrous.
If you bet on climate change being a real problem, the potential consequences are much less dire.
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I should clarify, by "climate change never happening" I mean "climate change not being affected by humans".
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I actually lol'd at Vune's comment! 😀
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Vune and RickM: Your desperation to cling to the alarmists talking points shows through very clearly. Fact: The Global Cooling scare was indeed well publicized and discussed in virtually all major print media at the time. Your vain attempts to re-write history is exactly what proves your ignorance of the facts and thusly invalidates your arguments. I am not dismissing the data that indicates our planet is in a warming period right now but for ignorant alarmists to blame only the Citizens of the United States for the warming further proves the desperation on their part to try to gain traction for their claims. Alarmists should, to become believable, look outside our boarders at the pollution spewed by the developing countries, countries who will basically thumb their noses at alarmists who want those countries to sacrifice their economic growth for the sake of climate change. Alarmists should also look at sunspot activity. The Maunder Minimus was a period of very low sunspot activity which roughly corresponded to the Little Ice Age. We are in a period of high sunspot activity and are you going to try to claim the sun has no effect on this planet?
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The Media and the Scientific Community are two different things. I think you misread my post.
If you want to know why the sun isn't a major factor in climate change, google "Solar Flares" & "Global Warming."
None of us are bringing new information to the table here, you included. We're all just repeating arguments other people have made. The people you call "alarmists" are repeating scientific consensus. You are repeating ideas that were debunked years or decades ago.
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Vune: It is actually quite amusing reading your posts parroting the liberal propaganda and your attempts at misinformation and redirection. You obviously do not realize that Solar Flares and Sunspot Acitvity are two different things, but not much can be expected from someone who only repeats the liberal talking points without actually doing any research. Thanks for the laughs. BTW I did not deny that climate change is happening, I only question the wisdom of us sacrificing our countrys' economy for the sake of trying to solve a problem being exasperated by human activity in all countries along with geologic and solar influences over which we have no control and is a problem over which we will have an infitessimal effect even with our best efforts.
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Laugh it up. You're right that I should've said sunspots, not solar flares. That doesn't change anything. Replace one with the other in that google search and you'll find the same conclusions.
You can snicker all you want about how I'm willing to admit that I'm not a climatologist, but the fact remains that you're repeating irrelevant, debunked theories.
And you're putting words in my mouth. I'm not accusing you of denying climate change completely, I'm accusing you of denying that mankind has had any affect on it. Am I wrong in that? Am I putting words in your mouth too?
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Vune: Yes indeed you are either trying to put words into my mouth or you can't read. Remember what I said "I only question the wisdom of us sacrificing our countrys' economy for the sake of trying to solve a problem being exasperated by human activity in all countries along with geologic and solar influences over…." . If you can read my post properly you should be able to understand that I AM INDEED admitting that mankind has an influence on the problem of climate change and the current warming trend. BUT it is foolish to the max to think that the United States should bear the burden of changing so dramatically that we offset the influences of the pollution being spewed by all the other countries on this planet plus the naturally occurring events.
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Well, if you read all the posts you've been responding to correctly, you'll see that nobody is saying that the US alone should bear the burden of changing. But we're in no position to preach to other countries until we get our house in order.
We don't get to vote on what China does, and we don't get to vote on the intensity of sunspots. The only thing we can change is our own behavior.
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Ulysses, there is no liberal propaganda in America. You should know better. If there were liberal propaganda, there would be pundits on TV in support of Cuba and Venezuela, talk radio hosts denouncing the waste of fossil fuels, alternative media preaching against managers and landlords, and news media announcing that wealthy capitalists aught to sleep on the streets. Unfortunately, the propaganda in this country is the other way around, and it happens to either coddle to or outright champion your side of the aisle.
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The old General really cannot help himself. Falling back on lame excuses to shiled oneself from responsibility is what a large chunk of the conservative world relies on in a shallow attempt to deflect the real facts. Mountinas of evidence and projections were created in the 1980-90's and the projections are coming true at an alarming rate. Cause and effect.
We all have a responsibility, but we all have to own up to the science first. All of us, even old Generals.
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It is interesting how the "global warming" folks deride those who note unusually cold weather and then use recent weather phenomena as proof of climate change. Hurricane Sandy–Really? We've had many storms that were more powerful. Drought? Remember the 1930's? It's only a matter of time before gay marriage is blamed on "global warming." Global warming, or if you prefer, climate change, has become the buzz word for any phenomenon that happens in nature. We now have an "explanation" for these events, which lessens the anxiety that arises from thinking that some things just happen.
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Some global warming people did indeed posit that Sandy might have been affected by global warming and others were much more measured (in fact, several I saw interviewed on News shows immediately following Sandy noted that global warming may have only played a small part). Part of the problem is that our models have a tougher time integrating related factors. For example, Midwest drought has an indirect effect and how much of that is related to Global Warming? We have had a run of large forest fires in various places around the country, Global Warming is related, but so are our practices on firefighting. Lots of other things relate. An interesting article from National Geographic back in June noted a larger than expected rise of sea levels on the East Coast and predicted that the East Coast would have more flooding problems (see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120625-sea-level-rise-east-coast-us-science-nature-climate-change/).
In any case, I would be happy to continue to have scientists continue to analyze and give us their best projections, but I also think we should stop trying to deny their work simply because we don't like their stance.
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If only it were that simple.
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BTW, "Climate Change" is not a replacement term for "Global Warming." The overall trend continues to be "Global Warming." Unfortunately, some of the folks who hear this term assume that that means a simple increase of temperatures uniformly across the globe (and some in cold regions even think that is a good idea). But our planet is a very complex system, and overall warmth can translate into a variety of trends including more violent storms (both under warm and cold conditions), droughts, excess rain, etc. So, when talking about the effects of Global Warming we use the term Climate Change, because that accurately reflects what people will experience.
Its simple, Global Warming leads to Climate Change, not uniform warming.
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Well put.
Too many people cling to the term "Global Warming" and then say "AHA!" once there is a month of below average temperatures, as if that is some kind of proof against climate change.
Those that claim climate change is solely to blame for Sandy are trying to pinhole the issue, trying to make it black or white, left or right, liberal or conservative. In reality, climate change has a whole lot of grey area.
We don't know exactly what will happen, we can only predict based on past events and there are factors in play now that were not there in the past. We can only guess based on computer models.
The prudent approach would be to err on the side of caution.
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Kind of like the people who see a month of above average temperatures and say "AHA!" and call it global warming? Or is that different?
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Exactly, true scientists do not look at a month of above average temperature and make conclusions. They look for long terms trends and other indications. And its true, the data does not allow for a 100% prediction. But at this point, the probability seems to be very high, and the overall effects seem like a big deal, so people think we should do some reasonable things to try to address the problem (not providing tax breaks for the oil and coal industries would be a good start).
And as to the notion that humans cannot create macroscale changes in the environment, its not a very credible argument. For example, PBS is going to play a two-night special on the Dust Bowl on 11/18 and 11/19 by Ken Burns. Clearly a man made change to the environment. The Hudson river (both the pollution and cleanup), acid rain, etc. Lots of examples.
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DanH & Rick, accd. to MSP Strib meteorologist Paul Douglas we have experienced about 300+ consecutive mths. of worldwide increasing aver. temps. or about 30 yrs. of mthly ww increases in aver. temps. So much for your minimizing of warming trends.
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Actually Rick, my comment was for Denier DanH.
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By most accounts modern day temperatures have been phically recorded for only 138 to 160 years (depending upon what source you look at). Hmmm, by coincidence the first years of that written record period happens to be the years at the end of the Little Ice Age. So if you compare ice age temps to todays temps what do you think you are going to see? Yes temperatures can be roughly extrapolated from geological evidence but that evidence also shows that this planet has been going up and down in temp for about 4.5 billion years, so in light of that thought how long a period is 160 years? .0000000355% of the earths life. Pretty insignificant period of time to be an alarmist over.
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Nope, that is no different. It stems from a complete and utter misunderstanding of the science behind the issue.
Global Warming is an inaccurate term, as the problem is not limited to a warming trend. The earth has many safeguards to balance the overall temperature. If the air temperature increases, the ice caps absorb that heat up and melt, thus lowering the air temperature and preventing it from overheating. That is just one of the methods the planet has to maintain balance. This is the way it has been for thousands and thousands of years.
The problem now is that we have a factor in play that never was in the past, human intervention. Since we only have about 100 years of industry to refer to, the sample size is way too small to be able to determine the actual affect we are having, but all the information we have points in a bad direction.
Think of it this way, you have all your money invested in one stock and it has done well the entire time you have had it. But, you are noticing rumblings of instability and concern among those that study the stock. Are you going to keep your entire life savings in that stock and risk your future, just because you are stubborn?
No, you are going to diversify. You are going to hedge your bets against the potential for this stock to fail.
That is how most people who actually understand the science behind it feel.
Sure, there are idiots on both side of the argument. Those idiots harm the overall credibility of the people who know what they are talking about on both sides.
But that does not change the fact that there is science behind the concern, and we should not ignore the potential for disaster.
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Dorkus, what is attributable to MMGW is the intensity of Sandy not its occourence. That is exactly what scientists predict, i.e., frequencies & intensities of extreme weather will become more pronounced as MMGW progresses. IOW, if you more evaporation due to warmer air you will have more extreme precip. events.
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I understand that.
I said "people that believe that climate change is SOLELY to blame for Sandy". Meaning that there are people out there that do not understand or explain that climate change likely only increased the intensity, they just say "look, a hurricane in New York, there's the proof of climate change".
That kind of short-sighted proof harms the legitimacy of the concern.
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Pro MMGW scientists do believe the Earth was headed into another ice age but qualify that belief with data that show Man made CO2 is canceling out the coming ice age & delaying it indefinitely. We are caught between a rock & a hard place it seems. If we were to mitigate our CO2 production we might be able to hit a happy medium & kill 2 birds with one stone, i.e., slow the ice age onset & yet save the planet from overheating & further mass extinctions.
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Ulysseus, you forgot glacierology studies in Antarctica can track CO2 ice content going back as long as Antarctica has had an ice cap & it shows the CO2 content of the atmosphere is @ its highest in 600,000 yrs.
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Ulysseus says, "You obviously do not realize that Solar Flares and Sunspot Acitvity are two different things, but not much can be expected from someone who only repeats the liberal talking points without actually doing any research. Thanks for the laughs".
Increasing Sunspots are warming the Earth. The difference now from previous high Sunspot activity is that the increased incoming Sunlight can't escape from the Earth's atmosphere @ the end of the day like it could before there was less CO2 than now trapping it.
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I'm impresses spearman. You are one of the few libs that are willing to aknowlege that the current increased sunspot activity does in fact have a warming effect on the Earth. Yes I agree that atmospheric pollution can have a blanket effect of holding in the heat. One additional point to consider…as atmospheric pollution increases, less and less Sun generated warmth will be able to penetrate (it will be reflected back to space by the pollution particles) and so at some point there is a tipping point at which the Earth will begin to cool thanks to pollution. Incidentally, if you do some research you will discover that increased storm activity is actually beneficial to the planet because rainfall is one of the most effective ways to wash CO2 out of the atmosphere. It is almost like the Earth is trying to heal itself. Also mankind could reduce CO2 by planting a lot more trees and bushes and stop destructive cutting of trees, especially in the rainforests because trees and bushes breath in CO2 and exhale oxygen. Proper management of the renewable resource of trees plus enhancement of that resource by planting more and more is very beneficial to mankind and this planet.
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spearman, just for you edification google this topic:
The Year Without a Summer 1816
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spearman, first line of earlier post should read: I'm impressed spearman. Sorry for the typo, I was truly trying to pay you a complement and either my fingers or my keyboard malfunctioned.
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General, I would like to personally thank you for helping to guarantee the continued demise of one of the major political parties into that of a minor organization who entertains itself with nonscience and cries to return to the social norms of the 1800's. You are living proof of evolution. Thank you thank you thank you……….
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There was only a small fraction over 50% of voters voted for Obama so the reports of the demise of the republican party are premature. It is also interesting to note that the enemies of the republican party claim to articulate what will rescue the party, embracing radical leftist extremism. Embacing the extreme left requirement of non-stop lying is nothing I can accept.
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You'll note that nobody was proclaiming the death of the Democrat party after their historic losses in 2010. Then again, I always forget which standard we're working with on any given day.
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An erroneous assumption that change in the climate is necessarily bad doesn't address the fact that the warming of the Earth since the last ice age has been undeniably beneficial.
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Climate Change shouldn't be an issue because of a potential doomsday scenario. It should be an issue simply because we shouldn't be squandering non-renewable fuels the way we do and putting so much pollution into the air. Conservatives always have to complicate it more than it needs to be. "Oh, there's sunspots", "Oh, there were ice ages before"… there's always some exception that the right-wing can lean to in order to fulfill their own profit seeking objectives. But it doesn't need to be that complicated. There's too much pollution. There's not enough resources for our economy to go on this way forever. And, as it happens, we also know another planet in our solar system that has fallen victim to the runaway greenhouse affect. That shouldn't be the main reason against being complete a$$#0!es to the planet, but it is one (of many) talking points.
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The left has dreamed up a doomsday scenario. Actually the left should be salivating over doomsday because they don't believe we belong here anyway. We are a part of nature they can't accept.
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Locker-Room Culture Change Starts Now
Ten Things I Think I Think
1. I think the most meaningless, dumb story of this offseason is the constant, unending, logic-defying debate over who is the Jets' starting quarterback, and that anything done before the battle is joined once training camp is a tangible factor in who will win the job—Geno Smith or Michael Vick. To recap all that matters: Smith is the incumbent. Smith gets the first snap in training camp. Vick was brought in to compete with Smith, whose minus-9 TD-to-pick differential and 66.5 rating was the worst for any starter in the league last year. Smith and Vick will compete for the job. If Smith is better or it's a tie or it is a close competition in camp, Smith starts. If Vick is markedly better or Smith flops in camp, Vick starts. Period. End of invented story.
2. I think no matter what owner Woody Johnson, GM John Idzik, coach Rex Ryan, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, Smith, Vick or John Carollo—he's the team dentist; surely he is the only one related to the franchise who has not yet been quoted on the subject—says, very little matters until we see Smith and Vick competing in practice and preseason games this summer. OTA practices matter a small amount; but no matter what impression is left this month, it will be overtaken by the reality of padded practices in full-squad camp and in preseason game action in August.
3. I think there's an incredible story out there, waiting to be written about Josh Freeman. It could be called: "How to ruin your football career in just 18 months." In the span of the past year and a half, Freeman:
- Threw for 4,065 yards at age 24 in 2012, appearing to be one of the best young quarterbacks in football for a young Tampa Bay team.
- Had his work ethic questioned in Tampa, where he was mostly scarce on game-planning Tuesdays, a day very few if any starting NFL quarterbacks take off.
- Was benched by coach Greg Schiano in Tampa.
- Was cut by Tampa.
- Was signed by Minnesota last October.
- Completed 43 percent of his passes, a laughable figure, in seven games in 2013.
- Lost his only start as a Viking, to the previously winless Giants.
- Got cut loose by the Vikings after the season.
- Got signed April 21 by the Giants, who planned to give him a chance to win the number two job behind Eli Manning.
- Got cut by the Giants on Friday.
4. I think it's easy to say Sean Lee is injury-prone and leave his latest bit of terrible news—he suffered a torn ACL last week when he was jarred by rookie offensive lineman Zack Martin at a non-padded Dallas workout—at that. But with DeMarcus Ware and Lee gone for 2014 (Ware was cut in a cap move), and defensive tackle Jason Hatcher not re-signed, I cannot see any way new defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli can make a strong defense out of what he has left in Dallas. Talk about pressure on Tony Romo. He certainly was looking forward to not having to outscore every team he played this fall. Now, the Cowboys' only real chance for the playoffs seems to rest on just how high-scoring the offense can be. The defense will be one of the worst in the league.
5. I think Arizona GM Steve Keim (see Quotes of the Week) is justifiably fuming over the year-long suspension handed to Daryl Washington, the best player on his front seven. Look at the team with Washington and without him last year. With: 8-4. Without: 2-2. In his first game back after a four-game drug suspension to kick off the season, Washington sacked Cam Newton twice and intercepted him once, and the Cards blasted the Panthers. With both Washington and the departed Karlos Dansby (Cleveland, free-agency), the Cards have lost all their linebacker playmakers, and there's no time or market to find spares. In March, Keim essentially handed Washington a $10 million option bonus to trigger his contract for 2014. Now Keim has to feel altogether double-crossed, and it's certain the team won't allow Washington to keep that money without a fight. Arizona also could move on from Washington, figuring a player the coaches cannot trust (suspended for 20 of 32 games over a two-year span) is worthless to them.
6. I think Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III deserves a hand for helping a Centreville (Va.) High girl ask a fellow student with severe cerebral palsy to the prom. This is a terrific story from WJLA-TV in Washington.
7. I think when Stephen Ross says an NFL team will be in Los Angeles within five years … well, I'm not saying he's flat wrong, but I will ask this question: Now that Steve Ballmer has handed Donald Sterling (apparently) $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers, how many other sports-freaky people have $3 billion to $4 billion to spend to do what it takes to put a pro football team in Los Angeles? Speaking of Los Angeles, here's a tip: Read our NFL 95 story on The Day Football Died in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Cool story.
8. I think if Will Hill can blame second-hand smoke for his positive drug test—the league suspended him six games for the positive test last week—I can blame second-hand pizza for my weight. And if Tom Coughlin takes him back in October, I will be surprised.
9. I think it is impossible to read this well-reported story on soccer match-fixing by Jere Longman and Declan Hill of The New York Times and not worry about the other football—fútbol—beginning in 10 days in Brazil.
10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:
a. Reader/Tweeter Scott Marler, @hunkish, asks: "I would enjoy a mmqb of you describing your approach to twitter, ie who gets retweeted or blocked."
I'm fairly inconsistent, Scott. Most often, though, I have one rule: If you curse at me, you get blocked. Sometimes I can look at Twitter and laugh at the reactions, foul or fouler. Other days, if someone comes at me with total disrespect and is an idiot, that person gets blocked. I can't define that; it's more of a feeling. When Sports Illustrated asked me five years ago to interact with people on Twitter, I was told to go on for five minutes or so every day or two and answer questions. That's how I started, re-tweeting the best questions and answering them. I still mostly do that, but I also throw some critical comments up, and occasionally a really negative one. I do not do that to elicit sympathy, but rather for two reasons: to illustrate the volume of those I get, and, sometimes, to embarrass those who send the vile or foolish comments. Hope I answered your question.
b. Holy cow, Edwin Encarnacion. You're the most dangerous hitter in baseball right now. Encarnacion hit two homers the other night—16 for the month of May—that traveled the length of three homers in any ballpark in America. Wow.
c. George Springer: You don't get cheated on your swing, do you?
d. I don't know exactly how this is possible, but when I looked at the baseball standings Saturday night, Houston had a better record than Tampa Bay, by half a game.
e. Johnny Manziel throwing out the first pitching at Red Sox-Cleveland game Wednesday. Will Ortiz do the finger-rub cash sign?
f. My sympathy to fellow Hall of Fame voter Nancy Gay on the loss of her lovely dog Scooter on Saturday. What a great life you had with Scooter, Nancy.
g. RIP, Maya Angelou, who said in 2000: "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back." What a tremendous person to follow and read about and learn from.
h. Coffeenerdness: So I'm weak, and I just had a five-latte week. Just don't tell the nutritionist.
i. Beernerdness: Thanks to The MMQB's Robert Klemko, I got to try the new Maryland beer, Flying Dog Dead Rise Old Bay Summer Ale (now that's a handful). Thought I'd taste some of the Old Bay seasoning, but there was none of that, just a crisp and new ale with a near-IPA taste to me. I liked it.
The Adieu Haiku
Freeman, cut again.
How were so many so wrong?
Two words: work ethic.
What, no excerpt from Barack 0bama's epic commencement speech at West Point? Where is the love?
If Smith/Vick is over, why did you have to write 2 points on it. Like your column but you're adding to the nonsense
"That should be the significance of Glazer's run in the NFL—he was
colorblind at a time when many teams, and owners, in the league were
not" - Please don't use the phrase "colorblind", that phrase is an oxymoron and false and minority folks like myself call BS on that......talk to your friends who are minority and get educated on why that term is insulting....
This is beyond parody: The NFL's sensitivity sessions are being held in Flowery Branch, Georgia. Be nice, boys.
Then it will simple go underground as a "sub" culture....
@Wisconsin Death Trip ISWYDT
I know it is all about the money but wouldn't you think goodell and the owners would want to listen the fans before they make changes to the game? nobody wants to see the playoffs expanded just so the cowboys can make them or a team with a good record could not win when they should have and did not make them. nobody wants the league to turn into hockey and the nba where everyone but the worst of the worst make it. and make no mistake when they do expand and the league makes more money because of it they will do it again. fans do not care that there is not a team in la la land and could care even less about one over seas. football is a American sport and should stay they way. the games sells out because it is a curiosity for them and another excuse to get drunk for a day but they do not know what they are watching or care about it. as for the culture change that is just what the game needs to slow it down are a bunch of stupid penalties for name calling. enough of the pc nonsense and let them play football! they are grown men and if someone is bullying them then stand up for yourself! it used to be if you stood for yourself even if you got your butt kicked you stopped being picked on.
I disagree. We have all seen too many times when a cr^ppy team wins their division with an 8-8 record only to have a 10-6 or 11-5 team not make the playoffs because they were in a tougher division. Look at what happened to Arizona last season. They went 10-6 in a division with Seattle and San Francisco and don't make the playoffs. Green Bay gets in at 8-8-1 because they win the North. Both teams deserve a shot in the playoffs. I don't have a problem with a slightly expanded playoff to eliminate these kind of problems.
I think most football fans don't care about this particular expansion as much as they care about having an expanded playoff format in college football.
I don't think racial slurs have a place anywhere and whether you like it or not NFL players are looked up to by kids. Parenting can only go so far, but I don't want to be at a game when someone on the field is slinging that cr^p out of their mouth around the kids. It isn't all about the players.
Teams in Europe? Gimme a break. Can Goodell just maintain what's there? Does he have shareholders to answer to? Leave it alone.
I don't care for the teams in Europe deal because we already hear too much about jet lag from coast to coast.
Re: the greying of the league.
Green Bay. All teams should be owned that way.
Great haiku.
American football is an uniquely American experience. Keep the NFL in America. Let the foreign countries start their own leagues if they want teams.
@skanee00 Sounds a little racist.
@MichaelSmith8 @skanee00 No, not racist... Skane mentioned no particular race. Nationalist perhaps... Isolationist maybe...
he couldn't have included people erick legrande. also most nfl fans if you ask them, why do you care about growing the game in london, as i bet you ask these owners that have the london game there fuming because they lose a home date, and this year you're going to ask lions fans get up at 6 am to watch your team
I predict the Raider defense will be a top 12 defense this year go Raiders.
So what your telling us is that 2 of the best coaches in the game, Belichick and Payton, have no respect for you, yet the problem lies with them and not you. Peter, i think you needed a longer look in that mirror.
@olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson If you want moral guidance, got to church. NFL head coaches are paid to win games, which is what Belichek and Payton do very well.
@MickPatrick @olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson They might be really bright guys but it's hard to respect them with the garbage they've pulled over the years - or garbage they've ALLOWED over the years. Both deserve disdain for their arrogance in that regard. Payton has won ONE Super Bowl in 7 seasons and hasn't sniffed it since. Belichick has dominated a mostly-weaker division for a decade but hasn't won a title since Spygate FOR WHATEVER reason. They are both good coaches/strategists but as management types aren't overwhelmingly effective.
@Mike26 @MickPatrick @olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson Idiot they just won
Morons like you should stick to adderall
@Buck2185 @MickPatrick @olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson bawhbawhbawh
@EmmettJohnson Yeah, because Belichek and Payton (Spygate and Bountygate, respectively) are the kind of stand up, morally sound fellas you hope for approval from.
@MickPatrick @olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson There's ALWAYS something to be said for HOW you win, too, Mick.
@MickPatrick @olmanwinter @EmmettJohnson Belichick is a cheating POS.....
The number on the Giants player's helmet does not match his jersey. Why is that?
@John4 Photo shopped
This how I like my Peter King, great 25....not the GM King or the Anonymous Source King
Peter, Re your list of Classiest NFL people? I know you say you missed some.....but no Tony Dungy???? Here in Tampa there's nobody in the NFL more deserving of the title "CLASSY". Ask Derrick Brooks or Warren Dunn, two guys (deservedly) on your list, if they'd give up their place to have Tony on your list. No doubt in my mind on that question.
Warrick Dunn?
@TomTofTampa Tony Dungy is to religious for a liberal moon bat like Peter King but I agree very classy guy should have been mentioned
Love how Arthur Blank totally dodged the question of pricing fans out.
I want to watch football players play football, and I could care less if they drink beer, smoke pot, or eat pancakes on their off-time. If they are a habitual user and risk taker the law will catch up to them and punish them accordingly (and the NFL can follow suit). It's tough to lose some of the most exciting players in football because of an issue that has more to do with an outdated moral system than harm to the game (or, arguable, to anyone). People justify the punishment by saying that "you have to be an idiot to fail a drug test in the NFL", shifting the culpable act from the recreational activity to the act of being simple minded. Since when has the NFL punished dumb players? I could really care less about the intelligence of Josh Gordon or Daryl Washington so long as they are not injuring innocent people... I mean, Ray Rice SLUGGED A GIRL IN THE FACE AND KNOCKED HER OUT but instead of a per se suspension (i.e., second time positive test), we wait for it to play out... as if some magical reason to justify punching a woman's brains in will arise in Rice's defense. I am not a Browns fan, nor am I a Cardinals fan, but I am a fan of the game and 2014 is now a year that those teams can never get back.... all because of a harmless recreational activity. It just doesn't seem right, and it doesn't help provide the product we as fans want to see. Peter King often makes connections between the NFL and broader society to show the leagues role beyond the hash marks.... Here is another opportunity for the league to affect social progress, because here, like in broader society, it is the drug policy and not the drugs that are doing the most damage.
P.S., an example of how other industries are struggling/adapting to the changing moral system, the FBI just went to Congress about the difficulty of hiring the best and brightest because many of those individuals indulge in the recreational use of marijuana. (http://fortune.com/2014/05/28/does-the-fbis-marijuana-policy-breed-dishonest-applicants/)
Peter - you forgot to include commencement speech remarks from Condoleezza Rice. Oh wait...
6 pages - 25 years.. congrats but without one mention of anything for the Chicago Bears my proof of BIAS against them has now been proven beyond a shadow of any doubt.
@Dan Hodous Yes, BIAS. After all, the Bears were great for ONE SEASON.
Nice pic of Pete pressed up against a bent-over ball player.
'dumb story of this offseason' ! Yep ! For sure. Smith will be the starting QB. Why ? Vick does not getting younger. And on the first injury ( it's gonna happen ) there will be no doubt on who will be the starting QB.
I have a problem with the Saints' "bounty scandal" not being regrettable... when even PK recognized that many teams ran their own versions of the same effort. Leaving out context details makes it easier to pick highlights and lowlights.
So you are saying because other teams did it then it was ok? That's stupid!
I still don't get how Peter calls the Saints the best story of the last 25 years.
Pat Tillman's selfless decision to serve his country and turn down a million dollar plus contract to join the military was my favorite. He paid the ultimate sacrifice for it. Although he was killed by friendly fire, it does not diminish the role that he played or the inspiration he is to so many Americans. In a time in our culture when the sports world stories are dominated by greed and bad behavior, this one made many of us proud.
The Saints story is murky at best.
That's your opinion. Regardless of your political views, it does not change what kind of character Pat Tillman had that has made many of us proud.
@duder @JimSmith4 @Scramble PEACE THRU SUPERIOR FIREWPOWER
Completely disagree with that point. The politics are not messy. He chose to serve his country regardless of any political leanings.
He was a highly successful pro football player that passed up a contract worth millions to serve his country. It is absolutely a football story.
@JimSmith4 If someone had attacked us and he was going to defend our country, then it is a great story.
I am supportive of our military personnel without the right/left leanings. They serve when called. Period.
@JimSmith4 The murky part is how everybody forget other teams had their version of a bounty on opposing teams. Highlights are easy to pick out when journalists leave out any semblance of detail in the context. But "best" and "worst" are absolutes which are impossible to prove.
So you are saying because other teams did it then it was ok? That's stupid!
@JimSmith4 @Scramble of course they deserve support and sympathy -- but the wars themselves are immoral and imperial.
@JimSmith4 @guykingii1 It's not that. It's that the whole thing turned out to be crap, seized upon to prove the NFL's concern for it's players (I mean dollars).. 50,000 pages of so-called documents; film of the "give me my money" clip; etc. etc. Mary Jo White impaired her integrity by declaring that they had it locked. What did they come with? About 5 handwritten pages from a coach that was fired and an audiotape of Williams the loudmouth before a game in which NO had no penalties and the only player knocked out was Pierre Thomas on a helmet to helmet hit by Whitner. It was so worthless that Goodell's patron Tagliabue threw out all the charges and held specifically that no money ever changed hands nor was there any evidence of a deliberate attempt by any player to hurt anyone. But he couldn't humiliate Goodell completely and the season suspensions were already up for everyone except Payton, so he let that slide. Peter King bought the whole thing hook, line and sinker, and now says he was justified in doing so.I like King's work, but it's no wonder Payton has no time for him.
@arthur3 @JimSmith4 @guykingii1
Oh please with the nonsense already. The reason the suspensions were allowed to "slide" as you put it and the supposed lawsuits from players didn't materialize is because the NFL realized that they could be opening up a Pandora's box due to the rumors that a few other teams did the same.
No matter what the NFL always spins it just like King for the survival of their enterprise.
If you believe there were no bounties you are just another Saints fan drinking the Kool-Aid.
The player suspensions did not slide. They were OVERTURNED. No money changed hands means Tagliabue found no evidence of bounties being paid. You need to get your facts right. Or maybe you can prove Tagliabue was on the take.
All to preserve the NFL. Just like concussions and every other laughable thing that they do. Its all about the money. They know public image doesn't mean squat to most of their fans.
Oh I can agree with you there. We have common ground and that was my point.. They had to get rid of the concussion lawsuit so they tried to prove their bona fides.
@JimSmith4 Tillman's story is not really a football story though is it? The politics surrounding it are messy.
The Saints, and their impact on the city of New Orleans post-Katrina is an amazing story.
The Saints and their story comes with baggage. Bountygate swept under the rug to try to dog and pony a feel good story.
The circumstances surrounding Tillman's death were cloudy until the investigation was finished and I believe that it was important to display those facts of what happened that day.
Friendly fire does occur on the battlefield, but it in no way detracts from the service and ultimate sacrifice made by that individual. The public needs to understand this about war. I am not going to argue about what war is or about what that war was or what it was about. I am going to support those serving us in the military because ultimately they do not make the political decisions. The serve when called and I am grateful for that.
Regardless of how he died what mattered about this story was the choice he made to serve his country in a time of perceived need and that he walked away from a profession that by all accounts he loved dearly because he felt it was his duty.


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I've been making freezer paper stenciled shirts for a few years now and it's very addicting! If you don't know what that is, here is a tutorial. I like to do a few things differently than what is explained in that tutorial. For example, I like using sponge brushes to apply the paint, my favorite fabric paint is jaquard and I'm too impatient to let it dry overnight before ripping off the freezer paper, so I just use a hair dryer on it for about 2 minutes!
Anyway, I tried combining freezer paper stencils with felt for some Christmas gifts. The one pictured above is a stenciled owl with a brown felt branch and bow. I just hand stitched the felt on.
I stenciled the dog in this one and did pink felt for the collar and bow and again hand stitched.
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Old-School A-DOR-A-BLE. Where'd you learn that technique?
You know, we have this thing upstairs called a sewing machine. You should give it a try.
lol…schooled by the spouse. My 4th grade teacher, Mrs Gentry, would be proud of you!


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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the start of a new five-year project aimed at supporting the Government of Ethiopia's Agricultural Growth Plan.
The Livestock Market Development project, which is valued at US$38 million, is designed to improve smallholder farmer incomes and nutritional status through investment in livestock value chains covering beef, dairy, and hide production. The project will be implemented in districts of the Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional States.
The State Minister for Agriculture, Sileshi Getahun, attended the launch of the project with the USAID Ethiopia Mission Director, Dennis Weller, as well as federal and regional government officials, livestock industry representatives and implementing partners.


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The latest controversy on the subject was sparked when Juan Mata's goal for Chelsea against Tottenham in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley was awarded despite appearing to be stopped well short of the line.
Scudamore told BBC Sport: "I hope to see some goal-line technology, or a wider use of technology, to help officials because it's football's toughest job. They do a great job but there's things we must be able to help them with and we should be doing that."
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Starting Monday, Johnson City Medical Center's surgery patients will see firsthand the product of millions of dollars of capital projects dedicated at the hospital's campus over the last five years.
Mountain States Health Alliance leaders debuted the $63 million expanded and upgraded surgery department Friday for local media outlets, government officials and business professionals before the wing officially opens for patient admissions Monday.
The tower's 16 operating rooms aren't an increase over JCMC's previous capacity, but each room is 30 percent larger, which allows more space for the modern surgical equipment needed by today's doctors.
"When we started practice back in the '80s, the operating rooms were basically small," cardiothoracic surgeon Andrew Poret said. "As we tried to go to smaller incisions and less invasion to give our patients better outcomes, the ironic thing is you need more room. The equipment and the things you need in the room have greatly expanded."
The technology incorporated into the new operating rooms puts the resources available to the medical center's surgeons on par with those in larger hospital systems in more populous cities.
One of those technological advances, an advanced robotic imaging system known as the Artis zeego, allows surgeons to examine a patient's internal organs and structures before, during and after procedures without having to move the patient.
The robotic C-arm on the zeego allows it to move around the patient in any position and create 3-D representations of organs that can then be displayed on the handful of viewing screens positioned around the operating room.
Like other departments in the hospital, the new surgery wing will employ Xenex robotic ultraviolet disinfection systems to help reduce the risk of postoperative infections.
David Nicely, CEO of MSHA's Washington County facilities, said the new tower was designed with the safety and comfort of patients and their families in mind.
"Families are going to notice a big difference before they every walk into this center," Nicely said, noting the dedicated parking near the tower's entrance. "We've also redesigned our patient-flow process, so that now our patients' families can spend more time with them during the pre-operative process, and we've really eliminated a lot of the waiting that goes on during a normal procedure."
The finished capital project represents the achievement of a long-term goal for retiring CEO Dennis Vonderfecht, who will be replaced at the beginning of next year by Alan Levine.
New surgery space at the Johnson City hospital's campus was an identified priority in MSHA's strategic plan as far back as 2008, and was recognized as a need even earlier, Vonderfecht said.
"We've had this in the plans for a good five to 10 years, but we've had a lot of capital requests over the years that we've had to commit to in terms of new hospitals," he said.
With the openings of Niswonger Children's Hospital, Franklin Woods Community Hospital, Johnston Memorial Hospital, Smyth County Community Hospital and the surgery tower, Vonderfecht said MSHA's capital needs have been met for now, save any construction needs when Unicoi County Memorial Hospital joins the system.
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THIS rock's got some bling. A star that is about to wink out over Africa will give us a good look at the first asteroid with rings.
Last month, astronomers described icy rings around the asteroid 10199 Chariklo. They were found during an occultation, when the asteroid crossed in front of a star from Earth's perspective. The star's brightness dipped in a distinctive pattern, indicating a set of sharply defined rings.
At 23.14 UTC on 29 April, Chariklo will pass in front of another star, an event that will be visible across southern Africa. Observing the occultation could help pin down Chariklo's size and shape, perhaps giving clues to its composition.
If the rings are being corralled into a neat shape by a "shepherd" moon's gravitational pull, such an orbiting body would cause a further dip in brightness that may be noticeable as the asteroid slips in front of the star.
"It's a good occultation, as there are major observatories in South Africa and places in the Namibian desert where it is good to observe from," says Colin Snodgrass at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, a co-discoverer of Chariklo's rings. "And the skies will almost certainly be clear."
This article appeared in print under the headline "African occultation"
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