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We're Hiring!
We are tickled pink to be looking for a passionate, hard-working, plant-loving geek like us to work up to 20+ hours a week this season. Check out our seasonal job description. If you are interested, you can apply by mail, or email our application and your resume!
Express Your Love of Nature
Imagination in Bloom
Release your child's inner artist with Imagination In Bloom art and poetry contest! Theme: Protect Our Pollinators Entry deadline: May 12
7th Growing Great Gardens
Thanks to you and your positive vibes, we kicked off the growing season with a bang. Thanks for making it a great event! See you next year, March 12, 2016!
2015 Calendars Sold Out.
Sorry to say that if you didn't get your 2015 calendar, there are no more to be had for this year. A big thank you to volunteer Sherry Soja-Molloy for sponsoring and designing this year's masterpiece. Would you like to see your photos in print? Submit your 'best of the 'best' high resolution pics taken at the Taylor Conservatory & Botanical Gardens and send them to us for consideration for our 2016 version. It's not too early, and keep in mind we are always looking for winter scenes, too!
More than flowers bloom at the Conservatory
The Taylor Rotary recently donated a Little Free Library to the Taylor Conservatory and we had an installation unveiling on a warm and wet Thursday in November.
Kids and adults can take a book to read, as long as they bring a book to share. The library will spend the winter in storage, and we'll make it available from April to October for the public to use and share. As we like to say, "More than flowers bloom at the Conservatory". Thank You, Taylor Rotary!
Want to be a TCF Volunteer? Join our Garden Groomers Team. You'll be part of a dedicated group that keep our gardens in tip-top shape. They water, weed, fertilize, prune, tie-up roses and floppy plants, analyze pest and disease problems and provide a wealth of information to us through their observations. Want to join our GG Team? We'd love to have you!
Email Louise Doute, Taylor Conservatory volunteer coordinator.
(Back L to R: Patty Donahue, Meg Holmes, Jeff Nicita, Lisa Kozakowski, Susanne Kozakowski, Sandy Salowich, Sandi McCown, Sherry Soja-Molloy, Louise Doute, Sharon Zitnik. Front L to R seated, Margaret Cook, Ellen Sicotte, Jeanine Fennessey Jill Parrish, Tim Parrish)
Did you know?
- Most of our visitors are from cities outside of Taylor? We've had visits from Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Romania and and 25 states.
- We've planted over 1000 trees and shrubs in the gardens.
- Our espaliered apple and pear trees were grown by Peter Thevenot from River Road Farms in Decatur, TN. Peter is renowned worldwide for his skills in the ancient art of espalier.
- The Conservatory weighs over 3 tons. Try picking that up!
- Our Garden Groomers maintained over 120 large container gardens this year.
- The hedge surrounding our gardens are Arborvitaes, or Thuja plicata 'Atrovirens'.


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Wednesday, February 2 2005
The Gist List: ReDotPop's Most Memorable Moments Moments, circa 2004 (part 1 of 3)
New Years' celebrations in Japan can get pretty roudy, as anyone who has suffered asphyxiation by rice cake would tell you - if they were alive to tell. Like New Years' celebrations the world over, the occasion calls for reflection on the year just passed. Holden looks back on 2004 in ReDotPop land with tongue-in-cheek. This is the first of three installments.
Wednesday, January 26 2005
The Dogs of Revolution
The people -- and the dogs -- of Romania now reside in a less threatening, more humane country.
An Etiology of Boredom
In a land of plenty, the commodity of respect -- the sense of being socially recognized -- continues to be rationed, rendered scarce.
Wednesday, January 19 2005
Past Pal Bears New Year Present
The UK never really had that rather endearing US tradition surrounding yearbooks, proms and 'Class of' reunions. UK state schools did not encourage the alumni culture that the American educational system so enthusiastically sustains. Friends Reunited may be changing that.
Tuesday, January 18 2005
Iranian-American Like Me
Prudish by American standards, we are slightly wayward by Iranian ones; nationalistic according to Americans, we are politically aloof according to Iranian elders; culturally proud by Iranian measures, we are often considered snobbish by American interpretations.
Wednesday, January 12 2005
Fighting Chance
After the 2004 US Presidential election, part of me still waited for the Diebold voting scandals to unfold, irrationally hoping that Bush's victory was simply a dirty backroom handshake hammered out during an Illuminati luncheon at Cracker Barrel.
Mistaken Identities
Two women, an Egyptian and a Westerner, share a seat on a train between Alexandria and Cairo. On their journey, they are accompanied by a train of thought wherein the identity of the people of Egypt and its colonizers is as in flux as their historically relative and imagination-filled memories.
Tamales y Champurrado
Despite the abundance of Mexican restaurants all over the globe, they are rarely placed in the same category as fine French or Japanese establishments. Burritos, tacos, fajitas, guacamole, quesadillas, salsa, tortilla chips and so forth have become so ubiquitous that what passes for Mexican food outside of Mexico is a poor approximation of what the country's diverse regions actually have to offer.
Wednesday, January 5 2005
Pop is Porn
These days, it's possible to have a porn website on the computer screen and an MTV video on the telly, and lose one's ability to distinguish one from the other.
Forgive Me Father, For I Have Bought
Shopping within three European countries on a 'universal' credit card can prove to be most taxing to one's historical, not to mention monetary, tolerance. Damn the Irish, the French, and not least, the British!
Traveling the Public/Private Divide
Portable entertainment and communication technology has obliterated the distinction between public and private spaces, and the inconsiderateness that accompanies these devices is fast becoming the public status quo, which drives more people to tune out, hastening the spiral toward complete incivility.
Wednesday, December 29 2004
Growing Up With John Peel: A Memoir
In John Peel I know that I (and many others) found a voice that championed the cultural margins and artistic mavericks; this voice, in turn, fostered a receptive sensibility with which to open-mindedly and open-heartedly appreciate marginal artists.
Goodbye, Lady in Black
Poole writes of the last Southern 500, Republicans in blue collars, and why it's still the economy, stupid.
Wednesday, December 22 2004
Let the Good Times Roll… Again
Up in the Pop Culture Attic, where all those wonderful things that get trampled by the new and exciting eventually end up, radio DJs worthy of their stuff pull out and dust off some '50s R&B for the holiday season and for the joie de vivre this music brings.
Wednesday, December 15 2004
Theo van Gogh: Words and Reform
Muslim women, the very subject of the film that resulted in van Gogh's murder, may ultimately be the force that invoke proactive change within Islam.
Moving Home: Two Transatlantic Tales
Warner converses with two reverse migration musicians, Preston Reed and Gabriel Minnikin, who have moved away from North America to live and work in more ancient lands.
Wednesday, December 8 2004
Sex, Lies and Videotape: the 2004 US Presidential Election
'Moral' Bush supporters unleashing their anti-gay bigotry; 'patriots' denigrating a veteran's wounds and combat service while supporting a draft dodger. With four more years of the Bush Administration to endure, we have to show these bullies that it is we, not they, who represent the best, compassionate impulses of American democracy.
Barack Obama, the Great Fill-in-the-Blank Hope
Everywhere Barack Obama went, people flocked to get a glimpse of the politician who stole their hearts with just one speech.
Wednesday, December 1 2004
Topping Corpus: On Sex and Life Across Cultures
A half century after Kinsey, Corpus' challenge is to take HIV/AIDS discourse back from medical abstraction, and reintroduce the intimate.
Radio Head? Ex-pirate Peel Abandons Ship
John Peel retained a fondness for music of all periods. The unearthing of undiscovered performers and undersung genres appeared to be his unceasing motivation.

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The caller warned the dancers that after going through the figures three times, he was going to speed up the tempo the last time through. Traditional singing square dance, recorded in West Newbury, VT, on July 24, 2010. The caller and fiddler is Adam Boyce. This dance is held on the 4th Saturday of each month; Adam drives 55 miles each way to be there. He is continuing a series that was called by fiddler Harold "Chuck" Luce, Adam's mentor in the Ed Larkin Dancers of central Vermont; the piano player, in her 70s, is Luce's daughter, Donna Weston. The dance hall could hold four squares comfortably; on this hot and humid summer night, there were three squares plus onlookers.
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Issued by 9/11 Truth of Argentina, September 9, 2007:
Citizens of the world, the lies about the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon
and the Twin Towers (9/11/01) are falling apart: Dublin, Madrid, Buenos Aires,
Rome, Paris, United States.
On September 11th, those of us who struggle for the truth will be honoring the
victims, in Buenos Aires, Dublin, Santiago de Chile, Caracas, Madrid, Paris,
Rome, Brussels and several places of the United States. Six years ago, Bush
swore that the terrorist had been Bin Laden, and the whole world except for
few believed him. Today, few believe him.
Italian, Spanish, Argentine, French, German and many American organizations
and investigators are working for the truth, for there are as many lies as casualties.
University professor David Ray Griffin is calling for demonstrations all over
the world: Because of the attack, Americans have accepted anything.
"The attacks left Americans numb enough to accept anything; in the US,
this has meant severe restrictions to civil liberties. Abroad, we have had a
war against terror that has been a war of aggression against Muslims. This has
meant six years of torture, humiliation and death of hundreds of thousands of
people in Afghanistan and Iraq, people who were innocent civilians or soldiers
fighting against an immoral and even illegal occupation."
The cover-up by the media is worldwide
We have seen an unprecedented cover-up of the media in the US and allied countries
(also in Argentina). There had been cover-ups before. But in this case, the… Continue reading
September 7 2007
Contact: Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715 email@example.com
Ray Nowosielski, 317-698-4642 email@example.com
Since it's release a year ago, the documentary 9/11 Press for Truth, an independent expose of an under-reported 9/11 cover-up as revealed by leading 9/11 families and author Paul Thompson, has become an underground hit that continues to garner support and positive recognition as time passes and word spreads. The film has received near universally excellent critical reviews while being officially selected and screened at three international film festivals including in Brazil and Mexico. Here in the US several hundred home, library and theatrical screenings rallied tens of thousands to support a new investigation while US satellite networks, FreeSpeech TV and LINKTV , beamed the film to millions of households across the country. Overseas, the film has reached tens of millions via television networks in Spain, Poland, Norway, Sweden and throughout the Middle East via Al-Jazeera. On the net, the complete film has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
In the run-up to September 11th this year there is continued interest. In Australia and New Zealand on the 11th, Foxtel owned History Channel will broadcast the television premiere of the film in both countries. FreespeechTV will broadcast the documentary 5 times on Tuesday while LinkTV will broadcast the film on both Monday and Tuesday.
In Minneapolis former FBI agent Colleen Rowley has recorded public service announcements for the Air America affiliate to promote a screening of 9/11: Press for Truth in a 700 seat theater.… Continue reading
Released: September 06, 2007
Zogby Poll: 51% of Americans Want Congress to Probe Bush/Cheney Regarding 9/11 Attacks; Over 30% Seek Immediate Impeachment
67% also fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7
Kansas City, MO (Zogby International) September 6, 2007 – As America nears the sixth anniversary of the world-churning events of September 11, 2001, a new Zogby International poll finds a majority of Americans still await a Congressional investigation of President Bush' and Vice President Cheney's actions before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Over 30% also believe Bush and/or Cheney should be immediately impeached by the House of Representatives.
The 911truth.org-sponsored poll also found that over two-thirds of Americans say the 9/11 Commission should have investigated the still unexplained collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001.
WTC 7 housed the mayor's emergency bunker and offices of the SEC, IRS, CIA and Secret Service and was not hit by any planes but still completely collapsed into its own footprint nearly eight hours after the Twin Tower attacks. FEMA did not explain this collapse, the 911 Commission ignored it, and the promised official study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now 2 years overdue.
Janice Matthews, executive director of poll sponsor 911truth.org, observes: "The supermajority response to the WTC Building 7 question signals an increasing public concern about this remarkable event — up from 38% last year. We can perhaps credit this… Continue reading
9-11 Synthetic Error
The meltdown of Webster G. Tarpley
by Michael Wolsey September 17, 2007
'9/11 Truthers' flip the bird at Bill Maher
by Jason Rhyne
After being broadly denounced as "crazy people" by HBO's sharp-tongued Bill Maher, some members of the so-called 9/11 Truth movement — a group convinced that US government accounts of the Sept. 11 tragedies do not fully explain the events of that day — decided to give Maher a taste of his own caustic medicine.
In a new video making its rounds on the internet, one band of miffed Los Angeles-based "Truthers" borrows the graphics, theme music and trademark bite of Maher's popular "New Rules" segment to push back at the comedian's charges that conspiracy theorists are lunatics. "Crazy people are defined by acting crazy," activist Stewart Howe says in the clip, sitting alongside a Maher-esque video window depicting Fox News host Bill O'Reilly in a straight jacket. "9/11 Truthers," he continues, "are defined by a patriotic quest for the truth."
"I love Bill Maher, but he's wrong about 9/11 Truth," Katy Kurtzman, who also appears in the video, told RAW STORY . "We wanted to give it back to him the way he gives it out, which is 'I'm smarter than you and I'm gonna make fun of you about it.'"
"We had no idea it was going to go as viral as it has," she said of the project, which is the subject of more than 35,000 hits to date on YouTube and has received widespread postings on websites skeptical of the official 9/11 story.
"It's a response… Continue reading
Six activists managed to get into Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday, October 19, 2007, at CBS studios with signs and banners, as well as 9/11 "truth dollars" advertising activist websites. They disrupted the panel discussion segment of the show with statements questioning the official story of 9/11, and they openly challenged Bill Maher to a debate on WTC Building 7.
Los Angeles, California (WeAreChangeLA.org) October 23, 2007 — Maher was talking science during a round table panel discussion when the first activist named Randy stood up, held up his smuggled-in sign reading '9/11 is a cover up fraud' and shouted "Investigate 9/11, Nothing else matters" and other comments to the same effect.
Randy was swarmed by show crew members, and Bill Maher scampered into the audience, put his hands on the back of a crew member shouting, "Out, out, out".
After making his way back on stage, Maher barely got his mic back on when a second activist, Katy Kurtzman stood up and shouted "What about Building 7? What about Building 7, Bill?" Maher stood up and said "I'll kick your @ss out of here, too!" and producers proceeded to escort Kurtzman out of the audience.
One of the panelists, Joel Stein, LA Times columnist then jokes "I was only allowed two guests so things should be okay after this." That's when the third activist, Peter Thottam challenged Maher once again about Building 7 "Tell us what happened to Building 7, Bill!"
As Peter was grabbed and dragged… Continue reading
On Thursday, November 8th, from 1 to 2 PM Eastern, popular progressive Air America host and author, Thom Hartmann, will host a 9/11 truth debate between Kevin Ryan, 9/11 UL whistleblower and co-editor of the online "Journal of 911 Studies," and Michael Shermer, publisher of "Skeptic Magazine" and Executive Director of the Skeptics Society.
Click here to Listen Live at the time of the show.
For some background on these participants, see:
Kevin Ryan
Kevin Ryan is former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Mr. Ryan, a Chemist and laboratory manager, was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. In the intervening period, Ryan has completed additional research while his original questions, which have become increasingly important over time, remain unanswered by UL or NIST.
Through interviews, presentations, and his work as co-editor at the online Journal of 911 Studies, Mr. Ryan works to bring out the truth behind the events of 9/11/01 for the benefit of all people.
Scholars and Family Members Submit Request for Correction to 9/11 NIST Report
9/11: Looking for Truth in Credentials: The Peculiar WTC "Experts"
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society. He is an author, speaker, and producer.
Dr. Shermer is a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Scientific… Continue reading
From ToddSeavey.com
YES: Sander Hicks, founder of Soft Skull Press, Vox Pop, and Drench Kiss Media and author of The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up.
NO: Karol Sheinin, blogger at AlarmingNews.com (at one point guest blogger for Michelle Malkin) and founder of the counter-protest group Actual Truth About 9/11.
This contentious issue will be broached next week on Wednesday, November 7 (at 8pm) on the basement level of Lolita Bar (266 Broome St. at Allen St., one block south and three west of the Delancey St. subway stop on Manhattan's Lower East Side) — with Michel Evanchik moderating and Todd Seavey hosting.
In just-barely-related news, constitutionalists and conspiracists alike may enjoy tonight's (Oct. 30) Tonight show appearance by my favorite presidential candidate, Ron Paul, as noted in yesterday's entry, not that some Truther support for Paul makes him a Truther-endorser (or militia man, or Bircher, etc.) — but he probably wouldn't put such chicanery past the government, either. In the interests of hostal neutrality, I will say no more until after next week's debate, though.
How did I come to know two people with such opposing takes on this issue? Well, Karol co-hosts the monthly Manhattan Project non-leftist media gatherings with me and Mark Cunningham, while Sander (who, despite his being a Marxist and onetime pursuer of the NY Green Party nomination for Senate, I met through libertarian novelist Katherine Taylor of all people) is technically responsible for me hosting all of these Debates at… Continue reading
By John Dudley
[Ed.: Link to radio interview at end.]
Since retiring from football six years ago, Mark Stepnoski has changed countries, buying a house in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he now lives with longtime girlfriend Brandi Mollica.
He has also has changed lifestyles, trading the hectic demands of playing in the NFL for a relatively laid back retirement that includes travel, reading and taking in concerts and the performing arts.
But Stepnoski, 40, always a bit of an iconoclast, hasn't changed. He continues to work toward the legalization of marijuana, an effort he began pursuing in earnest after leaving football.
And he has added a new interest, the 9/11 Truth Movement, whose adherents question mainstream accounts of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Stepnoski's relationship with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) — he became president of its Texas chapter in 2002 — led Cathedral Prep to leave him out of its athletic hall of fame.
Nonetheless, with five Pro Bowl appearances and two Super Bowl rings, Stepnoski remains one of the most decorated athletes in Erie history.
He was nominated to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006, his first year of eligibility. Although he wasn't elected, the honor cemented his place among the best centers ever — and, at 6 feet 2 inches and 265 pounds, one of the smallest offensive linemen in modern NFL history.
In a recent phone conversation from his new home in Canada, Stepnoski discussed retirement, reflected on… Continue reading
The First Fifteen Minutes of September 11th
Former Air Traffic Controller Robin Hordon speaks out on 9/11, NORAD and what should have happened on 9/11.
By Jeremy Baker
Within three hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Robin Hordon knew it was an inside job. He had been an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for eleven years before Reagan fired him and hundreds of his colleagues after they went on strike in the eighties. Having handled in-flight emergencies and two actual hijackings in his career, he is well qualified to comment on what NORAD should have been able to achieve in its response to the near simultaneous hijacking of four domestic passenger carriers on the morning of September 11th, 2001.
"There had to be something huge to explain why those aircraft weren't shot down out of the sky. We have fighters on the ready to handle these situations twenty-four-seven. We have NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) monitors monitoring our skies twenty-four-seven. We have a lot of human beings, civilian and military, who care about doing their jobs."
I spoke to Mr. Hordon one afternoon at a coffee shop in Bremerton, Washington.
"You have to understand the emotions, the duty, the job of an ATC. We are paid to watch aircraft go across the country."
It's clear that Hordon is passionate about the subject. A lot of people are. The dark questions that the attacks have left lingering in the national psyche have been recorded. 49% of New Yorkers believe that the government had something to do with 9/11. Following an interview with Charlie Sheen, a CNN poll revealed that 82% of respondents believed that there was "a government cover-up of 9/11." Jay Leno asked Bill Maher on The Tonight Show about the fact that 37% of Americans (according to Scribbs-Howard) believe that the government was involved in some way with the attacks (Maher was definitely not one of them).
As far as the "emotions, the duty, the job" of an ATC is concerned, Hordon puts it this way:
"Imagine yourself at a circus, a fair, a crowded sports event. You have in your hand your little child of five or six, you're amongst hundreds of people and you turn around and see that your child is gone. How do you feel at that moment? You feel panicked. You feel that this is the worst thing possible, so what you do is you engage. When ATCs lose an aircraft, all hell breaks loose. They flip right into motion. We take action and do not wait for other things to happen."
As a former member of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization), Hordon's years as an ATC are particularly relevant to 9/11 researchers.
"I was a certified ATC in Boston west-bound departures, the routing that AA11 and UA175 followed on 9/11. I know it like the back of my hand."
He even received a letter of commendation for his role in dealing with an actual hijacking. When it became clear that there hadn't been a systems failure of any kind on the morning of September 11th, Hordon was certain that something had gone terribly wrong within the upper echelons of authority. A pilot (third level air carrier) as well as an ATC, he is well versed on in-flight emergency protocol. He is also adamant that if these procedures had been followed on 9/11 not one of the hijacked planes would have reached their targets. Continue reading
October 25 2007
Nicholas Levis, an original 9/11 skeptic and one of the founders of 911Truth.org, joins host Cosmos of Truthaction.org for an hour-long discussion of:
– the 9/11 truth movement today, its successes and challenges;
– the need for committed non-violent action coupled with logical rigor;
– reviewing the case for 9/11 skepticism, best resources and books;
– actions of the U.S. military chain of command on September 11, 2001 suggesting complicity or criminal negligence – this is point 1 in the "Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11″ available at 911Truth.org;
– evidence that a concerted effort is underway to discredit 9/11 skepticism through the claim that "no planes hit the WTC," coupled with extreme attacks and threats of violence against the majority of activists who reject that claim.
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"Those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous
official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough and impartial
investigation be undertaken." ~ Dr. Lynn Margulis (Distinguished
University of Massachusetts professor, National Medal of Science recipient,
National Academy of Science's Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology
and Chemical Evolution, former chairperson.
"I think in simplest terms, there's a cover-up. The 9/11 report is a
joke… Now there are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. And the reason
they're unanswered is because this administration will not answer the questions."
~ Ray McGovern 27-year CIA veteran in charge of President's Daily Brief.
Founder, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
The 234th Anniversary of the Boston
Tea Party: 9/11 Truth Comes to the "Hub"
In 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the phrase, "The Hub of the Solar
System," when referring to the Massachusetts State House in an Atlantic
Monthly article, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," in which he
boastfully implied that Boston at that time was the center of everything intellectual.
One hundred and forty nine years after Holmes penned the affectionate metaphor
and two hundred and thirty four years after the infamous Boston Tea Party, Bostonians
are again attempting to appeal to the "Hub's" intellectual prowess,
this time with regard to the academic and scientific challenges taking place
around the world concerning the government's official explanations of the September
11, 2001 attacks.
"Those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official
account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough and impartial investigation
be undertaken" -LYNN MARGULIS (Distinguished University of Massachusetts
professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science
Photos from the Boston Tea Party December 15 & 16, 2007
Conference at Faneuil Hall and Tea Party on the Common, tossing at the Moakley Bridge
Slide Show at http://www.flickr.com/photos/21998164@N03/show/
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Address to Military Officers, at Boston Tea Party, 12/16/07:
Take Action: Order Now. New York Times Best-Selling Author's 9/11 Truth Novel Hits Stores January 22!
Dear 9/11 Truth Seekers Demanding a New 9/11 Investigation,
Today we have an amazing opportunity, if we work together, to launch 9/11 truth into a new mainstream American paradigm.
In the formation of the global 9/11 truth movement there have been landmark moments that catapulted this truth movement forward:
* Mike Ruppert's early work with copvcia.com and his crucial early research (which got me in this)
* The first national truth conference, formed by Carol Brouillet/Ken Jenkins in San Francisco
* The formation of 911Truth.org after that conference
* The dissemination of the "Stop the 9/11 Cover Up" signs to groups nationwide (911visibility)
* David Ray Griffin's earth shaking work
* Professor Steven Jones physics research
* Kevin Ryan's blowing the whistle on inaccuracies of UL's report to NIST
* The release of Loose Change, which exploded the movement
* The "Eleventh Day of Every Month" TruthAction.org Campaign
* The release of PatriotsQuestion911.org
* We Are Change's national television exposure on 9/11 truth issues
* The release of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, ae911truth.org
Today, we have an opportunity to explode 9/11 truth issues into the mainstream mind, in the form of a soon to be released popular action fiction novel by New York Times Best-Selling Novelist, Steve Alten (stevealten.com). If we can help get 30,000 copies of this profound novel purchased in the first month of its release, we can… Continue reading
Title: "Transcript Of Japanese Parliament's 911 Testimony"
Author: Benjamin Fulford
January 14, 2008
Student Researchers: Kyle Corcoran, Alan Scher, Bill Gibbons, and Elizabeth
Faculty Evaluator: Mickey S. Huff, MA
Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's origin: the events of 9/11.
In a parliament Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee session held to debate the ethics of renewing Japan's "anti-terror law," which commits Japan to providing logistical support for coalition forces operating in Afghanistan, Fujita opened the session by stating, "I would like to talk about the origin of this war on terrorism, which was the attacks of 9/11, . . . When discussing these anti-terror laws we should ask ourselves, what was 9/11? And what is terrorism?"
Fujita pointed out that, "So far the only thing the government has said is that we think it was caused by al-Qaeda because President Bush told us so.
We have not seen any real proof that it was al-Qaeda." He reminded parliament that twenty-four Japanese citizens were killed on 9/11, yet the mandate of a
criminal investigation by the Japanese government never followed. "This is a crime so surely an investigation needs to be carried out," said Fujita
(Censored 2008, #16).
Fujita went on extensively to ask "about the suspicious information being uncovered and the doubts people worldwide are having about… Continue reading
By William F. Pepper
January 21, 2008
Many, deeply concerned citizens of this Republic and the world have been engaged in tireless, multifaceted research and investigation about the events surrounding the 9/11 tragedy. These patriots have produced articles, essays, books and films which seek to answer the multitude of unanswered questions about this atrocity. Not having researched these questions myself and having no answers, when I have appeared before them I have encouraged the continuation of their valuable work as citizens of the Republic. I have also advised these patriots to be wary of disinformation and provocative irrationality in their midst.
In their numbers are distinguished scientists, engineers, architects, professional people from all walks of life and families of victims who seek closure. Amongst the latter are the colloquially named "Jersey Girls" (Lorie, Mindy, Patty and Monica) for whose courage, determination, intelligence and steadfastness, I have boundless admiration. They propounded 125 questions to the Kean/Hamilton Commission; one was answered. In fact, it was largely as a result of their efforts and those of other victims' families that a Commission was established in the first place over the initial opposition of the Bush administration.
The failure of that Commission to seek, even address the critical questions is now a part of contemporary history. Former Georgia Senator, Max Cleland, resigned early on in disgust citing official obstruction. More recently, Co-Chairmen, Kean and Hamilton, have themselves declared their awareness that their work was obstructed and denied valuable information, materials and evidence. Consequently, there is overwhelming agreement that the initial government sponsored investigation was a failure in respect of bringing truth about 9/11 to the light of day.…Continue reading
February 1, 2008
Jon Gold
Some of you may have seen the news regarding Philip Zelikow. If you watched Keith Olbermann tonight (2/1/08), you were in for a treat. During the time of the 9/11 Commission, the "Jersey Girls" called for the resignation of Philip Zelikow, as you can see from this clip from 9/11: Press For Truth":
Essentially, the "original members of the 9/11 Truth Movement" "disreputed" the 9/11 Commission long ago, Mr. Holland.
Source URL: http://visibility911.com/jongold/?p=379


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ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the mass size distribution of some inorganic species present in the atmospheric aerosol from a field campaign carried out in Madrid throughout a complete year (February 2007–February 2008). Samplings were performed by means of a micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI). Ambient air was sampled during consecutive nocturnal and diurnal periods, and diurnal/nocturnal behaviors were compared for the twenty night-day sampling pairs that were gathered. Annual and seasonal averages were obtained, and some case studies under specific atmospheric conditions are discussed in the paper.Results have shown that the sulfate and ammonium mass was concentrated in the accumulation mode, between 0.18 and 0.56 μm, so that gas-phase and condensation processes for secondary aerosol formation prevailed during the sampling periods in this area. An exception to this behavior was found during a fog event when distributions for these two species were centered in the 0.56–1 and 1–1.8 μm size stages, corresponding to the droplet mode. In most of the samples, the ammonium mass measured in these size ranges was enough or almost enough to neutralize inorganic acidity by formation of ammonium sulfate and nitrate. However, a significant sulfate mass not neutralized by ammonium was found in the impactor backup quartz filter (aerodynamic diameter < 0.056 μm). The concentration of this sulfate and its contribution to the ultrafine fraction mass was higher under good dispersive conditions, prevailing in summer, when particle growth processes are not so favored due to the higher atmospheric dilution factors. The origin of this ultrafine sulfate has been attributed to direct emissions from traffic, associated to the nucleation mode.Regarding the nitrate concentration, it was found higher in the coarse mode than in the accumulation mode on an annual basis. The highest concentrations were measured in winter episodic situations. The marked seasonal variability shown in the accumulation mode by this species is related to the volatility of ammonium nitrate. Among all the studied ions, nitrate also presented the highest differences between the diurnal and nocturnal concentrations in all size ranges. This is probably related to the short time scale required for its formation from gaseous precursors.Highlights► Particulate nitrate, sulfate and ammonium are concentrated in the accumulation range. ► Particulate nitrate has a marked seasonal effect, with maximum value in winter. ► In-cloud sulfate formation and ammonium uptake was observed during a fog event. ► Ultrafine particles (<0.056 μm) were acidic due to a significant mass of sulfate.Atmospheric Environment 09/2011; 45(28):4966-4976. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.05.075 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Influence of seasonal factors on the atmospheric particle number concentration and size distribution in Madrid[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The ambient particle number concentration and size distribution have been measured in an urban background site in Madrid, a continental Mediterranean area, over more than two years (Oct 2006–Dec 2008). The objective was to study the sources and processes affecting or contributing to fine and ultrafine particles in this area. They have been measured with a TSI–SMPS (15–600 nm) instrument and with a modified Vienna type DMA (3–80 nm) and a CPC 3025 (TSI) during 6 months. The average particle number concentration was lower than in other sites as it is an urban background site and because of its location in the Mediterranean area. The particle number concentrations have shown a clear seasonal influence: maximum values were observed every year in the period November–January, coinciding with atmospheric stagnant conditions and pollution episodes, while minimum values were measured in springtime, a period in which wind speed produced high atmospheric dilution. The Aitken and accumulation modes have shown similar seasonal behavior, with two maxima related to vehicle emissions. The nucleation mode had a third maximum observed at noon during spring and summer. The size distributions were bimodal during most of the time: the first mode was centered on 20–50 nm and was associated with fresh particles related to vehicle exhaust emission; the second mode, between 50 and 160 nm, mainly corresponded to the evolution of the first mode. The evolution of the size distributions reveals a marked annual cycle related to the season, with an increase of median diameters during summer and a decrease during winter. Different evolutions of particle size distribution corresponding to different meteorological and seasonal scenarios were identified. The influence of higher wind speeds on particle size distribution has been confirmed to cause a decrease in the particle number concentration and in the size distribution mode. Particle nucleation is not a frequent phenomenon in this measurement site, where 63 events per year have been observed. They mainly occurred during spring and summer periods, with the minimum number during winter. This suggests that insolation and temperature are important variables in nucleation. Class Ia nucleation events mainly occurred during spring and summer. High wind speeds were important during class II events, as the particles suffered low growth or lost their semivolatile compounds.Atmospheric Environment 06/2011; 45(18):3169-3180. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.041 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Short-term secondary organic carbon estimations with a modified OC/EC primary ratio method at a suburban site in Madrid (Spain)[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A time series of more than two years of continuous measurements of EC, OC and TC obtained with a Rupprecht and Patashnick (R&P) thermal analyzer at a suburban site in Madrid has been evaluated in this work. Correction factors obtained from intercomparison exercises with thermo-optical methods were applied to the original measurements. Corrected OC and EC mean values are 3.7 and 1.3 mu g m(-3) respectively. The highest individual values have been recorded in winter. No seasonal variation has been observed in OC, whereas a slight decrease of EC is observed in summer, leading to higher OC/EC ratios. The mean value of the OC/EC ratio is 4.9. Daily patterns show maximum EC and OC associated to traffic rush hours, with a delay of the OC peak related to the formation of SOC. Daily oscillation is more pronounced in winter. Hourly estimations of SOC production have been obtained by the primary OC/EC ratio approach, after discounting the OC, EC background contamination. A mean primary ratio value of 0.59 has been used for SOC short-term estimations throughout the entire time period. As expected, the highest SOC production is observed in summer, related to the increasing in photochemical activity, which also influences daily patterns and the time of the daily SOC maximum. In summer the daily SOC production ranges from 80 to 92%, whereas in the winter months it varies from 70 to 84%. These SOC estimations do not discount primary biogenic or natural contributions to OC and are therefore maximum values. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Atmospheric Environment 05/2011; 45(15-15):2496-2506. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.02.037 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Particle size distribution and inorganic aerosol characterization during DAURE 2009 winter field campaign at Montseny site[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: During DAURE 2009 winter field campaign, one of the sampling sites was Montseny, a rural background station located 40 km NNE from Barcelona and 25 km W from the Mediterranean Sea. It is a Natural Park and a protected area, thus with low human activity, mainly agriculture. The sampling station was located on a valley with it axis oriented on the direction NW-SE. At this site, a TSI-SMPS (DMA 3071 and CPC 3022) was installed in order to measure the particle number distribution in the size range 15-600 nm during the period March 19-27 with a measurement cycle of 12 minutes The particle mass distribution was measured by a micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI) using eleven size stages with aluminum substrates and a quartz fiber backup filter. Four samples were taken during the period 13-19 March, two during 24 hours and other two during 48 hours. This impactor has a wider size range allowing to measure from 56 to 18000 nm. The substrates and filters obtained were later analyzed for determining soluble ions (sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and calcium) by IC. There are mainly two different kinds of events measured with the SMPS. When the air masses were coming from SE, which meant that they could come from the park but also from the urban and industrial areas located in the pre-coastal depression, it was characterized by higher particle number concentrations and by size distributions centered on 80 nm. This meant it was an aged aerosol, which had grown up by coagulation, condensation and oxidation processes. When the air masses were coming from NW (the second valley axis side), the particle measured were much smaller, the instrument started to detect particles with 15 nm, but smaller ones could be possible. This meant that new particle nucleation could have occurred in the valley, just before arriving to the sampling point. From MOUDI samplings, two different types of events were also observed. Three of the four samplings coincided with stagnation of air masses or slight SE flows. During the 4th sampling, the air mass direction was oscillating, arriving from both possible axis sides. Comparing both situations, it was observed that there was not a big difference between them for sulfate and nitrate. Sulfate was found in the accumulation mode and in the backup filter, while nitrate also appeared in the coarse mode. Ammonium had a different behavior. It appeared in the accumulation mode and in the backup filter but not in the coarse mode during both kinds of events. When the air mass direction was oscillating, the ammonium concentration was much higher than during the other 3 samplings, more than enough to neutralize the sulfate and nitrate ions. In this case, the particulate nitrate observed in the coarse mode was neutralized by the calcium ion. Acknowledgement: Special thanks are given to X. Querol and A. Alastuey (IDAEA-CSIC) and J.L. Jimenez (U. Colorado, CO, USA) for organizing the DAURE field campaign. This part of the study has been financed by the CGL2007-3052-E/CLI, CGL2008-02817-E/CLI, PROFASE (CGL2007-64117) and GRACCIE (CSD2007-00067) projects. M.A. Revuelta acknowledges the Ministry of Science and Innovation for their economical support through the FPI predoctoral grant BES-2008-007079.
Article: Characterization of the inorganic aerosol in Barcelona site during DAURE 2009 field campaigns[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Inorganic compounds account for a significant mass of the ambient aerosol. However this contribution varies with time and aerosol size fraction, depending on the influence of source emissions and ambient conditions, which can be relevant in the formation processes of secondary species. Time series of particulate nitrate, 10 m time resolution, have been obtained during the February-March and July 2009 DAURE (Determination of the sources of atmospheric Aerosols in Urban and Rural Environments in the western Mediterranean) field campaigns in the urban area of Barcelona by means of an R&P8400N monitor. Meteorological conditions during these periods were relevant for the photochemical formation and accumulation of secondary species. Ambient concentrations were higher in winter, specially coinciding with development of atmospheric stagnant episodes that enhanced the accumulation of pollutants including particulate nitrate that reached concentrations of 25 µgm-3 in some occasions, day or night, under these conditions. High humidity periods favored in occasions the formation of nitrates at submicronic scale. Variations in wind direction resulted in transport of particulate nitrate from near emission areas. Size segregated aerosol was sampled during the winter campaign with a micro-orifice uniform deposit impactor (MOUDI) using eleven size stages with aluminum substrates and a quartz fiber backup filter. Samples were collected twice per day for day/night periods. The first sampling period tried to collect secondary aerosol as it started after the early morning emission period. The second sample collected the night aerosol and the emission period. Soluble ions (sulfate, nitrate, ammonium and calcium) were later analyzed by IC. The nitrate mass was concentrated in two modes, the accumulation one around 0.75 µm and the coarse one around 3.90 µm. The sulfate and ammonium masses were concentrated in the accumulation mode, around 0.50 µm, although a small peak close to 5 µm also appeared. The ammonium measured in the accumulation mode was able to neutralize the inorganic acidity caused by the nitrate and sulfate, but not the acidity in the coarse mode caused by the nitrate. This particulate nitrate was generated by the reaction of gaseous nitric acid with crustal calcium carbonate thus being calcium the neutralizing cation. Acknowledgement: Special thanks are given to the X. Querol and A. Alastauey (IDAEA-CSIC) and J.L. Jimenez (U. Colorado, CO, USA) for organizing the DAURE field campaign This part of the study has been financed by the CGL2007-3052-E/CLI, CGL2008-02817-E/CLI, PROFASE (CGL2007-64117) and GRACCIE (CSD2007-00067) projects. M.A. Revuelta acknowledges the Ministry of Science and Innovation for their economical support through the FPI predoctoral grant BES-2008-007079.
Conference Paper: An evaluation of SOA modelling in the Madrid metropolitan area[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The improvement of air quality represents an important challenge for our society. In urban areas, air quality standards are being exceeded. Like other tropospheric pollutants, aerosols are presently under regulation in the European Union. Control of aerosol concentration is an important objective, because high levels can affect human health. As an indirect effect, aerosols can alter earth's radiative budget by scattering or absorbing radiation, producing a change of ozone production. Because of both direct and indirect aerosol effects, it is important to know aerosol levels in the troposphere. Models can be used as a tool for air quality management. Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is presently one of the most important topics on air quality modelling. Many aspects of SOA modelling are still a challenge for the scientific community. Unfortunately, the quality of model results cannot be evaluated because SOA measurements are not available at air quality stations. The reason for that is that it is not possible to distinguish experimentally a primary organic aerosol from a secondary one. In this paper, an air quality model was used to simulate hourly SOA concentrations during a 2003 summer period in the Madrid metropolitan area. A simple reaction scheme for SOA was used. Modelled SOA was compared against SOA estimations obtained from thermal OC and EC hourly measurements at an urban background site, using the OC/EC minimum ratio approach. Although a reasonable agreement is observed, higher-resolution simulations with higher-resolution emissions should be carried out in order to improve model predictions. Also, a more complex scheme of SOA formation should be tested to determine the origin of the discrepancies. Keywords: secondary organic aerosols, air quality modelling, organic carbon, elemental carbon.AIR POLLUTION 2008; 08/2008
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ABSTRACT: During the course of one year (March 2004–March 2005), PM2.5 particulate nitrate concentrations were semi-continuously measured every 10min at a Madrid suburban site using the Rupprecht and Patashnick Series 8400N Ambient Particulate Nitrate Monitor (8400N). Gaseous pollutants (NO, NO2, O3, HCHO, HNO2) were simultaneously measured with a DOAS spectrometer (OPSIS AR-500) and complementary meteorological information was obtained by a permanent tower. The particulate nitrate concentrations ranged from the instrumental detection limit of around 0.2μgm−3, up to a maximum of about 25μgm−3. The minimum monthly average was reached during August (0.32μgm−3) and the maximum during November (3.0μgm−3). Due to the semi-volatile nature of ammonium nitrate, peaks were hardly present during summer air pollution episodes. A typical pattern during days with low dispersive conditions was characterized by a steep rise of particulate nitrate in the morning, reaching maximum values between 9 and 14UTC, followed by a decrease during the evening. On some occasions a light increase was observed at nighttime. During spring episodes, brief diurnal nitrate peaks were recorded, while during the autumn and winter episodes, later and broader nitrate peaks were registered. Analysis of particulate nitrate and related gaseous species indicated the photo-chemical origin of the morning maxima, delayed with respect to NO and closely associated with secondary NO2 maximum values. The reverse evolution of nitrate and nitrous acid was observed after sunrise, suggesting a major contribution from HNO2 photolysis to OH formation at this time of the day, which would rapidly produce nitrate in both gaseous and particulate phase. Some nocturnal nitrate maxima appeared under high humidity conditions, and a discussion about their origin involving different possible mechanisms is presented, i.e. the possibility that these nocturnal maximum values could be related to the heterogeneous formation of nitrous and nitric acid by the hydrolysis of NO2 on wet aerosols.Atmospheric Environment 01/2007; 41(2):394-406. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2006.07.040 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Estimation of secondary organic aerosol formation from semi-continuous OC–EC measurements in a Madrid suburban area[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An analysis of hourly measurements of gaseous pollutants and fine carbonaceous aerosol (PM2.5) divided into two fractions, elemental and organic carbon (EC and OC), in a suburban Madrid metropolitan area site is presented. Data were obtained using a semi-continuous thermal analyser for two periods of time during the summer and late autumn–early winter of 2003. In the summer period, correlation between EC and OC was poor (r=0.46), and high OC/EC ratios were usually found. In contrast, during the late autumn–early winter period the two carbonaceous aerosol fractions showed a high degree of correlation (r=0.94). Coincident peaks of OC and secondary gases (NO2+O3) were observed during summer episodes and also on some winter episodic days, suggesting a significant non-primary contribution to OC in fine aerosol, linked to photochemical oxidation of gaseous pollutants. OC apportionment between primary and secondary origins has been attempted for the two measuring periods using the EC tracer model. In the summer period, the results of this apportionment were very dependent on the y-intercept value (considered as the non-combustion OC background concentration) of selected linear regressions. Calculation of the secondary contribution to the OC fraction during polluted days gave diurnal maximum hourly estimations in a range from 35% to 55% and daily estimations averaged during the 10–19 h period ranging from 25% to 45%. Thus, this would confirm a daily urban photochemical origin for the secondary organic aerosol, although biogenic contribution to both the OC background and the SOA formation may be significant in the area during summer. During late autumn–early winter episodes primary contribution to OC was more prevailing, although the model also estimated maximum hourly values of secondary OC in the order of 35% of the measured OC.Atmospheric Environment 02/2006; 40(6-40):1134-1147. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.11.007 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Comparison between experimental and calculated vehicle idle emission factors for Madrid fleet[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Experimental vehicle idle emission factors have been compared with calculated factors for 100 vehicles in Madrid. The vehicles were selected according to the distribution (by age and fuel type) of the official, national car fleet (up to 31 December 1997). They were then clustered following the criteria of the Computer Programme to Calculate Emissions from Road Transport (COPERT III) category classification. NO(x) and CO idle emission factors show a wide range of values in each category and an important deviation between the experimental values and the corresponding parameterised ones. Fifteen percent of tested vehicles in this study have been identified as gross emitters generating approximately 50% of the total CO emission volume.Science of The Total Environment 01/2005; 334-335:133-40. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.04.033 · 3.16 Impact Factor
Article: Field monoterpene emission of Mediterranean oak (Quercus ilex) in the central Iberian Peninsula measured by enclosure and micrometeorological techniques: Observation of drought stress effect[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: An experimental characterization of biogenic emission from Quercus ilex ssp. rotundifolia in a forest near Madrid, Spain, was carried out in the early autumn of the years 2000-2003. A dynamic branch enclosure technique was implemented to determine the monoterpene emission rates of this evergreen oak species during the 2000 and 2001 campaigns. Major compounds emitted during both measurement periods were limonene, alpha-pinene, beta-pinene, sabinene, and myrcene. In the 2000 field campaign the light- and temperature-dependent model of Guenther et al. [1993] did not fit the data due to drastic reductions of emission rates (and leaf gas exchange related parameters) observed at high air temperature and low air humidity (high water vapor pressure deficit). This plant physiological activity depletion and the subsequent emission reduction were attributed to severe water soil deficit conditions, as precipitation was very scarce during the growing season. In contrast, during the 2001 field campaign, neither emission nor physiological activity showed strong decreases in hot days. A good fit of experimental data to Guenther model was achieved in this field campaign (r2 = 0.90), and linear regression gave a standard emission factor (ES) of 14.0 mug gdw-1 h-1 (gdw is grams dry weight). Soil moisture was presumably higher than during the 2000 campaign due to recent rain events. With the purpose of documenting the drought stress effect at canopy level, monoterpene oak fluxes were measured by the modified Bowen ratio micrometeorological technique throughout the 2001 field campaign and in the late summer of 2002 and 2003. The measured emission by both techniques showed a reasonably good correlation, although micrometeorological fluxes were, in general, lower than upscaled branch emission rates. According to Guenther's parameterization, standard emission fluxes (FS) of 0.30 mug m-2 s-1 (r2 = 0.61) and 0.28 mug m-2 s-1 (r2 = 0.67) were derived for the 2001 and 2002 field campaigns, respectively. However, measured fluxes in September 2003 at high ambient temperature were much lower than those of the previous years. Moreover, from the CLCT range in which emission in this field campaign could be fitted to a linear behavior, the FS value obtained was 50% lower than the 2001 and 2002 values. Water xylem potential measurements indicated the existence of drought conditions during the 2003 campaign and unstressed water conditions during the 2002 campaign.Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres 01/2005; 110. DOI:10.1029/2004JD005168 · 3.44 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: A great extension of Quercus ilex natural forest is found in the close vicinity to Madrid metropolitan area. This work presents the results obtained in a three-year field emission experimental study on this evergreen oak species (2000--02). Monoterpene emission has been documented during summer and early autumn seasons using a branch enclosure technique. Main features of this emission study focus on speciation, light and temperature dependence, and relationship with carbon assimilation and water stress. Severe soil water deficit induced a physiological depletion at high temperature in this sclerophyll and monoterpene non-storing oak species, reducing emission at minimum levels. In the opposite, if soil was enough wetted emission was reasonably well described by the isoprene model of Guenther although assimilation was reduced at high temperature. A field experiment designed to ascertain the role of air humidity on emission revealed no influence of this parameter under no soil water deficit conditions. Canopy emission fluxes were calculated from the modified Bowen-ratio technique using a micrometeorological tower deployed within the oak forest. A standard emission flux of 0.3 mug m-2s-1 according to the model of Guenther (30^oC and 1000 mumol m-2s-1 of PAR) was obtained (r^2= 0.67).
Article: Corrigendum to "High water vapour pressure deficit influence on Quercus ilex and Pinus pinea field monoterpene emission in the central Iberian Peninsula (Spain)": [Atmospheric Environment 36(28) (2002) 4441–4452]Atmospheric Environment 02/2003; 37(4):587. DOI:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00836-1 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: High water vapour pressure deficit influence on Quercus ilex and Pinus pinea field monoterpene emission in the central Iberian Peninsula (Spain)[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The results of a field study carried out in September–October 2000 near Madrid, regarding Quercus ilex and Pinus pinea monoterpene emission and its relation to ambient and physiological parameters, are presented in this paper. The major compounds in diurnal Q. ilex emission were limonene, α-pinene and β-pinene. Emission rates during warm days fitted reasonably well to the temperature and light-dependent model of Guenther (ES=13.4 μg gDW−1 h−1). However, during hot days at mid-day and afternoon hours, dramatic decreases of monoterpene emission, photosynthetic activity and stomatal conductance were observed. The poor soil–water availability combined with low relative humidity and high temperature is likely to be responsible for the observed emission drop. A parameterisation of emission, based on ambient atmospheric water vapour pressure deficit (WVPD), has been attempted in this study. Monoterpene diurnal emission from P. pinea was lower than that of Mediterranean oak (ES=1.5 μg gDW−1 h−1). A reduction in the total emission during the hottest hours of the day was not observed in this monoterpene storing species. Limonene emission rates, accounting on average for nearly half of the emission, were well described by the temperature-dependent model of Tingey. The rest of the emission was comprised of several compounds (cineole, myrcene, α-pinene, linalool) and was reduced at high WVPD values.Atmospheric Environment 01/2003; DOI:10.1016/S1352-2310(02)00415-6 · 3.06 Impact Factor
Article: Passive remote sensing of nitrogen dioxide as a tool for tracking air pollution in urban areas: the Madrid urban plume, a case of study[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper describes the experimental potential of a classic ground-based passive remote sensing technique, the dispersive correlation spectroscopy (DCS), for the study of non-industrial urban plumes. The text presents this technique as an alternative tool to study some aspects of air pollution in cities, in contrast to the information supplied by air pollution monitoring networks. The results obtained with DCS in the study of Madrid plume in winter, one of the most important cases of urban pollution taking place in southern Europe, are presented here as an example of the DCS application. This highly inhabited zone, where pollutant emissions have essentially an urban origin, stays frequently under the influence of high-pressure systems, which strongly condition the efficient ventilation of the area and produce air pollution episodes of certain importance. The study presented here has been based on the previous technical improvement of the commercial COSPEC V instrument and on its use as a passive remote sensor from a mobile laboratory measuring NO2 total column. The formation process of the Madrid plume, its horizontal limits and the dynamics of transport are some of the aspects documented with this technique.Atmospheric Environment 01/2000; 34(19-34):3041-3056. DOI:10.1016/S1352-2310(99)00509-9 · 3.06 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The main results of an experimental study focusing on the formation and transport of photochemical pollution in the Madrid air basin are presented. This southern European, heavily populated urban area is located on an elevated plateau at a height of 700 m, near a mountain range with maximum heights of around 2,400 m. Daily and seasonal cycles of ozone were documented during a one-year survey at three semi-rural sites located 30 km away from the urban center. Maximum hourly values of up to 140 ppb were measured, and the ozone generated within the urban plume on polluted days (when values exceeded 90 ppb) has been estimated at around 40-50 ppb.A meteorological characterization of these smoggy days pointed out the influence of thermally induced local wind flows on the concentration daily cycles at the measuring sites, denoting a preferred advection of the urban plume. Moreover, during intensive summer field campaigns, the use of meteorological and ozone sondes, as well as an instrumented aircraft, revealed some features about the horizontal and vertical distribution of the polluted air masses, as well as their evolution within the planetary boundary layer. Ozone plumes have been detected up to 100 km away from the city, usually mixed in a layer that reaches a height of 1,000-1,500 m in the afternoon. On some occasions, ozone-enriched layers have been detected as high as 4,000 m during morning hours, suggesting possible tropospheric injection induced by topographydriven flows or convective mesoscale systems that are usually present in the center of the Iberian Peninsula in the summer.Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995) 07/1997; 47(7). DOI:10.1080/10473289.1997.10463938 · 1.17 Impact Factor
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Diego Maradona has been fired as Al Wasl coach following a disappointing season in which the Argentine great failed to win a title for the Dubai club.
The board of directors met Tuesday and issued a statement saying Maradona and his technical staff had been immediately "relieved" of their duties. Maradona, who was on vacation and not in Dubai, could not be reached for comment.
A replacement for Maradona was not announced.
Maradona signed a two-year deal in May 2011. He was popular with fans and helped put United Arab Emirates football on the map, however his team finished eighth in the 12-team league.
Maradona had still been expected to return for a second season but was left vulnerable when the Al Wasl board was replaced in June.
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Police and Protesters Clash in Istanbul
ISTANBUL—Turkish police moved to recapture a landmark square in Istanbul on Tuesday, sparking daylong clashes in the heart of the city as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took a tougher line against protesters after two weeks of nationwide demonstrations.
Security forces moved into Taksim Square, the epicenter of protests, around 7:30 a.m., firing tear gas and water cannon, while some of the few thousands of protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails. Battalions of police, which had ceded control of Taksim the day after nationwide protests flared May 31, secured the square's perimeter by 8 a.m.
The incursion failed to end clashes between demonstrators and police, sparking running battles on the periphery of the square, which left 20 people hospitalized, according to the Turkish Medical Association.
Security forces detained more than 70 lawyers protesting in solidarity with the Taksim Square demonstrators after skirmishes at Istanbul's High Court.
As images of clashes in central Istanbul were broadcast live across the world, Turkey's currency sank to 2013 lows, prompting the central bank to repeatedly intervene to stabilize the lira.
As afternoon turned to evening and many Turks finished the working day, thousands more people poured onto the square.
The police retreated to one corner of the square to protect the Ataturk Cultural Center, which protesters had previously draped in political banners.
In the evening, hundreds of police moved back onto the square in force, using tear gas and water cannon to clear the protesters.
In Ankara, Prime Minister Erdogan reiterated his stance that the protests were illegal and being spurred on by radical groups and shadowy foreign elements intending to damage Turkey's economy and international standing.
"This is an illegal uprising but some are trying to mask it," Mr. Erdogan said to delegates of his ruling Justice and Development Party. "These protests were used on purpose and on a systematic basis. There is a huge game they want to play on Turkey," the prime minister said, telling his party faithful that democracy was thriving in the country in a way unimaginable a decade ago, when his party swept to power.
Mr. Erdogan's decision to use force came hours after he made his first conciliatory gesture toward the protests, which are entering a third week over concerns that new government policies will restrict lifestyles. Analysts said the move was in line with a political strategy of seeking to marginalize demonstrators as fringe actors and undermining public support for their cause.
"Erdogan seems intent on playing his strategy of framing this as a marginal radical movement. He will not budge on the core issue of exasperation with Erdogan's own style of leadership. He is trying to divide and undermine public support for this movement," said Sinan Ulgen, chairman of EDAM, an Istanbul-based think-tank.
Mr. Erdogan spoke shortly after Istanbul Gov. Huseyin Avni Mutlu convened a news conference to draw a distinction between violent protesters at Taksim Square, who the government says are damaging the country's image, and peaceful demonstrators at the adjacent Gezi Park, a patch of grassland that activists are trying to save from a government rebuilding project.
Turkey's demonstrations, the broadest challenge to Mr. Erdogan's party in his 10 years in power, have brought to light a vibrant contingent of secular and middle-class Turks who are chafing at what they see as an increasingly heavy hand in the prime minister's rule.
But they have also underscored the strong support Mr. Erdogan enjoys in a vast stretch of the country, largely among the religiously pious, some nationalists and a section of the business class that has profited from his government. Mr. Erdogan defied protesters with back-to-back rallies that drew tens of thousands of his supporters in three cities over the weekend, where he repeatedly said extremists were hijacking the protests.
Turkish officials on Tuesday sought to emphasize the damage to the unity, image and financial stability they say the protests at Taksim have caused. Mr. Mutlu said authorities "will not allow a siege" around a statue at the square of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of Turkey's republic, and a nearby cultural center, vowing not to allow protest material back around the statue.
"The Atatürk statue and cultural center have become like an advertisement board. It is very bad for the image of Turkey and Istanbul," the governor said, adding that the authorities are committed "to be very careful and sensitive in handling the situation."
Intervening to stabilize the currency, Turkey's central bank sold $250 million in five separate intraday auctions after the lira had plummeted in the morning.
The moves came shortly after the bank said it would hold intraday forex selling auctions, which it hasn't done since January 2012, to raise the value of the lira against the dollar.
By early afternoon in Taksim, police forces withdrew from the square's center and clashes had calmed.
Demonstrators gathered on the steps of Gezi Park chanting antigovernment slogans. Inside the park, protesters who had camped overnight grew agitated, and fearful of the escalation in violence.
Some began to question whether demonstrators were egging on the police force with violence. Others in the park chanted, in unison, to the police: "Go ahead and gas us."
"The authorities are trying to turn us into the guilty party as we currently stand on the right side of history," said a 40-year-old tourist guide, who said he rushed to the area after seeing broadcasts of security forces amassing to move into the square earlier Tuesday.
"We have been waiting for this to happen," said protester Ugur Hacan, a 24-year-old artistic director for TV series and movies, who was sleeping at the park with friends when police entered the square.
"The protests will continue. I believe more people might come after this action," Mr. Hacan said.
—Yeliz Candemir
and Gokce Sanlialp
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urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-a27fff3d-0d1b-4145-b91e-6726fb6cadf1 Insurance - Tags - customer_centricity Incorporate new approaches to address uncertainty and complexity. 2 2013-06-26T15:55:07-04:00 IBM Connections - Blogs urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-80a87ec0-c88e-407e-860e-83b7025025bc Know your customers Christian Bieck firstname.lastname@example.com 270001WK4F active Comment Entries application/atom+xml;type=entry Likes 2012-12-31T04:00:00-05:00 2012-12-31T04:00:00-05:00
We are close to New Year's resolutions, and "become a customer-centric company" seems to be have been one of the insurance industry's favorite resolutions for the past 2-3 years.

I talk to a lot of insurers, and I think they should keep the resolution going for the foreseeable future. It's not only me thinking that – I ran across a great blog post with the title "Don't assume you know your customers" on HBR.org a few days ago. Some central points:

"Most companies are the centers of their own universes. It's a natural enough impression; after all, the products and services they offer are on their minds 24/7. The trap is in those companies deluding themselves into thinking that they are as important to their customers as they are to themselves. This is almost never the case. This delusion interferes with understanding customers and their needs, and frequently leads companies to talk to customers in ways that seem foreign or confusing.

Financial services, the area that I work in now, is an example. It is rampant with confusing jargon and terminology, such as compound interest, ETFs, or the now infamous CDO, or collateralized debt obligation. A 2008 AARP study found that 79% of Americans think prescription drug instructions are easier to understand than materials from financial firms.

But the financial services industry is not alone. Health care, wireless communications, real estate, information technology, and airlines are all major industries that consistently confuse and turn off their customers, leading to mistrust and disloyalty."

(You can find the full post here.)

Replace financial services with insurance and the above applies just the same. But believe it or not: there are insurers who are attempting to increase transparency by building simple products and simple T&Cs. Maybe making resolutions helps others get there as well.

On that note: Happy New Year!
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 "For us, customers are always in the center. That means they are always in the way." When I first heard that joke a few years ago, the idea of true customer centricity was just starting out in the insurance industry, but not many insurers were taking it really seriously – business was too good as it was without the need to change anything.

Today, this has changed. Almost every insurer I talk to around the world is expressing concern about retention rates, about changes in customer loyalty, and about the need to really get close to the customer. This was reflected in our 2010 CEO study, when 90% of insurance CEOs told us that getting closer to the customer was their top strategic priority for the next few years. And it is one of the central themes of this year's freshly released IBM Global CEO Study 2012, "Leading Through Connections", for which we interviewed more than 1,700 CEOs in 64 countries, almost 150 of those from the insurance industry.

As Christian Bieck has written on this blog before, the IBM Institute for Business Value study "Powerful interaction points: saying goodbye to the channel" has shown that consumer interaction is more diverse than ever before. Demographics can no longer predict customer behavior – if it ever could.

Insurance CEOs are acting on this and moving their organization towards a customer-centric approach, as the imperative "engaging customers as individuals" shows. Of the 147 Insurance CEOs interviewed for the CEO Study, 76% identify customer insights as the most critical investment area, compared to 73 percent of the global CEO sample. 71% aim to improve the response time to market needs, and 69% to improve understanding of customer needs – a big step up for an industry that for decades lived in a tightly regulated sellers market, where customer expectations hardly mattered.

Consumers have been telling us that they prefer multi-modal interaction, i.e. multiple interaction points simultaneously, and insurance CEOs have been hearing the message. They plan to extend the traditional ways of interacting – agents, brokers and call centers – to a more balanced approach that includes the Web and peer-group interaction. Specifically, CEOs intend to shift the focus away from one-way advertising via traditional to Social Media: today, 35% see traditional media as on of the three most important engagement mechanisms; this will drop to 9% over the next 3-5 years. Conversely, Social Media will rise from four to a whopping 51%!

Customer focus for insurance CEOs means getting everybody involved

Employees. "Empowering employees through values" is a key imperative for CEOs in 2012. Technical skills are necessary but not sufficient anymore. Flexibility and communicativeness become the most important personal traits.

Partners. "Amplifying innovation with partnerships" means thinking past the traditional partnerships with agents and brokers, to working with third parties in claims remediation and even in underwriting.

Finally, the CEOs themselves need to be involved. Customer centricity starts at the top, and 68% of insurance CEOs see customer obsession as the key characteristic a successful CEO needs.

I think the IBM Global CEO study 2012 is an interesting read and invite you to look at and talk about it. And a big "Thank you!" to those of you who participated – it is the continuing support of the business leaders of the world that make studies like this possible and successful.

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Robert Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles. His films include The Trap, Oliver!, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers… Read More
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1938 Birth Born on February 13, 1938.
1959 21 Years Old In 1959, Reed married Kate Byrne. The couple had one son, Mark, before their divorce in 1969. … Read More
1964 26 Years Old … In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System, (known as The Girl-Getters in the U.S.). … Read More
1965 27 Years Old He first collaborated with director Ken Russell in a TV biopic of Claude Debussy in 1965, and later played Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Russell's subsequent TV biopic Dante's Inferno (1967).
1966 28 Years Old In 1966 Reed played a mountain fur trapper, with co-star Rita Tushingham, in an action-adventure film The Trap with a soundtrack by British film composer Ron Goodwin. … Read More
1969 31 Years Old An anecdote holds that Reed could have been chosen to play James Bond. In 1969, Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were looking for a replacement for Sean Connery and Reed (who had recently played a resourceful killer in The Assassination Bureau) was mentioned as a possible choice for the role. … Read More
1973 35 Years Old … Steve McQueen told the story that in 1973 he flew to the UK to discuss a film project with Reed and suggested the two men visit a London nightclub. … Read More
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The controversial Russell film The Devils (1971) was followed in the summer of 1975 by the same director's musical film Tommy, based on The Who's 1969 concept album Tommy and starring its lead singer Roger Daltrey. … Read More
1985 47 Years Old In 1985, he married Josephine Burge, to whom he was still married at the time of his death. … Read More
1987 49 Years Old … In December 1987, Reed became seriously ill with kidney problems as a result of his alcoholism and had to abstain from drinking for a year. … Read More
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