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Technology companies are increasingly traded, acquired, and merged within industry similar to commodities with enormous sums of money involved. Since the stakes are high in these transactions - industry rumors of sales, mergers and acquisitions are closely monitored and followed. It is this high-energy atmosphere that may account for Nokia's inability to quell rumors swirling about selling its Nokia cell phone line of business to Microsoft.
The Finnish company's smartphone future was called into the speculation spotlight once again this Wednesday when Danske Bank informed its clients that Nokia will be selling the smartphone division to Microsoft sometime in the first half of 2012. This kind of claim carried serious clout as it came from the largest bank in Denmark. And with any speculation, there is money to be made which undermines some confidence in veracity. After making this announcement, Danske Bank changed the rating of Nokia stock from "Hold" to "Buy" - appropriately, and strangely similar sounding to Microsoft's bing.com price predictor…). Empower your ability to enhance your mobility and turn your device into a power tool. Discover select accessories, such as, stylus & pens, SD Memory cards, data cables, chargers and batteries all specifically designed to make your devices functionally efficient and performance rich.
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In May Nokia vehemently denied the rumors of a sale, but they kept cropping up as reports continued to come in that the two companies were indeed in discussions. The response from Nokia this time? "We put these rumors to rest a long time ago." Clearly not, Nokia. Clearly not.
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News about Joe DiPietro, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Theater Review: First Lady Runs the Country When President Wilson Can't
Joe DiPietro's "The Second Mrs. Wilson," in its world premiere in New Haven, explores one of the most complicated and fascinating relationships ever in the White House.
May 24, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Theater , Turner, Stephen Barker , DiPietro, Joe , Long Wharf Theater , New Haven (Conn) , Akerlind, Christopher , Cho, Linda , Dodge, Alexander , Edelstein, Gordon , Glover, John , Groener, Harry
Review: A Zany Version of the Romance 'Ernest Shackleton Loves Me' in New Brunswick
A stressed-out single mother makes her first foray into online dating, and almost instantly receives a call from Shackleton, the celebrated British polar explorer of the early 1900s.
May 3, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Theater , George Street Playhouse , DiPietro, Joe , Milburn, Brendan , Shackleton, Ernest , Vigoda, Valerie , Peterson, Lisa , Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Play)
Review: Renée Fleming Plays Against Type in 'Living on Love'
Ms. Fleming, the opera star, heads the cast of Joe DiPietro's Broadway comedy as a tantrum-throwing egomaniacal opera star.
April 21, 2015, Tuesday
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In 'Living on Love,' Renée Fleming Takes a Humorous Broadway Turn
The process of getting this soprano to Broadway took years. "Every major step forward in my career has involved some sense of taking a risk," Ms. Fleming said.
April 12, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Theater , Fleming, Renee , DiPietro, Joe , Music , Opera , Living on Love (Play)
What I Almost Called My Play
A look at the titles that clicked and those that didn't for writers with current productions. Would you buy a ticket to "Free Beer"?
March 12, 2015, Thursday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Theater , Jones, Nick , Hargrove, Brian (1956- ) , Writing and Writers , Hand to God (Play) , It Shoulda Been You (Play) , The World of Extreme Happiness (Play) , Verite (Play) , Askins, Robert , Cowhig, Frances Ya-Chu , DiPietro, Joe , Doran, Bathsheba
Renée Fleming to Star in 'Living on Love' on Broadway
Written by the Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro, "Living on Love" was first mounted at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
December 22, 2014, Monday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: DiPietro, Joe , Fleming, Renee , Theater
Out of Tune, and Seeking New Muses
The soprano Renée Fleming stars in her first role in a play in "Living on Love," a new comedy about a theatrical couple handling hard times.
July 21, 2014, Monday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Music , Long, Justin , Marshall, Kathleen , Living on Love (Play) , Theater , Williamstown Theater Festival , Fleming, Renee , Kanin, Garson , DiPietro, Joe , Chlumsky, Anna , Sills, Douglas
Laughter Amid Melancholy
Joe DiPietro's "Clever Little Lies" is scheduled to run at Guild Hall from July 16 to Aug. 3 with the same cast and director as its world premiere at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, N.J., last year.
July 13, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Guild Hall , Clever Little Lies (Play) , Mullavey, Greg , Theater , East Hampton (NY) , DiPietro, Joe , Thomas, Marlo
Divas Ready for Another Stage
It's not unusual in the history of opera for a singer to gaze longingly at the wider world of performance, especially movies.
July 6, 2014, Sunday
MORE ON JOE DIPIETRO AND: Music , Traubel, Helen (1899-1972) , Theater , Fleming, Renee , Shimell, William , Vishnevskaya, Galina , DiPietro, Joe , Opera , Callas, Maria , Novotna, Jarmila , Farrar, Geraldine , Movies , Classical Music
A Storied Rivalry Touching Familiar Bases
In "Damn Yankees, the Red Sox Version," a reboot in East Haddam of a Tony-winning musical, a baseball fan makes a deal with the devil.
May 11, 2014, Sunday
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This study is a randomized, controlled trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) versus Health-Enhancement Program (HEP) for patients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder (MDD). Both arms of the study will continue to receive the standard medication management treatment as usual (TAU) throughout the study. MBCT is a new technique that has been found to be effective for prevention of relapse in individuals in complete recovery from depression. MBCT is a group-based, 8-week intervention that uses mindfulness meditation as its core therapeutic ingredient. It teaches people to have a different relationship to depressive thoughts and feelings. This study will use an active condition called the Health Enhancement Program (HEP) which was specifically developed to serve as a comparison condition for mindfulness interventions. HEP has been shown to decrease global stress levels and to increase perceived health. Stress has been considered a contributor to depression. One hundred and seventy four patients with MDD who have failed two or more adequate antidepressant trials will be identified and randomly assigned to one of two groups: MBCT+TAU or HEP+TAU. All patients who enroll in the study will undergo follow-up assessments at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months following the intervention. A supplemental portion of the study will enroll 88 patients to undergo functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI) scans immediately before and after treatment to better understand the neural pathways implicated in depression and those that may be affected through treatment.
Major Depressive Disorder
Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Behavioral: Health Enhancement Program and medication management
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment Resistant Depression
- Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 4, 8, 24, 36, 52 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology(Self-Rated)-16 items(QIDS-SR16) [ Time Frame: Baseline, weeks 1-8, 24, 36, 52 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Short Form Health Survey-36 [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8, 24, 36, 52 week ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Clinical Global Improvement Scale (CGI) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8, 24, 36, 52 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Work and Social Activity Scale (WSAS) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8, 24,36,52 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (QLESQ-SF) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 8, 24, 36, 52 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|September 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) + medication management
Behavioral: Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a group treatment that integrates mindfulness meditation training with some CBT concepts and was specifically developed as a relapse prevention intervention for MDD. The program teaches skills that allow patients to disengage from habitual ("automatic") dysfunctional cognitive routines, in particular depression-related ruminative thought patterns, as a way to reduce future risk of relapse and recurrence of depression.
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The Health Enhancement Program (HEP) + medication management
Behavioral: Health Enhancement Program and medication management
The Health Enhancement Program (HEP)was developed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is modeled after traditional activity and nutrition programs used in weight management- cardiac rehab and diabetes prevention programs. The program is designed to increase overall health and well-being by focusing on four health domains that impact health and are interventions regularly practiced at integrative medicine. These include: (I) Music Therapy (2) Nutrition (3) physical activity including, walking and stretching and (4) Functional movement.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
DSM-IV TR Diagnosis of Major Depression receiving medication management.
Adequate trial of 2 or more antidepressants (ATHF) for a minimum of 6 weeks (one of which at UCSF).
Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 score ≥ 14
Any Ethnicity
English Speaking
Male or Female
No current psychotherapy (i.e. only medication management treatment) or plan to start new psychotherapy during MBCT or HEP
Exclusion Criteria:
Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Antisocial and Borderline Personality Disorders, Current Eating Disorder, Pervasive Development Delay Major Depression with Psychotic Features
Active Suicidality (per HAM-D17 > 1 on item 3)
Meditation Practice once or more per week; yoga more than twice per week at study entry
Substance Abuse Disorder within 6 months
Cognitive Disorder with Mini Mental Status Exam score < 25
Medical illness rated 4 on Cumulative Illness Rating Scale
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00871299
|United States, California
|University of California, San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143
|Principal Investigator:
|Stuart J Eisendrath, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
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|University of California, San Francisco
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|NCT00871299 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 27, 2009
|Last Updated:
|December 1, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Treatment-resistant depression, meditation, mindfulness
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder, Major
Depressive Disorder, Treatment-Resistant
Behavioral Symptoms
Mental Disorders
Mood Disorders
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This presentation is designed for those who serve people with behavioral and/or primary healthcare needs (e.g., clinical staff, support staff, peers). Participants will learn about the change process and important considerations when engaging people in behavior change discussions.
First presentation in the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions' three-part webinar series, Helping People Embrace Behavior Change in Healthcare Settings. The webinars are designed to offer participants concrete skills that providers can use in their practice.


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VERO BEACH -- On Jan. 23, Sea World's rescue crew saved a baby manatee from a canal near the Vero Beach Country Club. The baby was then taken along with her mother to the Miami Seaquarium.
JENSEN BEACH -- Footprints in the sand are captured in the early morning light. Taken with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 18-200mm lens
VERO BEACH -- Shot from the photographer's back yard, using a Kodak Easy Share camera.
JENSEN BEACH -- This Hobe Sound photographer shot this installation on Jan. 18 of the Dolphin Sculpture by Geoffrey Smith that is the centerpiece near the Children's Museum at Indian RiverSide Park in Jensen Beach.
SEWALLS POINT -- This beautiful Great Egret looks as though it is posing for the camera. The photographer was able to capture this pose in a brief moment. What beauty, what grace! Taken with a Nikon D700.
JENSEN BEACH -- The ocean is the most beautiful place. This was the view on Christmas Day.
SEBASTIAN -- A lone fisherman enjoying a spectacular sunrise on the Sebastian pier. Taken with a Nikon D300 mounted with a Nikkor 18-70 zoom lens.
STUART -- This was taken a little while before the sun was going to set.
FORT PIERCE -- A Blue Jay stops by on a cool winters day. Taken with a Canon Rebel
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Male and female bobcast in the Torino area on Jan. 29. They were looking for a place to rest in the early morning. Taken with a Kodak Easy Share Z710.
ST. LUCIE COUNTY -- This male painted bunting next to the female cardinal was waiting for her to get off the feeder for his turn. Taken with a Canon 40D.
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In recent years, three main crimes have come to the forefront, garnering attention from organizations who mean to educate the public about crime prevention and safety. Senior fraud, identity theft and Internet crimes are quite prevalent today. In response, the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) has developed educative materials and campaigns designed to address these crime issues. Here are some statistics on these common crimes based on studies by the NCPC.
Each year, nearly 25 million Americans are victims of consumer fraud. Senior citizens continue to be a rapidly increasing segment of the population, and that makes them a prime target for con artists and thieves. Studies indicate that seniors are the age group most at risk for telemarketing scams. In fact, telemarketers specifically target scams - anywhere from 56 to 80 percent - at seniors.
Protect yourself by doing the following.
Never give out personal information over the phone or Internet unless you have initiated the contact or sale. Legitimate companies will not ask for this information over the phone. Personal information includes social security numbers and credit card information.
Don't believe the "too good to be true" offer. If you have doubts about something, ask to see the offer in writing and review it later.
Contests or "freebies" are often scams. Typically the receipt of a prize requires purchase of something else.
Identity theft can affect just about anyone. According to the United States Postal Service, there were almost 10 million incidents of identity theft in the country in 2004 at a cost of $5 billion to consumers. Victims spend hours and hundreds of dollars trying to clean up the mess left by identity theft.
Don't be forthcoming with your personal information over the phone or the Internet. Make sure any Web sites on which you're entering information have reliable encrypted security to protect data when it is flying through cyberspace.
Invest in a shredder. Don't simply throw out statements and bill stubs.
Never share passwords or PIN codes with other individuals. Similarly, do not believe e-mail solicitations that pretend to be from a financial institution looking for passwords or PIN codes. A legitimate bank, credit union, insurance company, etc., would never solicit information in this fashion.
Do not carry your birth certificate or social security card in your wallet. And only keep on hand the credit or debit cards you use on a regular basis. If your wallet is stolen, this will limit the amount of information the thief will have.


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Get out to A.J. Hudsons (3801 N. Ashland) for Section 8 Chicago's viewing party for Friday night's crucial match vs. D.C. United (LIVE 7pm CT on NBC Sports Network)!
Turn around Saturday morning and get out to Fado's Irish Pub (100 W. Grand Ave.) for Chicago Fire Rec Soccer's English Premier League Viewing Party.
We'll be holding a raffle to benefit the Chicago Fire Foundation, with prizes including...
- Team autographed Chicago Fire jersey
- Team autographed Chicago Fire ball
- Fire Fan MLPD Experience - The winner will receive five (5) MLPD tickets ($175 value)
- Bus-On-Us Experience - Two winners will receive four (4) round-trip bus rides to the and general admission tickets. (2x $120 value)
- Fado's happy hour party for up to 25 guests ($360 value)
- Wine tasting outing for group of 10
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Raffle Ticket Prices: 1 for $3, 2 for $5, 7 for $10
DRINK SPECIALS on Mimosas and Black Velvets. Also, 20% of all money spent on food will go toward the Foundation.
Game Schedule:
7am - Everton vs Manchester City
9am - Liverpool vs Crystal Palace
11:30am - Sunderland vs Manchester United
After Saturday's difficult to swallow 2-2 draw vs. Montreal, you may not want to read this week's Playoff Math. Though sitting eighth currently, it's important to remember the Fire are just two points out of the final playoff place, with four games left.
With that, let's continue the Playoff Math…
1) New York Red Bulls
Current Points: 52 (15-9-7)
Games Remaining: 3 (2 home / 1 away)
Last 5 Games: DWWWW (13pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 10-2-3 / 5-7-4
Maximum Possible Pts: 61
Average Opponents Pts: 41.7
Remaining Schedule: 10/5 vs. NE, 10/20 @ HOU, 10/27 vs. CHI
Rundown: New York did a great job to get a point away to Seattle Sunday night and though they may not get the Supporters Shield, are still in good position for the top spot in the East. Red Bull can clinch a playoff place with a draw Saturday vs. New England.
Fire fans should hope for New York to win that game as well as October 20 at Houston, not only because it takes max points off teams Chicago can still catch but it could make their season finale vs. the Fire less meaningful, with the Fire almost certainly needing a result in that match to make the postseason.
2) Sporting KC
Current Points: 48 (14-10-6)
Games Remaining: 4 (1 home / 3 away)
Last 5: LWWWL (9pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 8-5-3 / 6-5-3
Maximum Possible Pts: 60
Average Opponents Pts: 35.5
Remaining Schedule: 10/5 @ CLB, 10/9 at HOU, 10/18 vs. D.C., 10/23 vs. OLI**, 10/26 @ PHI
Rundown: Fortress Sporting Park? Maybe not so much, as KC dropped their fifth home match of the season vs. Philadelphia Friday night. They didn't lose their second place positioning but they took a definite hit in keeping up with Red Bull at the top of the East. With three of their remaining four matches away, KC also has the distinction of the best road record in the East at 6-5-3.
A win away to Columbus combined with a Fire and New England losses would see Sporting KC earn a playoff spot this weekend.
3) Montreal Impact
Current Points: 46 (13-9-7)
Games Remaining: 5 (2 home/ 3 away)
Last 5 Games: DLLWD (5pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 9-3-3 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Pts: 61
Average Opponents Pts: 40.3
Remaining Schedule: @ HOU, 10/12 vs. NE, 10/16 @ LA, 10/19 vs. PHI, 10/26 @ TFC
Rundown: After a missed penalty, a hit off the post, a goal line clearance and hopeful header, Montreal no doubt felt lucky to leave Toyota Park with a point Saturday night.
- Between the Lines: The Playoff Measurement
Now done with Champions League play, the Impact can concentrate solely on their playoff position and hold a game in hand on the rest of the field. Three of their remaining five matches come against teams directly below them so they can either solidify their place inside the top three, win out and potentially get the top spot from Red Bull or still tank with tough visits to Houston and LA in the offing.
It's Montreal in 2013… You don't really know what to expect from them but a win this week over the Dynamo combined with Crew, Fire and Revolution losses would see the Impact needing just a point next week vs. New England to earn their first-ever MLS playoff berth.
4) Houston Dynamo
Current Points: 44 (12-10-8)
Games Remaining: 4 (3 home / 1 away)
Last 5 Games: WWLDL (7pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 8-3-3 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 58
Average Opponents Pts: 39.8
Remaining Schedule: 10/4 vs. MTL, 10/9 vs. SKC, 10/20 vs. NY, 10/24 @ AU**, 10/27 @ D.C.
Rundown: Houston managed their last week quite well, winning in Champions League at midweek before getting enough out of a 1-1 draw at New England. The result keeps them four points ahead of the Revs and with their next two matches against Montreal and Sporting KC, they could legitimately be in second place by October 10.
Losses to both sides however could just as easily push them back out of the playoff bubble but no team outside the top three controls their own destiny in positioning like the Dynamo down the stretch.
5) Philadelphia Union
Current Points: 42 (11-10-9)
Games Remaining: 4 (2 home / 2 away)
Last 5 Games: WLLDL (4pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 6-4-5 / 5-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 54
Average Opponents Pts: 33.8
Remaining Schedule: 10/5 vs. TFC, 10/12 @ D.C., 10/19 @ MTL, 10/26 vs. SKC
Rundown: After two weeks below the red line, the Union were the biggest winners this past weekend, coming away with a huge win at Sporting KC. Philly now has the potential to stake a serious claim for a playoff berth if they can get wins vs. Toronto and at D.C. the next two weeks. Six points in those two matches will be a must with the Union visiting Montreal and hosting Sporting to close the season out.
6) Columbus Crew
Current Points: 41 (12-14-5)
Games Remaining: 3 (1 home / 2 away)
Last 5 Games: WWWLW (12pts)
2013 Home / Away Record: 7-5-3 / 5-9-2
Maximum Possible Points: 50
Average Opponents Pts: 42.5
Remaining Schedule: 10/5 vs. SKC, 10/19 @ NE, 10/27 vs. NE
Rundown: Wow. The Crew continued their incredible push for a postseason berth with a 4-2 road win at FC Dallas on Sunday. They've now taken four wins from five matches under interim head man Brian Bliss and jumped from eighth to sixth place over the weekend, just one point out of playoff position.
Having played one more game than the rest of the pack, the Crew still have no room for error, with any loss in their final three matches doing serious damage to their playoff hopes. Their backs have been against the wall for a month and they've responded well.
7) New England Revolution
Current Points: 41 (11-11-8)
Games Remaining: 4 (1 home / 3 away)
Last 5 Games: DWLLD (5pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 7-5-4 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 53
Average Opponents Pts: 40.3
Remaining Schedule: 10/5 @ NY, 10/12 @ MTL, 10/19 vs. CLB, 10/27 @ CLB
Rundown: New England missed a definite opportunity in Saturday's 1-1 home draw vs. Houston. A win would have seen the Revs pull level on points with the Dynamo but instead things stayed the same. New England will now have to try and gain points in difficult road matches at New York and Montreal the next two weeks, a daunting task as the two sides also hold the best home records in the Eastern Conference this year.
Taking points from those two games though will at the very least keep the Revs in the equation for their end-of-season home and home series with Columbus.
8) Chicago Fire
Current Points: 40 (11-12-7)
Games Remaining: 4 (1 home / 3 away)
Last 5 Games: DLWDL (5pts)
2013 Home / Away Record: 9-4-3 / 2-7-4
Maximum Possible Pts: 52
Average Opponents Pts: 33.3
Remaining Schedule: 10/4 @ D.C., 10/12 @ FCD, 10/19 vs. TFC, 10/27 @ NY
Rundown: After coming away disappointed from Saturday's game and other results pushing the Fire down to eighth, why even bother at this point right? Well because it's Playoff Math and they're only two points out of playoff position. They also have the easiest remaining schedule of any team in the East.
Perspective: Friday's game is away to a D.C. United side which will play their final meaningful match of the season in Tuesday's U.S. Open Cup final at Real Salt Lake. Along with three points, the Fire will certainly be looking for revenge for August's semifinal defeat and will be doing so against a D.C. team that will have played two time zones away, three days earlier.
A win in that match combined with New England and Columbus losses at New York and vs. Sporting KC respectively (possibilities) would see the Fire jump at the very least back to sixth place. A Philadelphia draw home vs. Toronto (maybe less likely) would also see the Fire move back into fifth place (on the wins tiebreaker). A lot that needs to happen for that this weekend but a win will keep the Fire in position regardless.
Then take into account a game at an FC Dallas side that is all but out of the Western Conference playoff picture and the home finale vs. Toronto on October 19.
Dropping five points in three matches the last month leaves the Fire with little room for error anymore but nine points are far from out of the question over the next three games.
A quick word about points before some Juan Luis Anangono gifs from Saturday.
In all the European leagues this week, fans and onlookers, for the first time this season, started looking at the table in earnest. Suddenly those campaigns feel far enough along to warrant real despair or optimism. From highs at Napoli and Arsenal to the crises at United and Madrid, people spent the weekend frantically counting points, looking up past point totals, tracking average points per match stats, and worrying or gloating about their projected finishes.
That panic and fervor is why I don't look at the table until at least halfway through a season. It's too stressful and too small a dataset. But also, you can get a much better idea of a team's title chances by watching them play a lot of games and watching other teams play a lot of games. Even though the table is king, there's more to a game than its points.
I swear I'm coming back to the Fire but two quick things about points in general. First, they have a strange way of accumulating over time. You can only get zero, one, or three points, and yet they often feel like they're coming or going in heaping clumps, like Salvation Army donations. They don't feel like they grow calmly the way points per match stats indicate. (Anyway those stats are a little ridiculous. What do we really learn from a two-point-something line?) Points feel at once impossible to gain, then coming down in sheets.
But this is why the collection of points feels so good in soccer leagues all over the world, so much better than a regular season NBA win, to name the obvious example. You "steal a point" or "earn three points," week in and week out. You figure a point saved is a point earned and the point savings account will pay off at the end of the season. You figure.
Points, despite their bewitching growth patterns, don't lie when schedules are balanced and you know everyone's playing everyone. At the end of the season the team with the most points is deservedly top. End of story. With the same points available over so long a time, it's impossible to hide under a quick run of wins the way a team can in a playoff.
In MLS, it's a bit strange because most teams in the East play each other three times over the course of the season so qualifying for the playoffs will show who did the best against each other in the conference, not necessarily the best teams overall. Still, those teams deserve the chance to extend their season because they earned it from March to October. It's a huge dataset. No matter what happens between the Eastern Conference teams vying for the final playoff spots (Houston, Philadelphia, New England, and Chicago), I think that even with the imbalanced schedule, the points will have proven that over the long haul they were one of the top five teams.
Unless it's the 2013 Fire. The 2013 Fire are doing their best to undermine the cold faultlessness of the point system, driving fans crazy with their fluctuating quality from half to half and game to game. Forget the table, at this point I'm convinced we won't know if the Fire have made the playoffs until the final whistle of the final game in New York. They will continue to tease out points here and there until then. The others will slip, there's nothing invincible about any of them, and the Fire either will or will not take advantage.
What I mean is that even though at this stage of the season it's natural to whip out the calculators and do your Playoff Math and all that, it's possible that even with just twelve points up for grabs, it's still too early to talk conclusively about points. We should still be talking quality. If the Fire play the way they've shown they're capable of, and as they did during parts of the second half on Saturday night, the points will come and they'll make the playoffs. You don't need a calculator to see that. Despite the despair of some fans and one player who called Saturday night's game "heartbreaking," I like Mike Magee's comment: "We have four games left and we're going to make the playoffs."
Not a single one of the (what, eight or nine?) media and Twitter-hyped "MUST WIN" games have really been must-anythings so far. They've been opportunities to tweak and grow and get some points. The Fire now need points everywhere, but except perhaps for their ugly away record, the 12 points are actually quite feasible. DC will be coming off an emotional Cup Final, Dallas like the Fire has 40 points and all but out of the Western playoff race, Toronto is beatable, and NYRB may have clinched and have little to play for.
Of course, the Fire could also lose all four games. Who knows? The only sure thing is that there are twelve points for four teams to fight for, and the 2013 Fire has to earn it this year, conclusively, finally, or not. And that will be the measure of this team.
Saturday. I loved Frank Klopas's adjustments at half. I loved the second half in general. But the first half was rough. In the first 15 seconds we have Juan Luis Anangono not quite focused yet:
Cut to the second half though, and Anangono, again symbolizing the entire team, was everywhere. He reacted quickly and had a point blank shot blocked before the ref whistled for that ill-fated PK. He was running at people (not always successfully, but still) and creating space for Chris Rolfe, Alex, and Magee to connect. But my favorite was in the 82nd minute: His super well-worked though unlucky chance that Rolfe created and Troy Perkins saved off the post. Anangono didn't give up, he got the rebound and set up Magee, whose shot was cleared off the line:
More of that please, and with more of that we won't even have to look at the table to know the Fire have extended their season.
Select shots from the Fire's 2-2 draw with the Impact.
After a disappointing loss in Columbus last weekend, the Fire come back to Toyota Park to face the Montreal Impact in the second to last home game of the season (LIVE 7pm CT on My50/Time Warner Sports 32). Montreal have dropped their last three of their fo MLS matches and are stalling at the wrong time. Here are some things to look out for from a tactical perspective.
Replacing Bakary Soumare at center back – a new partnership in the middle?
Since the return of Bakary Soumare to the Fire at mid-season, the Malian and Austin Berry have essentially played every match together in the middle. Though Baky has made a number of individual errors this season, his suspension comes at a bad time.
This opening provides a conundrum for coach Frank Klopas.
We could see the return of Hunter Jumper in the middle after his goal scoring exploits against SKC last month. Jalil Anibaba could also slot over to his natural position of center back with one of Wells Thompson, Mike Videira or Logan Pause filling in at right back.
In last weekend's loss to the Crew, Jeff Larentowicz moved back into central defense after the Soumare red card. Starting Larentowicz in this position seems the most likely option but it would mean breaking up the midfield tandem of the former Revs player and Arevalo Rios, which has made the Men in Red an extremely difficult team to break down.
Whoever replaces Soumare will be tasked with stifling a Montreal team that has scored the third highest amount of goals in MLS this season.
Matching up against Marco Di Vaio – attempting to slow down MLS's top goal scorer
There isn't much to say about Marco Di Vaio that hasn't been covered already. At 36 and in his first season in the league, he has made it look easy, scoring 18 goals to date.
An even scarier stat is that none of his goals have come from the penalty spot with Canadian Patrice Bernier continuing as the Impact's regular PK taker.
Similar to Robbie Keane, Di Vaio's finishing is a step above most MLS strikers. He also puts himself in excellent positions, with many of his goals coming from tap-ins. His header from two yards out against Columbus was a prime example of this.
Fortunately for the Fire, one of Di Vaio's favorite set up men, Felipe, will be missing due to suspension. The absence of the Brazilian is a blow for the Impact but with Patrice Bernier and Justin Mapp having excellent seasons, Di Vaio will have ample opportunities Saturday night.
In a tactical preview for the Fire's game against Montreal back in April I talked about cutting the supply line to the Italian but he still managed to bag the second goal in the Impact's 2-0 win.
With the plethora of creative midfielders on the field for Montreal, the Fire players must not neglect Di Vaio because one lapse in concentration can be fatal.
Isolating the Impact's aging Italian defenders – getting in 1v1 situations with Ferrari and Nesta
For allof Montreal's attacking prowess, the Impact have given up the most goals of any team currently holding playoff positions. Both Alessandro Nesta and Matteo Ferrari are excellent and experienced defenders, often making up for a lack of pace with brilliant positioning.
Both players have shown to be uncomfortable however when they are in 1v1 situations against a player with a lot of pace. This does not happen often but if the opportunity arises, most likely from a counter attack, the Fire must capitalize.
The movement from the Fire's attacking players has dragged center backs out of position on numerous occasions this season and I look for Mike Magee and Co. to do the same on Saturday night, especially against players who have lost more than a step of pace.
Prediction: 1-0 Fire with a goal from Magic Mike Magee
Chicago Fire midfielder Egidio Arevalo Rios has been named as part of Uruguay's provision 29-man roster for La Celeste's crucial final CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers next month at Ecuador (October 11) and vs. Argentina (October 15).
While not officially called up, Rios has been a constant fixture in the midfield for Uruguay during qualifying and seems very likely to be part of the final squad set to be named next week.
If that is the case, he would miss the Fire's away match at FC Dallas on October 12.
Earlier this month, Rios missed the Fire's 2-1 loss at Seattle (September 7) and 1-1 draw at Toronto (September 11), as Uruguay earned six crucial points with a 2-1 away win at Peru and 2-0 home win over Colombia.
Uruguay sit in CONMEBOL's fifth spot, which if qualifying ended today would see them take on Jordan in a two-match intercontinental playoff for a place in next summer's FIFA World Cup.
There is huge opportunity for the side to control their own destiny for one of CONMEBOL's four automatic places as they sit tied on points with Ecuador (6-4-4; 22pts) ahead of their clash on October 11 in Quito.
The Fire's dip back below the red line on Saturday night was one of two moves in the Eastern Conference playoff race. With just over a month to play, certain teams are circling in on a playoff berth while others are battling for position.
The latest edition of Playoff Math awaits you below:
1) New York Red Bulls
Current Points: 51 (15-9-6)
Games Remaining: 4 (2 home / 2 away)
Last 5 Games: WWWWL (12pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 10-2-3 / 5-7-3
Maximum Possible Pts: 63
Average Opponents Pts: 43.0
Remaining Schedule: 9/29 @ SEA, 10/5 vs. NE, 10/20 @ HOU, 10/27 vs. CHI
Rundown: New York watched Montreal lose and Sporting KC win on Saturday, knowing a home game against FC Dallas awaited the following day. It wasn't a great match but New York utilized a 76th minute own goal from Erick to earn another home result and somewhat quietly move into first place in the Supporters Shield race in the process.
The Red Bulls continue to benefit from the two teams chasing them having Champions League matches but a top of the conference clash awaits them Sunday night when they visit Seattle in a match that could go a long way to decide the first silverware of the season.
A New York win or tie Sunday combined with Fire and Philadelphia Union losses would see the Red Bulls become the first team to qualify for the postseason.
2) Sporting KC
Current Points: 48 (14-9-6)
Games Remaining: 5 (2 home / 3 away)
Last 5: WWWLL (9pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 8-4-3 / 6-5-3
Maximum Possible Pts: 63
Average Opponents Pts: 34.8
Remaining Schedule: 9/27 vs. PHI, 10/5 @ CLB, 10/9 at HOU, 10/18 vs. D.C., 10/23 vs. OLI**, 10/26 @ PHI
Rundown: Despite a scare, Sporting earned a point against Real Esteli in Champions League play at midweek and will just need another draw vs. Olimpia to guarantee final passage. In MLS play, they fought hard for a 2-1 win at Toronto took benefit of Montreal's defeat to Vancouver to move into sole possession of second place in the East.
Sporting holds a game in hand over Red Bull but faces three matches against teams fighting for their playoff fate over the next two and a half weeks. Though their remaining schedule is easiest in the East, it will be a battle to stay in second and potentially push for the top spot.
3) Montreal Impact
Current Points: 45 (13-9-6)
Games Remaining: 6 (2 home/ 4 away)
Last 5 Games: LLWDW (7pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 9-3-3 / 4-6-3
Maximum Possible Pts: 63
Average Opponents Pts: 38.2
Remaining Schedule: 9/24 vs. HER** 9/28 @ CHI, 10/4 @ HOU, 10/12 vs. NE, 10/16 @ LA, 10/19 vs. PHI, 10/26 @ TFC
Rundown: So what's going on with Montreal? Their 3-0 loss to Vancouver marked their third straight across all competitions and second straight at home in MLS. Like their performances this season, the Impact have a mixed bag through the end of the year. On one hand they hold two games in hand over New York and one over Sporting but face a crucial Champions League match against Heredia on Tuesday night ahead of Saturday's game vs. the Fire.
Montreal still has a shot in the Champions League but not a great one… Will they turn their complete focus on the Fire and playoff race or try to double-dip this week?
4) Houston Dynamo
Current Points: 43 (12-10-7)
Games Remaining: 5 (3 home / 2 away)
Last 5 Games: WWLDL (7pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 8-3-3 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 58
Average Opponents Pts: 39.8
Remaining Schedule: 9/25 vs. WC**, 9/28 @ NE, 10/4 vs. MTL, 10/9 vs. SKC, 10/20 vs. NY, 10/24 @ AU**, 10/27 @ D.C.
Rundown: After going on an end of summer slump, Houston has run off two straight wins the past two weeks to move firmly into fourth place in the East. They play a crucial Champions League home match Wednesday night vs. W. Connection before opening up a four-game stretch all against teams in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Three of those four matches are at home so after weathering a pretty difficult storm, its safe to say more than anyone, the Dynamo control their own fate in terms of being able to move up into one of the top three spots.
5) New England Revolution
Current Points: 40 (11-11-7)
Games Remaining: 5 (2 home / 3 away)
Last 5 Games: WLLDW (7pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 7-5-3 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 55
Average Opponents Pts: 43.0
Remaining Schedule: 9/28 vs. HOU, 10/5 @ NY, 10/12 @ MTL, 10/19 vs. CLB, 10/27 @ CLB
Rundown: One week New England is complaining about an offside goal being called back, the next they're benefiting from it and not saying a peep. This was the case on Diego Fagundez's tying goal in their 2-1 win over D.C. United. By virtue of that victory and the Fire's defeat at Columbus, the two sides traded places in the East race this weekend.
The good news for the Fire is that New England has the toughest remaining schedule in the East, with a huge showdown vs. streaking Houston on the horizon this weekend. Back-to-back trips to New York and Montreal follow that clash and could define the Revs season if they don't manage it the right way.
6) Chicago Fire
Current Points: 39 (11-12-6)
Games Remaining: 5 (2 home / 3 away)
Last 5 Games: LWDLD (5pts)
2013 Home / Away Record: 9-4-2 / 2-7-4
Maximum Possible Pts: 54
Average Opponents Pts: 34.8
Remaining Schedule: 9/28 vs. MTL, 10/4 @ D.C., 10/12 @ FCD, 10/19 vs. TFC, 10/27 @ NY
Rundown: The Fire lost a tough 3-0 result at Columbus on Saturday. It was a game the team went in with the mindset of taking three points and even after going down 1-0, they looked able to do it. Bakary Soumare's red card made that hope near impossible and as the Fire pushed forward they got caught out twice more.
They now welcome a struggling Montreal side to Toyota Park Saturday and should remember the situation they faced the Impact in back in August -- days after a disappointing U.S. Open Cup defeat to D.C. United, the Fire rebounded with a 2-1 win, a game that stands as one of the team's biggest results of the season.
While a 3-0 loss at this point in the season can be discouraging, perspective is important as the Fire remain just one point out of the top five. It is imperative for the team to take their remaining two home matches and find a way to get two results on the road to ensure they won't have to depend on other teams for a postseason berth.
7) Philadelphia Union
Current Points: 39 (10-10-9)
Games Remaining: 5 (2 home / 3 away)
Last 5 Games: LLDLD (2pts)
2013 Home/Away Record: 6-4-5 / 4-6-4
Maximum Possible Points: 54
Average Opponents Pts: 32.8
Remaining Schedule: 9/27 @ SKC, 10/5 vs. TFC, 10/12 @ D.C., 10/19 @ MTL, 10/26 vs. SKC
Rundown: The Union were idle this past weekend and will hope to have worked out the kinks that have him on the poorest form out of any team in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Unfortunately for them, they face a huge match Friday night away to a Sporting side that can put themselves on the brink of a postseason berth with a win.
A loss in this match would be devastating to the team's chances but six points from their following two matches vs. Toronto and D.C. would certainly keep them afloat going into the final two weeks of the season.
8) Columbus Crew
Current Points: 35 (11-14-5)
Games Remaining: 4 (2 home / 2 away)
Last 5 Games: WWLWL (9pts)
2013 Home / Away Record: 7-5-3 / 4-9-2
Maximum Possible Points: 50
Average Opponents Pts: 42
Remaining Schedule: 9/29 @ FCD, 10/5 vs. SKC, 10/19 @ NE, 10/27 vs. NE
Rundown: The Crew continued their late-season run under interim head man Brian Bliss with a resounding 3-0 win over the Fire on Saturday. There's no doubt that the Crew need help from other teams but their attitude is in the right place to make a late-season run.
Every game is a must-win for the Crew from here on out and they'll shift their focus to a visit to FC Dallas where they haven't won since their MLS Cup championship season in 2008.
It's good to get an idea of why things happened in a game and there's no better match to start with then to break down the events that saw the Fire lose 3-0 at Columbus on Saturday.
I asked Fire assistant coach Leo Percovich to give tactical explanations on three specific instances in the match... Below are his answers.
Jeff Crandall: The team started off the game well, carrying possession before Dominic Oduro's 15th minute goal... What was the game plan to open up the match? How did it change after going down 1-0?
Leo Percovich: We knew the Crew would come with high pressure on us because they were at home desperate to get three points. We opted the first 15 minutes to play long balls from the back, fight to get possession in midfield and from there build our attacking plays.
This high pressure would create spaces behind their lines and we would look to exploit that. We created three chances and earned two corner kicks in the first 12 minutes – a great start for a team playing on the road.
The Crew's first goal was unlucky for us. Two times a rebound came for them, under a bad defensive position from our left side instead of a product of a buildup or good playmaking for Columbus which means our plan was working.
After going down 1-0 we had to keep the same idea and style of play: the whole defensive block was still playing well. Chicago is a team that is characterized by recovery after conceding a goal, the consequence was to keep the style under pressure even with a goal down.
JC: Explain the play the led to Bakary Soumare's sending off... (what went wrong?)
LP: We were attacking from our left side with Dilly Duka who tried to connect a pass to Alex, but Chad Marshall intercepted and cleared away with a lucky ball that caught us off guard.
It deflected off of Jeff Larentowicz's head, and went over Austin Berry who was tight with Jairo Arrieta at the midfield line. Jalil Anibaba was supporting the attack so he couldn't cover the ball and Sean Johnson wasn't far enough up to clear it.
This led to Baky taking the diagonal run and the risk to stop the play, and before Arrieta came into the box, he decided to committed the foul and was sent off.
JC: Talk about the difficulties of playing a man down on the road and what was the thinking behind pushing Larentowicz to center back rather than making a defensive substitution when Soumare exited?
LP: Playing with 10 forced us to stay more compact to fill and close spaces quicker, which demanded an extra effort from every player. The transition needs to be done with more precision because you have only one man as target and the rest of the players need to move forward quick to support him around the ball.
The expulsion came early in the game so we opted to keep the same 10 players, adjust them on a new tactical position and hold to the first half to see how we were doing.
We went from 4-4-2 to 4-4-1 moving Larentowicz from center mid to center back, Alex from right mid to center mid, and Mike Magee from forward to a wide midfielder, leaving just Juan Luis Anangono up top.
Not only did the tactical position need to change but also the attitude and mentality too -- you have to be more focused to attend your man and the space created for your man down.
You still have to believe you are going to find the way to come back and score the goal.
We knew it was too early to get cocky. Although the Fire managed to overcome, at least in a cathartic sort of way, all the season's travails in the dramatic comeback-into-playoff-spot win last week against New England, we knew there were six games left to hold onto, improve upon, or lose playoff position.
At that point, four of the six remaining games were away from Toyota Park, which was a scary prospect for the Fire. Like the rest of MLS, the Fire are much worse away from home, and one couldn't shake the feeling that the Fire would play drug smuggler, in and out of safety every week.
Saturday's thumping in Columbus didn't make fans feel any better, and still, three of the five remaining games are away from Toyota Park. But why are the Fire playing worse away from home? A quick run through the stats:
- Overall record: 11-12-6
- Away record: 2-8-4
- Home record: 9-4-2
- Overall goal differential: -7 (36 for, 43 against)
- Away goal differential: -14 (10 for, 24 against)
- Home goal differential: 7 (26 for, 19 against)
Not sterling, it's true. Goal differential in soccer can be a little overblown as a telling statistic but since it could count in playoff contention it's worth paying attention to. And one thing it shows is that all of MLS is struggling away from home this year. Every team except Kansas City (+1) and Real Salt Lake (0) have road goal differences in the negatives. Seventeen teams are shipping goals away from home!
It's a strange phenomenon in MLS, and seems to go against the general feeling that, with MLS parity so prevalent, there would be less domination, more draws, etc. Not so, at least not anymore. According to some numbers crunched over at SBN, "MLS has become a league were the home team wins about 50 percent of the time and the road team pulls out three points somewhere around 25 percent."
But why? There are a few explanations in other American leagues. Grueling travel in the NBA, noise in the NFL, explicit rule advantages in MLB and the NHL - but those factors aren't so relevant in MLS.
There's the harder to calculate factor of home vs. away referee decisions, or momentum, or what at least one writer calls the "best sports fans in America," which, I mean, great, but even if there was a way to prove that, it would be hard to connect fans' performance with players'.
So let's accept the mystery for a second. Let's chalk it up to some combination of discomfort or unfamiliarity with playing surfaces (hi Revs), climates (hola Houston), atmosphere (ok Seattle, we see you), various travel and hotel-related distractions and fatigue (seems like a cop out but ok), refereeing decisions (impossible to prove), and the elusive, metaphysical effects of momentum.
The thing is that MLS is not alone in home team dominance. England has it too. Maybe the issue has less to do with American this-or-that than soccer itself. I would love to find data showing that home team dominance comes from the non-physical aspects of the game. I think something about the invisible, spontaneous, and rapid morphic connections between teammates (the connections that translate into the action we see) make them occur in a smoother way at "home."
At the very least, it's an apt way to think about the Fire's away form this year, where even after a dominant home game they can leave town and look like they've never played with each other before. Saturday night in Columbus, for example, it seems they left whatever elixir Jeff Larentowicz passed around at half time back in the locker room at Toyota Park. But we've seen the Fire turn it the other way around too, as in July, when they lost 3-1 in Vancouver only to beat DC 4-1 at home the next week.
Obviously the Fire will be looking to do the same against the suddenly beatable Montreal at TP on Saturday. Here's to the morphic energy going as smoothly as possible.


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the everlasting topic: is global warming true or false? the rise of the temperature on our planet, the rise of the amount of harmfull gasses... is it that significant to do harm to the environment? earth's temperature has been constantly rising for the past 6000 years, there is generaly a scientific explanation to almost everything that is blamed on global warming. what do you think?
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Re: global warming true or false?
I believe it is true. I have been living in eastern Canada for 31 years and have noticed a difference in the four seasons. Back in 1975 winter started in October and now it starts in late December.
We all need to be aware of products we use, what is flushed down the toilet, sink, our garbage and how we purchase products when it comes to packaging waste, etc. We must show respect for Mother Earth and conserve energy, support consignment stores, recycle when we can before tossing into a landfil waste deposit which then affects the air we breathe and on and on.
I am sure we all have ways we can think of to respect our environment we live in.
Tell me what you think....
Re: global warming true or false?
true lady j. i think greener thinking should start at an early age. i for one can say the education i recieved in public schools taught very little on these subjects. it is an important one and should have more curriculum and atleast be a requirement to take a class like that. it should include scientific studies, research and so on.
Re: global warming true or false?
Yea, it's really sad to be honest. There is so much controversy amongst common folk, but in the scientific community, there is no two ways about it. This is even true in the business community. Most businesses are evaluating how global warming will impact their bottom line and are forming strategies to deal with this. Scientists are working to prevent illnesses because micro-organisms and the creatures that carry them are moving northward as their comfortable temperature zone moves north. This is changing a lot of biodynamic (there are people dying in UK for example of illnesses that were never a problem there before).
Another nice example is a guy in Southern UK who decided to start growing olive trees! He figures that it'll take 5 years for them to mature and by that time, the temperature should be hot enough to create a prosperous olive orchard. So smart people are learning to capitalize on these changes (like smart people usually tend to do) or otherwise, minimize the impact on their pocketbooks. Leave it up to the almighty dollar to get people into action!
Anyway, there is no debate about it amongst anybody in the scientific community. Those who claim that there is such debate, usually have an economic interest in people not believing that global warming is a fact, and that its cause is mostly or completely human carbon emissions -- this is undisputed (amongst those that matter). See my insane posting (on some other thread in this forum) on propaganda.
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yeah there does seem to be a lot of wish wash out there on all this. i guess it wouldn't be up to the ordinary folk to do much about it but to conserve and leave it to the science community to convince our political leaders, some of which are taking strong action while others are loading there pockets with whale jerky (joking)
I ordered the book revenge of gaia by "james lovelock" it looks like good reading. such a cool name ! i read books based on if there are colored pics and if the cover looks nice.
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I pulled my head out of the sand a long time ago and I believe that the earth is trying to tell us that it has had enough!! Yes, I believe in global warming and all the waste humans have been heaping on mother nature has now come back to bite us in the posterior!! (Have to keep it clean for the littlies!!)
I don't know about other parts of the world, but Australian schools have been really pushing the whole environmental thing. Our Green movement is pretty big and the large political parties usually want to keep them happy - most of the time!! (at least when it doesn't interfere with their money-making schemes!!)
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well i haven't been to school in like 10 years and come to think of it im not sure if i was in attendence all that much anyhow, but it is a common theme psr in that "can mother nature handle it" and can we all go out and buy monster trucks now?
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"this is undisputed (amongst those that matter)"?. Sorry Daniel i do not know you, but to me this issue effects everyone, and therefore everyone matters, and this type of statement smacks of "the emporers new clothes" I have no doubt that there is a change of climate, and that there is scientific evidence to suggest that our habits could have an effect on it. however science does get it wrong now and again, and it wasnt that long ago that the scientific community were elated that fossils of microscopic life had been discovered on Mars, only to find that this was a mis interpretation of the data. Climate change is real, and there is no hard evidence that our lifestyle has any significant effect on it, and i think we are flattering ourselves if we believe we are significant enough to control this planets cycle. however that does not stop governments and agencies jumping on the band wagon at any opportunity to find financial gain in it.
Just in case you think i am some sort of heretic that is attempting to create conflict here, i am not, i am an ordinary person who believes that we should preserve our environment for the future.
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Originally posted by grrr"this is undisputed (amongst those that matter)"?
It is pretty much heading towards being undisputed though amongst pretty much everyone, after the recent IPCC conference:
Those who are still denying man-made global warming are increasingly being seen as just plain deluded and not the interesting fiery mavericks they'd like to be seen as. Sort of 21st century flat-earthers.
Originally posted by grrrhowever that does not stop governments and agencies jumping on the band wagon at any opportunity to find financial gain in it.
This is why the US has dragged its feet for so long, for many years going the denial route, because profits will be damaged in the short term at least and by putting off the inevitable allows more short-term profit to be made.
I've not actually seen any rational and reasoned explanation of how getting a "false" acceptance of global warming can readily make anyone (or any government) extra money, above and beyond what would happen if we ignored global warming as a man-made phenomena - anyone care to enlighten me?
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Dear Grrrr,
I agree wholeheartedly .
Unfortunately the majority of the population has their fingers so firmly lodged between their 'cheeks' that it might be too late to rectify the situation. It makes one wonder when that final glorious dawning is going to take place, and people are going to understand the extent of mankind's brutal rape of the environment.
Although I act a little blase about the topic, I try to apply myself to the environmental issue. I think that the newer generations are starting to think more deeply about these issues. I just hope that the future environmentally considerate generations will still have an environment to save once we handed it over to them...what's left of it anyway.
Maybe we all need to return to our cave man days to truly be in accord with the environment.......hmmm, I don't know if I'd enjoy being clubbed and dragged...but then again (just trying to lighten the mood)!
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Yeah we better watch out for all those money hungry fake greenies in the government who's big plans are making lots of money off wind farms and gas made from corn rather then oil??????? not to mention all those documentaries that their scoring big on!!
Psr- you used cheeks and rectify in the same sentence, is that even kosher?
I for one do agree we should use the clubbing tactics, your on to something here!!
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Thanks for your level headed responses, my post appears to have been read in the spirit it was intended. But id just like to qualify my remark that Paul responded to with. "I've not actually seen any rational and reasoned explanation of how getting a "false" acceptance of global warming can readily make anyone (or any government) extra money,"
It seems "in the uk at least" that every aspect of climate change is being exploited, from recycling whereby we pay through or taxes to have the raw materials extracted, only to buy the product back at an inflated price. through to the recent hike in air fares where people (even though they had already paid for their travel in advance) are now charged an additional "green tax". Now most people would not have an issue if they could see that this additional money was channelled directly back in efforts that could improve the environment, rather than it just being absorbed in the government coffers. and squandered on items such as MPs expenses so they can live a more lavish lifestyle. and if governments want to do anything about the real issue, then they have to act and not just talk.
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I agree Grrrr! The western governments are going to cash in on global warming just like they do with everthing else with a high dollar value attached. Lets face it, whatever they sell beit oil, arms or drugs they only see a 'profit margin' whereas with green taxes they are guaranteed 100% profit and no-one will complain about the new taxes because they have played the ultimate joker card, public fear, and what could be a more useful slogan than the end of the world. As Hitler once said, "the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it"!
Global warming is happening of that there is no doubt but in a so called democracy where scientists words are bought and sold like a useful commodity what are we supposed believe?
CO2 is only 0.28% of the total greenhouse gasses and that includes the latest man made 27% increase. I'll tell you what, I just don't believe that CO2 is to blame, people can call me an idiot till they're blue in the face but I'm not buying into the hype yet, I'm not convinced.....
....and another thing, whats all this bulls**t about the ozone hole healing up because we stopped using CFC's??? Absolute codswallop! The hole was at its biggest ever late 2005 so its not working and we are being lied to again. The statistics are freely available for all to see on the internet. It took me 3 minutes to find that lie!
Sorry if I seem a bit loud this morning but we just moved house! stress stress stress stress stress
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I see we think the same. Those climate changes are not made by us driving cars and stuff, but by more dramatic actions. We did not have cars 150 years ago, so this source of pollution is eliminated in the previous climate changes! IPCC report is not relevant and I am not sure it should even be taken seriousely.
Consider that the Earth is 70% water. This is huge! Don't you think waters can change climate? In my opinion, ocean has a big contribution to the climate change. But how can oceans be affected? By naval activity: navigation and wars. And we did plenty of that!


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In her collegiate debut, Appalachian State goalie Amy Kolowsky (Columbia, S.C./Spring Valley) made a valiant effort ingoal, but a penalty late in regulation made the difference, as ASU fell, 1-0,to the United States Military Academy at ASU Soccer Stadium on Sunday.TheMountaineers' season opening loss pegs them at 0-1-0 on the year, while Armyimproves to 1-1-0.
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The Mountaineers next travel to Richmond, Va. for this year's VCUTournament. The Black and Gold will face William & Mary on Fri., Aug. 26,and VCU on Sun., Aug. 28. Appalachian returns to ASU Stadium for its next home game on Fri., Sept. 2, against Clemson at 7 p.m.
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The idea of producing The Foreigner had been exiled to the back of Sarah M. Hoveys mind for the past several years.
I have been asked by at least seven people over the past few years when we were going to do it, said Mrs. Hovey, who is directing the play for Little Theatre of Watertown. One person told me it was the funniest show he had ever seen.
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The year is 1969--the year of free love and expression, experimentation, war, change and art. Europe, as with the rest of the world, is reinventing itself. As a mode of artistic expression, designer Leonardo Marelli begins an adventure in San Joan de les Abadesses just outside Barcelona, Spain, that will become a leader in contemporary lighting design around the world.
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