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I had a slick, freeware utility program pointed out to me recently that really simplifies the Windows slipstream process: nLite. Slipstreaming is a process to take a version of the Windows installation CD, merging the newest service packs, and then creating an updated CD with which to install Windows. In addition to giving you a GUI-driven selection tool for merging service packs into a Windows XP, 2000 or Server 2003 installation, nLite allows you to pre-install device drivers, change some of the installed Windows components, and even tweak the user interface in advance. The "nLite" application can be found on the Internet at www.nliteos.com. There is also a Vista version of the tool available at www.vlite.net. nLite has some additional cool features such as being able to pre-configure user information, set passwords, and even pre-populate the Windows Product Key. It does not eliminate the requirement to activate Windows; those features only help if you want to create an updated Windows installation CD for setting up your system.
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The welcome screen lists the version and what OS is supported.
After pointing to the Windows source media and a destination directory, select which options to include as part of the "wizard" build process.
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Download device drivers and extract to directories. Have nLite search the entire directory structure for driver versions to install. You only have to select drivers that are OS version specific.
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One of the most frustrating aspects of animal welfare is that prosecuting animal cruelty is incredibly difficult. People walk away free every single day from animals they have abused, neglected, and mistreated, and all too often the law either can't or won't do anything about it. WHY?
Let me offer a few reasons:
1. When individuals surrender animals to shelters, even in terrible condition, shelters rarely report the abuse.
Why? If people think they will be prosecuted for surrendering sick, injured, or neglected animals, they won't turn them in. Instead, they will either let them die, dump them in the woods or on a road somewhere, or let them continue to suffer. The theory is that it's better for the animals to let the people go. It's also mostly impossible to prove that the person turning the animal in is responsible for the animal's poor condition. All the person has to do is claim the animal is a stray.
2. Many law enforcement agencies are reluctant to pursue animal cruelty cases.
Sadly, the fact is that cops arrest thousands of people. If you figure that half of the people arrested each year get prosecuted, the numbers are still huge. To be quite honest, it's triage. Law enforcement officers know that animal crimes are historically hard to prosecute and rarely carry jail time. From their perspective, that means that in many jurisdictions they are not a high priority in comparison to other types of crimes. I hope to see this change with the new federal classification of animal cruelty as a felony.
3. Animal cruelty laws are often poorly written, hard to enforce, and limited in scope.
The no chain law in Texas is a good example of a law that's virtually impossible to enforce:
Ҥ 821.077. Unlawful Restraint of Dog
(a) An owner may not leave a dog outside and unattended by use of a restraint that unreasonably limits the dog's movement:
(1) between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.;
(2) within 500 feet of the premises of a school; or
(3) in the case of extreme weather conditions, including conditions in which:
(A) the actual or effective outdoor temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit;
(B) a heat advisory has been issued by a local or state authority or jurisdiction; or
(C) a hurricane, tropical storm, or tornado warning has been issued for the jurisdiction by the National Weather Service.
(b) In this section, a restraint unreasonably limits a dog's movement if the restraint:
(1) uses a collar that is pinch-type, prong-type, or choke-type or that is not properly fitted to the dog;
(2) is a length shorter than the greater of:
(A) five times the length of the dog, as measured from the tip of the dog's nose to the base of the dog's tail; or
(B) 10 feet;
(3) is in an unsafe condition; or
(4) causes injury to the dog.
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., ch. 674, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2007."
In order to enforce this law, someone would have to physically measure the chain, time the length of confinement, have documentation of the weather conditions, and keep eyes on the animal throughout the entire time the dog is chained. They would also have to find a cop willing to address this offense and a prosecutor willing to proceed under this wobbly law. A first offense is only a class C misdemeanor…ie, not much.
4. Witnesses are often unwilling to speak on record.
Friends, even if the police are willing to act, and the DA is ready to prosecute, THEY HAVE TO HAVE PROOF. Animal cruelty cases usually hinge on two things. First, they depend on veterinary evidence of abuse. Second, since the animals cannot speak for themselves, they need eye witness testimony by people who saw the abuse or neglect with their own eyes.
People complain that the cops won't take action. Social media is full of folks ranting about the evils of animal cruelty. They talk about their neighbor's chained dog, the guy down the street who threatened to poison the neighborhood cats, the skinny dogs they see chained up on their way to work. Sometimes they make anonymous phone calls to Animal Control. Sometimes people call the cops, but refuse to identify themselves. They don't want to get involved. They're afraid of retaliation, or of upsetting the neighbors, or of having to testify. And if they won't speak up, on record, the criminals go free.
5. Cruelty in animal shelters is historically the hardest to prove and prosecute.
Shelter animals are an incredibly vulnerable population. No one owns them. No one will ever look for most of them. They are at the mercy of the people charged with their care. Thank God, most of those people genuinely care about the animals and work hard to take care of them to the best of their ability. (They sure don't do it for the money!)
Texas state laws give tremendous discretion to shelter employees. Their jobs put them in constant contact with stray animals, with the added responsibility of deciding whether those animals will live or die once their stray hold expires. Because animals often come in sick, malnourished, or injured, it's hard to prove that a particular animal's injuries happened in the shelter. Because shelters can legally euthanize any animal they choose once the hold time passes, it's easy to get rid of evidence. Because the law is quite vague about what constitutes proper care of the individual animal, it's hard to prove that employees are not meeting those standards. And no one wants to talk about it.
That does not make it impossible.
EVERY TIME we witness animal cruelty, regardless of where, regardless of who does it, we have a moral imperative to take action.
On those rare occasions when abusers exploit shelters to get access to animals, when people neglect the animals in their charge, every single employee, volunteer, and adopter has both the right and the obligation to speak up. We all say every single day that we are their voice. We can't be their voice when it's comfortable and easy unless we are willing to speak for them when it isn't.
Friends, if you believe that you have witnessed animal cruelty or neglect, take pictures. Document everything you can without putting yourselves in physical danger. And then file a report with local law enforcement. It's the right thing to do.


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Lentil Tabbouleh
Lentils, bulgur, and fresh vegetables in a minty, lemon dressing make a healthy warm-weather, side-dish salad.
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- 6 c. water
- 1 c. bulgur
- 1 c. French green lentils or brown lentils
- salt
- pepper
- ⅓ c. fresh lemon juice, plus lemon wedges for garnish
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 6 large plum tomatoes
- 1 medium English (seedless) cucumber
- 3 green onions
- 1 c. packed fresh mint leaves
- In covered 3-quart saucepan, heat water to boiling on high. In medium bowl, place bulgur; cover with 2 cups boiling water. Let stand 30 minutes. Drain well.
- Meanwhile, to remaining boiling water in saucepan, add lentils and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until lentils are tender. Drain lentils well in colander.
- In large bowl, whisk lemon juice, oil, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper until blended. Add warm bulgur and lentils; stir to coat. Let stand 15 minutes or until cool.
- Stir tomatoes, cucumber, and green onions into bulgur mixture. Cover lentil tabbouleh and refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight. To serve, stir in mint and garnish with lemon wedges.
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... found out the day before that we would be having it for lunch. After pizza at the lazy dog, we got back on the bus and headed 15 minutes down the road to Sosua. In Sosua, I went souvenir shopping at the market and then jumped in the crystal clear water with all my friends. For some reason, the Sosua beach side looks a lot like Greece. That was an observation many people made, even Olivia, who was in Greece earlier this summer. The water ...
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... on the mountains, and overlooking the valleys below is a sight not to be missed. The healing spa destinations in this mountainous region are not as popular as they were, so not all are in operation - but we saw quite a few that were. We headed for another favourite restaurant this evening, that is called Rebstock which is in Fussbach, Germany - where all the meat is hunted locally. Margaret and Will introduced me to the concept of ...
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American soccer ( or real football) is not that popular a sport in North America but don't get me wrong , i love playing it but i admit it's not the best spectator sport. Then again Baseball is a snooze-fest without beer and Football got way too many interuptions.
I'm a big hockey fan but i have to admit that our local pro team in Montreal (IMPACT) got a big push lately.
Anyway , this year they got a promotion to MLS ( Major League Soccer ) which is the new underdog in National Sport.
Usually they play in a 3k crowd stadium but since they were receiving the LA Galaxy yesterday , they moved the game to the Olympic Stadium ( where the Montreal Expo used to play ).
A big upgrade imo since the sport isn't all that popular. Then again , the Montreal Canadians had the worst season in 10 years so i guess people wanted to see a winning game.
Still doubt Beckham is a seller ?
Well , it was a 1-1 game and i hate tie game ( whatever the sport ) but the crowd was happy and i think putting out a good show is better than a win or lose. 60k crowd seems to agree.
We lost baseball but soccer is coming up big time !
I don't know if soccer will ever sustain any momentum in America. There are always moments where we collectively care about the sport genuinely. Usually, it's at a national competition level: US upsetting Spain, Wambach's header... something like that. We get into it, everyone thinks soccer is going to take off, and then, nothing happens.
I love watching soccer because of its pace. No timeouts, running clock. You know exaclty what you're getting. Nothing is worse than a slow baseball game that takes 4 and a half hours. I like that soccer is 90 minutes with a bit of stoppage time, plus an intermission. That's it (unless there's overtime, but they even cut that short with shootouts).
But again, as has been mentioned many times, Americans love dominant athletes. And until MLS can pay much better, our best athletes are not going to take up soccer, and our product will suffer.
Can you imagine if freak athletes like Allen Iverson or Floyd Mayweather grew up playing soccer? But our best athletes will never do it.
I think Soccer will get bigger in the USA, but it will take decades to grow to a size that matters. Lots of foreign born people living here love soccer. Their kids play soccer. I can see Lacrosse getting bigger than soccer.
I will never understand how anyone can say Football is boring and like to watch soccer.
I hate soccer. I wish it to continue to fail here. To me, there is nothing fun or exciting about it at all. I would rather watch cats fuck.
I also do not understand why hockey is not bigger in the USA.
The truth is hockey is a costly sport to get into. You need an ice rink , skates & sticks ( those babies cost between 30-100$ each and they break easy ).
I'm not talking about pro level where you need full body protection. I'm keeping it at the street level game with a couple of friends.
Soccer is easy to get into ... basically you just need a ball and that cost like 40$ if you invest in medium quality. Probably the same reason basketball is big in the US.
The reason Hockey isn't that popular is because not a lot of people play it in the States. How many natural ice rink can you get in Miami or Dallas ?
In the winter in Canada , you can just spray the hose in your backyard for 20 minutes and have a potent ice rink the day after. To be honest , winter sucks and without hockey it would be a drag. Hockey makes us love winter and the snow.
You think canadian are crazy about hockey ... go to Europe. I was in Germany couple years back and i went to see a soccer game in a pub. The place was litterally split in 2. One side was the Real Madrid crowd and the other side was the Barcelona crowd. Don't be in the wrong side when your team score else you'll get punched !
The MLS just doesn't have the same level of prestige as Premier League. I also blame the American mainstream sports media for ignoring soccer altogether. Why are RG3 and Andrew Luck, two guys who aren't even proven professionals yet, receiving constant coverage while Clint Dempsey's hat tricks aren't even newsworthy?
I'm with you on this one , we lost the Expos in 2004 yet our local news report will still play highlights of a Orioles/A's game. No one gives a fuck about baseball around here anymore.
I still believe Montreal was a great baseball city but the team's management was shady at best and we got screwed out of a winning team so many times that it massively turned people away. At least, the Saputo family is in love with soccer and they invested good money to make the Impact a worthy team ( 2012 is the 1st year in MLS but the team has been around for more than 10 years ). ATM Montreal is ranked 11 out of 19 teams but they give a good show and that's what matters ( Toronto is 19th hahahaha 0-9-0 record)
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Anthony Pucik, Matt Moro and Drew Casey kick off the second season of One on One's Five on Three on the opening night of the 2014-15 NHL season. They discuss who they think will be dark horses in both conferences, who will disappoint and also take a look at the three local teams and how they will fare this year.
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A lot has happened in the National Hockey League since March 10, 2013.
The Chicago Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup, and so have the Los Angeles Kings. The New York Rangers made the Stanley Cup Finals after trading away their captain in 2014. TJ Oshie of the St. Louis Blues went from a little known right winger to a national superstar. The success of the Winter Classic led to the Stadium Series and more outdoor hockey and Jaromir Jagr became the seventh player in league history to score 700 goals.
One thing that hasn't happened since March 10, 2013? The New Jersey Devils have not won in the shootout in a regular season game.
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Kris Venezia and Matt Rosenfeld previewed the NHL season on One on One just four days away from the regular season with voice of the NHL on NBC, Doc Emrick.
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Ranger fans were worried about Derek Stepan when he wasn't able to go in the team's first preseason game against the Devils on Monday night. Stepan had a leg injury, but the one he sustained Wednesday afternoon at practice was far more severe.
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The New York Rangers opened their preseason at home last night with a 5-4 loss to the New Jersey Devils. While there was a great deal of room for improvement, a lot of the Rangers' new acquisitions had some impressive first games that could be a great sign of things to come.
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Yesterday the NHL announced a few rule changes for the 2014-15 season that ranged everywhere from the rink to the shootout to face-offs. Looking through the rules, many of them focus on incidents or issues that players, coaches and fans have complained about over the years and wanted changed in some way, while also showing the NHL is looking to make the game safer and will not tolerate players taking advantage of obscurities in old rules.
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James Foley went to Syria.
He died in an unknown place, beheaded by a man wearing black and speaking with a British accent.
Mr. Foley was allegedly a journalist. To call him a journalist is to stretch that word beyond all meaning. Mr. Foley was an activist and a propagandist. He did not go to report the truth. He was not "fair and balanced." He wasn't even accurate.
That did not matter.
His cause was the Sunni Islamists fighting the Syrian government. He tweeted repeatedly about this, ignoring the attacks of Islamists on Christians and repeating the pro-Islamist talking points.
He hated Israel. He hated America. He despised Mitt Romney and Republicans. Mr. Foley was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012. An interpreter who traveled with him was also kidnapped but later released.
Mr. Foley was held for almost two years before he was executed.
In July, U.S Special Forces were sent into Syria to try and rescue Mr. Foley. It is ironic that Barack Obama sent the American military to rescue an activist who despised our military and this nation, while Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a Marine who served his country honorably is left to rot in a Mexican jail.
We will never know what Mr. Foley thought when he was kidnapped. Was he shocked that his pro-Islamist propaganda and beliefs did not protect him? Was he stunned when he was traded to the hands of the Islamic State (IS)?
Did he believe he would be held for a while, then released? Did he believe he would ultimately be able to write a book about his experience?
What happened on the last day of his life? Did he know he was going to die when he made the video? He read a statement that he certainly could have written himself. Did he believe that he was just making a video to prove he was still alive or a propaganda video?
When did that horrible realization occur to Mr. Foley that despite his support for the Islamist cause, they were going to kill him anyway?
There is a lesson here that people need to realize.
There is evil in this world and right now, the focus of evil in the world is an organization called IS or ISIS or ISIL.
Pleas for moderation and peace will not work with these people. Strongly worded letters will not work. Surgical airstrikes will not work.
There is only one thing that will work against evil.
That is force.
IS is marching through Iraq and Syria. It is killing anyone who will not accept their version of Islam. The execution pits are filling rapidly with the victims of their genocide. It does not matter to these lunatics whether their victims are men, women or children.
They are killing men and taking young and attractive women to be "wives" or worse.
James Foley's death should serve as a lesson to anyone who believes there can be accommodation with evil. Mr. Foley supported them. He was their propagandist. He was their cheerleader.
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A gruesome death and an unmarked grave someplace.
Americans generally want to mind their own business and live their own lives. Unfortunately we face and evil that does not believe in accommodation. They believe in surrender or die.
Mr. Obama does not want to admit there is a war coming. After all, he is cheering for the enemy. There is a war coming.
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- By: Georg Wild
- Code: on github
- Data: processed from Wikidata
- ViziData
"Each box is a cluster of related Wikipedia pages... like the continent of a world map."
- By: Andrea Lancichinetti & Martin Rosvall
- Code: InfoMap + proprietary
- Data: Raw Wikipedia data
- Infobaleen Wikipedia Map
"Wikipedia is an influential mirror on society, a means through which we understand our world. Wikipedia also has gaps that we can all work to fill. How are women faring?"
- By: Nathan Matias and Sophie Diehl
- Data: Raw Wikipedia data
- Gender in New York Times Editorial Obituaries 1987 - 2007
"Here we use the structure of the networks connecting multilingual speakers and translated texts, as expressed in book translations, multiple language editions of Wikipedia, and Twitter, to provide a concept of language importance that goes beyond simple economic or demographic measures."
- By: MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group + more
- Data: Raw Wikipedia data
- Global Language Network
Explore Wikipedia in 3D space by drifting through a galaxy of articles. Each dot is a Wikipedia article, and their connections form constellations.
- By: Owen Cornec
- Data: Wikipedia API
- WikiGalaxy
"My hope is that Wikipedia stays around for a while so that we can look at 50 years of a topic so can really see from childhood on."
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- Code: available on Github
- Data: Wikipedia API
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"Language represents our view of the world, and knowing its limits helps us understand how our perception works."
- By: Muyueh Lee
- Data: Raw data
- Green Honey
"Is there a correlation between the population of a place and the number of hyperlinks on a Wikipedia page?"
- By: Max Einstein
- Data: Raw pages
- href + U.S. cities
"The motivation of this page is to get a little more oversight of the facts and connections which are part of the Wikipedia. To get the birds eye view of Wikipedia we have to focus a part of of the whole we want to focus. This focus should describes a field of articles that interrelate."
- By: Rasmus Krempel
- Data: DBpedia
- Local Wikipedia Map
Using geocordinate data from Wikipedia articles, this interactive 3d globe illustrates the concentration of coverage in nine language editions of Wikipedia.
- By: Denny Vrandečić
- Code: available on github
- Data: Wikidata, DBpedia
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- By: Ed Summers
- Code: available on github
- Data: DBpedia - more info
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Using Wikipedia's API, WikiChanges charts and compares revision activity of articles over time, offering insights into the editing patterns of contributors and the attentions of the masses.
- By: Sérgio Nunes
- Code: WikiSym Paper
- Data: Wikipedia API
- WikiChanges
Community interaction on Wikipedia, based on user communication on on talk pages. The graph is built with Gephi, showing 10,0000 connections between users.
- By: Haitham Shammaa
- Code: available on github
- Data: Wikimedia dumps
- Wikimedia Community Visualization
"These links indicate individuals who have co-edited many pages together on Wikipedia. We use a custom weighting technique, and filter down to the core editors (in every language except Egyptian Arabic and Swahili where we use everyone). The fact that this core is so well connected indicates the coherence of the Wikipedia community."
- By: Mark Graham, Ahmed Medhat Mohammed, Bernie Hogan and Richard Farmbrough, Oxford Internet Institute
- Data: Wikipedia dumps
- Co-editing patterns on Wikipedia
"At the global scale (in an article that we currently have under review), we found that the number of Wikipedia articles within (or describing) a country can be explained to a large degree by just three factors: (1) the size of its population, (2) the number of its fixed broadband internet connections, and (3) the number of edits committed to Wikipedia by its population."
"I am a highly visual person. When I have to learn something new, I usually first try to make a sketch of the structure of the knowledge that I want (or have to ;-)) to study. This usually results in diagrams outlining the material, giving it some structured form that makes it easier for me to grasp. "
- By: Doron Goldfarb, Dieter Merk, Max Arends, Josef Froschauer
- Data: DBpedia
- Art History on Wikipedia
"In this case the nodes in the network are wikipedia articles and the edges are the links between articles. We then ... used an algorithm to lay out all 650,000 nodes (wikipedia articles) that had at least one link in such a way that similar articles are near one another. These are the yellow dots, which when viewed at low res give a yellow tint to the whole picture."
- By: Bruce Herr, Todd Holloway, and Katy Börner
- Data: Wikipedia dumps
- Emergent Mosaic of Wikipedian Activity
"First, this study introduces the Flow Circle, which is a new exploratory data analysis tool devised to solve such problems of History Flow. Second, this tool is used to actually visualize the Wiki revision history regarding gun politics in order to understand and analyze the flow of the revision history and the relationship and conflict structures between the authors based on the results of the MDS analysis."
- By: Jaeho Lee, Dongjin Kim, Jaejune Park, Kyungwon Lee
- Data: Wikipedia dumps
- Flow Circle
"A while ago, Wikipedia introduced georeferences. Georeferences are a way to annotate geographic landmarks, borders, [and] cities within Wikipedia articles ... Wikipedia Worldview is an app to project Wikipedia georeferences onto a 2D plane, intended to analyze the language-based distribution."
- By: Simon Schulz
- Data: WikiLocation
- Wikipedia Worldview
"The clustering component of this visualization is vital. The mere presence of information isn't all that interesting; there is no context or relevance to be gleaned. However, the structure of information is revealing about where fields intersect and diverge, and ultimately about how humans organize information."
- By: Chris Harrison
- Data: Wikipedia dumps
- ClusterBall
"We analyzed and visualized Article for Deletion (AfD) discussions in the English Wikipedia. The visualization above represents the 100 longest discussions that resulted in the deletion of the respective article. "
- By: Dario Taraborelli, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, and Moritz Stefaner
- Notabilia
"Since geography is never far from history, a lot of maps show the colonial past of many countries. As ethnic groups don't always fall inside political borders, several maps reveal the presence of multiple ethnic or cultural groups within a country or of groups stretching across borders."
- By: Olivier H. Beauchesne
- Data: Wikipedia dumps
- A Map of the Geographic Structure of Wikipedia Topics
"Elle permet d'explorer les monuments historiques du monde entier."
"Wikistream is a Node.js webapp for helping visualize current editing activity in Wikipedia. It uses Node.js, socket.io and Redis to sit in the wikimedia IRC chat rooms (where updates are published), and makes them available on the Web in realtime."
- By: Ed Summers, Sean Hannan, Delphine Ménard
- Code: available on github.
- Data: Wikimedia IRC recent changes feed
- wikistream
"Using the gender api that I discovered in this project, I wanted to see the relations between the proportion female/male editing and article and its content."
- By: Santiago Ortiz
- Data: Wikipedia API
- Wikipedia Gender
"Wikistalker, inspired by 'Web Stalker', is a way of understanding a concept by only seeing the visualization of the meta-structure of its Wikipedia article."
- By: sepans, raschin
- Data: Wikipedia miner
- Wikistalker
This is a collection of our favorite projects built on open data from Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Source code and more details about this page are available on Github.
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- Erik Zachte's Wikipedia Visualizations.
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Doha, Qatar - The proposals often seem like science fiction: Attempting to simulate the effects of volcanos to block the sun's rays, dumping loads of iron sulphate into oceans, and sending hot air balloons high into the stratosphere to spray aerosol chemicals in an attempt to cool the planet.
Welcome to the whacky world of geoengineering. As political leaders enter another round of climate change negotiations from November 26 to December 7 in Qatar, the concept of humans, or nation states, unilaterally trying to alter the environment is gaining traction among some scientists and policymakers.
Despite 17 high-profile international summits aimed at combatting climate change, global greenhouse gas emissions have risen 48 per cent since the first Earth Summit in 1992, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Some scientists believe the fight to keep world temperatures from rising less than two degrees Celsius - the rate needed to avoid a feedback loop known as "runaway climate change" - has already been lost.
"I don't see the international community doing anything substantive to reduce emissions," Ken Caldeira, a climate expert with the Carnegie Institution for Science, told Al Jazeera. "If something really bad starts happening, the solar geoenginering approaches are the only game in town that can do things within a few years."
Is it too late?
Global carbon dioxide emissions rose 3 per cent to 34 billion tonnes in 2011, according to a recent EU report, undermining the goal of limiting average global temperature rises.
If humans have made the climate warmer with our actions, we should also have the technology to cool it down, proponents believe.
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"Geoengineering should be seen … as a way to fill the gap between a desired technology target and what can actually be achieved given all the hurdles," Tom Wigley, an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia in the UK, told Al Jazeera. He says it could be a stop-gap measure to stem the possibility of disastrous climate change, until humans can develop new technologies to produce clean energy.
John Holdren, science adviser to US President Barack Obama, supports further research into geoengineering.
Normally broken down into two broad categories, geoengineering includes solar radiation management (SRM) - that aims to reduce incoming heat from the sun - and carbon dioxide removal, often considered less controversial, to take existing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
But idea of countries or companies taking it upon themselves to alter the climate raises plenty of scientific and moral questions. Some environmentalists liken the concept to "Frankenstein" as humans try to re-design life-sustaining ecosystems with potentially dangerous consequences.
"There have been various attempts to modify weather," Damon Matthews, a professor of geography at Canada's Concordia University who contributed to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "During the 2008 Olympics, China tried to avoid rainfall through climate modifications.
"In the past, there have been small scale attempts to modify the climate," Matthews told Al Jazeera. "But there is no historical analogy for the things people are talking about now."
'Fertilising' the ocean
The largest geoengineering experiment to date, according to reports, happened in July in the waters off Canada's Pacific coast. Californian Russ George dumped iron sulphate into the ocean, triggering a plankton bloom covering up to 10,000 square kilometers. The technique, known as ocean fetilisation, was designed to absorb carbon dioxide, potentially netting the businessman lucrative carbon credits under an emissions trading scheme.
"Various private firms have picked up these plans as potential for-profit ventures," Matthews said.
Local indigenous people initially backed the project as they believed they were signing onto a plan to enhance salmon stocks. Dependent on fish and other marine life for food, officials from the Haidia First Nation have said they felt cheated by George and his geoengineering scheme.
Such projects can "radically change" ocean ecosystems, Matthews said and the effects are "difficult to predict".
Past attempts by humans to modify the balance of ecosystems haven't always worked out well.
While there is no formal international convention on geoengineering, the plankton plan should have been regulated under the London Convention governing ocean pollution, Todd Sanford, a climate specialist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, told Al Jazeera.
"The Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a moratorium on geoengineering activities, but this is in no way legally binding," Sanford said.
July's massive ocean dump in Canada was the exception, rather than the norm, as most experiments are done through computer simulations.
"Geoengineering experiments really haven't moved into the real world, yet, because of many questions concerning [the] risk of unintended consequences and governance," Sanford said.
Economic costs
Supporters of geoengineering point to the 1991 eruption of mount Pintabuo in the Philippines as an example of naturally occurring sulpher dioxide entering the high-atmosphere and reflecting the sun's light away from the earth to cool the planet.
Unforeseen consequences aside, starting this aerosol technology could become addictive. "Once you get this going you have to keep it going otherwise you will get a very rapid recovery of warming."
- Todd Sanford, climate specialist with the Union of Concerned Scientists
Between 1992 and 1993, the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface was reduced by about 10 per cent because of the volcano, leading some scientists to believe humans could replicate the process without too much difficulty.
"Had material from that volcano remained in the atmosphere, the earth might have cooled 3 or 4 degrees," Caldeira said.
Climate change is already costing the world economy more than $1.2 trillion per year, according Climate Vulnerability Monitor: A Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet, a study published in September by 50 leading scientists and economists.
In contrast, the cost of organising a geoengineering scheme where airplanes or hot air balloons disperse particles to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting earth is estimated at less than $5bn per year, according to a paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters in August.
"Injecting stratospheric aerosols would like give a rapid cooling and would be relatively inexpensive," Sanford said of technology designed to "mimic volcanoes".
"However, these methods also carry a great deal of risk as they may affect precipitation patterns and stratospheric ozone depletion." These schemes could also lead to a white haze covering the sky, while increasing ocean acidification that kills sea life and off-balances ecosystems.
Unforeseen consequences aside, starting this aerosol technology could become addictive, Stanford said. "Once you get this going you have to keep it going otherwise you will get a very rapid recovery of warming."
South vs North
Global warming will affect some countries more than others, with poor regions in the global south expected to face the worst consequences. Some experts worry that politicians in large developing nations, such as Indonesia or China, could be compelled to try and alter the climate if extreme temperatures or droughts wipe out food supplies, sparking domestic unrest.
Environmental issues
In one of the bizarre ironies of climate change, wealthy northern countries, including Canada, Russia and parts of the US could benefit from global warming, as new land becomes open to farming, while melting ice in the Arctic opens trade routes and new sources of petroleum.
Countries that have the least responsibility for the climate crisis, and who suffer the most from its effects, could become vocal proponents of geoengineering.
"If the rich countries don't come to the aid of the poor countries, a coalition of tropical countries could say 'you rich people have messed up our climate and made it difficult to feed our people, so we are going to take matters into our own hands,'" Caldeira said. "To me, this is the most likely scenario of how a geoengineering scheme might be deployed."
On November 19, the World Bank released a report titled Turn Down the Heat, warning global poverty cannot be properly addressed without tackling climate change. If current emissions continue, the World Bank forecasts a temperature rise of more than 4 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Under this scenario, extreme weather will be the "new normal". Sea levels would rise about one metre, inundating poor countries including Vietnam and Bangladesh. Falling crop yields would compound hunger and poverty, the World Bank said.
If crops fail, people starve and governments begin to fall, countries could use the "threat of geoengineering" as a "bargaining chip" to get aid from other states, Caldeira said.
'Plant a tree'
International rules on climate experiments are murky at best, and non-existent at worst. And even if the UN or some other body came up with a comprehensive framework, that doesn't guarantee responsible behavior.
"As we saw with the invasion of Iraq, international law doesn't mean very much when a group of powerful countries decide to do something," Caldeira said. "If powerful countries felt their backs were against the wall, I could imagine them deploying something. If China was having crop failures and heat waves for years, it would seem hard for politicians not to deploy something to protect their people from suffering if the science was there."
Currently, the science is shaky and researchers are pushing for increased funding. This worries some environmentalists. They believe putting money into these technologies constitutes a "moral hazard" as countries won't seriously curb emissions if they believe humans will be able to "play God" by altering the climate.
"In so far as there are limited resources to be spent on the climate problem, I would prefer to see them spent on solutions to limit greenhouse gas emissions, rather than geoengineering," Matthews said.
"The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree."
- Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science
There is little doubt that human activity is warming the planet. Jim Young Kim, the World Bank's president, said 97 per cent of scientists agree on the reality of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions are rising. And, if history provides lessons on the future, COP18 will not change the reality of a world addicted to fossil fuels, and people demanding economic growth over environmental sustainability.
Even if humans drastically reduced emissions today, the climate will continue warming for several decades before the effects would be felt. Politicians, who are usually elected for five-year terms, will be under pressure to get fast results from angry constituents - and geoengineering seems an appealing solution.
Rather than sending balloons into the atmosphere or iron into the sea with possibly disastrous consequences, Calderia said there are easier and more positive ways for humans to alter the climate to stem global warming.
"The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree," he said.
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Educating girls is one of the least expensive and most effective ways to change a nation. The further girls go through school, the healthier they'll be, the more they'll earn, the fewer children they'll have and the more they'll invest in the children they do have. This, in turn, will make those children healthier and more productive. It's a virtuous cycle that can make a nation happier and richer.
Sadly, though, in parts of the world this is seen not as progress but as a problem. Educated girls become more independent and less subservient, less willing to abide by cultural norms that repress them and treat them as unequal to men. That's particularly threatening to violent, ultraconservative religious groups - most commonly Islamic fundamentalists - that regard women's second-class status as divinely decreed.
The horrific brutality those groups use to terrify girls and their families into submission has become all too familiar: In Afghanistan, Taliban militants have thrown acid on girls for daring to go to school. In Pakistan, they shot 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head for advocating that girls be educated; she survived and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
And most recently in Nigeria, the Islamic militant group Boko Haram ("Western education is forbidden") kidnapped nearly 300 girls from a school in northern Nigeria and threatened to sell them into slavery. It's the latest atrocity committed by these murderous thugs in their attempt to force northeastern Nigeria into a medieval vision of sharia law and religious purity.
Boko Haram's crime has been abetted by the pathetic ineptitude of the Nigerian government in failing to save these teenagers who were on track to become lawyers, teachers and doctors.
Nigerian authorities first ignored the incident, then claimed activists invented it and finally - under pressure from parents and a worldwide Internet campaign - accepted help from the United States and other nations to track the criminals they failed to stop and now cannot seem to find.
Whether those efforts will be successful is open to question, but the situation on the ground is changing dramatically. Thousands of Nigerian troops - previously unwilling to confront Boko Haram - have entered the province where the girls were kidnapped, backed by U.S. surveillance and teams of advisers from several countries. The world's outrage, it seems, has at least given the girls a chance - and, not insignificantly, opened an opportunity to strike Boko Haram, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group that has been killing and kidnapping in Nigeria since 2009.
For all the attention to drones and bombs, the war on terrorism will ultimately have to be won one schoolgirl's mind at a time. To that end, a viral Twitter campaign such as #BringBackOurGirls holds more power than a band of heavily armed religious fanatics. They might be able to terrorize a village, but only by alienating a world that holds no sympathy for cowards who victimize little girls.
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