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In 1993, Miers fought to get the American Bar Association (ABA) to reverse its official stand in favor of abortion on demand. It is not yet clear if she did this because she believes abortion is wrong and was incorrectly decided by the Supreme Court, or if she thought it might appease pro-life ABA members. This is a question that must be asked during her confirmation hearings.
The personal background stuff is interesting, including her groundbreaking efforts as a woman, her pro bono work and concern for the poor and her work vetting other conservative judicial nominees for the president. But the most important question is what does she believe and does she have positions, or convictions? At age 60, one might expect her to have convictions about the law, its purpose and its source.
One person who knew her, former White House speechwriter David Frum, writes of Miers on The National Review Online, "In the White House that hero worshipped the president, Miers was distinguished by the intensity of her zeal: She once told me the president was the most brilliant man she ever met. She served Bush well, but she is not the person to lead the court in new directions - or to stand up under criticism that a conservative justice must expect."
That last part is fundamental to conservatives. If she is one of them, will she resist the inevitable liberal undertow that has caused so many recent nominees to lean left when the criticism is intense? In this regard, is she like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas (two of Bush's judicial role models), or is she more like O'Connor, Souter and Anthony M. Kennedy? To borrow a baseball analogy, is she a switch-hitter?
This appears to be the future of judicial nominees named by conservative Republican presidents. We can't have a debate about critical legal and moral issues, because a nominee clearly on the conservative side might not be confirmed. There will be no more Robert Borks to "Bork." So we get people with little, or no, "paper trails" and must accept them on faith.
Conservatives would like to trust the president, but they haven't come this far to live by faith in him alone. They want verification and they should have it before pledging their allegiance to the confirmation of Harriet Miers.
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This is the seventh installment of our Geocaching Caption Contest. Here's a little background to help mold your hilarious captions. According to the geocacher pictured, dova dov, this photo was taken at the Washington State Project APE Cache Mission 9: Tunnel of Light GC1169. He attached a Travel Bug to the cane.
What caption would you write for this photo? "I didn't know the cane was electrified."
You can do better. The winner receives these barely coveted Trail Cards I found in my desk. Please include your geocaching username in all entries.
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Spoiler Alert! Citizen Cane – Rosebud was actually a travel bug.
Whoever pulls the sword from the stone, he shall be king! You, Arthur, you are the one.
Dr. Zaius left his cane here.
WHOA! I finally found a cache large enough to place this Travel Bug into!
We now know where grandpa was hiding. xpunkx & julez
WOW! Just what I needed to get out of here! ~ mtntrek
I'm blind, not old. Wrong kind of cane. Geocaching's defenitively not for me…
"By the power of Greyskull!! I have the POWER!!!" -Alaskan Colt
You see this? This… is my boomstick!
Bishop Dova consecrates a new cache.
So this is what you find with a metal dowsing rod!
I told you, with these glasses I could bend a baton if I stared at it long enough! – entogeek
YOU . . . SHALL . . . NOT . . . GEOTRASH! ~ poblob14
"I am very fast with the cane"
Wanting to visit all the best old folks homes across the globe.
So this is where I left this the last time I was here!
DUDE! Too bad we didn't have this when we started up here! Maybe we wouldn't have lost Grandpa on the way! Who knew those rocks would be too much for him?
Cool cane Batman!
ZOMG! A +20 Staff of Finding! DNFs are _history_ man!
Carpet bag is to Mary Poppins as ammo can is to Cacher.
Umbrella is to Mary Poppins as walking cane is to cacher??
DUDE!!!!! THE CANE JUST SQUISHED THE TRAVEL BUG! Or was it our bug spray…?? BUT NOW IT WON'T BE ABLE TO TRAVEL!! :'(
I just realized where this cane has been…
A citizen outdoors: Oh my god, it reads "Rosebud" on the cane!
To get credit for this Earthcache, submit a photo of you next to the petrified human. The top of your head must be level with the cane, if not your log will be deleted.Jerode
Just what I always wanted!
I have to put this cane where?!?!?
Dad!!! We could leave them your cane in trade for the happy meal card deck!
"Just wave the magic wand and you to can have a tuxedo shirt like me!"
In other news… Local Geocacher found large lockbox full of cane.
It's a miracle — I can walk now!
Excalibur! Geocaching has its King!
"Thank you, Great cache, took Geocoin, left old man in the woods unable to walk"
"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to, why don't you go where fashion sits, Puttin' on the Ritz…"
"look dad ive found your missing walking cane, now we dont have to carry you back out"
Oh no! If only we'de brought that zimmer frame with, then we could have traded up!
How did the guy who put this in as a tradeable leave-qwert0987654
Okay Okay you can have your cane back now that I got the FTF!
I'm from OKLA ST. I need a crutch. GO BUFFS
Have cane will "travel".
Hey dad we all know I found this geocache so how bout my favorite food for dinner tonight and then go soak up some sun with some friends! Maybe like some more ditto!
dang, it's got a travel bug on it, I thought I had Grandma's christmas present for this year!!
TFTC SLT- Cane (For Grandma) (sorry we took of the TB Tag)L- Old Man (attached TB to him)-duckace
Ha ha old man, let's see you get to that next cache NOW!
Ahhhh! My first travel bug.
Never underestimate the power of the "Healing Cache"
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Its what I've always wanted
I can't beleive grandpa got here first and he geocached his cane I bought him!?!
Whew! I escaped from the "Planet of the Apes!" Oh my gosh! I forgot to give Cornelius his cane back!
I can walk!! I always knew travel bugs had great power!!
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Tropical & Hurricane Weather
Climate Progress "25 Best Blogs of 2010" - TIME Magazine
Grist.org: Answers to Climate Skeptics
350.org: Global Warming Math
National Geographic: Global Warming
The Best Brief Climate ExplainerClimate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts
What's your favorite argument against climate change? Find the facts here:
99 explanations (but reality ain't one)
Current ConditionsGlobal Sea Surface Temperature
US Pacific Sea Surface Temperature
Earth Surface Temperature Analysis (NASA). Of the 10 warmest years on record, 9 have been between the years 2002-2012. The other was in 1998. In the figure, "Temperature Anomaly" means the difference between the mean annual temperature for one year and a "base period" or reference average taken between 1951-1980. Click on image for source, or more info here.)
Dissipation of multi-year Arctic sea ice, 1987-2012
"When you have the largest Atlantic storm in recorded history that is being fed by unusually warm ocean waters (+5°F) and is being steered in a very unusual direction by a "3-sigma" blocking high over Greenland after the largest Arctic sea ice melt in human history, you might want to consider the "steroid" hypothesis a bit more." -- Dan Miller, on Hybrid Storm Sandy
Global Sea Level Rise(click image for more information on sea level rise)
Climate Change & the Ocean: A Journey Through the ScienceFeaturing Climate Change: Lines of Evidence, video series by the National Academy of Sciences.
For students: There are 6 sections of reading, videos, web links and images. Each section has a set of questions at the end to complete as a class assignment.
Part 2 of the series describes the types of evidence we have that the planet is warming.WATCH: Climate Change, Lines of Evidence: Is Earth Warming?
Questions for Part 2:
Scientific Consensus
Climate data is collected and analyzed by many independent groups of scientists, and there is virtually unanimous consent that A) the planet is warming, and B) human use of fossil fuel is the cause. A few non-climate scientists who were skeptical of the methods used to calculate global temperature recently did an exhaustive reanalysis of 250 years of data. Their results, published this year (at left) affirmed the interpretation was correct, and was only consistent with fossil fuel usage. (The down-blips are when there were volcanos. Click on image for more info.)
In 2009, the American Association for the Advancement of Science led 18 scientific societies in a letter to the U.S. Senate affirming consensus on the scientific basis of global warming. (See the letter here.) To see a list of scientific societies from around the world who have also endorsed this consensus, scroll down the page here: Is there a scientific consensus on global warming?
These two datasets of atmospheric CO2 were shown in the video:
What are all the bumps and zigzags?
The top image is called the Keeling Curve, after the Scripps scientist who started the observations. The "zig-zags" in the data show the seasonal variation in CO2. During winter, CO2 levels go up slightly because of plants dying back and decaying. During summer, CO2 levels go down because of renewed plant growth that consumes it.
The bottom image is the longest record of atmospheric CO2 to date. The humps in the data represent much longer time periods: glacial and interglacial periods (glacial periods = "ice ages"). During warm interglacial periods, CO2 is higher, and during cold glacial periods it is lower.
The seasonal and glacial cycles are the primary types of natural variability in the CO2 record.
...Click on the bottom image for more information on the source...
So you can see, a few hundred parts per million can make a big difference in transmission of radiation. (And actually in the demo, we were only looking at 28 and 56 ppm, because the ink was already diluted to 1/10th of its original strength.)
Isn't all of this just part of natural cycles?
Sources and sinks. When asking the question, "Does the rise in CO2 come from fossil fuel usage," it's important to consider what the other options are. If it is not coming from fossil fuels, there would have to be 1) a mysterious, unknown source, and 2) it would have to explain the data better than fossil fuel usage. What we know about the volume of industrial sources indicates that what we measure in the air is in fact only part of total global emissions. About 40% has been absorbed by the ocean. If the CO2 in the air comes from somewhere else, there would also have to be a very large unknown sink that is absorbing the fossil fuel emissions. So the options are: fossil fuel emissions, which agree with the CO2 record in both timing and quantity, or Mysterious Sources and Sinks. Science points toward known facts. (See how the Keeling Curve matches fossil fuel emissions.)
Carbon gives itself away. There are in fact even more lines of evidence pointing toward fossil fuels, such as the "forensic evidence" mentioned in the video. Carbon is made up of several different isotopes -- varieties of the atom that have different numbers of neutrons. These isotopes are incorporated into biomass in different ways because of their different weights. The excess CO2 in the atmosphere has the isotopic signature of carbon that comes from biological material, as opposed to something like volcanic or geologic activity. RealClimate.org has a nice explainer of how the isotopic forensics works.
Still wondering about solar influences or other natural cycles? The National Academy of Sciences Lines of Evidence video series has episodes on these too:
Climate Change: Solar Influences
The next part of the video details some of the changes that are happening on earth because of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere.WATCH: Climate Change, Lines of Evidence: How much warming?
This summer (2012) arctic ice melted back further than any year on record, and well past the last record set in 2007. In light of this acceleration, scientists now think the Arctic may be ice-free in the summer within 5-10 years. The image at the right shows the difference in multi-year summer ice cover between 1980 and 2012. (Multi-year ice is thicker and more resilient than single-season ice, because it has accumulated for several years or more.) By the end of summer, Arctic ice cover in 2012 was 18% less than the previous record set in 2007. The new animation at the top of this site shows the progression of this multi-year ice melt over the last 25 years, from 1987-2012. In it you can see the dissipation as well as the movement of thick multi-year ice.
The image at the left shows the most recent years' sea ice minima. In 2013, minimum extent "recovered" to only the 6th lowest extent recorded. Nice record of all data here: ChArctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph.
Questions for Part 5:
The following presentation, "Ocean Acidification: Starting with the Science" shows the wide-ranging impact of the oceans absorbing large amounts of CO2.Ocean Acidification: Starting with the Science
Many of the effects on the ocean and coasts are discussed in the report Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S., as well as in these articles (and many others):An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts
Caribbean Coral Reefs Mostly Dead
Record loss of Arctic ice may trigger extreme weather
Expedition to study changes in ocean salinity
Sea Level Rise Projections and Impacts
Sea Level Rise Accelerating on U.S. Atlantic Coast
Where are we headed? The current level of total global CO2 emissions is shown below, by the black line. The colored lines represent hypothetical emissions rates for different global warming scenarios, from best case (B2) to worst (A1F1). The dip in actual emissions in 2008-2009 was during the global recession when industrial production and tranportion were low. As you can see, as it's recovered it has increased even more steeply than before, back towards the worst case scenario model.
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As promised in our post where we introduced Web Based Editing, we now have a video to demonstrate the speed with which you can edit a large project in Project Web Access. This project has 6,300 tasks and, as you can see from the video, in just a few short seconds you can load the project and make edits to the plan. Just one of the many new features to look forward to in Project 2010.
This is a nice feature. But even in 2007, this was supposed to be fast, but what we see from customers is that once you add a calculated field, or, as this doesn't demonstrate, many tasks are linked in a plan that large. In essence, you're editing a stand alone task, and asking the browser to repaint a screen's worth of rows. The hard part is adjusting the total tasks in the plan. Performance goes down the tubes when you have any formulas or linked tasks, even in hte fat client. Any word on this performance?


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Buckeyes vs. Bulldogs in Big Rapids
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The games will be streamed online for a fee through the Bulldog Sports Network.
As always, links for audio, video and game tracker live stats are on the Buckeye Hockey Gameday page (go.osu.edu/mhkygameday) and the men's hockey schedule page on OhioStateBuckeyes.com.
Buckeye Brief
Sophomore Ryan Dzingel is first with 17 points and nine goals and ranks second with eight assists, while classmate Tanner Fritz is first with 10 assists and second with 13 points. Sophomore Max McCormick, third with 10 points, is second with six goals, followed by Matt Johnson with five. Senior goalie Brady Hjelle has played in 14 games, starting 13, and has a 1.43 goals-against average and .951 save percentage to rank first and second in the NCAA, respectively. Freshman Collin Olson has played seven games and has a 3.08 goals-against average and .905 save percentage. Johnson is first with a +8 mark, followed by defensemen Curtis Gedig and Craig Dalrymple at +7.
Wearing the C
For the series vs. Miami Dec. 14-15 and the Three Rivers Classic Dec. 28-29, Gedig, Statchuk and Dzingel reprised their roles as captains, the first second-time selections of the season. Gedig, Statchuk and Dzingel will be joined by Johnson as captains for the series at Ferris State this week. This is the first time four Buckeyes will wear a 'C' in a series.
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Hjelle, who has started 13 games for the Buckeyes and played in 14, leads the NCAA with a 1.43 goals-against average and is second nationally with a .951 save percentage. He has allowed one goal or less in 10 games this year. Dzingel is first for the Buckeyes with nine goals and 17 points. Three of his goals have been game-winners (including in both 1-0 Ohio State wins this year), tying him for sixth in the NCAA and first in the CCHA.
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Junior Garrett Thompson and senior Kyle Bonis are tied for first with nine goals each and sophomore Jason Binkley has a team-best 10 assists. Thompson is first with 16 points, with Bonis second with 15. Senior Travis Ouellette is second with nine assists and third with 13 points. In goal sophomore C.J. Motte has played in 19 games and has an 8-8-3 ledger, 2.25 goals-against average and .926 save percentage. Freshman Charles Williams is 1-0-0, with time in three games, and has a 2.14 goals-against average and .912 save percentage.
Looking Back - Ohio State vs. Ferris State in 2012
In the opener, Ohio State scored three unanswered goals but it wasn't enough as its comeback bid fell short in a 4-3 defeat. Ohio State trailed 4-1 after the second period, with Tanner Fritz scoring for Ohio State, and drew within one with two goals in less than three minutes (from Chris Crane and Darik Angeli) in the third period. The Buckeyes had a late major power play - which turned into a 5-on-3 advantage - but were unable to get the equalizer.
In the series finale, Ohio State battled back from a one-goal deficit three times, skating to a 3-3 tie with the Bulldogs. Ferris State won the shootout, 2-0 in three rounds, to clinch the extra point in the CCHA standings. The teams were tied after the first period. The Bulldogs opened the scoring at 7:02 before Fritz tied the game 2:26 later. The teams were scoreless in the second period, with each goalie making 12 saves. In the third, Ohio State rallied to tie the game twice. FSU's Kyle Bonis gave the Bulldogs their second lead of the night just 1:10 into the period. Ferris State maintained the lead until Buckeye Danny Dries scored shorthanded at the 10:10 mark. The Bulldogs responded with a power play goal at 13:09 but Max McCormick deadlocked the game for the third time at 16:38. Neither team could score in overtime, with Ohio State controlling play and putting four shots on net.
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Like a ship captain checking to see if his ship is on course, you need to check your business social media marketing to make sure you are heading in the right direction to achieve your business goals. Do you have a clear plan or goal for marketing your business in Halifax, Dartmouth, Truro and elsewhere in 2014?
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Former Knoxville Girls Basketball Standout Ashley Larson recently completed her first season as a member of the A-I-B Women's Basketball Squad. Larson helped the Eagles to a 16-14 record which was the first winnings season for women's basketball since the program returned to varsity level in 2007. Her 147 assists set a new single season record for A-I-B and Larson is now third on the all-time career assists list. Larson not only was outstanding on the court, she also shined brightly off the court as she made the A-I-B's Dean's List for the winter term.
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Version 3.2.3:
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Adds Windows Audio Session API exclusive mode output support, allowing bit-exact output and muting all other sounds. Windows Vista SP1 or newer required.
3.2 version highlights:
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• Different detection of stream formats supported by the device - should improve compatibility with certain SPDIF receivers.
3.2.1 version highlights:
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Just tried 3.2.2 - it's no good. Whereas before with 3.2.1 I could play any SACD decoded with parameters up to 176khz, 24bit, 5.1 (attempt to play unsupported formats unchecked), now foobar2000 throws a fit on all MC recordings that are not strict 5.1 but 5.0, 4.0, 3.0:
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My Yamaha RX-V3067 should and can handle anything thrown at it via HDMI.
Unfortunately, the previous version was overwritten by the updater, does anyone still have 3.2.1 for me? In case of a component like this which may or may not work for everybody, a link to a previous version on the official download page would be nice.
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Oct 16, 2006 18:00:00
Please guide the meaning of this ,correct me if i am wrong:
according to JLS:
�If all the inherited methods are abstract, then the class is necessarily an abstract class and is considered to inherit all the abstract methods. A compile-time error occurs if, for any two such inherited methods, either they have different return types or one has a return type and the other is void. (The throws clauses do not cause errors in this case.)
interface i {
void go();
//an absract class
abstract class abs{
abstract void go() throws Exception;
class imp extends abs implements i {
public void go () throws Exception {}
It causes compile time error as cannot implement go() in i;
But according to JLS ,The throws clauses do not cause errors in this case.)
But let me know where i am wrong
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you "imp" class is implementing interface "i", go() method signature in "i" doesn't declare exceptions. Hence, your go() method implementation in "imp" class cannot declare exceptions either.
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Let me get this straight - we're implementing an interface, which is abstract, and has an implicitly abstract go() method, then we are extending abs, our superclass, which also has an abstract go() method. One throws Exception and the other doesn't, but how do we know which go() we mean to make concrete in class imp?
When I remove the throws clause from the concrete go() method in class imp, which should be capitalized Imp according to naming conventions, the code compiles fine. It seems that implementation takes precedence.
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Oct 16, 2006 20:34:00
Maybe someone else can better clarify but I don't think it's an issue of one taking precedence. It seems as if either the interface or the abstract class is leaving off the throws Exception, and you then try to create your go method with a throws Exception you'll run into a compile error. This seems to make sense to me since you can't throw Exceptions that your super class or interface do not throw and it would make sense that you'd have to fufill the obligation of both the interface and abstract class go() declarations. Apparently it's not enough that "just one of your interfaces or abstract classes throws the Exception."
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Oct 16, 2006 22:01:00
In such a case, the overriding method is said to override both the inherited abstract methods.
The rules of overriding w.r.t throwing exceptions are being violated here.
The interface method does not declare that it throws any checked exception but the overriding method declares that it throws Exception. The overriding method is free to not have a throws clause even for a checked exception. Hence, no issues with the abstract class method.
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But Lazaridis reiterated that he's leaving on his own terms. He made the decision to pass the reins to new management, Lazaridis said today in an interview. In fact, after he opted to step down last year, the board urged him to reconsider the move, he said.
"In January 2012, when I went to RIM's board and asked that they implement my succession plan and promote Thorsten as CEO, I was asked to reconsider my decision to give up the CEO post," he said.
After Lazaridis gave up the CEO job, he pledged to help his successor roll out the new BlackBerry 10 platform and its flagship Z10 smartphone.
"With the launch of BB10 and the Z10 around the world, I believe I've fulfilled my commitment to the board," he said.
Lazaridis will leave BlackBerry in May to devote himself full-time to research into physics and quantum computing. He's also bankrolled a $100 million fund to help commercialize quantum technologies.
The 52-year-old said he has had a long run at BlackBerry and is looking forward to the change.
"I've been there for more than 29 years, it's quite a career," he said. "It's now time to move on to my next venture."


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