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What is on the Planet's Climate Wishlist?
The Earth cannot use words to speak for itself, but if it could what would be on its climate wishlist this holiday season?
Environmental activists and climate scientists have done a good job of communicating the risks of climate change. Part of the issue is that it's a delicate balance between scaring people so thoroughly that they don't think there is anything they can do about global warming and encouraging people to make any changes that positively impact the environment, even small ones to start. Perhaps we've also underestimated the importance of personal experience.
The facts on climate change alone are not enough. We've had solid, scientific evidence for many years that global warming is man-made and happening right now. However, many people need to experience the effects for themselves in order for the light bulb to go off in their heads. Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events are helping people to connect the dots, but now that process has begun the question then becomes, "What next?"
We have a responsibility to be good stewards of the planet. That is what the climate needs and wants this holiday season. There are two main changes that we can undertake to fulfill the planet's climate wishlist. The first is to lower our carbon footprints. Ask yourself, do I really need to leave my lights on all day at home when I am not there? Can I combine trips in the car to drive less or take public transportation instead? What simple steps can I take to save energy and myself some money as well?
The second change is to offset the rest of your carbon footprint. There are many affordable options to make this holiday season a reality, not just for the planet, but for future generations also. Any positive steps you take are welcome and really do make a difference. Although the planet cannot use words to thank you, reducing what you can and offsetting the rest is a beautiful gift and a wonderful place to start this holiday season.
Coal Industry Mega-Player Plans for Climate Change
In a telling and ironic move, coal industry giant BHP-Billiton, is replacing one of its coal export facilities in Queensland, Australia because of its vulnerability to increasingly frequent hurricanes from global warming. BHP-Billiton is an Australian coal company that produces one-fifth of globally traded coal for steel making and is the largest mining company on Earth. The upgrade represents a major investment in planning for climate change. In fact, the company's coal operations are led by Marcus Randolph, who confirmed they are planning, "to rebuild the facility to be more durable to climate change."
Readers of this blog already know that increasingly extreme weather events are the result of climate change in addition to the fact that many businesses are planning now for climate change's effects. Why not a coal company too? The announcement makes it obvious that BHP-Billiton understands that climate change is real and the time is now to begin making changes even if the manufacture of their product contributes to the issue.
Randolph has even warned investors about the implications of remaining dependent on the non-renewable resources of fossil fuels by saying, "In a carbon constrained world where energy coal is the biggest contributor to a carbon problem, how do you think this is going to evolve over a 30- to 40-year time horizon? You'd have to look at that and say on balance, I suspect, the usage of thermal coal is going to decline. And frankly it should."
When a company that mines and exports coal starts planning for climate change it means the writing is on the wall. Businesses and individuals alike should all be working to decrease carbon footprints and offset the remaining carbon emissions. Let's give the planet a holiday present and start doing all we can this season to embrace a cleaner energy future.
Carbon Tax Talks Experience Renewed Interest Post Superstorm Sandy
The issue of climate change has re-entered the public's conscious in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. In fact, there were accusations of a "climate silence" on the part of the presidential candidates until the megastorm hit the Northeast a week before this month's election. Now both parties are talking about a potential carbon tax.
Last week a carbon tax was once again the topic of discussion at the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think-tank) and the Brookings Institution (a more liberal think-tank) released a paper on it. The Congressional Budget Office also published a report on potential ways to make a carbon tax less of a burden on lower income people.
A carbon tax works by making those that use fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas pay more. When they are burned, fossil fuels contribute to global warming by producing carbon dioxide, which traps heat. Some experts estimate the price tag of a tax of $20 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions to add 1 or 2 percent to the price of gasoline and electric power. Other pundits view a carbon tax as a tax on economic growth.
Whether or not a carbon tax will have the political backing to make it through a divided Congress is questionable. However, environmental advocates are always interested when climate change is a hot topic. Extreme weather has been linked to climate change. So it's important to warn people that if we continue on this unsustainable path of dumping 90 million tons of pollution into the atmosphere on a daily basis that the future will include more superstorms with increasingly devastating consequences.
Super Storm Sandy's Flooding Similar to Damage Expected from Rising Sea Levels
Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, and this week's super storm Sandy gave us a preview of the devastation that this kind of flooding can cause. In fact, five years ago, a study named, "Nation Under Siege" constructed a series of 3-D maps using federal science agency and the United Nations' climate panel data that demonstrated what areas of the Atlantic coastline will look like as sea levels continue to rise. The maps from 2007 are eerily similar to the destruction we saw from super storm Sandy. The main difference being that the flooding from Sandy is beginning to recede and the rising waters from global warming are permanent.
There's no denying that sea levels are rising. Since 1900, the world's oceans rose an average of seven inches, according to data from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Those of us that live on the East Coast are seeing higher than average sea level rise. According to a report by the New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force, sea levels along New York's coast range between 9 and 11 inches over the last 100 years.
Super storm Sandy painfully demonstrated that coastal cities are woefully unprepared for flooding and other dangers from extreme weather, which is increasing due to climate change. According to Katharine Hayhoe, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas Tech University, there are three reasons why climate change made Sandy that much worse. The first is already higher sea levels made the storm surge more severe. The second is higher sea surface temperatures from global warming provided more energy for the super storm. The third is Sandy may turned towards the coast because of a record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this year.
Preparing at-risk communities for coming floods and coastal erosion includes determining the best way to heighten sea walls or whether to construct surge barriers to protect flood-prone areas. These preparations require study and then construction costs in the billions. However, the latest estimates from IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm, calculate that super storm Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damages and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business. It sounds like the time is now to make those investments before further extreme weather from global warming costs more in the long run. We can couple those investments with our own efforts to lower our carbon footprints, which contributes to slowing down climate change.
Climate Change Effects: The Power to Ruin Our Children's Futures
More than a couple of our past blog posts have covered how increasingly extreme weather is the product of climate change. However, have you stopped to ask yourself what that really means? How will climate change affect us and future generations? What things that we currently enjoy will be unavailable to our children?
A recent article covers some things that global warming is likely to ruin for our kids; things such as coffee, chocolate, strawberries. And the list isn't limited to agricultural food items. Say goodbye to blazing fast Wi-Fi. Also your favorite vacation spot or even your home may be underwater in a few, short decades time. The country you live in may disappear. The article has some shocking images of Greenland melting away.
So what's it going to take to help preserve the Earth as we know it? Global carbon emissions need to be reduced 80% by 2050. The U.S. has already pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by approximately 17%. Eventually legislation will be enacted increasing the goal to a 30% reduction in 2025 and a 42% reduction in 2030, with the ultimate goal of reducing emissions 83% by 2050.
Do your part in reducing carbon emissions and getting us closer to meeting the goals outlined above. Start by switching your Internet browser to www.envirosearch.org. Your regular, daily Internet search activities will begin contributing to renewable energy, reforestation, and energy efficiency projects. Then go to www.carbonfund.org for ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint and offset carbon emissions. By working together, and each doing our part, we can change the fate of the planet.
Study Provides 99% Certainty Ocean Warming is Man-Made
The Earth is 70% covered by oceans, and stores about 90% of the planet's heat. This means that ocean warming translates into global warming. Climate change deniers contend that global warming is not caused by greenhouse gas emissions, but rather by natural processes and variations. However, a study released this week proves with 99% certainty that no more than 10% of the observed increase in ocean temperatures over the past 50 years could be accounted for by natural variation.
The Human-Induced Global Ocean Warming on Multidecadal Timescales study is the most comprehensive study ever performed on rising ocean temperatures, and authored by a team of American, Indian, Japanese, and Australian scientists. According to the study, the planet's oceans are warming at a rate of 0.20°F per decade, which affects global weather patterns leading to increasing weather extremes such as more heat waves, storms, and intense storms. Furthermore, ocean warming affects the ocean ecology itself. A few of the effects we've already begun to see are plankton reduction, melting sea ice, and coral die-off.
The study unequivocally points to global warming as man-made. Of course, this has been known, shown and settled for nearly twenty years by the IPCC and climate scientists around the world. But the shift to ocean warming is significant due to its proportion of the Earth and its surface as well as because the vast majority of the people on Earth live very close to rising oceans.
Four or five years ago we shifted from the question of 'is it happening' to 'what to do about it'. Political and business interests have worked hard to shift this debate back again, but the real focus must remain on the numerous solutions to climate change and the dwindling timeline we have to reduce our global emissions 50-80% by mid century.
Download the full study at this link: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n7/full/nclimate1553.html
Climate Change Lessons from a Long Lost Civilization
New information is coming to light about the massive collapse of one of the world's oldest and earliest urban civilizations. The Harappan, or Indus, civilization came into being over 4,000 years ago and existed for about 600 years before it slowly disappeared. Scientists and scholars have hypothesized about its demise. Theories range from regional conflicts to a foreign attack, but some suggest environmental issues may have been the cause.
Researchers recently published an article named, "Fluvial landscapes of the Harappan civilization" in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences outlining evidence that points to environmental factors leading to the end of this ancient civilization. The scientists studied satellite maps and collected field sediment samples, then cross-referenced them with previous archaeological findings to develop a much clearer picture of what really happened to this long-lost civilization.
The Harappan civilization is named for one of its largest cities, and occupied what is now India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and part of Afghanistan. It had a sophisticated indoor plumbing system, gridded streets, a flourishing arts and crafts community, and what appears to be a more democratic society than other large civilizations such as Egypt or Mesopotamia.
The Harappans were largely dependent upon monsoons that dried up leading to the end of their urban environment. They used the rivers and seasonal floods that were fed by these monsoons to meet their agricultural needs. Once the monsoons weakened, people slowly moved eastward away from cities into small villages and towns. The water in the area they moved to was unable to support the large cities of the past.
There are lessons to be learned from the extinction of this colossal civilization. The Harappans were overly dependent on monsoons that eventually disappeared and the U.S. is also largely dependent on somewhat predictable weather, which is now threatened by climate change. Americans need to prepare for increasingly extreme weather, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and increase energy efficiency, and we need to do it now before we suffer a similar fate to that of the Harappans.
Killer Climate Change
The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 that estimates 150,000 additional American deaths in the country's top 40 cities by 2100 due to the excessive heat caused by climate change.
The top three deadliest cities outlined in the analysis of peer-reviewed data include Louisville, Detroit, and Cleveland. Some other cities projected to have thousands of heat related deaths by the end of the century are Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Providence, St. Louis and Washington, D.C.
Why cities? Because that is where two-thirds of the U.S. population lives, and many municipal services there are not prepared to help people effectively beat the heat. Urban areas have high concentrations of poor with little to no access to air conditioning. Although everyone is at risk, children, the elderly, the obese, and those on medication are the most vulnerable.
We're already seeing how global warming can kill with hundreds of heat related deaths annually. Extreme heat causes heat exhaustion and heat stroke and worsens illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. In 2006, a two-week long heat wave in California caused 655 deaths, 1,620 excess hospitalizations, and more than 16,000 additional emergency room visits, resulting in nearly $5.4 billion in costs. However, Chicago had an even deadlier record-setting heat wave in 1995 when more than 700 people died due to the excessive heat.
Some cities are learning from their experiences or heeding the warnings, and strengthening their municipal services. Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle have already put measures in place to lessen the risk from excessive heat days. Measures include improving the city's heat warning system, emergency services, and establishing cooling centers.
There is hope; we can save lives by reducing emissions and improving emergency services. Some examples of climate change mitigation are supporting reforestation projects and using more renewable energy such as wind energy.
Read the report and get more information at http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/killer-heat/.
May 5th is Climate Impacts Day
If you read our earlier blog post on the connection between extreme weather and climate change http://carbonfund.org/blog/item/4605-un-climate-panel-report-links-global-warming-and-weather-extremes, you're already aware of this issue and have connected the dots to an extent. But perhaps you walked away from the blog post asking yourself, what can I do about climate change? Well here is an event in which you can participate. This Saturday, May 5, 2012 is Climate Impacts Day.
Climate Impacts Day is a global day of action that spotlights people around the world who are connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change. The focus of individual events varies among assorted communities spanning the globe. Follow this link to find an event near you. http://act.climatedots.org/event/impacts_en/search/#
Next steps after connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change are to connect the dots to solutions. Clean energy, food-based initiatives, and political organizing for climate action are just a few solutions anyone can put their efforts toward to address climate change and its impacts.
There are also a couple things we can do regarding the impact of climate change. We must adapt to the impacts that are we are already seeing, and the impacts we know are coming. Then it's important to organize to make our governments and businesses take the bold action needed to prevent the truly catastrophic effects of climate change, the effects to which we cannot adapt. This includes eliminating the use of fossil fuels and moving to renewable power sources as soon as possible.
Extreme weather and climate change may seem like a far-off problem, but it is here and there is something everyone can do. Attend a Climate Impacts Day event. Learn more at http://www.climatedots.org/.


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Maekar I Targaryen, full name Maekar of House Targaryen, the First of His Name, is a mentioned character in the first season. He died before the time of the series, and is not expected to appear. He was a King of Westeros in the Targaryen dynasty.
Maekar was a King in the Targaryen dynasty. He was the father of Aemon, who would become a Maester in Castle Black and Aegon V Targaryen, who would succeed him on the Iron Throne.[1]
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When revealing Jon Snow his true identity and origins, Maester Aemon mentions the name of his father.[2]
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Maekar Targeryen is the fourteenth Targaryen to sit the Iron Throne. He was the fourth son of King Daeron II and Myriah Martell. As the son of Daeron II, he was also the grandson of King Aegon IV Targaryen. Maekar was given the Targaryen seat of Summerhall, and was a capable army commander who served in the Blackfyre Rebellion. After a number of unexpected deaths in the royal family, he came to the throne in 221AL. He ruled until 233AL, when he fell in battle against a rebel lord.

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When many people envision a Mexican vacation getaway, they think of the popular hotspots like Acapulco and Ixtapa. These vibrant and bustling metropolitan centers are all about having a good time—and having it in nightclubs, crowded shops, and beaches full of people.
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Small towns in Mexico are a little like small towns all over the world—there is less of a focus on commerce and more of a focus on people. Mexican villages are known to offer more family-owned and operated business (restaurants, shops, and recreational facilities) and to add a personal touch to every experience. Small towns are where you'll find the best open-air markets and handcrafted wares, and all in a setting that doesn't put pressure on you to buy.
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Troncones, located about forty-five minutes from the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo region, is the ultimate Mexican village. Although Troncones is considered a tourist town, it is also a fishing village, a close-knit community, and a place where history and nature can be found in abundance.
For hundreds of years, Troncones existed only as a tucked away town where generations of fishermen worked hard at their trade and built a comfortable, beachside life for their families. It wasn't until recently that the town began to see tourists move through—and even then, in small numbers that help retain a private and intimate feeling. Many of the activities and dining opportunities here still have ties to these early fishing days. Whether you prefer to see your fish on a plate or on the end of a fishing rod, there's plenty here for everyone!
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Increasingly, artists, craftspeople, and designers from around the world are gathering familiar mass-produced goods as their new raw materials, using both pristine products and castoffs to create works that are completely unexpected, while at the same time surprisingly familiar. The result is a collection of pioneering work from a wide range of artists who successfully combine the industrially uniform with the uniquely handmade.
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During their trek to Olivine City, Ash notices Pikachu seems tired for some reason. Just then a man named Simon, who can communicate with Pokémon, offers his help. A short while later the local Officer Jenny claims that Simon is a fraud who has been scamming people. Is she right? And if not, who are the real culprits?
- Simon says he speaks "fluent Pokemon", suggesting that although each Pokémon only says it's name (or makes other noises, such as Onix) this is the same language regardless of Pokémon species. There is no "Pikachu language" or "Bulbasaur language" etc., just one overall Pokémon language. This has been demonstrated on numerous occasions when different Pokémon easily communicate with each other as though they were speaking.
- Officer Jenny says that Pokémon can't understand human speech, but this is obviously not the case, otherwise trainers would not be able to give their Pokémon orders in battle. Pikachu for example, has never had any trouble understanding Ash or any other humans in or out of battle, plus PIkachu has always been able to convey various messages to Ash, mainly through gesture/mime, but should have been able to defend Simon.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- Friday afternoon, people gathered outside Grace Deli to remember the beloved owner of the store who was shot and killed Thursday.
June Lim, the beloved owner of the Grace Deli at 7th and H St. in Northeast Washington, was shot in the neck and killed Thursday morning inside her own store. Police say it appears to be a robbery, but they have few leads as to who's responsible.
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Section 2167,Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 207, as added Pub. L. 90–137, pt. I, § 102(e),Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 448, related to placement of emphasis on democratic institutions, agriculture, education, public health and other needs, in the furnishing of development assistance.
Section 2168,Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 208, as added Pub. L. 90–137, pt. I, § 102(e),Nov. 14, 1967, 81 Stat. 448, related to the taking into account, in determining to what extent United States should furnish assistance, of country's own efforts to aid itself.
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Twitter eats its young
Yesterday Twitter committed a hostile act against both its customers and one of its largest Twitter client developers, UberMedia. They cut off all of UberMedia's clients from the Twitter platform. Basically Twitter claims they did it because the UberMedia clients violated certain rules. These are rules that apparently UberMedia has been violating for almost a year, or perhaps longer.
What I find most interesting is trying to analyze what the hell Twitter was thinking. In an excellent blog post, Mark Suster lays out the basic fact that Twitter could have been perceived as the good guys by just putting out a 72 hour warning to both UberMedia, and users of UberMedia Twitter clients, that they were going to be cut off if things's weren't fixed. This would give UberMedia a chance to fix things, and it would give customers a chance not to wake up blindsided and Twitterless. The Twitter team is smart, so it's hard to imagine they didn't consider this as an option, which in an of itself gives me pause.
The apparent issues involved trademark, and a potential privacy leak around direct messages. I'm sure Twitter would argue that UberMedia was not responsive to previous requests or warnings and that they have a right, and in fact a responsibility, to defend their trademark and protect customer privacy.
But here's the thing. They have waited on these issues for a year, so no matter how egregious the failings of UberMedia are, a 72 hour warning wasn't going to hurt anyone.
In response to Suster's post, Dick Costlo, Twitter CEO tweeted "@msuster your post is a misinformed and contrary to what I'm certain you would counsel as an investor."
Costolo's response is, on its face, ridiculous. First, Suster was not misinformed because everything he commented on was in the public record except his opinions which are, of course, just opinions. Second, I can't imagine Fred Wilson or Bijan Sabet, both early Twitter investors and board members, suggesting to Dick Costolo that it would be in Twitter's interests to *surprise* millions of customers by turning off their Twitter client with no warning. I could be wrong because I am certainly not in their heads, but neither Fred nor Bijan strikes me as customer-hostile, take-no-prisoners, do-whatever-you-need-to-do regardless-of-how-it-impacts-customers type of people. I would be shocked to hear that this was done on behalf of the Twitter board of investors or that they would, if asked, have suggested this was a good idea.
What's obvious is that these actions are being taken because Twitter is threatened by UberMedia, and possibly pissed. UberMedia has been buying up Twitter clients like a hungry tourist binging at a Vegas buffet. They have just raised $17 million dollars, and its CEO Bill Gross essentially invented Internet advertising when he created Overture. So perhaps they *should* be threatened. Still once you operate as an ecosystem, you have a broader responsibility than just to maximize profit and kill all potential competition from your invited partners. Maximizing profit is obviously a critical goal, but screwing platform developers and customers for no ostensibly defensible reason in a clearly hostile way may not be good business (it's certainly not *decent* business), and it unquestionably gives people a reason to distrust you with what is now, like it or not, a shared asset.
In many ways this reminds me of this week's ridiculous Apple policy change requiring that Apple get 30% of platform subscription revenue of 3rd party developers. Twitter clearly felt they could get away with this and so they did. It was a very Machiavellian, and I think poorly thought out move. But this is not a decision I think they would have or could have made three years ago. Similarly, Apple would not have been trying to take 30% of subscription revenue when they launched their developer platform. They feel they can now because they think they have all the tigers by their tails.
Perhaps Dave McClure said it best when he commented (on twitter) "yo @dickc -- guess Twitter won't be following that Google "Don't Be Evil" thing, eh? ;). " The dickc there is Dick Costolo. And that does about sum it up. It is hard to be a platform vendor and not end up occasionally on the dark side. There are a lot of interests to balance. But *damn* does it have to be so knee jerk, and blatantly obvious. If not for the benefit of the platform, at least in the interest of not decimating heretofore well curated trust in you as the keeper of said platform.
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Man you're bitter about Apple.ReplyDelete
Remember this, in the long run, with regards to negotiations about value in the chain and each entity's contribution, the market doesn't lie. You WILL get the value you deserve. So will Apple. and Hulu. and Netflix. and Amazon. and content producers. and service providers. In the short term, one or more of these could have gotten richer than they deserve and the market will correct that. Nothing "machiavellian" about business - and I'm an altruistic empathetic regular person, just believe that if a company says it is for profit, it is free to pursue its goals. If it hurts partners, it will suffer. If it eliminates waste and makes consumers happy, it will prosper.
Can't like capitalism when it makes you rich and whine about it when you think might lose. If you don't have leverage, it is because someone thinks you're not adding as much value as YOU think you are. If you can fix that, go ahead and take the lion's share.
lol. I think you meant to comment on another post since this one is primarily about twitter.ReplyDelete
But I will agree that markets make decisions about value. And in todays world, part of the "market making" is "the market" discussing openly what they think about "the market". Egypt and Tunisia used Facebook to communicate dissent and to organize the "political" market. I and lots of other folks are using their blogs and other internet mediums to make our arguments and to organize regarding the iOS market. And as far as "Can't like capitalism when it makes you rich and whine about it when you think might lose" I can like whatever I want (regardless of how you characterize it) and I can write about it if I like. And if other people agree and we impact the market we can do that too. And I think that as a result of this public discussion, apple gets a very quick idea that people don't like this and it is going to hurt them. As I see it that is capitalism at its finest.
No I chose this entry about Twitter to say you're really bitter about Apple, seeing that the Apple theme was consistent whether you intended to talk about Apple or not.ReplyDelete
" I can like whatever I want (regardless of how you characterize it) and I can write about it if I like."
Works both ways, you wrote about x. I wrote about you writing about x. I'm not going to chase my tail on that circular argument.
"And I think that as a result of this public discussion, apple gets a very quick idea that people don't like this and it is going to hurt them."
I'm not against organizing or negotiation. It is just that repeated talking points, references and rehashed words whining about the same issue tend to have diminishing returns. We've seen a ton of that in the last few days. To all those who oppose this move by Apple, I say stop talking trash and start pulling your apps. That's my point, I think Apple heard everyone the first time, before the public announcement about the new rules.
And please, don't insult freedom movements by comparing what you're doing to their efforts. Here you can actually choose your partners in the business world. You never have to choose Apple but yet somehow people find compelling business reasons to do so. Business reasons, not personal.ReplyDelete
Regardless of what Clarence Thomas may say (or not : http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/opinion/18fri3.html), corporations are not people. Business struggles are nothing like struggles for basic personal freedom.
So no, Tunisia and Egypt have nothing to do with this. It is an insult to their people and your readers to make that ludicrous claim.
"whining about the same issue tend to have diminishing returns"ReplyDelete
Or at least thats what people who dont like an idea would like to believe. Tell that to Mubarak. Or Gaddafi before they pulled the "whining line" err... I mean Internet.
"So no, Tunisia and Egypt have nothing to do with this. It is an insult to their people and your readers to make that ludicrous claim.'ReplyDelete
Nope. Its very simple, and tightly connected. Follow along. Speech has power. Thats why we have laws to protect it here. What you call "whining" I call "speech" and it will always be powerful, whether certain trolls disagree or not. In fact, its most powerful *when* certain trolls dont agree, whether its about business practices or government practices.
"troll" - :). Deep down inside, even you know that's misappropriated.ReplyDelete
I'll leave you to it, apparently I rile you too much for you to actually focus on the real issue.
However, in parting, for the benefit of those to come, try addressing the following, succinctly without the freedom fighter grandstanding
- I still haven't heard an argument for why companies shouldn't just go ahead and pull their apps literally right away, if this is such a terrible deal.
- Why are you continuing your iOS development?
Like the troll that you are, you just want to make noise but have no interest in actually making any sense since most of the answer to your question is already discussed here: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/02/rip-pandora-kindle-on-iphone-and-many.html and http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2011/02/apple-is-actually-asking-for-100-of.html.ReplyDelete
The bottom line is the new pricing scheme does not come into play until june, so why would anyone pull before then. Rhapsody has already said they are pulling out and all the other music companies will as well since they dont have 30% margin to play with. Ditto Amazon. Regarding us pulling out, if the rules remain as they seem to be we will have no choice. If the rules are clarified so that they do not include SaaS we wont pull out. But we are several weeks from finishing our iphone app so worst case is that the iphone app is prototype for our android and mobile html5 apps.
"Or at least thats what people who dont like an idea would like to believe. Tell that to Mubarak. Or Gaddafi before they pulled the "whining line" err... I mean Internet."
Was Internet a concern regarding freedom of speech in Egypt or Libya?
By "cutting" the internet, they were trying to play their dirty game by shutting the lights, Not to deny any freedom of speech.


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Aerial photo of the Kwando Linyanti Swamp between Botswana and the Caprivi Strip. Source: C.Michael Hogan
The Kwando River, rising on the central Angolan plateau, is a significant tributary of the Zambezi River.
Source: Adapted from U.S.Geological Survey data.
After leaving Angola, the Kwando flows into an eastern panhandle of Namibia known as the Caprivi Strip. Then the Kwando, often spelled Cuando, forms an element of the border between northern Botswana and the Caprivi Strip; moreover, that border portion of the river is sometimes termed the Linyanti Swamp.
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The 170 cm long north African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) is the largest benthopelagic fish species in the Kwando River. The 61 cm three spotted tilapia (Oreochromis andersonii) is another large benthopelagic species occurring in the Kwando waters. The 15 cm long benthopelagic thicklipped happy (Thoracochromis albolabris) is the sole endemic fish recorded in this river basin.
Many mammalian species utilize the waters of the Kwando, not only for drinking but for bathing and partial or full immersion, notably including the endangered African painted hunting dogs and hippopotami.
Terrestrial ecoregions
2. Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
3. Zambezian Flooded grasslands
4. Zambezian and mopane woodlands
In the headwaters reaches the Angolan miombo woodlands dominate native land cover. The more widespread large tree species in the Angolan miombo ecoregion are Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia paniculata, and Copaifera baumiana, while Brachystegia floribunda, B. boehmii, B. gossweilerii, B. wangermeeana, B. longifolia, B. bakerana, Guibourtea coleosperma, and Isoberlinia angolensis are locally dominant. The grass layer is up to two meters high and several species of Loudetia, Hyparrhenia, Tristachya, and Monocymbium ceresiiforme predominate. Most of the miombo tree and shrub species shed their leaves in the late dry season, and the miombo vegetation is bare for a short time, usually for fewer than three months.
Source: World Wildlife Fund
The Zambezian and mopane woodlands ecoregion occupies much of the flanking area of the Kwando River in its lower reaches. Much of the northeastern potions of theis ecoregion contain White's north Zambezian undifferentiated woodlands and wooded grasslands. Along the Kwando, drier riparian woodlands grow on alluvium with large trees frequently exceeding 20 meters, and plant communities of chiefly secondary woodland grow on fertile, well-drained, and slightly high pH soils at elevations intermediate to the river valleys and uplands. This floristically diverse community is distinguished by a paucity of dominant species representative of mopane woodland types, as well as the various miombo communities. Characteristic woody plants present are Acacia spp., Albizia spp., Combretum spp., Adansonia digitata, Diospyros mespiliformes, Ficus sycomorus, Kigelia africana, Lonchocarpus capassa, Trichilia emetica, Xanthocercis zambesiaca, and Xeroderris stuhlmannii.
Farther upriver along the Kwando are the Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands. There is considerable floristic spatial variation in Baikiaea vegetation within the ecoregion. Nearly all the woody plant species are deciduous, but there is major variation in this leaf loss from year to year. Baikiaea plurijuga is the dominant tree species typifying the ecoregion, slash-and-burn agricultural practises have destroyed habitat in many areas and boundaris with surrounding woodlands and savannas are often difficult to discern. In well-developed Baikiaea communities, species of Brachystegia and Julbernardia and Colophospermum mopane (species typical of miombo and mopane woodlands) are totally absent. Baikiaea plurijuga is the sole dominant, forming a dense, dry, semi-deciduous forest with trees up to 20 meters in height.
Endangered African painted hunting dogs in the Linyanti Marshes. @ C.Michael Hogan In thse Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands, there is a dense and shrubby lower story of Combretum engleri, Pteleopsis anisoptera, Pterocarpus antunesii, Guibourtea coleosperma, Dialium engleranum, Strychnos spp., Parinari curatellifolia, Ochna pulchra, Baphia massaiensis subsp. obovata, Diplorhynchus condylocarpon, Terminalia brachystemma, Burkea africana, Copaifera baumiana and Bauhinia petersiana serpae. Lianas and climbers are also common in the understory, including Combretum elaeagnoides, C. celastroides, Dalbergia martinii, Acacia ataxacantha, Friesodielsia obovata, and Strophanthus kombe. Smaller shrubs are scattered beneath the thicket. The herb layer is only conspicuous during the rainy season. Grasses vary from sparse to dense and include Leptochloa uniflora, Oplismenus hirtellus, Panicum heterostachyum, and Setaria homonyma. Other conspicuous herbs are Aneilema johnstonii and Kaempferia rosa. Epiphytes and mosses are virtually absent.
Biomes along the middle and lower Kwando/Chobe. Source: Barbara Paterson
Prehistory and history
Traditional style fishing boats on the middle Kwando at the Botswana/Caprivi border, supporting ecotourists. @ C.Michael Hogant Research on the prehistory of the Kwando Basin lags detail found in some of the other Southern African sub-regions. This outcome derives from three chief reasons: (a) this interior region was not among the early explored parts of Southern Africa when explorers first visited the general area in the nineteenth century; (b) meandering and successive flooding on the Linyanti portion may have inundated and over-silted considerable remains of early human settlement; and (c) Angolan conflicts in the latter 20th century driven by large numbers of armed Soviet funded Cuban mercenaries have deterred modern exploration.
Nevertheless, the basin as a whole is northward of remarkable evidence of Early Stone Age settlements in the Makgadikgadi Pans, where not only Homo sapiens, but Homo habilis has left thousands of artefacts of primitive tools scattered aournd the desiccated beds of the ancient lake there.
Iron age fishing cultures have persisted into relatvely recent times in the Kwando Basin, with vestiges of these tribal cultures thriving today. Thus only a thin timeline separates traditional tribal fishing cultures in the basin, from the current times where there is a mixture of subsistence fishing alongside tribal support of ecotourism.
- G.Cronberg, A.Gieske, E.Martins, J.Prince Nengu and I-M.Stenstrom. Hydrobiological Studies of the Okavango Delta and Kwando/Linyanti/Chobe River, Botswana. I. Surface Water Quality Analysis. Botswana Notes and Records, Vol.27
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008. Makgadikgadi, The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham
- Fishbase. 2011. Species in the Chobe River.
- Chris McIntyre. 2010. Botswana: Okavango Delta, Chobe, Northern Kalahari. 512 pages. google.ebook
- World Wildlife Fund. 2002. Zambezian and mopane woodlands ecoregion


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What I wanted more than anything was to be ordinary. The Sabbath was when I could be.
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"Have you seen my childhood?
I'm searching for that wonder in my youth
Like pirates in adventurous dreams,
Of conquest and kings on the throne…"
Written and Composed by Michael Jackson
In one of our conversations together, my friend Rabbi Shmuley told me that he had asked some of his colleagues–-writers, thinkers, and artists-–to pen their reflections on the Sabbath. He then suggested that I write down my own thoughts on the subject, a project I found intriguing and timely due to the recent death of Rose Fine, a Jewish woman who was my beloved childhood tutor and who traveled with me and my brothers when we were all in the Jackson Five.
Last Friday night I joined Rabbi Shmuley, his family, and their guests for the Sabbath dinner at their home. What I found especially moving was when Shmuley and his wife placed their hands on the heads of their young children, and blessed them to grow to be like Abraham and Sarah, which I understand is an ancient Jewish tradition. This led me to reminisce about my own childhood, and what the Sabbath meant to me growing up.
When people see the television appearances I made when I was a little boy--8 or 9 years old and just starting off my lifelong music career--they see a little boy with a big smile. They assume that this little boy is smiling because he is joyous, that he is singing his heart out because he is happy, and that he is dancing with an energy that never quits because he is carefree.
But while singing and dancing were, and undoubtedly remain, some of my greatest joys, at that time what I wanted more than anything else were the two things that make childhood the most wondrous years of life, namely, playtime and a feeling of freedom. The public at large has yet to really understand the pressures of childhood celebrity, which, while exciting, always exacts a very heavy price.
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Anulo-Ra'a, Drow Variant
The Ra'a Clan of Drow also known as the Anulo, the sky drow, pulled away from their evil cousins, and now inhabit the skies of nor Galad.
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|2 Dexterity, +2 Charisma
|6, see Wing Burst squares
|Common, Elven, choice of one other.
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|+2 Bluff, +2 Stealth
|Fey Origin:
|Your ancestors were native to the Feywild, so you are considered a fey creature for the purposes of effects that relate to creature origin.
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|Wing Burst
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|Action Type::No action
|Effect: Use your the higher of your charisma or dexterity modifier instead of strength modifier.You add 10 to the final roll of your athletics check. In addition, if making a horizontal jump, instead of jumping, you fly a number of squares equal to how many squares you would have jumped. You must land at the end of your turn or risk falling, or sustain Wing Burst with a new athletics roll.
|Sustain [[Sustain Action Type::{{{sustainaction}}} Action|{{{sustainaction}}}]]: Move action.
|Special: In non threatening combat situations, you can take 10 on your athletics check, and use Wing Burst as overland flight equal to the number of squares you normally would have jumped with that roll.
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The IPP executive Chairman, Dr. Reginald Mengi's elder brother, Elitira Abraham Mengi was on Friday laid to rest at his home village - Nkuu Kisereni, Machame in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region.
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Recorded: Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" was interviewed on World News Radio to comment on the average person's penalty for not having health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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John C. Goodman: What's the Alternative to Obamacare?
Recorded: Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Independent Institute Senior Fellow John C. Goodman, author of "Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis" describes how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, with its 27,000 pages of rules and regulations, has omitted some basic market-based concepts that would benefit all consumers. Goodman outlines the changes that would make such a healthcare system function, utilizing his extensive knowledge of the subject. Goodman is known as the "Father of Health Savings Accounts" whose suggestions for healthcare reform have been heard around the country. In this video, he highlights what is wrong with Obamacare, and offers his bold ideas on sensible healthcare reform.
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Recorded: Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Sr. Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee regarding risk corridorsthe Obamacare program that provides a bailout for insurance companies when premiums dont cover costs. Goodman says insurers will run away from the sick and insure the healthy, in what he calls "A race to the bottom."
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John C. Goodman on Special Report with Bret Baier: Alternatives to the Affordable Care Act
Recorded: Friday, July 6, 2012
Research Fellow John C. Goodman, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, discusses alternatives to the Affordable Care Act on FOX News Special Report with Bret Baier.
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Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Recorded: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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Civil strife in Iraq continues and instability may only increase after the January elections. U.S. withdrawal has become an acceptable strategy in Washington, but will it be tenable if violence escalates and Iraq unravels again?
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