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Meet the Climate Fockers: Why family fights over climate are a good sign
By Auden Schendler, author of "Getting Green Done."
A business colleague and friend recently had a nice conversation with his brother, a doctor visiting from the South. His brother doesn't think climate change is a problem. It went something like this:
Brother: "I've been reading some interesting articles about climate change that don't"¦."
Colleague: "Shut the $%& up, you're a %$&ing DUMBASS!!!"
Unfortunately his mom then piled on the denial train. And my colleague, who has been retrofitting boilers and lights as part of his work in finance, and reading dense climate science I hand him (Hansen on paleoclimatology, Stephen Schneider on the credibility of the scientists denying climate change) went ballistic. So much so that his wife left the house to make phone calls from the car.
The argument ruined my friend's family visit, and likely put strains on his already tenuous familial relationships.
My first response was: "That's a shame!" And then I thought: Most things that fracture families are meaningless and stupid in the broad scope of things. "We don't like your wife." "You aren't nice to your sister." "You won't take care of yourself." But climate change is an issue worthy of a massive family fight. It's worthy of complete estrangement, actually.
I got to thinking about other important issues that fracture families. Interracial marriage. Feminism. Gay marriage and sexual oritentation. Religious independence. Affluence vs. poverty. And I remembered a maxim from an activist on gay rights, which was that "by the time an issue becomes deeply part of the public discourse "" like gay marriage is now or civil rights was 50 years ago""the battle is already substantially over."
And in that observation, and that family fight, I found a grain of hope.
— Auden Schendler
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39 Responses to Meet the Climate Fockers: Why family fights over climate are a good sign
I share your colleagues experience, had many fights with my dad and brother on climate science. It never went this far or I might have blogged about it ;).
Reminds me of a discussion I had with my step-dad about the Viet Nam War in 1968, with the Chicago Convention police riot on the TV. It didn't go well.
Intense propaganda can turn any issue into a religious holy war. "Death to the infidels!"
Wonder how many divorces are now happening due to climate change?
Auden, I'm guessing this sort of family fight doesn't just happen suddenly. You might want to ask the friend if the brother had a history of regurgitating climate 'skeptic' garbage at every opportunity, whether called for or not.
— frank
It's sad, but why in 2011 do many Americans see it as socially acceptable to deny climate change?
I have seen a couple of my own relationships damaged by fights over climate change- none within my family, fortunately. What's odd is that deniers get so stubborn and angry, especially since usually they haven't even bothered to study the actual data. Maybe this means that some part of them knows that they are very wrong, and so they are fighting themselves from within.
It's an interesting observation…
Mike, I've been reading some work on getting the message across, and one of the things that has been pointed out is that the human reflex to avoid discomfort is very, very strong.
When we are made afraid, we avoid the source of the fear. When we are made angry, we attack the cause of their anger. When we are made to feel guilt, we do what we can to mitigate that, either by changing our behavior, OR by avoiding the source of the guilt. And, of course all of these emotions feed into each other.
The problem is that if you acknowledge that this issue is real, then there is nowhere to run, and no way to avoid it, and so the easiest way to avoid that pain, the easiest way to mitigate it, is to pretend, on the deepest level, that the problem doesn't exist at all.
A lot of people, and I've felt this myself, can undergo a sort of mental shutdown when they are feeling put upon by someone who has a lot of good-sounding arguments that, for some reason (denial in this case) just don't feel right, and so we get stubborn, and defensive, and we defend our "ground", and think about it later, or not.
To add to that, the problem has gotten to the point where the right wing would have to fundamentally change the worldview they've developed over the past 50 years or so, if they were to accept this problem is real and needs addressing. It will take community action, government action, and international cooperation, and all of that means that we can't pretend that all we need is a gun and a truck and we can sustain ourselves and ignore the rest of the world (aside from taking oil from them). It means that we'll have to regulate industry, and kick the government back into high gear on infrastructure.
It's a huge, terrifying, and inescapable issue, and that transcends logic for a lot of people.
Honestly, the best approach I've encountered so far is from a pastor, who has started to focus her efforts on convincing people that, as individuals, they MATTER. That their actions change the world. That they are powerful, and important, and capable of changing the world, and in acceptance of their power, they also can accept that their actions have consequences, for good and for ill, and that they have a personal responsibility for what they do.
It's a way to tackle the issue through making people feel important, which is always helpful, and through making them feel like the problem is NOT insurmountable.
It's a hard thing to believe, especially in the current political climate, and in a culture where cynicism is prized, but I think it's important.
Based on the dialogue, your colleague went ballistic before not after his mother got into the act. Are your colleague and his brother's lines inadvertently mislabeled as to which of them said what?
A family is a trusted group bound together for survival.
It is quaint to think that a DNA based family unit will somehow survive the future.
Anyone can look at scenarios, models and basic science – and clearly see a high probability future with food stress, water issues, climate refugees and civil chaos – and that's just within the next 2 generations in the highly privileged US.
In a radically shrinking population, strict DNA based families are going to be very hard to maintain. And maybe not a smart survival strategy.
As a sustainability consultant with an MBA who grew up in conservative Republican Michigan and visits family there often (from the W. coast), I could not agree more on this blog entry. In fact, I have come to believe that if we think we can passively all agree on how to solve the climate crisis (without some real dialogue and at times, struggle and conflict) we are being apathetic. We have to be understanding of where others come from, but still passionate and still unwaivering when it comes to the facts.
After 4 years of consulting and feeling ostracized by my family on numerous occasions, I have finally reflected on the spiritual awakening component that is mentioned in the above post. It struck me while consulting on the sustainability team of a large technology company, when we were in a meeting talking about sustainability solutions and someone said, "We HAVE to get this (energy analysis) product out, soon. Otherwise we are relying upon morals to get us to the other side of the climate crisis and we know that people will fail us".
As a person of faith I went home thinking, why save the planet if all we have left on it are a bunch of crooks?
On the contrary, I believe that people of all faiths are waking up to the fact that it is our moral obligation to do something about the environmental damage we are causing and that, as the last commenter remarked – that what we do MATTERS. I think this is one of the most critical components to real transformation and in fact I have faith that it is what will bring even my most skeptical family members around to accepting the truth about the climate challenges we face.
my family split is pretty serious: southeast cheneyite (and big GOP donor), western naderish, yankee blue, southern christian military, midwest localist, globehopping socdem (not shown in US political picture).
everybody was pretty pleased about the midwest localist installing PV solar, and getting to watch the electricity meter run backwards when visiting. i love that.
of course when asked about the project in the first place i hedged, saying that regional subsidies for home PV had a 'free lunch' problem at scale and asking them to clarify what they got (besides free money) in place of checking the 'green juice only' box on their grid electricity bill. they talked about resilience and such. i don't know what else i thought they'd say.…
the insider cheneyites of course living in the southeast have a major nuclear fixation, impervious to issues of scale. basically because of extra 'awesome,' one nuclear facility = 100 windfarms. (fortunately they don't make those kinds of mistakes when cooking.)
sadly the nuclear fixation is a local business development plan (in the sense of snaring federal funds) and does not appear a gateway to carbon hawk. in the same minute they've told me not to ruffle american lifestyle feathers with rabid greening, but to definitely fear for the life of the dollar from the threat of chinese civilian nuclear. their plan, like midwest cousins', is to figure the kwh price strictly by the bottom line on their personal invoice.
hey if it all comes out in the budgetary wash why look the gift horse in the mouth, if the train is headed in the right general direction.
so we don't exactly fight. they're both kinda cynical about public money, and until you challenge them, both try to paint being a subsidized grid supplier as the same as being off the grid. but then, why challenge that? ultimately this is a national security issue and there's gonna be huge federal financial involvement in implementing any kind of "repowering america."
i guess to me at issue here is how much money you blow on little stuff on the way to building hundreds thousands of high-value 5MW turbines and such, a la that delucchi & jacobson proposal.
why do i think one single nuclear reactor counts as "little stuff"? cuz even the biggest are less than 0.1% of our energy use, way smaller a share than the hype leads people to imagine.
"It's worthy of complete estrangement"
I have been thinking a lot about just that. How much estrangement are we willing to tolerate? How much anger and fear will the real solution to global climate disruption create? What are we talking about when we discuss phasing out all fossil fuel use? Calls to stop the spread of coal power plants into new areas sound ominously familiar. Calls to end a large and economically important industry also sound ominously familiar.
I want to be wrong. I want to be completely off base but I keep watching our senators to see if anyone is swinging a cane in a threatening manner.
I've got a similar feud going on with my brother, though the discussion/falling out took place pretty much entirely online. We were kind of going back and forth on this and that issue related to AGW (him being a firm believer in the vast conspiracy, though actually open to reason if presented with the right evidence, I think–side note: he was really hung up on the "disappearing weather stations" issue and thought this was the smoking gun but I was actually able to convince him that there was absolutely nothing to this). We were fighting pretty hard but I thought it was all in good fun basically. But it turns out I hurt his feelings and was a "know it all" or something, which is apparently bad when you're having a long detailed disagreement on a highly technical subject.
So at this point we are very much on the outs, which is unfortunate. I don't care, on a personal level, if he wants to hold on to his delusions. It's too bad we weren't able to discuss this subject without something like that happening.
I can verbally tussle with my right wing banker father all day on any subject you can name and be smiling and joking about it the whole time, so I know it's possible to avoid personal insults and hurt feelings. Who knows. Maybe the online nature of our conversation was the real problem.
This is a very good talk on the topic (a few chuckles guaranteed)…
Marshall is a good presenter — he illustrates his points well (spinach tarts and ice cream feature prominently) — and provides a very good and concise overview of why many people prefer to ignore the climate problem. Whatever your views on the seriousness of the climate problem or how we should act to deal with it, you'll find something in his talk to challenge your preconceptions.
I agree with Auden Schendler that "climate change is an issue worthy of a massive family fight".
And my experience also mirrors his notion that talking climate change is similar to talking with family in the past about other contentious social issues like gay rights, racism and feminism.
I disagree about "estrangement" being a path forward. The people we are most likely to move on climate are the ones we know best. Research has shown this. The relationship is important to keep open by itself, of course, and that is doubly true if you want to help people move towards a safe, sustainable, hopeful future.
My experience is be clear what your concerns are; model a sustainable lifestyle; keep the relationship open; don't push them very hard to change. They will need to come to the point of change themselves or it won't stick.
Similar to being a parent to a teenager.
+1 for Alteredstory @8
It's funny when I read this I look into my own family and my relationship with my brother.
The very first part of the post about the blowoff reminds me very much of the american president where the staffer starts ranting at the supporter who just slinked away and junked the bill they were trying to push through.
My brother is much more subtle about it and uses the "big brother clever, little brother dumb", putdown to try and make me feel like some idiot who can't add 2+2. Most times I just ignore him or just don't speak to him. It's easier that way so I don't have to hear some idiocy about "hockey sticks" or whatever….. Sadly he hasn't tried hockey sticks on me since Mann was so strongly justfied or he'd be wearing one up his Ass (figuratively that is)…..
What is really odd is the fact that I'm the Ex military, capitalist, right wing, tax me not scum; and he's the radical left wing tax everyone and the companies to the hilt and "give it to the needy", it's all a conspiracy of…. (I've never found out yet).
What a mess. If this is how we all communicate then it's never going to get better.
The only way I can see any business doing the right thing is the point where it pays more to clean the environment up than it does to make a mess of it and we're still a few decades away from that. Decades the future generations can't afford us to procrastinate.
while I agree wholeheartedly that "climate change is an issue worthy of a massive family fight" I found your colleague's response to his brother depressing and inappropriate.
Turn it around. What if your colleague had been the one talking about the research and the brother had called him a dumbass. What would your response be then?
I understand the frustration with those who insist on clinging to beliefs in direct contradiction to the evidence. But name calling and fighting will never change anyone's mind, and treating someone like an idiot (even if they ARE an idiot) will only confirm their belief that you are the one who's an idiot.
Telling someone they're wrong is perhaps the quickest way to get them to dig in and insist that they're right. Brendan Nyhan has done some interesting research on this.
The facts are never going to convince the brother that he's wrong on climate. Neither is calling him names.
So what to do? That's the big question and I don't think anyone has a perfect answer. But rejoicing in a family fight isn't the way.
I'd rather see those who care about climate change take a cue from the civil rights movement. Do something equivalent to a lunch counter sit in or a bus strike. Make a pledge. Do something personal that requires sacrifice. Do something that shows how serious you are about this problem.
For me, that pledge was to give up travel for a year. I didn't solve the climate problem, but I did something with moral weight. I made a public statement that taking back my contribution to climate change was more important than my desire to vacation abroad or travel for work or even visit my family. http://bit.ly/myjetblues
The unexpected benefit I discovered was that my happiness soared and my quality of life went through the roof. It's those kinds of benefits that might convince the brother. They certainly convinced me. Two years later, I still haven't been on a plane and I've traveled only regionally, in my little Honda.
I guess sometimes it's just best to get it out in the open, and sites like this and Skeptical Science are good pre-arming tools. Although by brother is not quite a fully dedicated 'equilibriumist', I'm happy to report that after our discussions, he's no longer a member of the climate focker family.
I would tend to think that to some degree, we wouldn't want to forcibly ostracize ourselves from our family. Probably in a similar way to other contentious issues, people are more likely to support something if they are close to someone it affects directly. Be it racial civil rights, sexual orientation civil rights, entitlement programs, and maybe even climate change.
I've experienced many instances when people might rant on and on about how the government should ban this activity or that activity, or how the government should cut spending on all of these programs. Then later those same people will complain to no end when the program helping their sick child is cut, or when a certain liberty they enjoyed was restricted. Those experiences push me toward thinking that we have to find a way to make people see the other shoes of this debate, which is easiest when they are close through friendship & family.
ClimateFlightAction FB page….
Addressing Global Warming, I vow to eliminate all my non-essential flying.
In Alabama, where I live, acknowledging the mere existence of anthropogenic climate change is generally regarded as the mark of a communist dupe. When the subject comes up in business situations, I point out that the U. S. National Academy of Sciences regards it as a serious problem. I get snorts of derision in reply. "Scientists? They're all on the take!"
Deniers cannot be argued out of the complete rejection of science, as we have all discovered. If I had one in my family, I doubt I'd bust up a Thanksgiving dinner trying. "You're full of shit, Joe. Now, pass the gravy."
… Whoops. Not you, Joe R.!
While I agree with you that calling someone a dumbass isn't going to get us anywhere, my point (and the responses to the blog confirms this) is that this kind of fight is going on all over the US. And the fact of the fight is a good sign, because it suggests victory. These fights weren't happening 20 years ago. My friend DID have the reasoned conversation, before. But he hit threshold. In the end, humans are not all Ghandis or MLKs, and it's damn hard for the average person not to explode on issues of deep personal and societal relevanace, whether it's race, or religion, or abortion. I'm not condoning my friend's action, but I'm celebrating what the situation represents.
None of my family members (except one) believed in GW a year ago. Now they all do! I bombarded them with so much info. they are now all believers! I almost held them down when I visited them, showing them stuff I copied off this website. Bit it worked. And it was worth it! So funny to hear my 91-year-old mom trying to explain Gw to her very conservative right wing frinds! Ha! Ha!
In my experience with my Republican, Glenn Beckian parroting family I've found that the only meaningful response to their ignorance is to portray as vividly as possible that they are ignorant.
I don't emphasize facts, just mention them on the side, for the simple reason that they don't care about facts.
I deliberately baited my cousin once by telling his son that he should read both sides of the GW issue. Right away he and his father parroted my line to their son/grandson in the manner typical of all hypocrites who never follow their own advise.
I smiled, knowing that they had stepped into my trap.
As soon as my cousin challenged me, making eye contact, with 3 denier cliches my first response was to ask him "what does the other side say about that?" He would then avert eye contact and mumble "I don't know, I didn't do further research" to all 3 issues. A subtle reminder that he didn't practice what he preached.
He then wagged his finger at me angrily challenged me to reveal my sources. As soon as I told this University educated fool what NASA, NSIDC and NOAA where I returned his challenge and asked him to reveal his sources.
He didn't, even though I knew that he knew. I didn't let it go at that. I asked him, in front of his son, to name at least one source on either side related to any Global Warming issue whether on the Internet or otherwise. He remained silent.
Next time, I won't be so polite. I will put the burden of proof on him, constantly reminding him that he does no research whatsoever; doesn't know the meaning of a primary source; is merely an ideological sounding board.
Before anyone says that such a response accomplishes nothing let me emphasize an ugly truth that few on this side of the issue want to admit to themselves or to others. There is no meaningful communication possible amongst people in a mass society like this one.
No matter how much you tweak the logical or the psychological it's nothing more than a ritualistic verbal display ritual with words and rhetoric substituting for Peacock feathers and dancing.
For a spectrum of reasons that range from the genetic to the sociological, most people are simply a bunch of mindf***able vagina brains and the corporate
cockKoch will forever be impregnating them with whatever those vampires ejaculate into their psyches.
To be blunt the only hope that I see for humanity is near total extinction with a visionary group, prepared from the beginning, to come rising from the ashes. Their short term goal would be obvious, survival and eventually rational growth.
I'm mot talking about leadership of what I consider a humanity genetically dwarfed by Dominance/Submission tendencies and congenital psychopathology/narcissism. Initially perhaps, but a priority of a reborn civilization that wishes to maximize human comfort and happiness will have to start with the knowledge and action based on such knowledge that many humans simply don't have the true desire for that.
Therefore, I'm a firm believer in Eugenics. Specifically the creation of a Masterless/Slaveless race which has had the previously mentioned traits purged from their Genetic Soul.
Make no mistake, it's either that or we will spontaneously evolve; fully as compared with our present day; into a race of psychopaths and sychophants.
Our short and mid term goals seem complex and unreachable. But our long term goal should be simple and held in, yes, faith. The transformation of our basic nature.
Otherwise; on the assumption that a morally superior, but still vulnerable, sentient species may exist within easy reach in our galaxy; I would simply wish for our extinction.
Well done windsong @26. I have not had such luck. I am surrounded by hard core deniers at my workplace, in my street, amongst my friends and even, horror, in my family. These people are no dummies – they are mostly well educated and in many instances scientifically literate. Several relationships have been strained despite my sincere attempts to keep discussions civil. With some of these people the topic is now out of bounds, either because they cannot keep their cool and have voluntarily withdrawn from discussions or I have voluntarily withdrawn to save my head being bitten off at the slightest mention of the subject. In fact, in some cases I don't have to even mention the subject to be attacked– the mere sight of me seems to be enough for some people!
I have given up trying to convince these people with more facts. I used to get awfully distressed about these deniers and tried very hard to convince them of the seriousness of our plight. But I have come to the conclusion, painfully and slowly, that more facts makes the denial worse. I have found that no matter what solid information I provide them, no matter how polite and well reasoned the accompanying email they DO NOT READ IT. Or, on the rare occasions that they may just GLANCE at it, it does not penetrate their denial because they can always find a short, easy denier line to raise doubt about any point, thereby relieving them of the necessity of facing the awful truth. It is so easy to raise doubt in a sound bite (the professional deniers are masters of this) but it is very difficult to counter doubt effectively in a sound bite.
I think that it is counter productive to fall out with close friends and acquaintances about this. Stay in the relationship and by your actions and steadfast position you can stay a thorn in their side. If you fall out and end the relationship it feeds their beliefs that those "climate people are crazy" and they can once again breathe that "sigh of relief" they are forever in quest of. I live a simple life materially but it is rich in other ways. I defined what is "enough" long ago and resist the pursuit of more. I have not flown since 2003. I would now fly only for emergencies or real necessity. I holiday locally. This is all very irritating to witness for those ever in pursuit of more. But it is my message.
Remember Ghandi.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".
Trouble is we do need to win soon.
The problem with many deniers is that the facts & figures don't matter, as for them it's NOT about science. It's about theology and the "sacredness" of free market capitalism. They simply can't bring themselves to admit that climate change is history's worst market failure ever, because that would mean turning their theology upside down.
"They simply can't bring themselves to admit that climate change is history's worst market failure ever"
you could try telling them that among the many staggering earthly marvels delivered by the promise of industrial capitalism, global ecological disruption was in the fine print
I never argue with denialists. Once you realise that you are conversing with one, and that reason and appeals to basic morality are useless, any further argument can only lead to rancour. I don't like arguing with ignorant idiots. I think that it is beneath me. I certainly enjoy discussions with true sceptics, but I haven't encountered any intelligent, honest, sceptics around anthropogenic climate change for years. Some disagreement or exchange of opinions about the details, sure, but the essence was settled years ago. In fact I've found that there is a direct corollation between an individual's intelligence and knowledgability (in my opinion, of course) and how long they have accepted the science.
Tim #28,
"The problem with many deniers is that the facts & figures don't matter, as for them it's NOT about science. It's about theology and the "sacredness" of free market capitalism. They simply can't bring themselves to admit that climate change is history's worst market failure ever, because that would mean turning their theology upside down."
Unfortunately, this is quite accurate in some cases. I well recall being engaged in heated debate on Realclimate on one occasion and our antagonist made further efforts worthless with the following:
"Please stop resorting to the "evidence". It's now completely irrelevant."
That went into my collection straight away!!
Cheers – John
The fundamental liberal agenda is to organize and set in motion a government that gains its power from the consent of the governed. The fundamental conservative agenda is to concentrate power in the hands of a few. Liberal and conservative are opposite and cannot be separated, one gains its reason to exist from the other and will always change into its opposite.
I also have the same conflict with my brother. He is the most conservative liberal that I have ever met. A staunch Reagan/Limbaugh/Beck/O'Reilly/Bush republican he has educated himself about conservative issues and works tirelessly to support his agenda. A small businessman who creates jobs and wealth, he is furious that government would take his hard earned money and give it to someone else…..yet this man and his wife have spent huge sums of their money and their time on the welfare of family, friends and employees. It is painful to me that they find common cause with the bloviators and have fallen for the tortured, devisive rhetoric. Conversation and friendly debate have become impossible.
I avoid overwhelming people. I find it best to create an opening and allow others to step into a conversation. Recently, i found myself in a small mechanical room with an electrician and a pipefitter. We chatted across the room as we worked. The conversation drifted from God to global warming….I wish I could recall how…..the electrician asked me if I thought global warming was real, as I replied the pipefitter shouted, "Global Warming is a hoax!" and left the room.
I asked the electrician if I could tell him a story I knew about the history of climate, telling him that i only needed 2 minutes. I proceeded to deliver a carefully edited 2 min recounting of Ruddiman's "Plow, Plagues and Petroleum". The story is clear and simple. Then I shut up.
If they want to know more they will ask….I do my best to hold my tongue. If I add to the story I will run hard against their prejudice. If I am stingy they are left with the simple facts as told by Ruddiman. And maybe a crack in the divisive rhetoric.
For a recounting of the conservative agenda read:
I want to thank Christie (#20) for making a very important point that is rarely made: "I made a public statement that taking back my contribution to climate change was more important than my desire to vacation abroad or travel for work or even visit my family. The unexpected benefit I discovered was that my happiness soared and my quality of life went through the roof. "
Yes. That is what I have found as well.
Both the left and the right seem to talk about cutting down on fossil fuelled privileges as a step down into "hair shirt" land.
But my experience matches Christie's — it gives a tremendous feeling of relief and joy to live within my values. The things I've given up, like high-climate damage jet travel have been more than offset by my sense that I'm not destroying the climate for "fun". Living a lie is always the hardest burden in the long run.
I recently took a two day Greyhound bus trip to my Uncle's funeral in Phoenix. Sure there were a few points that were not ideal, but even at the worst moments you couldn't have paid me to trade it for a climate-thrashing flight.
I think many ex-smokers understand the same relief when they kick the fuming beast out of their lives.
I used to try to convince folks to cut back on the hyper-climate-damage from their flying. I found that a person's sense of privilege more than political philosophy colored their responses.
Now I just feel sorry for all those people who are going to wake up one day to the realization they didn't act when they knew they should have, and now they have to carry that burden with them.
Don't mean to be a whiner but why has my comment been in moderation for 24 hours?
someone posted this saying at my blog:
"when a fight goes out in the street, it's almost over"
LT, #26, almost everyone I meet in my hometown feels the same way as most of your family, co-workers, etc. The other day, I was this elderly lady who was talking about all the catastrophic weather we've been having. She said, "it will only get worse!" I thought, "aha!" but then she said that it's all in Revelations (the Bible). She said we are at Endtimes. So, it seems that even though many may accept the fact that the climate is indeed changing, they are still not making the connection to fossil fuels! It's a huge challenge! However, I've been trying to set up appointments for this scientist I know to give talks on climate change at various places around town. (He's good! I've heard him speak before!) Yep, I convinced family. However, convincing my neighbors may be a different story! :(
LT, I give up in certain situations too. But for my family– I refused to give up and won. My son was the hardest to convince. He graduated from MIT with a dual degree and constantly quoted junk from the Heritage Foundation. Anyhow, the thing which finally struck a cord with him was when I directed him to the website on "Methane Catastrophies in Earth's Past and Near Future". That's also what got my older brother's attention!
Thanks DP for the pointer to the fresh analysis by Delucchi and Jacobson. I saw their 2009 article in SciAm, and took some hope from that, but I'm glad to see they are going into even more depth. Their message: we DO have a way to get to 100% renewables – it is physically possible and even economically feasible; all we need is the political will. Yes, big oil may fight tooth and nail to stop this, but the point we need to get across to people in angry denial is that solutions exist, so they don't need to feel cornered.
For those interested, it is a two parter, in the journal Energy Policy (subscription required for full text? I'm seeing full text, but I'm on a campus network and we subscribe; try the links and see, maybe these are open access? If paywalled, check if your library gets it?)
Everyone can read at least the abstracts (maybe even full text?) at these link:
M. Z. Jacobson and M. A. Delucchi, "Evaluating the Feasibility of Meeting All Global Energy Needs with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part I: Technologies, Energy Resources, Quantities and Areas of Infrastructure, and Materials," Energy Policy, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040 (2010).
M. A. Delucchi and M. Z. Jacobson, "Evaluating the Feasibility of Meeting All Global Energy Needs with Wind, Water, and Solar Power, Part II: Reliability, System and Transmission Costs, and Policies," Energy Policy, doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.045 (2010).


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- 09-22-13 02:04 AM #62Banned
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Oooo shiny! Can you do a couple more pictures?
- 09-22-13 10:37 AM #63Cadillac Owners Connoisseur
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Re: pig in slop
What is the advantage of this upgraded fuel pump assembly ?
Re: pig in slop
On the left is the new fuel regulator complete with a return that will be located at the engine just after the fuel rails. On the right is the OEM fuel regulator which was attached at the return port on the bucket.
Of course that means that you need to upgrade your your rails.
Here are the dual DeatschWerks pumps installed after carving out A LOT in the bucket to make room.
The filters sit in there very comfortably. The additional pump with the short filter is located right at the return and has a 45 degree slope - plenty of clearance for fuel return.
The pumps are kept together using 0.032" lock wire.
This is where the regulator was on the return port. I tapped it using a 1/4-18 NPT.
Here is the new return fitting installed.
Drilled out and installed new supply (-8AN) and return (-6AN) bulkhead fittings.
Underside showing the bulkhead fittings. Notice the spacing to place the gasket and nut - leave enough room so they don't interfere with tightening.
- 09-24-13 12:30 AM #66Banned
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I used the connectors that came with the DW300 kit. I spliced into them with the Racetronix bulkhead connector. I soldered them and wrapped with Raychem heatshrink 3:1. I was satisfied with the datasheet on the pump and wiring that came with the kit - including overvoltage and amp load. The bulkhead connector is pretty beefy and I could have depinned the DW300 connector and ran it straight down but my design is for ~14.5 volts. I didn't find it necessary to interrogate the connector at the pump - besides, those connectors are only rated so far no matter how big a wire you can shove in there.
There are 2 things I like about the Racetronix bulkhead connector 1) It can handle a lot of amps, up to 20 amps and sustain ~14.5 amps continuously. That far exceeds the wimpy OEM connector. 2) It has a vapor seal - this thing might as well fallen from the sky because Racetronix is the only one with a decent price and applicability for fuel module modifications.
I highly doubt there would be a connector failure using the combo. If you were to use a BAP...that changes things, use the beefiest stuff you can get.
I want to point out...do a continuity check on your wires if/when you come to that point. Racetronix switched wire colors from what plugs into the top and bottom - Effed me up a little when I was jotting down notes e.g. gray became purple, red became black etc.
There are a lot of little things I didn't include which were trial/error - let me know if you want those details while it's fresh in my mind, it's evaporating daily as I get closer to slapping this thing together.
Fuzzy, I think you're the only one interested in this based on the responses
Get (qty) 1 kit #11...not 2. I used the filter in that #11 kit but used the short filter in the DW300 kit for the other pump. Noway you can fit both in there.
delete flexhose 10 - not needed
Get (qty) 1 flexhose 14...not 2
Definitely need (qty) 2 flexhose 8
delete thin foam sleeve - not needed
*personally I don't think you need the wiring connectors
I can't comment on the rest because I didn't use that and don't know what it is.
- 09-24-13 07:31 AM #68Banned
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I think you'd be surprised how many people are watching this thread. What people may or may not know is that I tracked down and talked at length with most of the respectable 800+ RWHP CTS-V owners about their "lessons learned." None of these guys actively participate in the forums, although you'll see a burst of activity from the likes SkyDiver and S-Cam on LS1Tech once every 12-18 months or so.
Anyway, bottom line is that fueling a supercharged, 800-1000 RWHP CTS-V cost these guys, on average, $1000-1500 for hardware alone, but the crazy part is that the expenses associated with developing that final configuration took 5-7 hardware revisions (trial and error) and blew the cost of the project up to $5-12k. Since you've been going down the right path this far, I haven't seen the need to comment on this or tell their stories (nor do I think they want them told).
At this point, the only hurdles that we may have to face are AFR thinning out at WOT when the supercharger (assuming 18-22 psi boost) spools up, but the problem should be mitigated somewhat by increased volume in the larger diameter lines. If the problem rears it's ugly head, a good surge tank with a huge pump is the only solution. The other potential issue is tuning at low speeds with ID850 injectors (which are worth the cost because they flow more consistently, injector to injector, and they're better documented than conpeting products).
Anyway, I'm still debating the merits of -10AN feed and return, just as a way of holding more volume in the lines, but I'll let you know how that goes.
- 09-24-13 07:47 AM #69Cadillac Owners Connoisseur
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Some math for the silent watchers: (1/16*10=0.625), multiply the AN size by 1/16 to find the inside diameter of the hose.
The trouble you are going to run into is trying to find room on the top of the bucket for space. -10AN take up a lot of room. I'm sure it can be done. You could grind away the stock feed/return and drill it out to fit.
I would recommend -10AN feed and -8AN return if you want larger fuel lines.
Also regarding the injectors...ID1000s are a major improvement over the ID850s. I have a set of ID1000s and absolutely love them, idles like stock with 550rwhp on my s2k. Set the injector dead-times and tuning was super easy. Eliminated my hot stalls, reduced my idle from 1100 rpms to 850rpms perfectly stable.
I've seen many fried connectors using a BAP and also using hotwire relays.
Re: pig in slop
Many would base the size of the fuel lines on the design of their build. Here's some snapshots comparing the different sizes and snapshots of what it might look like on the bucket:
Black -8AN. -6AN compared to the blue -10AN
My fuel module is already crowded but this gives you a glimpse of the size of the blue -10AN - consider the space for the bulkhead nut underneath shown in a previously.
I taped this together but you get the point, no trick photography here. These were the only spare -10 fittings I had.
I'll never make it as a hand model.
Flip it upside down and you can see how crowded it gets.
- 09-25-13 05:12 AM #72Banned
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Wow. Those -10AN fittings are really beefy. It looks like a -10AN/-8AN combo *might* fit, but only just. What really concerns me is the bend radius of the lines as they go over the side of the tank. If they aren't properly supported, they might have enough leverage to crack the top of the plastic bucket. I'll order a couple of test pieces and see of I can mock up something that seems reasonable. I really appreciate the extra work you did here!
Re: pig in slop
Here's a thought...make them both -8AN and put an adapter to open it up to -10AN. That way you can fit all the connections on the bucket top. It would act as a "minor" orifice but should keep the volume all the way to the fuel rails. With that much length to the fuel rails, pressure should stabilize and shouldn't interfere with anything.
I suspect you are going to use SS braided line - hmm if I was in New England, my choice too.
Fuzzy, to save you some trouble, get 5/16" barbed fittings from Home Depot/Lowes for those flex fuel lines. You won't be able to get anything in there larger than that. 1/4" fits too loose and 3/8" was far far beyond what those flex lines can stretch. If you use a heatgun...use extreme caution, that material acts more like a thermoset than a thermoplastic.
- 09-25-13 11:25 PM #74Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: pig in slop
Thanks for this thread! The fuel system always worried me about these cars. I thought about going with a fuel cell but after reading this, I'm definetly going this route!
Re: pig in slop
It's only fair I should show that this actually fits in the fuel tank...and HOW I INSTALLED IT
Assemble the bucket with the black locking ring. Connect the the fuel line to the bucket from the driver's side. The component with a large red circle should look just like this in the pic, if it doesn't then reverse it - just take out the clips out from the bottom and rotate it. Disconnect the return line and tie a piece of strong string to it - it's the little red circle.
Slide it in gently. If you force it too much you will detach the top part of the bucket from the hinges - you will have to start over.
Fish the return line up through carefully and you can see you have enough room to tighten it.
This may seem trivial but....I spent 2.5 hours figuring this thing out. When I first tried to shove it in there, I panicked!
This is my favorite pic
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This less-than-thrilling final work (after Minding Frankie) in the late Irish novelist's prolific oeuvre tells the life stories of a cast of characters that show up for a week's stay at a bed and breakfast called Stone House. The house is located in the idyllic village of Stoneybridge on western Ireland's "wet and wild and lonely" Atlantic coast. Binchy begins with the hotel's founder and proprietor, Chicky Starr, whose life hasn't turned out the way she'd hoped. Several disparate narratives overlap and intermingle in various ways, as the reader views the characters——who each receive their own chapter——from the others' perspectives. Binchy encapsulates the lives of her characters with such authority and so completely that there is little room for mystery or urgency. The reader gets the sense that all of the intrigue has been removed from the characters' unique yet matter-of-fact lives. The novel, however, is welcome territory for those looking for a feel-good read, and as Binchy writes, no matter how awry their lives seem to go, "It was all going to be fine." (Feb.)
A Week in Winterby Maeve Binchy
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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy
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Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House's big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions.
Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve's trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling.
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This less-than-thrilling final work (after Minding Frankie) in the late Irish novelist's prolific oeuvre tells the life stories of a cast of characters that show up for a week's stay at a bed and breakfast called Stone House. The house is located in the idyllic village of Stoneybridge on western Ireland's "wet and wild and lonely" Atlantic coast. Binchy begins with the hotel's founder and proprietor, Chicky Starr, whose life hasn't turned out the way she'd hoped. Several disparate narratives overlap and intermingle in various ways, as the reader views the characters——who each receive their own chapter——from the others' perspectives. Binchy encapsulates the lives of her characters with such authority and so completely that there is little room for mystery or urgency. The reader gets the sense that all of the intrigue has been removed from the characters' unique yet matter-of-fact lives. The novel, however, is welcome territory for those looking for a feel-good read, and as Binchy writes, no matter how awry their lives seem to go, "It was all going to be fine." (Feb.)
Verdict Written in a style similar to that in Whitethorn Woods, this title features Binchy's unsurpassed storytelling as she weaves together the lives and experiences of her characters. Finished shortly before Binchy's death in 2011, this final offering will please many of the author's fans, but some may be disappointed that it isn't on a par with her earlier works. While it may not be Binchy's best, this tale of love, friendship, redemption, growing up, and moving on is a lovely swan song for the beloved author. [200,000-copy first printing.]Vicki Briner, City Coll. Lib., Fort Lauderdale, FL(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
"Lovely. . . Tailor-made for an afternoon jaunt through the backcountry of western Ireland. . . Binchy's last novel radiates the warmth and charm that fans of the late Irish author will recognize and relish. . . . [her] prose is conversational, comfortable and populated with a cast of colorful characters that run the gamut from droll to dry. . . a delightful diversion." —Mary Cadden, USA Today
"A hopeful, loving novel chronicling lives shaped by good deeds, small favors, and honest counsel along the rocky crags of the Irish coast. Fans of Binchy and newcomers to her work alike should consider themselves fortunate to have been left such a clear-eyed and open-hearted final gift." —The Daily Beast
"A Week in Winter goes perfectly with a cup of tea. . . . a gratifying, blustery read full of rich characters, a sea-spray setting and a compelling plot that carries the reader from start to end. . . . Binchy has created a book that envelops its reader in the same calming serenity that Stone House provides its inhabitants." —Shelly Walston, The Wichita Eagle
"A treat as rich as a box of chocolates." —aarp.org
"The late great Binchy's last novel is an appropriately heartwarming and spirit restoring swan song. In classic Binchy-style, the gentle story is populated with a large cast of often eccentric, always endearing characters. . . Stone House, a country inn on the West Coast of Ireland serves as the cozy setting for these interrelated tales of love, loss, friendship, and community. . . . Pour yourself a cup of tea, put your feet up, and prepare to savor this bit of comfort food for the soul." —Booklist
"Classic Binchy. . . her fans will find solace as hearts mend and relationships sort themselves out one last time." —Kirkus
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Everyone had their own job to do on the Ryans' farm in Stoneybridge. The boys helped their father in the fields, mending fences, bringing the cows back to be milked, digging drills of potatoes; Mary fed the calves, Kathleen baked the bread, and Geraldine did the hens.
Not that they ever called her Geraldine—she was "Chicky" as far back as anyone could remember. A serious little girl pouring out meal for the baby chickens or collecting the fresh eggs each day, always saying "chuck, chuck, chuck" soothingly into the feathers as she worked. Chicky had names for all the hens, and no one could tell her when one had been taken to provide a Sunday lunch. They always pretended it was a shop chicken, but Chicky always knew.
Stoneybridge was a paradise for children during the summer, but summer in the West of Ireland was short, and most of the time it was wet and wild and lonely on the Atlantic coast. Still, there were caves to explore, cliffs to climb, birds' nests to discover, and wild sheep with great curly horns to investigate. And then there was Stone House. Chicky loved to play in its huge overgrown garden. Sometimes the Miss Sheedys, three sisters who owned the house and were ancient, let her play at dressing up in their old clothes.
Chicky watched as Kathleen went off to train to be a nurse in a big hospital in Wales, and then Mary got a job in an insurance office. Neither of those jobs appealed to Chicky at all, but she would have to do something. The land wouldn't support the whole Ryan family. Two of the boys had gone to serve their time in business in big towns in the West. Only Brian would work with his father.
Chicky's mother was always tired and her father always worried. They were relieved when Chicky got a job in the knitting factory. Not as a machinist or home knitter but in the office. She was in charge of sending out the finished garments to customers and keeping the books. It wasn't a great job but it did mean that she could stay at home, which was what she wanted. She had plenty of friends around the place, and each summer she fell in love with a different O'Hara boy but nothing ever came of it.
Then one day Walter Starr, a young American, wandered into the knitting factory wanting to buy an Aran sweater. Chicky was instructed to explain to him that the factory was not a retail outlet, they only made up sweaters for stores or mail order.
"Well, you're missing a trick then," Walter Starr said. "People come to this wild place and they need an Aran sweater, and they need it now, not in a few weeks' time."
He was very handsome. He reminded her of how Jack and Bobby Kennedy had looked when they were boys, same flashing smile and good teeth. He was suntanned and very different from the boys around Stoneybridge. She didn't want him to leave the knitting factory and he didn't seem to want to go either.
Chicky remembered a sweater they had in stock, which they had used to be photographed. Perhaps Walter Starr might like to buy that one—it wasn't exactly new but it was nearly new.
He said it would be perfect.
He invited her to go for a walk on the beach, and he told her this was one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Imagine! He had been to California and Italy and yet he thought Stoneybridge was beautiful.
And he thought Chicky was beautiful too. He said she was just so cute with her dark curly hair and her big blue eyes. They spent every possible moment together. He had intended to stay only a day or two, but now he found it hard to go on anywhere else. Unless she would come with him, of course.
Chicky laughed out loud at the idea that she should pack in her job at the knitting factory and tell her mother and father that she was going around Ireland hitchhiking with an American that she had just met! It would have been more acceptable to suggest flying to the moon.
Walter found her horror at the idea touching and almost endearing.
"We only have one life, Chicky. They can't live it for us. We have to live it ourselves. Do you think my parents want me out here in the wilds of nowhere, having a good time? No, they want me in the country club playing tennis with the daughters of nice families, but, hey, this is where I want to be. It's as simple as that."
Walter Starr lived in a world where everything was simple. They loved each other, so what was more natural than to make love? They each knew the other was right, so why complicate their lives by fretting over what other people would say or think or do? A kindly God understood love. Father Johnson, who had taken a vow never to fall in love, didn't. They didn't need any stupid contracts or certificates, did they?
And after six glorious weeks, when Walter had to think of going back to the States, Chicky was ready to go with him. It involved an immense amount of rows and dramas and enormous upset in the Ryan household. But Walter was unaware of any of this.
Chicky's father was more worried than ever now because everyone would say that he had brought up a tramp who was no better than she should be.
Chicky's mother looked more tired and disappointed than ever, and said only God and his sainted mother knew what she had done wrong in bringing Chicky up to be such a scourge to them all.
Kathleen said that it was just as well she had an engagement ring on her finger because no man would have her if he knew the kind of family she came from.
Mary, who worked in the insurance office and was walking out with one of the O'Haras, said that the days of her romance were now numbered, thanks to Chicky. The O'Haras were a very respectable family in the town, and they wouldn't think kindly about this behavior at all.
Her brother Brian kept his head down and said nothing at all. When Chicky asked him what he thought, Brian said he didn't think. He didn't have time to think.
Chicky's friends—Peggy, who also worked in the knitting factory, and Nuala, who was a maid for the three Miss Sheedys—said it was the most exciting, reckless thing they had ever heard of, and wasn't it great that she had a passport already from that school trip to Lourdes.
Walter Starr said they would stay in New York with friends of his. He was going to drop out of law school—it wasn't really right for him. If we had several lives, well then, yes, maybe, but since we only have one life it wasn't worth spending it studying law.
The night before she left, Chicky tried to make her parents understand her feelings She was twenty, she had her whole life to live, she wanted to love her family and for them to love her in spite of their disappointment.
Her father's face was tight and hard. She would never be welcome in this house again, she had brought shame on them all.
Her mother was bitter. She said that Chicky was being very, very foolish. It wouldn't last, it couldn't last. It was not love, it was infatuation. If this Walter really loved her, then he would wait for her and provide her with a home and his name and a future instead of all this nonsense.
You could cut the atmosphere in the Ryan household with a knife.
Chicky's sisters were no support. But she was adamant. They hadn't known real love. She was not going to change her plans. She had her passport. She was going to go to America.
"Wish me well," she had begged them the night before she left, but they had turned their faces away.
"Don't let me go away with the memory of you being so cold." Chicky had tears running down her face.
Her mother sighed a great sigh. "It would be cold if we just said, 'Go ahead, enjoy yourself.' We are trying to do our best for you. To help you make the best of your life. This is not love, it's only some sort of infatuation. There's no use pretending. You can't have our blessing. It's just not there for you."
So Chicky left without it.
At Shannon Airport there were crowds waving good-bye to their children setting out for a new life in the United States. There was nobody to wave Chicky good-bye, but she and Walter didn't care. They had their whole life ahead of them.
No rules, no doing the right thing to please the neighbors and relations.
They would be free—free to work where they wanted and at what they wanted.
No trying to fulfill other people's hopes—to marry a rich farmer, in Chicky's case, or to become a top lawyer, which was what Walter's family had in mind for him.
Walter's friends were welcoming in the big apartment in Brooklyn. Young people, friendly and easygoing. Some worked in bookshops, some in bars. Others were musicians. They came and went easily. Nobody made any fuss. It was so very different from home. A couple came in from the Coast, and a girl from Chicago who wrote poetry. There was a Mexican boy who played the guitar in Latino bars.
Everyone was so relaxed. Chicky found it amazing. Nobody made any demands. They would make a big chili for supper with everyone helping. There was no pressure.
They sighed a bit about their families not understanding anything, but it didn't weigh heavily on anyone. Soon Chicky felt Stoneybridge fade away a little. However, she wrote a letter home every week. She had decided from the outset that she would not be the one to keep a feud going.
If one side behaved normally, then sooner or later the other side would have to respond and behave normally as well.
She did hear from some of her friends, and had the odd bit of news from them. Peggy and Nuala wrote and told her about life back home; it didn't seem to have changed much in any way at all. So she was able to write to say she was delighted about the plans for Kathleen's wedding to Mikey, and did not mention that she had heard about Mary's romance with Sonny O'Hara having ended.
Her mother wrote brisk little cards, asking whether she had fixed a date for her wedding yet and wondering about whether there were Irish priests in the parish.
She told them nothing about the communal life she lived in the big crowded apartment, with all the coming and going and guitar playing. They would never have been able to begin to understand.
Instead, she wrote about going to art-exhibit openings and theater first nights. She read about these in the papers, and sometimes indeed she and Walter went to matinees or got cheap seats at previews through friends of friends who wanted to fill a house.
Walter had a job helping to catalog a library for some old friends of his parents. His family had hoped to woo him back this way to some form of academic life, he said, and it wasn't a bad job. They left him alone and didn't give him any hassle. That's all anyone wanted in life.
Chicky learned that this was definitely all Walter wanted in life. So she didn't nag him about when she would meet his parents, or when they would find a place of their own, or indeed what they would do down the line. They were together in New York. That was enough, wasn't it?
And in many ways it was.
Chicky got herself a job in a diner. The hours suited her. She could get up very early, leave the apartment before anyone else was awake. She helped open up the diner, did her shift and served breakfasts. She was back at the apartment before the others had struggled into the day, bringing them cold milk and bagels left over from the diner's breakfast stock. They got used to her bringing them their supplies. She still heard news from home but it became more and more remote.
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While the warm and well-spoken Denis Dyack, head of Silicon Knights, was not at E3 to go over new details as in years prior, ED was good enough to stand on its own. Four levels were playable this time around, the first three having been encountered before, and the addition of Kashim in ancient Persia being the new experience.
As a whole, it's hard to judge this game or predict its faults and merits based off of 15 minute-gameplay spurts. ED is much more an adventure you have to sit down and take in, not unlike the adventure games of old on the PC. Furthermore, the foundation of ED is a 2000 year-spanning story covering an array of cultures and characters that, up to now, haven't been touched upon in a serious gaming experience, unless you consider surfing Encarta to be a game. That said, I can say that the game still has the same amount of promise as it had two years ago, and while the battling may be trickier than expected, the puzzles, insanity effects, and deep magic system should more than make up any so-called deficiencies other writers have complained about, primarily in Resident Evil comparisons.
To those who claim that ED is just another RE-rip off, there is the first, most obvious piece of evidence to break that argument: gamers must destroy enemies. Actually, gamers don't have to do so, but their gameplay will be detrimentally affected by wussing out, thanks to the much talked about insanity effects, which were more toned-down and not so obvious this E3-- gamers can get the crazier effects once they've really put some time into the game. Nonetheless, the creepy, surround sound whispering voices and blood running down walls was fun to take in.
The second obvious argument against RE finger pointers is that much more time has been put into the story and presentation of this game than the RE series' installments. Certainly, some RE games have been masterpieces in their own right, yet they remain odes to the B-Movie, and the attention to detail in and historical accuracy of ED is infallible. That ED's game characters speak in native tongues (subtitled of course), literary references to famous authors are abundant-- that every stained glass window was removed from a castle just because castles didn't have them at the certain era one level takes place at-- all of these subtle details add up to one hefty package, and even gamers who avoid the "thinking man" title will notice.
Surprisingly, for such an attention to historic detail, gamers who have an eye for visual detail will notice sometimes erratic visuals in ED. Most cinemas that move the deep story along are executed in real time, with intricately modeled characters that have an incredible level of expression not seen anywhere except Final Fantasy character models. Yet some of the cinemas that require much faster graphics rendering are not real time but compressed movies (FMAs, in fact), and the downgrading in visual quality is evident from heavy JPG-like "artifacting" that makes visuals appear blurry or pixelated.
Additionally, some of the real-time cutscenes, such as Alex's discovery of her murdered grandfather's body, are interspersed with static still-scenes that sometimes suffer from such heavy artifacting they often look more like an out-of-place, blurry watercolor. Were the game's cutscenes being presented entirely in comic stills, like with Max Payne, this would be fine, but jumping from crystal clear character models to muddy watercolors is jarring. Further, some textures, particularly those of light falling from windows onto floors, are often blurry and pixelated.
Granted, this graphic nitpick has to be taken with a grain of salt. The levels themselves have elaborate architecture rendered in real time and feature Hollywood-like sweeping and abrupt camera movement. Also, the 12 different characters come from such different eras and cultures, they all need seemingly one games' worth of textures each just to realistically model their levels, and, honestly, many of these textures are gorgeous. Add on to that five hours' worth of cinemas and speech (two hours' worth if just going through one of the game's paths), and Silicon Knights' decision to cram every last thing onto only one GCN minidisk, and the explanation of the visual shortcomings are apparent. Still, this note seems incongruous with SK's seemingly obsessive attention to detail and desire for perfection.
Thankfully, a solid game is much more than its visuals. Screens of text have been written to detail most all the objects of note in any game's level, and said text can be accessed just with stopping and making a button click. There's no necessity for this, just like all the information you can scan in Metroid Prime, but SK has done so to provide a truly thorough experience-- they are trying to immerse the gamer in a true game world, not a two dimensional fa�ade of one. Superb voice acting, music, and sound effects also further negate visual deficiencies. Puzzles are constructed to complement the storyline and elaborate it, not just provide obstacles to the next cutscene or boss encounter, and they also ride a fine line between incomprehensible logic and kindergarten simplicity that plague other titles.
Controlling movement of the characters, even with all the stylistic camera shifting, is always simple and never confounding as in the RE franchise. One area that is a little tricky, though, occurs in battle when trying to target an enemy's separate body parts. Apparently, it's supposed to be as simple as holding in the right shoulder button and moving the analog stick around. Yet repeated encounters proved that picking an enemy's right arm versus his torso or head was not simple or intuitive. Instead, I'd have to frantically slide the stick around in random directions, unsure if the camera angle, the enemy's movement, or my character's position was affecting the choice. It seemed very random. Despite this, I was able to attack enemies' weak points (each enemy having different spots that are best attacked first) and progress, yet this was not without loss of life due to the difficult body portion selection.
Because of that problem, battling enemies wasn't as fun as hoped, even with the variety of weapons. Fortunately, just figuring out an enemy's weak point, and the gruesome "finishing" moves each character performs, in tune with whatever weapon or weapon combination s/he has, made the experience worthwhile. Furthermore, this gameplay is definitely a step above RE's "shoot 6 times or run."
The last significant gameplay aspect that should be mentioned is the magic system, which, unfortunately, doesn't fully bloom until gamers reach later levels that were unavailable at E3. In said levels, gamers have a wide variety of spells to pick from, and the word is that spells can be mixed and chained together in order to provide a variety of results and, naturally, a complex system. An SK representative actually described it as being "deep yet simple-- like a math equation, or a sentence."
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Aside from that, it's still the insanity effects that set ED apart from the pack. In yet another example of SK's attention to detail, one new, subtle insanity effect is the skewing of the camera, no matter where it's positioned, roughly 10 degrees to the left. SK actually conducted research with a cinematographer to come up with this effect, after learning that small, visual cock-eyed-ness can cause discomfort mentally, not to mention physically when the game player keeps trying to hold his head slightly to the left to straighten it all out.
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Years in development, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem's ambitious magic and combat-targeting systems set a new standard for epic gameplay. Eternal Darkness masterfully weaves extensive cinema scenes, detailed facial expressions, a hallucinatory score and top-notch voice talent to evoke an inexorable sense of dread.
The horrific aliens spawn undead minions that hack and slash and, most ominously, infiltrate the mind of any human that comes close. As legions of the undead advance ever closer, a dwindling Sanity Meter will even lead you to question your grasp of reality.
The unwilling heroes and heroines include a slave girl in medieval Cambodia eager for freedom, a Persian youth willing to surrender all for the love of a beautiful woman, a monk investigating a murder in Renaissance France and a quiet scholar in 1950s Rhode Island. Each must fight with historically accurate weapons and an ever-growing body of arcane knowledge. Equipped with the Tome of Eternal Darkness and their own magic, humans can even conjure and control their own undead doppelgangers.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is guaranteed to warp your preconceived notions of sanity, and it's only on the Nintendo GameCube.
Yes, at this point there are a few possible issues that can be identified here, but when compared to many other products on the market, ED still stands above the pack and its sum outweighs its parts. The game really has the potential to provide much more than the distraction of a gameplay-light arcade title or the burden of an overly lengthy RPG. Instead, it seems to offer an immersive, intellectual experience that may leave you feeling a little uneasy, a little restless, and perhaps, a little insane.
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SAMURAI vs ZOMBIES DEFENSE
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You embody a Samurai who wants to protect his village from hordes of zombies that are trying to invade it. Although it can seem a classic arcade game at first sight, it's not at all: actually it's a new concept of tower-defense game. The main difference is that instead of placing different units through the field, you manage only one Samurai that eventually will be helped by some allies (as special attack). Likewise, he will use power-ups, special attacks and weapons that can be upgraded after each level.
Of course, all of that enhancements have a price: gold or silver rings that you must collect in the field or earn after beating enemies and levels. You can also buy some with real money (in-app purchase). However, unlike other games in which paying for credits with real money becomes something mandatory to beat the game, Glu Mobile has played fair here. You can access all the features and levels without spending a cent, but it won't be easy.
Game's scenery is great, as well as fighting effects. Artwork is just hilarious. Controls are really easy to use: move left and right by holding screen sides and tap the attack button for special attacks. Fun and entertaining. Worthy.
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This review is from: HIS Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition DirectX 11 H787F2G2M 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
Pros: Great bang for the buck. If you purchase any 7870 you won't regret it. It will run modern games (BF3, Diablo 3, etc) on the highest settings without a problem.
Low cost / high performance
Cons: The card it self has no cons in my opinion.
However, I doubt I'll be buying HIS again. Read on.
I've owned this specific card since July 2012. The fan died on me in Feb and I had to RMA it, I've been without a video card since Feb 18th. I have to say that the RMA process with HIS has been the worst experience I've had. When an RMA is needed you don't go through HIS you go through some third party vendor that lacks completely in communication. I've had to contact them to verify they even received my video card. Once they receive you are informed not to contact them for 2-4 weeks. At this point I have no idea where my replacement is, or when I should even expect one.
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While members of Congress negotiate to avoid sending the nation off the fiscal cliff, they should be sure to include a proposal to give states the authority to collect sales tax from online retailers not based in their state.
For Washington state, the change could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in additional state and local sales-tax revenue. The tax is now often not collected when state residents buy from out-of-state retailers. Sales-tax collections are especially important in a state like Washington with no income tax. The Legislature is facing a projected $900 million deficit in the next biennium.
Residents from Washington or other states with sales taxes should pay their state's sales tax whether transactions take place in a bricks-and-mortar store down the street or from a distant retailer on the Internet. Amending tax law to recognize the economic power of online retail is a good start.
Too often, consumers go to stores to pick out products yet avoid paying sales tax by purchasing the product from out of state on their smartphone.
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Underscoring the point are sales figures from Cyber Monday. The Monday after Thanksgiving tends to be the biggest online shopping day, offering a powerful economic indicator for Internet-based retail.
Online sales among some of the largest U.S. retailers on Monday jumped 30 percent, compared with Cyber Monday 2011, according to data compiled by IBM's Smarter Commerce arm, which surveys 500 online retailers.
Gov. Chris Gregoire is making this change in federal law a priority in her last two months in office. Her efforts are supported by a wide range of Washington state businesses and trade associations, not to mention other states in the same boat.
Despite more than a decade of unsuccessful attempts to fix this problem, recent signs point to bipartisan congressional agreement on the issue.
A subset of Congress bent on blocking anything that remotely resembles a tax increase should put their fears to rest. Collecting sales tax on Internet sales is not a new tax, but rather taxes that should have been paid all along.
Technically, people who purchase goods from out-of-state sellers that aren't taxed owe a use tax. Few buyers pay it.
But the practice is a hemorrhage of tax revenue owed the state.
Washington could see an estimated $558 million extra in state and local taxes during the 2013-15 biennium and $934 million in 2015-17, according to the state Department of Revenue.
The taxes are owed. Time to ensure they are paid.


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Mobile, IBM Worklight, SoMoClo, developerWorks Mobile zone at IBM Impact Conference
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During the first day of the IBM Impact 2012 Conference, the Mobile topic was on fire. In the Opening General Session, IBM announced the release of IBM Mobile Foundation V5.0, a family of products which includes IBM Worklight V5.0 and "delivers an open, comprehensive, and advanced mobile application platform for smartphones and tablets." Much of the buzz around the conference centered on this announcement.
I attended the analyst luncheon where IBM gave a demo of IBM Worklight V5.0. and announced a free trial offer of the product. See Bob Sutor's blog, "The spectrum of hybrid mobile app development with Worklight" for more details on IBM Worklight. Also, IBMer Vijay Dheap and the IBM Worklight team will be hosting a Mobile meetup in the IBM Impact Social Playground at 12:45 pm tomorrow.
The analysts responded favorably to the IBM Worklight demo. I had a chance to interview a few of them on the revolution of Mobile to the IT space. I'll share some of those videos shortly.
Analyst Larry Carvalho, with RobustCloud, explained how both start-ups and large enterprise companies are demanding Mobile solutions. When I asked where IBM best enters this picture, he replied that IBM's strengths are in its ability to offer the most robust monitoring, analystics, and security capabilities.
Research Director Andrew Borg, with Aberdeen Research Group, shared the evolution of a new trend he coins, "SoMoClo" (Social + Mobile + Cloud). I loved it. It made a lot of sense and was very easy to relate to given the historical SoLoMo conversations. I'll be sharing more on this topic as I pull together the video pieces from the interview. Andrew also shared that his research showed the importance of Line of Business decision makers collaborating with CIO organizations to ensure the best Mobile solutions and long-term success rates. When I asked where IBM best plays in the Mobile space, he felt that IBM's strong end-to-end expertise in software, hardware, and services with a focus on Cloud, Big Data, and Analytics would be a growing factor in the Mobile industry.
One thing was clear from my discussions with all of the analysts, it is the consumers driving the demand for the Mobile innovation at such a rapid pace and thus, End User Experience is the critical key to adopting a Mobile solution.
I also had a chance to attend an IBM developerWorks meetup at the Impact Social Playground in the Solutions Center. At the meetup, IBM announced the launch of the developerWorks Mobile Development Zone and shared some of the roving reporter interview on the Mobility topic that they've been capturing at the conference. Thev've also been covering Cloud Computing and PureSystems and sharing with the public on their new site, developerWorks at Impact 2012.
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On Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge John Kane followed a precedent set by a federal judge in Las Vegas, declaring that the copyright law firm Righthaven lacks legal standing to sue on the behalf of newspapers--ironically because it isn't the true owner of the copyright either.
In his summary judgement, Judge Kane dismissed the infringement claim against conservative blogger Leland Wolf and ordered Righthaven to pay his legal fees. Righthaven now stands to lose the other 50-plus lawsuits it has filed on behalf of the Denver Post according to the Wall Street Journal's Law Blog.
Though MediaNews Group transferred its copyrights to Righthaven to seek redress (but has since ended relations with Righthaven after coming under new ownership), Judge Kane wrote that the company's model "prioritizes economic benefit over public access".
Attorney David Kerr, who represented another blogger targeted by the firm, told Westword that Judge Kane's ruling "should be a warning to others that federal copyright lawsuits are not the legal equivalent to ATM machines".
Judge Kane explains in his summary judgement (full document below):
A third-party who has been assigned the bare right to sue for infringement has no interest in the legal dissemination of the copyrighted material. On the contrary, that party derives its sole economic benefit by instituting claims of infringement, a course of action which necessarily limits public access to the copyrighted work. This prioritizes economic benefit over public access, in direct contradiction to the constitutionally mandated equilibrium upon which copyright law is based.
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Read U.S. District Court Judge John Kane's summary judgment: Righthaven Summary Judgment


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The mild Winter, thus far, has meant that the large raised bed (there are two) is looking quite full and I'm surprised how ell it has stood up to the continuing gales.
In the main photo Stipa Tenuissima sways in the wind. A cutting of Helicrysum 'Ruby Cluster' grows directly below and to it's right a trailing Lobelia annual that was cut back in late Summer, flowered a 2nd time in late Autumn and has survived Winter so far. Beside that is a Santolina that has been mostly hard pruned except for the one branch left at the front for Winter interest and cover. The green below the raised bed is a Campanula which was flowering over Christmas – a sign of how mild it's been.
1. Large Raised Bed
2. Scenecia Cinerararia – Silver Ragwort (still flowering in places)
3. Lavender 'Silver Edge'
4. Santolina
5. Stipa Tenuissima
Stipa tenuissima (Mexican feather grass)
Stipa tenuissima
Blonde in winter
Santolina chamaecyparissus
As good in winter as summer
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Enjoying a mild Winter
Senecio cineraria (Silver ragwort)
Senecio cineraria
Best Winter folige shape
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Beautiful colour combination. <3
Thanks. I keep hoping to see it in sunshine, bet it would look almost summery with a warm light on it.
They look so frosty and pretty. Very 'winterish'.
The Lavender's looking good… I invariably manage to kill mine, but the mild weather we've had means mine are still with me this year (so far)
You're right, the Lavenders are very happy with the winter so far, one of mine has even put on more growth than it did all Summer.
Gorgeous – love the colour of your raised bed too!
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