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I have a candy bar commercial from the 60s stuck in my head, which is no big deal, but I can't remember what candy bar it was for. Any childs of the 60s out there, for whom this rings a bell?
Scene: A tiny weather-station-type cabin in the middle of the frozen waste. A guy (GUY) sits at a table. The door bursts open, with snow blowing in, and a dude (DUDE) wearing a parka bustles in, carrying two cardboard boxes.
DUDE: We got some mail! We got some mail!
Each of them enthusiastically tears open a box.
GUY: What'd you get?
DUDE: (slowly extracting his hands from a box) I think it was a lemon meringue pie. What'd you get?
GUY: A box of [insert name of candy bar here].
Dude: (his eyes growing wide) Hey! I'll trade you! (He begins to rummage around his tiny space for items to trade. All the while GUY slowly chews on a [insert name of candy bar here].) My after-shave lotion! Jungle Beast!
ANNOUNCER voice-over about the delicious candy bar.
DUDE: (dejectedly) My walrus-jaw book-ends?
Does anyone remember this ad? It wouldn't bug me if I could just remember what candy bar it was. A coworker said "Wunderbar," but I don't think that's it. I think it predates the Wunderbar. Their commercial had vikings, if I recall correctly. All help appreciated.


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Posted: 06/28/2007 - Conservationists say the eagle's recovery shows the Endangered Species Act can work.
Posted: 06/28/2007 - Conservationists say the eagle's recovery shows the Endangered Species Act can work.
Updated: 06/28/2007 - A 24-year-old female intern with the Colorado Geological Survey radioed for help before she went missing and a man found camping in the area was arrested after her body was found.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - Hundreds of acres trees in the San Isabel Forest southwest of Pueblo were leveled three weeks ago by strong winds. However, the loss of trees may only be the start of a bigger problem.
Updated: 06/27/2007 - Many people were still cleaning up Wednesday after Tuesday night's heavy rain storm.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - Banking at a lot of ATMs is being made easier for the blind.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - The wildfire danger remains high in parts of Colorado with the busy Fourth of July holiday only a week away.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - Resident students would pay an extra $285 at the Colorado Springs campus.
Updated: 06/28/2007 - Colorado Springs Police have identified the victim in a stabbing death Wednesday morning. 11 News was there as the suspect, Earl Frederick Mayes, was caught by police.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - Authorities are looking into whether a campfire 30 feet away or static electricity provided the spark for the explosion.
Posted: 06/27/2007 - Researchers say that if it weren't for the hot rocks below Earth's crust, mile-high Denver would be 727 feet below sea level.
Updated: 06/27/2007 - District officials are optimistic that their water supply will soon be recharged, thanks to some help from Colorado Springs Utilities.
Updated: 06/27/2007 - The heavy rains in southeast Colorado Tuesday night caused damage in several small towns including uprooted trees and heavy flooding.
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A subject that once caused stress early in high school turned out to be her strength.
Brianna Frost wanted to be the valedictorian of her class, but she struggled with a thesis assignment in her sophomore English class.
A bad grade on that assignment caused a slight dip in her grade-point average, and she fell one spot short of being valedictorian.
She was disappointed not to be the valedictorian but was still the salutatorian for the Edinburgh Community High School Class of 2014, finishing with a 4.43 grade-point average (on 4.0 scale with weighted grades).
Frost will be the first person in her immediate family to attend college. She plans to study nursing at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, with a focus on pediatrics because she wants to help children.
The idea of being the top-ranked student didn't cross her mind until she was a sophomore, she said. She found out she was ranked third in her class and turned her focus to becoming valedictorian.
She quit the band and track and field team, instead putting that time toward homework assignments and studying. The desire to become valedictorian outweighed participating in those activities.
"It put a fire into me because I wanted to be first," she said. "But I'm happy with where I am."
Frost remembers the mistakes she made on a thesis paper in her sophomore English class, which earned her a D-minus. She ended up with a C in the class, which dropped her to third place in her graduating class. But she earned good enough grades in the rest of her classes the final two years — including English — to jump back into the second-place ranking and become salutatorian.
By the end of high school, English had become one of her favorite subjects.
Frost joined the school's Academic Super Bowl Team for English because she thought it would make her a better student in the subject. Plus, she liked the excitement of competing against other schools.
"Anyone can better themselves if they really try," Frost said.
She spent her final two years of high school at state competitions among hundreds of her peers, quickly answering questions about novels and poems.
This year the team read the novel "My Antonia" and finished first in its division at the state competition. Students sit at desks during the state competitions; and teams simultaneously answer the same 25 questions about that novel, immediately finding out if they selected the right or wrong answer as they go through each question.
"You get really nervous before you start, and then it can bring you down if you get a question wrong," Frost said. "It seems so boring when you watch it. But when you're down there answering questions, it's like you're a participant in a basketball game, and the adrenaline gets you going."


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I can give you all a thorough review of the absolute worst phone I have ever owned! This piece of junk, a total waste of labour on LG's part, is not worth being the prize from Kinder Surprise or Cracker Jacks, ( remember those? ). I have owned this phone now for coming up 2 years. I have sent it in twice for the following reasons: 1, Dropped Calls, I dial the number, push send and wait. When it is apparent that it is not connecting, I look at the screen and it has gone back to home screen. 2, Emergency calls only, happens too often and for no reason. Turn phone right off and then on again and I'm good to go, usually. 3, The MOST FRUSTRATING AND COMMON PROBLEM, ... the phone resets itself, telling me a new sim card has been inserted! I have never done this!! This phone is possessed!! This is important as when this happens, I loose all text messages and alarms!! I have slept in on a workday and lost history on some very important text conversations involving family because of this!! 4, the manual given with the phone is absolute crap! Tiny print, and written by some kid out of highschool who isn't good at spanning the generation gaps to make communication easy for all to understand. This manual is a 2-sided piece of friggin' newsprint, whereas my previous LG phone, had a booklet, very well laid out and sections color-coded for easy access to certain topics! This one-page wonder they give you with this phone, leaves out so much important content, it just leaves you asking more questions!
I have owned 3 LG phones now and the other 2 were great! This one however, is the model you see for sale at London Drugs and several other electronic/cell phone suppliers for sometimes as low as $29.00! There's a reason for everything!! You get what you pay for, right??
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Wow! I have had all of those exact same issues. This phone is junk. I'm going to upgrade today.
i want to transfer photos from internal memory on my phone to my computer'
Well, since I registered my complaint, it has taken quite a few phone calls and bantering back n forth but , LG Canada has replaced my phone, past the warranty deadline. I believe it is a 'dud' phone for sure. However, don't be fooled into upgrading at a cost. If you would like the phone if it worked ok, go through the motions and fight the fight. It will take some doing but that's how we win, right? I wonder sometimes if they purposely put out phones like this to get you to upgrade in the first place. It's not that far-fetched really. In any case, at this point LG has come through. I have the same model I had, but that's all I wanted, ... just one that works! Time will tell how this one does but, at least they finally got it. I might add they sent it by Purolator, with a return bill prepaid by LG, for me to send them back my old one, so not bad. We will see if this 'refurbished' one does the trick. Thanks for your feedback out there. Voices always help so keep speaking out and up for yourselves! :-) Cheers!


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With lot of quad-core phones coming to Indians to choose from, this comes as a bliss to buyers of quality dual-core phones as they are being launched for much lesser price, as of here in form of LG Optimus L7 II P713. The device comes with 4.3-inch 800x480p True IPS display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.1.2, 8MP rear camera with LED flash, VGA front camera, 2460 mAh battery, 768MB RAM, 4GB of internal storage, microSD card slot, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM Radio. The LG Optimus L7 II comes with specific software capabilities like QuickMemo, Safety Care, QuickTranslator, QSlide and Live LG Mobile TV applications. The LG Optimus L7 II P713 is being sold on Infibeam as of now for Rs 13,789. We surely recommend this decently spec'd and priced smartphone from LG, how do you feel about it?
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New Series Review: "The Big Bang Theory"
Kaley Cuoco and Jim Parsons in "The Big Bang Theory"
Following the success of "The Office" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," studios and show developers moved fast to exploit a rising tide of geek chic — witness the arrival of both NBC's nerdcore spy dramedy "Chuck" and CBS' "The Big Bang Theory," a four-camera laugh-tracker about hyper-intellectual superdork roommates who suddenly have a hottie of exceedingly ordinary intelligence move in across the hall.
While I admire series creator Chuck Lorre's pugnaciousness and willingness to blow up bridges in the industry, I'm less a fan of his aggressive sit-com style, and "The Big Bang Theory" is a zero-subtlety enterprise. Lead characters Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki of "Roseanne," an Ur-Lorre production) are so off-the-charts in their geekdom that it goes well beyond believability.
Cuoco works mainly as the generic object of desire/fear, but the dynamic between Sheldon and Leonard is more like an old married couple than two straight male university researchers. Lorre gets the feelings of inadequacy, but these guys seem to love polynomial equations far more than girls. Leonard's lust for Cuoco's Penny just seems to happen because Lorre deemed it so — not because of any real impulse or attraction.
Also, at the risk of sounding like my mother, "The Big Bang Theory" has the loudest laugh track I have heard in ages. I'm not emphatically opposed to four-camera laugh-track comedies when they are done properly — "How I Met Your Mother" is a prime example of a traditional sit-com that works, mainly because its characters have layers and subtlety and also appear to be communicating with one another. "The Big Bang Theory" could develop into that, but right now it's just people detonating one-liners at 120 decibels.


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When Tyler Spice was born with a dark spot covering his right eye, his mom didn't worry because she was told it was a skin blemish that would start to fade with time.
But five months later, when Tyler had his first seizure, Laurie Spice quickly learned that her son's port wine stain was more than a simple cosmetic concern.
"It was just horrifying," recalled Spice, of Zion, Ill. "To hear something is wrong with your child - that's not something any mother wants to hear."
Tyler was diagnosed with Sturge-Weber syndrome, a congenital disorder that can affect eyesight - including the development of glaucoma - and cause neurological problems. Developmental delay of motor and cognitive skills also may occur.
The condition is characterized by a reddish to purplish facial birthmark over at least one upper eyelid and the forehead, caused by an overabundance of capillaries just beneath the surface of the affected skin.
But although most pediatricians recognize the condition and refer children with port wine stains to a dermatologist for additional testing, some - such as Tyler - don't get treatment until they have their first seizure, said Linda Rabinowitz, a pediatric dermatologist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
"There is a lot of ignorance about the condition and a lot of kids are not getting the treatment they need," she said. "There's also misinformation about port wine stains, which are completely permanent. They do not disappear - ever."
Rabinowitz also said that some physicians confuse port wine stains with hemangiomas, or strawberry marks, and that not every child with a port wine stain will be diagnosed with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
Port wine stains are different from hemangiomas, which are a collection of dilated capillaries that appear as bumpy, red blemishes. These birthmarks appear in infants, increase in size for a time, then shrink gradually and often disappear altogether.
"You have to look at the distribution and location," she said. "If it's tiny, like the size of a nickel, it's not it. But if a significant area of the skin is involved, then you have to get an MRI of the brain to look for abnormal vessels on the surface of the brain."
If any abnormal vessels are found, a pediatric neurologist is called in to help control any seizures that the child will experience, Rabinowitz said.
It is recommended that infants born with port wine stains be evaluated by a dermatologist to rule out Sturge-Weber syndrome before they are 3 months old.
Port wine stains affect 3 out of every 1,000 people, but only about 10 to 20 percent of those cases will be associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
The cause of Sturge-Weber syndrome is still unknown.
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KUMAMOTO – A funeral was held Friday for a 7-year-old girl who was murdered in Hiroshima earlier this week on her way home from school.
While her family grieved, others expressed shock and outrage at her slaying.
About 300 people, including teachers, attended the funeral for Airi Kinoshita, a first-grade student at a municipal elementary school in Hiroshima.
The mourners included Ground Self-Defense Force members who serve with Airi's father, 38-year-old Kenichi.
"I was deeply shocked when I was told by police that she was probably murdered," Kenichi said in an address during the funeral.
"I feel animosity toward the person who committed the crime. I hope the culprit is caught soon."
The funeral was held in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kenichi's hometown.
Airi was found Tuesday inside a cardboard carton wrapped in tape in an empty lot in Hiroshima's Aki Ward. In Hiroshima, police said Friday that the box had been used as packaging for a stove sold at a discount store in Higashi Hiroshima, adding that about 20 stoves had been sold in the two months since October. Investigators are trying to identify the people who had bought the stoves, using store records.
Police believe the killer may have removed the crime prevention buzzer that Airi usually carried with her, because it is missing.


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BAGHDAD - Sunni militants captured a strategic northern Iraqi city along the highway to Syria on Monday, sending thousands of residents from an ethnic minority fleeing for safety and moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control on both sides of the border.

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that American drone strikes are an option in a bid to halt the dramatic sweep by insurgents over a swath of Iraq. He also said the Obama administration is willing to talk with Iran and does not rule out potential military cooperation between the two rivals to stop the rampage.

 Already, the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, Gen. Ghasem Soleimani, is in Iraq, consulting with officials on how to roll back the al-Qaida-breakaway group leading the insurgent charge, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Iraqi security officials said. They said the U.S. government was notified in advance of Soleimani's visit.

 The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, also said that U.S. aircraft have in recent days flown reconnaissance missions over Iraq to gather intelligence on the militants' positions.

 Soleimani has been inspecting Iraqi defenses and reviewing plans with top commanders and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the visit. He set up an operations room to coordinate militias.

 He also visited the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala south of Baghdad, home to the most revered Shiite shrines, and areas west of Baghdad where government forces have faced off with Islamic militants for months. The Islamic State has threatened to march to Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf.

 Soleimani is one of the most powerful figures in Iran's security establishment. His Quds Force is a secretive branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard involved in external operations. In the mid-2000s', it organized Shiite militias in a campaign of deadly violence against U.S. troops in Iraq, according to American officials. More recently, it has been involved in helping Syria's President Bashar Assad in his fight against Sunni rebels.

 The militants' capture of Tal Afar on Monday was a key prize, as it sits on a main highway between the Syrian border and Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, which the Islamic State captured last week.

 At the same time, further south, Islamic State fighters were battling Monday with government troops at Romanah, a village near another of Iraq's main border crossings into Syria in Sunni-majority Anbar province, according to a security official in Baghdad who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

 The Islamic State already controls territory in Syria in several regions abutting the Iraqi border. Its fighters move relatively freely along with money, weapons equipment across the porous, unprotected desert border. But seizing an actual border crossing would be a major symbolic gain for the group as it tries to carve out an enclave bridging the two countries.

 Tal Afar, a city of 200,000 located 420 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is dominated by ethnic Turkomen, who are both Sunni and Shiite. That raises fears of new atrocities by Islamic State fighters, who brand Shiites as heretics.

 Over the weekend, the group posted graphic photos purporting to show its fighters executing scores of Iraqi soldiers captured when it overran other areas the past week.

 Tal Afar Mayor Abdulal Abdoul told The Associated Press that the city was taken just before dawn. One resident, Hadeer al-Abadi, said militants in pickup trucks mounted with machine guns and flying black jihadi banners were roaming the streets as gunfire rang out.

 Fighting in the city began Sunday, with Iraqi government officials saying that Sunni fighters were firing rockets seized from arms depots around Mosul. They said the local garrison suffered heavy casualties and the main hospital was unable to cope with the wounded, without providing exact numbers.

 The local security force fled before dawn, and local tribesman who continued to fight later surrendered to the militants, said al-Abadi as he prepared to head out of town with his family.

 Another resident, Haidar al-Taie, said a warplane was dropping barrels packed with explosives on militant positions inside the city on Monday morning and many Shiite families had left the town shortly after fighting broke out on Sunday.

 "Residents are gripped by fear and most of them have already left the town for areas held by Kurdish security forces," al-Abadi said. The city lies just south of the self-rule Kurdish region and many residents were fleeing to the relatively safe territory, joining an influx of refugees from Mosul and other areas that have been captured by the militants.

 Some 3,000 others from Tal Afar fled west to the neighboring town of Sinjar.

 Throughout the past decade since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Tal Afar was often hit by car bombings and other attacks by Sunni militants, targeting its Turkomen minority. At one point, after a major American offensive to drive out insurgents, then-President George W. Bush in 2006 declared Tal Afar a success story that shows "the outlines of the Iraq that we and the Iraqi people have been fighting for ... A free and secure people are getting back on their feet."

 Since last Monday, Islamic State fighters and their insurgent allies have swept down from Mosul capturing a swath of territory at least 120 miles (200 kilometers) long toward Baghdad, and they vow to assault the capital itself. The stunning turn of events in Iraq, 2 1/2 years after the U.S. military withdrew from the country is threatening long-established borders and raising alarm in Washington, Turkey and other neighboring countries.

 Perhaps no greater sign of the alarm is the fact that the United States would consider working with Iran against the insurgents - despite years of efforts to limit influence by the neighboring Shiite-dominated powerhouse in Iraq.

 Iran now could take a similar role in Iraq that it plays in Syria, where its support - along with that of Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters on the ground - has been crucial to Assad's survival.

 Kerry said Monday in an interview with Yahoo! News that Washington is "open to discussions" with Tehran if the Iranians can help end the violence and restore confidence in the Iraqi government.

 Kerry also said that U.S. drone strikes "may well" be an option.

 U.S. officials said earlier there is a possibility that a senior American diplomat may discuss Iraq with an Iranian delegation at nuclear talks in Vienna.

 Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias, along with thousands of other volunteers, joined Iraq's security forces to prepare for what Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - a Shiite close to Iran - has vowed to be a fight to liberate every inch of Iraqi territory from the insurgents.

 Militants on Monday ambushed a vehicle carrying off-duty soldiers to Samarra, a city north of Baghdad that is a key battleground with the militants and is home to a much revered Shiite shrine. Six soldiers were killed and four wounded in the attack, a government official said.

 Security has been tightened around Baghdad, particularly on its northern and western edges, and food prices have dramatically gone up because of the transportation disruptions on the main road heading north from the capital.

 Thousands of Shiites are already heeding a call from their most revered spiritual leader, the Iranian-born Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to take up arms against the Sunni militants.

 "We will march and liberate every inch they defaced, from the country's northernmost point to the southernmost point," al-Maliki told volunteers on Sunday. The volunteers responded with Shiite chants.

 On Monday, Interior Ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Saad Maan Ibrahim, told a press conference that Iraqi security forces killed 56 "terrorists" and wounded 21 in operations just outside the capital over the last 24 hours. He made no mention of Tal Afar and left without taking any questions.

 Security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad also was strengthened and some staff members were sent elsewhere in Iraq and to neighboring Jordan, the State Department said Sunday.

 The State Department also issued a travel warning for Iraq on Sunday night, which cautioned U.S. citizens to avoid "all but essential travel to Iraq." The warning said the Baghdad International Airport was "struck by mortar rounds and rockets" and the international airport in Mosul also has been targeted.

 However, a senior Baghdad airport official, Saad al-Khafagi, denied that the facility or surrounding areas have been hit. State-run Iraqiya television also denied the attack, quoting the Ministry of Transport.

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Maine: Two More Beer Dinners At Bar Lola, Portland
Posted by Alan McLeod on Thursday, October 29, 2009 in Maine, Beer and Food
So, I walk into a bar restaurant in Maine a few years ago. We are there with pals and meeting pals of pals. We'd been going to Portland for years and heard the place was great - family friendly, good Maine beer and good food. That place is gone now but it's one of my favorite memories because when …
Ribs Trickery: Not A Beer Bath But On The Side
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, September 27, 2009 in California, Big Bombs, Beer and Food
The arc of the making and consumption of ribs lasts at least 48 hours in our house. Slabs, usually pulled from the freezer after being collected over a number of weeks, are lowered into pineapple juice with coffee grounds on Friday night. No beer in the marinade for me - pineapples have something …
Beer And Food: Fish Tacos Go With Anything
Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in Beer and Food - 9 comments
As if to make the point, I made fish tacos as well as burgers for about 12 last night over at a pal's house. The fridge had Allagash White, Utica Club, Hennepin, Local 1, Insanity and a bunch of other sippables and not one person spoke up about disappointment as to the pairings. Everyone just had … read more »
A Beer Please - Don't Bother With The Swanky Food
Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 in Beer and Food, Beer and Economics, Pubs, Inns and Tavs - 24 comments
In the days back when I traveled in Eastern Europe, I had a guidebook that explained the grades of drinking establishment I might expect to find and learned there was a class of bar in Poland called a pivarnia or some such thing that catered to their manly but odd working hours - there was a gap …
Book Review: The Beerbistro Cookbook, Beaumont Morin
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I found most of the dishes in this book of beer-laced recipes quite easy to prepare and a pleasure to serve. • No, I didn't. Of course I didn't. I never know what to say about cookbooks. The whole function of the book is to help you do something other than read them but in the review its only …
One April Night With Scandinavians In Toronto
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I got a call from Vlado of Roland and Russell a few weeks ago with a plan: he wanted to get me to Toronto on April 15th, get me to Beerbistro and pour great Scandinavian beers into me as I eat wonderful food. Sadly (or rather happily) the life of the family man in the county town rarely provides …
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I can't decide whether this is better than the Beer and Pie Festival or not that I wrote about almost a year ago. Is it because it is February? Is it because there are those (we go nameless) who consider beer an appropriate vegetable course when in the presence of beer or sausage or BBQ or any …
New York: Local 1, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, NYC
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I picked this up two weeks ago at Wegman's in Ithaca for just $8.99. Even with an 80 cent dollar exchange rate that is great value... especially as this is an old school ridged bottle - so when the end times come, I can trade that for rice and mustard, right? • Tonight, we baked salmon slabs and …
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[Ed.: My pal in Maine, Tom Whitehead has forwarded his report on a beer dinner recently held at Bar Lola, Portland. Tom is one of my go to guys when I am in Maine for doing things like dropping Mentos in Coke to see when happens. Sometimes he screws up his face at the odd Belgian brew that I hand …
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I hope Knut would be proud. I made dinner tonight entirely out of the Kitchen of Light, a Norwegian cookbook based on a series by Andreas Viestad called New Scandinavian Cooking. We have a series on DVD. The parsnips baked with cumin and olive oil were the best but the way Viestad directed that … read more »


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Combien de gens se font abstraits pour paraître profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides.
How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.
Etiam capillus unus habet umbram suam.
The smallest hair casts a shadow.
The smallest hair casts a shadow.
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Astrology is a disease, not a science... It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. ... Only fools and charlatans lend value to it.
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
But why, it has been asked, did you go there [the Antarctic]? Of what use to civilization can this lifeless continent be? ... [Earlier] expeditions contributed something to the accumulating knowledge of the Antarctic ... that helps us thrust back further the physical and spiritual shadows enfolding our terrestrial existence. Is it not true that one of the strongest and most continuously sustained impulses working in civilization is that which leads to discovery? As long as any part of the world remains obscure, the curiosity of man must draw him there, as the lodestone draws the mariner's needle, until he comprehends its secret.
Exper. I. I made a small hole in a window-shutter, and covered it with a piece of thick paper, which I perforated with a fine needle. For greater convenience of observation I placed a small looking-glass without the window-shutter, in such a position as to reflect the sun's light, in a direction nearly horizontal, upon the opposite wall, and to cause the cone of diverging light to pass over a table on which were several little screens of card-paper. I brought into the sunbeam a slip of card, about one-thirtieth of an inch in breadth, and observed its shadow, either on the wall or on other cards held at different distances. Besides the fringes of colour on each side of the shadow, the shadow itself was divided by similar parallel fringes, of smaller dimensions, differing in number, according to the distance at which the shadow was observed, but leaving the middle of the shadow always white. Now these fringes were the joint effects of the portions of light passing on each side of the slip of card and inflected, or rather diffracted, into the shadow. For, a little screen being placed a few inches from the card, so as to receive either edge of the shadow on its margin, all the fringes which had before been observed in the shadow on the wall, immediately disappeared, although the light inflected on the other side was allowed to retain its course, and although this light must have undergone any modification that the proximity of the other edge of the slip of card might have been capable of occasioning... Nor was it for want of a sufficient intensity of light that one of the two portions was incapable of producing the fringes alone; for when they were both uninterrupted, the lines appeared, even if the intensity was reduced to one-tenth or one-twentieth.
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
Kepler's epitaph for himself.
Kepler's epitaph for himself.
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
In the seventh book of the Republic, Plato describes prisoners who are chained in a cave and can see only shadows that things outside cast on the cave wall. When released from the cave at first their eyes hurt, and for a while they think that the shadows they saw in the cave are more real than the objects they now see. But eventually their vision clears, and they can understand how beautiful the real world is. We are in such a cave, imprisoned by the limitations on the sorts of experiments we can do. ... We have not been able to get out of this cave, but by looking long and hard at the shadows on the cave wall, we can at least make but the shapes of symmetries, which though broken, are exact principles governing all phenomena, expressions of the beauty of the world outside.
In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.
The Mathematics, I say, which effectually exercises, not vainly deludes or vexatiously torments studious Minds with obscure Subtilties, perplexed Difficulties, or contentious Disquisitions; which overcomes without Opposition, triumphs without Pomp, compels without Force, and rules absolutely without Loss of Liberty; which does not privately over-reach a weak Faith, but openly assaults an armed Reason, obtains a total Victory, and puts on inevitable Chains; whose Words are so many Oracles, and Works as many Miracles; which blabs out nothing rashly, nor designs anything from the Purpose, but plainly demonstrates and readily performs all Things within its Verge; which obtrudes no false Shadow of Science, but the very Science itself, the Mind firmly adhering to it, as soon as possessed of it, and can never after desert it of its own Accord, or be deprived of it by any Force of others: Lastly the Mathematics, which depends upon Principles clear to the Mind, and agreeable to Experience; which draws certain Conclusions, instructs by profitable Rules, unfolds pleasant Questions; and produces wonderful Effects; which is the fruitful Parent of, I had almost said all, Arts, the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human Affairs.
The One remains, the many change and pass;
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly;
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
True rigor is productive, being distinguished in this from another rigor which is purely formal and tiresome, casting a shadow over the problems it touches.
I see no shadows, saith the sun:
Yet he casts them every one.
Yet he casts them every one.


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What You'll Be Eating in 2011
Down with pork buns. Vegetables are going to be big in 2011! Also, Scandinavian cuisine, "approachable" seafood—is any seafood approachable, or even around, anymore?—and exotic citrus fruits. Plus, tiny, tiny portions of many different things, the "miracle berry," and "pure ingredients simply prepared." And probably plenty of foam and jus.
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What began as 64 of Stephenie Meyer's vampires, werewolves and humans battling for the title of #1 "Twilight" character has — round by hard-fought round — been reduced to a single face-off between two of the series' most beloved bloodsuckers.
Final Four voting in MTV News' epic Twi-Fight Saga concluded Thursday (November 8), and one needn't possess Alice's prescient powers to have seen this one coming: Immortal loves Bella and Edward will fight to the finish in the Championship Round.
Five ferocious face-offs have been no match for the dynamic duo. Edward easily dispatched with Amazonian Kebi, Volturi guard Alec, nomadic vampire Peter, surrogate mother Esme and Denali coven member Kate to earn his spot in the finals, while lady love Bella undid Romanian Stefan, mom Renee, Romanian Vladimir, dad Charlie and brother-in-law Jasper to advance. (Though it should be noted, her margins were not as wide as Edward's.)
And now, in a twist that the series' author herself never would have subjected fans to, the once star-crossed soul mates will be divided by the showdown that is The Twi-Fight Saga.
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Fracking off in Lancashire (and elsewhere?)
I know this is very late but, it is such significant moment, I feel I must comment on the recent decision of Lancashire County Council to refuse to allow fracking to proceed in their county.
Never mind that their decision was primarily the result of NIMBYism… spurious worries about earth tremors; slightly-less spurious worries about groundwater contamination; and probably-valid worries about methane escaping into overlying aquifers (rather than being sucked out of the ground)… this was a great result for anti-fracking campaigners all around the world.
This decision sets an important precedent that I hope will not be overturned by the inevitable appeal by Cuadrilla; and/or over-ruled by the same national government that has promoted the cause of NIMBYism when it comes to opposing onshore wind turbines and solar farms.
Our supposedly "greenest government ever" could and should therefore be decried as hypocritical if they try and go against the wishes of local people in Lancashire.
Long-standing readers of this blog, written as it is by someone with a geological and hydrogeological background, may recall some of my previous posts on the subject of fracking. However, in a nutshell (or perhaps I should say "in a drill casing"), my opposition to fracking has hardened over time. Initially, my opposition was based on the same logical grounds as that against drilling for oil in the Arctic: Having established that burning fossil fuels is changing our climate, humans should now be trying to stop burning them as soon as possible. Now, however, I am also against it because it has been proven to give rise to methane contamination of groundwater; and because as little as 3% of the gas will actually be recoverable.
Given that China has now announced that it intends to make its carbon emissions peak within 15 years, can the G7 now be shamed into doing the same? We can but hope.
However, I digress from fracking (and Lancashire): In May this year, I was delighted by the appointment of Amber Rudd, as the new Climate Change Minister. This was partly because she is a woman. However, I was mainly pleased because, unlike so many totally ill-qualified, 'sceptical' non-experts — with Degrees in subjects like economics (Lord Lawson), Sociology (Benny Peiser), English (James Delingpole) or Classics (Christopher Monckton) — Amber Rudd accepts that the IPCC is not part of a global conspiracy to foist environmental alarmism upon a credulous world.
Amber Rudd, in common with the vast majority of relevant experts with a history of producing peer-reviewed scientific research, has concluded that the growing disruption to the Earth's climate is being predominantly caused by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 200 years.
The only people now disputing this (as-near-as-science-ever-gets-to) certain fact are those with a vested interest in the perpetuation of the oil industry… and a handful of credulous (or wilfully blind) economists and journalists who perpetuate the myth that the science is uncertain.
Sadly, whether deliberately or otherwise, these very same people have, just as they did for the tobacco industry, succeeded in delaying for decades the effective regulation of an environmentally-damaging product.
That being the case, investment in fossil fuel companies should not only be seen as financially unwise; it should be seen as corporately irresponsible and socially unacceptable. We can but hope.
However, in the UK at least, there is of course the problem of the Energy Gap: The UK is being forced to close down it's 'dirty' (i.e. high carbon intensity) coal-fired power stations. Unfortunately, the mix of low-carbon and renewable sources (i.e. wind, solar, tidal, and nuclear) — which even the fossil fuel executives of 50 years ago thought would have become dominant in the power-generation sector by now — is nowhere near to being in a position to replace coal. This leaves the UK importing huge amounts of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
As a quick aside, I would like to encourage all non-scientific types not to be intimidated by jargon. Take "carbon intensity" as an example. This is merely a reference to the number of carbon atoms in the product being burnt. As such, mining tar sands is 'highest' and burning methane is 'lowest'.
Sadly, however, none of this changes the fact that burning any fossilised carbon increases the total amount of CO2 circulating within the biosphere, which is warming the planet as a result of the basic Laws of Physics. To make matters even worse extra atmospheric CO2 is slowly reducing the pH of seawater, which is making it harder for shellfish of all kinds to live and grow. This is a much more serious problem because they are the only means Nature has for removing excess carbon from the biosphere (by the processes that created the fossil fuels in the first place)…
Getting back to LNG: Clearly, it would be much better if the UK did not have to do this. However, if we accept the science, we do not have the luxury of taking decades to phase-out fossil fuel use.
China is right and the G7 should follow their lead.
As many economists have now pointed out, humanity needs to treat climate change as an existential threat — far more potent than any Earthbound terrorist group — that requires mobilisation of the military-industrial complex to minimise and/or adapt to it. Sadly, far too much of the military-industrial complex is still fighting a rear-guard action to perpetuate its own existence — rather than on trying to safeguard the habitability of planet Earth for future generations.
World-famous film director, James Cameron, might well have cited the ill-fated MS Titanic as an analogy for humanity today. However, I am sure we would all rather that money would be invested in minimising climate change; rather than on constructing Elysium.
We can but hope.
Why is the G7 still ignoring what scientists and economists say?
Despite the scientific and economic consensus – that 80% of known fossil fuels must be left in the ground if humanity is to avoid allowing climate change to become unstoppable and irreversible (IEA, IMF, IPCC, OECD, etc.) – the best the G7 can do is propose that we stop burning fossil fuels by the end of the century…
If the BBC report of the second day of this week's G7 Summit in Germany is to be believed, this may be due to more tangible fears of a Greek exit from the Euro-zone and/or emerging threats like Islamic State.
However, I suspect that our global politicians are simply unwilling or unable to face the reality that such a proposal – that humanity can take 85 years to wean itself off its hydrocarbon addiction – is not a strategy that a significant proportion of species on Earth are likely to survive…
But please don't take my word for it, just Google "80% of species face extinction by climate change" and take a look at the results you get, like this one: One in six species faces extinction as a result of climate change (i.e. even 17% would be significant).
The above article, on The Conservation website, cites research recently published by the author, Mark Urban, in the Science journal; the abstract of which reads as follows:
Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study. I synthesized published studies in order to estimate a global mean extinction rate and determine which factors contribute the greatest uncertainty to climate change–induced extinction risks. Results suggest that extinction risks will accelerate with future global temperatures, threatening up to one in six species under current policies. Extinction risks were highest in South America, Australia, and New Zealand, and risks did not vary by taxonomic group. Realistic assumptions about extinction debt and dispersal capacity substantially increased extinction risks. We urgently need to adopt strategies that limit further climate change if we are to avoid an acceleration of global extinctions.
Urban, M.C. (2015), 'Accelerating extinction risk from climate change', Science 348 (6234) pp.571-573
17% may be a lot less than 80% but, as this most recent synthesis of available research states, previous estimates of the risk "vary widely" and – given the complexity of ecological systems upon which we rely for food production (etc) – I think most biologists would agree that 17% is still very significant.
The scientific and economic consensus is that global CO2 emissions must peak within a decade in order to avoid a runaway greenhouse effect taking hold. Is failing to do this really a risk that humanity should be taking?
As the BBC has pointed out, the G7's stance may well signal (to investors) that the end of fossil fuel era is approaching. However, whereas the G7's mid-century target is for emissions to be cut 40-70% globally compared with 2010, the scientific and economic consensus makes the G7 appear reckless and/or complacent in suggesting that we can afford to burn fossil fuels at all past 2050.
Ultimately, I think the reason for humanity's collective failure to address the urgency of the need for action on climate change comes down to psychology. After all, being in denial is cheaper than being in therapy.
See: http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/06/the-why-arent-we-acting-on-climate-change-bookshelf/
Also worthy of note is this attempt by The Carbon Brief to be positive about the G7's communique:
Polite suggestion for Bjorn Lomborg and Tony Abbott
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced that Australian taxpayers are now going to finance attempts to disprove the need to decarbonise our global power generation systems as fast as possible (see yesterday's article on the Guardian website). However, Lomborg's position is very confused (and confusing):
Lomborg: "Natural science has undeniably shown us that global warming is manmade and real. But just as undeniable is the economic science which makes it clear that a narrow focus on reducing carbon emissions could leave future generations with major costs, without major cuts to temperatures."
Reality: Natural science has undeniably shown us that global warming is real and predominantly manmade. Just as undeniable is the economic assessment that any further delay in reducing carbon emissions will make it harder and more expensive to mitigate and/or adapt to increases in global temperatures.
My suggestion to both Lomborg and Abbott is that they should take time out to read the assessment of the formerly-skeptical Yale Professor of Economics, William D. Nordhaus:
'Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong' by William D. Nordhaus (2012).
Writing in response to an article in the Wall Street Journal signed by sixteen fossil fuel-funded 'Merchants of doubt' (including Richard Lindzen), Nordhaus began thus:
I have identified six key issues that are raised in the article, and I provide commentary about their substance and accuracy. They are:
— Is the planet in fact warming?
— Are human influences an important contributor to warming?
— Is carbon dioxide a pollutant?
— Are we seeing a regime of fear for skeptical climate scientists?
— Are the views of mainstream climate scientists driven primarily by the desire for financial gain?
— Is it true that more carbon dioxide and additional warming will be beneficial?
As I will indicate below, on each of these questions, the sixteen scientists provide incorrect or misleading answers. At a time when we need to clarify public confusions about the science and economics of climate change, they have muddied the waters. I will describe their mistakes and explain the findings of current climate science and economics…
Therefore, if anyone is inclined to think Bjorn Lomborg's position on climate science has any credibility, I would suggest that they need to read (or if necessary re-read) what Nordhaus wrote over three years ago.
The argument for leaving fossil fuels in the ground is overwhelming
I know I have been a bit slow but, I have now signed the Guardian's new climate change petition.
Indeed, I was – and am – very pleased to see editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger leading their campaign to phase-out institutional investment in the fossil fuel industry over the next five years, which includes an online petition, at:
The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming (Guardian website, 16 March 2015)
Alan begins by pointing out that:
The world has much more coal, oil and gas in the ground than it can safely burn. That much is physics… Anyone studying the question with an open mind will almost certainly come to a similar conclusion: if we and our children are to have a reasonable chance of living stable and secure lives 30 or so years from now, according to one recent study 80% of the known coal reserves will have to stay underground, along with half the gas and a third of the oil reserves…
He then goes on to explain why divestment campaigns are working based on two arguments; one moral and the other financial.
The basis of the moral argument for divestment is summarised as follows:
The moral crusaders… see divestment from fossil fuels in much the same light as earlier campaigners saw the push to pull money out of tobacco, arms, apartheid South Africa – or even slavery. Most fossil fuel companies, they argue, have little concern for future generations. Of course, the companies are run by sentient men and women with children and grandchildren of their own. But the market pressures and [their duty to their shareholders] compel… [directors to pursue…] business as usual, no matter how incredible it may seem that they will be allowed to dig up all the climate-warming assets they own…
As such, there is a moral imperative to demand an end to the enormous subsidies that enable fossil fuel companies to pursue such an insanely short-sighted and ultimately self-destructive business strategy.
The pragmatic basis of the financial argument for divestment is summarised as follows:
If… the companies cannot, for the sake of the human race, be allowed to extract a great many of the assets they own, then many of those assets will in time become valueless. [Therefore, people…] managing endowments, pension funds and investment portfolios… will want to get their money out of these companies before the bubble bursts…
However, Alan makes it clear that:
The intention is not to bankrupt the companies, nor to promote overnight withdrawal from fossil fuels – that would not be possible or desirable… Divestment serves to delegitimise the business models of companies that are using investors' money to search for yet more coal, oil and gas that can't safely be burned. It is a small but crucial step in the economic transition away from a global economy run on fossil fuels.
Finally Alan explains why the Guardian's campaign is focussed on two organisations:
The Wellcome Trust handles a portfolio of more than £18bn and invests around £700m a year in science, the humanities, social science education and medical research. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has an endowment of $43.5bn. Last year it gave away $3.9bn in grants towards health and sustainable development… Because both foundations are a) so progressive in their aims and actions and b) have human health and science at the heart of everything they do, we hope they, of all institutions, will see the force of the call for them to move their money out of a sector whose actions, if unchecked, could cause the most devastating harm to the health of billions [see footnote]… We understand that fund managers do not like to make sudden changes to their portfolios. So we ask that the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust commit now to divesting from the top 200 fossil fuel companies within five years… [and] immediately freeze any new investment in the same companies.
If you have not done so already, I would encourage all to read the full article and sign the petition at:
The argument for divesting from fossil fuels is becoming overwhelming (Guardian website, 16 March 2015)
Footnote: See a landmark report by the Lancet and University College London, which concluded in 2009: "Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century."
A personal exchange of email with LEGO
In my original email to LEGO (via the Greenpeace website), I tried to be as brief as I could. Sadly, all I got was a generic reply that did not address the issues I was raising. Here is the correspondence to-date (any further responses from Lego will be appended as comments by me):
—–Original Message—–
From: Martin Lack
Sent: 04 July 2014 19:48
To: Responsibility
Subject: Invest in the future not the past – stop sponsoring Shell
Dear LEGO,
Fossil fuels are a 19th century technology and a finite resource. A post-carbon era is inevitable, the only question that remains is whether 10 billion humans will be able to share in it.
I'm really disappointed to learn that you have agreed to help Shell clean up its image, while it helps to endanger the environmental biodiversity of the Arctic.
You claim that it is your ambition to protect children's right to live in a healthy environment, both now and in the future. If that is true, please cut your ties with Shell now.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Lack
On 17 July 2014 10:08, email@example.com <email@example.com> wrote:
Dear Martin Lack,
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
I'm sorry to hear you feel so strongly about our co-promotion with Shell. We really appreciate you taking the time to write and share your concern with us, and I've passed your thoughts and opinions to our promotions team.
We're determined to help make the world that children will inherit a better place. Our unique contribution is to inspire and develop children through creative play. By entering a co-promotion like the one with Shell, we can put LEGO® bricks into the hands of even more children around the world. This allows more children to develop their imagination and creative skills through building and creating models with LEGO bricks.
The Greenpeace campaign focuses on how Shell operates in one specific part of the world. We expect that Shell lives up to their responsibilities wherever they operate and that they take appropriate action to any potential claims should this not be the case. We're sad to see the LEGO brand used as a tool in any dispute. We believe this is a matter where Greenpeace and Shell must work out their differences between themselves.
For more information, you're welcome to read our CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp's comment on this Greenpeace campaign. There's also more information about our responsibility agenda in this area of LEGO.com. More information on the environmental targets that we have set for ourselves can be found here.
Please let us know if you need anything else.
Kind regards,
LEGO® Service
Dear Tanja/LEGO,
Thank you for taking the time to personalise your response to me; and for explaining LEGO's thinking in working with Shell. I understand and accept that, since Lego is itself a product of the petrochemical industry, such a "co-promotion" makes good business sense. However, the Arctic is not just a "specific part of the world" in which Shell is operating. In order to preserve a habitable planet for future generations, the Arctic is somewhere that Shell should not be operating! Even if it were good, therefore, this makes Shell's operational safety record (etc) irrelevant.
The only reason it is now possible to operate in the Arctic is because the ice is melting; and most of the ice is melting because of the exponential growth of fossil fuel use since the Industrial Revolution. Humans may well use fossil fuels to make all sorts of things (including Lego) but this does not make it right for us all to disregard the long-term consequences of continuing to pump geospheric carbon (i.e. that derived from fossil fuels) – in the form of CO2 – into the biosphere (i.e. the atmosphere and the oceans). In combination with deforestation and the exponential growth of livestock farming, global warming and ocean acidification were therefore an inevitable result of the exponential growth of the human population on this planet since the Industrial Revolution. However, now we know we are in a hole, is it not time we stopped digging? See my blog post regarding the Rio+20 Summit: 'When in hole keep digging?' (21 June 2012).
If LEGO truly wants to preserve a habitable environment and planet, it should place conditions upon its support for Shell. Given that the vast majority of relevant scientists agree that there are now 5 times more fossil fuels left on this planet than it would ever be safe for us to burn – something the IEA, IMF, OECD and Pentagon all acknowledge – LEGO needs to encourage Shell to find alternative means to meet (or reduce) global demand for fossil fuels. As such, although "turkeys will never vote for Christmas", the petrochemical industry needs to invest in finding non-fossil alternatives for its current products. Such things definitely exist (e.g. biosythetic fuels and energy from waste products). What is lacking is the corporate will or political incentive to pursue them. Things that are worth doing are rarely the easy option. Shell's exploration in the Arctic is both the wrong option and the lazy option; one that is collectively endangering the future habitability of this planet.
Therefore, I hope I may look forward to LEGO placing conditions upon its future support for Shell, which needs to adopt a long-term business strategy that does not contradict the science and economics underlying the call for humans to leave the vast majority of fossil fuels in the ground. For more information, please see this recent blog post: 'Geoscientists get all ethical about climate change' (2 May 2014).
Yours very sincerely,
Martin Lack
Corporate interests lean on YouTube to delete Lego-Shell video
But Greenpeace UK will just keep re-posting it… Here is the latest email from their Head of Arctic Campaigns, Ben Ayliffe:
I think we might have offended someone. This morning we were shocked to learn that our viral video calling on LEGO to break its lucrative partnership with oil giant Shell has been REMOVED from YouTube!
More than 3 million people have viewed this video in less than three days. People everywhere are sharing it with friends and loved ones, shocked to learn that this dearly-loved children's toy brand is helping Shell clean up its image. Now our important message is being attacked, and it's time to ramp our efforts and fight back.Our ad might have offended the likes of LEGO, Shell, and its corporate pals. But this is nothing compared to what Shell wants to do to our beautiful Arctic. Despite the real risk of a terrible and unstoppable oil spill, it continues to forge ahead to plunder every last drop of oil it can from this pristine environment.
The only reason Shell can get away with it is by forming public partnerships with the brands we all love. And we're sorry to say this includes LEGO. Their deal involves everything from incentivising fuel purchases with free Lego kits, to plastering the Shell logo on the side of millions of children's toys.
If Shell had its way, it would drill for oil in every corner of the planet. So it's up to people like you and me to make sure that doesn't happen. Not now, not ever. Ask Lego to stop its partnership with Shell today.
In the past we've helped delay Shell's plans in the Arctic and opened up the public's eyes to their dangerous plans. Now Shell is desperately trying to rebuild its reputation by partnering with beloved brands like LEGO. But LEGO doesn't have to play along.
Please watch this video and send your message to LEGO right away. Let's move one step closer to kicking Shell out of the Arctic.
Thanks for getting involved.
Ben Ayliffe
Arctic Campaigner
Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy
The Adaptation Sub-Committee of the Committee on Climate Change has today published its 2014 progress report. The report considers preparedness to climate change in England related to major infrastructure, business, public health and emergency planning. It also provides an update to the ASC's previous analysis of flood risk management.
This report is the last in a series that will feed in to the ASC's first statutory report to Parliament on the National Adaptation Programme in 2015.
A copy of the report can be found on our website at: www.theccc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Final_ASC-2014_web-version.pdf
The associated news story is available at: www.theccc.org.uk


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