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Cathy Gay, a Borrego Springs real estate agent and area resident since 1978 took photos of the sea serpent sculpture. "I don't know what it has to do with the desert," said Gay.
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Kelle Anzaone, left, and Lisa Lu examine the comic book display at UCSD's Geisel Library
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Captain Mike McVay, of the "Kokua Team," (kokua means help or support in Hawaiian) helps 11 year old Chloe Lajoie learn how to play her ukulele.
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Claudia Ramirez, dressed in traditional Chilean "Huaso" attire, was pierside to meet the ship. She is part of the local "Chile sin Fronteras" club.
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Miss California Teen USA Alexis Swanstrom of Jamul won second runner-up at the Miss Teen USA pageant in the Bahamas July 16.
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Three-year-old Will Stringfellow (left) of La Costa and Zaiden Zion, 5, of Encinitas hold Colby, a red-tailed boa constrictor, at the EcoVivarium mobile zoo display during the Insect Festival at the San Diego Botanic Garden. Howard Lipin • U-T photos
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Posted on 01/31/2004 7:07:00 AM PST by billorites
George W. Bush lied about his military service record. The lie can be found in his own 1999 campaign autobiography (as written by Karen Hughes), where he dramatically describes his experience as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.
On page 34 of A Charge to Keep, Mr. Bush claims that, after learning to fly the F-102 fighter jet, he was turned down for Vietnam duty because "had not logged enough flight hours" to qualify for a combat assignment. Before going on to recall the "challenging moments" that involved close formation drills at night during poor weather, he adds: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years."
In light of what journalists and other researchers have learned since the publication of Mr. Bushs book, his account is unmistakably fraudulent.
The issue is again relevant because Michael Moore, the author and filmmaker who supports Wesley Clarks Presidential campaign, recently impugned the President as a "deserter." During the final Democratic Presidential debate in New Hampshire, moderator Peter Jennings called Mr. Moores statement "a reckless charge not supported by the facts," and demanded that General Clark repudiate his celebrity backer.
As the ABC newsman may (or, more likely, may not) know, the facts about the Presidents National Guard stint are complex, disputed and, in many respects, unflattering. To call him a "deserter" was wrong and inflammatory, even if Mr. Moore was joking, as he now insists. Although Mr. Bush may well have been absent without leave, he was never prosecuted for that offense, let alone desertion, and he eventually received an honorable discharge. But to suggest that the Bush record is beyond criticism, as Mr. Jennings did, is both misleading and biased. That bias reflects an enduring double standard on this topic that has protected Mr. Bush ever since he first declared his Presidential candidacy.
The facts, established by Boston Globe reporter Walter Robinson in 2000, explode the lyrical flights of fancy penned by Ms. Hughes.
George W. Bush graduated from Yale in June 1968. After his fathers influential friends contacted Texas Air National Guard officials, they awarded young George a safe berth in Houstons famed "champagne unit," where sons of the Texas elite avoided Vietnam. His very special treatment included instant admission to flight training and an extraordinary commission as a second lieutenant. According to his former superiors, Mr. Bush performed admirably as a pilot while patrolling the coastal waters of the United States.
But in May 1972, only 22 months after he completed pilot training, he stopped flying. In August 1972, he failed to show up for his annual physical examination and was automatically grounded. According to The Times of London, a conservative newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, Mr. Bushs campaign spokesman said he knew that he would be suspended if he missed that physical.
He never flew a military aircraft again (or not until his flight-suit photo op last spring, when he briefly took the controls of an S-3B Viking jet before landing on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln). Instead, he left his Guard unit in Houston and went to Alabama to work in a Republican Senate campaign. He claims to have continued to serve in an Alabama Guard unit, but there is no evidence to support that assertion, and much contradictory evidence. The commanding officer of the Alabama Guard Unit told the Boston Globe that Mr. Bush never showed up for duty there. Nor is there any evidence that he sought duty in Vietnam.
In fact, there is considerable evidence that Mr. Bush skipped all duty for a full year, until April 1973. At that point, his two superior officers in Houston noted in writing in an official document: "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report." They erroneously believed that he had been completing his duty in Alabama. Yet he somehow received an honorable discharge eight months before he completed his six-year commitment so that he could begin attending Harvard Business School.
As the Globe noted, the "champagne unit" and others like it back then displayed "a tendency to excuse shirking by those with political connections."
So Mr. Bushs claim that he "continued flying with my unit for the next several years" is an unabashed falsehood. Yet the spotty coverage of his military record in the mainstream pressaside from the Globe investigation and similar efforts in the Dallas Morning News and the Los Angeles Timeselided that lie. Compare his soft treatment with the media scourging of Bill Clinton, who was held accountable during the 1992 campaign for every word he uttered about his draft record.
What the Jennings episode validates is not Mr. Bushs strange military career, but the Bush method of press management. Treat journalists like vassals, with nicknames, cheek-pinching andwhenever they forget their place momentarilysneering disdain. It works brilliantly.
You may reach Joe Conason via email at: email@example.com.
On page 34 of A Charge to Keep, Mr. Bush claims that, after learning to fly the F-102 fighter jet, he was turned down for Vietnam duty because "had not logged enough flight hours" to qualify for a combat assignment. Before going on to recall the "challenging moments" that involved close formation drills at night during poor weather, he adds: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years."
In light of what journalists and other researchers have learned since the publication of Mr. Bushs book, his account is unmistakably fraudulent.
I'm kind of puzzled. Joe Conason publishs a piece on 01-31-2004 stating W lied about his military service record in a book oublished in November 1999. According to Joe one need only to have read to Page 34 in November 1999 to discover W's lie. Interesting that the VLWC was unable to utilize this information to prevent W from being elected. Nice try Joe but it just doesn't compute that you are making an issue of this in 2004 instead of in 2000.
Pray for W and The Truth
Agreed. But they aren't equivalent either.
Assuming that is correct, which, given your record, is suspect, why did he join the TANG?
Bush 'Desertion' Charge Debunked
NewsMax | 1/24/04 | Limbacher
Did President Bush "desert" the military, as radical filmmaker Michael Moore insists he did?
Presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark suggested during New Hampshire's presidential debate Thursday night that the facts of whether Bush ran out on his National Guard unit in 1972 and 1973 are in dispute.
But in the months before the 2000 presidential election, the New York Times pretty much demolished this Democratic Party urban legend, a myth that first surfaced in its sister paper, the Boston Globe.
"For a full year, there is no record that Bush showed up for the periodic drills required of part-time guardsmen," the Globe insisted in May 2000, in a report Mr. Moore currently cites on his web site to rebut ABC newsman Peter Jennings' debate challenge to Clark that the story is "unsupported by the facts."
"I don't know whether [Moore's desertion charge] is supported by the facts or not," Clark replied "I've never looked at it."
The Times did, however, look at it, and found that Bush had indeed served during the part of the time the Globe had him AWOL - and later made up whatever time he missed after requesting permission for the postponement.
In July 2000 the Times noted that Bush's chief accuser in the Globe report, retired Gen. William Turnipseed, had begun to back way from his story that Bush never appeared for service during the time in question.
"In a recent interview," said the Times, "[Turnipseed] took a tiny step back, saying, 'I don't think he did, but I wouldn't stake my life on it." In fact, military records obtained by the Times showed that Turnipseed was wrong and that the Globe had flubbed the story.
"A review by The Times showed that after a seven-month gap, he appeared for duty in late November 1972 at least through July 1973," the paper noted on Nov. 3, 2000.
The Times explained:
"On Sept. 5, 1972, Mr. Bush asked his Texas Air National Guard superiors for assignment to the 187th Tactical Recon Group in Montgomery [Alabama] 'for the months of September, October and November,'" so Bush could manage the Senate campaign of Republican Winton Blount.
"Capt. Kenneth K. Lott, chief of the personnel branch of the 187th Tactical Recon Group, told the Texas commanders that training in September had already occurred but that more training was scheduled for Oct. 7 and 8 and Nov. 4 and 5."
After the Bush AWOL story had percolated for months, Col. Turnipseed finally remembered another glitch in his story: the fact that National Guard regulations allowed Guard members to miss duty as long as it was made up within the same quarter.
And, in fact - according to the Times - that's what Bush did.
"A document in Mr. Bush's military records," the paper said, "showed credit for four days of duty ending Nov. 29 and for eight days ending Dec. 14, 1972, and, after he moved back to Houston, on dates in January, April and May."
The paper found corroboration for the document, noting, "The May dates correlated with orders sent to Mr. Bush at his Houston apartment on April 23, 1973, in which Sgt. Billy B. Lamar told Mr. Bush to report for active duty on May 1-3 and May 8-10."
Yet another document obtained by the Times blew the Bush AWOL story out of the water.
It showed that Mr. Bush served at various times from May 29, 1973, through July 30, 1973 - "a period of time questioned by The Globe," the Times sheepishly admitted.
His very special treatment included instant admission to flight training and an extraordinary commission as a second lieutenant.
I'd like to know what is so "extraordinary" about a commission as a second lieutenant. I believe that rank is the lowest officer rank in the Air Force. Most flyers are given an officer's rank, so starting Mr. Bush at that rank shouldn't be extraordinary at all.
But in May 1972, only 22 months after he completed pilot training, he stopped flying.
Many people stopped flying at that time. The military had more pilots than they could use, and getting time in the planes was difficult. Many pilots were showing up at the air field at five in the morning hoping to get a plane. If they weren't at the very top of their class, they often didn't get flying time. Many opted to quit being pilots and serve out the rest of their commitments in other ways.
In fact, there is considerable evidence that Mr. Bush skipped all duty for a full year, until April 1973.
As previous posters have already shown, this statement simply isn't true. The writer is either being dishonest or hasn't done his homework.
George Bush once remarked in a private conversation about his military service and Viet Nam that when he was sitting at the end of the runway at Ellington Field firing that single jet engine, he didn't feel like he had gotten out of anything.
As a matter of fact, during his stint two fellow pilots were killed in accidents.
The second mitigating factor is George Bushs' actions since taking office. His actions of restoring our military strength and morale, both damaged under Clinton, must be taken into account.
As for the charge of it being 'unusual' for a Harvard graduate to be commissioned a 'Second Luey', that is pure BS. Second Leuy is the lowest rank he could be commissioned, there is nothing lower. Would the military like to get a Harvard grad? Well, I'll let you figure that one out.
Are we talking the 88% of registered GOP'ers or those oh so conservative indies that are breaking for the leftists ?
American Research Group Poll. Jan. 27-29, 2004. N=768 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.5 (total sample).
"If the election for president were being held today between George W. Bush, the Republican, and the Democratic nominee for president, for whom would you vote: Bush or the Democratic nominee?" Options rotated
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Michael Moore is a fat a** lunatic who curiously enough most resembles what he actually is. A boil on the butt of the country. Heh, heh, take it easy. I was joking
I think he was the Pope once too.
Since John Effin mentions he served in Vietnam everytime he opens his mouth, it's kind of hard not to know.
Mister Conason, you intend to collect social security at some point, don't you?
Social security is available only to human beings.
And we know that the charge of calling you a human being is unmistakably fraudulent.
Joe has sand in his vagina.
I don't know why don't you ask him? But since his father was a pilot (mine was to by the way WW2) it is not surprising that the son wanted to follow in the father foot steps. Recent history underlining that point.
Listen, I is not my fault that Bush is not a war hero, or even a combat vet. He did what a lot of elites did. Could very well be that his family (Mom and Dad) talked him into avoiding active services in Vietnam. Lot's of Moms and Pop were doing the same. So stop giving me a hard time. I don't have a problem with Bush's service record.
Personal insult deliberately ignored this time.
Joe Conason is a complete moron.
Any ROTC grad can get "extraordinary commission as a second lieutenant."
We used to call them 90-day-wonders.
Saying again: JOE CONASON IS A COMPLETE MORON.
You guys are killing me!!! This is the first time that I've heard being commissioned a 2LT as extraordinary! I would hardly classify my two years as a butterbar as extraordinary.
I guess I better not run for public office either (not that Mrs. NHN would allow it). I evaded the draft by accepting a 4 year ROTC scholarship. However, I did serve in the Army for 8+ years. The closest I ever got to combat was when my jeep was clipped by an M-60 tank during REFORGER '77.
Based on the stance now taken by the loony left, such service does not qualify.
Just one question: why doesn't Conason spend as much time investigating BillyJeff's draft evasion, as he spends on Bush's honorable service in the National Guard?
Not that I'm qualified to ask reasonable questions. After all, I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes (C-123s, C-130s, and C-141s) while in the Army.
I'll take the First Answers to Rhetorical Questions for 500, Alex.
If you look at the next poll which outs a name to the rat candidate you can see that more GOP'ers fall into voting for Bush (perhaps they believe they are unsure because they don't know the rat candidate. Also, more rats go for Bush.
But that oh so conservative minded indie's flock for the liberal. This means the folks that say Bush is going to lose because of his liberal moves are dead wrong. In fact based on the polls, he needs to bring the liberal indies into his camp.
What if the election for president were being held between George W. Bush, the Republican, and John Kerry, the Democrat, for whom would you vote: Bush or Kerry?" Names rotated
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I've copied gChartPhp into /var/www/html on my CentOS 5 Linux machine and it works ok, but I wonder if there is maybe a better way to install and maintain that code.
I'm asking this because gChartPhp contains a PEAR subdirectory. And there is already the dir called /usr/share/pear/PEAR at my machine. Maybe it is possible to install it using the php-pecl rpm package?
I've tried "pecl search chart" but it can find only the other "package":
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Former AIG Head Hank Greenberg Accused of Fraud, Swiftly Settles
But not because he's guilty! Because he is innocent.
Hank Greenberg, the former AIG CEO who built the insurance company into the giant it is today before being ousted amid allegations he had inflated the firm's earnings, was sued by the SEC today for accounting fraud. The complaint, which also names AIG's former CFO Howard Smith, alleged that from 2000 to 2005 the pair were involved in "numerous improper accounting transactions" "that presented a false financial picture" of the company, and that Greenberg in particular was "publicly boasting about the company's strength and double-digit growth while concealing its weaknesses through accounting sleights of hand." Greenberg's response was to immediately settle for $15 million — but not because he is guilty, his lawyer told the Times, because he is innocent:
the settlement is recognition of his lack of responsibility, even as a control person, for the vast majority of accounting issues included in A.I.G.'s restatement and the S.E.C.'s charges against the company."
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and yet futures markets have many good sides to them. do the research on the potential upside for participants in the future markets.
Interesting. But this is true of all markets: there is no such thing as "perceived demand." Demand inherently includes a perceived component.
Oil has been currency since day one. All paper money is now valued in oil. This has been true since the US abandoned the gold standard, and BBLs of oil were fixed to the US dollar, which is still the case, for now.
So go long on oil companies.
Well, that's sort of the whole issue, now isn't it B.A.? Futures markets may be good for those who directly participate in them, either as purchasers of commodities futures, or, as the entity holding the commodity (oil companies, in this case), but other than them, who does it benefit?
Charles takes a lotta crap (some deservedly so) but I gotta give props where they're due. This post at least implies the larger problems surrounding our dependence on oil, which goes beyond our material dependence on it for energy and hints at our reasons for resisting any movement away from a petroleum-based economy. We've been hearing about "promising new developments that may one day replace oil" for, what, thirty-plus years now? And yet, since the day Reagan moved into the White House and mothballed the solar panels Carter had installed, we've been told again and again that the day when we reduced our dependence on oil was at some far-off point in the future, way beyond the horizon, and in the meantime our consumption has steadily ratcheted upward.
The relationship of the dollar to oil as a commodity is at least part of why this self-fulfilling prophesy has come to dominate all discussions about the energy future.
comte, in the end the consumer benefits because there are hedges against collapse for suppliers.
and futures markets prevent wild fluctuation of prices for the end consumer.
@6 - lol, you actually believe that?
Even the WSJ doesn't believe that - they estimate between 30 and 50 percent of all futures markets are speculators.
Maybe you need some remedial economics classes ... taught in the real world, where $4 million is not middle class and people don't typically own 7 or 11 or 13 houses ...
Charles may be amusing (philosophy), annoying (religion), but he's downright stupid when it comes to economics. The quote above has *nothing* to do with speculation it has to do with suppliers. The article itself has *nothing* to do with speculators in the market.
@7: Actually, you're the one in need of a remedial ecomonics class. Speculators allow for liquidity between the time the contract is offered and the commodity is delivered. This helps smooth out huge price swings. Notice I said 'helps' not 'prevents' and people still chase rising prices when they shouldn't, just as they do on eBay for this or that fad.
yeah, fuck you will.
This is why I have converted my automobile to run on concrete. I filled the tank, and the mileage has been absolute. And, as a side benefit, it has been getting harder and harder, until, someday, I hope it will become impossible.
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Congress: Where The Bible Disproves Science, And A Senator Tries To Torpedo An Admiral
Earlier today at a hearing on approving the Keystone pipeline, Buzzfeed reports that Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) took a slight detour into biblical science.
I don't think it's a secret that I'm a proponent and supporter of the Keystone pipeline, so it's somewhat redundant for me to ask too many questions. I would point out that people like me who support hydrocarbon development don't deny that climate is changing. I think you can have an honest difference of opinion of what's causing that change without automatically being either all in that's all because of mankind or it's all just natural.
I think there's a divergence of evidence. I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
Leaving aside all theological debates over when the flood happened in the narrative of the Bible itself, there is a place for theology and there is a place for science. Apocryphal details of one do not constitute proof in the other. Current carbon dioxide levels have not been this high for the last 15 million years — it has taken millions of years for carbon to be turned into fossil fuels, and the planet's climate was very different back then, it is true. But the planet has also not seen such an exhuming and burning of carbon in such a dedicated way in such a small period of time … and we are seeing the effects in spiking CO2 levels, increasing temperatures, growing energy in the hydrological cycle, and sea level rise.
While some Senators might discount the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists have concluded that humans are causing climate change, most people trust the experts.
Speaking of Senators, there was a hearing yesterday on the other side of the Capitol that illuminated a similar Congressional tendency to assume expertise over things best left to experts.
Yesterday Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of Pacific Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Last month, he said that changing climate "is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment" in the Pacific region. During the hearing, the ranking member — who had earlier said "I can't recall a time in my life when the world has been more dangerous" — brought up the crucial national security issue of climate change in his first question. However, this senator was the senior senator from Oklahoma, James Inhofe.
What followed was an attempt to lead the witness that backfired. Senator Inhofe tried to get Admiral Locklear to take back his statement about the threat of climate change. Locklear responded that while of course North Korea and other powers were threats, he was talking about long-term threats posed by sea level rise and natural disasters. When he got to the efforts to plan for this with our allies, Inhofe realized he would not be getting his desired answer and cut him off. He then asked a completely different question about energy security, to which the Admiral replied that yes, it would be great to produce all our own energy. Inhofe may want to look beyond oil, because the U.S. has nearly 1.6 percent of the world's proven oil reserves, while consuming about 19.2 percent of the world's total energy.
Senator Inhofe's constituents in Oklahoma are disproportionately feeling the effects of climate change according to a recent report and eight counties in Oklahoma have been hit by ten or more weather disasters since the beginning of 2007.
Transcript and video of the exchange after the jump.
SEN. INHOFE: Admiral, as you and I have talked before, I'd like to get clarification on one statement that was, I think, misrepresented. It was in the Boston Globe, it reported that you indicated, and I'm quoting now, from the Boston Globe, "the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region is climate change." Now I'd like to have you clarify what you meant by that because I want to follow up with a couple things here.…
ADM. LOCKLEAR: As you might expect, I gave a hundred or so interviews over the last year. And during those interviews, I can assure the committee that I always start by talking about the most pressing military threats that we have: North Korea, the rise of powers in the region, transnational threats, all the things that Chairman Levin laid out in his opening remarks quite well. And in this particular case, I did the same. Then we started to talk about the long term — the long, long term, and what are the implications of it. And I'd clarify my perspective this way: in the Indo-Asia Pacific region, projections are we're going to go from about 7 billion people in the world to about 9 or 10 by this century. And about 70 percent of them are going to live in this part of the world. And about 80 percent of them live within about 200 miles of the coast, and that trend is increasing as people move towards the economic centers which are near the ports and facilities that support globalization. …
If you go to USAID, and ask how many people died due to natural disasters from 2008-2012, it was about 280,000 people. Now they weren't all climate change or weather-related, but a lot of them were due to that. About 800,000 people were displaced, and there was about $500 billion of lost productivity. So when I look and I think about our planning, and I think about what I have to do with allies and partners, and I look long-term, it's important that the countries in this region build the capabilities into their infrastructure to be able to deal with the types of things–
SEN INHOFE: OK, sorry I'm going to interrupt you here, because now you've used up half my time, and we didn't get right around to — is it safe to say that in the event that this — that the climate is changing — which so many of the scientists disagree with — in fact, when the Boston Globe, coming out of Massachusetts, made a statement, perhaps arguably one of the top scientists in the country, Richard Lindzen, also from Massachusetts, MIT, said that was laughable. Let me just put it this way. First of all, CRS has told us that we could be totally independent from all other countries in terms of providing our own energy if we just develop our own resources. I believe that to be true. Wouldn't it be a more secure world and specifically in your area, if we not only were totally independent but were able to supply our allies in your jurisdiction with their energy so they don't have to depend on other sources?
ADM. LOCKLEAR: Absolutely.
SEN. INHOFE: Yeah. OK. Let me say something about China.
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A new anti-Keystone campaign is being lead by some unlikely groups, including the Nebraska Farmers Union. We'll talk to its president,
John Hansen, about why what he says is a majority of the state's farmers are strongly opposed to the pipeline's extension! With Roger Ebert's passing last week the world lost a popular film critic and political pundit but few knew of his passion, and concern for the planet.
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There does seem to be a positive correlation between fundamentalist religious delusion and intractable imbecility.
A correlation, definitely. But there are too many connections. I know one brainy young lady, currently a 2nd-year med student, who is both a young-Earth creationist AND an activist against global warming.
Of course, she is far from typical in any way. But there she is.
I have often wondered just what the Pentagon and the CIA are advising Obama about the imminent breakup of the Arctic ice cap. The admiral speaks of the "long, long term." I wonder if he is in the loop. I don't think the Pentagon's intelligence could be that bad that they haven't tuned into the real possibility the the ice could be gone in less than 10 years, and that it would severely disrupt the jet stream and by extension agriculture.
From my research dealings with the medical profession I gather that not all get a good grounding in scientific method, ME
I think the connection is between fundamentalism/extremism and unwillingness to change.
There are some awfully smart deniers out there, but they get hung up on the idea that AGW is a massive conspiracy to make them give up some ultimately unyielding belief in Ayn Rand/The Bible/The Great Global Capitalist Goodness or whatever thing they have decided to cling to until The End.
As someone, I think here, said once, "some deniers will deny until they burst into flames." Couldn't think of a more accurate way to put it!
Sometimes it is hard to fathom the difference between pure intelligence as the ability to learn and remember things and the intellect which is such much ore complicated. She clearly has the intelligence that can learn and pass tests, that's what Med school is really. Now intellect is a property that makes people question and seek rational answers to things. The two are not always related.
Some of the smartest professionals I know are working with the intellect of my cat. They function at a high level in their chosen field, pass them a copy of "War and Peace" and they will use the pages to light their BBQ in the back yard as they drunk beer and talk about football and their four wheelers. Seen it many times. Highly paid professionals without a single book of note in their houses. No interest in the breakthroughs made by science every day.
Intelligence has been proven to come in many forms and one kind does not imply another.
Will the Keystone XL pipeline make it to the sea? With rising sea levels it may make it faster than planned, http://www.climateoutcome.kiwi.nz/blog.html
Religion is one of the major advances of intelligence amplification but it must be informed by ongoing methods of human advancement such as social change and science to maintain its viability.
We should thank Barton for reminding us of the link between climate change denial and the fossil fuel industry which he so conscientiously represents.
Inhofe appeared to go after climate change but he snagged something he may have wanted even more on behalf of his special interests, the Admiral's compliance on energy "independence" and to "supply our allies in your jurisdiction with their energy.."
That's a lot of you-know-what.
Ryan: "Senator Inhofe's constituents in Oklahoma are disproportionately feeling the effects of climate change according to a recent report and eight counties in Oklahoma have been hit by ten or more weather disasters since the beginning of 2007."
I disagree; his constituents are really the oil and coal companies.
Inhofe: "First of all, CRS has told us that we could be totally independent from all other countries in terms of providing our own energy if we just develop our own resources. I believe that to be true."
When he says "resources," he means fossil fuels. Admiral Locklear played into his hands on that point.
Here's his press release on the subject: "We Can Drill Our Way to Energy Security".
This links to the CRS report he refers to, and it has an interesting table on page 23. Table 7 shows U.S. production and consumption of oil, natural gas, and coal for 2009. Consumption exceeds production for that year, except for coal. We produced 6.8 percent more coal than we consumed.
The report, of course, shows that we still have plenty of coal, oil, and natural gas under our soil. It says nothing, however, about costs of extraction, projected growth of consumption, or environmental effects.
Shill, Inhofe, shill.
Great question "Change in the weather". I know for a fact that the CIA, Pentagon and Obama's White House team know all about the reality of global warming and the imminent loss of the Polar Ice Cap. What goes on is secret is one thing, what they feed to the public is another.
I have often wondered what the elites, the corporations and their politicians REALLY are saying behind closed doors. These people are too rich, too powerful and too smart to buy into any of the deniers lies. They KNOW what is coming.
My guess is they think the USA is best placed of nations to weather the changes and to profit by them. Our vast military means we call the shots when things go bad. Our Patriot Act and anti terror laws mean the US civilian population lives now under a set of laws that allow total uncontrolled power to be exercised against them by the Federal government.
The climate change is here and it is now. So the US Government security and intelligence organs know full well that things like "Sandy" and "Droughts" are now normal and going to worsen.
The United Kingdom has been whip sawed by the jet stream for months now, their climate in the UK is off the rails, ask any Brit. They are not thinking about possible instabilities, they are living a wild out of control climate.
Not all get much education in inter-personal communication, most seem to have forgotten the Hippocratic Oath and many are strangely deficient in empathy.
I don't find many deniers 'smart'. Cunning, unscrupulous, gifted in casuistry and sophistry, contemptuous of the truth, paranoid or preying on paranoiac'delusions, inventive-all of these. But 'smart', not so much.
Religion is mostly the fear of death and the detritus of ancient superstitions forcibly inculcated into children by the previous generation of victims, and castes of priestly indoctrinators. Some religious thought is of a higher order, being philosophy in all its manifestations, but it hardly ever matters these days, particularly when the crassest fundamentalism so bedevils almost all the great religions, particularly the monotheisms.
I agree with your opinion on the US elites. I do think that they see climate destabilisation working to their advantage, hence their obstructionism. They are, of course, quite insane.
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Babel Rising Bringing Tower Destruction to XBLA This June
Written Tuesday, May 22, 2012 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
In Babel Rising, you take on the role of a god, wielding your divine powers to prevent pesky humans from constructing the tower of Babel. Ubisoft has today announced a June release date for the tower destruction game on the Xbox Live Arcade.
Lightning bolts, huge earthquakes, flaming meteorites and enormous all-consuming floods are among the vengeful acts you can exact upon the Babylonian humans building the tower, and you can play the game with Kinect in co-op or competitive multiplayer.
Babel Rising will be launching on the Xbox Live Arcade from June 13th. Pricing has yet to be confirmed.


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However, it would appear that MSDTC is being used to conduct this transaction, and as a result it is significantly slower than using a standard MessageQueueTransaction. Should this be happening? I was under the impression that TransactionScope would only elevate to an external transaction if the scope involved, for instance, a message queue read, and a database write, but not if just multiple message queues were involved.
EDIT: This is all on my laptop at the moment, so I am sure that no other machines are involved.
I also want to add that I'm confirming that an escalated transaction is taking place by checking in Windows' 'Component Services' snap-in (i.e. the Local DTC / Transaction List). I can see the transactions entering and leaving this screen, which I assume means that the transaction has been escalated. Am I wrong in assuming this?
EDIT 2: I'm getting the same behaviour when I am just writing to a single queue! i.e.
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Next Up for Human Brain Imaging: Synaptic Density?
Researchers may soon add another imaging agent to their tool kit—one that tracks synapse loss.
Researchers may soon add another imaging agent to their tool kit—one that tracks synapse loss.
At Keystone, researchers also linked the receptor to microglial homeostasis and migration, and resolved lingering questions about TREM2's role in plaque clearance.
A PET study comparing amyloid, tau, and volumetric imaging in preclinical AD identifies a region where local tangles correlate with brain-wide amyloid.
People who report a prior head injury have no more chance of getting Alzheimer's than the rest of the population, but they may be at higher risk for Parkinson's.
Researchers are discovering that microglia not only respond dramatically to their environment, but they also can quickly lose their identity.
At Keystone, researchers report the discovery of ion channels that shed light on the machinations of the brain's microglia.
A bill approved by the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations would increase funding for Alzheimer's by $350 million.
Could similar immune dysfunction contribute to neurodegeneration in people who carry repeat expansions in one copy of the gene?
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Plaques, tangles, and now synapses? A new PET ligand on the horizon binds a protein found in synaptic vesicles. With all the makings of a solid PET tracer, the compound appears to track synaptic density in monkeys and in people, and easily detects synapse loss in patients with epilepsy. It now stands poised for its debut in Alzheimer's disease and other disorders that tear down connections between neurons.
With PET, researchers can now image the neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques of Alzheimer's disease in the living brain. In cognitively healthy elderly, the two pathologies occur independently for the most part, but they do correlate with each other in certain key brain regions, according to a new study. In particular, pathological tau in the inferior lateral temporal cortex tracked with the presence of widespread plaques. The findings may provide clues to what kicks off the earliest stages of disease.
Microglia constantly survey the brain. They listen to a cacophony of signals from neurons and other cells, and sample molecules floating in the parenchyma. How do they do it? From super-enhancers that make these cells unique, to transcriptomes that characterize their response to neurodegeneration, to ion channels that power their motility, scientists are learning more about these immune cells of the brain. Read the latest two stories from the recent Keystone symposium.
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PASADENA, Calif. - Two little space probes heading for Mars this week won't float beneath parachutes or bounce to a landing on cushions. Instead, they'll smash into the planet at 400 mph, punching into the ground like interplanetary lawn darts.
If the drastic landing technique works Friday, the softball-size instrument packages will search for water and test lower-cost technology that could revolutionize solar system exploration.
The Deep Space 2 probes are flying toward the Red Planet along with the Mars Polar Lander.
After they reach Mars, Polar Lander will begin a controlled descent. The probes will follow 18 seconds later, but unlike the lander, their 77-mile fall won't be slowed by any expensive parachutes or thrusters.
"We're not your average mission - we're slamming into a planet at 400 mph," said Deep Space 2 project manager Sarah Gavit at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The $29.6 million Deep Space 2 probes are part of NASA's New Millennium program, a series of inexpensive missions testing untried technology for future spacecraft. Ten systems will be tried out during the Mars mission.
For four years, Gavit and her team have been throwing models out of airplanes over the Mojave Desert and firing electronic devices out of air guns to find designs and materials that might survive a crash into the surface.
After about 20 attempts, they finally arrived at a design that should withstand the force of impact, which will be 60,000 times stronger than gravity on Earth.
Each probe will be protected from the heat of entry by a basketball-size aeroshell, but that will shatter when it hits the surface.
Impact will cause a bullet-like penetrator to separate from the center of each probe and plunge up to 2 feet into the ground. A cable will connect the penetrator to the orange aboveground unit that contains instruments and a transmitter.
Even after successful tests on Earth, there's no guarantee of survival on Mars. The 8-pound probes might hit rocks and shatter. Their antennas could be swallowed up by soft, dusty soil. A gust of wind could blow them upside down during flight.
"We've got a pretty robust design, but it's like throwing one of these things out here in the middle of Pasadena and saying it has got to penetrate no matter where it lands," Gavit said. "If it lands in the middle of the freeway, it's not going to penetrate."
The probes should hit the surface about a mile from each other and 35 miles from the lander in an area 500 miles from the planet's south pole.
Deep Space 2 will be declared a success if mission controllers receive any signal from one of the probes. Any science data will be considered a windfall, said Suzanne Smrekar, project scientist for Deep Space 2.
During descent and impact, instruments will record acceleration for a study of the density of the atmosphere and the surface. Thermometers will show how quickly each probe cools - measurements that can be used to search for water.
But the main water experiment is the most ambitious: After the penetrator stops, a small drill will collect an eraser-size soil sample that will be heated and tested by a laser for evidence of water vapor.
"The water experiment requires a motor to run, a drill to extend. In all the tests, everything worked out," she said. "We're expecting it to work. But it certainly by far requires more things to go properly than any of the other experiments."
Most of the experiments will be completed within an hour and data returned late Friday. The probes should continue measuring soil temperature for two to three days.
Gavit said she hopes everything works. If not, there's always her other job - planning an interstellar mission.
"I'm going from a crazy program to something that's really crazy," she said.
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