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|"Adventure Comics" #2 on sale this week
NOTE: Scroll to the bottom of this article for a breaking update on Francis Manapul's future work with DC Comics.
Francis Manapul is redefining the look of Smallville while fully embracing all the classic elements of Supermanâs hometown in his latest gig as the artist of DCâs âAdventure Comics.â Written by Geoff Johns, âAdventure Comicsâ features an all-star cast of superheroes, but the headliner, undoubtedly, is Conner Kent, A.K.A Superboy.
Using a Pentel brush pen for his line work, the DC-exclusive Manapul adds gray tones with a Winsor & Newton water color set, creating art that echoes the work of iconic American artist Norman Rockwell, all the while staying true to the titleâs superhero nature and maintaining a true feeling of modern adventure on every page.
Manapul, a Filipino-Canadian living in Toronto, was a featured guest in his hometown last week at Fan Expo, and CBR News chatted with him at his booth in Artists Alley.
CBR: When we last spoke, âAdventure Comicsâ had just been announced. Now that youâve been working on it with Geoff Johns for six months, whatâs the experience been like?
FRANCIS MANAPUL: Honestly, I didnât know how big it was going to be or how big they wanted it to be until after the book came out. I mean, I knew it was going to be big because Geoff Johns was writing it, but I was more excited that I got to work with him than anything else. To me, the assignment is more in the work itself. Iâve really been enjoying inking my own work. And I really think that Geoff has written a story that really, really feels tailor fit for what Iâm trying to do. I think where heâs going, I couldnât be on a better book to help him develop it.
|Pages from "Adventure Comics" #2
When I did âSuperman/Batmanâ and I did the wash/watercolor thing, I thought it turned out okay, but now I feel like the subject matter of âAdventure Comicsâ is so suited for what Iâm trying to do. It sounds lame but Iâm so in love with the book. I like it so much. Itâs great. I havenât been this excited about drawing comics since when I first started.
Does the fact that youâre drawing âAdventure Comics,â one of DCâs oldest franchises, play into you excitement, at all?
Itâs definitely cool to be part of it. The thing is, a lot of times, itâs really hard from the inside to look to the outside. So a lot the times when youâre working on these things, you donât really know the magnitude. Youâre just working. And especially working with Geoff where weâre having so much fun with the book. Itâs weird, you donât really notice it. Iâm sure in a few years, Iâll realize it and be like, âWow. That was pretty crazy that I got to draw one of the most historic books around,â but right now, it hasnât really set in.
Itâs good, I guess, because I donât feel intimidated. I donât feel any hesitation whatsoever. What makes it such an easy transition is how Geoff has written the book. Heâs made it very, very easy for me to do. The way the book is written, it really feels like everything is within my comfort zone. Itâs all rolling out very naturally. It doesnât feel like itâs a struggle to draw the pages or anything like that.
Is the art style youâre using now â almost a classic, Norman Rockwell feel â something you developed specifically for this project or is it a natural evolution or extension of what youâve been doing for years?
Iâve always been a big Superman fan. And when I think of Superman, thatâs exactly what I think of â the Richard Donner âSuperman: The Movie.â There are a lot of farmlands, itâs a very idealized vision of America. It feels wholesome and it feels like one of those places that when you were a kid, you would have said, âMan, that would be a great place to live.â But then the way Geoff writes it, itâs like âStand By Me.â Itâs wholesome and then a guy shows up and says, âYou wanna see a dead body?â
|Pages from "Adventure Comics" #2
âAdventure Comicsâ has a large cast. Is there a character youâve really gravitated towards as a favorite?
Krypto, definitely. I based him on our family dog. Heâs so much fun to draw. After drawing the Legion and drawing so many superheroes, itâs cool to draw non-people like pets.
What do you love about drawing Superboy?
I think what makes him really cool is that itâs the knowledge that one day, heâs supposed to be Superman, but obviously weâre never going to see that because Supermanâs not going to stop being Superman. So the knowledge of him eventually becoming Superman makes him such an interesting character, especially with him being half-Superman DNA and half-Lex Luthor DNA. Thereâs this real struggle about him.
And whatâs neat about his character is that I actually like his t-shirt and jeans thing. Itâs a little more street level, I donât know if thatâs the right word for it. But itâs a little more grounded, itâs a little less fantastic but it seems so much cooler and suited for Smallville. It doesnât feel extravagant or like something more suited for Metropolis. If you lived in Metropolis, youâd expect to see glitz and when you are in Smallville, you have this quaint farmland and thereâs this guy whoâs a superhero whoâs just in jeans and a t-shirt. Thatâs the American way. Youâre wearing your Levis and your cowboy boots.
How are you finding working on a book of this size with such a large cast? Especially when you consider your particular style and methods?
The pacing has been really good. A lot of the second issue had to be worked on during a lot of the bigger conventions with San Diego and Chicago all back to back, so it was a little hectic. But like Iâve said, the way Geoff writes the book, it feels very natural, so that speeds up the process. Thereâs no struggle.
|Pages from "Adventure Comics" #2
It wasnât the same way as with âLegion of Super-Heroes.â That was a lot of fun but there were a lot of aspects to it that werenât in me and I had to muster it up and find it. But thatâs the great thing about âAdventure.â It feels like in a way, and I donât know if itâs cheating, but it feels like everything thatâs in the book, is already in me. Not to say that itâs not challenging because there was a lot of acting going on in the second issue that was quite difficult but⦠I donât want to say it was easy for me to do. Honestly it just feels like if it were a movie, you were a cast for the right role â and youâre just doing you. Youâre not trying to be this or be that. And when itâs like that, everything just rolls of much easier.
Thereâs big talk around âAdventure Comicsâ #4, but youâre not drawing that issue. Youâre coming back though, right?
Itâs not a fill-in per sé but #4 is going to be drawn by Jerry Ordway. And he will be focusing on Superboy Prime. And then Superboy Conner Kent will be back when I come for #6. So Jerry Ordway is going to be drawing two issues of it and then Iâm back for the second story arc. I believe the Jerry Ordway story ties into âBlackest Night,â which is why, Iâm assuming, itâs being hyped so much. It would have been cool if I got to draw it but unfortunately I can only work so fast.
Are you doing any more cover work?
I donât know if I can say it, but l I recently had to quit one of my cover gigs. My run on âRed Robinâ just ended. Marcus To is taking over the book and the covers, which is really cool. I was doing covers for âThe Shieldâ too but it got a little too much to do that and âAdventure Comicsâ at the same time. I donât think I can handle another âregularâ cover gig. I think it will be here and there. But I will be doing a cover for something else that I believe Geoff is writing. I think it is because itâs one of his favorite characters, so Iâm assuming heâs writing it. Iâm not sure when itâs scheduled but Iâm sure you guys will find out about it.
NOTE: DC Comics announced today that Francis Manapul and Geoff Johns will conclude their "Adventure Comics" run with issue #6 and move on to a new ongoing Flash title.
âAdventure Comicsâ #2 goes on sale this week from DC Comics.


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Prior to my recent switch to Super Cache, I have already been using "OSSDL CDN off-linker" plugin for several months.
Once I saw it was included in Super Cache plus the ability to do multiple CNAMES, I decided to make the move.
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Learn Electronics with Arduino
Author: Don Wilcher
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Publication Date: 2012-06-27
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Have you ever wondered how electronic gadgets are created? Do you have an idea for a new proof-of-concept tech device or electronic toy but have no way of testing the feasibility of the device? Have you accumulated a junk box of electronic parts and are now wondering what to build?
Learn Electronics with Arduino will answer these questions to discovering cool and innovative applications for new tech products using modification, reuse, and experimentation techniques. You'll learn electronics concepts while building cool and practical devices and gadgets based on the Arduino, an inexpensive and easy-to-program microcontroller board that is changing the way people think about home-brew tech innovation.
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I found a way to customize devise to use username to login instead of email address.
But actually I want to use combination :-
Enter username or Email: <text-box>
Enter your password : <text-box>
So how to achieve this ?
Actually we need to modify devise gem's configuration to support this.
for now I know that modifying the "/config/initializers/devise.rb" file as
config.authentication_keys = [ :username ] (edited from email to username.)
would actually enable logging in using username instead of emailid.
But can I do some thing like:-
config.authentication_keys = [ :username | :email] in the "config/initializers/devise.rb" file.
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Plastic PCT trail blazer.
Turnoff to Subway Cave. I highly recommend this side trip for the tour of the cave and fill water bottles prior to hiking Hat Creek Rim.
Cave entrance.
Subway Cave is an underground lava tube, about 0.3 mile in length. It's important to bring a flashlight.
Cave exit.
Hat Creek Rim Overlook.
First view of Mt. Shasta from Hat Creek Rim Overlook.
This area was destroyed during the 1987 Lost Fire which burned over 24,000 acres of land.
A telephoto view of Mt. Shasta from the Rim.
Telephoto of Lassen Peak from the Rim.
Looking back along the Hat Creek Rim towards Peak Lassen. The PCT traverses along the edge of this cliff which, at one time in geologic history, was level with the valley.
I stealth camped near the abandoned Lookout; now used as a cell tower (mi 1395)
I spent a half hour resting and organizing the water cache at RD22 (mi 1397.8). Loved the wooden hut and chairs.
One of the most unique gate I encountered on my trip.
Mile 1400
I took a lunch break under this large cypress tree at the edge of the rim.
Trail magic near Hwy 299.
Painted hiker steps on Hwy 299 (mi 1415.7).
Crystal Lake Fish Hatchery (mi 1411.6)
Oak woodlands (mi 1414).
A mossy tree.
A path in the grass.
Sawyer artwork.
This deer signaled a "good morning" to me before bounding off into the woods.
A nonfunctional STOP sign.
Mile 1417
Sunset enjoying his evening meal at the Burney Falls State Park Hiker/Biker Camp.
Burney Falls.
Burney Falls in the afternoon sun.


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I really like this picture. You can almost feel the tension of the balloon before it pops, and I think it's very cool how the water is still in he shape of the balloon (save a few sprays, which makes it look that much better). I've seen a lot of balloon-popping, not all on deviantART, which is why the originality isn't all that. However, this is the first I've seen with so much thought put into it. Thousands of pictures must have been taken and sorted through, not to mention all the balloons filled. I was riveted when I first saw the picture. This kind of thing that happens in the blink of an eye and is usually missed. Overall, amazing photography. Keep doing this!
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WOW, This is amazing! It must have taken you a few tries to get it right at that spit second. Many people have tried to do this but have failed. I have to give you 5 stars because of effort and originality you must had to do this. I love how it'a not just whole it has many sprays coming off of it. This is an AWESOMESAUCE example of what we humans miss when we blink.
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that is just too cool!
I love how fast cameras are nowadays.
wow really awesome O.O
soo cool
that's amazing
Wonderful shot
That's cool!
how does the water stay round in the middle...?
dont get problems with the copyright
theres a game out there called split second
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Just... WOW, amazing!
Hmm... if you filled.. say, a heart-shaped balloon, do you think it'd be possible to accomplish the same thing? I'm just curious (: It'd look pretty neat ;D Great shoot by the way (: It looks fantastically awesome
if the rubber of the balloon was made into a heart shape yes its possible. However in order to take the pic at the right moment before the water moves into a ball would be extremely difficult I think.
Most likely but challenges are always fun ;D
couldn't you have some kind of coloured powder mixed with air inside and pop it? how would that work effects wise?
hmm.... sounds like it would work. But only if you could take the picture the second after the balloon pops. Because with pressure of the air flowing outward would cause the powder to fly out in all directions, and it would fly out faster because it is lighter than water.
I think this is my favorite balloon shot so far.
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that is amazing. you captured it in the right moment!!
Im not sure how specific your assignment is/was, but I think colored liquid and a white background would produce an awesome effect. I was recently .asked to draw a tattoo of this exact thing.
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This one is definetly my favorite!! Amazing.
How do you always capture these at exactly the perfect moment?
Very, VERY impressive, you must have an awesome camera!
Wow. The pattern the water makes is amazing.
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Amazing shot!!!
I feel refreshed just looking at the water in this balloon, nice lighting, and fantastic capture! Sure the ideas not original, but here there's enough of an impression that made this idea your own. Now my suggestion, next time I'd change the lighting a bit, or use a different background in order catch every little droplet and make it even more breathe taking. That's just a suggestion, you don't have to. (:
Awesome! Great timing
now that's cool!
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That's why I feel a little bit sketchy linking you to this post by a fellow named Professor Fury, but really, it's not like it is mean or anything, and it's a well-written examination of the end of Gruenwald's Captain America run, and I think it is worth reading, even if it, at times, is less than complimentary to Gruenwald's writing.
If anyone has written a good piece on how much they LIKED Gruenwald's Captain America, send it my way! Equal time, and all that!
I always thought Gruenwald was a consistently good writer. So there was an aspect of his characterisation or a story that wasn't that great. Eh… so what. Everyone lays an egg from time to time. If there a lot more good than bad, why make an issue over it?
But then again, if we didn't make issues over it and nit pick, we wouldn't have any discussions. Goodbye, blogosphere!
Hey, thanks for the link, Brian! It may not have been clear from my post on the end of Gru's Cap, but I really liked most of his run as well — especially everything up to about 350 or so, after which there was a slide toward generic super-heroics. But I actually admire what I've come to believe he was doing in "Fighting Chance."
"Captain America And Snake Reagan" is one of the great unrealized comic book projects of our time.
Seriously, it's been a few years since I read Gruenwald's Cap run, so I can't say how well it holds up, but I enjoyed it at the time, especially the odd but lovable pairing of Cap and Diamondback as a couple (To this day, I still favor her over Sharon Carter as Steve Rogers' main love interest). Gruenwald's stories, for whatever faults may have been present, had a certain goofiness to them that was endearing because I felt like he was just having fun with the medium.
I always thought the biggest problem his run faced, something highlighted in the scans over at Professor Fury's nice write-up, is the poor quality of the art, especially towards the end of the run when the pencillers were doing their best Jim Lee/Rob Liefeld impressions and falling far short. That is just atrocious looking art…
It's OK not to like the end of Cruenwald's Cap run. It was terrible.
Second the preference for Cap/Diamondback. Plus Kieron Dwyer was awesome on Cap.
The Cap/Diamondback relationship was always a favorite of mine, and I always felt that Crossbones had a lot more personality during the Gruenwald run. However, going back, not a lot of it has aged well. Capwolf? The Superia Stratagem where they try to turn Cap and Paladin into women, and then they spend the last half of the arc running around in women's clothing and not getting noticed. But Rik Levin's art was always pretty solid. And I'm officially rambling.
Those were the days…The Red Skull & his "Skeleton Crew," The Serpent Society, "Streets of Poison." The list goes on and on. But to me it started getting weak sometime after issue 400, and maybe even a little before.
Yeah, the "Superia Stratagem" killed it for me. I weathered "Streets of Poison" unhappily, but my faith was renewed (or at least boosted) by the episodes immediately following, but "Superia Stratagem" did me in. I finished off the storyline, bought one more issue ("Battle over the Capitol" or some such), and never bought another issue of Captain America again. I just couldn't justify the expenditure anymore.
Diamonback was one of the most do-able women in comics history.
"Superia Stragem" was a little too over the top, even for Captain America. I really disliked the whole "death" of Captain America storyline, even though it was slightly more plausible than Cap's most recent demise. A sniper? How many times has Cap been shot at or faced cosmic entities and emerged unscathed?
Oh. My.
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I can't find docs or how to make work the 'cat2email' and "WP Mailman Integration".
could someone who has either working give me some clues or a reference?
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I have it working on my site and set it up as follows
I'd set up your mailman list first.
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Go into Mailman (via cpanel or whatever) and create a new list "stories". You list name will be "email@example.com
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Do not set the list up as announce only. Your blog will be the only sender but only the list administrator or moderator can post to an "announce only" list. You need your blog to be able to send to the list.
Go to the Mailman General Settings and make sure the following two options are set to "YES"
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At this point, what I did was create a "Subscription" page (using default page template) where I listed the description of each list and the subscribe form for each list.
Below is an example of my subscribe form. (substitute your domain name and listname of course)
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Michael comes back to Miami to protect his cover. Sam, Jesse and Fiona are also trying to hunt Mystery Man down themselves. Michael spies on his friends from a safe distance and he remembers his first meet with Fiona.
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The paper examines the effect of various motivators, barriers and policy related interventions (i.e., personal, social and physical–environmental factors) on bicycle commuting in Dares-Salaam, Tanzania. The research shows that these factors have different effects on people depending on the stage of change of cycling behaviour these people are in. In particular, the effects vary among people in the early stages of change of cycling behaviour (pre-contemplation and contemplation) and those in the late stages of change (action and maintenance). Importantly, results indicate that addressing physical barriers alone is likely to have little impact on encouraging bicycle commuting. More specifically, the research shows that perceived motivator variables (e.g. low bicycle price, quality of bicycle, cycling training, and direct cycling routes) are strongly associated with bicycle commuting. Physical barriers including weather, absence of safe parking at home and at work, lack of bicycle paths and water showers at work places as well as personal barriers like social status, social (in)security and not feeling comfortable on a bicycle have the most negative influence on bicycle commuting. Policy related interventions like exemption of bicycle import tax, car congestion charges, and guarding bicycles at public places have a strong impact on bicycle use. The study findings provide a clear understanding of the key influencing factors which can serve as an empirical basis for development of more effective targeted measures to encourage modal change.
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(A few) opinion Leaders do get global warming — Part II
So we've seen much of the so-called intelligentsia ignore the global warming issue when asked by the Atlantic Monthly (subs. req'd) to consider the greatest challenges to the American idea. But not all of those asked were so short-sighted.
You would expect the one environmentalist they asked, Edward O. Wilson (essay below) to get it right, but how about, a Harvard constitutional law professor and his policy analyst/linguist wife:
- Lawrence H. Tribe and Carolyn K. Tribe: "Our greatest national challenge is to reverse the profoundly misguided course the last two presidential elections have set, while doing three things…. Third, cooperating with the international community before it is too late to restore the degraded health of our fragile planet and to protect the well-being of all its inhabitants."
Who else got it right, or partly right? John Updike, Anna Deavere Smith, and even Stephen Breyer:
- John Updike: "The American idea, as I understand it, is to trust people to know their own minds and to act in their own enlightened self-interest, with a necessary respect for others…. The challenges ahead? A fury against liberal civilization by the world's poor, who have nothing to lose; a ruinous further depletion of the world's natural assets; a global warming that will change world climate and with it world geopolitics. The American idea, promulgated in a land of plenty, must prepare to sustain itself in a world of scarcity."
My point exactly!
- Stephen Breyer: "This implies a shared commitment to practices necessary to make any democracy work: conversation, participation, flexibility, and compromise. Such a commitment cannot guarantee success in overcoming serious problems: terrorism, environmental degradation, population growth, energy security, and the like. But it does imply a certain attitude toward finding solutions."
- Anna Deavere Smith: "Even as I write this, sitting here in front of a bank of mountains and looking up at the very wide blue sky of the American West, anything seems possible. Actually, the environmentalists would say anything is possible–and that the possible is not necessarily a good thing. What is the future of the land? …
Another essential element in the American idea is "for all"–as in "justice for all," or "education for all," or "health care for all." Too few of us respond to the notion of "for all"; too few can even imagine "for all." We endanger the survival of the American idea by that failure of imagination.The American idea is transforming itself–and not necessarily for the better. Even as I look out at this land, I find myself in doubt, about our environment and our society. Will we be able to ensure a future in which everyone on this land will be able to move from one valley to the next–to climb this mountain or the other one over there?
Alan Brinkley gets partial credit for saying the U.S. should be "an exemplar of ideals of potentially universal appeal: human rights, environmental responsibility…."Stan Lee mentions global warming in a comic strip response he did, though he writes "Is the warming of the earth mere fancy or fact," so he can't really get any credit for advancing the issue.
The prize, unsurprisingly, goes to E. O. Wilson:
The central issue for America is sustainable development. Somehow we, and other countries, have to find a way to continue raising the quality of life without wrecking the planet.
Scholars, novelists, politicians, artists, and others look ahead to the future of the American idea.
Let's not kid ourselves that the United States is blessed by God. Our mostly European forebears were not given this land as a gift. They conquered it, and in the process they swept aside one race and enslaved another. They took possession of the world's richest remaining store of natural resources and set out to use it up as fast as possible. We inherited from them, and still possess, a rich and bountiful country. Although we're halfway down the barrel of nonrenewable resources, we have enough time remaining to learn the prudence necessary for sustainable development.
The problem, simply put, is this: Long-term thinking is for the most part alien to the American mind. We have to change that. To look far forward and to acquire enough accurate vision requires better self-understanding. That in turn will depend on a grasp of history–not just of the latest tick of the geological clock that transpired during the republic's existence, but of deep history, across the hundreds of millennia when genetic human nature evolved. Our basic qualities may seem a crazy jumble of tribalism, piety, ambition, fear, envy, exaltation, and spirituality, but they make sense in light of humanity's deep history. They are our essence, and now, unfortunately, a few of them also present the greatest risk to the security of civilization.
Conservation and environmentalism are not hobbies; they are a survival practice. America invented conservation; we launched the environmental movement. Now we need a stronger ethic, one woven in more effective ways from science and poetry. The foundation of it will be the recognition that humanity was born within the biosphere, and that we are a biological species in a biological world. Like the other species teeming around us, we are exquisitely adapted to this biosphere and to no other–in anatomy, physiology, life cycle, mind, and, perhaps in us alone, spirit.
An allegiance to our biological heritage will be our ultimate strength. If we ignore that reality and continue to degrade the world that gave us birth by extinguishing natural ecosystems and species, we will permanently harm ourselves. By cutting away our own roots, we risk losing the dream of sustainable development.
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The American idea, as I understand it, is to trust people to know their own minds and to act in their own enlightened self-interest, with a necessary respect for others"
And if they don't act in their own enlightened self-interest (as you see it) then pass some laws and new taxes and TAKE the money necessary to make your plans happen …. right?
"Although we're halfway down the barrel of nonrenewable resources, we have enough time remaining to learn the prudence necessary for sustainable development."
But you don't think we actually have that much time. Correct? Sure the evil oil will run out pretty soon, but we better act (and force everybody to act) real soon or we're all going to hell ……
Would it be possible for you to get a scientist in here for a little guest blogging? You know, give us a real scientific viewpoint for once? Or are they all busy right now?
It's that "with necessary respect for others" codicil you don't get. When your "rights" trample others' rights, they are no longer rights, they are trangressions. If you read the Constitution and the enlightenment thought underpinning it, then you'd understand this balance.
Let me put it simply — you're individual right to ride around in a Cadillac, live in a McMansion, and sop up fuel like a fool — emitting 7 or 8 tons of carbon in the process, does not trump the right of others to live, period. As in survive. It doesn't trump the collective and individual rights of property owners on the Outer Banks in North Carolina to keep their land (gone in 3 decades at this rate), or the rights of Australians to grow enough food to survive, the rights of a hundred thousand other species to avoid extinction or any of a thousand other rights that belong to humanity and the biosphere.
And yes, we face irrevocable consequences now, and oil is at or past peak, but that doesn't mean we won't face worse later if we continue to burn the oil, coal, and natural gas that are causing the problem. When you're driving your car and find yourself heading for a collison with a brick wall, do you say, "Oh well. I'm going to hit it anyway. No sense putting on the brakes?"
And by the way, if you'd read Dr. Romm's book, you'd know he is a scientist — a PhD Pysicist, degreed from MIT.
Your post was so devoid of both thought and knowldege it is an embarrasment to the deniers. I'm sure one of them will write you and suggest you leave the contrarian BS to more adept sophists. Your drivel does even them a disservice.
In other words, if you can reasonably 'prove' to yourself that you are right, then it's okay to rob others and force them to go along with your plans. The end justifies the means. Is that what you are saying?
The comments remind of this quote: "The environment is the libertarian Waterloo: it reveals the flaws of the doctrine in a way that seems to ensure that no 'answer' is forthcoming."
I'm sorry if I have mistaken what you are saying. Are you now suggesting a voluntary, non-violent approach?
"individual rights" may be the Left's Waterloo….
Update: I bet he's gonna run.
Notice his understanding of the term 'right'.
Okay – How about a nice gentlemen's bet of $1? I've figured he was going to run ever since I watched Inconvenient Truth and realized that about half of the movie was publicity for Gore, 'the man who used to be the next president'. In a way I do feel sorry for him for losing that election and don't blame him for being bitter about it, but he did understand how the electoral process worked going in, didn't he?
"Healthcare should be a right". Hmmm.
If you already believed it was a right, you would say 'healthcare IS a right', so this begs the question: How do you think rights are created and by whom?
I know it sounds good to say it's a right, and healthcare certainly is a necessity, but how would we pay for universal healthcare? Or more to the point, WHO would pay? We are back to robbing people to fund it, and that violates the rights of the people you are tapping for the cash, does it not?
As John said above (without realizing the import of his words), "When your 'rights' trample others' rights, they are no longer rights, they are transgressions."
And a "mandatory, non-violent" approach is an oxymoron. How would you enforce the law? If people failed to go along, how would you force them? Without force? I don't get it.
Also, talking about violence – Do you care to distance yourself at all from the folks in your camp calling for Nuremburg-style trials for Deniers, or treating them as traitors (hanging? firing squad?) , or guys like Paul Watson calling for thinning the herd down below a billion, or any of those 'proposals' like that that so many people think are just crazy? Here's a chance to show how centered and moderate you are. You do believe in the right of free speech, at least, don't you?
"In other words, if you can reasonably 'prove' to yourself that you are right, then it's okay to rob others and force them to go along with your plans. The end justifies the means. Is that what you are saying?"
No, that is not what I'm saying. I fortunately don't have that kind of power. It was reserved to the government to redress offenses by the Constitution.
And Joe is precisely right — the only theft that is occurring is the theft of my right to clean air and a stable climate, as well as the rights of 6.3 billion others living now, and countless billions more to come. There are also property rights at issue amounting to trillions of dollars.
Now, what's this nonsense about violence? Are you equating intelligent, market friendly regulations with violence?
You haven't told me how the law can be enforced, without force.
Force doesn't equal violence, but it's the threat of force that keeps people 'in line'. That's the opposite of voluntary. When we talk about controls on the economy, we are talking essentially about control at the point of a gun. That is what government is, in its basic essence. You add taxation and it's really nothing more than a protection racket.
Control of the economy is the opposite of a market, which depends on voluntary exchange. And market controls have an inconvenient tendency to be inefficient and counterproductive. Good ideas have a better chance of survival in a free market than under government control.
And I think the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is pretty weak.
But let's say you are correct, and we're going to Hell in a bucket, I gotta tell ya, you turn this project over to the government and the United Nations, with Al Gore as your spokesman for a new religion, and filter all that 'new' tax money and tariffs through those new layers of bureaucracy, and you'll be lucky to see real results before you retire. You guys need a not-business-as-usual approach.
And then if it doesn't get hot in here after all, we'll be back to Republicans for about 8 years ….
You guys need to back up and convince Joe Public, like me, that the hypothesis is good. The propaganda has done all it can.
Wow. So much denial, so little time. Anyway,
Not everything that is a good is in the tradeable market, as a recent Nobel winner sez:
PRINCETON, New Jersey (Reuters) – Societies should not rely on market forces to protect the environment or provide quality health care for all citizens, a winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for economics said on Monday.
"The market doesn't work very well when it comes to public goods," said Maskin, a slight, soft-spoken 57-year-old who lives in a house once occupied by Albert Einstein.
And of course most know that The Free MarketTM (TM) won't protect the environment. A good paper to help us understand why is here.
Oh, BTW: society grants rights. Fortunately, the anti-others crowd is very small. Loud, but small.
hmmm. /sup not allowed. Is there a list around here of accepted HTML?
Approaches like cap and trade do not force people to do anything. Rather, they set boundary conditions within which the economy can operate without committing violence to others.
That's the fallacy in your line of thinking. In a democracy, people come together to make governments which protect them … the only "violence" I see being conducted is the corporations and citizens who insist that they have a right to screw up the world and kill untold numbers of our children and bankrupt the rest's future because they want to drive SUVs or outsource their pollution costs and consequences to future generations because it's their "right" to commit murder in the name of commerce.
And you may not buy the science, but that is scintillatingly irrelevant. It is what it is whether you buy it or not.
Finally, this "layers of bureaucracy" BS is getting a bit old. The federal government delivers better health care than the private sector at less than a third the cost. The social security system has an overhead of about a fifth of what privatized systems in other countries have. You're still eating food in a world of 6.3 billion people because of a green revolution in agriculture conceived, funded and managed by the bad old gubmint; most of the medical breakthroughs of the past decade come from NIH; you're driving on a highway system conceived funded and maintained by federal programs, people continue to invest in US securities because the government assures a fair and transparent market etc. etc. etc.
The last 4 Nobel prizes in Economics have gone to economists who have dealth with market failures — so this whole myth of the magic markets as vehicles of just allocations and deliverers of all good things by pure serendipity is getting pretty old.
Next time you want to channel Ronald Reagan, try to remember, he was only a B movie actor who was — sadly — suffering from Alzheimers while in office.
Bottom line? When you drop the tired old rheotric and deal with facts, government is more often the solution, than the problem.
If you'd like the last word, have at it. I'm through responding to you — it's clear that reason, logic and facts have no place in your epistemological frame of reference.
While Ron's libertarian idealism is a tad over the top, your attack on Reagan is unwarranted and false. Reagan appeared in many "A" movies and was an early TV star. He had a distinguished career as a labor leader, governor and president. I never voted for him, but his accomplishments as president rank him among the best. Read his collected letters and you'll see that contrary to the image, he was a thoughtful and intelligent man. There is no evidence he was suffering from Alzheimer's while in office. BTW, I consider a properly constructed cap & trade system a "conservative" way to solve the carbon problem.
Well, thanks for the last word. That's very gracious of you. I'm going to go over to Realclimate and see if I can find a scientist to comment on the hypothesis – but I expect they'll call me names, too.
Just remember I warned you that honesty, principle, and motives really do matter.
Better that the law forces you to do something now so that later you or your children are not forced by circumstances to do things that are even more painful.
Am I right?
If you can clearly see and accurately predict the future and the effects of any actions that might be taken, then maybe you are correct. Otherwise, no you are not. You are only guessing.
You'd be surprised how little of the certainty you seem to be looking for is out there in the world, either scientifically or otherwise. There are a few mathematic proofs about abstractions like numbers and triangles that are as certain as you seem to want but otherwise, especially when talking about the future, there is no 100%. So better grow up and accept that there is some risk in the world.
The ironic thing is that what the government would require you to do in the case of a sane global warming policy is actually the right thing to do from the point of view of limited oil and fossil fuel reserves, particulate and mercury pollution, etc. etc. So there are so many reasons to do something about global warming. So your resistance to the notion seems odd to say the least.
Ron K:
I was going over this debate for other reasons when I noted you took me to task for badmouthing Ronnie Raygun.
Sorry bud, but we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Not sure wat your definition of an A-list movie is, but apparently it's different from mine.
Also, not sure what "accomplishments" of Ronnie's have impressed you so, but I hope it's not the cannard about making the Soviet Union fall … they fell because oil — their cheif export and source of money and currency exchange — fell from over $30/B to less than $12/B, not becuse Ronnie made them tremble. Mickey Mouse could have been in the White House, and they would have fallen at that point, becuse the rubble was propped up by oil's value. Once it fell, the rubble became worthless paper.
Fact is, Bush I rescued us from a financial meltdown caused by Bonzo's tax policies and fiscal recklessness.
By rolling back many of Carter's energy efficiency and renewable energy investments he assured that we'd be over the barrell we're over today.
Basically Ronnie's claim to fame was that he managed to put a happy face on the sell-out of America to corporate interests and the triumph of selfish self-interest over rational attemps to harness our collective capacity for the common good.
You can celebrate this if you like, but I believe by championing the myth of the bumbling bureaucrat and the myth of the magic markets, he basically eviscerated this country — we are only now recovering from this "accomplishment."
I have, in fact, read his letters and I believe you are mistaking an almost blind single-mindedness with thoughtfullness.
Reagan was by all accounts a nice guy, but he was immune to facts, impervious to reason, and not interested in the hard work of becoming educated on the issues of his day.
As for Alzheimers? It is a progressive disease that starts long before it is clinically obvious, so it is very likely he was suffering from it to some degree while in office.
I guess the conclusive sign, to me, is that Nancy was manipulating his calendar and schedule according to astrological advice in much of his last term. I hope he allowed this because his faculties were failing — the alternative is too scary to contemplate.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- In the days before his arrest, cracks showed in the elaborate facade authorities say Phillip Garrido built to conceal the girl he kidnapped, raped and imprisoned -- and those cracks were of Garrido's own making.
The registered sex offender and parolee hand-delivered to the FBI's San Francisco office on Aug. 24 a screed declaring that the voices he heard came from God.
The next day, he took the two daughters he had with his alleged kidnap victim to the University of California, Berkeley, where he blurted out to already suspicious campus police officers that he was a convicted rapist.
Most curiously, he showed up at his parole agent's office the day he wound up in custody with his manufactured family in tow -- the two daughters, his wife and a 29-year-old woman who would be revealed as Jaycee Dugard, the girl Garrido admitted abducting in 1991 from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop.
Whether rooted in bravado, mental illness or both, his actions in the years, days and hours before his secret life was exposed raise questions about whether he subconsciously wanted to be caught. And experts say his behavior is likely to become relevant as prosecutors prepare to try Garrido.
Ken Lanning, a consultant and former FBI agent who specializes in crimes against children, said Garrido's lack of discretion and increasing outspokenness are not unusual among sex offenders.
Some try to justify their deeds by arguing that their victims cared for them or somehow benefited from the abuse, he said.
"Deep down, this guy knows he kidnapped this girl 18 years ago, but he is not thinking of this everyday," said Lanning. "He probably wanted to convince himself that he had changed -- 'I was bad at one time and this is the proof that I am a different person.' His need to validate that belief system is a far more likely explanation than that he was crying for help."
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation would not disclose whether Garrido was ordered to bring his daughters to the meeting with his parole agent, or did it on his own. Until he was contacted by UC Berkeley, the agent did not know Garrido was a father. Why he took his wife and Dugard along also has not been revealed.
But a telephone interview Garrido gave from jail to Sacramento television station KCRA the day after his arrest lends weight to the theory that he may have thought he had nothing to hide.
Asked whether he was relieved the masquerade was over, Garrido agreed.
"I feel much better now," he said. "This was the process that needed to take place. When I went to the San Francisco (FBI) bureau...I was accompanied by two children that are Jaycee Dugard's two children that we've had. So, you know, the federal government had them. And they also accompanied me elsewhere, to Berkeley. The only places that I went were in the legal system."
But, for all the recent disclosures, Garrido had taken pains to hide Dugard's identity.
Neighbors and several customers of his home-based printing business said they often saw the children, ages 11 and 15, but never Dugard. The handful of customers who had interacted with or heard of Dugard said she was referred to as Allissa, Garrido's oldest daughter.
During Garrido's meeting with his parole officer on Aug. 26, Dugard actual identity remained hidden until Concord police were called to help sort out who she was.
Concord Police Lt. Jim Lardieri said it took several hours of inquiry and ultimately separating Dugard so she could be questioned alone by a female officer for the truth to come out.
"It wasn't revealed right away, clearly, what was taking place there," Lardieri said. "It was some time and by some questioning we determined who Jaycee was and their actual circumstances."
Garrido and his wife Nancy have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, raping and imprisoning Dugard for years in a backyard compound of tents and sheds at their Antioch, Calif. home.
His state of mind during the abduction, the years since and his recent dealings with law enforcement will no doubt be debated as the case against him and his wife makes it way through the legal system, said Michael McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist in Rochester, N.Y.
"These things he is writing would lead one to question his sanity or at least his grasp on reality," said McGrath, who has not examined Garrido but reviewed the 27-page packet he gave the FBI.
Garrido's subsequent conduct at UC Berkeley also points to poor judgment, McGrath said. "Going and proselytizing it in a public place, needing to get a permit and he brings the two kids and blurts out his criminal record -- it's very possible on some level, unconsciously, he wanted to put an end to it and didn't know how to do it."
At some point, experts will probably be asked to evaluate Garrido to determine if he is psychotic or suffers from another psychiatric condition. The husband and wife charged with the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart, the Salt Lake City teenager who was taken at knifepoint from her bedroom and kept by a street preacher for nine months, have never stood trial because they were deemed mentally incompetent to participate in their defense.
Whatever Garrido's motives, his behavior raises questions similar to one his defense lawyer asked during Garrido's 1977 trial for kidnapping, handcuffing and raping a Nevada woman in a storage unit he had furnished with sex aids, pornography, stage lights and wine.
After his victim testified that Garrido had told her his name, where his wife worked and other identifying details, the lawyer asked him if he wanted to get caught.
"No," Garrido responded. "She was convincing me that she was enjoying what she was doing," he said, adding "and I just didn't know what I was doing to be able to tell her that."
The FBI and police departments in California and Nevada have started looking anew at old unsolved rapes, child abductions and murders based on what they have learned so far about Garrido's methods in Dugard's kidnapping.
If he keeps talking, his story could ultimately help law enforcement agencies develop better ways of monitoring sex offenders by determining which ones are the most dangerous, according to Lanning. It could be that investigators never considered him a suspect in Dugard's disappearance because they regarded Garrido as a rapist who targeted adults, not children, although in the Nevada case he admitted exposing himself to young girls.
"One of the great teaching points is to remind people that just because a prior sex offense was against an adult doesn't mean the guy couldn't kidnap a child," he said. "Here is a guy who kidnaped a woman in Nevada, had some kind of sex palace and did a lot of weird things. If somebody had asked me, I would have said this guy is a good suspect and you want to check him out."
But Lanning says there is at least one person whose actions should not be second-guessed -- Dugard.
"If you are alive after 18 years, you did the right thing. I don't care what you did, it was the right thing," he said.
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Fantastic Fun! Unique!Children 5-8 years old learn through interactive activities how to start their own business. Each day we create a new business, develop advertising signs, design menus and have meaningful discussions about being an entrepreneur. Camp ends with a play about careers and reaching their greatest potential.KIDZ ENTREPRENEURGirl Scout Workshops
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Team with other Girl Scouts to brainstorm about how to start a business, create advertising signs and design menus. Discover who, how, why a girl wants to be an entrepreneur, while enhancing public speaking, critical thinking and problem solving skills. Through art, individual and group projects, creativity plus imagination girls strengthen their self-confidence. Perfect introduction to the skills needed to thrive for the famous Girl Scout Cookie Sale. Wonderful 2015/2016 season. Register early. Workshops fill quickly.
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Teaching the philosophies of Louise Hay in a fun, energetic, interactive night. Singing, dancing, discoveries, discussions Mirror work, positive affirmations, and relaxations.