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How time flies! It's been over three years since I published my strategic long-term comprehensive energy policy
in a quest to help Washington solve the nation's biggest (and least talked about) economic problem -- foreign oil imports. The policy underwent a major edit in 2009 after reading Robert Hefner III's seminal book The Grand Energy Transition. This is a must-read for anyone involved in crafting energy policy and earnestly seeking the pragmatic trade-offs necessary in developing a realistic energy policy.
However, it takes more than reading the book. Apparently many in the Obama administration have read the book and yet we still have no comprehensive energy policy today and no initiative of any kind to reduce foreign oil imports.
I don't want to discuss "peak oil," because that phrase often leads to irrelevant debate. What I will discuss, and what I believe has been proved by oil prices and economic activity, are three statements that are much more to the point:
1. Worldwide oil production will have much difficulty keeping up with worldwide oil demand.
Over the past decade, the price of a barrel of oil is up multiples of the decline in he U.S. dollar. This is based on strong demand not only from China, but from India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Russia.
2. This is a crisis for the world's leading oil consumer (the U.S.) which imports 60% of the roughly 20 million barrels it uses everyday.
The United States sends roughly $1 billion out of the country every day to purchase petroleum. It is by far the largest component of the trade deficit.
3. Policy-makers cannot solve this commodity based oil crisis with monetary policy.
One can only solve a commodity crisis by producing more of it, or, finding a substitute. Since producing 20 million barrels a day is out of the rhelm of possiblity over the next say 5 years, we should find a substitute. That substitute is (or at least should be) domestic abundant, clean, and cheap natural gas.
However, even faced with these very simple truths, the Obama administration (like the Bush administration before it) believes the Federal Reserve can solve our oil crisis by printing more money to "pay" for our imported foreign oil. As we have all witnessed, not only does this strategy not work, but it merely increases the debt, strategically weakens our economic foundation, lowers our standard of living and weakens the U.S. dollar - which causes oil prices to go up, which necessitates printing more money -- well, you get the picture.
Meantime, the United States has been blessed with an abundance of natural gas. That said, it's only a blessing if we know what to do with it and we obvious do not. News flash: Natural gas transportation is a no-brainer!
Natural gas is the only domestic resource which can be scaled up to significantly reduce foreign oil imports over the next 5 years. When I say significantly, I mean by 5 million barrels a day! But it takes leadership, vision, integrity, and a good work ethic...apparently none of which have been in abundance in Washington over the last decade. Is it a coincidence that the S&P500 has gone nowhere in the past 10 years? Certainly not.
It appears the U.S. would rather export its natural gas than to power our cars and trucks with it! Even worse, for years Toyota (NYSE:TM) has had a natural gas/electric hybrid vehicle design (think a Prius that runs on natural gas instead of gasoline refined from foreign oil) which is the best architected engine solution to help solve the oil crisis -- yet the cars are nowhere to be found at your local dealer. What a country! You can find a picture of this vehicle on my blog's energy policy. That is probably as close as we'll ever come to seeing such a beautiful design.
Meantime, Honda (NYSE:HMC) announced plans to sell the natural gas Civic nationwide through all dealers. However, it comes at a $5,000 premium over the gasoline version. For that price, the car should come bundled with the Phill home natural gas refueling appliance. Then I would buy one! I can't believe Fuel System's Solutions (NASDAQ:FSYS) hasn't got together with Honda to bundle these two products together as a package for Honda dealers to offer.
As a result, the U.S. economy is held hostage to the price of oil (gasoline). Every time we start to see the economy warm up a bit, oil prices do to and the resulting tax on consumers and businesses cool things off. What we have is persistent unemployment, stagnant growth, higher inflation, moribund equity markets, and Occupy Wall Street. Welcome to the new normal.
And speaking of Occupy Wall Street, Joe Kernen and the other talking heads on CNBC continue to spew sarcastic remarks about OWS as "commies against capitalism" or some such. Like his famous dreams for oil prices -- "two barrels for $40" (as I kidded him, you'll see two barrels for $400 first), this is just more dangerous thinking.
But what can you expect from the crew that still idolizes former GE CEO Welch, the man who almost single-handedly destroyed that American icon. Senator Corzine was a another frequent favorite of CNBC, and they've even had Michael Milken on the show post his conviction. I have no doubt Bernie Madoff will be on the show one day and will be hailed as the man who got café lattes available for all inmates.
But I digress. The OWS gang is not against capitalism; it is against what has been so blatantly going on the last 10 years or so: the U.S. government shoveling money (printing it first) to the already wealthiest individuals and corporations in the country as a reward for bringing on the economic crisis that we find ourselves in today! This is not capitalism -- it is the definition of fascism. This SA article is coming true before my eyes. However, eyes are getting pepper-sprayed, tents are being torn down and thrown in the Dumpster, and those in power don't seem to think there is anything to worry about from the OWS crowd. And that makes me worry even more about the future of my country.
So, given such a happy outlook, what are American investors to do? Well, the new normal is apparently that the stock market no longer takes its cue from earnings and company fundamentals (ahhh, the good ole days), but instead is jerked hither and yond by the latest mumblings out of the EU or the Federal Reserve or some other U.S. bureaucrat.
At the end of the day, an investor must own gold, silver and oil. You can play the precious metals via the GLD and SLV ETFs, or buying the coins. For oil, I have become a big fan of small to medium sized companies in the Bakken play - GeoResources Inc. (NASDAQ:GEOI), Whiting Petroleum (NYSE:WLL), Hess Corp (NYSE:HES), and for a nice dividend play, StatOil (NYSE:STO), via its buyout of Brigham Exploration (BEXP).
As time marches on and there is still no comprehensive energy policy in the U.S. (and that seems a certainty), the Federal Reserve will be forced to print many more dollars, and ironically this will pump up the stock market so you must participate to keep inflation from getting the best of you.
It's a game of musical chairs, and you best not be the one caught standing when the music stops. It will stop. Best of luck to you.
Disclosure: I am long GEOI, WLL, STO, HES.


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Cameron Selogie told The Arizona Republic his IL Vinaio restaurant has received more than 150 e-mails from protesters as well as a bomb threat. He says African lions are on the protected list, but not endangered.
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Victor McClinton, 49, a sheriff's law enforcement technician, was fatally shot early Tuesday, and Damion Taylor, 24, was wounded and remains hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Located in a building with its original entrance at 7 Kings Square, it became the Arts Centre in 1964. Seating was originally provided for 150. It was founded by William & Jean Poeton, who encouraged the staging of new plays and rare revivals. Films were also screened from 1966 and it was eventually named Arts Centre Cinema. It closed suddenly in January 1998 when allegedly, the owner ran away with the money.
Re-opened as the Cube on 2nd October 1998, it is a Microplex cinema, arts venue, adult creche and progressive social well-being enterprise in central Bristol. It was formed in 1998 by 4 artists who had no idea what they were getting into. Idealists, amateurs, fools, material positivists, stilt walkers, film directors, screen writers, occultists. But not even running illegal cinema speakeasy events in Bristol (Club Rombus) could prepare them for the monster they gave birth to one cold and rainy October evening in 1998. The building until that point in time had been a glass recycle depot, an am-dram theatre, a gay avant garde 70's art centre, an extension of the Chinese Overseas Association, a girls school, a deaf and dumb institute, a second run family cinema, a secret gig venue, an illegal gambling den. All these ghosts hang on in there.
The am-dram group who once occupied the space hand-built the wooden staging, racked seats and wood panelled walls of the auditorium and this DIY ethic is still the life-blood of the Cube. Every job needed to run this venue seven days a week is carried out by devoted volunteers who give up their time for the love of it. We are amateurs, but we resist the negative connotations of that word. The organisation runs as a not-for-profit worker's co-operative.
The Cube has evolved over time. Older guests will remember entering via King Square past the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. When that kitchen burnt down in 2001, we were closed down for a year, but reopened with a new entrance and a new garden, a small urban oasis where cigarette papers get swapped for a smile and a story. Volunteers have come and gone too. Some have fallen in love and had children, who now come to Babycinema screenings and Nanoplex kids workshops.
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Good to see the old place is still showing Films. My first job was projectionist at the Arts Centre from 1969 – 1973 after I left College. At the time we were the only cinema in Bristol that could still show the old nitrate films on the old Kalee 21 projectors. I remember installing the wall lights in the auditorium which we removed from the coffee bar when it closed, I also did a fair amount of re-wiring in the projection box which was in a poor state when I joined. There were only four full time staff then. Reg Allsop was the general manager, Anne Godfrey in charge of film programming, Sonia running the box office, and myself showing the films and looking after the occasional small scale touring theatre shows we bought in. Happy days.
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The latest weather report has indicated that a cold front with overly strong winds is set to hinder the three-day countdown for the Red Bull Stratos launch with the ultimate flight postponed from October 8 to Tuesday October 9.
The mission, set to take place in Roswell, New Mexico, will see athlete Felix Baumgartner attempt a record-breaking freefall from 120,000 feet above the Earth.
The reason for the delay is a strong cold front with sharply colder temperatures, low clouds and some drizzle that will be moving through eastern New Mexico over the weekend.
While the weather will greatly improve on Monday with clearing skies and warmer temperatures, wind speeds are expected to be above acceptable levels for a safe launch.
Red Bull Stratos meteorologist Don Day said Baumgartner will launch with the largest manned balloon in history: 550 feet/ 168 meters high at the start with a volume of 30 million cubic feet/850.000 cubic metres.
"The good news is that we usually have a day or two after this type of cold front moves through where the weather can be favorable for a balloon launch", Don Day said.
The delay does not influence the preparations and a dress rehearsal will still go ahead.
Ideal weather conditions are essential for the launch because of the delicate eight-hour long process of laying out and pumping helium into the 55-storey high balloon that will carry Baumgartner and his over 1,300-kg space capsule to the stratosphere.
The balloon, the largest ever used made for manned flight, was constructed out of strips of high-performance polyethylene, a plastic film.
These strips would cover 40 acres if they were laid out flat on the ground.
The balloon's height when it reaches jump altitude will be 334 feet (102 metres), with a diameter of 424 feet (129 metres).
The balloon, 10 times larger than the balloon used by Joe Kittinger for his record jump from 102,800 feet (31,333 metres) 52 years ago, which Baumgartner will be trying to beat, will be tall and thin at the launch.
On TV: Tuesday 9th October starting between 11pm and midnight (AEST), on 7mate.
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The calls for crow eating are kind of strange. I think Baalke did an excellent job of working the finances of this FA period (no one got more guaranteed money than they deserved), but I don't think we're a more talented team than we were at the beginning of FA either.
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Van Jones: In 20 Years, 'People Are Going To Be Asking This President Why He Didn't Do Something On Climate'
President Obama's legacy will be defined by a number of issues: the stimulus package; killing Osama bin Laden; his endless battles with Congress; his support for gay marriage.
But arguably the biggest issue he'll be judged on — one that is still rarely mentioned in Washington policy circles — is climate change.
It is true that this President has done more than any other leader in American history to promote clean energy. But that will only be one piece of his legacy. The rest of his climate record will be marked by his decision to allow drilling in the rapidly melting Arctic ocean, his choice to approve or deny the Keystone XL pipeline, and his ability to once again lead on pricing carbon. These are all still very much up in the air.
Van Jones, the former White House "Green Jobs Czar" and a progressive moment builder, is warning the President that he needs to find the "courage" to stand up and deal with these issues in a climate context. In an interview with science writer Chris Mooney for Mother Jones Magazine, Jones says he believes that climate will be "the issue he's judged on":
Mother Jones: What would real climate leadership look like? You gave President Obama a "B" or "B-" on the environment in his first term, what would he have to do to earn an "A" in the second one?
Van Jones: An "A" would be a major energy and climate bill as a centerpiece of his legacy. He obviously has to deal with the economy and the budget issues that the Tea Party keeps trying to politicize. And there's a question of immigration reform, which is critical as a major part of the progressive coalition. But, ten years from now, twenty years from now, the only thing people are going to be asking of this president is either, why he didn't find the courage to do something on climate change, or they're going to be asking how he found the courage. I think from the viewpoint of history, this is going to be the issue that he's judged on. We've seen a lot of conversation about this fiscal cliff, which is an invented, manufactured crisis, but very little talk about the climate cliff, which is a real, unavoidable crisis.
So if we can have the president of the United States on TV every day talking about the manufactured fiscal cliff, then he can use all of those resources to put pressure on Congress to do something about the real climate cliff.
After his re-election last month, President Obama hinted that he might once again talk about climate change in his second term: "We want our children to live in an America that isn't…threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
However, in his first post-election press conference, the President backed away from acting on climate and attempted to separate the environment from the economy: "If the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody is going to go for that. I won't go for that."
The White House likes to point to the stimulus package, EPA regulations, and other executive orders as evidence of the President's work on climate — often without really talking about climate. While these actions do set us on a pathway toward emissions reductions, they are still not nearly close to what scientists say we need, and not quite bold enough to convince countries like China and India that the U.S. is leading internationally on climate.
In the last few weeks, we've seen a range of new research telling us that we are on the brink of catastrophic climate change — right now. In the next twenty years, everything we know will be influenced and transformed by climate. And when people look back, they won't be nitpicking about which policies did more to incrementally reduce emissions.
Assuming that Obama stays mum on climate, they'll be asking why the President of the United States didn't use the opportunity to rally the country when the science demanded it.
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Jones is right, of course. Maybe the President watches too much TV. All of this "fiscal cliff" and gas prices crap on the evening news will end up just as forgotten as the celebrity updates.
Mr. Obama needs to dig a little deeper inside himself. Many of us are losing faith that he is capable of it.
And thanks to Van for speaking up. We need more like him.
New depth of cynicism alert:
Suppose the fiscal gap keeps DC folks awake at night. If they convince themselves the economic cost of lost ecosystem services is far less than the fiscal gap itself, a handy solution would be to kill off a large portion of future elderly with heat stress.
"Voila!", their faith might lead them to say, "No more fiscal gap, at half the price!"
I'm not saying Obama is actually DOING this. Just saying future conspiracy theorists might say he did.
Many thanks to whatever CP reader first posted the interview link about the fiscal gap.
Climate underlies ALL economic issues. Without the earth's ecosystem giving us our riches – we will be poor to the point of extinction (at least civilization – certainly not 7 or 9 billion of us).
What's Obama supposed to 'do'?
get changed in a phone booth (oops–none left) and blow on the atmosphere to cool it down like hot coffee?
The President is locked into the same energy guzzling system as the rest of us.
he knows something's got to be done, but that would mean inconvenience for everybody, and nobody will put up with that. we all expect to keep warm in winter and cool in summer…that takes energy
Carter was thrown out of office for even suggesting we might be heading for trouble.
By 2016 the Repubs will be back promising $2 gas again, if Obama goes ahead with fuel-austerity gullible fools will believe it and vote in a GOP whacko candidate
What if Obama had a weekly town hall meeting, with guests such as Richard Alley, James Hansen and Bill McKibben.
What if Obama scared the pants off us, and then comforted us with solutions.
What if?
Obama's always been a little hard to read, but it's clear that he's not an environmental President — not first at least. His priorities are more I line with the old-fashioned liberal agenda of social equality. I don't think anybody on his political team understands or gives a damn about the environment — Ploufe, Axlerod…do they even mention the environment unless specifically asked about it by the press?
So I wouldn't count on a sudden change of focus from the White House unless climate change gets so bad so fast that it leaves Pres. & Co. no choice. Keep the pressure up, but politically our best hope is probably to elect an environmental president and congress in 2016.
Politicians stay away from global warming solutions because of time factors and risk factors. Let's say Obama convinced Congress to start on the path of climate change mitigation. Let's also say that within a year or so another frankenstorm hits the New York-New Jersey area or some other heavily populated section. The fossil fuel companies would jump on this and grind him up politically. A lot of the populace who had changed their fuel-sucking ways would get dis-heartened or outright antagonistic as they saw their austerity getting bad results. The time delay for results and the possibility of further disasters are too long range and too high to run with politically. Since Obama is in his last term as president he could pursue it further but the party would be heavily damaged and the next president would be republican. The republicans would run amok on the environment and halt mitigations that were not in fossil industry's favor. One step forward, two steps back.
We cannot depend on political solutions. We must do this ourselves or concede the field. Once we are making a big difference, the politics will start to follow.
Maybe more like 2 years.
The President should be roundly criticized for not talking about the seriousness of the problem but do you really think a bit of talking will move the most anti-science, conspiracy theory loving House ever in the history of the US? How will you force the House to do anything on climate? What sort leverage will get them to change? You cannot just appeal to their sense of decency because they do not have one. This is the "let 'em die Republicans." This is the pack of hoodlums that want to protect the wealthy and government subsidies for the fossil fuel fat cats. They do not give two shits about the average American or preventing further destruction due to AGW. They cannot be reasoned with so you need some sort of leverage exactly like the imbecilic fiscal emergency they imposed upon themselves. But when it comes to climate they do not even acknowledge that an emergency exists.
We all know what Obama should be saying about the climate issue but, if you want to be constructive Van, you should also lay out exactly how he can get the anti-science, conspiracy theory believing Republicans to change their thinking.
#1 Obama should talk
#2 Obama should talk some more.
#3 Go back to #1
In the midst of all his talking, he should request an urgent report from the National Science Academy.
Whether delayed action is a "false economy", as claimed by IEA (see http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/04/379694/iea-world-11-degree-warming-school-children-catastrophic/) will be the basis of the report.
Let the our own National Science Academy compare dollars now to dollars later, to help guide plans for the federal budget. They should be sure to include the value of ecosystem services we are going to lose opting for action later.
While the report is being prepared, Obama should go back to #1 above.
In 20 years, if I and many of you are still alive, we'll be more concerned about where our next meal is than President's Obama cowardly lion impersonation.
To paraphrase Guy McPherson. Anyone who thinks the environment is a subset of the economy instead of vice-versa, should try counting his money while holding his breath.
It causes me to lose respect for Climate Progress when you quote Obama saying "If the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody is going to go for that. I won't go for that." as that were the sum total of what he said on the topic in the press conference, omitting to mention that the very next words out of his mouth were "If, on the other hand, we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader, I think that's something that the American people will support.".
So, if you go to your Doctor with a life-threatening illness, and he says that he will do what he can consistent with what your insurance will pay, you would be happy? I would hope you find a Doctor who would say he'll do whatever it takes to save your life, with no conditions.
That's what I would expect from a real leader of the American government. Our civilization is in real danger of going under by mid-century at our present rate of fossil fuel use. I would hope Obama would say that protecting the lives of our citizens and their progeny, which translates to all the citizens of the world and their progeny, would be his highest priority. The wishy-washy statement you quote does not encourage me.
Exactly. That's why this 'debate' is all a game. Without the planet's population being willing to live like the Pennsylvania Amish at best, and perhaps more like the indiginous Native Americans for the next three or four decades, there is a miniscule chance of 'solving' the climate change problem. What are the odds of that happening, voluntarily or involuntarily?
Here's a metaphor of what we face. One hundred people are sentenced to jail for twenty years. They are confined to one large room, with relatively close quarters, a low ceiling, and almost no ventilation. Ninety-eight of them are three pack a day smokers, and the other two are non-smokers. Five of the smokers are 'deniers', and two of those five own the cigarette concession.
Ninety-three of the smokers recognize the dangers of smoking, but are too 'hooked' to quit. The two non-smokers recognize the dangers of smoking, and also recognize the dangers of inhaling second-hand smoke. The two non-smokers talk about the dangers of smoking, but no one changes their habits. The two non-smokers take a poll, where sixty smokers say they would like to quit, but none reduces their smoking by even one cigarette. The two non-smokers ask their elected leader to show strong leadership in reducing smoking; the leader replies he is powerless to act without popular support.
After two years, three of the smokers have died from lung cancer. The 'deniers' say people have been smoking for thousands of years, and no one has died prematurely from smoking; they died when their time came. The 'deniers' say the three dead smokers died from 'natural causes'. No matter what the two non-smokers try to change the environment, they run up against a stone wall. That's where we are with man-made climate change today, and that's why there is little hope of the problem being solved in the real world.
One of the classic definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
So, 10 years from now you can tell your grandchildren what you did in the war: "Well, I complained a lot about Obama".
Yes, I'm angry with him. Yes I am mystified by him.
But what about some concrete ideas on how to make him wake up? You know, like join a mass demonstration in DC?
Awesome! Best 1-sentence distillation of the essential problem I have ever heard!
What is it you want him to do? If one reads the reports of Kevin Anderson based on non-inclusion of positive feedbacks, and reads especially between the lines, one sees a message being delivered loud and clear. Mother Nature is telling us, to paraphrase Bush the Elder: "Read my lips; no more fossil fuels". She is not saying: 1) no more fossil fuels, except to help transition to a renewables economy; 2) no more fossil fuels, except to assist in reforestation; 3) no more fossil fuels, except for life-threatening emergencies; 4) no more fossil fuels, except to prevent the world economy from going under. She is saying the atmosphere contains all the CO2 necessary to drive us from Dangerous climate conditions to 'Extremely Dangerous', in Anderson's terminology. What can President Obama do to satisfy all these conditions?
Now, a caveat. What Mother Nature is really saying is 'no more net additions of CO2' to the atmosphere. If we could generate some magical technology that might use one unit of CO2 to extract e.g. three units of CO2 from the atmosphere, this could be allowable. In fact, if we could replace fossil fuel with a magical fuel that removed more CO2 from the atmosphere than any greenhouse gases it might generate, and perhaps generated sulphates/aerosols as well, then we might have a chance, and President Obama could address a number of the above requirements as well. Absent that, his hands are tied.
What addiction has talk ever cured? Right, and it certainly won't cure perhaps the strongest addiction of all, addiction to cheap fossil fuel.
A slightly older political figure could have been the first black President of the United States had he spoken up and stopped a war. Colin Powell is the tragic figure of the beginning of this century.
It's my hope Obama realizes he may have greater power and responsibility than any of his predecessors because of global warming. Let's hope he ultimately decides to shoulder that burden, rather than accept a place in history no more significant than your favorite bar tender or barista or Rush Limbaugh or the Koch brothers.
This article indicates why humans are doomed.
The best action to save the planet for the global warming that has been going off for the past century is Obama is letting the Keystone XL pipeline be built.
Obama fighting to force voters to force Republicans to defy Grover Norquist and vote for a tax hike is totally irrelevant to the climate, because no carbon tax is required to cut carbon emissions, just not permit the Keystone XL or drilling in the arctic and the future is saved.
Look, the anti-tax crowd is a thousand times more determined to see the future destroyed than the environmentalists are to save the future.
If climate action is the way to fix the economy, then go to Washington and demand the green jobs programs from Republicans. Make it clear to Republicans that if they don't vote for green jobs they will be defeated in 2014 because you will join the Republican Party to work against them in the primary by reminding Republicans that it was Republicans who created the EPA and Republicans that created the National Parks.
Blaming Obama is just like admitting to being lazy. Obama is not the problem – Republicans are. Fix the Republicans.
Obama also has to get real on the topic of "Clean Coal" and "Natural Gas".
I feel Obama is a master strategist. He understands how to move the political upperclass with minimal effort.
David Axelrod is finger in the wind guy. He's the problem. Science gets in his way. Nature gets in his way. I'm ready to believe that principles get in his way. This is Obama's Achilles Heel – someone who is all about winning but at zero about principles.
How do we get rid of him and get someone in his place who can present a coherent and consistent vision of a clean and prosperous America? – Reborn by sake of virtue.
Where o where o where's Obama?
Where o where o where's Obama?
Where o where o where's Obama?
Way down yonder in say-nothing land!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Way down yonder in say-nothing land!
Climate congress, he can start it,
Climate congress, he can start it,
Climate congress, he can start it,
But not when he's lost in say-nothing land!
Without Obama it's all for nothing,
Without Obama it's all for nothing,
Without Obama it's all for nothing,
Votes count for nothing in say-nothing land!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Leadership vaccuum, yes sir! yes sir!
Way down yonder in say-nothing land!
Gimme a break.
This comment advocates stopping FF burning this very minute. (I mean, read the actual words S1 wrote.)
Those among us with shreds of sanity cannot help noticing that the result of this "policy" would be the prompt murder of billions and the immiseration of most of the remainder.
Lets try to stick with the real world. The mixture of good, bad, and uncertainty is already hard enough without distraction from murderous fantasies that put Pol Pot to shame.
@Superman1– That's a fine metaphor. So, say you are one of the smokers in that jail. Would you just give up and not even consider trying to quit?– because that's the question that has been haunting me for a while now.
"Lets try to stick with the real world."
The 'real world' is the following tradeoff: for every bit of fossil fuel used from here on out, we go further in to the temperature regime that Anderson calls 'Extremely Dangerous'. He's not playing semantic games; these words have meaning. First, the drastic increase in extreme events in this 'Extremely Dangerous' regime would create worldwide chaos and destruction. Second, there is much higher likelihood that the myriad positive feedbacks we have identified already will spiral out of control, and the planet will become uninhabitable in short order.
That's the real world, like it or not. Many lives are going to be ended prematurely either way. We don't have a good choice, and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous to the extreme.
You're asking a different question; the focus of the metaphor was on the two non-smokers. But, as your question states, suppose one of the 93 non-denier smokers decided to quit. What he should do depends on his purpose for quitting. If he is quitting for health purposes, but he really enjoys smoking, and he realizes that quitting in that heavy second-hand smoke environment won't prolong his life that much, then, unless he and the two non-smokers can somehow convince the super-majority to stop smoking, it's probably pointless to stop.
That's really the situation that most of those who contribute to this blog face. Their adopting an Amish-like lifestyle is pointless unless the super-super-majority (that seem not to care about lifting a finger to avoid the most serious consequences of climate change) come on board as well. Obviously, there have been many people who have taken hopeless pathways because of moral and ethical reasons, because it was the 'right' thing to do. But, from the larger scheme of things, it's basically irrelevant. Unless the super-super-majority can be turned around, we're toast.


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BARRE After a judge refused to accept a plea deal where he would not serve any jail time, a former Cabot man will serve 60 days in jail for performing oral sex on a 13-year-old boy in 2005.
Henry E. Menard, 70, was convicted in January of sexual assault on a victim under 16 years old, by having oral sex with the boy three times in the span of a week. He was sentenced in Washington County criminal court in Barre Friday to three to 10 years all suspended, with 60 days in jail and 90 days home confinement. The original agreement between the state and Menard called for no jail time and 150 days home confinement.
Judge Thomas Zonay said that agreement was not acceptable because it did not include any jail time. Menards attorney, David Kidney, and Deputy States Attorney Megan Campbell then worked out the agreement where Menard would spend two months in jail. Campbell said she was fine with the new plea deal as the victim in the case has said he does not want to be involved in Menards possible trial.
Before the agreement was reached, Kidney argued for no jail time as he said the incident with the boy was just a slip up and several people had written letters to the court in support of Menard saying how great of a person he was. Zonay pointed out how the letters could also be seen in a different way.
The very characteristics that everyone is glowing about with Mr. Menard are indeed what this court views as the exact characteristics which provided him the access, which provided him the ability and which provided him that trust that was violated by perpetrating on this young man ... It was the very essence of everything that was good that provided the basis for him to do this, Zonay said.
Zonay also addressed the notion that this incident was just a slip up.
If he did it one time, that argument could be as compelling as you could get ... It wasnt, Oh my God, I just did this. What did I do? Its I did this. Im doing it again and Im doing it again. I think theres a difference, he said.
Kidney also tried to argue that the boy did not recall who initiated the second and third sex acts between himself and Menard, saying the boy could have been the one to initiate, but was too scared to admit it. Zonay proposed a different scenario where the boy knew who initiated, but was protecting his abuser, as he said sometimes happens in sexual assaults on children.
Thirteen-year-old kids dont initiate sex with 62-year-old men, Zonay said.
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ARTS IN AMERICA; Nervous Dance Between a Blissful Dreamer and a Master of Control
By SARAH BOXER
Published: February 17, 1999
FORT WORTH— When Picasso saw Matisse's ''Joy of Life'' (1906), he produced ''Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon'' (1907) in response. When Matisse saw Picasso's portrait of a dreamer, ''Woman With Yellow Hair'' (1931), he countered four years later with ''The Dream.'' Matisse and Picasso were goads, rivals and measures for one another.
''No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I,'' Picasso once said, ''and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.'' But Picasso never painted a Matisse, and Matisse never painted a Picasso. As the art historian Leo Steinberg put it, ''unlike Picasso'' is a mantra for Matisse scholars and vice versa.
How many ways are there to say that Matisse is not Picasso and Picasso is not Matisse? At a symposium to kick off the exhibition ''Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry'' organized by Yve-Alain Bois at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, there were 49 examples, starting with touch and ending with death.
The first speaker, Mr. Steinberg, pondered the way each painter painted fingers. ''Picasso's touch is too demonstrative to leave anything out'' (Example No. 1), Mr. Steinberg said. Matisse is a master of fingers with no end (No. 2).
When it comes to making paint or paper scraps ''vicissitate,'' or assume different roles, he said, Picasso rules (3). In one Cubist collage, ''Siphon, Glass, Newspaper, Violin,'' pieces of newspaper ''dematerialize into connotations'': one is a siphon, or is it a wine bottle?; another is a glass and shadow; still another is scratch paper to draw on. Scraps from the trash become ''dramatis personae,'' players with careers, Mr. Steinberg said. Picasso has ''intrinsic wit'' (4). Matisse can hide figures in a landscape (5). Picasso can represent multiple views of a figure (6). Picasso's black eyes are better(7). Matisse makes black a color (8). ''Matisse feels'' (9). ''Picasso embodies'' (10). ''Matisse resonates'' (11). Picasso begins ''in medias res'' (12).
Mr. Steinberg added: ''Matisse can mix drawing and painting, but men and women? No way'' (13). Picasso is obsessed with mating (14); even his pigeons do it. In Picasso, there is narrative focus (15). In Matisse there is no main attraction, not even the face (16). Why? It would be ''too attractive,'' stealing attention from the painting itself.
Picasso conducts an ''assault on the center,'' Mr. Steinberg said; he ''closes like a fist'' (17). Matisse is loose and expansive. ''He knows where the center is but his vectors speed past it'' (18).
''Look at Matisse, and Picasso seems overanxious'' (19), Mr. Steinberg continued. ''Get into Picasso, and Matisse seems decorative'' (20) and ''shallow'' (21).
That's all well and good. But what happens when they start trespassing on each other's turf? John Elderfield, the chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, told a story about Matisse in Picasso-land. In 1935 Matisse began work on ''The Pink Nude.'' If you look at the photographs of each stage of the work, Mr. Elderfield said, they form ''an archeology of Matisse's reaction'' to one of Picasso's nudes in an armchair.
For Picasso, paintings that suggest control and submission in the same moment were second nature. He often painted women gazing challengingly at the viewer (22) and at the same time seductively displaying both rear and front (23).
For Matisse such an approach was treacherous (24). He went through no fewer than 22 tries to get ''The Pink Nude'' right. And he only found a comfortable solution to it when he took a break. One afternoon, he drew a satyr spying on a nymph from above. The next morning he went back to the painting and transformed some flowers sitting on a chair into a stand-in for the satyr. The flowers got a view of the model's front; the viewer saw the side. Unlike Picasso, Matisse didn't distort the figure to get a double view (25).
That was not the only time one artist chased madly after the other. In the early 1930's, Albert Skira commissioned Matisse to illustrate some Mallarme poems and, at the same time, commissioned Picasso to illustrate a new edition of Ovid's ''Metamorphoses.'' Picasso saw the commissions as a contest, said Lisa Florman, an assistant professor of art history at Ohio State University. He rushed to finish first.
In 1933, when both finished, Picasso finally got his digs in. In one of the prints in the Vollard Suite, Picasso drew an artist holding up a classic Matissean image, a goldfish in a bowl. Could it be that Picasso was at last paying homage to Matisse, ''the master of goldfish'' (26), telling him he admired the way his figures circulate around the canvas like fish in a bowl (see No. 18)?
Not exactly. Picasso, Ms. Florman argued, was taunting Matisse, saying his figures were cold (27) and distant (28), too much like fish behind glass. Matisse, Picasso suggested, had to rely on sublimation (29), while he himself was driven by desire (30).
Color? Could it be a case of Picasso in Matisse-land? In the early 1930's Picasso emerged from a painting slump by developing a pneumatic and parti-colored style, painting the inflated figure of his new love, Marie-Therese Walter, with migrating body parts, vacant head and, most notably, yellow hair and violet skin.


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A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Come hear me talk about how we're using WP-API at Fusion, along with other fabulous presenters. Thursday, January 28th, 2016 in London.
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April 2015 San Francisco Big Media WordPress Meetup
April 2015 San Francisco Big Media WordPress Meetup. Next Tuesday at 6 pm. My presentation: "5 futures you never thought possible with WP-API."
Two proposed sessions for SRCCON 2015
SRCCON was my favorite conference last year, and in the running for favorite conference of all time. I liked it so much I've submitted two proposals for this year. You should too! Submissions are open until April 10th.
Continous Integration for Content
There's lots of little attributes which define the "quality" of a piece of content — just like there are attributes which define code quality. Developers have continuous integration to run automated checks on their code, but journalists have editors — who are prone to human error. It's easy and quite common to forget to add a photo credit, or spell the SEO title incorrectly. What are some ways we can automate these errors out of existence? Let's get together, present some real world "quality" problems to work on, prototype, wireframe, and define algorithms, and then share our results.
Code review takes two
Code review is single-handedly the best way to level up your development skills. It's also really hard! Let's discuss code review methodologies as a group, and then pair up to practice.
Off to Philly today for SRCCON, a gathering of some of the nerds who make the technology behind the news. I am so excited! For years, CMSes, publishing workflows, and the unsexy but very mission critical technologies have been my passion. Yet most of the conferences, online discussion, etc. have skirted around the topic, in part because legacy organizational structure hasn't let the hackers get to work.
Funny how things go if you stick at it long enough. Washington Post and Vox have made great leaps forward, and convinced executives everywhere that change is possible. Hell, even The New Yorker relaunched on WordPress two days ago. NBD.
Back to Portland Saturday night, off to Sunriver Sunday through Wednesday, and then to New York for WCNYC Thursday through the following Wednesday. REST API retooling here we come!
The conference I want to attend this year
Blogging about the conference I want to attend this year because I don't have the bandwidth to put it together. Let's call it AgencyCon.
The key idea is to bring together a bunch of agencies that build on top of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and whatever other frameworks. Personally, here's what I'd like to get out of it:
- Learn how others are turning their agencies from guns for hire to experts in developing particular types of projects. For instance, with Human Made I would love to see more inbounds that refer to the product work we've done (e.g. Happytables and WP Remote) and want to hire us for similar. Rather than just doing work with a particular type of tool because you're good at it, we be doing more work that we have proven ourselves leaders of.
- Hear horror stories of situations other agencies the gotten themselves into, and want for no one else to ever repeat.
- See the cool projects other agencies have been building but can't publicly discuss. I want to be inspired.
Ideally, it would be a two or three day retreat-like event in some great location. Solid presentations, but lots of time for networking. I'm a fan of conferences as a model for continuing education largely because many of us are making this up as we go along, and they're high-bandwidth opportunities for sharing knowledge.
Let me know if you know of any events like this, or are up for planning it yourself. I'd really love to see this conference happen.
Hitting up Write The Docs for the next two days. Considering it's only four blocks away, it already has serious points towards its awesomeness.
Conference goal: obtain necessary ideas to get the WordPress Plugin Developer handbook back on track.
Admiral Shovel and the Toilet Roll
Admiral Shovel and the Toilet Roll. Current technology is on a path to fundamentally change how our society operates. Whether we can adapt to these changes remains to be seen. This is the best, most inspiring, and on point piece I've read this year.
Webstock: Karen McGrane, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content
This week I'm at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I'm doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you're here too, come write a haiku at Automattic's booth.
Karen McGrane has made a career of dragging media companies kicking and screaming onto the internet. She's helped with projects like a redesigned NYTimes.com, Atlantic Media's web properties, and TIME's new responsive redesign. "It's tempting to think that mobile is a design and development problem," but the real challenge of mobile is content.
To kick things off, compare NPR and Conde Nast. The latter has spent tremendous effort replicating print editions into iPad apps. When the iPad first launched, Karen asked Paul Ford what the effect might be on the publishing industry. This is what she heard:
We're about to usher in a golden age of PDFs on the iPad.
Conde Nast has gone even as far as make print designers produce two layouts for the iPad: portrait and landscape. The 1980's aren't coming back, though.
NPR has taken an alternative approach: Create Once, Publish Everywhere. The story is created once, and let each platform determine how it should be presented. NPR's CMS captures just the right structure for the content. All of this data is available through the API.
iPad issue sales are on the downswing for Conde Nast. For NPR, viewership has grown by 80%. They attribute it solely to the API and it's downstream effects on how they produce editorial products.
Thirty years ago, TV Week made the decision to produce multiple versions of their content, and assign meaningful metadata to it. Thirty years later, that content still has value because it's reusable in new or uninvented contexts.
"News organizations already have structured content […] So many problems in mobile would be solved if everything had a dek."
One of the biggest challenges in digital is the notion that content and form are closely coupled. That how something looks has a significant influence on what it means. That there's a "primary platform" for a given piece of content. For many news organizations, this primary platform is still print.
Adaptive content doesn't mean content prepared for print and then moved to other devices. Nor does it mean content prepared for the web, then pushed to print and mobile. It means focusing on structured content that can live anywhere.
Here's how it can be done:
- Write for the chunk – Many CMSes give writers WYSIWYG editors where they can dump in whatever they want. They should not be permitted this.
- Demystify metadata – The Guardian's iPad application uses an algorithm to read editorial decisions from the InDesign layout to determine story priorities. Brilliant reuse of existing effort.
- Better CMS workflow – Writers hate fields and checkboxes because the interface is terrible. "CMS is the enterprise software that UX forgot." E-commerce checkout flows are analysed to the pixel — content creation flows should receive just as much attention.
"Metadata is the new art direction." – Ethan Resnick. The more work you put into structuring your content now, the more opportunities you'll have in the future.
Webstock: John Gruber, In Praise of Pac-Man
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John Gruber, well everyone knows who John Gruber is. If you don't, please hand in your internet license.
Pac-Man is a maze. The maze is filled with dots. You eat all of the dots, without being eaten in turn by the monsters changing you. There are power dots in corners which turn the monsters into ghosts you can eat. Everything leads to points.
It was invented by Toru Iwatani. At the time, coin-operated video games was a nacent industry. Game operators converged at a conference every year to choose new games to buy. Pac-Man never stood out as a hit game. Until it did $1 billion in the first few years, more than Star Wars did in ticket sales.
Buckner & Garcia introduced a song in 1982 called "Pac-Man Fever." It made it to #9 on the Billboard charts. Gruber remembers being able to play Pac-Man at the grocery store and an entire arcade of Pac-Man machines. It was the first game to reach this level of success.
Gruber ascribes Pac-Man's success to four characteristics:
- Fun
- Simple
- Obvious
- Challenging
Mr. Do!, on the other hand, was an incredibly complex game only a few people at Webstock remember. For instance, when you eat the snack in the center of the screen, the screen changes color, some more bad guys come out that are more aggressive, and then maybe you get another life. Gruber still doesn't know what the best technique is for winning the game.
Mr. Do! was a popular arcade game, but no one thought it was important enough to track how much money it made. Pac-Man was much more than a popular arcade game. "Everything in Pac-Man was iconic."
The monsters in Pac-Man had their own names and unique personalities. "Blinky", the red monster, persistently chased Pac-Man. He was the one most likely to kill you. "Clyde", on the other hand, was a dumb oaf.
Pac-Man was popular because it rewarded obsessiveness, but Gruber argues it was financially successful because it was a game everyone could get. You didn't have to be a gamer to know how to play it.
The original Macintosh was similarly successful. It challenged the status quo of interacting with a computer through the command line by offering an interface that was more intuitive. Gruber thinks Macintosh designers inherited many ideas from video games of the time. There was even iconography (e.g. a bomb on the restart modal) you'd expect to see in a video game, not an operating system.
iOS takes the simplicity even further. All of your apps live on your homepage. You're either on your homepage or in an app. "Android is Mr. Do!" because there's additional levels of complexity and conventions you need to learn.
Gruber's advice: if you can't describe your project in one sentence, you're not working on a simple project. "Ten pounds of effort on one simple design element will have way more impact than one pound of effort on ten design elements."
Webstock: Chris Coyier, The Modern Web Designer's Workflow
This week I'm at Webstock, a lovely conference in New Zealand. I'm doing my best to write little blog posts about the amazing presentations. Please forgive any typos, etc. If you're here too, come write a haiku at Automattic's booth.
Chris Coyier is a humorous man. He was also a designer at Wufoo and now does CSS Tricks and CodePen. Today he's covering:
- Getting started designing.
- Local development environment.
- Working on a team.
- Preprocessing saves happiness.
- Testing, testing, testing.
Chris designs in Photoshop, to the faux-horror of everyone in the room. Photoshop is more "left brainy" than a CSS editor. It affords more creativity. WebZap gives you buttons and other web patterns to use in your mockups.
The blank canvas is a challenge for every profession. In the design world, you might:
- Toss down a texture.
- Draw some shapes.
- Avoid making wireframes.
As soon as you have a Minimum Viable Design in Photoshop, though, take it to the web. Making it perfect in Photoshop just means you'll have to do the work all over again.
"Let's change the phrase 'designing in the browser' to 'deciding in the browser'." – Some Guy I Missed
Don't work live on a server. Just don't.
Instead, you can and should develop in a local environment. If you're building for WordPress, MAMP is a good option to provide everything you need to run a web server.
Two tools to demystify version control: Github for Mac and Tower.
Chris is all about the Sublime Text. In version 3, being able to jump to files is amazeballs. Emmet does all sorts of crazy HTML auto-completion.
Some advantages to using a preprocessor like Sass:
- DRY awesomeness.
- Mixins allow you to define named functions, and use those functions elsewhere in your Sass. Everyone screws up CSS3 vendor prefixes. Mixins allow you to only screw up (and fix) in one place.
Sass plus Compass gives you an amazing number predefined mixins.
Editor's note: All of this frontend hotness is blowing my mind. I didn't even know.
Preprocessing also greatly simplifies media queries. And it makes writing CSS fun again.
CodeKit is a Mac app that automagically preprocesses all of your shiz. It will inject style changes into your browser while you edit. Great for when you might need to style web apps with various states. It can also losslessly compress any image assets used in your site.
The easiest way to make a website faster is to load less stuff. If you can't remove it entirely, you can concatenate and minimize.
Testing is a big PITA. BrowserStack lets you test in a variety of browsers from the comfort of your own home.


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Focusing on the Solutions: Key Principles of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Nearly everyone agrees that our immigration system is badly broken and in urgent need of reform. Under the existing system people are dying at the border, immigrants are living and working in abject conditions, families trying to reunite legally are separated for many years, employers are unable to hire the workers that they need, U.S. workers suffer from the unlevel playing field shared with exploited immigrant workers, and law‐abiding U.S. employers are in unfair competition with unscrupulous employers who increase profits by hiring cheap and vulnerable labor. Meanwhile, the United States continues to spend billions of dollars on enforcing these broken laws.
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Founded near historic Native American settlements as a trading and transportation center, the city rose to prominence when it was named the capital of the Minnesota Territory in 1849. Though Minneapolis is more nationally recognized, Saint Paul contains important institutions and the state's political activity. Regionally, the city is popular for the Xcel Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild, and for the Science Museum of Minnesota. As a business hub of the Upper Midwest, it is headquarters for companies such as Ecolab and Lawson Software.
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