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New York Times Pushes Obama On Climate: 'He Needs To Do A Great Deal More Than…Foster A Conversation'
Many were disappointed after President Obama's first post-election press conference when he talked about the urgency of climate change — and then immediately swept aside specifics for action in his second term.
Days after, White House press secretary Jay Carney shot down the prospects for a carbon tax by saying the Administration would "never propose" such a policy.
There doesn't seem to be much urgency coming out of the White House.
In response, The New York Times is calling out the President for his plan to address climate change with a "conversation":
Since his re-election, Mr. Obama has agreed to foster a "conversation" on climate change and an "education process" about long-term steps to address it. He needs to do a good deal more than that. Intellectually, Mr. Obama grasps the problem as well as anyone. The question is whether he will bring the powers of the presidency to bear on the problem.
Enlisting market forces in the fight against global warming by putting a price on carbon — through cap-and-trade or a direct tax — seems out of the question for this Congress. But there are weapons at Mr. Obama's disposal that do not require Congressional approval and could go a long way to reducing emissions and reasserting America's global leadership.
One imperative is to make sure that natural gas — which this nation has in abundance and which emits only half the carbon as coal — can be extracted without risk to drinking water or the atmosphere. This may require national legislation to replace the often porous state regulations. Another imperative is to invest not only in familiar alternative energy sources like wind and solar power, but also in basic research, next-generation nuclear plants and experimental technologies that could smooth the path to a low-carbon economy.
Mr. Obama's most promising near-term strategy may be to invoke the Environmental Protection Agency's authority under the Clean Air Act to limit emissions from stationary sources, chiefly power plants.
Indeed, the Administration deserves credit for passing numerous critical executive policies promoting vehicle efficiency, mercury standards, building efficiency standards, and renewable energy. And with Congress unable to act on climate policy, the importance of EPA regulations for global warming pollution is even greater in Obama's second term. However, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in on her way out, opening up some uncertainty about leadership at the agency: The New York Times explains:
Any such regulations are likely to be strongly opposed by industry and will require real persistence on the administration's part. If Mr. Obama takes this approach, he will certainly need a determined leader at E.P.A. to devise and carry out the rules. Lisa Jackson, the E.P.A. administrator who on Thursday announced her resignation after four productive years in one of the federal government's most thankless jobs, was just such a leader.
She suffered setbacks — most notably the White House's regrettable decision to overrule her science-based proposal to update national health standards for ozone, or smog. But she accomplished much, including tougher standards for power plant emissions of mercury and other air toxics, new health standards for soot, and, most important, her agency's finding that carbon dioxide and five other gases that contribute to global warming constituted a danger to public health and could thus be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
The New York Times piece fails to point out one of the most critical — and often ignored — pieces of climate policy. Creating new standards for power plants and building renewable energy is only one piece of the equation. In order to truly address carbon pollution, we must keep large amounts of coal, oil, and gas in the ground. According to the International Energy Agency, nearly two-thirds of known fossil fuel reserves must stay underground in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. While the Obama Administration has done more than any other administration in history to promote alternative forms of energy, it has also shown a willingness to aggressively promote unchecked fossil fuel extraction.
In a recent Time Magazine interview, President Obama said that climate would be one of his top three priorities in his second term. So far, there aren't many strong signals that the Administration has a coherent plan to actually back up those claims.
61 Responses to New York Times Pushes Obama On Climate: 'He Needs To Do A Great Deal More Than…Foster A Conversation'
Excellent article. Yes. Much is expected from President Obama on Climate change front.
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New Hawaii Senator: Climate Change The 'Most Urgent Challenge Of Our Generation' http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/27/1378241/new-hawaii-senator-climate-change-the-most-urgent-challenge-of-our-generation/
Hopium: An addiction in vain when the POTUS refrains with reams of refrain refusal.
Injustice ignored = Injustice condoned. "We the People" all pay fees in our personal lives to mitigate our environmental waste impact. From garbage, to gray water, to storm water run-off. Corporations are "People" now but still get both tax subsidies and free dumping of toxins into the commons. How come? Does not "We the People" mean all of us? The GOP do not fund abortion. Fine. A precedent. Why must progressives be forced to fund the ecocide of the Planet via subsidies to the Fossil Barons?
"Tax revolt" anyone?
Leif, you always seem to beat me to CP and then say what I want to say, only better than I would.
Those of us who live on the so-called "Left Coast" continue to have to deal with our Representatives in Congress, like Washington's Doc Hastings, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources whose Energy Issue statement starts with "As the top Republican on the House Natural Resources Committee, I helped lead opposition to the cap-and-trade national energy tax and I'm pressing for an all-of-the-above energy solution. "
Then there us House Majority Whip, Kevin McCarthy of California who says that "It strains credibility that the Obama Administration would reject the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline project."
It is clear to me that nothing will change until we make it clear that even Republican legislators will have to answer for their head in the sands views as we all go over a man made climate cliff.
A technological overview of the German roll-out http://saal4.theora.29c3.fem-net.de/
Talk begins in 10 mins
The "Energiewirtschaftsgesetz" (ENWG) was renewed in 2005 and amended in the following years to reflect aspects like smart grids and renewable energy sources. It also covers the energy directives. The important aspect is that it makes the roll-out a law.
In charge of the roll-out is the "Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie" (BMWi) which delegates the task of defining the technical details to the "Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik" (BSI). The BSI therefore is in the process of developing a so-called protection profile (PP) (or common criteria) for smart meter gateways and security module used in a smart meter. The BSI also develops a technical guideline (TR 03109) which describes how the communication related details of whole smart meter infrastructure have to be implemented to provide security and interoperability.
This talk will present the different roles defined by the TR and PP. The rights and duties of the different roles in the model will be presented. The cryptographic mechanisms that will be used to secure the communication will be shown. Further the additional services that are planned to be supported and the use cases that are defined for the smart metering system will be explained.
It's good to see the NYT calling for Obama to take action on climate change, but their list of actions he could take leaves something to be desired.
R&D, and natural gas are answers that made sense a decade or more ago, but time has passed them by. We need to replace NG and as for R&D it takes a couple of decades for anything significant to penetrate the market. By then, it will all be over but the crying.
Obama doesn't know what to do about climate change any more than the rest of us
being POTUS doesn't make him superman, he inherited a problem that's been building up for 200 years, expecting him to fix it is the height of naive stupidity
"The question is whether he will bring the powers of the presidency to bear on the problem."
OK. What "powers" are you talking about?
"But there are weapons at Mr. Obama's disposal that do not require Congressional approval and could go a long way to reducing emissions and reasserting America's global leadership."
OK. I'm listening!
"One imperative is to make sure that natural gas — which this nation has in abundance and which emits only half the carbon as coal — can be extracted without risk to drinking water or the atmosphere. This may require national legislation…"
NATIONAL LEGISLATION! You f'ing moron! That is Congress!!!
OK, next.
"Another imperative is to invest…"
Does the office of the President control investments? Are you saying the Energy Department is holding back on basic research investment? Doesn't seem like it. You are talking about more investment. Who controls the nations purse? Have you read the Constitution? What branch of government controls the spending?
OK. Next.
"Mr. Obama's most promising near-term strategy may be to invoke the Environmental Protection Agency…"
THAT'S IT!!! Finally you have arrived at the most important weapon old Obama has. Is he willing to attempt to implement tough regulations in the face of obvious industry and congressional disapproval? Is he willing to listen to the whining about harm to the economy if tough regulations are implemented? I think that with the Republicans in Congress determined to throw our nation back into a recession old Obama has to take a careful tack when it comes to tougher industry standards and even limits to fossil fuel production. With crude at $90 a barrel even with our extremely weak recovery he won't do anything that will cause fuel prices to rise. Republicans have tried their best to blame him for rising gasoline prices in the absence of any evidence but they would have much more success if a clear line could be drawn between an EPA or Administration policy and rising prices.
BUT, how 'bout we pay the fossil fuel companies to NOT develop coal, gas, and crude? You know, like how we pay farmers to not plant in certain parts of the country. Then we subsidize the gasoline and diesel like how we subsidize milk and eggs. I know, you are thinking we already give fossil fuel companies plenty of government money to develop those resources. Well, how 'bout we stop that money and tell them they can have it back if they DON'T develop the resources? Maybe it is just the Christmas nog, but it seems like a possibility to me.
I like this idea.
When I read that Obama's administration would "never propose" a carbon tax, my immediate reaction was, So who would?
Ideally it would be a coalition in Congress that includes both House and Senate leaders. A freshman appointee senator from a solidly 'blue" state like Hawaii might not be the leader in such an initiative, but he sure looks ready to add enthusiasm, which is great!
I agree about NG. It's a decade too late. It could have supplanted coal within a year or two, but that opportunity has passed. We need wholesale fossil fuel reductions ASAP.
There's still room for R&D, if we approach it like the Manhattan Project. In fact, I think it's critical. That's not the entire solution, or even the biggest piece, but it's an important piece.
The bigger piece is emergency conservation, just like in WW2, when people saved everything from tin cans to bacon grease, many commodities were rationed, and most industrial production was diverted from consumer goods to military goods. The government walked into GM, Ford, and Chrysler and said, you used to make cars, but now you make tanks and airplanes. Here, sign the contract.
Meanwhile, as Joe R. says, deploy, deploy, deploy renewables.
It isn't fair that massive competence is demanded from Obama, but not from his opposition. As far as I'm concerned, Obama could sleep in bed all day and still be light years ahead of the plodding cyphers who plot against him. Go Obama!
Take a look at the top graph in this article. This is actually what this adminisation is planning on, energy wise. And essentially it can be translated into "no more renewables" for a long, long time (till the gas starts running out and all the easy money has been extracted). They need to be pushed hard into abandoning that loser proposition…
As I see it, the fundamental problem is this: We (meaning most people and almost all political-certainly including Pres. Obama- and economic leaders) are still looking at climate change as if it is a 'workable problem'. In other words, it is something that can be solved by working within the existing frameworks, outlooks, and business-as-usual approaches- the only question being how far or hard things need to be pushed within the framework. A broad analogy is if someone comes down with say a fever, say 101 or 102. Usually this is a 'workable situation'- aspirin, fluids, rest for a few days. But- sometimes it develops into a different animal- a situation where the normal homeo-static systems of the body are not enough to keep things in check and push them back into balance. In these situations in can be critically important to recognize the qualitative shift and to take appropriate action. We have not done that yet- though the 'doctors' are screaming their diagnoses at us. And…there is absolutely no indication that president Obama will be capable of this in his 2nd term. Let us be honest with ourselves about this.
Video is now available here
SmartMeter roll-out in Germany an overview of the technology
Because it's NEVER pro-environment when a Democrat is in Office…
This is the crux of the problem. It can't be solved incrementally. That window closed (if it was ever really open) when the Supreme Court handed the 2000 election to Bush. Marginal incentives are not capable of removing 5%+ of fossil fuels from the economy every year for the next 20 years, any more than they would have been capable of the first moon shot or defeating the Axis powers. It requires something immediate and revolutionary.
Government is the only plausible organ of social cooperation to effect that kind of change.
A stiff carbon tax is a start. That will link the market to the larger effort, and create the right national mindset. Obama doesn't have the Constitutional authority to impose a tax, but he does have the "bully pulpit," plus a Dem majority in the Senate and hoards of scientists and religious leaders who could be employed to persuade the troglodytes in the House. That's a big hill to climb, but I think the necessary handful will see that centralized government effort is less to be feared than societal collapse, just as it was less to be feared in WW2 than a Nazi takeover of Europe.
Obama could issue a lot of Executive Orders. Among them could be to switch the government's own energy use to maximize renewables and institute massive conservation as fast as possible. The military is already going down this road.
The longer he waits, the more pressure will build to do something extra-Constitutional, as Lincoln and Roosevelt did. I think we're already there, but without some kind of clear climate disaster, suspending any part of the Constitution will lack legitimacy. Although we could point to recent precedent–it was done in the wake of 9/11, and it was done in reaction to the Credit Crisis of 2008. Sandy wasn't quite enough. Maybe a massive crop failure and skyrocketing food prices will do it. I think we'll see that soon. (Of course, that may be the signal that it's too late for ANY action to work.)
BAU is not going to cut it, I agree.
Why the media thinks Obama is the one to fault is a mystery. They should be chiding the Congressional republicans and Boehner.
It's the same false equivalency they have always employed: "both parties" or "both men" or however they spin it, but the facts are plain to see: Obama has given much in compromise and has been rebuffed — his open hand is slapped down — they use the "my way or the highway" strategy and don't get called on it — instead, both parties are blamed.
Sorry, my mind was drifting as I wrote and I focused mostly on politics rather than the environment.
But again, why Obama is tasked with the responsibility and the republicans are not is frustrating.
The first step to transition should be knowledge of principle and design on which nature functions sustain certain energy to matter ratio and thus temperature of earth. We need to develop global energy and time management to survive climate catastrophes. We need evolve our knowledge to nature and life into a new dimension to understand the truth and oneness of nature and its functioning. Every action of modern man to exploit the material world and its energy for self-advancement without knowing the whole truth or principle and design on which earth functions is leading the world to uncertainty and disaster. If we do not awaken to the fundamental realities of nature and develop new technologies to harness energy and use it judiciously in harmony with nature and its energy cycle we would end in giving huge prize. Earth does not care for nation's material and economic interest and no nations can stand against her fury. The best way open is to understand and develop strategies to live in harmony with her. http://www.scribd.com/doc/114273537/Climate-Change-and-Its-Relation-to-Energ
Yep, you are exactly right! The media perpetuates the false equivalence so most American's just believe it. They also perpetuate the false notion that the Executive branch is the most powerful branch of government. Just because the President is the one the media flocks around does not make that position the most powerful. If Congress cut of funding for the war in Afghanistan the military would have to run on home no matter what the President did or said.
Which branch confirms or denies or ignores (and thereby leaves a department without a leader) all Presidential appointments to offices in the Executive branch?
Which branch controls the purse and thereby controls the amount of debt the nation labors under?
Which branch controls taxes?
Which branch writes laws?
Which branch has the most control over the economy, health, defense, and the wellbeing of the nation?
The kind of action needed now to prevent us going into very dangerous climate change would capsize the entire ponzi scheme consumption based economy we have. Obama cares about his legacy like any other poltico- expecting him to be like FDR is an illusion.
Hit the fiscal cliff, crush the US economy and then the world economy follows. Not the course I would choose to reduce carbon emissions, but it looks like the path we are going to follow.
The desperately poor are not good little consumers, but they do have a much smaller carbon footprint.
Thanks to the NRA the new desperately poor, will all be armed. Armed starving people, surrounding the walled fortresses of the 1%.
You're right, that the EIA is a passive, drop case organization, along with the rest of our government. IEA, the global equivalent, is much better, and actually details the disaster we are headed toward.
American and global fossil fuel companies have assumed control of the public dialogue. Bribing of Congress keeps the lid on EIA, and they control major media companies by allocating advertising according to the outlets' ideology.
We accept this passively, since schools teach students not to think, and the corporate agenda has penetrated universities, too. Americans have become overweight consumers,
easily led and kept oblivious to the horrors we are bequeathing on the world.
Thanks to Romm, Mann, McKibben, and many others for your inspiring work, but until we the people know the gravity of the situation you will be continue to be brushed off like so many fleas.
IMHO it's not the 1% they'll be going after. I think the poor, armed, and hungry are more likely to invade the local Wal-Mart, setup barricades around the parking lot, post armed guards, and use the store for supplies, rations, and as an ammunition depot.
These comments seem like a microcosm of the USA's polarization, as real as it is unfortunate in the face of the realities we all share, like a planet. I still believe in miracles (of the aetheistic variety) but it is getting harder by the day, ME
It's not exactly "leading from behind", but I think Obama learned the lesson harnessing political opportunity. Right now, the fiscal cliff is the most immediate crisis and he needs people to focus. Next is immigration since the 2012 elections have softened up the Republicans on this issue. Gun control is another opportunity after Newtown. If he "fosters a conversation" later in his 2nd term, it is to build a "consensus" (or at least a majority) to move forward on this issue. Long term, we won't get very far if a major party is vehemently opposed to a solution, and will find any manner and means to undermine it. This is the unfortunate *political* reality. Right now, he can't even get a good infrastructure bill through Congress, something immediate, tangible, concrete, obvious, involves jobs, something we should be doing anyway.
If the fiscal cliff is not resolved, we dive into a recession in 2013 (along with the slowdown in China, European debt crisis) there won't be the space to talk about anything else but jobs and the recession.
While we demand more from President Obama we are witness to the collapse of American Constitutional law that states clearly 'the House shall raise taxes'. Oh!! Breaking news: the Republican Speaker of the House has broken with Constitutional law and asked the Senate to send the House a tax bill.
Where is this ship of state taking us? Are we helpless to grab hold of the emergency brake and throw those rethugs off the ship.
If you think this dervish is unrelated to Congress taking action on climate change…watch.
The other big temptation of fossil fuels is "energy independence", predicted for the US by 2030 due to the shale gas and shale oil boom. Right now, there's no quick way economically, politically, technologically to get off of fossil fuels. It's very hard, politically, to argue for getting these resources from an unstable middle East if you can get the same from your own backyard. Neither solves the climate issue. But energy independence is preferable on national security grounds. I wonder how he'll finally rule on Keystone XL.
Agree that shale resources seem an expedient to "energy independence." But nothing would fill that bill like massive conservation and renewable deployment. It's a major vested-interest and stranded-investment problem.
Someone above mentioned buying out the fossil companies. I've suggested that myself. As distasteful as it is, it bears consideration.
That is the depressing truth. Obama's circumspection is arguably necessary, but it's probably as self-defeating as being aggressive in the wrong way. I think there's a right way, involving religious leaders and scientists having intimate conversations with key climate-change deniers. As events unfold, they'll recall these conversations and begin to align with them.
I think we're going to see some very weird weather very soon, much weirder than Sandy, much more destructive than last year's drought. The jet stream is becoming very unstable. We could see some serious agricultural devastation, along the lines of the 40% wheat-crop loss Russia experienced in 2010.
Bottom line, Obama is being too timid, too short-sighted, and too unimaginative on the climate. He's learned on fiscal matters to be much firmer and assertive. I think he has to do the same with climate change. Not be obnoxious, just exude conviction.
I wonder how we could possibly stem the energy transition. Or maybe that will be the answer to the economic down turn….
Yes, let's hope that the New York Times continues to further distance itself from this nation's vast array of lagard climate-silent echo chambers which must be made to answer for the horrific environmental future they are helping to create.
It would be far less distasteful if the "buy out" included environmental clean up costs. That is not unprecedented. Corporations are People" now and I would be liable for trashing the ecosystems.
Yes. Howver, I am perhaps less optimistic than you regarding what level and frequency of climate consequences will be necessary to affect even a beginning of what needs to happen in this country (which is, of course, only a very beginning of what needs to happen in the world as a whole). Making real and substantial cuts to carbon emissions (aside from the happenstancial cuts that have occurred b/c of the natural gas boon), I believe, is going to be a very long and painful process. FIRST- we need repeated, extreme climate suffering to even get the conversation on the table for the president to 'go bully pulpit' as you mention. THEN- we will need still more and worse to effectuate true policy transformation. I am guessing Sandy is about 1/25 (or so :) ) of what we ill eventually need.
NYTimes: Hurricane Sandy Alters Utilities' Calculus on Upgrades
If Obama gave an emergency national address, pointing to the recent studies showing us headed toward catastrophe, he would persuade the American public, and Congress, too act.
He won't do it, because he has proved he is the oil companies' boy. Case in point: Carney announcing no carbon tax, and being quite adamant about it.
Obama deserves blame. If the facts don't wake him up, he will also deserve to be viewed by historians as a failure.
He can no more 'fix' our addiction to fossil fuels than he can 'fix' a drug addict's addiction to heroin. We have to 'fix' it; fat chance!
Our military leaders and their intelligence counterparts understand what lies ahead, and it will affect their grandchildren along with everyone else's. At some point, to save their grandchildren, they, and possibly their counterparts from Russia and China, will use the levers of power they control and, one way or another, implement CO2 reduction worldwide.
A recent Fed study showed the top one percent had $32T in net personal wealth. Levy a Special Assessment of fifty percent, and buy out the energy companies and the energy countries. Other countries follow with their upper one percent.
Merrelyn – with regard to yours at #17 –
the bit I find hard to take is the closet denialism – not the fabricated circus of AGW denial since 2009 that gave spurious cover for Obama's silence and gross negligence of climate in his first 4 years, but the denial of the need to get beyond the BAU of political tribalism. Comments above asserting juvenile apologia for Obama are a case in point. However many times official gesture-scale actions on climate are cited, the fact remains that Obama's chosen US 'pledge' for 2020 is a mere 3.67% off the 1990 baseline – which is far less than the US signed up to for 2012 at Kyoto and 8 years later. For comparison the impoverished EU is debating raising its 2020 goal from 20% to 30%.
If people were actually interested in looking beyond the failed conventional 'wisdoms' of that political tribalism then future climate damages could be greatly reduced. Where for instance is progressives' discussion of Obama's staunch inspiring address to the Governors' Climate Summit in November 2008 after being elected (and before adopting Cheyney's 'Brinkmanship of Inaction' with China in 2009) in comparison with his response to the recent press conference after being re-elected ?
By my count his latter brief statement crammed in 2 strawman prevarications, 3 hype-the-controversies, and 3 outright lies.
There are of course a range of closet denialisms – from denial of the critical significance to mitigation strategy of the loss of the cooling sulphate parasol by closing coal-fired plants,
– to denial of the critical significance to mitigation strategy of the ongoing interactive acceleration of six out of seven mega-feedbacks,
– to denial of the obvious need for the US to begin negotiating an equitable and efficient global climate treaty at the UN,
– to denial of the obvious impossibility of resolving AGW by an Emissions-Control-only climate treaty,
– to denial of the viability of resolving AGW by means of a climate treaty mandating Emissions Control + Carbon Recovery + Albedo Restoration.
(Unlike many of CP's commenters, I note that JR's posts are clear, explicitly or tacitly, on each of these).
Yet the denial of the White House's obdurate pursuit of the bipartisan policy of a Brinkmanship of Inaction with China is the pivotal issue, since in assuming that US prevarication is only accidentally heading for food shortages in China it misdirects progressives' critique onto the exceptionally thick-skinned fossil fuel lobby (that funds the circus of denial partly to ensure the focus continues) and it wholly fails to instigate widespread adamant demand for effective presidential action by the ~ 80% popular support for action.
Obama's recent fervent commitment to action on gun control – despite around 50% vitriolic opposition – utterly discredits the old excuse for his ongoing silence and inaction on climate being due to lack of support – yet still most progressives ignore the reality of the bipartisan policy of inaction being pursued in their name.
Maybe that policy needs to be put in context of previous precedents ? Seeking the end of China's bid for global economic dominance via prolonged inaction on GHGs while awaiting sufficient crop failures and food shortages to empower massive Chinese civil unrest, and thus to impose the climatic destabilization of the Chinese government, may be a novel tactic but it is far from being a novel strategy. – History is replete with examples of nations disrupting the food supplies of their rivals for dominance. The classic international example was of the WW2 U-boat campaign to cut off Great Britain's food supplies, while the classic internal US example was Washington's decision to exterminate the buffalo as a means to advance its policy of the genocide of the native peoples of America and the seizure of their land.
Maybe the reasons for the policy's obvious risks being strategically acceptable need clarifying ? These are, first, Washington's paramount priority since WW2 of maintaining US global economic dominance – on which the profits of all US corporations and America's whole "way of life" depend – and for which the 8yr Bush terms notably launched no military build-up, though the previous generation saw the immense costs and existential risks of pursuing a 40yr cold war nuclear arms race as entirely justified in deflecting the USSR's bid for global dominance.
Second, the risks of inaction on climate were seen as acceptable by Cheyney owing, firstly, to Edward Teller's '95 paper proposing sulphate aerosol geo-engineering as a reliable means to halt climate destabilization promptly when that became desirable (as Secretary of Defence under Bush senior Cheyney was certainly acquainted with Teller). And secondly because the conventional wisdom in 2000 said that not only would developing nations like China suffer far greater climate impacts than the US, but also that the US would be far better able to afford the resulting damages, rebuilding costs and food-price rises than China.
Obama's adoption of the bipartisan policy in 2009 can already be seen as a tragic and unforced error. His reneging in March 2009 on the UNFCCC 1990 emissions baseline in favour of Bush's unilateral 2005 baseline signalled that decision worldwide, but it was largely ignored within America. His crushing of the Copenhagen conference and derailing of the Senate climate bill were similarly ignored – with the notable exception on the latter of Ryan Lizza's forensic New Yorker article – as JR reported at length.
In 4 years in office Obama has gone much further than Bush went in his 8 years in pursuit of the bipartisan policy of a Brinkmanship of Inaction – even to the extent recently of denying the need of a treaty. If progressives are to have any significant effect on the chances of avoiding catastrophic climate damages they need to recognize his adoption of that policy and to focus their efforts on him personally and on getting the policy replaced. But how many are prepared to look beyond the conditioning to BAU political tribalism ? In terms of his conduct of foreign policy one point that should perhaps be better known is that Obama is said by friends to enjoy his very considerable talent at poker.
Maybe the bipartisan policy needs criticizing on grounds of its evident incompetence for progressives to recognize and challenge it ? If so then Cheyney's expectation in 2000 of advancing the 'Project for a New American Century' by using climate destabilization against the Chinese rival for global dominance has proven characteristically inept. China's brinkmanship response was an immediate flat-out coal-fired growth policy (as anyone familiar with the graph of China's emissions turning up abruptly by 2002 will be aware) which has made a nonsense of the expected relative-wealth advantage for the US – quite apart from Bush economics having now crashed the US economy. The upshot is that China's economy is on track to exceed America's during 2016.
In addition, far from China facing far worse climate impacts, America's impacts have been increasing faster than any other large nation, to the extent that 2012 US damage costs may well match most of the year's GDP growth. With the accelerating decline of the cryosphere and consequent disruption of the Jetstream, the prognosis for the next decade is increasingly dire for the US in particular, but also for its former allies such as the European Union. As I write Britain is getting its most extreme annual rainfall in hundreds of years of records, while earlier this year we were still in extreme drought.
In short the bipartisan US policy of a Brinkmanship of Inaction with China was always strategically reckless and genocidally immoral, and in practice has proven grossly incompetent and economically unsustainable. Obama's reliance for his pursuit of the policy on consensus support across Western corporations is now history, with numerous powerful EU corporations and even some Australian and US ones pointedly promoting commensurate global collective action. Thus the policy is increasingly vulnerable to exposure and challenge internationally, but most particularly by the progressive wing of American politics. Once informed of it, will the American public's national self-esteem tolerate such stupid immoral conduct by their government ?
Merrelyn, I've laid out most of these points numerous times with little notable effect – JR did once remark that none of his official contacts would confirm the bipartisan policy – which begged the question of just how few staffers have any operational need to know of it, beside the fact that JR of CP is about the last person on earth an informed staffer would tell. So just what will it take for progressives to wake up from the futile reflex responses to the intentional denialist provocations of BAU tribal politics
– and recognize just what is being done in their name
– and take the struggle to where it is needed
– at the gates of the White House ?
So how many centuries would you expect to spend in that education process to generate enough Americans to make the vital changes without effective political leadership ?
Or should we actually be demanding effective political leadership during 2013 ?
How many years do you think we've got to spare ?
Obama has the power of the bully pulpit. At the very least he could name climate change as THE problem of our life time, present the stark facts and challenge American voters to elect a Congress in 2014 that will work with him and across the aisle to do what can be done to mitigate and adapt.
Lisa Jackson EPA resignation a refusal to support Obama Keystone XL pipeline
" http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2012/12/29/lisa-jackson-epa-resignation-a-refusal-to-support-keystone-xl/
Another cogent comment Lewis and I agree on all counts, albeit some reluctantly as you know. I fear there are even more disastrous calculations to come regarding China and I don't know if you have looked at Hugh White's 'The China Choice'. He argues that America must share power with China but a brief perusal of America history makes that seem unlikely. Their internal lack of coherence and stability seem to demand an external common enemy and while the most logical, to say nothing of necessary, candidate would be climate change, that possibility has already fallen prey to the tribalism and other problems you mention. I can only hope at this stage that the global economy rapidly deteriorates, and the costs of climate escalate to the point where all nations must elevate domestic affairs above international designs, ME
The best way to make sure Republicans fight every and anything scientific is for Obama to make science driven policy a priority.
Republicans will just say no to oppose Obama.
If Obama points to the science of drought, Texans will be holding prayers for rain and will probably offer reservations to expelled Indian tribes if only they return to do rain dances.
And if Mayans call for human sacrifice, Texans will sacrifice virgins rather than admit to Obama being right on the science.
Why do you think we have any years to spare? Specifically, where do you think McPherson is wrong?
I personally don't think we have weeks to spare – given the 30yr timelag, each week's delay now is potentially another week of massively worsened global impacts 30 years hence.
McPherson is dead wrong in my view to preach defeatism, which is potentially self-fulfilling, and serves the interests of the denial lobby to a tee. Every campaign I've ever fought has had to break the ploy of the outcome being 'inevitable'. Few people will fight if they're convinced a cause is hopeless, and disabling your opponent's moral is a hell of a lot cheaper than fighting him. Moral is critical.
In practical terms McPherson is dead wrong in asserting his belief that we cannot succeed in generating the required political changes for America to finally stop prevaricating and start to negotiate a commensurate global climate treaty.
The starting point of that change is recognizing that progressives are being gulled into applying all pressure to the wrong target – the US fossil fuel lobby – when in fact your government has been running a bipartisan climate policy of a Brinkmanship of Inaction with China.
I've put an outline of the issue at #22 below, which you may find of interest. Suffice to say here that the policy is a Cheyney legacy adopted by Obama as a means to break China's bid for global dominance, that is was launched on badly flawed assumptions and is proving increasingly unsustainable, and that it is genocidally immoral to the extent that its exposure to the US public will predictably cause it to be binned.
The core question is just when American progressives will start to connect the dots and realize just where pressure actually needs to be applied.
He's not supposed to find the solutions. He's supposed to appoint and support thóse who can, and he hásn't, and I doubt that he ever will.
Thể ís a revolving dổor between all ÚS Federal agencies and the corporations that they are supposed to police. You live in a plutocracy where the rich control the bureaucracy ás totally ás they do the legislative árms òf Government (and the MSM propaganda system, tôo, òf course).
Like a 'cytokine storm' that rúns amuk.
Thểre ís only one political party in the ÚSA, the party òf the money power. It has two wings that engage in mostly mock combat, while 'business-ás-usual' continues. It's all done to confuse the rabble into imagining that they live in a 'democracy'. Periodic outbreaks òf mass hysteria like the Tea Party ínsanity are used to divert the proles with 'colour and movement'.
You are quite correct, in my opinion, Lewis. The ÚS and Western elites have only one priority at the moment and it ís derailing China, not addressing climate destabilisation. After 500 years òf Western global dominance they are not about to cede global hegemony to a bunch òf 'Asiatics'. You can bet your house on that.
Saving humanity requires destroying free market capitalism, which ís why the elite and their employees like Obama and all other Western politicians (with very few exceptions) are so adamantly opposed to the utterly necessary actions required. They love their money and power mỏre than humanity, ás we have known since the beginning òf 'civilization'.
Ás we can sêe already in Spain, Germany, Greece etc, where the ultra-Right ís on the march, the 0.01% will mobilise fascists ás they đid in the 1920s and 1930s, to avert social change harmful to their interests. The vilest elements òf the mob will eagerly accept that their sorrows are caused by the pổỏr, welfare recipients, foreigners, Moslems and the hated 'Greenies' rather than the rich.
Obama ís designed to be a pressure reliever after social tensions built up over the Bush years and with the massive growth in inequality over the lást forty years. Hís role ís always to promise, but never, ever, deliver. It's really quite clever, immensely cynical and thóse with a knowledge òf the means utilised by the plutocrats to control society, like Nader and Chomsky, never fell for it.
I'd take 99% for the 99%. Not one nickel òf that enormous lôot has ever bêen honestly earned. It ís all stolen property that humanity hás a right to sêe restituted to íts rightful recipients-the 99%.
I was just trying to show some generosity. Actually, the $32T is probably an underestimate. I doubt whether the concealed offshore accounts were included. Let's make it 60%.
Mulga –
"After 500 years òf Western global dominance they are not about to cede global hegemony to a bunch òf 'Asiatics'."
You have their quandary in a nutshell – given that the brinkmanship is increasingly counterproductive in weakening the US economy, what other options can they pursue ?


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Why is SAS (Side-Angle-Side) Congruency holds true on a plane but not on a sphere? I am trying to understand why it is so (instead of proving/disproving the same). Please help me understand.
If I'm not mistaken, if two triangles on a sphere are in the SAS relation, then they are congruent.
But if they're on two different spheres, of different sizes, then they're not.
SAS congruence is true for spherical triangles. See Todhunter's book (I think it is freely available on internet)
In the comments, Jason raised the question of the legitimacy of angles of $\pi$ radians. This may be what Jason had in mind:
Let $A,B$ be antipodal, let $C$ be any other point. Then there are infinitely many non-congruent triangles $ABC$, all sharing the sides $AC$ and $BC$ and the angle at $C$. Of course, that angle at $C$ is $\pi$.

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This is one of the first digital renderings I have done of the ScanDock. Because of it's flat nature, I have previously made digital revisions, and just cut the new prototypes on a knife table, or with a laser. For this "ScanDock 3.0" that I'll be launching in the store shortly, I thought it would be interesting to finally see it rendered digitally, and begin exploring assembly videos.
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Terraria, the side-scrolling, action-adventure sandbox game from Andrew Spinks' Re-logic studio, is coming to PSN and XBL.
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I've been pondering this for a while, and I wanted to get some opinions. What is the nature of the relationship between Guybrush and Murray?
At times they seem to be friends. Guybrush often refers to Murray as "pal" and "buddy," and Murray does help him escape from the crypt in CMI. He also calls Guybrush his best friend at the end of the game, but that might just be because he wanted to be chosen as a prize instead of the anchor. Plus, whenever they run into each other, Guybrush at least seems happy to see Murray, more like an old friend than a rival. He even helps Murray out more than once by transporting him, and Murray has mentioned that he and Guybrush could work together (though he later admitted that it was only because Guybrush had mobility).
At other times, they're very mean to one another. In TMI, Murray only agrees to vote Guybrush into the brotherhood after thinking that he'll be tortured upon entering. And Guybrush does throw Murray into the ocean on more than one occasion throughout the series. And he chose the anchor over Murray in the carnival, when if he really cared, he probably could have saved Murray as well. Not to mention Murray's constant death threats, but that's just a part of his character. Murray never seems too pleased to be in Guybrush's company, anyway. He greets him with a sort of reluctance or anger, not in a friendly manner.
Personally, I think that they have a strange sort of friendship, in a sense. It seems like a kind of friendly rivalry. Like, they're technically enemies, but they have fun taking each other down, and it's become more of a private game than real hatred. I like to believe that if worst came to worst, they'd be there for each other.
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MONACO (AP) - The royal palace says Prince Albert of Monaco is
engaged to South African former swimmer Charlene Wittstock.
The principality says in a statement that the engagement was announced Wednesday between the 52-year-old prince and 32-year-old Wittstock.
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The Austintown Township Zoning Commission approved two proposals to regulate intimate-apparel shops and donation drop-off boxes.
The board Thursday also approved a recommendation by the Mahoning County Planning Commission to change the title of "intimate- apparel shops" to "intimate- apparel and adult-product shops."
Right now there are no such businesses that zoning inspector Darren Crivelli knows of in the township — but he said he's had inquiries.
The proposal included a requirement for an intimate-apparel and adult-product shop to get a conditional-use permit from the township board of zoning appeals. Such a shop would be located in a business B-2 district.
When it comes to "intimate-apparel and adultproduct shops," the definition for sexually oriented business does not correlate with these types of shops, Crivelli told the board.
"These [intimate-apparel and adult-product shops] seem to be less intense," he said.
Since the shops have a conditional use, the owners have to go through the zoning board of appeals for approval, and the board could suggest some adult items be put in a back room.
Other businesses given a conditional use permit are used-car lots, for example.
The proposal for donation drop-off boxes requires authorization to place the box by the owner of the property and a zoning permit.
The landowner would be responsible for the box upkeep, and the boxes must also remain 60 feet from the roadway.
Crivelli explained seeking approval from the zoning commission is the middle step in the process.
He will have the trustees approve the proposals and recommendation next, and he expects they will.
"We want to make sure the property owner understands he is responsible for" the donation boxes, Crivelli said.
He said the zoning department has had to issue citations in the past to the owner of the property for donation boxes that are "haphazardly" placed.
The property owner or the person placing the box will have to obtain a zoning permit at a minimal fee.
Properties that now have a donation box will be sent a notification letter with the new zoning requirements after the trustees accept them.
Interesting that the County Planning Commission approved the proposal for the donation boxes. Poland Twp prohibits them. Where's the uniformity?
There are 29 local governments in the county - no two zoning ordinances are completely alike.
Poland township does not approve anything that would upset their imaginary fairy tale landscape. Look at the bogus lengths walgreens had to go through to build. The uppity better-than-thou people that run Poland don't care that these boxes help those in need.
1. Walgreen's is in Poland Village
2 The boxes are permitted at the recycling site
located at the road department facility
Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent DePaul, Amvets, etc were doing a fine job of helping those in need before these boxes started showing up under the guise they were operated by "non-profits" but real reporting, outside of this area, has discovered otherwise.
I never thought that Austintown would grow up to be Poland. Fix the potholes then worry about the rest.


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Genre: Specialty
A strange collection of BDSM, humiliation and infantilism scenes comprise director Skye Blue's latest fetish offering. First, Anna Mills plays Domme with slave Julie Night. AVN's Best Actress - Film Award winner in 2003, Taylor St. Claire, is the harshest mistress, humiliating a nebbishy employee by making him dance and sing while he strips, then suck her stiletto heels and strap-on cock. Anastasia Pierce rubs ice on Sofia's surgically clamped tender bits, then leaves her bound and barefoot in the crushed cubes. Finally, an adult male baby gets motherly discipline from Mills, including clamps on his nipples and cock, and hairbrush spanking while fastened in stocks and gagged with an apple. Afterwards he pisses his diaper and wipes it up with his hands.
There are good performances all around, though the infantilism scene seems forced and awkward. This is mostly heavy on tease but light on action. Multiple fetish fans will appreciate the comprehensiveness, but maybe not the brevity, of this vid.
Retailing: For the BDSM section, but also has infantilism and shoe worship.


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This encyclopedic book is not only a definitive Rails reference, but an indispensable guide to Software-as-a-Service coding techniques for serious craftspersons. I keep a copy in the lab, a copy at home, and a copy on each of my three e-book readers, and it's on the short list of essential resources for my undergraduate software engineering course.
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Everyone interested in Rails, at some point, has to follow The Rails Way.
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I can positively say that it's the single best Rails book ever published to date. By a long shot.
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This book is a great crash course in Ruby on Rails! It doesn't just document the features of Rails, it filters everything through the lens of an experienced Rails developer—so you come our a pro on the other side.
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The key to The Rails Way is in the title. It literally covers the "way" to do almost everything with Rails. Writing a truly exhaustive reference to the most popular Web application framework used by thousands of developers is no mean feat. A thankful community of developers that has struggled to rely on scant documentation will embrace The Rails Way with open arms. A tour de force!
—Peter Cooper, editor, Ruby Inside
In the past year, dozens of Rails books have been rushed to publication. A handful are good. Most regurgitate rudimentary information easily found on the Web. Only this book provides both the broad and deep technicalities of Rails. Nascent and expert developers, I recommend you follow The Rails Way.
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Hal Fulton's The RubyWay has always been by my side as a reference while programming Ruby. Many times I had wished there was a book that had the same depth and attention to detail, only focused on the Rails framework. That book is now here and hasn't left my desk for the past month.
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As noted in my contribution to the Afterword: "What Is the Rails Way (To You)?," I knew soon after becoming involved with Rails that I had found something great. Now, with Obie's book, I have been able to step into Ruby on Rails development coming from .NET and be productive right away. The applications I have created I believe to be a much better quality due to the techniques I learned using Obie's knowledge.
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When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to market it.
There is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
It costs a lot of money to die comfortably.
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Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain. Thus it is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first, and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
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It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.
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Benedict's new appeal came as part of a broad-ranging speech to the Holy See's diplomatic corps. He said a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip is indispensable for restoring acceptable living conditions
to the population.
More than 700 Palestinians have died in the attacks, and Israel has been widely condemned for killing dozens of civilians and creating a humanitarian crisis.
Israel says its offensive in Gaza is aimed at stopping Hamas rocket-fire into Israel.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Jonathan Falwell, says the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip is a just war.
The son of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell says Hamas has been terrorizing Israeli settlers and that no other country would stand for it, either.
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The UK vote to exit the European Union has given new momentum to euroskeptic, anti-immigration movements elsewhere. Experts discuss the political and policy lessons that can be learned from Brexit and applied to debates in Europe and North America, including how to address public anxiety over immigration and identity, while managing migration in a globalized economy.
The educational needs of immigrant students in primary and secondary schools pose a growing challenge for policymakers and educators. Speakers will discuss supplementary funding to support the educational needs of migrant-background students, and will provide an overview of the mechanics of school funding for such children in Canada, France, Germany, and United States, examined in an upcoming report.
An MPI Europe event focused on the Canadian Express Entry system—the rationale for its introduction, its building blocks, and initial outcomes—and how it may provide lessons for improving the management of skilled migration in Europe.
An expert discussion with Swedish and U.S. government officials on global and national responses to rising displacement, innovations in managing migration processes, and attempts to address the dysfunctional aspects of international migration.
MPI analysts explore how the migration politics and policies of the UK government influenced the decision to hold the "Brexit" referendum, how public attitudes towards immigration might influence the result, and how the outcome might impact migration policy in the United Kingdom and European Union more broadly.
Offering insights on migration issues affecting the Asia-Pacific region today, this event launches a brief that explores the Asia-Pacific priorities for the GFMD 2014 and provides recommendations on how the GFMD can be a development focused and results-oriented forum.
A call/webinar focused the 2014 Global Forum on Migration and Development: its agenda, the policy areas that seem ripe for action, and what impact the discussions will have on the post-2015 development agenda.
The release of MPI's report, examining the U.S. deportation system with analysis on migrant apprehensions, removals, and criminal prosecutions, includes discussion on the evolution of the deportation system over the past two decades and some of the leading policy options circulating as the executive branch undertakes a policy review.
This German Historical Institute keynote lecture, organized together with the Migration Policy Institute, is part of the conference Migration during Economic Downturns—from the Great Depression to the Great Recession. The event will begin with a reception.
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Archiving and accessing PDFs
This month you'll learn how to place articles in a private PDF archive and how to use a database to access those articles at a later time.
No matter whether it is an entertaining article in your local newspaper or an excellent political piece in the New Yorker, both make a good read on a rainy day, and you might like to put them in an archive for easier retrieval. Unfortunately, these gems of journalism are not available online, since their publishers haven't taken the plunge into the Web yet. Not a good thing, as printed media take up a lot of room. But do you really want to rent a shed or fill up your bookshelves with row after row of folders?
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SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules


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What do you and your family and friends enjoy about Seymour parks? What would you like to see in the city's newest park — proposed for part of the old railroad yard property along the CSX Transportation and Louisville & Indiana Railroad lines?
We hope you're taking advantage of Mayor Craig Luedeman's online survey aimed at soliciting your thoughts — and those of your family, friends and neighbors — about what that park should offer.
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Dennis Strong, Utah's face of all things water, steps down after 38 years
Kristin Murphy, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Dennis Strong grew up building things, working alongside his father in the family construction business.
By the time he was 12, he knew he wanted to be an engineer, learning early about his passion.
At 66, he can look back at the very tangible things he's had a hand in helping to build, such as the Recapture Dam in Blanding, the evaporation pond and pumps at the Great Salt Lake, the pipelines, treatment plants and a near-endless list of water projects scattered across the state.
But after 38 years with the Utah Division of Water Resources and the last seven of those years as its chief, perhaps the single most important thing Strong has built is something that can't be seen at all — his standing as the face of Utah water policy and all it encompasses for the state.
"I feel like what I do and did here is important," said Strong, who retired Oct. 31.
Strong, a Springville native and civil engineering graduate from Brigham Young University, is being honored Monday during a 1:30 p.m. open house at the Department of Natural Resources, where people will pay tribute to arguably one of the most powerful people in the state when it comes to water policy.
As division chief, Strong was Utah's Interstate Stream Commissioner and a member of both the Bear River and Upper Colorado River commissions. He has been the governor's representative on the complex and potentially divisive issue of the Colorado River, which is shared by seven states, close to two dozen Native American tribes and another country — Mexico.
Strong has also been a pivotal player in Utah's most aggressive, largest and costliest water project — the Central Utah Water project, which involves multiple partners at the table from the U.S. Department of Interior to rural farmers and urban households.
"He has been really good to work with and sometimes that can be difficult to find in the water industry," said Reed Murray, program director for the Interior Department's Central Utah Project's Completion Office.
Richard Bay, general manager of the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, has known Strong for 31 years.
Like others, he notes that many people may not know Strong outside of water circles, but they more than likely feel his touch just about everywhere — in pipelines that carry wastewater away from homes, in irrigation systems that make farm fields thrive and in culinary systems that deliver drinkable water to the tap.
"His oversight of the revolving loan fund that gives loans to water projects throughout the state has been tremendous," Bay said. While generally linked to rural communities for vital projects, the fund under Strong's direction granted the largest loan in its history to allow for the enclosure of the Provo Reservoir Canal — a project that involved enclosing 21 miles of waterway to improve public safety and decrease water loss.
Strong concedes his role has often been one relegated to the background by the public, simply by nature of what he does.
"The water infrastructure is all buried. We see dams, but for people it is someplace where they fish and where they boat. It is the nature of the beast, but water and waste water is more complex than people realize."
Strong's job has been to make sure there is enough water for Utah going into the future.
Some of those water resources for the state naturally derive from new water projects, but his job has also been to promote water conservation through such efforts as the "Slow the Flow" campaign.
He feels he has done a good job, despite some critics who would say otherwise, and points to an 18 percent reduction in per capita water use in Utah since 2000.
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Community Events
Poster fair
Opportunity for poster collectors, vendors, scholars & enthusiasts to celebrate iconic art forms of posters & prints at Bethel Woods, 11am-4pm, adults $10, to age 17 & college students $5. BethelWoodsCenter.org or 800/745-3000.
Tenement Museum bus trip
Learn about immigrant ancestors & how they lived in an authentic 19th century tenement bldg. Bus leaves for NYC in Tusten-Cochecton Public Library parking lot 6am, stops in Monticello 6:25am, returns 10pm, adults $35, ages 8-18 $20. 845/932-8210.
Corned beef & cabbage dinner
Firehouse, doors open 5pm, adults $12, under age 12 $5. Benefits fire dept. & auxiliary.
Veterans' open house
Information on services available to veterans in the Gov't Center lobby, 11am-3pm. 845/807-0233.
Cultivating compassion
UDUUF service featuring work of religious scholar Karen Armstrong at Berlin Township Community Center, 10:15am. Fellowship & refreshments follow. uduuf.org or 845/252-6626.
Yankee Doodle Circus
Sponsored by class of 2012 at Sullivan West Elementary School, 5:15 & 7:30pm, presale: $17 incl. 2 kids' tickets free; regular prices: adults $22, under age 14 $15. 845/932-8401, ext. 2264 or 1142.
Food of the Delaware Highlands dinner
Delaware Highlands Conservancy annual dinner at The Settlers Inn, 6-8:30pm, $125. RSVP: 570/226-3164 or 845/583-1010.
Town of Highland Lions Club meet & greet
Meet your local Lions Club at Bakers Tap Room II, 1-4pm, $12. Music, finger foods, raffles & more. 845/557-6441.
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs bus trip
$25 incl. bus, $10 food coupon & $20 slot play. Benefits WAHS seniors & local charities. Sponsored by Hawley Women's Club. RSVP: 570/226-6588.
Hunterdon Hills dinner theatre bus trip
"Wally's Cafe" comedy performance, $80 incl. bus, entrée, dessert, tax & gratuity. Sponsored by Hawley Women's Club. Benefits WAHS seniors & local charities. RSVP: 570/226-6588.


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Tenn. Residents Speak Out Against Animal Fighting
To improve their community and the welfare of animals, Tennesseans gathered at the capitol to support stricter animal-fighting laws.
Tennesse is ranked 25th in The Humane Society of the United States' list of most animal-friendly states, and many of its residents are aiming to improve its standing. Local activists recently rallied at the state capitol to persuade politicians to pass the Animal Fighting Enforcement Act, which would make the penalties for spectators of animal fights more severe. Currently, Tennesse is one of the few states that does not impose felony charges for cockfighting. "Tennesseans are sending a clear message to their representatives that animal protection issues are important," says HSUS' Tennessee State Director, Leighann McCollum. "Animal fighting is gruesome for the animals involved and has a negative impact on the community."
Waka Flocka Flame Responds to Questions on Veganism
Rapper participated in Reddit's "Ask Me Anything" series to answer questions about his decision to go vegan.
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The Walking Deads Magic Tiger Earns Vegan Award
Upcoming seventh season of today's most-watched TV show employs futuristic technology to bring Shiva the tiger to life, eschewing exploitative use of live animals.
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Mark It Vegan Campaign Seeks Clear Product Labeling
Animal Aid wants UK supermarkets to put a suitable for vegans logo or symbol on their animal-free foods.
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Vegan Restaurant Opens in Former Real Food Daily Space
Los Angeles continues to welcome new plant-based options with newly opened Erven in Santa Monica.
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Vegan Art Exhibition Showing at London Gallery
Kabaret@Karamels ANIMUS features works by internationally celebrated vegan visual artists.
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The Dead Milkmen at First Avenue, 6/7/13
Photo by Erik Hess
The Dead Milkmen
with Samuel Locke Ward
First Avenue, Minneapolis
Friday, June 7, 2013
For the uninitiated, the Dead Milkmen are associated with just one song: "Punk Rock Girl," the late '80s anthem that is somehow a sweet love song and a bitterly subversive diatribe all at once. That they played it early in the set at First Avenue on Friday night with little fanfare, underscored something that became obvious early in the set. The Dead Milkmen still have some issues to address and are more pissed off now than they were 25 years ago.
The set got off to a brazen, volatile start with "Tiny Town" the opening track on their 1985 debut Big Lizard in My Backyard and "Tacoland" from 1987's Bucky Fellini, which incited a mosh pit that waxed and waned in population and intensity for the remainder of the night.
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Slideshow: The Dead Milkmen at First Avenue, 6/7/13
The set was filled with songs both old (all of which still sound fantastic) and new (most of which are as acid-tongued and unflinching as anything they have ever written), and between many of them, lead singer Rodney Anonymous, born Rodney Linderman, told stories, cracked jokes, and praised Minnesota for both supporting marriage equality and ridding itself of Michele Bachmann on several occasions during the 75-minute set.
Photos by Erik Hess
The night continued to careen along like a rocket car with cut brake lines at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Songs like "Don't Trust the Happy," "Smokin' Banana Peels," "Stuart," and "Bitchin' Camaro" -- without exception -- were somehow both more dangerous and amusing. The Milkmen's trademark furious lyrics over decidedly light-hearted punk has apparently aged like fine wine, which lent an air of comfort over the night's proceedings.
The newer songs from 2011's The King in Yellow like "Fauxhemia" and "Caitlin Childs" -- a song about a real person, arrested by Homeland Security for picketing a HoneyBaked Ham store in 2003 in Georgia -- were angry, acidic. As the Dead Milkmen have aged, they've become more disillusioned with the world and what happens in it. The humor of their old songs has been replaced with rage, but it was interesting to note that it wasn't much of a shift in gears from old to new -- the message was the same, the band is just uninterested to being as obtuse with metaphors like big lizards and the like.
"I Walk the Thinnest Line," managed to be the highlight of the night, inspiring the crowd to sing along and mosh like it was 1991. It was the best example of the band's current attitude, the song re-imagined a bit, Linderman barking the lyrics at the top of his lungs with palpable anger, racing from one end of the stage to the other throughout.
Photos by Erik Hess
The band managed two, well-deserved encores, the first of which found Linderman staying onstage and addressing the very fact he stayed, offering "We all know there's going to be an encore, why pretend? I'll just stay up here -- the guys will be back in a minute." By the end of those two encores the Dead Milkmen seemed to resemble something slightly different than they were before. They've grown up but have not grown tired.
This show was not -- like so many other tours of this nature are -- a money grab. They played the old favorites to be sure, but the new material has the potential to become old favorites as well and they played those songs out of the (correct) belief that they have equal value to the older songs and not simply to try to move units at the merch table. Now, try to name another band that has been around for 30 years and has released a reunion record that's just as enjoyable as the first. It's a tough proposal, and you'll still be thinking about it the next time the Milkmen roll through town.
Critic's Bias: I've never been the world's biggest Dead Milkmen fan, but enjoy a lot of it and am very familiar with it, as many of my friends when I was growing up, as well as my younger brother were indeed big fans. They played the perfect mix of old and new to keep things interesting for the entire night without it ever seem like it was dragging or inaccessible.
The Crowd: As good as the show was, the crowd bordered on intolerable. Belligerent, drunk, pushy and incredibly rude, at one point Rodney Anonymous had to vocally break up a fight that was brewing near the front of the stage, refusing to continue the show until the two men shook hands and moved away from each other.
Overheard In the Crowd: "This is my first time seeing them." from many people for which that seemed almost impossible to be true.
Notebook Dump: That they're angrier now than they were 25 years ago makes me rethink my overall assessment that things aren't as bad as they seem.
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This took far too long to make...3.97 / 5.00 6,219 Views
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OMG I love you!
You are so fucked and disgusting Mark...but I fucking love you!
This is one of the funniest flash animations ever
This is seriously the funniest thing I've seen all week. Some people need to get the stick out of their ass and just admit that rape and murder are hillarious. I mean jesus, I remember when my father murdered my first girlfriend. We all were shocked at first of course, but then my father explained to me how things are, we joked, had a few laughs, and I got over it learning a valuable lesson. The death of someone is worth it if it makes others laugh. What else are people alive for? Looking back, I am so glad my father helped me out, because what are women good for other than procreating, cleaning up after you, and serving as your own personal sparring bag. Women are possessions, and if you cant have the freedom to destroy your own possessions, then that's just unamerican. Great flash, I salute you!
Funny as shit
this movie had all the good aspects of a shock humor movie. as crazy ass beginning a lax in the action then a completely fucking great ending!
haha that was so funny becuz it didn't make any sense haha!


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Maidenhead Grid, courtesy of geolocation in HTML5If you have a browser that supports the HTML5 geolocation facilities (such as Mobile Safari on the iPhone, or certain recent versions of Firefox) then you can try clicking on the following link to find out your Maidenhead grid square. It may not remain there forever, since it is just hosted on my machine, but it should work reasonably well. At the right is a picture of what it looks like on my iPhone.
If you are using Firefox, the accuracy might be good, or might be bad. It really depends on how effective Google's IP based geolocation is in your area. At my brother's house in Hillsboro, OR (near the Intel Campus) it was very, very accurate. Of course, if you are using the iPhone, it uses the built-in GPS. Feel free to swipe this idea and use it however you see fit.
If you find this useful, please let me know, and I'll consider making a more permanent home for it. I'd also welcome any other suggestions on things that might make it more useful.
Addendum: I made some improvements (notably, to also give the accuracy of the measurement, and added a small google maps display) and IRC #hamradio buddy autojack confirmed that it works on his Android phone, and thoughtfully provided a couple of screenshots.


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|Marshall County Meetings March 2014
1. The Marshall County Law Enforcement Committee will meet Monday, March 3rd, at the Marshall County Sheriff's Department, 209 1st Ave North, at 6:00 p.m.. This meeting has been postponed until Tuesday, March 4th, at the same time due to the weather conditions on Monday.
2. There will be an EMA Committee meeting on Tuesday, March 4th, at 5:00 p.m. at the Emergency Management Office in the Hardison Office Annex, 230 College St., Suite 100.
3. The Marshall County Election Commission will meet at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 11th, at 230 College Street, Suite 120, Lewisburg.
4. The Marshall County Budget Committee will meet Thursday, March 20th at The Marshall County Courthouse Annex Room 2205 at 5:30 p.m.
5. The Marshall County Board of Public Utilities will hold its regular monthly board meeting on Tuesday, March 18th, at 9:00 a.m. at 624 West Commerce Street, Lewisburg, in the conference room. The public is invited to attend.
6. The Marshall County Emergency Medical Services Committee will meet Wednesday, March 19th, at the EMS Building, 728 South Ellington Parkway, at 6:00 p.m.
7. The Marshall County Board of Commissioners will hold their Regular Monthly Meeting, Monday, March 24th and 6:00 p.m.
8. The Marshall County EMS Committee will meet Moonday, March 24th, at the Marshall County Courthouse Annex directly following the County Commision meeting, which is at 6:00 p.m.
9. The Marshall County Emergency Communications District, Board of Directors will have their regular scheduled monthly meeting Wednesday, March 26th, at 9:00 a.m. Following the regulat meeting there will be a Consolidation Committee meeting. The meetings will be at the Marshall County EOC office located at 230 College St., Lewisburg, TN.
10. The Maury Marshall Regional Solid Waste Board will meet on Monday, March 31st 2014, at 11:00 am. The meeting will be hled at the marshall County Solid Waste Department, 611 Hawkins Dr., Lewisburg, TN 37091.
11. The Marshall County Agriculture Committee will meet on Monday, March 31st at the Hardison Annex at 6:30 pm.


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