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My primary research area is Several Complex Variables and CR geometry. The fundamental objects of complex analysis are complex manifolds, holomorphic functions on them, and holomorphic maps between them. Holomorphic functions can be defined in three equivalent ways as complex-differentiable functions, as convergent power series, and as solutions of the homogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equations. Thus, the very nature of differentiability over the complex numbers gives complex analysis its distinctive character and is the ultimate reason why it is linked to so many areas of mathematics.
CR geometry is a modern branch of mathematics which roughly speaking studies real submanifolds in complex spaces and functions on them that satisfy the tangential Cauchy-Riemann equations. In particular, it relates the geometry of the boundary of a domain in a complex space to the function theory on the domain. These considerations lead to a deep understanding of pseudoconvexity, a complex variables analogue of convexity, and to the study of the tangential Cauchy-Riemann equations.
- [ArXiv] D. Chakrabarti and R. Shafikov. Distributional boundary values of holomorphic functions on product domains Submitted
- [ArXiv] R. Shafikov, A. Sukhov. Discs in hulls of real immersions to Stein manifolds. Submitted
- [ArXiv] R. Shafikov, A. Sukhov. Approximation on real surfaces and rational convexity of Lagrangian inclusions. Submitted
- [ArXiv] R. Shafikov, A. Sukhov. Lagrangian inclusion with an open Whitney umbrella is rationally convex. To appear in Contemporary Mathematics.
- [PDF] R. Shafikov and A. Sukhov. Germs of singular Levi-flat hypersurfaces and holomorphic foliations. Comment. Math. Helv. 90 (2015), no. 2, 479 - 502.
- [ArXiv] I. Kossovskiy and R. Shafikov. Divergent CR-Equivalences and Meromorphic Differential Equations. To appear in J. of European Math. Soc. (JEMS).
- [ArXiv] I. Kossovskiy and R. Shafikov. Analytic Differential Equations and Spherical Real Hypersurfaces J. Differential Geom. 102 (2016), no. 1, 67–126.
- [PDF] S. Pinchuk and R. Shafikov. Critical sets of proper holomorphic mappings. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 143 (2015), no. 10, 4335–4345.
- [PDF] R. Shafikov and A. Sukhov. Polynomially convex hulls of singular real manifolds. To appear in Transactions of AMS.
- [PDF] I. Kossovskiy and R. Shafikov. Analytic Continuation of Holomorphic Mappings From Non-minimal Hypersurfaces. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 62 (2013), no. 6, 1891–1916
- [PDF] R. Shafikov and A. Sukhov. Local Polynomial Convexity of the Unfolded Whitney Umbreall in $\mathbb C^2$. Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2013, no. 22, 5148–5195.
- [PDF] Adamus, J., Randriambololona, S., Shafikov, R. Tameness of complex dimension in real analytic sets. Canadian J. Math., 65 (2013), no. 4, 721–739.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Verma, K. Holomorphic mappings between domains in $\mathbb C^2$. Canad. J. Math. 64(2), 2012, pp. 429--454.
- [PDF] Adamus, J., Shafikov, R. On the holomorphic closure dimension of real analytic sets. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363 (2011), no 11, 5761-5772.
- [PDF] Chakrabarti, D., Shafikov, R. CR functions on Subanalytic Hypersurfaces. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 59 No. 2 (2010), 459–494
- [PDF] Lárusson F., Shafikov, R. Schlicht envelopes of holomorphy and foliations by lines. J. Geom. Anal. 19 (2009), no. 2, 373--389.
- [PDF] Chakrabarti, D., Shafikov, R. Holomorphic Extension of CR Functions from Quadratic Cones. Math. Ann. 341 (2008), 543-573.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Verma, K. Extension of holomorphic maps between real hypersurfaces of different dimension. Annales de l'institut Fourier, 57 no. 6 (2007), p. 2063-2080
- [PDF] Nemirovki, S., Shafikov, R. Conjectures of Cheng and Ramadanov. Russian Math. Surveys, 61 (4) (2006), 780-782.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R. Real Analytic Sets in Complex Spaces and CR Maps. Math. Z. 256 (2007), no. 4, 757--767.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Verma, K. Boundary regularity of correspondences in $\mathbb C^n$. IAS. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) Vol. 116, No. 1, 2006, pp. 1-12.
- [PDF] Nemirovski, S., Shafikov, R. Uniformization of strictly pseudoconvex domains, II. Izvestiya: Mathematics 69:6 (2005) p. 1203-1210.
- [PDF] Nemirovski, S., Shafikov, R. Uniformization of strictly pseudoconvex domains, I. Izvestiya: Mathematics 69:6 (2005) p. 1189-1202.
- [PDF] Hill, C. Denson, Shafikov, R. Holomorphic correspondences between CR manifolds Indiana Univ. Math. J. 54 No. 2 (2005), 417-442.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Wolf, C. Stable sets, hyperbolicity and dimension Discrete Contin. Dynam. Systems. 12 no 3 (2005), 403-412.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Verma, K. A Local Extension Theorem for Proper Holomorphic Mappings in $\mathbb C^2$. J. Geom. Anal. 13 (2003), no. 4, 697 - 714.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R. Analytic Continuation of Holomorphic Correspondences and Equivalence of Domains in $\mathbb C^n$. Invent. Math. 152 (2003), 665 - 682.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R., Wolf, C. Filtrations, hyperbolicity and dimension for polynomial automorphisms of $\mathbb C^n$. Michigan Math. J. 51 (2003), no. 3, 631--649.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R. On Boundary Regularity of Proper Holomorphic Mappings. Math. Z. 242 (2002), 517-528.
- [PDF] Shafikov, R. Analytic Continuation of Germs of Holomorphic Mappings Between Real Hypersurfaces in $\mathbb C^n$. Mich. Math. J. 47 (2000), 133-149.


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Anna, You are so clever! Thank you for the "straight line" lesson! I can't wait to try it!
I am painting and I hate to paint, so this is a big help to me. Thanks.
I am an artist and I should have figured this method out for myself YEARS ago! Maybe now my husband will let me paint the WALLS and not just on canvas!
ok i have a question and i hope i don't realize the answer as soon as i post it :\ so for these stripes did you just tape and paint for the first blue stripe and then clean up any bleeding when you painted the white? or did you do the same process with the blue strip as the white or did you just random paint the blue without taping?
Great video, I am looking forward to utilizing your technique when I repaint my baseboard.
thank for that lesson. It will certainly save alot of time and headaches in the future 🙂
This looks like a great idea. However if you have to make straight lines and don't have both colors to work with, then you have to tape off (and hopefully have little to no bleed through) then paint on the one color you do have to work with, or learn to make straight lines by free-handing. I actually had to do that once! Time consuming! Thankfully I was only painting a "faux frame" on the wall around a mirror. Another trick is using a really good angled brush…I like Purdy.
do you have a tip for putting the tape perfectly straight?
What is the best way to avoid "bleeding?" I am getting ready to paint my kitchen and just finished my living room a few weeks ago and darn if I didn't have bleeding problems. Not terribly but some. I am using the scotch blue painters tape…. is "some" bleeding just to be expected no matter what or am I using too much paint?? Your thoughts please!! 🙂
Thank you for the tip on the straight line. I have pine knot wood in my living room. I am wondering what would be the best way to paint over it? It is just to dark in my front room and I am considering painting the walls white. What would be your suggestion on covering up the pine knot would color?
Seriously so easy! I never would have thought to paint the original color first! So smart! Thanks!! I'm always hesitant to paint because I'm not very precise! Now I don't have to be!
I've seen this technique many times. My question to you is about when you choose to remove the tape. I too have heard that removing the tape BEFORE the paint dries is the best idea. But what about when you have to do multiple coats!? Then how does this apply? If you remove and retape you can't re-paint the baseboard colour as that would defeat the purpose. But, often when you do multiple coats and then remove the tape it pulls off the paint with it because of the thicker layer. Suggestions?
Thank you sooooo much for posting this tutorial! Three years ago, my hubby and I bought our first house, which is amazing, but when the downstairs was remodeled, instead of taking the time and expense of mudding and sanding the sheetrock (it replaced the original plaster and lathe) they chose to just spray a texture and call it good. I thought that there was no way that I could possibly do stripes, checks, or any other pattern over the texture – until I saw your entryway makeover! My walls have a bit more texture than yours, but I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and see how it works out. Sorry for the long winded comment, but seriously, I feel like I've been let out of one-color wall prison and really wanted to thank you!
Oh my granny, thanks to your super video I finally get it!! Thank you so much
for this tutorial–now I will be able to finish paintint my master bedroom!!! 🙂
I have a question… you painted the blue stripes first, then taped on top of them for the step you showed?
Hey, great video here. I think its also important to use a good quality brush to cut perfectly straight lines, my favourite brushes are Proform Picasso's!
Great idea! This seems much less intimidating. I painted my daughters room Hot Pink & grey and could of used this tip!
We did this in the bathroom of our Tasting Room. Every person who enters comes back out raving about how beautiful it is. AND, they are blown away that we did it ourselves and not a professional. Beautiful.
Another tip that is similar to this…if you don't have the original wall color to do this technique, you can also use clear Polycrylic or something like that. Paint the clear finish over the tape, let it bleed/dry, then paint with your color just like you did. Same perfect line 🙂
Given that almost no home has straight walls and corners, how did you resolve that issue? Do you use a level to get the vertical straightness or did you follow something else?
This is such an awesome way to do stripes! My daughter is going to be 8 in the beginning of March and I am re-doing her room! I've been thinking of doing stripes or chevron! Thanks!
Just one question, how does the paint get under the blue tape? Was it during the process where you painted the blue paint on the white stripe area? Did it go through the tape?
Nice tutorial, but you don't explain how to actually tape the stripes…..in other words how do you apply the blue painter's tape in perfectly straight lines from floor to ceiling?
Does this work for corners, too? I have trouble when the two walls meet and I try to change colors.
We have textured walls. How can we prevent leaking under the tape against the texture?
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
Great video!! How do you get the tape so straight?
For me, the most important thing is the taping, which you completely skipped over. 🙁 Why?
Hi, I was interested in your video about painting straight lines. I think the biggest dilema I have is taping straight lines. I would help if you showed how you tape so perfectly the straight lines. Just a thought…thanks for your help.
Thanks ..it would help if I knew how to get the lines straight with the tape….looks hard….
Love you painting tips. Amazing what difference something so simple can make! One more thing, whose piano music is that at the endof you video?
For some people you would have to explain how to put the tape on the wall, ( like measuring from the sides for the tape to be straight down he wall.,) I had to explain this to a friend when she wanted to paints stripes. thank you
This is so clear & simple! I've been wanting to do my living room with alternating matte & satin stripes but knew if the edges were ragged it would drive me crazy! Thanks so much!!
I loved this tutorial, brilliant. I always wondered how people did this. Thank you!
Best line painting tip ever!
I LOVE this tutorial! I have already tried it out with great success. It makes painting one focal pint wall a different color so easy! I also just recently tried this technique on some crafts I do signs on woodworking and canvas with contact paper stencils. Of course they do like to bleed a tad bit and don't give me the perfect lettering I am so OCD about. Instead of constantly touching up blemishes this technique makes using stencils on signs a breeze! Thanks for the great tip!
I see how to paint the straight lines on the walls, but your picture shows crown molding. Is there a secret for painting next to the crown?
Omg! thank you! you just saved me with this tutorial. I am painting white stripes on my upstairs hallway and I was so frustrated because my stripes kept bleeding through, I didn't understand what I was doing wrong. This video clear that up quickly I will be doing this tomorrow thanks Annna!
like to know the color of the green paint in the picture with the crown molding
But what if you don't know the original paint color? Our walls have an ugly, constructors yellow on them and I want to switch one wall to white and grey…
I have a miniature dollhouse I Polyurethane my hardwood floors after installed them.I taped up the crown moldings,but the clear and some of the stain got on the mldings.It's been 24 hours since I did it how can I repaint the moldings,would a thin piece of poster paper work
Perfectly painted stripes but not removing the vent cover and light switch drives me crazy. Now you have to clean the paint off them and it leaves a paint frame border on the wall. When you do take them off you have to sand down that paint frame border to level the wall paint again.


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Bbq Nachos$11.95
a mountain of fresh tortilla chips, topped with our bbq beans, smothered with cheddar cheese, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream, and bbq sauce(add pulled pork, pulled chicken, or chili for $4.95)
Buffalo Fried Shrimp$11.95
spicy and crispy fried shrimp served with blue cheese dressing and celery
Championship Chili$8.95
ground beef and slow smoked beef brisket with red beans, peppers, onion, and chilis with diced red onions, shredded cheddar, and sour cream
Crawfish And Cheddar Hush Puppies$9.95
with jalapenos and sweet corn, served with bbq ranch dressing
Deep Fried Pickle Chips$7.95
golden fried, and piled high with bbq ranch dipping sauce
Fried Green Tomatoes$8.95
a true southern specialty served with bbq ranch dipping sauce
Grilled Bbq Quesadilla$10.95
pulled pork or pulled chicken with cheddar cheese, white onions, sour cream and guacamole.or with shrimp for $3 more
Philly Cheese Steak Eggrolls$8.95
with sriracha-spiked ketchup
Smokin' Hot Wings$9.95
marinated overnight, deep fried, and then tossed with our spicy wing sauce, served with blue cheese dressing and celery.
So-ho Sliders$8.95
your choice of pulled pork or pulled chicken topped with a drizzle of bbq sauce and creamy coleslaw
Spinach And Artichoke Dip$10.95
served with crispy tortilla chips
New Orleans - Style Gumbo$8.95
smoked chicken, andouille sausage. pepper, onions, celery and okra with white rice
Bbq Chicken Chopped Salad$14.95
chopped mixed lettuce with bbq chicken breast, diced tomatoes, corn salsa, crispy tortillas, and ranch dressing
Bbq Shrimp Salad$15.95
grilled shrimp, chopped romaine lettuce, diced haas avocado, grape tomatoes, fried tortilla strips, chili-lime vinaigrette, and a bbq drizzle
Classic Caesar Salad$10.95
with grilled shrimp, grilled chicken breast, or grilled salmon $15.95
Southern Fried Chicken Salad$14.95
crispy fried chicken tenders on a bed of mixed greens, with avocado crispy onion strings, roasted corn, grape tomatoes, and ranch dressing
Turkey Cobb Salad$14.95
mixed greens tossed in bbq ranch dressing topped with a hard boiled egg, tomato, onion, avocado and house-smoked turkey
Boneless Chicken Breast Sandwich$12.95
bbq rubbed and grilled, topped with cheddar cheese and homemade guacamole
Double Beef Burger$14.95
a 10oz beef burger stuffed with savory smoked brisket, on the top of coleslaw finished with crispy onions and bbq sauce
Fried Shrimp Po' Boy$13.95
crispy fried shrimp loaded into a freshly baked hero with tomato, shredded and remoulade
Grilled Portobello Sandwich$11.95
giant herb-marinated mushroom cap topped with homemade guacamole
Pulled Chicken Sandwich$12.95
hand pulled beale street chicken, lightly tossed with our bbq sauce
Pulled Pork Sandwich$12.95
slow smoked memphis-style pork shoulder, hand pulled and piled high
Sliced Smoked Brisket Sandwich$13.95
sliced smoked brisket, crispy onions, and jalapenos piled on a freshly baked hero served with savory beef stock and our own cheese sauce
Southern Hospitality Burger
a half pound hand-pattied angus beef burger add cheddar cheese, thick cut maple cured bacon, or chili $2.00 each
- Full Loaded $11.95
The King Burger$12.95
a half pound angus beef burger with pimiento cheese, shredded lettuce, pickle chips & mayonnaise
Add-on To Any Entree
2 Dry Rubbed Memphis-style Spare Ribs$5.95
3 Slices Of Smoked Brisket$5.95
6 Pieces Of Fried Shrimp$5.95
Bbq Chicken - Breast Or Thigh Leg$5.95
Fried Chicken - Breast Or Thigh And Leg$5.95
Small Green Salad With Choice Of Dressing$5.95
Small Scoop Of Our Pulled Chicken$5.95
Small Scoop Of Our Pulled Pork$5.95
Combo Platters
Over The Top Combo Platter$49.95
you'd better be hungry to tackle this mountain of wet and dry memphis-style spareribs, tender baby back ribs, and 1/2 a beale street bbq chicken'stopped off with four sides and a pan of cornbread
The Classic Bbq Combo$26.95
a half rack of our baby back ribs complimented by one quarter of our beale street bbq chicken choice of white or dark meat and your choice of two sides
The King's Combo$29.95
a huge platter of our memphis-style dry rubbed spare ribs, hand sliced brisket, and our famous fried chicken and your choice of two sides
Wet Rib And Dry Rib Sampler$27.95
a generous portion of our memphis-style dry rubbed ribs and our baby back ribs with a choice of two sides
More Specialties
Chicken And Waffles$15.95
a true southern favorite- one breast, or a leg atop a belgian waffle with maple syrup, and butter
Classic Mac And Cheese$14.95
four cheeses and macaroni
Fried Shrimp Platter$24.95
a whole pound of fried shrimp with crispy fries and coleslaw
Grilled Salmon Filet$18.95
served with warm black eyed pea salad
Home - Style Meatloaf$16.95
served over mashed potatoes, smothered in brown gravy and topped with crispy onion strings
Home Style Southern Fried Chicken Platter$18.95
buttermilk marinated chicken is deep fried until golden brown served with mashed potatoes with gravy and coleslaw(for all white meat add $3.00)
Pan Seared Jumbo Gulf Shrimp$25.95
served with warm corn salsa with cheddar cheese grits
Trio Of Fish Tacos$19.95
flour tortillas stuffed with crispy tilapia, corn and tomato salsa, lime and curry spiked slaw, and fresh avocado
Turkey With The Fixin's$17.95
house-smoked turkey breast served with brown gravy, mashed potatoes and stuffing
Specialties From Our Smokers
Baby Back Ribs$22.95
slow smoked and brushed with our bbq sauce finished on our charcoal grill and served with a choice of two sides
Beale Street Bbq Chicken$17.95
a half dry-rubbed smoked chicken brushed with our bbq sauce finished on the charcoal grill(for all white meat add $3.00) and your choice of two sides
Our Famous Memphis-style Spareribs Served Wet Or Dry$24.95
rubbed with our own blend of spices, then slow cooked in our smoker and your choice of two sides
Pulled Chicken Platter$16.95
the boneless version of our beale street bbq chicken pulled and coated with our bbq sauce
Pulled Pork Platter$18.95
a dinner-sized portion of our delicious pulled pork lightly tossed with bbq sauce
Sliced Brisket Platter$18.95
a generous portion of our hand sliced, slow- smoked beef brisket
Bbq Baked Beans$3.95
Cheddar Cheese Grits$3.95
Classic Macaroni And Cheese$5.95
Collard Greens With Ham Hocks$3.95
Cornbread With Honey Butter$5.95
Creamed Spinach$5.95
Crispy Fries$3.95
Haystack Onion Strings$3.95
Mashed Potatoes With Gravy$3.95
Savory Stuffing$3.95
Sweet Potato Fries$5.95
Tater Tots$3.95
Warm Black Eyed Pea Salad$3.95
"mason Dixon" Red Velvet Cake$7.95
multi layers of red velvet cake and vanilla cream cheese frosting, with chocolate chips
Banana Pudding With Nilla Wafers$6.95
caramelized bananas and whipped cream
Bourbon Flavored Pecan Pie$6.95
fresh whipped cream
Chocolate Molten Lava Cake$7.95
warm dark chocolate cake, , melted fudge center, and topped with whipped cream
Ice Cream$2.95
one scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream
Southern Hospitality Peanut Butter Pie$7.95
house made peanut butter pie with a graham cracker crust topped with shaved chocolate
Southern Style Carrot Cake$7.95
multi layers of moist carrot cake and cream cheese frosting
Waffle Sundae$7.95
served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, sliced banana, chocolate and toffee sauce & whipped cream
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Our menu at Southern Hospitality is a blur of arbecue.Southern fare and the pub grub you'd expect at your local Memphis neighborhood restaurant. The barbecue menu offers three kinds of ribs (babybacks, spare ribs and a beef short rib), beef brisket, pulled pork, barbecued chicken and pulled chicken. All of our platters come with cole slaw, baked beans and a biscuit. Sandwiches include the brisket, pulled meats and a 10-ounce burger. For the 'cue-phobes, there's fried chicken, grilled or fried shrimp, fried catfish and planked salmon. Appetizers lean toward the Southern and the fried, with fried pickles, chicken fingers, fried green tomatoes, onion strings, chicken wings, nachos and shrimp cocktail. For dessert, the nutty pecan pie beats out the sweet peach cobbler.


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NASA's James Hansen explains why we should be concerned about human-made climate change when it's changed so much in the past
Climate de-crocker Peter Sinclair has the video, "The 8 Minute Epoch: 65 Million Years with James Hansen":
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39 Responses to NASA's James Hansen explains why we should be concerned about human-made climate change when it's changed so much in the past
I new that the Himalayas were a major reason for the draw down but I've never seen such a coherent explanation for the spike in CO2 before that. Great video!
Well its not really a case of losing all of west or east Antarctic ice sheet but some of it which we are doing presently along with Greenland.
Just how much between now and 2100 is up for grabs.
New Report from AOL on Australia: "There's Quite a Horrible Smell to it all"- poisonous snakes and spiders on the loose:
With water receding in some parts, people are going in to assess damage," she said. "But the worst is the heat — we're in summer here –and the mud, the overall humidity and all the damage. There's quite a horrible smell to it all."
Rule-Murphy said that floodwaters are expected to rise and fall over the coming weeks and that the cleanup could take months or even a year. "A lot of farming country's been hit, and people can't grow those lost crops until next year," she said.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard pledged government aid today "in the order of many hundreds of millions of dollars," the Australian Associated Press quoted her as saying. The aid package includes low-interest loans to farmers, she said.
Coal exports, one of the mainstays of Australia's economy, have also been hit, with mines flooded and railways washed away. Eighteen ships are waiting at the port of Gladstone for loads of coal that may take 10 days to arrive, costing the $55 billion a year industry dearly, Reuters reported.
And authorities say it could get worse before it gets better. The town of Rockhampton, on the edge of the rising Fitzroy River, is receiving food and supplies by military air drops north of the city because all major highways out of town have been cut off by flooding. The airport is also closed.
Nathan Berry, who works at Rockhampton's riverfront Criterion Hotel, said he spent the weekend preparing for the worst, as he watched the river slowly rise toward the hotel's front steps.
"The water is just up to our gutters today. But when it comes up another meter or so, which is likely to happen Tuesday or Wednesday, it'll be at our doorstep," Berry told AOL News in a telephone interview from the hotel, where he's now trapped. "There's not much we can do now. We have to just deal with it."
Supplies being dropped into Rockhampton also include batches of snake anti-venom, amid fears that poisonous snakes and spiders have been forced out of their hiding spots because of the flooding.
"There's heaps of them. We've had a plague of mice, a lot of frogs, and so we knew the snakes would come," Barry Moessinger, who lives in a Rockhampton suburb, told The Australian newspaper. Six shots of brown snake anti-venom and 10 generic emergency snakebite injections were among the medical supplies flown into Rockhampton on Sunday, the paper said.
Rockhampton Mayor Brad Carter said he's received several reports of snakebites and is worried the floodwaters could bring crocodiles up into populated areas as well.
Sponsored Links"Snakes have been swimming at people's feet as they make their way through the waters," Carter told the BBC. "I know one guy who killed four snakes this morning, one of which was a taipan — the more it bites, the more it injects venom that could easily kill."
The snakes are a real problem I am sure. That part of Australia has two of the most deadly species in the world; The Eastern Brown snake, and the coastal Taipan.
All the world and its leaders (especially Obama) should be paying much more attention to James Hansen. He knows what has happened to our planet's climate; he knows what is happening now to our planet; and he knows all too well what will happen to our planet if we don't stop burning fossil fuels now.
It is almost too late. Why won't we listen?
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Obama I am sure is familiar with Dr. Hansen's work, and the dire situation we are in. But he as little courage to tell the American public.
He would be laughed at by half the people of this nation, who either do not understand the problem, or others who take for truth what they hear at Fox News.
Sadly, we will have long passed the point of no return by 2020- this could change of course if during this decade we see more climate catastrophes occurring- especially in the USA- with a regularity that cannot be ignored.
But Obama will likely pass the buck to the Next President. The cost for doing nothing however goes higher every year- exponentially.
Philip Eisner, we're (the human population) won't listen now, because we didn't listen 20 or 50 years ago either. Only some details have been added to our understanding of human caused climate change knowledge in those years. Jimmy Carter was trying to move us in the proper direction 30 years ago and look what happened to him: fossil fuel propaganda bad-mouthed him and he lost re-election. Cheney went back into the White House for Reagan and here we are today.
Yes, all the world and its leaders should be paying attention to James Hansen. Put a tax on fossil carbon today!
When I talk to people about climate change I often offer to give them Hansen's book if they are at all interested in reading about the climate science and what it means for our future. It is by far the best book I've read on the actual climate science.
So far I haven't given a single copy away. Amazing.
This year, now that his book is in paperback, I'll be carrying a copy with me most of the time and just hand it out if people I know show even the slightest flicker of interest.
Hopefully the "Storms of Ourselves" that we are now suffering will be enough motivation to get at least some people to read a little bit about climate.
I do think the title of Hansen's book was a mistake. Not many people realize his "Grandchildren" are alive and in school already. It makes the threat seem to distant in time to many folks. I can see the wheels spinning in their heads along the lines of "Do I want to read about a problem I don't want to face and that won't happen for two more generations?"
Hansen has a great quote about how extreme weather events today would very likely not be happening without our global warming pollution. That is brilliant messaging. His book title…not so much.
Sadly people do judge a book by its cover, especially when they want to shove their head back into the sand as fast as they politely can.
Bottom line: highly recommend Hansen's book to anyone interested in climate science and where earth climate has been and is heading this time.
Barry #9
I gave Hansen's book to a friend (he has a PhD- College administration & Psychology)- I saw him a few times over the holiday- his wife and others at cocktail and dinner parties.
Also on my coffee table is Make Lynas' book '6 Degrees'- which I highly recommend- and Diane Dumanoskis' 'End of the Long Summer'
I try and educate as many people as possible– most listen-and realize we are facing deep deep problems. But to the 'average' person, they still seem to be in some kind of a 'funk' about the ramification of humans continuing to burn coal.
"We have three-quarters of our coal fields unable to operate and unable to supply markets," Bligh told ABC Television. "There is likely to be a significant long-term effect from that and not only nationally but internationally," she said.
Coal is Australia's biggest export earner, responsible for about A$55bn in annual revenue. The country's booming resources sector has been largely responsible for the strength of the economy in the past two years.
Southern Queensland and northern New South Wales are Australia's main growing areas for hard red winter wheat, the type used primarily to produce flour.
"It's the hard red winter wheat crop in Australia that has been damaged," Gartman said. The world is short of the grain and "the premium that hard red winter has over soft red will widen even further."
'Unharvestable' Grain
Rainfall and flooding will damage the remaining uncollected wheat crop, Wayne Newton, grains president of farmers group Agforce, said last week from Dalby, Australia. A lot of the grain that has still to be collected will be "unharvestable," he said
World wheat output in the current season is forecast to lag behind demand by 20 million tons, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
I agree that this is a great video for people who understand science. But for the average non-scientist who needs to become informed about these issues — and, frankly, that is the audience to be targeted in a comprehensive manner if anything constructive is going to be done about climate change before it's too late — this explanation is much too technical.
Among other issues, I think the portions of the Hanson video relating to solar forcing and natural carbon sources and sinks are not understandable by the average non-scientist.
By the way, can anyone give me a brief, very clear, very non-technical explanation of how rock weathering functions as a natural carbon sink? (Or perhaps someone can refer me to a brief, clear explanation online.) I would like to modify some of what Hanson presents in the video in updating my lecture/slideshow presentation about climate change issues. Also, are the graphics presented in the video available for use? Thanks in advance.
For those of you who are interested, here is a link to the full lecture (one hour+ in length):
As excellent a scientist as Hansen is, he's just not a compelling lecturer (I've seen him say as much himself). But he really has so much that is important to say. Peter Sinclair's video does a great job of making Hansen's talk engaging.
Personally, I can easily sit through an hour or more listening to Hansen speak. But this is a topic that I (and most reading here) maintain a strong interest in. It's so important to get Hansen's message out there to the general public who have a hard time maintaining their attention through a 60 second sound bite.
So, once again, kudos to Peter for helping to make this complex issue more digestible for the general population.
I was wondering how roundup ready crops fair in our changing climate, difficult growing condition world so I googled 'roundup ready crops' hardiness. I got zero hits which means no one's thinking about this possibility. So the hardiness of Roundup ready might be a story or a research project. How will roundup ready crops do in the coming years of extreme weather, droughts, floods and other bad growing conditions?
They've altered genes to make the plants immune to Roundup but they've possibly weakened them in other ways. We'll be finding out soon.
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Palm oil rose to the highest level in more than 33 months on concern that global supplies of cooking oils will shrink after rains disrupted harvests in Indonesia and Malaysia, the biggest producers of the tropical commodity.
Meanwhile, Argentina's agriculture industry faces a grim season.
The heat wave is likely to break the country's all-time records in soy and wheat exports. Argentina is one of the world's top grain producers – and that explains why officials and experts very worried.
Five provinces are on code orange alert for severe drought – not good news for a nation that depends so heavily on agriculture.
And it's not just Argentina that will be affected by this extreme weather. A loss of Argentina's important crops is likely to affect international commodity prices.
anyone else notice that various parts of the earth are having 100 year floods every 5 years or so?
Queensland's Rockhampton Now Completely Cut Off by Floods
Huge swaths of the Outback have become a virtual lake, with more than 20 Australian communities either cut off or slipping beneath floodwaters. Military flights are rushing to restock the Australian city of Rockhampton as it is cut off by floodwaters. http://www.newslook.com/videos/279751-queensland-s-rockhampton-now-completely-cut-off-by-floods?autoplay=true
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Some 56,000 died in a combination of heatwaves and forest fires in Russia, it said.
Re #13: Jenny, I think Hansen is trying hard to simplify things as much as possible. If you have specific ideas on how to do that, email him with them. Bear in mind that a major criticism of Gore's AIT is that he skipped over the too much of the science and so asked the audience to take too much on faith.
Re rock weathering, the CO2 dissolved in rainwater makes it slightly acidic. The acid reacts with the rock to form carbonate compounds, which then crumble and wash away, mostly ending up as ocean sediments. The rainwater isn't very acidic and can only work on the exposed rock face, so this is a *very* slow process on a human time scale.
Just to add, I think if a professional writer and editor worked with Hansen on this presentation it could be made much more clear and effective.
I've read and re-read Hansen's "Storms of My Grandchildren" and taught from it, yet this talk was so clear and succinct that it brought new awareness to the issue for me.
Hansen says that our increase of CO2 parts per million (ppm) to 389 (the talk was last October, I've been using 390 but I'd still like to know what others feel is the best annual average to use) has happened 10,000 times faster (and he doesn't say this in this clip but I think he should consider it) THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF EARTH.
Thanks for the link, Colorado Bob @ 20: I printed the article and a hand note to the local Editor on my walk.
"I was doing a plant survey to see how the wetlands had changed over the years, and I noticed a lot of the plants were blooming earlier than they had in the previous survey," said Conover.
The biologist pointed out that the mean annual temperature during the survey periods increased nearly 2 degrees from 53.38 degrees (11.88 C) to 55.27 degrees (12.93 C) in roughly a decade's time.
"This is a big change for such a short time period," said Conover. "There is a lot of data coming from all over the world indicating that biological communities are being impacted by warmer temperatures."
Jenny, #13, says:
I agree that this is a great video for people who understand science. But for the average non-scientist who needs to become informed about these issues — and, frankly, that is the audience to be targeted in a comprehensive manner if anything constructive is going to be done about climate change before it's too late — this explanation is much too technical.
I know of some very highly educated individuals, who smirk and almost giggle when I mention global warming, pointing to all the snow as if it disproves GW. One woman, who has a child she keeps pointing out as "gifted" (as if she's the only one with a gifted child) told me, "well, you know, there are scientists who are saying it's not happening!" My mother, on the other hand, only has a 6 th grade education, and she "gets it" (as do many other poor, uneducated people)and tries to inform others about it. So it's not a matter of education/ literacy. It's a matter of WANTING to understand. And some people just do not.
catman306 #16-just try the Institute of Science in Society. They have a lot of good research on Roundup, glyphosphate, and why its use is yet another horrific disaster in the making. There are so many disasters, most hideously synergistic,all antithetical to human life, all hidden by corporate power and media complicity, that it is hard to avoid the feeling that someone or something wants us gone.
THe biggest concern about Round-Up is that there are now many noxious weeds that are not killed by this chemical concoction. The most hazardous of these weeds is 'hog weed', which can grow to huge proportions and cannot be touched because it inflicts serious chemical burns. It is spreading throughout your American agricultural regions!
Why is Hansen not mentioning the PETM?
The most extreme change in Earth surface conditions during the Cenozoic Era began at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, 55.8 million years ago. This event, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, alternatively "Eocene thermal maximum 1" (ETM1), and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or "Late Paleocene Thermal Maximum",[1] (IETM/LPTM)), was associated with rapid (in geological terms) global warming, profound changes in marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and major perturbations in the carbon cycle.
Global temperatures rose by about 6°C (11°F) at the start of the PETM, which appears to have occurred within 20,000 years. At nearly the same time, many deep-sea benthic foraminifera went extinct, and mammalian life on land experienced a major turnover, which marks the emergence of numerous modern mammalian orders. The event is linked to a prominent negative excursion in carbon stable isotope (δ13C) records from across the globe, and dissolution of carbonate deposited on the seafloor of all ocean basins. The latter observations strongly suggest that a massive input of 13C-depleted carbon entered the ocean or atmosphere at the start of the PETM. The event has become a focal point of geoscience investigations because it is perhaps the best past analog in which to understand the fate and consequences of current fossil fuel emissions on an intermediate time-scale (>1000 years). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene–Eocene_Thermal_Maximum
Nevertheless great video!
Mulga Mumblebrain and Bruce Turton, sorry, my miscommunication: I referring to genetically modified crops, specifically Roundup Ready Soybean and Corn seed. Can they endure the stress of our new changing climate and produce good crops yields in times of heat and drought as well as during saturating periods of rain better than conventional seeds?
I've used the product Roundup and the Walmart imitation in ridding my yard of kudzu (this took years) and to limit the poison ivy. The secret is to apply a tiny spray spurt to each leave on the stem you want to remove. Don't overspray.
This is not even close to communicating with the average enormously consuming American level of scientific understanding.
So, what is the point?
@Prokaryotes #29,
Maybe he spent more time on the PETM at a different point in the lecture? His actual lecture was over 1 hour long. At any rate, he discusses the PETM clearly and at length in Storms of My Grandchildren.
BTW, I believe Hansen's book provides a *much* better overview of climate science than that 8-minute clip does. Of course, asking someone to watch an 8-minute video is much easier than asking them to read a book. But still, reading the book is *well* worth the extra time invested.
Jenny (#13): can anyone give me a brief, very clear, very non-technical explanation of how rock weathering functions as a natural carbon sink?
Here is an explanation from pg 99 in Veron's "A Reef In Time":
"Over very long time scales — millions of years — atmospheric CO2 levels are primarily controlled by a balance between the rate of volcanic release from the Earth's interior and the rate of extraction through photosynthesis and the chemical weathering of rocks at the Earth's surface, according to the equation CaSiO3 + CO2 -> CaCO3 + SiO2."
When India docked to Asia it started the Himalayas uplifting which exposed lots of fresh rock surfaces for weathering, thus drawing down CO2 a bit "faster" than normal.
The other big extraction pump is the photosynthesis and calcification by phytoplankton. As these die and fall to the ocean floor some are turned into sediments and then to sedimentary rocks.
The cycle completes itself when these sedimentary rocks are subducted. The immense heat and pressure reverse the equation above, reforming the silicate rocks and CO2. These escape back to the surface via volcanoes and traps. A super-long carbon cycle in and out of rocks.
I recommend Veron's book for anyone interested in coral reefs and climate changes, both the relatively slow ones of the past and the far-too-rapid one we are unleashing by burning fossil fuels now.
Final point: if you are talking to people about climate change I very strongly recommend you do as Richard Brenne (#23) does and read Hansen's book. I'm on my fourth reading and learning more each time. It is definitely the best book on the climate science of many I have read.
Final final point: Hansen has all his papers, talks and graphs available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/
Richard Brenne (#23), I believe what Hansen is saying is that the current rate of CO2 change is a 10,000 times greater climate forcing than what was required to end the last ice age.
In that case it was a very slow change in earth orbit resulting in increased solar forcing. The worrisome message is that such a smaller and slower forcing still managed to remove a mile thick slab of ice from much of the northern hemisphere.
I think Hansen states that our current CO2 forcing is an order of magnitude more rapid than any forcing we know about in the past. That is 10 times greater than anything the planet has faced in the past. As he puts it, this is a hammer blow to the climate system.
In addition the earth has never faced a rapid WARMING forcing of any kind. All the past WARMING forcings have been slow. All the rapid forcings in the past have been COOLING (ex: volcanoes, meteor impacts).
We are locking ourselves into a cage with a proven nasty climate beast and hammering away at it with the biggest stick ever. We are unlikely to be happy with the results much longer.
Meanwhile we have the entire GOP in lock-step attack formation to prevent humanity from doing anything to stop this insanity in time.
Wit's End (#31) – You know how much I respect your work and how often I agree with you (and I'd love to hear your comments about Roundup and other plant issues in the above discussion), but I think both Hansen and this talk are very important.
I heard most of the entire YouTube version of the talk as I was packing up for a day and night of biking and meetings, and because of Hansen's monotone delivery hardly a word resonated with me. But with Peter Sinclair's skillful editing, I liked the 8 minute clip a lot – for those of us with a pretty sophisticated understanding of climate change, like so many CP readers.
Hansen is the gold standard of understanding the science of climate change (with Trenberth, Mann, Alley, Solomon, Santer, Romm, etc) – I think he's the closest we have to a Robert (though Michael's good too) Oppenheimer at tying all the various facets of climate science together, as Oppenheimer did during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
I think it's our job – since you, Romm and so many here are such good communicators – to understand as much as we can of what Hansen knows and communicate it much better than he can.
It's the same with Hansen's political understanding. It might be naive relative to Joe's and other's, but I think he's fundamentally right about that as well, only very idealistic.
That has value, as I've pointed out before. The former slave turned most ardent abolitionist Frederick Douglas stated the ideals, and Lincoln worked toward those ideals in the real world about as rapidly (and opportunistically) as anyone could have. Without Douglas, Lincoln might well have not had such ideals so firmly in mind.
To me Hansen is our Frederick Douglas. I appreciate the tremendous amount he has to offer, then would love to partner with him and others to communicate what he knows better than anyone. . .well, better than he alone can.
And Peter Sinclair's editing helped the talk a great deal. I wouldn't look at Hansen's talk as the ultimate end product going out to the public, but the beginning of that process.
Cheerio, or any other cereal of your choosing.
Richard Brenne #35, as usual you have given an answer to Gail that is very well thought out and really gets to the heart of the matter. Sinclair's editing of Hansen's talks is exactly what is needed, but as you said, it is just a start. I agree that Hansen is like our modern Frederick Douglas and his work should be disseminated as much as possible, especially in ways such as Sinclair has done. There are many gifted communicators out there, quite a few who have connections to big media, who should be approached to join Pete Sinclair in his work which must become much bigger than it presently is. We must overwhlem the denier machine and give the president the impetus to "make him do it" as both Lincoln and FDR finally did concerning civil rights. Climate change matters are the ultimate civil rights since they affect the very existence of billions of people.
I too have read Hansen's book a few times, and use it as a reference book to back me up when I give talks and presentations to different types of audiences. I agree that the biggest problem is not putting an audience to sleep with the minutiae of how the climate works and I always gleen these posts for ways to help myself make my presentations better. Because the deniers are so well funded and politically entrenched, I see the next two years in DC (and probably longer if I'm being realistic) as being a waste of time that we can't afford to lose. So our only hope to get the president to finally do what he really has to do is to blitz all media outlets as much as we can and bypass the grid-locked Congress while going strait to the people. Sinclair's clip is one way, though we need him and others with his talent to multiply their efforts a thousand fold.
In my more optimistic moments (which tend to be very few these days), I actually have some hope that all the disasters happening around the world which are having an immediate impact on global food prices and supplies and which will probably continue to accelerate this year might actually be the magic elixer which could wake the majority of sleeping people up to what we face and to what we must do about it. Even the slickest denier machines can get blown off their tracks when a critical mass of the public finally realizes how they've been had. I only hope that the reaction doesn't turn into another French Revolution. Anyway, for what it's worth, Happy New Year everyone and keep those videos coming Pete Sinclair!
Colorado Bob @ 11
Video of Ann Bligh's comments available here for a few days.
Thanks, this is a great excerpt (with improved graphics inserted).
You might be interested that the full presentation given by Jim Hansen at the University of Oregon on 16th October 2010 is available here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgC8yZT–0A
Thanks very much to everyone who provided info in response to my post.


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I have been researching this for the past hour, and yet to come up with a simple solution that doesnt involve some weird exports/imports.
All I am trying to do is open up a PDO connection with two databases so that I can use them both in queries.
It seems that there is disagreements in Stack Overflow about this.
One answer:
...you will need to create two PDO objects for the seperate connections if you would like to use both at runtime.
But others seem to suggest you can just "use" two databases in your query:
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$sql = "SELECT * FROM anotherdbname.anothertablename"
I tried preforming a SELECT command on another database besides the one explicitly defined in my PDO connection function. I got this:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1142 SELECT command denied to user 'dbusername'@'localhost' for table 'table_name'
I made sure to add the user to both databases and grant full privileges.
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Hawthorne really likes to tell us how it is in this story. He has a message to tell us – the story is didactic and moral – so naturally the tone is going to suit these purposes. And nowhere it the author's attitude more clear than in the story's final paragraph, when we drop the narrative altogether and hear straight from the narrator (and very possibly straight from the author – see "Narrator Point of View" for the connection between Hawthorne and his narrator):
Thus ever does the gross fatality of earth exult in its invariable triumph over the immortal essence which, in this dim sphere of half development, demands the completeness of a higher state. Yet, had Aylmer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven his mortal life of the selfsame texture with the celestial. The momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present. (91)
The narrator is so concerned with moralizing, we don't even see the real fall out to the story's climatic scene! What is Aylmer's reaction to his wife's death? What is the deal with Aminadab's earthy chuckle? Did Aylmer learn from his mistake? We don't know, because Hawthorne's point isn't to satisfy our plot-cravings, it's to teach us a lesson. (Just what is that lesson? It's subject to debate, so see "What's Up with the Ending?" for the full-blown discussion.)


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Once again....the reason no one wanted the fight were as described. It had little if anything to do with the potential of a fix. It was all about Alis ties to the nation of Islam, Malcom x being assassinated and Ali life being threatened. The fear was what happened to Malcom would happen to Ali and in a boxing arena this may also take countless lives. no one attended the fight because of where it was, high ticket prices and the fear something bad was going to happen along the lines of what happened to Malcom x. This is why knowing history is so important. Wrong conclusions can be drawn as what was done here and other posts concerning these two outs.
This isn't true.
The fight wasn't wanted anywhere because :
1. the WBA had banned return bout contracts and the member state commissions had voted to uphold that ban.
2. Liston was linked to underworld figures which had him banned in other states.
3. The first fight had been controversial and had drawn a meagre crowd.
if anything, the Malcolm X assassination and a hypothetical "revenge" attack on Ali by Malcolm loyalists (Ali was an Elijah Muhammad loyalist) was over-egged by the media to arouse interest in the fight.
If they had stuck to strict boxing talk, it didn't seem to warrant much column space.
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The Bank of England defended its capital rules, saying they ensure that banks bear the costs of taking risks, rather than the state.
Lenders "may prefer to operate with lower levels of financial resources than is socially optimal," the London-based BOE, whose Prudential Regulation Authority unit took over bank supervision in April, said in a report published today.
"Prudential regulation seeks to address this problem by ensuring that credit and liquidity risks are properly accounted for, with the costs borne by the bank and its customers in the good times, rather than the public authorities in bad times," according to the report, written by BOE and PRA officials Marc Farag, Damian Harland and Dan Nixon.
The Bank of England in June ordered the five largest U.K. lenders, including Barclays Plc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, to plug a 13.4 billion-pound capital shortfall by the end of the year. International banks have raised about $500 billion in capital in the aftermath of the financial crisis and fall of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. five years ago.
"We don't believe that putting more capital into the system is detrimental," Andrew Bailey, chief executive officer of the PRA, told Bloomberg Television this week. "A better-capitalized system, a more stable system, is good for financial stability, will be good for the banking system and good for the economy," Bailey said.
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"Adding layers and layers of conservatism may reduce the risk of future financial crises, but this comes at a high cost in terms of a permanent reduction on annual growth rates," New-York based accounting firm KPMG LLP said in a report published yesterday.
The eight biggest U.K. banks by assets may need to boost their capital levels by 50 billion pounds ($79 billion) or shrink their balance sheets by 20 percent to meet tougher international rules in the future, KPMG said.
Global banks had core capital reserves averaging about 9 percent of their risk-weighted assets at the end of 2012, more than the 7 percent required under the updated standards, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in a report last month. The minimum ratio of equity to debt, known as the leverage ratio, is 3 percent.


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The Register's editorial "Why money was 'dark'" [Nov. 8] supports disclosures of campaign contributors' names, in the interest of "transparency in political spending." Political spending, as a form of political speech, is on a par with the vote and should be protected as such.
The secret ballot was implemented in America in the mid-to-late 1800s, due to rampant coercion of voters. In California, "outed" supporters of certain ballot initiatives and propositions have been harassed at home, had their families threatened and had businesses damaged because they expressed opinions counter to those of opposing groups.
The current extensive efforts to locate and punish certain contributors to recent campaigns are probably driven not by the fact that campaign finance rules may have been broken, but by the positions espoused by these contributors.
The effect of this kind of coercion is to prevent the kind of public discussion, exposition of ideas and informed voting necessary for democracy to survive.
Campaign-finance laws, always, are designed to favor incumbents and their political supporters. To require individuals such as Eli Broad or Charles Schwab to identify themselves personally, while the opposition identifies itself as "Service Employees International Union," clearly places unequal burdens on the different classes of contributors and unjustly exposes one group to retribution.
At one time in our history, the consequences of expressing one's opinion may not have been so severe. Now, with so many idle Americans perpetually hooked to mobile phones and their attendant political networks, the consequences to individuals can be severe.
Rather than attempting to constrict the sources and amount of information available, government should work to provide a literate voting public, able to review all opinions and relevant data. No amount of "bad" money flowing into politics can fool an informed public.
Our laws include millions of words intended to control the exercise of free political speech. They obviously have not controlled the amount of money spent on politics. The recent activities of the California Fair Political Practices Commission that imposed "record penalties" give a truer picture of what "campaign finance reform" is really about.
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