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Duncan turns back the clock
From Elias: Tim Duncan scored 31 points, grabbed 18 rebounds and blocked five shots but it wasn't enough for the Spurs, who lost at Denver. It was only the second time in Duncan's NBA career that he reached those statistical minimums in each of those categories. The other game in which Duncan did that was more than 11 years ago (32 Pts, 19 Reb, 5 Blk at Phoenix on December 14, 2001).
Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs
Another 30-point game for Bryant
From Elias: Kobe Bryant registered his seventh straight 30-point game in the Lakers' come-from-behind win against the Bobcats. It's Bryant's sixth career streak of seven or more consecutive games with at least 30 points (considering his career-high 16-game streak in 2002-03 as two streaks of seven or more games). No NBA player has had as many streaks of that kind as Bryant since Michael Jordan had 13 streaks of at least seven straight 30-point games.
Los Angeles Lakers, Charlotte Bobcats
Lakers draw even with the Bobcats
From Elias: Despite their loss to the Lakers, the Bobcats all-time record against Kobe and company stands at 8-8. The Lakers are one of only four teams against which the Bobcats have an all-time record of .500 or better. Charlotte is 11-6 against the Timberwolves, 9-6 versus the Kings and 8-8 against the Warriors.
Charlotte Bobcats, Los Angeles Lakers
Triple-double isn't enough
From Elias: The Wizards suffered their second overtime-loss to the Hawks this season despite Jordan Crawford scoring 27 points to go along with his 11 rebounds and 11 assists. Crawford was the sixth player in franchise history to register a triple-double against the Hawks. He joined Si Green (1964 against the St. Louis Hawks), Gus Johnson (1969), Wes Unseld (1970), Darrell Walker (1991) and Gilbert Arenas (2004). Only Crawford and Unseld did it in losses.
Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards
Raptors take their time
From Elias: The Raptors defeated the Cavaliers, 113-99, despite not registering any fast-break points. It was the fourth NBA game over the last nine seasons (2004-05 to date) in which a team scored as many as 113 points without any of them coming on fast breaks, and Toronto was the team to do it in each of those instances.
Toronto Raptors, Cleveland Cavaliers
Calderon's turn to lead
From Elias: Toronto has won three straight games, each with a different outright scoring leader (Linas Kleiza on Friday, Alan Anderson on Sunday and Jose Calderon on Tuesday). It's the longest winning streak of that kind for the Raptors since December 2009, when they won three in a row with Amir Johnson, Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargnani posting the team highs in points.
As Mayo goes, so go the Mavericks
From Elias: O.J. Mayo scored a game-high 26 points as the Mavericks topped the 76ers. Dallas improved its record to 12-13 this season, but the Mavericks are 11-6 in games in which Mayo was their leading scorer (either outright or tied), and that includes each of the team's four overtime losses.
Dallas Mavericks, Philadelphia 76ers
Miami rejects Minnesota
From Elias: Miami blocked 14 shots while defeating the Timberwolves, who had only one blocked shot to their credit. It matched the largest blocked-shot differential in any NBA game this season and it was the first game in which the Miami blocked at least 13 more shots than its opponent in exactly 13 years. The Heat lost to the Hornets at Miami Arena on December 18, 1999, despite blocking 15 shots (including nine by Alonzo Mourning), compared to only two for Charlotte.
Miami Heat, Minnesota Timberwolves
Scoring is secondary for Noah
From Elias: Joakim Noah scored only 11 points but he grabbed 13 rebounds and handed out 10 assists to help the Bulls defeat the Celtics. Noah was the first NBA player to register a triple-double in those three categories while scoring no more than 11 points since Rajon Rondo did it last season (10 Pts, 10 Reb, 20 Ast on April 11). Noah was the first player to do it for the Bulls since Kirk Hinrich on February 28, 2004 (11 Pts, 12 Reb, 10 Ast).
Pacers can't score on the road
From Elias: The Pacers, who dropped a 98-93 decision at Milwaukee on Tuesday, have played 15 games on the road this season without scoring more than 97 points in any of them. That's the longest streak of its kind for any NBA team to begin a season since the Bulls were held to 97 points of fewer in each of their first 15 road games in 1999-2000.
Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks


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I would first like to dwell on the conditions necessary for life to exist.
We have air. The plant takes out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and replaces it with oxygen for other creatures to breath. The herbivores keep the plants in check as the predatory animals keep them in check. The predatory animals also keep themselves in check by regulating their litter to suit the amount of prey available. Too few predators too much strain on the flora as we would be overrun with grazing animals. Too many and flora would take over. You have a balanced air supply.
Earth, the fly is eaten by the spider that's eaten by the bird all the way up the food circle. The lion dies and once scavenged by everything from the vulture to the fly its remains are broken down by micro organisms that along with other decayed animals and plants make up the organic part of the soil from which the growing plants gets its nutrition. You have a balanced earth supply.
Water, water is evaporated in the sea forming clouds that rain over the land causing rivers and lakes before returning back to the sea to start again. You have a balanced water supply.
And finally Fire. Photo-synthesis, the basis of all life
Elemental really when you think about it.
Having gone into the elements of life I would now like to go to the next stage and that is the natural laws that shape life in its early stages. These are:-
To adapt every organism to the best of its ability-
To evolve to its purpose
To survive in the habitat around it
To survive in the climate around it
To survive in the social climate around it
To attract a mate
To defend and hunt
To give its offspring the best chance of survival
To find its niche in the eco system
I believe that these laws can not only be recognised in the animals around us but are enshrined in our being and form our instinctive drive. I also believe that, that is as far as we can take it on a physical level.
Now to me life is spiritual energy that animates matter and brings it into being so as you can imagine it dwells heavily into the metaphysical. I do not know if science could ever quantify that as it seems to dwell more on the physical though I have read somewhere that they are starting to recognize that all matter has built in mind potential which would be the next logical step in the equation. (matter or mass, mind or constant so MC, just a little self recognition to square the equation). To me the mind is like an electrical wiring system inbuilt to aid the living of life. It is not life itself but the channel through which life works. That might sound a little farfetched to some of you so I had better state that I think that the body does not generate life but is merely the vehicle for life. We know that life evolves but some Esoterics' believe that the self has to evolve also. This evolution involves it purging itself of the matter that tainted it, in other words material desire through selfish thought to achieve a state of mind called selflessness and once done it attains purity of being, gets enlightened to its purpose and reaches what we call the God-head.
To me everything that has life from the humble flower up to the humble man is all part of one great thing, the mind of God. Now as the self grows in understanding of itself and purpose it grows in purity and with it awareness. At its early levels though it is constrained by the shackles of the mind what we called tied to the cosmic wheel and lives in an instinctive mode. I had better give you an example of that. The flower heads to the light, it has no control of its mind at this stage, its essence's level of awareness though is to head to the light and the method it uses is called Phototropism. It has no control of this method though as it is done by its mind. (That might be a little too simplistic as its roots head away from the light in search of water and nutriment from the earth but the point I am making is that the action is not done consciously by the flower but by its mind). Now as its essence grows in awareness it is able to take on more complicated structures, fauna (by which I include man), the more understanding the more complicated the structure. It does start to break free from its cosmic chain (the natural laws) at that stage and develop a thing that they call free will. It can think for itself but it still has the chains restricting it through selfish desire for in its early stage of development it was necessary to be quite selfish just to survive. As it grows in awareness more though its desire, in theory should diminish for with its more complicated mind it leaves the basic survival stage and prospers.
So back to the natural laws then, now man when he developed the power of discernment also developed self-consciousness (This believe it or not is the mind's fundamental tool for growth. It can only grow through relating things to its self or personal experience) which at its early stages can actually be quite detrimental to man's evolution into a spiritual being. This along with his new found ability to reason and problem solving gave him mastery over the environment although the laws that still shackled him to his instinctive drive had their hold. Now though they had evolved into character flaws, the matter of the mind that wanted purging before he could reach the next stage. Where once he was nomadic to survive in the climate he got slothful and took to wearing other animals' skins, utilising fire for heat and generally staying put over winter. In hand with this he wanted not only to survive in the habitat around him he wanted to excel, he got avaricious.
This was helped by the fact that he no longer had to carry his possessions with him every time he moved so he was not restricted in the amount he could actually own. In hand with this and to survive in the social climate around him he fell to envy and used the tool of self – consciousness to gauge not knowledge but material wealth. With his evolution also his sexual drive was no longer confined to when his mate was in season, he got lecherous and it became a matter of pride for him to give his offspring the best chance of survival that he could. His temper would also come out to play should he feel threatened (He always had anger, even before as it is just an adrenalin boost to prepare him either for flight or fight) and finally instead of finding his niche in the eco system by not taking more than he needed he upset the balance and got gluttonous. They have evolved since but I believe that is how they come to be – the seven deadly sins (the components of the ego). I have not used that term though for I believe that if you see them as character flaws you have a firmer basis to deal with them if your aim is self – development.

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As far as I know, it all depends on how the file is opened in other programs. If I write
A to a binary stream, it'll just get converted to
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By Nick SpinelliMarch 27, 2009
Wounded Soldiers and leaders from the Warrior Transition Battalion solidified a covenant during a ceremony at the post theater March 18.
The ceremony was designed to affirm the responsibilities the battalion and the Soldiers share.
"The covenant ceremony is very important because it bonds the cadre to Soldiers; Soldiers to cadre; and Soldiers to senior staff," said Command Sgt. Maj. Lester Williams, Wounded Warrior Battalion command sergeant major.
"With all great organizations, there is always something in writing to bond employees and employers to each other. This shows, in writing, how well we're going to take care of each other."
The covenant promises that the battalion will work to ensure Soldiers receive the proper medical care needed while recovering from injuries. In return, the Wounded Warriors promise to fulfill their end of the obligation by making their appointments, updating leadership on changes and maintaining a positive focus on healing and transition readiness.
Each of the battalion's three company commanders, first sergeants, and a representative signed the covenant on stage.
Lt. Col. Everett Sharpe, WTB commander, and Williams also signed. The covenant was then notarized and signed by a witness.
"It's symbolic. It [the covenant] signifies and validates our promise to take care of our people," said 1st Sgt. Jeff Callahan, WTB Alpha Company first sergeant.
Callahan said the covenant ceremony wasn't meant to launch a new program, just promote a current one.
"This isn't something new. It re-emphasizes what we've always been doing," he said.
The healing process takes time, and for some Soldiers in the battalion, this time can be frustrating. Many feel as though they've been taken out of their mission and are seeing their careers stall.
"The medical side is very helpful, and they're great about making sure we get to where we need to be to prepare us to go back to work," Spc. Brent Kanan of Alpha Company said.
Sgt. First Class Fred Sconfeld, WTB Charlie Company, has been in the battalion since June 2008 and is now waiting to see what the future holds for him.
"I've put in 30 years," he said. I know I'm coming up on the end of my career, but it's scary to think this is the end. Still, I don't have any complaints. It's been good, and I've gotten all the help and care I need for whatever comes next."
Williams says "what comes next" is what the WTB is all about.
"Our mission is to make sure our Wounded Warriors receive proper medical care and then return them to their units or their homes. Sometimes, Soldiers' injuries mean they cannot go back to their jobs. Their time in the battalion gives them a chance to prepare, if that's the case."
Williams said the WTB offers many opportunities for Soldiers, including National Guard and Reserve service members, to return to civilian life.
"We give them all the resources that we can to help them find a new career if needed," he said. "We emphasize this and tell them about the different opportunities available. We even give them time to take courses online to prepare them for new or better jobs. It's all up to the Soldier."


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Black Bean & Yellow Rice Salad
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 20 mins
Refreshing Caribbean Dish that is quick and easy! Great for lunch or as a side dish to accompany Jerk Chicken. Pair with a fruity and berry filled Australian Shiraz! Enjoy!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1⁄4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1 1⁄2 cups long-grain white rice
- 2 3⁄4 cups water
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 2⁄3 cups drained and rinsed canned black beans (from one 15-ounce can)
- 1⁄3 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1⁄3 red bell pepper, chopped
- 1⁄3 yellow bell pepper, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1 tablespoon wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon vermouth (optional)
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh Italian parsley
- 1 lime, quartered, for serving (optional)
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil over moderately low heat in a medium saucepan.
- Add onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in garlic, turmeric, cumin, 3/4 teaspoons of the salt, black pepper, and rice.
- Cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes.
- Add water and bay leaf and bring to a simmer.
- Cover and reduce heat to low and cook for about 20 minutes, until all the liquid is absorbed and the rice is done.
- Remove bay leaf.
- In a large glass or stainless-steel bowl, combine rice, beans, bell peppers, and tomatoes.
- Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and 1/4 teaspoon salt, vinegar, vermouth (if using)and parsley.
- Toss gently to combine.
- Serve with lime wedges, if using.
Most Helpful
We loved this recipe and found it to be just about perfect. I served with Jamaican Jerk Pork and Grilled Pineapple Salsa Three Ways which allowed this to work as a perfect accompaniment. It didn't have heat so it worked well with the pork and the sweetness of the pineapple salsa worked very well with the mild rice and bean flavor (cause you know we were mixing all three together to make them all taste their best). We did squeeze the lime on top for serving and I highly recommend that. This is a great dish we will use again and again for sure.
I love the mild spiciness of the rice, and the fresh juiciness of the tomato and peppers. Didn't have any parsley, so I added about 1 tsp. dried parsley flakes with the other spices. Also greatly reduced the salt. I'd like to add this is great at room temperature for my school lunches!!
This was a pretty tasty dish, my kids weren't to into it but at 5 and 3 you can't ask for too much. It would be awesome with Tacos or add in some chicken and serve over chips. Thanks for sharing such a great easy recipe.


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In the five-session video-based small group Bible study DVD, Undaunted, Christine Caine shares her compelling personal journey and offers insight into how anyone can overcome challenges and pain putting their trust in God.
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I think you are interpreting too much into the matter. The $-\frac12\sigma^2$ is just a correction term that comes from Jensen's inequality. You need this when switching from supposedly symmetric returns (normal distribution) to the skewed price process (log-normal distribution). I think there are no deeper truths to be found here.
You can get quite a bit of structured data for free from the SEC's Edgar system via XML: http://www.sec.gov/edgar/quickedgar.htm http://xbrl.sec.gov/ Even the older stuff that's not xml based, is fairly readily parsable. Another source that is easier to deal with, but not free, and possibly expensive, is CapitalIQ (where Yahoo Finance gets their data ...
Proof: Recall that $$\beta_{i} = \frac{\mathrm{Cov}(r_{i},r_{m})}{\mathrm{Var}(r_{m})}.$$ Now, the returns on unlevered and levered equity are given by $$r_{U} = \frac{\mathrm{EBIT}(1-\tau) - \mathrm{CAPEX} + \mathrm{Depreciation}}{E_{U}}$$ $$r_{L} = \frac{\mathrm{EBIT}(1-\tau) - \mathrm{CAPEX} + \mathrm{Depreciation} + \mathrm{Net\ Debt} - \mathrm{...
Compustat supports unlimited data export keeps the history of disbanded entities provides restatements since 1950 + point-in-time data since 1986 coverage since 1950 list of variables (data guide) Compustat is a S&P subsidiary. It goes as a plugin for CapitalIQ (also S&P), WRDS, CRSP, and other platforms. Pricing starts from \$3k. A platform ...
You can use refined methodologies but if you just need a rough estimation of liquidity, you can simply use an average of daily volume over N days. In practice, for equities, people tend to use N = 20 or 30. Once you have the average daily volume (say 100,000 shares), you compare it to your holding (say 50,000 shares) to determine the the size of your ...
You can download the company list csvs from nasdaq.com, it has the mapping you need.
This is a very subjective question. One thing you need to understand is that there are many types of quants and it is not always about predicting the future returns. Many quantitative analysts are involved in market-making, this is where you sell products at a slight cost to customers and try to stay more or less neutral to market moves. When you read about ...
One thing to keep in mind here is that the world of risk-free/arbitrage-free models is not necessarily the real world. Specifically, this equation $$ \mu = r - \frac{1}{2}\sigma^2 $$ occurs not because this is the way stocks behave in reality (they don't! For S&P 500, long-run $\mu$ is closer to 6-9%, if I recall correctly), but because using any ...
If you have a friend studying at almost any university you can get access to WRDS. Inside WRDS just go to Compustat which has all the info you need for dates since 1950.
Quantopian provides both the fundamental data (from Morningstar), as well as the backtest platform to reproduce results from the books you mentioned. Here's the introduction to our fundamentals offering: https://www.quantopian.com/posts/fundamental-data-from-morningstar-now-available-for-backtesting (disclosure: I'm the ceo of quantopian)
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It's just cash settled, like a bet on a sports game. This was somewhat controversial when the financial index futures were first invented.
Let's start with question (2). If you are not obtaining $S=1.5295e+009$ after backwardation, then you have a bug in your binomial tree code. You may wish to find and eliminate that before proceeding. One simple check is to make all the terminal nodes have value 1.0. You should obtain that the initial node has value $e^{-rT}$. This assumes, of course, ...
There are two mainly (good) free sources available online: wolphramalpha.com Quandl They report the mainly market and fundamental data, so you will not find any particular fundamental accounting ratio. In the case you need particular ratio or data, you should get some better financial data provider, as, for instance, Bloomberg or Thompson Reuters.
How is fundamental data taken into account when modelling stock prices with a Geometric Brownian Motion?
It turns out that GBM with constant drift and constant volatility is not really used in real life. It is well known that volatility as well as drift may vary over time. Hence, if you want to use a model with time-varying parameters, you need to come up with a model to define $\mu_t$ and $\sigma_t$. There are classic models that use some mean-reverting ...
Morningstar Morningstar partnered with Quantopian, and the latter published the structure of Morningstar's equity fundamentals database: https://www.quantopian.com/help/fundamentals Quantopian users can use this data for free.
You can pull Financial Statement (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows) data from Google Finance with the getFinancials function in the quantmod R package. > library(quantmod) > getFinancials('IBM') > head(viewFin(IBM.f, type = 'IS')) Annual Income Statement for IBM 2014-12-31 2013-12-...
I think one of the main liquidity measures is the one from Pastor and Stambaugh (2003). You can use it for both individual stocks or indexes. Just run the following intra-month regression with daily data: $r^e_{i,d+1,t} = \theta_{i,t}+\phi_{i,t}r_{i,d,t}+\gamma_{i,t}sign(r^e_{i,d,t}) \times v_{i,d,t}+\epsilon_{i,d+1,t}$. Where $r^e_{i,d+1,t}$ is the ...
I would consider Amihud (2002) as a good first approximation with that level of data.
According to this reference there are indeed several types of P/E-Ratios (trailing P/E that is based on previous earnings and forward P/E which is based on projected earnings) Also several books calculate the P/E according to the following formula $P/E-Ratio = \frac{Average Common Stock Price}{Net Income Per Share}$ (Confer source1, source2 and source3) ...
There a likely multiple source of this indicator becoming negative in general. In this particular case this is probably related to the investment of Japanese monies in foreign bonds. Which in turn looks to be an effect of the quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan.
I see the question and answers are rather old here but I just ran across quandl which provides access to a variety of SEC data with a free API key.
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Since Yori moved to SDU for college lifuu.
Moving in is imouto Mimi-chan!! lol
Name: Mimi Takahashi
Nickname: Mimi-chan. Mimi. Mi-chan
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Straight
Age: 15
Grade: 1st
Dormitory: Sakuramachi
Club: TBA
//Running Marathons
//Fun Runs
//Sports to be exact
//Lemon Drinks
//Her guitars
//Lazy people
//People that tease her height
//Her boobs
//Active- As a sports girl, she has to go round and do work outs. Keeping hr body fit and just right.
//Optimistic- A girl's charm is her positive thinking, She finds the good in everything. She might take the bad situation and think it might have some good in it. Thinking it might be beneficial in the future.
//Cheerful- Another girl's charm is her smile. Always keeping it on. And she believes that it's contagious. So she smiles on rainy days, cloudy etc. Tho she still have her weak points, she'll just shield herself with her smile.
//Outgoing- Of course she needs to be. Jogging weekends and eventually going to new places, so it's at her advantage.
//Noisy- Being cheerful has its down side of course. For instance being so annoyingly noisy. She'll talk about much of anything if she finds it intriguing.
//Forgetful- Total downside. Forgetful as hell. Homework would be a most.
- Kindergarten / Preschool -
Mimi was a shy kid as she started her school days at home, being home-schooled like her older sisters. She was never close with her other sisters but she was really close to their oldest brother, having a fetish for them (what...) . He taught her how to play the guitar, well tried on a toy one but it was only the foundation in building her interest in it. So she continued being home schooled until elementary.
- Elementary School -
Her mother's sister finally talked Mimi out of the home-school business, and it might be wise to get her to interact to kids her age at this time. So she was enrolled to a private elementary school. This was the path that her sisters never took as a child. She had fun in elementary and made multiple friends. And she finally got to meet her cousin.
- Middle School / Junior High -
In middle school, she had to go with her mother to the states. Along with her injured older sister as the other siblings stayed with their father in Japan. There she went to an American school and again met and made friends. Tho there were some troubles because of the life style and some even bullied her never showed the pain. Eventually she met a guy that befriended her and asked her out and then gone out dating. They were together for about one and a half year until her boyfriend ended it for some reason and this crushed her heart.
- Summer before starting Tachikawa High -
Going back to Japan, still crushed. She stayed with her father in the mean time with her older sister Yori and now re united with Mikarhu. Seeing their youngest sister being crushed, they did everything they could to help up again, it managed to through her but wasn't enough. Her brother tho got home early for the summer vacation and found her like that. Helping her get back on her feet, he distracted her with sports, almost everyday. And hanging out like the good old days. Mimi found happiness again and made a resolution to keep positive. She'll find out why she was dumped, one day maybe. But with her using all of her time to find happiness she forgot about the entrance exams for her high schools but luckily her sister Yori recommended Tachikawa High and got her to go.
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// She's a cup C
//She has a band in the states while she was in middle school
//Has heterochromia eyes
//Was a varsity in sprinting in middle school
"Please notice me sempai (>3<)/"
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Such a cute smile she has.
She's adorable!!! *o*
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thank youu <33
And yes f you still want to then please rp with me senpai *A* <3
And yes f you still want to then please rp with me senpai *A* <3
omg taka u r improving every single day fuckkkkk STOP IT U'RE LEAVING SENPAI BEHINDDD
Ahhh she's so pretty! * v *
A-Ah so cuuuteee~ (´∀`)♡ Maybe, if you have time, could we rp? She's really cool for not breaking apart after all of that, fight on Mimi! lol "really close to their oldest brother, having a fetish for them (what...)" XD
haha thank you and sorry for the very late reply. and yes if you still want to rp then it's fine with me ^^


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Works ok except, if you open up a nested comment< there is no focus in the mce form field
Works ok except, if you open up a nested comment< there is no focus in the mce form field
Yeah, I noticed that too. Deactivating it until that gets fixed.
Please fix soon!
use comment form quicktags, its way bitter and safer.
The problem with nested comment is originated that the "comment form popped below the comment you want to reply" effect.
The WordPress built in function (maybe from theme I suppose) "copies" the original one and place it below a specific comment, and hides the original one. However, it does not move TinyMCE keybinds, i.e. "Click this specific place will bold the text I highlight", "type any keys into the custom built JavaScript Object", blah blah blah... And so it seems "locked", does not react to user keystrokes and mouse clicks.
I don't know if that could be solve by the modifying the plugin or the theme or WP itself, and currently I don't have the time to look into...
Thanks mk for an explanation. Sorry this can't be resolved yet, as nested comments is a priority for many users.
I managed to get tinymce working with threaded comments by hacking the comment-reply.js and basically destroying the editor before "a move" and reinitialising it afterwards... If you're interested here's my modified version.
This obviously isn't really a proper solution as it changes a wordpress core file but I haven't found a way of hooking into that file without changing it. Maybe it would be good if the addComment object would allow to set two event handlers which are called before and after the form move...
bforchhammer, I used the modified version you wrote but I'am having a new problem: I have a doble TinyMCE box now, one taht works and the other that doesn't. Here you have a pict.
Any suggestions?
Thank you very much!
@arroba3: When someone clicks on a reply button my changes to that file should cause any tinymce instanced which are attached to the comments textarea to be removed and then re-created after the form has been moved... It seems that the old editor instance does not get removed.
The only thing which I think that you need for my changes to work is that the textarea has the id "comment" (and the textarea alone.. ids are supposed to be unique).
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I'm actually not using the TinyMCEComments plugin at the moment because the mce editor is hardcoded into our theme... so I don't know if there's anything else that could interfere with it.
Thanks bforchhammer! That worked for me.
@mk_is_here: Sorry, I haven't found an email address or anything to contact you on, so I'm just posting this here.
I've worked out a "proper" solution which does not require changing core files any more and also uses more of wordpress' core tinymce functions (which makes it more robust to upgrades); If you're interested please send me an email and I'll help to get it integrated into your plugin.
Hi all, and many thanks to @bforchhammer, we now have threaded comment support in 0.4.7! Feedbacks are welcome.
mk, it doesn't work for me on either of my two sites with different themes.
Previously when I clicked reply it didn't allow me to type anything at all. Now I can make a comment but it doesn't show as a nested comment.
Any ideas?
steupz, I have tried on the default theme only. WOuld you mind telling me the themes you are using?
mk, thanks for replying.
I am using a very well designed child theme, Shadow, on the Options theme by Justin Tadlock.
That's on my primary site, http://bourgy.com
And I am using the default Kubrick on my other site http://frompstomp.com
Both have the same issue, I can utilise all the features for a regular comment, but if I reply to a comment, it doesn't show as nested and it shows as a 'single comment' at the bottom of all comments.
Can you point me to a site where it works perfectly so I can have a look?
Update: got it to work on http://frompstomp.com using Kubrick theme, once.
Literally,one time.
I made a reply, it nested, another user replied, didn't work; then I tried again and it didn't work thereafter.
[tearing my hair out]
Yeah, I could simulate that on my testbed WordPress...
Searching for way to fix the problem. Somebody may have an idea?
I really want this fixed, my commenters post a lot and add a lot of links.
This would help a great deal
Any luck mk?
Hi. I have downloaded the latest version of WP. 2.8.1 yesterday and tried to use latest version of the plugin( 0.4.7-2 stable). But it seems that the nested comment does not work. The second issue I have found was if "Users must be registered and logged in to comment " function is enabled, the plugin does not load.
I think the problem with the nested comment is happening because although you have tried to override the original comment-reply.js with comment-reply.dev.js, there is a bug when you try to override the parent.value for the input tag.
Both js script use document.getElementById(comment_parent) but when you are using the tinymce, there`s another "comment_parent" id associated with a span tag for tinymce just above the input section. getElementById only returns the first ID. Hence the value for the input tag with id comment_parent is not being set.
The second bug is because $user_ID seems to be always false(is this a "global var" in wp?). hence it will only work when !get_option('comment_registration') returns true.
Hope this helps.
BTW: I have absolute NO Real experience of JS/PHP/CSS/HTML
My try to fix it, using version 0.4.7-3:
In comment-reply.dev.js, i add at line 22:
21| parent.value = parentId;
22| t.I('comment_parent').value = parentId;
23| cancel.style.display = '';
This forces comment_parent value to be updated.
I am in no way a javascripter, but this works.
Hope this helps,
Not working for me too...
Wpmu 2.7.1 with the latest tinymcecomments v0.4.8, but no luck with threaded comments yet.
two major problems:
1. ie7-8, every reply translated to new comment
2. In ff,chrome, when trying to reply to a comment the tinymce box get out of focus and there is no way to type anything anymore. also, if you wrote something before trying to reply (move the textarea) the text is gone…)
any help, direction?
0.48 from MK fixed the nesting
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Energy and Global Warming News for December 14th: Bingaman opens door to 'clean' energy standard (with nukes and coal CCS); Security Council urged to tackle climate change; Building Israel's first solar field
Bingaman cracks open door to backing 'clean' energy standard
A leading Democrat on energy policy signaled Monday that he's open to a "clean" energy standard for utilities "" a GOP-backed proposal that's favorable to new nuclear plants and low-emissions coal projects. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) has long championed a renewable electricity standard that would require utilities to supply escalating amounts of power from sources like wind and solar. Bingaman said in the Capitol Monday that he'd look at a wider standard that includes non-renewable forms of energy "" but only if it doesn't crowd out the renewables.
"If you can design a so-called clean energy standard that still provided incentives to pursue renewable electricity … then it is certainly worth looking at," he said. Bingaman has long opposed proposals for a "clean" standard, which were offered several years ago by former Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) "" who was the energy panel's leading Republican "" and more recently Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). "The versions I have seen in the past have appeared to me to essentially wipe out any real incentive for things like solar and wind, other of the developing or maturing technologies," Bingaman said, but added: "I am open to looking at other options, other ways to do it."
Proposals by Bingaman and other lawmakers to create a renewable power standard have stalled on Capitol Hill amid significant GOP resistance, although a few Republicans such as Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) like the idea. Prospects won't get any better in the new Congress, when Republicans will control the House and have greater numbers in the Democratic Senate. The idea of a "clean" standard that would credit power from nuclear plants, and coal projects that sequester carbon emissions (a technology not yet commercialized), got a shot in the arm last week.
U.N. Security Council urged to tackle climate change
Germany, which will join the UN Security Council in January, believes the body should start dealing with climate change as a potential global threat, its UN ambassador said on Monday. Peter Wittig told an audience at a think tank in Berlin that Germany shared the view of the more than 40 island states represented at the United Nations that global warming was an urgent security issue. "We are of the opinion that it would be worth the effort to consider strategically — in the Security Council as well — which effects climate change could have on the security situation in the broadest sense including defence assistance, resource assistance, the disappearance of entire island states, the rising of sea levels," he said.
"In New York this is a current, and for some countries, existential problem and we would like to take up these issues and bring them before the Security Council." He said however that the drive to have the Security Council tackle potential disasters caused by global warming would be a "challenge" because some of the permanent members did not see it as part of the body's remit. Germany will join the Security Council from January for two years as one of 10 non-permanent members. Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States comprise the permanent members.
In May, a coalition of Pacific small island developing states at the UN called on the Security Council to immediately address the security threats posed by climate change. Small island states are particularly vulnerable to rising sea levels, which scientists project could increase by a metre (3.3 feet) or more by the year 2100. More than 190 countries meeting in Cancun, Mexico agreed on Saturday to set up a new fund to manage billions of dollars in aid to poor nations that experts say are already feeling the effects of climate change.
Construction to begin on Israel's first solar field
Arava Power Company (APC) and Bank Hapoalim signed an agreement Monday securing financing for the first mediumsized solar field in Israel. The cost of the project is estimated at NIS 100 million, and Bank Hapoalim's credit line extends to 80 percent. "A lot of belief and determination has brought us to this moment," APC CEO Jon Cohen said in a statement. "The company's founders saw before their eyes from the very beginning the first solar field in Israel being built at Kibbutz Ketura. Today, as a result of their vision and the courage of their decision, we are closing the first circle here.
"Today, we give the 'go' order to Siemens Israel, which will begin building the field immediately," he went on. "This is just the first of dozens of fields APC will build across the Negev and Arava. We are grateful to Bank Hapoalim for their belief that APC can meet the goals it has set for itself." Miryam Gaz, project finance department head at Bank Hapoalim, declared that the bank "has chosen to be a pioneer in assisting the transition to solar energy and has initiated a process over the last two years which will enable the business and the private sectors to fulfill their potential in using renewable energy. We hope that securing financing for the Ketura project will be an incentive toward completing more projects in the field of solar energy."
APC traversed the bureaucratic gauntlet over the past three years and was the first company to finish the regulatory process. It signed a power purchase agreement with the state in late November. The 4.9-MW field is owned by Ketura Sun – a joint company of APC and Kibbutz Ketura. Siemens, which owns a 40% stake in APC, will be planning and building the field itself. According to APC, the field will be completed in nine months. It is expected to generate, in addition to electricity, revenues of NIS 12.5m. annually for the next 20 years – about NIS 250m. in total.
Chaos in China over saving energy
Shortages of diesel at gas stations, factories forced to suspend production, homes left without electricity. Hard to imagine that these could be the results of a government campaign, but that's recently been the case in some parts of China. It's the result of a last-minute effort to meet targets for reducing the country's energy intensity""the amount of power consumed per unit of GDP produced.
In 2005, the government pledged to reduce energy intensity by 20 percent by 2010. Closures of energy-guzzling plants, notably inefficient coal-fired power stations and small cement works, saw some significant progress""until the financial crisis of late 2008, according to Wang Tao, a climate-change specialist at the Worldwide Fund for Nature in Beijing: "Then unfortunately a lot of the government's stimulus package went into infrastructure, and into the heavy industries like steel and cement this requires""so this went against the trend of reducing energy intensity."
Earlier this year, China's central government called for redoubled efforts to meet the target. In many regions, local governments set energy-use quotas for officials""and warned them they could lose their jobs if they exceeded these. Many responded simply by switching off electricity supplies: in Henan province, steel works were ordered to close for days, and power was cut to homes in towns and villages. In other parts of the country traffic lights, and even hospitals, were left without electricity. It angered residents and frustrated businesses: "We were manufacturing at a factory in Guangdong and they suddenly told us the local government had ordered them to stop production," says Gustavo Salinas, a Peruvian-Spanish businessman who sources textiles in southern China. "It was nothing to do with lack of capacity""that plant actually generated surplus power for the national grid!"
Adapting agriculture to climate change
The Global Crop Diversity Trust announced a major global search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of wheat, rice, beans, potato, barley, lentils, chickpea, and other essential food crops, in order to help protect global food supplies against the imminent threat of climate change, and strengthen future food security. The initiative will work in partnership with national agricultural research institutes, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), is the largest one ever undertaken with the tough wild relatives of today's main food crops.
These wild plants contain essential traits that could be bred into crops to make them more hardy and versatile in the face of dramatically different climates expected in the coming years. Norway is providing US$50 million towards this important contribution to food security. "All our crops were originally developed from wild species""that's how farming began," explained Cary Fowler, Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. "But they were adapted from the plants best suited to the climates of the past. Climate change means we need to go back to the wild to find those relatives of our crops that can thrive in the climates of the future."
Crop wild relatives make up only a few percent of the world's genebank holdings, yet their contribution to commercial agriculture alone is estimated at more than US$100 billion per year. One example dates back to the 1970s, when an outbreak of grassy stunt virus, which prevents the rice plant from flowering and producing grain, decimated rice harvests across Asia. More than 10,000 samples of wild and locally-cultivated rice plants were tested for resistance to the disease until scientists found it in a wild relative, Oryza nivara, growing in India. The gene has been incorporated into most new varieties since the discovery. "This project represents one of the most concrete steps taken to date to ensure that agriculture, and humanity, adapts to climate change. At a more fundamental level, the project also demonstrates the importance of biodiversity and genetic resources for human survival," said Erik Solheim, Minister of the Environment and International Development of Norway.
Over a dozen states get WI and OH high speed rail money
As everyone is probably aware by now, the incoming governors of Ohio and Wisconsin, John Kasich and Scott Walker (respectively), have stated loudly and clearly that they don't want high-speed rail (HSR) projects in their states. Even though these projects would create thousands of jobs, would help to modernize these states' transportation systems, and federal funds would cover the majority of the capital expenses, Kasich and Walker have said that they don't want the federal funds awarded to them for their major HSR projects.
Well, there are plenty of other states wanting that money and the federal government has not waited too long to redirect $1.195 billion from Wisconsin and Ohio to some of these other states. On Thursday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that this money would be redirected to the following states/projects in this manner:
California: up to $624 million Florida: up to $342.3 million Washington State: up to $161.5 million Illinois: up to $42.3 million New York: up to $7.3 million Maine: up to $3.3 million Massachusetts: up to $2.8 million Vermont: up to $2.7 million Missouri up to $2.2 million Wisconsin: up to $2 million for the Hiawatha line Oregon: up to $1.6 million North Carolina: up to $1.5 million Iowa: up to $309,080 Indiana: up to $364,980
I'm sure these states are happy to be getting a little more funding. "High-speed rail will modernize America's valuable transportation network, while reinvigorating the manufacturing sector and putting people back to work in good-paying jobs," said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "I am pleased that so many other states are enthusiastic about the additional support they are receiving to help bring America's high-speed rail network to life."
Harvard researchers develop methane powered laptop
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are working on revolutionizing fuel cell technology by enabling portable electronics to operate using fuels like methane, for example. The research team is currently in development of solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), which convert chemical energy from hydrogen or hydrocarbon fuels into an electric current. Up until recently, the cost of materials and high operating temperatures have restricted SOFCs solely to laboratory use.
Fortunately, the team has now developed a thin-film SOFC that uses nano-scale ceramic films "" both eliminating the need for expensive platinum electrodes and increasing stability. Scientists confirm that they are now working with a methane-fueled SOFC operating at less than 500 degrees Celsius, about 500 degrees less than traditional SOFCs. According to the researchers, 300-500 degrees Celsius are the ideal temps for applications in portable electronics and/or transportation vehicles. With budding alternative technologies continuing to emerge, its very exciting to think about the strides that we may all see in the coming years.
Turning wastewater from oil and gas wells into an asset
Oil and gas wells produce a lot of water. According to the Department of Energy, between 20 and 25 billion gallons of water are drawn up by wells each year in the U.S., creating a hassle for operators and sometimes shutting down production. Geothermal co-production can potentially alleviate that problem. By using generation units that produce energy from low-temperature hydrothermal resources, a handful of companies are looking at converting wastewater from oil and gas wells into electricity. The potential for turning that liability into a generation asset is huge; but so are the technical and economic challenges.
The Binary Cycle and Organic Rankine Cycle technologies used to generate electricity from lower-temperature water (between 195 and 300 degrees fahrenheit) have been around for decades. These units utilize warm water to boil a working fluid, send the vapor through a turbine and generate electricity. Ormat has been the historic leader in the Binary-Cycle sector, with UTC and Fuji starting to catch up. There's also ElectraTherm, a newer company working with co-production project developers to install its 50-kW Rankine Cycle "Green Machines" at oil and gas sites.
The big question is not whether these technologies work, it's whether they can work effectively at oil and gas wells, says Ann Robertson-Tait, the vice president of business development for Geothermex, a leading geothermal consultancy. "Could [companies] use that co-produced water for something? They could. Could it be a large grid-connected resource? That's going to be a bigger challenge," says Robertson-Tait.
An answer to green energy could be in the air
In Mark Moore's world, long nanotubes reach into the clouds, serving at once to tether a turbine-vehicle flying at 2,000 feet, or 10,000 feet, or 30,000 feet (610, 3,050 and 9,150 meters); and also to conduct the power that vehicle can harvest from the wind back to Earth. Aloft might be a funnel-shaped blimp with a turbine at its back; or a balloon with vanes that rotate; a truss-braced wing; a parachute; a kite. Any and all of them are ideas being considered by nascent renewable energy industry that is flexing its imagination.
Moore, who works as an aerospace engineer, centering his focus on advance concepts in the Systems Analysis Branch at NASA's Langley Research Center, is using a $100,000 grant from the federal government to research what it will take to judge the value of any of those ideas. "It's the first federally funded research effort to look at airborne wind capturing platforms," Moore said. "We're trying to create a level playing field of understanding, where all of the concepts and approaches can be compared — what's similar about them? What's different about them, and how can you compare them?"
He likens the development of wind-borne energy to flight itself, adding that "this is like being back in 1903. Everybody's got a dog to show. Everybody's got a different way of doing it." But the Wright Brothers didn't have to deal with a crowded sky and the laws regulating it when they took off at Kitty Hawk. "Airspace is a commodity," Moore said. "You have to be able to use airspace without disrupting it for other players. Smaller aircraft are still going to need to fly around. Larger airplanes, you can't expect them to fly around every wind turbine that has a two-mile radius as a protected flight zone."
22 Responses to Energy and Global Warming News for December 14th: Bingaman opens door to 'clean' energy standard (with nukes and coal CCS); Security Council urged to tackle climate change; Building Israel's first solar field
Halliburton reportedly agrees to pay Nigeria $250 million to drop bribery charges against Cheney, firm
The charges allege that engineering contractor KBR, until 2007 a subsidiary of Halliburton, was among companies that paid bribes to secure a $6 billion contract for a natural gas plant. KBR pleaded guilty to the same bribes in a US court in 2009, and agreed to pay a $382 million fine. The Nigerian charges appear to stem from the US case — though, in that trial, Cheney was never directly charged.
New NOAA Buoy to Help Close Gap in Climate Understanding South of Africa
To better understand the effects of the ocean on global climate and weather, scientists from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, or PMEL, deployed an Ocean Climate Station mooring — an anchored buoy —on the edge of the warm Agulhas Return Current (ARC) southeast of South Africa. Although there is an array of climate buoys positioned in the tropics, this is one of only two deep ocean climate buoys positioned below the Tropic of Capricorn; the other is located south of Australia. The buoy is part of NOAA's climate observation and monitoring efforts.
Another 10.47 inches falls in 24 hours in Queensland –
UP to 100mm of rain has fallen in some parts of Queensland over the last 24 hours adding to flood woe from rising rivers across the state.
Escott Station in the Gulf recorded 266mm within 24 hours to 9am yesterday – the highest in the state.
Gamboola in the Cape received 112mm, 93mm fell near Taroom, 80mm at Tambo north of Blackall and 73mm was recorded near Blackall.
The paper by Hansen et al. called "Global Surface Temperature Change" was published in Reviews of Geophysics today.
Tornado hits small Ore. town, no injuries reported
AUMSVILLE, Ore. – A tornado struck the small town of Aumsville on Tuesday, tearing roofs off buildings, hurling objects into vehicles and homes and uprooting trees.
No injuries were reported. There were early reports that some people had been trapped in cars.
VIDEO Bitter cold lingers as storm moves to Canada, strands hundreds
Canadian police and military teams were working Tuesday afternoon to rescue about 300 people stranded after what a local official termed the most brutal storm to hit the Ontario region in 25 years.
Some people had been stuck in their vehicles for more than 24 hours following blinding snow that piled up so high it made it almost impossible to open vehicle doors. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/14/winter.weather/
Export losses from coal and grain in Australia have reached 3.6 Billion dollars.
Some numbers about the cost of the floods in Canada this year –
"Now that harvest is over, we have a strong indication of the degree to which the flooding has affected prairie farmers," said Douglas Porter, Deputy Chief Economist, BMO Capital Markets. "While our estimate is lower, the losses of $1.5 billion remain a heavy weight on Prairie economies. In Saskatchewan, the 2010 grain harvest is estimated to have dropped 36 per cent below last year's level. We believe that the decline in crop production alone carved more than 3 percentage points from real GDP growth in the province for the year," added Mr. Porter.
The state's cotton growers have been dealt a particularly savage blow. Almost the entire cotton crop in the Central Highlands — which was expected to fetch record prices at market because of unprecedented global demand — has been destroyed.
Mr Mulherin yesterday toured the Central Highlands and estimated that 1000ha of dry-land cotton had been inundated.
Meanwhile in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, a months worth of rain poured within 12 hours, reaching a total of 124 mm.
The AO index is about to go very negative again.
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Needed Or Not, Electric Car Noisemakers Are Going To Be Law
Although the relative silence of electric cars and hybrids was originally touted as one of their key beneficial attributes, alarmists have been less than enamored with the perceived difficulty involved in hearing one coming, especially advocates of the blind and the seeing impaired.
While critics have said time and time again that no actual data shows a hazard to exist, the alarmists have managed to convince the Senate to vote unanimously in favor of a new bill that would force automakers to install noise generating devices, a.k.a. noisemakers, on all vehicles that can operate without the use of an internal combustion engine, even if only momentarily. http://www.greencarreports.com/blog/1052506_needed-or-not-electric-car-noisemakers-are-going-to-be-law
More on nanotechnology:
3 nanotechnologies Secretary Chu thinks are poised to make a big impact on the energy sector: http://go.usa.gov/1oL
Easy to provde the incentive, require a FCOAD fee.
Fossil Carbon Open Air Disposal
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to announce as early as Wednesday its first significant legal action stemming from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal government source familiar with the matter said.
The source said the action involved the filing of civil lawsuits, rather than criminal charges, stemming from the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and that it was expected to be announced at a news conference as early as Wednesday.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday the Justice Department is expected to join the hundreds of civil lawsuits that have been filed as a result of the spill and will allege violations of environmental protection regulations, which could trigger penalties under such laws as the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act.
"We're not confirming it," a Justice Department spokesman said of the newspaper report.
Aumsville Oregon hit by tornado and flood warning issued
Oregon officials are requesting that people stay clear of Aumsville until crews can clean up the mess caused by a tornado and high winds. If the tornado, high winds and downed power lines weren't enough reports say that extreme hail and thunderstorms could be on the horizon for Aumsville and surrounding areas.
A tornado ripped through part of Aumsville Tuesday causing serious damage to a few businesses and tearing the roofs off buildings, fortunately the tornado hit just a small portion of the town or the damage could have been much worse. Luckily there were no reports of any missing or injured people after the tornado struck, but 6,000 people are without power in and around Aumsville.
Wind and rain also helped wreak havoc on the small town just 20 miles Southwest of Salem Oregon, downing power lines and leading to the National weather service issuing a flood warning for the area. There are crews out attending to the downed power lines and the ODOT (Oregon department of transportation) is urging people to avoid Aumsville so they can get things cleaned up.
Michael, i think it makes sense to look at last year development and the threat level/anomaly impacts of circumstances, which are tied to NAO.
Brrr: The AO is way low
In the meantime, winter weather galore is unfolding throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Great Britain is now grinding its way through frequent snows and a prolonged freeze that's tangled transportation and brought supplies of heating oil and road treatments to worrisome lows. Temperatures below 20°F (–6.7°C) could dive as far south as Spain this weekend, with more snow on tap for London.
In a nutshell, the NAM characterizes how the mass of the Northern Hemisphere's air is distributed from north to south. When the NAM is positive, there's more mass (i.e., higher air pressure) in midlatitudes and less mass (lower pressure) further north, across the Arctic. This helps steer a strong west-to-east jet stream across the oceans and into the continents, typically bringing mild marine air in tow.
On the other hand, a negative NAM means that pressures are higher near the poles than in midlatitudes. This weakens the west-to-east jet stream and allows giant mounds of high pressure to spill southward from the frozen polar regions directly into continental areas, leaving much of the Arctic (especially near Greenland) less cold than usual.
As you might guess, the NAM is on the negative side these days, and that's putting it mildly (or should that be coldly?). In December, the monthly average NAM value was –3.413, according to NOAA's table of monthly values. This is by far the lowest average for any December in the NOAA table, which goes back to 1950.
In a 2009 Journal of Climate paper, Deser and NCAR's Adam Phillips note that some model simulations of latter 20th century climate reproduce the weak upward trend in the NAO. However, it's not statistically significant compared to natural variability. Other studies that focus on 21st-century climate project a continued rise in the average NAO.
According to the Hurrell and Deser paper, "One of the most urgent challenges is to advance our understanding of the interaction between greenhouse gas forcing and the NAO." Yet even if the AO/NAO/NAM continues trending upward in the long run, shorter-term ups and downs will continue to unfold—just as they're doing this winter. http://www2.ucar.edu/currents/brrr-ao-way-low
Forest to be felled for Moscow-St. Pete's highway
MOSCOW – The new Moscow-St.Petersburg highway will be built through an ancient forest outside the capital as planned, a top official confirmed Tuesday, despite environmentalists' outrage over the issue.
The controversy over the Khimki oak forest is not just about irreplaceable trees. The fierce dispute has showcased Russia's gravest social ill: the abuse of power and the dangers associated with trying to expose it.
17 January 2010 Hansen about the cool december 2009
It is obvious that in December 2009 there was an unusual exchange of polar and mid‐latitude air in the Northern Hemisphere. Arctic air rushed into both North America and Eurasia, and, of course, it was replaced in the polar region by air from middle latitudes. The degree to which Arctic air penetrates into middle latitudes is related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO) index, which is defined by surface atmospheric pressure patterns and is plotted in Figure 6. When the AO index is positive surface pressure is high low in the polar region. This helps the middle latitude jet stream to blow strongly and consistently from west to east, thus keeping cold Arctic air locked in the polar region. When the AO index is negative there tends to be low high pressure in the polar region, weaker zonal winds, and greater movement of frigid polar air into middle latitudes.
Figure 6 shows that December 2009 was the most extreme negative Arctic Oscillation since the 1970s. Although there were ten cases between the early 1960s and mid 1980s with an AO index more extreme than ‐2.5, there were no such extreme cases since then until last month. It is no wonder that the public has become accustomed to the absence of extreme blasts of cold air
what is the effect of reduced Arctic sea ice on weather patterns? There is not enough empirical evidence since the rapid ice melt of 2007. We conclude only that December 2009 was a highly anomalous month and that its unusual AO can be described as the "cause" of the extreme December weather.
If winter weather keeps to be this anomalous, one might conclude the lose of arctic ice could be the cause for the jet stream anomaly.
Control of methane, soot, and other short-lived climate-forcing agents has often been described as a cheap way to "buy time" to get carbon dioxide emissions under control. But is it really? http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/12/losing-time-not-buying-time/comment-page-5/#comment-194837
Medvedev Backs Khimki Forest Road
Construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway is too far advanced to be stopped and will run through the Khimki forest as originally planned, President Dmitry Medvedev said through his spokeswoman on Tuesday.
The announcement comes as a bitter disappointment to environmentalists, who thought they had won a rare victory when Medvedev ordered a halt to road construction in August and set up a commission to consider alternative routes. But Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who chaired the commission, announced Tuesday that the commission recommended that the $8 billion highway should run through the Khimki forest as originally planned.
"The decision will be fulfilled," Medvedev's spokeswoman Natalya Timakova told reporters later in the day
AUGUST 27, 2010 Medvedev Halts Road Project
Russian Leader Calls for More Talks; Forest Clearing Has Faced Years of Protests
Canada getting hammered…
Much of the country being hammered by extreme weather
That tornado in Aumsville hit close to home. I was only about 6 miles from it when it happened. But it was over the hill from me so all I saw was dark ominous skies. I'm glad no one was seriously hurt.


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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Xbox 360
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- Release Date: May 10, 2013
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Portobello "Philly Cheese Steak" Sandwich
Cheese steaks are a Philadelphia tradition: thin slices from a rich and very fatty slab of beef, fried up and topped with a heavy cheese sauce. We've cut down on the fat considerably - but not on the taste. All it needs is a cold beer or a glass of pinot noir on the side. Make this vegetarian by using vegetable broth in place of chicken stock.
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion
- 4 large portobello mushrooms
- 1 large red bell pepper
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 3 ounces thinly sliced reduced-fat provolone cheese
- 4 whole-wheat buns
- Step 1
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook, stirring often, until soft and beginning to brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add mushrooms, bell pepper, oregano and pepper and cook, stirring often, until the vegetables are wilted and soft, about 7 minutes.
- Step 2
- Reduce heat to low; sprinkle the vegetables with flour and stir to coat. Stir in broth and soy sauce; bring to a simmer. Remove from the heat, lay cheese slices on top of the vegetables, cover and let stand until melted, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Step 3
- Divide the mixture into 4 portions with a spatula, leaving the melted cheese layer on top. Scoop a portion onto each toasted bun and serve immediately.
The dark gills found on the underside of a portobello are edible, but if you like you can scrape them off with a spoon.
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Welcome to the very last Food or Comics. Next week our new-release picks will take a different format, but this week we're still talking about what comics we'd buy at our local shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a splurge item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Graeme McMillan
Let's be honest, if I had $15, I'd make sure that Batman Incorporated #8 (DC Comics, $2.99) was first on my list. Not because of any controversy — I've been enjoying the series all along — but because I'd be worried it'd sell out if I waited. I'd also grab two Dynamite books: Jennifer Blood #23 and Masks #4 (both $3.99); Al Ewing has done just insane, amazing things on the former, and the Chris Roberson/Dennis Calero team on the latter is just killing it.
If I had $30, I'd find myself time traveling to all the weeks prior in which I didn't use all $30 to borrow a dollar from past-me, just so that I could get Showcase Presents Justice League of America, Vol. 6 (DC Comics, $19.99), which takes the series firmly into the 1970s and brings the team face to face with villains including the Shaggy Man, Amazo and countless other favorites of my childhood.
Should I have some splurging left in me after that nostalgia-fest, I'd likely go for the Judge Anderson: PSI Files, Vol. 3 collection (Rebellion, $32.99), which picks the series up just after I'd dropped off the 2000AD radar for awhile, and hopefully gives me the chance to get back into the character, now that I am firmly into Thrill Power again.
To think there are people in the present-day comic book industry that fail to respect colorists is hard to believe. Yet, as we noted late last month, colorist Jordie Bellaire wrote about her work being minimalized when an unnamed convention refused to name colorists as guests. The post resulted in an impromptu #ColoristAppreciationDay on Twitter as well as a larger conversation about the important value of colorists.
In the wake of that discussion, I chatted with Bellaire about the post, as well as her work as a whole. The timing turned out well, as despite her busy schedule, she was able to do an interview. It seems as if every week there's a new comic released that features her as colorist. This week it's Captain Marvel #10, while next it's the debut of The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror miniseries written by Roger Langridge with Bellaire coloring artist J. Bone. Bellaire saves the best for last in our Q&A, revealing that she hopes to get back to illustrating — and that she has dabbled in writing.
Tim O'Shea: In all of the reactions from your initial Tumblr post in praise of colorists, what pleased or surprised you the most?
Jordie Bellaire: The response itself was extremely surprising! I didn't expect anything to really come of my angry little blog post. I try to keep my "internet persona" pretty humorous and silly. I don't really get "for realsies" worked up over anything online (unless it's something Star Wars-related). When I posted this at 7 a.m. on hardly any sleep (I was in a tough deadline week, of course), I expected maybe three people to see it and those would have been just friends. Somehow, though, the letter spread fast. I was just thrilled. Given, keeping up with the response during the day totally killed my productivity, I was too busy watching the internet explode in the name of colorists.
It seems good art attracts good art. That's my thinking at least when I learned that noted poster artist James White (aka SignalNoise) has created an ultra-rare variant cover for the first issue of IDW Publishing's The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror. The book, which debuts Feb. 27, is written by Roger Langridge and illustrated by J. Bone, with standard covers by Walter Simonson.
Although this is White's first published comic book work, he's been prolific online, contributing illustrations and designs for the burgeoning alternative movie poster industry.
White's variant cover is so rare that you'll only be able to find it at three comic stores: the Strange Adventures chain in Canada. IDW have been at the forefront of producing retailer-specific variant covers in recent years, and Strange Adventures owner Cal Johnson chose White to create the cover for his shop's edition.
In a blog post about this impending release, White reveals he's working on a screen-printed poster edition of this cover. Here's the image in full:


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Doing our part to help "promote" the healthy sponsors of the Olympics starting this weekend, we bring you the results of an interesting study published by the European Journal of Nutrition. Researchers supplemented the diet of healthy, active men and women with a daily serving of sugary soft drinks. The results were nothing less than shocking:
Soft drinks changed the way muscles use food as fuel, making them prefer to burn sugars over fats.
The changes occurred rapidly, within just 4 weeks of consumption!
According to the lead researcher, Dr. Hans-Peter Kubis of Bangor University in England:
"This study proved our concerns over sugary drinks have been correct. Not only can regular sugar intake acutely change our body metabolism; in fact it seems that our muscles are able to sense the sugars and make our metabolism more inefficient, not only in the present but in the future as well." Read more…
What regularly drinking soft drinks means: a metabolism change in your body that decreases its ability to burn fat!
Add this to a long list of reasons why soft drinks should not be a regular part of your diet, happy polar bears or not.
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