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SIKESTON -- Sikeston and Scott County had a good second quarter but should be ready for an economic slowdown in coming months along with the rest of the nation.
Bruce Domazlicky, director of the Center for Economic and Business Research at Southeast Missouri State University, discussed the national and local economies as the guest speaker for the Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce noon luncheon Thursday.
"The economy is slowing down," Domazlicky said. He said experts expect the national economy slowdown to last six to nine months.
According to the Southeast Missouri Business Indicators, a quarterly report by the Center, second-quarter growth in Gross Domestic Product increased to 3.4 percent with increased governmental spending and business investment leading the way.
The report predicts, however, that economic growth during the second half of this year will slow down to about 2.5 percent due to slowed growth in consumer spending, a slower rise in corporate profits and a "credit crunch."
According to the report, the annual average rate of new home construction has fallen by a third to 1.4 million homes from about 2.1 million homes a little over a year ago.
"That's going to slow down the economy by at least a percentage point," Domazlicky said, adding this has an additional effect on consumer spending as "people not moving into new homes are not buying new furniture and appliances."
In examining new home construction data for Sikeston, "I looked at it five times and I couldn't believe the numbers," Domazlicky said.
Domazlicky said his data showed 40 new homes at an average price of $180,000 were built in 2005. In 2006, the number of new homes went up to 50 but the average price dropped to $70,000.
While 2007 data is not available to show if new home construction has slowed in Sikeston this year, "I suspect it probably has," Domazlicky said. "It seems this area will follow the national trend."
Even so, the report includes an encouraging statement: "It seems unlikely that the region will be affected as much by the housing slowdown as will other parts of the nation ... mainly because southeast Missouri has not experienced the overbuilding that has characterized some markets, which has led to major declines in new construction. Sometimes, slow, but steady growth has its advantages."
On the national level, "the labor market still seems to be doing fairly well," Domazlicky said, and the economic data shows "very encouraging employment data" for this area, as well. "Employment does seem to be growing in the region, in the county," he said.
Additionally, sales tax figures indicate there was an increase in retail spending here over the second quarter, although Domazlicky said he thinks that data may be skewed somewhat as it was recorded when the state received the tax receipts. Even so, the data indicates that "retail sales are growing," he said.
Domazlicky said he found it particularly interesting that Sikeston has 800 more people commuting here for work than it has people "out-commuting" to work other places such as Cape Girardeau or Noranda.
In response to an question about the education level of Sikeston's workforce, Domazlicky said the percentage of those with high school diplomas may be a little lower than the state average, but it isn't as bad as areas farther south in the Bootheel.
"We get a lot of good students from this area," he said.
Domazlicky also discussed a $85,000 grant received by the Center which is renewable for another two years.
"We're very excited about having it," he said, adding that he was surprised the Center was awarded the grant as there were 26 applications and only seven grants awarded.
Domazlicky said the Center intends to use the grant money to fund workshops, including geographical information system workshops in local communities, and for impact analyses.
In other business during the meeting, Missy Marshall, executive director for SACC, updated members on various local events.
"We have got a lot going on in the community," she said.
In addition to the annual Cotton Carnival taking place through Saturday, she noted among other events that the groundbreaking for the first Sikeston Habitat for Humanity home is set for 11:30 a.m. Saturday and a Life Chain event is slated to begin at 2 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Main and Malone intersection.
Marshall encouraged members to review SACC's calendar of events on its Web site before before scheduling an event to prevent conflicts.
"There is a lot going on the next couple of months," she said.


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Sara Davis gets ready to endure a 'meshuganah' 13-hour challenge
Triathlete Sara Davis is stepping up a gear. The 37-year-old single mother is preparing to compete in an ironman competition. Ms Davis, an in-house lawyer, will swim 3.8km, cycle 180km and run 42.2km (a full marathon) during the contest, which takes place in Austria next summer. She says: "Everyone thinks I am the biggest meshuganah going, butI love it.
"I've always been into fitness and when my daughter was born I decided that I needed a new challenge. In November 2007, I signed up to do a London triathlon for Norwood and I was hooked. It is great to see my endurance levels improve during training. I can't explain it. It's amazing."
Ms Davis, who lives in Edgware, Middlesex, is hoping to complete the challenge in around 13-and-a-half hours, raising money for a Jewish charity. All competitors have up to 17 hours in which to complete the race. She is training six times a week in preparation
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Capital Journal: Politics and Violence in Iraq
In a roundtable discussion, Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib and reporters Adam Entous, Colleen McCain Nelson and Patrick O'Connor discuss political unrest in Iraq, President Barack Obama's low approval rating and Hillary Clinton's public appeal.
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Overseas problems continue to weigh on President Obama as Iraq descends into disarray. Obama promised that no combat troops would be deployed in Iraq, but he has sent 300 military advisers to the region. The president now must decide whether to back Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister, or demand a new leader.
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Hillary Clinton has maintained her positive image amid a high-profile book release, a WSJ/NBC News poll finds. Despite persistent Republican attacks over Benghazi, her popularity has remained strong ahead of a potential presidential run, dropping only slightly in the past few months. WSJ's Patrick O'Connor explains.
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MSI GX70 3BE-007US Review and Ratings
Our Verdict: With the MSI GX70 3BE-007US, you get speedy frame rates and a boatload of features in a relatively affordable 17-inch gaming laptop. However, this AMD-based system's productivity and multimedia performance leaves much to be desired. Read More…
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In the not-too-distant past, you needed big bucks to afford a gaming laptop that could actually play the latest games in all their high-res glory. Even today, boutique shops like Origin, Maingear, Digital Storm, and Alienware charge many thousands of dollars for supercharged rigs that feature the latest CPUs and graphics solutions. But not everybody cares about (or can afford) bragging rights—some of us just want smooth gameplay without having to take out a five-year loan for a laptop with a likely life expectancy of three years.
Fortunately, more affordable alternatives are available, but traditionally, an under-$1,500 price has meant that you'll have to make a few sacrifices in order to enjoy stutter-free gaming. As we've seen in reviews of laptops like CyberPower's FangBook X7-200 and Acer's Aspire V3-772G-9402, such a system can often get you close to the magic 30 frames per second (fps) mark, but you'll have to dial back on the special effects or resolution to get all the way there.
By contrast, while the MSI GX70 3BE-007US makes its share of compromises, it makes them outside the gaming arena. This $1,399 laptop delivers game-worthy frame rates without having to sacrifice video quality, and it's equipped with an impressive list of gamer-centric features, including multi-zone keyboard lighting, a handsome 17.3-inch display, and a generous array of I/O ports.
So what's the catch? Simple: The AMD-powered GX70 can't hold a candle to similarly priced Intel Core i7-based notebooks when it comes to productivity and multimedia application performance.
Nor can build-to-order customers configure a GX70 to their liking. As of this writing (early October 2013), MSI has only one model for sale, the 3BE-007US tested here, compared to over a dozen versions of its Intel-fueled sibling, the GT70, topped by the wild Extreme Edition we reviewed in June.
Still, with one notable omission or exception—there's no solid-state drive or SSD cache to speed program loads or resume from sleep—we're not complaining about the GX70's components. The 3BE-007US is built around AMD's A10-5750 APU (accelerated processing unit), a 2.5GHz quad-core with turbo speed up to 3.5GHz and integrated Radeon HD 8650G graphics that are fine for light graphics duty. The heavy lifting is handled by a more powerful Radeon HD 8970M graphics processor with 2GB of display memory. The MSI also comes with 8GB of system RAM, a Blu-ray reader/DVD burner, and a 750GB hard drive.
If the GX70 looks familiar, that's because it uses the same chassis as the GT70 reviewed here in June. It sports a gray metal lid with beveled corners and a white backlit MSI logo in the center. The laptop measures 2.2 by 16.9 by 11.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 8.6 pounds. Factor in the 1.5-pound power brick and you've got a system that probably won't see too much travel time unless you're looking to beef up your deltoids.
The wrist rest is done up in the same black metal finish as the lid but the rest of the keyboard deck is shrouded in glossy black plastic.
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Louisville Metro Police are investigating after a man was shot Monday night.
Police said the shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Monday near the intersection of 23rd and Magazine streets.
The victim was found in the 2200 block of Garfield Avenue with gunshot wounds to the back and arm, police said.
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The unemployment level in France is currently at its highest since 1997, culminating at almost 11%, representing a total of 3,224,600 unemployed as of March 2013.
A "flexicurity" agreement was reached on January 11, 2013 after more than 4 months of intense negotiations between labour unions and business leaders to overhaul France's notoriously rigid Labour Code.
This agreement, known under the acronym ANI (or "Accord National Interprofessionnel"), which can be defined as a national and all industries-wide collective bargaining agreement that is per se enforceable to almost every employer, significantly modifies crucial aspects of French labour law with a view to simultaneously making it more flexible and granting new rights to French workers. The agreement served as the basis for a new flexicurity bill that was recently passed on May 14, 2013. Although this piece of legislation is currently being examined by the French constitutional council ("Conseil constitutionnel"), the reform should be final in the very near future.
The securing of employment first results from granting more flexibility to the employer through various measures: job safeguarding arrangements (or "accords de maintien dans l'emploi"), internal mobility frameworks, a deeply renovated procedure to implement massive layoffs and partial activity.
Job safeguarding arrangements ("accords de maintien dans l'emploi")
A new legislative provision now allows employers facing serious temporary economic difficulties to negotiate with unions to reduce working hours and the corresponding employee wages for up to 2 years, in exchange for job security and to reduce potential lay offs. Such an adjustment can also be achieved by increasing the working time without any raise.
In other words, the employer and the unions must necessarily negotiate a collective agreement that would enable the employer to rearrange working time and wages in exchange for a commitment to safeguard jobs of the affected employees for the duration of the agreement (at least).
The employee must therefore give his consent for such an agreement to be enforceable against his own individual employment contract. If he refuses, his dismissal will be considered as an individual dismissal with economic cause. The job safeguarding agreement must necessarily contain measures aimed at limiting the consequences of these contract terminations.
Internal mobility
The statute also makes it possible to negotiate the organisation of the professional or geographical mobility of the employee inside the company, as long as said mobility is not caused by a layoff plan project. Such a possibility clearly departs from previous case law, according to which geographical mobility constituted a modification of the employment contract if it were to take place outside certain limits (known as "zone géographique"), thereby requiring the consent of the worker. Now, the social partners are able to negotiate in order to delineate these geographical limits.
If the employee accepts the mobility, any contrary clause included in his individual employment contract will be considered unenforceable, as is the case with the "accord de maintien dans l'emploi". Similarly, if the employee refuses, his dismissal will be considered as an individual dismissal with economic cause. The agreement should provide for measures to limit the consequences of such terminations for the employees.
Partial activity
In order to simplify the resort to partial activity during an economic crisis and to limit layoffs as much as possible, workers will be declared to be in partial activity after having received authorization from the administrative authorities, if they undergo a wage reduction due to a temporary closure of part of or the whole company, or if they undergo a reduction in their working time bringing the latter to a level below the legal limit.
New procedure to implement massive layoffs
The securing of employment, one of the stated goals of this statute, results from both stricter pre-defined deadlines, allowing the decisions to be made up-front, and from a deep reform of the procedure to set massive layoffs in motion.
To implement massive layoffs (dismissals of at least 10 employees within a 30-day period in a company of over 50 employees), companies can now choose between two processes:
Regarding the job security component of this piece of legislation, the securing of employment that is expected to result from this statute calls for the creation of new rights to benefit the workers (such as an "individual vocational training account", external mobility frameworks, rechargeable rights to the national unemployment insurance, additional healthcare and social welfare cover generalisation, a stricter regulation of part-time work).
An individual vocational training account
In order to facilitate an employee's access to vocational training, any worker, regardless of his age or status, will benefit from an individual training account as soon as he enters the labour market. Social partners have provided for this account to be transferable should the employee change employers or become unemployed. This account will be credited yearly for at least 20 hours per full-time worker.
External mobility
The bill aims at fostering employee mobility, allowing them to "take away" certain rights with them. Therefore, in companies and groups of over 300 employees, any employee that can justify at least 24 months of seniority can benefit from a voluntary and secured period of mobility, with the consent of his employer. His contract will be suspended during that period, therefore allowing the worker to practice in another company with a view to developing his skills.
Part-time work
The statute provides for a stricter framework regulating the use of part-time work when the latter does not proceed from the employee's decision. Starting January 1, 2014, the minimal weekly working time will be set at 24 hours, except for workers younger than age 26 pursuing their studies. This limit, however, can be lowered at the written demand of the worker or through a collective agreement.
Rechargeable rights to the national unemployment insurance
To encourage the unemployed to resume going back to work, the law now makes it possible for a worker returning to work after a period of unemployment to retain the remainder of his rights to unemployment insurance. This provision allows the worker to add these rights to newly acquired rights if he were to lose his job again.
Additional healthcare and social welfare cover generalisation
A mandatory additional healthcare and social welfare cover will have to be set up before January 1, 2016, allowing the worker to be reimbursed for costs incurred by accidents, maternity, or sickness, therefore further securing the employee's job or transition period in between jobs and during a subsequent job search.
By granting more flexibility to the employer, this reform has, at the same time, lessened the binding force of the individual contract of the worker when its provisions conflicts with those of a collective agreement and strengthened the role of such agreements when faced with legal provisions. Even though a small number of uncertainties remain, the text definitely creates new opportunities. It is now up to the industries and the companies to prepare in order to face the deadlines established by this new law.
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Mother, Daughter Shot Over Eviction in Brooklyn
By Pervaiz Shallwani and Alison Fox
A Brooklyn woman was shot to death and her daughter was grazed in the head during an alleged dispute with the older woman's elderly brother in a Brooklyn apartment building Tuesday, a law enforcement official said.
Carol Lovell, 63 years old, was shot in the chest by her 70-year-old brother, the official said, and her daughter, 37-year-old Crystal Birk, was struck in the head after the pair tried to evict the man from an E. 25th St. apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn just before 10 a.m.
The older woman died an hour later at Kings County Hospital, where her daughter was transported and expected to survive.
The alleged shooter, identified as 70-year-old William Thurman, was apprehended at the scene, and a firearm was recovered, the official said. Thurman was arrested but charges against him were pending.
Neighbors of the brownstone described the man, who was elderly, as a friendly person who lived in the neighborhood a long time and is visited by a nurse occasionally.
"I'm shocked," said neighbor Hazel Foster. "I can't believe a man of his age did this."
Neighbor Jamal Jones, 23, said he never noticed trouble at the home.
"I've never really seen too much happening there. … Nothing that's eye popping," he said. "It's a pretty quiet neighborhood. Nothing ever like this on this block."


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> I am plan 9 fan, this is my first post with this google account.
> Like the title says, where should i look into first?
There was some work done on that for the gsoc last year. See
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http://gsoc.cat-v.org/hg/kenc . I believe it works, but haven't used
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Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive to Commence
Beginning Monday, November 3, Penn State Lehigh Valley clubs, students, alumni, faculty, and staff will work together to create Thanksgiving meals for local families.
This annual student-run food drive supplies 46 complete dinners, including turkeys, juice, rolls, pumpkin pie, potatoes, canned vegetables, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and gravy, to the Sixth Street Shelter in Allentown for families in need. The students rely on donations from local grocery stores, local farmers, and other food outlets and bakeries. Monetary donations are also helpful for supplies.
Anyone interested in donating food items or making a monetary contribution can do so by bringing their donation to the SGA office or Student Activities office.


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PARKERSBURG - The Camden Clark Medical Center has donated a piece of lifesaving equipment to a local sports league to have onhand during practices and games in the event an emergency occurs.
Mike King, president and CEO of Camden Clark Medical Center, presented an automated external defibrillator (AED) Monday to Tim Mullen, president of The Marietta Recreational Soccer League.
The death of a young athlete is still fresh on a lot of people's minds locally. Marissa Elise Miller, 12, of Vienna died unexpectedly on Sept. 5 while at soccer practice.
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Tim Mullen, president of The Marietta Recreational Soccer League, accepts the donation of an automated external defibrillator (AED) Monday from Mike King, right, president and CEO of the Camden Clark Medical Center. (Photo by Brett Dunlap)
It was Miller's death that got officials realizing the need for such a device at games and practices, Mullen said.
''It got us thinking that we don't have anything down there that could save someone,'' he said.
Sudden cardiac death results in around 100 deaths in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association.
Sudden cardiac death is the result of an unexpected failure of proper heart function, usually during or immediately after exercise without trauma.
Since the heart stops pumping adequately, the athlete quickly collapses, loses consciousness and ultimately dies unless normal heart rhythm is restored using an automated external defibrillator (AED), the AHA reported.
The chance of sudden death occurring to any individual high school athlete is about one in 200,000 a year.
Sudden cardiac death is more common in males than in females; in football and basketball than in other sports and in African-Americans than in any other race and ethnic group.
The only effective treatment for ventricular fibrillation is immediate use of an AED, the AHA reported. An AED can restore the heart back into a normal rhythm.
An AED is also life-saving for ventricular fibrillation caused by a blow to the chest over the heart, they said.
Camden Clark has received grants and has been able to supply such devices to organizations and groups in the area that such a device could be helpful in an emergency, including Blennerhassett Island.
''These kind of devices are very self-explanatory and they have saved a lot of people,'' King said
The medical center started a screening program for student athletes where irregular heartbeats and arrhythmia were detected early and dealt with.
''You want to catch these athletes before they have a problem, but if they do they may need a device like this,'' King said.
The AHA recommends having an AED available at every sports event; have personnel available who are trained in AED use at practices and games; and have coaches and athletic trainers trained in basic life support techniques.
Warning signs of problems with athletes can include fainting or a seizure during physical activity; dizziness or lightheadedness, especially during exertion; chest pains at rest or during exertion; palpitations; and fatigue or the athlete tiring more quickly than their peers.
The Marietta Recreational Soccer League serves around 500 kids, ages 4-14, each season and runs two seasons a year.
Mullen said they are appreciative for the donation.
''We are very thankful for the donation,'' Mullen said. ''I hope we never have to use it, but we are glad to have it.
''It gives us a peace of mind that we have access to it if we need it.''


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Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet.
By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 19, 2010
One of the most impressive visuals in Al Gore's now famous slide show on global warming is a graph known as the "hockey stick." It shows temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rising slowly for most of the last thousand years and turning steeply upward in the last half of the 20th century. As evidence of the alarming rate of global warming, it tells a simple and compelling story. That's one reason the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included the graph in the summary of its 2001 report. But is it true?
The question occurred to Steven McIntyre when he opened his newspaper one morning in 2002 and there it wasthe hockey stick. It was published with an article on the debate over whether Canada should ratify the Kyoto agreement to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. McIntyre had little knowledge of the intricate science of climate change; he didn't even have a Ph.D. He did have a passion for numbers, however. He also had some experience in the minerals business, where, he says, people tend to use hockey-stick graphs when they are trying to pull one over on you. "Reality usually isn't so tidy."
As every climate scientist must know by now, McIntyre's skepticism of the hockey stick launched him on a midlife career change: he has become the granddaddy of the global warming "denial" movement. McIntyre asserted that the data of Michael Mann, head of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, did not support his conclusions, and that a true graph of temperatures would suggest a cyclical cause of recent warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
There is no reason to "save the planet."
It was never in danger.
We can continue to clean up our own mess, of course, but not at the expense of jobs and the economy.
Or political freedoms.
Not so fast ... They want to fix it and then restart the scam with fixed up science. They do seem to know they overreached.
Like with health-care, FRANKENSTEIN always seems to revive.
Wait, I forgot, he has no honor.
Newsweek is still falling all over itself to give credibility to the hoaxers and denigrating many of the "deniers" as rank amateurs who are just trying to poke holes in climate change without real science. Man caused global warming is a HOAX and a fraud perpetrated by Al Gore and others for personal gain and political agendas. The US media are deniers of this truth.
What a steaming pile of biased excrement this column is. Every possible (and impossible) positive is attributed to the warmers, and every possible slur (deniers, for example) is attributed to the skeptics, who have been proven right time and time again.
MSM salvage operation, trying to salvage what they can so they can start the global warming hoax anew.
Yeah, not surprising that there is a plaintive wistful tone about the article....sort of a 'I can't believe it all came crashing down with a thud'. Hopefully, they and the Gorecle will be able to come out of their state of denial and move on... and as for the Gorecle himself, we can only wish him well in his future endeavours.
But of course, ALL of the evil, scheming deniers are in the pay of the greedy (republican-supported) oil companies....
It is the socially-correct, "loyal and truthful" holycost SUPPORTERS who are altruistic and honest, NEVER corrupted bby the 80 billion in research money squandered on their schemes and endless research in support of the "truth according to Al Gore..."
I guess the federal funding must'a ran out.....
Then I read the article. They couldn't have given the IPCC and the warmists softer treatment. They whitewash several major scandals and problems. They mention that the "hockey stick" graph is questioned but never mention that it has now been discredited.
Many more examples.....it's still Newsweak.
What the hell--they aren't going to instantly see the light and repent in a flash of conversion in public. It will take time. But when Newsweek starts even talking seriously about "Climategate" you know there has been a change in the weather.
All the article does is bemoan loss of momentum. It attributes it to "denier" unfairness, sloppiness in peripheral matters, or to understandable secretiveness of government scientists. It doesn't touch the underlying reason: there hasn't been any reliable science produced that can be backed up by credible data. It's all been a product of massaging or cheating.
Do you mean to honestly state that NEWSWEEK ran a story about global warming being a LIE??
Thanks for providing a synopsis. I was afraid to click on the link, and evidentally my fear was justified. LOL
They're at the first stages of addiction recovery-they have just recognized they have a problem. I look forward to the more painful parts of their recovery, in fact, aren't they about due to go bankrupt?
As other posters have pointed out, their is value in having Newsweek proclaim that the global warming industry is on the defensive, and that they have behaving badly.
Newsweek may feel that this problem is one that can be massaged by the US media. But, in reality, the issue is being settled by British investigators and the scientific community itself, no longer cowed by the bullying of the past. The American liberal media has been reduced to neutered bystanders, saddled with the evidence of having been on the wrong side of science.
Acid rain ...
At the power plant where my dad worked, over the years they made changes to address this. Changed the kind of coal burned and used technology to scrub the emissions as best they could.
So, I guess we don't hear as much about it because we worked on the problem ...?
At that time we were also supposedly heading into another ice age.
That's funny.
I see this article as an attempt to clear the tarnish off a damaged product. They're not ready to write it off, they still want to sell it.
They're not ready to go into recovery, they want to quietly brush the problem under the rug and be a little more careful from now on. They know they over-reached.
Wonder why the author did not include Phil Jones' admission that the climate has not warmed since 1995 and his confession that it was warmer in the middle ages than it is now. There are a lot of little nasty revelations like those that the author cared not share with the general public.
McIntyre has actually carried out his audit of climate science with exceptional professionalism despite it being essentially an unpaid hobby, while Phil Jones was shown to have lost large parts of his supporting data to sloppy, sophmoric record-keeping even while being the recipient of huge amounts of government funding.
Check your chemistry lesson.....carbolic acid is phenol. Carbonic acid is a different critter.
Uh, I call baloney on this. If tree-ring growth measurements don't correlate to temperature for the last two decades of the 20th century then they don't for any other period of time. There can be no rational "technical reason" why they should no longer correlate; trees didn't evolve a new growth pattern in 1980.
"""What went wrong? Part of the blame lies, of course, with those who obstructed the efforts of the IPCC and the individual scientists, including bloggers who tried to sandbag scientists with spurious FOIA requests, and the perpetrators (as yet unknown) of the hack at the Climatic Research Unit.""""
This is really sad when Newsweek journalists lament the fact that some people actually want to know the truth.
In the mind of the Newsweek journalists truth does not matter. The only thing that matters to them is achieving a victory regarding a political position.
Why is anybody still subscribing to this garbage?
This is progress. Newsweek now sees a need to actually mention Climategate to its dwindling reader base. That the article grotesquely distorts the facts to favor the warmistas can be taken for granted.
***I wonder what ever happened to the ACID RAIN. CO2 + Rain water => Carbolic acid.***
Do you mean SO2 and rainwater? Sulfuric Dioxide+rainwater=sulfuric acid.
***I wonder what ever happened to the ACID RAIN. CO2 + Rain water => Carbolic acid.***
.... Do you mean SO2 and rainwater? Sulfuric Dioxide+rainwater=sulfuric acid.......
Or $2.70 per Gallon Diesel?
Actually, that would be sulfurous acid. You need sulfur trioxide to generate sufuric, and you need to jump through some process hoops to get that stuff in any quantity.
A niggling point, but there it is....
So, I guess we dont hear as much about it because we worked on the problem
So can we fix nuclear power, off shore drilling, drilling ANWAR, and Yucca Flats?
I'm glad we saved the evergreen buds and the Parthenon
"...So can we fix nuclear power, off shore drilling, drilling ANWAR, and Yucca Flats?
I'm glad we saved the evergreen buds and the Parthenon ..."
I think we can try. Those endeavors would also create engineering and manufacturing jobs.
I can't figure out why our country would just roll over and play dead when it comes to energy independence.
We got so bogged down draining the swamp that we lost faith in ourselves as One Nation. So help me I still believe in 'American Know How' and Doing the Right Thing. I can't help feeling 'the Times they are a'changing' AGAIN.
It's kinda strange that any 'transparent' scientific info about the hoax is still considered top secret.
Sure woke me up this morning!
Not really. Even this article hangs on to the fiction that CO2 is some dreaded pollutant. They are still shooting at the soft belly of the economy with their junk science arrows.
We have to destroy the lie that CO2 is a danger before the hoax really dies.
I amazed that anything about climategate appeared in newsweek; however, it has been months since the story initially broke, hey??
Agree completely.
We don't have to save the planet anymore. It was never in danger.
>> McIntyre has actually carried out his audit of climate science with exceptional professionalism despite it being essentially an unpaid hobby, while Phil Jones was shown to have lost large parts of his supporting data to sloppy, sophmoric record-keeping even while being the recipient of huge amounts of government funding. <<
I don't buy Phil Jones' pathetic excuse about sloppy record-keeping, any more than I buy his ridiculous global warming hoax.
Phil Jones and the rest of his unholy cabal of voodoo science priests intentionally cooked the books and twisted the actual climate data to produce the desired result.
Hats off to McIntyre, but all he had to do was read the actual data to see that there was nothing to the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Phil Jones and the rest did the same thing as McIntyre, and saw the same things he did, but they were working on a totally different agenda than pure science.
Man, that's racist!
No niggard am I.
"There can be no rational "technical reason" why they should no longer correlate; trees didn't evolve a new growth pattern in 1980. "
I'm sure global warming is to blame for it. In fact, the lack of correlation probably proves CO2 global warming.
Now you're giving me the niggles. Stop that.
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Captain John C. Frémont (1813-1890) was an American explorer, soldier, and the first (though unsuccessful) Republican Party candidate for the presidency in 1856.
With the help of his powerful father-in-law, Frémont secured the command of expeditions exploring the West, from the Des Moines River to the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, Nevada, and California country. In 1846, Frémont persuaded the local American residents in California to follow the Texans' example by establishing their own independent Bear Flag Republic at Sonoma. The short-lived experiment accomplished very little. After Stephen W. Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton claimed California for the U.S. during the Mexican-American War, an argument ensued over who was in command; Frémont sided with Stockton, but the U.S. government sent orders siding with Kearny, who had Frémont arrested, court-martialed, and convicted. President Polk remitted the sentence, but the proud Frémont resigned from government service after that. After making millions from the discovery of gold and serving briefly as a Senator, he made an unsuccessful presidential run with the new Republican Party in 1856; the party shared his firm stance against slavery's extension into the West. Employing the slogan, "Free soil, free speech, free men, Fremont," he and the Republicans came closer than anyone had before to uniting the voters of the North and the West against the South. Frémont went on to command the Western Department of the Union Army during the Civil War but soon left that post. He lost his fortune trying to build a railroad to the Pacific in the 1870s.


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Stop the Clock game for an adult and child. How can you make sure you always win this game?
Match the halves.
Work out the fractions to match the cards with the same amount of
A game for 1 or 2 people. Use the interactive version, or play with friends. Try to round up as many counters as possible.
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A fun game for two. You'll need some counters.
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Try to stop your opponent from being able to split the piles of counters into unequal numbers. Can you find a strategy?
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A game for 2 players. Using 2 dice, some counters and a games board, can you form a line of counters from one side of the board to the other?
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
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In this game for two players, you throw two dice and find the product. How many shapes can you draw on the grid which have that area or perimeter?
In this matching game, you have to decide how long different events take.
First Connect Three game for an adult and child. Use the dice numbers and either addition or subtraction to get three numbers in a straight line.
Advent Calendar 2010 - a mathematical game for every day during the run-up to Christmas.
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Republican women from across the political map will be seen and heard at the party's national convention next week. Some are being given primetime opportunity to address the delegates and others working their issues behind the scenes.
In sharp contrast to their cold-shoulder treatment at the 1992 and 1996 conventions, pro-choice women are finding some semblance of a welcome mat this year. They concede it's unlikely the standard-bearers will change or even tame the anti-abortion language in the party's platform, but they say some of the chill is out of the air.
Though abortion is certainly the most high-profile issue, Republican women will also be talking about education, health care and Social Security.
The Bush campaign has promised a convention different from previous ones, turning attention to these issues and staying away from attack politics. Bush is said to be amenable to changing some of the neo-conservative language the 1996 platform--which called for dismantling the Department of Education, for example--except for the plank calling for a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
"I think there will be a great deal more focus on listening to women at this convention than perhaps there's been in past years," says Marian Miller, president of the National Federation of Republican Women and an Indiana delegate. The reason, she believes, is that "women are realizing that if they want to be heard they have to be willing to stand up and speak out."
Among the women who will be front and center in the convention hall are anti-choice Elizabeth Dole, an early dropout in the race for the party's presidential nod, and refuses-to-say Laura Bush, wife of the presumptive nominee, Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
When the four-day convention gets underway on July 31, the first night will be devoted to Bush's proposals for improving education and expanding health care. Laura Bush is scheduled to address the delegates that night, and on Thursday, she will be honored for her commitment to children and literacy initiatives in Texas at a luncheon sponsored by the National Federation of Republican Women.
Mrs. Dole, whose luster has diminished since her bid for the nomination failed, is being given a spot on the convention agenda Tuesday night, along with Condoleezza Rice, a Russia expert who is Bush's chief foreign policy adviser.
Not to be deterred by Dole's and Bush's stance and their own relative lack of prominence, Republican pro-choice women are determined to be visible and vocal too.
Susan Cullman, president of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, and Karin Miranda Pipkin, national director of Planned Parenthood Republicans for Choice, say that despite the odds they face, they feel a stark difference this year from the earlier conventions, where they were shut out. Though Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, head of the platform committee, is strongly anti-choice, he "has made us feel welcome to the process," Pipkin says.
They and other pro-choice leaders--including Ann E.W. Stone, head of the political action committee Republicans for Choice, and Candace Straight, a founder and president of the WISH List, which raises money for Republican pro-choice women candidates--will be among the early arrivals to focus their attention on the platform committee meetings this Thursday and Friday.
Straight, a New Jersey delegate is key to the effort this year, as she is one of the 107 delegates on the platform committee. Cullman says the committee has more than the dozen or so pro-choice delegates on the '96 committee, but she won't say how many.
The fact remains, however, Bush does not want to change the 1996 platform's anti-abortion plank.
"Everything else is up for grabs," Cullman says, including calls to eliminate the Education Department and the National Endowment for the Arts. "I think they're going to soften the edges on a lot of these issues, and the only one that's untouchable is this one," she says.
Straight adds that the platform is important because it gives people a perception of the party as being either intolerant, by its rigid stand on abortion, or being inclusive, through its other positions. "George Bush is a very inclusive person, but if we don't change the platform, it's one little thing showing that we're not inclusive."
While acknowledging that she and the other pro-choice Republicans are still pushing a boulder uphill, Stone says: "We know the party would like to get rid of this issue. The only thing that keeps us optimistic is the people we've talked to on the platform committee and the good back-and-forth we've had with Gov. Thompson and other members of the platform committee."
Abortion-rights supporters also point out that pro-choice Rep. Jennifer Dunn of Washington state, one of the convention's co-chairs, will be a key presence.
Among the other women in leadership capacities is Patricia Harrison, co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
Education will be a prominent issue, as Bush has been touting the achievements Texas schools have made under his leadership. The National Federation of Republican Women will take up that mantle, promoting Bush's call for a stronger public school system, local control, high performance standards and parental school choice, including vouchers and charter schools.
Miller says the federation does not take a position on issues like the '96 platform's call to eliminate the Education Department. But she says the differences among delegates should be aired on that as well as other issues.
"I believe we should have a lot of discussion and debate on the education issue and the abortion issue because those seem to be the two that are getting the attention of women today," she says.
Debbie Mesce is a free-lance writer based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Associated Press.