text:
Katherine Harris
Katherine Harris was a Republican member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the 13th District of Florida (map) from 2003 to 2007. She also served as Florida's Secretary of State during the controversial Florida Recount of 2000. She opted to run for Senate in 2006, where she was defeated by Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
- 1 Bio
- 2 Meet the Cash Constituents
- 3 Controversy
- 3.1 2000 Election
- 3.2 Travel spending
- 3.3 Justice and Defense investigations
- 3.3.1 Illegal campaign contributions from Wade
- 3.3.2 James C. King
- 3.3.3 Internal investigation
- 3.3.4 Improper dinner with Wade in 2004
- 3.3.5 Improper $2,800 dinner with Wade in 2005
- 3.3.6 Harris sought legislative favors for MZM
- 3.3.7 Federal investigators interview Harris' aides and request documents
- 3.3.8 Harris claims innocence
- 3.4 Riscorp scandal: illegal campaign contributions
- 3.5 Ongoing legal issues
- 3.6 2006 Senate campaign
- 3.7 Church and state
- 3.8 Whispering campaign against Joe Scarborough
- 3.9 Won't return money from Rep. Bob Ney
- 4 Committees and Affiliations
- 5 More Background Data
- 6 Articles and Resources
- 7 Contact
Harris was born April 5, 1957 in Key West, Florida. She was educated at the University of Madrid in Spain and received her Bachelor's Degree in history from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia [1], and earned a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1997 [1][2]. She was also a real estate broker, a member of the Florida Senate (1995-1999) and Florida Secretary of State (1999-2002) before entering the House.
In 2002, Harris ran for the congressional district vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Dan Miller, winning by 10 percentage points in this predominantly Republican-leaning district.
Harris considered running for the seat of retiring Senator Bob Graham in 2004, but was reportedly dissuaded under pressure from the Bush White House to allow Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez to run for the open seat. Martinez went on to narrowly beat challenger Betty Castor.
2006 Senate Race
On June 7, 2005, Harris announced her intention to run for the Republican Senate nomination in Florida to challenge incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson in the 2006 Florida U.S. Senate election. In a survey of voters taken August 23-29, 2005, Nelson garnered 57 percent to Harris's 33 percent. [3]
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove both declined to endorse Harris' 2006 Senate campaign and the governor went so far as to try and recruit the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Allan Bense to run against her. [4] In a survey of voters taken June 22-26, 2005 pitting Nelson against Bensen, Nelson would have been favored 50 percent to Bense's 26 percent.[5] In early August 2005, Bense declined to challenge Harris, saying the timing was not right.
The Florida state Republican Party also did not support her 2006 congressional bid. In a letter dated May 7th, 2006, the state Republican Party told Harris that she would not be able to win the 2006 Senatorial race against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). However, the next day Harris submitted her paperwork to be placed on the September 5th, 2006 Republican primary ballot. This letter was obtained by the AP late July of 2006.[6]
The party leadership proved to be correct, however, and Harris was soundly defeated by Nelson in the November 2006 general election.
Meet the Cash Constituents
|Links to more campaign contribution information for Katherine Harris
from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org site.
|Fundraising profile:
|2006 election cycle
|Career totals
|Top contributors by organization/corporation:
|2006 election cycle
|Career totals
|Top contributors by industry:
|2006 election cycle
|Career totals
2000 Election
While she was Secretary of State, Harris presided over the contested Presidential election of 2000 in Florida. It was Harris who certified that the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, had carried the State of Florida, thus giving him the election over Al Gore. Her ruling was challenged, and was overturned on appeal by the Florida Supreme Court, but was upheld upon further appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. There were allegations of a conflict of interest since she was prominent in the Florida Bush campaign.
Harris has been accused of acting in a partisan manner in conducting the Florida election count. No charges have ever been filed. In addition to her opposition to recounts in predominantly democractic counties, those who accuse Harris of acting in a partisan manner allege that:
- Before the election, a firm hired by Harris in her capacity as Secretary of State to purge convicted felons from the voter rolls erroneously removed 8,000 registered voters who had been convicted only of misdemeanors, thousands of others who had the same names as felons, and a few whose computer records said they had committed crimes in the future. This led to her being nicknamed the Purge Princess.
- Harris certified the election results from 20 of Florida's 67 counties, in accordance with state law. Subsequent machine and hand recounts confirmed a narrow Republican victory.
- Harris was much criticized for her insistence in following legal deadlines for ballot certifications. (Ultimately, court hearings validated proper procedures; subsequent multiple recounts confirmed the outcome.)
Her book, Center of the Storm (ISBN 0785264434, the first book published by the book division of conservative website WorldNetDaily[2]), published in September 2002, gives her version of events. Harris asserts that blatant partisanship by liberal operatives such as Mary Francis Barry on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights used irresponsible leaks and baseless allegations to smear her without ever attempting to prove them. She notes that Barry's assertions did not appear in the final report on the election, likely because they could not be supported by fact and would have required that Harris' rebuttal of those assertions be appended to the report as well.
Travel spending
The 2000 election controversy was not the first time Harris faced allegations of misconduct. As Secretary of State, she was criticized for lavish spending on overseas travel.[7] In her book, Center of the Storm, she refutes these allegations as baseless and partisan. Harris' annual travel budget while in office was less than her predecessor's expenses on air travel alone.
Justice and Defense investigations
In 2006, both the Justice and Defense Departments began probing Harris' relationship with Mitchell Wade, the former head of MZM, Inc., a defense contracting firm. Wade pleaded guilty to a series of criminal bribery offenses on February 24, 2006.[3] [4]
Illegal campaign contributions from Wade
Wade confessed in his plea bargain agreement that on March 23, 2006, he engaged in an illegal "straw contributions" scheme to funnel $32,000 to Harris' campaign. In the scheme, he laundered $32,000 of his own money through his employees, thus evading federal contribution limits. The plea agreement states that: [5]
WADE met with certain MZM employees, and gave them cash or otherwise reimbursed them and, in some cases, their spouses, for contributions to Harris's Campaign. WADE's cash was then used to provide contributions in the form of checks to Representative B's Campaign in the names of the employees and, on some occasions, the employees' spouses. The employees delivered the checks to WADE, who personally handed them to Harris. WADE did not inform Harris or Harris' staff that the contributions were unlawful.[6]
Wade's plea agreement states his reasons for making the contributions:
MZM maintained a facility near Harris' district. Wade thought that Harris had the ability to request appropriations funding that would benefit MZM and that Harris would be an advocate for MZM and its existing facilities. [7]
James C. King
Retired Lt. General James C. King, the president and CEO of Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc. (the successor company to MZM Inc.), was allegedly involved in the scheme to give illegal campaign contributions to Harris. On March 23, 2004, then-MZM CEO King and possibly his wife made $8,000 in campaign contributions to Harris. This is the same day that Mitchell Wade confessed in his plea agreement that he had laundered campaign contributions to Harris through MZM employees.[8]
Internal investigation
Ed Rollins, Harris' former chief political strategist, conducted an internal investigation into Harris' dealings with MZM and does not believe that she intentionally broke any laws.[9] He has gone public with his version of Harris' interactions with Wade.
Improper dinner with Wade in 2004
According to Rollins, Wade gave Harris the illegal campaign contributions when they dined together at the upscale Washington, DC restaurant, Citronelle, in 2004.[10] Harris' campaign acknowledged on May 19, 2005 that Harris had failed to pay her share of the meal, a violation of House rules.[11]
House rules stipulate that representatives cannot accept gifts in excess of $50. The rules also forbid representatives from accepting "favors or benefits in circumstances that might create the appearance of influencing the performance of official duties," and state that they "must never accept a gift that is linked to any official action that the individual has taken, or is being asked to take." [12]
A Harris campaign spokesman has stated that Harris made a charitable donation for her share of the meal. [13]
Improper $2,800 dinner with Wade in 2005
In early 2005, Harris dined with Wade again at Citronelle. According to Rollins, the bill for the dinner was $2,800 and Wade paid for the entire sum, another violation of House rules. [8]
In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel on April 19, 2006, Harris said she had not known the full value of the meal, telling a reporter that it was "news to me." Rollins, however, has said that he and Harris discussed the meal in late summer 2005 and specifically discussed it's value in early 2006 after Wade's guilty plea. [9]
In the same interview, Harris told a reporter that her campaign had "reimbursed" the restaurant for the meal. When asked how she could have reimbursed them for a meal that had already been paid for in full, Harris immediately ended the interview. Her spokesman called the paper later that day and asked that the story not be printed. The following day, her campaign issued a statement saying that Harris had thought her campaign would be reimbursing her share of the dinner, but had later found out it did not happen. The statement also said that she had donated $100 to a local charity, "which will more than adequately compensate for the cost of my beverage and appetizer." [10]
Rollins later stated that he first discussed the dinner with Harris in late summer 2005 and she told him that she had ordered a campaign staffer to make sure that she paid her share of the meal. Jim Dornan, however, then-campaign manager for Harris, stated that he oversaw all campaign expenditures and that no staff members had ever approached him about the expense. [11]
The restaurant has also disputed Harris' assertion that most of the bill was for bottles of wine that Wade took home and was thus not part of the meal. The director of Citronelle stated that no one ever takes home unopened bottles of wine: "We are one of the top five restaurants in America. Why would we jeopardize our liquor license for the sake of selling a couple bottles of wine?" he asked. [14]
Harris sought legislative favors for MZM
At the 2005 dinner at Citronelle, Wade offered to sponsor a $200,000 fundraiser for Harris and asked her to assist him in securing $10 million in federal funding for a counterintelligence facility in Sarasota, Fla. (in her district). Harris apparently agreed to help him, submitting the request to the House Appropriations Committee. The committee rejected the request. [12] [13]
Rollins indicated that Wade may have duped Harris into her support, stating that "She heard whatever she wanted to hear, but we could find no evidence whatsoever that this was a project going into her district."[15]
Federal investigators interview Harris' aides and request documents
On July 17, 2006, federal investigators interviewed Rollins for two hours in Washington. He would not comment on the details of the conversation, but did note that it focused on Harris' dealings with Wade and was, "serious." [14] [16]
On July 18, Justice Department officials requested records from Harris' Senate campaign. It was unclear whether prosecutors issued a subpoena or simply sent a letter to the campaign in search of information, and a Harris spokeswoman would not elaborate. While acknowledging the request, Harris stated that she was informed that she was, "not a target of the investigation" surrounding Mitchell Wade.[15]
On August 9, federal investigators announced that they would be questioning two additional ex-staffers of Harris as part of their investigation. The FBI called Jim Dornan, a former campaign manager for Harris' Senate campaign, and Kara Borie, a former Harris' spokeswoman. Dornan is now a political consultant working on a congressional campaign in New York, while Borie is a spokeswoman for the Republican Party in South Carolina. [17]
On September 7, 2006, Dornan spoke to investigators from the FBI and the Defense Department in Washington for ninety-minutes. [18]
In early November 2006, Dan Berger and Ben McKay, both former Harris chiefs of staff, confirmed that federal investigators had interviewed them. They also said that it was their understanding that all congressional staff would likely be questioned. The two spoke separately to three investigators from the FBI and the Defense Department. [19]
Harris claims innocence
Harris said in April 2006 that she was introduced to Wade by then-Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.).[16] She has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection with MZM or Wade, saying "I've done nothing wrong. The Justice Department has not asked me any questions. I simply had the opportunity to have a naval intelligence program in my district." [17]
Riscorp scandal: illegal campaign contributions
As a Florida State Senator, Harris was accused of supporting preferential legislation for Riscorp, an insurance company whose wealthy CEO, Bill Griffin, lived in Harris' Senate district.[20] Ms. Harris was also involved in introducing Mr. Griffin to the members of the Florida state legislature and received over $20,000 in donations from key Riscorp employees who had been given bonuses specifically to enable their donations.[21]
Mr. Griffin pleaded guilty to felony counts involving illegal campaign donations and conspiracy and served prison time. The Riscorp scandal involved dozens of Florida state legislators and was among the largest scandals in recent Florida history, with Harris as the largest recipient of illegal donations, which she eventually returned. However, Harris was never charged with any crime and never admitted to any willful wrongdoing. Harris was the only receiver of funds from Griffin who returned the funds received. She did so out of her own personal funds.
In July 2006, during her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Harris accused her opponent of taking $80,000 in illegal campaign contributions from Riscorp, Inc. According the Orlando Sentinel, Nelson did receive $62,000 from the company during the mid-1990s. Unlike his senatorial opponent (Ms Harris), Nelson never repaid the illegal funds he received and used in his campaign.
Ongoing legal issues
In early 2006, Harris hired campaign finance lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg after revelations of the illegal Wade contributions were made public. [18]
2006 Senate campaign
Problems with staff
On July 13, 2006, Harris' campaign manager Glenn Hodas, the third to work for Harris, confirmed that he and four other key staffers were quitting. According to Hodas, Harris did not keep, "any of her promises" regarding her behavior, including promises "not to have tantrums, not to berate staff, not to micromanage and nitpick and not to get flustered on inconsequential details," he said. Harris had encountered problems maintaining staff in the past, and previously claimed to be making a concerted effort to improve. According to Hodas, "None of it has changed. If anything, it's gotten worse." [19]
Hodas also told the Tampa Tribune, story published August 2, 2006, that he and her other top campaign advisors learned of a grand jury subpoena that she hid from them. The Department of Justice issued her a subpeoena for campaign records during their investigation of her relations with defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade, in June of 2006. Hodas stated that "Yes, there was a subpoena. She didn't tell us. Finding out about the subpoena caused me to wonder about what was going on and what else I didn't know, but I don't want to comment any further on what appears to be a pending investigation," According to Hodas, this is what caused himself and other staffers to resign. [20]
On August 2, 2006, in response to Hodas' claims, Harris' senatorial campaign spokesperson released the following statement to Justin Rood of TPM Muckraker.
"It is important to point out that the Department of Justice has informed Congresswoman Harris she is not a target of the investigation. Our campaign has helped the Department of Justice in every way they have asked, and there have been no requests of the congresswoman personally, or of her congressional office, that would require a report to the House Speaker." [21]
Rood asked Jennifer Marks to eloborate on this statmen and Marks refused to do so.
On July 27, Harris' former communications director, Chris Ingram, joined the campaign of LeRoy Collins Jr., one of her Republican primary opponents for the U.S. Senate. Ingram was among those who left Harris in early July, citing Harris' poor treatment of campaign staff. Upon joining Collins' team, he stated, "Admiral Collins has the leadership abilities, integrity, and common-sense values Florida voters need for effective representation in Washington...Governor Bush was right when he said, '(Katherine Harris) can't win.'...LeRoy Collins has the experience and determination to give Republicans their best shot at defeating (Senator Bill Nelson) this fall." [22]
Inflating her campaign's endorsements
On August 16, 2006, several members of the House called the Harris campaign to complain after the St. Petersburg Times informed them that they had been listed as having endorsed Harris on the congresswoman's webpage. Minutes later, their names were removed. Those representatives included Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Fla.), Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.).
Both Chris Ingram and Glenn Hodas, former Harris employees, confirmed that Harris had instructed them to use the endorsements of members even if they had not confirmed their support in writing.
On August 17, 2006 the St. Petersburg Times issued the following correction related to this story:
CORRECTION: Clarification (08/18/06): Chris Ingram and Glenn Hodas, who worked for U.S. Senate candidate Katherine Harris until mid July, said they told Harris they would not publicize a list of endorsements from Republican lawmakers without receiving their written permission. After Ingram and Hodas left the campaign, Harris' staff began publicizing a list of endorsements without written approval from at least some of the public officials on the list. A story Thursday did not fully explain their role.
Falling tree incident
On August 17, 2006, Harris held a rally for her campaign in an airport hangar at the Orlando Executive Airport. When only 40 people attended the rally, Harris blamed the poor turnout on a last-minute location change caused by a falling tree. Reporters, however, checked with the airport and were told there had been no reports of a falling tree. When confronted about the matter, Harris blamed her political director, Rhyan Metzler, saying he had told her about the tree. The following weekend, Metzler quit the Harris campaign, noting that the incident was "not necessarily" his reason for leaving. [25]
Improper claim that Gov. Jeb Bush would campaign with her
On September 8, 2006, Harris announced that Florida Governor Jeb Bush would be campaigning with her during the two months leading up to the November election. The Governor's Office, however, did not confirm the validity of the announcement. Rather, it referred questions about Harris to the state Republican Party, where spokesman Jeff Sadosky said that the governor had not agreed to campaign with Harris. He stated, "We've not heard anything from the Governor's Office one way or the other." [26]
Church and state
In August 2006, Harris told interviewers from the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention, that God did not intend for the United States to be a "nation of secular laws." She added that separation of church and state is a "lie we have been told" to keep religious individuals away from politics.
She continued, "If you're not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin." Harris bluntly admitted that her religious views "animate" everything she does as a member of Congress. [27]
On August 28, the Harris' campaign sought to clarify her comments through a statement. It noted that the congresswoman had been, "speaking to a Christian audience, addressing a common misperception that people of faith should not be actively involved in government."
Rather than reflecting discriminatory views, the comments, according to the statement, were meant to reflect "her deep grounding in Judeo-Christian values." [28]
Whispering campaign against Joe Scarborough
In the summer of 2005, Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, approached television host and former congressman Joe Scarborough about challenging Harris for the 2006 Republican U.S. Senate nomination to run against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). Scarborough then called Dornan and Rollins to let them know he wouldn't be running but needed a few days to tell his supporters privately. [29]
However, Harris then started calling Republican campaign donors, telling them that Scarborough's campaign would be hurt by questions about an aide to Scarborough who had died in an accident when he was a member of Congress in 2001. The aide's family and the medical examiner said that there was no foul play involved. Word of her calls apparently got back to Scarborough, who said he was shocked that she would repeat "the slanderous attacks." [30]
Harris' calls were confirmed by one Republican donor and two then-staffers:
- Pensacola developer and Republican donor Collier Merill said that Harris told him Scarborough would have problems when "they start asking questions... about that dead girl."
- Former Harris campaign manager Jim Dornan said he heard Harris tell more than one donor that "I don't know what he's thinking when he's got this whole issue of a dead intern on his hands."
- Rollins confirmed the account to the Miami Herald. [31]
Harris' campaign has denied the story outright but Dornan has said that Harris tried to blame him for the calls when Scarborogh called the campaign to demand an explanation. [32]
Won't return money from Rep. Bob Ney
In 2002 and 2004, Harris received money from Rep. Bob Ney's (R-Ohio) political action committee, American Liberty PAC ($6,000 total). When Ney agreed to plead guilty to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for political favors, she was pressured to return the money, as many legislators had. Harris, however, claimed that she could neither return it nor give it to charity, for it was given to her during her congressional races and had been spent. She added that she would, "have to see what we can do." [33]
Committees and Affiliations
Committees in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)
- House Committee on Financial Services
- Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises
- Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy Trade and Technology
- House Committee on Homeland Security
- Subcommittee on Economic Security Infrastructure Protection and Cybersecurity
- Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness Science and Technology
- Subcommittee Management Integration and Oversight
- House Committee on International Relations
- Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia
- Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
More Background Data
Wikipedia also has an article on Katherine Harris. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the GFDL.
Articles and Resources
- ↑ "Harris goes 'Beyond Ballots' at KSG", Harvard University Gazette, February 7, 2002.
- ↑ [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=15038 "Katherine Harris book release near"], WorldNetDaily, August 28, 2002.
- ↑ "TPM Grand Ole Docket", Talking Points Memo, accessed March 20, 2008.
- ↑ "Harris says feds contacted her in bribery probe", Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 19, 2006.
- ↑ "'Statement of Offenses' from Mitchell Wade's Guilty Plea", Talking Points Memo, Febraury 24, 2006.
- ↑ "'Statement of Offenses' from Mitchell Wade's Guilty Plea", Talking Points Memo, Febraury 24, 2006.
- ↑ "'Statement of Offenses' from Mitchell Wade's Guilty Plea", Talking Points Memo, Febraury 24, 2006.
- ↑ "Hayden Aide Assisted in Illegal MZM Donation Scam", TPM Muckraker, may 8, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris", St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- ↑ "Florida rep focus of grand jury probe", St. Petersburg Times, July 20, 2006.
- ↑ "Katherine Harris ex-aides added to investigation", St. Petersburg Times, August 9, 2006.
- ↑ "Feds interview Harris' ex-campaign manager", St. Petersburg Times, September 9, 2006.
- ↑ "FBI questions two more former aides to Harris", St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 2006.
- ↑ "Harris backed bill aiding Riscorp". St. Petersburg Times, August 25, 1998.
- ↑ "See-saw farce grips the sunshine state" , The Observer (UK), November 19, 2000.
- Official website
- Senate campaign website
- Senate Campaign Blog
- Katherine Harris profile on On the Issues.
- Katherine Harris archive on TPM Muckraker.
- Segment on Katherine Harris, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. (Other Daily Show segments on members of Congress.)
- Open Secrets - 2006 congressional races database
Congresspedia & SourceWatch Resources
- MZM Inc.
- Mitchell Wade, the founder and former president of MZM Inc..
- Lt. General (ret.) James C. King, former CEO of MZM Inc. and the current President and CEO of Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc., the successor to MZM.
Local blogs and discussion sites
- Marcus Stern, "Workers Say MZM Chief Forced Them to Give to PAC," San Diego Union-Tribune, June 22, 2005.
- Cory Reiss, "Ex-Harris Aide Took Job with MZM," The Ledger, March 1, 2006.
- Tom Lyons, "Rep. Harris Misled Us, Now we Know Why," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, March 1, 2006.
- Keith Epstein, "Harris Tried to Help Donor," Media General News Service, March 2, 2006.
- Keith Epstein, "Harris Shuns Spending Requests," Tampa Bay Tribune, March 3, 2006.
- William March and Keith Epstein, "Harris Betting Her Fortune On Race," Tampa Tribune, March 16, 2006.
- Keith Epstein, "Activist Group Seeks Katherine Harris Investigation," Tampa Tribune, May 1, 2006.
- Keith Epstein, "Harris Dinner Criticized," Tampa Tribune, May 2, 2006.
- "Gov. Jeb Bush Says Harris Can't Win," Local6.com (Central Florida), May 8, 2006: "Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday that U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris has dropped so low in public opinion polls that she cannot unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, unleashing his strongest statement yet about her struggling campaign."
- Adam C. Smith, "Briber paid for 2nd meal for Harris," St. Petersburg Times, May 21, 2006.
- Jim Stratton, "Harris' attacks over donations could backfire," Orlando Sentinel, July 8, 2006.
- Larry Lipman, "Rep. Harris faces more staffing upheaval," Palm Beach Post, July 13, 2006.
- Marc Caputo, "Story of 'Joe's dead intern' began Harris' slide, insiders say," Miami Herald, July 14, 2006.
- Jim Stratton, "Feds query ex-adviser on Harris," Orlando Sentinel, July 18, 2006.
- Jim Stratton, "Justice Department requests records from Harris campaign," Orlando Sentinel, July 18, 2006.
- Anita Kumar, "Florida rep focus of grand jury probe," St. Petersburg Times, July 20, 2006.
- "Harris staffer joins opponent's campaign," Bradenton Herald, July 27, 2006.
- Keith Epstein, '"Ex-Aide: Harris Hid Subpoena," Tampa Tribune, August 2, 2006.
- Justin Rood, "Harris: I Didn't Report Subpoena Because I Didn't Have To," TPM Muckraker, August 2, 2006.
- Justin Rood, "Did "Pink Sugar Play the Race Card?" TPM Muckraker, August 8, 2006.
- Anita Kumar, "Katherine Harris ex-aides added to investigation," St. Petersburg Times, August 9, 2006.
- Justin Rood, "HarrisWatch: You Can Pick -- Your Friends, Nose; You Can't Pick: Your Primary Endorsements," TPM Muckraker, August 17, 2006.
- Justin Rood, "HarrisWatch: Aide, Zen Riddler, Quits Campaign," TPM Muckraker, August 21, 2006.
- "Katherine Harris. Why do you want to be United States Senator for Florida?" Florida Baptist Witness, August 24, 2006.
- Jim Stratton, "Katherine Harris says failure to elect Christians will 'legislate sin'," The Orlando Sentinel (BellevilleNewsDemocrat.com), August 25, 2006.
- Jim Stratton, "Rep. Harris Condemns Separation of Church, State," Washington Post, August 26, 2006.
- "Harris clarifies comments on religion," Associated Press (delivered by yahoo.com), August 28, 2006.
- "Rep. Harris: Church-state separation 'a lie'," Associated Press (CNN), August 28, 2006.
- Robert Marus, "Katherine Harris tries to quell furor over remarks in Baptist newspaper," Associated Baptist Press, August 28, 2006.
- Lee Russ, "Where do the Republicans find these people, and who votes for them?" Watching the Watchers, August 28, 2006.
- Dave Knadler, "The Harris campaign catches fire," WE Blog/The Witchita Eagle (Kansas), August 29, 2006.
- Tom Lyons, "Harris bumbles into land of bigotry," HeraldTribune.com (SW FL), August 29, 2006.
- David Espo, "Katherine Harris's political troubles reflect GOP recruiting woes," Associated Press (Florida Sun-Sentinel), August 30, 2006.
- Carol J. Williams and Associated Press, "Florida's Harris wins GOP Senate primary," Los Angeles Times (San Francisco Chronicle), September 6, 2006.
- Anita Kumar, "Feds interview Harris' ex-campaign manager," St. Petersburg Times, September 9, 2006.
- Jim Stratton and Daphne Sashin, "Harris, GOP differ on Jeb Bush Committment," Orlando Sentinel, September 9, 2006.
- "CREW releases second annual most corrupt members of Congress report," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, September 20, 2006.
- Marc Caputo and Leslie Clark, "Tainted cash puts Harris in new jam," Miami Herald, September 22, 2006.
- Holly Martins, "America's Dumbest Congressmen. Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill," Radar, October 13, 2006.
- Libby Copeland, "Campaign Gone South. Florida's Katherine Harris Continues Her Senate Race, Shedding Staff Along the Way," Washington Post, October 31, 2006.
- Anita Kumar, "FBI questions two more former aides to Harris," St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 2006.
- William March, "Harris' Prayer Call Stirs Concerns," Tampa Bay Tribune/Tampa Bay Online, November 4, 2006: Harris "prayed in a telephone prayer service recently that God would 'bring the hearts and minds of our Jewish brothers and sisters into alignment.'" Audio clip at AMERICAblog.
- BooMan, "FL-13: A Stolen Election," Booman Tribune, November 22, 2006.
- Steve Benen, "FL 13: 'Do we have to wait for a constitutional crisis?'" Crooks and Liars, November 24, 2006.
DC Office:
116 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5015
Fax: 202-226-0828
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web Email
District Office - Bradenton:
1112 Manatee Avenue West
9th Floor
Bradenton, FL 34205
Phone: 941-747-9081
Fax: 941-749-5310
District Office - Sarasota:
1991 Main Street, Suite 181
Sarasota, FL 34236
Phone: 941-951-6643
TollFree: 800-453-4184
Fax: 941-951-2972


text:
A digital camera can suffice, but if shooting good quality home videos or continuous recording is a priority, opt for a video camera.
Until a few years ago, camcorders or video cameras were the only way to get a high quality video from a portable device. The quality of video and sound was much better compared with that from a digital still camera.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
To Althea, from Prison
by Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from Prison Freedom and Confinement Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #7
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty (29-32)
Lovelace basically says that he is like an angel. He suggests, almost, that one can experience the freedom of an angel (whatever that might be) by having freedom in one's love and being free in one's soul. This brings an important religious, or at least spiritual, dimension of freedom to the poem.


text:
- 1 of 7 Photos | View More Photos
Area residents spent an evening in "The Big Easy" last weekend at St. Joan of Arc during the parish's sixth annual Mardi Gras dinner dance.
The event took place Feb. 9 at the St. Joan of Arc Church, 8894 Route 14 in Streetsboro. A silent auction, buffet dinner with dessert, entertainment and dancing were featured. Music was provided by WSTB 88.9 FM Sunday Oldies Jukebox DJ Capt. Dave.'


text:
2014 Backstreet Boys Cruise!!
The party continues!! The boys will be setting sail next fall for an even wilder Backstreet Boys Cruise.
BSB Fan Club & past Cruisers presale begins January 7th at 12PM Eastern.
General onsale begins January 8th at 12PM Eastern.
For more information visit backstreetboyscruise.com Bon voyage!


text:
Car Prices to Rise in India
NEW DELHI – Several auto makers in India have decided to increase their vehicle prices in January due to rising raw material costs and a fall in the local currency's value, which has made imports of parts more expensive.
The local units of Hyundai Motor Co., General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. will increase vehicle prices on Jan. 1. Suzuki Motor Corp's unit already increased prices of its diesel models last month.
The Indian rupee is the worst-performing Asian currency this year, with the U.S. dollar rising nearly 16% against the local unit. Auto makers, especially the local units of foreign companies, import large amounts of parts and the rupee's weakness has driven up their costs.
They have also been hit by higher prices of key raw materials such as steel and aluminum.
Raising vehicle prices could further damp demand for vehicles, which has remained weak since June due to rising fuel costs and higher interest rates on loans.
Hyundai Motor India Ltd.'s director of sales and marketing, Arvind Saxena, said factors such as inflation and the rupee's depreciation have "compelled us to look at a price increase."
The company will increase the prices of all its vehicles by 1.5%-2.0%.
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. raised prices of the diesel variants of four models by up to 10,000 rupees ($195), and it will consider a similar increase for gasoline-powered vehicles after December as an appreciation in the Japanese yen has made parts imports expensive, India's largest car maker said on Dec. 1.
The company expects its operating profit margin to shrink 1.0 percentage point during October-March due to the currency effect.
Ford India will raise prices of all vehicles by up to 3%, while General Motors India will increase prices of most models by 1%-2%.
P. Balendran, vice president for corporate affairs at GM India, said it will increase the price of the diesel variant of its Beat small car by 15,000 rupees as it is currently being sold at introductory rates.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt. Ltd. also said it will lift prices by up to 3%.
Honda Siel Cars India Ltd., however, said it isn't considering raising prices right now. "Our immediate priority is to make sufficient cars to meet demand," said Jnaneswar Sen, senior vice president of marketing and sales.
The company has been forced to cut production due to a shortage of parts from Thailand following heavy floods there.
A Tata Motors Ltd. spokesman refused to comment, while executives at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. couldn't be contacted.


text:
This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
June 16, 2004
California Proposes Cuts in Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released a draft staff report on June 14th that examines potential regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in the state. In 2002, the state enacted a law that gives CARB until the end of this year to develop and adopt regulations that "achieve the maximum feasible and cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions" from passenger vehicles. The law did not set specific standards. The new CARB report proposes regulations that phase in reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and light trucks, starting with small reductions in 2009 and increasing to a nearly 30 percent reduction by 2014.
Several of the technologies examined in the CARB report address fuel economy: The report finds the technologies that could achieve significant reductions at favorable costs include improved engine technologies, turbocharging combined with smaller engines, and automated manual transmissions. But the report also notes ways to cut emissions of refrigerants from cars' air conditioning systems, including improved compressors, more leak-proof systems, and alternative refrigerants. According to CARB, nearly all the combinations of technologies examined for the report provided reductions in lifetime operating costs that exceed the added retail price of the vehicles caused by the new technology. See the CARB press release or go directly to the full report (PDF 1.1 MB). Download Acrobat Reader.


text:
2016 Fantasy Football QB BUSTS: Yup Cam Newton Is On This List
2016 Fantasy Football Running Back BUSTS
Brotherly Love? - Eli Finds Peyton's Trigger
Fantasy Football Best Buys by Round: Round 7 - Giovani Bernard
Seven Steps To Becoming Great At Fantasy Trades
NFL Countdown to Kickoff By the Numbers - Day 13
NFL Countdown to Kickoff By the Numbers - Day 14
NFL Countdown to Kickoff By the Numbers - Day 15
NFL Countdown to Kickoff By the Numbers - Day 16
NFL Countdown to Kickoff By the Numbers - Day 17
Get the craziest and best NFL stories, cutting edge Analysis, and Daily Fantasy Guidance hand picked by our expert team right into your inbox.
1. How are the Smiths? Two Smiths are important to the 49ers' defense.
Justin Smith is a disruptive force of energy and strength. He is going to play Saturday night with a brace to protect his torn triceps muscle.
Smith brings it every play in stopping the run and harassing quarterbacks.
Will he be his powerful self with that bulky brace?
The other key Smith is Aldon. As an outside linebacker in Vic Fangio's 3-4 defense, Aldon Smith can bring the heat on Aaron Rodgers.
However, Aldon seemed to wear down as the season went on as the 49ers played him more than twice as many snaps as last season. The bye and the return of Justin should help. The 49ers need both Smiths to play well to move on to the NFC Championship game for the second year in a row.
2. Is DuJuan Harris this season's James Starks? In January 2011 the Green Bay Packers turned loose the oft-injured James Starks on the playoff field. While Mr. Starks was not a superstar, he did turn in a 100-yard game against Philadelphia and a workman-like effort in keeping defenses honest on the Packers' road to another Super Bowl victory.
Mr. Harris' improbably story has already been told ad nauseam. On the field he has produced: 4.6 yards per carry on the ground to go along with efficient pass catching. If he can keep this up against San Francisco, Aaron Rodgers will add to his incredible post season numbers (16TDs, 4 INTs, 105.5 rating) and the Packers could win.
3. Colin Kaepernick. Mr. Kaepernick has been impressive in his second year. He has been accurate (62.4 percent) while protecting the football (10 TDs, 3 INTs) since taking over for Alex Smith in week 10. Coach Harbaugh realized Smith could only take them so far and made the switch to make and win a Super Bowl.
Now we will see how Mr. Kaepernick holds up in a big spot. Aaron Rodgers was outstanding in his playoff debut against the Arizona Cardinals in January 2010. Can Colin do the same? With an outstanding running game and defense to back him up, Kaepernick can probably just be his efficient self and lead San Francisco to victory.
4. Frank Gore. Age 29 is when most NFL running backs start to break down and slow down. Obviously Mr. Gore did not get the memo (1,211 yards, 8 TDs, 4.3 YPC). Gore blasted through a supposedly rebuilt Packers' defense in their Week 1 matchup.
The Green Bay run defense was really gashed at times during the regular season and finished ranked 17th against the run. And 25 to 30 carries by Gore should be just what the 49ers need to win Saturday night.
5. Aaron Rodgers' emotions. For the first time Rodgers will be stepping onto his boyhood field of dreams, Candlestick Park.
As a kid in Northern California, Rodgers dreamed of being Joe Montana or Steve Young. Rodgers has always played under control emotionally while fueling his game with slights…even the most minuscule.
Now he comes face to face with the ultimately slight. His boyhood team passed on him for the No. 1 overall pick in 2005. Will he play under control and make the 49ers pay for 2005?
Start Slideshow
Enter the text you see in the image.
Get the latest from the Nation
What's Hot
Top Videos
Top Community


text:
Ready for some purple polish? I certainly hope so! Ranging from violet to berry shades, there is a purple polish in the Epic Journey collection for everyone! If you missed the first half of this collection, you can check out all the blues, greens and teal here. All swatches below are two coats with top coat.
Lets start where technically it all ended…The Fires Of Mordor – this shade is a dark aubergine purple with a slight gold shimmer and a scattered holo finish. The gold shimmer brings it to life while the scattered holo makes this polish glow while keeping a slightly vampy vibe.
While we're hanging out in Mordor, we can't forget The Eye Of Sauron, which has taken on a berry purple flaky form for the collection here. This is the lightest shade in the collection and has lots of orangey flakies mixed in to remind us of that creeping flaming eyeball of impending doom.
Still hanging in Mordor, Mount Doom is a duochrome that moves between a slightly muted violet to a medium purple, and you guessed it, there is a little bit of a scattered holo in here too. The holo is pretty shy in comparison to some of the others but it still gives a subtle twinkle to the polish. I wore this one for a few days and it really is multi-faceted, there are times when it looked dark blue rather than purple which always appeals to me, I love nails that look different in every light.
Finally we break free and head to the Mines Of Moria for the final polish of the collection – another dark aubergine purple shade, this time packed with a fine gold glitter and irridescent flakies that shift from blue to purple to pink. Of all the shades, this one was the one that truly felt to me like it was perfectly named, the flakies and glitter just make me think of gems buried deep in a mine waiting to be hauled out.
The whole collection is available to preorder now over at the Glam Polish website for AU$89.95 for the whole collection or AU$9.95-AU$10.95 for individual polishes. The official release date is 26th June.
The products in this post were provided to me for consideration but this in no way influenced my review. For my full disclosure policy, please click here.


text:
Definition of biscuit in English:
1British A small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet: a chocolate biscuit
More example sentences
- The boiling and frying technique remained in use in the Middle Ages for making cracknels, which were small, crisp, sweet biscuits.
- Instead of high-fat foods like chocolate, biscuits, cakes and crisps, try healthier alternatives such as fresh fruit, crusty bread or crackers.
- The Salvation Army says it would welcome any food that would keep, such as chocolates, sweets, biscuits, mince pies and selection boxes.
1.1North American A small, soft round cake like a scone.
Example sentences
- Self-rising flour and cake and biscuit mixes have decreased the demand for baking soda as an important baking ingredient.
- Still, a tradition is a tradition, so I'll be picking up a three-piece w / biscuit from the Turnpike rest stop Roy Rogers on my way home.
- We all had eggs, bacon, potatoes, biscuit, and coffee.
2 [mass noun] Porcelain or other pottery which has been fired but not glazed: [as modifier]: biscuit ware
More example sentences
- She says that at present, students are able to learn, experiment and practice with the preparation of clay and hand-making techniques for biscuit and glaze firing.
- At first his slip painting on biscuit porcelain simply peeled off.
- This biscuit porcelain example, with its marbled black surround bearing its identifying label, came from the collection of a German princely family.
3 [mass noun] A light brown colour.
Example sentences
- Colourings such as taupe, pavlova, biscuit and caraway are offset by elegant shades of caffeine, pewter, ash and, of course, coffee, charcoals and black.
- Moss, chocolate, mink, charcoal, biscuit and olive dominated the white expanse of winter for Grachvogel, as jazz drifted from a grand piano on the catwalk.
- Available in sizes S - 4X in black, midnight navy, smoke and biscuit.
4A small flat piece of wood used to join two larger pieces of wood together, fitting into slots in each.
Example sentences
- Many carpenters have started using biscuits in the miter joints between trim pieces to lock the joint together and prevent future separation.
- The table, made of maple and walnut, features curved legs, intricate dovetailed joints made by hand and dowels and biscuits to connect the various pieces.
- Using thin wood wafers called biscuits can strengthen wood joints by providing more glue bonding area.
- informal
- Be the most remarkable or foolish of its kind.Example sentences
- I know I've said we've had a whirlwind week before, but this one took the cake!
- My friends Deidre and Matt, who have been traveling in India for the past three months, have been sending some enchanting emails describing their experiences, but the one I found in my inbox this morning takes the cake.
- As a union representative who once handled grievance matters, I thought I had seen everything there was to see but the mistreatment accorded Johnson takes the cake.
biscuity adjective
- Example sentences
- There are about a dozen curries to have inside your roti: The potato-chickpea one is full of toasty cardamom seeds and has a biscuity, savory, warm, mustard-tinged loveliness to it.
- Made by the traditional method, similar to the one used in Champagne, but any biscuity layers or dried-fruit complexity have been swamped by the black-grape flavours - in this case, of raspberry purée.
- It was a sticky, toffee-like, delicious, crunchy, biscuity, sticky in your teeth kind of affair with the sesame flavouring it with desirable nuttiness.
Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis 'twice' + coctus, past participle of coquere 'to cook' (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).
The basic meaning of biscuit is 'twice cooked', coming into English via French from Latin bis 'twice' and coctusi 'cooked'. The name comes from the original process of making biscuits—they were first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep.
Words that rhyme with biscuitbrisket, frisket
For editors and proofreaders
Line breaks: bis|cuit
Definition of biscuit in:
What do you find interesting about this word or phrase?
Comments that don't adhere to our Community Guidelines may be moderated or removed.
= trending


text:
Proctoring Services
- Central Texas College also administers tests from other institutions as may be useful to people of the community. Proctoring services are available for a fee and by appointment only. For additional information, students are invited to contact the Testing Office at 526-1238.
- CTC is phasing out proctored exams for distance education courses. Until proctored exams are removed from all courses, you may find that you are registered for a course that still uses them. In that case, please see Distance Education testing for more information.
- Test descriptions and testing timelines are provided by your instructor. Check your course syllabus for details.


text:
Vacation Spotlight Indonesia
This month's vacation spotlight is Indonesia! Indonesia hosts a greater variety of marine life than anywhere else on earth – it's a place truly teeming with underwater life. Indonesia offers nearly everything you could want on a tropical dive trip. Whether you are looking for easily accessible resort based diving, exploring the […]Read more ›


text:
We start in Jackson, where Dr. Bernice Pritchett at Allegiance Health on Springport Rd. is seeing a lot of kids with ear infections.
Common symptoms include: fever, pain, pulling at the affected ear, trouble hearing, drainage from the ear, decreased appetite and trouble sleeping.
Treatment may require antibiotics or ear drops.
Tylenol or Motrin will help with the pain.
Putting a warm cloth on the ear will help ease discomfort.
Parents who think their kids have an ear infection should take them to see a doctor.
Dr. Jeffrey DeWeerd with Allegiance Family Medicine in Leslie is seeing more people with viral bronchitis.
Symptoms include: trouble breathing, wheezing, pain or discomfort in the chest or rib cage, headache, low-grade fever, and a persistent cough that is typically non-productive.
People with viral bronchitis will not feel very sick.
To treat viral bronchitis, rest and drink plenty of water.
Take over-the-counter remedies for fever and pain and over-the-counter cough medicines.
Hot showers and steam should help, too.
It's important to note antibiotics do not cure viral bronchitis.
If you have a high fever and a productive cough, you may have bacterial bronchitis, and you should see a doctor.
In Okemos, Dr. James Brouillette at Ingham Primary Care, a partner of Ingham Regional Medical Center is treating ringworm.
It looks like red, circular or oval raised scaly areas with a clear center.
The affected area will be itchy.
Ringworm usually appears on non-hairy areas of the face, body, arms and legs.
Fungi thrive in warm, moist areas, so keep the skin clean and dry.
Over-the-counter anti-fungal creams can help. If they don't, you should see a doctor.
It's important to use medicine exactly as directed to keep the infection from coming back.
Ringworm is contagious.
You can get it by coming into skin-to-skin contact with the person who has it.
It can also spread when you share things like towels, clothing or sports gear.
Ringworm is also going around in the East Lansing area.
If ringworm is not treated, your skin could blister and the cracks could become infected with bacteria. If that happens, you will need antibiotics.


text:
Full CoverageBreaking News
Teen sentenced to 9 years in prison for trying to kill parents in fireUPDATED 1:11 PM EDT Jun 10, 2014
Mitchell Simon pleaded guilty to arson and attempted murder charges. In October the 17-year-old tied his parents' bedroom door shut and then set fire to the house while they slept. Simon received a nine-year sentence for each of the three counts. He will serve each count at the same time for a total of nine years.
More Video
CommentsThe views expressed are not those of this site, this station or its affiliated companies. By posting your comments you agree to accept our terms of use.blog comments powered by Disqus
Latest from WLWT News 5
AdvertisingBest Bets


text:
Stella Anderson, 91, of Clarkfield, died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, at Augustana Lutheran Church, with her nephews, the Rev. Jarrol Cole, the Rev. Lyndy West and the Rev. William Wrieden officiating. Burial was at the Clarkfield City Cemetery.
Lynner Funeral Home, of Clarkfield, was in charge of the funeral arrangements. (jhlynner.com)
Location, ST | website.com


text:
The area is flooded by tsunami in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture (state) as Japan was struck by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday, March 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, FOR COMMERCIAL USE ONLY IN NORTH AMERICA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists say the massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan ranks as the fifth largest jolt in the world since 1900.
The magnitude-8.9 "megathrust" quake is similar to what happened during the 2004 Sumatra quake and the one last year in Chile. In all these cases, one tectonic plate is shoved beneath another.
Such earthquakes are responsible for the most powerful shifts in the Earth's crust.
More than 80 aftershocks greater than magnitude-5 have been felt since the Japanese quake - a number that scientists say is normal for a quake this size.
U.S. Geological Survey Seismologist Lucy Jones said a friend who was in Tokyo for a tsunami planning meeting noted the shaking after the initial shock lasted for about five minutes.


text:
In May 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the first of three 70-cent step minimum wage increases is scheduled for July 24. A second increase, which will raise minimum wage to $6.55 is scheduled for 2008. By the end of Summer 2008, the minimum wage in the U.S. will be $7.25.
According to the National Restaurant Association (NRA), restaurants receive industry-specific tax relief in the form of a permanent Federal Insurance Contributions Act, or FICA, tax credit and related Alternative Minimum Tax relief, adding up to $1 billion in restaurant tax relief. However, some industry followers believe the scheduled minimum wage increase will have a huge—perhaps catastrophic—effect on operators.
"A minimum wage increase will cost our industry jobs," said Peter Kilgore, acting interim NRA president and chief executive officer, in a May 24 news release.
In preparation for that day, quick-service brands are searching for the next big labor saver, says Howard Kosel, director of systems solutions with Enodis. Turning to technology is one option.
"People are hiring us to actually look at the workflow in the kitchen," Kosel says. "And one of the things that we try to do is help them manage the labor within the environment."
In working with several of the top-10 quick-service chains, Kosel has found that a combination oven, capable of roasting, steaming, and baking, can be become huge labor reducer. Several manufacturers offer their own version of the oven, including Hatco, Cleveland Range, Blodgett, and Alto-Sham.
"We're using those combi[nation] ovens with the steam heat to reconstitute [Cryovac products], bring them up to serving temperatures, and even holding them in the combis," Kosel says.
In fact, advances in holding equipment mean operators can keep pre-cooked meats for long periods and cut back on prep and clean up, says Mark Godward, president of Strategic Restaurant Engineering, a Miami-based firm that specializes in restaurant efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
"You're seeing holding equipment very widely used in the burger concepts, where they cook the burgers very fast and hold them in drawers," Godward said for a January QSRmagazine.com article, "A Comprehensive Look at Restaurant Technology."
Even food suppliers are getting in on the act. Phillips Foods, for example, believes it has found a way to dramatically reduce the labor needed to serve marinated seafood, chicken, and beef. The key is the Baltimore-based company's prep-free, patented, flavor-transfer sheet.
The sheet allows Phillips to produce a protein with consistent and attractive marinated product. Each sheet is precisely calibrated coverage to the specifications of a restaurant's recipe.
"This technology gives quick-serves or fast-casuals the chance to offer [seasoned] meats without worrying if workers will mess up," Dennis Gavagan, executive chef at Phillips, says. "It gives them the opportunity to compete with higher-end restaurants."
Kosel says his clients have found transfer-sheet technology extremely helpful, because strips are "consistent and very easy to [apply] as opposed to guessing with a shaker or not having the right type of coverage," Kosel says. "You're eliminating prepping in the kitchen, portioning of product, and it basically goes from the distribution box into your product."


text:
Rice is the major export crop of Thailand and a staple in the Thai diet, eaten at every meal. Thailand is world-famous for its jasmine rice. The recipes in this section use Thai Kitchen Jasmine Rice, a fragrant and naturally nutty rice grown in the fertile central plains of Thailand.
Noodle dishes are eaten like snacks. Bought from street vendors they are enjoyed on the run as well as in more formal settings. Rice noodles are made by blending rice flour and water into a light liquid paste, which is then extruded into thin paper-like sheets in the desired size, steam cooked and dried. Fresh rice noodles have a slightly different taste and texture. They would be equally delicious in these recipes and can now be found in many Asian markets. Best used the day you buy them.
Thai cuisine gets its unique flavors as a result of blending many exotic ingredients. We want to ensure that you get the most from your Thai food experience. Whether you are looking for gluten-free foods, or have a peanut allergy, our dietary and allergy chart provides valuable information for all of our products.
Download Diet and Allergy Spreadsheet.
* Please refer to our product labels for the most up-to-date nutrition & allergen information.
At Thai Kitchen, our knowledge of Thai cooking and culture enables us to provide the truly authentic Thai dining experience in your home, anytime. And since we're so easy to find at www.ThaiKitchen.com and on your grocers' shelves, you'll never need to search for Thai food online.


text:
Since the foundation of the United Nations' Security Council, the Palestinians did not manage to have any kind of sway that would allow them to block or amend a proposed resolution in any meaningful way.
But miracles do indeed happen, as, for the first time, and after days of intense lobbying, a Palestinian delegation recently killed a draft resolution. Not only this, it also managed to block a presidential statement which is usually made when a resolution is buried, by way of explaining the circumstances behind its rejection.
But this 'miracle' has a bizarre twist. The resolution, drafted by Qatar and seconded by Indonesia, was merely expressing concern over the humanitarian disaster intensifying in the Gaza Strip and the deteriorating plight of one and a half million Palestinians dwelling, or more accurately, imprisoned there, lacking all imaginable necessities — electricity, fuel, clean water, food and medicine.
One would typically expect it to be Israel dispatching its delegations to the UN, armed with every possible pretext to deny Palestinians even the smallest window of opportunity to argue for their concerns — such as protection for refugees, humanitarian aid, or investigations into massacres.
Historically, support for Palestine remained high in the general assembly, despite Israel's strategic development and detonement of anti-Semitic politics to intimidate member states. Not surprisingly, it was in the security council that Israel invested most of its energy, with US and Israeli ambassadors to the UN working diligently to block any SC resolution by buying the support of veto and rotating non-veto wielding members, or by bullying the daring few to withdraw their support for any particular draft.
More often than not, the US would insist on re-drafting a resolution before putting it to the vote.
If this did not work, a US veto was guaranteed. In recent years, starting with Madeleine Albright (later Bill Clinton's Secretary of State) to John Negroponte (later US Ambassador to Iraq and now Deputy Secretary of State) to the present Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad (former US Ambassador to Iraq), the US anti-Palestinian stance has hardened beyond any possibility of compromise.
It was Negroponte who brazenly declared in 2002 that the US would veto any resolution regarding Israel that fails to condemn Palestinians.
In other words, Israel could get away with murder without any objection from the council.
Known and very popular cialis coupon which gives all the chance to receive a discount for a preparation which has to be available and exactly cialis coupons has been found in the distant room of this big house about which wood-grouses in the houses tell.
Consequently, Palestinians fought with all of their might, with the help of various Arab ambassadors and other representatives to tip the balance in their favour, but to no avail. As long as the US remained at the helm of this undeniably corrupt arrangement, Palestine remained powerless to secure any tangible international support.
Keeping such a legacy in mind, it came as an unparalleled shock to learn of the double 'successes' of the Palestinian delegation to the UN on July 30, with, first, Qatar pulling out its resolution regarding Palestine, and second, the UNSC's presidency refraining from issuing a statement to explain what went wrong.
Qatar's hope had been to support starving Palestinians in Gaza and win some international sympathy on their behalf, which might embarrass Israel into allowing some urgent supplies into Gaza.
A few months ago, one would have thought such an event to be simply impossible: A Palestinian delegation, lobbying tirelessly at the UN to block a UN call for helping half of the Palestinian population living in complete isolation and facing ceaseless Israeli attacks in the occupied territories.
What could possibly justify such cruelty? To ensure that Hamas' isolation is complete? To deny the 'Islamists' of Gaza the opportunity to score a point against the 'secularists' of Ramallah, thus to operate for a few more months before the mass starvation kicks in? Even these pitiful excuses no longer suffice.
However, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, tried his best to justify the scandal on the basis that "it is unacceptable for anyone, including friends, to act on our behalf without our knowledge no one should take such initiatives without consulting us."
I wonder if Mr Mansour worried himself too much about the plight of Wael Abu Warda, 27, who died on August 4 from Kidney failure while waiting at Erez crossing, separating Gaza from Israel, or the many such individuals who die everyday in Gaza's rundown hospitals?
Moreover, were the immediate needs of Gaza and its largely unemployed and malnourished population part of the Palestinian agenda when Condoleezza Rice visited Ramallah and met with Mahmoud Abbas, his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and his 14-member cabinet? Or did the $80 million Framework Agreement — a US reward to Abbas for following the American script to the letter — set aside a tiny amount for milk, fuel and perhaps couple of dialysis machines for those suffering in Gaza?
Back to the Palestinian 'success' at the UN, the miracle was of course no miracle at all; Palestinians had clearly utilised the same mechanism that Israel had used for years to block the mere possibility of bringing attention to the plight of Gaza. One hates to invoke the proverbial idea of Palestinians being their own worst enemy, but very few terms can describe the unfolding travesty, compounded by the fact that the Zionist lobby at the US Congress is now actively lobbying on behalf of Abbas.
$80 million seems too cheap a price for selling out one's own people.
But considering the extreme circumstances, in the eyes of some, the price is just right.
Ramzy Baroud is a Palestinian-American author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in numerous newspapers and journals worldwide. His latest book is The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, London). Read more about him on his website: ramzybaroud.net
More from this author:
American Voters Must Not Reward Failure (14288 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there...
By Ramzy Baroud How critical is the situation in Iraq? It depends on who you ask and when. Common sense tells us that the situation there...
Palestine as a Foil for People's Unconnected Dreams (11170 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud. Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian...
By Ramzy Baroud. Thousands of people recently marched in London to commemorate Quds Day, an annual day of solidarity with the Palestinian...
Treacherous Road to Oslo Begins Here (11246 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet,...
By Ramzy Baroud Attempts to coerce Palestinians into submission have not always manifested themselves in the crude form of a tank, a bullet,...
Killing Hope in Beit Hanoun (11599 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud "God is greater than Israel and America," was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended...
By Ramzy Baroud "God is greater than Israel and America," was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended...
Reclaiming America: Democrats Must Truly Change Course (11485 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud The Democrats' ascendancy within the US Congress could signal the regaining by the public, of its country's direction. ...
By Ramzy Baroud The Democrats' ascendancy within the US Congress could signal the regaining by the public, of its country's direction. ...
Related Articles:
No Arab, Palestinian Cheers for U.S. Democrats (9754 Hits)
By Nicola Nasser Arabs, at least at the non-official level, were quick to hail President George W. Bush's mid-term electoral defeat and the...
Hudna or Not: Palestinian Rights Must Be Preserved (8115 Hits)
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud...
Pre-empting Arab Mediation in Palestinian Divide (6849 Hits)
by Nicola Nasser The U.S administration and Israel are accelerating their coordinated meddling in the internal Palestinian divide between...
The Ethics of Palestinian Resistance (6276 Hits)
by David Swanson With Jimmy Carter's book a best seller and the Iraq War a top political concern, many Americans may have an interest...
Israel's purging of Palestinian Christians (9588 Hits)
by Jonathan Cook in Nazareth There is an absurd scene in Palestinian writer Suad Amiry's recent book "Sharon and My Mother-in-Law"...
Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites
| More...
Hits: 4904
Comments (0)
Write comment


text:
Many people come to the National Seashore to escape the pressures of urban life and to experience the beauty of nature in isolation. The best way to do this is to travel down-island into the park's most remote areas, which are usually only accessible with a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Before you explore the island in search of its wonderful mysteries and the awesome solitude it provides, please read the helpful tips that are written below.
Only one portion of the park's beach is closed to driving, and that is Closed Beach. Malaquite Beach, which is in front of the Malaquite Visitor Center, is part of Closed Beach. To get to the portion of the park where you can drive on the beach and down to the remote parts of the island, continue on the main park paved road (Park Road 22) past Malaquite Visitor Center until the pavement ends. South Beach begins where the main park paved road ends. From that point, the park has 60 miles of beach open to driving. South Beach (and driving) ends at the Port Mansfield Channel, a man-made waterway cut through the island. It is not possible to drive all the way down to South Padre Island due to this waterway. You must turn around at that point and drive 60 miles back north to reach the park paved road.
Remember that Texas beaches are public highways and all traffic laws apply, including seat belt regulations. All vehicles traveling on Padre Island National Seashore must be street legal and licensed. Please note that, with rare exception, Texas will not license all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs) for use on highways. The National Seashore has one of the few exceptions, because it uses ATVs to patrol for nesting sea turtles in the park.
The driving conditions at the beach are constantly changing due to the currents, winds, and tides. Call our Beach & Weather Conditions Hotline at (361)949-8175 for updated driving and weather conditions. Or call the Malaquite Visitor Center at (361)949-8069 for more information.
Changing conditions and marine debris washed ashore by the currents can sometimes make for hazardous driving. Click on the following link to learn some simple driving tips and regulations in order to best prepare for your trip down island.


text:
We've seen the Aston Martin One-77 in person, and even deconstructed, so there's no breaking news here. But Motor Trend's spy photographers have captured the 700-horsepower piece of eye-candy undergoing last minute testing at the Nürburgring.
The One-77 is a rare piece of engineering art, if you recall both the breathtaking body and chassis, as well as the fact that only 77 will ever be made. The chassis is a carbon-fiber monocoque that takes roughly three weeks to build, and the engine bay is stuffed with a raucous 7.3-liter V-12. That engine puts out 700 horsepower and some 500 pound-feet of torque and is coupled to a six-speed, single-clutch, automated manual transmission. That's good enough to propel the One-77 to 60 mph in about 3.2 seconds.
Aston Martin wasn't content to just build a wildly expensive and flamboyant car to go fast in a straight line. The One-77 features a race-bred, double-wishbone suspension at all four corners, complete with inboard mounted shock absorbers. Given how the car is running laps at the 'Ring, it's likely the suspension's balance — between comfort and performance — that Aston's working on here.
Although we've seen the car several times, it's good to see the One-77 on a track. Its likelier setting, when it goes on sale in October for over $1.5 million, is a cruise down Rodeo Drive or a spot in a collector's garage. But at least the owners will know the car can tackle the track.
Source: Motor Trend


text:
Zoom Tab Tail Grub
This big, flappy Zoom® Tab Tail Grub features a slight tabon the end that produces the dragging effect of a crippled baitfish. Bass charge in for the easy meal!
Outdoor Answers
Get help about this item from fellow customers.
Ask your questions. Share your answers.
Need Help? 7 days a week: 7am to 10pm CT or call 1.800.227.7776 anytime


text:
Believe it or not, the GREEN LANTERN movie, YOUNG JUSTICE cartoon and BRAVE & THE BOLD toylines are only just the start of the army of action figures fans will be getting next year. SHH's got word that Warner Bros is granting Mattel "unprecedented access to the complete breadth and scope of the DC Comics vault of characters." That wording's straight out of the official press release and it sure makes it sound like the toy company's getting the rights to make toys of literally every single DC character, including (if they really so chose) Bat-Mite, Ultra the Multi-Alien and Prez, the teenage president.
Of course, the company's wisely focusing on the character tied into DC's big media tie-ins first.
GREEN LANTERN: Obviously, there will be the usual actors' likenesses-based action figure line. What's interesting is that each action figure box comes with a Green Lantern ring and the deluxe sets will be coming with "accessories that unfold into completely different items for unlimited hours of play" - - which sound a lot like toys of the ring's "constructs." I really can't picture how you could make construct toys, but I suppose that's why I'm not in Mattel's R&D. In addition to playsets, vehicles, puzzles and games and all that, Mattel's also offering a (likely expensive) line of highly-detailed "Movie Masters" sculptures for adult collectors.
YOUNG JUSTICE: In case you missed the first announcement, Cartoon Network's starting a new YOUNG JUSTICE cartoon next year. Mattel is, of course, putting out action figures and sets for it. What's maybe most interesting in the press release is that they name the line-up as Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis.
BRAVE & THE BOLD: The next toyline for this show is the "Total Armor" line which reminds me a lot of the BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES figures I collected as a kid. You know, you'd have Batman in all these crazy attack suits - - Arctic Attack Batman, Acid Spray Batman, Youth Soccer League Batman, and so on. Basically, Batman and the Batmobile are getting a variety of outlandish task-specific armors, like "Magma Armor" and "Tank Blaster Armor." Seems like the official term for toy weapons like Bats' utility belt and his telescoping battle sword are "role play items" now. I did NOT know that until now.
There you have it and you can be sure it's just the beginning. Now that the floodgates are open, what DC heroes and villains would YOU like to see get their own toys?
-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Studios and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. HYBRID BASTARDS! is available here and UNIMAGINABLE is available here for pre-order on Amazon.com.


text:
CSDL Home IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence 1985 vol.7 Issue No.04 - April
Issue No.04 - April (1985 vol.7)
pp: 499
W. A. Gale , AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ.
W. A. Gale, "The AI Business: The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.7, no. 4, pp. 499, April 1985, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1985.4767689


text:
Ice grows in Arctic, which the ABC warned would be ice-free
Andrew Bolt
–, Tuesday, September, 10, 2013, (8:21am)
This isn't what was meant to happen, according to the merchants of global warming panic:
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012's record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia's northern shores.
A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 60 per cent.
The rebound from 2012's record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.
Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia's northern shores.
Remember the alarmists who predicted not growing ice but none?
In December 2008, Al Gore, for instance, said: "The entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years..."
In 2008, NASA's Goddard Institute also warned of an ice-free Arctic by 2013:
Marian Wilkson, reporting for The Age and the ABC's Four Corners, helped to spread the panic:
"There's a group that makes a very strong case that in 2012 or 2013 we'll have an ice-free (summer) Arctic, as soon as that. It's astounding what's happened," said Ted Scambos, another research scientist from the Snow and Ice Data Centre.
"There's a group that makes a very strong case that in 2012 or 2013 we'll have an ice-free (summer) Arctic, as soon as that. It's astounding what's happened," said Ted Scambos, another research scientist from the Snow and Ice Data Centre.
The ABC's AM likewise uncritically reported the claims of the alarmists:
A US-based team has told a conference in California that the northern polar waters could be ice-free in summer by 2013… Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has been presenting his work to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.... As the world meets in Bali, Al Gore went on to repeat his calls for tough action on climate change. The trouble is, it looks increasingly like it may already be too late.
A US-based team has told a conference in California that the northern polar waters could be ice-free in summer by 2013… Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has been presenting his work to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.... As the world meets in Bali, Al Gore went on to repeat his calls for tough action on climate change. The trouble is, it looks increasingly like it may already be too late.
When will the ABC admit it accepted too eagerly the hype of alarmists? When will it explain why it was so inclined to believe these alarmists and so ready to smear sceptics? When will it concede that it let itself be captured by group-think? When will it take steps to address this gross failure to achieve balance and a proper debate on an issue so important?
Have Your Say
This is why climate change deniers are thought of as complete fools.
The Arctic has lost 75 percent of its summer sea ice volume over the past three decades.
The 2012 melt shattered the previous record low and because his summer's melt is less than that, out come the deluded denialists with the usual misrepresentations and bizarre claims. Sad.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:34am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:24am)
Wait a second.
The experts give us predictions that are shown to be incorrect and the "deniers" are the complete fools?
At some point, hypothesis and prediction must be measured against reality. I would also point to the many climate models shown to be false.
Would you build a dam or a bridge using similar models?
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:46am)
Correct ASpectrum. As with global temperatures "skeptics" concentrate on the short term noise (when it favours their beliefs)rather than the long term signal.
And the real problem is the loss of ice on the land based icecaps of Greenland and the antarctic.
Science 30 November 2012:
Vol. 338 no. 6111 pp. 1183-1189
DOI: 10.1126/science.1228102
•Research Article
A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance
...Between 1992 and 2011, the ice sheets of Greenland, East Antarctica, West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula changed in mass by –142 ± 49, +14 ± 43, –65 ± 26, and –20 ± 14 gigatonnes year?1, respectively. Since 1992, the polar ice sheets have contributed, on average, 0.59 ± 0.20 millimeter year?1 to the rate of global sea-level rise.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:48am)
Or in other words, observational data has proved once again AGW liars are wrong and the fool deniers are right.
Sad that the Church of Climatology faithful are still clinging to their outdated beliefs.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:48am)
And the predictions by alarmists that it would be ice free by 2013?
Its over.
" Professor Anastasios Tsonis, of the University of Wisconsin, was one of the first to investigate the ocean cycles. He said: 'We are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped".
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:59am)
This is why climate change enthusiasts are thought of as complete numpties.
No one denies climate changes. The issue is not whether it does, but how much humans impact it. The fact that enthusiasts insist on substituting that one fact (that climate changes) for the one they can't prove (the 'human' bit) just makes them look bad liars.
It is like insisting that the waxing and waning of the moon is proof that it is really is made of rice cake and is populated by rabbits that alternately make it and eat it away (this is an old Japanese myth).
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:12pm)
as.."deluded denialists with the usual misrepresentations and bizarre claims. Sad. .."
well actually what mmc02 got to do with any of this?regional weather influences over a 10 year "season" determine the Artic conditions..
you know nothing of what you jibber
and ,its 2013,and you still cannot understand the difference between manmade climate change(failed conjecture) with Climate Change(Natural )
and your snide/ongoing offensive use of that descriptor shows you to be a bigot without a cause
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:40pm)
The deniers??, Don't you know these are now the people who believed in catastrophic AGW, I mean that's why the IPCC lead authors even admit themselves that they overpredicted man contribution to Global warming. 2% certainity in the models now. The Science is in. AGW is overstated. Not gone just overstated, like most rational thinkers believed.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:00pm)
Only a complete fool would believe you with out checking.
Explain this 1947 scare about the ice melting and your claim of 75% of summer ice in the past three decades.
This is why warmists are considered untrustworthy.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:22pm)
And this is why Chicken littles like you ( or worse conscious deceivers) who cry wolf over a minimum ice extent from a satelite record that spans barely the last 30 years will be treated as contemptuous fools.
And lets now look at the present state of Antarctic sea ice extent. The highest in recorded history!
How does that happen in the face of catastrophic global warming.
Watch out Aspec, the sky is falling!
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:33pm)
Every prediction by alarmists like you have proved wrong. The models are wrong. The world has not warmed for 15 years. The Artic Ice Cap has not melted away as predicted. On and on.
Do you have a problem with comprehension of the facts and realizing the intrinsic falsehoods of the alarmist predictions.
Your politics have also failed!
Why do persist with your losing ideology?
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:34pm)
This is why the Chicken Littlers are though of complete fools.
Again facts debunk their religion and yet they continue with their fact-free rants.
AGW is a scam as proven in the CLIMATEGATE saga.
Only the weakest minds still flock to their church for a faith based shot of prayer.
Lets hope Clive gets that Titanic up and running soon
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:36am)
Climate change is crap.. Hey! That Abbott guy won, didn't he?
The ice man cometh.. watch out ABC warmists.. there's a distinct chill on Gore Hill. Aptly named!
Flannery flees..
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:38am)
To answer your questions Andrew,
Never &
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:39am)
The correct quote from Professor Wieslaw Maslowski was the we could be ice free by 2013 - by 2016 plus or minus 3 years.
Which of course means climate change deniers take the earlier date and gloss over the startling trend of melting Arctic ice.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:39am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:33am)
What about the startling trend of statistically insignificant warming over the last 17 years.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:59am)
Could? Might? Maybe? Perhaps?
That belongs in the realms of the pseudosciences, such as climate science for instance.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:20pm)
So what's your reasoning behind the rapidly expanding Antarctic Ice.
Is that caused by warming as well?
Its amusing how good news about less warming makes the Warmists more defensive.
Yes I knew you would be pushing this nonsense argument as soon as I heard about it. Here's the TRUTH
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:39am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:28am)
Hey, Linda,
I was watching an old re-run of Fast Forward the other night. I was amused by the News skit that mentioned the calamity of Global Warming. This is early 1980s stuff, so it's been shoved down our throats for over 30 years. Yet, I look outside and observe that the climate is just the same as it was way back then.
There is no climate emergency. The climate is fine. Relax and enjoy.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:01pm)
Linda, you link to an article which gets it's information from Skeptical Science and you want to taken seriously?
BTW, what is your take on the Antarctic Ice which is tracking well above average and for the last few months has been tracking well above normal?
What, no comment on that? Oh, dear.
But who will think of the children? Not you obviously since you and your ilk would rather see them living in 3rd world poverty levels once you have beggared the economies of the wealthy nations by handing over trillions of dollars to snake oil salesman and carpet baggers to do absolutely nothing about a non-existent problem.
Where is your PROOF that humans are causing the planet to warm? CO2 doesn't seem to be the powerhouse of warming that you believed it to be.
The scam is over. Get used to it.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:06pm)
Why start at the high point of around 1980, Linda? It's completely dishonest.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:07pm)
They don't like living in igloos anyway.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:34pm)
On a more serious note. The trend shown in your article does not predict zero summer ice extent by 2019. Yet, the prediction was ice free by 2013. The amount is within the one standard deviation of the average for the last 30 years and within two should not be considered unusual.
The truth is that pretend scientists did try to scare us with pretend science, and they got it wrong.
And what is the thickness and density of this ice?
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:41am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:27am)
And what is the thickness and density of Labor/Greens voters....
I'll bet the voters are thicker....
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:52pm)
Good question. Probably as thick as Krudd and as dense as angry lefty losers.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:04pm)
Let's see- thickness, about the same as the average Eco-Fascist Lefty's skin, denseness circa that of their craniums....
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:30pm)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:42pm)
The density of ice is 0.9167 g/cm3 at 0 °C.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:07pm)
I'll be the first to kick in for a collection to buy you a plane ticket to go and find out yourself, Jordon. One way, of course.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:31pm)
Thicker than 'ice free' but not as thick as some who post here on a continual basis.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:57pm)
Thickness, I don't know—do your own research.
Density, probably about 0.9167 g/cm3 like all other ice.
They're blinded. Many of these prominent warmists have 'earned' (sarc.) large fortunes through peddling their cause, and can't bear to let their dreams follow their more substantial loss of income and prestige down the gurgler.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:43am)
It will take a long time to clean up, but the war is won. The warmists are in retreatr faster than the Arctic ice increases. Small r robert will no doubt trot out his tired old sinbgle element physiscs and claim you can't argue with science. But when it turns out that facts don't conform to theory, you have to change the theory, not the facts.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:44am)
The examples you give above Andrew are perhaps the result of a cultural trait that taints the western world; the demise of critical thinking and the growth of "fashion" based conformity.
The "cool today, gone tomorrow" cycles that permeate mindless consumer behaviour are also rampant in education.
If there is one education issue the new Coalition government should address, it is to push for more analytical thinking and more encouragement for social education on the manipulative techniques in daily use by marketers and spin doctors.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (09:58am)
Andrew how many times do you have to be told area (L x W) does not equate to volume (L x W x H). If you halve the area and double the thickness you end up with exactly the same mass.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:00am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:26am)
That reality doesn't suit Andrew's denialist position.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:31am)
And the difference between a ham sandwich and a AGWarmist ...?
A ham sandwich is only half an inch thick.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:37pm)
… more than 20 yachts to try to sail the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific this summer. As of last week, all these vessels were stuck in the ice, some at the eastern end of the passage in Prince Regent Inlet, others further west at Cape Bathurst.
Shipping experts said the only way these vessels were likely to be freed was by the icebreakers of the Canadian coastguard. According to the official Canadian government website, the Northwest Passage has remained ice-bound and impassable all summer.
And now it's global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year
How thick did you say the ice was, TonyN ? You should not parrot the nonsense from Cook's SS site ... as usual it is just warmie propaganda.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:04am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (02:38pm)
Lies, Lies, Lies, Tony.
If you honestly believe that BS you have serious cognitive problems.
All the "missing heat" hiding in the deep oceans is the alarmists most recent grasping at staws.
Its a desperate last ditch thought bubble (bit like most of Krudds recent policies) without any scrap of evidence.
They haven't measured any increase in deep sea temperatures, its all conjecture.
They don't need evidence, it must be there, after all where else could it be hiding.
The Global warming paradyme is in its terminal throes. When supposed intelligent experts sprout this rubbish and try to defend it, you know the "end is nigh".
And labor still wants to run with this fraud to justify their defense of their CO/2 tax.
By the time the next election come around they won't have much to run on when it comes global alarmism .
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:12am)
When they learn to count , Andrew. Global warming believers hate maths. They prefer words to numbers, because words are emotional, numbers are not. If you ask your average warmist in the street 'have guess what the percentage of C02 in the atmosphere' they say 'I'm not a scientist'. They don't say 0.04%.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:13am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (11:55am)
I did the maths.
400 ppm equates to 3.2 trillion tonness of CO2, heated by the sun for an average of 12 hours per day, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, century after century… until thermal equilbrium is reached.
"The concentration has increased markedly in the 21st century, at a rate of 2.0 ppm/yr during 2000–2009 and faster since then."
Even in the highly unlikely event that the rate were held constant at 2 ppm per year for the rest of the century, the additional amount of CO2 added would be 1.4 trillion tonnes.
Now there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth about too much ice causing the starvation of polar bears.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:16am)
Interesting tale in today's ABC Website re the projected one way trip to Mars. It says the Martian atomsphere is mainly CO2 and the temperature is about minus 55 degrees C. That CO2 sure knows how to warm a planet.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:32am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:10pm)
Might have something to do with the fact that Mars is twice as far from the heater! What would the temperature be without any CO2 at all? Even colder, I bet.
There is no dispute that CO2 in a planet's atmosphere raises the planet's temperature to a higher level than the planet would have without the CO2, given all other factors.
The question, which the past 15 years data on Earth makes much less 'settled' than before, is how much influence a certain percent rise in CO2 levels will have on temperature.
Gore, Flannery et al said a small amount would mean we'd 'all be rooned'. Recent data shows that they were wrong.
The real tragedy is that for 20 years the environmental movement has been so focussed on this issue that they have let other, real environmental be ignored, and have now so discredited the integrity of environmental advocates that any environmental issue raised will be treated as being as real as AGW, meaning actual environmental issues are not addressed.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (01:56pm)
One way trip you say??
I nominate Mr Rudd for this important mission.
As Prof Plimer documents in his book Heaven and Earth, the ice patterns in the Arctic and Antarctic are exact opposites. No one knows why, but add them together and you get no change. Could it be that scientists do not understand everything? Given that every scientist knows this, could it be that they want more funding or they might have to get real jobs?
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:32am)
Tue 10 Sep 13 (12:18pm)
I do remember some scientist saying that the science in this field of global warming/climate change was still "relatively quite young", so no they don't know everything yet and yes it is about keeping their jobs and funding going; only the scientists who are independent or retired are speaking out against the hysteria over this issue
Tue 10 Sep 13 (03:00pm)
It is not correct that the gain of antarctic sea ice is the same as the loss of arctic ice. there is a considerable net loss.
Nor is it true that "nobody knows why". the arctic is an ocean surrounded by land. The antarctic is land surrounded by an ocean. Ice has shown a slight gain on one side of the antarctic penninsula and a slight loss on the other. The answer is ocean currents.
And it is absolutely true that scientists do not understand everything,l and they not only know it they welcome it.
Alone of every profession,(including newspaper columnists)scientists spend every day of their working lives coming to grips with their ignorance.
When they know everything, the entire scince project will shut down and they will have to find other jobs.
When will the ABC admit it accepted too eagerly the hype of alarmists? When will it explain why it was so inclined to believe these alarmists and so ready to smear sceptics? When will it concede that it let itself be captured by group-think? When will it take steps to address this gross failure to achieve balance and a proper debate on an issue so important?
Never, not because they won't, but because they can't, such being the tragedy of the religious mind.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:33am)
When will the ABC admit…
The day after hell freezes over.
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:37am)
When will it take steps to address this gross failure to achieve balance and a proper debate on an issue so important?
When it gets a new Board, new Management and staff who are either happy to be or who are formally required to be definitively ACCOUNTABLE to fulfill their contracts....
Failing that, never, because it will have been privatised…
Tue 10 Sep 13 (10:38am)
Andrew Bolt
Andrew writes for the Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph & Advertiser and runs Australia's most-read political blog, On week nights he hosts The Bolt Report on Sky News at 7pm and his Macquarie Radio show at 8pm with Steve Price.
Latest Articles
View Entries by Date
Monthly Archives
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- May 2006
- May 2005
- May 2004
- January 2004
- November 2002
- November 2000
Most Recent Comments
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 02:35pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 02:35pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 02:10pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 02:05pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 01:14pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 12:20pm)
(Tue 10 Sep 13 at 11:54am)
Email a friend
To email this article to a friend, fill in the form below
close x
Herald Sun Blogs – Talk to your journalists
From around the News Blog Network


text:
Last night's CFDA event was quite different from the others. Why you may ask? It was all about the men! In honor of Robert Bryan's new book, American Fashion Menswear by Assouline, a plethora of male designers, editors, and menswear VIPs piled into the Ace Hotel lobby in celebration of all things manly including the Yankees game and the mayoral race.
As Robert Bryan took a seat to sign some books, he professed his excitement about the Yankees: "I'm simply on pins and needles," he exclaimed. Then with a sigh he fessed up, "actually more like pinstripes and needles." Stan Williams came over to congratulate Robert, exclaiming, "Your book costs double than mine, but I bought it anyways!" He received the evening's finest John Hancock for his support.
Rag & Bone's David Neville was tucked in a corner with his partner in crime, Marcus Wainwright, discussing a restyling of Mayor Bloomberg's wardrobe. "He needs some cleaner lines, I think his lapels are a little wide. Bloomberg is a modern man, so now he needs to dress like it." Well said. Bloomberg are you listening?
Seth Howard, the new editor of the evening's sponsor Gilt Man, claimed that the most masculine thing he'd bought recently was "Toilet paper!" Keenan Duffty and his wife Nancy countered with a purchase of sculpting clay because he is "making miniature figurines of fashion superheroes." Stay tuned!
The girliest of girls, Erin Fetherston, was far from a fish out of water in this mix of mad men, plaid hounds and bow ties. "Hello! It's where every girl should be. The ratio is amazing," she giggled. How right she was.