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McKitrick paper: no warming for 19 years
Andrew Bolt
–, Tuesday, September, 02, 2014, (9:17am)
The Guardian in 2009 predicted five years of rapid warming:
The world faces record-breaking temperatures as the sun's activity increases, leading the planet to heat up significantly faster than scientists had predicted for the next five years, according to a study.
The hottest year on record was 1998, and the relatively cool years since have led to some global warming sceptics claiming that temperatures have levelled off or started to decline. But new research firmly rejects that argument.
The research, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, was carried out by Judith Lean, of the US Naval Research Laboratory, and David Rind, of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Fail. Five more years of no warming followed.
Professsor Ross McKitrick says in a new paper that the warming pause has now lasted an astonishing 19 years at the surface and 16-26 years in the lower troposphere:
The IPCC has drawn attention to an apparent leveling-off of globally-averaged temperatures over the past 15 years or so.... Here, I propose a method for estimating the duration of the hiatus that is robust to unknown forms of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation (HAC) in the temperature series and to cherry-picking of endpoints… Application of the method shows that there is now a trendless interval of 19 years duration at the end of the HadCRUT4 surface temperature series, and of 16 – 26 years in the lower troposphere. Use of a simple AR1 trend model suggests a shorter hiatus of 14 – 20 years but is likely unreliable…
While the HadCRUT4 record clearly shows numerous pauses and dips amid the overall upward trend, the ending hiatus is of particular note because climate models project continuing warming over the period. Since 1990, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose from 354 ppm to just under 400 ppm, a 13% increase…
In the surface data we compute a hiatus length of 19 years, and in the lower tropospheric data we compute a hiatus length of 16 years in the UAH series and 26 years in the RSS series.
The IPCC has drawn attention to an apparent leveling-off of globally-averaged temperatures over the past 15 years or so.... Here, I propose a method for estimating the duration of the hiatus that is robust to unknown forms of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation (HAC) in the temperature series and to cherry-picking of endpoints… Application of the method shows that there is now a trendless interval of 19 years duration at the end of the HadCRUT4 surface temperature series, and of 16 – 26 years in the lower troposphere. Use of a simple AR1 trend model suggests a shorter hiatus of 14 – 20 years but is likely unreliable…
While the HadCRUT4 record clearly shows numerous pauses and dips amid the overall upward trend, the ending hiatus is of particular note because climate models project continuing warming over the period. Since 1990, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rose from 354 ppm to just under 400 ppm, a 13% increase…
In the surface data we compute a hiatus length of 19 years, and in the lower tropospheric data we compute a hiatus length of 16 years in the UAH series and 26 years in the RSS series.
This is "the science". Why do warmists keep ignoring it?
(Via the ever-excellent Watts Up With That.)
With the science against the faith it has so frantically promoted, the UN searches for someone who will turn the debate. Note well: it's looking for someone who isn't a scientist but who can play on guilt, racial politics, gender politics and victimhood:
The United Nations is looking for a young woman to, as BBC put it, be the 'Malala' of the climate change movement, serving as a voice that will energize this September's climate change conference.
The organization has put out a call for a woman under 30 to speak at the opening session of the 2014 Climate Summit, which is being held on September 23 in New York City. The woman has to be from a developing country and must have a background that includes advocacy on climate change or work on implementing climate mitigation or adaptation solutions. So far, the call for applicants has drawn 544 women, who emailed short videos of themselves persuading world leaders to act on climate change to the Secretary-General's office.
The United Nations is looking for a young woman to, as BBC put it, be the 'Malala' of the climate change movement, serving as a voice that will energize this September's climate change conference.
The organization has put out a call for a woman under 30 to speak at the opening session of the 2014 Climate Summit, which is being held on September 23 in New York City. The woman has to be from a developing country and must have a background that includes advocacy on climate change or work on implementing climate mitigation or adaptation solutions. So far, the call for applicants has drawn 544 women, who emailed short videos of themselves persuading world leaders to act on climate change to the Secretary-General's office.
The UN has outed itself with this stunt. Its criteria ensure no leading climate scientists need apply. See, this is no longer about science at all.
(Thanks to readers Luke, Rocky and Old Fellah.)
Have Your Say
Andrew will you please, please , please try and get Ross on your TV show and please give him at least 10 minutes to discuss this new study.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:42am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:14pm)
I want to see Jo Nova interviewed on these studies.
I think we should feel sorry for them, just a little. I mean, imagine believing in something for so long, then finding out it is nothing but a crumbling fairytale?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:51am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:18pm)
They've had their electric blankets on HIGH for 19 years, even through Summer, it's time to switch them off
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:55pm)
I feel sorry for the young women in the developing world who, contrary to the claims of the UN, have the most to gain from access to fossil fuels and cheap electricity.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:51pm)
Just like the Obama cult. Sad people really.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:59pm)
They were perpetuating a lie. Be it for financial gain or stupidity. Hard to forgive.
Heterowossisname? Autowhosit? This guy is up with rudd in the wankwords stakes! English as a second language is it ?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:54am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:39am)
No - both these are terms regularly used by statisticians. They are common - not like Rudd who tried to use words to impress people.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (11:05am)
Basically he's taking about the shape of the distribution. Is it tall and skinny, or low and fat. Does it look like a traditional bell curve, Auto-correlation means that in a series of numbers A. B. C… how much is A related to B, etc. Advanced stat magic.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (11:40am)
Ross McKitrick is a highly regarded professor and statistician.
They are terms for processes used in statistical analysis.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (12:54pm)
Standard statistical words (though they are a mouthful).
Your post, alas, says more about you than it does about the article.
Big words scare you do they?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:42pm)
Geoff, for a highly regarded professor and statistician , McItrick is still cherry picking, but he is still cherry picking.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:56pm)
And I note that the Graph is not by McItrick, but the "ever excellent" WUWT, who have not shown the actual WFT trend line, but put in one more to their liking.
Watts is so excellent he repudiated the central content of two of his own sections, referring to it as "minutiae" when neither he not his fans could counter what I said about graphs he was presenting, and telling me to pull my head out of my rear end.
Excellent. Truly excellent.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:07pm)
Pardon me mods for doing this piecemeal, but I should add that the actual trend for the Hadcrut4 data which Watts' crew have misrepresented is
Trend: 0.093 ±0.100 °C/decade (2?)
While not statistically significant this is higher than the warming rate for the last century:
Trend: 0.073 ±0.011 °C/decade (2?)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:20pm)
"And I note that the Graph is not by McItrick, but the "ever excellent" WUWT"
...and if you head over to WUWT and have a look at the article, you will note that Watts has CLEARLY labelled the graph as NOT being from the subject paper.
Inconvenient that huh?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:25pm)
Dr Brian replied to Giorgio Tue 02 Sep 14 (12:42pm)
Geoff, for a highly regarded professor and statistician , McItrick is still cherry picking, but he is still cherry picking
Well Brian, I look forward to reading your rebuttal paper in the Open Journal of Statistics. Can you let us know when it gets through peer review so we can keep an eye out for it?
"This is "the science". Why do warmists keep ignoring it?"
Because it's not about "the science" and never has been.
Now, paging Doctor Brian to tell us the IPCC have it wrong (again!) and the pause is within the margin for error.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:54am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:24am)
And Abbott is a CAGWarming believer to such an extent the clown thinks CO2 needs abating.
Cognitive dissonance gone wild or has the MSM got him cowered?
Closer to home, which parties in the imminent Victorian election support the despoilation of the countryside by wind farms?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:55am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:34pm)
Sadly, all of the majors . . . ie. Libs, Nats and ALP. Greens of course do. No other parties really matter. Cheers, JayGee
The problem with this actual scientific research is simple. It comes to its conclusion because it hasn't homogenized the data.
It's easy to conclude that we have no warming if you rely on analysis of actual data and apply scientific principles of reason and objectivity to the exercise. But this completely misses the point. Without homogenizing the data it is impossible to support dumb theories about global warming.
And lots of people now earn a living proving that man made global warming must be stopped. Industries exist to provide renewable power, only because governments subsidise these activities so that the rampant global warming can be halted.
If it is proven that the whole thing is a homogenized myth, these people who rely on the myth will have to earn a living doing something more productive and useful. And how bad will that be?!!!
Tue 02 Sep 14 (09:58am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:30pm)
Sorry, Terry, one correction, "Mann-made" global warming. In fact, James Hanson might be the original lying mongrel cur ...
In his paper "Whither U.S. Climate?", James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Jay Glascoe and Makiko Sato, August 1999, he says,
In 1986, Hansen told Congress that the US had warmed 1-2 degrees since 1958, but his own graph showed no warming since 1958, and cooling since the 1930s.
in the U.S. there has been little temperature change in the past 50 years, the time of rapidly increasing greenhouse gases — in fact, there was a slight cooling throughout much of the country (Figure 2).
It hasn't just paused Andrew.
If you take out the "adjustments" to historical temperature records around the world.
It's actually cooling.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:01am)
Global warming? We have currently got killer whales up at Weipa , yes Weipa Cape York and a fur seal at lucinda, halfway between cairns and Townsville , go figure?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:04am)
Andrew, have you ever read the GreenLeft Weekly? https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57210
Check it out! One article you may find interesting - Dealer joins dots between climate and Aboriginal art – also activists calendar, GreenLeft TV and much more…….
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:05am)
Some scientists are also liars.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:17am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:32pm)
So are some Economists - like McKitrick. An economist attached to a right wing think tank. Go figure !
[url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120106132816/http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/business-leaders-discuss-climate/3273738]7 June 2008: ABC Radio National: The Science Show:
"Scientists and leaders from business and government met in Canberra in May 2008 to discuss the need for action over climate change. Tim Flannery explains the urgency and suggests a radical solution".
Tim Flannery: Just imagine yourself in a world five years from now (i.e. May 2013), when there is no more ice over the Arctic, when we stand under threat of a rapidly warming Arctic Ocean, when we're starting to see the first destabilisation of the Greenland ice cap, and all of those things happening because we don't have a solution, because if things advance that rapidly we simply will not have a solution, in terms of reducing emissions. Then you've got to start pulling in your last-ditch efforts.
Sometimes we actually cut off a leg to save the patient, and in this case, we may need to inject sulphur into the stratosphere to cool our planet. It's going to change the colour of our sky, it's going to change the amount of sunlight we get; but we may need to do it to buy ourselves a bit of time. Unfortunately we have foot-dragged for so long that we are now in a position where those very unpalatable remedies may have to be resorted to, even if they are dangerous.
And the leftoids and greenies still listen to this bloke?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:17am)
The precautionary principle says we should act immediately just in case things get worse.
Except in the case or Jihadists. In this case we should do nothing in case things get better.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:27am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:19pm)
AC - You win best comment of the week.
I'm using it. Sue me for plagiarism, ha
As the temperatures have not risen for a decade and a half and CO2 levels have risen by 135%, there is no valid mathematical relationship. Thus a carbon tax or trading scheme, or whatever, will not have any impact at all.
In view of the fact that homogenised data are turning actual cooling trends into warming trends, Bourke, Rutherglen, Amberley, etc. how can one place much confidence in what the pundits are telling us! Why are we spending and have spent so much money on what appears to be a fallacious hypothesis? That is the real question.
I think we all agree that the climate changes as it always has, but it would seem that the evidence suggests that man hasn't had much to do with it, and any effect, if any, has been drowned out by other factors such as solar activity, cosmic rays affecting cloud formation and other unknown factors.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:29am)
Nineteen years is not astonishing at all. What the climate chatterati forget is that changes on planet Earth are measured over thousands of years, not years.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:29am)
The role of ocean heat was not either refuted or even mentioned in this article. I suggest that your readers have a look at this NOAA web page: http://www.climate.gov/#climateWatch In their "Dashboard", go first to the graph showing Average Global Surface Temperatures and then click to bring up the graph showing Ocean Heat. Compare the two.
To borrow your phrase Andrew: this is the science. Why do "you guys" keep ignoring it?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:32am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:53pm)
Trevor, unfortunately the only science Andrew and his minions prefer to believe in, are the bits they cherry pick. The rising temps in our oceans are truly alarming, as is the acidification.
How many times will Barnaby have to beg for exceptional drought relief before he gets a clue, because according to the sceptics there is no such thing as exceptional drought , it is just part of the natural cycle.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:10pm)
Were the NASA temperatures as usual "homogenised"? If I were you I would be moving to Mareeba where it's a bit higher.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:12pm)
The model failed; the theory is falsified. That's how REAL science works.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:25pm)
Do keep up Trev.
The ocean heat "Dog ate my homework" excuse the IPCC came up with has already been categorically refuted. No mention needed in this paper as it's already been shown to be junk science (the only thing the IPCC excels in). Item 2 on the list with a convienet links to triple debunking.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:33pm)
Spot on, Trevor.
This is what happens when you base your understanding of climate science on economists like Prof Ross McKitrick or ultra-conservative shock jocks.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:48pm)
Trevor ... the question is, "do you understand what you are looking at?"
Betters still, I'd love to hear your interpretation.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:25pm)
Trevor, unfortunately the only science Andrew and his minions prefer to believe in, are the bits they cherry pick.
Had to laugh at this comment. You warmists only EVER cherry pick your data. The ocean temp rising has been debunked. You can't prove your theory.
Good try though...
But FACTS never lie.
Closer to home, which parties in the imminent Victorian election support the despoilation of the countryside by wind farms?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:34am)
So what we are all saying here is that fossil fuels are all good? That ocean acidification and its effects on the delicate food chain is acceptable? That poisoning the oceans with lead from coal powered electricity generation is collateral damage that we just accept? That children and pregnant women are now advised not to eat too much fish? That we just keep doing this for centuries? Really? Is that how smart we are?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:37am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:10pm)
2014 calling le bass! 2014 calling le bass! Come in, le bass!
Modern technology and regulations have eliminated the pollution output of coal-fired power stations (other than CO2) using particle capture techniques. Discharge from power stations, both air and water are closely monitored. Different drainage systems exist for different chemical types in power stations, so stringent are the regulations.
The solution did not come about because we abandoned coal power. The solution came about because of an understanding and application of technology. The very same technology that greenies want us to abandon.
How smart is it to use outdated data and apply it to today's world? not very. And yet, the leftard greens do it all the time, from the situation in the Middle East to the post that I am replying to.
How stupid are the leftards? On par with the savage beheaders they idolise so much, is my estimation of them.
SHEESH! The evidence is staring youse guys in the face. This shows that the carbon tax was working. There is no other plausible explanation.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:38am)
It appears you regard the science as "settled" against man made climate change, after years of saying the science was not settled.
Interesting also that you regard economist Ross Garnaud as unqualified to comment on climate change, yet promote the word of economist Ross Mckitrick as being more valid than that of actual climate scientists.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:39am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:33pm)
Um Mc Kitrick is economist who specialises in econometrics (I know - look it up) and environmental economics. The paper is statistical analysis of environmental matters. I'd say he's qualified to comment…. Nice try.
As hominem is bad, but ad hominem that doesn't even make sense is just an obvious act of desperation.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (10:42am)
Tue 02 Sep 14 (12:57pm)
25 January 2010
A lot changes in c. 5 years.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:00pm)
What I found most interesting about this article is that not once in the whole piece is CO2 mentioned as the cause or otherwise of global warming and cooling. It specifically refers to La Nina and El Nino as affecting world temperatures. I think most people accept the temperature constantly changes; the sticking point has always been whether this change was caused by carbon dioxide.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:40pm)
Oh that's right 85% of the global warming is hidden in the ocean! How could we forget!
Please tell us how much of your union super fund is tied up in taxpayer funded green scams Tony N?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (01:59pm)
So if it cools that's "natural variability" but if it warms that's all humans? Heads I win, tails you lose.
Very scientific…
Oh, but I guess the "chief scientist" said so, therefore it MUST be true…
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:07pm)
The earth's temperature has increased by about three quarters of one degree (~0.75C°) in the more than 160 years following the Mini Ice Age.
1. What do you think the temperature should have done after a 300-year long ice age?
2. What proportion of this small temperature increase is man-made?
3. What evidence is there that this small increase is catastrophic?
At the Copenhagen conference in 2009, the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, in his keynote address, identified three distinct periods of warming since the middle of the nineteenth century—each preceded by a period of cooling. All three of these warming periods showed identical rates of temperature increase within normal tolerances and they sat on the rising trend of about 0.75C° in more than 160 years. In an attempt to prove that the rate of increase was increasing, he then dropped off each of the earlier warming periods. In an interview with the BBC, Phil Jones confirmed that the warming periods were statistically identical and said that such manipulation of the data was wrong.
If the science is so thoroughly settled, why does the head of the IPCC have to resort to such misleading diversionary practices?
At the climate conference in Cancun in 2010, some pranksters approached delegates to sign a petition calling for the banning of dihydrogen oxide. The petition was signed by every delegate they approached. This shows that the delegates did not understand a standard Year 7 student prank and petitioned for the banning of water.
Does such a lack of understanding on the part of the people making the decisions on managing global warming ever concern you?
Are you really that thick or are you trying to talk up your investment—via superannuation—in taxpayer-subsidised renewal energy projects?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (02:14pm)
Did it actually even start? Or was it a figment of the rabid imagination of some?
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:08pm)
Wrong question (as usual) Tony.
I thought it was all about ANTHROPOGENIC global warming, MAN MADE climate change, HUMAN CAUSED climate disruption. (Sorry cannot remember all the other names you clowns called it)
When did forgetting the anthropogenic part become popular with you lefties? Ah, thats right. When all your other arguments were soundly beaten.
Tue 02 Sep 14 (03:17pm)
Clearly he hasn't read up on the latest science.
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Complaint Review: MVI Marketing Division
MVI Marketing Division410 Ware Blvd. 10th Floor Tampa, Florida U.S.A.
MVI Marketing ripoff We received a three day two night stay in Orlando Florida with free airfare They required us to send in $100 as a deposit on the airfare so we sent it ripoff deception Tampa Florida *UPDATE ..Mini Vacations contacts Rip-off Report to give a full Refund or replacement certificates to any unsatisfied customer.. even when it's not their responsibility
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When we decided to schedule the vacation and we had some questions, we noticed that there was no phone number on the information and no fax number and no e-mail address so that we could contact them. I had to call information to the phone number and all I got was a recording that informed me that they have no customer service department and to go to a website called www.mailmethkit.com, so I did and all I got was an application for the same information that I already had.
When I went on line to check if I could find another web site for them I noticed that there have been a lot of unhappy people that have been ripped off too. I did sent an e-mail to the company about this problem, but I haven't heard back yet. Please let me know what can be done about this situation. My husband just returned from a four month tour in Afghanistan with the Army and I was going to do this for his 55th birthday on Oct.16th.
I was very unhappy when I felt I might not be able to give this gift to him. Thank You
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AUTHOR: Mike Burke - (U.S.A.)
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Mini Vacations certainly does have a customer department department. Unfortunately, you had obtained the phone number and website address for our automated registration program. This would explain why you could not reach a customer service representative.
We will be glad to assist you, but we need more information about you to access your record in our reservation database. You are requesting information about your vacation booking, but the only information in your complaint is John and Terry from Chicago. Obviously, we will need more information than that to find your record and contact you.
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- Report: #662794
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Complaint Review: Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance
Vanderbilt Mortgage and FinanceP.O. Box 9800 Maryville, Tennessee United States of America
Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Lost pay off check for loan Maryville, Tennessee
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*Author of original report: To T in Arkansas
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I mailed Vanderbilt Mortgage a rather "large" bank cashiers check to pay off a loan early, before due date. I mailed it certified with a return receipt. This was mailed on Oct. 21st, 2010. I received my return card the next day, showing the check was received and it had to be someone from the company, because they were the only ones that could sign for it. After waiting many days and no title, I called them. They did not have the check and didn't know where it was. I faxed them proof of my bank check, a copy of my certified returned card with signature, and a letter they had sent me with the pay off amount on it and the date of the pay off.
I was told to send the check to a certain address. Today I was told by a lady at Vanderbilt they don't have an address like that..as if I sent it to the wrong place. I looked at their web site..and the exact same address I sent the check is on their web site!
I have someone at my bank searching for this check to see if it's been cashed. So far, they haven't been able to find it.
Now that time has passed, Vanderbilt is telling me another payment is due with late charges!
No! I sent in the full amount " early....long before the due date". It is not my fault that someone signed for this check and lost it.
Meanwhile, I have a large check out there floating that nobody knows where it is.
I do not feel responsible for any payments or late charges since I paid this on time...the full amount. And I do have the signed signature that it was received.
Also, my husband was trying to talk to a lady at Vanderbilt today about this, and she hung up on him! He was being nice, and not abusive in any way.
Is that any way to run a business?
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AUTHOR: facts maam - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, January 30, 2012POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2012
If they tell you the sky is blue, you had better check for yourself.
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Check Found, Vanderbilt dishonest
AUTHOR: PP - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010POSTED: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Concerning the lost check I sent in to Vanderbilt to pay off a loan, it has been found. The check was mailed Oct. 21, 2010, sent certified and received Oct. 22 and the card was signed for by the person picking up the check.
The check " was deposited" and has cleared the bank on Oct. 25th by: the Mortgage company! All this time, they were telling me they didn't know where the check was, and it was "Vanderbilt/Clayton" homes that made the deposit!
Basically, I was lied too this whole time!! I was told since they didn't get the check, I would have late charges. They told me this.....and had deposited my check a month ago almost!!
I went to my bank and got a copy of this check, showing the front and back side, showing that Vanderbilt/Clayton homes made the deposit and I faxed it to a man I had talked to at Vanderbilt as proof.
The problem now is....when you call to talk to a person you have talked too before, they " aren't in" or they are " busy". They don't call you back either.
I have never in my life, been through so much crap in paying off a loan! This was totally ridiculous!
I paid this off back in October 21st, because I needed the title. Now I am told it will be 4 to 6 weeks before I can get the title even though they have had my money since Oct. 25th!
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Complaint Review: zynga
zynga365 Vermont St San Francisco, California United States of America
zynga this company is ripping everyone off please would you read all these reports and make your own mind up but they need to no that people will not take this forums.zynga.com/forumdisplay.php?f=60 they keep taking chips off us yes i no its free but they are removing millions everyday and to me this is just one big scam as people can buy chips and i allso have a friend that did pay for there San Francisco California
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is a 95% bad feed back every day i come on at least 3 or 5 of my own buddys have lost there chips since they have updated the site and tryde to stop people selling chips its affected the every day normal users and this isnt fare at all this company does not listen to a word said all you get is once you tick this box its final well you have no choice to tick the box or you carnt play poker and to be honest people are now thinking this is a scam to stop people winning chips and buy them off the site
there customer support is bad there web page is allways crashing you never get a straight forward answer i have even rang there company but that side dosent have a phone number only the accounts side they even agree looking at my account that something is wrong they state if you tick this box your chip count will be reduced to 10% and if you get this twice you will be banned well im still on there after 2 of these and twice ive sufferd in less than one month and the only thing i have used is there allowed to send chips that they have placed so you can send your buddys any chips they wont listen to 1000s of people around the world this is a big problem all you have to do is go and read there forum and site you will see there is a bad problem and they dont want to fix it this company run a lot of online games and its not just the poker they are doing it to i have had a friend complain about other things going missing and all they get is abuse emails back saying carry on sending us emails and we will ban you
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Complaint Review: Body Fit Pro
Body Fit Pro5348 Vegas Dr., #231 Las Vegas, Nevada U.S.A.
Body Fit Pro Body Fit Pro Hoodia Green Tea promotion - took money out of account, didn't get product Las Vegas Nevada
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The end of March is quickly approaching as I write. Here at SSC, March is always an exciting time as it is the end of our accounting year. For the last two weeks Gena Shurtleff and I (with help from others) have been working on a budget for the next year of LJ--something that has made some of us very grouchy. [mainly, our publisher --Ed.]
To make this process even more fun, there have been a lot of computer-related problems—all related to our Linux systems. [Note: if you are humor-impaired you may want to skip a lot of this.] First, our main server failed. Linux apparently caused a pin to break off the cable to the external SCSI disk drive. Then, a week or so later, Linux broke a head on the disk drive in our firewall. Next, the fan in our editor's computer started growling at her. On top of all that, various systems in the office were mysteriously crashing or exhibiting very strange behavior in general. The end result was too many hours of downtime, lost e-mail and an unhappy working relationship with our computers.
We began to wonder if Linux was good enough for us, and if perhaps Windows NT might support "automatic pin re-soldering" and "disk-head replacement".
Once things calmed down we took a closer look at the problems. By the way, we refers specifically to Jay Painter, our new systems administrator, Peter Struijk and me. First, we concluded that it probably wasn't the fault of Linux that hardware was breaking. As scary as it is that multitasking operating systems write to disks whenever they think it's a good time, this really isn't a reason for a cable to break.
To address the issue of being down for longer periods of time than we thought appropriate, let's look at some specific cases.
Note: at this time, our various systems ran a host of different software versions (kernels and C libraries), and we were in the midst of converting them to Debian in order to have consistency across all machines.
The failure of the cable caused the data on the server disks to be scrambled. Fortunately, we had back-up copies of the files, so it seemed like a good time to do an upgrade. We made the logical decision to reload a standard Slackware system (rather than try to change to Debian), restore the user files and be on our way. It turned out to be not so easy. The new load of Slackware had more differences from the old version than we expected. Libraries were different. NFS and NIS were different. Adobe fonts we use for doing reference cards had to be reloaded. Configuration files for groff had to be updated. A lot of work was done to get the new configuration talking to all the old systems and to get everything tuned.
Possibly inspired by the extra work the firewall was doing during the time the server was down, a head died on the disk in the firewall the next weekend resulting in the loss of a lot of mail. Why was it lost? Why wasn't it queued and then forwarded? Was this another Linux shortcoming?
On investigation we found that backup MX (mail exchanger) records were in place to take care of this very problem; however, they were pointing to the wrong machine. Again, the problem could not be pinned on Linux; it was an administrative error by a previous systems administrator. The mistake went undetected because this backup had never been exercised before, since Linux had been working flawlessly.
Let's move on to those strange software problems I mentioned. Surely we can find something to pin on Linux here.
One machine, used as our DNS name server, had been less than reliable. Two things in particular happened quite regularly. The first was that syslogd, the system log daemon, would hang in a loop eating up all available CPU time. While this problem appeared to be related to the location of the log file disappearing (caused by a reboot of the file server or a network problem), we haven't been able to fix it. However, it doesn't appear to happen in newer Linux releases (our problem machine is running 1.2.13) and, while it is irritating, it does not cause the machine to crash—just to run slower than normal.
The other problem on this same machine was stranger, although it turned out to be fixable. Multiple copies of crond (the cron daemon) kept appearing on the machine even though only one was initiated at boot time. One day, I found 13 crond jobs running, killed 12 and, a few hours later, found three still running.
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Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Apr 1, 2008 19:10 Flag
Pirlo and Alonso
So its Pirlo in and Alonso out then. Crikey thats a wrong move isnt it. Barca for Alonso
All alledgedly of course
Isnt Pirlo a bit old?
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I was in Lanzarote this week in the spanish newspaper it said Alonso to real Madrid and Barca are after Rafa!
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Patrick_Kopkings Patrick_Kopkings Apr 2, 2008 01:12 Flag
Well, first of all, it's all gossip. we're nearing Summer and the speculations will start increasing. Alonso will NEVER go to Real cause he's a hardcore basque. It's like saying Gerrard to Man U. Also, if it's Pirlo on his way to LFC (which I highly doubt), it would be a great signing as he's a very intelligent player, great passer of the ball and deadly on free kicks. I watch the serie A every week and he's one of those players that can turn a game around from nothing. He's at the peak of his career at 28 and with him alongside Gerrard, Masch and Babel, it would be a midfield to fear.
We'll just wait and see.
A lot of people think it might be Ivan Rakitic, currently with Shalke.
A quality player that may have been mentioned on these boards a couple of times already. He's made a great impact for them this season.
Personally I hope it will still be Rafinha, or why not both!
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99% certain its RAfinha. Glad because I don't rate Pirlo that highly.
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Where did you read that mate, I don't believe it!
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Evil Bread Man Evil Bread Man Apr 1, 2008 19:23 Flag
Dues to restrictions i cant read it but after emailing to a mate he's read it back to me.
Pirlo looked shit against arsenal.
To be fair i think its a not so good source. Could anyone cut and paste in back into this thread. cheers


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Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. (390.1)
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A consequence of this humanity is the identities his work now has. In recent years, his work on recordin duos with the likes of saxophonist Anthony Braxton and drummer Gunther 'Baby' Sommer, and further back with drummer Ed Blackwellhas bucked the idea of the tradition as something worthy only of reverence; but, in contrast, the ways in which he has conducted wholesale revision of trumpeter Miles Davis in the early years of his electric period have yielded music which has his identity stamped all over it even while it's mindful of the statues Davis kicked over.
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[Inventor, Ali] Razeghi also claimed to have beaten competitors working on similar devices: "The Americans are trying to make this invention by spending millions of dollars on it where I have already achieved it at a fraction of the cost." He added that he is concerned about industrial espionage, as other nations will be eager to learn his secrets. "The reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight," he said.
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(1876–1957), Romanian sculptor, who spent much of his working life in France. His sculpture represents an attempt to move away from representational art and to capture the essence of forms by reducing them to their ultimate, almost abstract, simplicity.
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