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Earth Hour crashes to Earth
Andrew Bolt
–, Sunday, March, 30, 2008, (11:01am)
Credit the public with sense. Earth Hour, hysterically promoted by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC, SBS, Sky News and the federal and state governments, resulted in no significant fall in power usage.
Check the graphs from our National Electricity Market Management Company, tracking power use between 8pm and 9pm (a period in which demand always plummets):
Here is the graph for Victoria:
Nothing much there that I can see. By way of comparison, here's the graph from the day before:
NSW may have had a tiny cut in demand just after 8pm, but in fact ended up the night using more power than the day before:
As with the graphs, so with the crowds:
More than 1000 people braved the chill and the rain to see Premier John Brumby and Lord Mayor John So lead the countdown to 8pm… At the top of the Rialto, a small crowd had a sense of anticlimax when there was no widespread blackout at 8pm. In fact, across the CBD rows of illuminated office windows, with little sign of beavering workers behind them, showed not everyone had read the memo.
The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here's the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world's emissions.
And then think what the Rudd Government is promising: a 60 per cent cut in all emissions, all year. And it's to be matched by every country around the world.
Meanwhile, the world has not warmed since 1998. Indeed, the oceans and atmosphere have cooled over the past couple.
Meanwhile the Sydney Morning Herald keeps telling fibs about last year's Earth Hour while claiming success with this one:
The city's energy consumption dipped by more than 10 per cent - a 25-tonne reduction in carbon dioxide emissions...
Again, it's raising awareness of anything but the truth. In fact:
(T)he claimed dip in power was just for the CBD, not all Sydney. (Moreover), the 10 per cent cut claimed for the CBD is itself a gross exaggeration. A cut so tiny is trivial - equal to taking six cars off the road for a year. But David Solomon, a finance PhD student at the Chicago University's graduate school of business, crunched Sydney's power figures to exclude seasonal and daily fluctuations, and concluded… "the drop in electricity use during Earth Hour is statistically indistinguishable from zero."
Reader Sally points out that the hundreds of Brisbane residents who drove to Kangaroo Point, choking the roads, to see the lights go down sure made up for any cut in emissions:
Reader B., an electrical engineer, checks the raw figures. His initial findings, pending more detailed research:
I have just looked at Qld, NSW, and Vic. Qld dropped the most power during Earth Hour, and it appears to be greater than normal. On average the drop is around 250 MW, in this case it is 400 MW… While Qld appears to have done well, NSW's power usage actually went up for the first half-hour (7,777 MW to 7,862 MW), before dropping 112 MW… Vic remained more or less constant, with a drop of only 90 MW during the hour.
Some warming worshippers just didn't get that this was about cutting warming gases, not adding to them with a bonfire:
At Giuseppe Arnaldo & Sons, celebrity chef Maurice Terzini ensured diners were not left in the dark in spectacular fashion by lighting 1000 candles.
Reader Jessica spots more warming lunacy:
We watched at least 7 helicopters flying around the inner Brisbane skies. I sent a leftie friend of mine an sms at about 8:15pm asking her if she could hear them too - she was very perplexed as to why they were there until I explained it was the Earth Hour people filming the lights so that they could go home and watch their "success" on their plasma televisions.
Reader Andrew lives in Carlton, a Melbourne suburb with a strong Green vote. Note that you'd actually know it from Earth Hour.
Before Earth Hour:
During Earth Hour:
An hour after Earth Hour:
Symbolic, all right - of the way even fraud is excused in this "good" cause:
Sixteen office blocks owned or leased by the State Government took part. In a few cases, where staff were on 24-hour rosters, lights on some floors had to be kept on, but staff were instructed to pull blinds in order not to detract from the effect of the blackout.
(Thanks to reader oblong.)
National Electricity Market Management Company says Earth Hour caused power use to fall - but only until everyone reached for the switches again:
"We're still finalising the data, but we do believe that there was at least 1,000 megawatts reduction across the national grid, which is a significant reduction across the states, south-eastern and eastern states of Australia," (spokesman Paul Bird) said… Mr Bird says demand dropped during the hour, but then rose again.
When we try especially hard for just one Earth Hour on a Saturday evening, with factories closed anyway and stuff like washing the clothes already done or postponed, see how much we achieve by sitting in the dark:
There was a 3.5% reduction in energy use Victoria-wide, according to the National Electricity Market Management Company.
Wow. Just 56.5 per cent more to go to reach Rudd's target of cutting emissions by 60 per cent - and not for an hour but permanently.
But what a difference that cut last night made to emissions, right?
According to estimates by AGL Energy, the energy saved slashed almost 30 tonnes of carbon emissions — equal to taking 61,320 cars off the road for the hour.
Or put it this way: that's equal to taking just eight cars off the road for a year. In a country that sells a million new cars each year.
Sydney achieved even less:
In central Sydney energy use fell by about 8.4 per cent, slightly less than the 10.2 per cent claimed last year, but "statistically the same or very similar†said EnergyAustralia's spokeswoman, Kylie Yates.
About 300 megawatts of electricity was preserved in Sydney… The reduction in electricity use in Sydney was equal to stopping the release of about 21 tonnes of carbon dioxide, slightly down on last year's figure of 24.8 tonnes. The figures show that the amount of carbon emissions saved across the city in an hour was roughly equivalent to the total carbon footprint of a single average Sydneysider in a year.
They cut the emissions for just one person for just one year? If just one extra baby was created in the candle-lit frisky dark of Earth Hour on Saturday, that gain is gone.
Have Your Say
Did the Lord Mayor and Premier give communion to the 1000 disciples?
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:30am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:00am)
Perhaps some little kid turned up with some barley loaves and fish and the Lord Mayor and Premier were able to feed everyone.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (04:05pm)
Heresy, I say. The 1000 people turning out to see the city lights going out are heritics.
How short is our collective memory?
Electricity is the pervading element that accompanies all material existence, even the atmospheric. It is to be thought of unabashedly as the soul of the world. [Goethe, 1825]
In 1878 electricity was used to light up a court house at Wabash
in Indiana, the USA (incidentally the first electrically lighted city in the world) and it was reported that
People stood overwhelmed with awe, as if in the presence of the supernatural. The strange weird light exceeded in power only by the sun, rendered the square as light as midday ... Men fell on their knees, groans were uttered at the sight, and many were dumb with amazement.
Many older Australians well remember the introduction of electricity into their daily lives. It saved many from tedious manual labour, it saved lifes and harked the beginning of a modern age for humanity.
The lighting of cities should be a celebration.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (04:35pm)
People stood overwhelmed with awe, as if in the presence of the supernatural. The strange weird light exceeded in power only by the sun, rendered the square as light as midday ... Men fell on their knees, groans were uttered at the sight, and many were dumb with amazement. (1878 Indiana)
Compare with :
At the top of the Rialto, a small crowd had a sense of anticlimax when there was no widespread blackout at 8pm. (2008 Melbourne)
What a strange mob we have become.
Tue 01 Apr 08 (02:58am)
I live in Wabash and we appreciate the acknowledgment. However, the light was not just to light the courthouse. It was on the courthouse and it illuminated the entire town center. The light was enough for a reporter from St. Louis to read a newspaper several miles away as he left on the train. The light had its own power plant located on the courthouse property. It was installed by Charles Brush. His company was later bought and merged with Thomas Edison's company to form General Electric.
The light is long gone from the courthouse steeple. it is, however, available for viewing in the court lobby.
Tue 01 Apr 08 (01:57pm)
Did my bit and TURNED ON ALL OF THE LIGHTS from 8PM till 9PM!
Tue 01 Apr 08 (03:04pm)
I'm glad to see that not everyone is buying into this nonsense of "Global Warming." As an American I'm angered and quite scared of what I call the "Collective International-Left†can wreck such stupidity on the world. I'm emboldened by those of you out there who realize that by regressing into the 19th Century is NOT a good way for us to live. Why else would prior generations go to the time and trouble to allow us to live better than they did. They must be laughing at our romanticized view of Nature being "kind†and "sustainable†living being sustainable.
Good for you guys Down Under,
ABC Radio (here in Brisbane) led their 7am News with a story of the Big Turn-Off in Brisbane last night. It was comprised largely of comment from several of the "hundreds" who congregated at Mt Cootha to see the lights going out. They were unanimous is judging the event very worthwhile and a great success. Some reckoned that it should be repeated regularly, but for 12-hour periods, not just one hour. Another said it was a great way to teach kids about Global Warming.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:32am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:58am)
Adding all those Mt Cootha morons to those I saw at Kangaroo Point, means those itsy bitsy turnoff of lights was far outweighed by the carbon belched by all those cars getting there to watch it.
The irony is completely lost on these idiots.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (01:53pm)
I have no doubt, Spencer, that the green-botherers intend not only to go for 12 hour periods, but eventually whole days, and then the 'third Saturday of the month' every month, and then finally every Saturday.
Many religions have self-denial as an integral part of their practices to improve their spirituality and faith - the Christians with Lent and the muslims with ramadan. Human guilt is an essential element in many religions including and especially environmentalism, and self sacrifice is an essential element that the greens have now enshrined as a sacrament as 'Earth Hour' (and eventually 'Earth Day').
Unfortunately, my wife and I were out long before dark, and for the entire evening, both this year and last year, and we forgot to turn all our lights on before we went.
More seriously, the potential for violence surrounding this symbol of green piety should not be underestimated. In the minds of environmental extremists, a refusal to participate might be considered a flagrant provocation, a crime against Earth warranting the breaking of windows or the keying of a transgressor's car.
If you think that's far-fetched, remember that in Sydney some months back a man was attacked by an green nutjob for watering his garden (within, mind you, the allowed watering timeslot), and the innocent waterer died from the attack.
Don't underestimate the extremism and anger of the hard end of the green movement. They probably constitute a threat to our society and way of life just as dangerous as Islamic extremism.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (05:06pm)
To RealityBite, re: "More seriously, the potential for violence surrounding this symbol of green piety should not be underestimated. In the minds of environmental extremists, a refusal to participate might be considered a flagrant provocation, a crime against Earth"
Yes, I can see demented believers assaulting non-participants in Earth Hour-type exercises with cries of, "you're killing my children"
Sun 30 Mar 08 (05:18pm)
I think some of the people who turned off their lights last night then didn't know what to do. Thus the the ABC report "thousands" on Mt Cootha.
In my inner, tree-hugging suburb there were 'earth-loving' twits driving down the street, stopping outside homes with lights showing, and blasting their horns.
Maybe the WWF and their corporate sponsors like AGL, ANZ and Telstra should hand out brown shirts, armbands and jackboots to their more active supporters next year. Then these 'useful idiots' can impose their will on the populous with proper facist panache.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (07:20pm)
RealityBite; a very apt analogy; islam is being led by a vocal minority of nutters with the rest demonstrating compliance in various ways; so too with the green movement and the abomination of AGW; the crusade is being led by absolute nutters and venal hypocrites and there are a host of fools and lemmings tra-la-laing behind; the big issue for me is why nearly every msm source is stupidly following this insanity; can they see a buck in it, or am I overestimating the intelligence of the, for instance, owners of the networks?
Mon 31 Mar 08 (12:43am)
If they're already blowing horns outside houses with lights on, Milton, then it's already quite bad, and only a step away from half a brick being tossed onto the roof and then through the window. Everything is justified in the cause of saving the Planet.
Right again, Cohenite. I think the reason almost all of the MSM has jumped on the bandwagon is that it's hip, it's cool, and the AGW believers have succeeded in casting their cause as 'moral'. It wasn't hard - 'man is greedy and ruining the pristine earth with his voracious consumption! Repent! Repent for the end of the world is nigh!' It's the same old snake oil that has befuddled the minds of the not-so-bright for millennia.
Meanwhile the leftists, who were floundering around bereft of a cause after socialism collapsed in on its own always-rotten foundations, suddenly saw AGW as the perfect narrative to promote: inherent greed of man destroys his only home in the universe unless he drastically reduces his prosperity (which is what leftists have always hated the most), under the leadership of the enlightened 'progressives', oh, and yes the environmentalists. One and the same these days.
The difference now is that unlike socialism, which required generations of victims to suffer grinding poverty and brutal political repression to prove its criminal stupidity, AGW will be shown to be utterly false and mere wishful thinking on the part of greens and leftists in a few short years.
We just have to delay the 'drastic action' they advocate for a decade or so and we're likely to emerge reasonably unscathed. That's the trick, though, isn't it. There's plenty of stuff coming out now that is widening the cracks in the supposedly rock-solid pro AGW scientific 'consensus', but the vein-in-the-forehead popping green nutjobs like Garrett and Brown et al are unlikely to go down without inflicting whatever damage to our prosperity that they can. They're as implacable as that other movement which has adopted green as its colour, and since their common aim is to drastically reduce the power and influence of the West, both punching the air and high-fiving when terrorists murder innocent Americans or Aussies, it's surprising they haven't joined forces in their common cause.
At 8pm I turned all our lights on so the house was ablaze. Fifteen minutes later I put the dogs' leads on and took a stroll up and down the street.
37 of 41 houses in the street had a TV on or lights somewhere in the house. That's 90% of the houses in this street ignoring earth hour. Allowing that a few people will be out on Saturday night you can make a case that earth hour was a 100% failure in Templestowe Lower.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:42am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (02:42pm)
Plenty of lights on around my place too.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (02:57pm)
Same in my street except one guy (me) was going at it with a MIG [electric] welder for 30 minutes just to make sure the power being generated -and possibly not being used by compliant turkeys- was not wasted.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (05:57pm)
Plenty of lights in my street too. From my front windowthe Ex Servicemans Club up the hill was ablaze with light and from the back (where I have a spectacular view out to the west) there appeared to be no difference to any nomal Saturday night.
I find it ridiculous that we need more 'awareness' of global warming. This kind of scaremongering has been around since the '60s.
So if Earth Hour is "about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts)", why doesn't someone organise a similar event to raise awareness of the facts?
It's hard to come up with a similar event, though. Turning all your lights on is just spiteful, and besides - you pay the electricity bill! Perhaps a 'Do your own research' day, with the results collated and presented in a television special - or something. We're the first generation who has had Google, so we're the first generation who can check stuff presented to us as facts.
But training people to extract facts from the dross returned from Google might be a hard task…
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:49am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:45am)
Davo, if the results were to be presented on television it certainly cannot be on SBS or the ABC, unless totally and independantly audited. BTW why is it that if something appears on Google many just accept that it must be true.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:11am)
BTW why is it that if something appears on Google many just accept that it must be true.
Hence my line:
But training people to extract facts from the dross returned from Google might be a hard task…
Sun 30 Mar 08 (04:28pm)
Hello Davo, just signed back on and noticed your retort re Google. Sorry 'bout that I did not mean you accepted all that appears - it was just an aside. Regards CB
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:43pm)
That's OK, I appreciate you taking the time to clear it up. It was the major flaw in my plan. And of course, you are right about the ABC and SBS. Although we might get it on SBS if we can show some tits.
Oops my bad. Sorry, forgot to turn the light out in the loo.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:57am)
Loved SKY's "live cover" of "Earth Hour" with about 40 TV monitors alive and well in the background.Must have missed it but didn't hear final result of SKY online poll which late afternoon showed 76% had no intentions of switching off electricity during "Earth Hour".
Loved Ch 9 this morning when Fanning apologised to Al Gore for not getting up and turning off her lights as she had had "a long day".One of the other news readers admitted he had turned off his lights for only 10 minutes as it was the time he was putting kids to bed.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:58am)
I turned on all our house lights but it was a bit cold to jump on the ATV and go to the dairy and turn on all the lights there. Which was a pity, because the shed is on a hill and can be seen from some of the town.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:05am)
According to the data available from NEMMCO, there was a 2.69% drop in demand during the earth hour period. Comparitively, however, the drop the night before during that same period was 5.44%. They would have saved more energy by not having earth hour!!
I wonder if the herald sun and the age will publish figures like those…
and by the way my figures are just percentages from the raw data, I didn't apply any seasonal adjustments.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:05am)
Like my father before me, we have Earth Hour every hour in our family home. I go around turning off the unused lights & appliances in our home every hour, 365 days a year!
We are a recepients of a dinkum Earth Hour several times a year, when the power supply is actually cut off due to various reasons - mainly due to bad management of the power system in the Perth Hills.
No more please.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:09am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (12:38pm)
Spot on. And I imagine a large majority of other people do the same
Sun 30 Mar 08 (06:11pm)
I do the same thing and when I read this out to my wife aloud she repied back that I must be a greenie and don't know it.
Just plain common sense I think.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:00pm)
Spot on guys. Just beware the Green & left wing Labor nutters, like the following story in yesterday's West Australian - the 25-year-old "partner" of senator-elect Louise Pratt
Read link below for the horror story.
Yes, these people "represent" us in the Federal Parliament.
And you wonder why the country is going to the dogs!
"The Melbourne CBD skyline as seen from the Eureka Tower on Thursday night, left, and the same view, right, at 8.01 last night when lights were switched off for 60 minutes for Earth Hour."
"the same view", NOT necessarily at the same TIME.
The little subtleties these people use to gain a smidgen of advantage to their cause is disgusting.
They did mention (and could not deny) it was symbolic only.
Do these people realise that we could decimate this nation economically with cutbacks and virtually have no effect on a world scale of the GHG emissions? Our contribution is miniscule compared to the big polluters who, by the way, have no intention of slowing their emissions, so our contribution is diminishing by default.
My concern is, this time it was a symbolic one hour (failed), so they will up the ante next time to ????
They could be determined to ruin this nation for no nett gain.
If they keep it symbolic I don't mind, but if they intend to make us pay dearly for no nett gain (of which I suspect) I will be very unhappy.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:13am)
I'm a Victorian Public Servant, so some of this lunancy lands in my email box.
"Building security officers will be patrolling the building between 8pm and 9pm to ensure compliance with Earth Hour". - or words to that effect.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:18am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (02:41pm)
I'd like to know the "punishment" for those that didn't comply.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (06:36pm)
I'd imagine a forced re-education, beginning with a veiwing of An Inconvinient 'Truth'
Well I did my bit.
Every light in the house was turned on, the stereo was on, the TV was on, two computers were turned on - I even turned on all lights in the garage and outside the house.
After my beacon of sanity was shining for all to see, the family and I left my humble, well lit home and hopped into the 4WD to drive around Melbourne for the entire hour.
While driving around, we counted the houses on my block that had their lights turned on (admittedly an informal, unscientific count) and we plan on doing the same next Saturday night at 8pm to compare. We also took special note of any business illuminated with their lights shining, and agreed to make efforts to use their products whenever we can.
Before heading home, we drove down Chapel Street and had a bit of a chuckle at the candlelight vigils taking place at some (note: not the majority) of the trendy bars and coffee shops in their efforts to pose and pat themselves on the back. I only wish I had taken a picture of the gigantic stretch Hummer limousine parked right there outside of one of these bars, fully equipped with plasma screens, neon lights and the works.
One can only imagine the invitations sent out for this bucks night: "Show the world that you care - arrive at the Earth Hour festivities in style - in a Hummer!"
Myth Hour did not disappoint.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:21am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:43am)
Reply to Anthony of Melbourne
This video should have be shown and discussed in every State and Private school in Australia in 2007.
The Costello Wet Liberal types have a lot to answer for!
11 years in power and with control of the tax money going to the State and Private schools for educational purposes.
No excuse.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (12:32pm)
Good on you! Order of the Garter coming your way.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:39pm)
Mike, I can only assume from your rather peverted actions (along with a few others on this forum) that your middle name is "no life"??? please en"light"en?? คุด น่าà¸à¸™à¸²à¸– ผู้พ่ายà¹à¸žà¹‰ !!!
Have to go, have a life to live!
This is a good lecture by Dr. John Christy.
It goes for an hour, but he puts Al Gore and the alarmists to shame. I would pay good money to see a debate between Gore and Christy.
Gore would sweat out of his suit, assuming his head fits through the top of his shirt.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:23am)
At 8pm we turned on all our lights -inside and outside the house -to show how much we really care about this earth hour spin.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:25am)
Just another damp squib - a bit like the AGW scam itself.
Its just that the AGW squib is still weakly fizzing, but the signs are that it will expire soon.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:28am)
Earth Hour spokesman Charlie Stevens branded the night a success, regardless of the result on meter boards.
"We are really happy with the result, but Earth Hour wasn't ever going to be about the (electricity) results.
"It's about getting people committed to be more energy efficient."
So Charlie ..what WAS it about ....please enlighten us ..so to speak ..or are you constantly as much in the dark as most of your cohorts ..
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:37am)
Earth Hour spokesman Charlie Stevens branded the night a success, regardless of the result on meter boards.
"We are really happy with the result, but Earth Hour wasn't ever going to be about the (electricity) results.
"It's about getting people committed to be more energy efficient."
So Charlie ..what WAS it about ....please enlighten us ..so to speak ..or are you constantly as much in the dark as most of your cohorts ..
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:37am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (01:33pm)
ff - It's called Rudditis. A new mental disorder. It's all about feel good symbolism and tokenism. Nothing to do with real and substantive outcomes. The media have a bad dose of Rudditis and it will be a while before they come to their senses. Mind you I think I'm being very optimistic in that regard. Meanwhile the brain-washing goes on a pace in the media and in schools.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (04:45pm)
Same as the Big 'Sorry' Circus. Lots of money spent, lots of time invested, lots of publicity, lots of Lefties engaging in an orgy of self-congratulation at how wonderfully "aware" they are… and then move on to the next feel-good "cause."
Say what???
People jumped into cars to drive to lookout points to see the lights go out? EH has surely got to be the most idiotically counterproductive stunt going around these days.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:46am)
So this tripe is to "raise awareness", eh? Is there someone, somewhere, anywhere, in Australia that is not aware of the global warming alarmism? Anywhere in the western world?
If they want to raise awareness for their religion, go do a lights out in North Korea! Oh wait, ........
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:49am)
I live on the top of a hill close to the CBD here in Brisbane. Our view stretches across from Mt Coot-tha to Toowong, Taringa, Indooroopilly etc. At about 7:50pm last night, I did the rounds - turning on all of our lights including the big spotlights we have outside. My husband called me a lunatic, but we both had to start laughing when we saw masses of cars driving up the hill to the Mt Coot-tha lookout - and lights going on - not off - all across the neighbourhood. It was priceless.
Sun 30 Mar 08 (10:54am)
Sun 30 Mar 08 (11:22am)
You mean they didn't leave home at dawn to WALK to the top of Mount Coot-tha? And snack on bandicoot jerky on the way there and back? Oh, wait, we can't check - they won't have reached home yet!
Sun 30 Mar 08 (09:38pm)
Heard you had a bit of a cold start in Brisbane this morning. Coldest March morning on record I heard. Doesn't help raise awareness that we're cooking the planet does it?
I won't be at all surprised if there's a few warmerers who think there's a link between last nights stupidity and the record low temperature. It would be the icing on the idiot cake.
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In some of the computer labs they have 1995 vintage Pentium 90 computers running today's software. They crawl along and are the complete opposite of the image the UoP uses to entice students to enroll! Don't be fooled!
Furthermore, the University has decided to start charging for course modules which contain basic course information such as reading and writing assignments. These used to be free, and under the implied contract between students and the UoP, they were to continue to be free unless UoP changed the terms of the contract - which they did not do. UoP's change to start charging students for modules is a breach of contract under general commerce law!
And if that's not enough - UoP is boldly breaking state law by assessing a $30 DECLINED credit card fee (on top of an excessive but legal $30 late fee). That's right - under certain payment plans, if your credit card is declined, they will charge you $30. Arizona state law allows businesses to only charge $25 plus any ACTUAL bank fees. As we all know, banks don't charge to decline credit cards - that's why they have credit card machines!!!
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Boston Trial's Troublesome Crux: How to Handle Informers' Crimes
By CAREY GOLDBERG
Published: March 13, 1999
BOSTON, March 10— It began in 1995 as a simple racketeering and extortion indictment whose defendants included two reputed mob leaders long infamous in Irish-dominated South Boston: James Bulger and Stephen Flemmi.
By now, however, the case has become what many call one of the most embarrassing messes for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in years. And it has called into question one of the oldest practices in law enforcement and one of the most troublesome: the use of confidential informers to fight organized crime.
The imbroglio, little-publicized outside the Boston area, centers on accusations that for decades, F.B.I. agents protected Mr. Bulger and Mr. Flemmi while they committed assorted crimes because the two also provided information about their Italian mobster rivals that helped virtually eliminate La Cosa Nostra in New England. Defense lawyers are essentially arguing that the Government may not prosecute crimes it effectively authorized informers to commit.
Revelations of the F.B.I.'s practices, in pre-trial testimony in the racketeering case, have prompted sweeping internal investigations of the bureau and a months-long policy review by the United States Justice Department. That review is expected to end in new rules that would require agents to share more about the relationships with informers that have long been their most closely guarded secrets.
The proposed rules would require the F.B.I. and other agencies to notify Federal prosecutors whenever an informer committed an unauthorized crime and whenever someone who was about to be indicted was an informer.
A Justice Department team has also begun to consider whether to require the F.B.I. and other agencies to consult with Federal prosecutors before deciding whether to sign up a criminal kingpin in the first place, said Jonathan D. Schwartz, an associate deputy attorney aeneral.
Any week now, a Federal judge is expected to issue a ruling on whether the Government owes Mr. Flemmi immunity, which could affect other informer-defendants.
Other cases have raised similar questions about the slippery agent-informer relationship, but for pure suspense, for local Irish and Italian underworld color and for depth of disclosure of the murkier inner workings of the F.B.I., this one seems to have them all beat.
The most commanding figure in the case, Mr. Bulger, is the black-sheep brother of the current president of the University of Massachusetts; he is also a convicted bank robber, a former inmate at Alcatraz and, prosecutors say, the sometime head of the closest thing to an Irish mob in Boston.
His associate, Mr. Flemmi, whose professional criminal resume is similar, is in jail awaiting trial in the racketeering case, on charges including loan sharking, money laundering, witness tampering and attempted murder. But Mr. Bulger, known as Whitey, has been on the lam with nose-thumbing success for four years. He is a fit, 70-ish fugitive who, lament the authorities who have picked up his trail and lost it, passes easily as a harmless retiree and has been cruising blithely through the Sun Belt with his girlfriend.
The F.B.I. has offered a $250,000 reward for help catching him, and he has been featured on programs like ''America's Most Wanted'' and ''Unsolved Mysteries.'' John J. Connolly Jr., a retired F.B.I. supervisor who recruited Mr. Bulger as an informer and worked closely with him, figures that Mr. Bulger will probably stay uncaught. ''He was a down-range thinker,'' Mr. Connolly said.
Mr. Flemmi, whose nickname is The Rifleman, is not going quietly either. His disclosure in 1997 that he had long been an informer -- to his own lawyer's surprise -- and his argument that he had been authorized by the Government to commit his crimes opened the door to the metamorphosis of his case into a virtual indictment of the F.B.I.
Pre-trial motions in his case took up most of 1998, and it has been through that pre-trial testimony that a picture has emerged of the kind of behind-the-scenes dealing the F.B.I. sometimes does.
It all began in the 1960's and 1970's, when Federal authorities saw the Mafia as a central threat to national security, and Boston was caught in gangland warfare that killed dozens. The word came down to Boston F.B.I. agents that the No. 1 priority was to close down the New England branch of La Cosa Nostra, and with that directive came a new tool: the Top Echelon Informant program, a special effort to recruit informers highly placed inside crime groups, and thus, by definition, criminals themselves.
To get at the Mafia, F.B.I. agents here decided to try to enlist the aid of Mr. Flemmi, who had useful ties to the Mafia but was not a member. Somewhat later, they also turned to Mr. Bulger, who was then considered a criminal leader in Irish-dominated South Boston and elsewhere.
The two men, according to the picture painted in court, were mostly their own little gang, the kind of territorial bosses who would demand protection money, or ''rent,'' from bookmakers, loan sharks and other petty criminals, and who were also involved in illegal gambling enterprises and loan sharking themselves.


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I have a bit of a problem and can't find a good solution.
I should put up a site with a lot of instructions i have in .doc and they should be imported as pages or posts, I don't know whats best?
Then i need to be able to generate goodlooking pdf-files of the pages or posts but i can't find a good pdf-generating plugin.
I have tried the most of them.
Anyone have some advices?
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Carol Tobias, president of National Right To Life, left, watches as Gov. Rick Perry delivers a speech to a large audience in attendance at the national convention, Thursday, June 27, 2013, in Grapevine, Texas. The Republican has called a second special legislative session beginning July 1, allowing the GOP-controlled statehouse another crack at passing restrictions opponents say could shutter nearly all the abortion clinics across the country's second-largest state. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)


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Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom?
Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequately for the competitive marketplace in which they find themselves. The failure of colleges and universities to teach basic skills, while coddling them with plush dorms and self-directed "study," is a dot-connecting exercise for Uncle Shoulda, who someday will say -- in Chinese -- "How could we have let this happen?"
We often hear lamentations about declining educational quality, but the focus is usually misplaced on SAT scores and graduation rates. Missing from the conversation is the quality of what's being taught. Meanwhile, we are mistakenly wed to the notion that more people going to college means more people will find jobs.
Obviously the weak economy is a factor in the highest unemployment rate for those ages 16-29 since World War II. But there's more to the story. Fundamentally, students aren't learning what they need to compete for the jobs that do exist.
These facts have been well documented by a variety of sources, not to mention the common experience of employers who can't find applicants who can express themselves grammatically.
A study published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities has found that 87 percent of employers believe that higher education institutions have to raise student achievement if the United States is to be competitive in the global market. Sixty-three percent say recent college grads don't have the skills they need to succeed. And, according to a separate survey, more than a quarter of employers say entry-level writing skills are deficient.
Most universities don't require the courses considered core educational subjects -- math, science, foreign languages at the intermediate level, U.S government or history, composition, literature and economics.
The nonprofit American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has rated schools according to how many of the core subjects are required. A review of more than 1,000 colleges and universities found that 29 percent of schools require two or fewer subjects. Only 5 percent require economics. Less than 20 percent require U.S. government or history.
Critics of ACTA's findings insist that the core curriculum is outdated and accuse the organization of being "conservative." (Founders included Lynne Cheney, as well as Joe Lieberman.) Some also insist that such "old-fashioned" curricula merely encourage memorization and rote learning rather than critical thinking. Ridiculous, says ACTA President Anne Neal.
"How can one think critically about anything if one does not have a foundation of skills and knowledge? It's like suggesting that our future leaders only need to go to Wikipedia to determine the direction of our country."
College students may be undereducated, but they're not dumb and many feel short-changed. A recent Roper Organization study found that nearly half of recent graduates don't think they got their money's worth. If parents aren't furious, they're not paying attention.
In the lost spirit of in loco parentis, Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia have teamed up to take these findings to those upon whom ultimate responsibility falls -- the nation's 10,000 college and university trustees. In a letter sent a few weeks ago, Arum wrote that institutions not demanding a rigorous curriculum "are actively contributing to the degradation of teaching and learning. They are putting these students and our country's future at risk."
That's a provocative charge and a call to arms. Let's hope trustees hear it and heed.


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Comment Re:massive parallel processing=limited application (Score 1) 112
Also, there is caching, and also, some loads are heavy on longish FPU operations.
So... it doesn't quite work out that way. Also, multicore designs can have separate memory.
One example of multicore design that's both interesting and functional are the various vector processor graphics cores. Lots of em in there; and they get to do a lot of useful work you couldn't really do any other way with similar clock speeds and process tech.


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Is there a way (or an extension) to add multiple input boxes for quantity calculation to the product page?
I'm trying to create a web store for tshirts where the customer goes to the product page and can enter quantities for each size (small, medium, large) into 3 separate input boxes, then click add to cart and it calculates it into the total quantity.
Any help is greatly appreciated. This has had me stumped forever!


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I paid in advance for packages that had been shipped but I had not received those. I did this so I could order another set of merchandise.
I never received the shipment. I spoke to a customer services rep and she told me you shouldn't have paid for something you have not received, thats what you get. We can not help you, the shipment shows it was received and signed for by RBrown. I explain to her that I paid in advance so I could order more merchandise due to the limit on my account and that FedEx told me RBrown was from the warehouse and the shipment was sent back to ABC Distributing.
THe custome service rep told me I had no proof, I shouldn't pay for merchandise that I have not received and hung up on me.
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First House Financial A huge scam!!! Petaluma, California
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I signed up with them online to use their services for 3 months for a whopping 96 dollars. When you log onto the site there is absolutely nothing. They tell you to go to a completely different site (which is completely free btw) to find a house you would be interested in. Then to print out some form to fill out, mail it in, and wait 2 weeks before getting a response. Once I reached this point I was frustrated that the service I had shelled out almost 100 bucks on wasn't really a service at all and called to either get more assistance or cancel. They hung up on me 3 times, each time almost immediately after I had mentioned that I had already paid them.
After all of this I decided to create a fraud claim with my bank in the hopes of getting my money back. I waited a month before my bank got back to me on the claim. It was canceled because I had accepted their terms and conditions and therefor I wasn't going to be getting any money back. It was a hard blow and after all was said and done I thought my experience with FHF was over...
Guess again. 3 months later they are trying to charge me AGAIN! Another 30 dollars taken out of my bank account. I was finally able to get ahold of a customer service rep and say that I wanted my money back. I let the 96 dollars go but I definitely wanted my 30. He said that they would send me an email with some information I need to fill out in order to receive a refund and the money would be back in my bank account in 1 to 5 business days. I accepted this thinking it would be a quick online submission.
They sent me a basic email with no detailed information and a PDF attachment that I need to print, fill out, and fax or mail to them. On top of this, they didn't include any information on where this needs to be sent to. No fax number, no address. Just a PDF file.
I am going to my bank to cancel my card and get a new one so this doesn't happen anymore. This was one of the worst decisions I ever made and I hope that others won't have to go through this. This "company" needs to be held accountable for their mistreatment of home buyers. It is disgusting how they take advantage of people like this.
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In an effort to streamline the purchase of Microsoft products, the General Services Administration has released a request for proposals using standardized terms and conditions that can be used across multiple agencies.
This Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative, called SmartBUY Large Publisher, is aimed at reducing what government pays the software giant and shaving the amount of time agencies spend on acquisition by relying on pre-set pricing and ready-to-use products and services.
"GSA is committed to working collaboratively with our partners at Microsoft resellers to reduce multiple contracts into a single set of agreements to save money and streamline the purchasing process for government agencies," Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Tom Sharpe said in a statement.
GSA offered a similar blanket purchase agreement earlier this year for wireless services with four large carriers.
GSA predicts the Microsoft BPA will save 15-20 percent on commercial software, from an annual budget of about $6 billion.
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OMB's Data Center Optimization Initiative gives agencies new metrics and goals for fiscal 2018.
NSA and the CIA have revamped themselves in the past year. FCW asked officials how well Fort Meade and Langley are collaborating in cyberspace in pursuit of their separate missions.
The latest version of the Defense Department-wide Enterprise Service Management Framework places more emphasis on managing IT risk.
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The agency software inventories required under the draft category management policy will be treasure maps that lead to efficient, effective, streamlined buying and unprecedented savings.
As experts warned of the "dire" threats posed by outdated federal technology, lawmakers grilled top feds, debated workforce issues and inched closer to backing a $3.1 billion fix-it fund.
The agency is making strides in developing and deploying border technologies but still has some weaknesses.
Imagine the savings if the government moved to open source solutions.
It would be good to know how this agreement will address the direction set forth in the Executive Order making openness and machine-readability the default for government information.
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First up is the football program's "Practice With the Pack" event, scheduled for Friday evening at Wolf Pack Park. The event is open to any youth football player, eighth grade or younger, involved in Pop Warner or Sierra Youth Football. The youth players are asked to wear their jersey and tennis shoes and they can practice with the team from 7 to 8:15 p.m. on Friday. For more information on the event, call the Nevada football office at (775) 784-6891.
On Saturday, fans will have a chance to meet the Wolf Pack football, women's soccer and volleyball teams and pick up their tickets for the 2007 football season at the annual "Meet and Greet" event on Saturday, Aug. 18 from 12-2 p.m. outside Mackay Stadium. The event is immediately following the following football team's scrimmage at Mackay Stadium, which will begin at 10:15 a.m.
In addition to opportunities for autographs and photos with Nevada student-athletes, the event will include a barbecue lunch, courtesy of Bully's Sports Bar and Grill. There will also be plenty of activities and games, including bounce houses, face-painting, giveaways and raffle prizes. Prizes include sideline passes, Pup Club memberships, VIP events with the coaches, game tickets and an all-inclusive trip to the Nevada vs. Nebraska game in Lincoln on Sept. 1.
The event is free to the public and will be held on the Computing Center lawn outside the northwest gates to Mackay Stadium. Free parking is available in the West Stadium Parking Complex.
Fans who have already purchased season tickets for the 2007 football season can pick them up at the event, while season and single-game tickets will also be available for sale at the event. Anyone who picks up tickets or buys new football season tickets on Saturday will be entered in a raffle for prizes.
For ticket information for the 2007 football season, call or visit the Wolf Pack Ticket Office at Legacy Hall at (775) 348-PACK (7225) or go online at www.nevadawolfpack.com.
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- Using Google+ Pages
- Organizing contacts with Google Groups
- Incorporating local listings from Google into your marketing campaign
- Creating a profile
- Adding contacts
- Building a business page
- Posting photos and videos
- Hosting live online chats with hangouts
- Using the +1 button
- Using Google Analytics to measure a page's success
- Changing or deleting a profile or posts
Skill Level Beginner
Another feature of the Google+ page for your business and marketing management is using the Events option, and I'm going to go ahead and show you how I got here. You have the Home page, your Profile, Pages, Explore, you also have Events, and for any reason if you don't see down the left side, always put your mouse under More, and it may appear here. So once you click Events, it takes you to the Event creation page, and this is a way for you to manage events whether they're live, or they're virtual, and it's as easy as creating an event, and I can create an Event here, or I can go ahead and create the event here.
I'm going to go ahead and hit that button, and it takes you into a very streamlined solution that allows you to do everything from mousing around to changing your theme. You can also go in here and change theme, you can scroll through all the options that Google has designed, and this is kind of a fun fact: to see the interaction happening here, a lot of these themes are actually animated. So it creates a little more visual cue. For No Obstacles Sport we can do something like the soccer ball.
You also can upload Stationary. So if you wanted something little more static, you could have something that was pre-designed, and you have a lot of options here for Google, it could be birthday, it could be games, things like that, it could be just a basic design. You can also upload some of your own photos. You can upload profile pictures. Let's say I want to do something like this. What I did here is I just selected a photo and Google actually stopped me and they said I can only select images that are 940 by 280 pixels.
So if you did want to have your own custom image, you would need to have that ready to go, and you would save it to your desktop and go ahead and either drag the photo in here or select it from your computer. I'm going to go ahead and Cancel out of that, and just for the sake of example I am going to go ahead and pick that cool one with the soccer ball, hit Set as theme, and there I go. And then you give your event a title. So let's say one of the marketing initiatives was to have webinar every month to get more people engaging with the brand.
I can go ahead and I can keep my options as Basic, I can allow my Guest to invite other people, Guests can add photos. If it was a private event that you are extending only to select circles, you can uncheck that. In this case I'm going to live everything open, No Obstacles philosophy is the more the merrier, and you go ahead and you set your Date and the Event is going to be on August 9. And the event will be during business hours at 3:00 PM. And Location, there is no location, it's going to say on the web, and this is not related to a business, so we're just putting that here.
And the Details, you can share a little bit, and you can go ahead and you can invite circles, or you can make it public. I'm going to make this Event Public. And then you go ahead and you hit Invite, and it loads it up there, and now on the Google+ page for the No Obstacles Sport business, they have a monthly health webinar and so they'll go ahead and allows people to say they're going Yes, No, Maybe. In this case No Obstacles Sport is of course going because they're the ones hosting the event, but it's just another way to engage with your audience.


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There is now a new version available for download. Features include many of the requested updates.
There is now a new version available for download. Features include many of the requested updates.
Hi there,
I'm really looking forward to working with your plugin. Thanks lots for being responsive to requests and questions.
First, some things I really like:
A few wishlist items for the next version:
It's only been a day since your latest version, and here I am asking for more. I promise this isn't a complaint, just excited about what you've done so far and making suggestions!
Oh, and one more thing...
5. Customize the "Where did you hear from us" dropdown.
Okay, 'nuf said. Thanks!
Most of the changes requested here are now included. Thanks for your input.
I am running into errors and posted on the wp directory for help as well as tried to email. (The email that was listed along with the plug-in bounced back)
The error I am getting is
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'order by sequence' at line 1]
SELECT * from wp_events_question_tbl where event_id = order by sequence
What can I do to fix it?
Thank you!
joannaglass @ gmail.com
The error you posted looks like the event id is not in the query, the line should show up as ...where event_id = '3' order by sequence. . . or some other number dependin on the current event selected. I would suggesting removing and adding back the plugin to start.
- Make it possible to translate the plugin with a .po file.
- Add a guestlist to an event. If I could have the option to make a list of names and sort them in multiple groups, then choose a group of the guests that are allowed to attend the event. The registration should have a search function that facebook have so when the customer searches for his name he finds it easily.
- Print the total guestlist to an excel document and a symbol (X) in front of the people who have paid for the event.
Hi there.
I set up an event and a form. After the for is submitted this appears at the top of the screen:
Value String - Value String - I have never played this instrument,Value String - I have never played this instrument,Value String - Host an out-of-town participant for the weekend,Value String - Share a hotel room,
Your Registration has been added. Please watch your email for a confirmation of registration.
I've Googled and can't find any mention of this problem.
Do you know what it could be?
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George Osborne: 'We are having it hard because he has it so easy'
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Central Government
George Osborne: 'We are having it hard because he has it so easy'
Housing Quality Network chief executive Alistair McIntosh pulls no punches as he casts his verdict on the chancellor's Autumn Statement.
George Osborne hasn't worked a day in his life. It shows in the autumn statement. Even the thickest MBA student could write a better essay.
He hasn't hit any of his targets. That doesn't matter. George's friends in the Office for Budget Responsibility ignore that. They let him put graph after graph in showing growth zooming up in years to come. In this case we must hope that the past, or even the present, is no guide to future performance. Osborne brought the OBR into this world. It's just another useless layer of bureaucracy. Get rid of it.
While he was setting up the OBR as a chocolate fireguard Osborne sacked lots of useful civil servants. The problem is that if you want to do things like build train lines or roads you need civil servants to push it through. We have the fewest civil servants in modern times. The construction sector has shut down. Could these two factors be in any way related?
As he knows nothing about real life George relies on opinion polls. What do they tell him to do? Bash the rich and the poor. By hook or by crook get in the good books of the majority. But this just leads to more blunders.
The housing sector came up with a brilliant idea. Let the councils build 60,000 homes. It would add more to GDP than Olympic ticket sales. We know that councils, ALMOs and associations can deliver. The city wanted it to happen. Construction firms relished the opportunity. Even the most right-wing Tories I know were in favour. Where did we get with George? We got nowhere. Imagine the opinion poll reaction if poor people got some of the homes. So we had to say sorry to the construction workers as they trudge back onto the dole.
So there we have it: a chancellor that misses targets, talks of jam tomorrow, dismantles the levers of power and puts bigotry before growth. Just compare his dismal third rate essay with the brio of Lord Heseltine's 'No Stone Unturned'. This is a man who built a business from scratch. He knows the value of investment at the right time and he respects the public sector. Heseltine made something of his life. Osborne never will. We are having it so hard because he has it so easy.
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Muslim students took a break outside of their University of Colorado office, and in the hallway, positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.
It was the second of the day's five ritual prayers. And, except for the echoes of clicking heels and voices, the corridor that houses dozens of other student groups was mostly quiet.
But when the fall semester starts in a few weeks, the University Memorial Center and its hallways, which double as a prayer space for the Muslim students, will once again be bustling.
Muslim students at CU have been pushing for a quiet space on campus that could be used for prayer. Kelly Brewer, a junior international affairs major and president of the Muslim Student Association...
The requests of students in Boulder are part of a larger national movement by Muslim students...
One thing that state universities should know is that they are under no obligation to build prayer rooms that are interfaith, or prayer rooms used by one specific group, Lynn said. If they do use tax dollars to build an exclusively religious building they risk lawsuits by people that dont agree with the religion that is being supported in this way.
Critics say Muslim students are getting preferential treatment as some schools nationwide including the University of Michigan at Dearborn, a campus that has a large Muslim population are building footbaths for students, who use them before prayer.
Edina Lekovic, communications director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, said footbaths are not even a staple in most Muslims homes. She said she would rather see students pushing for a chaplain who could improve interfaith relations between different on-campus religious groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Will the ACLU be leading the charge?
Kinda doubt it.
Want a muslim prayer area? No problem, turn East, take 6,000,000 steps.
The middle of I-70 would do nicely............
A little appeasement invariably results in a lot of new demands.
The displacement of liberalism continues.
Of course we know exactly what would happen if any Christian group of students dared to ask the school for any similar accomodations.
They're facing the wrong direction.
"The requests of students in Boulder are part of a larger national movement by Muslim students..."
Muslims are pushing for special rules everywhere in the west. The eventual goal is to put Europe and America under sharia law.
OK, I want a Christian prayer center on campus. It has to have a big cross on top and the Ten Commandments posted prominently on the front. A plaque on the door needs to read, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6)"
Let's see how far that request goes...
"The middle of I-70 would do nicely............"
Don't laugh, because this is exactly what happened in 1971 in Saudi Arabia when a busload of British Muslims were on their pilgrimage to Mecca. They had made the trip all the way from London.
The busdriver stopped because it was evening prayer time. Instead of parking on the top of the hill the driver stopped at the bottom and parked the bus on the side of the road. Every one piled out of the bus and started praying right in the middle of the road.
Guess what - a tanker truck came roaring down the hill but was unable to avoid the group of pilgrims. It was evening time and road vision was impaired because of a sandstorm.
get fitted for burkahs now and beat the rush.
There, fixed.
and that's the problem. Let them ask and let them go on their knees in prayer too. You can't do for one without dooing for all. If they don't request or demand it then....
Fine - but throw up a barbeque stand next door. Pork, the other white meat.
A case of: My Karma ran over my Dogma?........
So polish the floor with a lard based wax....
Give them an old Army tent to set up outside.
"Muslim students at CU want prayer area"
And they'll get it. You see the U.S. Constitution says nothing about Mosque and State." Only Churches are to be so discriminated against.
They're facing the wrong direction.
Great circle route... Of course, I didn't know that Hell was somewhere NE of CU.
Shall Catholic students now ask for an onsite chapel for a Daily Mass?
Just asking?
to face northeast toward Mecca.
"Give them an old Army tent to set up outside."
Give them nothing and tell them to pray somewhere else. Never in the history of this country have we had so many problems with any other group as we have with Islam. Their contribution to our society is absolutely zero. And we continue to give in. What the hell is wrong with us?
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Which is exactly what they (the Christian groups) need to do, so that they are all set up to sue when CU caves in to the Islamic demands.
If they want a Muslim prayer area, they can buy themselves a house off-campus.
Muslim students everywhere often want everything.
dorm room or middle of field in great outdoors = quiet space for prayer.
works for all other religions in campus.
(non)problem solved
a house off-campus...and out of the USA.
I think that when you consider the matter objectively, people who join into any cult religion just have to accept that THEY and not US have to make certain sacrifices.
The CU board should take a listen to this woman before granting any special accommodations to the Muslims.
They are facing in the correct direction.
No, they're correct. Great circle distance and bearing from Boulder, CO to Mecca is 7642 miles at a bearing of 34.6 degrees true north. That's northeast.
Following the Great Circle course I see.
I can't even begin to tell you how much this pi$$e$ me off.
I just love this one! The Muslim Offensive in the U.S. is very much about things just like this:
Fine... put a fancy compass on the wall that moves in random directions every few seconds. Tell them the earth is rotating, and the direction to Mecca always changes because of that. They'll spend so much time trying to bow in the right direction they might be too tired to do anything else. :-)
Actually, all schools have them but the muslims just aren't aware of it. They're well marked too with a sign on the door that says "Men".........
Near or in the pig pens might be available.
These are the peaceful moderate Muslims - they work in tandem with their violent counterparts. Submit now or you will make them angry.
America is walking headlong right into this - God help you all. You have no idea what you have done.
Here is more to pi$$ us all off :
"George Mason University: non-Muslim students asked to observe Muslim rules in common prayer area And that's just one of the accommodations being implemented in schools around the country..."
Don't forget a synagogue for the Jewish students...
The Dow Jones Index is already Sharia compliant..the Wall Street Journal also?..or to be?? Sharia law is openly and legislatively being ushered in with increasing rapidity, and is beginning to accelerate here more openly...here is the link commenting on the Dow Jones Index compliance with Sharia..http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/the_dow_jones_islamic_index_is.html
>>>>>Group proposes interfaith room where all religions could gather.<<<<<
this would be a fair solution.
Evolution in action. I suspect the Father Darwin has a soft spot in his heart for these soft-headed folk.
The striaght line may go there. However, shouldn't they be facing the shortest direction to Mecca?
That is the shortest distance. Pilots and navigators refer to it as "the great circle" route. On a flat map, with latitude lines drawn horizontally, the course looks like an arc, but on a globe it's a straight line that defines the shortest distance between the two points.
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