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|April 27, 2012 at 4:00 am #8549
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Gordon Parks We need more growth! Spring 1943 "A Harlem scene, viewed from the subway entrance" I read a piece on The Huffington Post today
|April 27, 2012 at 11:40 am #2819
Reverse Engineer
That was a fun dialogue presented there Ash.
We are as usual in basic agreement about the general improbability of being able to maintain any kind of steady state ourselves in the absence of an external predator. This would be the Catch-22 of being the absolute TOP of the Food Chain.
However, in a lower energy world where techno-med was not available and nutrition was thin, there are plenty of microscopic predators out there who will do the job of Population Control on Humanity. I don't think we really have to worry much about a world of 12B People by 2050. Disease vectors alone will make that one improbable to achieve.
The question of "growth" in whoever is left standing after this knockdown of population is kind of ephemeral, its all in how you define the growth. If growth to you means greater physical comforts, further growth here is highly unlikely. However, that does not mean there cannot be further Spiritual and Intellectual Growth in a low energy world.
I'll give the example of Chess, which I recently discussed over in the Diner. You like Poker metaphors, I like to use Chess because there is no chance at all involved in Chess, nothing random at all. Yet the outcomes and the Games still are Infinite. Even under an energy paradigm at the paleolithic level, thinkers could still play Chess with Rocks and explore all the variations, to find the Holy Grail of the series of moves that will work so White will Win every time, just as you must always win every time if you play first in the game of Tic Tac Toe. If I had nothing to do with my day but spend 4 hours collecting worms and grasshoppers to eat and then could spend the rest of my day playing chess, I'd still have an intellectually challenging and fulfilling life. Tasty well presented Deserts don't make my life fulfilling, and as you mention, a Ding Dong is pretty much just as good as Chocolate Mousse slathered over Truffles or whatever.
The Universe presents itself to you in the Night Sky, which is a whole lot more visible when there aren't any ground level Lights burning. There is much still to elucidate just watching the movement of the stars and planets with the naked eye, you do not even really need a Telescope. Any child starting from Scratch can spend a lifetime learning this stuff, its highly challenging to memorize the entire night sky as the Polynesian Naviagators did, and they were STONE AGE people. You just cannot GET a lower energy footprint than that as Homo Sapiens, yet they still had a challenging intellectual challenge and a body of knowledge to learn from childhood that took a lifetime to acquire.
On a Spiritual Level, we still cannot resolve fundamental existential questions, but they do provide fodder for specualtion into all eternity. Like the Holy Grail of the Perfect Chess Game, it is possible that evetually the question of the Existence of God could be resolved. I know I can debate this one into all eternity and be very entertained and have much to think on through that time.
From my POV, the people who worry about our potential for Growth in a low energy world are far too materialistic in their outlook. We still have a LOT of "Growing" to do, in our Intellectual and Spiritual knowledge and most certainly in how we organize our societies as Homo Sapiens. That THIS society with its high energy requirements and low equity will crash big time, of this I have no doubt. Like the Deer on St. Matthews Island, the 7B people currently walking the Earth will go down so fast when TSHTF truly it will boggle the mind. For those few who do remain standing though, there is much growth possible in a low energy world. IMHO, more growth possible than was achieved through all the years of the Age of Oil with all the Computers and all the Toys we have become so enamored of. The growth that is IMPORTANT is growth of Understanding, and that all happens inside the Human Mind. It may have limits, but we are nowhere near reaching them yet. The main question is whether we will ever have a chance to explore them, or if we will instead auto-extinguish our presence on the Earth and end this great experience with sentience we began so long ago. I for one hope that does not happen, but the days ahead do look dark indeed. You won't survive though if you capitulate to the Darkness, so I will carry on here as long as I can. Pass on what I can to the children I teach, and then eventually watch what comes to pass from my perch in the Great beyond, as I do now from my more limited perch on the Last Great Frontier.
|April 27, 2012 at 1:46 pm #2820
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Sorry, boyo, Ash didn't post that. And yeah, we can all wax at length on the meaning and definition of growth, but that doesn't mean it has all that much to do with the article. I think Steady State is an interesting discussion, but it's also one that I closed a while back: we're all too human to steady any sort of state. Also, I doubt that the death of 6+ billion people will leave any of us happily contemplating our spiritual growth while the bodies decay by the side of the road. But to each his/her own.
|April 27, 2012 at 8:13 pm #2825
Reverse Engineer
In the places where people will survive what is to come, there are no roads. In a generation, the dead bodies by the ring roads of the Big Shities will all be picked clean by carrion and the bones disolved into the soil beneath the cracked asphalt.
As to "all" being too human to steady state, "all" is a very big category. Australian Aboriginals stayed steady state for millenia, so did the Inuit, so did the Kalahari bushmen. In a meager environment with no surplus, nature does a fine job keeping Homo Sapiens at a steady state. By the time the Billions currently infesting the earth finish their locust like consumption frenzy, there will be no surplus left anywhere for millenia to come. It takes a LONG time to build up the kind of surplus we burned up over the last couple of centuries.
Nice to see you back at the keyboard Ilargi 🙂
|April 27, 2012 at 8:52 pm #2828
I love the chess analogy and agree with your points about spiritual /intellectual growth in a world of low material growth. It seems you and I find the most agreement when you respond to discussions that I am not even having.
|April 27, 2012 at 9:09 pm #2829
|April 27, 2012 at 10:02 pm #2831
I highly recommend reading more of Tom's stuff at his "do the math" site (http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/). He walks through the practicality of all sorts of energy problems from a physics perspective. Very educational.
|April 27, 2012 at 10:41 pm #2832
Great subject to explore.
Growth and steady state
Big question?
Did the Australian Aboriginals etc. reach a greater state of inner growth than we have with all those years of steady state?
How about the Vedic civilization?
Where has all of their wisdom been recorded?
Funny how all of this wisdom has been either ignored or trampled on by the forces of growth, greed, and by people striving for a monopoly of resources to guarantee liberty, and their pursuit of their happiness.
In a structure of finite resource, some will have less so that some may have more.
Due to genetic and environment inputs, it is not possible to extinguish "I want more".
There are many more points worthy of discussion.
|April 27, 2012 at 11:26 pm #2833
Reverse Engineer
I don't suppose you guys ever considered putting in a Byline with your articles? I never made a distinction between "autoearthadmin" and "administrator" before. Anyhow my apologies for attributing the authorship incorrectly.
|April 27, 2012 at 11:43 pm #2834
You are right about there not being a solution much of the time. Yet consider this: When there IS a solution, people don't want to hear it. I see so many people with lower middle class incomes yet living upper middle class lifestyles. You can tell them to stop spending, and save more. They won't do it. Isn't it tragic when people cannot make their mortgage payment, then tap their savings and retirement accounts, yet lose the house anyway–rather then just letting it go into foreclosure from the get-go.
We are now facing a whole new economy/lifestyle, scaled back from what we've known. Many people don't want to accept that.
|April 27, 2012 at 11:59 pm #2835
Reverse Engineer
This question is pretty easy to answer. Since they did not have writing, these cultures only preserve their knowledge through oral tradition. If you want to know anything at all about them, you have to spend time with the few who still walk the earth. You can read from anthropologists who have done this and get their interpretation, but it is second hand and filtered through their perceptions.
Future cultures working along these lines may have writing or they may not. There is certainly not going to be the reams of low acid paper around to write on as time goes by here.
|April 28, 2012 at 12:33 am #2836
I don't suppose you guys ever considered putting in a Byline with your articles? I never made a distinction between "autoearthadmin" and "administrator" before. Anyhow my apologies for attributing the authorship incorrectly.
For some odd reason, the forum goes with autoearthadmin instead of our names for topics created by us (but not anyone else).
|April 28, 2012 at 1:41 am #2837
My mistake …
The subject must be avoided … its like digging a grave ahead of time. It will cause someone's death.
|April 28, 2012 at 2:49 am #2838
Viscount St. Albans
Dear Ilargi,
Can't we sell happiness? My happiness grows when I read your black and white pixels. It's worth as much as a savory steak dinner. The secret is the management of expectations.
|April 28, 2012 at 3:01 am #2840
Jerry McManus
Excellent article, there are exceedingly few people who seem to get the "if we don't use it someone else will" dilemma. Tom Murphy is an otherwise smart guy, but unfortunately I can't help but notice that, like others in the doesn't-get-it crowd, he is deliriously entranced by so-called "renewables". The non-solution of the century.
"And then whoever's left will start all over again. At ground level. But perhaps with big dreams."
Actually, ground level might be a bit optimistic. One of the more insidious aspects of global ecological overshoot is that it not only depletes resources but it also degrades the productive capacity of the Earth; pollution, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, desertification…, you name it.
The greater the extent of our overshoot, then so too the lower the long term carrying capacity will be. Sadly, our overshoot has been going into overdrive for at least the last three decades.
The breeding pairs of humans who make it through this bottleneck will find themselves living at a level far below what may have otherwise been possible had we been even just a little bit smarter than the aforementioned yeast.
|April 28, 2012 at 3:39 am #2843
Growth and change for the individual and community have a cumulative and maturing nature. Broccoli at age 12 may be a different experience that at 24. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God" will take on different qualities throughout life, as does "To be, or not to be."
I prefer that our modern world not collapse, but there doesn't seem to be a glide path for "Voluntary Simplicity."
That recent economic growth was credit/debt driven, rather that the virtuous outcome of "The Ultimate Resouce," is a reality difficult to understand.
In many respects we are past limits, but have not recognized this. Solutions are in the past – things we should have done, or not done.
These problems don't respond to intellectual arguments, because each is underpinned by beliefs.
An objective, off world view might help us appreciate the qualities of this world's environment and the deterioration of those qualities from quantification, economics and financialization.
Intellect could take such a Spiritual perspective. It has been done in the past. It could be done today. The future could be real instead of a dream of technological singularity, when current technology is making us weaker, unhealthy and susceptible to disease.
|April 28, 2012 at 4:02 am #2845
Reverse Engineer
I don't ever see the Front Page. My bookmark is to the Recent Comments page.
|April 28, 2012 at 4:22 am #2848
My bookmark is also "Recent Comments". It seems sensible given what one has to work with.
|April 28, 2012 at 5:06 am #2851
Bot Blogger
What a fascinating interview!
Older Brother: Bobby there is no Santa.
|April 28, 2012 at 7:25 am #2853
steve from virginia
Hard to imagine any economist being clueless as the writer suggests. Check out Steve Waldman, Scott Sumner, Steve Keen, Randall Wray, Axel Leijonhufvud, Mike Konczal, James Galbraith, Umair Haque and find out what real economists have to say. Even Krugman acknowledges limits, the Austrians are all limits whose prescriptions would not allow the kinds of exponential economic growth that has taken place on monetary terms.
Thanks, straw men are not necessary, economics is hard enough as it is. Daly does not have a policy structure as his economics (and others) assume productive industries which in reality do not exist. Basically, all 'growth' assumptions are false because growth propelling agents cannot exist without continual credit subsidies.
Moving right along, the assumption that conserving agents have a competitive disadvantage is also false (and does not conform to easily observable current conditions). Non-productive enterprises waste successfully because they have created (by stealth) a credit monopoly.
The biggest problem facing the world longer-term is not growth (which is kaput, btw) but the 440 nuclear power reactors. The operational lifespan for these items is far longer than any human institutions to date. Their investment requirements are also higher than other industrial establishments. How to deal with the reactors will require social restructuring (which explains the denial).
All of our problems are human problems. They are all easy to solve (except the reactors and these are non-problematic ex-humans). We have to decide to solve them.
|April 28, 2012 at 11:08 am #2857
Reverse Engineer
MANY of our problems are Human in Origin, but not ALL of our problems are. For instance, Climate Change is unlikely to be resultant from the activity of Homo Sapiens, and much more likely to be the result of Cosmological causation and the Geological Cycles resultant from them. You can read my Geotectonic Heat Transfer Theory article to get a better idea of where I stand on the issue of Climatic Changes.
In fact, Ashvin SAID he was going to look deeper into this and debate me on it, but so far he hasn't shown up to go a few rounds in the ring with me on this one yet 😉 Since I don't play by the Marquis de Queensbury Rules, perhaps he is afraid of getting a Bloody Nose in a Bareknuckle Fight? LOL.
Just my way of calling you out on this one Ash 😉 LOL.
|April 28, 2012 at 7:31 pm #2859
steve from virginia
RE: you have to go over to Skeptical Science and make your climate change arguments there:
It's a blog much like this one. Let me know how it turns out.
Leaving out volcanoes and asteroids, that we die and are compelled by Christ to eat too much, the rest of our problems are human problems and thus easily solved because we created the problems in the first place. For instance, if the public decided to be nuclear-free, the world would be nuclear free (it would take about 200 years to become so).
Another more topical problem re- this article is the declining willingness to lend/borrow. This is because what is offered for repayment has no value.
The lending/borrowing process has stripped the world of value, what has been gained in return is transitory/abstract money wealth for a handful of robbers. We voluntarily submit to the robbers because we are afraid of violence that the robbers threaten us with. This isn't using resources to unman us, it is using the absence of resources to threaten us with more absence.
Left undisturbed the current regime will continue to unwind: fewer will lend because there is no value to obtain in the future. Nobody borrows or is able to do so because there is no net-present value: no returns to offset borrowing costs (even with negative real interest rates).
Value simply does not exist within a mature waste-based economy. Value here is capital. We not only destroy capital we have already destroyed too much capital.
Left to its own devices the credit will be stripped out of the entire industrial system which will stop working (as it requires a constant debt subsidy). That leaves the hairless monkeys with penises-in-hand and 440 conveniently located nuclear reactors boarded over with plywood making ominous ticking noises …
We have to come up with values rather than 'money'. This is easy but antithetical to the current business approach. I suspect executions of high-level robbers would help the process of creating/discovering new values along …
|April 28, 2012 at 11:12 pm #2861
A recent press release from China claimed that a wood pulp substance, cheap and abundant, can conduct electricity, making ultra-light, plastic batteries available at very low cost. I think that even if scientific knowledge could save the world, humans would continue to gang up in wolf packs to prevent any sensible use of such knowledge. The Luddites were one such pack a century ago, and others like it today defend old orders so that fundamental change cannot occur.
|April 28, 2012 at 11:17 pm #2862
Regarding your Geotectonic Ocean Heat Transfer Theory, here are my initial thoughts:
It is not really a debunking of AGW at all, but a hypothesis about an alternate source of warming. Your implication is that all of the warming data/projections can be explained by this natural geotectonic cycle, and therefore human industrial activity is not responsible and therefore would not have to be curtailed/eliminated to stop the process or mitigate the damage.
However, you don't really provide any evidence for that implication. The closest you come is making casual remarks such as these:
That is just a conclusion you have reached with regards to the heating of the oceans and the atmosphere, and the inability of greenhouse gases to significantly contribute to such heating. Do you have any credible sources to back up this conclusion? AGW proposes that GHGs both absorb and reflect back solar energy that is attempting to radiate back out into space, and a very large portion of that heat ends up in the oceans (atmospheric warming is much less, but more critical to human populations). Do you have evidence to debunk this process?
Another big issue I have with your theory is this:
Do you mean our solar system's alignment with the center of the galaxy by "galactic ecliptic"? If so, then you have a slight problem, because there is no alignment. That is just a bogus myth perpetuated by the equally bogus 2012 apocalypse/new age crowd. Similarly, the Earth is not passing through any sort of highly charged "photon belt".
This fact does not by any means destroy your theory, though. It just rules out galactic alignment as a cause of your geo-tectonic stresses. I will have to take a closer look at the specifics of this theory, your correlation data, etc. and get back to you with my thoughts later. In the meantime, I second steve's recommendation that you submit it to Skeptical Science – you will certainly get a more detailed and knowledgeable response from them.
|April 28, 2012 at 11:22 pm #2863
You guys haven't even mentioned the major reason why a steady state economy simply isn't possible – the Ponzi nature of Debt Dollar Tyranny. It has to grow or main street is monetarily sucked dry by the predatory, parasite oligarchs.
It is like a vehicle with an accelerator button and a lock wheels button – that's it.
"Why should the bankers get it all?"
|April 29, 2012 at 4:15 am #2866
Reverse Engineer
You're kidding, right? Just how many blogs do you think I can effectively Troll and moderate the Tin Foil in the Diner at the same time? Admittedly I have fast keyboard fingers, but still if I get caught up in discussion over on SS it will limit how much time I have left over to Troll Automatic Earth and Economic Undertow. LOL.
Wait…I GOT it! This is a CONSPIRACY between you and Ashvin to get me busy trolling elsewhere so I stop bugging you! LOL.
Seriously, I'll go check out the blog and see if I can't insinuate myself in there and recruit a few new Diners. Sounds like a good Blog to do some Fishing of Commenters.
This assumes "the public" has any control over this sort of thing, which it does not short of a massive Revolution and Reign of Terror where we eviscerate the bowels of all the Illuminati. "The Public" hasn't had any control over this sort of shit for a LONG time. So to say this is under "our" control exhibits a complete lack of appreciation for who actually is running this show and making these choices.
The declining willingness to lend/borrow results from the declining resource base to L&B against. You can't lend more money to buy Oil that isn't there anymore. The Lenders used their control over the Capital base of Oil to lend money to buy that which they never really had a right to. If they don't have enough of the stuff left to sell but would rather keep what is left for themselves, WTF would they lend out more money to buy it and burn it? As you yourself have noted, you cannot Repo CO2 in the atmosphere.
The submission is not voluntary, its enforced by the Gestapo all over the world. See the recent situation in Montreal. The violence the robbers threaten is very real, so in no sense is there voluntary sumbission going on here.
I agree with all the rest written above, and would just add that the Executions should be Televised and take a Full Season of Episodes to complete.
|April 29, 2012 at 4:37 am #2867
Reverse Engineer
This is a myth? You are telling me the astronomy which generates this graphic is mythical?
Based on what I know about astronomy, the Milky Way Galaxy is a relatively flat disk, and so is our Solar System. All the Planets revolve around the Sun on near the same plane, and the Sun itself does oscillate inside the plane of the Galactic Eclipitc, with a periodicity I think I recall being around 16,000 years but not sure on that number exactly and I'm not going to go Googling for it now.
It only stands to reason that in the central plane of the Ecliptic you would have the most particles, because that is of course where most of the matter got distributed out in the first place. Whatever it is the whole GALAXY is revolving around is one mighty big Gravity Well, that is for sure. What ever is in the middle there is rotating and dragging everything in the well along with it, thus you get the shape of the Galaxy as a flat disk spiral. Such a gravity well is likely to be spewing out neutrinos in vast quantities along this plane, and neutrino detectors have been showing ever increasing neutrino flux as we approach the ecliptic.
So there is EVIDENCE here of the hard science sort, which hardly makes it a mythical idea, unless for some reason you find this astronomy to be suspect and mythical itself. So please elucidate for me what is mythical about the astronomy.
|April 29, 2012 at 8:24 am #2870
Reverse Engineer
To add some further analytical depth from my end here, I republished an article I wrote in the direct aftermath of the Sendai quake which sent the Fuk-U-shima Reactors on their way to the Great Beyond.
Included in this article are further links to my discussions on the Peak Oil board during the Yellowstone Quake flurries with my friend Stormbringer and a few Geologists from the USGS and the Oil Patch.
You can read the full article at
Just trying to fill you in here Ash on a LOT of conversation that led up to this theory. It doesn't come out of thin air, and if you read all the response posts on Peak Oil, I think you will get that this has a decent amount of "peer review".
Now, once again, please justify your assertion that passing through the galactic ecliptic is a "mythical" event concocted by New Age tin foil wingnuts.
|April 29, 2012 at 10:21 pm #2876
The myth I was referring to is the one first formulated by psuedo-scientist John Major Jenkins that the winter-solistice sun (and Earth) will be aligned with the central plane of the Milky Way Galaxy on Dec. 21st, and therefore bombarded with energy/particles from the black hole in the center. The only thing remotely true about this claim is that it will appear from Earth that the Sun is close to the center of the Milky Way's "Dark Rift" for many Winters (at least 70 years), due to the Earth's tilt and the resulting view of the night sky. From the point of view of anywhere else in the solar system or galaxy, there is NO alignment of any astronomical significance.
It takes our solar system 200-250 millions years to orbit around the center of the galaxy, and about 33 million years to pass through any central plane galaxy on its orbital path (the last time this happened is estimated to be 3 million years ago, so it won't happen again for many millions of years). If there is no REAL alignment occurring, then there is no reason to think we are being bombarded by gunk from the galactic center. This psuedoastronomical myth has been perpetuated by the various 2012 "prophets" to act as some kind of support for their bogus interpretations of the Mayan calendar, Hopi prophecy, etc. See also The 2012 Deception:
|April 29, 2012 at 10:24 pm #2877
Just a report to the malthusian faction on one country.
As someone living six years SOTB, I defy anyone: come here, speak Spanish, make friends with the locals, as we have done. Make lots of friends here.
You will observe the following: one, almost everyone over sixty, particularly in the urban areas, is sick. People dying left and right of kidney failure and other organ disease. Healthy, leaner people with diabetes, having toes, limbs amputated due to the disease. Park outside any of the innumerable farmacias that have cropped up like weeds, you will see a steady stream of customers. The door practically never stays shut on busier streets. People are damned sick. Tumors this, cancer that, you name it.
Two. Five years ago we admired this trim, lean, witty hard-working people for not being like the US. You couldn't find fat people anywhere. Willowy girls with hourglass figures as slender as the average US woman's thigh. Now? I defy you to stand on any city street anywhere in Mexico and find women over 25 who are not at least fat if not obese. I mean heroically obese – lady Michelen figures, concentric rings of flab, up to candidates for burial in piano cases. Men too. Mostly the young men. This dates, of course, to the introduction of high fructose corn syrup in everything and the GMO corn getting into their tortillas. Yes, that monster corn that is said to compromise male fertility. And the men are getting fat. Park at some construction site, and observe masons hand-carrying five gallon buckets of concrete up and down scaffolding all day long… who are FAT.
This did not exist five years ago.
Five years ago you couldn't toss a cigarette butt without hitting a baby. Beautiful babies, with rapt, fixed eye contact at mere weeks of age, unlike US babies. Quietly watching the world around them. Babies in arms as common as purses.
Now? I defy you, go to any Sorianna's in any city, look around, and just try to find a baby under two years of age. Go to the infant's department, which often occupies a quarter of every Sorianna store. Witness how many people are buying baby items: usually zero. None.
You just don't see babies. Hardly ever. Rarely a pregnant girl.
Yes, malthusians, cheer yourselves on. Your globalists have done a fine job on Mexico already. All the shower of poisons are killing people off en masse and have rendered the young people sterile, thanks to this fatal and sterilizing coctail of goo that "free trade" has showered on the Mexican people.
Stamp your feet for joy! Hooray, a population destroyed! Dead people everywhere, every family busy changing colostomy bags! Wow, you've done it! A perfect malthusian world!
Oh while you're at it go have a look at the sierra – pick any. Oozing with springs. Ponds in the high places. The upper part of the country 99% empty. Good thing they killed off the people to take all the natural resources for the use of you know who, huh?
/snark. But I am not kidding. If you're worrying about population explosion, Mexico is for you. I am sorry to say.
|April 29, 2012 at 10:43 pm #2878
Of course, Joe Bageant's sickly death had nothing to do with this state of affairs, right? /snark a la volcán…
|April 29, 2012 at 10:56 pm #2879
Reverse Engineer
One more note on the shape of Galaxies and particle distribution.
Any spherical spinning object spins on just one plane about one axis of rotation. You can't make a ball spin on two axes at the same time. A large enough ball creates a gravity well, and anything north and south along the axis of rotation gets sucked into the gravity well, there is no couterbalancing force to stop that. The only place particles get ejected is along the plane of the rotation, and the only place matter doesn't get sucked into the gravity well is where there is enough centripetal accelleration to balance out the gravity, which again is along that plane. So Galaxies all tend to have these flat disk shapes to them, and the Milky Way which is our Home is typical of this.
It only stands to reason that the most particles our solar system would encounter would be during the time it is placed dead center of the flat disk on a north-south orientation to the central rotation axis of the galaxy. The day that occurs in this cycle of oscillations is on 12/21/2012, but all during the time you are moving into greater particle density. What are those particles? Neutrinos mostly, massless particles unaffected by Gravity with close to unmeasurable effects in the tiny number you usually encounter them, but if they get caught in large numbers striking massive objects, they probably do have some effect.
The other effect of being dead center of the disk is the combined gravitational effects of all the matter in the galaxy. At the center, all the forces resolve down to a single vector, essentially its everone pulling on the same rope in just one direction. This could be deforming the earth enough to create heat stress.
Finally there are the magnetic possibilities. The core of the earth is spinning metal, and creates its own magnetic field as a result. The Sun silarly has a magnetic field, and then so does the Galaxy above that, because it is also spinning. The smaller magnets all have to line up with the biggest magnet. If you move from the northern plane of the big magnet to the southern side of it, the magnetic orientation of the Earth's poles has to flip. This doesn't mean the whole EARTH flips over, just that all the little magnets inside the core have to flip over. This could create a LOT of stress in aggregate. In terms of experimental evidence, the migration of the North Pole is accelerating, up from about 4Km per year to now about 40Km per year. We know from the geologic record that the Earth flips its magnetic orientation, but the periodicity of this is irregular.
So there are likely some other effects here besides just where you sit in the plane of the big magnet determining whether the orientation flips or not. However, if we are on the cusp of a "flipping event", then this could be the reason behind core heating.
These are all the possible reasons I can think of to explain the geotectonics we see playing out here. There may be others as well, but what is undeniable is the EFFECT of more energy releasing quakes and eruptions. That energy goes somewhere, because of conservation of energy. Where it goes is into the Heat Sink of the world Oceans.
|April 29, 2012 at 11:04 pm #2880
Reverse Engineer
"Children of Men" occuring in real time.
|April 29, 2012 at 11:19 pm #2881
Reverse Engineer
So the graphic is innacurate then?
|April 29, 2012 at 11:23 pm #2882
I just explained to you why our solar system will not be in the "dead center" of this disk. We are actually moving away from the center right now. Even if we were moving into dead center, the various effects you claim are scientifically questionable at best, but we are not moving into the dead center, so the entire point is moot.
What really happens during a Geomagnetic Reversal?
"Theories concerning geomagnetic reversals have been circulating every media outlet playing to 2012 worriers and wonder-ers possible over the past few years. The name itself can be off-putting, but simply stated, a geomagnetic reversal is just that: the change of orientation (reversal) in Earth's magnetic field (geomagnetic) in regards to the magnetic north and south poles. I'm sure those of you either studying or worrying about Y2012 have wondered if we would or even could undergo a geomagnetic reversal during that time and if that reversal would cause the catastrophes the media has foretold (see the movie, 2012).
In short, the answer is no. The longer version, however, gets a bit more complex. Reversals traditionally happen every 300,000 years or so. We are now considered overdue since the last reversal was close to 780,000 years ago and is often referred to as the Brunhes-Matuyama reversal. It is not known exactly how long the reversal took, but geologists estimate the reversal took between 1,200 and 10,000 years to complete the process.
Regardless of when, it is imperative that our focus remains on the "how" when trying to negate Doomsayers. These are the people who use a base of fact to allow their own far-fetched ideas to gather power through fear, and thus validation. In regards to geomagnetic reversal as a theory to cause the devastating results we have come to expect from the Media's 2012, the loudest voice of doom come from Patrick Geryl.
Patrick Geryl believes that a Geomagnetic Reversal is directly linked to a Rotational Pole Shift. Earth's magnetic field is formed by electrical currents that are generated by motions within the fluid outer core(1). Note that it's the liquid outer core not the solid inner core that produces magnetism. Geryl seems to think that magnetism is generated at the solid inner core.
According to Geryl, these geomagnetic reversals happen like clock-work. The last being 11,803 years ago and for Braden it was about 13,000 years ago. (3) This is obviously not the case since the last reversal was known to have happened closer to 800,000 years ago then 12,000. In addition, they are hardly cyclical as the doomsayers would like you to think.
Gregg Braden writes in his books that the "falling magnetic field" is directly linked to our consciousness. When the magnetic field is weaker, we are much more vulnerable to be "changed."(2) Both Braden and Geryl theorize that these reversals are much more common than mainstream science acknowledges.
The difference between Braden and Geryl is obvious. Geryl predicts complete and utter devastation and death. Braden's theory does not advocate the selling of fear. In the end, you do not need to fear Geomagnetic Reversals. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that they cause harm to life on Earth. There is also no reason to believe that the reversal will take place in our lifetimes. These reversals take time. When a geologist states that a magnetic reversal happens rapidly, you need to realize what rapidly means to a geologist. Thousands, tens of thousand, hundreds of thousands and even millions of years can mean rapidly for a geologist. Other than having to re-orient compasses and navigational devices, life will not be affected by a reversal."
The problem is, all of those reasons amount to little more than psuedo-scientific propaganda. I think you should start thinking about other reasons for your observed effects.
I'm more than willing to consider this possibility. It's a very unique argument AFAIK, so I haven't come across anything about it one way or the other. It definitely requires further investigation to determine its relation to warming trends.
|April 29, 2012 at 11:30 pm #2883
Ethical behavior in regard to other earthlings of all species isn't optional, regardless of what economists, physicists or worshippers of unbridled predation believe.
We rediscover ethics or we die out, PERIOD.
|April 29, 2012 at 11:47 pm #2884
If you want to really have some fun with anyone doubting our rather precarious existence in one of the 4 main arms of our galactic disk, mention the dwarf galaxy that intersects with ours to rip away or destroy whole stars and associated planets continuously according to astronomers. It's called Sagittarius and it snakes around our disk at a 90 degree angle. The last time it was smaking our arm of the galaxy was about about 440 million years ago. It takes almost exactly that long for our arm of the galaxy to spin around to get smacked by the dwarf star ripper. We are due.
Don't take my word for it. Research and you'll see that the Sagittarius snake just goes loop de loop through the galactac plain wreaking absolute havoc.
|April 29, 2012 at 11:56 pm #2885
"At first, many astronomers thought that Sag DEG had already reached an advanced state of destruction, so that a large part of its original matter was already mixed with that of the Milky Way. However, Sag DEG still has coherence as a dispersed elongated ellipse, and appears to move in a roughly polar orbit around the Milky Way as close as 50,000 light-years from the galactic core. Although it may have begun as a ball of stars before falling towards the Milky Way, Sag DEG is now being torn apart by immense tidal forces over hundreds of millions of years. Numerical simulations suggest that stars ripped out from the dwarf would be spread out in a long stellar stream along its path, which were subsequently detected.
However, some astronomers contend that Sag DEG has been in orbit around the Milky Way for some billions of years, and has already orbited it approximately ten times. Its ability to retain some coherence despite such strains would indicate an unusually high concentration of dark matter within that galaxy."
|April 30, 2012 at 12:19 am #2886
Well and truly said. The irony of all this for the 'too clever by a half' elite neanderthals is that they think this witches brew of poisons from pollution and empty nutrion designed to kill off the bulk of other humans while the profits keep rolling in won't destroy them as well.
They just do not get the fact that our problem is realy lack of ethics, not lack of resources or improper tax structures.
Our present clusterf**k is the result of the celebration of unbridled predation with a total rejection of moral considerations in technology and innovation as well as social engineering.
The 'elite' are more afflicted by this condition than the masses they are killing slowly. They aren't simply carriers of the disease; they simply are the main cancer cells that will, of course, die when the 'body' they prey on (the biosphere and the earth's natural resources) dies.
|April 30, 2012 at 1:02 am #2887
Reverse Engineer
I'm not entirely bought into the 2012 hypothesis, and since there is conflicting "scientific" evidence regarding exactly where we are placed relative to the galactic center all the hypotheticals as to why the earth's core appears to be heating up are open to question.
The important question to consider from the POV of analyzing effects on Earth is whether the warming of the Oceans is derived from Atmospheric Warming or Core Heating? I think the evidence weighs heavily in the favor of Core Heating, not an Atmospheric driver. The Oceans have a MUCH larger Heat Capacity than the atmospere does, so for the Atmosphere to drive up Ocean temperatures would require a HUGE increase in atmospheric temperature, which just is not evident anywhere really. Conversely, the core of the Earth has a MUCH larger heat capacity than the oceans do, so only a small increase in the Heat radiated there would drive up Ocean temperatures quite rapidly, like turning up the burner under a pot of water on the stove.
I don't know for sure what is causing the core of the Earth to heat up, I just pitch out some possible reasons for it which may or may not be related to positioning relative to the galactic center. What I do know for sure based on graphs of Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity is that the Earth is pitching out a whole lot more energy than it was 20 years ago. Those graphs are undeniable. The relative energies compared to the burning of fossil fuels are far greater, every big quake releases energy many times that of even the biggest of Hydrogen Bombs. That energy HAS to go somewhere. That somewhere is into the Great Heat Sink of the World Oceans.
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text: Batman is a fictional character created by Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. In the original version of the story and the vast majority of retellings, Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, an American millionaire, playboy, industrialist, and philanthropist. Batman became a very popular character soon after his introduction and gained his own comic book title, Batman, in 1940. A cultural icon, Batman has been licensed and adapted into a variety of media, from radio to television and film, and appears on a variety of merchandise sold all over the world such as toys and video games. The late 1960s Batman television series used a camp aesthetic which continued to be associated with the character for years after the show ended. Various creators worked to return the character to his dark roots, culminating in the 1986 miniseries The Dark Knight Returns, by Frank Miller, while the successes of Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman and Christopher Nolan's 2005 reboot Batman Begins also helped to reignite popular interest in the character.

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I use following two methods to find files in a directory but not its
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$ find /home/jhl -type f ! -path './*/*' -name "*.c"
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so.. what's your name when you're not dressed in womens clothes? Jim? Bob? Allen?
so.. what's your name when you're not dressed in womens clothes? Jim? Bob? Allen?
Hai errbody!
I'm not sneaky enough, too clumsy to sneak around, I'd fall and break something and ruin the whole sneaking thing.
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Pirates like rain, rain likes clouds, clouds like winds, winds like hair, hair like shower, i like shower, i like pirates. How ya doing?
Sticks and stones break my bones but it's the words that make me cry.
Off-topic internet poet. Habbekrats' pet.
Thanks all. :P
I'm doing good, finally have some time to get my pokemans on and use the gifts I actually got. (3DS, woohoo!) Too bad Ocarina of Time remake comes out next month and didn't come out for my birthday, booo!
Hopefully the army will at least give you some cake?
Oh yeah, assuming that Boxxy was a fake after all? They never showed up again.
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also some random rhymes
sittin home all alone
chair is warm its my thone
a cow in the barn
claw-cut on left arm
everything at its place
feels like inner peace
sittin spittin random shit
this won't be a rap hit
like santa at christmas
this be serious business
sixhundred and four pages
me postin shit for ages
parrots on shoulder
pirate style folder
in cage a dog sittin
parrot walking dog n spittin
world turned upside down
politicians lookin like clown
digglett rockin pirate outfit
girl and a pirate so fit
dirty jesus rap twisting nipple
200g double burger or tripple
peanut jelly spread on breast
kel'thuzad making wipefest
chest hair colored pink
sounds like a gay link
to another world
layin a turd
in the bush
smoke kush
trip balls
IQ falls
and here it ends
peace brothers
Sticks and stones break my bones but it's the words that make me cry.
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Woah, exactly two years from today, wasn't expecting that. O_o
haaaaiiii, just so you can put a face to the pony
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The Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program was authorized by Congress to respond to emergencies created by natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires. The program is administered by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which provides technical and financial assistance to preserve life and property threatened by excessive erosion and flooding.
Each EWP project requires a local sponsor who applies for the assistance. A sponsor can be any legal subdivision of State or local government, including local officials of city, county, or State governments, soil conservation districts, U.S. Forest Service, and watershed authorities. Sponsors are needed to provide legal authority to do repair work, obtain necessary permits, contribute funds or in-kind services, and maintain the completed emergency measures.
What financial assistance is available?
When the State Conservationist declares a disaster, NRCS has access to Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) funds and provides NRCS the opportunities to assist local sponsors with eligible emergency needs in a timely manner. NRCS may bear up to 75 percent of the construction costs of authorized emergency measures installed. The remaining 25 percent of costs come from the sponsors. All EWP work must reduce threats to life and property plus be economically and environmentally defensible. The work must be of benefit to more than one person, sound from an engineering standpoint, and be the least-cost alternative.
What kind of work can be done?
NRCS assistance under EWP is limited to the removal of debris (broken, hanging and undercut trees) or impending debris along streams, creeks, or bridges that pose a threat to life or property. Assistance can also be provided for severe erosion along stream banks that poses an immediate danger to houses, non-federal roads and other infrastructure. Examples include debris piles upstream of bridges, fallen trees impeding the flow of water and/or causing flooding or erosion, and bank erosion that threatens homes, local roads and bridges, etc. Assistance is also available to stabilize landslides that threaten life or property. The concern and/or damage must be related to the recent ice storm/rain/snow event; however, EWP qualifying conditions may present themselves several days from now as the ice and snow continue to melt.
What are the sponsor's responsibilities?
Sponsors are responsible for providing land rights to do the repair work and acquiring any needed permits. Sponsors are also responsible for furnishing the local cost share and for facilitating the installation of work. EWP project work must be conducted under an agreement with NRCS and under very specific timeframes. For example, projects conducted under exigent situations must be completed within 10 days from the time the site is accessible, or when funding is approved.
What kind of work cannot be funded by EWP?
EWP funds cannot be used to solve problems that existed before the disaster or to improve the level of protection above that which existed prior to the disaster. Funds can not be used for operation and maintenance work or to repair private or public transportation facilities or utilities. EWP projects cannot adversely affect downstream water rights, and EWP funds cannot be used to install measures not essential to the reduction of hazards. Lastly, EWP funds cannot be used to perform work on measures installed by another federal agency or completed by the applicant before a contract agreement is executed.
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If your area has suffered damage from a storm event, you may qualify for assistance under the EWP Program. Interested parties are encouraged to contact your local soil and water conservation district or local NRCS office. The sponsor's application should be in the form of a letter signed by an official of the sponsoring organization. The letter must include the nature, location and scope of the problem for which assistance is requested. Assistance in applying for EWP is available from your local NRCS office. USDA Service center addresses, phone numbers, and facsimile numbers can be obtained at: http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app. Letters from sponsors requesting EWP assistance and containing the information listed above should be faxed to the USDA NRCS State Office or the NRCS Service Center in your county for immediate consideration.
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Abstracts on women's roles in Native American/white race riots are invited to complete a collection tentatively entitled "Rage, Resistance, and Representation: Women in U. S. Race Riots." This collection of essays will investigate the various active roles women, and particularly minority women, played in nineteenth- and twentieth-century race riots, paying specific attention to exposing the cultural fallacy of women's passivity in the public realm of violence, especially in relation to the construction of racial identity and cultural race relations.
Essays should explore the theoretical and ideological constructs (such as the lingering myth of separate spheres, perceived biological racial and/or gender difference, or the "cult of true womanhood") that proscribe and silence our cultural memory of women's participation in violent public acts in relation to race. While the essays should note the precipitating causes of the respective riots, the essays should more importantly explore the underlying cultural issues such as the control of property, the attempt to exercise various rights (such as freedom of speech or the franchise), political power or definition of the nation, etc. that ultimately fuel race riots. Essays may deal with the historical archive itself, or they may deal with fictional representations of riots in order to emphasize how women's roles have been proscribed, lauded, condemned, etc. in the cultural imagination at different historical moments by different voices. The essays should focus on race riots rather than spectacle lynchings, as the socio-cultural dynamics of the two types of events are significantly different. Finished papers should be no longer than 10,000 words and will be due tentatively August 31, 2004.
At this point, the collection includes essays from the disciplines of Literature, History, Law, African American Studies, Native American Studies, and Theater. The essays focus on a wide range of riots, from Boston in 1835, to Los Angeles in 1992. The majority of abstracts submitted in response to the original CFP investigate women's roles in Black/white race riots. Currently the only accepted paper focusing on Native American women engages the 1973 Custer, South Dakota riot, involving Sarah Bad Heart Bull and two hundred members of the American Indian Movement (the incident inspired the 1994 film Lakota Woman). I would very much like to include at least two more essays on women in Native American/white riots.
Please send 500 word abstracts by March 31 to Dr. Julie Cary Nerad via email.


text: On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza killed his mother at this home that they shared. He then took her car to Sandy Hook Elementary School where she worked and killed 26 people, including 20 students and the school's principal. It was the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.


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On Friday, May 16, 2014 at approximately 10:00 a.m. Lakeland Police responded to Lakeland Highlands Middle School in reference to a bomb threat. SRO Wesley had been informed that a handwritten note was found in the boy's bathroom in the 6th grade wing of the school. As precautionary measures, an immediate evacuation of the school was done. A PCSO K9 team responded to Lakeland Highlands Middle School to assist in the search of the grounds. The search turned up no explosive devices and the students were returned to the school at approximately 12:00 noon. The Lakeland Police Department appreciates the support of the PCSO K9 unit during the search of the school.
Through the investigative efforts of Officer Wesley, Officer Edwards and Lakeland Highlands Middle School staff, a student was arrested for Making a False Bomb Threat (felony). The student has been transported to JAC.
Lakeland Police are on scene at Lakeland Highlands Middle School, 740 Lake Miriam Drive, in reference to a bomb threat. At approximately 10:00 a.m., SRO Wesley was informed that a handwritten note had been found in a boys bathroom in the 6th grade wing. At that time, an immediate evacuation of the school was called for.
The school has been cleared and all students have been returned to the school. If parents want to pick their student up, they will be allowed to do so through the normal process.
Police are actively investigating this incident and will make charges if appropriate.
On Monday, April 28, 2014, at approximately 2:00 p.m., the victim placed her purse behind the counter at Black Swan Bizarre, 229 Kentucky Avenue. Later in the day, she realized she was missing items from her purse.
The Lakeland Police Department will join departments across the state in the Click It or Ticket Safety Belt Enforcement Wave. This enforcement wave will run from Monday, May 12, 2014 thru Monday, May 26, 2014 at midnight.
We want to remind motorists that the single best thing you can do to protect yourself and save lives is to buckle up.


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what is the abbreviation for an x-ray of the renal pelvis and urinary tract after injecting dye into a vein?
I V P (intravenous pyelogram)
what best describes an MRI
sagittal, frontal, and cross sectional images are produced using magnetic and radiowaves
what best describes a barium enema?
metallic powder is introduced to the large intestine and x-rays are taken
what best characterizes a CT scan?
uses ionizing x-rays and a computer to produce a transverse image of the body organs
medical term for a bone that is normally in contact with a joint but becomes separated from that joint causing loss of joint function.
medical term for an infection in a bone, which can lead to abscess formation and sequestrum if not properly cared for?
a tick-carred bacteria causes__?__, which is characterized by symtoms of arthritis, malaise, myalgia, and cardiovascular signs.
lyme disease
chronic, progressive, inflammatory disease of bones and joints caused by degenerative changes in the cartilage
medical term for inflammation of the joints caused by the excessive uric acid levels in the blood and joints
gouty arthritis
medical term for a benign growth filled with jellylike substance. it commonly develops on the of the wrist and may be caused by repetitive injury.
medical term for a surgical procedure necessary because of peripheral vascular disease and consequent gangrene. trauma, malignancy, or congenital defects are additional reasons.
medical term for an unpleasant sensation or complication that sometimes follows the removal of an appendage.
phantom limb
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text: Kaiser Health News staff writer Jay Hancock, working in collaboration with ABC News, reports: "Like hospital leaders everywhere, the people running Valley Medical Center in Renton, Wash., talk frequently about the need to control soaring medical costs. … But even as Valley officials talk about change, they're paying hospital CEO Richard Roodman tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses for driving the kind of profits and expansion many say are no longer affordable for patients, employers and taxpayers" (Hancock, 6/16). Read the story and related components, including a chart tracking CEO compensation, a sidebar detailing what sometimes determines a CEO's compensation, a look at some CEOs who shun bonus pay and an FAQ about the story. You can also watch the video.


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Letters to the editor: Congress not headed back to work
A perfect example of an oxymoron could be seen in the Oct. 17 edition of the Erie Times-News, whose headline stated "Back to work," referring to Congress.
What a joke that is. They will do their normal lollygagging until March, perform their usual last-minute theatrics for the camera and save us from going over the cliff.
Congress is so dysfunctional, yet so out of touch with reality, that the members don't realize that they are considered a joke. An approval rating in the single digits verifies that point.
How can we tell other countries how to run when we can't even run our own?
Rick MacerMcKean
Loyal Republican chastises party
Although I'm a staunch conservative, I must question the sanity of the Republican Party. Shut down the government for what purpose? Was there anything to negotiate, any way that the goals of stopping Obamacare were to be impacted? The sad and realistic answer is no.
The only impact was to anger the country, divide the party and cost the economy huge sums of cash. Frankly, I don't understand. As Dr. Phil would say, "What were you thinking?"
As I see it, the only hope we have of salvaging the future of our government is to stop the debt increase, get a handle on the budget and get rid of the progressive left. We all live by our budgets or end up in bankruptcy.
The progressive left, however, spends, spends and spends some more. We just passed $17 trillion in debt, folks! The likes of China are chastising us. This is a no-win proposition for our nation, which will only end in disaster.
U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly, of Butler, R-3rd Dist., and Glenn Thompson, of Centre County, R-5th Dist., had better get in touch with the electorate. Conservative or not, citizens of common sense will not put up with the nonsense.
They were elected to use their brains and not think from their posteriors. This is serious stuff; you either lead or get out of the way. The electorate will give them a pink slip and deservedly so. Take a lesson from radical Islam: You don't blow yourself up and think you will achieve your goals.
Edward T. BrennanHarborcreek
Obama doesn't show leadership
The very definition of leadership states "the action of leading a group of people." As a voting citizen of the United States of America, I now know that the leadership President Barack Obama has shown is not directed at "representing all of the people" but is selective to representing only a certain group of people.
From day one, this president has campaigned as a victim of government oversight, a person who wants to engage a certain class of people while alienating an entire other class of people.
This particular president has put aside the very basis of leadership in order to appeal to his progressive party's agenda. He has single-handedly brought the government to a standstill because he lacks leadership.
Examples of this victimized political agenda are orchestrated by the media not only nationally, but locally as well. The amount of verbal and written contempt directed at a certain political party, mainly Republicans, only reinforces this political machine's effectiveness.
If this president has shown this country anything, it will be that the phrase "represent all of the people" will no longer be in play.
Patrick D. FuhrmanErie
Knowledge of dogs inadequate
I'm writing this letter in regard to the letter from Pat Lauer ("Dog protest criticized," Erie Times-News, Oct. 13).
This person doesn't know too much about most pit bull owners, who are very responsible and respect their dogs. I'm responsible and I own three pit bulls.
Most owners respect the breed and are responsible, but there are a few owners who just own the dogs for the name and reputation. These dogs need a lot of love and attention and, like any other dog, need the right training. But in the wrong hands, they can be very dangerous.
You are welcome to come to my house and meet my three dogs. But don't come unannounced because they are very protective of their territory. Like any dog.
Robert PetersonUnion City
Please retract Kelly endorsement
The Houston Chronicle recently published on their editorial page a statement retracting its endorsement of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as a representative of Texas. The paper, Republican in editorial content, noted that "Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations" and they refer to, of course, the reckless leadership of the senator to take the country he was to honor and serve into a fiscal abyss.
The duly elected president of the United States faced a revolt that has never been seen before. The Chronicle said that Cruz used this maneuver to boost his own standing, and neglected his duties to serve the Senate.
Cruz is unfazed by such talk, but that is because his support comes not from those who elected him, but from the organizations that seek to overthrow federal power.
In the last election, the Erie Times-News endorsed Mike Kelly for the U.S. House of Representatives from our district. Kelly has been in the forefront of the House to block passage of any budget. He has compared the Affordable Care Act, the singular legislation that his party has fought to prevent, to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Rep. Kelly did nothing to prevent the country from slipping into bankruptcy except continue to insist, as Cruz has done, that passing an operable budget for the federal government would be dependent on gutting legislation that had been passed legally and tested by the Supreme Court.
In short, Rep. Kelly and his types held hostage the operation of government for changes to legislation that is irrelevant to the budget. It was simply an attempt of a coup d'etat in order to impose their pathological disdain for government.
Your endorsement of Kelly must be rescinded. If you are the "award-winning paper" that you set out to be, it is with the noblest intent that you rescind your endorsement of Kelly and his own and his party's gangster policies.
John WidnerEdinboro
Kelly's shutdown vote revealing
Our elected representative Mike Kelly was part of the group that shut down our government for 16 days at a cost of $24 billion (with a "B").
Whatever happened to his campaign plank of "cut spending"? These people received nothing for their efforts. Is that why we sent this guy to Congress? To get nothing done?
I think we need to rethink our election choices next time around and boot Kelly back to Butler and tell him to stay there.
D. WetickFairview


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text: Potatoes, leeks and a tasty pork-and-cabbage sausage: that's papet vaudois, the favourite dish of residents of the Lake Geneva Region. According to legend, this delicacy was created in the village of Orbe more than 1,100 years ago. The locals had insufficient meat to feed the king and his entourage who were passing through, so they added cabbage to the sausages to make the meat go further. The king was impressed – and the villagers had created a unique dish.


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Two of the three winners in the state's Cyber Aces Competition are from Central New York, according to a news release from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Forty people were selected from more than 1,000 candidates to compete in a virtual contest involving the same hands-on simulation the U.S. military uses to train officers in network warfare.
The winners were Kevin Stilwell, of Vernon; Dan Woodruff of Henrietta; and Mark Scrano of Manlius.
The three winners will share $10,000 in prize money awarded by Cyber Aces, according to the governor's office. The three will participate in a "Panopoly" competition at the
New York State Cyber Security Conference on June 3 and 4 at the Empire State
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having sex with a girl doggy-style in the pool, in deep enough water that she has to keep paddling to stay afloat.
"I was in the pool with Catherine, and we ended up steamboating! The huffing and puffing when she ran out of breath only made it better!"
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Can you define these popular missing words?
Like motor-boating... but with an asshole.
Bro, I was totally steamboating that girl all last night *high five*
by x3igh7 September 10, 2011
A slow and deliberate face to breast oscillating motion.
Mark Twain is slowly steam boating his way through the golden girls.
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Our Solar Purchase Program enables installation owners to sell energy output and renewable energy credits to Dominion.
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Solar Photovoltaic (PV) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems (addressed below) are the two main types of solar technology used in electric power generation.
Solar PV systems consist of interconnected PV cells that convert sunlight into electricity. Solar PV technology is found in both large-scale and distributed systems and can be implemented where unobstructed access to sunlight is available. As of 2009, solar PV comprised only 0.1% percent of total electricity generating capacity in the U.S. However, solar PV technology has continued to evolve and is one of the most rapidly growing renewable energy sectors. Continuing enhancements in inverter technology are increasing the efficiency and output of solar PV systems.
Due to the decreasing costs of solar modules and increasing standardization of installation techniques, solar resources are becoming less expensive and more attractive options. For instance, solar PV capacity increased 51% from 2008 to 2009. Additionally, federal tax credits for solar, available through January 1, 2017, have helped make this resource more cost competitive. However, installed costs can vary widely depending on system size, technology types, and site specific factors. A solar cell's output depends on various factors, such as its design and materials, the intensity of the solar radiation hitting the cell, and the cell's temperature.
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This is great for entertaining. If you leave off the anchovies it is perfect for your vegetarian guests. It is easy to prepare and wonderfully strong in flavour. You can also make individual tartlets by cutting the puff pastry into squares, rounds or rectangles. To ensure the pastry stays crisp, bake the tart directly on an oven tray rather than in a tart dish. You can also use parve puff pastry instead of all-butter.
Time: 1 hour
Serves 4 (starter) or 6 (main)
300g all-butter puff pastry
3-4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
6 red onions, finely sliced
3 white/yellow onions, finely sliced
1 tsp sugar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 egg, beaten
6 anchovy fillets
1 tbsp capers
6 olives, pitted and halved
Preheat the oven to 200°C.
Roll out the puff pastry on a lightly floured surface to create a rectangular 35 x 25cm and about 3mm thick. If you are using ready-rolled pastry then transfer the sheet onto an oven tray lined with baking parchment.
Pierce the pastry with a fork all over and leave it to rest in the fridge for 20-30 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook the onions. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan. When it is hot add the onion, sugar and a little salt and pepper. Cook on a low flame, covered and stirring occasionally, for 15-20 minutes until the onion is soft, caramelised and golden.
Remove the pastry from the fridge and brush the sides and top with beaten egg.
Spread the caramelised onion over the tart leaving a small border around the edges.
Top with the anchovy fillets, capers and olives and bake for 20-30 minutes until golden.
Serve warm.


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Original Wrestling Posters Featuring Bruno Sammartino & Andre the Giant (2)
Starting Bid - $100.00, Sold For - $232.00
In the "old days," presented on Sundays somewhere between the preliminary midget wrestling matches and the Roller Derby, gladiators of the ring squared off for the wresting "Championship of the World." Those were the days! Offered are two vintage 1970s wrestling posters headlined by two legendary pioneer superstars of professional wrestling, Bruno Sammartino and Andre the Giant. These heavy cardboard posters announce two cards from the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), precursor to today's WWE, run by the late impresario Vince McMahon, Sr. The first poster promotes a benefit card for the Humane Hook and Ladder Co. of Perth Amboy, N.J., featuring Samoan No. 1 vs. Andre the Giant (pictured), Larry Zbyszko vs. Dominic Denucci (pictured), Baron Mikel Scicluna, Johnny Rodz, and others. The second poster advertises the "Second Anniversary, Wrestling Spectacular, Boston Garden" and features the legendary Bruno Sammartino in a fighting pose with his Championship belt. Also on the card are Bull Ramos, Victor Rivera, Professor Tanaka, Eduardo Carpentier plus special midget and women's tag team events. For generations of fans who grew up watching these innocent but thrilling spectacles on late Saturday night and early Sunday morning TV, these posters will evoke strong memories. In remarkably Excellent condition with only mild shading from age at the edges, these posters harken back to a simpler age before blaring music, pyrotechnics and catch phrases, when wrestling was a guilty pleasure, and Andre and Bruno ruled the world. Each measures 26 x 17 inches. Reserve $100. Estimate $200/$400. SOLD FOR $232.00
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Ex-Nits getting into agent business
August 11, 2009 - Neil Rudel
Former Penn State players are showing up in the NFL business world.
And where would be the first place ex-Lions would go to get players? You got it.
Chafie Fields is now making his mark as an agent. He's representing Aaron Maybin, who also counts former Lion great LaVar Arrington as part of the entourage.
It's interesting since Maybin gave up not one but two years of eligibility in order to enter the NFL early. Maybin's decision turned out to be the right call financially, as he went to the Buffalo Bills with the 10th overall pick.
Arrington also left PSU early.
Keep an eye on linebacker Navorro Bowman, who will be eligible to come out early after this season.
And keep an eye on what agent winds up representing him.
Bowman has already switched his No. 18 to No. 11 -- the same number Arrington wore at PSU.


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The 2011 Edition: Why Do They Hate Us?
Even as President Obama and War Secretary Leon Panetta announce the supposed "end" of the Iraq War, a US "covert war" against Iran, as the National Journal put it in a December 4 article, has already begun.
This secret war--at least secret from the American people--is being conducted in part directly by the US, as evidenced by the advanced American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth surveillance drone just recently downed--apparently by sophisticated electronic countermeasures that allowed the taking control of, and landing of the vehicle--by Iran. Also being conducted in part of proxies, including the Iranian anti-government terrorist organization MEK (for Mujahideen-e Khalq), and of course Israel's Mossad, this dirty covert war has led to an escalating string of acts of terror inside Iran, including a campaign of assassination against Iranian nuclear scientists, and bombings of Iranian military installations.
Not content to simply engage in such illegal hostilities against a sovereign nation that has not threatened the U.S., and that in fact has not invaded another country in some 200 years, President Obama had the effrontery to demand that the Iranians return the American spy drone that they had captured--a drone which CNN says US military officials confirm was "on a surveillance mission of suspected nuclear sites" -- sites which of course could eventually be targeted for attack! (The US had earlier lied, claiming falsely that the drone had been surveilling the Iran-Afghan border and simply was lost by its controllers.)
Imagine for a moment, if you can, that an Iranian, or some other nation's, robot spy plane had been captured or shot down over U.S. territory. Imagine further the official response if the nation that owned that plane were to demand its return! First of all, Congressmembers, probably almost unanimously, would be clamoring for the US to launch an attack on whatever country launched the spy plane. But the reaction to a demand to return such a device would be truly explosive! The audacity!
Actually, you don't need to imagine. Look at the right-wing media and the official US government response to the arrest of two men in New York accused of the hard-to-believe conspiracy of planning, allegedly at the direction of Iranian government sources, to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Forget about proving that this far-fetched alleged plot was real at all, and not just another creation of some FBI informant/provocateur, or whether Iran was really behind it even if it was. There were open calls for bombing Iran immediately!
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Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
"I think the basic anti-aging diet is also the best diet for prevention and treatment of diabetes, scleroderma, and the various "connective tissue diseases." This would emphasize high protein, low unsaturated fats, low iron, and high antioxidant consumption, with a moderate or low starch consumption.
In practice, this means that a major part of the diet should be milk, cheese, eggs, shellfish, fruits and coconut oil, with vitamin E and salt as the safest supplements."
- Ray Peat
You're honestly going to tell me that 400 calories of butter in a cup of coffee is the same thing as drinking 400 calories worth of milk and maple syrup in it?
I have a tablespoon or two in coffee once in a while. I didn't think adding one of the healthiest fats around while I'm rendering myself a cup of coffee would be such a crime against nature. I'm eating something you eat, just in a different way, so it might as well be a handful of sugar?
To be fair, that cup of coffee with butter is a meal replacement and I assume your 16 calorie cup is just a cup of coffee, not your breakfast. Also, to be fair, if your 500 calorie cup of coffee replaces a bagel. cream cheese and medium soy latte with extra whip, vanilla and 3 splendas you probably are going to lose weight due to less calories consumed. Given the choice between a crappy CW sugar grain breakfast or a very fatty cup of coffee, I'd go for the coffee.I'm surrounded by people that don't grasp that simple message. I'm surrounded by people that blend half a stick of butter in their coffee and eat it by the slice and wonder why they can't seem to lose weight. And these same people would be horrified at someone putting one single 16 calorie packet of white sugar in my coffee.
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Boy has part of foot amputated in Washington Township mower accident
EDINBORO -- A 12-year-old boy had part of his foot amputated by a lawn mower this evening in Washington Township, according to Erie County dispatch.
The boy was mowing just after 7 p.m. at a residence in the 12900 block of Hill Road when his foot got caught under the mower, authorities said.
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10 Easy Ways to Add Flavor to Your Food!Kelsey Banfield
One question I am often asked is how I recommend adding more flavor to food. I am not a professional chef, of course, but I have, over time, come up with a few tried and true methods for adding flavor to our favorite dishes. Sometimes it is amazing how simple it is to brighten or lighten up a dish with just a spritz of lemon or pinch of salt. Here some of my tips for adding that extra oomph of flavor to your meal. Do you have any flavoring secrets? Please share!
10 Easy Ways to Add Flavor to Your Food
1. When baking or cooking with nuts toast them until lightly browned before using them. This brings out their flavor and makes everything taste nuttier!
2. Sprinkle some sugar over vegetables and fruits before roasting or cooking them. This helps extract their juices and flavor!
3. Cook spices in olive oil or butter before stirring them into a dish.
4. Kosher salt or fine sea salt give both savory AND sweet foods great flavor. Never underestimate how much flavor salt gives to chocolate!
5. Don't shy away from pepper, it brings out surprisingly great flavors in salads and soups.
6. A spritz of lime or lemon do wonders to flavor food. Squeeze a wedge over your meal right before serving.
7. Sear meat before baking it to seal in the juices!
8. Roast vegetables until they are deeply golden around the edges to make sure they are roasted all the way through.
9. Chop fresh herbs right before adding them into dishes so their flavorful oils are totally fresh!
10. Pan juices often contain a ton of flavor. After cooking meat deglaze the pan and drizzle the juices over your dish for an extra delicious touch!
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Argentina's Debt: Will the IMF Blink?
More than bondolders, the whole system will suffer if Buenos Aires gets the concessions it wants, says creditors' adviser Peter Allen
In the politically charged world of emerging-market debt restructurings, Peter Allen is no novice. As Bank of America's director of Latin America research, the 46-year old economist led talks with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay as those nations negotiated to restructure their debts under the so-called Brady Plan -- the system of rescheduled payments and economic reforms first laid out in 1989 under the auspices of then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady. Now an independent consultant, Allen is the special adviser to the Argentina Bondholders Committee, which represents institutional investors holding $7.5 billion in defaulted bonds.
As Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) haggle over the terms of a new loan agreement, no group has more riding on the outcome than the bondholders on whom Argentina defaulted to the tune of $95 billion in December, 2001. Whatever money will be left over to pay creditors depends on the size of the primary budget surplus Argentina negotiates with the IMF. Argentine officials have hinged the presentation of a bond-restructuring plan on the successful rolling over of their country's $14 billion tab with the IMF (see BW, 9/15/03, "Argentina's Test of Wills with the IMF").
BusinessWeek reporter Joshua Goodman recently spoke with Allen about the continuing IMF negotiations and their impact on Argentina's repayment prospects. Edited excerpts of their conversation follow:
Q: How much leverage does Argentina have in its negotiations with the IMF?
A:It appears Argentina has a great deal of leverage. Everyone agrees that Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna played brinkmanship and won when Argentina negotiated its last IMF agreement in January. By getting a deal which basically exempted Argentina from the hard fiscal and structural reforms the IMF wanted, the IMF was basically forced to show its last card, which is that it doesn't want to be defaulted on. In that sense, it's clear that the IMF needs this deal as much or more than Argentina. The IMF can't risk going into its annual meeting [Sept. 25 in Dubai] with one of its largest aid recipients in default.
Q: What would happen if Argentina defaulted on its IMF debt?
A:We would be looking at one of the most fascinating case studies in international finance in generations. The IMF has always been the lender of last resort. If Argentina were to essentially turn its back on the IMF, that whole system would come into question.
Q: To what degree are the interests of private bondholders part of the discussions with the IMF?
A:It's hard to tell. We're spectators to this whole negotiation process, like everyone else. Unfortunately the IMF hasn't consulted bondholders on what they think of Argentina's proposal for a 3% primary fiscal surplus. But if they had, we would have told them that it's too little given Argentina's outstanding obligations.
Q: How would you characterize negotiations with Argentina over the restructuring of the defaulted bonds?
A:The only thing bondholders have been asking for all along is a meaningful dialogue with the government. So far that hasn't happened.
Q: But hasn't Finance Secretary Guillermo Nielsen met several times with bondholders?
A:Yes, but he has never asked what bondholders would like to see in an eventual swap. Most of the meetings consist of unilateral promises by the Argentine government, which only delay real progress.
Q: It has been reported that Argentina will ask investors to be repaid at somewhere between 20 cents to 40 cents on the dollar. Does that seem reasonable?
A:If Argentina gets a "haircut" that big, it would completely [alter] the entire spectrum of debt forgiveness, both public and private, as we know it. During its Brady negotiations, the net present-value haircut Argentina received amounted to a 60- to 70-cent repayment on the dollar.
The largest haircut in private-debt talks ever registered was around 50%, and that was for highly indebted, low-income countries, like those in sub-Sahara Africa. Argentina, even after the devaluation, is still a middle-income country, compared to the rest of the world.
Q: Would the government's proposal that a restructured bond be pegged to Argentina's future growth appease bondholders?
A:The key to any fixed-income instrument is that it must be liquid and tradable. The problem with a bond whose coupon fluctuates according to gross domestic product is that it's too complex -- nobody knows what GDP will be, so you can't determine what the income at maturity 10, 15, or 20 years from now will be. Plus, from the markets' standpoint, the repayment risk generated by GDP performance is already worked into the price.
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2016 Tiny House RV Calendar
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Tiny House RV Photographs & Stories Are Being Released in
the "Tiny House Calendar" for 2016!
Jenna & Guillaume traveled around the United States and Canada for one year in their modified Tumbleweed Cypress. Along their journey they sought out and met other Tiny House RVers, took photos of their rigs and interviewed them about their lifestyles. Now they are putting their collection together as a calendar for charity.
All proceeds from this calendar will be donated to charities that provide tiny shelters for the homeless. These four homeless shelters will receive equal portions of the donation:
- Community First! Villages (Austin, TX)
- Quixote Village (Olympia, WA)
- Occupy Madison (Madison, WI)
- SquareOne Villages (Eugene, OR)
"Opportunity Village." A homeless community in Eugene, OR (part of SquareOne Villages)
Prices for the 2016 "Tiny House Calendar" vary from $25-$40, depending on the charitable donation. Check out all prices and calendars here: http://www.zazzle.com/tinyhouseshop
4 Customized Tumbleweeds Featured in the 2016 Calendar:
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Officials with the North Shore Fire Department said Bayshore Mall was briefly evacuated after a fire alarm on Saturday around 2:45 p.m.
A fire department official said a faulty alarm triggered the alarm.
Mall security said no one was hurt during the alarm and officials have allowed shoppers back into the mall.
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Each of these environmental kid crusaders has been hailed for making a difference. As we celebrate Earth Day 2013, check out their stories to see simple ways you, too, can make a difference.
Gabrielle Posard, 16: Founded Donate Don't Dump
Hearing that one in six Americans don't get enough to eat – while so much good food rots in landfills – "really upset me," says Gabrielle Posard, from Encinitas, Calif. At age 12, she started talking to grocers about donating food that was near its sell-by date. Since then, her group Donate Don't Dump has kept 800,000 lbs. of food from emitting greenhouse gases and provided 650,000 meals to the hungry. "What she's done is amazing," says Michael Lawson, director of a local food bank. Her explanation? "I'm pretty stubborn."
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Cassandra Lin didn't start out "green," just worried about her Westerly, R.I., neighbors who couldn't afford heat in winter. After seeing a science expo exhibit on turning old cooking oil into biodiesel fuel, she rounded up five friends to collect some. "Our first stop was a nursing home," says Lin. "The guy looked kinda surprised – I mean, we were fifth graders – but he signed up." Calling themselves TGIF ("Turn Grease into Fuel"), they enlisted a refinery and to date have donated some 21,000 gallons of fuel to 210 families. That amounts to an offset of more than 400,000 lbs. of CO2 emissions. Says Lin: "We helped solve two problems at once."
Courtesy Amy Hansen
Erek Hansen started recycling his own worn jeans at age 8 after reading how they could be made into home insulation. Then he organized drives that collected thousands of pairs, which became insulation for communities rebuilding after natural disasters. "I had no idea it would get this big," says the Curtice, Ohio, seventh grader, who shares green tips at ecoerek.org. Adds Juliana Sample, head of Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful, which promotes his drives: "He's obviously some kid!"


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CDC Supply Chain is run by Fortune 1000 companies in the US and throughout the world. Our team is committed to learn your business and your unique needs, and to use this knowledge to deliver solutions that help you succeed. Learn how global companies in a wide range of industries have used our powerful supply chain solutions and services to achieve their business goals.
Aldo uses CDC Supply Chain to Achieve Record Year
ALDO offers high-quality fashion footwear, leather goods and accessories through over 1,400 company-owned and franchised retail stores in more than 45 countries. To meet its promises to provide quality products and cutting edge trends at affordable prices, season after season, Aldo implemented a new supply chain product suite of sophisticated warehousing, distribution and event management applications.
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NIST Handbook 44
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Both NIST Handbook 44 and NIST Handbook 130 were published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). NIST sponsors the NCWM, providing the secretariat to the Conference, technical support to its committees, administration of Conference operations, and publishing. Handbook 44 and Handbook 130 are superseded annually.
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HOBOKEN -- A 14-year-old boy was caught on a balcony after pilfering some liquor from a Hoboken apartment's balcony Monday evening, police reports said.
Police were called to a Madison Street home at 10:15 p.m. where they met a 32-year-old man with a teenager who the resident had discovered holding two bottles of liquor, reports said.
The man said he was home with his wife and baby when he heard thumping noises coming from his balcony, reports said. He went outside and came face to face with the juvenile holding a bottle of rum in one hand and a bottle of orange liquor in the other, reports said.
The bottles had been removed from the
balcony of the apartment one floor above the resident who found the boy, reports said.
The mother and stepfather of the child came to the police station to pick up the boy and charges were waived on condition that the boy write an apology letter to the victim, reports said.


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Dozens of academics have hit back at an attempt to stop top Israeli scientists giving lectures about Israel's achievements to non-Jewish sixth form students.
A campaign to cancel lectures which took place at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on Tuesday and London's Science Museum on Thursday was started two months ago by the anti-Israel British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP).
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign joined in and stories appeared this week in a number of national newspapers.
The Independent made the story its front page lead on Tuesday, which prompted Jewish and non-Jewish academics to respond.
A letter, which it was hoped would be published by the paper on Thursday, read: "We were saddened by attempts to cancel the 'Israel Science Day' lectures and workshops for schoolchildren. Whatever our opinions on the actions of the Israeli government, scientists and academics should not be punished simply for their nationality.
"Science crosses borders, builds bridges and transcends national and political divides. It can unite people, but the protesters seek only to divide and exclude. At a time of high community tensions, these boycott calls are especially pernicious.
"The group of protesters peddled a discredited academic boycott inside the University and College Union, which was widely condemned as discriminatory and was abandoned. After failing in their union, they have continued the boycott campaign in wider society, trying to prevent British schoolchildren from being inspired by scientific innovation. We welcome the Science Museum's principled position in refusing to cancel this event."
Signatories to the letter included Lord May, president elect of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and a past president of the Royal Society; Lord Haskel, on the Lords committee on science and technology; Lord Winston; Baroness Deech; Prof Raymond Dwek; Lord Turnberg; Prof Sir Alan Fersht; Stephen Ladyman MP; and Tim Boswell MP, a member of the innovation and skills committee.
The two days were organised by the Zionist Federation, which brought scientists and academics from seven Israeli universities covering subjects including genetics, marine geoscience, the Large Hadron Collider, bionics and water management.
ZF chairman Andrew Balcombe said: "The ZF is delighted with how well our science day in Manchester was received on Tuesday. We are also pleased at the resolve of the science museums and the support that we have received from the Jewish and wider community, which included broader academic support."
Three hundred pupils from schools in Manchester and Liverpool attended Tuesday's event in Manchester. While they were inside the Museum of Science, a low-key demonstration took place outside, which attracted only 15 people.
After the event, Dr Alon Tal, from Ben Gurion University, said: "It was appropriate that this event should have been held in Manchester, the city that hosted Chaim Weizmann who played such a prominent role in the founding and the history of Israel. It has been a great opportunity for Israeli academics to get to know each other, too".


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Atlanta, Georgia - May 24, 2011 - Wizard's Castle HD for the iPad 2 has been featured in Apple's New and Noteworthy iPad Strategy Games list in the iTunes App Store. Wizard's Castle HD from Asgard Studios is a fun, fast paced, match and remove puzzle game. Wizard's Castle HD is available on the iTunes App Store for 99 cents. The game requires an iPad 2.
Wizard's Castle HD has 10 levels and includes Game Center leaderboards and achievements. The goal of each level is to keep the castle room from filling up with magic balls. The game also features magic gems with both good and bad powers.
Wizard's Castle HD is very re-playable. You can earn up to three stars for each level depending on your score. If you don't get all three stars you can keep replaying the level until you do.
A short video of the game play is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBXU4NhkFPo.
Asgard Studios is an Atlanta based indie game developer. Their web site is www.asgardstudios.com.
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