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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Blogging Problems
O, it's a sad state of affairs --- and my surrogate grandson (friend of grandson, whom I have to pay to help me) is off the grid at the moment. Yikes! Gad Zooks! Yikes, Again!
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The photos for your Blogger based blog are stored in Picasa online - you may want to check your Google acount at http://picasaweb.google.com/.
Good luck...what a challenging situation!ReplyDelete
Joan, I hate when things don't work. Is there any chance that your troubles started when you upgraded to the new template?? I had quite a bit of trouble on my test blog with a new template, that slide show of the flowers of Bellingrath, would NOT work on the new template. When I switched my test blog back to match my regular blog that slide show worked great. God luck getting it fixed.ReplyDelete
Joan, Everything looks fine from my side. I would freak out, because I don't know how to fix a thing. Your pale green color is so soothing on the eye. Better save up your $$ for the young man to help you out. Good luck.ReplyDelete
Joan, sometimes I've noticed that a photo doesn't load, just the space is there for it, and if I reload the page, then I can see it. This morning your post with the Ancestor Award has FOUR copies of the image showing up at the beginning of the post. Hope this info will help you figure out what's going on.ReplyDelete
Wish I could help! Everytime I re-decorate my blog, something either gets lost or moves to a new spot. Hope you get it figured out without having to fork over moolah!ReplyDelete
Any improvement in your blogging sitution?ReplyDelete
Dorene, thanks for asking. The situation remains the same, but it appears that it is an issue with Google/Blogger/Picassa. I have reported the problem to Google --- an for a number of people the situation has been resolved --- I don't know exactly what that means. I really dinna want to have to deal with this sort of stuff --- but...ReplyDelete
I'd been experiencing problems posting photos. The window keeps closing on me! However, it seems to be working this week, and I haven't changed a thing at my end. Don't you wish there was an 800# so we could call and have someone walk us through these problems?ReplyDelete
I agree, I wish there was more of a way to contact them, and or a place like this little comment area where a discussion like this can take place. I know they have that long full 'group thing'. And I really mean other than our blogs. For me that is the greatest part of belonging to a group of Bloggers where this kind of stuff can be chatted about with each other.ReplyDelete
I had problems too, but eventually it worked.


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Former Major Leaguer Rips Billy Beane, "Moneyball"
I've made it clear over the years what a joke I think Moneyball is, both the book and the philosophy.
The book, because it pretends like the Oakland A's have come up with something unique and brilliant, when in fact a lot of what they do is also done by other organizations. Some parts of the book have proven to be fictional, confirmed by A's GM Billy Beane himself. And the more extreme among the stathead movement have deified Beane as some sort of baseball god, with Moneyball the bible of their religion.
The philosophy, because it doesn't work.
The latest example of that is in a column by Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Doug Krikorian. He quotes at length former major leaguer Ed Crosby, the father of A's shortstop Bobby Crosby.
You can click on the above link and read the article yourself. This part I found particularly noteworthy:
"The A's take the bats out of their players' hands from the time they're in the minor leagues," he says. "Bobby was taught always to take the first pitch. They take all the aggressiveness out of their players. Look how much better guys like Eric Burns and Nick Swisher and Marco Scutaro have become once they got out of Oakland. …
"I love the way Mike Scioscia has the Angels playing. They're so aggressive both with their bats and with their baserunning. They're always attacking. That's not the case with the A's." …
It reminded me of a rookie Arizona League game I saw a few years ago between the Angels and A's. It was clear that no A's batter would be allowed to swing at the first pitch, so the Angels' starter that day simply threw Strike One after Strike One after Strike One. The A's were shut out that day.
Rookie games against A's teams have seemed different in the last couple years. I've noticed they seem more aggressive than they used to be. They're bunting, they're stealing bases, they're even swinging at the first pitch.
So maybe Moneyball has been tossed into some green-and-gold trash can in the Oakland front office.
And as of this writing, the Angels are 19½ games ahead of the A's in the standings.
Which is the only stat that matters.
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Where do you think the GM's who use statistical methods learned how to do it? Most of them worked for Billy in the A's organization.
As for Doug Krikorian's article, Ed Crosby didn't help his son's career by venting to the press, just like Bobby Crosby has done as well. It is very shortsighted and stupid because it brands him as "not a team player" and teams are very leery of players who spout off to the media. He will have a hard time finding a decent job for 2010 and he certainly won't get anything like the $5.3 Million the A's are paying him this year. For more on this, check out my blog at http://contractyear.mlblogs.com
Most of them? After the 4 we all know, who are the rest?
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"Where do you think the GM's who use statistical methods learned how to do it? Most of them worked for Billy in the A's organization."
You're not seriously suggesting that Beane invented use of statistics, are you?!
That's one of the biggest canards of "Moneyball." It falsely claimed that Beane was the one who trailblazed the use of "statistical methods."
Well, I have news for you. All organizations use stats, and they were doing it well before Beane.
For example, Mets manager Dave Johnson used computer stats in the 1980s. Here's a 1985 article from the Los Angeles Times:
Though a product of old-school, Oriole fundamentals, Johnson is well-versed on baseball's modern theories.
Among the books neatly lined on a shelf in his office are "The Hidden Game of Baseball" and "Percentage Baseball," which may account for his chatter about sine curves, parabolas, trends, probabilities, and favorable chances.
It is a bent that used to infuriate his Orioles manager, Earl Weaver, and caused his Baltimore teammates to playfully nickname him "Dum Dum."
"He had ideas that nobody understood, and worded in a language of an MIT professor. It's only now we realize that Davey was ahead of his time," said Orioles' scout Jim Russo, who signed Johnson to his first professional contract.
When Gene Mauch managed the Angels in the 1980s, he often batted Brian Downing leadoff because he had a high OBP, not because Downing could steal bases.
Beane did nothing unique, other than let a writer publish a book about him that was filled with blarney.
You clearly did not understand what Moneyball was about, and I would not be surprised to learn you've never even read the book. It's not about using statistics, or a certain statistic, or using computers or spreadsheets. And it's not about a philosophy.
First of all, even though the main character is the GM of a baseball team and "ball" is in the title, Moneyball isn't really about baseball. It's a business model, baseball is just the backdrop. Author Michael Lewis has previously written about Wall Street (Liar's Poker, which isn't about the card game) and Silicon Valley to give you an idea of his subject matter. The point of the book is to provide an example of how a business can succeed by taking advantage of undervalued aspects of their industry despite not having the financial backing of the other businesses with which it competes.
Despite Mauch's leading off with Downing, prior to Moneyball on-base percentage was not widely used by baseball teams to evaluate players. Now it is. You may have read somewhere that the Angels league-leading run total this season has been attributed by an organization-wide emphasis on plate discipline, after Scioscia noticed some disturbing trends with the younger players in the system.
However, contrary to popular opinion, the A's are not obsessed with OBP, and have tried to find other things along the way to get by, with varying degrees of success. They have sought players who are skilled on defense (which used to be but is no longer undervalued), cheap injury-prone players (which backfired) and the aging veteran (mixed reviews at best).
But the insinuation that the A's have not had any success under this model is simply ignorant. Here are some easy-to-understand facts:
Here is a list of the most wins by team from 2000-2008. The number in parentheses is the total payroll during those nine seasons divided by wins, or, what each team paid in player salaries per win:
Yankees – 862 ($1,705,091)
Red Sox – 825 ($1,268,507)
A's – 815 ($565,185)
Cardinals – 814 ($926,304)
Braves – 806 ($1,015,666)
Angels – 803 ($958,848)
White Sox – 778 ($871,276)
Twins – 776 ($563,214)
Dodgers – 767 ($1,175,537)
Giants – 767 ($921,854)
So is Moneyball still a joke? Because something seems to have been working up there. The real joke is putting too much stock in the ramblings of a bitter ex-player who seems to think his bitter son is a better baseball player than he really is.
You probably read a different book.
Apply what you want to what you want but the book isnt as smart as you think.
Baseball was heading in this direction regardless.
You made some nice little passive aggresive digs in your post. Way to go.
What's it like to always be right?
The Beane worshippers have become so predictable. Inevitably they always begin with the lame accusation that I haven't read the book, because in their mind the book is so obviously the literal truth of God that it's impossible for anyone to read it and not immediately hear angels singing from the heavens.
Well, I did read it years ago when it came out. I have it on my shelf. Here's proof … Bottom of page 52, the last paragraph begins:
"Inside baseball, among the older men, that was the general consensus: Billy Beane's failure was not physical but mental."
I read the book on a cross-country flight, and by the time I arrived at the airport I was sorely tempted to throw it in the first trash bin I saw walking off the plane. People inside the game know it's bunk.
The book's core is about the 2002 draft. If that draft was so magical as claimed, the A's wouldn't be in last place and dropping like a boat anchor to the bottom of the sea. Seven years have passed. If "Moneyball" was so amazing, if Beane was so brilliant, the 2002 and subsequent drafts should have manifested themselves in the majors with a winning ballclub. The exact opposite has happened.
Which brings us to the next apologist claim, that if only Beane had the same money as the Yankees or Red Sox or Angels or (… go on to name all 29 other teams in baseball) his genius would be obvious. Well, money is no excuse. Tampa Bay went to the World Series in 2008 with the lowest payroll in the league — because they built their organization the right way. They've done right over the years what the A's did wrong over the same period of time, and with as little money as the A's.
Beane's worshippers are running out of ammo. A once-proud organization is in the toilet, just as I predicted it would be years ago when "Moneyball" was published. And that's the one truth that they can deny but those of us based in the real world know for a fact.
By the way, if anyone wants to read the TRUE story of baseball and statistical research, I strongly recommend "The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics," by Alan Schwarz. (ISBN 0-312-32222-4.) His book was published in 2004, a year after "Moneyball." I suspect Schwarz wrote it to set the record straight, to expose the blarney in "Moneyball."
Regarding the A's, you find out that Beane inherited statistical tools used by his predecessor Sandy Alderson, and those came from a former aerospace engineer turned NPR free-lance correspondent named Eric Walker he hired in 1982 to develop baseball metrics.
To quote from Page 217:
Every baseball fan has heard of the "On-Base Revolution"; dozens of newspaper articles have reported it, while Michael Lewis's "Moneyball" introduced the world at large to A's GM Billy Beane, the movement's modern leader. But its genesis has drowned in a brew of hype and misunderstanding. Beane carries the torch today, yes. And Bill James played his role. But from the inside, within baseball's conservative front offices, it was an NPR radio guy whose belief in on-base percentage taught a very old dog some very new tricks.
So as I've said over and over, "Moneyball" is bunk. The only thing Beane did was destroy Alderson's well-oiled player development machine by conducting a mad scientist experiment.
The A's had the third most wins in baseball from 2000-2008. Calling that impressive is not deifying Billy Beane. Suggesting they accomplished that despite Billy Beane is sort of foolish. Saying that payroll is not a factor is beyond foolish. But it's not surprising, because you obviously look for reasons to take digs at Beane. I mean, that's the entire point of this blog post.
Here's some more "ammo": The A's set a team record for most injured players last season, after almost setting the record the year before. And they did not handle it well at all. Instead of filling holes with dudes off the scrap heap, they unwisely brought up players who were not yet ready, or were not good, and that's had a ripple effect throughout the organization. That was Beane's fault, and they're still wiping themselves off because of it.
You want to give Billy Beane credit for the A's success early in the decade when the truth of the matter is that the credit should go to his successor, Sandy Alderson. He resigned in September 1998, which is when Beane took over.
As "Moneyball" documents — or at least claims — Beane made no significant overhaul until 2002. It would take years for any GM's imprint to be seen on the parent club, unless it was a massive overhaul like Bill Stoneman did when he took over the Angels in late 1999. Stoneman replaced the manager, most of the coaching staff, the scouting director, many scouts, the farm director, and several managers/coaches in the farm system. Did Beane do that? No.
The "Moneyball" imprint would be seen in the latter half of this decade, which coincides with the decline and fall of the parent club.
How can you base an argument using points from a book that you say is, at least in part, fictional?
I'm also a bit confused by your attribution of success. Let me get this straight. It was Sandy Alderson's ideas and work, and not Billy Beane, and I should be giving all the credit to Alderson? I was under the impression that no one deserved credit, because the philosophy "doesn't work."
While there are definitely people who give way too much credit to Beane and blindly defend him, you seem to be an example of a person who does the opposite.


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By Baxter Black: PNT columnist
When we talk about someone being "over-prepared," we think of a person who is very thorough and able to handle all possible contingencies. It is a good habit to have especially if you are someone who regularly messes up and therefore must be ready to respond when you over-mess up.
A case in point: My friend Robin qualifies as this particular trip illustrates.
He left the Coachella Valley headed west on California Highway 91 in his newly acquired 20-year-old pickup. It was pulling a slightly older 16-foot C&W stocktrailer missing two rails with one new tire and two horses on board.
Traffic was heavy. A motorist passed him on the left and pointed behind. Robin looked in the side mirror to see black smoke boiling from beneath his trailer's left wheel well.
As he watched, the tire exploded. Pieces of tread and sidewall filled the air as if he had hit a land mine.
"No sweat," he thought, taking full control. "I've been here before. I've got a spare."
It took him another 100 yards to maneuver the limping rig onto the narrow shoulder and stop. Walking sideways against the whizzing traffic, he examined the naked rim.
Out of his emergency supply box he extracted a Jiffy Jack and pulled the trailer up on it. "So far, so good!" he thought, smiling.
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HCC's Upward Bound Program growing in numbers
HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Since Hagerstown Community College received a $1.25 million U.S. Department of Education grant to start an Upward Bound program in the fall of 2012, 48 local high school students have been recruited to participate.
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Four area high schools have been selected to participate, and each school has a teacher in the role of Upward Bound coach to help mentor students and serve as the liaison between their school and HCC. The coaches are Tracy Rider at Hancock Middle Senior High School, Beth Hoffman at North Hagerstown High School, Kimberly Toms at South Hagerstown High School and Robert Rubeck at Williamsport High School. Students at these schools, in grades eight through 12, continue to be recruited to participate in the program. The Upward Bound program will serve 70 students annually.
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30 Sep 2014:
Half of the Planet's
Animals Lost Since 1970, Report Says
The number of animals on the planet has fallen 52 percent in the last 40 years,
according to an analysis
Animal population trend since 1970
the conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The group's Living Planet Index, which tracked the populations of more than 10,000 vertebrate species from 1970 to 2010, revealed major declines in key populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. The situation is most dire in developing countries, the report said, where wildlife populations have fallen on average by 58 percent. Latin America saw the biggest declines, with more than 80 percent of the region's animals lost since 1970. Globally, freshwater populations have plummeted 76 percent. This year's numbers are worse than those calculated in the last report in 2012, which found declines of 30 percent since 1970. The organization attributed this to new statistical weighting, which it said better represents each region's biodiversity, though other researchers
have been critical
of the new methodology. Habitat loss and degradation was cited as the primary cause of biodiversity loss.
24 Sep 2014:
Nations Announce Agreement
To End Forest Loss by 2030 at UN Summit
The U.S., Canada, and the European Union agreed at yesterday's UN climate summit to cut global
Deforestation for palm oil in Malaysian Borneo
deforestation in half by the end of the decade and eliminate net forest losses entirely by 2030, marking the first time such a deadline has been set. If the goal is met, it will cut carbon emissions by an amount equal to taking 1 billion vehicles — every car on the planet — off the road,
the UN said
. Notably missing from the list of committed countries was Brazil, which has been a key player in Amazon deforestation, because of concerns that the pledge would clash with national laws permitting managed deforestation. Critics say ending deforestation is nearly impossible without Brazil's cooperation. In addition to the 32 national governments that signed onto the declaration, 35 corporations, including Kellogg's, L'Oreal, and Nestle, pledged to support sustainable forest practices in their supply chains.
19 Sep 2014:
Global Population on Track to
Reach 11 Billion by 2100, Researchers Say
A new analysis of United Nations global population data finds an 80-percent probability that the number of
Global population trend
people in the world, now 7.2 billion, will increase to between 9.6 and 12.3 billion in 2100. Published in the journal
, the study counters the widely accepted projection that global population will peak at roughly 9 billion by 2050, then gradually decline. The new study instead finds a 70-percent likelihood that population will grow continuously throughout the century to reach 10.9 billion by 2100. Researchers attribute the higher projections, in part, to increasing fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa, where population growth had been predicted to continue slowing.
The Guardian
notes that many widely cited global policy assessments, such as recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, assume a population peak by 2050.
17 Sep 2014:
Shift to Mass Transit Could
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cities could save $100 trillion and cut transportation-related carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2050,
according to
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Renowned chef Dan Barber is synonymous with the farm-to-table movement. His two New York restaurants
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08 Sep 2014:
U.S. Dietary Guidelines Would
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Following U.S. federal guidelines for a healthy diet is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions, even though the guidelines recommend a diet with less meat than the average American currently consumes, according to a recent analysis in the
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02 Sep 2014:
Six Strategies Could End
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Global water stress could be alleviated by the year 2050 if countries work to implement six key strategies
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Strategies for reducing water stress vary by area.
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26 Aug 2014:
Meat Production, Especially
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Global meat production has expanded more than four-fold over the last 50 years — and 25-fold since
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Worldwatch Institute
. Consumers in industrial countries still eat much larger quantities of meat (75.9 kilograms per person) than those in developing nations (33.7 kilograms), though that gap is beginning to close, the report says. Nearly 70 percent of the planet's agricultural land and freshwater is used for livestock, with additional land and water used to grow grains for livestock feed. Beef production alone uses about three-fifths of global farmland and yields less than 5 percent of the world's protein, according to the report.
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15 Aug 2014:
New Citizen Science Software
Aims to Document and Curb Illegal Fishing
Citizen scientists can now report — and potentially help stop —
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24 Jul 2014:
Protecting Community Forests
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Expanding and strengthening the community forest rights of indigenous groups and rural residents can make a major contribution to sequestering carbon and
The Brazilian Amazon
reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, according to a
new report
. The
World Resources Institute
(WRI) and the
Rights and Resources Initiative
said that indigenous people and rural inhabitants in Latin America, Africa, and Asia have government-recognized rights to forests containing nearly 38 billion tons of carbon, equal to 29 times the annual emissions of all the world's passenger vehicles. By enforcing
community rights to those forests
, the study said, governments can play a major role in tackling climate change. In the Brazilian Amazon, for example, deforestation rates are 11 times lower in community forests than in forests outside those areas. In areas where community forest rights are ignored, deforestation rates often soar. The report made five major recommendations, from better enforcement of community forest zones to compensating communities for the benefits their forests provide.
Read more.
23 Jul 2014:
"Inglorious" Produce Campaign
Is Major Success for French Grocer
A major French grocery chain, Intermarche, has launched a
novel campaign
to curb
food waste
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"Grotesque Apple" poster
market visually flawed produce. The "Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables" campaign aims to revamp the image of imperfect and non-conforming produce, much of which is thrown away by growers because it doesn't meet grocery retailers' standards. Intermarche began welcoming the "Grotesque Apple," "Ridiculous Potato," "Hideous Orange," and other infamous items to its shelves, created posters to explain that the produce is as nutritious and flavorful as the more attractive versions, and reduced prices by 30 percent. The campaign was an "
immediate success
," Intermarche says: Stores nationwide sold 1.2 million tons of "inglorious" fruits and vegetables in the first two days, and overall store traffic increased by 24 percent.
15 Jul 2014:
California Agriculture Relying
Too Heavily on Groundwater in Drought
California's agriculture industry is relying too heavily on groundwater to irrigate drought-stricken farmlands — a trend that will not be sustainable long-term, according
Central Valley orchard
a study
by the University of California, Davis. The drought, which is the third most severe on record, is responsible for the greatest water loss ever seen in California agriculture, with river water for Central Valley farms reduced by roughly one-third, the study found. Groundwater pumping will likely replace most river water losses, and some areas have more than doubled their pumping rate over the previous year. If the drought continues for two more years, the report says, groundwater reserves will continue to be depleted to replace surface water losses and pumping ability will slowly decrease, which could affect crop production. So far in the current drought, 428,000 acres of cropland — roughly 5 percent — has been made fallow across the Central Valley, Central Coast, and Southern California.
09 Jul 2014:
One-third of German Power
Came from Renewables in First Half of 2014
Thanks to abundant sunshine and wind, renewable energy
generated 31 percent of Germany's electricity
in the first six months of this year, according to a new report. The
, released by the Fraunhofer Insititute, said that 27 percent of the country's electricity production came from wind and solar, and four percent from hydropower. Solar power generation grew by 28 percent in the first half of 2014 compared to the first six months of 2013, and wind power grew by 19 percent over the same period. On a couple of particularly windy and sunny days in May and June, renewable energy accounted for 50 to 75 percent of Germany's electricity production, the report said. The Fraunhofer Institute said that as Germany continues to phase out its nuclear power plants, it remains
reliant on highly polluting "brown coal"
to produce electricity. A substantial portion of German coal-generated electricity is being exported, the report said.
01 Jul 2014:
Small Island Nation of Kiribati
Purchases Foreign Land as Climate Refuge
The small island nation of Kiribati has purchased a swath of land in Fiji as a refuge for citizens who may be displaced by rising sea levels, marking the first time a
Kiribati's location (red) in the Pacific Ocean.
country has taken such actions as a defense against climate change, the Guardian
. Kiribati, home to 110,000 people scattered across 33 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is one of several small island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans that could be extensively or completely submerged within a few decades. The cost of protecting such countries often far outweighs their national incomes. Kiribati, with a GDP of under $200 million, ranks among the 10 countries facing the most severe financial impacts of climate change. The tract of 20 square kilometers on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji, could provide a future refuge for all of Kiribati's citizens, the nation's president said.
27 Jun 2014:
Going Vegetarian Could Halve
A Consumer's Food-related CO2 Footprint
A new study of more than 50,000 people in the United Kingdom shows that going vegan, vegetarian, or even "pescatarian" can
drastically reduce
people's carbon footprints. Published in the journal
Climatic Change
, the study concluded that if people eating more than 100 grams of meat a day went vegan, their food-related carbon footprint would shrink by 60 percent. If a person eating more than 100 grams of meat per day — and U.S. consumers eat about 225 grams daily — cut down to 50 grams per day, their food-related CO2 emissions would fall by a third, the study said. Pescatarians, who eat fish but no other meat, generate only 2.5 percent more CO2 emissions than vegetarians, according to the study. The research also concluded that vegans produce 25 percent fewer CO2 emissions than vegetarians, who still eat eggs and dairy. "In general there is a clear and strong trend with reduced greenhouse gas emissions in diets that contain less meat," said Oxford University researcher Peter Scarborough, a co-author of the study.
06 Jun 2014:
Brazil Leads the World
In Cutting Deforestation, Analysis Finds
Brazil has become the world leader in reducing deforestation and, at the same time, has increased its soy and beef production,
researchers report
in the
Amazon rainforest near Manaus, Brazil
. The country has cut its forest loss by 70 percent since 2004, sparing more than 86,000 square kilometers of rainforests and keeping more than 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Brazil's decline in deforestation in 2013 alone represented a 1.5 percent reduction in global emissions that year, the report says; globally,
tropical forest loss
accounts for 15 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions. The analysis credits the success to bold government policies, pressure from environmental groups, and market fluctuations in the price of soy and beef, but the authors warn that these wins may be short-lived without more positive incentives for farmers. "These gains are globally significant, but fragile," one researcher explained. "We're bumping up against the limits of what can be achieved through punitive measures."
29 May 2014:
Electric Airplane Debut
Offers Hopes for Cutting Emissions
The aircraft manufacturing giant Airbus
recently unveiled
a fully-electric aircraft which, if widely adopted, could reduce the aerospace industry's carbon
The recently debuted, fully-electric E-Fan
dioxide emissions by an order of magnitude. The E-Fan aircraft has two, 30-kilowatt electric motors powered by a series of lithium-ion batteries in the wings of the plane, as well as a 6-kilowatt electric motor in the wheel to provide extra power during takeoff and taxiing. Despite incorporating highly energy-efficient and aerodynamic design elements, however, the E-Fan has only a one-hour range and cannot leave the vicinity of the airport. Airbus says that future designs will rely on electric-hybrid engine technology and that by 2050 such airplanes should be able to accommodate 70 to 80 passengers on a three-hour flight. The plans were spurred, in part, by the European Union's
Flight Path 2050
, which aims to reduce the aviation sector's nitrous oxide emissions by 90 percent, noise pollution by 65 percent, and carbon dioxide emissions by 75 percent by 2050. "It's a very different way of flying," said Jean Botti, a technology officer at Airbus Group, "absolutely no noise, no emissions."
22 May 2014:
Donors Commit $220 Million
To Protect and Expand Huge Amazon Reserve
A coalition of private donors and government funders
has pledged $220 million
over the next 25 years to better protect the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA), the world's largest protected area network. WWF, the World Bank, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, and more than a dozen other donors are contributing funds to the initiative, which also will add another 8.9 million hectares of Amazon rainforest to the
ARPA program
, driving the total to more than 60 million hectares. That's 232,000 square miles, an area larger than France. Most of the funds will be used to better police and enforce environmental laws on ARPA territory, which includes 90 parks and comprises 15 percent of the Brazilian Amazon. "The explosion in demand for natural resources has made our parks and world heritage sites vulnerable," said WWF president Carter Roberts. The initiative is also upgrading long-neglected parks and creating sustainable-use reserves for local communities and indigenous people.
22 Apr 2014:
Run-of-River Hydropower Set
For Big Gains, Turbine Maker Predicts
A type of hydroelectric technology known as "run-of-river" hydropower is set to grow
10-fold over the next decade
, potentially becoming a $1.4 billion industry,
Hugh Keenleyside Dam
according to Dutch turbine maker Tocardo International BV. Run-of-river hydropower stations redirect part of a waterway through a diversion to spin turbines and generate electricity. Run-of-river is considered a more benign type of hydropower than large dam projects because it is a smaller-scale technology that doesn't create large upstream reservoirs that flood ecosystems and disrupt a river's natural flow. Some
conservation groups are concerned
that problems with migratory fish passage and other environmental issues could outweigh the power-generating potential of run-of-river hydro projects. The company implemented its first project to harness tidal streams at Den Oever, Holland, and it has been operating for five years.
A Personal Note on Peter Matthiessen,
Who Wrote Eloquently of the Natural World
For an editor, the prospect of working with Peter Matthiessen was intimidating. He was one of our finest writers, and he wrote with such poetic precision and lyrical grace that at first it felt presumptuous to propose
Peter Matthiessen
any changes to his writing at all. That feeling was heightened by his strong physical presence — an odd mix of Manhattan patrician, rugged outdoorsman, and Zen priest (all of which he was). And yet when I worked as his editor on several magazine articles in the 1990s, it was an immensely satisfying experience. He listened Zen-like, carefully considering all my editing suggestions (with him, they were
only), and to my delight, accepted almost all of them. Matthiessen died on April 5 at the age of 86, near the Long Island waters he so loved to fish.
Read more of
editor Roger Cohn's appreciation of Matthiessen.
25 Mar 2014:
Consumer Products Giants
Commit to Deforestation-Free Palm Oil
Two major consumer products companies — General Mills and Colgate-Palmolive —
have committed
to using palm oil in their products that does not come from lands cleared from tropical forests, adding to the wave
of corporations that have pledged measures to protect southeast Asian rainforests. The consumer giants' new policies go beyond standards set by the industry's main certification body and include provisions to protect wildlife-rich rainforests, carbon-dense peatlands, and the rights of local communities. Environmental groups are welcoming the commitments, though some believe the companies' pledges should go further. The Union of Concerned Scientists questions General Mills' definition of "high carbon stock" forests, while Greenpeace is urging Colgate-Palmolive to move implementation up to 2015 from 2020. Environmental groups are hopeful that new commitments will pressure Proctor & Gamble, the last remaining consumer products giant without a similar pledge, to adopt deforestation-free palm oil policies.
An e360 Interview with Wendell Berry:
Strong Voice for Local Farms and the Land
Author Wendell Berry wrote about and practiced "sustainable agriculture" long before the term was widely used. His early writings in the 1970s, in which he argued against industrial agriculture and for small-scale, local-based farming, strongly influenced the U.S.
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Wendell Berry
environmental movement. At age 79, Berry still speaks eloquently about the importance of local communities and of caring for the land, while warning about the destructive potential of industrialization and technology. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, he talked about his Kentucky farm and why he has remained there, why sustainable agriculture faces an uphill battle, and why strong rural communities are important. "A deep familiarity between a local community and a local landscape is a dear thing, just in human terms," Berry said. "It's also, down the line, money in the bank, because it helps you to preserve the working capital of the place."
Read the interview.
21 Feb 2014:
Rewritable Paper and Water Ink
Could Cut Paper Waste, Scientists Report
A new type of rewritable paper that uses water as ink could slash the amount of paper that's wasted daily,
researchers say
. The paper contains hydrochromic dyes — chemicals that change color when wet — and a single
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page can be reused dozens of times, the scientists report in
Nature Communications
. Other types of rewritable papers have been developed, but they are all more expensive and energy-intensive to produce, and some versions use inks that pose environmental and safety hazards. The new system costs less than 1 percent of standard inkjet printing, the researchers estimate, primarily because ink cartridges are expensive. The researchers found they could refill cartridges with water and use them, along with the rewritable paper, in typical desktop printers. Print on the rewritable paper is only visible for about 22 hours, or as long as it takes the paper to dry completely. The scientists note that, while 90 percent of business information is retained on paper, most printed documents are read only once before being discarded.
11 Feb 2014:
Shrinking Household Size
May Offset Progress in Curbing Population
Household size — the number of people living together under one roof — has been shrinking worldwide, and the trend could have major consequences for
resource consumption
, new research
. Although global population growth has been somewhat curbed in the developed world, the number of households has continued to grow at a much faster pace in nearly all countries, Michigan State University researchers found. Average household size in developed nations declined from approximately five members in 1893 to 2.5 in 2000, while the rapid decline in household size in developing nations began around 1987,
according to the research
, which analyzed trends between the years 1600 and 2000. Smaller households are typically less efficient, with fewer people using proportionally more land, water, and energy. Constructing housing units also consumes lumber and building supplies, and generally requires building more roads and commercial areas. "This will put enormous strain on the environmental life support system we rely on, even if we achieve a state of zero population growth," one study author said.
Photo Essay: In New Orleans, an
Architect Makes Water His Ally
Dutch Dialogues II
No city in the United States faces as grave a threat from flooding, hurricanes, and rising seas as New Orleans, part of which lies below sea level. But New Orleans architect
David Waggonner
and his associates,
learning lessons from the Dutch
, have proposed a revolutionary vision for New Orleans that seeks to make an asset of the water that surrounds the city, remaking unsightly canals into an important and scenic part of the landscape and mimicking nature to store rainfall. Waggoner's firm has been chosen to help develop a
Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan
, a first step in what could be a multi-billion dollar project to redesign the ways in which the region co-exists with water. "To sustain the city in this difficult site in an era of rising seas and more extreme weather, we must convert our necessities into niceties, into desirable places that connect with people and culture," Waggonner says.
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23 Jan 2014:
NASA Images Show Severity
Of California's Record-Setting Drought
A pair of NASA images, taken a year apart,
show the profound impacts
of California's current drought, which Gov. Jerry Brown said yesterday
poses a major threat to California's environment
and economy. A satellite image taken last Saturday shows virtually no snow cover
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California has almost no snowpack this January.
in the Coast Range and Cascade Mountains, and only a modest amount of snow in the Sierra Nevada. Officials say the snowpack is only 10 to 30 percent of normal levels. In addition, California's vital agricultural areas in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, which lie west of the Sierra Nevada, are a parched brown. By contrast, a satellite image taken in January 2013 shows significant snowpack in the mountains and a swath of green in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Half of California's yearly precipitation falls between December and February, so January's record dry conditions threaten water supplies for the entire year.
16 Jan 2014:
Pebble Mine Would Endanger
Alaska's Bristol Bay, Major EPA Study Finds
A three-year study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay area would pose
significant dangers to the environment
, a potentially fatal setback for plans
Mulchatna River, part of Bristol Bay watershed
to develop Pebble Mine, a major open-pit mining project that aimed to exploit one of the largest and richest mineral deposits in the world. The EPA study cited concerns for the region's
thriving sockeye salmon population
and its native people, saying the mine would destroy 24 to 94 miles of salmon streams and 1,300 to 5,350 acres of wetlands, ponds, and lakes. Pebble Mine proponents, including Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, criticize the study as flawed and rushed, since the development company wasn't allowed to submit its mining plan before the EPA study. Native groups, fishermen, and environmental organizations are applauding the study. The proposed mine — which seeks to exploit gold, copper, and other metals — was already in trouble, with one of two major partners
withdrawing from the project last year.
20 Dec 2013:
Renewable Energy Comprised
Total U.S. November Power Generation Gains
All of the additional electricity-generating capacity added by the U.S. last month came from renewable energy sources, according to a
report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
. Solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower projects provided 394 megawatts — 100 percent — of all new electricity generation that went on line in November. No new capacity was added from fossil fuels or nuclear power, FERC reported. Renewable energy sources also provided 99 percent of all new electricity-generating capacity in October. Although natural gas has been the biggest player in added capacity so far this year (52 percent), solar also made gains. It alone has made up roughly 21 percent of new power capacity so far in 2013, two-thirds more than its year-to-date total in 2012. Renewable sources now account for 15.9 percent of total U.S. generating capacity, which is more than nuclear (9.2 percent) and oil (4.05 percent) combined.
18 Dec 2013:
Mapping Course and Software
Make Forest Monitoring Widely Accessible
Citizen scientists interested in tracking the health of the planet's forests have a new tool at their disposal. New software that uses satellite technology to map and
Watch Video
explains the mapping software.
monitor changes in forested areas is being made
available to the public
through a free online course. Users who complete the course,
hosted by Stanford University
, can receive a license to operate the software, called CLASlite. CLASlite, or the Carnegie Landsat Analysis System lite, is a highly automated system for converting satellite imagery from its original, raw format into maps that can be used to detect deforestation, logging, and other disruptions. It was developed by Carnegie researcher Greg Asner to help governments, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions conduct
high-resolution mapping and monitoring of forests
. "We are making the science of forest monitoring broadly available to people who want and need to participate in tracking and managing the health of their forests," said Asner.
Fish 2.0: A Contest Seeks to Foster
A More Sustainable Seafood Industry
Twenty pioneers in the sustainable seafood business climbed a stage at Stanford University in November in an effort to woo the judges at the Fish 2.0 contest
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Skip to comments.House GOP to slash environmental, arts funding (o noes)
Posted on 07/22/2013 1:26:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
House Republicans Monday proposed slashing cuts to environmental programs and funding for the Smithsonian Institution and the arts as they unveiled the latest legislation to implement the second year of budget cuts required under so-called sequestration.
The $24 billion spending measure would gut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency with a one-third cut and cuts the National Endowments for the Arts by almost half. Overall, the measure funding the Interior Department, EPA, national parks and federal firefighting efforts is cut by 19 percent below funding approved in March.
It takes a more modest approach to the national parks with a slight increase over levels mandated by sequestration, the across-the-board cuts forced by Washingtons failure to strike a bipartisan budget accord. And firefighting efforts would benefit from $1.5 billion in emergency funds on top of the spending limits set by the GOPs austere budget plan.
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We're doomed!!!
This is Hugh.
Dee moore
Dee merrier
Slash the whole epa away. Shoulda never been in the first place.
Is there a down side to these budget cuts?
Yes, go on the offensive.
Defund ethanol laws and regulations; food stamps; and welfare, especially for non-citizens.
Can NPR. Then we'll know they're serious.
So it's not like they're slashing anything. They are taking the mone from one pocket and putting it in another, but at the end of the day they still spend the same. These morons are beyond belief.
Yes. A lot of parents of young Progressive Yuppies from the EPA, Endowment for the Arts, etc. will be cleaning out the basement making a downstairs apartment ready for their return.
Dems propose spending increases, sending deficit to records level.
AP headlines you'll never see.
The worst part is that a lot of low information voters will be against this "slashing" (as the hysterics at the AP call it) of the National Endowment for the Arts budget, as if we have the money to pay anything to the National Endowment for the Arts. Americans just flat out don't understand — or don't want to understand — that we can't afford any of this. We are putting the cost of this NEA sh___tty, B-rate art on a credit card that our children and grandchildren will have to pay for. Perhaps when they get mad enough to p__ss on or graves for the debt mountain the current generation caused, some future NEA will call it performance art and give them a grant to do it.
bbb.....bbbbbu....bbb....bbbbbut Elaine from Seinfeld is on my radio every fifteen minutes whining that our National Parks are underfunded!
It's a pity they won't stand by this. They're just trying to decide where to fold like a cheap suit.
Gut the EPA, the Dept. of Energy, and the Dept. of Education, for starters.
Failing as a parent has natural consequences. Perhaps the restaurant business will rebound (at least for part-time ObamaCare-ineligible employees) and their little darlings can wait tables. That would give them a chance to learn a work ethic.
Defund the EPA, gather up whatever leftovers there are, wrap them up and return them to Jimmy Carter, labeled as the reward for his ruinous meddling all those years ago. Let him hire them to work at habitat for humanity, where they can finally do some real work for a worthwhile, sensible program...
Then defund the National Endowment for the Arts, and let those employees qualified apply for positions at prestigious museums-voila-instant culture.
Then send the saved money to the national parks and firefighting efforts-perfect!
What passes for "the arts" these days is about 90% garbage that could never make it as commercial ventures. If "we" don't want it, why should "we" pay for it?
I agree. They can slash anything they want, and let it be slipped back in in the Senate/House reconcilliation bill.
Why not cut massive amounts from the IRS, the Justice Department and anything funding Obamacare?
"Art" today can be a booger with a hair in it!
Art is not something that the government should be involved in. This is not the Middle Ages and we don't have any Cistene Chapel to paint.
They slash it now, but it will be put.back in during the argument for some other spending bill. How about these wimps really cut some spending, like defund the kennedy/bush medicare atrocity, or foodstamps for illegals? They wont do any substantial cuts at all. This I nothing more than political theater.
I'm waiting for a return of federal land takings to the states act. Seriously, there is absolutely NO, ZERO legitimate reason for the federal government to have taken:
Nevada 84.5%
Alaska 69.1%
Utah 57.5%
Oregon 53.1%
Idaho 50.2%
Arizona 48.1%
California 45.3%
Wyoming 42.3%
New Mexico 41.8%
Colorado 36.6%
Washington 30.3%
Montana 29.9%
Hawaii 19.4%
Stand by for the inevitable stories of environmental rapine and starving artists ... well ... starving.
The states should all just go in, tear down all the fedgov signs and auction off the land at bargain basement prices to ranchers, oil men, and land developers.
better to abolish than cut the rate of growth. I guess they are making room for handouts to LaRaza and LULAC
There are some legitimate takings, such as Indian reservations and military reservations, plus a few of the "national crown jewels". However, the takings by "presidential proclamation" need to end and be reversed.
It is for the best if this is done in a methodical manner by a willing congress, which avoids many court fights. It should be done as part of a systematic reduction in presidential power, and restoration of civil rights.
Hud is the symptom
Obama is the black plague
Actually the EPA was founded under Nixon. You can thank Jimmah for the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. Both of those could use the axe.
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A Great Game for Alphabet Fun!
By The OC Blog
from Ohio
I had the privilege of reviewing this game on The Organized Classroom Blog on 2-26-12. The great guide that comes with the set includes 3 games - 2 of them with variations, for a total of 5 different ways you can play. I love how the games are set up so that there are ways to play with one child (tutoring), a small group (reading groups or centers), or whole class. I bet it would even be a hit during indoor recess for the cold-weather schools out there! All the game suggestions are fantastic for building letter identification, phonemic awareness, alphabetical order, vocabulary development, auditory memory, listening comprehension, and expressive language skills. I could easily see how you could play a quick game of "I Have, Who Has" with the cards already provided!
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By Cher @ Mom and More
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About Me Parent Of Two Or More Children
Grandma's Trunk Alphabet Game is a very simple game that allows parents and kids to be creative and have fun. The trunk comes with 26 letter cards with a letter and image on them. There is also a set of Grandma's Riddles cards that ask simple "Who" type questions for kids to answer. There are five suggested games you can play all of which are geared towards helping kids with their letters. You can play with one child or a whole classroom! Have kids name the objects, sound out the letters, and put them in order of the alphabet. The cards are durable cardboard and wonderfully illustrated and kid-friendly. Its funny how something so simple can be so cute and fun.
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My Granddaughter LOVES this game!
By Mei-Mei
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About Me 18 mnth old granddaughter, 3 grown children, 7 year old twins, Collector, Education Oriented, Family Nurse Practitioner, Grandparent, Parent Of Multiples (Twins etc), Parent Of Two Or More Children, Working Parent
I baby sit my 18 month old granddaughter on Thursday evenings. We play before her 7 year old aunt and uncle (my twins) come home from school. They also love to play games with her. This is the perfect game for them to interact with her. They read the riddles to her and show her the picture cards with the corresponding alphabet. For some reason she just loves the "Ss" Sunglasses. :)
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Stories in the Afternoon
Imagining Yourself into Art
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Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Speaker: Staff Educator
Type: Stories in the Afternoon
Have you ever wished you could jump into a painting? Read a story about a little girl who imagines herself into paintings. Then draw a picture of yourself in a museum painting of your choice.
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The Nexus is an extradimensional realm in which one's thoughts and desires shape reality. Inside the Nexus, time has no meaning, allowing one to visit any time and any place that one can imagine. The entrance to the Nexus was a violent temporal energy ribbon which crossed through the galaxy every 39.1 years, amongst others in 2293, 2332, 2371 and 2410.
Enterprise-B incident Edit
Starfleet first encountered this phenomenon in 2293, when the newly-christened USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B responded to a distress call from two vessels transporting El-Aurian refugees to Earth. Arriving at the vessels' location, the Enterprise found them trapped in a powerful gravimetric field emanating from the trailing edge of the energy ribbon. Arriving too late to save the first ship, the SS Robert Fox, the Enterprise moved into transporter range in an attempt to beam aboard the crew and passengers from the other, the SS Lakul. The crew experienced difficulty in maintaining a transporter lock on them, however, as their lifesigns were experiencing a state of temporal flux, phasing in and out of the spacetime continuum. As the Lakul began to lose structural integrity, the transporter was initiated, but the crew was only able to save 47 people, out of 150, including El-Aurians Guinan and Tolian Soran.
Afterward, the Enterprise itself became caught in the gravimetric field, and was unable to escape. Scotty, who was attending the maiden voyage of the vessel along with Captain Kirk and Commander Pavel Chekov, realized that a resonance burst fired from the main deflector might disrupt the field long enough for the ship to break free. Although this was successful, Captain Kirk himself was pulled into the Nexus when an energy discharge from the ribbon impacted the section of the ship where Kirk was modifying the deflector relays. For the next seventy-eight years it was believed that Kirk had died a hero. (Star Trek Generations)
Soran's attempt to return to the Nexus Edit
Before being rescued by the Enterprise, the El-Aurians experienced brief moments inside the Nexus, where all of their desires became reality. Soran became obsessed with returning, and dedicated himself to discovering a way to re-enter the Nexus. By 2371, he had developed a plan to destroy two stars, altering the gravitational forces influencing the ribbon and bringing it to the planet Veridian III, where Soran would be waiting for it. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D discovered the nature of Soran's plot, and realized that, by destroying the Veridian star, he would also destroy all of the planets in the Veridian system, including Veridian IV, a planet with a population of 230 million. Picard confronted Soran on Veridian III in an attempt to stop him, but was unsuccessful in preventing Soran from destroying the star. As all planets in the Veridian system were destroyed, as was the Enterprise-D, both Picard and Soran were pulled into the Nexus.
While inside, Picard encountered Guinan, who described herself as an "echo" of the version of Guinan who once visited the Nexus. With her help, Picard located Captain Kirk, who, from his point of view, had only just entered the Nexus. Picard initially had difficulty in persuading Kirk to leave the Nexus, as Kirk saw it as his opportunity to correct the mistakes of his past. Kirk soon realized, however, that the events which transpired in the Nexus were not real, but rather a complicated illusion, and agreed to join Picard, recognizing that the fundamental unreality of the Nexus meant that the one thing it could never offer him was the one thing he had always wanted; the chance to make a difference. Due to the timeless nature of the Nexus, the two captains were able to leave and arrive on Veridian III at a point in time before Soran destroyed the star. Teaming up to fight him, they were successful in changing history and stopping Soran, but unfortunately Captain Kirk was killed in the process. (Star Trek Generations)
In the Nexus Edit
Describing the Nexus to Captain Picard, Guinan described it as like "being inside joy." Inside the Nexus, all of a person's desires become reality, and one can reshape that reality to visit any time and any place one chooses.
Picard's version of the Nexus was of a family he never had. He had two sons – Matthew and Thomas – and three daughters – Olivia, Mimi, and Madison. They lived, with his wife, in a beautiful house, and his nephew René, who had recently died in a fire in the real world, was still alive.
Kirk's version was initially being at his log cabin in the mountains, which he had previously sold. While there, he reunited with his dog Butler, and had the chance to propose marriage to Antonia, a woman whom he had regretted leaving to return to Starfleet. Later, he experienced his uncle's farm in Idaho, where he went horseback riding with Captain Picard. (Star Trek Generations)
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Background Edit
Ronald D. Moore commented:
- "Guinan, Soran, and the other El-Aurians are in some kind of transitional phase going into the Nexus when their ships begin exploding. The Enterprise-B beams them away at a crucial moment that brings their physical bodies back, but leaves behind some kind of "echo" (at least for Guinan – whether or not Soren also left behind an "echo" was the subject of much debate and many rewrites, some including a Soren doppelganger and some even including a meeting between the two Sorens in the Nexus). The momentary sensation of being in the Nexus leaves both Guinan and Soren with an almost overpowering desire to return. When Kirk is pulled into the Nexus, there's no transporter beam to yank him away and hence, he's completely left inside. When Picard and Soren enter the Nexus years later, they too are pulled in completely and the idea of an "echo" should not apply since it was the direct result of a transporter fluke in a very specific instance." (AOL chat, 1997)
Apocrypha Edit
The novelisation of Star Trek: Generations expands on Kirk's fantasies in the Nexus, depicting one fantasy where Kirk is preparing for his wedding to Carol Marcus with all his friends and colleagues from the Enterprise- with Leonard McCoy expressing shock at the idea of Spock having brought a date-, as well as other encounters with other women from his past, including an occasion where he managed to save Edith Keeler and preserve the future.
In the novel Engines of Destiny, a confrontation between an alternate Guinan and the Guardian of Forever reveals that the version of Guinan in the Nexus is the source of her constant "feelings," as this version of herself exists outside all time, and can thus reach out to her other selves and provide valuable insight into possible actions that must be taken, although even she is ignorant of what the definitive outcome will be in the end. During the novel, Scotty travels back in time in a Klingon Bird-of-Prey with the intention of beaming Kirk out of the Enterprise-B before he falls into the Nexus – believing that this will ensure Kirk's survival without actually changing history – only for history to change so that the Borg conquer the Alpha Quadrant, apparently as a result of their invasion to the past in Star Trek: First Contact succeeding as Picard apparently failed to survive his confrontation with Soran without Kirk's aid. At the novel's conclusion, history is restored when the Enterprise-D – which had followed Scotty into the past and thus been protected from the changes in history – manages to send Kirk back into the Nexus.
In The Next Generation - Q Continuum, it is revealed that the Nexus was created from a solar flare by a very much younger Q during an idle moment in his "childhood," but he was ignorant of what had become of it.
In the Star Trek: Stargazer novel Oblivion, chronicling Guinan's "first" meeting with Picard (discounting Picard's meeting with Guinan's past self in "Time's Arrow"), it reveals that, after her initial encounter with the Nexus, Guinan was left in a deep state of depression, mourning the loss of the reality she had in the Nexus, where all the family she lost to the Borg – including her youngest daughter, the one who was most like her – were restored to her. However, after meeting with Picard, who subsequently risks his mission to save her, Guinan overcomes her depression, realizing that the universe can still give her joy and friendship even outside the Nexus.
In Star Trek: Armada, a Borg Starbase is called a Nexus.
The novel The Final Nexus details a series of intergalactic transport gates called Nexuses, which operate much like the Iconian gateways.
External link Edit
- Nexus at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Posted on November 04, 2013
The Grand Valley and West Michigan communities are mourning the loss of longtime university supporter Audrey Sebastian.
Sebastian died October 31, she was 100.
For more than two decades, Sebastian served as a director for the Grand Valley University Foundation, most recently as a member of the foundation's advisory cabinet. In 2001, she served as one of the honorary co-chairs for the campaign for GVSU's Center for Health Sciences.
Audrey and her late husband, James Sr., were tremendous supporters of Grand Valley's engineering program. James is credited with starting the program; Audrey helped launch the campaign for the Keller Engineering Laboratories Building. The couple also established the James R. Sebastian Endowed Chair in Engineering Cooperative Education and Educational Development.
Paul Plotkowski, dean of the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing, said the Sebastians were deeply committed to the co-op approach to engineering education. Their endowment "helped make the co-op program the tremendous success it has become," he said.
Sebastian received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Grand Valley in 1990. For her tremendous support, she was inducted into the Grand Valley Hall of Fame in 1996.
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My LO is 11 months old. He and I will be nursing for a long ol' time if he so desires. I am the breadwinner right now (my hubby is a student--just started back to school to be a teacher). I'm a labor and delivery nurse, I work 3 night shifts a week, and my LO stays home with my hubby when I'm away. He nurses down when I'm home and night nurses (2-3 times depending). He takes a bottle of EBM for DH when I work and usually eats 1-2 more times during the night (EBM in a bottle, too).
If I was a stay at home mama, this wouldn't be so complicated. Or if I worked day shift. But neither one is an option right now. I always assumed I'd pump wean at 12 months. But if I do that, it means LO doesn't get any breast milk to fall asleep. And I don't think I could go all night without pumping--I get a little engorged by 11pm right now. I work 12-hour shifts.
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How many humpback whales were there before we thought to count them?The answer matters for many reasons. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) uses estimates of pre-whaling populations as a basis for regulating whaling. And knowing the pre-whaling numbers is a way of measuring the recovery of whale species. For instance, there are some 17,700 North Atlantic humpbacks now, well up from the mid-twentieth century when there were probably fewer than a thousand individuals.
The point of knowing the estimate of a long-ago population is what the numbers say about the world itself.conservation management and, not incidentally, as an index of our environmental turpitude and righteousness. It matters too that the language we use to speak about whales has changed utterly. To be convinced of that, you need only dip into Moby Dick, where the whale is more than leviathan: It is the dark beast within nature itself. Melville would not have understood the young Italian woman beside me out in a small boat watching humpbacks in Mozambique last summer. Whenever a fluke appeared or a whale breached, she would croon softly, almost maternally, "La balena! La balena!"
The real cost of the Anthropocene must be measured against the damage done to the web of all species.to have been. If you go back 160 years to Matthew Maury's "Whale Chart," you get a momentary glimpse of the destruction humans brought to a handful of species within a handful of decades. You could construct a similar, if less accurate chart for other megafauna, like the gray wolf or the grizzly bear or the African elephant. But the real cost of the Anthropocene — the era of our dominance — must be measured against the damage done to the collective web of all species, of which ours is only a single one.