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For most quilting projects I use 100% Cotton. Occasionally I will use vintage sheets or something else that is a cotton/poly blend. Try not to mix fabrics as 100% Cottons and Blends will wash and wear differently. That said, if you are making something like a memory quilt out of old clothes or something similar where you are mixing a variety of fabric types it will probably be fine – just keep in mind that different types of fabric will wear differently over time.
I generally do not pre-wash my fabric I like the sizing that is in the store-bought fabric because I feel like it makes it easier to accurately rotary cut. If you stick to high-quality 100% cotton quilting fabrics that come from the independent shops or the higher-end selection at JoAnn, Hancock, etc. you should not have a problem with colors bleeding, etc. If the fabric is older or lower-quality I would suggest prewashing before you start cutting. There is more information about washing finished quilts here.
Probably one of the most intimidating parts of beginning a quilting project is choosing just the right fabric. Here are a few simple tips to help in that process.
- Color: Above is a collection I used for a recent quilt. First I picked a balanced variety of colors – especially lights vs darks (or in this case lights vs brights.) Then I picked different shades of the same color. Look at the oranges – they are all part of the same color family, but they are all different shades. This will give your quilt a lot more visual interest. Fabrics colors that are too matchy-matchy (i.e. all the oranges are the same shade) will make your quilt feel flat.
- Scale or size: Currently there are some gorgeous large-scale graphic prints available. They are so fun to work with and make a really interesting quilt. But if every print you use is the same scale (size), your quilt will look out of control. There will be no place for your eye to rest and the beautiful big prints will just get lost. What we need is contrast. Not only in color, but in scale. So again, I divide my fabrics into groups by scale: Large, medium, and small.The large and medium scale prints are both busy and colorful but the design repeats are closer together in the medium scale prints. The small prints almost read as solids. They aren't solid, but if you step back and squint your eyes they look like a solid color. These prints provide thecontrast for the busier large and medium size prints to really show them off. They provide a place for your eye to rest. You can use actual solids – which I sometimes like – but the design becomes more flat. With a small print 'solid' you get more 'texture' or interest to the quilt.
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Philadelphia Phillies (54-62) at Milwaukee Brewers (52-64)
Cliff Lee (2-7, 3.85) vs. Marco Estrada (0-5, 4.36)
TIME: 8:10, Miller Park
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 70
Media: Twitter and Facebook
It's own to beer town for the Phillies, but all the talk today has been about what happened yesterday in Miami.
On a routine grounder to shortstop, Jimmy Rollins completely dogged it and was thrown out by 20 feet. It's one of the lapses in judgement we've seen from Rollins over his tenure here in Philly. It did not go unnoticed as fans went at him on twitter and gave him the business he probably deserved. Do you think he deserved it?
How about we get Cliff Lee his 3rd win of the year? How many will he end up with?
Lineup: Rollins SS, Pierre LF, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Brown RF, Nix CF, Frandsen 3B, Kratz C, Lee P
GAMEDAY BEER: Yuengling Lager
You know it, and you know it well. You call for it simply by saying "I'll have a lager." It's a staple of the Philadelphia region and really never lets you down. From time to time I'll order one if a beer list isn't tickling my fancy. It's just there. It never wows you. It's like the Juan Pierre of beers. He won't blow you away, doesn't hit for power, but always gives a decent showing when you need him. -Pat Gallen
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I am told by the magic of advertising that the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.
Lemme translate. The best part of the game post being up these days, is the out of town scoreboard. Dateline, Pittsburgh….
"Time to hit the O portion of the alphabet, and write a belated Ode to Sterling Joe Blanton.
Sterling Joe possesses in his image representation of one of my proudest off season thought processes. Way, way, away back in 2011, roundabouts February, you might recall a collection of starting pitchers that coupled with a pre injured Chase Utley, were supposed to parlay a magnificent season ending with a parade down Broad Street.
In scientifically, logically, and uniquely evaluating the upcoming 2011 season, with truly far less hallucination than the average fan, to this day, I remember speculating that Sterling could win 18 games.
Oh, brother.
What's the proudest level of pride one can feel for that gem of a sense.
Not that Sterling didn't have his moments. "Swing and a long drive", crowed Harry during the Fall Classic of Ott8. What a drive out of the Bank it was. And Joe threw a seemingly (well, at the time) valuble CG shutout the day after the Phils 15-13 loss in the ATL this year. 88 pitches, no less.
Last year, when he offered signs of 18 game potential to the mentally incompetent, Joe went through a string of first inning troubles. The string was so long, Joe's streak was said to have more string than The Mummers. Then he bravely pitched through elbow troubles.
This year, patience exited stage left on Joe. He threw some very good starts, but he gave up more homers than anyone who had the misfortune to face me back in wiffle ball days. Marketing types bragged on Joe's league leading K to BB ratio. Wonderful. His ERA was cinquo. In any language, that el suckos.
Today, still a relative newbie in Dodger blue, The Sterling One had a line that would no doubt equal Mike Martinez if they tried his hand at pitching. 4.1 innings, 7 hits, 3 of which were dingers TO THE FREAKING PIRATES!, 8 runs, every one of 'em earned. 3 walks, and 3 K's, if you are ratioing at home. Thank the Lord above Vin Scully don't do road games no mas, or he'd have died of a heart attack watching that there stellaracity.
But it was all fun watching him. Well, not all. A fraction of it was, at least. But the fun is what I'll mostly remember. SSSSoooo long, Joe. And thanks for the fun you provided."
Do you by chance write Obit's for a living? You'd be good at it. 🙂
If I were Charlie I woulda stuck my foot so far up Jimmy's ass yesterday it would came out his mouth. "I talked to Jimmy about it and he seemed fine" Charlie said. Of course HE seemed fine. Charlie IS too close to these guys. It worked for awhile and, like all approaches, it eventually gets stale. God, what I would gave given to see what Billy Martin would have done. Charlie's handling of the situation is just unacceptable, especially when you have a potential mutt problem in Dom Brown. If Jimmy can get away with it…….
The Dipsy
Re JRoll: Yeah, this isn't exactly the first time Jimmy has failed to run out a pop-up. I remember a couple of years ago, the Charlie Manuel bobblehead commercial made a joke about that.
Here's the commercial. Sound stinks so you have to turn it way up, but it's hilarious:
Wow that was almost too the moon.
so much for dealing lee in the off season.
Another anchor.
@ Dipsy.
As far as I am concerned I would hire a drill instructor from Parris Island to manage the rest of the year.
I wouldnt even care if hes ever seen a baseball game in his life.
Charlies coddling of the marquee players has been a big part of this.
Buit thats who he is. And with a young up and coming team it was great.
But with an old crippled fading over paid team.
It just makes you want nautious.
Yous guys are too hard on Jimmy.
I predict he hits for the cycle tonight.
A flyball, a popup, a groundout, and a strikeout.
Teach you guys a lesson.
Gelb tweeted to see who could name the 6 players who have started in CF for the club this year.
I did my civic duty, and corrected him. It's 5 players, plus my mainest man, Mike Martinez.
Let's see if Lee can undo the damage he's already done.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Nice steal!
This is what motivation will do to a player?
OK then, Jimmy can you play like this more often
It's time Andrew!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I'll take a run any way I can get one!
Me too Tracey – but now its Doms turn
Oh good grief…
Do you think that next year they might let us just play the Brewers 162 times?
162 games vs the Brewers?
Braun would hit over 600 in a single season.
No way!
And time for what Brooks?
The Brewers games have been the most entertaining games of the year.
Why cant the Phillies get a good announcer like Ueker?
I do enjoy Sarge.
But the rest of them stink on TV this year.
Even more than before.
But maybe I just notice more cause the team sucks this year.
C'mom Tom. Get the Melky Cabrera batting title thing right. They will add 0-For's to his at-bats to get him to the league minimum for at-bats. If he still has the highest average, he wins the title.
Lee is pitching really well tonight like the starters have in recent games. He's not going anywhere. Just need 2 bull Pen arms to add to paps, Lindblum and the returning guns.
oh, Lindbum –
Here it comes
Windbum or Lindbum? Hmm.. hard to remember I do know there is a bum out there now
What a formula for a screw up – how crazy is this
(sigh) the bullpen strikes again.
This Lindbum guy is a perfect addition to the Phillies bullpen.
and there we go. obviously we just dont pay these guys enough money to do their jobs get 1 stinking out.. one stinking out… what a screw up
And I'm thinking – he could walk the run in, there could be an error, an extra base hit to clear the bases or God forbid a GS – the Bum went for the high road!
The good news. I have Corey Hart in fantasy.
The bad news is this team sucks and I am probably going to lose my Mets bet.
Even with the mets winning at a .200 percentage since the all star break.
How does Ruben Amaro go into 2013 employed?
Its really disgraceful and until hes gone.
T Mac and Wheels can wax poetic on these fossils and cripples nightly.
But in the end there is no shot.
Not with that dummy running the show.
Hope its the good stuff Brooks.
And Rollins is mentoring Brown in the dug out on the catch.
Keep him away from the young players.
Lets show how much we give a * how about a 1 2 3 top of the 9th
Charlie Manuel needs to be fired. Only a bumbling retard like him could screw up as much as he does with pitching and still have a job. Lee was rolling and they pull him on an error. Such BS
Cliff Lee pitched well except for the 3 home runs. Lindblom pitched well except for all of the walks and the grandslam.
As you can see, I got the T-Mac app.
You guys think Mike Adams for 3/18 looks better? I do! Great starting rotation. Nail down 8 and 9 and you'll win most!
Lindblom: "Ouch. Very ouch."
Up to this point, it was looking like a win….oh well.
Brooks the Whiskey isnt working.
I need to move to something stronger.
Can you get me moonshine from West virginia?
Gee, I can see the logic in using Wiggy in place of Nix – sure.
Loved how Wheeler said well in this ball park what do you expect.
The germans in the 1940s had nothing on the propaganda the Phillies TV broadcasts spew ngihtly.
Perhaps after next week some scotch whisky from Scotland – smooth as silk Andrew
Eh, Wiggy had a good day yesterday
Ok will have that on tap for the Mets series.
When I will be hanging on every pitch.
good effort wiggy, good swing
Speaking of germans
Kratz up with the bases loaded!
Well, there is some good news from tonight's game. Bernie Brewer has a torn hamstring from running up and down them steps.
They gave us a thril Brooksie.
But the Mets won and the Phillies lost.
Sad night in Waldorf.
Theres always tomorrow.
Ivan Hernandez now has 4 wins.
Twice as many as Cliff.
Ryan Braun uses drugs.
Time to maximize the teams return on non returning players. I love Pierre, but would place him on waivers. A bunch of teams want Wiggington as well. The farm has been improved quite a bit with the trades. Build on it. Get even more chips. Frandsen and Galvis will be fine as the utility guys next year.
Name the assets the Phils have in the OF then, name the asses..
More asses then assets for sure
Really Psujoe? I guess when you really look at it, the combination of Nix, Mayberry, Brown and Juan Pierre, your best hitter is pretty much a non-impact player. He can get on base, move runners over (which is more than most on this team) but, he does not produce runs. None of them do.
I suppose some are still monitoring the Brown experiment, that's fine. There are 44 games left in this season. As much as this site loves to believe that the Phils offense is doing OK, I submit to you one of the least productive OF lineups in the majors today. Look at these numbers for the active roster (now that Pence, who is still leading several offensive categories for the Phils and Vic are gone) –
748 atbats, 88 runs scored, 199 hits, 5 triples, 23 hrs and 64 rbi. The batting average for these 5 is at .266. This is for JP, Nix, Brown, Mayberry and lets toss Shierholtz in there (only 32 atbats, why not). If we shed JP, the 'production' we currently enjoy is more atrocious – 446 atbats, 47 runs scored, 106 hits, 27 doubles, 0 triples, 22 hrs and 43 rbi and a .238 batting average.
Look at it upside down, sideways, cross-eyed – it doesn't matter. This outfield stinks the way the lineup stands. Right now, JP is the best (nee ONLY) offensive weapon the Phils have – to think about shedding him is just making the ship sink quicker.

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His slashing is an asset no question, solid passer and has a nice floater.
But I think we're using this losing streak to make Felton look good.
Felton can either make this team better or make this team worse. We don't know how well he's recovered from his hand injury.
I won't call Felton overrated yet, but it's really hard to give an unbias view on Felton because everyone who isn't playing during our cold streak will look awesome right now. They will look like the ultimate solution to our problems until they become our problem.
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Subway robbery suspect in custody
North Freedom 26-year-old arrested on suspicion of armed robbery
A woman suspected of robbing a Sauk City sandwich shop Friday afternoon has been arrested, authorities said.
The Sauk Prairie Police Department said Sabrina M. Eimer, 26, of North Freedom, was arrested at about 8:30 p.m. Friday -- about four hours after the incident -- with the help of the Sauk County Sheriff's Department.
According to the Sauk Prairie police, the Subway restaurant on Phillips Boulevard was robbed at gunpoint just before 4:30 p.m.
At some point between the hold up and 8:30 p.m., police had located Eimer's car at a rural Sauk County housing complex off Highway 12, but not Eimer and sent a news release warning citizens she may have a handgun.
Eimer was later found and taken into custody on suspicion of armed robbery, though police did not indicate where the woman was located.
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After playing forward throughout his high school soccer career at Cary-Grove, Nick McDonald's first season at the University of Dubuque in 2009 was spent on defense.
"I thought [Dubuque coach Brad Johnson] was crazy," McDonald said with a laugh. "At first, I was really confused. But we had outstanding forwards at the time. After playing defense, it was one of the funnest positions I've ever played."
After the past three seasons back at forward, McDonald is leaving Dubuque as the NCAA Division III school's top goal scorer and its first All-American in the 11-year-old program's history.
"This is what I've been working for my whole life, to accomplish things on the college level," said McDonald, who was named as a third-team selection to the D3Soccer.com All-America team last month. "It means a lot to me."
McDonald's senior season this fall was his most impressive.
While helping the team to an 11-6-1 record, McDonald scored 21 goals, tallied seven assists and compiled 49 points. The goal and point totals both ranked seventh in the nation during the fall season.
"He earned everything he's gotten because he works very hard for it," Johnson said.
McDonald, who is the Spartans' career leader in goals (49), points (110), game-winning goals (16) and three other categories, credits his groundbreaking season to a short offseason.
"The Monday after my junior season ended, I was back in the gym with my teammates," he said. "I'm not a very big guy. During the season, I'm 145 or 150 pounds, so I have to work out hard. Work ethic, to me, is everything."
McDonald said he spent much of the offseason working on finishing around the net and shooting.
"I've always been an offensive-minded player," he said. "But I needed to work on finishing."
His breakthrough senior season earned McDonald first-team honors on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America's All-North Region team for the third consecutive season, a first for any Dubuque player.
"He's a guy who always wanted more," Johnson said. "He was always looking to work out more with our strength and conditioning coach. He leads by example."
McDonald and fellow seniors Tyler Cuchna (C-G) and Sam McKee (Jacobs) were part of a class that went 52-20-5, winning the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2010, placing second twice and taking third once.
"The freshman class that Nick came in with is a fantastic group of guys," Johnson said.
A four-time All-IIAC honoree, McDonald also did plenty to get his teammates involved in the offense.
"He's not a guy who has to score six or seven goals a game," Johnson said. "The progression of his career over four years is one of Nick's biggest accomplishments."
In 18 matches during the fall, McDonald had seven multigoal games.
"If the best chance for us to score is for me to shoot, I'll shoot," he said. "If the best chance for us to score is for me to pass it off, I'll pass it off. I always try to get my teammates involved."
Warhawk winner: Wisconsin-Whitewater wrestler Jake Fredricksen is ranked in the top 10 by two national polls in the 141-pound weight class.
Fredricksen, a senior for the D-III Warhawks, is No. 5 in the D3Wrestle.com poll and No. 7 in the National Wrestling Coaches Association rankings. The Woodstock grad is 21-4 this season with four wins by pin. He is one of three Whitewater wrestlers with at least 20 wins.
Fredricksen went 2-1 at the Cliff Keen National Duals last weekend in Springfield.
Whitewater is ranked 10th this week in the NWCA team poll.
Freshman Tom Gerszewski (Crystal Lake South) is 18-4 at 149 pounds and has five pins for the Warhawks. Fellow freshman Corey Meyer (Cary-Grove) is 12-7 with two pins at 133 pounds.
Preseason standout: Jacobs grad Ben Albano, a junior outfielder at D-II Lewis University in Romeoville., was named Tuesday to the Midwest Region Preseason All-America Team by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
Last season, Albano led the Great Lakes Valley Conference with 11 home runs while pacing Lewis with a .354 batting average, five triples and a .641 slugging percentage. He was a first-team all-conference honoree last season and earned second-team recognition on the American Baseball Coaches Association and Daktronics All-Midwest Region squads.
"Ben had an outstanding sophomore year," Lewis coach Tim McDonough told LewisFlyers.com. "He is someone that people are going to take notice of, conference- and regionwide."
The Flyers open the season March 3 with a spring trip to Florida.
• Barry Bottino writes a weekly column and a blog about local college athletes for the Northwest Herald. Write to him at email@example.com, check out his On Campus blog at McHenryCountySports.com and follow him @BarryOnCampus on Twitter.


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Chris Mooney | June 11, 2012
By Chris Mooney • Monday, June 11, 2012 - 07:52
This is a review of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines, by Michael Mann.
I first became familiar with the name Michael Mann in the year 2003. I was working on what would become my book The Republican War on Science, and had learned of two related events: The controversy over the Soon and Baliunas paper in Climate Research, purporting to refute Mann and his colleagues' famous 1998 "hockey stick" study; and a congressional hearing convened by Senator James Inhofe, at which Mann testified. Inhofe tried to wheel out the Soon and Baliunas work as if they'd dealt some sort of killer blow against climate science. In fact, just before the hearing, several editors of Climate Research had resigned over the paper.
I went on to stand up for Mann, and his work, in Republican War. Little did I know, at the time, that he himself would become the leading defender of his scientific field against political attacks.
Recently, Mann came out with a new book about his travails entitled The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From the Front Lines, detailing his decade long battle against political attacks and misrepresentations. The response has been all too predictable. For months, conservatives have been giving it one star reviews on Amazon.com, some of which suggest that they probably haven't read it.
What is most fascinating to me is that the science the right is attacking Mann over—principally, the 1998 hockey stick study and its 1999 extension, as prominently exhibited in 2001 by the IPCC—is relatively old news. Indeed, and as Mann himself explains in the book, "attacks against the hockey stick…were not really about the work itself." That work has been supported by other researchers—there is now a veritable "hockey team," Mann notes—and anyways, the case for human caused global warming never depended on the validity of the hockey stick alone. It was always just one part of a far broader body of evidence.
Thus, conservatives who fixated on Mann, and continue to do so, tell us through their own actions that this is not really about scientific inquiry at all. If it was, then they'd be doing something quite different from giving Mann one star Amazon reviews.
But of course, climate researchers have been making observations like these for years. It hasn't mattered nearly as much as it should, though, because they've often lacked the communication skills to get their point across. If anything, their scientific training has tended to hobble them in a brass knuckles fight such as this one. And that, to me, is where Mann's new book matters the most: It shows that he has developed the communication skills to match his unquestionable scientific talent–and moreover, that he has done so because the right forced him to.
That's why Mann is such an inspiring example for all who care about the climate issue—and why his book is required reading. From the early "hockey stick" battles all the way up through "ClimateGate" and the Ken Cuccinelli inquiry, Mann didn't give an inch. He didn't back down; to the contrary, he showed what toughness actually means. And in the process, from the founding of RealClimate.org in 2004 up through the publication of this book, he evolved into a passionate communicator and advocate. Having had him on my podcast Point of Inquiry and heard him lecture, I can assure you that many scientists should take a lesson from him.
Through all this, Mann emerged as a charismatic example of what we should all strive for in the face of ideological adversity and unfair attacks. Mann himself has a powerful analogy for all of this in the book, one that shows just how much he has developed as a communicator and an advocate. He calls it the "Serengeti Strategy," based on what he saw on a vacation in Africa:
Among the most striking and curious scenes I saw that day were groups of zebras standing back to back, forming a continuous wall of vertical stripes. "Why do they do this?" an IPCC colleague asked the tour guide. "To confuse the lions," he explained. Predators, in what I call the "Serengeti strategy," look for the most vulnerable animals at the edge of a herd. But they have difficulty picking out an individual zebra to attack when it is seamlessly incorporated into the larger group, lost in this case in a continuous wall of stripes. Only later would I understand the profound lesson this scene from nature had to offer me and my fellow climate scientists in the years to come.
To be sure, the book is not simply about how Mann was forced to fight back against misrepresentations, and even congressional and legal inquiries. It's also his personal story. He started out as a math geek trying to program a computer to play tic-tac-toe, like in the movie War Games (ah, the Eighties!). He ended up pursuing paleoclimatology out of intellectual interest and fascination; he never imagined he would end up as much a political combatant as a researcher.
Despite my praise for Mann and his book—and I even gave it a cover blurb—I do have some differences with him. For instance, I think that here and in his public comments, Mann tends to focus too heavily on the idea that resistance to climate science, and his research, is corporate driven. Or as he puts it in the book: "well organized, well-funded, and orchestrated." In contrast, I have increasingly come to think it is primarily ideological—driven by libertarian individualism, and those who embrace this view and its associated emotions—and the corporate connection is secondary (though often real). I thus think that focusing on it too much misleads us as to the nature of the opposition, which has grown so ideological at this point–and so driven by gut emotion–that it does the traditionally pragmatic business community no favors. If anything, it is out of synch with its own presumptive allies.
But this difference doesn't matter when it comes to defending scientific reality. There, I stand with Mann, because he taught me through his own example how to do so. And you should as well.
How? Start by buying his book; and after you've read it, go refute the one-star Amazon commenters and add your own informed take. And throughout it all, remember the Serengeti analogy—although really, I must say that I think it doesn't do Mann justice. This guy is no zebra. For climate researchers, and researchers anywhere who fall under political attack, he's something much more important: A leader.
Stop feeding the Troll.
Likely its some sort of word jargon generator.
(You can tell because he's not talking science. just random technical words.)
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
Let E be the energy flux per
Let E be the energy flux per unit area coming fom space.
Since in equilibrium the amount of energy equals the amount leavin, for a body with no greenhouse effect
D = 0.7 σT4
The factor of 0.7 is 1 – the albedo of Earth.
Thus T = (E / (0.7σ))0.25
where T is the equilibrium temperature in the absence of a greenhouse effect.
Now if there is a greenhouse effect the a proportion p of the radiation emitted from the surface is a absorbed by the atmosphere and re-radiated half into space and half back to the surface.
Let EG be the radiation flux from a surface under an atmosphere that contains greenhouse gases.
Then E = EG – p/2 EG
= (1 – p/2) EG
Thus EG = (2 / (2 – p)) E
Let TG be the surface temperature unfer a greenhouse effect.
TG = (EG / 0.7σ)
= T (2 / (2-p))0.25
Since p is between 0 and 1 TG is greater than T.
So under an insulating blanket temperatures will be greater than without one. This is common experience and simple logic.
Stop feeding the Troll.
He's Just just blabbing… throwing technical words around like confetti.
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
I'm indulging in an
I'm indulging in an experiment. He asked for the maths. He gets the maths. Now does he shut up, admit he was mistaken or come up with some contrived way to torture the physics into supporting his desired conclusion?
Oh, and I had a little trouble with the editor when I pasted the document from Open Office into my post. Still people should be able to see where the superscripts and subscripts were meant to go. I'll do better next time.
Bob Armstrong replied on Permalink
Lloyd , at least you give a quantitative answer
Lloyd ,
At least you are repeating the ubiquitous computation based on the notion that the earth has a spectrum such that it has an albedo with respect to the sun of 0.3 while radiating as a black body producing a temperature of about 255k .
That computation is an asserted gross approximation to the lumped spectrum of the earth and atmosphere . My computations , as I've stated several times , simply calculate the energy density of a point in our orbit and the corresponding temperature , 279k which applies to any flat spectrum , ie , gray , object in our orbit . Since , now , spectral maps of both the earth's surface , and the lumped earth and atmosphere as seen from outside are available , an equilibrium temperature temperature can be calculated directly from those . The extreme 255k calculation is irrelevant .
These other posters simply demonstrate their utter ignorance of any quantitative science . I will let my website http://CoSy.com speak for itself as to my competence . I have spent my adult life working in the most mathematical of computer languages , and with computers , something is either correct , or doesn't work . BS crashes .
The inability of posters here to even understand , and in deed rail against , what should be high school math and science is why this movement has been so destructive of the welfare of both humans and the CO2 based biosphere , but also why it is a dead end .
I do appreciate that Chris Mooney has not censored this discussion .
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is an asserted gross approximation…
Hey Bob.. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot… is that?
You've never read a journal paper have you? Or a text book, have you?
(Oh and they don't censor here. You really have to be beligerant to get censored. Your brand of Heartland ineptitute and stupidity is pretty common.)
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
The transparency of the
The transparency of the atmosphere varies with the wavelength of the radiation passing through it. It is more transparent to the spectrum of the incoming radiation from the Sun than it is to the outgoing radiation from Earth. But in the equilibrium condition these fluxes have to balance. To get an outgoing flux equal to the incoming one You need a higher surface temperature with an atmosphere that includes greenhouse gases than with one which does not include them. That is because while both are equally transparent to incoming Solar radiation they are not equally transparent to the outgoing radiation from Earth. This is all basic radiative physics and spectral chemistry.
Yes, what I did was a gross simplification of the real situation but it illustrates the basic principle that greenhouse gases will warm the planet. If you disagree point to where I am in error. Exactly where and why.
Bob Armstrong replied on Permalink
Right .
I'm saying , we have the actual spectral maps . I can write the algorithms to calculate equilibrium temperatures from them in a few lines of code . There's about 10 degrees to be explained by spectrum . Let's do the computation with real data . My bet is we can quickly get the unexplained variance down to less than a degree .
It's great to hear a competent voice here . The science trumps any political or religious biases . I would be most interested in your review of my initial work on http://ClimateWiki.org and http://cosy.com/views/warm.htm .
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
Bob, where is there an error
Bob, where is there an error in what I calculated? It simply depends on the atmosphere having a different transparency to the radiation emitted by Earth to that which it has to that emitted by the Sun. It all follows from that. And the physics and chemistry is well known.
Are you denying that Earth has an average albedo with respect to Solar radiation of about 0.3? Are You denying that it radiates approximately as a black body?
And look up the textbook that was recommened and read through the more detailed equations there.
Bob Armstrong replied on Permalink
I'm denying it radiates as a black body .
In fact , that's not possible if it has an absorptivity = emissivity of 0.7 over the whole solar spectrum .
Again , actual measurements exist . Let's use those . Then calculate the delta that changes in the opacity of the CO2 lines produce .
But , I think much greater variations are due to latitudinal differences in spectra , eg , the ice caps .
An aspect of array programming language is that operating on entire tables of data , eg , spectral maps for the whole earth , takes little more , if any , code than computations for a single number .
Aaaaand moving the target...
Its like the X-Files… Stay tuned next week and we'll present the real answer to this consipracy! Typical…
I think the point is to drag it out as long as possible so that if Joe Public came across this stuff, it would appear as though someone was really arguing something factual. Then Joe Public would get tired of reading through the thread and assume that somehow there was a real discussion taking place.
I've noticed a distinctly concerted effort to drag out arguements as long as possible while never providing evidence. Moving targets and vague assertions are the staple of this technique.
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
Bob, your assumption of a
Bob, your assumption of a constant emissivity over the whole spectrum is false. What I was able to quickly get about how the albedo varies with wavelength is in this NASA pdf.
Albedo in the part of the infra-red where Earth is doing most radiation is lower than it is in the part of the spectrum that we are recieving most energy from. I see no reason to doubt the usual calculations.
Bob Armstrong replied on Permalink
I'm not assuming that .
Absorptivity/emissivity of 2 spectra with respect to each other is given by their correlation .
Thanks for the link to the http://www.ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710023628_1971023628.pdf paper . I will study it . I have wondered where the expertise on calculating heat budgets of space craft has been in this whole controversy . It is notable in Apollo 13 when they lost power , they didn't plunge to near 0 , or even 255 . They plunged down to the 4 or 5 Celsius of a gray body in our orbit . I was quite surprised that Walt Cunningham , one of the number of astronauts youall call deniers , actually doesn't understand this very well
The major flaw with the emissivity = 1.0 assumption I have seen is that the surface of the earth is obviously very far from a black body . It is blue and brown and green and white . ( Actually , this makes me think that the first full spectrum worth chasing down and calculating a temperature for is liquid water since that's the dominant color of the earth's surface . )
Again , the issue is to move forward to continually reduce the unexplained variance as statisticians would put it in our understanding of global temperature . The 255k calculation is simply irrelevant to that and in fact is 3 times as far from our measured temperature as simply the gray body calculation . If it ever had a use , with modern spectral maps available , it is long past .
Bob Armstrong replied on Permalink
I'm not assuming that .
Absorptivity/emissivity of 2 spectra with respect to each other is given by their correlation .
Thanks for the link to the http://www.ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710023628_1971023628.pdf paper . I will study it . I have wondered where the expertise on calculating heat budgets of space craft has been in this whole controversy . It is notable in Apollo 13 when they lost power , they didn't plunge to near 0 , or even 255 . They plunged down to the 4 or 5 Celsius of a gray body in our orbit . I was quite surprised that Walt Cunningham , one of the number of astronauts youall call deniers , actually doesn't understand this very well
The major flaw with the emissivity = 1.0 assumption I have seen is that the surface of the earth is obviously very far from a black body . It is blue and brown and green and white . ( Actually , this makes me think that the first full spectrum worth chasing down and calculating a temperature for is liquid water since that's the dominant color of the earth's surface . )
Again , the issue is to move forward to continually reduce the unexplained variance as statisticians would put it in our understanding of global temperature . The 255k calculation is simply irrelevant to that and in fact is 3 times as far from our measured temperature as simply the gray body calculation . If it ever had a use , with modern spectral maps available , it is long past .
"These other posters simply
"These other posters simply demonstrate their utter ignorance of any quantitative science ."
Well, for a bright bloke Bob, you somehow missed that this is not a science site. Scroll to the top, you might see this:
"Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science"
Can't say that I have seen you attempting to peddle your wares over at sites where the majority are actual scientists, like Skeptical Science, Tamino or Real Climate? Gee, now why would that be?
"I do appreciate that Chris Mooney has not censored this discussion ."
This isn't WUWT or Depot. Some people find the lack of censorship like on those sites a little hard to get used to.
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
What is happening with comments
I tried to look at Bob Armstrong's latest comments. When I clicked on them they appeared for a few secconds then the screen went back to the original post. I have noticed this happen on voted down comments before. What is happening?
I don't think you're missing much.
email Brendan.
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
Still annoying.
Still annoying.


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I recently returned from the PHP Quebec Conference where I gave a presentation on the Service Component Architecture (SCA). The slides can be found here. We've been making quite a bit of progress in adding protocol support so I was able to demonstrate bindings for json-rpc, soap/http, rest-rpc and xml-rpc, all of which are available now. Because the conference sessions are 75 minutes long, I was also able to slip in a couple of demos of prototypes for Atom and RSS syndication as well as a custom binding for the eBay soap API.
This was the second PHP Quebec conference I have attended, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The folks of the PHP Quebec Association do an excellent job, filling three days with some great material from the likes of Rasmus Lerdorf, Chris Shiflett, Ilia Alshanetsky, Rob Richards, John Coggeshall, Marcus Börger, and many more. They also lay on some great entertainment in the evenings. Check out the photo Cal put up on DevZone and you'll get an idea of what I mean :-) .
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Last week I attended the second UK PHP Conference in London. The organisers had clearly listened to the comments after the first conference, and this year's event was even better. It's the only event of its kind in the UK, and deservedly popular, with a large lecture theatre completely packed.
Like last year, the conference was a one-day, one-track event, and good value for money at £50. It kicked off with Cal Evans, the editor of the Zend dev zone, presenting "My First Mash-Up", getting down with the code to walk us through various ways of tracking a UPS parcel on GoogleMaps with a traditional server-side model and an AJAX model.
Next up was Simon Laws talking about SCA for PHP. Obviously I'm biased but I thought this went really well. Despite being a big lecture theatre, there were a lot of good questions raised throughout the talk, particularly from people who hadn't seen annotations used for dependency injection before: "are annotations bad for performance", "does it work asynchonously", and so on.
After lunch was Kevlin Henney on "Objects of Desire", a talk only loosely about PHP, and one of the highlights. Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer, specialising in programming languages, OO design, agile development process, patterns and software architecture. He is widely published, but I hadn't heard him speak before. He turned out to be a witty and entertaining speaker, with a lot of wisdom to impart, and deserved the ovation he received.
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I had previously whinged to Marcus Baker that it was maybe a bit questionable to select the speakers without a public cfp, but I changed my mind after I'd enjoyed the sessions so much. The personal selection of speakers gave us a more stimulating selection that a committee would have come up with. It could be a new model for computing conferences, akin to the annual Meltdown festival at the South Bank where individual curators (John Peel, Nick Cave, Morrissey, David Bowie, this year Jarvis Cocker) preside over a quirky and personal selection of performances.
After the conference lots of attendees decamped to LivingSpace, where much beer was consumed, and I was happy to meet a small UK contingent of PHP Women. The conversation alternated wildly between PHP-related subjects and knitting and crochet. My male colleagues are always complaining about me expecting them to take part in two discussions simultaneously, so I revelled in this. I did have to go through a bit of a post-feminist reevaluation to get to grips with the interest of young women in handicrafts, a subject which I had personally cast off many years ago, but once I'd seized on the key role of the Jacquard loom in the history of computing as a rationale, my surprise dissolved. I wonder if the UK PHP Conference team would accept a paper on "Babbage and Knitting" as the wacky topic for the 2008 conference? We thought there were about fourteen women at the conference, of 235 attendees. Someone captured us on Flickr. Later at dinner it was nice to meet Steph Fox in person for the first time, too.
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Skip to comments.Euro-Media Concede Global Warming Has Ended Models Were Wrong Scientists Are Baffled!
Posted on 01/30/2013 7:37:52 PM PST by hiho hiho
Spiegel has finally gotten around to conceding that global warming has ended, at least for the time being.
Yesterday Spiegel science journalist Axel Bojanowski published a piece called: Klimawandel: Forscher rätseln über Stillstand bei Erderwärmung (Climate change: scientists baffled by the stop in global warming).
Weve been waiting for this admission a long time, and watching the media reaction is interesting to say the least. Bojanowski writes that The word has been out for quite some time now that the climate is developing differently than predicted earlier. He poses the question: How many more years of stagnation are needed before scientists rethink their predictions of future warming?
Bojanowski adds (emphasis added):
15 years without warming are now behind us. The stagnation of global near-surface average temperatures shows that the uncertainties in the climate prognoses are surprisingly large. The public is now waiting with suspense to see if the next UN IPCC report, due in September, is going to discuss the warming stop.
The big question now circulating through the stunned European media, governments and activist organisations is how could the warming stop have happened? Moreover, how do we now explain it to the public? To find an answer, Bojanowski contacted a number of sources. The result, in summary: scientists are now left only to speculate over an entire range of possible causes. Uncertainty in climate science indeed has never been greater. Its back to square one.
One explanation Spiegel presents is that the oceans have somehow absorbed the heat and are now hiding it somewhere. Yet, Bojanowski writes that there is very little available data to base this on: There is a lot of uncertainty concerning the development of the water temperature. It has long appeared that also the oceans have not warmed further since 2003. Spiegel then quotes Kevin Trenberth concerning NASAs claim that theyve detected a warming of the oceans: The uncertainties with the data are too great. We need to improve our measurements.
Spiegel also writes that the missing heat may be lurking somewhere deep in the oceans. But here Bojanowski [Spiegel] quotes Doug Smith of the Met Office: This is very difficult to confirm. Jochem Marotzke of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI) suspects that energy has been conveyed to the oceans interior, but theres a dire lack of data to confirm this. Bojanowski writes over the current state of ocean data measurement: Without intensifying the data measurement network, we are going to have to wait a long time for any proof.
Scientists also suspect that the stratosphere may have something to do with the recent global temperature stall. Susan Solomon says the stratosphere has gotten considerably drier, and so warming at the surface may have been reduced by a quarter. But Bojanowski reminds us that under the bottom line, the scientists are pretty much without a clue; he writes:
However, climate models do not illustrate stratospheric water vapour very well, says Marotzke. The prognoses thus remain vague.
Well then, maybe its due to aerosols from China and India blocking out the sun, some scientists are speculating, and thus weakening warming by one third. Spiegel writes that If the air were cleaner, then climate warming would accelerate. But aerosols have always been used a convenient joker in climate models to explain unexpected cooling, such as from 1945 to 1980.
In fact, all the explanations presented by Bojanowski above have already been thoroughly looked at in a book- one year ago by a pair of scientists: Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt and Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Last year much of the media massively ostracised them for floating crude theories. A year later its indeed strange to see that their crude theories are now completely in vogue.
How does Bojanowski sum it up? The numerous possible explanations do show just how imprecisely climate is understood.
Trenberth is left with only anecdotes, isolated singular events
Yet, as Bojanowski points out, some scientists refuse to give up on the AGW theory. He writes:
Under the bottom line, there are a number of various ominous signs of warming: rising sea levels, Arctic sea ice reduced by a half in the summertime, melting glaciers. At some locations there are signs that extreme weather events are increasing. There are many signs of global warming, emphasizes Kevon Trenberth, near surface air temperatures is only one of them.
Sorry, but isolated singular events do not constitute trends, let alone science. Prof. Trenberth really ought to know that. This is pathetic. The observed data and measured trends have stopped showing global warming. So are scientists now claiming that singular events are robust signs? This would be only one step away from astrology!
Bojanowski reminds us again that the science is poorly understood and that a number of factors are at play. He writes:
Indeed new surprising data keep popping up. Recently a new study appeared showing that soot particles from unfiltered diesel engine exhaust and open fires have had an impact on warming that is twice as high as what was first thought.
Bojanowski also tells his readers that Computer simulations have shown that warming has made tropical storms more seldom.
He also mentions other factors that are poorly understood, such as: solar radiations impact on clouds, water vapour cycles, and natural and man-made aerosols.
Short term prognoses remain especially uncertain. But longterm ones are sure?
Spiegel at the end of the article seems to be duped into thinking that short-term prognoses are uncertain, but longterm ones are rather sure. Spiegel quotes warmist Jochem Marotzke of the MPI:
Climate prognoses over time periods of a few years still remain especially uncertain. Our forecasting system in this regard still lets us down, says MPI director Marotzke. But were still working on it.
This to me appears to be an attempt to have readers believe that although theyve botched the short-term projections completely, they are likely still right about the longterm projections of warming. Now take five minutes to get your laughing under control. If the models failed for the first 15 years, then they are no good! Period! Theyre crap, and you cannot rely on them for projecting the long-term. They belong in one place only: the dustbin! How long must we wait before climate scientists return to science?
Dont get me wrong, at least this article, admitting something is terribly amiss, is a very encouraging step in the right direction. But its difficult to remain hopeful when climate scientists continue demonstrating that they do not even know what proper scientific methodology is.
Lastly, I like they way Bojanowski ends his piece:
Current prognoses warn of a 5°C warming if CO2 emissions continue as before. But it is not now well-known just how much natural climate impacts are able to change the temperature development the new NASA data have revealed this as well.
Spiegel science writers would be well-advised to read Fritz Vahrenholts and Sebastian Lünings Die kalte Sonne. Practically every question brought up by Bojanowski has been answered there one year ago. Moreover, Lünings and Vahrenholts temperature model for the next 100 years so far has been dead on.
Warmist Spiegel/Euro-Media Concede Global Warming Has Ended
Models Were Wrong
Scientists Are Baffled!
What it all means....is that any Joe on the street had the basic knowledge to add up the numbers and conclude real data better than climate scientists. If true...they might as well go out and get jobs at Pizza Hut and Jiffy Lube.
Time to make another "adjustment" to the data.
Margaret Thatcher started this in 1979 and it took until 2013 to finally end it.
So, will this be on the front page of the NY Times and on MSNBC tomorrow?
and just think- ONLY several $TRILLION dollars spent on 'global warming' measure!
Did anyone see the small montage of Al Gore that showed him trying to convince David Letterman and Matt Lauer that selling his television station to Al Jazzera (sponsored by Big Foreign Oil) was not a sellout, that they were more concerned about global warming than any other entity interested in buying?
I am not saying I want him to choke on a sandwich or anything like that, but it would be good publicity for the sandwich.
To call him disgustingly, morbidly obese is like calling the sun a little warm.
See my profile of climate graphs showing how obvious it is we are not warming but actually on the brink of the next ice age.
Like they were gonna just confess about all the FRAUD they have perpetrated, this is their way out of the Global Warming Attempted Fraud. It's not like anyone will prosecute them, and I am sure Al Gore is on suicide watch after reading this.
The article has many claims of "dire lack of data", which has to be a clue as there's never been anything but a dire lack of data as in proof of any of it from the git-go IMO.
My gosh they tried to railroad us with the rainforest back in the sixties, and then they tried to railroad us with AGW.
No Proof. Lots of discussion to give a sense of legitimacy, but no proof. Billions, perhaps Trillions of dollars blown on bullshit. People scared, afraid to bring children into the World because of bullshit. Lives turned upside down, because of bullshit.
There are some criminals that need to be exposed IMO, and justice needs to prevail, but as I said, no proof. They'll walk, and in very expensive shoes they well can afford having ripped off the World with their bullshit.
It isn't over, but this rant is.
Real scientists would not be baffled. When a theory cannot be supported by experiments and observations the conclusion is the theory was flawed and it is rejected. That is the true scientific method. Man caused global warming however is a dogma not a scientific theory and despite all the evidence to the contrary global warming cultists will cling to this dogma calling those who do not agree heretics or deniers. This is exactly the situation experienced by Galileo. The Church and its Inquisition supported a dogma of an unmoving earth at the center of the universe with the sun, moon, planets and stars orbiting around the earth. When Galileo demonstrated by observations with his telescope that the sun not the earth is the center of our universe with the earth and planets revolving about it. Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition and forced to recant his theory even though by scientific method it was correct.
Thanks for the ping. And perhaps Ernie shall find an interest in adding this one to his most likely deep deposit of AGW articles saved for future reference.
Thanks hiho hiho. Related:
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[snip] was introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) on Jan. 22, 2013... the sole sponsor of the bill... The resolution... Demands that the advancement of science be protected from those unconcerned with the adverse impacts of global warming and climate change ...Roy Speckhardt, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association, sent out a letter in support of the resolution. [/snip]
None of the possible explanations mentioned the sun, which is kind of important to climate on Earth.
You may not have noticed, but Algore seems to have been "eatin' high on the hog" lately...
I can't find the article in the Der Spiegel on line English version.
Der Spiegel article is here—
Does not seem to have an English translation. You can have Google translate.
Story they definitely will not run on Al-Gorezeera
Science and politics don't mix well.
Regardless, weather panics are irrelevant now. They've found other effective ways to destroy America. It's called Obama.
The Climate "Scientists" should stick to hindcasting.
I REALLY doubt that the Sheeple will be waiting. EVERYTHING they have been told, and believe, points to imminent global warming catastrophe that must end RIGHT NOW.
And Obama needs things like this to carry out his agenda. Just like every other "crisis" that he has milked. The crisis of people dieing on the streets because of no health insurance. The crisis of all of our kids being shot with "assault weapons". Just like those two false crisis, the global warming "crisis" will also be used.
"Some folks say there is no warming - even scientists. But things are so complicated it is hard to predict. But, we KNOW that we MUST reduce our emissions before it is too late because we KNOW in our hearts that it is bad."
" - - - a 5°C warming if CO2 emissions continue as before. - - - "
There is no known Cause-and-Effect for this assumption. Therefore it is a false assumption, a speculation, a pillar of Junk Science.
tis the warming causing the CO2, not the CO2 causing the warming....
" I am sure Al Gore is on suicide watch after reading this."
Naw, he's still trying to make amends to his Communist father looking in on him from Hell telling him he failed in his given fatherly mission to become President. Al is just doing all of this to say "see dad, I really did amount to something, sort of." ( And I made a $hitpot full of money doing it)
Yeah, Sure Global Warming is hiding in the ocean. Probably in the same place the mermaids and Kraken are hiding.
Also, what law of physics allows hot water to sink below cold?
Ping for later.
Actually, this scenario is extremely common in science. Note the laws of probability, for an obvious one. I cannot know whether heads will turn up with the next flip, but I can state with a great deal of certainty how many times it will turn up in the next one million flips.
Which is not to say that it is appropriate to apply it in this case.
It's raining here in January so it must be back on now.......
Obviously none of these fools have tried to heat a large body of water by modifying the temperature of the atmosphere above the water.
Read recently that there is more heat in the top 10 feet of the ocean then in all the atmosphere.
Well... It was 71 deg. (F) with severe t-storms, local flooding, and small tornados here yesterday; tomorrow morning the forecast is for 15 deg. F and maybe a little snow. This is not a record, but it does help keep one on their toes:
Kirk: The planet is destroying itself!
Klingon: Yes, exhilarating, isn't it?!!!
One wonders what some of these weenies would do if the period of glaciation that is just about due (if past cycles stay consistent) were to occur.
It is not stopping California from implementing massive land and water use changes (CA Water Plan) justified by
"climate change." Heck, they are even restructuring government aligning it into a top down regional model with harmonization of General Planning.
In that case it is gone. The deep oceans are about 35 degrees. If they warm to 35.1 and that water returns to the surface, the atmosphere will cool.
If there was no man around the warming from the ending of the Little Ice Age would have added about 5-10 ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere (basically by warming the oceans about 1C). Instead we have seen more than 100 ppm rise. The ocean now absorbs net CO2, doesn't release it (net). The only scientific question is whether the land sinks will grow (probably) and those and the ocean will continue to damp the human-made CO2 rise.
Unfortunately there is no such balance on the cool side.
Their models/predictions didn't work the first time, but maybe if they work the next time, we're in big trouble! /s
After having spent an entire life time, following, not just world history, ancient history, fairly recent current history, such as the Decline of the Anasazi Culture back in ? ought 1200-1400 A.D. or is it the newer politically correct time stamp?
There have always been cycles of droughts and wet spells, changing climates, long before we had factories, pollution breathing coal fired plants, etc.
Just read some of the translated treastises from Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Mayan, and other assorted cultures through time.
Let us get real!!!
A rise, centuries and eons ago, of CO2 emissions, occurred, AFTER a GLOBAL WARMING.
Possibly brought on by a meterorite that detonated on the surface of our planet, or perhaps, the widespread fires created by another major meterorite, or perhaps, Nobody really knows!!!
Live in an area where there are folks coming through complaining about health problems related to cowsies' flatulance.
Perfectly serious about their facts.
The rise in CO2, Methane Gas, etc.
For thousands of centuries, since the cow was domesticated, children, and other folks have lived off their bounty.
My simple REALITY CHECK!!! Back in the 50's in a basic elementary school science lesson, taught the basics of Human Breathing.
We breathe in Oxygen, it circulates through the lungs, goes through a complicated exhange of whatever, and is expelled as, ooops!!!! CO2.
The CO2 is then absorbed by plants, who utilize it in their photosynthesis, to not only produce chlorophill? (Green up the plant, provide valuable nutrients, especially for human and animal consuption)but produce oxygen as a byproduct.
NOT CO2!!! or METHANE!!!
The Eco movement began back in the 60's and promoted an UNBALANCED VIEW OF NATURE.
Whatever happened to the balanced Native American View of Nature?
Whatever happened to Informed Facts, Substantiated, Facts???
As in Factual???
Disappeared, somewhere along the rise of technology for Techno Zombies, Unrestrained Cell Phone Usage, and the latest Craze of Text Messaging.
Goodbye Critical Thinking Skills, Rationality, Responsibility.
However, just to live up to my moniker of Polly Anna, will provide you with some options for balance through humor.
If you want a HUMOROUS TAKE ON GLOBAL WARMING, just visit the MINNASOTANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING (on U-Tube).
Additional links on their site will lead you to more scientific thoughts from Lord Mockington, a British Scientist who is doing what he can to Debunk the Global Warming Model.
And other concerned parties who whole heartedly believe in Promoting and Encouraging Critical Thinking Skills, not to mention, COMMON SENSE!!!
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Good post IMO. BTTT
Working at Pizza Hut and Jiffy Lube requires a basic knowledge of science and analysis. The global warming advocates have not demonstrated this ability.
They ask "How should scientists explain this to the public."
Instead, they should be asking "Why should the public believe anything these scientists say?"
"The Science is settled" "Denialists should be prosecuted" I hope this means our spell in the Warmists re-education camps has been postponed.
Polly: WELCOME TO FR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Develop a thick skin quickly, as some of us are still trying to get a passing grade in Manners 101, follow Jim Robinson's Rules, and donate when you can.
Great thoughtful comments Polly, thanks! Few of us recognize cycles in our 3 score and 10, but as you pointed out, History is replete with cycles.
IMHO, we live in an age of zero accountability. GW is an excellent example as follows:
1.) The popular speculation is that there is a Cause-and-Effect relationship between the concentration of CO2 and the temperature in the atmosphere.
2.) In the discipline of SCIENCE, all ideas are objectively tested REPEATEDLY! To the best of my knowledge, there have been NO published Scientific tests of ANY Cause-and Effect relationship between Temp and CO2.
3.) Without objective testing the GW idea remains a pure speculation supported by junk scientists.
4.) A cross-plot of Temp and CO2 concentration with time does show a rough correlation between the two, but with significant cyclical deviations, such as in the mid-1940's.
5.) Scientific Cause-and-Effect testing of ideas has been replaced by statistical INFERENCE "testing" in the published high-quality Scientific Literature.
6.) The GW Speculation currently has over 200 dependent and independent variables, and thus is securely impervious to Scientific Testing.
7.) We are thus in the age of NO Accountability, in junk science, or in National Politics. Well, unless one is from the "show me" State of Missouri !
BTW, for Scientists and Politicians, the most difficult thing for them to say is the following: "I don't know." As a result ideas are held onto for long periods of time, even though there is no proof known to support those ideas.
Be the first on your block to holler "PROVE IT!"
However, be prepared for all sorts of cheap, verbal abuse, as junk scientists, and junk politicians hate to be held accountable for their actions and inactions.
Woa, woa, woe there bud,
not so fast...
Just b/c it appears the Sun is the center of our solar system 2 things still remain:
a. Michelson-Morley experiments could find no solar wind and no one has repeated these experiments afaik. But even Einstein said both sun-centered and Earth-centered solar systems are supported by the math. Earth centered just makes he math much more complicated - heck I get dizzy just thinking about it - pun intended.
b. We could very well be the center of the universe! In fact it make the big bang and Einstein's gravitational time dilation and relativity much more palatable for true believers.
Lastly though it could just be that we, mankind, are the central primary focus and attention of God. Afterall, He did say [and show somewhat] that we are created in His image.
Not too mention if they truly understood Earth's climate change then they'd be much better at forecasting accurate weather for more than 1-2 days/weeks. Instead it appears they are just more likely to predict the more extreme models to pacify the masses when they get the good news that the local expert was wrong in our favor...
THAT we can fix. Just add some SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride) to the stratosphere. Very stable molecule.....HUGE greenhouse enhancer (I think it either one of, or THE strongest greenhouse gas known...23,000 x that of CO2).
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Woohoo! Vin Scully will be back in 2011!
I got chocked up with the news! The best news for the season!!!!!
"I'm just honored and humbled to continue my association with the Dodgers, which has been a major part of my life," Scully said in a team release.
Me acongoje de alegria con la noticia que Vin Scully regresara en 2011!
"Es un honor y me siento muy honrado de continuar my asociacion con los Dodgers, que han sido una gran parte de mi vida," Scully dijo en la publicacion de el equipo.
Here is the link
Vin Scully to return to Dodgers Booth in 2011!
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Late night isn't the same without him. AT 10:30pm he's the best thing on TV (eastern time).
Very exciting news for Dodger fans – and for baseball fans in general. So glad he's coming back for another season.
Can't tell you how happy I am to know that the baseball public, not only in Cali, but the country will get one more year of the skillful stylings of Scully at the mike.
I hope someday some one makes a DVD, CD of his great calls and it is a prerequisite for anyone wanting to do any sports broadcasting. You got to honor the past to move forwards..
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Emma, you don't know how much this news has resonated across the 'net! I'm stoked! Hearing his voice again next makes things right in the world! He is a bridge back to home that can never be extinguished.
Good to hear that he'll be back next year – he's been there so long that to hear any other voice would probably just seem all wrong.
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Gotta love Vin! Such a class act and nice man! We are so blessed! Woohoo!
like I said, the best news for us Dodger fans this year! And yes I am sure for many baseball fans.
Yeterday I read that he went to work and as he was walking by he was singing. I think his wife gave her blessing that if he still enjoys coming to the game then he should continue to do it.
He used to do a "Sundays with Vinny" where he interviewed some classic guys. I have several of those recordings. I should put them all together into one CD.
The slogan for 2011 should be "Win it for Vin!" Someone already has the t-shirt. I am going to buy one.
Vin still enjoys what he does. It just comes across on his mike.
We are sure blessed! After the game I went and told him him "Thank you Vin Scully! We Love you!" He waved back smiling and said thank you!
Emma: WHAT GREAT NEWS FOR BASEBALL!!! All this talk about Lou Pinella's retirement was so depressing. I like this news, because I can actually smile about it. Congrats to Vin Scully!!!
The announcement came the same day. I should have known he was not going to retire when I heard that the prior day he was walking at the stadium singing. He loves Baseball too much!
Some things never change. Scully in the booth is just one of those things.
Dear Emma, I'm so happy too !. I can't imagine a dodgers game without listening to Vin Scully .
That is good news! Wish the really great ones would just stick around forever.
Can you imagine someone doing something for 61 years and still loving it?
I am looking forward to the Dodgers going to Colorado so that I can hear Vin again.
Wouldn't that be great if they could do that? But we are blessed that Vin wants to come back for his 62nd year!
I was so delighted to hear he was returning. Have you read his latest book? The Dodger in me is still requesting it as a stocking stuffer. The Bums aren't dead yet, Emma! It's exciting! I smell the wild card … and a San Francisco implosion!


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From The Desk of The Commissioner of Police
Smt C.S.Lepcha, IPS
Commissioner of Police
Welcome to Siliguri Metropolitan Police Website. Siliguri Police Commissionerate, inaugurated on 4th August, 2012 is aimed at providing Citizen centric Policing. centric Policing. Siliguri Metropolitan Police has jurisdiction extending to 640 sq kms consisting of Siliguri Municipal Corporation area and adjoining suburban areas. Siliguri being an important transit point having interstate Bus Terminus, New Jalpaiguri Railway Station and Bagdogra Airport assumes an important place in the tourism map and is considered to be the gateway of North East India.
Our Mission & Vision
Siliguri, situated at a strategic location in the northern part of West Bengal. The town is a major commercial gateway to the seven northeastern states of India as well as three neighbouring countries of Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh. The city has seen a surge in population due to an influx of people in search of livelihood and trade. As with all growing cities there is an inevitable rise in various undesirable activities as also a massive surge in Traffic. The need was felt for a modern Police force in the city which can react to the enhanced requirement for a prompt and efficient Law enforcement. It was for this reason that the Commissionerate of police was developed on 4th August, 2012. The main mission of the Siliguri Mtropolitan Police is to provide and promote a peaceful, safe and secure environment to the city, so that every law-abiding individual living in or visiting the city can enjoy a good quality of life and achieve what they aspire for.
* People-friendly policing: often referred to as community policing where Law enforcement agency engages actively the community.
* A strong community-police interface where the members of the community are also made aware of their responsibilities and rights.
* Facilitation of convenient, seamless and 24X7 access to the police force both through physical access , 100 dial, as well as e- access.
* Zero tolerance to violation of law, but at the same time enforcement of the law of the land with a human face, equity, honouring rights of the people and upholding the dignity of one and all.
Our Jurisdiction
The Siliguri Metropolitan Police comprises of an area of 640.62 Sq.Kms having jurisdiction over 5 Police stations out of which 4 Police Stations namely Siliguri P.S, PradhanNagar P.S., Matigara P.S and Bagdogra P.S falls under the jurisdiction of Revenue District of Darjeeling where as Bhaktinagar P.S. falls under the Jurisdiction of Revenue District of Jalpaiguri. To ensure the effective policing and proper supervision over the five Police Stations, the area is divided into 2 divisions namely East Division comprising of Siliguri P.S and Bhaktinagar P.S. and West division comprising of Pradhannagar P.S.,Matigara P.S. and Bagdogra P.S.
Apart from this there are specilized wings under this commissionerate are Women P.S, Cyber Crime Unit and Detective Department. Similarly the Traffic Division is also divided into following 6 Traffic Guards to ensure better traffic managements.
Latest Update
Date - 2016-10-17
Matigara P.S Case No. 448/16 dated 12.08.16 u/s 489B/489C IPC
Started over the written complaint of S.I. Mrinmay Ghosh of Matigara P.S, SMP to the effect that on 12.08.16 at 08.15 hrs, as per source information the complainant along with other force and lady Police had been to Shivmandir, Medical More on NH-31 and apprehended one lady namely Smt Anita Sha (27)W/O Kali Sha of Masjid Para, Gossairpur, P.S. Bagdogra, Dist. Darjeeling coming from Bagdogra side by Bus and maintaining all decency and formalities searched the apprehended Anita Sha and found (i) 02 Nos. of Rs 1000/ denomination Notes likely to be Fake Indian Currency Notes and (ii) 07 Nos. of Rs. 500/- denomination Notes likely to be Fake Indian Currency Notes from her Brown Coloured ladies vanity bag [.] On demand she failed to produce any relevant documents for possessing/procuring cash Rs 5500/- likely to be Fake Indian Currency Notes with her [.] Accordingly, he seized total Rs 5500/-(02 pieces of Rs. 1000/- denomination Notes likely to be fake Indian Currency Notes & 07 pieces of Rs. 500/- denomination Notes likely to be Fake Indian Currency Notes) under proper seizure list in presence of witnesses duly signed by them and also arrested accused Anita Sha [.] The whole process of search, seizure and arrest took place in between 08:55 hrs to 09:55 hrs [.] P.O – Shibmandir Medical More, P.S – Matigara, Dist – Darjeeling [.] I.O – S.I. Nur Alam Siddik [.] Arrest – 01 person arrested [.]Investigation: Proceeding (.)
Date - 2016-09-28
N.J.P OP is now N.J.P Police StationFrom dated.22.09.2016 N.J.P. Out-Post comes under Bhaktinagar PS has been declared as Police Station under Siliguri Metropolitan Police vide Government Order No.4154-PL/PB/4P-5/14 Dated. 23.09.2016 (Department's Notification No.4029 – PL, Dated.19.09.2016 read with Notification No. 4028 – PL, Dated.19.09.2016. In this new PS Two Out-Post namely- Milanpally & Ambari are added from Bhaktinagar PS."
Date - 2016-08-19
Following the prescient view of Mamata Banarjee Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal on the issue of everyday deaths related to road traffic accident and the need for safe driving which is an essential component of road safety. Siliguri Metropolitan Police under the leadership of Smt. C.S Lepcha IPS, Commissioner of Police Siliguri Metropolitan Police has successfully launched "Safe Drive Save Live" Programme in Siliguri on 19.08.2016.
Smt C.S Lepcha, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Siliguri Metropolitan Police delivered inaugural speech emphasising the motto of "Safe Drive Save Life" and advising general people to follow the traffic rules while driving in order to avoid traffic accident. Furthermore, she emphasised these tragedies can be prevented by changing people's behaviours. She asked people to avoid speeding, drinking & driving, using mobile phones when driving and also asked the people to use seat- belts, motorcycle helmets etc."
Date - 2016-08-19
Further, she said that Road Safety Awareness programme is an ideal opportunity to promote life saving messages and to show the commitment to road safety to the drivers & riders and their families by implementing a safe system of Traffic Rules and Regulation such as "No Helmet No Petrol" etc.
All the respectable persons Shri Rabindra Nath Ghosh , Hon'ble Minister –In- Charge North Bengal Development Department Shri, James Kujur Hon'ble Minister In- Charge Tribal Development Department , Govt. of West Bengal , Shri, Baichung Bhutia Chairman North Bengal Sports Council, Shri, Barun Roy, IAS Divisional Commissioner Jalpaiguri Division, Shri N.R. Babu IPS, Addl. Director General & Inspector General of Police North Bengal, other Govt. dignitaries, NGOs, Students, Organisations, Unions, media, Citizens, Clubs and Police personnel enormously participated to make the programme a grand success."
Date - 2016-08-18
Siliguri Metropolitan Police celebrated the festival of brotherhood "RAKSHA BANDHAN " on 18.08.2016 at Airview More, Siliguri. " Some Kanya Shree students from different schools and lady Police personnel " of Siliguri Metropolitan Police took active part on this occasion conveying messages " SAFE DRIVE SAVE LIFE" and tied "RAKHI " to the drivers and riders on the road with the prayer and well wishes.
On this auspicious occasion, all the ranks of Police Personnel under the leadership of Smt. C.S Lepcha IPS, Commissioner of Police, Siliguri Metropolitan Police also took active part to make the programme a grand success.
Date - 2016-08-04
Siliguri Metropolitan Police celebrated its 4th raising day today on 04.08.2016 at Mallaguri Police lines. Smt. C.S Lepcha, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Siliguri Metropolitan Police took the salute which was followed by Muster Parade, Flag Hoisting , cake cutting ceremony and facilitation to the public for their good work and help to the Police for detection and prevention of crime in the area. Commissioner of Police also facilitated dog squad for their good job.
Siliguri Metropolitan Police was formed as Police Commissionerate after bifurcating Darjeeling District Police and some part of Jalpaiguri District Police on 04th 08.2012.
Smt. C.S Lepcha IPS, Commissioner of Police, SMP addressed all ranks of the formation at special Muster Parade emphasising the dedication of duties right from CP to Constables even Home Guards and Civic Volunteers towards the service of the citizens in this region and conveyed her greetings to all ranks and their families on this occasion.
On the Raising day Siliguri Metropolitan Police has planned for an interactive session between police personnel and citizens of Siliguri at Shivam Palace which would comprise of students, guardians, teachers, Media personnel, social activists etc.
The purpose of interactive session is to gather suggestions from the people to improve the functioning of Police in the region and also to enlighten the people about the traffic rules and regulations, their rights, obligations and duties.
Date - 2016-07-28
Following the initiative of the Hon'ble Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee , Siliguri Metropolitan Police under the leadership of Smt. C.S Lepcha, IPS ,Commissioner of Police has successfully organised " SAFE DRIVE SAVE LIFE" programme in Siliguri today on 28.07.2016.
All the respectable govt. dignitaries, NGOs, Students, Media , Citizens and Police Personnel took active part in this programme.
The dignitaries addressed the people advising them to follow the traffic rules while driving in order to avoid accidents and unnecessary hassle in the road.
The slogans of "NO HELMET NO PETROL" "SAFE DRIVE SAVE LIFE" was emphasised upon. A motor cycle helmet rally was also organised keeping in mind the "NO HELMET NO PETROL" rule.
Lastly, the Commissioner of Police gave a vote of thanks emphasising that the traffic rules are to be followed not only by the two wheeler riders but also by the drivers of all the vehicles, so that there is no inconvenience/accidents and all the travellers reach their respective homes safely."


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>Running 101>Can you help me raise funds to register for the NJ Marathon in the name of the Boston Marathon bombing victims?
Go fund yourself.
When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
There is a difference between being a scammer and being insensitive (and doing something silly).
I don't see this as a scam. If it is, it is the dumbest scam ever.
Having said that.... uh, no. Nice try.
There is a difference between being a scammer and being insensitive (and doing something silly).
I don't see this as a scam. If it is, it is the dumbest scam ever.
Having said that.... uh, no. Nice try.
Given that there are now a few of these in RA, almost identical.... it's a scam.
HTFU? Why not!
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I see two, posted by the same user in two different subforums, in much the same way that a newbie with a question sometimes posts the same thing in multiple places. And it seems that someone intending to scam (aka 'mislead') isn't going to say what was said.
This is a silly thing semantically to try to be right/wrong about, so I will shut up. I just don't see a need to make something more evil than it really needs to be and spreading it like that. It...the request itself, not you... just seems kind of dumbass.
I see it is stupidity, not a scam.
If you click her link it tells you her name, if you google it she is a legitimate person with a linked in profile that tells her life story - I don't doubt she has college bills.
It's a simple act of complete and utter selfishness.
but yeah, she should go fund herself and fund off
I'm with you on this. I don't think this was scamming as much as pure and utter cluelessness.
And carpetbagging. The account was created just before the posts.
Ah, I see your point. Probably not a scam after all but it's incredibly poor taste and shameful.
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How is she going to run when she's crippled? Are her legs ok and it's just from the waist up? Is it a mis-formed ear at birth?
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A week or so back, I introduced you lovely people to Zoya's Spring '09 collection: Twist. Part 1 is here. Onward we go to Part Deux.
First up we have Jo. What a wonderful blue to my collection. I only applied two coats here but I would probably do three just because I love a complete opaque look. Jo has tons of sparkle but nothing too crazy. I would definitely rock this on the weekends for the perfect subtle yet showy nail color.
I really like Moxie! But then again, I would because it's a creme. This color applied like a dream; I usually don't have application problems with Zoya polishes. Moxie is a beautiful berry beet color that isn't terribly unique but I love it just the same. I probably have a good 2 colors similar to this but nothing beats the application of a Zoya polish.
Think pink! Barbie pink that is. This photo may not show it but this polish is crazy bubble gum pink. It looks a little muted here but it really is a loud pink. Which I think is very pretty! I prefer it more on toes but would not mind rockin' it on the hands either.
All in all, I am enamored with Zoya's Twist collection. The colors are diverse and there is something for everyone–be it the nail polish addict or the conservative polish wearer. Malia would be my favorite out of the bunch with Harley coming in at a close second. This is my second Zoya collection and I can honestly say that I am a bonafide fan!
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