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A new DAMEN tug for NERI, 25 January 2016
Recovered of the wreck of ship Gokbel
Neri donates the Island of Giglio a sculpture and an urban requalification
Departure from Genoa of the AHTSupply Vessel Nos Aries
Salvage of a North Sea Standard barge for Prysmian Industrial cables
Salvage of cargo ship 'Violet Ace' of Nassau
Balloons keep IXV afloat
Fratelli Neri makes the recovery in the Pacific Ocean of a spacecraft built by Thales Alenia experimental
Fratelli NERI to charter the new supply vessel to Edison.
Neri donates the Island of Giglio a sculpture and an urban requalification
GIGLIO ISLAND. This morning at dawn Talani sculpture was installed in Giglio harbor. A token of friendship to the island by the company NERI Livorno and SMIT Rotterdam, a leader in the field of maritime towing, giving the community a bronze sculpture of 3 meters with a reminder of the courage and generosity of gigliesi who have accepted the survivors on the night of 12 January 2012. Among the many stories of courage gigliesi even those who first climbed the pilot ladder in the opposite direction to go save people who were sucked by the eddies of water in a sinking ship and even risks his life in the rush of relief.
The bronze statue of "The Man Who Saves the Sea" artist Giampaolo Talani will be installed in the square of Giglio Porto, gift, in fact, of the companies NERI Livorno and Smit Salvage of Rotterdam (who participated in the operations after shipwreck removal of the fuel).
The work recalls "the courage and selflessness of the inhabitants of the island of Giglio, leading in front of the sea with his presence a message of hope." Talani, among other things, is the author of the bronzes "Sailor" placed at the entrance of the port of San Vincenzo Livorno and "Rose of the Winds" now at the train station of Saint Lucia in Venice, and the fresco at the station Firenze Santa Maria News designed by Michelucci.
The sculpture in Giglio advances in the waves with a rose in hand, a tribute to the rescue worker and works in unexpected and serious incidents that disrupt the sea and the lives of those who inhabit the coastline: "It is not a hero, you every man willing to intervene with all his humanity to save and give hospitality to other men; it is the individual and the whole community that strives for its own similar in difficulty as the inhabitants of Giglio have been able to do by offering all available resources. "
With the placement of this sculpture is complete the redevelopment of the square Demo's of Isola del Giglio. The urban design project was designed by architect Paola Talà from Livorno. "This is – says the mayor Sergio Ortelli - a significant donation and appreciated by all gigliesi. On the one hand, in fact, remain indelible our gratitude for two companies that have eliminated the risk of environmental disaster, and second because it is important that no one forgets this day an extraordinary gesture which have made gigliesi. "
The implementation includes a large sitting hunched essential as the shore line made using the traditional granite approached the design of the more 'innovative cor-ten steel.
The curve ends with three cubic volumes which break down into a geometric pattern and recalls, stilizzandoli, the cliffs and the pier; Here is the statue "that with all his will, with the strength and love that has, faces the danger of the sea without challenge and with serious commitment to the safety of life at sea, the marine environment and nature, symbolized by the rose clutching in his hand. " Energies that the artist Talani once again told in poetic: the rose, that is, the acceptance and altruism and strong boats that plow the waves, that is, all the necessary technologies together in solidarity for the survival of man and the sea.
The work comes from the gratitude and appreciation that NERI Livorno and Smit Salvage Rotterdam nourished by the magnanimity and courage shown by the people of Giglio in a moment of extraordinary work commitment to protection of the sea and of human life at sea, just as the threat pollution of the sea around the island and Tuscany was removed by diligent action of 'marine salvage' they conduct. Hence the aim of giving the Isola del Giglio, the gigliesi and their guests, a space renovated and especially the emotion of art in everyday life. Citing Botero art can give 'moments of happiness, a haven of extraordinary existence, parallel to the everyday. "


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Climate Science Parasites
For a second time, a letter has appeared in the journal Science urging scientists to action regarding climate change. "Because of the physics of the climate system, we must ensure that global emissions of greenhouse gases peak and start to decline rapidly within a decade in order to have a reasonable chance of meeting the 2°C goal," urge the authors, noting that "humankind has waffled and delayed for decades; further delay risks serious consequences for people and the ecosystems on which we rely." What is not immediately obvious is who these correspondents are. While some are legitimate scientists, a number turn out to be from somewhat nebulous organizations and institutions. They are philosophers, ethicists and "decision scientists" who have turned shilling for climate disaster into a career. They grow like a tapeworm within the bowels of science—they are climate science parasites.
In 2009, a number of climate change activists sent a letter to Science, bemoaning the ability of society to make use of scientific knowledge and urging scientists to form an organized, dumbed-down front when communicating with non-scientists regarding climate change. At that time, this blog labeled the authors climate change spin doctors. Evidently, the results of that naked appeal for help in bamboozling the public were insufficient, since a number of the same people have again written to Science with a new appeal for expanded scientific subterfuge. This new request has caused me to relabel the offending authors science parasites, for the reasons explained below.
- An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.
- One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.
Consider the list of authors of the letter, entitled "Time to Take Action on Climate Communication,":Thomas E. Bowman, Edward Maibach, Michael E. Mann, Richard C. J. Somerville, Barry J. Seltser, Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen M. Gardiner, Robert J. Gould, Anthony Leiserowitz and Gary Yohe. Naturally, the name of Michael "hockey stick" Mann jumps out, immediately making the letter suspect. The inventor of "hiding the decline" continues to turn up where ever the climate change faithful congregate. But it is the strange collection of lesser known signatories that reveals a more nuanced approach to lying about climate change. Take Thomas Bowman, for instance.
Bowman's online CV lists his education as consisting of a BA and a Master of Arts in "Religion: Social Ethics," from the School of Religion, UCLA. In 1988 he founded the Bowman Design Group and since then has been associated with a number of organizations with names like Bowman Global Change and, most recently, The Climate Solutions Project. According to its website, Bowman Global Change "has been established to help organizations make sustainable transformations." The stated goal of the Climate Solutions Project to develop public intervention strategies with a blue-ribbon team of experts in climate science, social science, economics, ethics and social marketing.
The Climate Solutions Project's website only shows a "under construction" page, but that not withstanding the CSP was named as a finalist for the "prestigious" Buckminster Fuller Challenge. "The Bowman-led initiative is a touring festival and exhibition that explores the risks and potential solutions to the climate crisis," explains one account. The same source declares Bowman "one of the premier interpreters of climate and energy science." In other words, Bowman is a non-scientist cheerleader for the climate change lobby, a man who makes his living frightening people with climate disaster and offering moral absolution for a price.
Examine some of the other organizational associations listed with the letter:
- Center for Climate Change Communication, Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
- Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
- Department of Philosophy and Program on Values in Society, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- Partnership for Prevention, Washington, DC.
- Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
- Department of Economics and College of the Environment, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
These are not institutions or organizations involved in the science of climate, but rather groups that are in the business of convincing others what to think about climate change. Much like a military installation quickly spawns a surrounding collection of sleazy bars, pawn shops and hookers, climate science has attracted its own supporting sub-culture of questionable individuals. That is not to say that such individuals are useless or that the fields they claim to represent are worthless. Case in point: Social and Decision Sciences (SDS).
According to Baruch Fischhoff, director of the SDS program at CMU and one of the Science letter's authors, "the interdisciplinary field of Decision Science seeks to understand and improve judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations." Fischoff, one of the founders of the field of decision science, holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne State University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Here is how he describes the SDS program on the department website:
Course content in the Decision Science major will foster understanding of: (a) the cognitive, emotional, social, and institutional factors that influence judgment and choice, (b) normative (economic) models of rational choice, and (c) how judgment and decision making can be predicted and/or improved.
Applications of Decision Science research abound. For example, research insights are being used to improve medical decision making (e.g., conveying costs and benefits of alternative treatment options to patients), legal decision making (e.g., understanding the effects of anger on attributions of responsibility), large-scale risk assessments (e.g., assessing risks of nuclear power), marketing (e.g., understanding the effects of emotion) and managerial decision making (e.g., correcting common errors and biases in the assessment of risk).
A strange blend of psychology, sociology, economics and ethics. While this is no doubt an interesting field of study, it in no way provides an understanding of fundamental physical science. A practitioner of this field is no more qualified to be guiding the public's decisions regarding climate change than any other non-scientist.
This is yet another example of the "squishy" sciences that have sprung up in academia over the past couple of centuries. Since people started to find science useful, many scholars have laid claim to the title scientist. Being a scientist sounds much more prestigious and it is easier to rake in those research grants. This has led to all sorts of fields tacking science on to their names: political science, social science and now decision science. Sorry, but I do not accept those as scientific disciplines.
Science, from the Latin scientia (meaning "knowledge"), is an enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the natural world. Science is the business of discovering and defining the "laws of nature." In other words, how the Universe works. Chemistry, physics, biology and geology are science, the so called social sciences are not. I know that some will argue that the natural sciences and the empirical sciences both deserve the sobriquet "science." I think this is a misleading convention.
In some fields, efforts have been made to suborn science with little success. Marxists in particular tried to make a science of history, primarily to provide cover for their otherwise unsupportable economic and social ideas. Marx and Engels both use the term historical materialism to refer to the science of history, or the "science of the development of societies," as Marx called it. In the end it was more a rhetorical device than anything else, a way to give Marxist thought a more authoritative sheen.
While it may seem that I am being overly pedantic, it is important to differentiate between fields of study that measure nature and those where humans are in the mix. It is a natural and empirically well-founded presumption that humans are free agents, meaning their actions cannot be predicted with certainty. Natural processes, however, are unequivocally deterministic and their behavior can therefore can be predicted. This applies even to quantum uncertainty and chaotic behavior, where bounds on uncertainty can be quantified and chaos characterized (electron tunneling is taken into account in solid-state electrical devices and chaos theory is really about finding underlying order).
While applying the scientific method of experimentation and verification to other fields may yield more closely reasoned and logically valid results, they do not turn the underlying field of study into a science. Apply statistics and the scientific method to sociology and you may get better sociology—what you will not get is social science.
Similarly, an ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and moral codes has come to be trusted by a specific community. It is possible for a scientist to also be an ethicist, but being an ethicist does not make one a scientist. A communications specialist may be versed in how to best present knowledge, like a good director effectively translates a script into an ineligible movie. Again, helping to communicate a message does not make the facilitator competent to judge its content—ask any good propagandist. The Bowman et al. letter calls for non-scientists to promote one side in a primarily scientific debate—in effect, to become propagandists for climate change.
These new allies of the climate change alarmists are nothing more than later day sophists, skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation. In ancient Greece, in the second half of the 5th century BC, the term "sophist" was associated with a particular class of intellectuals who taught courses in various subjects. Among those subjects was how to employ rhetoric to persuade or convince others and generally achieve ones own purposes. A few sophists claimed that they could find the answers to all questions. The sophists became great social agitators, particularly in Athens.
Sophists plagued ancient Athens in the 5th century BC.
"Whether as calculated self-promotion, or from simple exuberance in their own virtuosity, or sometimes even because they had managed to persuade themselves, sophists loved to argue for the unsettling and the improbable," states Nicholas Denyer, in the introduction of Plato: Protagoras. "Sophists did, however, have one important thing in common: whatever else they did or did not claim to know, they characteristically had a great understanding of what words would entertain or impress or persuade an audience."
Many of them taught their skills for a price and some have called them the forerunners of modern lawyers—intellects for hire, who will argue either side of any dispute for money. Nowadays, the term "sophist" is used solely as a term of disdain, "for those who hope to get away with shoddy reasoning," in Denyer's words. It would seem that they also have philosophical descendants in the field of social and decision science.
In an interview, Fischoff explained how he came to be involved with decisions regarding technology, the environment and public policy: "What I've found over the years is that—I'll try to put this nicely—that the natural scientists have been so engaged in their parts of these questions that they really haven't had much of a place for social variables, much less the social sciences."
I'll try to put this nicely—if there is still a raging debate over whether there is a problem within the natural sciences, there is no need for social and political "experts" to inject themselves into the argument or start formulating public policy. Given the weakness of the climate catastrophists' case and the overwhelming uncertainty in their projections, any participation by those who practice "non-persuasive communication" is unwarranted. And just what is non-persuasive communication?
According to Fischoff, "It has a discipline of trying to learn enough about people in order to provide them the few facts that are most essential to their decisions, in a way that makes sense to them and enables them to make decisions." That is psychobable for filtering the facts to influence people in positions of power, helping them to arrive at conclusions you think are correct. Fischoff may claim neutrality, but look at the company he keeps—there is an agenda here and it is not to give all sides of the global warming debate a fair hearing.
Do not misunderstand, I am not disparaging those who study politics or sociology, and certainly not historians and philosophers—all have have their place in the realm of intellectual endeavor. But those who study the philosophy of science do not claim to have turned philosophy into a science. There is something fundamentally wrong with calling for the participation of a number of specialists from non-scientific fields in arguing the validity of specific scientific claims; claims that scientists themselves cannot agree on. That is effectively what the letter to Science has done—called for the participation of all manner of non-scientists in decision making based on climate science. This would totally eclipse the underlying scientific debate and effectively assume the claims of consensus climate science to be correct.
The initiative should be judged against two critical outcomes: (i) improved understanding of risks and potential solutions by people, organizations, and governments, and (ii) more informed decision-making—and less avoidance of decision-making—about how to manage those risks. The initiative should be an embodiment of what Fischhoff calls "non-persuasive communication." It should not advocate specific policy decisions; good decision-making involves weighing the best available information with the values of the decision-makers and those affected by the decisions.
The initiative should recruit a full range of climate scientists, decision scientists, and communication professionals into the effort to ensure both sound scientific information and effective communication. In addition, it should build bridges to other communities of experts—such as clergy, financial managers, business managers, and insurers—who help people, organizations, and governments assess and express their values. Scientists and nonscientists alike inevitably interpret climate science information in the context of other information and values; the initiative should mobilize experts who can facilitate appropriate and useful interpretations.
They are judging the "risks" and "potential solutions"—that the risks are real and the solutions needed is preordained. And just what the hell do the values of the decision-makers have to do with deciding whether CO2 needs to be controlled? Either bad things will happen because of human CO2 emissions or they won't—values have nothing to do with it. Perhaps what they mean is that the "values" of people in the developing world demand a transfer of wealth from the industrial nations, as one UN official recently said. Lastly, guess who gets to judge what interpretations are "appropriate and useful?"
The most disturbing thing about this call for a massive public campaign to bolster action over climate change is who is making the call. Aside from scientists with dubious professional judgment, it comes from an army of hangers on, from private foundations, government agencies and academic enclaves. People who have marginal qualifications to join the global warming debate but are, in many cases, making a living from it.
President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the military-industrial complex. Today we are faced with the government-scientific complex, a toxic blending of government bureaucracies, which fund and oversee scientific research at laboratories and universities, and big science, an equally bureaucratic collection of organizations and professional societies that purport to speak for scientists. An example of the inbred and incestuous relationship between government and big science can be seen in the new editor-in-chief of Science, Bruce Alberts.
For 12 years, Alberts served as the president of the US National Academy of Sciences. While technically a non-government organization, the NAS is sanctioned by an act of congress and performs scientific analysis for the US government. In his editorial in the December 1, 2010, issue he had this to say about science and public understanding:
Scientists are taught to challenge authority, and their responsible challenges to a consensus help science advance. Thus, adults should expect to find some scientists who disagree with the scientific consensus on an issue. And they should appreciate why a strong scientific consensus, such as that about climate change, must nevertheless form the basis for making wise personal and community decisions, representing by far the best bet for predicting the future consequences of present actions.
In other words, we should expect to find a few kooks who don't trust the science behind climate change. Don't worry, just trust in our self proclaimed majority opinion. In making this pronouncement, this supposed senior statesman for the scientific community exhibits exactly the the type of bureaucratic group-think, cover-your-ass with consensus attitude that has led to the climate change debacle. Way too much going along with the majority and far too little real science.
It is often said that most scientists do their best work when they are young—while they are still ambitious iconoclasts looking to shake up the establishment by make astounding new discoveries. Regardless of age, major scientific advances are most often made by rebels, the stubborn dissenters from consensus, not the conventional thinkers who simply go with the flow. Sadly, elder scientists are often highly resistant to change, to the great detriment of science itself.
Reportedly, at the end of the 19th century, an elderly Lord Kelvin stated that there was nothing new to be discovered in physics, and that all that remained was more and more precise measurement. This was only a few years before the discovery of relativity, quantum physics, the big bang and the true size and age of the universe. Indeed, in the past 100+ years more discoveries have been made, and more outdated theories discarded, in all fields of scientific endeavor than any previous time in human history. New important and fundamental discoveries are being made every day in climate science, old theories disproven, and yet we are told to believe in the consensus that has persisted for decades.
In politics and society consensus is meaningful. In science consensus is a false god to be cast down by new, more enlightened discoveries. Those, who through their efforts strive to prop up outdated ideas, to blindly defend current wisdom, to support consensus, are not helpful to science or humanity.
If one organism takes from another but also returns something of benefit it is called a symbiont. If it merely takes and returns nothing of value, or harms its host, it is labeled a parasite. Mind control by a parasite sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists have found that such things happen. One example of parasite mind control involves the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which essentially turns ants into zombies.
Like a parasitic ant fungus, science parasites are harmful to humanity.
After being infected with O unilateralis, the hapless victim remains alive for a short time. The fungus compels the ant to climb down from its nest high in the forest canopy, and onto small plants and saplings near the forest floor. The zombie ant then climbs onto the underside of a low-hanging leaf where it clamps down with its mandibles, biting into the major veins on the underside of the leaf just before it dies. Within a few days, the fungus grows a stalk from its victim's head, a stroma, which releases spores to infect more ants.
Scaremongering climate scientists, having failed to win the global warming debate on scientific grounds, have recruited a cadre of new helpers—psychologists, sociologists, PR firms, ethicists and image consultants—all with the aim of selling the world's political leaders (the "decision makers") an idea that has already been rejected. It is their intention to gain political control by infecting the thoughts of world leaders with this false idea, much like the fungus that infects ant brains. The parasites wish to redirect the efforts of the world's people, to make the world over in ways more to their own liking. This is more than just a fight against bad science, it has become a struggle against the climate science parasites for the future of human civilization.
Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
You are too kind. Parasites are naturally occurring creatures, they are what they are and noting more. Like all things in science they have not motives or goals except self preservation. That is in and of itself just that and nothing more. It is when those parasites and or others ascribe some quality to themselves that can not be supported by empirical data that we who follow the philosophy of science and the scientific method must do as you have done, stand and be counted. Thank you.
I have written many short essays examining the philosophy and science and the communication of that science and philosophy to the public discourse. (http://retreadresources.com/blog) From my essay Scientism:
"Scientism or the "Church of Science" is a fictional religion from Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. I don't know if Asimov took the name from Friedrich Hayek (1980) or Karl Popper or they got it from him, it matters not. "Scientism is the idea that natural science is the most authoritative worldview or aspect of human education, and that it is superior to all other interpretations of life." (Sorell, 1994) Philosophers of science such as Karl Popper, use it to describe what they see as the underlying attitudes and beliefs common to many scientists, whereby the study and methods of natural science have risen to the level of ideology.(Outhwaite, 1988) The classic statement of scientism is from the physicist Ernest Rutherford: "there is physics and there is stamp-collecting." (Crane, 2003)"
I think it is clear you Parasites are simply sophists and propagandists of Scientism. Those who would practice is homage to a "false god" forfeit their right to call themselves scientist, they simply give the rest of us a bad name.
Dennis Nikols, P. Geol.
Very excellent article!
These people are motivated by something other than objective scientific facts. They are motivated by faith. I don't have a problem with faith. But I don't think it has a place in scientific endeavors.
Isn't it ironic that these champions of reason are trying to set themselves up as the Inquisitors of their faith!
By the way, Eisenhower made another comment in his 'Military Industrial Complex' speech:
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite".
A statement equally relevant in today's world to the more often quoted portion of his speech!
Elderly scientists
While not yet elderly, I find the comment about older scientists to be inaccurate. Often once emeritus status is reached scientists are actually able to speak their minds. They are able to do this simply because the need to fit into the "groupthink" of the Department or School they are at is no longer necessary. Ostracism is no longer a concern and this is the greatest negative effect we see with climate science these days in that if you do not agree with the majority you risk ridicule, ostracism and a lack of respect of your grant proposals because you are a "wakcy thinking radical with crazy ideas about "real" science". True honesty is only available to those starting out because they are naive and arrogant or those at the end of their career because they no longer care about what people think about them or how it will affect them, simply because it no longer does affect them.
Age and scientific achievement
Do not misunderstand, I am not claiming that older scientists are useless or that they do not continue to do useful work. Hell, I'm an older scientist. I still come up with ideas for dissertation topics for students I work with and I continue to collaborate on papers (I just got done doing revisions to one on using EMD for workload forecasting). But, though I know I am more knowledgeable and less prone to oversights and errors now, I also know that I am not as "sharp" as I was in my 20s and 30s—sudden flashes of insight come less frequently than in my younger days.
I agree that both younger scientists and retired ones have less social and professional baggage to weigh them down. A professor emeritus, a full professor who retires in good standing, may indeed feel liberated enough to speak his or her mind—and what does that say about the influence of peer pressure within the ranks of working academics? That point aside, there have, in fact, been papers published that attempt to explain why "genius" diminishes with age. According to "Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection," by Satoshi Kanazawa:
The biographies of 280 scientists indicate that the distribution of their age at the time of their greatest scientific contributions in their careers (age–genius curve) is similar to the age distribution of criminals (age–crime curve). The age–genius curves among jazz musicians, painters and authors are also similar to the age–crime curve. Further, marriage has a strong desistance effect on both crime and genius. I argue that this is because both crime and genius stem from men's evolved psychological mechanism which compels them to be highly competitive in early adulthood but "turns off" when they get married and have children. Fluctuating levels of testosterone, which decreases when men get married and have children, can provide the biochemical microfoundation for this psychological mechanism. If crime and genius have the same underlying cause, then it is unlikely that social control theory (or any other theory specific to criminal behavior) can explain why men commit crimes and why they desist.
I don't see his explanation as definitive, but the age distribution statistics back up my general hypothesis. It has been noted that older scientists publish more papers, though that may be because they are involved in directing research by many younger scientists. It also does not say anything about the content or importance of the work described by those papers. There is, however, some indication that the average age at which scientists make "big" discoveries is trending higher. According to a report by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the trend is for significant contributions to be made later in life:
- During the 20th century, the average age at which researchers made the accomplishments that were later honored with Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics increased by 5.83 years.
- During the 20th century, the average age at which researchers made "great" technological achievements rose by 4.86 years, while the age of those achieving a first patent—for more average inventors—went up by 6.57 years.
This report also notes that there is a trend toward more multi-author papers and more authors per paper than before. Reportedly, between 1995 and 2005, group papers had twice as many citations as those authored by individuals. And comparing "home run papers"—those with at least 100 citations—team papers are more than four times as likely to produce such impact.
It could be that the ever increasing complexity of scientific research is leading to a time when contributions by single scientists will diminish, but I always recall a statement about system design by one of my mentors, Fred Brooks. He said that really great designs came either from a single mind or a few minds in close agreement. I believe this to be true for science in general—great theories do not flow from committees. But then, that is a different argument all together.
I was going to take issue with you Doug but your follow up clears the air, so to speak!
As an engineer I can only say I actually despise how that title has now been bastardised. At one time it was an honored title but these days even bin men (bless them, they do a great job!) are referred to as waste disposal engineers!
I come across so many people in my electrical field with the title "Engineer". They cannot truly explain Ohms Law other than as a formula!
I am in the "Grumpy Old Man" era so I suppose I should bow out with grace and leave the mess to be sorted out by the truly gifted people that have not been lied to and decived. They must be out there! I pray that they are and can stand up to the politics!
Cut the funding
It's time to cut the funding for anything with the world "climate" in it. I know that might take out some valid research but the field of so called climate science is so tainted now I think it's impossible to sort out the good from the bad.
We need to reduce government-
We need to reduce government- rather than focus a cutting funding for anything to with climate.
Funding for govt will eventually be reduced because whole system will fail- and that will have dire consequences [or perhaps more accurately, will accompany dire consequences].
If the entire system were to not eventually fail, I would not suggest reducing government.
Nothing good has ever come from totalitarianism and the world survived the soviet collapse, but whether it will survive a US\Western collapse begs the question of what meant by term survive. It won't be an improvement.

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TROY, N.Y.- Junior running back Al Georgio ran for 26 yards on the Cadets lone scoring play of the afternoon as the Norwich University football team dropped a 20-7 loss to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in non-conference action at RPI's East Campus Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The game marked the season opener for both teams.
RPI's senior quarterback Jessie Maynard, a former Fair Haven Slater, came off the bench to lead the Engineers through two scoring plays. Maynard entered the game in the second quarter following an injury to the starter and threw a 61-yard scoring strike in the third quarter and sealed the victory with a 91-yard run up the middle late in the fourth quarter in what was the first significant game action of his career. He finished with 89 yards passing (5-for-14; 1 INT) and 125 yards on the ground (25 carries).
The Cadets took the lead in the second quarter when Georgio plunged in from two yards out with 1:20 to go in the half. Georgio ran for 26 yards on six carries on Norwich's scoring drive, but the highlight of the series was a 37-yard burst up the middle on a fourth and one play from senior running back Mike Cavanaugh. That jaunt brought the ball to the eight yard line and Georgio finished things from there.
The score remained 7-6 until 2:28 was left in the third quarter, when RPI sophomore Pat Hogan caught a short pass from Maynard while cutting across the middle and broke through the defense and down the right sideline for a 61-yard touchdown. Andrew Franks added the extra point for a 13-7 lead.
After the Engineers' defense held the Cadets out of the end zone from inside the 10-yard line with under two minutes to play, Maynard ran a quarterback keeper, running through the middle of the defense and down the right hash marks for the long touchdown run. Franks added the extra point for the final score of 20-7.
Norwich returns to action next Saturday, Sept. 14 as the team host's St. Lawrence University at 1:30 p.m. The game will mark the grand re-opening for Sabine Field, which recently saw a 10-month, $6 million renovation.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H.- Castleton needed a defensive stop in the final minute of the game to pull out a 35-31 victory over Plymouth State in the non-conference football season opener for both schools.
Castleton used a strong aerial attack to take a 14-0 lead just six minutes into the game, but PSU responded with 28 unanswered points over the next two quarters, taking a 28-14 lead by utilizing a strong running game and capitalizing on a first-quarter on-side kick.
Castleton came back to tie the game at 28-all by the end of the third quarter on the arm of Busharis, who was making his first career start.
Castleton senior wide receivers Brandon Boyle from Springfield and Rutland's Mark Comstock each had big days against the Panther defense; Comstock caught eight passes for 164 yards and a touchdown while Boyle also hauled in eight passes for 156 yards and a score. The 463 receiving yards by Busharis is the second most in program history.
Castleton scored on its first two possessions. LaCount ran one into the end zone from eight yards out after a 34-yard pass play from Busharis to Boyle set up the score. Then Boyle found the end zone on a 49-yard pass play from Busharis to put the visitors ahead 14-0 just 6:21 into the game.
Senior linebacker Mick Wong led the Spartan defense with 13 tackles (11 solo) and a sack, while classmate Andrew Pursell made 11 stops. Sophomore Jay Morgan was a force inside with nine tackles and 1.5 sacks.
Castleton hosts Endicott College in its home opener next Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
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INDOOR FORE – Members of the Lake Superior State University men's golf team — Zac Carson (l-r), Nathan Stump, and Dan Raicevich — hone their technique inside a golf practice room that will be formally opened later this month in the Norris Center. Coach Brent Pusch, who is also a Class A Teaching Professional with the PGA of Canada, worked with his students to convert the squash court into a weatherproof driving and putting range, among other things. LSSU's women's golf will benefit from the expansion as well. Squash and handball enthusiasts needn't fret; Norris has three remaining courts on-line for those sports as well. Run a Web search on LSSU golf to read more about the program. (LSSU/John Shibley)
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Answers for a Newbie Freelance Writerby noid (English | Craft/How-to | Feature)
An aspiring freelance writer recently sent me an e-mail to ask if it is advisable to jump into the adventurous waters of freelance writing. I thought it best to share my answers with all of you since his questions are the usual concerns posed by a newbie freelance writer, as I once was.
Is freelance writing a viable alternative career?
It is, if you are really determined to succeed and focused on making this particular career choice work. In other words, like all other endeavors, it requires hard work. It is advisable though to have some savings set aside before you go full-time. Or you may transition gradually until you have gained some momentum, and are confident to expend all your energy into freelancing.
The good thing about freelance writing is that it is not all about feature writing. For example, if your native language is other than English, then you can also go into translation. There's also the wonderful world of blogging where you become your own boss, and your previous articles continue to earn for you without you needing to re-write it or re-submit them to other publications.
How do I get started?
If you want to write features for international publications, just read my previous articles in the site. Look for ideas, and their corresponding writing markets, and start pitching.
If you want to go into translation, you may want to try out TraduGuide.com. Once registered -- it's free -- and have created a profile, you will start receiving offers from translation companies or from individuals.
If you want to blog, read my article on blogging and download Yaro Starak's free e-book on blogging, Blog Profits Blueprint. Yaro also offers a paid course on blogging called Blog Mastermind. Blog Mastermind will hold your hand as you learn the basic steps of blogging, including creating a blog, and earning from it. Yaro has also created a new site for the absolute newbie blogger called BecomeABlogger.com. John Chow also has a Free Make Money Online e-book. And there's the ultimate blog/resource on blogging, Darren Rowse's Problogger. Any question you have on blogging, most probably Darren has already written about it.
How do I avoid scammers? What is the guarantee that I will receive my earnings?
The freelance writing markets I listed in my article How to Look for a Publication (Which Will Pay You Dollars) for Your Freelance Writing Idea are usually verified by the owners/publishers of the sites listing these markets. International publications that you find in magazine stands assure you that they are reputable publications. When in doubt, just Google for a particular publication or company with the word "scam" in your search.
When it comes to translation, it is advisable to start out with translation agencies or companies. Check out their background by exploring their sites or Googling their company names.
And then, of course, being you own boss as a blogger is the best insurance that you will get paid.
Can you recommend surefire "freelance writing companies?"
If one means by "surefire" that your pitch or article proposal will immediately be accepted by the publication, then there is no "surefire" way. The best you can do is write a persuasive pitch. The important thing is to always have your "freelance writing idea" antenna out, keeping an eye out for ideas which will interest publications.
Hope these answers help our newbie freelance writer and all aspiring freelance writers out there. :D
Dino Manrique is the owner/publisher of FilipinoWriter.com. You may reach him at writelit(at)gmail(dot)com.
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by krysia on October 11, 2009 - 3:47pm
I think new writers should also consider giving out some free samples if they want to hook up potential clients. True, there are a lot of scams (I was a victim once) but that shouldn't stop you from trusting other people.
There are various freelance writing jobs which are really legit. I've compiled some here to help other writers find freelance writing leads in the Philippines. :)
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Perl 6 Essentials is a sneak-preview of Perl 6, the widely-anticipated rewrite of the Perl programming language. Still in development, the Perl 6 project is a community-based effort to keep Perl vibrant well into the 21st century. This book covers the development not only of Perl 6 syntax but also Parrot, the language-independent interpreter developed as part of the Perl 6 design strategy.Although Perl remains a vibrant language with a fiercely loyal following, it has undergone many changes to keep up with new technologies and applications that were not anticipated when Perl was first introduced in 1987. Through its community-based development model, Perl has kept up with changing times and remained fresh when other languages might have stagnated.Internally, however, there have remained kinks and stumbling blocks that developers have needed to sidestep, long-abandoned features that have been maintained only for backwards compatibility, misdirected phrasings that have hindered more intuitive syntax structures, and a cacophony of modules that sometimes work well together, but occasionally don't. Perl continues to have a strong following devoted to its development, but in the meantime, a group of core Perl developers have begun working on Perl 6, a complete rewrite of the Perl language. While Perl's creative philosophy and common-sense syntax are sure to remain in Perl 6, everything else in the language is being re-examined and recreated.Perl 6 Essentials provides an overview of the current state of Perl 6 for those who await its release. Written by members of the Perl 6 core development team, the book offers an explanation of the various stages of the project, with reference material for programmers who are interested in what changes are planned or who may want to contribute to the project. The book will satisfy their curiosity and show how changes in the language will make it more powerful and easier to use.Perl 6 Essentials is the first book that offers a peek into the next major version of the Perl language. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of Perl.
Allison Randal is the assistant project manager of the Perl 6 core development team. She has been working closely with Damian Conway and Larry Wall on Perl 6 and has co written the "synopses" of Perl 6. She is dedicated to the success of the project and is one of the very first to learn about anything new that's proposed for Perl 6.
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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Perl 6 Essential is an aoudad (ammotragus lervia). Commonly known as Barbary sheep, aoudads originated in the arid mountainous regions of northern Africa and have stout, sturdy bodies, standing 75-100 centimeters at the shoulder and weighing from 30-145 kilograms. The aoudad has a bristly reddish-brown coat and is distinguished by a heavy, fringed mane covering its chest and legs. Both males and females have thick, triangular-shaped horns that curve back in a semicircle. A male aoudad's horns can grow up to 85 centimeters.Aoudads are herbivores and are most active at dawn and dusk, avoiding the desert heat of midday. They will drink water if it is available, but can obtain sufficient moisture from dew and vegetation. Aoudads are incredible jumpers, able to clear 6 feet from a standstill. So well suited are they to their surroundings that newborns have the ability to navigate rocky slopes within just hours after birth.Despite being endangered in their native environment, aoudads are flourishing in the United States. Introduced to western Texas and southern New Mexico in the 1940s, aoudads are now so populous that it is feared that their presence may threaten the native desert bighorn sheep. Aoudads are considered native game in the desert mountains of their adopted home, where the rugged landscape is dotted with ranches catering to recreational hunters. Emily Quill was the production editor, and Sarah Jane Shangraw was the copyeditor for Perl 6 Essentials. Phil Dangler and Mary Anne Weeks Mayo provided quality control. Jamie Peppard provided production assistance. Julie Hawks wrote the index.Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from Animate Creations, Volume II. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Emily Quill.
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A very good book.Perl 6 is not here yet. Even the definition of the language is still in flux. But many things are reasonably clear.If you are big into Perl or for some other reason wish to explore this developing technology, this is the book for you. It's an exciting, well conceived book. You'll be exposed to the major aspects of Perl 6; and you'll also learn what you need to know to go further, to follow the on-going development, and to get involved (if you wish).For a deeper examination, see my detailed review.-- George Woolley, Oakland.pm
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Project DescriptionThe DW Lofts were originally built in the mid 1970's as rental units in a mixed use residential/commercial development. Their unique design allows the units to extend from the front to the back of the building with natural light at each end. This is achieved by entering at one level and then moving either up or down a level.
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Castings Technology International (Cti), is a member-based R&D organization with capabilities in casting design, materials development and selection, specifications, manufacturing technologies, quality control, testing and performance. Several years ago, Cti developed the Replicast® process to mitigate the quality and machining problems associated with sand-molded steel castings, and to circumvent the carbon pick-up from the polystyrene pattern in the Lost Foam process that has such a detrimental effect on most steel casting grades. The aspiration was to achieve the high standards of integrity, surface finish and precision of the Lost Wax investment casting process, and for much larger and far heavier castings than can be made with the current Lost Wax technology. This was success was achieved by replacing the wax pattern used in the Lost Wax process with one made from polystyrene – a precise replica of the casting required by the customer – and on which a thin ceramic mold is produced in a like manner to the Lost Wax process.
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I do appreciate that you are trying to improve the system but there is a new problem occurred.
I'm getting a lot of complaints that there is no documentation, sliders etc inside the zip file they download from themeforest. The problem is that they download the installable zip file and do not pay attention to the main zip file where the documentation and other stuff is located. In result we get the low rating and bad comments.
Suggestion: maybe you would add some kind of tooltip explaining what it is inside of the main and installable packs.
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It's a bummer for us and for the customers that they do not read the documentation
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I would also suggest adding something like this directly to your theme:
and make it link to an online hosted documentation.
That's what you get when new functions are added to the themeforest marketplace without discussing these functions or ask for feedback from Authors and Buyers.
And as freshface stated, make sure you always have a help/doc section inside your framework.
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Why does my kitty always close open doors?
My kitty Gir has this weird fixation, if our bedroom door is open he has to go on his back legs and slam the door closed. any door in our apartment that is open he has to close. last night my fiance was in the closet and the door was open and gir slammed it closed while he was inside. Gir has been neutered and is only 2 years old with one brother(Zim) (from the same litter) and another "brother" who we got a year ago(Nibs), but even before Nibs came into our home he has been slamming doors. why does he do that?
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That's pretty funny. Most cat's don't like closed doors and spend a great deal of time trying to figure out how to open them. Sounds like Gir is just the opposite. A lot of what cats do has no other explanation than that they do it because they can. I don't think he means anything personal by shutting your fiance in the closet. It is probably just a game to him. I used to come home from work and find that my cats had shut the dog in the bedroom. Usually somebody was locked in with him because they had to have pushed it closed. You could just get one of those little wedge shaped door stoppers for any doors that you don't want him to be able to close. That's what I did to keep my poor dog from getting imprisoned by the cats.
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3) What can I do about the spots of the green board where the green paper facing has been peeled away? This is a major concern as it is along the seam above the surround where the Hardiebacker and greenboard meet. Will priming and painting the greenboard before applying thinset help make those "bare" spots a bit more moisture resistant?
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1) & 2) remove it with a scraper and then sand paper
3) Repair with a skim coat of Durabond 90. This will not attract the mold like the compound in a bucket.
But... you should not be using green sheetrock any more. This was a failed experiement and has proven to not work in resisting moisture.
Judging by the level of projects that you're doing, you should own a decent shop vac. Get yourself a random orbital sander that will attach to the vac hose, slap on some coarse grit paper, and go to town.
No big deal, you didn't make a huge mistake.
If it's regular premixed in a bucket or box, wipe it off with a wet rag.
Leave well enough alone, don't waste your time trying to remove the joint compound. Simply use a liquid waterproofing to paint over the compound a few times and seal it. Not the best approach but none the less a workable solution. Be sure to use a quality paint when you paint the walls so as to keep the moisture out of the walls.
SIDE NOTE: If you wet the joint compound it will scrape out easily.:)
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