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CHICAGO – Exactly one hour before the Blackhawks raised their 2013 Stanley Cup championship banner to the rafters, Corey Crawford was the first player to take the ice.
Crawford clutched his goaltender stick and spotted one of a few dozen pucks that littered the frozen surface. He stickhandled for a bit, eyed the open net and snapped a quick wrist shot.
It was that kind of night Tuesday as the Hawks beat the Washington Capitals, 6-4, in their season opener. The Hawks became the first team to win on their banner-raising night since Pittsburgh in 2009.
"It starts with one," Hawks forward Bryan Bickell said.
Who knows where it might end?
After Crawford scored the unofficial first goal of the 2013-14 season, fourth-line forward Brandon Bollig scored the first goal that counted on the scoreboard. It was appropriate, given that Bollig had netted as many goals as Crawford (0) in his NHL career before Tuesday.
Patrick Kane scored the Hawks' second goal, and Brent Seabrook scored the third while – get this – the Hawks were on the power play. Brandon Saad scored next, followed by Johnny Oduya, followed by Marian Hossa with the net empty. A sellout crowd of 22,158 fans at the United Center loved every minute, roaring and groaning at random intervals as if it were a decisive playoff game.
"Our main focus here is to get off to a great start this year and put ourselves in a good position to win the division and take it from there," said Bollig, who scored his first goal with friends and family watching in the stands. "You can't really expect to win every night, but it'd be nice."
It certainly would.
But every season, so-called experts warn about the dreaded Stanley Cup hangover.
It's almost impossible, as the story goes, to win back-to-back championships in a league filled with so much parity. No team has won consecutive Stanley Cup titles since the Detroit Red Wings did so in 1997 and 1998, the latter of which marked the same year (caution: get ready to feel old) Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane celebrated their 10th birthdays.
The hangover theory has history on its side.
But that neglects the present. How can the Hawks have a hangover when they still are buzzing?
Three years ago, the Hawks' banner-raising ceremony served as closure to an unbelievable season. A salary-cap crunch had forced much of the roster to be disbanded in the weeks after the title, and those who were jettisoned included Antti Niemi, Kris Versteeg, Troy Brouwer, Andrew Ladd, Brian Campbell and the not-so-gentle giant known as Big Buff.
Not surprisingly, the re-assembled Hawks struggled to jell the next season, eventually losing to the Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the playoffs.
This time around, the Hawks remain loaded. The dazzling pregame ceremony did not mark closure so much as a launching point toward yet another Stanley Cup chase in the spring of 2014.
Could the Hawks win three championships in five seasons? Could they win a fourth? A fifth?
If you want to doubt Joel Quenneville and his mustache, go right ahead.
Toews has miles of greatness ahead of him at 25 years old, and Kane does not turn 25 until next month. A group of key players including Crawford, Hossa, Bickell, Patrick Sharp, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Niklas Hjalmarsson all are under contract for at least the next three seasons, as is Quenneville, who leads all active coaches with 661 career wins.
Before the opening faceoff, the Hawks posed for a final team photo with the Cup in the corner of the rink. Four players lingered behind on the blue line. They were Michael Kostka, Joakim Nordstrom, Jimmy Hayes and Nikolai Khabibulin, the only players out of 23 who were not a part of the Hawks' championship run that ended with a 17-second blur on a warm night in Boston.
It was a feel-good opening to what should be another feel-good season.
One problem, though.
There's not much space for any more banners.
• Northwest Herald sports columnist Tom Musick can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and on Twitter @tcmusick.

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208 pages
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A frank, intelligent, and deeply moving debut memoir

With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician—from the time he could get his toddler tongue to a pronounce a word like "De-oxy ribonucleic acid," or recite a French poem—Marco Roth was able to share his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions of the latest advances in medicine. That world ended when his father started to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s.

What this family could not talk about for years came to dominate the lives of its surviving members, often in unexpected ways. The Scientists is a story of how we first learn from our parents and how we then learn to see them as separate individuals; it's a story of how precociousness can slow us down when it comes to knowing about our desires and other people's. A memoir of parents and children in the tradition of Edmund Gosse, Henry Adams, and J.R. Ackerley, The Scientists grapples with a troubled intellectual and emotional inheritance, in a style that is both elegiac and defiant.


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Fast Company (US - BD)
Gabe witnesses a Cronenberg movie without any perverse undercurrents...
David Cronenberg is even more of an enigma than he's given credit for. For years he's mixed the concepts and practices of balls out B-horror, heavy intellectualism, art film sensibilities, and unapologetic, disturbing romanticism, and despite my best efforts I cannot rightfully compare him to any other major director (save the ones that are ripping him off). His most successful contemporaries (George Romero, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, etc.) share a similar career trajectory, and are often more intellectually capable than credited, but Cronenberg is the only member of the North American Uncompromising '70s and '80s Horror Alliance (NAUSEHA for short) that found post-'90s success, and successfully managed to work outside of genre pictures.
Fast Company is a seldom seen sidestep in the director's career. It was his third feature length release, right after his career defining two step of Shivers and Rabid, and directly before his first breakthrough feature The Brood. This trajectory is almost shared by Dario Argento, who made a seldom seen comedy called The Five Days of Milan between Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Deep Red, and George Romero, who made There's Always Vanilla between Night of the Living Dead and Season of the Witch. Like The Five Days of Milan and There's Always Vanilla (not to mention other out of genre offerings like Craven's Music of the Heart), Fast Company is plenty well made, but only really interesting as a career oddity, not as a stand alone film.
The film has a lot in common with another out of style George Romero picture called Knight Riders. Both films are about fringe culture icons dealing with selling out. Both films are also pretty dull, but for ultimately different reasons, even if a lack of originality is a factor for both. Romero's film wins points for acting and scope, but it's needlessly long, whereas Cronenberg keeps things moving at the very least. Cronenberg's actors are definitely weak, which has been an issue throughout his career ( Scanners comes to mind). John Saxon manages to bring some fun, and Nicholas Campbell displays hints of his future successes, but lead William Smith (who was known for playing evil heavies throughout his career) is more of a sad mix of Bo Duke and Mickey Rourke, minus the charm of either. Besides being directed by Cronenberg the film is also noteworthy for being Playboy playmate Claudia Jennings final film before her untimely death, but frankly she's given nothing interesting to do with her role.
Fast Company drags, and basically had no plot (and what little plot it does have is so tied up in tired tropes few fans will care), but it is well shot, especially the racing scenes, which manage some raw originality in some instances. It might be interesting to see what post Eastern Promises Cronenberg could do with a budget and a few fast cars. If this early flick is any indication I think the guy might have it in him. And I suppose fans of the maestro's more viscerally violent and sexual work won't be completely disappointed, there is one scene where motor oil is poured over a woman's nude breasts towards the middle of the film. Keep your eyes peeled.
Despite its 'lost' status, and its modest roots, Fast Company may be Blue Underground's Blu-ray crown jewel, at least so far as video quality is concerned. Stendhal Syndrome and Final Countdown looked great, but Fast Company verges on flawless. It's not an entirely consistent transfer, but the shortcomings seem to be specifically symptoms of the source material. Some scenes are a little overly grainy, and a few shots falter in detail, but these appear to be limitations of the lighting, or minor focus issues. If the 480i extras are any indication (which I suppose they might not be) this transfer is a large improvement over the DVD release. The colours are very vibrant, especially for a drive-in quickie. Cronenberg and cinematographer Mark Irwin's primary colour choices bounce off the screen without bleeding, blocking, and save a few night scenes, without any noticeable noise. Details are slightly limited by the filmmaker's lower contrast choices, but are still quite realistically rendered, and again, very impressive considering the film's modest roots.
So far Blue Underground's been on the video ball more or less 100% for these Blu-ray releases, but their audio performance has been a little hit and miss. Like those previous releases Fast Company features a DTS-HD 7.1 track, a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track, and a Dolby Digital Surround EX track, and like those previously releases every one of these tracks sounds roughly the same. If there was one lesson I wish Blue Underground would take away from Criterion it would be the inclusion of the original audio tracks (stereo, surround, or mono). Anyway, this particular disc is a solid one. There's no ghosting from the center channel into the stereo channels, the added surround effects are natural (usually incidental noise or echo effects), and the overall sound is pretty consistent. The majority of the track is centered, and save a few slightly quieted moments the dialogue is pretty clear. The bass channel gets an even work out thanks to revving funny cars and a relatively poppy rock score. The track's most impressive moments relate to the direction movement of the racing cars.
The extras, all of which have been ported over from the original DVD release, begin with David Cronenberg's solo commentary track. Cronenberg's a bit off his game, but I can't imagine him having much more to say about the project. The director comes out of the gate hard, talking breathlessly about his role with the script, what made the project interesting to him (he likes cars, he likes the Western standoff aspects), and divulging varied stories about the behind the scenes project. He runs out of steam early though, and the latter half of the track is largely quiet.
'Inside the Character Actor's Studio' (11:00, SD) is a brief interview with stars John Saxon and William Smith, who wax on about their careers, their love of cars, and working on Fast Company. It's nice to hear two such iconic guys talking about their craft, and why it's just as important and nuanced as the work of more famous 'dramatic' actors. The interview is intercut with scenes from the film and stills from each actor's most celebrated work. 'Shooting Cronenberg' (13:30, SD), a conversation with cinematographer Mark Irwin follows. Irwin talks about his relationship with the director throughout the years in a most efficient and entertaining fashion.
The most valuable extras are two of Cronenberg's early short films – Crimes of the Future and Stereo. The disc is titled Fast Company, but Cronenberg fans know the real title is something more along the lines of 'Cronenberg's Lost Features'. None of the films on the disc, Fast Company included, are great, but there's a sum to the equation that's much greater than the parts. Stereo is brutally uneventful, but is a clear forerunner to the director's most beloved work, specifically Scanners. The short, which runs a mind-breaking 63 minutes, is basically made up of artfully shot, but mostly narrative free images set to scientific mumbo-jumbo audio, which describes a process of surgically induced ESP (there is no other audio). It's sort of a scientific study equivalent to a mockumentary. Crimes of the Future, which also runs 63 minutes, is quite similar, shot on the same locations (in colour this time, and with some non-narration sound), and features many of the same concepts and actors. This one is more of a direct forerunner to Cronenberg's body horror films, though really only in concept.
Fast Company is really only going to be worth it to David Cronenberg's biggest and most loyal fans. It's simply not a very interesting or entertaining slice of Americana (or I suppose in this case Canadiana). Perhaps drag racing fanatics will find something of value I missed. The disc looks and sounds utterly fantastic, likely as fantastic as possible given the source material, and the extras include two of the director's earliest short films Stereo and Crimes of the Future.
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Shame that this movie gets a blu-ray release when so many other great Cronenberg movies haven't yet. I need some Naked Lunch, Crash, and Videodrome.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 19th May 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master 7.1 English, Dolby TruHD 7.1 English, Dolby Digital EX 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, 'Stereo', 'Crimes of the Future', Inside the Character Actor's Studio, Shooting Cronenberg, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings
Genre: Drama
Length: 93 minutes
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Dr. Subhash Bhatnagar has been on the faculty of the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology since 1986. His research interests are in the areas of neurological bases of higher mental functions, functional neuroscience, and adult language assessment. He has participated in the mapping of the language cortex in patients undergoing tissue removal for intractable epilepsy and has used deep brain stimulation to modulate reticular influence on higher mental functions and fluency regulation. His research has been published in leading journals including Archives of Neurology, Cortex, Brain and Language, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Aphasiology, and the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. He has written three books, including Neuroscience for the Study of Communicative Disorders, a text whose multiple editions have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. Dr. Bhatnagar is the founder of the Aphasia and Stroke Society of India, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the life-quality of stroke patients through community education. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association and has received the Frank Kleffner Clinical Research Award from the Wisconsin Speech Language Pathology and Audiology Association. Dr. Bhatnagar received his Ph.D. in neurolinguistics from the University of Rochester and holds a master's degree in communicative disorders and sciences from SUNY/Buffalo and a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Rochester.
Ph.D., Neurolinguistics, University of Rochester
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Mad Men Style: Joan's Costume Secrets
When was the last time she wore that fur? You might be surprised.
Each week, Tom and Lorenzo analyze the costumes on Mad Men with inimitable wit and charm—showing how the work of the show's costume designer Janie Bryant reveals character, supplements the plot, and just plain looks great. This article is a short excerpt from this week's Mad Style post. For much, much more on the style of "The Other Woman"—from Peggy's mod-est outfit yet to the miscalculation of Megan's audition dress—visit tomandlorenzo.com.
And there it is: the outfit that caused us to gasp out loud. That is, of course, the fur that Roger gave her back in 1954; the one that caused her to coo, "When I wear it, I'll always remember the night I got it." Well, fuck you, Roger Sterling. That's exactly what this outfit is saying. "You ruined what we had by letting me do this, so I'm ruining what you gave me." We'd be surprised if she ever wore it again. It's one of those beautiful costuming moments that takes a sad, horrifying scene and makes it even more so once you realize what she's wearing.
This scene mimics the scene in "Waldorf Stories" when she got the mink. She's in a hotel room, in a tight black dress showing a lot of cleavage, wearing a mink and accepting a gift from a man—in this case, that sad emerald necklace.
Note that she's wearing uncharacteristically large, dangly earrings, which we've noted before have been used to signal prostitution, such as in the whorehouse scene with the Jaguar exec. Lots of prostitution surrounding this one account.
The script fooled most of us on the timing, but Janie Bryant slipped in a little nod and wink with this bathrobe. The emerald green calls back perfectly to the emerald necklace Joan received as "payment."
The next day: reserved and businesslike, as if nothing at all had happened. She's worn this outfit several times before. It's simply a good work dress, which is all she wanted for this day: to get up and get on as if nothing had happened. It's also one of her more demure work outfits.
And finally, standing with—and standing out from—the partners. You will never see Joan Harris in a menswear-inspired dress, nor are you likely to see her wearing gray. It's bright colors most of the time (when she's not depressed) and this dress is almost defiantly bright. Head held high, she's not going to become a wallflower of a partner. She will proudly stand next to these men and even draw attention to herself because she knows whatever she did to become partner pales in comparison to the many things she witnessed these men do to get where they are. This is totally an "I'm here, dammit" outfit; a declaration that she will not be ashamed by what she did.
It's also extremely notable that she wore this dress when Lane called Pete a "grimy little pimp" and beat the crap out of him. It was, after all, the machinations of Lane and Pete that got her to this point.


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Skip to comments.U.S. Commander Condemns Attacks on Kosovo Force
Posted on 11/30/2011 4:00:27 PM PST by Ravnagora
Georgia National Guard soldiers stack behind a wall during training at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, Nov. 9, 2011. National Guard soldiers from several states -- including the Wisconsin Army National Guard's 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade -- are part of the KFOR 15 rotation preparing to deploy to Kosovo in upcoming months. U.S. Army photo by Lynn Davis
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 A senior U.S. military leader in Europe condemned recent violence against NATO troops in Kosovo just as a Wisconsin Army National Guard unit prepares to take command of the 15th rotation of peacekeeping forces there.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, visited Pristina, Kosovo, today to assess the situation a day after attacks by Serb demonstrators wounded more than two dozen NATO Kosovo Force members. No U.S. troops were wounded in the clashes.
The attacks occurred after the KFOR troops removed blockades that had shut off a main road in northern Kosovo.
The use of violence against KFOR troops is unacceptable, Locklear said in a statement released today. We urge all parties to exercise restraint and cooperate fully with all international actors on the ground to ensure freedom of movement without delay.
Locklear reiterated NATOs mandate in Kosovo under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244: to help maintain a safe and secure environment. This, he said, includes ensuring freedom of movement.
KFOR entered Kosovo in June 1999 under the U.N. mandate in the face of mounting ethnic conflict between Federal Republic of Yugoslavia military forces and Kosovo Liberation Army members. At the height of the mission, 39 nations were contributing about 50,000 troops to the mission.
About 180 members of the Wisconsin National Guards 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade are now preparing to assume authority for the next KFOR rotation in December. They will serve as the brigade headquarters unit for Multinational Battle Group East, also known as Task Force Falcon. In that role, the 157th will oversee operations for the entire Multinational Battle Group East.
The group includes National Guard and Reserve soldiers from Wisconsin, Mississippi, Georgia, Nebraska, Vermont, North Dakota, New Jersey, Wyoming, Massachusetts and Puerto Rico. It also includes international forces from Armenia, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Romania and the Ukraine.
To prepare for the mission, the KFOR 15 troops trained in realistic scenarios at Camp Atterbury, Ind., and most recently, at U.S. Army Europes Joint Multinational Training Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
Its a three-pronged mission, Army Col. Jeffrey Liethen, the KFOR 15 commander, said during training at the Camp Atterbury Joint Training Center in October. We monitor the pulse of the populace, so to speak, keeping track of the feelings and opinions of the people. We also act as third responders to demonstrations and riots, and maintain freedom of movement for other KFOR forces.
Observer-controllers at both training sites strived to make the training as realistic as possible, he said, based on tactics, techniques and procedures taking place on the ground.
Early on in our training, the focus was on a relatively steady state and calm environment in Kosovo, Liethen said earlier this month at Hohenfels.
Things have drastically changed, he said. Its very obvious that the training program here at Hohenfels has been modified to replicate what is actually going on in Kosovo right now so that will definitely be a help in us conducting our mission.
It's long past time to pull US troops out of there.
But these Serbs are taking out their frustrations on the only target they can find. They don't like the idea that NATO allowed Albanian Radical Islamic terrorists to take over the country and make life difficult if not impossible for Christian Serbs in Kosovo.
The real targets of their rage should be Wesley Clark, Madeline Allbright and the Clintons.
should have never got involved in this and should have let the Serbs deal with their own country but of course Clinton wanted a distraction from Monica and to appease muslims.
Couldn't agree more. We bombed and strafed the wrong side - what a tragedy.
Not good.
I have trouble having sympathy for anyone defending an illegitimate narco-arms-human slave trafficking, Muslim jihadi state. U.S. soldiers should not have any part in that.
Amen! What on earth are Georgia National Guard soldiers doing in Kosovo? It's insane.
Are American troops still polishing the fixtures in the Haitian Presidential Palace too?
I imagine so. It is shameful how our politicians abuse our military. Our troops are like so many pawns to them.
They should be arresting the war criminals Hashim Thaci and Agem Ceku, not defending them.
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By Kevin Murphy
(Reuters) - Authorities allowed residents of a small Iowa town to return to their homes on Thursday hours after they were told to evacuate because of a fire involving sulfuric acid at a local airport.
The entire population of about 2,000 people living in Northwood were ordered to leave town after the fire broke out around 7:30 a.m. CT in a storage shed for sulfuric acid and other chemicals at the airport, said Sergeant Scott Bright of the Iowa State Patrol. Residents were told to go Kensett, Iowa, about 6 miles south of Northwood.
Officials lifted the evacuation order around 3:00 p.m. CT after conducting environmental tests, Bright said.
Four people living in the area went to a hospital with respiratory concerns, Bright said. He added the cause of the fire remains unknown.
"I could see the black smoke billowing up," Northwood resident Susan Mega said by telephone from Kensett. She said an odor similar to rotten eggs filled the air.
(Reporting By Kevin Murphy in Kansas City, Missouri; Editing by David Bailey, Grant McCool and Cynthia Osterman)


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Scientists are placing electronic ears up and down the B.C. coast to learn more about the movements of whales and the threats they face from increased marine traffic.
Hydrophones are a cost-effective method of listening for whales, including those populations still recovering from commercial whaling.
Residents of Bella Bella and Shearwater can even pick up whale calls at 92.3 FM on their radio dial.
Scientists hope two devices deployed at Bowie Seamount, 180 kilometres west of Haida Gwaii, will find evidence of right whales, whose population in the north Pacific is fewer than 50 individuals, making them almost impossible to find by ship.
Other species are similarly hard to track.
John Ford, a whale biologist with the federal fisheries department, said only 10 blue whales have been photo-identified in B.C. waters, three of which have also been spotted off California. The largest animal known to have existed on Earth, including dinosaurs, blue whales can measure almost 30 metres.
Meanwhile, the total population of sei whales in the North Pacific is thought to number 14,000, just 20 per cent of its pre-whaling population, according to federal fisheries. With more than 3,200 sei whales taken by whaling stations in B.C. from 1924 to 1967, the species is all but gone from our waters.
A photo catalogue is still being developed for fin whales. But the species appears to be increasing on the coast, Ford said, with one Raincoast Conservation survey of part of the B.C. coast estimating about 500 animals in the area.
At more than 20 metres in length, fin whales are fast swimmers, said Ford, who called the streamlined cetaceans "greyhounds of the sea."
In a rare sighting last September, Campbell River Whale Watching and Adventure Tours spotted an adult female fin whale and calf in the Strait of Johnstone near Port Neville.
One also arrived dead on a cruise ship's bow in 2009 in Vancouver harbour, illustrating the vulnerability of fin whales to ship traffic.
Meanwhile, scientists positioned a hydrophone at Swiftsure Bank, near the western entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait, an area known to be important to resident killer whales.
The sound analysis is ongoing but findings reveal that while southern residents use the area every month of the year, 40 per cent of animals detected were actually northern residents, having travelled down the west coast of Vancouver Island. The two groups compete for the same fish, but keep their distance, feeding at different times.
Marine biologist Rob Williams, in cooperation with Cornell University in New York, has put down a dozen hydrophones ranging from Haro Strait — a key killer whale feeding area in summer off San Juan Island — and extending north to Robson Bight, whale-rubbing beach in the Johnstone Strait, and onto the Alaska border.
The findings are troubling. "The Salish Sea and Johnstone Strait — critical habitats for whales — are among the noisiest places on the B.C. coast," Williams said.
Increased noise reduces the ability of killer whales in a pod to communicate with each other, Williams said, effectively reducing their available habitat.
Williams believes rockfish, which can be heard grunting on hydrophones, are similarly affected by a ship's noise, although that remains to be studied.
At the same time, some of the quietest spots — including Caamano Sound, an important stretch of the north coast for humpback and fin whales — are directly on the path of supertankers that would be servicing Enbridge's planned Northern Gateway dual-pipeline project to Kitimat.
Northern Gateway would generate an estimated 220 tankers per year, bringing not just noise but an elevated risk of an oil spill that could linger for decades, based on the experience of the Exxon Valdez supertanker spill in Prince William Sound in 1989.
The company is committed to employing a spotting boat in the initial years of operation to look for congregations of whales. Information from this initiative might lead to adjustments in tanker speeds and route scheduling to avoid collisions during sensitive times of the year.
Williams says the impact of shipping noise on whales cannot be positive. "We are visual people, and we don't have an appreciation for how loud those things are," Williams said. "That constant bombardment of sound has to carry some ecosystem-level consequence. We know it can't be good."
The Okeanos Foundation for the Sea has reported there are more than 50,000 larger, ocean-going ships at sea at any given time.
Background noise levels rose by 10 decibels from the 1960s to the 1990s. Over that time, the range at which a whale can hear companions has been reduced by 75 per cent.
Scientists, with support of the International Whaling Commission, are urging the International Maritime Organization to reduce shipping noise.
Williams called on B.C. to follow Europe's lead and become a world leader in the construction of quieter ships, including those built by North Vancouver-based Seaspan Marine Corp., which last year won $8 billion in federal shipbuilding contracts.


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Allen Brown is Interim CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA).
Allen was previously President & CEO of The Open Group beginning in 1998. Prior to joining The Open Group in 1984, he held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.


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Gina Rodriguez took a sophisticated spin while attending the 2015 Golden Globe Awards, held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday (January 11).
A nominee and winner for Jane the Virgin, Gina looked like a classic beauty with twilight strapless Badgley Mischka dress with a fringed sheer skirt and sparkly black clutch.
While the dress had a simple silhouette and vintage slant, the actress still managed to look modern and fresh. A pair of fun stilettos from Jimmy Choo didn't hurt matters.
Kicking the look up a final notch, Gina's loose curls and dangling Chopard earrings helped her fully steal new star status.
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Photos: Northern Lights dance over Northwest skies
SEATTLE -- They say patience is a virtue -- it's was also very rewarding to several photographers around the Pacific Northwest eagerly awaiting the Northern Lights Sunday night...and into Monday morning.
A big solar flare hit the planet Saturday night and peaked during the day Sunday. The storm began to fade as the Pacific Coast headed into the late evening, just as a band of clouds moved into Western Washington, making it seem this Northern Lights display may not pan out.
But intrepid photographers headed to the mountains or dark spots anyway, armed with coffee, tripods, blankets and as mentioned, a whole lot of patience.
Sure enough, a few sub storms happened in the main solar storm's aftermath, and the Northern Lights put on a dazzling show in the hours past midnight.
You can see several photos in the gallery above, and here are some time lapse videos as well:
Karlena Pickering:
Greg Johnson/SkunkBayWeather.com
Tricia Smith (This was from Saturday night)
Rakan Alduaij:
Scott Butner:
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The longer the focallength, the higher the magnification and the narrower the field of viewwith any given eyepiece. The shorter the focal length, the lower themagnification and the wider the field of view with the same eyepiece.
Fast f/4 to f/5 focal ratios are generally
best for lower power wide field observing and deep space photography.
Slow f/11 to f/15 focal ratios are usually better suited to higher power
lunar, planetary, and binary star observing and high power photography.
Medium f/6 to f/10 focal ratios work well with either.
An f/5
system can photograph a nebula or other faint extended deep space object
in one-fourth the time of an f/10 system, but the image will be only
one-half as large. Point sources, such as stars, are recorded based on
the aperture, however, rather than the focal ratio – so that the larger
the aperture, the fainter the star you can see or photograph, no matter
what the focal ratio.
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Cassini's Division in the rings of Saturn (0.5 arc seconds across), was
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- gateway nerf is horrible.
- i think dalaran is now the worst map in the game for us, blade edge change isn't on PTR yet but it's gonna be a terrible map aswell.
- melee buff compiled with map changes make us very very shit against any melee that train you.
so ye 5.3 is :
10% damage buff on dots (you won't even notice the change tbh)
gateway nerf
drain soul on pets nerf
dalaran/blade edge nerf
melee buff affect us a lot
i really think 5.3 is gonna be even worse than now, we could have been viable without map changes, gateway nerf and fucking melee buff.
you will really feel what i said when you will get trained by some enhancement/rogue, enhancement/ret, enhancement/war, bestcleave, hunter/ret, ret/rogue etc .... gl hf everyone
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Even the most elite NBA players have long stepped up their style game, from just rocking oversized suits (although some clearly still can't locate a tailor) to draping themselves in designer garb and colorful getups, both pre- and post-game (See: LeBron's murse).
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Those beloved transplanted zoo animals leave Madagascar to meet up with their friends in Monte Carlo in this frenetic kids' comedy. The core foursome of Alex The Lion (Ben Stiller), Melman The Giraffe (David Schwimmer), Marty The Zebra (Chris Rock) and Gloria The Hippo (Queen Latifah) become involved in a heist there, and then run into a travelling circus. A villanous animal control officer (Frances McDormand) is also after Alex so the friends try to stay out of the spotlight. But the antics of their feisty penguin friends and eccentric lemur King Julien (Sach Baron Cohen) mean that hijinks are only a spangly curtain away. Alex romances a jaguar (Jessica Chastain) while King Julien falls ridiculously in love with a bear, and everybody takes part in a show of Cirque Du Soleil proportions.
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As for the sentence on paranormal experiences, I don't see what experiencing them in a living body would matter.
It would matter if it is all in out head and if when the power is turned off there is nothing anymore and so no experience.
So many people start to believe after say one near death experience, I have had some of these and they are the same as an OBE but in real time and possibly a trick of awareness and nothing more, I dont know. I do expect that one experiences and sometimes the desperation of the moment will greatly sway an opinion and become fact in someones mind.
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Having owned all iterations of the Monk from an original 130cm version which was a tad too small for me at 77kg which meant when the 132 came out it felt like a custom ride to me. Since then I have had all versions and dabbled with a SuperShinn and a Street in between but kept coming back to the Monk as it is exactly what I want in a board.
To some it might seem power hungry and not have much of a low-end and this is partially true, but I think a lot of it is perception as the board really comes alive when the wind is cranking. That said the new Monk Forever has solved a lot of this as it definitely has better low-mid range power and somehow does manage to keep the 'Monkness' so even though it feel a little stiffer underfoot it still excels in crap conditions and never sprays - don't know what board Rich was on but it does not sound like a Monk.
I have also spent a fair bit of time on a 138 Wainman Joke (plus many other boards) which is a very good board and although both could be classed as freestyle boards they are very very different boards to ride. The Joke glides over chop compared to the Monk cutting through it and so they both feel comfortable in different ways. The Joke is a better flat water freestyle board for static pop and it does let you away with some sketchy landings; however the Monk is a better hooked in freestyle jumping machine (nothing comes close) as the edge bite, control and acceleration of it IMO are unsurpassed.
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When Ratzi was voted in after JPII kicked it, there was a real horse race. So says a cardinal's unauthorized diary that was published Friday. (Guardian):
The anonymous diary appeared in the respected Italian political magazine Limes. The magazine said it obtained the diary from a "trustworthy" source it had known for years…A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, declined to comment.
In the first round of voting, Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, received 47 votes and [Cardinal Jorge Mario] Bergoglio, the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, received 10. Italian cardinals Carlo Maria Martini and Camillo Ruini had nine and six votes, respectively.
…Ratzinger needed 77 votes in the final round to win the necessary two-thirds majority of the 115 voting cardinals. He got 84, Bergoglio got 26, and three other cardinals also registered one vote apiece in the last round: Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi and American Cardinal Bernard Law, according to the diary.
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Title text: [shortly] ... he ate ALL of it!?
Michael Phelps is an American Olympic swimmer, who could easily be considered the best swimmer worldwide: he is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, with 22 medals, 18 of them gold (won in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 summer Olympics). He was most dominant in the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he won gold in all of the eight events in which he competed (the record for a single games).
This comic is a take on the idea that, Michael Phelps being (irritatingly) fast and uncatchable in a pool, a quirky yet simple trick one could imagine to nullify his pool's supremacy and render him helpless (in a way, to pee on his parade), would be to turn the water into Jello, a gelatine product, by simply dropping a huge quantity of Jello powder in the pool.
In the comic, Cueball and Megan try to get rid of Michael Phelps (as if he were a common pest like an animal) who is swimming in Megan's pool. As they can't catch him since he swims too fast (and he taunts them about it), Cueball resorts to the Jello trick, bringing big boxes of Jello powder, to stop and catch him.
However, according to the title-text, after having waited the time necessary for the water to solidify, Cueball realizes that Phelps ate all the resulting Jello. This may be a reference to Phelps being used to eating impressive food quantities (about 12,000 calories daily), to keep up with his strenuous exercise regimen.[1] It may also be referenced to pictures of Phelps smoking marijuana from a bong that arose after the 2008 Oylmpics in Beijing, China.add a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments!
Jello was actually put into a swimming pool in the pseudo-science TV show "Braniacs".
- I wonder whether Randall was aware of the pool experiment (http://research.cems.umn.edu/cussler/pool/). Maybe concrete would be the better choice to slow a swimmer down. BKA (talk) 08:44, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
- I doubt the gelatin just added to the pool would work. It needs to be heated to dissolve, and it will melt/dissolve is reheated. But at room temperature, it gels. So I suspect dumping powdered gelatin in room temperature water would just sink. --Blaise Pascal
- I don't think heat is required to dissolve Jell-o -- I think it just helps. Agitation (say, an Olympic swimming doing laps) should be sufficient. However, refrigeration helps a lot in gelling, so it'll take quite a while at room (actually outdoor) temperature. Then we have the question of Chlorine, which has a very high pH (very alkali). The acid (low pH) content of some fruits prevents gelling, so they can't be used with Jell-o. It's unclear what effect the caustic would have. --- James Curran
I like thinking that Cueball has four giant boxes of Jello mix somewhere nearby, just to be prepared. --DanB (talk) 15:17, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
- It's the Hammerspace! :D --Waldir (talk) 15:48, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
- Wow, I didn't know about that! I kinda feel like I'm one of the Ten Thousand today. --DanB (talk) 16:07, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
- There is no time scale, maybe between the two pictures, he had enough time to buy it from a store. Hammertime ;) BKA (talk) 09:29, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't aggravation of the jello as it solidifies turn it back into a liquid, or at least chunky liquid. Jason.
Gee, 12000 calories! How often does he have to go to the toilet each day??
Wouldn't using custard powder be better? It would turn it into a non-Newtonian liquid. See Mythbusters and/or Brainiacs 184.108.40.206 03:56, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
I thought this comic was also a reference to Strong Bad Email #187 (http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/winter_pool) where Strong Bad and Homestar get stuck in a pool of jello, and the king of town has to come eat them out. 22.214.171.124 03:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
he must've been very sick after eating the jello because of the chlorine (and it was a lot of jello) Xyz (talk) 11:45, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
"Quirky, yet simple trick?" That sounds like an advertisement. "This man invented one weird trick for removing Olympic swimmers from your pool! Michael Phelps HATES him!" 220.127.116.11 22:33, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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This is the second part of the overview of our June 2011 trip to Chicago. For the first part of our trip, please see
Chicago 2011 Part 1a - Overview
Every day we were in Chicago, we saw people walking around with bags of popcorn from Garrett Popcorn. Some guests at our hotel would be checking out while carrying giant Garrett Popcorn bags filled with several smaller bags of this popcorn to take back to their friends and family. We knew we had to try it (not to would have seemed like a missed opportunity), but every time we passed the Garrett Popcorn near our hotel (you can tell when you are getting close by the smell of caramel wafting through the air) the lines were coming out the door several yards. On the way back from the aquarium, I selected a bus stop that would drop us off a block from a different Garrett Popcorn and budgeted time to wait in line. When we got to the shop, there was no line - only five people ahead of us!
They mainly sell two flavors - popcorn tossed in a greasy cheesy flavoring (called CheeseCorn) and caramel coated popcorn (called CaramelCrisp). The CaramelCrisp comes with the option to add nuts (pecans, macadamias, or cashews) which increases the cost by roughly 50% (except for the small bag which is actually cheaper with nuts than without). (The worst deal for the nuts is the Jumbo bag which costs $22 instead of $12.75 - a 72% price hike. A medium bag is only $7.25 with nuts vs $6.70 without.) They also sell plain and buttered popcorn, but no one seems to buy those. The big seller is a 50-50 blend of caramel and cheese that they call The Chicago Mix. We bought a small bag of that to taste ($4.70).
Initially, we thought it was nothing special. The caramel popcorn tasted pretty good - but it wasn't clear that it was better than a decent can of Poppycock. The cheese popcorn is a bit greasy and felt a little stale, but the soggy texture that I associate with old popcorn was probably due to the wet topping instead of being old because they were continually making fresh batches. The CheeseCorn isn't all that great, but I can see how the flavor could be addictive to people who have had it before (one of those foods that you know tastes a bit strange and yet you crave). Surprisingly, the Chicago Mix worked really well together with the salty and sweet playing against each other. The cheese taste isn't strong enough to overpower the caramel, but adds more depth and character to the whole mouthful. I prefer one cheese to one caramel when I eat and Tina prefers two cheese to one caramel (she prefers it less sweet). After a while, the popcorn really grows on you and it was a little difficult to stop eating it. Once we stopped however, we felt we if we had kept eating the rest of the bag we probably would have felt a bit sick.
Later that evening, we headed over to Frontera Grill where the food was so good that I got up to try to make reservations for another night after only having our appetizers! All the details are in
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - Frontera Grill
The next day, we decided to try the ramen at Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi. Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi is a counter service restaurant on the 7th floor of the Marshall Field and Company Building (which currently houses Macy's at State Street). Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 6 - Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi
We then took a bus down to the Museum of Science and Industry. There were many fascinating displays (a number of which are interactive) at the Museum of Science and Industry, but what really captivated us was watching chickens hatch.
I also got a hoot out of examining a re-creation of the first Walgreen Drug Company Store (the first of the Walgreens drug stores which was opened in 1901 in Chicago).
After returning to the hotel and taking a nap, we hailed a taxi and headed over to Alinea for the most expensive meal of our trip. Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 7 - Alinea
The next morning, we were given the opportunity to join a private tour of the Vienna Beef Factory. (Vienna Beef hot dogs are generally considered the only sausages appropriate for use in a Chicago-style hot dog.) Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 8 - Vienna Beef Factory
for an inside look of how they make Vienna Beef hot dogs. (By the way, Vienna Beef has nothing to do with vienna sausages [those little sausages that come in a can]. Vienna Beef doesn't use pork or fillers in their products, and they don't know what's in those vienna sausages either.)
For lunch, we decided to go back to the Marshall Field and Company Building so Tina could have ramen again. I decided to try the Kobe beef sliders from Marc Burger. Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 6 - Marc Burger
We then spent the afternoon visiting Millenium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago.}?>
That evening, we tried over a half dozen dishes at Girl and the Goat (a James Beard Nominee for Best New Restaurant in 2011). Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 9 - Girl and the Goat
for my review.
The next day, we walked over to XOCO (next door to Frontera Grill) based on a recommendation from
Boots in the Oven
. Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - XOCO
After we ate at XOCO, I spoke to the reservationist at Frontera Grill and found out the best way to dine at Frontera without too much of a wait. They told us to come back after they open for dinner and put our names on the waiting list. Then we could leave to do something else and they would call us when a table became ready. If we don't pick up the phone, then we'll lose our place in line. But, (and here's where the trick is) if we don't leave a number and return later, then our place in the waiting list will be preserved. (This enables you to place your name on the list, go see a movie, come back, and be first in line for the next available table!)
That night we ate at Frontera Grill for the second time. See
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - Frontera Grill
for all the delicious details.
We started off our last full day in Chicago by returning to Chinatown. We were looking for congee and decided to eat at a restaurant called Ken Kee.
The Preserved Egg & Lean Pork Congee ($4.95) wasn't particularly good. The rice used was common medium-grain rice which resulted in a mushy texture that wasn't quite what we were looking for in a restaurant congee. The pork had a mild stale flavor and the entire dish needed additional salt.
I've had frog legs before, but never the rest of the frog. When we ordered Frog with Chinese Chives ($11.95), I was a little surprised that the chopped up frog included other meaty parts besides the legs. Some of the parts were chewy, but overall most of it was tender. The greens it was served with seemed more similar to garlic shoots than to garlic (Chinese) chives.
On-choy in Bean Curd Paste & Jalapeno ($7.95). This vegetable dish had the biggest water spinach I had ever seen, but it wasn't tough at all. The water spinach was both crunchy and tender.
Being unsatisfied with the quantity of food we had eaten so far, we ordered Beef Brisket with Turnip ($4.95). The brisket was very chewy, but the tendon was so tender that it literally melted in my mouth. The flavor of the dish reminded me of Chinese pork jerky (sweet and fruity).
For our last dinner in Chicago, we tried Giordano's stuffed pizza. Click to go to
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - Giordano's
For ease of navigation and to keep the page sizes down, I've split the trip report and reviews into multiple pages:
Chicago 2011 Part 1a - Overview
Chicago 2011 Part 1b - Overview
(this page)
Chicago 2011 Part 2 - Shui Wah, Santa Anna Bakery
Chicago 2011 Part 3 - Pizzeria Uno, Giordano's
Chicago 2011 Part 4 - Gibson's Bar & Steakhouse
Chicago 2011 Part 5 - Frontera Grill, Xoco
Chicago 2011 Part 6 - Noodles by Takashi Yagihashi, Frontera Fresco, Marc Burger
Chicago 2011 Part 7 - Alinea
Chicago 2011 Part 8 - Vienna Beef Factory
Chicago 2011 Part 9 - Girl and the Goat
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POPLAR GROVE — The company responsible for the mulch that started a five-day fire in Poplar Grove this past summer has made one last-ditch effort to find another site before all the material must legally be removed.
POPLAR GROVE — The company responsible for the mulch that started a five-day fire in Poplar Grove this past summer has made one last-ditch effort to find another site before all the material must legally be removed.
After several mulch piles spontaneously combusted, Boone County filed a lawsuit against the property owners and Northwest Pallet to remove all the material. Judge Brendan Maher granted a temporary restraining order requiring the matter to be relocated by March 1, 2013.
The business has scrambled for months trying to locate another site but a dozen potential locations have turned the company away, fearing the potential liability.
With nowhere else to go, Northwest Pallet attorneys asked the Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday to recommend re-zoning an area to stockpile mulch. If the county board ultimately doesn't, the company will struggle to stay afloat.
"We recognize that fire was a disaster for the county and for the city and rest assured, it was a disaster for us," Northwest Pallet attorney Joe Keenan said.
The company has asked to relocate to Lee Quarry located in unincorporated Flora Township. It would allow agricultural preservation areas to stockpile mulch through special use permits.
Northwest Pallet would check the piles' heat to ensure they do not reach over 140 degrees Fahrenheit, well below the 200 degrees Fahrenheit mark needed for mulch to spontaneously combust. The piles would be no taller than 25 feet and water devices would be readily available.
However, Mel Johnson, rural Boone County Fire Protection District 2 fire chief, said there would not be a sufficient water supply and insufficient access roads to reach the location if the main roads were congested.
"We have sustained severe impacts from businesses operating in areas that do not support the firefighting efforts to protect it. ... it is critical in this stage that all concerns be aware so intelligent decisions can be made," he added.
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Boone County filed a lawsuit against property owners and Northwest Pallet after mulch piles spontaneously combusted to start a fire that required over 100 agencies to respond and used 4 million gallons of water.
State's Attorney Michelle Courier filed the complaint against Michael Coil, who purchased the property; Norma Gesell, who is the property's legal owner and Northwest Pallet, which stockpiled the mulch, requesting the material be removed. Judge Brendan Maher has granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, which mandated that no additional mulch could be delivered to the property and the remaining matter must be removed.
The next hearing is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 21.


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Pascal O. Girot, Regional Program Coordinator for the IUCN Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean Initiative (IUCN-ORMA/Caribe), and Deirdre P. Shurland, Coordinator of the Caribbean Initiative, embark upon visits to the Caribbean. The purpose is to familiarize members with the implementation of the IUCN Caribbean program and to establish links with key partners.
San José, 3rd of April 2010. The IUCN Caribbean Initiative is building consensus for its regional program implementation. Pascal Girot and Deirdre Shurland discussed the reality of their work as they embarked upon visits to the region. Visits were made in April 2010 to the Dominican Republic, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago, and in May 2010 these will be followed up by visits to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Barbados.
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Botanical Gardens in Santo Domingo, the IUCN/ORMA-Caribe team met with members of the IUCN National Committee and discussed the realities of implementing the Caribbean Initiative, the Committee´s environmental priorities such as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, controlling invasive species, financing protected areas, frontier development on the DR/Haiti border and the Caribbean Biological Corridor – an undertaking of the Governments of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba. The meeting also discussed ways to maximize coordination with members. The IUCN team also visited the Dominican Ministry of the Environment meeting the Minister and Vice-Minister and expressing support for Corridor activities.
The IUCN-ORMA/Caribe team also met with donor agencies in Santo Domingo including the GTZ and UNDP, discussing regional program priorities, rehabilitation work in Haiti and potential synergies with the Caribbean Initiative. The team paid a courtesy visit to the office of the French Ambassador, Mr. Roland Dubertrand briefing him on IUCN´s regional work and in particular on the progress of implementation of regional projects funded under the IUCN-French Government framework agreement.
On April 29th & 30th 2010, Pascal Girot will conduct meetings in Trinidad and Tobago at the local office of the Delegation of the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank and at United Nations House. Deirdre Shurland will visit Tortola, BVI; Puerto Rico and Barbados from May 6th – 14th 2010 also meeting with delegations, donors and IUCN colleagues.
The major outcomes of these meetings are expected to be closer liaisons with IUCN members in the development and implementation of regional projects, strategic partnerships with donors and key regional institutions such as the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, for the benefit of biodiversity conservation in the region.


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The foremost scientist espousing the anthropogenic global warming theory is James Hansen of NASA. Hansen is a fanatic who has been one of the sources of fudged data offered in support of AGW. His boss at NASA was John Theon; Theon, like many other scientists, has now come out as a global warming skeptic.
Theon's credentials are impressive; here is his resume: Education: B.S. Aero. Engr. (1953-57); Aerodynamicist, Douglas Aircraft Co. (1957-58); As USAF Reserve Officer (1958-60),B.S. Meteorology (1959); Served as Weather Officer 1959-60; M.S, Meteorology (1960-62); NASA Research Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Ctr. (1962-74); Head Meteorology Branch, GSFC (1974-76); Asst. Chief, Lab. for Atmos. Sciences, GSFC (1977-78); Program Scientist, NASA Global Weather Research Program, NASA Hq. (1978-82); Chief, Atmospheric Dynamics & Radiation Branch NASA Hq., (1982-91); Ph.D., Engr. Science & Mech.: course of study and dissertation in atmos. science (1983-85); Chief, Atmospheric Dynamics, Radiation, & Hydrology Branch, NASA Hq. (1991-93); Chief, Climate Processes Research Program, NASA Hq. (1993-94); Senior Scientist, Mission to Planet Earth Office, NASA Hq. (1994-95); Science Consultant, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (1995-99); Science Consultant Orbital Sciences Corp. (1996-97) and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab., (1997-99).
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As Chief of several NASA Hq. Programs (1982-94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked on climate research. …
[James Hansen] was never muzzled even though he violated NASA's official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind's effect on it). He thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress.
My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit. Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy.
This is one of the bluntest repudiations of global warming hysteria I have seen by an eminent scientist in the field. Sadly, we now have global warming hysterics in charge of environmental policy in the Obama administration.
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Tom Hanks has a knack for playing the roles that define American generations. In "Saving Private Ryan," he embodied the courage of the men who landed on the Normandy beaches under heavy fire. In "Apollo 13," he conveyed calm and ingenuity under intense pressure: "Houston, we have a problem." And Forrest Gump revealed much about America before, during and after the Vietnam War.
Tom Hanks has a knack for playing the roles that define American generations. In "Saving Private Ryan," he embodied the courage of the men who landed on the Normandy beaches under heavy fire. In "Apollo 13," he conveyed calm and ingenuity under intense pressure: "Houston, we have a problem." And Forrest Gump revealed much about America before, during and after the Vietnam War.
If Hanks turns his attention to our most recent decade, which character should he choose? My suggestion is Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, the head of the criminal division at the Justice Department and the man responsible for determining whether anyone should be prosecuted for the financial crisis of 2008.
In an on-camera interview, which aired recently, Breuer stated plainly that some financial institutions are too large and too complex to be held accountable before the law. Bipartisan pressure is now being applied on the Justice Department to reveal exactly how this determination was made. Breuer, however, has announced he will leave government March 1. Good luck unraveling the cover-up that must already be in place.
Breuer made the comments for a documentary aired by the PBS program "Frontline." The investigative report, titled "The Untouchables," asked why no senior Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for apparently well-documented illegal acts, such as authorizing document forging, misleading investors and obstructing justice. Breuer was shockingly candid.
"Well, I think I am pursuing justice," he said. "And I think the entire responsibility of the department is to pursue justice. But in any given case, I think I and prosecutors around the country, being responsible, should speak to regulators, should speak to experts, because if I bring a case against Institution A, and as a result of bringing that case, there's some huge economic effect — if it creates a ripple effect so that suddenly, counterparties and other financial institutions or other companies that had nothing to do with this are affected badly — it's a factor we need to know and understand." Attorney General Eric Holder expressed similar views in the context of discussing why more severe charges weren't brought against Zurich-based UBS last year for manipulating the London interbank offered rate. And Neil Barofsky, a onetime senior prosecutor and former inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program that administered the bank bailouts, provided a scathing assessment of Justice Department policy.
The Justice Department likes to quote Thomas Jefferson: "The most sacred of the duties of government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens," a line that appears in its latest budget documents.
This sentiment is hardly consistent with saying that some companies have characteristics that put them above the law. Jefferson himself was very worried about the concentrated power of financiers — he would have seen today's problems much more clearly than do Holder and Breuer.
Make no mistake, the Justice Department said it loud and clear: No megabank will ever face meaningful prosecution.
Very big banks should be broken up immediately. That won't happen. For his next movie, Hanks should focus on the ruin of democracy — aided and abetted by the Justice Department.
Simon Johnson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management is co-author of "White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You."