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The Fear of Missing Out
Published on - March 15th, 2012 (Modified on - March 29th, 2012) (by April Dykman)
This post is by staff writer April Dykman.
When I was in the fourth grade, I had a bad case of FOMO.
I contracted it when I realized that all of my classmates (or so it seemed) had Nickelodeon, and I didn't. They talked about cartoons and television shows watched the night before — something about a game show where the losing contestant was "slimed."
One day, I decided to take this to the top.
"Dad, can we get cable?" I asked.
"Cable? Uh, no."
"Why not? All of my friends have cable. And I'm bored."
"Go outside or read a book."
"Daaaaaaaaaad! Everyone else has it!"
"Buck up, little trooper."
(That last line really was his response, by the way. Another classic Dad-ism was to wake me up for school by saying, "Time to make the doughnuts!" as cheerfully as possible.)
In my mind, every, single kid in fourth grade knew who got slimed except for me. But Dad wouldn't give in. He'd buy me any book, a microscope, a bike, or build me a clubhouse, but he wouldn't budge on cable. So when talk turned to television shows in the school cafeteria, I was the odd kid out. That was one of my first experiences with FOMO, the fear of missing out.
FOMO and the Joneses: Potato, potahto?
I attended SXSW Interactive this week, and there was a presentation about how marketers can tap into the fear of missing out.
When I first heard about FOMO, I thought it was another way of saying keeping up with the Joneses, and the two are pretty similar. Keeping up with the Joneses is conspicuous consumption that occurs when people compete with their peers by buying what what they buy and doing what they do. Your friend gets a new sports car, for example, and now you want to trade in your late-model Camry so as to appear to be just as successful.
FOMO, according to JWT, a marketing communications agency, is "the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you're missing out — that your peers are doing, in the know about, or in possession of more or something better than you." For example, someone could be fearful of going to the hottest restaurant and ordering the wrong thing. Often FOMO leads to buying something — a bigger TV than your neighbor or booking a vacation with your friends because they're all going and you're afraid of missing out.
In both situations, people act based on perceived social pressures and fear of being out of the loop or excluded. The problem is that most of us can't continually give in to FOMO and reach our financial goals. One of my Facebook friends might post about buying a MacBook Air, another about a trip to Tahiti, and a third about eating at an exclusive restaurant downtown. Now I'm trying to "keep up" with everyone I ever knew, plus people I've never met in person.
Social media sets FOMO on fire
We humans seem to be hard-wired to worry about our status in relation to others and feeling included. But what was interesting were the findings on how FOMO is escalating because of the popularity of real-time, location-based, and social media tools. It's not just about what our peers in real life are doing, it's about happenings in our entire social network.
During the presentation, Ann Mack, director of trend-spotting at JWT, discussed findings from the their March 2012 trend report. She explained that because we're exposed to more of what other people are doing, we question more whether we're making the right choices, and not just when it comes to Kindle versus Nook, but even in life stages. If my best friend from kindergarten has three kids already, am I waiting too long? If my attorney cousin buys a sailboat, should I have picked a more lucrative career? (Note: These are random examples. If I did have an attorney cousin who owned a sailboat, I'd still want to be a writer, but I would have a new favorite cousin.)
Among American millennials (those aged 13-34), the findings included the following:
- 43% say social media has increased their FOMO
- 8 in 10 say people use social media to brag about their lives
- Millennials feel most left out when their peers: are doing something they're not (57%), find out about something before they do (46%), or buy something they haven't bought (36%)
- 50% said they spread themselves too thin trying to keep up with their peers
And in case missing out on the party wasn't enough, some people post photos of their group spelling out "FOMO" with their arms and hands (think Y-M-C-A, but F-O-M-O) to remind others that they're missing out. Ouch.
Do you suffer from FOMO?
According to JWT, the following are signs that you have an unhealthy amount of FOMO:
- You're always on your phone, checking your Facebook notifications, and texting friends, even when you're at a party, supposedly having a great time.
- When you're at home, you're still constantly checking Twitter, Facebook, and text messages.
- You have a hard time making a buying decision because something better might come along.
- You don't want to commit to making plans until you've heard from everyone and can pick the most exciting option.
- You think other people are having a better time, buying better things, or living happier lives based on their profile page or tweets.
- You feel anxious and inadequate after reading your friends' Facebook updates.
If those sound familiar, you might have a chronic case of FOMO. The good news is that it's possible to manage your FOMO. My prescription is as follows:
- Tell yourself it's okay to say no. Let's say you've set a budget because you want to pay off your credit card, and you've already exceeded your allotted amount for eating out. Your friends invite you to check out the new (really expensive) bistro that's getting rave reviews.
- It's okay to say no if you can't afford it. There will be other dinners, and if they're your friends, they should understand that you're paying off debt.
- Make an impulsive decision. What? That's crazy-talk on a finance blog! Hear me out. I don't mean to go to Target for socks and walk out with an iPad. I mean that sometimes you have to quit worrying about whether you're making the "best" buying decision or whether something better will come along in five minutes. For example, earlier today I was considering two wallets, one pink and one brown, and I couldn't make a decision. Would the brown one work with everything? Was the pink one more my style? I left the store so I could think about it some more, and also to think about what had just happened. It's okay to just pick something sometimes and be done with it! (But seriously you guys, brown or pink? Vote in the comments.)
- Unplug. I read a lot online, and I use Facebook, Pinterest, and now Twitter. I almost always have my e-mail open. But I try to unplug once a day with a book, piano practice, or by hanging out on the porch while my cat chases grasshoppers. I put my phone on silent when I'm eating or working out. It's not easy to remind myself to step away from the network, but it clears my head and calms my senses.
- If you have-to-have-now-or-you'll-die, put a pin on it. Similar to the 30-day rule, I bookmark things I want, then wait a couple of weeks to see if I still feel it's a must have. Sometimes I lose interest, other times I realize I already own something that serves the same purpose. If I still have my heart set on it, I can revisit the bookmark.
- Create reminders about your values. You've probably heard the advice about putting your diet goals on the refrigerator. I suggest putting your life and financial goals on your computer as wallpaper, and include visual representations of your goals. For example, maybe you want to retire early and travel the country in an RV, so you might use a photo of an RV. Find ways to remind yourself what you want so that you aren't sidetracked by what others are doing.
Finally, the last tip I have is the one that works most often for me, but it's a little cheesy, so promise not to laugh, okay? Okay. I'm going to hold you to that.
There was a quote I read (on Facebook) that said "…we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides." (The source is The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George.) When I think that someone is "always" traveling or "always" knows what's going on, while I'm sitting on the couch or wondering why I'm not savvy enough to get free movie passes, I think about that quote and remember that each of us have our shadows and our sunlit sides. As J.D. recently said, we often form perceptions based on exceptions, not the rule.
Epilogue: I still don't have cable. Dad won that battle for life, it seems. So if you can tell me what's happening on The Walking Dead, I'd appreciate it. People on Facebook can't stop talking about it, and my FOMO is really flaring up.
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Pink! Pink is fun and will make you smile. Brown goes with everything, but does it really matter if your wallet matches?
(Unless it really does matter to you and will drive you crazy. Gotta do what works for you.)
I'm one of those people who feels inadequate when I see so many of my friends posting about their vacations and eating out all the time. What's worse is that I USED to be one of those people who could do that before I was laid off and have been struggling with a freelance career for 3 years. Since I work alone I like to have FB open to feel somewhat connected to the outside world, so what I did was unsubscribe to those people who typically post about that kind of stuff. I don't have to unfriend them, I just don't have to see their posts come up all the time. Seems like a good trade off.
Great article, April! I never heard of FOMO until now, but can certainly relate. For me, FOMO was so subtle I wasn't even aware of it … I just had a nagging feeling I should be doing "more." And the feeling usually coincided with time spent on FB. Thanks for the insight!
FOMO is strong for me, so this is a great read. I never really thought about it this way. Mine is more about activities than vacations and material things. Especially in college: there were so many times when I should have stayed in to study or rest, but I couldn't stand the thought of missing out on some party (where I and everyone would usually get too drunk to even remember if we had a good time or not) was too strong. It's an expensive phenomenon, and not just in terms of money.
By the way to the GRS elves, I had no problems loading the page today, and no annoying pop-ups warning me of the dangers of this site.
Me neither! That was real strange yesterday and if I was the only one.
This is a great post. I can certainly admit I suffer from this along with many people I know. Not being busy at work as definitely exacerbated the problem. Being young it is hard to say "No" to things like concerts, big trips, and bar crawls, especially when you tell yourself you will work for the next 50 years!
To combat this problem, I will read what I have to then, log out which will force me not to re-type my credentials in, on something like Reddit or Facebook.
Kay Thompson in "Funny Face" (1957):
"Think pink! think pink! when you shop for summer clothes.
Think pink! think pink! if you want that quel-que chose.
Red is dead, blue is through,
Green's obscene, brown's taboo.
And there is not the slightest excuse for plum or puce
—or chartreuse.
Think pink! forget that Dior says black and rust.
Think pink! who cares if the new look has no bust.
Now, I wouldn't presume to tell a woman
what a woman oughtta think,
But tell her if she's gotta think: think pink—!"
So we were talking about that exact gameshow on Nickelodeon just the other day though I cannot recall the name of it. So funny to see you refer to it. I did not have cable growing up either so I would get my friends to tape all of my favourite shows so I wouldn't be quite as out of the loop. I had one video tape and they would fill it up, give it to me, I'd watch it and then give it back to them to refill it. lol I guess I was a frugal fifth grader… We don't have cable now because we don't need it. We watch everything online.
Was it, "You Can't Do That on Television"?
Great article. I get serious FOMO when it comes to TV too (amongst other things) and I have cable. Yikes.
I wanted to invite you and your readers to sign up for a product we've built to help fight fomo (www.timeRAZOR.com). We also contributed to the JWT report.
what does FOMO stand for?? I read the article twice looking for the definition did I just miss it?
Fear Of Missing Out
say it really fast:
Pink definitely. Brown is soo…."ordinary!"
My wallet is bright red, which may have been a subconscious message to myself since I was kinda broke when I bought it (and I did need it. My old one had spontaneously disassembled itself).
So I vote PINK.
FOMO: I don't suffer from this much. From time to time I do something all the cool kids are doing, and it's never as much fun as they say it will be.
I suffered from this a lot when I was working as an interior designer. I wanted all the pretty things that my clients could afford but I did not and still don't have that kind of money. When I quit my job two years ago to stay home with my daughter, I was able to stop looking at all of the things I thought I wanted and focus on what really made me happy which was spending time with my family. Sure I look at friends on facebook and wish I could do some of the things that they do like travel but I realize that just because I can't do it now doesn't mean that I will never be able to.
btw, go with the pink wallet.
Fun article April,
My parents handled FOMO (Fear of missing out)issues while I was pretty young. They started me by handing out food to extremely poor people by the time I was 4. I was exposed to extreme poverty every year so I learned to appreciate what we have.
They also helped /allowed me to do crazy things/ideas starting at a young age so I was too busy living my life to compare with others. If I did, my mom always asked: What do YOU really like about it? Would you really enjoy that cruise when you get seasick nonstop?
I always ask myself, would I really enjoy that if I envy something. The answer has been mostly no.
Go for the pink wallet. Not totally thief-proof, but I'd like to see the guy who'll pull that out of your pocket and still hang onto it.
Suggestion: find a good friend who has cable and offer to bring over your homemade cookies (or whatever) in exchange for hanging out together over Walking Dead (or whatever show you want to catch). You socialize and watch your show (and get fat eating cookies).
Life is good.
Hmm. It seems that the FOMO will drive more people to do more things. For example, contrary to this post instead of not buying the newest car, someone would buy it to not miss out on the opportunity to be the first consumer of the product.
EXCELLENT post – loved it!
OMG I am experiencing FOMO when it comes to traveling. We have buckled down to pay off debt and have sworn off big vacations until it's done. Yesterday I was at a work event…and coworkers were discussing recent or upcoming trips to Italy, France, Fiji, Mexico, Canada, etc. UGH! And yes, listening to JD's adventures can also induce a bit of FOMO.
We aren't completely austere, we do take the occasional staycation if there's a great Groupon to be had. But not to Fiji!
you don't have to have cable to see the walking dead. it can be found online if you look hard enough. watchseries and tvduck usually have it.
Wallet color is immaterial…if it holds your cash and cards then color is optional. Marketing strikes again…matching is only important because you believed someone who said that because they wanted to sell more goods.
good post otherwise…
unless a monochromatic color choice extraordinarily pleases your visual aesthetic; otherwise, if a contrasting color choice…
of course if you personally get no kicks from visual aesthetics then of course any either or that works will do..
but if you can get a free kick from a color choice on something you have decided to purchase anyway, why on earth would you turn down a kick?
I've got FOMO, fo sho! I think our society breeds this sort of mentality. That's the whole point of advertisements, right? You gotta have this car…and this body…and these shoes. Of course, you wouldn't know about those tempting ads on cable, right? Lucky you!! Ignorance is bliss. I've never decided I didn't want to be someone's friend because of their lack of cool stuff.
Nothing constructive to add…except posts like this one are why I love having April on GRS.
If anyone is interested borrow the following books from your local library:
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton – this book looks at the causes of Status Anxiety (or FOMO if you prefer) and looks at different ways the feelings of inadequacy can be addressed.
The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson – looked this book, challenges parents to spend time and not just money on children. The joy of making bread (not in a cursed bread maker) with kids is magic
Brown is a very safe color, usually appropriate and it blends in with everything. A wallet is a small accessory that allows for a little flamboyance. Think pink!
I vote for pink but that's the way I roll. Love the pink.
My FOMO is when I have to miss a yoga class some times.
I work full-time, have a part-time business at home, and attend 1 class per semester.
I check my emails everyday and rarely go to Facebook. I don't need to see what is happening to everybody, and they don't need to know everything about me either.
I didn't get cable until about 8 years ago, and mostly watch ME-TV or other basic channels, when there is time. I don't miss most of the TV shows that people talk about; I'd rather read a great book.
Also, Go Pink! Anybody can go brown, but get the one you keep going back to. You will be happier with the one you love.
I've always felt the FOMO when i was in college. It's true that I can afford to go with my classmates every time they decide to "have a drink", eat out and enjoy the night – this dragged on even after 2 years of working as a speech and language pathologist in the philippines. However, I've learned that even if there will always be people who may seem to live "the life" with all the Stuff that they have, the intrinsic level of happiness that only I can provide myself still matter more (than what other people will commend me for).
I had to conquer my own FOMO issues during college. Not about buying things or spending money, but about making sure I got enough sleep. I've always been an 8 hrs/night girl. It's what I need to function well.
It took me a while to accept that YES, I was likely going to miss out on some things by going to bed before everyone else, but we're all different and it's what I need.
Still true to this day… I very rarely catch the end of whatever the big game is if it's at night. I have to sleep.
Wallet: Who cares what color? Does it matter? It's inside your purse. Go with the color that you will enjoy seeing all the time. If it was me, I'd pick brown, because I seriously hate the color pink.
FOMO: I don't have a Facebook. I don't have cable. I don't Twitter. I don't own a TV, or a car. I don't have an iPad, iPhone or any sort of Smartphone for that matter. My phone is a bottom of the line cell phone that just makes calls, and I do not text (too expensive).
But while I don't have a *fear* of missing out, I do know that I *am* missing out on life (I'm very isolated with no friends who live near me, no family of my own, no spouse, no boyfriend or mate, and earn under poverty-level income), and that most people DO live happier lives than I do. It's just a fact, and I don't need constant reminders like Twitters and Facebook to know that. This fact doesn't make me overextend myself though. I just keep plodding on through life, trying to save what little I can and still survive.
I suffer from this occasionally. Especially when it comes to cars. My truck is 13 years old, has nearly 300k miles on it and I see my friends posting pics of their new cars all the time.
My only respite is knowing I don't have a payment & they do. That doesn't mean I don't want a shiny, new Corvette…I do! But I don't want a $1200/month car payment.
I must admit I have a pretty bad case of FOMO. I have done a decent job of keeping it managable though!
"And in case missing out on the party wasn't enough, some people post photos of their group spelling out "FOMO" with their arms and hands (think Y-M-C-A, but F-O-M-O) to remind others that they're missing out. Ouch."
This is a joke, right? People don't actually do that? Because that's maybe the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
FOMO is the reason why I do NOT have a Facebook account. I do not want to know what any of my acquaintances and friends are doing because I do not want to compare myself to them, which I know will be inevitable if I knew what they were doing with their lives. Out of sight, out of mind.
When was the term "FOMO" apparently coined? Liam Finn put out an album called "FOMO" last year and referred to it in interviews as an acronym for Fear of Missing Out? I'd like to see the timelines on this FOMO-business and who exactly coined it!?


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Chocolate and peanut butter. My all time favorite combination of foods.
My husband can attest that if given the option, horizontal gravity always takes over and I will gravitate to the chocolate and peanut butter.
For example, we have an abundance of frozen yogurt shops that have recently popped up around both Columbia and Charleston. I'm pretty sure there are about 5 shops within 10 minutes of our house. This is not a good thing when I am armed with coupons for these fro-yo shops and am armed with the knowledge that there will be an abundance of chocolate and peanut butter toppings and frozen yogurt to choose from. Logan can testify that I always get one or more of the following flavors:
- cookies & cream
- peanut butter
- chocolate
and one or more of the following toppings:
- peanut butter cups
- m&m's
- chocolate chips
- oreos
- hot fudge
- chocolate syrup
- snickers
Mmmm…so good. But, one thing better than chocolate and peanut butter frozen yogurt creations is this chocolate peanut butter cake.
The stars of this show are black beans! I never in a million years would have guessed that a cake made from black beans would be so moist and tasty. I served it over the weekend to both my family and my husband's family. I didn't, however, reveal the main ingredient until they had tasted a bite and had raved about how wonderfully delicious it was. Sneaky, sneaky!
You definitely cannot taste any hint of black beans. It is pure chocolately and peanut butter goodness.
Check out the approximate nutrition facts for the cake (without the peanut butter frosting or chocolate ganache). I'm pretty sure there we dissected this cake into about 17 slices.
That sounds good to me when indulging in a delicious chocolate cake!
To assemble the cake:
- Bake the black bean chocolate cake.
- Let the layers cool.
- Make the chocolate ganache.
- While the ganache is cooling, make your peanut butter frosting.
- Spread the reserved chocolate ganache (along with some chopped peanut butter chocolate candies) in between the two layers.
- Spread the peanut butter icing over the cake.
- Pour the chocolate ganache over the cake.
- Decorate as preferred!
Black Bean Chocolate Cake {Gluten-Free}
adapted from Healthy Indulgences
- 1 (15.5 oz) can of reduced sodium black beans, drained and rinsed
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, or coconut oil
- 3/4 cup cane sugar
- 5 tablespoons special dark cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Spray a 6″ round cake pan with cooking spray with flour in it. Also, I used a bake even strip.
- Blend the beans, 2 eggs, vanilla and sugar in the food processor (or blender) on high until completely blended.
- In a small bowl combine the cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter/coconut oil until fluffy.
- Add the remaining two eggs and beat well after each egg.
- Beat in the bean mixture.
- Beat in the dry ingredients.
- Beat for 1-2 minutes.
- Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.
- Let cool for 5 minutes.
- Flip the cake out onto a cooling rack.
- Pour cold water in the pan to cool it completely.
- Pour the remaining batter into the pan and bake for 40-45 minutes.
- Let cool for 5 minutes.
- Flip the cake out onto a cooling rack.
- Allow for both layers to cool completely before icing.
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
adapted from Kitchen Runway
- 8 oz 1/3 fat cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup natural creamy peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- Cream the cream cheese and peanut butter together.
- Add in the powdered sugar and beat until blended.
- Spread on cake.
Note: I was afraid I wouldn't have enough peanut butter frosting so I added more peanut butter and powdered sugar to the original recipe. However, if I made this again, I would either make the recipe straight from Kitchen Runway or just double the recipe. The icing was challenging to work with because of the peanut butter oils.
Dark Chocolate Ganache
adapted from Baking Bible: From the oven to the table cookbook
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup 60% cacao Ghirardelli chocolate chips
- Bring the heavy cream to a boil.
- Remove from heat and add in the chocolate.
- Pour into a bowl and let cool.
- Pour a enough to put in between cake layers into a small bowl and chill for 1 hour.
- Remove from fridge and whisk until fluffy.


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It's Sunday night, ladies and gentlemen. You know what that means. It's time for an all-new episode of the AMC original series, The Walking Dead.
Last week, we watched as The Governor showed us that he wasn't that changed after all. In an effort to take control of the camp, and the people just trying to survive, The Governor fed Martinez to the walkers.
In tonight's midseason finale, he uses his powers of manipulation to make them all believe that Rick and the rest of the group at the prison are bad people who deserve to have everything taken from them.
What can you expect from tonight's episode? Well, it just so happens that we have your answer right here.
The synopsis for tonight's midseason finale of The Walking Dead goes a little something like this.
A new and scary chapter begins to form at a camp outside the prison."
Date: Sunday, December 1st
Start Time: 9:00 p.m. EST
Episode Name: 'Too Far Gone'
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"Let it unwind through the corner—use the whole track—now smooth into the throttle—stay to the right—parallel the wall—TURN NOW—head for the apex—full throttle—now toward the cone—brake hard—turn—apex—throttle—perfect!"
Those were the words of a refined Scottish gent that sat next to me in a 2012 Porsche Cayman R as I did my best to impress him with my rudimentary racing skills. The track under siege of my Peridot Metallic, 330-horsepower German machine was the road course at Mission Raceway, just outside of Vancouver, BC.
Next to me togged in white slacks and a white golf shirt to match his snow-white hair was none other than Tony Morris Sr., a former race car driver of great renown and success. Tony arrived from Scotland in the 1970s to become a legend in the local racing scene. He developed a reputation for smoothness, both behind the wheel and in the world of tire sales and marketing, where his business acumen was second only to his driving skill.
These days, Tony keeps his hand in the world of motorsports by representing Porsche Motor Cars of North America. Tony's son, Tony Morris Jr., grew up immersed in his dad's passion for car racing and became a champion racer himself. He is now co-owner and president of Morrisport Advanced Driving Incorporated. (www.morrisport.com)
My day at the Mission Raceway was a cooperative arrangement between the two Tonys and Porsche Motor Cars in conjunction with Morrisport Advanced Driving.
The point of the day was two-fold: teach an old dog like me how to race a high-performance car on a road course (as if that could be done in a day!); and allow me the opportunity to experience the true capabilities of two outstanding Porsche products back-to-back without breaking the law or losing my right to drive. The stuff of dreams? You bet.
First, the cars. I mentioned the Cayman R; this is a dedicated performance version of the already highly capable Cayman and Cayman S. The 'R' is lighter, leaner and more powerful than its slightly more docile siblings are. It's equipped with true racing seats that hug a body more vigorously than a love-starved aunt. With a top track speed of 282 km/h, it's meant for competitive driving—really competitive driving.
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Really? :?: I guess as someone who grew up in the US it looked totally obvious to me what was land and what was water. :D
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There are Skraelings, but they're human.
Niiice! I really like the style of the second map. Did you make the original outline by hand? the coastline flow is awesome. What program did you use for the second take?
@ukie: I traced the original outline from a 17th century French map. I used a hard round 3 pixel brush and just drew it, trying not to include any sharp, jarring coastlines; the color and overall appearance seems to look better in this style if you keep the coasts somewhat smooth. I just got my new PC and upgraded to CS6, so that's what I've been using.
More to come on this in a week or two; I need to draw some mountains first since I like how lxdengar's borrowed brushes turned out. Just need to create my own now!
I can't wait to see those mountains :)
Okay, try these:
Looks nice except if you want to show high mountains or peaks imho
A small update. Added some color to the various regions - the reddish-hued ones are the Crown Colonies - colonies of Westernesse (this world's England analog) with a lot of admixture from natives and people from our Earth (Roanoke, for one).
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Thursday 11th June, 2009
by Roséline
Fell completely for this room — the large windows, impossibly high ceilings, upholstered bed and stunning bespoke chandelier, only to discover that I had fallen for the very same room a year before . . .
I don't blame you..the room is fabulous! Love Ochre..
No wonder……everything you would need in one little corner! except the mini-bar of course. Gorgeous.
I love the way they rearranged. Facing the window is a huge improvement and adds interest.
funny! i love the image with the bed at an angle. *sigh*
I am madly-deeply-in-lust with that Chandelier!
Lol. I can see why you would fall in love twice. So lovely. Both times.
found my way here from Tea for Joy and she's right, your blog is truly glamorous!
oh man, this is so gorgeous. even the dog is gray and chic! thanks for sharing!
the chandelier and the bed is totally amazing!!
wow that bed is out of this world!!
Amazing – and now I've fallen for it too!
I am with you, completely in love with the first bedroom. I want to dive on that bed and lie there all afternoon. Carla x
Oh, that chandelier is like a dream!
It's a version of a sleigh bed that has be all excited. I want to tuck myself in and take a nap
Ochre was and is my favourite shop in the ENTIRE WORLD. hands down, no questions asked. I even registered there when we got married!
would happily move into the store and take up residence, but I imagine the shopgirls might have a thing of two to say about that…
what a beautiful way to seperate your living space from your sleeping space in a studio APT!
That bed is wonderful!
I agree, Ochre lighting is stunning!
Just saw this photo on houzz.com–love it. Have you been to that site or am I the last to hear of it?
A Gift Wrapped Life – completely hilarious about the mini-bar
designfabulous – definitely agree about the new arrangement
Rachel – thank you! {and shall remember to thank Tea for Joy as well}
Anne – we practically did move into the shop in NY – there was a huge thunderstorm and it was raining so hard, we had to spend part of the afternoon at Ochre. What a great idea to have a registry there!
Liz – the people at houzz have been e-mailing me to check it out, but only had a few moments – will take a closer when I have more time
As always, thanks for taking the time to say hello — hope you had a lovely week!
unbelievable! that chandelier is to die for!
hope you have a wonderful weekend!
The two rooms are equally beautiful. No wonder why you fall i love twice.
if my apartement weren't the size of a shoebox i would find a way to hang a chandelier like this one… i'm pretty sure you can't even have a grumpy day if you come home to something this lovely!
Wow that room is fab! No wonder you love it so much. The lighting above the bed is so romantic and the bed itself makes me think of curling up in it with big fluffy pillows and a soft duvet… aaah, I'm getting sentimental just thinking about it!
Love this room ,I prefer the 1st picture . And I'm dying for that chandelier and the 3 "miroir aux sorcières " on the wall
Good to know you are consistent in your taste!
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I need to get on a computer ASAP and fix my siggy (I usually post from my phone) so you can see I was due 9/15.
|Tue, 01-25-2011 - 1:55am
So sorry to hear of your loss. I, too, miscarried a week ago. I was also due 9/15. I have two daughters whom I got pregnant with very easily and have never had a miscarriage. Never expected it but then again, who does. We are not necessarily trying but not preventing. Good luck to you!
|Mon, 01-24-2011 - 12:29pm
So sorry you had to find us... I had an ectopic in November and am still devistated... I had to have surgery to remove my angle and it was horriable.. My thoughts are with you and your family & I hope you don't need to stick around long!!
|Mon, 01-24-2011 - 8:32am
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Sorry to see you over here, but hopefully your stay isnt long.
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I am so sorry for your loss. It takes everyone by surprise and is devastating. Did they think your pregnancy was ectopic this time or last time?
|Sat, 01-22-2011 - 12:46pm
Hey everyone, thanks for all of your responses. I am so sorry for each and everyone of yalls losses. I hope we all get our BFP soon and those lil beans stick. I have been okay today, but I started bleeding this morning when I woke up. I expected it and am glad that is here already. I need this to be over with so we can try again. I also hate wearing pads ugh.
I hope to get a new siggy made soon, Im gonna visit that board. Again, thank you all for your kind words. This really sucks bc like I said, I did NOT expect this.. Ive had one mc before, about 7 years ago but I had no test done, I just started bleeding. So this one is a little more real to me. I have alot to be thankfu for and that is what is making me okay. I look forward to getting to know you guys! =)
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Answer: In the SAP Implementation Guide under "Sales and Distribution -> Data Transfer and Archiving -> Archiving Data -> Archiving Control for Sales Documents" (transaction VORA), set the residence time of sales documents. Do this depending on sales organization and sales document type.If required, you can also assign additional FORM routines to implement additional checks of the documents during archiving.Without this Customizing, during the early delivery or write run, the system displays the termination message VB 801 "Internal error: DYNSQL_GENERATE_WHERE_CLAUSE(4)"
Answer: In the SAP standard menu, select "Tools -> Administration -> Administration -> Data Archiving" (transaction SARA). Enter the object name "SD_VBAK" and choose "Enter".Transaction SARA is the central transaction for archiving. From here, you can reach all required functions (for example, Customizing, tables and archiving objects, archiving and Archive Information System (SAP AS)). In this context, see also the online documentation.
Answer: For a list of the criteria under which a sales document can be archived, see Note 481577.
Answer: You should only reload sales documents using the S3VBAKRL program in case of emergency.Certain data is not reloaded (for example, CO data).If, for example, the number range of an archived sales document was reset after the archiving, a reload must not occur.Reloading is not officially supported by SAP. See Notes 373568 and 520475.Additional information: To enable you to reload sales documents in the background using transaction SARA in cases when it is absolutely necessary, you must enter the S3VBAKRL reload program for the SD_VBAK archiving object in transaction AOBJ.
Answer: For more information, see Note 507365.
Answer: The customers (partners) used in the archived sales document were also archived. This means the system cannot find the partner data and issues a relevant error message. This is standard behavior.You can display the technical view for the sales document affected in transactions SARI or SARE.
Answer: This problem occurs if the ABAP statement 'OPEN CURSOR'/'FETCH NEXT CURSOR' is used to select the sales document header data to be archived. In general, you should set the "Alternative DB access" indicator on the selection screen or in the variants to avoid this error.
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Jesus: Hi, I'm Jesus Christ.
Pete: Wow! You're back!
Jesus: Yep. Yep. So what's been going on?
Pete: ...don't you know all?
Jesus: It's complicated. Suffice it to say I could know all, but what's the fun in that? No surprises. Dad, the Holy Ghost and I did give free will partially so we could wager on what choices you'd all make.
Pete: And?
Jesus: You'll never go broke betting on humans to make the selfish, stupid choice is all I'll say.
Pete: Okay.
Jesus: Actually I've kept my nose out of all the stuff done in my name. Figured I'd get frustrated if I watched to closely. "Hey! I wouldn't do that!" and what have you.
Pete: Probably a smart move.
Jesus: But I know how humans are with patterns and anniversaries so I figured what better day to return to earth than the anniversary of the day I was crucified?
Pete: Okay.
Jesus: Wipe out the bad memory with a good one, you know?
Pete: Isn't that what Easter does?
Jesus: Easter? The pagan thing with the rabbit and the eggs? You all glommed that onto me?
Pete: Kinda. Peeps taste good.
Jesus: Pardon?
Pete: Never mind.
Jesus: Anyway, does this anniversary day have a catchy name too?
Pete: Yeah. Good Friday.
Jesus: ...
Pete: ...
Jesus: What was that?
Pete: Good Friday.
Jesus: GOOD Friday?
Pete: What's wrong?
Jesus: No, no, nothing's wrong. It just seems like an odd name. I mean, it wasn't a very good day for me, you know.
Pete: I think it's called that because you died for our sins so it's good for us.
Jesus: ...
Pete: ...
Jesus: Well that's a little self absorbed, isn' it?
Pete: I dunno. It's just what the church calls it.
Jesus: I mean how about "Rough But Necessary Friday?" Or "Jesus and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good Day?"
Pete: That's like a kid's book title.
Jesus: I know. I was using it to illustrate the point.
Pete: You know the titles of kids books but not the name of the day you were crucified?
Jesus: First, I told you I've kept out of religion. Everyone is allowed their passions. Even Christ.
Pete: Ha!
Jesus: What?
Pete: Passions..it's just...never mind.
Jesus: And secondly I DO know the name of the day I was crucified. It was called "The crappy day I got nailed to a cross...I think it was a Friday but who cares what day of the week it was, I was nailed to a cross Friday."
Pete: Sorry.
Jesus: It's fine. I'm guessing I'm going to find a few places where the church and I differ. Thanks for being willing to talk. Can we continue this chat over a hamburger?
Pete: Uh..no. It's Friday during Lent.
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Wounded Warriors , a short film featuring Korn frontman Jonathan Davis , will premiere online this week. The movie documents the singer's trip to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on August 11, 2012 and examines the "emotional challenges wounded warriors go through…that have answered our nation's call."
"This film is not about me," said Davis in a statement. "It is about all the troops and what they sacrifice to keep our life going. I am truly grateful for every single one of them."
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Mar 7 2012: I haven't been long enough to say but I think the one talk that affected me the most is Brené Brown's "The power of vulnerability".
I've always been a protective(?) person when it comes to myself. I lacked the ability to trust and be uncertain about things and in a way that was making me worse off than how I wanted to be. Listening to that talk gave me the push I needed to start working towards a better self.
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As expected, energy production and policy took up a big chunk of the discussion at the Manufacturing Summit in Dalton Thursday. But the various speakers took different approaches to their common topic.
First up was Rep. Tom Graves, who represents much of North Georgia in Congress and focused on the proliferation of regulations handcuffing businesses in a number of ways. Graves spoke of energy as one of the many areas affected by what he reported as 43 new major regulations that the federal government imposed in 2010 alone, at an estimated cost to businesses of $26.5 billion.
"Our rapidly expanding government has brought a pox of regulations upon businesses across this country," Graves said.
"To the promoters of more government, bigger government…we must stand together and say, 'no.' When there are those that say free markets don't work or capitalism is false, we must stand together as entrepreneurs and push ahead."
Graves was followed by T. Boone Pickens, the oil and gas magnate who is promoting a national energy plan that he developed and which relies heavily on natural gas. He describes his main motivation as reducing our reliance on foreign oil, which he pegged at 13 million barrels a day out of the 20 million barrels we use each day. Of that, he said we import 5 million barrels from members of OPEC.
Pickens favors a plan to convert America's 18-wheelers, all 8 million of them, to run on natural gas — which, he said, could cut our OPEC imports in half. But he signaled an openness to other energy sources as well, so long as they meet one requirement.
"Anything American, I'm for," Pickens said. "I'm not even against ethanol. It's an ugly baby, but its our baby. It's better than OPEC, I can tell you that."
A different tack was taken by Tom Fanning, CEO of Southern Company. Fanning focused on "everything but oil" — basically meaning sources of electricity generation. He advocated an "all arrows in the quiver" approach but spent a good bit of time talking about why the U.S. should not abandon nuclear power in spite of the disaster in Japan. New technology, he said, addresses the biggest problem with the earthquake- and tsunami-struck reactors in Japan by using gravity to pour water on fuel rods in case of a shutdown rather than requiring an external power source. (That includes the two new reactors Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is building at Plant Vogtle.)
Fanning also spent much time decrying the EPA's new Utility MACT regulation, which the agency is trying to rush through with only a 60-day public comment period and a three-year timeline for implementation.
"It is our [company's] view that as a result of this rule by EPA, we may have to shut down almost half of the nation's coal-generated [power] resources, putting us into potentially a reliability crisis," Fanning said. "And when we consider adding new environmental control equipment or replacing it with other forms of generaton, we're looking at potential price increases across the United States of maybe 20 percent."
In the Southeast alone, Fanning said, the new regulation could eliminate up to 35,000 jobs. The cost to businesses, he said, was likely to be much higher than the EPA's estimate of a $10.9 billion a year.
– By Kyle Wingfield
May 20th, 2011
6:38 am
I hope someone ask Mr. Tom Fanning, CEO of Southern Company how that state corporate welfare bill on Nuclear Power is working out for him. I'm sure it's not working out to good for the rest of us who get stuck with the bill.
May 20th, 2011
7:53 am
Kyle, like you, I've heard T. Boone make his pitch for converting all of America's big trucks to natural gas, it appears to be at the core of creating a market for the costs associated with extracting this resource.
How do you feel about this, just on a first- or second-impression level? Do you think American conservatives could get behind such a thing?
May 20th, 2011
8:38 am
May 20th, 2011
8:54 am
RE the Pickens plan:
1. You must first increase the transportation capacity (natural gas pipelines) in order for this to work. Even now, at certain times of the year, they are at near capacity.
2. You must also significantly increase the natural gas storage capacity. A large part of our natural gas production is sitting in the Gulf of Mexico – which, in case you have forgotten, is in a "hurricane alley."
3. Off hand, I'm guessing Pickens has some significant investments in natural gas.
Regarding nuclear:
Let's not forget that the main reason nuclear power construction went into a thirty year hibernation was because of the government regulations passed as a result of Three Mile Island.
May 20th, 2011
9:13 am
Lee: Add the expansion of Natural gas refueling locations.
Kyle: What is MACT?
If businesses would live by the "rules" in the good book, maybe we would not need to regulate them! Looking the other way is not acceptable!
May 20th, 2011
9:35 am
Drill Baby Drill!
May 20th, 2011
10:01 am
@Road, MACT = Maximum Achievable Control Technology
In sum, if you have a large boiler, you must install the environmental control technologies to attain a certain level of air pollution reduction.
Sounds good in theory until you have to either spend a billion dollars installing scrubbers or shut the plant down.
China does the bare minimum, which is why all of our manufacturing base is moving overseas….
May 20th, 2011
10:18 am
I heard the hype for this event long before it occurred. While I would like to see more manufacturing in the United States, I felt this event had too much of a political conservative flavor to make me want to attend. Too bad it wasn't an apolitical or at least non-partisan event. It could've had wider appeal without the anti-regulation, pro-nuclear rhetoric.
May 20th, 2011
10:59 am
Ask any boater with fiberglass fuel tanks exactly how ugly a baby ethanol is. (Or for that matter, anyone who has accidentally left gasoline sitting in their lawn mower for a few months.) While ethanol theoretically "replaces" gasoline that would otherwise be imported from a country that hates us, the costs associated with using it as a fuel outweigh the benefits. It is nasty stuff.
I'm all for the gravity theory on cooling fuel rods, as long as whatever container is being used to hold tons of water over a reactor core is able to withstand the earthquake in the first place without cracking. Otherwise, you're back in the same boat.
Not only will a 20% price increase kill jobs, it will also kill personal discretionary spending (except for the rich, of course), which will kill more jobs due to lost revenue.
May 20th, 2011
11:19 am
1. Graves is a crook — he takes out a load then stiffs the lender. Where did the 2 mil go ? The FDIC took the lender – who is on the hook?
2. Who will make up the revenue if you give business sales tax breaks? I'd love one too, but the gov't has to provide need services.
According to Newt corportate wellfare from the right is no better that social wellfare from the left
May 20th, 2011
11:29 am
I have an evacuated tube solar water heater which works like a charm. Why can't we manufacture those in this country? Efficient, non-polluting and creates jobs.
May 20th, 2011
11:36 am
More blather from the right-wing echo chamber. The EPA has been kicking around the MACT proposal for years, its the Southern Company that wants to stick to to its decades old coal-fired plants and make no changes. Other energy companies have been more proactive and have developed new technologies. But since the Tea-Party has taken over the GOP agenda, we now know that the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were serious mistakes that have only cost us jobs but have delivered no environmental benefits. We need to compete with China, so lets eliminate the CAA, CWA, Superfund, etc., and disband the EPA and all state enviro agencies. What a great idea.
Here's to hoping that the rapture really is tonight.
May 20th, 2011
12:06 pm
Re: Tom Graves, "To the promoters of more government, bigger government…we must stand together and say, 'no.' When there are those that say free markets don't work or capitalism is false, we must stand together as entrepreneurs and push ahead."
This war on regulations is frustrating. Regulations aren't an impediment to free markets; they're a prerequisite to free markets. I submit that to be anti-regulation is to be anti-capitalism.
Regulations protect consumers, level the playing field, reduce injuries, save lives, and yes, save money. For example, if we pay a little more in our electric bill to breathe clean air, we save as much or more in lower medical bills.
Corporations and the politicians who represent them look at the side of the equation that affect them directly. Voters have to look at the big picture.
It's true that regulations have increased since Obama came into office. It's also true that, despite reciting the Oath of Office twice, Bush simply stopped enforcing regulations he didn't like. Obama is simply plugging the hole and enforcing environmental laws that were agreed to and passed by Democrats and Republicans alike.
I don't know where Fanning gets him information, but I'm quite confident he's blowing smoke.
May 20th, 2011
12:08 pm
From what I know of it, I actually think T Boone Pickens' idea is a pretty good one, the devil, of course, being in the details. That being said, let's not forget, as sfd pointed out, he stands to make an awful lot of money from it. Not anything wrong with him profiting from a good idea but, as always, anytime anybody floats an idea the first question that has to be asked is, "What's in it for them?"
May 20th, 2011
12:25 pm
Reinforcing my earlier point, here's a link to a 2010 RAND study that illustrates potential economic costs of NOT meeting federal air quality standards: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9501/index1.html
May 20th, 2011
12:44 pm
"I submit that to be anti-regulation is to be anti-capitalism."
You're confused. Capitalism requires stability in the rules. Spastic growth in the amount and scope of regulation, so loved by Democrats and libbtards, is the exact opposite of what capitalism needs.
Nice try at rationalizing your Idiot Messiah's various power grabs though. No sale.
May 20th, 2011
12:59 pm
Due away with regulations. Who cares if infant mortality rates go up? Who cares if the air and water are too infected to drink? Who cares if the burger you eat is contaminated?
And the same people that are anti-regulation are the same nuts that complain about debt being passed on to their great-grandchildren.
May 20th, 2011
1:16 pm
Cap & Trade is a hoax. Gore attended the "97 UN climate change conference in Kyoto & came home with dollar signs in his eyes. The US congress would not sign the treaty then & has consistently refused to pass a cap & tax bill, realizing it would destroy our economy. The Dem. House passed it in 11/09 but the Dem. Senate refused to pass it. Right before Obama was to attend the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen in 12/09, the EPA formally declared on 12/6/09 that greenhouse gases were pollutants & that the Obama adm. could regulate them under the Clean Air Act of 1970. What a coincidence! All of a sudden water vapor & carbon dioxide are pollutants & politicians in Washington can reduce them all over the world!
May 20th, 2011
1:32 pm
Your Idiot Messiah invented a regulation that he thinks gives him the power to tell Boeing they can't put a factory in South Carolina. Tell us how that regulation helps manufacturing.
May 20th, 2011
1:35 pm
"Your Idiot Messiah" is a conversation ender.
May 20th, 2011
1:44 pm
Water vapor & carbon dioxide and not "all of a sudden pollutants." They are greeehouse gases and therefore pollutants because they are generated at a rate that disturbs the balance that was maintained by natural processes before the industrial revolution .
May 20th, 2011
1:46 pm
[...] Wingfield covered the summit for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, writing, "Summit speakers take whacks at U.S. energy policies, rules," reporting on remarks by Tom Fanning, CEO of Southern Company: Fanning focused on [...]
May 20th, 2011
1:59 pm
MarkV@1:44, Water can be in either a liquid or gas phase. Water vapor is the gas phase of plain old water. H2O. Water disappears into the air & becomes a gas (water vapor) when it's heated. How is Obama gonna regulate it? Where will he put it all? We will miss the oceans.
Carbon dioxide is what you breath out & what plants absorb. Without it, there would be no life on earth. You drink it in soft drinks. How will you reduce it to pre-industrial revolution?
Why were greenhouse gases never considered pollutants until about 1 1/2 yrs. ago?
May 20th, 2011
2:25 pm
Idiot Messiah? You will bite your tongue tomorrow in the rapture for saying such blasphemy!
May 20th, 2011
2:43 pm
Bart Abel: "Your Idiot Messiah" is a conversation ender.
Only to Idiot Messiah acolytes and dunces who can't answer the question.
May 20th, 2011
2:54 pm
When the lackeys of Big Business talk about "regulations handcuffing" them, what they really want is a free hand to cheat and gouge the public totally while Govt. looks the other way.
May 20th, 2011
2:58 pm
The only Idiot Messiah is "your president" that is now in Dallas.
May 20th, 2011
3:07 pm
If you believe that the globe is warming, that it is due to the existence of man & that it is being caused by greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, do you really believe that Obama can solve the problem as he promised? He said he would reduce emissions 83% below '05 levels by 2050. In '05, there were 6 B tons of CO2 emissions X 83% means he would remove 5 B tons & there would be 1 B tons left in '50. The last time we were emitting 1 B tons of CO2 in the atmosphere was in 1910, at which time there were 92 million people. The problem is that by '50, there will be about 420 million people. 1 B tons would be divided by 420 M = 2.4 tons per person, which is 1/4 of the per person emissions of 1910. The last time there was 2.4 tons of CO2 emission per person was probably when there was 45 million people–in 1875.
BTW, countries with CO2 emissions of 2.4 T per person include Grenada & Botswana.
BTW, in 1875, our primary source of heat was wood.
May 20th, 2011
3:08 pm
Linda @1:59 pm: Your arguments and questions are incredibly naïve and ignorant., and ignore what I wrote. Life on earth has developed in a way that natural processes, including what people, animals and plants emit and absorb, was in balance, resulting in a relatively stable condition. The continuing industrial revolution caused a growing imbalance by generating enormous and increasing amounts of greenhouse gases, which the natural processes are incapable of controlling.
May 20th, 2011
3:15 pm
Good job, MarkV. Hwo can people not believe that we are making a huge imprint on the planet? And then they come back with it being in cycles. Really? I guess that I missed when dinosaurs drove 18-wheelers, and the big nuclear meltdown of 800 B.C.
May 20th, 2011
3:25 pm
Linda @3:07 pm: "BTW, in 1875, our primary source of heat was wood."
What do you think si the product of burning wood?
May 20th, 2011
3:30 pm
From what I know of it, I actually think T Boone Pickens' idea is a pretty good one, the devil, of course, being in the details.
I didn't come out and say it, but regarding the key idea, that of converting our 18 wheelers to natural gas–it sounds like a pretty good one to me as well, or at least it's not-crazy.
My concern is as yours–details?
also, I don't know how the heck you implement it, politically, without a lot of cooperation from a lot of parties that aren't on real good terms these days.
May 20th, 2011
3:32 pm
MarkV@3:08, Well, at least I know what water is. I also know what air is.
There are real pollutants in the air such as sulfer, carbon monoxide & nitrogen, but carbon dioxide is not a pollutant in the air. It IS air. It is a good, pure, natural, scarce, clean, odorless, colorless, essential gas. It is a plant nutrient & is added in huge quantities to commercial green houses.
Water vapor & carbon dioxide are greenhouse gases. CO2 is no more a pollutant than water.
May 20th, 2011
3:35 pm
I can get you fired for bad mouthing the president, just ask that cat in Barrow county….
May 20th, 2011
3:36 pm
T Boone Pickens' idea is a good one, becasue natural gas burns cleaner than diesel. It can and perhaps should be part of the plan of action. But as has been said, it is not simple to implement.
May 20th, 2011
3:39 pm
Linda @3:32 pm: Itis hopeless to debate with someone who is incapable of understanding.
May 20th, 2011
3:41 pm
MarkV@3:25, I can tell that my 3:07 comment went completely over your head if all you could muster from it was the product from burning wood in 1875. The comment was to render proof that the goal of the Obama adm. is statistically impossible, & all you could come up with is smoke?
May 20th, 2011
3:44 pm
MarkV@3:39, This is fifth grade science. Don't you remember studying photosynthesis?
May 20th, 2011
4:06 pm
Greed is good,
Greed is God,
Greed is my Shepherd..
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green dollars:
He leadeth me beside the unguarded wealth.
He restoreth my derivative s:
He leadeth me in the paths of avarice for His name' sake.
Yea, though I walk through an economy in the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For I am not affected;
The court and my minions, they comfort me.
They preparest a table before me in the sight of mine enemies;
They annointest my head with oil; crude and refined,
My cup runneth over.
Surely cash flow and power shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in a gated community forever.
May 20th, 2011
4:31 pm
Linda @3:44 pm: Yes, Linda, it is a fifth grade science, and you are getting an F. As I wrote, it is hopeless, but I will give it one more try. You wrote: "…but carbon dioxide is not a pollutant in the air. It IS air."
Well, strictly speaking, it is NOT air. Air is oxygen plus nitrogen. But it is a natural component of atmospheric air, which contains many other components. The mere fact that it is a natural component does not yet mean that it cannot be harmful. Carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and ammonia also are components of atmospheric air, but that does not mean they would not be harmful if their concentration increased. Carbon dioxide has an essential role for life of most living things, but again, that does not mean its concentration can increase without consequences. Since it is one of the most important greenhouse gases, an increase in its concentration increases the greenhouse effect, and contributes in a major way to global warming.
May 20th, 2011
4:34 pm
Linda @3:41 pm: You comment did not "go over my head." My response is: So it will be difficult, what else is new? And you did not prove anything being "statistically impossible." Apparently you do not know what "statistically impossible" means.
May 20th, 2011
4:45 pm
If only Jesus had taught people to love.
May 20th, 2011
5:46 pm
If there was a choice between having CO2 or methane (natural gas) in the atmosphere, then CO2 would be preferable to methane (natural gas) for reasons that should be obvious. However, it is not so much what CO2 in the atmosphere is doing, so much as what it does once in the oceans, where it becomes acidic. Thereby reducing the salinity of the water, which could spell trouble for the Atlantic conveyer: Of course, this shut-down is scientific hypothesis. As for methane, there isn't anything like trees to convert it into anything less harmful: In fact it depletes oxygen. Not to mention it has a more pronounced immediate effect unlike CO2 which is much harder for the atmosphere to dissipate.
Now, with that razzle-dazzle out of the way, a couple of other good reasons besides making T. Boone Pickens a few more billions off his natural gas holdings for using this greenhouse gas – that actually burns – apart from it being a cleaner fuel than coal or oil is that problematic situation which methane (natural gas) presents to the atmosphere. To make short of it, we should use all the methane we can rather than have it escape into the atmosphere. Oh dang… and there is this other thing: As it just so happens, the U.S. has the world largest known recoverable natural gas resources. By estimate, over 100 years worth just sitting in the ground and underneath the oceans all within our territory.
Georgia and South Carolina for instants could benefit – in terms of jobs and money – from natural gas resources located off of our coast, if not for the big federal GUB'MENT's moratorium and regulations. Many other states face the same problems. As we continue to pay higher energy prices than we should, especially when we have the resources to do it.
May 20th, 2011
6:00 pm
MarkV@4:31, If "air is oxygen plus nitrogen," where is the CO2?
Air is: 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .93% argon, .039% carbon dioxide & .003% other trace gases. Water vapor is mixed in with it. CO2 is air, part of the natural makeup that has been around since dirt. It's our breath we exhale.
Carbon dioxide is such a minute part of air & makes up from 350 to 400 ppm. It would take 5000 ppm to be considered unhealthy. Sailors don't worry about it on submarines until it reaches 8,000 to 10,000 ppm.
"…essential role for life of most living things…" Tell me one living thing that it's NOT essential for.
500 million years ago, CO2 was 20 times more prevalent than it is today, which proves humans aren't entirely responsible for its increase (or decrease, for that matter). It's from breathing, volcanoes, hot springs & geysers, in addition to comubustion.
Of the greenhouse gases, water vapor varies from 36-72%, CO2 from 9-26%, methane from 4-9%, etc. Without them the earth would be 60 degrees colder.
The globe has been cooling & heating for millions of years. We were warned in the '70s of global cooling. Dr. Phil Jones admitted that there's been no warming in years. Scientists are now warning of another cooling period. Where have you been? This is what is called WEATHER & NATURE.
May 20th, 2011
6:08 pm
MarkV@4:34, Do you know the difference between difficult & impossible? Do you know the difference between our way of life in 2011 & what it was like in 1875? Do you want to go back to those good old days of heating our homes with wood & driving to work on mules?
Like I said, it was over your head.
P.S. The wood they burned in 1875 was not that stuff you buy at the grocery store.
May 20th, 2011
6:13 pm
"500 million years ago"…linda don't believe in creationism.
May 20th, 2011
6:16 pm
Think we'll run out of natural gas (methane) after a hundred years?
Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years. Methane is over 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2) over a 100-year period and is emitted from a variety of natural and human-influenced sources. Human-influenced sources include landfills, natural gas and petroleum systems, agricultural activities, coal mining, stationary and mobile combustion, wastewater treatment, and certain industrial process.
Methane is also a primary constituent of natural gas and an important energy source. As a result, efforts to prevent or utilize methane emissions can provide significant energy, economic and environmental benefits. In the United States, many companies are working with EPA in voluntary efforts to reduce emissions by implementing cost-effective management methods and technologies.
May 20th, 2011
6:21 pm
Linda @6:00 pm: Linda, you either cannot read well, or you have some problem with understanding sentences. There is something to the saying that little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
You have asked: "If "air is oxygen plus nitrogen," where is the CO2?" Since you disregarded what I have written, let me try to explain to you as if you were a child. The term "air" means, strictly, a specific mixture of oxygen and nitrogen. In our atmosphere, there are some other components, actually more of them than those you mentioned. However, if you take all carbon dioxide out of atmospheric air, what will you have? Air. If you buy a pure compressed air in a cylinder, you will not have any detectable carbon dioxide, but it will still be "air." Can you understand this simple concept?
When we speak of carbon dioxide as "pollutant" in a climatologic sense, we are not talking about it being dangerous to our breathing or to plants. We are talking about its importance in the greenhouse effect.
May 20th, 2011
6:23 pm
Just curious lars, if creationism isn't the reason for the existence of everything then what is? Evolution? In order to have evolution something must at least exist to evolve, right? Just a guess but that would eventually mean that some form of superior mas or mater would have simply had to have existed for the BIG BANG to have actually happened, is that about right?
Well, BIG GOD or BIG BANG both hypothesis require unreasoned faith to believe that one or the other simply existed without a creation in order for all things to have evolved from either one of these two.
May 20th, 2011
6:28 pm
Linda @6:08 pm: Exactly because I know the difference between difficult and impossible, I know that when you wrote the following: "The comment was to render proof that the goal of the Obama adm. is statistically impossible," you proved you did not know what you were talking about. Again, you have shown that you had no idea what "statistically impossible" would mean.


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What's in your wallet? If you're Alec Baldwin on Tuesday May 13, and you're out riding your bike in New York City, the answer is obviously not identification. You'd think the former Capital One spokesman would know better, but alas ... no.
The hot-headed actor was arrested and handcuffed by police after failing to produce ID after being stopped for riding a bicycle the wrong way. In Touch broke the story, along with pics that of course immediately went viral, because hi, Alec Baldwin just got arrested for the very serious crime of riding a bike or being Alec Baldwin.
This stuff is just too good to make up.
Anyway, it seems as though the 30 Rock star had an issue being asked for ID. According to a source in the NYPD, he was given two summonses, but was only arrested after "Alec Baldwin'ing" the cops. (I made that term up. It would've been awesome if the source actually used it though.)
"He was stopped by officers for riding the wrong way on a street. When the officers asked for ID, he got belligerent because he had none on him," the source said. "The officers placed him under arrest for disorderly conduct."
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Ever one to take responsibility for his actions, Baldwin took to Twitter after he was released to clear things up. After naming the arresting officer and badge number, he said, "[He] arrested me and handcuffed me for going the wrong way on Fifth Ave." He continued in typical ranty fashion:
Meanwhile, photographers outside my home ONCE AGAIN terrified my daughter and nearly hit her with a camera. The police did nothing.
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) May 13, 2014
New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.
— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) May 13, 2014
Oh Alec, never stop being you! Yeah, the cops probably gave you an extra hard time because you're known for antics like these. Yeah, their time probably could've been better spent elsewhere. But so long as you keep creating opportunities to get yourself all worked up, people are going to try to work you up. Maybe if you really do hate the media, you should stop playing to it.
Do you think the cops should've just let him go with a warning?
Image via Viva Vivanista/Flickr
@Chris He was riding a bike going the wrong way on the street and if you think that is okay then I hope you have neither bike nor drivers license it is dangerous for all. Bikes may not have a motor (usually) but they ARE considered a vehicle. IF you want to be on the road on a wheeled vehicle then follow traffic laws, even in small town PA you have to follow traffic laws on a bike
Ms Erickson, perhaps when you almost hit a cyclists because, like Baldwin, they commit the "very serious crime of riding a bike" by riding against traffic you will stop being so flippant in showing your absolute lack of information and common sense.
1. As April above notes, bikes are vehvicles and have to follow exacty the same rules of the road as autos or motorcycles.
Chris, you need to learn to think instead of assuming there is any truth in Ms Erickson's insinuations. When your kid gets hit by a bicyclists riding against traffic, or by a car that has to serve to avoid the idiot riding against traffic then maybe you, and Ms Erickson, will get a clue that traffic laws by and large have a legitimate reason and ignoring them puts everyone at risk.
2. He was not arrested for the bike charge but for being an a$$hole when asked for ID. Had he not been a typical entitled a$$hole he would have been let go with just a warning.