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With the melting of Arctic Ocean ice, the fabled waterway between Europe and Asia has been open to shipping the past two summers--or has it?
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Of course the negative impacts outweigh the positive impacts. There's not money or power in global warming being a GOOD thing. Oh, and someone better tell the southwest they aren't dry right now, because they obviously haven't gotten the memo. Their eyes are probably blinded by all that desert sun and sand.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen I hear of such "technological possibilities" ahead of us, I can't stop myself from thinking that us, as a specie, are like children owning a technical knowledge way above the maturity we have to use it safely and wisely. All it take is some politicians the type of "drill baby drill" and millions of uneducated supporters to make it happen without proper studies on the matter and drowned informations that could exist against it
but are not allowed to take center stage because the media is in the hands of economic forces with short view agendas and thirst for immediate profits . I am all azymuths for progress, but not at the expense of future generations. Politics must mature end electors must vote for long term agendas instead of a "pacthes of asphalt" in front their houses.
If we manage to take that route, confidence will be back and "business as usual" will be of a different wave lenght till time will have come, again, to reevaluate, keep or rectifie the direction we want the organic spaceship we all live on to go.
"Arctic Ice Extent Now Likely Highest Level Since 2002"
By Joseph D'Aleo
"The latest daily arctic sea ice extent chart from IJIS shows the current year ice extent at the highest level in the record back to 2002. (2003 was missing)."
"Ths (sic) represents an increase of 655,781 square kilometers over last November 7 or 7.4%."
This increase in arctic sea ice is obviously the result of Global Warming.
Dated: Nov 08, 2008
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Accessed: Monday, November 10, 2008 1:53:51 AM
One of the temperature monitors that records the info used by the global warming disciples is not far from my home. The person who volunteers to read and record the info and maintain the site laughs at how an air conditioning condenser nearby blows its heat right at the monitor. He says the problem is pervasive across the country with the data recorders. Much of the data is corrupted by nearby heat sources. Since no survey has been done on these sites then the data cannot be accurately corrected by mathematical means unless the W.A.G. system is used (wild ass guessing). Is global warming nothing more than bad data? The data from those recorder are used by science to predict the future? It appears the scientific community does not even care the data is tainted. We should not base our national policy on this sloppy science.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHello Follow the Facts,
I am sorry but you have been taken in by a con artist. I want you to check out what the people who actually monitor sea ice are saying:
"While slightly above the record-low minimum set Sept. 16, 2007, this season further reinforces the strong negative trend in summer sea ice extent observed during the past 30 years. Before last year, the previous record low for September was set in 2005."
So in short you have been lied too.
But hold it! We have not even talking about volume have we? This year the record in volume of ice melted has been recorded. The National Sea Ice Data Center says :
NSIDC Research Scientist Walt Meier said, "Warm ocean waters helped contribute to ice losses this year, pushing the already thin ice pack over the edge. In fact, preliminary data indicates that 2008 probably represents the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice on record, partly because less multiyear ice is surviving now, and the remaining ice is so thin."
Thought all this talk of record breaking single years is just blowing smoke. What you need to look for is the trend. That trend over the past 30 years has been steadily downward.
@Praire Dweller,
Thanks again for another one of those unverifiable "stories" you like to tell. Tell me, does the urban heat island effect the Deniers like to think they have discovered, what bearing does it have on temperatures at sea? Are the oceans just riddled with Atlantises that no one has discovered? How about weather ballons? Are their vast cloud cities out their that no else but you have discovered? Do you really think that people who have studied this problem do not account for it? Just how much of the Earth's surface area do you think is covered by urban areas? Do you really think that a dozen or so sites in the US negates global temperature increases? Really?
Are you just that dam ignorant and provincial that you think no else has thought of these problems?
Here, go figure out what the urban heat island effect is going to have on national forest and parks. I mean surely you and your anonymous buddy have taken into account the Remote Automated Weather Stations Network in those places - right? I guess your going to tell us how armies of raccoons remotely controlled by Al Gore are biasing the readings.
For more on the RAWS network go here:
The buddy's name is Richard, not anonymous, and he and the others that service the equipment say the data is corrupt because the site surveys necessary for the proper calculations to obtain the correction factors has never been done so the data is WRONG. If some of the data is bad and still accepted then the results of using bad data yields bad results. Nobody is keeping track of the environment around these sites, automated or not, urban or rural, land or sea, and not just in this country. The scientific community just pretends the data is correct.
Trent1492 stick your personal attacks up your ass. We both know you wouldn't have the guts to do it to my face.
So Prairiedweller, why don't you spend some money and just go see what is happening in the Arctic? Talk to Alaskan and Canadian natives who have made their livlihood off the land and see what they have to tell you about changes.
While I'm not a numbers person, I can see effects where I live in MT. Subtle, but they are there, and are being noted by researchers.
Open your eyes. And try reading some other data than what your friend tells you.
"The buddy's name is Richard, not anonymous,.."
Well that just makes the individual so much more identifiable. Not. Hint: in a nation of 300 million plus people calling some entity, Richard, still makes him ( if he exists) anonymous.
"...and he and the others...."
More anonymous people. You just do not get it do you?
"... the data is corrupt because the site surveys necessary for the proper calculations to obtain the correction factors has never been done so the data is WRONG..."
Oh, so you of course got a peer reviewed paper saying this of course? Something tells me that is not the case. You know a paper in which an appropiate number of sites have been surveryed. Otherwise I will just assume that as usual your just pulling this out of your posterior as usual.
Then of course your going to tell us how the weather ballons, bathyometers, reports from shipping and aircraft are alll wrong too, right?
"Nobody is keeping track of the environment around these sites, automated or not, urban or rural, land or sea, and not just in this country."
Yet you just KNOW how they are all corrupt. Do you ever just stop to think about what your writting?
"The scientific community just pretends the data is correct."
In only two posts you go from accusing the scientific community of gross incompetence to conpiracy. You make these accusations without a shred of peer reviewed evidence but because it fits your ideology. Your a real piece of work.
"Trent1492 stick your personal attacks up your ass. We both know you wouldn't have the guts to do it to my face."
Oh, look! Another internet tough guy! You know what would really impress me? You going out and reading what the researchers are actually saying and why they are saying it. I have read through such denial sites as "Watts Up" and "Climate Audit" and found them wanting in their analysis. You know ittle things like not taking into account that two diffeerent databases use two different base periods; or getting confused about the difference between a sine and latitude. Go take a look at how the U.H.I is accounted for and get back to me on the flaws you find, ok?
I want you to pay particular attention to points 1, 2 and 5.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIF THEY HAVENT DONE IT IN THE LAST 200 YEARS AND THEY WONT DO IT IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS, THEN OUR SPECIES CANT EVER DO IT, BECAUSE ALL SPECIES WONT BE ALIVE ON EARTH AFTER 2028. HAVE A NICE DAY. MIKE
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTHIS WEBSITE IS'NT FAIR TO ANYONE, IT CANT OR WONT ACCEPT HONESTY, BUT IS PREJUDICE TO ANYONE'S IDEAS.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAS THE ONLY PERSON ON EARTH WITH ALL THE MAJOR DISASTER SOLUTIONS I GIVE THIS SITE SCIENTIST AMERICAN A THUMBS DOWN== http://www.inventube.com/ooojay/blog/ dont have a nice day.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisHey there i seen many articles global warming and the poles. i have a suggestion but im not even sure if it will work. " why dont we invent a type of liquid nitrogen missile and launch it under water." Before we must test the effects and side effects of the missile and the radius of its impact. we must also do studies on how it will react not only with the planet but also with the wild life.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishi there i seen many articles on the poles and i have come up with an idea that might work. "why dont we invent a liquid nitrogen missile that we can lauch under water to refreeze the poles." Ofcourse first we must make studies on the radious that the missile will reach and also study the effects of what the missle does to the water besides freezing it and finally a study on how the wild life will adapt to this.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisRight now the sea ice in the Arctic is growing at the fastest rate on record. That doesn't mean it will continue and it doesn't mean that next summer it won't melt at an even faster rate. But anyone with a computer can go to http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ and scroll down to the year to year comparisons and view 11/14/08 with 11/14/79 and see that size and thickness of the Arctic ice is very similar. The recovery from the summer melt is incredible and possibly the best recovery in recorded history, which means only since 1979. If I were a confirmed believer in global warming I would have waited until next August to write this article.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFor those questioning 'Richard' perhaps you might want to check out this site, that documents the temperature collection sites - many of which are corrupted by the types of things 'Richard' refers to.
The comment about the 'extra heat always being the same' is ridiculous on its face. If there an AC unit is installed on a given year, it will affect the temp. It's effect on the temp in subsequent years will be compounded by being operated on warmer days - making warmer days appear even warmer. I'll leave the barbecue grill and trash burning barrel you will see to your own assessment.
It is not really a matter of whether the number of corupted sites are affecting the total. It is a trend that one can see throughout the Global Warming community - A total disregard for real science and real scientific principles. It has become more of a religion than a science.
The IPCC "peer review process" is laughable by any scientific standards. Yet they tout it as being beyond reproach. It would be quite humorous if it wasn't so sad.
Trent 1492:
Ad hominem attacks 1, facts zero.
I may not agree with how Prarie dweller is making his point, but the fact is that his assertions are supported, and not just at his locale. http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming/ in her book "The Skeptic's Handbook"contains several pictures of exactly what Prariedweller is talking about. So Nullius Verba (see for yourself; don't take anyone's word for it.
OK, so there may be a route around Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But the article states that there will be hard-ice 'growlers' floating around still. Just imagine the savings to oil companies to send tankers that way. But just remember the Titanic. They said it was unsinkable, yet ice sunk it on its maiden voyage. Therefore just imagine the environmental effects of a tanker sinking on the Arctic route....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGrec R1 : 'The IPCC peer review process is laughable?' Sorry, but the IPCC don't do any peer reviewing at all. They ask over 8,000 top scientists who make their conclusions from the accumulated mass of data and conclusions from whole teams of expert-scientists in their fields whose work has been peer-reviewed before being submitted to the IPCC. Please stick to the facts.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisQ: "Is global warming nothing more than bad data?"
A: NO SIR!. It's much much more than that; it's big business!
Global Warming.. I grew up in Orlando, Florida- Pine Hills to be exact. From 1972 to 1990. I remember while I was in Elementary school - Hiawassee Elementary to be exact- being able to swim in our outdoor pool (it was not screened over) during Christmas vacation.
Try that in Orlando now- you'll freeze your butt off.
While you're at it, talk to the organge growers. It used to be the orange industry was the powehouse of Florida. Not any more. Every year freezes kill off more and more groves. Brazil and Mexico are the orange producers now.
The Earth's climate changes and people don't make it happen.
I can say that because people didn't cause the massive inland sea that became Arizona to dry up. People didn't make the trackless jungles that became the Western United States become deserts. People didn't cause the several (major and minor_ Ice Ages that pushed glaciers as far south as Kansas to start or stop.
People weren't around then but the Earth's climate still changed. The only difference now is that people are getting rich by chanting "Global Cooling!" (1970's), "Global Warming!" (1990's), "Global CHANGE!" (2000's).
Them's my two cents.
For several years I took measurements of many atmospheric data, and I can assure that most of the measurements were accurate, most of the time.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisAm doing some more reflecting on the process of collecting weather data.
Our sites for collecting temps and for measuring rain and wind were situated so as to be as accurate as possible. It is and has been standard procedure to put temp gauges away from buildings, in specially constructed structures which ensured that the temp gauge was shaded and had air flowing over it.
My understanding from my training for the job was that a lot thought and consideration had gone into the policy governing where and how gauges of all types were sited. Where I worked, there is no way that an A/C unit could have affected any measurements, as the thermometers, and all of the equipment, were far from anything that could impact the measurements, and this was part of policy.
This is not to say that errors never happened. Once, over the course of several years, a lawn sprinkler managed to put water into the rain gauge, so we had to go back and try to correct the data for that day.
Still, I am confident that the design of our data collecting set-up was as good as it could reasonably be made to be.
Replying to Zoddious:
one of the interesting consequences of global warming is that the warming of the two polar regions, and the melting of most of the mountain glaciers (which has already occurred) will cause some areas on the planet to actually get cooler for a long time.
The Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic Ocean is a prime determinant in affecting temperatures from the Southeast U.S. all the way to Northern Europe. The generalised warming of the atmosphere is causing the melting of huge volumes of fresh water from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Caps, which may cause the Gulf Stream to weaken. If this happens, or if it is already happening, we may see "localised" cooling, all the way from Florida to the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The most recent scientific theory is that the last time the Gulf Stream was caused to halt, due to global warming after the last ice age, it took over a thousand years for it to become a strong, warm current again.
I hope you find this info as interesting as it is to me.


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Our purpose is to find inspiration, network, get job connections and meet others that share a love for design. This group is full of graphic designers, art directors, web and print designers, copywriters, photographers, fine artists, print production people and printers, and web developers looking to meet other people in the field. We are open for all to join. NEW*** Anyone can create a Meetup! Please post any design events you know about on our calendar. We also love happy hours where we can c …
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This meetup group is created for global business architects, managers, and entrepreneurs to network and exchange: Doing business globally. Global trends in management. Global trends in technology. Lessons learnt by global managers and entrepreneurs. This meetup group emerged from the Information Architects and still hosts some events related to information architecture arts and sciences. Tech Training, Internships and Jobs and Global DC are our sister groups. Please make yourself at home - che …
This group is geared toward getting web designers and developers together to discuss new technology, share and promote business, and collaborate to build awesome new apps and sites. There has been much interest in the past for this type of community around the Rockville/Gburg/Bethesda area so we're trying to revive the community. This group is for: web developers (front-end and back-end) designers programmers mobile devs Drupalers/Wordpressers app/game devs tech geeks anyone else who wants to l …
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I love the UX community here in the DC area and I'd like to have a way to keep us meeting throughout the year. The UX Dinner DC group will have a slight structure to its meetups - we pick a UX-oriented topic for each meal, try and loosely stick to the topic as we eat, drink and be merry, and network with other UX-types. I'd like to keep the meal group meetups small (no more than 8 people) for a couple of reasons - the first being that it's easier to get reservations for 8 or less; second, I thi …
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This is a group for anyone who is involved in managing mobile devices (iPhones, Androids, BlackBerries, etc.) in an enterprise setting in the Washington D.C. area. We hope to meet and discuss topics such as MDM (Mobile Device Management), BYOD, BlackBerry 10, and anything and everything related to mobility.
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This group is for people who are interested in Graphic Design in the Northern Virginia area. I created this group for graphic designers and web designers to help connect and share some great ideas.
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Saforian is doing a monthly series on all things digital. Please keep an eye out for each months topic. We are keeping these workshops small, in order to have a more intimate and educational experience. Our next event will be on July 13. Two of Saforian's talented interactive designers will be leading a Basic Photoshop Workflow Workshop. Register now to guarantee your spot!
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88:8 A utensil whose function is permitted (kli shemelachto l'heter) on Shabbos - or even one that has both forbidden and permitted functions, like pots used for cooking (and then storing the food that was cooked in them - Mishnah Brurah 308:20) - may be handled on Shabbos. Even utensils that were set aside for Shabbos because they are repulsive may be handled even if one's purpose is only to keep the utensil from being stolen or broken; if one has no reason whatsoever to handle such things, then it is prohibited. Holy books and food (and eating utensils - MB 308:23) may be handled on Shabbos even for no reason at all.
88:9 Just as we may not handle items that are muktzeh or nolad on Shabbos (refer back to 88:4 for nolad), one may likewise not put a vessel under these items so that they should fall into it. This is because the vessel becomes annulled by the muktzeh or nolad so that one may no longer handle it; it's as if one cemented the vessel in place. One may, however, overturn a basket in front of chicks for them to climb on because when they get off of it, one may handle it. If the chicks were on the basket at twilight on Friday, then the basket may not be handled all Shabbos.


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On Jan. 15, 2009, a US Airways jetliner with 155 people aboard flew into a flock of geese and lost power in both engines shortly after taking off from La Guardia Airport on its way to Charlotte, N.C. The pilot, Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, splash-landed the plane in the icy Hudson River. Ferries and rescue boats swarmed toward the plane from both banks of the river, and all on board were brought to shore safely in a dramatic episode that made Mr. Sullenberger a national hero to many, and entered the rescue of Flight 1549 into airline lore.
Workers and others in high-rise buildings on both banks of the congested Hudson were transfixed as the A320 Airbus came downriver in mid-afternoon, its fuselage lower than many apartment terraces and windows, in a carefully executed touchdown that sent up huge plumes of water at midstream, between West 48th Street in Manhattan and Weehawken, N.J.
What might have been a catastrophe was averted by a pilot's quick thinking and deft maneuvers, and by the nearness of rescue boats, a combination that witnesses and officials called miraculous.
The aircraft struck the geese at 2,700 feet within 1 minute 37 seconds after takeoff. At that point, according to transcripts from the air traffic control of that flight, Captain Sullenberger told the tower that "we lost thrust in both engines." He determined quickly that he could not return quickly enough to La Guardia or make it to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey for a safe landing. "The only option remaining in the metropolitan area that was long enough, wide enough and smooth enough to land was the Hudson River," he said.
He warned the passengers to brace for a hard landing. Most had their heads down as the jetliner slammed into the water, nose slightly up, just three minutes after takeoff.
The aircraft did not sink immediately. Instead, it floated, twisting and drifting south in strong currents, as three New York Waterway commuter ferries moved in. Moments later, terrified passengers began swarming out the emergency exits into cold January air and onto the submerged wings of the bobbing jetliner, which began taking in water.
Soon, a small armada of police boats, fireboats, tugboats and Coast Guard craft converged on the scene, and some of them snubbed up to keep the jetliner afloat. Helicopters brought wet-suited police divers, who dropped into the water to help with the rescues.
All of the passengers, including at least one baby, and both pilots and all three flight attendants, were transferred to the rescue boats, even as the crippled white-and-blue jetliner continued to drift south. When all were out, officials said, Captain Sullenberger walked up and down the aisle twice to make sure the plane was empty.
Surveillance cameras recorded the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on Jan. 15.
One of the less-talked about aspects of the crash of Flight 1549 is how the events tested emergency response communications and coordination.
February 8, 2009nyregionNewsIn his first interview since the crash landing, Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III said he was terrified as he guided the plane into the Hudson River.
February 9, 2009nyregionNewsMr. Zaslow was a columnist and author whose books included a best seller with Randy Pausch and a chronicle of Gabrielle Giffords's recovery.
February 11, 2012, SaturdayOnlookers gathered to watch US Airways Flight 1549 arrive by truck in North Carolina, where it will become part of the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte.
June 11, 2011, SaturdayRecollections of that day from the rescuers and survivors.
January 14, 2011, FridayUS Airways Flight 1549 may make it to North Carolina after all. The plane, which splash-landed in the Hudson River two years ago next week, may soon be bound for the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, the museum's president said on Wednesday. But it would have to travel there on the back of a truck because it no longer has its engines or its wings or tail.
January 06, 2011, ThursdayA plane that splash-landed in the Hudson River two years ago next week may soon be bound for the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, the museum's president said.
January 05, 2011, WednesdayConsider the two air men. One of them survived a double bird strike. The other double-fisted beers on his way down an inflatable slide.
August 12, 2010, ThursdayA report explains that captured geese would be placed in turkey crates, euthanized with methods approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association, then buried.
July 24, 2010, SaturdayThe removal of geese a year and a half after a plane ditched in the Hudson River mortified some Brooklyn residents.
July 13, 2010, TuesdayAirbus's assumptions about how the plane would behave after a bird strike were unrealistic, documents released by the National Transportation Safety Board say.
May 05, 2010, WednesdaySure, he has been called a hero. And his act of cool-headed bravery one year ago was nothing short of a miracle. But one honor may have passed Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III like a jet floating down the river: a cocktail in his name. Until now.
January 16, 2010, SaturdayMost of the 155 passengers and crew who survived the river landing of USAirways Flight 1549 gathered to mark the first anniversary since the event right where it happened.
January 16, 2010, SaturdayIt might come to be called the Miracle at the Landfill. A year to the day after the Miracle on the Hudson a pilot of a much smaller plane towing a banner to mark the anniversary of the crash made an emergency landing at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island on Friday, the authorities said.
January 16, 2010, SaturdaySome survivors of the Hudson River splashdown say they now think twice about putting work before family.
January 15, 2010, Friday"Brace for Impact: The Chesley B. Sullenberger Story" provides another opportunity to ponder the the circumstances that conspired to make Mr. Sullenberger a national folk hero.
January 09, 2010, SaturdayCapt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III has adjusted to his fame since he landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River last year. A new TLC documentary explores the event.
January 07, 2010, ThursdaySEARCH 55 ARTICLES ABOUT US AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1549:
An animated depiction of the flight's path from LaGuardia Airport to its crash landing in the Hudson.
A look at how the missing left engine from US Airways Flight 1549 was retrieved from the bottom of the Hudson River.
Salvage crews lifted the submerged US Airways jet from the Hudson River, days after the flight was ditched in the river.
Video released by the United States Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board shows the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on Jan. 15.
Video released by the United States Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board shows the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, 2009.
The National Safety Transportation Board is still searching for clues to what caused a US Airways flight to ditch in the Hudson River.
Matthew L. Wald, a Times reporter, describes the sequence of events leading to the crash of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River.
A US Airways plane that took off from La Guardia Airport landed in the Hudson River, but all the passengers and crew appeared to be safe.
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Originally published on Wed December 28, 2011 4:32 pm
There has long been a hope that people in search of a fountain of youth for the brain could look no further than their dinner plate.
Just last month, researchers reported that people who eat baked or broiled fish at least once a week may be protecting their brains from Alzheimer's and other brain problems.
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Sheila Royeras, her husband, her mother and two young daughters live in a single-room cement apartment in a poor neighborhood in Manila, Philippines. Like many such homes, it's mostly dark during the day, except for a small ray of sunlight that enters through an open front door.
But this is about to change.
On this morning, volunteers and local government workers arrive to hang low-tech solar light bulbs from the corrugated metal roof. The bulbs are very simple, very effective and the ambitious plan is to put them in 1 million homes this year.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Wednesday renewed his pledge not to run any negative ads in the closing days of the campaign for the Iowa caucuses. But campaigning in Mason City, Gingrich said that won't stop him from personally attacking the record of his opponents.
Gingrich spoke at a mall in Mason City and afterward grabbed a skim milk café au lait from the Jitters coffee bar.
It may be hard to remember, but 2011 began with a bang on the jobs front. The White House seemed ready to break out the champagne when February's job growth report came out showing unemployment at the lowest in nearly two years.
But that celebratory mood didn't last long.
We've reported that crime continues to fall in the United States. The FBI said it was down for the first six months of the year and the Justice Department said violent crime was down 12 percent in 2010.
It's a 20-year trend. One that has continued, despite a recession when people expect crime to pick up.
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Visiting a metal fabrication plant in Sioux City this December, Mitt Romney touted his successful business background, saying those qualifications are what America needs right now.
"I want to use the experience I have in the world of the free enterprise system to make sure that America gets working again. ... These are tough times," said the Republican presidential candidate. "You guys have jobs. Hope your spouses do. But I know these are tough times."
But not as tough in Iowa as in many other parts of the country.
When the new film Pariah opens nationally, it's safe to say it will not be competing with any other movies about a black teenager coming of age as a lesbian in Brooklyn.
"It's not so much coming out, but coming into," clarifies director Dee Rees. "Alike, the main character, knows she loves women. That's not her struggle. Her struggle's more how to be in the world."
In Greece, caroling season runs through the Orthodox Christian holiday known as the Epiphany, celebrated on Jan. 6. Traditionally, children go door-to-door, playing the triangle and singing songs of the season. In return, people give them a few euros for presents.
But this Christmas, Greek retailers say sales fell 30 percent from last year. The unemployment rate is at record levels, crime is rising and austerity is dampening everyone's spirits.
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The title "There Is No God" hardly suggests a bright sunny song, but nonetheless Mrs. Magician translates such an existential crisis into a fun, driving pop tune. It makes sense: the San Diego band is taking garage-rock and surf-pop into newer, much darker territory. Right at the opening line in the song,… » Read More
In the documentary Marlene, Dietrich herself phoned in some last interviews to director/actor Maximilian Schell, while refusing to be seen on camera because "I've been photographed enough." Mark Mori's labor of love documentary Bettie Page Reveals All also doesn't show us the iconic model as she was in her last years, but we hear Page narrate her life story. In hundreds of pictures Page looks at us levelly under her straight, lustrous black bangs. "I'm an illusion," Page says over the phone, age having hoarsened what must have been a honeyed Southern drawl. » Read More
It's narratively fractured, and only in moments does the familiar WWII metaphor emerge. That happens when raffish boatman Bard (Luke Evans, proving that a mullet can be workable) tries to warn the medieval-Baltic city of Laketown of the flying wrath to come. (He gets no help from the city's poncy, gouty Master, played by Stephen Fry.) Yet The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a huge improvement over An Unexpected Journey—it's a well-filled smorgasboard without much starch. » Read More
The weather outside may be somewhat frightful-at least by Bay Area standards-but the December edition of South First Fridays offers some holiday cheer, and even some chances to get some holiday shopping done. Galleries, shops and restaurants host art shows, receptions and art activities throughout the SoFA district and other downtown neighborhoods. Here's a small sampling of shows and activities going on around downtown » Read More
As the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) goes on the road during its own phase of inner-reconstruction, its collections are appearing at various partner institutions throughout the Bay Area. One such collaboration has emerged at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center, where students helped curate "flesh and metal." » Read More
As you read this, a transition is occurring on multiple levels. On the macro level, the San Jose State University Art Department is celebrating its centennial. That is, through various institutional moniker changes at the university level, college level, department level and concentration level, a 100-year continuous milestone of instruction has now been reached. » Read More
Freakin' hipsters. I've only just met him, but already Hamilton is so over me. When I walk in, he's sitting near his "study"-an armchair, desk, globe and house plant. I reach out to pet him, but he arches back and hisses before darting behind the fake ficus tree. Only after I ignore him for a beat and retreat to the couch does he spring up to his mini navy-and-white polka dot armchair and drape a paw over the armrest. He glances at me, the intruder, with his patented more-dapper-than-thou gaze. Fine. » Read More


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With friends visiting from SoCal, the time seemed perfect as we made late reservations for a dinner for four. I managed to talk my friends into the $39 per person Chef's Five Course Tasting. I am terribly sorry that there are no pictures of the appetizer courses. The restaurant is suitably darkened with atmospheric hurricane candles scattered all around. The flash from the camera would have been terribly intrusive to the other diners. However, by the time our entrées were presented, we were the only ones in the front room and I felt more at ease to flash away. I'll state up front that every single dish was stunningly plated and presented. It will seem terribly redundant of me to exclaim just how beautiful every dish was -- you'll see in the entrée photos.
The meal started with a choice of soup. Three of us chose the soup of the day -- a creamy sunchoke soup with crème fraîche a few scattered pink peppercorns. Friend Heather chose a Ras el Hanout soup which threatened a spice on the nose but settled into a simple warm goodness on the mouth with ample flavor from the aromatics.
Then a selection of starters began to arrive; Mediterranean spreads -- aged balsamic eggplant mouse, roasted pepper and pomegranate, and a yogurt-dill all served with grilled flat breads. These spreads were amazing in their creamy texture and layered flavors. Next came skewers of Kefta intersperced with succulent grapes "Grilled Grasslands Kefta Skewers and grapes over cucumber and torpedo onion salad with black sesame vinaigrette." There was a clay pot of roasted goat cheese surrounded with an enriched tomato sauce. I have had a similar dish in several tapas restaurant and of all the dishes offered this evening, this was the most mundane. It was good and flavorful, but hardly innovative. Lastly was my favorite, Wild Mushroom in Phyllo Ravioli - Napa valley's wine forest shiitake, hen-of-the-woods, chanterelles, and Manouri cheese.
Next we had an additional course which we orderd, a Bastilla; baked phyllo pie with a filling of saffron-braised chicken and spiced almonds, draped in sugar and cinnamon. This was a pretty standard bastilla recipe, but it was perfectly prepared and served with the filling tender and perfectly spiced (some can be over-saffroned for a bitter taste).
The entrees arrived. Now you can see the beauty in the presentation. Also, I'd like to note here that the descriptions on the menus hardly did justice to what was on the plate. Friend Heather ordered Hungarian Paprika-smothered Cloverdale Rabbit with Parsnip Purée, Organic Tomatoes, and Alfonso Olives:
Buddy Travis had the Saffron-infused Hoffman Ranch Cornish Hen capped with House-Preserved Meyer Lemons and Purple Potato Mash.
I was thrilled with the Braised Paine Farm Squab with Wine Forest Black Trumpet and Hedgehog Mushrooms on a Thyme-Ras el Hanout Reduction:
And Shawn's was the most mundane-sounding, but hands-down the most impressive in the layered complexity of flavors; Stewed Lamb crowned with Charred Eggplant in a Ginger Saffron Broth, Sun-Dried Point Reyes Tomatoes, and Sudaniya Oil:
We paired all this with a 2002 Strub Riesling Kabinett, Niersteiner Brückchen, Rheinhessen. As I anticipated the food being spicier than it was, the wine worked fine, but I think occasionally was a tad too sweet. I'm really glad that I ordered that however, as I was tending towards a Merkelbach Riesling Spätlese which really would have been too sweet. Mark Ellenbogen who has also put together the famous Slanted Door wine list developed Aziza's and I wouldn't hesitate to go more towards a medium-bodied red or a Vouvray next time.
But on to the desserts... As full as we were, the desserts were part of the tasting menu and we couldn't resist trying some.
The not-well photographed Sorbet of Wild Huckleberries sweetened with a sauce of Laura Chenel's Chèvre (the flash washes out the sauce):
Crème Brulée served with a Crispy Anise Cookie:
Topped Chocolate Pot - Suave chocolate and Scharffen Berger cocoa nibs topped with a delicate cookie and a side of whipped cream:
"The Most Popular Fruit" - Layers of phyllo spread with Granny Smith and Sierra Beauty apple cubes and whipped cream cheese, touched with cinnamon - baked to a perfect crisp and a scoop of turkish coffee ice cream:
What else can I say? I can't wait to go back...
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Plans for Richmond Hill's fire station and old city hall building on Ford Avenue took a small step forward Tuesday when the City Council unanimously approved an engineering firm to design the project.
Business and community leaders, elected officials and many others celebrated another year of business in Richmond Hill, recognizing education as a major part of the equation for success Thursday during the Richmond Hill-Bryan County Chamber of Commerce's annual banquet.
Georgia residents who plan to purchase a new or used vehicle in the coming year may see some changes in the way they pay taxes on their mode of transportation.
One returning and two newly elected commissioners were sworn into office Tuesday just in time for the first meeting of the Bryan County Board of Commissioners in the new year.
Military and community leaders gathered Thursday morning outside Winn Army Community Hospital for a groundbreaking ceremony, kicking off construction of the hospital's Phase II expansion.
A Richmond Hill banker with the failed First National Bank was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in Savannah on charges of defrauding First National Bank and other banks out of millions of dollars.
The city of Pembroke has several projects on its agenda for 2013 including a new public safety complex, sewer work and a new city website.
A budget that caps the city's contribution to the Richmond Hill City Center was approved by the city council on Thursday during its first meeting of the year in City Hall.
Our look back on 2012 in Bryan County comes to a close on a positive note as we review stories of progress, graditude and closure.
Bryan County residents can expect a new fire station in South Bryan in 2013, as well as improvements to some of the county's recreational facilities, according to County Administrator Ray Pittman.
Bryan County residents looking to dispose of their live Christmas trees can recycle them during the city of Richmond Hill's annual Bring one for the Chipper event.
MACON, Ga. (AP) - The police-involved shooting of an unarmed man drew dozens of protesters to Rosa Parks Square in Macon.
ATLANTA (AP) - State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has signed an order allowing insurance companies to begin selling individual policies for children next year.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) - Visitors to parts of Everglades National Park are getting tarps and bungee cords to make their vehicles less delectable to vultures.
MOSCOW (AP) - A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia's third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people.
Thursday was an unseasonably warm December night, even by the Georgia coast's usually balmy standards.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2013 - With a government shutdown possible in the absence of federal funding beyond fiscal year 2013, which ends at midnight tonight, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today issued a message to the Defense Department workforce.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2013 - DOD officials today issued guidance to the force in the event appropriations lapse Oct. 1 and a government shutdown results.
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2012 Fairie Festival Featured GuestsOnce again, the festival will celebrate the beginning of spring and all of the nature spirits return to the warm world with 70 arts and crafts vendors (mostly featuring handmade art inspired by the little people), performances by musicians and dancers, magicians, participatory maypole dancing accompanied by bagpipes and other music, fairie craft activities such as fairie wand and garland making (involves a small fee), food vendors, fairie and other nature spirit environments to explore, a Nature Place offering a place for environmental, health, animal interest and other groups to share their vision, , fairie tea parties, guest appearances by the Green Man, Sweet Pea, Posie and others. TwigTwig Oaklyn Flewinia Thistlebottom was first sighted at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in 2003. In an exclusive interview using today's leading fae linguists, we are able to give you a rare glimpse at the journey she has made from that first apparition. When children see Twig, they are often struck with a sense of awe, wonder, and perhaps a bit of shyness.We were surprised to find that this is exactly how Twig feels when meeting us.The human imagination is a marvel to her. To see what dreams they bring to life, is her most rewarding pursuit. Carolyn TurgeonCarolyn Turgeon is an author whose most recent works include Mermaids, and more recently , The Next Full Moon. Carolyn is a world traveler and adventurer, capturing the flavor and essence of distant places. Carolyn is the Editor in Chief of Mermaids, a Gwynn Oak Studios (Faerie Magazine) production, that will be available at Spoutwood. Charles Vess Award-winning work has graced the covers and interior pages of many publications include two New York Times bestselling picture books penned by Neil Gaiman, "Blueberry |


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BOZEMAN - Two of the weekly awards handed out by the Big Sky Conference are heading to Bozeman.
After the blowout 65-30 win over Portland State, Montana State's Caleb Schreibeis has been named one of three Defensive Players of the Week, while Shawn Johnson has been tabbed as the Special Teams Player of the Week.
Schreibeis tallied two sacks and two forced fumbles in addition to seven total tackles in the rout. The Billings native leads the nation in forced fumbles with seven and is also second in the conference with 10 sacks. He was a part of a Montana State defense that held Portland State to four first downs and 18 passing yards in the first half.
Johnson had just as brilliant a performance Saturday. He returned a punt 72 yards for a touchdown, the first for the Bobcats since 2007. The Bakersfield, CA native finished the game with 155-all-purpose yards, with 73 on punt returns, 27 on kick returns, 54 receiving yards, all on a 54 touchdown reception, and 1 rush yard.


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Economics (Encyclopedia of Science and Religion)
The field of economics encompasses the study of how natural resources are drawn from nature and processed by human activity to become value-added products for consumption or commodities for exchange; the study of how complex services are developed by coordinating human activities so that particular services can be rationally provided, bought, or sold; and the study of how the resulting resources are allocated, and how the costs and benefits of these processes are calculated.
Highly specialized subdisciplines of this vast field developed after the Industrial Revolution, the rise to social dominance of the modern business corporation, the sharp debates between capitalist and socialist theories during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the increased globalization of the contemporary world. Econometrics seeks to measure actual processes and their consequences in a delimited institutional range family, firm, nation, industry, or segment of the population such as a race or a class. Regression analysis seeks to develop models that can interpret the relative effects of a variable or a set of variables. Other subdisciplines focus on policy-making and are intended to bring desired social results. Macro-economics, for example, focuses on tax or other governmental policies that aim to enhance development or public services, reduce poverty or inequality, or control behaviors that damage the common welfare (crime, environmental damage, drug abuse, child pornography, health or safety, etc.). Microeconomics seeks to enhance the efficiency, productivity, profitability, and viability of companies that operate in various markets. Labor economics, which often engages in advocacy, studies both political and business policies from the standpoint of their effects on employees and workers' unions. Despite their differences in focus, experts in all economic subdisciplines agree that without a sound economic infrastructure, societies falter and people suffer.
Economic activity has always been a part of human existence. Hunting, gathering, and cooking have taken place since humans first appeared. Production by craftsworkers to supply goods for trade and for merchants has been present in all of recorded history. Early theories of economic life date back to discussions about farmers and peddlers in the Arthashastra, an Indian treatise on governance from about the third century B.C.E. The concept of shangye (commercial occupation) in early Confucian texts sought to spell out the relationships of economic actors to political and social life. Economic theories also turn up in ancient Greek writings. Plato (c. 42847 B.C.E.) saw the foundation of The Republic as rooted in economic life (Book 2), and in Politics Aristotle (38422 B.C.E.) developed the idea of the "management of the household" (oikonomia) and applied it to the polis.
Moreover, economic issues were taken up by religious prophets and moral philosophers in all known cultures, and in the West the blend of biblical themes and Greek philosophy has decisively shaped the social and ethical perceptions of economic life and policy. That is so despite the fact that economics in its modern mode has sought to differentiate itself from these social, ethical, and spiritual philosophies. Indeed, it has become a truly autonomous science on the model of the natural sciences since, at least, the French physiocrats and the English post-mercantilist economists from Adam Smith (1723790) through the utilitarians to John Maynard Keynes (1883946) and the German socialists and the Austrian libertarians. It is these modern Western sets of perspectives and debates that have most shaped what is today understood as the discipline of economics.
Economics as a discipline, for all its achievements, is not identical to economic life. The heirs of Adam Smith, and those of Karl Marx (1818883) or Friedrich Hayek (1899992), have developed refined theories that describe how the "rational choices" of persons, families, classes, governments, businesses, or market mechanisms (such as a stock exchange, employment and wage rates, or a futures market) typically manifest themselves, although economists know that they are working with abstract models. The great advantage of such models is that they can be developed and applied in many concrete circumstances by ruling out idiosyncratic and extrinsic contingencies that may also influence decisions or policies but are not directly economic factors. The best economic theories not only have a mathematical and philosophical mark of elegance, they also have a high degree of reliability when applied to specific questions and adjusted to specific contexts.
These models work best in an environment that shares a common society, a common culture, and, since they deeply influence the perceptions and expectations of persons and communities, something of a common set of religious convictions. That is because the "conditionalities" of behavior, what strict economic theory considers to be idiosyncratic or extrinsic contingency, are different where divergent cultural, social, or religious convictions shape morality in distinctive ways. It is true that no one wants to be cheated and that stealing or exploitation is recognized as wrong in every culture, even if it occurs. And it is true that people seek the well-being of the persons or groups that are most important to them in all sorts of social, cultural, or religious conditions. But it is also the case that a polygamous tribal person, for example, or a Hindu caste member, a dedicated leader of an Islamic brotherhood, or a Buddhist nun will have different senses of what constitutes the well-being of persons and groups. It is, thus, not at all surprising that the banking systems in different parts of the world are operationally different, that corporations are formed in distinctive ways and led with diverse understandings of the proper role of leadership, and that workers variously evaluate their obligations to firm, family, nation, political ideology, and faith.
Basic disputes and issues
The attempts to account for these contextual differences are among the key subjects of cultural studies, the sociology of religion, and comparative religious ethics to the extent that these fields bear on economic matters; the issues are paralleled by political, legal, and aesthetic studies. In the West, John Locke (1632704) and Thomas Hobbes (1588679) can be considered exemplars of a primal disagreement about how economic life works in society. For Locke, persons have a right to their "proprium," that property that they appropriate from nature by honest labor and that is necessary both for their individual existence and for the support of their family. On these bases, people form a civil society with others and construct a political society for the protection of their own and others' well-being. They are aided in this effort by the fact that all persons can, in some measure, recognize the "self-evident truths" of a universal moral law, guaranteed both by reason and by Christian scripture. If the political society does not work, or violates the moral law, the people have a right to alter it to restore their economic and social well-being.
For Hobbes, perpetual conflict over scarce resources could not be resolved by either reason or religion, and thus a sovereign had to impose a collective order by force. Politics must control economics, and no rebellion was allowed. The obvious and brutal conflicts of interests, ideologies, and religions demanded state power so that economic well-being could be obtained beyond the natural state of war. In this paradigmatic dispute, one finds not only the question of the relationship of the bee to the hive in economic life, but the issue of the relative priority of civil society to political society as determinants of economic existence.
A second set of disputes can be seen in the controversies of those who follow Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770831) and those who follow his disputatious disciple, Marx. Hegel held that spiritual or mental (geistliche) realities fundamentally shape material realities in a decisive dialectic. Marx, famously turning Hegel on his head, argued that it was not "superstructural" factors that shaped "substructural" factors, but rather the material realities of life that determined human consciousness. Any correlation between religious orientation and economic life was an effect of economic forces that evoked the religious sighs of the people, while those who had control of the means of production perpetuated these dreams to control the workers.
These theories combine in mixed ways. A version of the materialist view can be found among various contemporary disciples of Charles Darwin (1809882). Some of them, including the Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker (1930, hold to an "evolutionary psychology" in which individuals make "rational choices" about not only business matters but also about whom to marry and whether to have children on the basis of their calculation of material interests. A collectivist view of economic behavior is set forth by Edward O. Wilson (1929 in his sociobiological theories; this view sees religion as an illusory cultural by-product of collective material and instinctual dynamics.
More influential in the understanding of the relationship of religion and economic life is the work of Max Weber (1864920). His five volumes on the Sociology of Religion and his three volumes on Economy and Society, written early in the twentieth century, argued that different religions have distinct effects on economic (and political) life and on various classes and occupational groups in society. Weber saw not only that the late medieval Roman Catholic faith had an economically positive influence in the emerging free cities of northern Europe in the very early stages of modernity, but that the Protestant ethic gave impetus to the formation of what is now known as the break with traditional, feudal economies and the development of modern capitalist industries. Weber's arguments were doubted during the harsh realities of the Great Depression (which saw greater use of Marxist theory and the rise of Fascism), and were often ignored after World War II when Keynes's economic theories came to ascendancy, but Weber's work regained attention after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the resurgence of religion all over the world. Today, few economists think that Weber's treatments of India and China were fully adequate, and questions about aspects of his views of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam are manifold. Yet, it is widely held that the questions he raised and the methods of investigation he developed are among the most definitive for the ongoing discussions between religion and economic life.
In a postmodern age, the predicted certainties of inevitable secularization that seemed beyond dispute, of a purely scientific view of reality that could provide firm foundations for progressive public policy, clear-minded corporate decisionmaking and personal rational choices without illusion, and the end of both ideology and religious myth seem positively silly. Indeed, it turns out that a deep convergence of inter-contextual reasonability and moral conviction, not equally available in all religions, are critical for the economic wellbeing of persons and peoples. The body of contemporary literature that points in this direction is found in a host of Weber-influenced studies that document the interactions of religion and economic life, and point out that the basic assumptions behind contemporary secular economic theory are, in fact, echoes of religious convictions that are well, but not fully, masked.
See also CULTURE, ORIGINS OF; MATERIALISM; MORALITY
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