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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 8:27 PM GMT on July 06, 2007
The National Hurricane Center political controversy continues today. In an Associated Press story released this morning, Senior Hurricane Specialist James Franklin of the National Hurricane Center commented on Bill Proenza's QuikSCAT claims, saying:
"He has been very loudly saying if it failed our forecasts for landfalling storms would be degraded, that warning areas would need to be expanded. None of that is the case, and he knows that we feel that way. The science is not there to back up the claims that he's making."
This was the same case I made in my blog yesterday. However, in comments published in the Miami Herald today, Dr. Bob Atlas, a QuikSCAT scientist who runs NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory on Virginia Key, rose to defend Proenza. To quote from the Herald:
He said the report challenged by Masters, even if not yet published, appears to be a "rigorous study" that provides the "most comprehensive study of QuikSCAT data related to hurricane predictions."
Atlas said nothing he has heard Proenza say about QuikSCAT has made him wince, though Atlas added that NOAA is developing ways to mitigate the loss of QuikSCAT data.
In addition, he said, Proenza's estimates of 16 percent and 10 percent have been misunderstood: They apply to the accuracy of one of many computerized forecast models rather than actual, end-result predictions by hurricane forecasters.
"Bill's worked very hard and very well to position the hurricane center to interact well with researchers," Atlas said.
Dr. Atlas was mis-quoted by Time Magazine, who printed this:
Bob Atlas, director of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, insist that Proenza's concerns "are very well founded. QuickScat is the most valuable forecasting tool." Atlas says he applauds Proenza's outspokenness, predicting it will "accelerate the effort to replace QuickScat with an even better scatterometer satellite."
I talked with Dr. Atlas this morning, and what he actually said is that "NCEP's Ocean Prediction Center (OPC) have referred to QuikSCAT as the most valuable tool they have." OPC issues the high seas marine forecasts and warnings for the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Dr. Atlas did not say QuickSCAT is the most valuable forecasting tool for hurricane forecasting which it is not. Dr. Atlas and I both agree on what the science says about QuikSCAT. I respect his support for Proenza, and hope that Proenza's superiors in Washington take into account all the facts in the case. I did my best to present what I know of the science in my blog yesterday. No one knows the full story of what's going on at NHC, but this morning's press conference, done by staff members at NHC who oppose Proenza, will help clarify things. A transcript was sent to me by WTVJ, the NBC Station in Miami.
Transcript of this morning's press conference
Senior Hurricane Specialist James Franklin
We have been a family here, we are a small group of about 50 people. When things are really happening, we've got a Katrina out there or a Rita type of storms, everybody needs to stop what they're doing and pull together and make sure our message gets out and that we're doing the best job that we can to make the best forecast. We've got a lot of people pulling together to do that. That takes a certain amount of teamwork and appreciation of sense of family and he's destroying that, he's destroying that.
He's divided the staff, and it's hard to know how we're going to be able to come together with him here. One thing that happened yesterday when the staff met, and talked about these issues and a lot of people learned for the first time about some of the issues going on yesterday, and that brought a lot of the staff together. You saw a number of people speaking out both in terms of 3 to 23 yesterday. We found out what was really going on here. and I think you're going to see more later on.
I was very very gratified, we had a wonderful meeting with staff, including those who have been prior supporters of Bill. And we're learning a lot of things for the very first time. There we're a number of people who agreed with us, didn't like the idea of going to the press, but felt he needed to go, there are a fair number of people who didn't sign the letter for that reason. They wanted to keep it in house, and I certainly understand that. About 70-percent of the people who were in the discussion yesterday, put their names on the paper.
I think we've learned an awful lot about Bill here, during the last six months that maybe we didn't know.
We would have liked to have seen Bill realize that he didn't have the support of the staff and step down. That's not going to happen apparently. The process, the Dept. of Commerce process, I imagine needs to go forward. I think it would be nice if they could take him out of the office while that process goes on, those are not decisions we can make.
Lixion Avila-Senior Hurricane Forecaster
-Been here longer than any other forecaster
-Worked for 5-hurricane directors
I was Bill's stronger supporter, I went with him to the Caribbean with the hurricane hunter plane. To develop the hurricane hunter plan, like I did with all the directors. And I'm very upset (loud truck drives by) that he's been misrepresenting the views of the National Hurricane Center, and the hurricane plan. That plan was developed by the previous five hurricane directors, it's a jewel, it's the best in the world and it's been something that Neil Frank, Bob Sheets and Jerry Jarrel and developed for 20-years in six months he wants to destroy that plan.
For example he, I'm a scientist not a manager, and I don't know anything about management, but I can tell you that he came to my office telling me that he wants my advice, that he can not work here if he doesn't hear my advice.. very helpful with the previous directors, and he asked me, and I said the first thing you need to do is quit talking about that QuikSCAT and tell him that is out of line, will help all the problems. And he says he will do that, instead he goes back to the media, and you don't publish that you only publish the good things he said.
He said that we don't want to work with him, because he brings many good ideas, and we don't want to do that. I want you to know that he has not made a hurricane forecast since 1964.
That satellite, I gave that example to many people here. There are many things more important than that satellite. Of course I want that someone to have that satellite. The example I gave everybody is like having a BMW with leather seats. If you don't have leather seats that BMW is going to ruin, and we are going to make a very damn good forecast this year, with Bill or without Bill, and I think. I'm being very emotional, because I was his strongest supporter and I feel betrayed.
I was the last forecaster to join the group. They were smarter than me, I was giving him one more chance. Two day's ago when he came to my office and said please, what should I do to solve this problem? And I was very naive and I told him you need to stop fighting, pretending you're David against Goliath, and all those things with NOAA. The public thinks you're a hero, but you're not. You just need to develop your time and saving the hurricane program that your predecessor developed so nicely, this castle that has been done here. and he went back and said he was going to do that, he went to the media and said the opposite, and that's the end, thank you.
James Franklin
I want to say something about the QuikSCAT issue because, because that's important. The QuikSCAT satellite, is important to us, it does a lot of good things for us. We want a next generation advanced instrument, however there are a lot of things that current instrument cannot do, and by misrepresenting the case for that satellite, he has made it seem so urgent and so important. That what we're afraid of, that we'll get a quick fix, a copy of the kind of thing with existing technology. And within a couple of years we'll be in exactly the same position same situation. QuikSCAT is not a tool to help us improve track forecasts, that's how it's been misrepresented. Bill waves this NOAA report that some of my colleagues worked on and said look this is it. That report did not address track forecast accuracy, that is another one of the misrepresentations.
QuikSCAT is important to help us understand the size of the wind field, the strength, the current instrument has a lot of trouble with rain, a lot of rain in tropical cyclones. We need to move forward if we take the time develop the technology further and in a few more years get at the technology that really helps us get at the intensity problem, that's where our forecast problem really is. We've made great strides with track, as you know we're having a lot more problems with intensity, and doing the QuikSCAT problem correctly, taking our time, developing new technology is one of the tools that we need to help solve the intensity problem. But because of the way it's been portrayed we're afraid that there's going to be a quick fix that's not going to address the track problem, and it doesn't address the track problem and it isn't going to end up helping us with what the forecasters really know will help us.
We've see members of the Congress talking about how the information from the recognizance aircraft are inferior to QuikSCAT, we're afraid that somebody might get it in their heads to fund a stopgap QuikSCAT to take funds from recon aircraft. There is no comparison, there is not a forecaster here who believes QuikSCAT is more important than recon aircraft or other tools we have. But because this issue has been misreported we're afraid we might lose what we have.
We've got forecasters still back at there desks doing their jobs and they'll continue doing that. But there's a lot of people losing sleep over this, and as we get into august September, October, I don't think you want a bunch of tired sick, forecasters working the forecast desk. I think it takes a full effort. It's not just about doing our jobs, we need to go over and beyond when those storms are coming, and that's becoming harder to do.
I think when things get busy, it's going to be harder for us to work effectively with the situation we have here.
Vivian Jorge, Administrative Officer
As far as myself in the administration, since Bill got here, is the turmoil in the administration, because in my sense, bill(sat breakup) likes controversy. And I myself have been asked to do things that I know are not procedure but have been asked to do because that's the way he wants things done, and I've worked at hurricane center since 1985.
Unfortunately I think a director needs to unite his staff and he needs to be a calming person. It doesn't need to be a no new ideas. All the directors have different ideas.. from Neil on down to Max, they were different, they were not the same, their management styles were not the same, but they united the staff, the listened to the staff, especially the folks who have been here for so many years. .. and I think in the case of bill he doesn't feel that's necessary, he always feels he knows best. And that again in our case, there's never been so many closed doors, so much intrigue at the hurricane center as now and that's really unfortunate. I can't tell you how proud I am to work here.
--End of Press Conference
QuikSCAT science
Enough of politics, let's talk science! I've communicated several times over the past few weeks with Dr. Paul Chang, a NOAA QuikSCAT scientist whose QuikSCAT web page I've linked to hundreds of times in my blogs over the past two years. He did not want to comment on the politics of the QuikSCAT issue (smart man!), but did ask me print these comments:
The need for an operational ocean surface vector wind satellite system like QuikSCAT (or actually better) goes much further than the hurricane issue, and the push for it started long before Bill Proenza became the NHC director. NHC actually wants/needs something better so that it can provide them with reliable and accurate information (intensity and structure) within all hurricanes. A few other users of QuikSCAT data include: The Department of Defense's Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Pearl Harbor, which has a much larger area to forecast for. They have no Hurricane Hunter data and much less surface and upper air data to work with, and thus use QuikSCAT winds quite a bit. This is a similar situation for NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center located in Hawaii. QuikSCAT has also had significant positive impacts at the Ocean Prediction Center, which issues the high seas marine forecasts and warnings for the North Atlantic and North Pacific. This has led to the introduction of a warning category for hurricane force winds for the most dangerous extratropical cyclones. I know of at least a few private marine weather companies that routinely use QuikSCAT. The Australians, French and many others use QuikSCAT routinely for tropical storm forecast/analysis, and for marine weather in general.
The track degradation impact numbers that Bill Proenza has been stating publicly come from a limited data study for the 2003 season in the Atlantic with the GFS model only. I believe Bob Atlas did some earlier work studying the impact of QuikSCAT on Hurricane Cindy using an earlier version of the NCEP global model. Both of these studies did show promising positive impacts. They are of course limited studies, and a more in-depth study is warranted.
The GFS model hurricane track forecasts are just one piece of guidance that the NHC human forecasters use to generate the official track forecast, so the impact in a particular model guidance package does not directly translate to the same impact in the actual NHC officially issued track forecast. Additionally, QuikSCAT data are also used directly by forecasters at NHC and elsewhere, but this impact tends to be more difficult to quantify.
The aircraft are a very important hurricane operational and research tool, and no one involved in the QuikSCAT follow-on effort has ever said QuikSCAT (or its successor) should or could replace the role of the hurricane aircraft flights, just as no one has said that aircraft could replace the role of satellites. They are very complementary platforms, but they fulfill different roles.
It would be a shame if in the hubbub over Bill Proenza's push to get a replacement for the QuikSCAT satellite we lose sight of what all the scientists agree on--QuikSCAT is a vital tool in weather prediction that needs to be replaced with a better satellite. Both Dr. Atlas and Dr. Chang are working on research specifically designed to study just how much impact QuikSCAT has on landfalling hurricanes in the Atlantic, which no studies have yet quantified.
Read Margie' Kieper's View From the Surface Blog for more on the QuikSCAT/Bill Proenza matter.
Jeff Masters
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Thanks Drakeon. |
Heh migth even get 97L if it keeps this up LMAO. |
Posted By: FLfishyweather at 4:53 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. Ok... it seems that I came online in the middle of a hot debate. Now, [I hate to sound stupid, but...] what wave are we talking about? Jp is talking about 94w i am talking about a wave i found in the central atlantic. with some cyclonic turning. |
SAL has cleared around 10 north, that wave has to move to the south. |
Posted By: mermaidlaw at 4:53 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. How will the Sal, and the wind shear be in a few days, around the east ATL? wind shear should decrease within the next 36 hours according to the wunderground wind shear map. The SAL looks to be lifting to the north a bit on the water vapor loop |
Ok... it seems that I came online in the middle of a hot debate. Now, [I hate to sound stupid, but...] what wave are we talking about? |
How will the Sal, and the wind shear be in a few days, around the east ATL? |
Posted By: ryang at 4:50 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. Drakoen it isn't a wave yet though... actually it is lol. |
Also north of 15 North, SSTs are low... |
best close up i could find |
Any thoughts on what the Bermuda ridge will do in July? |
Td4w is close to 5n which is close to the equator. |
Drakoen it isn't a wave yet though... |
Posted By: mermaidlaw at 4:48 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. Hello Ryan, Drakoen, JP, Ike, and all. I also noticed the large wave over Africa. Does it look like it is alittle more north than the other waves that have come off of Africa recently? yea thats not good though it needs to move to the south if wants to live lol. |
Hi everyone |
Hello Ryan, Drakoen, JP, Ike, and all. I also noticed the large wave over Africa. Does it look like it is alittle more north than the other waves that have come off of Africa recently? |
JP... It look's stronger than a depression... |
There is some lower level convergence. |
Posted By: ryang at 4:42 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. AlSo... A strong tropical wave is over Africa... yea i saw that one too. Probably dissapte somewhat before exiting the African coast. |
AlSo... A strong tropical wave is over Africa... |
Posted By: jphurricane2006 at 4:38 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. lol ok whoever guesses first what is the strange occurance with TD 04W, get a big black and white cookie LMAO. i have no clue. |
just something i noticed while scanning the Atlantic basin. |
well so far it has not headed anywhere |
Posted By: ryang at 4:35 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. Drak i noticed that to... And it's moving west...LOL it might avoid high shear depending on its movement. if its slow and makes it to the Caribbean when the shear is lower we migh see something. not wishcasting... |
Posted By: K8eCane at 11:34 AM CDT on July 07, 2007. i have been watching it and it has been there for a while i think it is forming If it does...it's headed out to sea....a fishie. |
Drak i noticed that to... And it's moving west...LOL |
lol.... |
i have been watching it and it has been there for a while i think it is forming |
Posted By: K8eCane at 4:28 PM GMT on July 07, 2007. WHAT IS THE BLOB OFF THE CAROLINA COAST!!!!!!! convection associated with a trough and an area of low pressure at the tail end. |
lol. I'm bored so i'll post something that i noticed. |
i put that in caps because all of you are ignoring me |
yeah Ike. I see that. The Caribbean cannot stay this dry for long. Already there is moisture starting to fill in from the SW and also from the Yucatan channel. Bye for now |
Hi JP Got on the phone for a while there. Well not too much to talk about today so I guess I will run a few errands and check back later. C U all |
seems they are forecasting it to become a Cat 3 hurricane. |
What direction is this thing moving? out to sea? |
We're safe though as long as no waves are out there now. |
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if you guys notice the upper level winds are relaxing in the northern Caribbean and seems to be pushing south. The NOGAPS shear forecast show lowering shear within the next 72 hours. |


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There are several different types of senior care businesses, providing everything from medical support to companionship.
The process for starting a senior care business is not so different from starting any other type of business. You will have to register for taxes, secure the appropriate licenses and permits, and comply with federal, state, and local business laws.
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Facilities that care for children and vulnerable adults are highly regulated. You might begin by contacting your state department of human services and your local health department to find out the licensing and inspection requirements in your state. Then you can decide whether to proceed with your idea.
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Dr. Karl Dan Moser, age 70, a resident of Little River Club, died Tuesday, August 27, 2013 in Brookewood Nursing & Rehab.
He was born to Ralph and Geneva Lincoln Moser in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, on June 22, 1943.
He graduated from Stephenville High School, a graduate of the University of Texas and received his doctorate degree from the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas Texas. He did his pathology residency in Little Rock, Arkansas, and practiced clinical and anatomical pathology in Texarkana Texas and Arkansas. He also did his residency in family practice and practiced through Arkansas, retiring to Little River Country Club.
He was a Methodist and enjoyed hunting, fishing and playing golf.
He is survived by a son, Karl Jason Moser of Texarkana, Texas, a daughter, Aindrea Jill Moser of Dallas, Texas, two grandchildren, Catherine Moser and Logan Moser both of Denton, Texas, one brother and sister-in-law, John and Barbara Moser of Stephenville, Texas, his fishing buddy, Pat Athey of De Queen, as well as other family members.
Visitation will be at Chandler Funeral Home, De Queen, Arkansas on Wednesday, August 28th from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Funeral Services will be held in Stephenville, Texas. You may send an online sympathy message at www.chandlerfuneral.com, or www.stephenvillefh.com.


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To inaugurate its opening during First Friday, the gallery, 1030 Grand Avenue, presents work by Julian Vandercook, Randy Slack, Steve Yazzie and Roberta Hancock, as well as poetry readings out front.
Call 602-462-1030 or visit www.thetrunkspace.com. - Eric Schandel
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Good things always come in threes. Indulge in thrice the vice at "The Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Show," firing up Friday, January 2, at the Paper Heart. Revelers will raise the proverbial roof with music by Tripwire, live body painting by Mark Greenawalt, and arresting artworks, including photography by Bill Bailey and Leslie Ross, digital prints by Holly Cole, paintings by Richard Bledsoe, and mixed-media works by JA Jurewicz and Jen Sanders. The third annual carnival of the carnal begins at 7 p.m. at the gallery/studio, 222 North Fifth Avenue. Call 602-262-2020 or see www.thepaperheart.com for more information. - Jill Koch
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South Park and The Simpsons have nothing on these crass cartoons, set to hit the screen this Friday, January 2, at Crisis Gallery's "Banned Cartoon Festival." Part of the opening reception for "Seeing Is Believing" -- a collection of Jeff Falk's mixed-media works and Moises Salcedo's neo-pop paintings -- the fest features animation ranging "from the insensitively humorous to blatantly offensive," says Crisis Gallery's Pete Petrisko. "Cartoon icons were used to sell everything from cigarettes to war -- often sinking into racial stereotyping for the questionable purposes of propaganda and entertainment.
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Solid support for Romney among US voters in Israel
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American expatriates in Israel are lining up strongly behind Republican candidate Mitt Romney, in contrast to their fellow Jews back in the U.S., according to a survey.
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Jan 21, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
.......... Aldrich Ames Romney , Jon Pollard Romney , Benedict Arnold Limbaugh and Quisling AIPAC hate the USA and love their war profits.........see SUPERMOB by gus russo , GOP GOMORRAH and Lowenstein and Moor, ON IMPERIALISM. |
Jan 28, 2013
.......... Nekritz , Paul Wolfowitz , Despicable Dershowitz , Ann Coulterwitz and Eliot Abrams hate the USA. |
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Jan 29, 2013
Is the average Israeli a candidate for the KKK
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Jan 30, 2013
First Obama who is the next Hitler rising must be taken from his office. You need to study the Rex 84 program and the executive order 16303 by Obama and H.R. 164. Many other bills have been passed by this Nazi democratic regime to enslave Americans in the Fema concentration camps portrayed as disaster relocation camps but have double row fencing, barbed wire facing inward, security cameras, staffed with armed guards and fully functional. The excuse given by this Hitler regime is to house illegal immigrants from Mexico. But 800 of them built with one in Fairbanks Alaska to hold millions? What a farce and a big lie. His intent is to eliminate term limits and put himself as a dictator. The executive order 16303 is enough to impeach Obama and any order to ban hand guns in America is un-Constitutional. Wake up America for it will be all over when Obama declares marshal law in America that will throw the Constitution out the door. It has been reported that his new litmus test for his generals are that they will have to swear alliance with his corrupt government and fire on U.S citizens at his command in the event of any uprising against his Nazi regime.
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Where is the info/data about the 800 camps already set up? |
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Jan 30, 2013
Where is the info/data about the 800 camps already set up you refer to?
Feb 9, 2013
Look up detainment camps. I do know my sister in law didn't believe it until she took her grown girls on a day trip to see if what she heard was true. She did find one they are talking about. Scary but I bet Texas won't conform without a fight if that is what they really are. |
Feb 15, 2013
Who wants a stupid president? You wanted one for eight years. And boy did you ever get one. Israel is not our ally. Israel is our dependent. |
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Holon, Israel |
Feb 17, 2013
Again hatrest based on lies. the KKK was created by the Democratic Party, they also pushed slavery and no black rights. It was Republicans who freed slaves, and fought for equality. Its amazing how fooled the USA has been by believing its all the White Male Republicans fault. Talk about racism and sexism. |
Feb 20, 2013
"the KKK was created by the Democratic Party, they also pushed slavery and no black rights. It was Republicans who freed slaves, and fought for equality" You are correct but you must also think that people are blind and live in caves because the GOP is NOW racist as hell and ESP in the southern red states. You must honestly think people are simply blind to even swallow that crap because the GOP now is NOT that GOP and in Florida the republican Gov Rick Scott did all he could with the GOP's blessing to stop the Black vote. Racist as hell southern redneck police, politicians are ALL White and Republicans like you. |
Feb 20, 2013
Some of what you say about the Dems is true, but what you are willfully forgetting is the decision that Nixon made with his "southern strategy." Nixon calculated (correctly) that millions of segregationist Southern whites were very angry with LBJ, the Civil Rights movement and the Democratic Party and were ready to jump ship. Nixon sent them all an invitation to join the GOP. Leave the Democratic Party and its damned equal rights for minorities. They did and the rest is history. That's how the Republican Party became the refuge of millions of Southern white supremacists and still is today. The old solid Democratic South is now the new solid Republican South, warts and all. |
Feb 21, 2013
.......... tax Aho Mascari , Twitt Romney , eliot abrams and the JDL fifth column of war profiteers and the WINEP Wolfpack of gangstalkers for endless wars .......... see LAVON AFFAIR and the USS LIBERTY. |
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Feb 27, 2013
Israel is God's chosen land. Palestinians need to move or get burned those Muslim dogs
"Bullsh*% Detector Enabled" Since: Dec 08 20,754 Brooklyn, New York |
Feb 28, 2013
LOL! Thanks for the "HIStory" lesson, sport... How about step up to the present and try and use that same argument with today's GOP. Members of the old Democratic southern rednecks in that party started the KKK, not intelligent members...Your bullshit is moot. |
"Bullsh*% Detector Enabled" Since: Dec 08 20,754 Brooklyn, New York |
Feb 28, 2013
Lincoln didn't like or want to live with black people...He wanted them back to Africa and called them savages just like most rednecks did back then... "Freeing Slaves" was a political move, not an "all men are created equal" move. |
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Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past — the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles — have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is a shifting "Story of Ireland," complete with plot, drama, suspense, and revelation. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays in The Irish Story examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why. Foster provides an unsparing view of the way Irish history is manipulated for political ends and that Irish poverty and oppression is sentimentalized and packaged. He offers incisive readings of writers from Standish O'Grady to Trollope and Bowen; dissects the Irish government's commemoration of the 1798 uprising; and bitingly critiques the memoirs of Gerry Adams and Frank McCourt. Fittingly, as the acclaimed biographer of Yeats, Foster explores the poet's complex understanding of the Irish story — "the mystery play of devils and angels which we call our national history" — and warns of the dangers of turning Ireland into a historical theme park. The Irish Story will be hailed by some, attacked by others, but for all who care about Irish history and literature, it will be essential reading. Review:"Erudite and acerbic." Kirkus Reviews
Review:"Foster is a formidably funny and exciting writer, and it is a joy to watch as he charmingly herds each sacred cow to the slaughter." Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday
Review:"The outpouring of literature from Ireland has ever been enormous, and nothing seems to stem it, or to reduce the excellence of the best of it. Occasionally, amid that plenitude there emerges a book that startles and provokes to the point of demanding extraordinary attention. Such a book is The Irish Story....I can think of no book that more clearly, provocatively and intelligently delineates the important underlying contemporary truths of Ireland and the Irish than this insightful, courageous and splendid work." Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun
Review:"Interesting, suggestive, mostly urbane, sometimes scathing." Wall Street Journal
Review:"Roy Foster is one of the most elegant and probing writers on Irish topics and also one of the most controversial. In Ireland itself, where history matters, Foster attracts Cornel West-scale publicity. He's the leading figure in a generation of 'revisionist' historians who have chipped away at what they describe as Irish myths. American readers are about to get a fresh taste of his stiletto pen and icon-smashing habits when his latest book, The Irish Story hits these shores." Chris Shea, Boston Globe
Review:"This engaging collection of 12 essays challenges what the author calls the penchant of the Irish to use overly simplistic techniques, such as nostalgia and cliche, as a means of understanding their history....Foster's writing, which is lively and unsparing, has already inspired much commentary in the UK and in Ireland." Publishers Weekly
Review:"A very brave and provocative work that deserves to be read." Irish Post
Review:"Anyone truly interested in real Irish history can do no better than to read Foster's latest, which could be subtitled 'Corrections in Irish History.' It is both hugely informative and much fun." Library Journal
About the AuthorRoy Foster is Professor of History and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. He is the author of W. B. Yeats: The Apprentice Mage and Modern Ireland, and is the editor of The Oxford History of Ireland.
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Vodka and Champagne: the Black Pearl Cocktail
The Black Pearl is another Minneapolis original by Johnny Michaels. With its sweet combination of vodka, sparkling wine, and blackberry syrup, it is, as Michaels says, "another vodka-based favorite for the peoples."
The Black Pearl is my contender for amusing garnish of the year. (That orange Mohawk on the Handsome Devil is good competition, though.) The "Black Pearl" is a silver- or pearl-dust coated Haribo blackberry or black raspberry candy, skewered and skimming the foam atop the cocktail glass.
Johnnie Michaels, La Belle Vie
- 1½ oz vodka
- ¾ oz blackberry syrup (Monin)
- ⅓ oz lime juice
- ½ oz simple syrup
- 1 oz egg whites
- 2 dashes orange bitters
- 4 drops orange flower water
- 1½ oz sparkling wine (approximately)
- garnish: key lime wheel, 1 Black Pearl garnish on 6-inch skewer (see below)
Add all liquid ingredients but sparkling wine to a shaker, and shake 6–7 seconds; add ice and shake vigorously another 5 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail stem and top with sparkling wine. Mount key lime on rim, and place skewered candy across the top of the glass.
The Black Pearl garnish is simple to make. The Haribo candies are a sort of gum candy, like gummi-bears, only shaped like fruit. I don't know how widely they're distributed, but they seem to be easily available in my groceries. The pearl coating is "Luster Dust," which you should be able to find in good kitchen or baking stores. Dampen the candies—barely—with some gin or vodka. (As Michaels says, "Try not to soak them, because doing so increases the likelihood of jet-black candy dye…staining your shirt.") Shake a bit of the dust over them, tumbling them a bit, until the coating suits you. Set them aside for awhile to dry. You can store them in a covered jar to keep them from humidity.
While we're on the topic of garnish, the recipe calls for a round of key lime. Those wee limes are elegant, if you can get them. Regular limes will do nicely.
Michaels prefers Cava for his sparkling wine. It's easier to find a decent champagne or California sparkling wine, which work well. You don't want to overdo with the wine—just enough to fizz up the drink is all you're looking for.
The Black Pearl is a light, sweet and very attractive charmer. It is, I think, just the champagne companion for a New Year's Eve.
"Vodka and Champagne: the Black Pearl Cocktail" at cold-glass.com : All text and photos © 2013 Douglas M. Ford. All rights reserved.
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Emily Heath Sounds delicious. Have you ever tried a champagne and guinness cocktail? That's a really curious combination, rich and refreshing all at once.
Doug Ford Champagne and Guinness. Yes, that's curious—never tried it. Rich and refreshing is an intriguing description. Thanks for the idea.
Emily Heath It's known as a Black Velvet – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Velvet_(beer_cocktail)
swizzzlestick What a fantastic cocktail, I am very impressed! Thanks for this post.
Doug Ford It's a good one. Thanks for taking time to comment.
Beth Somers The cocktail sounds fantastic, and I'm always happy to see things that are commonly used as cake or pastry decorations (ie. luster dust) used in different ways. I'm now thinking of all of the gummy candies I should be painting to look like metal.
Doug Ford …and maybe cherries for Manhattans…
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The Mod Archive is a web site dedicated to the indexing and archival of playable music module files. It allows anyone to upload modules in the MOD, IT, XM, AHX, MED, STM, S3M, MO3, MTM 669, and HVL file formats, and provides charts, reviews and ratings of music files based on a community effort.
The Mod Archive was established in 1996 as a place for tracker artists to upload their work.[1] Since then, the site has emerged into being a community for artists and module enthusiasts.
In an effort to make the website more dynamic, the community part of the site was added around 2000, in the form of message boards and an indexed search engine. Having lacked proper maintenance since around 2004, however, the site went through a complete reimplementation, beginning in November 2005 and leaving private beta in August 2006. In 2007, the site moved onto dedicated hardware to cope with a sudden increase in popularity following these improvements.[1]
Since 2006, the site has also provided a method of doing bulk downloads of archive files via BitTorrent.
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Having moved from a sponsored, shared platform in 2007, the website currently resides on a dedicated server. As a result of the increased costs related to running on dedicated hardware, the site seeks the help of the community in covering the running costs.
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Today's episode of The Sleeper and the Bust stars yours truly and features RotoGraphs contributor David Wiers. We discuss a pitcher possibly on the move and another aiming to return soon after a long absence.
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Ms. Tobias, while declining to discuss the details of her side's efforts, said, ''Grass-roots pro-lifers are excited and energized about George Bush'' and will ''do whatever they can to help him win.''
Indeed, each candidate is a lightning rod to the other side. Mr. Gore has become an unswerving supporter of abortion rights, with the whole-hearted support of abortion rights groups. Although he opposed federal spending for abortions in his early years in Congress, he reversed his position after he entered the Senate and has supported such spending for many years. Anti-abortion forces assert he abandoned his principles because of his national ambitions.
Governor Bush has engendered similar contempt from abortion rights advocates for embracing his party's anti-abortion platform plank. ''I am pro-life,'' he said in a statement to the National Right to Life Convention in June 1999.
With those moves, Governor Bush allayed most doubts on the right about his commitment to the cause.
But Mr. Bush has also tried to allay the fears of more centrist voters by suggesting that a constitutional amendment is a very distant goal. (In fact, the last time such an amendment came to a vote in Congress was 1983.) In an interview on NBC last week, for example, he said, ''In America, it's not going to be outlawed until a lot of people change their minds. And there's going to be abortions, one way or the other.''
To the abortion rights side, Mr. Bush is trying to have it both ways.
''He has promised them what they want,'' said Gloria Feldt, ''and their troops are disciplined enough that they will be quiet while the election is taking place -- then after the election they will go and collect.''
In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in early September, a fourth of Mr. Bush's supporters said they thought it was likely that he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would keep abortion a legal right. An additional 30 percent said they did not know what kind of justices Mr. Bush would appoint.
While most of the focus on abortion is on the basics ---- the Supreme Court and the essential legality ---- the candidates' positions have more immediate implications for reproductive programs.
For example, Ray Sullivan, a spokesman for Governor Bush, said the candidate ''does not support the use of federal taxpayers dollars for abortion or abortion counseling in the United States or internationally.'' Mr. Sullivan declined to elaborate, but abortion rights groups say they expect Mr. Bush to push for a ''gag rule'' on counseling about abortion in federally funded family planning clinics. President George Bush's administration pushed for such a rule. There has long been a ban on the use of federal money to perform most abortions.
Mr. Bush is also advocating a much greater emphasis on abstinence; he argues that education programs urging sexual abstinence until marriage should get ''at least'' as much financing as teenage contraception programs.
The newly approved abortion pill, RU-486, would also be treated very differently by a Bush administration. The pill was banned in President Bush's administration, but was approved by the Food and Drug Administration this fall. Governor Bush said that he thought the approval was ''wrong,'' but that he did not believe a president could overturn it. Mr. Sullivan said, however, that Governor Bush would support the new restrictions on the drug now being pushed by Republicans in Congress, which would substantially reduce its availability.


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This is a newly remodeled apartment that is a self-contained and private unit within a large house. In Tam Valley, this spacious and attractive apartment is nestled in the trees - yet bright and conveniently located. Every window looks out onto greenery. It is 450 sq. feet, with a washer and dryer in the adjoining laundry room. Enjoy the 37" flatscreen TV with premium cable hookup, Blu-ray DVD player, and wi-fi. It has a private entrance with a small patio surrounded by greenery. The bathroom has a tiled floor and a large walk-in shower.
This apartment is 10 minutes from Mt. Tamalpais. and we are 15 minutes away from San Francisco and ocean beaches, and 40 minutes away from the heart of Wine Country.
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Keith's small apartment was perfect for my stay in Mill Valley. Super quiet, private, and immaculately clean with a small but efficient kitchen space with all the right tools and dishes. Definitely recommend this space for anyone traveling in the northern bay area.
Lovely apartment perched among the trees of Mill Valley. Nice kitchenette and comfortable sitting area to work or relax. All new and well kept. Everything was easy on arrival and departure- just as stated in the description. Great response time with hosts to answer questions and any needs that arose. It's walkable to the Equator Coffees Proof Lab which is real bonus ~ great coffee and treats w cool folk. Lovely!
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Keith and Deborah were very nice and made us feel very welcome! Keith was a very responsive communicator via e-mail and text. We used their rental as a home base to visit Muir Woods and explore other nearby areas. They gave us great advice about local restaurants, scenic hikes, and getting the most out of our stay. The rental was very clean and modern. It was just like the pictures. The location was in a nice quiet neighborhood and close to anything you might need. We would recommend staying at Keith and Deborah's place!
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Do you think, that many people will buy SD2, with apparently no bluetooth support, when centrafuse has it??
I'm really a useability and gui freak and therefore love SD over centrafuse (though CF does some things better than sd), but would I really want to give up bluetooth for it? - not really!
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I tried this but when I had Bluesoleil running SD wouldn't recognize the BT adapter but as soon as I shut down the software it came up and was detected in SD. My phone was another story though. I was able to get it to pair but I could never initiate a call with it. I haven't tried it with my new phone but I'm guessing the results will be the same.
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Verizon (NYSE: VZ ) and Coinstar (NASDAQ: OUTR ) are putting the finishing touches on their long-awaited digital movie service. The product, known as Redbox Instant, is supposed to be a Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX ) killer of the highest order. At least, that's the conclusion many observers are drawing from the preliminary details Coinstar and Verizon just published.
But you know what? I think we've seen this Netflix attack before, and it didn't work out all that well last time. Six years ago, it was called Blockbuster Total Access.
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Honestly, the only serious difference between this service and the defunct Total Access is that Blockbuster was slinging physical media while Verizon and Coinstar peddle digital movies. It is a crucial difference indeed -- the sudden surge of free rentals often left Blockbuster without inventory to serve its regular customers, hastening the demise of Total Access and the company itself. That logistical issue doesn't exist in the digital world, so Redbox Instant won't collapse under its own weight.
To beat Netflix at its own game, Redbox Instant needs to find its own identity. At launch, the library appears to be stocked with back-catalog leftovers plus fresher material from cable channel Epix. The Epix tie-in could have been interesting if Redbox were allowed to stream new releases while they're still super-hot, given that Netflix and others have to wait three months after titles like The Hunger Games and The Avengers premiere on premium cable. But Redbox is stuck with the same delayed release window, so there goes that potential selling point.
In short, it's a pretty vanilla pay-per-view service like the ones offered by Dell (UNKNOWN: DELL.DL ) , K-Mart, and Vizio, coupled with a low-octane version of the Netflix service and the instant gratification of Redbox kiosk rentals. Or you can see it as a handful of prepaid monthly Redbox rentals with a low-cost streaming service thrown in for a few bucks more.
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The Special One is Sir Alex's Chosen One... but can United risk their-post Ferguson future on trouble-maker Mourinho?
The one criticism that privately needles Jose Mourinho is that he is a two-year wonder - a tornado of a manager capable of building trophy winning sides in record time, but never able to sustain the intensity into a third season.
The criticism is unfair. At Porto and Inter it was 'job done and time to move on' after two seasons. He can't be criticized for landing the European Cup at the end of his second season both times.
At Chelsea he parted company with a man who has hired nine managers in nine years. And he is now on the brink of divorce at a club that has hired 25 coaches in the last 26 years.
Fergie's heir? Jose Mourinho has been talked up as Manchester United's next boss by Sir Alex himself
During those last 26 years Manchester United have had only one manager and what better way to dispel the myth that he cannot be a long-term success than to take over at Old Trafford?
The greedy b*****! Mourinho's 20 trophies in 10 years in management
Primeira Liga (2): 2003, 2004
Taça de Portugal (1): 2003
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (1): 2003
UEFA Champions League (1): 2004
UEFA Cup (1): 2003
Premier League (2): 2005, 2006
FA Cup (1): 2007
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Coppa Italia (1): 2010
Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2008
UEFA Champions League (1): 2010
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Copa del Rey (1): 2011
Supercopa de España (1): 2012
'His succession isn't near. It should be in 10 years or so,' Mourinho said of Sir Alex Ferguson today. 'He is getting better and better. He is stronger all the time so why should he retire?'
Kind words, reciprocating the United manager's blessing to Mourinho to replace him at the end of the season, but Jose knows that Sir Alex will not be sticking around for 10 more years and that if he wins the league this season he could even bow out next May just as Mourinho leaves Real Madrid.
The two men took afternoon tea at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester ahead of Real Madrid's Champions League draw with Manchester City last month and it is clear that Ferguson needs no convincing. ''He is a greedy b*****,' he says referring to the fact that during 10 years of management, Mourinho has won 20 trophies leaving him on course to match Ferguson's haul of 48 in 26 years.
Manchester United's owners may not be as wholeheartedly in favour however. They may prefer a more easily manipulated manager. A coach who might agree to a 'Being: United' documentary without complaining, should such a project one day suit their marketing strategy.
They will also look at the rocky relationship that Mourinho has maintained with the powers that be at Madrid.
Right hand man: Mourinho (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo (centre) at Real Madrid training on Monday
His first victory as Real manager came on the day of his presentation when sporting director Jorge Valdano delivered a groveling apology for his famous 's**t on a stick' verdict on the football served up by Mourinho's Chelsea.
Not that it saved Valdano from being forced out by Jose at the end of his first season along with a club doctor and the club chef as he brought in his own men.
During his first season Mourinho also suggested he could do the Portugal national manager's job part-time alongside the Madrid job. A delegation from the Portuguese Football Association even turned up in the Spanish capital in the hope of persuading Real Madrid to share Mourinho with them for a fortnight as they struggled to replace the sacked Carlos Quieroz.
In his 917 days in charge he has taken on everyone from captain Casillas, vice-captain Sergio Ramos, who was famously recorded saying to his manager during one training session: 'You never played the game so you wouldn't know', to the club's medical staff – he argued Gonzalo Higuain should not wait before having a slipped disc operated on. Mourinho said from experience with John Terry the player needed to go under the knife immediately. He was proved right when Higuain eventually needed the operation and missed a month more than was necessary.
The master: Fergie's era at Old Trafford is drawing to a close, although it is unclear when he will finally retire
The final challenge: The Portuguese is preparing his side for the Champions League match against Ajax
Before this weekend's Madrid derby the Real Madrid coach even took on the Santiago Bernabeu telling supporters 'if you want to whistle me, I will be out on the pitch at 9.20pm'. He duly turned up and was greeted, in the main positively, by the hardy few who had made it to the stadium 40 minutes before kick-off.
But stood alone out on the pitch, in the spotlight once again, he provided another one of those images that make the club's directors cringe – just as the image of him poking a finger into Tito Vilanova's eye had done a season earlier.
Madrid is a club that needs to be driven like a horse-drawn carriage, not taken for a joy ride, argue his enemies in the boardroom.
Can United risk their-post Ferguson future on such a man?
Glory: Mourinho with his Chelsea title-winners in 2005 (above) and lifting the European Cup in 2010 with Inter
Ferguson clearly believes they can and Mourinho could make three very convincing arguments for that being the case.
Real Madrid spits out weak coaches and without so many pre-emptive strikes he would never have survived. He could afford to be calmer and less conflictive at United; he comes with the world's most successful agent Jorge Mendes who also has the future of Cristiano Ronaldo in his in-tray waiting to be sorted; and the simplest argument of all – the trophies make the trouble worthwhile.
At United he would not be under the same magnifying glass as at Real Madrid. There are no daily club-based sports papers to overanalyze his every gesture, and no Barcelona to be eternally compared to. Post-Vilanova eye-poke he has behaved himself in the dug-out and is yet to fall foul of a new zero-tolerance policy on touchline dissent.
He would give United a better chance of landing Ronaldo, to whom Madrid seem increasingly reluctant to cede any more of his image rights in a new contract wrangle that they will duck out of if they believe they can bring Falcao in to replace him next summer.
The greater wealth of Paris Saint-Germain would still leave United as outsiders but the emotional tie of a club whose supporters have continued to sing his name long after his sale could be a factor for a player who has largely been unloved in Spain.
Trouble-maker? Mourinho is famously hot-headed on the touchline and has wound up a series of opponents
Shameful: Mourinho poked then Barcelona assistant Tito Vilanova in the eye in August last year
And then there are the trophies. Mourinho has continued his record of at least one trophy per season in Spain despite being faced with the best Barcelona in history, the greatest player on the planet, and hampered by the expensive and ill-advised signings of previous eras and a neglected youth system that he is unrealistically urged to draw upon.
The European Cup is the last Madrid challenge. It may be significant that talk of regret over not winning it with an English team has now replaced the aim of becoming the first coach to win it with three different clubs. 'In my career everything is perfect, the only thing I didn't achieve and I hope I can do it one day is to win the Champions League with an English club' he tells ITV tonight.
Maybe Mourinho senses that it will now be with an English side that he breaks the record and not with his current Spanish employers.
Either way he, and Ferguson, seem convinced he will win it again. That alone could be enough to convince any doubters at Old Trafford that he is the man to follow their greatest ever manager.
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text:
Popping pills in the lobby and I pray they don't find her naked
from Kendrick Lamar – Backseat Freestyle Lyrics on Genius
He's popped pills with some girl in the lobby and now hopes they don't find her dead and naked from overdosing because he would then be charged. This goes back to the "blue/red pills" allusion made on the matrix line.
This also references his previous line, as "Racing" can be used to describe someone high off ecstasy.
Kanye had a very similar set of bars a year later in his track "Blood On The Leaves" off of his album "Yeezus":
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