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In December, Mexico Beach councilman Lanny Howell announced that he would be resigning his Group 2 position effective Jan. 1.
In December, Mexico Beach councilman Lanny Howell announced that he would be resigning his Group 2 position effective Jan. 1.
During a special meeting last week, the council appointed Gary Woodham to fill the vacant seat for the remainder of Howell�s term.
Woodham, a previous council member who served on the council from May 2005 through June 2012, has five months in the chair until the seat is up for re-election and a one-year term.
In 2015, the seat will be back on the ballot for its normal two-year term.
Other applicants for the position included Bill McGlothlin, Tom Bailey, Diana Epple, Al Wilson and Jim McKenna.
Also in consideration were Jeff Tendler, who ran against Howell in April�s municipal election, and Mary Blackburn, who ran against Group 3 councilman Jack Mullen.
To streamline the voting process last week, Mayor Al Cathey suggested that each council member share their number one choice for the position, but allowed the public to speak prior voicing their selections.
Some citizens showed support for certain candidates, other asked the council to give preference to applicants who have served the community, and others said they�d prefer a temporary councilmember who didn�t want to change things.
Cathey shared the criteria he used for his own selection and said he picked someone with experience who was current with the city, had shown interest and could get up to speed with a short learning curve.
�We�ve had ample time to decide,� said Cathey before casting his vote for Woodham. �I wasn�t trying to make or break anyone�s political career.�
Councilwoman Tanya Castro said that her first choices were Blackburn or Bailey.
�I�d like someone who is not only representing the people, but can come in and make a difference,� said Castro. �They should be willing to run to keep the seat.
�Look at not only the voice of the people, also look at who can come in and hit the ground running.�
Councilman Jack Mullen cast his vote for Woodham while Councilman Bobby Pollock�s first choice went to Epple for her involvement in the city as former EMS director, with Woodham second.
�I think this is the best group of people I�ve seen,� said Pollock, addressing the applicants in the crowd. �You�re great candidates and I hope you all run for office.
�All of you can do it.�
Mullen made the motion to officially appoint Woodham which passed 3-1 (Castro dissenting). As the meeting adjourned, several members of the audience voiced their disapproval as they filed out the door.
During the council�s regular meeting on Tuesday, Woodham addressed both the council and the audience during council comments.
�I�m proud to say that I live in Mexico Beach,� said Woodham. �I hope and pray that the council can work together.�
Several members of the public also took to the podium and begged the council to work together in the New Year and be respectful toward one another as well as the members of the community.
Parker House
During the pre-agenda meeting, Castro requested that the Parker House be addressed at each meeting until a resolution had been reached with the insurance company and also so that the public knew that it was a priority with the council.
The group has been awaiting a decision on receiving an additional $90,000 in insurance monies for more than two years.
�We need to make a decision based on what we know today,� said Castro. �This could go on forever, waiting on insurance money.�
Mullen, who has been the point of contact with the insurance company, gave an update at Tuesday�s meeting and said that the council may have a final answer by next week.
Woodham, eager to move the process along, suggested that the group meet with builders Cathey construction by the beginning of Feb. to finalize plans for building the new city hall on the Parker House property.
�We need a new city hall,� Woodham said. �Let�s start moving on this particular project. We can�t procrastinate and sit around so long.
�I�d like to see ground broken in 15 days.�
For the past two years, the city has continued to pay the monthly rent of $2,600 on the property, spending approximately one-third of the monies they�d previously received in their initial insurance claim after the Parker House caught fire in 2011.


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Orioles honor Weaver's career, unveil statue
Orioles honor Weaver's career, unveil statue
All of that can be traced to Weaver's competitive fire. He wanted to win, and he wanted to win all the time. And his Orioles teams sure won a lot.
Weaver won 1,480 games, and his teams made the World Series four times -- winning once -- and captured the division in six seasons. His Orioles were always among the best, and Weaver was a big reason for that. The 81-year-old former skipper was still in rare form Saturday when the Orioles honored him by unveiling a 7-foot statue at Camden Yards before a game with Cleveland.
The Orioles placed the statue in the Garden of the Greats picnic area behind center field. It stands next to a statue of Frank Robinson, unveiled in April, something that's fitting in Weaver's eyes, since the former skipper repeatedly credited his former players for helping him find success.
"If they weren't there, I probably wouldn't be there," Weaver said. "I had some pretty good ballplayers."
The Orioles also are going to be unveiling similar statues of Jim Palmer, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken and Brooks Robinson later this season as part of a 20th anniversary celebration of Oriole Park.
The fans still love Weaver as he drew huge ovations at two pregame ceremonies on a hot afternoon. He clearly was touched that the fans still remembered what he did and afterward offered his opinions on the state of baseball today.
Weaver's thoughts -- the nine-inning pitcher is gone, which is sad because it's going back to a pitcher's league; he loves what manager Buck Showalter has done with the Orioles this season, something that surprised him. Weaver also laughed when asked if he's following former second baseman Davey Johnson's success in Washington.
The skipper said he's happy for Johnson and added that when the Nationals used a bit of a trick play to help Bryce Harper steal home against the Phillies, it caught his attention. There were runners on first and third, and the runner on first broke to steal second and got caught in a rundown, which opened the door for the other baserunner to steal home.
"That was one of my plays we worked on all the time," Weaver said. "So Davey still remembers some of the stuff he learned here."
Weaver hasn't managed the team since 1986 but when asked his opinion on why the fans still cheered loudly for him, Weaver said it could be traced to longevity and success.
"They had a lot of good times," Weaver said. "They saw a lot of good ballplayers come through here."
And some of them showed up for the ceremony. Frank Robinson, Murray, Palmer and Ripken were some of Weaver's former players who came to watch.
"The impact Earl had on my career has been well documented," Ripken said. "He had faith in me when I was a young and struggling player and stuck with me. Earl had a fantastic relationship with my dad and close ties to my family. He is a legendary manager and a large part of Orioles history."
Weaver said this honor stands together with his election to the Hall of Fame. But again, he credited his players for making both honors possible -- and also thanked owner Peter Angelos for the statue and ceremony.
He managed great players like Johnson, Mark Belanger, Paul Blair and Boog Powell in the Minors and then again later in the Major Leagues. So he wasn't shocked at what they did with the Orioles.
"I had to turn reports in on them," Weaver said. "I guess a lot of those predictions came true or [general manager] Harry [Dalton] wouldn't have given me a shot to manage the Major Leagues."
Weaver had managed his way through the Minors before Dalton asked him to take over the team midway through the 1968 season. He was the first-base coach then and more concerned about getting in the necessary five years for his pension. But everything changed. He managed the team through 1982 and came back for part of 1985 and all of 1986. But nowadays, Showalter will talk to Weaver about managing and said he loved how No. 4 did his job.
He truly was one of a kind.
"He just never gave in," Showalter said. "Never. I think because of how he got where he got, he was not going to leave any stone unturned. He didn't want to let people down. He was ... [constantly] striving for perfection in an imperfect game."

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Padres promote Ambriz, Peterson optioned
SAN DIEGO -- Following consecutive extra-inning games, there was a pretty good indication that the Padres would need to re-stock on some pitching.
Prior to Wednesday's series finale against the Royals, right-hander Hector Ambriz was recalled from Triple-A El Paso and infielder Jace Peterson was optioned to El Paso.
Peterson, the Padres' No. 7 prospect, according to MLB.com, was hitting .174 with a .208 on-base percentage and no homers or RBIs in 24 plate appearances over 10 games. At the time of his callup a couple of weeks ago, Peterson had played only 17 games above the Class A level.
"When you get here, winning is what matters, and I didn't help us win," Peterson said.
Still, to be sent back to Triple-A instead of Class A or Double-A is a moral victory for Peterson, who bypassed Triple-A on his way to the big leagues.
"I really learned a lot," Peterson said. "I learned how guys approach the game up here. The guys helped a lot. It was good."
Peterson will play shortstop, third base and second base at El Paso. He has not played second regularly since his freshman year of college, but Padres manager Bud Black wants Peterson to increase his versatility. After all, Peterson mostly played shortstop in the Minors, but he was pressed into duty at third base when Chase Headley was placed on the disabled list with a calf injury.
As for Ambriz, 29, he was 1-0 with a 1.62 ERA in 14 relief appearances for El Paso. He has appeared in 95 Major League games over parts of three seasons with the Indians and Astros, going 3-7 with a 5.37 ERA.
Ambriz made his Padres debut with two innings in relief during Wednesday's 8-0 loss to the Royals. Ambriz allowed two runs (one earned) on two hits with two walks and one strikeout of Billy Butler in the eighth.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and put your life savings into oatmeal. There's always demand for oatmeal. LET'S GO!
CONAN – 11:00PM (TBS) The Situation stops by. Don't you think that, when someone like the Situation is due to go on Conan or Letterman's show, the hosts just bury their heads in the hands and wince? I know I would. "Oh God, another Jersey Shore interview. I can do this I can do this I can do this I won't kill myself on the air no matter how much I want to." I bet that's their train of thought. ANTICIPATION: SITCHY!
PRIMETIME NIGHTLINE: CELEBRITY SECRETS – 10:00PM (ABC) "PN" takes a break from examining the paranormal ("Are ghosts REAL?") tonight to explore the world of child stardom, from Rebecca Black to the Nickelodeon star factory to "Toddlers & Tiaras". And on hand to warn kids about the dangers of having too much too soon? You guessed it: Corey Feldman, America's go-to spokesperson for disgraced former kiddie celebs. When it's 2AM and you need someone on camera to talk about doing drugs at 14, Corey's your man. ANTICIPATION: HE WAS IN GOONIES!
ROSEANNE'S NUTS – 9:00PM (Lifetime) Roseanne gets a visit on the farm from showbiz pals Sandra Bernhard and Phyllis Diller. Hottest three women ever? Hottest three women ever. The shrillness could level entire neighborhoods. ANTICIPATION: OLD LADIES!
WHAT'S YOUR 20? 20 GREATEST MEN, 20 YEARS – 8:00PM (CMT) This has to be the worst-titled country music special ever. Even worse than "Big Jim And The Folk: A Folky Honky Christmas To Y'All," which I made up just now. CMT people, just call it "The 20 Greatest Men in Country Music". Much easier. There are far too many 20s going on right there. ANTICIPATION: 20FIED!
MAN VS. FOOD NATION – 9:00PM (Travel Channel) A Providence rugby player has to eat 15 wieners in 45 minutes or less. I'm sure there will be no entendres made from the wording of that challenge. ANTICIPATION: WIENERS!
Wednesday Watch List: Sticky Situation!
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Thursday November 20, 2008
The Bengals travel to Pittsburgh riding a high after their tie against the Eagles this past Sunday. That's right, I said a TIE! They haven't had too many bright spots this year and to tie a team like the Eagles was a statement made by the Bengals. Plus the Steelers lost to the Eagles so that gives the Bengals even a more sense of hope against the Steelers.
When the Steelers and Bengals get together to play records and rankings are usually thrown out the window. This is a divisional game and both teams show up to play no matter how good or bad their season is going. The Bengals though are without their star QB Palmer who will miss yet another game. At the RB spot the Bengals are truly lost! They started the season with Johnson and Perry, Johnson ended up getting traded then it became Perry but he sucked so now it's primarily Benson and Watson. Both have shown glimpses of promise in the past, but so far they have been relatively quiet this year. It hasn't been the RB's who have been quiet, the entire Bengals offense has been quiet as well and are bringing up the rear for total offense in the NFL! Ocho Stinko has been quiet all year, Whosyourmama has showed up to a couple of games, for the most part though the Bengals offense just isn't the same as it has been in the past.
The Steelers defense is pretty much dominating the entire game. They lead the league in total defense, pass defense, run defense, sacks and are second for points given up. The defense dictates the outcome of the game and have really been carrying the offense the past few weeks. Granted Big Ben had a break out game this past Sunday throwing for more than 300 yards with 0 interceptions. The 0 interceptions was the biggest number that stood at because Ben had been getting into the Holiday Spirit a little early this year. Bottom line is the defense has been able to bail the offense out on numerous occasions this year and set the team up to win plenty of games.
Willie Parker returned to action last week and rushed for over 100 yards. This was a Willie that I had not seen in a while. He was running like he was on a mission, making people miss, hitting holes and exploding through them! That was an awesome performance and hopefully he can continue that this week against a week Bengals D that gives up well over 100 yards per game. Anything less than 150 from Parker and it will be considered a disappointed.
This is one of those game that could really come back to bite the Steelers in the ***. Looking at the Bengals record one would think this is a slam dunk "W" for the Steelers which is why it's a dangerous game. The Steelers need to be prepared and ready to rumble because the Bengals have nothing to lose! The keys for the game are:
- Ben needs to pick up where he left off this past Sunday
- Steelers Defense needs to continue what they have done all year
- The entire team needs to not look past the Bengals.
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Game two is in the books for the Duke Men's Basketball team and they come away 2-0 with a 78-66 victory. Here are my random thoughts and observations -
The play of Kelly is most impressive
Ryan Kelly is establishing himself as one of the most well rounded players on the team. Kelly went 9 of 11 today and that translated into 20 points to go with 8 rebounds and a couple of steals. Of all the players, Kelly looks like the most relaxed on the court after two games. Kelly is playing with a lot of confidence and is allowing the game to come to him. If leading by work ethic is important, Kelly could be playing his way towards being named a Duke captain. Remember where you heard that! And that beard!
Worst calls ever?
There were maybe 24 OMG moments in today's game, where the Chinese officiating crew blew calls so bad that a UNC fan would snicker. Seriously, it was incredibly bad in so many ways that they're too numerous to list. The ESPN announcers commented on the situation as did thousands on Twitter. Be it a phantom reach or a physical push of a Duke player out of bounds, this was as big of a homer job as I've ever seen on the hardwood. Duke has won by 13 in both contests. Maybe that's all they will be allowed to win by. The scores are so similar that they seem scripted. The calls also disrupt the flow of the game to the point where it is ugly.
Freshman are freshman
While Austin Rivers led all scorers yesterday, the Duke staff has a lot of video from today to show him a plethora of mistakes. Rivers had 7 turnovers against 1 assist and that is brutal. He also took some ill advised shots going 5-16 from the floor and seemed to lose his concentration. Rivers is an accomplished offensive player who is working on defense and playing without the ball in his hands as was the case his whole high school career. Rivers will be okay, but this just goes to show that freshman, no matter their hype and stature are on a learning curve. Rivers, of course, will be okay, but let's hope he takes better care of the ball in the next two contests. Rivers is averaging 15 ppg after the two contests. Meanwhile, Michael Gbinije and Alex Murphy had similar freshman issues combining for two fouls in the box score. As for Quinn Cook? I think it is obvious that we'd like to see him healthy.
Five players have showed they belong
I spoke of Ryan Kelly and the talented Mr.Rivers but they had help in their wins. Seth Curry is adjusting the the PG spot but has played well and Andre Dawkins has showed he belongs as a starter or in the rotation as well. But today, Miles Plumlee showed great efficiency and I think that these five guys have showed they are the core of this coming seasons team. I expect Mason to join this group but he hasn't really had a great game yet and much is expected out of him this season. It's worth noting that he tied for a team high 3 assists today. I'm not worried about the talented Mason Plumlee but it would be nice to seem him be more effective in the next game.
Defense not bad
Duke has been playing solid defense in their two games and pressure defense meant a mere 3 assists for the China Olympic team. Considering the way the games are being called, it looks as if they'll be solid as ever in this traditional team trait.
Three point shot observation
The verdict is still out on whether the Blue Devils will be a good three point shooting team this season. Today, they went 9 for 27 and four players have launched one from beyond the arc to date.
Spacing could be better
I'm not a high level coach, but from my view the Blue Devils spacing was a bit sketchy. It seemed awkward in some ways and China pushed the play to near the half court line a few times. There were not a lot of balls thrown into the post and part of that was due to the spacing being so far from the basket.
Duke will be well rested for their next game
The teams flight to China was delayed and once there, they have had little rest. With three days before the next game, Duke will watch film and gather their collective legs. A blowout or easy win is possible but the way the games are being called, the third game could really rile those who expect fair officiating. The team will say "It was a hard fought game," but I can say from afar that their should be a technical foul called on the officials. Remember. Coach K has to be a bit careful in so many ways in the Friendship games.
Adversity can be good
The physical play will help Duke prepare for the season as will the bad calls. Let's be real here in that there will be some bad calls in the ACC and on the road this season, but the Duke players will have learned to keep cool. There is nothing like travel to grow a person, especially young men. The guys will come back with a much better and altered perception of life itself.
The bottom line
You cannot judge the 2011-12 team on their China-Dubai trip alone. This journey was to grow players and see what coaches have to work with but plenty of adjustments will be made between now and the start of regular season practice. And Coach K? He's not showing his hand just yet. After the games, the staff will get together and figure out a team identity and style for the coming season. This journey is about more than basketball as well and it is important to see that Duke University is expanding their horizons in many ways.


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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas at Missouri tonight is one of those rare basketball games where one label is applicable to both teams.
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas at Missouri tonight is one of those rare basketball games where one label is applicable to both teams.
Crossroads is the word. Whether it's the NCAA for Missouri or the NIT for Arkansas, the winner in Columbia, Mo., will circle the Feb. 13 game as a significant road sign to the postseason.
In the SEC, where there are no divisions and each team plays eight teams once and five teams twice, getting a handle on a particular match-up is easier on the downhill side of the 18-game league schedule. For the Razorbacks and the Tigers, the back half began Saturday with Arkansas winning at Vanderbilt and Missouri losing at Ole Miss.
As a result, both are 4-6. Arkansas has won two in a row, each time with circumstances unlikely to be duplicated at Missouri. The Tigers have lost three straight, a streak that is deceiving because the winners were Florida, Kentucky, and Ole Miss — the two league leaders and a 7-4 team in the thick of the race for third.
Beforehand, at least publicly, neither Mike Anderson nor Frank Haith would define tonight's game with the same line in the sand that Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy applied after the Rebels' 91-88 victory over Missouri. Leading by 15 at the half, the Rebels survived in "a game we absolutely had to have," Kennedy said.
Ditto Anderson and Haith. In other years, the coolness between the two men might be the lead, but not this time. Because of the schedule, Missouri is in position to make a push for the NCAA Tournament. Arkansas is one of five home games for the Tigers who are finished with Florida, Kentucky, and Ole Miss.
Arkansas is a longshot at best for the NCAA, but a victory over Missouri would put the Razorbacks in position for an attention-getting six-game winning streak before heading to Lexington in late February.
A look back at Arkansas-Alabama and Arkansas-Vanderbilt is of little help in anticipating tonight's outcome. Supposedly comfortable in Walton Arena, Arkansas made 1-of-13 3s against Alabama, part of a woeful 1-of-25 shooting by Razorbacks other than Bobby Portis during Arkansas' first 35 points. In the strange venue in Nashville, Arkansas was good on 10-of-16 3s although there is not one Razorback shooter who inspires confidence like a Pat Bradley or an Al Dillard or a Rotnei Clarke.
Also inexplicable are the performances of Arkansas' Michael Qualls and Vanderbilt's Rod Odom in the final seconds. Qualls' game winner was part of his 3-of-5 from long range, following 0-of-9 on 3s in three previous road games. Meanwhile, Arkansas somehow lost track of Odom, a 44 percent 3-point shooter, at the other end and he missed an open shot.
Trying to pinpoint one thing, I keep coming back to Arkansas' chances of slowing Missouri's three 6-foot-5 guards. The first time around, Jabari Brown and Ross scored 24 each. They made 13-of-25 from the field and all 16 of their free throws. Almost overlooked, the 214-pound Brown and the 228-pound Ross also grabbed 11 rebounds.
From the Arkansas perspective, the scary thing is that Jordan Clarkson, who is averaging almost 19 points per game, scored 11 in the victory.
Preventing those guards from getting the ball in scoring range is the obvious answer to Arkansas' dilemma and it is encouraging that the Tigers turned the ball over 19 times in Fayetteville. Troubling is that only two fast-break baskets resulted from those turnovers.
In basketball, there is a tendency to over-think things and Missouri guards vs. Arkansas defenders might be an example of such an approach. Winning begins with shooting well. Given that, somebody must make a play in the final minutes.
The lead changed hands 10 times in Fayetteville. Expect something similar.
Harry King is sports columnist for Stephens Media's Arkansas News Bureau. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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These Prostitutes Have a [Brave]heart of Gold
TIred of the same old Friday night of calling a prostitute and then going to sleep with that weird,sad, empty feeling and 3/4 of a sicilian pizza in your gut, like us? Just kidding, we've never called a hooker (our girlfriends read this site, we'll talk later.)
If you are though, this new YouTube series by comedian 'Fat Jew' called 'Hookers Do Non-Sexual Stuff' might give you some ideas on how to think outside of the box the next time you're trolling the Craigslist casual encounters section looking for some pay-to-play action.
Instead of asking these ladies of the night to do him, he asks them to don blue and white facepaint and re-enact the epic final battle scene from 'Braveheart.' They're hesitant at first, but in the end they seem to be kind of into it, if only for the bizarre experience. (That last sentence is a pretty good summation of our entire sexual history, though, so maybe that's just the way it goes.)


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:51 PM GMT on May 20, 2009
The large extratropical storm that has been drenching Florida over the past few days continues to pour rain on the state as it treks slowly westward over the Gulf of Mexico. Rainfall amounts as high as 13.3 inches have been measured in Northern Florida in Flagler County over the past three days, with another 2 - 4 inches expected from the storm. The storm is bringing beach erosion, 7 - 10 foot waves, and tides 2 - 3 feet above normal to the Northeast Florida coast, along with damaging thunderstorm winds. While the storm's center is located just offshore Southwest Florida, a large band of precipitation arcs to the north and east, extending over northern Florida. This type of structure is typical of subtropical storms, though the storm does not have enough heavy thunderstorm activity or warm core air to qualify as a subtropical storm. The storm is under about 30 knots of wind shear, and shows no signs of developing more tropical characteristics. The computer models generally predict the storm should weaken this week as it moves towards Louisiana or Texas. As the center moves farther north over the next few days, it will be moving into a region of lower wind shear, and I still give the storm a 20% chance of becoming a subtropical depression 2 - 7 days from now.
Figure 1. Latest satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico storm.
Fifth warmest April on record
The globe recorded its 5th warmest April on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The period January - April was tied for the sixth warmest such period on record. April marked the first time since October 2008 that the planet has recorded a monthly temperature anomaly in the top five warmest months. The warming may be due to the fact that a La Niña event ended in the Eastern Pacific in April. Global temperature records go back to 1880.
A cool, wet April for the U.S.
For the contiguous U.S., April temperatures were the 36th coolest in the 115-year record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The month was also quite wet, ranking as the 35th wettest April. The warmest state was New Hampshire, which recorded its 8th warmest April. The coldest state was South Dakota, which wad its 25th coldest April. Through April, U.S. tornado activity was very close to the mean observed during the past five years, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. However, there were just 15 tornado deaths through April, compared to 70 deaths through April of 2008, and the 3-year average of 60 deaths.
On May 12, 2009, 17% of the contiguous United States was in moderate-to-exceptional drought. This is a drop from the 19% figure observed at the beginning of the year. However, The amount of the U.S. in the highest levels of drought, extreme to exceptional, had increased from 1.2% at the beginning of the year to 2.6% by May 12. These extreme drought regions were in South Texas and South Florida.
La Niña officially over
The La Niña event of September 2008 - March 2009 is officially over, according to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. They define La Niña conditions as occurring when the 1-month mean temperature anomaly in the equatorial Eastern Pacific (the area 5°N - 5°S, 120°W - 170°W, also called the "Niña 3.4 region") cools below -0.5°C and is expected to persist for three consecutive months. Temperatures warmed significantly in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific during April, and are now near average in the Niña 3.4 region. Most of the model forecasts for the Niño 3.4 region predict neutral conditions for the August - October peak of hurricane season. Three out of 16 El Niño models are predicting an El Niño event for hurricane season. Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) is predicting a 30% chance of an El Niño event during the coming hurricane season. The number of Atlantic hurricanes is typically reduced in an El Niño year, due to increased wind shear from strong high-level winds.
Sea ice in the Arctic below average, but not greatly so
April 2009 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent was the 10th lowest since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The record April low was set in 2007. The rate of ice decline in April was the third slowest on record, thanks to cooler than usual temperatures over the Arctic. Nevertheless, the Arctic remains vulnerable to near-record melting this summer if much warmer than average temperatures return to the region. Strong winter winds pushed a considerable amount of multi-year-old ice out of the Arctic this year, leaving the Arctic with the lowest amount of old sea ice on record in March. The amount of ice more than two years old fell below 10% for the first time since satellites began observing the ice in 1979.
Jeff Masters
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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If, like us, you love to cook, but like some radio-based company in the kitchen, you'll most likely be interested in the OxxDigital Classic. A DAB+ and internet radio with support for podcasts and a few other nice tricks.
You might not have heard of Oxx Digital before, which isn't a surprise, as the Danish firm is only just getting a foot in the door here in the UK. If you want one of its products, the main supplier is Amazon.
There's a lot to like in the simple design of the Oxx Digital Classic. It's available in a selection of colours, the one sent to us was white, but there are also black and blue versions.
From the front, it looks like any radio from the past 60 years. There's a single speaker, a couple of dials and a few push buttons. There's a digital display though, which marks if out from the "retro" style in which it's been designed. Obviously, such a modern instrument is necessary in an internet and DAB radio.
Around the back, there's a mix of modern and less-modern sockets. There's a line in and an Ethernet socket. Up on the top of the radio, there's a telescopic aerial, something that hasn't changed much, if at all, since FM was launched.
The case itself is a plastic, but it's premium stuff and it feels very solid when you pick it up. Oxx tell us that the cabinet inside is made of wood, for the best performance. You can see an emphasis has been placed on sound quality too, because there's a bass port at the rear and the case has clearly been constructed to make the radio sound more powerful.
While the design is a little different to a lot of DAB radios, the functionality is very similar. The Oxx Digital Classic connects to your home network either wirelessly or via the rear-mounted Ethernet jack.
As well as listening to DAB, or DAB+ stations, you can access one of the thousands of internet radio stations listed via the vTuner database. There are also podcasts from lots of global providers of such things - BBC radio, is a great example.
You can also connect to your home network and stream music from your PC. We used Windows Media Player for this, but it will work just as well with any DLNA compliant device, including, no doubt, many modern smartphones and tablets. All of which increases your entertainment options a huge amount.
There has been all manner of hatred pouring down on DAB radio stations since they launched some time ago. Audio quality is a bugbear for many, who claim that data rates are too low via the service and that audio can sound quite nasty.
A lot of this is unnecessary hysteria. DAB certainly isn't perfect, but on most music stations, the bit rate is high enough to deliver a very nice sound, especially on a small radio like this.
For those haters though, there is DAB+, which offers a quality improvement over normal DAB. It's unclear if the UK will move its stations over to this system - a lot of older DAB radios would be useless if they did this - but the support is built in to the Oxx Digital Classic in case it does eventually happen.
Why use DAB or FM at all?
With Internet radio on board, there's a pretty powerful argument that you don't actualy need to use FM or DAB ever again. And there's considerable truth in that, because these days, pretty much every local radio station in the UK broadcasts online too. That means that instead of being restricted to, say, London's stations, you can tune in to some hard rock from Glasgow.
Of course, streaming radio does have an impact on your data consumption. So if you're on a heavily capped internet tariff, then you're likely to run in to problems. That said, audio-only feeds are much less data intensive than video, so you're very unlikely to run in to any major problems.
And, even better, with the internet, you're not restrained to just what's on now. The OXX allows you to access an array of podcasts too. For us, the number one use of this feature is to catch-up with Radio 4 shows. This is all done via the radio's search function, and it's easy to find what you're looking for.
Sound quality
One of the things we noticed about the Oxx Digital Classic was that it's not the loudest radio in the world. It does, however, have enough punch to fill a small room with sound. So for kitchen use, or in the bedroom, it's perfect. Larger rooms might cause a problem, but this radio is very much aimed at people who want to dance to music while they lay down a lasagna, and for that, it's ideal.
The other advantage of its limited volume, is that it remains in perfect control of its sound, right the way through the volume dial. Crank it up to the max, and the sound is as tight and controlled as it is at the low end. This is brilliant, and cements the idea that this is a high-quality radio in our minds.
But, we have to say, we were blown away by the sound quality. There's a fine balance here, with bass being just deep enough to impress, but without damaging the overall sound quality. Both DAB radio and MP3s streamed over the network sound amazing. Speech on Radio 4 was crisp and very clear, something not all radios can claim. Whatever you're using this little radio for, it's bound to impress, quality wise.
Minor problems
Given the choice, we would improve the LCD screen on the Digtial Classic. It has two problems that we noted. The first is that it's quite dim, even on its maximum setting. In a dark room, or at night, it's fine. Throw a bit of sun in to the equation though, and it becomes pretty hard to see the screen.
Then there's the angle. In all likelihood, you'll have this radio on a surface that's below eye-height. To really see the screen, and to search for podcasts or select a radio station, you have to bend down. This is fine, of course, but it's not as convenient as it could be. On a Sonos, you do get the advantage of using a phone app to select radio stations. Here, that's not possible, which is a shame.
These are small quibbles though, and otherwise, the radio was a delight.
Supporting DAB+ means that the Oxx Digital Classic is ready for the future. The support for internet radio and podcasts means you'll never be bored when you're in the kitchen - or wherever you end up putting this cool little radio.
The sound quality is stunning, and although the power is a little less than we'd hope, it's still loud enough, and the quality means makes it a joy to listen to.
At £130, it's not super-cheap, but there's enough here to warrant considering it. If you love the styling, and want something that sounds great, we'd say this might be the radio for you.


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Overturned Tractor Trailer Cleared From 42 Freeway
The 42 Freeway southbound has been reopened as crews upright an overturned tractor trailer near Creek Road.
The truck blocked all lanes at Interstate 295. Traffic on I-295 is also backing up approaching the 42 Freeway from both directions.
The driver suffered minor injuries according to 6 ABC and the rig spilled fuel onto the road.
Delays remain on the southbound side while northbound traffic is backed with a rubbernecking delay. Route 168 appears to be picking up some of the extra traffic.
NJ Transit tweets that bus routes Nos. 313, 315, 400, 408 & 551 will be affected by the closure.
- Truck overturns on Route 42 in Bellmawr, SB lanes shutdown / 6 ABC
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I was expecting some comments about Glyph turning Regina to the dark side or something, but it was mainly an interesting transtopic ("That's not a word." "Says you.") that I won't add anything to because 1) the conversation's already moving on and 2) I'm not interested in writing a mini novel of a post. But this has been a fun chapter so far.
Causes of moral decadence among the youth can be categorized into social, economic, cognitive and technological factors. Social causes include peer influence and unstable home environments, while economic factors include poverty. Technological innovations, such as media and the Internet, expose young people to potentially unwelcome information and cognitive causes are related to the need for belonging among the youth driven by physical and psychological needs.
Don't tell me what I think choosing to go naked means. I already told you I think it should be legal to be naked in public (even though I mentioned that most people are ugly and on average more so when naked), so this is ridiculous. I simply think that being naked is not an act of violence, nor does it constitute significant harm to others. I mentioned freedom of association because limiting this causes significant harm, and wanted to make it clear that nudity could be legal without it becoming the norm to allow in homes and businesses. Ultimately it's not up to me how many people accept nudity in their homes and businesses. That's freedom for you. I would only have the choice of not visiting homes or businesses that allowed nudity IF it bothered me significantly enough for me to do so. Nudists, if numerous, would have homes and businesses that allowed them.As for topless feminists...my view is not based on feminism in the least sense. And obviously if someone can legally go naked going topless would not be a problem. I guess you're assuming I'm getting an erection or getting wet when I see some "hot girl", or more likely assuming the former since you likely assumed me to be male just as you assumed a "hot girl" would be for me (I am a lesbian so you randomly got my gynephilia correct). I don't actually have anyone I like in person and don't expect to any time soon, but I would be wearing clothes anyway, since that would be allowed. The fact that being naked would stand out more while most people wore clothes is just how it is. I don't think that people wouldn't notice males' erections or females' severe wetness even if everyone was naked, though. I don't think the girls in the second picture are ashamed to be flashing their breasts. They certainly don't look that way. They seem to be having fun WHILE thinking that it's sexual, because sexuality is the reason that anyone is interested in their breasts anyway, and that's why they are specifically showing off their breasts.
I don't think feminism needs to be involved in discussions on nudity. I didn't need to involve it. People may choose to involve it, but it's not inherently a subset of feminism. As to the standard, it differs in places in Europe, Africa, and so on. I don't really care what people think about it...just get the government out and freedom in. Toplessness can then regulate itself according to the myriad varying personal demands of everyone. There is no one true solution. Except that to me the government is interfering, by deciding in some places that toplessness is sometimes bad and sometimes not bad, even though it's not in my opinion important enough to require the use of violence to control.I would agree. The government needs to butt out, stop criminalizing "indecent" exposure, and let people wear whatever. The feminism comes in, as soon as we have men going around saying "well, she was naked so I raped her. Cuz she was asking for it." Any progress to nudism would butt heads with these assholes. Lots of things are more "honest", but freedom should exceed this. A world where you have to rigidly obey violently-imposed universal standards that you neither agree with personally nor can be made to understand the importance of is not so great to me. Outside of contracts "dishonesty" is already the norm, and that's not changing any time soon. Trying to make it change would mean a police state the likes of which has never been known. It would be amazingly severe if it even mostly achieved its goal.By honest, I mean that many of the lies our culture rests on (like shaming women for not looking like Barbie) get unfounded once nothing is left to the imagination. Yes, clothing freedom is essential. But this would also be a great tool to break social castes. Hmmm, maybe that's why it's forbidden.I don't know why you think they're "overthinking it". It seems like projection to me, based on your desire to normalize and desexualize their behavior. It's easy to explain it other ways, too. Short of asking them and gambling that they both know and tell you the absolute and complete truth there's no way to know. There's no reason to assume anything meaningfully negative from my perspective.This is not even my opinion. I have read about nudist retreats/colonies, and what they personally believe. They usually have a distinctly non-romantic non-sexual outlook on nudity, the clothes are just clothes according to them, they go about business as usual. Here, I can even find examples.http://www.justluxe.com/travel/luxury-vacations/feature-1915997.phpSure, clothing, makeup, and many things relate to sexuality. It's not purely cultural, though. And it is possible that things may work more smoothly if clothing is the norm, for many reasons that would include non-sexual ones. I think you're really optimistic about the lack of downsides from a violently imposed nudist society. Besides that it really opens anything up to violent imposition, which is a dangerous precedent to set, since it WILL be abused even more than it already is if you go so far as to use it to enforce nudity, of all things.And that's the point I was getting red in the face about above. Whether or not my idea of utopia could work (maybe not), the opposite is a dystopia, a world where people are shamed into doing jobs they hate. I believe the Matched series by Ally Condie has a good representation of society when people have no real choices. Shame is powerful motivator to make people do a number of violent impositions.I really don't care about feminism's reasoning for things. It's often scatterbrained and itself full of shaming, including shaming those who shame without thinking it quite ironic (meaning that hypocrisy is fine as long as the target is defined as "bad"). Is being naked violent or otherwise costly to others, provided that you respect their personal space and property, including their homes and businesses? If not then don't enforce government violence to prevent it (but also don't subsidize it...this is violence against those who would not voluntarily do so).If you feel shamed about it, we shouldn't talk about it. Feminism should be about equality, but I've run into a number of feminists that appear to like using shame tactics themselves. I would not care nearly as much about being naked if the trade off was that I get to perpetually have a well above average body and face, such as Maytag does. It's a bit harder when your value is lower, and that's just life.
"Who doesn't like having a good penis?"AbVag alters to keep his insecurities protected.Oh, you can resume your conversation.
I just want to point out that there is a forum section for debates, and that you should feel free to use it for this kind of thing. You can have all the debates about politics and religion in there that you want.It's also okay to talk about that kind of stuff in here when it relates to the current chapter. But maybe try not to post pages and pages of stuff.


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A Senate hopeful who was suspended from Bob Katter's Australian Party yesterday says he plans to fight the ban.
The party ditched prospective Senate candidate Bernard Gaynor yesterday after he tweeted that he did not want gay people teaching his children.
Mr Gaynor says other candidates and nominees have expressed personal opinions without being suspended.
He also believes he was stating a position the party supports.
The party's national director, Aidan McLindon, says despite his suspension, Mr Gaynor could still gain preselection.
Mr McLindon says Mr Gaynor was suspended because he represented his personal view as that of the party.
However, Mr McLindon says Mr Gaynor was able to fight his suspension from the party and had a right to make the comments.
"I think every parent would want to have some sort of say regardless of what issues have been raised associated with it," Mr McLindon said.
"But I don't think there'd be one Australian who'd say that parents shouldn't have any input."
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Kids and Tech: How Much Is Too Much?
Sep 6, 2006 4:00 AM PT
As technology creeps into more and more areas of consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to gadgets, content, games and high-tech services rises. How much is too much? This first article in a three-part series on the potential dangers of substantial exposure to technology focuses on the risk to infants and children.
From Baby Einstein tapes for infants to Reader Rabbit software for two-year-olds to Nintendo consoles given as early as fifth birthdays and beyond, technological advancements designed to stimulate the intellect and entertain the soul are overwhelming many 21st century kids.
Technology access has been linked to improved reading skills, but some believe that too much technology can impose dangers on today's youth -- including vision impairment, technology addiction and sexual solicitation. To be sure, technology opens the doors to a world that includes much more than convenience, knowledge and entertainment.
Pros and Cons
"In the past, we only had to be concerned about too much TV exposure. Now we have video games, computers and cell phones. It is overwhelming for young children and creates patterns of behaviors similar to addiction patterns," said Mali Mann, M.D., adjunct clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University's School of Medicine.
"Their brains get used to too much auditory and visual stimulation -- and in the absence of these stimulations, they do not know what to do with themselves," she told TechNewsWorld. "They get anxious, restless, bored and aggressive."
Researchers are conducting numerous studies to measure how much children of all ages use technology and to evaluate its impact. The responses are mixed -- and telling.
Some reports have condemned the use of computers in schools. Others have endorsed Internet use in the classroom. Whether or not they are exposed to technology in the classroom, kids often have bedrooms that are media centers, according to a Knowledge Networks/SRI study. It reveals that nearly two-thirds of children have a television in their room, while 17 percent have their own computer and 35 percent have a video game system.
The use of this technology begins early. According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 31 percent of children age three and under are already using computers. Sixteen percent use them several times a week, 21 percent can point and click with a mouse by themselves, and 11 percent can turn on the computer without assistance.
What's more, a third of children -- many as young as 11 years old -- use blogs and social networking sites at least two or three times a week. Yet two-thirds of parents don't even know what a blog is, according to a report by NCH Children's Charities and Tesco Telecoms.
The report reveals an alarming gap in knowledge between parents and their children when it comes to technology, breeding concern that children may be at risk of exposure to sexual predation and other dangers.
Instilling Self-Control
Incessant exposure to "all day TV," violent video games, instant messaging, and the always accessible cell phone interferes with the development of the psychological traits known to be essential to positive outcomes for children, according to Leah Klungness, Ph.D., psychologist in private practice and co-author of The Complete Single Mother. Self-control is one of these essential psychological traits.
"Research findings suggest that the ability to focus attention and delay gratification have both a hereditary and environmental component. Differences among children in their ability to focus attention and exercise control emerge before a child's first birthday. No one is sure how much of the ability to exercise self control is hereditary or how much is learned," Klungness told TechNewsWorld.
In other words, through experience, children can be taught to exercise self-control. On the other hand, such innate abilities can be "unlearned" by experiences that reduce a youngster's capacity to exercise self-control. Constant media exposure is an experience that will reduce self-control in children, Klungness argued, because media is all about immediacy.
How Young Is Too Young?
Some child experts are asking what age is too young to introduce children to the immediacy of technology. Launched in May, BabyFirstTV rekindled the debate over age-appropriate technology and media.
While BabyFirstTV's founders cite top child development experts' endorsements of the interactive TV channel, which provides content for babies and toddlers, not all child development experts agree that babies should watch TV.
What does that mean for the 68 percent of children under age two that the Kaiser Family Foundation reports watch on-screen media every day?
"When used responsibly, television can be a powerful interactive medium that provides parents with unique opportunities to bond with their children. The key is the quality and interactive nature of the content, and this is what BabyFirstTV offers to parents," said Dr. Edward McCabe, M.D., Ph.D, physician-in-chief, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and BabyFirstTV advisory board member.
Differing Medical Opinions
However, the American Academy of Pediatrics maintains that children under the age of two should not be exposed to television for two major reasons: First, the baby's brain is still developing. Doctors do not understand what happens when that brain is exposed to too much television stimuli, explained AAP spokesperson Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg. Second, the AAP is concerned that television will get in the way of child-parent bonding rather than encourage it.
"What we know absolutely is that the most important thing that happens in the first couple of years of a child's life is they form a deep connection with their parents," Ginsburg told TechNewsWorld. "We know that connection is forged through active play, active interaction and reading. We know that kids who are read to grow to learn to love books, and that it is a stepping stone towards a lot of positive things that can happen in the future."
Oh, the Irony!
Ironically, medical experts said parents with the highest educational goals and aspirations for their children and the resources to make choices to reach these goals are the ones who typically flood their children with every type of media from "educational" videos to the latest in computer technology.
In doing so, Klungness said these parents ignore common sense and practical experience and actually deprive their children of the very experiences that allow them to master the sort of self-control that leads to academic success.
"What kinds of experiences develop increased self-control?" Klungness asked rhetorically. "Activities which require patience -- such as waiting for seedlings to sprout or working on a craft project which requires wait time between steps -- are the types of activities accessible to all children with appropriate parental supervision."
Paying Attention
Klungness summarized a point on which most medical experts can agree: Parents should supervise their children's use of technology.
Premature exposure and overexposure to technology creates emotional numbness, confusion between fantasy and reality, and pent-up anxiety that leads to aggressive behavior in children, according to Stanford's Mann.
"Too much technology exposure can lead to inattentiveness in the classroom setting for school-aged children. They may get diagnosed incorrectly with Attention Deficit Disorder or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or even be erroneously labeled with bipolar disorder," Mann stressed. "These kids do not show interest in healthy physical exercise, and [they] lose interest in sports."
Mindfulness trainer Maya Talisman Frost has four kids -- ages 15, 16, 18 and 20 -- all of whom use technology on a regular basis to stay connected. Her take on technology is simple: Pay attention. Frost told TechNewsWorld that overworking, overspending, overeating, and overusing technology, among other things, are a direct result of not paying attention.
"The key to managing kids' technology use is to establish clear 'tech-free' zones," she explained. "This means recognizing times when the present moment is the priority and technology is given a secondary role. Kids need to learn that there are times when paying attention to those around you is of primary importance, no matter what type of urgent phone calls or instant messages might be coming their way."
Practice What You Preach
Frost and Mann both stress the need for parents to practice what they preach. If mom and dad have a difficult time disconnecting from technology, then kids will not see the need to disconnect either, they said. Parents set the tone when it comes to limiting technology.
"Parents use cell phones on the way to dropoff or pickup times. They are absorbed in their own virtual world and pay no attention to their children's departure and reunion at the end of the day," Mann asserted. "Children learn from their parents as if these are perfectly normal behaviors, and they emulate them, too."
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Jade edits a Dance Video: 2nd try
This time I chose a song that is not as upbeat as the first one I made a dance vid with. I wanted to edit this song because I fell in love with it after hearing it the first time but it took a while until I had ideas how to edit it.
The first thing I began with was the refrain. It was clear to me that I wanted to make them lipsync parts and so I chose the K-ON! ending because I thought that Mio gives it the expression that suits it best.
For the two verses I was not sure which anime to choose. I think I just chose Kannagi because I like it that much and Kanon because it had this dance scenes that I absolutely wanted to use. It was easy to work with Kannagi but kinda difficult with Kanon because Mai (the chara with the sword) didn't really show any emotion in any scene.
The B/W parts I chose because I wanted to show the difference between the mood of the song in the verses and in the refrain.
The remaining I just filled with anime scenes that came to mind. No big idea behind these ;P
All in all I played a lot with masking, color filters and other effects this time. It was a lot of work but it was necessary to show the idea I got of the song.
I hope you have fun watching it!!
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Pete Sanders brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 88 Designs von 31 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Brix (domain will be BrixHQ.com)
We are a small agile team who are passionate about building quality solutions. Our current project is to be targeted at businesses and corporates, so whilst what we are looking for is Web 2.0 it has to also be professional and clean. We arent a social media/networking business, the solution we are building is around efficiency, effectiveness and collaboration across the business and the teams who use it.
Target audience as stated above is business and corporate users, but we aren't looking for IBM blue/boxy logo's. It has to be clean, professional and inviting. We are a start up and have no clients currently, weve done our research and know who our potential clients are. To be specific the target audience could be anyone from CTO's/CIO's of large organisations, through to small software development houses.
Our requirement is very specific, we need a logo for our product 'Brix'. The domain is http://www.brixhq.com (the hq component is not to be included in the logo, this is our company name - but not the product name)
The colours we feel would suit the logo are in the colour ranges of reds, burnt red/browns, oranges and yellows.
The name Brix is meant to make you think or feel of a solid structure/base, a product that helps you to build a strong foundation.
We think the term "build" is very significant.
We want the designers to feel free to be creative and come up with something exciting which will embody our product based on the details included.
Please let us know if you need more information.
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The global leader in offshore wind development has already built more than 2GW of capacity in Danish and UK waters, including the world's largest operating offshore wind farm, the 630MW London Array.
It is currently building — or is committed to building — a further 1.46GW in UK and German waters and, by 2020, its goal is to have completed 6.5GW of offshore wind capacity, roughly the same as the current operational global total.
Strategic partnerships
To reach its ambitious goal, Dong has brought a number of partners on board. A framework agreement signed with Siemens in July 2012 is key in this respect. It will see the German turbine manufacturer supply 300 of its new SWT-6.0-154 turbines by 2017. Two have already been installed at Gunfleet Sands 3 in the Thames estuary off the UK's Essex coast. At the signing of the agreement, then acting CEO, Carsten Krogsgaard Thomsen, described it as "a key element of Dong Energy's objective to significantly expand offshore wind and strengthen (its) position as market leader".
Dong and Siemens have collaborated before, when Dong acquired Danish installation and service vessel company A2Sea in 2009 and then sold on a 49% stake to Siemens the following year.
A DKK 11 billion (EUR 1.47 billion) investment in Dong by Goldman Sachs and Danish pension funds, announced in October 2013, should provide a further boost. Goldman Sachs is investing DKK 8 billion, ATP is putting in DKK 2.2 billion and fellow pension fund PFA DKK 0.8 billion, giving them stakes in Dong of 19%, 5% and 2%, respectively. The Danish state has reduced its share from around 80% to 57.2%, but remains majority shareholder.
Fritz Schur, who stands down as Dong's chairman this month, says the equity boost will enable the company to carry out its growth strategy, including a significant investment programme in offshore wind. The plans comprise extensions and new projects in a number of countries. Some projects are being planned by Dong alone, while in others it has been involved as a consortium partner. The company remains committed to the UK, unlike several other developers, which have recently scaled-back UK ambitions.
UK focus
In partnership with Scottish Power Renewables, it is currently building the 389MW West of Duddon Sands project in the Irish Sea, set to be completed this year. Meanwhile, the 210MW Westermost Rough project, under construction in the North Sea with 35 Siemens SWT-6.0-154 turbines, is also due for completion later this year. Two planned extension projects in the Irish Sea, Burbo Bank and Walney, would add around 1GW of capacity by 2016 or 2017.
In December last year, Dong acquired the Race Bank project from UK utility Centrica, for just £50 million (EUR 60 million). Planned for a site in the Greater Wash, Centrica has taken the up-to-580MW project through the permitting process while the geotechnical and geophysical surveys of the site have already been carried out. A decision to actually build it is pending, but the project is fully consented and offshore construction could start in 2017.
"Race Banks fits very well into our existing pipeline of offshore wind projects," says Samuel Leupold, executive vice-president of Dong's wind power division. "The addition of up to 580MW in our UK project portfolio underlines our commitment to the UK market in general, and to the UK offshore wind sector in particular. I'm confident we can turn this into a successful project."
More distant UK projects include developing the Round 3 Irish Sea zone, with Celtic Array, a 50/50 joint venture between Dong and Centrica. The first phase — the 2.2GW Rhiannon offshore wind farm — could come online towards the end of the decade. The zone as a whole could eventually host more than 4GW of capacity.
Another Round 3 project Dong is involved with is Project One in the Hornsea zone, in the North Sea 103 kilometres off the Yorkshire coast. It is working with Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens, and the application for the 1.2GW project, is currently with the UK Planning Inspectorate. Around 4GW of capacity could be developed in the zone in the long-term.
On a slightly smaller scale, involvement in the First Flight Wind consortium, together with UK developers RES and B9 Energy, would see Dong claiming a stake in Northern Ireland's first offshore wind farm. Planned for a site off County Down, the 600MW project could come online around 2020.
German offshore
The German market is another key pillar in Dong's offshore strategy. The company's Borkum Riffgrund 1 project is under development in the North Sea, 37 kilometres off the Lower Saxony coast. Set to feature at least 77 Siemens 3.6MW turbines, the project is scheduled for completion in 2015. In November Dong announced it would build Gode Wind 1 and 2, for a total cost of EUR 2.2 billion. Acquired from PNE Wind in August 2012, the 330MW and 252MW projects will comprise 97 Siemens 6MW turbines in total. They are planned for sites to the north of Juist and Norderney islands, next to Borkum Riffgrund 1.
"The investment in the Gode Wind projects will be our biggest ever and will cement our leadership position in offshore wind," says Leupold. Offshore construction will begin in the first half of 2015, with full commissioning expected in the second half of 2016.
Once Dong decided to go ahead with the project, it wasted no time in preparing for construction. In November it contracted GeoSea to transport and install the monopile foundations. In January A2Sea was lined up to install the Siemens 6MW turbines from 2015.
Other markets
France's nascent offshore wind sector is also of interest to Dong. It is part of the EDF-led consortium that was successful in the first French offshore wind tender in April 2012. The consortium, which includes French turbine manufacturer Alstom, was awarded the development rights to three sites. It plans to build 1.4GW of capacity using Alstom's 6MW turbines. The sites comprise the 450MW Courseulles-sur-Mer, the 500MW Fecamp and the 480MW Saint-Nazaire projects, which could be online towards the end of the decade.
Finally, Dong is eyeing development possibilities off the Dutch coast. In December last year it acquired the remaining 50% stakes in Den Helder 1, Breeveertien 2 and West Rijn from its joint venture partner, UK utility SSE. Planned for sites in the North Sea, their total consented capacity is just over 1GW.
"The Dutch offshore wind market has great potential, and with these three development projects, Dong Energy is looking forward to contributing to the achievement of the announced Dutch target of 4.45GW by 2023," says Leupold.
A decision to build the projects has yet to be made, but all three are already fully consented and could potentially be built by the end of this decade. It is "vital that there is full visibility about the investment conditions", if Dong is to subsequently make a final investment decision to build the projects, as part of its 2020 strategy, Leupold adds.


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About Earl Fatha Hines
Hines was a key figure in the transition from Swing to Bebop -- his offbeat left-hand jabs brought heavy syncopation to his work in Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and his octave melodies influenced scores of musicians that followed. An important part of Hines' innovation was his acceptance of fresh perceptions in his band -- while others may have felt they were too modern, Hines welcomed Charlie Parker's and Dizzy Gillespie's new ideas. In addition, fresh-sounding Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine were both featured vocalists in his group at various points. From Big Band to Dixieland ensembles, Hines always played with an effervescent joy, infecting his bands and his piano playing with his unique rhythmic intensity and stylistic individuality.


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Turning a Blind Eye to Misogyny
A while ago, a BBC producer phoned to tell me I had written a "controversial" book. I knew that already, and gathered from the teeth-sucking sound coming down the line that she did not approve.
"So," she continued, "we've lined up four guests to argue against you."
I told her to go away — maybe I used a stronger term — and then thought about her predicament. As a biased broadcaster, she wanted to hear my book denounced, but she could not risk organising a one-on-one debate. Maybe I would have come out on top. More probably, some listeners would have agreed with me, others with my opponent, as is the normal way of things. By arranging her show to make it four against one, however, she could maintain the illusion of impartiality while creating the impression in listeners' mind that the consensus was overwhelmingly against arguments she found uncomfortable. In the interests of "balance" and of letting "everyone have their say", she would fill 80 per cent of the airtime with advocates of her own political position. I have watched out for rigged debates ever since. They are the surest signal the BBC dares send that an idea does not deserve a hearing in polite society.
Ophelia Benson did not quite get the four-on-one treatment when she appeared on Radio 3's cultural talk show Nightwaves to discuss a "controversial" book she has co-authored with Jeremy Stangroom. They gave her a mere two opponents, and the presenter tried to be fair. Still, when one adversary stopped disparaging her, the other started, as the BBC flashed warning signs to listeners to ignore her.
If they missed the point, the press banged it home. The Independent denounced Benson and Stangroom "as inflammatory in the extreme"; authors who produce "torrents of invective" and "show no desire to go beyond name-calling and distortion." The Guardian accused them of "crudeness and lack of insight". It was "staggered anyone wanted to publish" them, and concluded that only a base desire to make money could explain the release of a "profoundly intellectually dishonest", "hysterical" and "bizarre" work. My own newspaper, the Observer, was slightly more temperate, but not so the casual reader would notice. Benson and Stangroom were not original thinkers but had "trawled through newspaper articles". They "splutter with righteous anger", their style "clunky", "hammering" and "repetitive", their arguments "flimsy" and "deadening".
Readers who imagine that Benson and Stangroom were on the receiving end of the fullest stomach-load of bile literary London has brought up this year because they were making the case for white supremacy or the return of the death penalty do not understand the dark turn Western thought took between the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Benson and Stangroom's book is Does God Hate Women?, which the predecessors of today's critics would have hailed as a feminist classic.
"So does God hate women?" it asks.
Well, what can one say. Religious authorities and conservative clerics worship a wretchedly cruel unjust vindictive executioner of a God. They worship a God of 10-year-old boys, a God of playground bullies, a God of rapists, of gangs, of pimps. They worship — despite rhetoric about justice and compassion — a God who sides with the strong against the weak, a God who cheers for privilege and punishes egalitarianism. They worship a God who is a male and who gangs up with other males against women. They worship a thug. They worship a God who thinks little girls should be married to grown men. They worship a God who looks on in approval when a grown man rapes a child because he is "married" to her. They worship a God who thinks a woman should receive 80 lashes with a whip because her hair wasn't completely covered. They worship a God who is pleased when three brothers hack their sisters to death with axes because one of them married without their father's permission.
If this sounds harsh, consider that Sharia adultery laws state that a raped woman must face the next-to-impossible task of providing four male witnesses to substantiate her allegation or be convicted of adultery. When rapists leave Pakistani women pregnant, the court takes the bulge in their bellies as evidence against them. In Nigeria, Sharia courts not only punish raped women for adultery, but order an extra punishment of a whipping for making false accusations against "innocent" men. In Israel, ultra-Orthodox gangs in Jerusalem beat up women seen in the company of married men. In the United States, the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints give teenagers to old men in arranged marriages and tell them they must completely submit to their wishes. In Saudi Arabia, women live in a theocratic state that stops them walking unaccompanied in the street, driving a car and speaking to men outside the family. After unwisely taking a sprig of the bin Laden family to be her husband, Carmen Dufour described the consequences.
At first, I wasn't even aware of what seemed so strange about this country, but then it hit me: half the population of Saudi Arabia is kept behind walls, all the time. It was hard to fathom, a city with almost no women. I felt like a ghost. Women didn't exist in this world of men.
To move from ghosts to corpses, if the Taliban retake power in Afghanistan, they will once again ban women from public spaces, thus depriving them of employment, and thus closing the health and education services. Any teacher who presumes to teach them to read and write will be executed. Meanwhile the Islamic Republic of Iran has almost certainly renewed its terror tactic of raping women prisoners before killing them. Because religious law declares it illegal to execute a virgin, the guards arrange a "wedding" ceremony and rape the prisoner once it is over.
"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," a Basiji militiaman said as he recalled how he became a state-endorsed rapist as a young man. "I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their 'wedding' night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning, the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed as if they were ready or wanted to die."
The militiaman was speaking anonymously to an Israeli newspaper, so you might contest the authenticity of the interview, were it not that the use of rape as a weapon of repression is hardly a secret. Refugees who fled Iran as the ayatollahs installed their theocracy, have described the "weddings" in painful detail. When a physician examined the body of Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian photojournalist the mullahs arrested and murdered, he found unmistakable evidence that they had not stopped at torturing her. Not a true secret, then, rather a secret in plain view, which observers look through rather than see.
Instead, they prefer to concentrate on the works of Karen Armstrong, a former nun, who has been beatified by the intelligentsia rather than the Vatican. Nothing infuriates Benson and Stangroom's critics so much as their demolition of Armstrong's startling claim that the "emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart" by showing that the surviving accounts of his life tell of Muhammad consummating a marriage to a nine-year-old girl, and taking a slave girl as a concubine. (The arguments about Armstrong's evasions would be of historical interest only if in both Yemen and Iran, Islamists had not been inspired by his example and reduced the age of consent for girls to nine on taking power.) The response of the Sunday Times to Does God Hate Women? was truly sinister. "An academic book about religious attitudes to women is to be published this week," the paper reported, "despite concerns it could cause a backlash among Muslims because it criticises the prophet Muhammad for taking a nine-year-old girl as his third wife. Such assertions could invoke the ire of some Muslims."
No irate Muslim had contacted the reporter to warn of a "backlash". She had not seen threats against Benson and Stangroom in online chatrooms. The Sunday Times invented a scandal where none existed and was unconcerned that it might provoke attacks on the authors. In a dismal sign of our nervous times, their panicked publisher responded by calling in an "ecumenical adviser", to assess whether the book's launch should go ahead.
There is a danger of generalising from the particular fury the media have directed at Benson and Stangroom. So I should say that I do not need to be told that religion comes in many forms, not all of them onerous. I accept unreservedly that religion can be, as Marx said, "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions". Clearly, many liberal-minded people would not have joined the critics in shouting down Benson and Stangroom; they would have whole-heartedly agreed that the repression of women must be opposed in all circumstances. Excellent journalists at the BBC, Independent, Guardian, Observer and Sunday Times produce powerful reports about female genital mutilation and "honour killings" based on the work of NGOs such as Human Rights Watch or the Centre for Social Cohesion. Police officers and social workers work hard to combat abuse, while development agencies insist that the surest way to reduce poverty is to educate women.
But look on the bright side for too long, and you will be blinded by the sun. For all the qualifications, the stubborn fact remains that mainstream opinion does not consider the oppression of women a pressing concern when it is done in the name of culture or religion, particularly in the name of once-subordinate cultures and religions. The misogyny they generate does not move hearts or stir passions. Governments that stifle half their populations do not face boycotts or demonstrations outside their embassies, motions of condemnation at international conferences or opprobrium in everyday political discourse.
The comparison with the international anger directed at Apartheid is instructive. The oppression of blacks was once an affront to the conscience of the world. When we turn to the oppression of women, however, we find that the United Nations loses its conscience and encourages the ideologies of their oppressors. In 1990, Muslim foreign ministers challenged the first line of the UN's Declaration of Human Rights by replacing the ringing statement that "all human beings are born free in dignity and in rights" with the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights which announces that "all human beings are God's subjects". The UN's declaration says that everyone is entitled to its stipulated rights and freedoms "without distinction of any kind". The Cairo declaration says that rights can be restricted for a "Sharia prescribed reason". Nothing in it prevents forced marriages of pre-pubescent girls, or the death punishments for apostasy, homosexuality and the betrayal of a family's "honour".
Far from fighting off this direct assault on women's rights, the UN went along with it and entertained the idea that those who criticise Sharia are guilty of the crime of "defaming religion". In the West, the motion "Is feminism dead?" is a favourite at debating societies, but a glance around shows that it remains in rude health. I do not want to underestimate continuing sexism, the pay gap and the difficulties of working mothers, but wherever women enjoy freedom their cause is advancing. To encapsulate the advance in a sentence, it is now politically impossible for the leaders of parties of the Left or Right anywhere in the advanced world to exclude women from their cabinets.
Yet at the same time, the Archbishop of Canterbury can call for Sharia law to be imposed on British Muslim women, safe in the knowledge that his own women priests will nod their approval. Similarly, the former Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips can call for Sharia at the East London Mosque and women lawyers will not remind him that the mosque is a centre for Jamaat-i-Islami, which in India insists that husbands who throw out their wives have no duty to pay them maintenance.
The emancipation of women is necessary and essential for white-skinned women in London but not for brown-skinned women in Lahore. Or, to move from the global to the local, the emancipation of women is necessary and essential for white-skinned women in Hampstead and Highgate but not for brown-skinned women in Bethnal Green and Bow.
When pressed, the characteristic response to accusations of indifference is for hypocritical Westerners to protest that of course they do not support the imprisonment of rape victims. True, but they do not oppose it either. Their bad faith is evidenced by their palming of the moral-equivalence card from the bottom of the deck. I first saw it being waved in triumph in 1993 when Germaine Greer declared that attempts to outlaw female circumcision were "an attack on cultural identity". In her mind, there was no difference between religious traditionalists forcing an eight-year-old to submit to the removal of her clitoris and labia, and an American teenager voluntarily trying out body piercing. "If an Ohio punk has the right to have her genitalia operated on, why has not the Somali woman the same right?" asked the author of The Female Eunuch as she excused clitoral castration. At the time, I thought that Greer was a crass contrarian who would say anything to grab attention. I should have taken her more seriously. In the intervening years, her casuistry became the dominant mode of argument. Not everywhere: you can still find principled feminist comment from Katha Pollitt of the Nation or Joan Smith of the Independent on Sunday. Laurie Penny, one of the new generation of feminists, tells me to look to the internet where I will find campaigns to stop the Home Office deporting women asylum-seekers to misogynist tyrannies. Nevertheless and as before, even when I have made all the caveats, the stubborn fact remains that the treatment of Benson and Stangroom by the liberal mainstream was hardly an aberration.
When Ayaan Hirsi Ali published Infidel, her account of escape from forced marriage and genital mutilation to Europe, her defence of the liberal values they once believed in appalled "liberal" Europeans. Although Ali needed bodyguards to protect her from Islamist assassins, Timothy Garton Ash sneered that she was an "Enlightenment fundamentalist" while Ian Buruma denounced her as an absolutist. Maryam Namazie, a Marxist Iranian exile who set up the "One Law for all Campaign" to oppose the Archbishop and the Lord Chief Justice, tells me that she experiences every variety of Western duplicity. When she argues in favour of the demonstrators in Tehran, the hard Left tell her she is serving the interests of US imperialism — "It's now reactionary to have a revolution," she sighs. When she last appeared on the BBC, to argue that the burka was a straightjacket designed to mark off a woman as a man's private property, the presenter told her she was an "extremist". With dreary inevitability, Does God Hate Women's critics say that Benson and Stangroom's atheist liberalism is as fundamentalist as the religion of the hardliners they condemn.
Leave aside, however, that the critics do not even-handedly condemn misogynists, homophobes and inquisitors but dedicate all their polemical energy to denouncing those who do. Consider instead whether their equivalence holds good. If you abandon atheism, no atheist police force imitates the religious police in Saudi Arabia and arrests you. If you decide you no longer believe in the equality of the sexes and say that God has made men dominant, no one arraigns you before an equality court. If you stop believing in free speech and start arguing for censorship, no "enlightenment fundamentalist" judge punishes your apostasy with a death sentence. Last month Newsnight discussed the 20th anniversary of the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa, and Germaine Greer — yes, still at it — opined that Rushdie should have removed the "offensive" passages from The Satanic Verses. Writers had such extraordinary power, she said with wide eyes and in a breathless tone, they could "get away with murder". No one in the studio thought to tell her that the man who had got away with ordering the murder of Rushdie, his translators and publishers, was Khomeini, who died in his bed.
Azar Nafisi gave the best reason to dismiss such indifference to the power of real tyrants. The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran fled from the Ayatollahs' Iran to Boston, Massachusetts, not far from the site of the Salem witch trials of the 17th century. Instead of finding a strong movement dedicated to freeing women, she found a racist discourse on American campuses which insisted that culture and religion demanded female subordination. "I very much resent it in the West when people — maybe with all the good intentions or from a progressive point of view — keep telling me, 'It's their culture.' It's like saying, the culture of Massachusetts is burning witches. First, there are aspects of culture which are really reprehensible, and we should fight against it. Second, women in Iran and in Saudi Arabia don't like to be stoned to death."
There are dozens of arguments against the bad idea of cultural relativism, but "women in Iran and in Saudi don't like being stoned to death" can serve for them all. And yet the bad idea persists, undented and dominant, because of a deep selfishness in advanced societies. It comes in three forms, moral, economic and physical. People on the receiving end of repression notice the air of moral superiority as soon as Western liberals refuse them their support out of "respect" for the culture which intimidates them. Liberal relativists are in this respect the true successors of their imperialist ancestors. Where once Westerners denied rights to lesser breeds without the law who were racially unsuited to enjoy liberty, now they deny them to diverse breeds without the culture who are unsuited by accidents of history and geography to exercise the freedoms white Westerners take for granted or handle the complex arguments white Westerners take in their stride.
The economic grounds for selfishness are rarely discussed because, paradoxically, feminism helped create them. Women's liberation liberated the upper-middle class above all others. Instead of managing on one generous income, an already prosperous family could claim two, if it could find servants to look after its children and its homes. Someone had to clean and nurture, and even if the man was prepared to do his full share of housework — which, frankly, most men were not — there still would not be enough hours in the day to combine home with demanding and rewarding careers for husband and wife. As the perceptive American writer Caitlin Flanagan noted in her essay How Serfdom Saved the Woman's Movement, the forward march of women through the institutions would have halted had not globalisation, war, poverty, and the collapse of the Berlin Wall provided an army of poor migrants willing to take on menial housework and childcare. "The new immigrants were met at the docks not by a highly organised and politically powerful group of American women intent on bettering the lot of their sex," she wrote, "but, rather, by an equally large army of educated professional-class women with booming careers who needed their children looked after and their houses cleaned. Any supposed equivocations about the moral justness of white women's employing dark-skinned women to do their sh!t work simply evaporated."
It is deplorable but unsurprising that the past 20 years have seen a cooling of a belief in the need for universal emancipation. Most women at the top of society are dependent on cheap and usually foreign labour. So, too, are their partners, who enjoy the benefits of a dual income. In these circumstances, going along with the belief that culture condemns certain women to servitude is a domestic convenience, the more so when speaking out against it is dangerous.
For at the root of the weird twists in liberal opinion I have been arguing against lies physical fear: the fear of provoking accusation of racial or religious prejudice; the fear of provoking trouble; the fear of provoking violent retribution. Generally, people do not own up to cowardice. They prefer to dress up it up in fine clothes and call it "respect for difference" or "a celebration of diversity".
Julie Bindel, a veteran of radical feminist campaigns, remembers when such circumlocutions were unthinkable. She told me about a vigorous movement to force the police to investigate child abuse allegations in an Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood in London. Her sisters said that it would be racist for the police to leave it to the community to administer its own justice, as they had done in the past. They had to show that the same rules applied to everyone.
"Now they say it is racist to intervene. They're so frightened of being called an Islamophobe, they will defend the right of men to force women to be shackled. They smugly declare that 'we haven't got the right to impose our values on another culture' and think themselves liberal when they do it."
I accept that this may seem an odd thing to wish for, but what the world needs now is an uncompromisingly militant feminist movement.


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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Gilligan's Island with special guest star Vito Scotti (1965)
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 3:55 AM
Labels: 1965, alan hale, Bob Denver, gilligan's island, Jim Backus, racist, sitcom, vito scotti
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- November 6, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- Donna Lethal said...
Vito Scotti was one of the great underrated comic character actors. I love that you posted this! I guess he was the go-to-racial stereotype, b/c he was also 'Dr. Boris Balinkoff'!
- November 6, 2008 at 5:11 PM
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