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The car you want to buy got four stars in government crash ratings. It sure sounds good, but is it really, since other cars earned five? Who awards those stars, and what option boxes should I check so I'll have the safest possible car in the driveway?
Let's begin with a short primer about auto safety. Before we go there, you may want to pause and watch "Signal 30," the lurid 1950s driver's education film about car accidents that scared the bejesus out of me way back when. I definitely became a safer, more cautious driver because of it. Viewings used to be mandatory. Warning: It's strong stuff.
Auto safety ratings are awarded by both the federal Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Both crash cars, but IIHS gives "good" to "poor" ratings rather than stars.
The NHTSA test results are the ones on the window sticker, and cars are rated for frontal crashes (driver and passenger), side crashes (front and rear seats) and rollover. The best score is five stars, but it's a bit confusing since most cars get either four or five stars. Obviously, four is better than five, but you should feel comfortable with scores in that range.
If you think that all those stars mean that most cars are at least fairly safe in impact survivability, you'd be right. All cars and trucks sold on the American market have to meet stringent standards or they'd never make it to dealer lots; the regs in China and much of the Third World are much lower. Here's a horrendous Chinese truck crash test:
The ratings are pretty tough, and they got tougher with 2011 models. If you notice a car you like dropped lower from 2010 to 2011, that's why — it doesn't mean the car got worse. "Overall vehicle score and frontal crash ratings should ONLY be compared to other vehicles of similar size and weight," says NHTSA. If a car you're looking at has no window sticker star rating, that's because NHTSA hasn't gotten around to testing it yet. Results for 2011-and-later NHTSA crash test results are online, as are those from IIHS.
I notice that one of the few places you'll see three-star ratings is in SUV rollover. Some vehicles that got three-star rollover ratings: Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Avalanche, Dodge Durango, Ford Expedition (not all of them), Jeep Grand Cherokee (two-wheel drive). Many SUVs haven't been rated yet under the new system. I've been warning about SUV rollover risk for years. The basic design is top-heavy, which leaves them prone to flip over barriers or otherwise roll.
What can you do to ensure a safer car? Plenty. Check to see if your car comes with critical safety systems as standard, or they need to be ticked off on the options list.
The big winner is electronic stability control (ESC), which will take control of the car (applying the brakes to one or more wheels) to keep you safe on slippery roads. A federal study shows that ESC will reduce passenger car single-vehicle crashes by 26 percent, and such SUV crashes by 48 percent. You want ESC, and fortunately the law requires all cars to have it in the 2012 model year. You'll have to check if you're buying an older car.
Almost always optional except on very high-end cars are such useful features as forward crash warning (FCW) and lane departure warning. Both warn you with audible and sometimes physical (shaking the steering wheel) alerts.
A whole other blog post could be written about airbags, but generally the more the better — you want side impact, and the advanced frontal bags that were standard on cars after Sept. 1, 2006. The latter automatically detect the severity of the crash and apply power appropriately to the bags.
Chances are your car or truck has a seat belt on-off switch, and you want to cut power only if you have an infant in a rear-facing child's seat in the front passenger seat (or are transporting a child under 13 there); you have a special medical condition that means the risk of the bag hitting your head outweighs the safety factor; or you can't change your driving position and keep 10 inches between the center of the bag cover and your breastbone. I know it's frustrating when you put a package on the seat and it trips the seat belt alarm — that's another case when you may want to use the switch, but remember to turn it back on.
Another big safety thing is driving scared. I always do, because I have no idea what those folks in front and behind me are going to do. That's yet another reason to watch "Signal 30."
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GameCube games can run on a PC. The Oculus Rift works for the PC. What comes next? White knuckles and sick bags.
While the framerate stutters a bit on this particular footage, the fact it's working should give hope - or fear - to F-Zero fans the world over.
If we can't get a new F-Zero game, at least we can play the old one until we throw up all over our pants.
F-Zero GX on Oculus Rift with head tracking [YouTube, via @steishere]

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"I want to know the best way to kill next door neighbors  cat, with out them suspecting anything. Its her closest pet and I need it to be gone. It kills bird and it comes in my back yard. Is there any way to poision it or dart it?
I copied the question above (typos and all) from a 2002 message threadon the revenge-obsessed website Bombshock titled "How to Kill a Cat." You may wonder what brought me to this decade old discussion of killing small animals. Why I'd want to be there at all. And why I continued perusing it through responses that ranged from the practical - Antifreeze. Mix it with meat - to the rather, um, hostile - *The very best way is to give me your address. I can come to your house, and cut your fucking nuts off. Then, I will feed them to the cat & maybe it will choke *and back to - *sugar and bleach, stirred into milk *- the practical again.
I was looking for an answer to something that had been bothering, okay, haunting me for months: why do so many people poison their neighbor's pets? Why? Why? "They're very unhappy people," my husband replied when I first raised the issue at home. "They're assholes," said my son. To tell you the truth, these both seemed like pretty charitable answers to me. And I might have let it go at that if I hadn't read another news article on the subject on the very next day, and the next, and the next again.
The problem, my problem in this case, is that I run daily Google alerts for poisoning events, a habit I developed while working my recent book, The Poisoner's Handbook. I usually laugh when I tell people about it; yeah, I say, maybe it makes me sound a little twisted. But I sift through the alerts for interesting stories and for patterns, repeated poisonous events. And over the last year, I started to develop an uneasy awareness that hardly a week passed without a pet poisoning story. Hardly a day, in fact. Last year, I tallied up more than almost 300 stories (171 concerning dogs, 123 about cats). I briefly cited both that pattern and my reluctance to write about it in a postthis fall called The Poisoner's Calendar, which I mostly focused on the simpler subject of carbon monoxide.
But this year, the first dog poisoning story came on January 2, from a small town in western Canada. It was followed on Saturday by a query to Canada's Calgary Herald, a letter titled "What Kind of Twisted Person Would Poison a Dog?" Since this was pretty much my ongoing question, I hoped it would tell me. But the author had not answer. She was writing because her dogs had also been poisoned with strychnine and one was in critical condition: We also cannot imagine why anyone would want to put the dogs through so much suffering; it is a terrible thing to see.
So the stories nagged me, they bugged me, and the question kept following me.
Why do we do this? Why? My personal archive of news stories represents, I know, just a sliver of the whole sorry picture. I've looked for a really solid statistical analysis but with mixed success, finding mostly a patchwork of information. The website Pet-Abuse.com, maintains a "cruelty database" which, as of today, lists 351 criminal pet poisoning cases, the most recent being a dog poisoning case from November and a cat poisoning case in October, both from Florida.
Neither turned up in my alerts, which tells me that this also under-represents the numbers. Of course, one of the problems - and, frankly, poisoners count on this - is that animals can encounter toxic substances on their own, making it sometimes difficult to determine a criminal case. A cat poisoning story(antifreeze) that posted January 1, from Nailsea, England, is a good example of this, the grief, the uncertainty and the suspicion of strangers and of neighbors.
"I'm thinking of writing a piece about pet poisoning," I say to a forensic detective I know in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. She answers: "Have you looked up Myrtle Maly's case from 2005, Spaight St.? Check her out on CCAP."
If you don't know it, CCAP is shorthand for a very useful website, more formally known as the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access Program, which provides a public record of criminal and civil cases in the state. You can search it by name, date, location and case number. When I type in Myrtle Maly, Dane County, I find this, which tells me that Ms. Maly was found guilty of two misdemeanor cases of intentionally poisoning an animal.
Further research tells me that in June 2005, she killed two of her neighbor's cats by mixing the rodent poison, d-Con, into a can of cat food and dolloping it out in the yard. In case you wondered, d-Con's active ingredient is brodifacoum, a notably lethal anticoagulant, sometimes referred to as a "superwarfarin." Maly, who was then 76, ended up as a case study in The Smoking Gun, largely because she was so unremorseful: *'When I find these little feathers, I've had it. I love animals, but he drove me to it,' she told a detective. 'I have a good feeling because the birds are happy now. *
There's no doubt that cats pose a terrible problem for wild birds. A studyof the gray catbird in Washington D.C. found that domestic cats were the number one cause of bird mortality in the area. It's a situation that can, and does, put bird and cat lovers at extreme odds.
Granted some of these conflicts involve feral cats, such as the most recent high profile case, again from the D.C. area. A National Zoo employee was caught on surveillance video poisoning food left out for cats living near a city park. The accused, Nico Dauphine, was a zoo researcher with a doctorate in bird conservation and had published articles on the threat posed by urban cats. She received a one-year suspended sentence, 120 hours of community service, and a court order to stay away from cats. Dauphine also lost her job, which the judge noted in handing down the sentence. The Washington Humane Society which investigated the poisonings and which took the uncompromising position that even stray cats deserve a poison free life issued a terse statement after the conviction: "We are delighted that justice was served today."
But most people aren't attempting to protect other animals when they poison. There's a winding path of other justifications and excuses. In December, a woman in Washington state poisoned her neighbors' cats (boric acid) because they kept getting too close to her car. Last month also, a Kansas man pleaded guilty to killing kittens, living in a shop near his rental, with antifreeze because they were messy. In October, a Tampa, Florida man poisoned six cats - putting out bowls of antifreeze-laced milk - because he said they'd gotten into his strawberry plants. In case you're wondering, antifreeze contains the compound ethylene glycol, notable for its sweet taste and tendency to form razor-sharp crystals in the kidneys.
Police investigating the poisoning of seven cats near Worcester, England, said neighbors had been reportedly unhappy with the owner allowing her animals to get into rubbish bins. In the case of dogs, the usual justification is that they're noisy. They bark; they don't shut up. When two Virginia dogs died after someone tossed antifreeze-laced cheese cubes into their yard, neighbors both expressed shock and commented on how noisy the dogs had been. It's the first answer I get when I ask friends and acquaintances why someone would do this - oh, well, you know, if the dog was really noisy... So I also asked a couple of friends who write books for pet owners, full of affection for animals and ideas about how to care for them. "I'm thinking about writing a story about pet poisoning." Oh, yes, they both said. We hear about it all the time, and one added: I've often wondered about that. If I were you, I'd interview a psychiatrist. My guesses are that either they hate the neighbors, hate animals. or are somehow jealous. I just don't know.
Because for most of us, this just doesn't make sense, the idea that someone in the family next door is stirring poison into a lethal meal for your animals. We can't imagine being the family in Colorado who settled in with their two dogs, "our children" they said, only to have them both killed by a neighbor, charged in December with feeding the animals strychnine-laced meatballs. Strychnine, in case you wonder, is a poison that directly targets the nervous system, causing such violent convulsions that exhaustion is considered a contributing factor in death.
So consider this headline: "Someone is poisoning dogs in Green Country neighborhood" from Tulsa, Oklahoma in December, the story telling of someone putting out strychnine-laced meat, poisoning ten dogs, killing seven. "This headline from California: "Three Dogs Poisoned in Encino; One Dead", in which police warn residents to keep a close watch on their pets. Or this story from Lebanon, Pennsylvania in October of two dogs dead from meat mixed with rat poison: Absolutely, the sergeant said when asked if the act appeared deliberate. Someone placed it out there where they knew the dogs would be.
This is the pattern that haunts me the most, the someone sneaking through the night, the person who kills in a kind of game. There are plenty of studiesto show that animal abusers - your neighborhood pet poisoners, say - find it easy enough to turn their attention, their anger, their unhappiness to their human neighbors as well. We might even ask ourselves whether tougher lawsregarding animal abuse might end up protecting people better as well. A recent casein Houston, Texas, clearly involved harming animals - one dog poisoned, another shot, a horse slashed to death - to terrorize their human owners. If [the suspect] would do this to all these animals, we don't know what they would do to people, said the investigating officer.
But most pet poisoners, I think, stop before they cross that line. You'll remember that Myrtle Maly, who poisoned her neighbor's cats, blamed the neighbor for letting the animals outside. He drove me to it, she said, and she meant killing the cats only. And it's the only that I want to emphasize here, because I believe that underlies all of this. There are, as you see, countless individual reasons for pet poisoning, countless justification. And yes, I still agree that we can sum up many of these people as very unhappy assholes.
But we should also acknowledge the bigger point. It's a hallmark, a measure of our civilized species that we care for, protect, domesticate, shelter members of other species. More than that, we love them, we consider them members of our family, as I do with our joyful Laborador, Bongo, as this wonderful piece by the wonderful science writer John Rennie illustrates so eloquently. But we're also careless with them - Bongo is a rescue dog, found abandoned in downtown Milwaukee. There's that only a dog, only a cat, only a lesser species mentality and it's that, I think, is the fundamental why of this tale, the tacit permission to those of us who think it's all right to poison away an annoying neighboring animal. When we truly respect life on this planet, in as Charles Darwin once said, all its "endless forms, most beautiful" then, indeed, we may attain that ever elusive goal, of being a fully civilized species.


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'Sandy.' by Lynn Henni
More details for The henni.photo@TheRoaminNose Exhibiton below and for The henni.photo@McDonaldGreene Exhibiton – full details here.
Following last year's successful #4Reflect Photo Exhibition (by Paul Henni with Paul McGuigan, Rod Hanchard-Goodwin and Dougie Williams) at The Roamin' Nose Bistro, there's a new henni.photo@TheRoaminNose Exhibition opening on the 4th of August 2015 at the same excellent venue. It features photos by Paul and Lynn Henni. Currently, it is planned to run into September.
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Think Differently: The Transformation of Robert Cheeke from Farm Boy to Bodybuilder
Bodybuilder, motivational speaker, and author, natural bodybuilding champion Robert Cheeke pushes himself to exceed expectations, to excel in all he does. At 15, he was a self-described "skinny farm boy" from Corvallis, OR. Today, through his hard work and determination, Robert has become a role model for all of us, bodybuilder and non-bodybuilder alike. Robert Cheeke's achievements and his site have been featured in numerous publications including the Montreal Gazette and the New York Times.


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At the awesome blog Awful Library Books, Michigan librarians Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner showcase old, bizarre books that probably shouldn't be in circulation. The blog contains many science, engineering, and computing texts. Here are some of the most lamentable.
[Awful Library Books via The Presurfer]
In 1972's Science Projects You Can Do, George Stone teaches children that giving a guinea pig scurvy is a perfectly acceptable science fair project.
He also advocates electrocuting earthworms for no apparent reason.
Stone was nice enough to include a diagram on how to build your own earthworm torture device.
Linda Sullivan and Helen Sernoff's 1996 book Research Reports: A Guide for Middle and High School Students. "Although it contains vast amounts of information, the Internet will probably not be useful."
1989's Computer Virus Crisis by Philip Fites, Peter Johnston, and Martin Kratz teaches you to avoid virus-laden floppy disks. If an unwashed trucker swaggers into your bedroom and offers you a bag of suspicious disks, just say "no."
Richard Deming's 1973 Metric Power. A prescient tome.
1991's 101 Weapons for Women: Implement Weaponry: A Unique Concept in Women's Self-Defense, which teaches computer disk defense tactics.
James Schefter's Telecommunications Careers (1988) teaches you the joys of mobile communication.
Leon Whitney's Training you to Train your Cat (1968).
An excerpt from Tim Paulson's 1992 book, How To Fly a 747. Holy shit.


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Announcing availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4
I am very excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 on April 12th.
This represents the biggest tools release from Microsoft in many years.
To celebrate this with our customers and partners, we are holding 5 major launch events on April 12th in Beijing, China; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Bangalore, India; London, UK; Las Vegas, USA; and in over 150 local events around the world.
The new release of Visual Studio 2010 has plenty of compelling new features and updates that will make every developer more productive.
· Visual Studio 2010 allows users target of the right platform for their application, including Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint. Office, Windows Azure, and Windows Phone 7 applications using their existing skills.
· Visual Studio 2010 is a rich, personalized development environment. We know that software developers spend much of their time in the IDE, and features like the new editor and multi-monitor support make your time in Visual Studio more productive and enjoyable.
· Teams are able to work more efficiently using Application Lifecycle Management tools. We've done a great deal of work in Visual Studio 2010 to improve testing and debugging tools. Features like IntelliTrace and easy project management help your team ensure high quality.
I always say that our partners play a key role in the success of our platforms and tools. With Visual Studio, it is no different. Between the tools that we deliver in Visual Studio and what our partners build on top of Visual Studio, we have a very comprehensive tools offering for our customers. I do want to take this opportunity to thank the approximately 50 partners who announced availability of products and solutions built on this latest wave of technologies. I am also very appreciative and thankful of the customers, MVPs, and others who provided us valuable feedback and made Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 such an amazing release.
I am also thrilled to say that Silverlight 4 will be released to the Web later this week. When Silverlight 4 is released, you will be able to download an update for Visual Studio 2010 to support Silverlight 4 development.
I hope you will join us at one of our events, or watch the keynote live.
I look forward to your participation as we strive to reach a million developers on April 12 through our world-wide launch events. To purchase Visual Studio 2010 now, visit here. If you are an MSDN subscriber, later in the day on April 12th you can download Visual Studio 2010 from MSDN.


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The Impact of OpenStack Commercialization
The development and distribution phases of open-source cloud computing have come and gone. It's now onto the consumerization phase, where vendors can provide actual products, expertise and support at a fair price.
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Happy 16th Anniversary, My Love!
16 years. I'd call that a Match.com success story! Who would've thunk, two such very different people would end up complementing each other so well? Despite the images we choose to share online, please know that our lives are not perfect. Russ and I have to do the hard work to keep ourselves and our family on track, and none of that is easy. Still, by focusing on communication, compromise, and lots of laughs, we all continue to move forward together, with love abounding. 16 years is nothing. Check back with me in another 16… Happy Anniversary, my love!
My Wedding Vows to Russ
Last night I was fortunate in finally being able to legally marry my wonderful Russ, after almost 12 years together. Our wedding had a French theme and was a joyous celebration of our love, commitment, and family. Thank you to all who attended, and for the support and well-wishes of our friends and family. Here are the vows I wrote and read, and the boys played a part in as well…
June 7, 2014
My beloved Russ,
We stand here today, before family and our dearest friends, entirely mindful that we are a product of our pasts. At the same time, we are fully invested in this sacred moment, publicly proclaiming our commitment to one another and detailing our vision for our collective future. We can't change where we've been, even if we wanted to, but together we can move forward with grace and consideration, charting together a map for the road we envision our lives to follow.
We both came into this relationship with a sense of purpose. As many people here know, we first met on Match.com. (I was attracted to his hair.) Meeting with common intention, it took us a while to realize that the goals we'd each initially had had already been fulfilled. But the friendship that first formed between us during that on-again/off-again time provided the foundation for this life we now share.
As my profile back then stated, I lead an ordinary/extraordinary life. I was looking for someone to enhance the extraordinary factor, which you have in spades.
French writer Andre Breton noted that "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself," and you've done just that for me. When we met, I was a struggling single dad, with an amazing two-year-old son and a dead-end job. While I'd had creative aspirations, I'd decided to focus on raising Mason, and my identity quickly narrowed. But in me, you saw a writer, and encouraged me to follow my passion. You saw a person of spirit, and now our church family has become one of our strongest sources of support. You saw more than my surface, and opened my eyes to the possibility of a new way of living.
One of the things I mentioned in my profile was that I was looking for someone to lovingly challenge me, and you've done that as well. While we initially saw our differences as obstacles—something to get over—we finally realized that these aspects of us were actually complementary. Your drive at work inspired my career determination. Your zeal for fitness inspired my love for boot camp. And your creativity and unique take on the world helps inform everything from our home, to the trips we take, to our spirited family dinners. We continually bring out the best in each other, encouraging personal growth.
When it comes to our boys, you tend to not get the credit you deserve. Not only do you work tirelessly to create the best possible life for us, but your love, guidance, and support—even telling the kids five million times to pick up their clothes—all of that plays an instrumental role in shaping Mason and Marcus into becoming the best people they can be.
French dramatist Victor Hugo wrote, "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." Neither of us is perfect, and never will be. But despite that knowledge, we continue to love, and our love grows only stronger as the years progress.
It seems only fitting that we are now taking this step into matrimony. We could have done this before, but today the time, place, and the people feel "right." We are both committed to each other, to our children, and to completing our journeys together. And so this I vow to you…
Trust. I was a bit bruised, lacking in the trust department, when we first met, but you quickly cured me of that with your forthrightness. I vow to you my trust.
Faith. I believe in you, Robert Russell Noe. You have such gifts and creativity, and I fully support who you are. I believe you can do anything you attempt, and I place in you my faith.
Commitment. You're it. There will be no other. This I vow to you.
And, most importantly, but not lastly, love. I love you. I believe that somewhere along the line, you never received the vital message that you are worthy of love, and lovable. But you are. And I want you to feel love—to experience love—and vow to show you every day that you're worthy of love.
Mason: I vow to show you my love.
Marcus: I vow to show you how much I love you, Pappy.
And, finally, if there is anything lacking in our relationship, I think it is spontaneity and surprise. While we came together born of purpose, we didn't have those fireworks and ringing bells—the romantic notion of love—that many have. You and I made the decision to be committed to each other and the kids, and in our day-to-day attempts to ensure we do everything necessary to keep our lives afloat, sometimes romance and surprise take a back seat to practicality. But that ends today. I vow to you, Russ, romance, spontaneity, and surprises…
And that starts right now. (I then launched into singing "La Vie en Rose" with guitar and accordion accompaniment–with the intro sung in French, which I don't speak!)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Photographing LGBT Families, But Were Afraid to Ask
Accompanying a recent Huffington Post article I wrote was a photo of my family, taken by Sara + Ryan Photography. That one photo resulted in so many terrific comments and queries from readers about the duo's work, which is primarily focused on LGBT families, that I thought it would be fun to learn more about them and their journey to their photographic specialty. Both were happy to share how they became straight allies for LGBT equality and to specialize in photographing our unique community.
Given that you are both straight, how did you come to specialize in photographing LGBT families?
Sara: My sister is gay, as well as my best friend, and both have long term partners, but we didn't necessarily intend to specialize in LGBT families and couples, though we always knew we would be open to it. With both of these couples, however, we found that neither had ever had professional photos taken, until our sessions with them, as they felt it might be awkward to get pictures taken at a portrait studio.
So they felt more comfortable, given your relationship?
Sara: Yes, because they knew that we were completely comfortable with them being themselves. After that, we started getting a lot of referrals. Of course, we still photograph straight families as well, but most of our clientele is now in the LGBT community.
Ryan: We talked to a lot of same-sex couples who'd had previous experiences, where photographers had assured that they had experience photographing same-sex couples, only to feel that the photographer was a bit uneasy during the shoot, whether being uncomfortable personally, or in attempting to pose the couple as a traditional straight couple might be. (more…)


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The spatial and temporal scales of information from GCMs, from which climate scenarios have generally been produced, have not been ideal from an impacts point of view. The desire for information on climate change regarding changes in variability as well as changes in mean conditions and for information at high spatial resolutions has been consistent over a number of years (Smith and Tirpak, 1989).
The scale at which information can appropriately be taken from relatively coarse-scale GCMs has also been debated. For example, many climate scenarios constructed from GCM outputs have taken information from individual GCM grid boxes, whereas most climate modellers do not consider the outputs from their simulation experiments to be valid on a single grid box scale and usually examine the regional results from GCMs over a cluster of grid boxes (see Chapter 10, Section 10.3). Thus, the scale of information taken from coarse resolution GCMs for scenario development often exceeds the reasonable resolution of accuracy of the models themselves.
In this section we assess methods of incorporating high resolution information into climate scenarios. The issue of spatial and temporal scale embodies an important type of uncertainty in climate scenario development (see Section 18.104.22.168).
Since spatial and temporal scales in atmospheric phenomena are often related, approaches for increasing spatial resolution can also be expected to improve information at high-frequency temporal scales (e.g., Mearns et al., 1997; Semenov and Barrow, 1997; Wang et al., 1999; see also Chapter 10).
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Editor's note: Ed Rollins, who served as political director for President Reagan, is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign
Ed Rollins says McCain should attack Obama's policies but not his character.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- With four weeks to go till Election Day, the road ahead for John McCain is straight up the side of an ice-covered mountain.
But John McCain, the courageous, self-described maverick of the Senate, has been overcoming obstacles and surviving near-death experiences all his life.
Since announcing his exploratory committee five days after his party's shellacking in the 2006 midterm elections, John McCain's campaign has been a roller coaster of ups and downs.
Some of the obstacles he has had to overcome were self-inflicted. Others were placed in his path by a commander in chief who is now tied for the lowest approval rating in history and will certainly break that record before leaving office next January 20.
According to the latest Gallup polling, 87 percent of the country thinks the economic picture is getting worse -- another record. The Republican brand is as damaged as at any time since the Watergate scandal 35 years ago. The country is facing the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression nearly eight decades ago.
With all of the bumps in the road since he announced for president on David Letterman's show in March, 2007, McCain has yet to face the kind of intense test that awaits him in the closing weeks of the campaign. But nobody is yet willing to say he can't win. His victory is doubtful but not impossible.
The financial crisis bailout vote is behind him. But the crisis isn't. The Sarah Palin debate (Joe Biden was also there) is now behind him.
A confident, charming Sarah Palin did everything in her debate that could be expected. There is little more she can do but rally the base. The debate on the Iraq war and the surge or on who would be the better commander in chief is not as relevant today to voters. The completion of the war is still ahead, but that's after November.
What's ahead for John McCain is a short 30 days to make voters take a second look at him and a hard look at what an Obama presidency will bring.
Obama is still an unknown entity. The Senate's most junior member was ranked 99th in seniority when he announced he was running for president on February 11, 2007.
Since then, we have seen thousands of pictures and heard hundreds of speeches and watched in amazement as his team has put together a brilliant campaign that beat back the Democratic establishment candidate Hillary Clinton. But we still don't know him.
What his campaign has done is create a "brand" that represents change. But voters don't know what that means. Hillary tried to make the Democratic race about her qualifications versus his. Experience as a brand failed miserably. "Experience" represented the status quo in Washington and that's just what Americans didn't want.
John McCain tried to do the same thing. He knew he was the better candidate -- the more experienced candidate who could get things done in Washington. He resented being tied to Bush's failed policies or even to his party's ideology. He was an independent, a maverick who was going to be different.
Maverick (who voted with Bush 90 percent of the time) vs. Change was still a losing argument. So as we come to the end of the most expensive and longest running campaign in history, the polling numbers and the battleground states are all moving in Obama's favor. What are McCain's options to turn this race around?
From what I hear, the campaign's plans are to put John McCain back in the seat of his A-4 Skyhawk bomber and drop bomb after bomb on Obama to try to convince voters he is unfit to lead.
I think that formula will lead to failure, just as Hillary Clinton's strategy failed.
Personal attacks won't work this late in the campaign and may backfire on McCain. He must attack Obama's policy and spending proposals. iReport.com: Do you support the recent campaign attacks?
When you are fighting a brand, you must redefine the brand. "Change" means what? Is change the "Robin Hood tax policies" of traditional Democrats that shifts earned wealth from productive people and small businesses that create jobs to those who have not had the same success?
Is change adding billions of new entitlement programs as promised by Obama in a time of record deficits? That is certain to make the recession deeper and last longer.
Is change altering our spending priorities away from national defense and weakening our military or homeland security in a time of uncertainty both at home and abroad?
With two debates left and four weeks for a national dialogue, let's find out who these guys really are and what direction they want to take this country. We are still in a war on two fronts. We are in an economic disaster. America has no faith in the political or financial leadership in this country.
Democrats will still control both houses of Congress and add more House and Senate members after this election. I promise you they are not about change. They are about taxing and spending.
Electing President Obama would eliminate important checks and balances on liberal Democratic power in Washington and that could be a disaster. It was a disaster when Bush and the Republicans controlled it all. It was a disaster when Clinton and the Democrats controlled it all.
John McCain, your challenge is to tell us what Obama's change means! Is it just rhetoric, or if not, is it really change in a bad direction? Don't waste your time beating up on him. Challenge his ideas and promises.
If you can do it effectively, you might come back from the deficit you now face. If you can't, you face the possibility of an electoral and popular defeat of landslide proportions.
The good thing about ice is it melts with heat. Mr Maverick, turn up the heat!
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By now, it looks fairly certain that 56-year-old California resident Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is the main man behind the controversial anti-Islamic film that helped spark numerous protests in the Middle East.But what do we actually know about Nakoula B. Nakoula?
He has a checkered past with the law
Nakoula was has a history of "check-kiting" — whereby you remove money from a bank account before the bank realises it is fraud. In 2010 he was forced to pay $790,000 in fines for federal bank fraud and sentenced to 21 months in prison. The Federal Bureau of Prison's show he was released in June 2011.
Nakoula's criminal history goes further than that, however. In 1997 he was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine and was sentenced to jail, the Daily Beast reports. He violated probation in 2002 and was forced to return to jail.
He has also had a series of financial problems.
He loves pseudonyms
It is believed that when Nakoula was first contacted by reporters for the AP on Tuesday, he told them he was an Israeli Jew called "Sam Bacile". This was also the name on the YouTube account that promoted the "Innocence of Muslims" films, and the director of the anti-Muslim film gave various similar names to cast and crew members. If Sam Bacile really is Nakoula, it appears the name is based on his own middle name (when confronted by the AP the following day, Nakoula reportedly used his thumb to cover "Basseley").
Nakoula denies he is Sam Bacile, though a phone used to contact Bacile was linked to his address by AP reporters.
Apparently if Nakoula is "Bacile" wouldn't the first time that he used a different name. According to Wired, Nakoula is know to have used at least 14 nicknames: "Matthew Nekola; Ahmed Hamdy; Amal Nada; Daniel K. Caresman; Kritbag Difrat; Sobhi Bushra; Robert Bacily; Nicola Bacily; Thomas J. Tanas; Erwin Salameh; Mark Basseley Youssef; Yousseff M. Basseley; Malid Ahlawi; even P.J. Tobacco."
He isn't a very good film maker
Assuming Nakoula is Bacile, the evidence here is pretty obvious — the film itself.
Reports from cast and crew make it sound like Nakoula (or, possibly, Bacile) had little or no film-making experience. One writer who worked on the script described it was ""awful — terribly bloody" to Buzzfeed's John Herrman. Later an actor who worked on the film emailed Herrman to describe some of the problems during filming:
Red flags included (but were not limited to): the shoddy television studio that we were told was lent to us by an Egyptian Christian media group, payments issued by personal checks and $20 bills straight from the producer's wallet (he introduced himself under the pseudonym,"Sam", though the name on the check was much different), and, ultimately, the absence of an official script.
He's a Coptic Christian
Despite the fact that "Sam Bacile" claimed to be an "Israeli Jew", Nakoula is — by multiple accounts including his own — a Coptic Christian.
Coptic Christians are the followers of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Egyptian branch of the Orthodox church. This may explain why the trailer for the movie first spread to Egypt (and why the Egyptian government has reacted so angrily to it).
Understandably, California's Coptic Christian community has moved to distance themselves from the Nakoula and the film — one pastor Business Insider said he knew Nakoula but that he only attended services "infrequently".
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"Thank you for kindness. I look forward to celebrating this holiday season with my son, and will think of our troops, and offer up a prayer of gratitude each time I look at our tree. Merry Christmas and God Bless you."
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Kasl Christmas Tree Farm
Memory Lane Christmas Tree Farm
Prairie Pines
Strawberry Hill Christmas Tree Farm
Windy Knoll Tree Farm
Mahoney's Garden Center
Dr. Rick Jenkins
Homestead Gardens
Pinetum Christmas Trees
Woodlake Tree Farm
Piper Mountain Christmas Trees, Jim Corliss
The LaCasce Family
Tom and Joanne Bond
Dana Graves
Gary and Melba Fisher
Rob and Tammie Mulvey
Brett and Regine Mitchell
Clem and Merrilee Meserve
Wayne Adams
Art and Joe Young
Len and Nancy Price
Stephen Higgins
Frank Zmigrodski
Dun Raomin' Christmas Tree Farm LLC
Doug Kell
Todd Murphy
Mike Pomeroy
Chuck Masalin
Bryant LaPlante
Armintrout's Tree Farm
Badger Evergreen Nursery
Dutchman Tree Farms
English Gardens
Farnworth Tree Farm
Gwinn's Tree Farms
Janke Tree Farm
Korson's Tree Farms
Mathisen Tree Farms
Needlefast Evergreens
*Peacock Road Tree Farm, LLC
Peterson's Tree Farm
Tannenbaum/Koelling Farms
Wahmhoff Tree Farms
Meert Tree Farms
Meier's Horse Shoe Pines
Chub Lake Tree Farm
Covered Bridge Farm
Crow River Nursery
Cupkie Christmas Village
Eddie's Evergreens
Farmer Doug
Goldenman Tree Farm
Happy Land Tree Farm
Jan's Christmas Trees
Log Cabin Pines
Northern Connections Wreath Co.
Olive's Trees
Petersen's Tree Farm
Pinestead Tree Farm
PQT Co./Rum River Tree Farm
Revoke Christmas Treess
T.E.C. Trees
Vichorek Enterprise
Wolcyn Tree Farm
Aaron, Paul & Patricia
Aldag Tree Farm
Clover B Tree Farm
Katalari Farms
Pinecrest Tree Farm
Prairie Woods
Santa's Woods
Spilker's Pineridge Tree Farm
Stone Ridge Farm
Walnut Grove Tree Farm
Windmill Pines Tree Farm
Yonkey Pines
Appalachian Stitching Company
Bank of New Hampshire
Beech Hill Automotive
Bethlehem Elementary School
Bob White
Christine Ordin Etz
Embroidery by Everything Personal
Farmstead Acres
Franconia Village Store, Inc.
Harmony Rebekah Lodge #16
Janice and John Robie
Jody and Bethany Wood
K.A. Darges
Kathleen Kohatsu
Kimberley and Scott Johnson
Littleton Food Coop
Meggin Dossett and Joshua Tuohy
Michael and Azure Neveln
Mountain View Dental
New England Wire Technologies
Nigel Manley
Noel'sTree Farm LLC
Northern Builders
Notchnet, Inc.
Paul Lister
Redrock Farm
Richard and Shannon Leslie
Richard Boisseau
Rosie Shea
Russell Reay, Paxton Greens
Samantha Fillion
Shelli J. Robert
Strafford School District
The Rocks Christmas Tree Farm
Weir Tree Farms
*The Fir Farm, Bobby Clark
*Donaldson's Greenhouse
Triple Creek Farm and Nursery
Woodsedge Tree Farm
*Wyckoff's Christmas Tree Farm
Abel's Tree Farm
Adams Fairacre Farms
Alexander's Tree Farm
All Western Trees
Almeter Tree Farm
Aman's Nursery
Applegate Tree Farm
Bailey Family Christmas Trees
Balsam Acres Tree Farm
Bauman's Farm Market
Bean Station Tree Farm
Beckwith Christmas Tree Station
Bell's Christmas Trees
Bilmar Nurseries Inc.
BJ Christmas Trees
Bob's Trees
Brickle's Tree Farm
Buttonwood Farms
Chuck Hafner Farms
Country Pine Tree Farm
Country Roads Tree Farm
Critz Farms
Darling's Tree Farm, Dick & Mary Ellen Darling
Darling's Tree Farm, Milferd Darling
Domes Tree Farm
Downs Family Christmas Trees
Ellms' Christmas Trees
Emmerich Tree Farm
Empire Evergreens
Erieway Tree Farm
Evergreen Acres
Fabulous Firs
Farm Side Acres
Field of Dreams
Finnerty Hill Tree Farm
Fox Run Enterprises
Franke's Nursery
FW Battenfeld & Son
Goderie's Tree Farm
Goode Trees
Grace Farm
Granger Tree Farm
Grzenda Farm
Hahn's Tree Farm
Hardenburgh Farm
Henderberg's Trees
Herba's Acres Tree Farm
Hidden Springs Tree Farm
Hills Tree Farm
Holland Hill
Hurd Family Farms
Jack's Christmas Trees
Joe Licata Trees
John Blasz Tree Farm
Keenan's Tree Farm
Kent Farms Inc
Keymel's Christmas Trees
Leonard's Evergreens
Lundin's Tree Farm
Manza Family Farm
Maplehorst Farm Nursery
McDonald's Tree Haven
McDonough's Tree Farm
Meadowland Farms
Merrell Tree Farm
Molyneaux Plantation & Tree Farm
Moore Tree Farm LLC
Mountain Ash Tree Farm
Muncy Hill Tree Farm
Neuberts Trees
Nitsche Tree Farm
Ontario Orchards
Over The Hill Tree Farm
Page's Christmas Trees
Pine Farm
Pine Valley Farms
Pine View Farm
Pine Wood Road Christmas Tree Farm
Plainsview Farm
Pleasant Valley Tree Farm
Primrose Hill Farm Plantation
Riverbend Tree Farm
Roberts Family Tree Farm
Romagnoli's Oneida Valley Acres
Rudolph's Christmas Trees
Sausville Farm
Sherwood's Nursery & Tree Farm
Shetler Farms
Shuster's Tree Farm
Sonricker Tree Farm
Springside Farm
Spruce Hill Farm
Stephen's Tree Farm
Stokoe Farm Trees
Sunny Hill Tree Farm
Sunnyside Garden Nursery
Three B Tree Nursery
Three Season
Weathered Willow Tree Farm
Wilbert's Tree Farm
Windy Meadow Tree Farm
Woody Acres
Avery County Cooperative Extension
Barr Evergreens of North Carolina
Bruner Sides Nursery
Bryson Trees
Buck's Tree Farm
C. Grove Farms
Carolina Fraser Fir Co. LLC
Cartner Christmas Tree Farm
Christmas Tree Hill Nursery
Clawson's and Panoramic View Christmas Tree Farm
Cornett Carolina Trees
Cornett Deal Christmas Tree Farm
Collowhee Valley Christmas Trees Inc.
Happy Holiday Christmas Trees
Hawk Mountain Tree Farm
Homer and Bonnie Sides Tree Farm
Hutch's Mtn Trees
JW Evergreens
Kathy Shore Nursery
Licklog Farms
Little Switzerland Christmas Tree Farm
Peak Farms
Presley Tree Farm LLC
Sexton Christmas Tree Farm LLC
Shepherd Farms
Smokey Holler Tree Farm LLC, Earl & Betsy Deal
Snow Creek Christmas Trees , John Wilson
Stone Mountain Farms
Sturgill Tree Farms
Tracy Taylor & Staff, Upper Mountain Research Station
Wake Forest Baptist Church
Windy Gap Tree Farm
Wishon Evergreens
Wolf Creek Tree Farm
*Grandma's Gardens
*Medina Christmas Tree Farms
*Sugargrove Tree Farm
*The Whitehouse Christmas Tree Farm
Grabhorn Farm
Noble Mountain Tree Farm
Wood Mountain Christmas Trees
*Bustard's Christmas Trees
Fleming's Christmas Tree Farm LLC
*Geissler Tree Farms Inc.
*Kenny's Trees
Lehigh Gorge Nursery
Jay Maholik Tree Farm
McConnell's Nursery, Jen Shorts
*Strathmeyer Christmas Trees
Walker's Tree Farm
*Yenser's Tree Farm
Jim Smith's Christmas Trees
Christmas Traditions
Lonesome Pine Tree Farm
Mt. Rogers Tree Farm
New River Tree Co.
Sexton Tree Farms
Smokey Holler Tree Farm
Wolverton Mt. Trees
Aldrich Berry Farm & Nursery Inc.
Hunter Christmas Trees, LLC
KLM Tree Farm
Mistletoe Tree Farm
Snowshoe Evergreen, INC
Tillman Christmas Trees, LLC
Aissvn Tree Farm
Bina Tree Farms
Central WI Evergreens Inc.
Comstock Trees & Service
Cooks' Woods
Edwardson Christmas Trees
Golik's Christmas Tree Sales
Dennis Gusick
Hanauer's Tree Farms
Hann's Christmas Farm
High Ground Tree Farm LLC
Highland Trees
Jon Bigler
John's Evergreens
Kopp Forest Products
Lakeland Evergreens
M & M Trees
Nelson Family Tree Farms
Newby's Evergreen Farms
Noffke Tree Farms, Inc.
North Countree Christmas Inc
Northern Family Farms
Riehle's Tree Farm Inc
Riverside Christmas Trees
Rocky Ridge Tree Farm, LLC
Rolling Hills
Rosenthal Trees
Shawn McDonough
*Schroeder's Forevergreens
Silent Night Evergreens
Skyline Tree Farm
Stake Tree Farm, LLC
Joey Swanson
Tillmann Trees
Trees By Wallace
Whispering Pines Tree Farm
Wilson Christmas Tree Co
Wisconsin Christmas Tree Producers Association
Wojcik's Christmas Tree Farm
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6.6.2 Indirect Forcings of Methane, Carbon Monoxide and Non-Methane Hydrocarbons
CH4 is oxidised primarily (>90%) in the troposphere through reaction with OH. Since the CH4 oxidation cycle provides a substantial fraction of the OH loss in the troposphere, there is strong interaction between OH and CH4. This causes the OH to decrease when CH4 increases, leading to a further increase in CH4. This chemical feedback is examined in Chapter 4. Lelieveld and Crutzen (1992), Brühl (1993), Lelieveld et al. (1993, 1998), Hauglustaine et al. (1994) and Fuglestvedt et al. (1996) estimated that this feedback added 25 to 35% to the direct CH4 forcing depending on the initial CH4 perturbation and the model used. These values are in line with the 30% contribution estimated by IPCC (1992) and the SAR. The tropospheric O3 increase associated with photochemical production from the CH4 oxidation cycle also contributes to enhancing the total CH4 radiative forcing. The forcing from enhanced levels of tropo-spheric O3 estimated by Lelieveld and Crutzen (1992), Lelieveld et al. (1993, 1998), Hauglustaine et al. (1994) and Fuglestvedt et al. (1996) contributes a further 30 to 40% on top of the CH4 forcing, due directly to CH4 emissions. IPCC (1992) estimated a lower contribution of O3 of approximately 20%. Lelieveld et al. (1998) have estimated a direct radiative forcing associated with CH4 increase since the pre-industrial era (1850 to 1992) of 0.33 Wm-2 and an additional forcing of 0.11 Wm-2 associated with OH feedback. The increased tropospheric O3 contributes an additional 0.11 Wm-2 and stratospheric H2O another 0.02 Wm-2. These authors found that the total CH4 forcing (0.57 Wm-2) is higher by 73% than the direct forcing. The CH4 radiative forcing given in Section 6.3 (0.5 Wm-2) and based on recorded CH4 concentration increase includes both the direct and OH indirect contributions. This updated forcing is higher by 14% than the 0.44 Wm-2 obtained by Lelieveld et al. (1998) on the basis of calculated present day and pre-industrial CH4 distributions. In addition to that, oxidation of CH4 also leads to the formation of CO2, providing a further indirect effect.
In contrast to CH4, the direct radiative forcing of CO is relatively small (Evans and Puckrin, 1995; Sinha and Toumi, 1996). Sinha and Toumi (1996) have estimated a clear sky radiative forcing of 0.024 Wm-2 for a uniform increase in CO from 25 ppbv to 100 ppbv. However, CO plays a primary role in governing OH abundances in the troposphere. As indicated by Prather (1994, 1996) and Daniel and Solomon (1998), CO emissions into the atmosphere may have a significant impact on climate forcing due to chemical impact on CH4 lifetime, and tropospheric O3 and CO2 photochemical production (see Chapter 4). The contribution of these indirect effects to the GWPs based on box model calculations are presented in Section 6.12. Similarly, NMHCs have a small direct radiative forcing. Highwood et al. (1999) estimated an upper limit of 0.015 Wm-2 (1% of the present day forcing due to other greenhouse gases) on the globally averaged direct forcing of sixteen NMHCs. As indicated by Johnson and Derwent (1996), the indirect forcing through changes in OH and tropospheric O3 is also small for each NMHC taken individually but can be significant taken as a family. The indirect forcings of NMHCs are still poorly quantified and require the use of global three-dimensional chemical transport models. Accurate calculations of these effects are a notoriously difficult problem in atmospheric chemistry.
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Hi from the "left coast" of the US. I've been doing OO programming from the early days of Smalltalk and then on to Java when it came available in several different roles - application design, OODBMS sales support and personal projects: a flight training application and several for personal and friends use. I might be packaging some of the latter up and make them available.
Glad to find this group!
The question - I'm developing an standalone application and applet based application (hoping to go live with V1) shortly. In the course of building the jars and "user interaction", there are is one area to support other formats of information which is natural for extension either by me or someone else.
The architecture is clean between the model, view and controller. Currently 2 of the 3 types MVCs could easily and "should" be moved into the following scenario:
1. The application controller looks in "known" location(s)
2. If a "package" or "packages" meeting the MVC interface exists, the application loads them and make them available to the user.
The application controller is a standalone application or applet.
Packaging these MVCs in a jar makes sense and having a "known" location is straight forward but what I don't understand is how I get them loaded into the JVM.
From my reading of the java/jar-extension ability it doesn't appear that the build in extension would work for several reasons: my controller will not have prior knowledge of the jar's name, I can't expect the end user to modify their CLASSPATH, they don't belong in the lib/ext.
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