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New York, January 25, 2012--Algeria's new media law falls short of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's promises of reform and also fails to meet international standards for freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
The Algerian government has touted the media law, which went into effect on January 12, as a major step in the advancement of press freedom in the country, but local journalists and civil society activists believe it is still restrictive and are calling for its revision, news reports said. The new law, which replaces the country's restrictive 1990 media law, was passed in December after Bouteflika pledged media reform in April.
Of the law's 133 articles, at least 32 can be used to restrict coverage by stifling free expression, CPJ research shows. Several of the provisions are ambiguous and impose undue restrictions on access to information as well as heavy fines for violations of the law. Journalists are subject to fines of up to 500,000 Algerian dinars (US$6,706) and potential publication closures for defamation and other violations including publishing information on a preliminary criminal investigation and insulting a foreign head of state or diplomat, CPJ research shows. Under the 1990 law, journalists were punished with up to 10 years' imprisonment for insulting or defaming the state.
Local journalists told CPJ that although the new law was a step in the right direction, it offered only cosmetic changes. Kamel Amarni, the secretary general of the Algerian National Syndicate of Journalists, said that even though the law contained some "positive clauses ... it is overall quite restrictive and does not advance press freedom in Algeria but restricts it."
"The government has not honored its pledge to introduce a press law that would expand the margin for expression and liberalize the media landscape," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "The new media law should be revised by the government, and the restrictive clauses should be amended to guarantee press freedom."
The ambiguity created by vaguely defined terms under the new law can subject journalists and bloggers to unnecessary restrictions. "Media" is defined as any publication, broadcast, opinion letter, or idea expressed by any written, audio-visual, or electronic means, CPJ research shows. The law also says that media personnel can operate freely but must respect the "Islamic faith and all religions," "national identity and cultural values of society," "national sovereignty and unity," "requirements of state security and defense," "requirements of public order," and "economic interests," among other broadly defined terms.
The new law also places undue restrictions on media ownership and management, stating that any director of a periodical publication must have at least 10 years of media experience in periodical publications, which was not required under the country's 1990 law. In addition, the new law still considers off-limits the vaguely defined areas included in the old law, among them "news [negatively] affecting foreign policy and economic interests" and "investigative and judicial secrets," CPJ research shows.
Although the new legislation passed with a majority vote in both houses, members of the lower chamber of parliament from the opposition Al-Nahda party walked out in protest, according to news reports. A group of journalists also staged a protest outside parliament on voting day, calling for a reconsideration of the law, Al-Jazeera reported.


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Even the bounces are going the New York Islanders' way on their surge toward the playoffs.
Josh Bailey got two of them on his decisive goal in the second period that gave the Islanders a 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.
First, he got the puck when it skipped over defenseman Adam McQuaid's stick in the neutral zone. Then he scored when Tuukka Rask made a save on his 30-foot shot from the left before the puck bounced behind the Bruins goalie.
"I wasn't really sure" if it went in, said Bailey, who scored both New York goals. "I just tried to get as much of it as I could."
That and the goaltending of Evgeni Nabokov were enough for the Islanders, the seventh-place team in the Eastern Conference, to improve to 8-1-1 in their last 10 and keep pace with sixth-place Ottawa, which won at Philadelphia. Both teams have 46 points, two more than the eighth-place New York Rangers, who were idle.
The Bruins fell to 5-2 in their last seven games one night after moving into second place in the East with a 5-4 win at New Jersey. They dropped back to fourth behind Montreal when the Canadiens beat the Buffalo Sabres, but Boston coach Claude Julien was pleased with his team's play.
"I thought we played a pretty smart game," he said. "The (Islanders') second goal, the puck jumps over McQuaid's stick and trickles through Tuukka. So it's the bounces and stuff like that. So it's not about making excuses. It's about reality. And they were the better team."
The Islanders, seeking their first trip to the postseason in seven years, have a key home matchup with the Rangers on Saturday. But coach Jack Capuano wasn't looking ahead to that local rivalry with each of the remaining seven games potentially affecting their postseason prospects.
"We just approach every period," he said. "Every game is a Game 7-type shift for us. We just have to continue to work. … We're not looking ahead to anything."
Bailey's fourth goal in six games and ninth of the season snapped a 1-1 tie at 13:12 of the second period. Tyler Seguin had tied it for Boston earlier in the period.
The Bruins played without leading goal scorer Brad Marchand, who sat out because of a mild concussion. He was hurt Wednesday when he was elbowed in the head by Devils defenseman Anton Volchenkov. The NHL suspended Volchenkov on Thursday for four games.
Boston already was without center Patrice Bergeron, who missed his fifth game and is out indefinitely with a concussion.
"Obviously, we do miss them," Bruins captain Zdeno Chara said. "But, at the same time, it's not like we can't play without them."
The absence of two of Boston's top scorers helped the Islanders allow two or fewer goals for the ninth time in 10 games as Nabokov stopped 30 shots. They have given up only 15 goals in that span.
"I think we've found a way to be patient," Nabokov said, "Sometimes it's just better to chip the puck out and just go on the forecheck. Early in the season we weren't doing all those things. We had more turnovers."
The Islanders got a lift going into the locker room after Bailey scored the first goal of the game with 21 seconds left in the first period with a slap shot from the top of the left circle that sailed over Rask's right arm. The Islanders had gained the puck in the right corner of their zone. Mark Streit carried it into Boston's zone and dropped it to the trailing Bailey for the shot.
"That was big. It was real big," Capuano said. "Then it was just the opposite. We come out in the second and we can't score and they bang one in."
The Bruins' poor power play finally produced when Seguin scored his 14th goal at 3:41 of the second period after Brad Boyes was penalized for delay of game. Boston is ranked 24th in the NHL on power plays, but Seguin scored easily when he took a pass across the crease from Gregory Campbell and shot into the open left side of the net.
Less than 10 minutes later, Bailey scored the go-ahead goal.
"The first period was (our) best first period in a long time," Julien said after the Bruins' third game in four nights. "Our guys were trying. We just ran out of gas."

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Oh, those gleaming white teeth. Whiter than a picket fence. A Tic Tac. A porcelain toilet. They blind us from billboards, bedazzle us from screens and make us squint at magazines. How can we ever compete? With bleach, of course, courtesy of our dentist, "whitening spas" and a battalion of over-the-counter concoctions: white strips, age-defying chewing gum, paint-on gels, leave-in trays, even brightening toothpaste and mouth wash.
"I'm obsessed," says Jamie Burkhart, a 23-year-old college student from Cleveland, and self-proclaimed "bleachorexic" who has been brightening her smile for about a year with Crest Whitestrips. "I have ridiculously white teeth, but I still don't think they're white enough."
Teeth whitening is the No. 1 requested cosmetic service today and its popularity continues to soar, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. Outside the dentist's office, it's every bit as popular. Americans spent more than $1.4 billion on over-the-counter teeth-whitening products last year alone.
But as successful and satisfying as bleaching has proved for the millions of Americans looking to instantly boost their confidence, hide their age and/or keep up with the Catherine Zeta-Joneses, some have found it to be a real pain. Even worse, those who take it too far may end up doing real damage.
"There are people who can never get enough," says New York City dentist Dr. Irwin Smigel, president of the American Society for Dental Aesthetics. "I've had situations where people have needed root canals because they've overbleached, where tissues were damaged. You can wear away some of the enamel and your teeth will become translucent and unnatural. They'll become blue or blue gray."
Burn, baby, burn
And then there's the burn. A study in the Journal of the American Dental Association found half of people who bleached their teeth experienced temporary sensitivity from whitening treatments, everything from mild tingling to burning gums to knee-buckling "zingers" and/or extreme sensitivity to sound or even air.
Meredith Kummell, 32, of San Francisco says she was "popping Advil like candy" after her BriteSmile session, an in-office whitening procedure that uses a special lamp coupled with a light-activated bleaching gel.
"It wasn't the most pleasant experience, but I don't regret it," she says. "I'm pretty vain and this is something about yourself that you can fix for a reasonable amount of money."
Unfortunately, sometimes we take that "fix" too far.
Burkhart, the college student, just piles on more Crest Whitestrips whenever she feels the need for a retouch. Her first "touch up"? Three months after her initial 14-day treatment. (According to the package, one bleaching session should last for a year).
But she's not worried about gambling with her dental health. "My roommates and I joke that our teeth are going to fall out when we're 32 and we're going to have veneers," she says "But it doesn't really faze me."
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Your teeth won't fall out, assures Martin Zase, president of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and a dentist in Colchester, Conn. "All of the products used in the dentist office are safe and most of the [over-the-counter] products are safe as well, but there are a few that are acidic and acidic products increase the likelihood of decay if you overuse."
Bleachers should aim for a color that matches the whites of their eyes, he suggests. And they should also make sure they consult with a dentist, even before using over-the-counter products, because those who go it alone often end up going too far. "Your teeth look better so you do it some more and you don't know when to stop," Zase says.
Carol Ann O'Keefe, 51, of Seattle, can speak to that. Like many baby boomers, she decided to tap her dentist for at-home bleaching trays in order to remove years of accumulated smoke, coffee and wine stains from her teeth. But the temptation proved too much. "You were supposed to do it three times a day for an hour or two each time, but that was kind of a pain in the butt so I thought, I'll just do it overnight," she says.
The result?
"After six months, my teeth started to get like a pearl look," she says. "They looked thin, like if you put a light behind them, you could see through them. I thought if a little bleach is good, a lot must be really good, but it's not that way. Your teeth will never be porcelain white, like your toilet."
That Hollywood smile
But why would we even want our teeth to look like our plumbing fixtures?
"I hold 'Laguna Beach' responsible," says Kummell, the Advil-popping teeth bleacher. 'Laguna Beach' or 'Survivor.' They all have perfect teeth and when you see that constantly, you start to think, mine aren't perfect."
O'Keefe, who bleached to the point of translucence, points to gleaming white TV teeth, as well. "I see people like Jessica Simpson with these bright white teeth and I can't figure it out," she says. "My teeth will never be Oprah white."
The problem is that few people's will.
"What's being sold to us is the image of the perfect Hollywood smile," says Victoria Pitts, associate professor of sociology at Queens College, CUNY, and author of the forthcoming "Surgery Junkies: The Cultural Boundaries of Cosmetic Surgery."
"But Hollywood smiles are full of veneers. They don't simply bleach their teeth; they don't have the original surface of their teeth. The standards are getting more and more impossible to achieve. Are we chasing a chimera? Absolutely."
A quick glimpse at history shows white teeth have been on the agenda long before the advent of seductive Hollywood smiles and billion-dollar bleaching campaigns.
"People have been doing this for thousands of years," says Dr. Scott Swank, dentist and curator for the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, Md. "The Greeks had formulations and at the beginning of the Renaissance, Europeans were certainly putting compounds on their teeth in a conscious effort to whiten them."
Unfortunately, those compounds were essentially the equivalent of today's Clorox. "It ate the enamel away," he says. "They had whiter teeth for a while, but then they started to see severe decay."
Thankfully, teeth-whitening technology has evolved. With any luck, our tendency to take a good thing too far will do the same — hopefully, before we end up actually needing to pop for those perfect Hollywood veneers.
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Images of a leaked iPhone 4 prototype were posted to a technology blog today. No, I haven't gone back in time and I'm not referring to the Gizmodo iPhone 4 fiasco.
Today, a 64 GB iPhone 4 prototype was unearthed in Shenzhen, China from a Foxconn factory. Apparently, Apple was working on three models of the iPhone with storage capacities of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB, but decided to ship only the first two.
MICGadget has posted images of the 64 GB iPhone 4 on its blog and has confirmed that it is indeed a legit prototype and not some counterfeit iPhone. It is very similar to the iPhone 4 prototype bought by Gizmodo last year and runs iOS 4.1. It has the model number – 995-6049LL and offers 59.1 GB of storage.
It is not SIM-locked and isn't available for sale anywhere. This particular model was obtained from source who has a few of these.
This prototype seems to indicate that the iPhone 5, which will be launched in a few months, will likely offer a 64 GB version.
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|This article or section is likely to dramatically change once Legion begins.
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This is a list of all the [Legendary] (aka orange) items in the game and generally where they come from or how to obtain them.
In World of Warcraft Edit
Weapons Edit
[Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros] Edit
A two-handed mace. Not to be confused with the [Sulfuron Hammer]. The materials needed to create this item can all be found in the Molten Core, though they are very rare drops.
[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] Edit
A one-handed sword. Requires very rare item drops from Molten Core, lots of Elementium from Blackwing Lair, and then you are able to summon Thunderaan, an outdoor raid boss, who then drops the sword.
[Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Edit
The staff was used by Medivh in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
Encounter-limited weapons Edit
[Andonisus, Reaper of Souls] Edit
A conjured sword, Andonisus is dropped by Atiesh (Conjured Item, and No longer obtainable in the game), in the midst of the battle to purify the legendary staff Atiesh, at which point a player would wield it against the demon. It vanishes after 10 minutes, or if the wielder leaves Stratholme.
Items Edit
[Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal] Edit
A crystal that summons a Black Qiraji Battle Tank (fast bug mount). It's exactly like the red, green, yellow, and blue Battle Tanks that can be frequently found in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, but it can be used anywhere in the world, not just AQ40 like the others. A player must complete the extremely difficult Scepter of the Shifting Sands raid-based quest line and be the first to ring the Scarab Gong to open the gates of Ahn'Qiraj, or must ring it within 10 hours of the first player's ring (during the Ahn'Qiraj Invasion event). As the gates are now automatically opened on all new servers, this item is no longer obtainable.
[Enchanted Elementium Bar] Edit
Crafted by miners with a skill level of 300 who have learned the Smelt Elementium ability. Renamed "Enchanted Elementium Bar" from Elementium Bar when Cataclysm was released.
[Eye of Sulfuras] Edit
This item drops from Ragnaros in Molten Core.
Quest items Edit
[Bindings of the Windseeker (left)] Edit
This item drops from Baron Geddon in Molten Core.
[Bindings of the Windseeker (right)] Edit
This item drops from Garr in Molten Core.
[Vessel of Rebirth] Edit
Created when the Bindings of the Windseeker are fused toghether.
[Dormant Wind Kissed Blade] Edit
This item drops from Prince Thunderaan in in Silithus and is turned in to Highlord Demitrian to receive the legendary sword Thunderfury.
In The Burning Crusade EditThis section concerns content exclusive to The Burning Crusade.
Weapons Edit
[Warglaive of Azzinoth] Edit
A main-hand sword that drops from Illidan Stormrage. It can only be used by warriors, rogues, monks, death knights or demon hunters. This item is the first part of the Twin Blades of Azzinoth set.
[Warglaive of Azzinoth] Edit
An off-hand sword that drops from Illidan Stormrage. It can only be used by warriors, rogues, monks, death knights or demon hunters. This item is the second part of the Twin Blades of Azzinoth set.
[Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury] Edit
This legendary bow drops from Kil'jaeden in Sunwell Plateau.
Kael'thas encounter Edit
Advisors around Kael'thas Sunstrider drop seven legendary items for the battle against him:
- [Bundle of Nether Spikes] - removed from game when ammo was removed with Cataclysm.
- [Cosmic Infuser]
- [Devastation]
- [Infinity Blade]
- [Netherstrand Longbow] + Ammo [Nether Spike] - the only legendary arrows, which can be conjured by the bow.
- [Phaseshift Bulwark]
- [Staff of Disintegration]
- [Warp Slicer]
These items will disappear if the encounter resets or the player leaves The Eye.
In Wrath of the Lich King EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Wrath of the Lich King.
Weapons Edit
[Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings] Edit
Val'anyr is a one-handed mace wielded by priests, druids, paladins, monks and shamans and is only available to those classes. Like Atiesh, the hammer is assembled from fragments. The 30 fragments of the weapon drop from bosses in Ulduar.
[Shadowmourne] Edit
A crafted two-handed axe that requires reagents and quests in Icecrown Citadel. this weapon is only available to death knights, paladins, and warriors.
Quest items Edit
[Fragment of Val'anyr] Edit
Drop from bosses inside Ulduar in 25-player mode.
[Reforged Hammer of Ancient Kings] Edit
Received from throwing Shattered Fragments below into Yogg-Saron's mouth as part of [80R] Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings.
[Shattered Fragments of Val'anyr] Edit
Created by assembling 30 Fragments of Val'anyr.
[Unbound Fragments of Val'anyr] Edit
Quest item to use during Yogg-Saron's encounter in order to create Val'anyr, Hammer of Ancient Kings.
[Shadowfrost Shard] Edit
Drop from bosses inside Icecrown Citadel in 25-player normal and heroic mode.
In Cataclysm EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm.
Weapons Edit
[Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest] Edit
Caster staff from a quest chain.
[Fangs of the Father] Edit
Rogue-only daggers from unannounced quest chain in Patch 4.3.
Quest items Edit
[Seething Cinder] Edit
Drops from Firelands raid bosses for Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest quest chain.
[Heart of Flame] Edit
The Heart of Flame will spawn in the center of the lava pool where Ragnaros (Firelands tactics) <Ragnaros> emerges from if the person with 250 [Smouldering Essences] on the Dragonwrath, Tarecgosa's Rest quest chain.
In Mists of Pandaria EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria. The subject of this section has been removed from World of Warcraft.
In Mists of Pandaria players could follow a lengthy chain of quests offered by Wrathion which involved (among several other things) gathering items from the final two raids of the expansion. During the chain, players gained an epic cloak, which was eventually upgraded to legendary quality. The culmination of their efforts, which took a few months of raiding, allowed players to choose from one of six legendary cloaks:
- [Qian-Ying, Fortitude of Niuzao]
- [Qian-Le, Courage of Niuzao]
- [Gong-Lu, Strength of Xuen]
- [Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen]
- [Jina-Kang, Kindness of Chi-Ji]
- [Xing-Ho, Breath of Yu'lon]
The quests to attain these legendary cloaks were removed with the launch of Warlords of Draenor, so players who were unable to complete the quest chain will never have the opportunity to get any of these items.
In Warlords of Draenor EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor. The subject of this section has been removed from World of Warcraft.
In Warlords of Draenor, players could speak to Khadgar at level 98 to begin the newest legendary quest chain. After venturing into several heroic dungeons for items, players would receive an epic ring (item level 640). Players could continue to complete tasks for Khadgar, venturing into Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. At various stages in the quest chain, Khadgar would upgrade the ring three more times (to item level 680, 690 and 715).
Quest items Edit
Players continued to venture into Draenor raids as part of the quest chain, collecting quest items and completing tasks for Khadgar until their ring was eventually upgraded to legendary quality.
Legendary ring Edit
Five legendary (item level 735) rings were released with Patch 6.2. These rings could be further upgraded to a maximum item level of 795 through legendary raid drop items.
- [Etheralus, the Eternal Reward] — healing and shield
- [Maalus, the Blood Drinker] — damage buff
- [Nithramus, the All-Seer] — damage buff
- [Sanctus, Sigil of the Unbroken] — Versatility buff and damage healing sharing
- [Thorasus, the Stone Heart of Draenor] — STR bonus and damage buff
The quests to attain these legendary ringswere removed with the launch of World of Warcraft: Legion, so players who were unable to complete the quest chain will never have the opportunity to get any of these items.
In Legion EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Legion.
[Splinter of Atiesh] Edit
These quest items were a common drop from all bosses, except Sapphiron and Kel'Thuzad, in the original Naxxramas. They were part of a now-removed quest chain to assemble [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian].
[Frame of Atiesh] Edit
Created by assembling 40 Splinters of Atiesh. This was part of a now-removed quest chain to assemble [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian].
[Crafty's Pole] Edit
First discovered in the World of Warcraft Official Armory, this appears to be the first, and only legendary fishing pole. It is believed to be a GM tool for testing new fishing system that was introduced in patch 3.1.
Shortly after this pole was publicly known it was removed from the Official Armory.
[Peep's Whistle] Edit
A flying mount item that summons Peep the Outland Phoenix. This mount increases flight speed by 310%.
[Shard of the Defiler] Edit
Never available in game, but datamined around Patch 1.12.1.
[Talisman of Binding Shard] Edit
This item was added to the game by mistake, dropped only once and is no longer obtainable.
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I have written before about the value of adding pertinent history surrounding or on the date of particular events in the lives of our ancestors. I believe it makes reading our family histories more interesting and sometimes helps to explain their reactions or actions to those events.
Earlier in December 2009 I copied from my father's biography or Notes a description of the The Mexican Punitive Expedition of 1916-1917 because he had participated in that event.
I also added the following taken from the local newspaper of the day: By means of the wonderful long distance telephone, people in Madisonville can now talk with people at Hopkinsville, Nashville, Henderson, Evansville and intermediate points, and the conversation can be as distinctly understood as if the persons conversing were within a few feet of one another. The route will be extended to Louisville in the spring. I added, "his birthday was thus celebrated."
Since Google can tell you almost anything you want to know, today for the first time I asked what happened on his birthday, and this resulted in my adding:
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It's a feeling I'm intimately acquainted with, and it occurred to me as a point of discussion when reading tributes to K Punk which made reference to his pride in being working class. I feel I naturally, unthinkingly inherited it, without ever really understanding it.
What is it about the middle class which compels this shame and self loathing? Is it the awareness of being neither one thing nor the other, of having roots in a working class culture, less buttoned down and servile towards the loathed and envied upper class, and of aspiring towards a condition of upper class cultivation, without possessing the proper credentials to get past the doorman?
And is the concept of 'working class pride' something of a sentimental fantasy (or projection of self loathing) on the part of the middle class?
Anyway, I'll stop banging on now, because I'm sure others will have much more interesting and informed things to say on the subject. Unless they're middle-class, in which case it'll be pretentious waffle (and they're probably drinking posh coffee, the cunts).


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I have had a lot of people ask me about the quilt that is my current avatar.
Here is the info. It was made in Bethel, Alaska as a Puzzle/Mystery quilt. It was made by 24 people in our guild and then quilted by a man in Fairbanks.
AFter it was finished it was taken to the Fiber arts festival in Anchorage where it hung at the art gallery that was premiering the artists latest print. She autographed the quilt and then we had pix made of her with the quilt. It was then raffled off.
So here is the details about a puzzle mystery. Only the chairperson knew what the mystery Print was. She worked for 6 months with the artists to get the correct scale we would need for each of the 24 pieces and to get the legal issues resolved.
then Each of the 24 people received and envelope containing a 2" square of the actual print and a 8" x 16" B&W blow up of that 2" colored print! The directions were to replicate that 2" sq using whatever it would take to do so. Paint, embellishments, etc.
4 months later we had a reveal party and it was super amazing to see the blocks go up in order and the pix become clear....truly one of the most memorable group quilts I have ever worked on.
Since I knew the artist, I was chosen to go to Anchorage for the gallery viewing and have her sign it. Which she did gladly.
Her name is Barbara Lavallee and she is the most wonderful lady in the art community.
THe quilt was raffled off that summer and brought in over $5,000. The person who won, later sold the quilt for nearly 3 times that!
The guild also received permission to make note cards using OUR quilt picture and they sold them for about a year. The artists later paid the guild royalty rights and bought them out so she now prints and sells them. There was NO pattern made for this quilt.
That same year Elaine Braun of Polar Notions also used a BL print to make a wall hanging and she won at the state fair with it and at the Fiber arts festival.
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For over a year, Mitt Romney argued on a nearly daily basis that President Obama inherited a brutal recession but then "made it worse." By March, even the Republican candidate gave up trying to say this with a straight face, and switched to a new line – the economy improved under Obama, but the president shouldn't get credit.
Yesterday, however, Romney's running mate picked up the old talking point as his own. "Now, let's be candid, President Obama clearly inherited a very difficult situation," Paul Ryan told supporters in North Canton, Ohio. "There are no two ways about that. Problem is, he made things much worse."
Indeed, defending himself for being for and against Recovery Act investments at the same time, Ryan added the stimulus "didn't work" and "did nothing to stimulate the economy."
It's tempting to just send Ryan a copy of Michael Grunwald's new book, "The New New Deal," which is arguably the best book on the Obama presidency to date, but since I doubt he'd read it, let's instead review some charts I first published in June after Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, joined economists in arguing emphatically that the Recovery Act was a success.
Here, for example, is a chart showing the nation's GDP before and after the stimulus. Note, once the stimulus kicked in, the economy immediately started growing.
Here's a chart showing private-sector job growth before and after the stimulus. Note, once the stimulus kicked in, job growth immediately improved.
And here's a chart showing the Dow Jones Industrial Average before and after the stimulus. See that low point in March 2009? That's just before the stimulus kicked in.
Now, Ryan might look at this and argue, "Yeah, but the gains didn't last." That's true; they didn't. In the spring of 2010, the Eurozone debt crisis rattled international markets and through the global economy a curve ball. The U.S. gains quickly stalled, right around the time the stimulus funds started to wane. In 2011, unrest in the Middle East, coupled with a Japanese tsunami and Eurozone austerity, provided more global troubles. Ryan's caucus threatening to trash the full faith and credit of the United States didn't do us any favors.
But that's not an argument against the stimulus; it's an argument for more stimulus. The most accurate criticism of the Recovery Act comes from the left – it was too small.
And even putting all of that aside, the economy still isn't worse than when Obama took office. Then the economy was hemorrhaging jobs, now it's adding jobs. Then the economy was shrinking, now it's growing. Then the American auto industry was on the verge of collapse, now it's thriving. Then Wall Street was collapsing, now it's climbing.
The challenge for Paul Ryan, then, is explaining why he thinks "better" means "worse," and why he believes "something" means "nothing."
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We took our boy here a couple of weeks ago and it all went smoothly. We dropped him off at 8am and picked him up at 4pm the same day. Overall it was a good experience, there were only a few things I didn't like. One of the shorter haired ladies at the front desk was very off-putting and unfriendly, as if she was just going through the motions with us, they did not request a full blood panel (unless your dog is over the age of five) and when we came to pick him up we heard him whining (he has a bit of anxiety issues when he's not in his own comfort zone) and the unfriendly lady practically slammed the door to the back so as not to hear him. He's healing up just fine and doing great.
PS. Walking through the kennels was heart breaking.. more than half of the dogs there were pitties or mixed, and there was even a litter of three puppies. It seemed the rest of the majority there were German Shepards and small dogs such as chihuahuas and maltese. You could clearly see that many of the pit puppies had mange and just looked at you with this heartbreaking stare. </3 They seemed to be taken care of as many of the kennels had a volunteer sitting inside them playing with the dogs. There was even an alligator in one of the cages with pools in the back which was surprising.. I told off two of the volunteers who were throwing peanuts from their trail mix trying to get him to "move" because "he hadn't all day". Anyway, end rant.
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Houston texas is S.N.A.P. which has the same prices as most of the other posts. 40/75 and 110 if they have to go find the lost nut*. its at shepard and i-10.
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Go to the ASPCA they will spay / neuter for free for a pit!
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If theres anyone in the Pittsburgh,PA area, go on www.hellobully.org and contact them, my mom is friend with a Pittsburgh police officer and she gave us the number and told us they will do free spay/neuter and vaccines.
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I was looking for a low-cost program for my girl and came across these for Massachusetts:
The MSPCA has two programs one is the SNAP program that gives you a discounted voucher to take to local veterinarians and get a discounted rate. or the PIT PALS program which gives 50 spay neuter for pit/pit mixes. (they had a free pit day in February which i missed naturally)
I also looked into the friends of the animals voucher you can buy for 90$$ but only select clinics take them and I felt more comfortable taking her to the MSPCA than a small clinic i knew nothing about.
The MSPCA has two programs one is the SNAP program that gives you a discounted voucher to take to local veterinarians and get a discounted rate. or the PIT PALS program which gives 50 spay neuter for pit/pit mixes. (they had a free pit day in February which i missed naturally)
I also looked into the friends of the animals voucher you can buy for 90$$ but only select clinics take them and I felt more comfortable taking her to the MSPCA than a small clinic i knew nothing about.
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Found out today that the flint area humane society does a discounted voucher for low income homes!
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Luzerne County Pit Bull owners offers "NEPA Pit Fix" a low cost spay/neuter program for pit bulls. It's $50 male OR female. They can also offer reduced rates for other breeds as well, but the cost is a little higher then the 50 for pit bulls. They'll do out of county dogs as well, provided you are willing to drive.
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Breezy833 wrote:Found out today that the flint area humane society does a discounted voucher for low income homes!
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Gente Por los Animales rescue in Mexicali (down by the border to California) is also having a low cost campaign...100 pesos per pet..around $10.00 dllls... wish i could take one of my dogs, but my family is not playing to having them fixed yet.
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It doesn't take much to bring an automotive assembly line to a halt, according to John Mendel, CEO of Honda's U.S. subsidiary, even "something as small as a speedometer needle."
It's a lesson the automaker has had driven home after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, killing tens of thousands and all but shutting down the country's auto industry for the better part of a month. Since then, shortages of various parts and components, some as small a speedometer needle, have forced a sharp cutback in production by Japanese automakers.
The disaster has led many companies, including Toyota, Nissan and many automotive parts makers, to consider whether they should reduce their dependence on factories built in quake-prone and increasingly high-cost Japan. The so-called "hollowing out" of the Japanese auto industry has been under way for a number of years, but the pace seems certain to accelerate in the wake of the March disaster.
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"I fully understand that we can't go on with just a desire to protect manufacturing in Japan," lamented Toyota's CEO Akio Toyoda last month as he announced that the carmaker's January-to-March profits had plunged by 77 percent.
Even though the disaster occurred during the final weeks of the quarter, it cost Toyota more than $1.25 billion in losses. That figure is expected to grow substantially in the months ahead. Just through the end of March the maker lost an estimated 170,000 units of production. The number will likely surge closer to the million mark before Toyota production is fully back to normal, which it doesn't expect until November or December.
Toyota is by no means alone. Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Suzuki … there isn't a Japanese carmaker that hasn't felt the impact of the crisis. And the disaster has reached well beyond the confines of the home islands. Honda last week revealed production of the all-new 2012 Civic, produced at plants in Indiana and Ontario, won't be back to normal until "sometime in the fall."
But the biggest impact from the disaster has been in Japan, where it has been more difficult for carmakers to find alternative sources for parts in short supply, including onboard microprocessors, resin and rubber components.
Yet that is only one reason why automotive executives are rethinking where they need to put their factories. The 110 billion yen loss attributed to the earthquake was dwarfed by 290 billion yen in losses due to shifting exchange rates.
With the dollar approaching record lows compared to the yen it's "increasingly looking like the only thing [automakers] could afford to build in Japan are luxury cars and products for the domestic market," said John McElroy, a longtime automotive analyst and host of the television program "AutoLine Detroit."
With nearly half its production based in Japan, Toyota is clearly the most vulnerable to shake-ups, whether they rock the ground or financial markets. The carmaker says that one yen of appreciation for the Japanese currency translates into a 30 billion yen hit to its bottom line. Toyota expects little moderation in the months to come and is now forecasting the yen will reach 86 yen to the dollar, compared to an earlier projection of 85 to 1.
One of the most cautious and conservative of the Japanese automakers, Toyota has nonetheless been moving production offshore at a steadily growing pace. But it lags behind Honda and Nissan, the latter today producing barely a quarter of its total volume at home market plants.
Japanese auto and truck plants produced a grand total of 9.6 million vehicles in 2010, compared to 7.7 million vehicles assembled in the United States. Due to quake-related shortages, analysts say production volumes could come close to parity in 2011; while Japanese "transplant" lines have had to trim back, Detroit plants, and those run by Korean and European makers are largely picking up the slack.Story: Finding the best incentives in new car deals
Longer-term, most observers anticipate a continued hollowing out of Japan's automotive production base. The U.S. continues to benefit. Once it became clear brands like Toyota and Honda could achieve comparable productivity and quality levels with U.S. workers, the carmakers saw numerous advantages to building vehicles in the same market where they're sold. Shipping costs were lower, for one thing, and using a just-in-time production base allows a carmaker to better respond to sudden shifts in market demand.
There's also a practical reality. In recent years carmakers like Toyota have had a more difficult time luring young workers to their plants, where many employees traditionally lived in Spartan corporate barracks, notes McElroy. The country's rapidly declining population is worsening the challenge of keeping a trained and motivated workforce.
Japanese automakers aren't the only ones rethinking their factory plans.
Among the suppliers impacted by the March 11 disaster was German chemical firm Merck, which operates a one-of-a-kind paint pigment plant in Japan's quake-devastated northeast. Ford was one of a number of carmakers forced to curb orders for certain hues dependent on that plant's products. The facility recently resumed operations, but Merck says it will now build another pigment plant outside Japan.
Other suppliers, such as Renesas, one of the world's largest automotive microchip vendors, are feeling pressure to move at least some production. And many suppliers will shift operations to stay close by to customers like Toyota or Nissan.
The Japanese auto industry is likely to remain a potent force, but increasingly manufacturers will supply their brands from plants that are less vulnerable to earthquakes, exchange rates and other disadvantages that have been making the Land of the Rising Sun a difficult place to do business.
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THESIS LECTURE SERIES: Andrés Jaque
Thursday, November 21, 2013, 5 - 7pm
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The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Fall 2013 Thesis Lecture Series
Architecture as Rendered Society
Presentation by Andrés Jaque | Office for Political Innovation
Andrés Jaque (born 1971 in Madrid) is an architect and thinker. His work explores the role architecture plays in the making of societies. He has been considered one of the most challenging contemporary European architects. In 2003 he founded the Office for Political Innovation, a trandisciplinary agency engaged with the making of an ordinary urbanism out of the association of heterogeneous architectural fragments.
Andrés Jaque has lectured at a number of universities around the world, including Berlage Institute, Columbia University GSAPP, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Princeton University, Bezalel Academy, Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá or the Instituto Politecnico di Milano, among others. He is currently teaching at GSAPP, Columbia University.
His work has been exhibited at the Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum in Basel, the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), the Biennale di Venezia. and at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). His work 'IKEA Disobedients' (Madrid, New York 2012) was the first architectural performance to be included in the MoMA's collection.
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The End of Net Neutrality As We Know It?
On Thursday, 5/15 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) meets to propose new rules "to protect and promote the open Internet." It has no choice because a U.S. appellate court threw out parts of its current rules in a January decision favoring the telephone company Verizon. The decision did not eliminate FCC authority to regulate the Internet, but it did make it more complicated.
So while the FCC has no choice but to act at some point, where the FCC does have a choice is deciding what to do. The problem is that some of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's preliminary comments suggest he's for killing the core feature of the open Internet, Net Neutrality, in order to save it. While he has retreated somewhat, he has generally indicated he is in favor of allowing Internet providers (big phone and cable companies) to charge extra for "paid prioritization." You may recall this issue as it was originally described years ago: "paying for fast toll lanes on the Information Superhighway." It would allow big, rich companies -- think Google, Amazon and Netflix -- to dominate the web and make it harder for the next innovative, new, small competitors in tomorrow's dorm rooms and garages to ever catch on. And it would give commercial content a huge advantage over important non-commercial content, like you see at U.S. PIRG, The Consumerist, Free Press or any of thousands of other non-profit or government sites you use.
By allowing companies to pay more to gain faster access means others will have slower content, coming and going. As Professor Tim Wu, who originally developed the concept of and coined the term "network neutrality" told Jeff Sommer for a story in the NY Times this weekend, "Defending the Open Internet:"
"Sometimes what everybody thinks about the law is more important than what the law itself says. I think that's what's happened with net neutrality. It's become a kind of norm of behavior, what you can and can't appropriately do with the Internet. It's got to be open. Except for legitimate purposes like protecting the network itself, there shouldn't be discrimination against one form of content or another or one provider or another. And people generally accept that. Until now, the idea in a way has been more important than what the regulations have actually said."
Indeed, that's why some of the big companies that would clearly benefit from the Wheeler proposal have pulled away from it, in a letter to Wheeler and the FCC. That letter, and Wheeler's response, are discussed by David Carr of the New York Times here. Of course, as the article notes, Netflix, despite signing the pro-net neutrality letter, has already started paying extra for faster lanes, since the January court decision.
This blog post from our ally Free Press links to some key letters and documents and also explains how you can join in opposition to the FCC proposal, including by joining a rally outside the FCC Thursday. Free Press even has a special site with downloadable materials you can add to your site (such as the megaphone graphic in this post). Ally Public Knowledge notes on its own blog that at least two of the five FCC commissioners, Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn, want tougher rules than Wheeler originally proposed. As the PK blog and numerous sources note, Wheeler now has clarified that he remains "open" to re-classifying the Internet as a "telecommunications service." It's a critical legal distinction. The Internet is currently an "information service," which is a category subject to less FCC regulatory authority and leaves the future of an open Internet at risk. Of course, any re-classification will be opposed by Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, to name a few companies, but not really at random.
Apparently the FCC's getting a lot of calls. The papers are reporting that its answering machines urge you to hang up and send an email. Commissioner Rosenworcel has asked for the Thursday vote to be delayed, but new drafts could be shopped to other commissioners by Wheeler as early as today.
Here's a link to a pdf of Tim Wu's original 11 page paper from June 2002, "A Proposal For Network Neutrality."
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I've uploaded Ghoulblasters, my free restatement of West End Games' Ghostbusters RPG system from the 80s. What ya gonna download?
Hi there, neighbor, I'm jpatterson (JP for short), a user and chat moderator here on Pen & Paper Games. First off, welcome to the PPG site and forums if you haven't been welcomed! Feel free to post and ask questions, start topics, look for games, make posts looking for games or players or just chat in the Introductions and Offtopic forum categories.
I'd also like to take a moment to turn your attention to PPG's local site chatroom, its activity displayed in real-time at
Hi everybody, just dropping by to offer this link to a site I have up that has some various random generators for everything from gems to useless items, technobabble and wrestling moves (and wrestler names and stats). (I know there are a ton of various kinds already on the net, but I feel like some of what I offer may be different than can be found easily and might be useful. A few friends and gamers have used some of them and find them useful on occasion, so I figured I'd share with others
These are a few examples from my Snake Generator, which I've converted to Inspiration Pad.
The descriptives use the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay setting, but they can be changed to anything.
Name: Central Thick Moon Moccasin
Length: 43 feet
Diameter: 473.2 inches
Weight: 499 lbs.
Fear of Man: Cozy Home-Visitor
Aggressiveness: Low (Lover-Not-Fighter)
Toxicity: 2 LD50, 1-Low (1 quart may kill a human adult in 24h)
Name: Rhya's
Although I posted this on my website, I feel like this is neat enough to reproduce as a blog post here:
So you'd really like to get a good representation of a building or room for your rpg session, to help immerse the players in their characters' situation? There are a number of ways to do that, but here I am going to tout Sweet Home 3D, a free 3d home design application, available on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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An advocacy group is making a second attempt to place a site where a levee breached during 2005's Hurricane Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places.
This time the group's application is trying to get around opposition by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which built the ill-fated flood walls.
Last year, the National Park Service rejected an application by Levees.org to have two breach sites placed on the register. One of those sites was owned by the corps.
This time, the organization is focusing solely on a breach site that is not owned by the corps. So, corps officials who oppose the application won't have a role in the process.


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Right of First Refusal in Child Custody Orders. What is it and is it good for me?
by Chris Dietrich
What is a right of first refusal for childcare?
A right of first refusal, also called a right of first option for child care, is a general term for a child custody order provision which provides that if the custodial parent is unable to be with the child during their scheduled time (be it for work, school, or other engagements) that the other parent is given the option to watch the child before non-parties (like babysitters, nannies, or daycare providers) are called in. The idea behind these types of provisions is that it is best for the child's development to be with parents to the maximum extent possible.
The devil in the details of right of first refusal orders
As stated above, the term "right of first refusal" is a general term describing a type of order. Without specific language regarding the purpose, intention, and limitations of how a right of first refusal should operate, an agreement that the parties "have a right of first refusal" isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
Common Considerations:
- How frequently are situations where a right of first refusal may apply going to come up? If a schedule provides one parent with time which they are consistently unable to exercise it may be necessary to consider revising the general parenting schedule to establish a more stable routine.
- Is work related childcare included in the right of first refusal? A common reason that one may use childcare is so that they can go to work. Some parties expressly exclude work related childcare from the right of first refusal so that the child can have a more consistent routine, while others want to include work related childcare needs in a right of first refusal to maximize the time the child is with a parent. It is important to address this particular need in crafting a right of first refusal.
- What minimum amount of time should the custodial parent be unavailable before a right of first refusal kicks in? Viewed legalistically, a general right of first refusal without specific limitations could require one parent to call the other if they have to have someone watch the child for a quick shopping trip, requiring the parties to spend more time coordinating logistics than the amount of time the custodial parent is going to be away. To avoid such an absurd result the language of a right of first refusal order only comes in to play if the custodial parent has to be away for several hours or more. The minimum amount of time which is appropriate varies on each individual family and their needs.
- What about time with extended family? Even if a parent is unavailable during their parenting time there are a variety of good reasons they may want to have the child spend time with extended family members. Read legalistically, a right of first refusal could be read to bar this time with extended family unless the custodial parent is present. It's a good idea to discuss this issue and determine what exceptions like this may apply to a right of first refusal.
The right of first refusal is such a common part of California child custody orders that the California Judicial Council added form language to an optional child custody order attachment for the courts and family law litigants to use to create a right of first refusal for childcare. The form language reads as follows:
"Right of first option of child care. In the event either parent requires child care for (specify number) ______ hours or more while the children are in his or her custody, the other parent must be given first opportunity, with as much prior notice as possible, to care for the children before other arrangements are made. Unless specifically agreed or ordered by the court, this order does not include regular child care needed when a parent is working." – FL 341(D) – Optional Additional Provisions – Physical Custody Attachment
While the judicial council form language is good and will work for many parents, it is important to ensure that the considerations above are addressed so that a right of first refusal is right for you and your unique needs.
Who is a right of first refusal good for?
Whether a right of first refusal makes sense for you depends on many factors. My experience working with a variety of families shows that generally a right of first refusal can be successful in the following situations.
- If the parents have a good communication skills with each other. The implementation of a right of first refusal requires regular civil communication between parents. Of course, good communication skills do not happen by accident and can be learned, giving such an order a greater chance of success, but this order should not used for parents who are constantly arguing.
- If one (or both) parent(s) have variable schedules. If work, school, or other constraints require one or both of the parents to be unavailable for chunks of their parenting time, making it impossible to set an exact workable schedule, a right of first refusal may be the best solution to that problem.
- Parents who work together with flexibility and cooperation. Like many other parenting issues, being flexible and cooperative with the other parent is good for the productivity of the co-parenting relationship and is good for the children involved. Parents who do this well in practice (but who may need a little help establishing general guidelines on how to do so) can often benefit from a right of first refusal.
Who is a right of first refusal not good for?
Experience also shows that there are some for which a right of first refusal would not be a good idea and may even make a difficult situation worse.
- If there is a history of domestic violence between the parties (whether or not a restraining order is in effect) a right of first refusal may cause more harm than good as it requires a high level of communication with the other parent.
- If one parent's time is limited to supervised visitation a right of first refusal would not be consistent with the child's best interests.
- If the parents do not communicate well a right of first refusal will likely not operate well in practice.
- If one or both parents are inclined to legalistic behaviors and interpretations of court orders regardless of how that impacts the children, such an order may lead to disputes.
- If the parents do not live close to each other, for practical reasons.
For assistance in determining whether a right of first refusal is workable for you and your needs please contact our office to schedule a consultation with one of our experienced child custody attorneys.


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126.96.36.199 Radiative processes in the stratosphere
The stratosphere lies immediately above the troposphere, with the height of the bounding tropopause varying from about 15 km in the tropics to about 7 km at high latitudes. The mass of the stratosphere represents only about 10 to 20% of the total atmospheric mass, but changes in stratospheric climate are important because of their effect on stratospheric chemistry, and because they enter into the climate change detection problem (Randel and Wu, 1999; Shine and Forster, 1999). In addition there is a growing realisation that stratospheric effects can have a detectable and perhaps significant influence on tropospheric climate.
Solar radiative heating of the stratosphere is mainly from absorption of ultraviolet (UV) and visible radiation by ozone, along with contributions due to the near-infrared absorption by carbon dioxide and water vapour. Depletion of the direct and diffuse solar beams arises from scattering by molecules, aerosols, clouds and surface (Lacis and Hansen, 1974).
The long-wave process consists of absorption and emission of infrared radiation, principally by carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, water vapour and halocarbons (CFCs, HFCs, HCFCs, PFCs etc.). The time-scales for the radiative adjustment of stratospheric temperatures is less than about 50 to 100 days.
For CO2, part of the main 15 micron band is saturated over quite short vertical distances, so that some of the upwelling radiation reaching the lower stratosphere originates from the cold upper troposphere. When the CO2 concentration is increased, the increase in absorbed radiation is quite small and increased emission leads to a cooling at all heights in the stratosphere. But for gases such as the CFCs, whose absorption bands are generally in the 8 to 13 micron "atmospheric window", much of the upwelling radiation originates from the warm lower troposphere, and a warming of the lower stratosphere results, although there are exceptions (see Pinnock et al., 1995). Methane and nitrous oxide are in between. In the upper stratosphere, increases in all well-mixed gases lead to a cooling as the increased emission becomes greater than the increased absorption. Equivalent CO2 is the amount of CO2 used in a model calculation that results in the same radiative forcing of the surface-troposphere system as a mixture of greenhouse gases (see e.g., IPCC, 1996) but does not work well for stratospheric temperature changes (Wang et al., 1991; Shine, 1993; WMO, 1999).
An ozone loss leads to a reduction in the solar heating, while the major long-wave radiative effects from the 9.6 and 14 micron bands (Shine et al., 1995) produce a cooling tendency in the lower stratosphere and a positive radiative change above (Ramaswamy et al., 1996; Forster et al., 1997). Large transient loadings of aerosols in the stratosphere follow volcanic eruptions (IPCC, 1996) which leads to an increase of the heating in the long-wave. For the solar beam, aerosols enhance the planetary albedo while the interactions in the near-infrared spectrum yield a heating which is about one third of the total solar plus long-wave heating (IPCC, 1996; WMO, 1999). In addition, ozone losses can result from heterogeneous chemistry occurring on or within sulphate aerosols, and those changes produce a radiative cooling (Solomon et al., 1996).
The Antarctic ozone hole is a stratospheric phenomenon with a documented impact on temperature and, during the period 1979 to 1994, ozone decreases very likely contributed a negative radiative forcing of the troposphere-surface that offset perhaps as much as one half of the positive radiative forcing attributable to the increases in CO2 and other greenhouse gases (Hansen et al., 1997; Shine and Forster, 1999). It appears that most of the observed decreases in upper-tropospheric and lower-stratospheric temperatures were due to ozone decreases rather than increased CO2 (Ramaswamy et al., 1996; Tett et al., 1996; Bengtsson et al., 1999).
The subject of solar effects on climate and weather (see Section 6.10) has enjoyed a recent resurgence, in part because of observational studies (Labitzke and van Loon, 1997), but more so because of modelling studies that suggest viable mechanisms involving the stratosphere. As solar irradiance changes, proportionally much greater changes are found in the ultraviolet which leads to photochemically induced ozone changes, and the altered UV radiation changes the stratospheric heating rates per amount of ozone present (Haigh, 1996; Shindell et al., 1999a). Including the altered ozone concentrations gave an enhanced tropospheric response provided the stratosphere was adequately resolved.
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