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Diamond Hogs Thump Texas A&M
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Jordan Farris and Dominic Ficocello both hit home runs to lead Arkansas (26-15, 10-7 Southeastern Conference) to a 12-2 win against Texas A&M Saturday night at Razorback Stadium.
Farris finished the night hitting 3-for-5 with 5 RBI, giving him 14 in only 18 games played this season. The freshman infielder is hitting .356 with a .587 slugging percentage in limited duty.
Arkansas rapped 15 hits in the game, the most this season against a conference opponent. Brett McAffee and Matt Vinson both had three hits, while Ficocello and Joe Serrano added two apiece.
Junior pitcher Ryne Stanek (5-2, 1.36 earned run average) won his third consecutive start, allowing one run on five hits in six innings with nine strikeouts, just one shy of his career high in a game.
Farris hit a two-run single in the first inning that gave Arkansas a 3-0 lead, after Brian Anderson's double into the left field gap scored Matt Vinson.
Joe Serrano singled and stole second with two outs in the second, and Vinson drove him in with a single to extend the lead to four.
Farris hit his third home run of the season in the third, a two-run shot over the left field wall that made it 6-0.
Ficocello's second home run of the season made it 8-0 in the fifth, and then the Razorbacks scored two runs in both the seventh and eighth innings to pull away for the victory.
The weekend series is now tied at one game apiece. Left-hander Randall Fant (2-1, 2.36 ERA) will start on the mound for Arkansas in the series finale Sunday at 1:00.

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Bravo Earns Best 2nd Quarter in Network History With Dobule-Digit Growth Among Adults 18-49
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NEW YORK - June 28, 2011 - Continuing its ratings momentum, Bravo Media earned its best second quarter in network history, delivering its fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth among all key demos in primetime and 23rd consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth among total viewers in total day, according to Nielsen Media Research. The network averaged 878,000 total viewers and 569,000 adults 18-49 this past quarter, marking double-digit growth with a 10 percent increase among adults 18-49 and a five percent increase among total viewers compared to Q2 2010. Bravo maintains its position as the No. 1 network with the most upscale, educated and engaged audience in cable entertainment and ranks as the No. 11 cable entertainment network in primetime, the third fastest growing Top 20 cable entertainment network, in the coveted adult 18-49 demo for year-to-date. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com and follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BravoPR.
Fans continue to connect with their favorite shows and Bravolebrities beyond the television screen as Bravo Digital posted a strong eight percent growth garnering over 3.8 million unique visitors a month in the second quarter. Bravo Mobile delivered its best quarter ever in page views and video streams, up seven percent and 540 percent, respectively compared to Q2 2010. Bravo Mobile also delivered its best June ever in unique visitors and streams.
Bravo earned its highest rated Monday night (8-11pm) in network history among all key demos on May 16 driven by "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" which delivered the highest rated season premiere in the network's history with 2.5 million adults 18-49 and the highest rated season premiere in the Housewives franchise with 3.5 million total viewers. On pace to record its highest rated season of the series averaging 3.1 million total viewers, season three is recording double-digit growth with an 11 percent increase among total viewers compared to the previous season.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884 – 1962)
American Humanitarian Reformer, Diplomat and Writer
One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, Eleanor Roosevelt has left a lasting legacy through her humanitarian accomplishments as reformer, diplomat and writer. Her personal life also reflects a singular triumph of self-realization in the face of formidable emotional and societal obstacles.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City into a life of wealth and social privilege (her uncle was President Theodore Roosevelt). Shy, introverted and physically plain, she also suffered the loss of both parents at an early age. After her marriage to her distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905, she spent the next several years as wife and mother to their six children.
In the post-World War I years Eleanor Roosevelt become independently active in a variety of political and social causes, such as the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League and the women's division of the Democratic Party. By the time of her husband's election as President in 1933, she was poised to assume an increasingly public role as spokesperson for a number of other groups: African-Americans, youth, the poor and others in need of a humane political voice.
As First Lady for an unprecedented 12 years, Roosevelt's behind-the-scenes influence was great. Additionally, her widely distributed syndicated newspaper column, radio show, formal press conferences and extensive travelling furthered her promotion of liberal humanitarian causes. Perhaps her most publicized activity in this regard was her resignation from the Daughters of the American Revolution when that group refused to allow African-American singer Marian Anderson to perform in the Constitution Hall in Washington (which was owned by the organization). Anderson later appeared to widespread publicity and great acclaim at the Lincoln Memorial.
The Roosevelt marriage having evolved into an intellectual and political partnership, Eleanor Roosevelt subsequently developed her own circle of close women friends, several of whom were lesbians. Her most intense emotional attachment was with a prominent newspaper correspondent, Lorena Hickok; their surviving correspondence (about 3,500 letters) gives strong evidence of a lesbian relationship.
Following the death of Franklin in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt maintained a highly visible and active life in national and international politics. Appointed in 1945 by President Harry S. Truman as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations, she became chair of the committee that produced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. She continued to write a variety of newspaper and magazine columns, as well as a number of books. Until the end of her life, Roosevelt was an influential member of the Democratic Party. She died in New York City.
Criticized during much of her public life for her outspoken liberal views, Roosevelt was virtually universally admired during her later years (Truman dubbed her 'first lady of the world'). In subsequent decades, that reputation has endured and further intensified.
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Please Hammer don't hurt 'em!
MC Hammer, the flamboyant 90s rapper best known for his glitzy attire and dance moves, announced his return to the hip-hop scene by attacking megastar Jay-Z in a new video, reports the New York Daily News.
In "Better Run Run," Hammer accuses Jay-Z of being a poseur and says that the reigning king of hip hop stole his "swagger." In the video, a man shown to be impersonating Jay-Z is seen running from a devil-like figure.
U.S. & World
"I can see it in his eyes, the boy sold his soul. Devil said, I'mma give you the world, I'd take it, plus give me the girl," which is an apparent reference to Jigga's wife, Beyonce Knowles.
Why the beef between a megastar mogul and a hip-hop has been? It appears that Jay took a few swipes at the "U Can't Touch This" MC on "So Appalled," a track from Kanye West's forthcoming album.
"And Hammer went broke so you know I'm more focused/I lost 30 mil so I spent another 30/Cause unlike Hammer 30 million can't hurt me," he said, highlighting the fact that MC Hammer declared bankruptcy in 1996, despite selling millions of records.
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Sarah Palin vs. Ke$ha
At the end of the day, they're both trying to sell a product. Themselves. And they both do a great job in their distinctive niche.
— From a project in which @alicetiara, an assistant professor at Fordham studying social media, asked her students to compare the Twitter accounts of a politician and a celebrity


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Another nail in the coffin for science
Posted 02 May 2013 - 07:11 PM
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 04 May 2013 - 09:15 PM
May 4, 2013
Academic warmists celebrate book burning at San Jose State University
Thomas Lifson
At the San Jose State University Meteorology Department, they'd rather burn books than read them, if their faith in the gospel of man-made global warming would be challenged by the contents. That is the message conveyed on the Department's own website (archived here) with the picture below which was published there along with this explanation:
This week we received a deluge of free books from the Heartland Institute {this or this }. The book is entitled "The Mad, Mad, Made World of Climatism". SHown above, Drs. Bridger and Clements test the flammability of the book.
Anthony Watts of Watt's Up with That documented the posting, calling it something "from the Fahrenheit 451 department."
When I first got the tip on this, I thought to myself "nobody can be this stupid to photograph themselves doing this" but, here they are.
Alison Bridger, on the left, is Department Chair of Meteorology at SJSU, while Craig Clements is an Associate Professor. These are persons of standing, not crazy grad students pulling a prank. No, they are making a profound statement about their intellectual methods. The Chancellor
These people with PhDs are indeed fools, made so by a fundamentalist faith that offers redemption from imagined hell fires (check out the fires burning on the wall behind them).
When you are going to save the world from the fires of hell, that gives meaning and purpose to your life. (It also keeps the research grants coming.) Anything which threatens the theology providing meaning and sustenance must be extinguished (even if the subsequent combustion produces carbon dioxide, the very Satan of their Manichean scheme).
Posted 04 May 2013 - 09:56 PM
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 04 May 2013 - 11:23 PM
??? I am sure you didnt mean that is a hateful way
I don't understand your comment. Please explain?
Posted 05 May 2013 - 12:17 AM
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 05 May 2013 - 01:25 AM
You said the nazis were good at burning books too.. as in they were good at burning the Jews.
You have evidently come in at the end of this thread, without having read the thread in its entirety or any of the preceding threads.
Had you done so, you would have understood both the point of the posting and the relevance of my reference to the Nazis.
Particularly, you would be aware of the fact that the supporters of "The Great Global Warming Scam" directly attack those who challenge their assertions. They have long since abandoned the principles and philosophy of scientific enquiry and debate and now freely apply the political tactics employed by the Nazis in their program of firstly dehumanizing their opponents, then exterminating their opposition.
To illustrate; and you can find elaboration on each of these points in the various threads that deal with this issue:
- The warmists have labeled those that dispute the scam as "deniers".
This is an evil, deliberate and calculated political tactic to smear their opponents with the hateful association with those that deny the Holocaust.
By associating their scientific opponents with the Holocaust deniers, the warmists hope to discredit the opposing arguments.
In this way, when their "science" is shown to be bogus, the warmists revert to the hateful political smear. The smear is more effective than a bogus argument.
- The warmists have publicly and openly called for those that dispute the scam be put to death.
- In Nazi Germany, numerous academics and intellectuals were very prominent and enthusiastic supporters of the policies and practices of the Nazi death machine.
It is no coincidence that in the previous posting we see a couple of academics burning a book. Even worse, one of these academics is the head of a university department.
Think of what these two intellectuals are teaching their students.
- During the Russian revolution, the most active murderers of those opposing communism were academic intellectuals. It was commonplace for them to go marauding around the countryside murdering anyone they even suspected of being "counter-revolutionary", and in the evenings get together and read poetry to each other.
- "The Great Global Warming Scam" has done irreparable damage to science in general.
In recent years, scientists have gone in public perception from people generally trusted, to being rated as equivalent to lawyers, used car salesmen, and politicians.
Scientists are now viewed as just another vested interest lobby group.
- If you choose not to inform yourself by reading the previous threads on this subject, I suggest that you at least read the following books:
- "Blue Planet in Green Shackles" by Vaclav Klaus
- "Intellectuals and Society" by Thomas Sowell
- "Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:24 AM
I am not a total schmuck an idiot, I had read the posts. I am sorry if you thought I was trying to pick a fight. I seen that comment and the thing that came to me was negativity.
If you didn't mean it like that then I apologize, I am only human, with a very big heart.
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 05 May 2013 - 11:16 AM
When you are a Jew such as I am, and you lost family in the holocaust, and you see a comment like that, brings back memories.... feelings, emotions and pain.
I am not a total schmuck an idiot, I had read the posts. I am sorry if you thought I was trying to pick a fight. I seen that comment and the thing that came to me was negativity.
If you didn't mean it like that then I apologize, I am only human, with a very big heart.
I am sorry, please do not think I am a mean and ugly person. The subject of Nazis is still very sore. my apologies !
I hope you have a good day, I am glad you are trying to show people that hate, racism, and injustice is ignorance.
BE WELL my friend !
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:08 PM
When you are a Jew such as I am, and you lost family in the holocaust, and you see a comment like that, brings back memories.... feelings, emotions and pain.
I am not a total schmuck an idiot, I had read the posts. I am sorry if you thought I was trying to pick a fight. I seen that comment and the thing that came to me was negativity.
If you didn't mean it like that then I apologize, I am only human, with a very big heart.
I am sorry, please do not think I am a mean and ugly person. The subject of Nazis is still very sore. my apologies !
I hope you have a good day, I am glad you are trying to show people that hate, racism, and injustice is ignorance.
BE WELL my friend !
I have sent you a personal message.
Posted 05 May 2013 - 09:18 PM
you are a good person
SHALOM my friends !
Posted 19 May 2013 - 10:18 PM
Harvesting forests to reduce fossil fuels the next big boondoggle
- by: Bjorn Lomborg
- From: The Australian
- May 20, 2013 12:00AM
WE are all brought up to recycle paper to save trees. Indeed, environmentalism was born with a call to preserve the forests.
But now, in the name of saving the planet from climate change, environmentalists are proposing a global campaign to cut down and burn trees to reduce fossil-fuel use. This could be dismissed as a weird irony if it weren't for its phenomenal costs, which include likely destruction of biodiversity, increased water use and reduced global food production. And it may increase global CO2 emissions to boot.
When most people think of renewables, they imagine solar panels and wind turbines. Globally, however, solar and wind were less than 7 per cent of renewables in 2010. Hydropower is a much bigger player, at 17 per cent.
But most important is biomass, humanity's oldest fuel that makes up 76 per cent of renewable energy and 10 per cent of all energy. About 60 per cent of this is wood, twigs and dung, used by almost three billion people who lack modern fuels, resulting in terrible air pollution and millions of deaths.
But the West uses the other 40 per cent of biomass to produce heat, and it will increasingly use it to generate electricity. This makes sense; because solar and wind power are inherently unreliable we still need electricity on cloudy days or when the wind dies down. Biomass (along with hydropower) can be used to smooth the fluctuations inherent to wind and solar.
Biomass is experiencing a revival, because it is considered CO2-neutral. The conventional wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero.
But a growing number of voices challenge this view. The European Environment Agency's Scientific Committee has called it a "mistaken assumption" based on "a serious accounting error" because if a forest is cut down to burn wood it will take a long time for new growth to absorb the CO2 emissions. The effect could be a net increase in emissions if forests are cleared to plant energy crops.
According to the committee's members, "the potential consequences of this bioenergy accounting error are immense". Environmentalists' plan to obtain 20-50 per cent of all energy from biomass could mean a tripling of biomass consumption, placing its production in direct competition with that of food for a growing global population while depleting water supplies, cutting down forests and reducing biodiversity.
An academic paper published last year makes the point clear in its title: "Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral". Its authors point out that, while the industrial revolution caused climate change, reliance on coal was actually good for forests because our forebears stopped raiding them for wood. This is one of the major reasons why forests in Europe and the US have recovered, and why many forests in developing countries are threatened.
The developed world's re-enchantment with biomass could take it down a similar road.
But the biggest problem is that biomass production pushes other agricultural production elsewhere. In Denmark, researchers estimated how much various crops would reduce CO2 emissions. For example, burning a hectare of harvested willow on a field previously used for barley (the typical marginal crop in Denmark) prevents 30 tonnes of CO2 annually when replacing coal. This is the amount proud green-energy producers will showcase when switching to biomass.
But burning the willow releases 22 tonnes of CO2. All of that CO2 was soaked up from the atmosphere the year before; had we just left the barley where it was, it too would have soaked up quite a bit, lowering the reduction relative to coal to 20 tonnes. And, in a market system, almost all of the barley production simply moves to a previously unfarmed area. Clearing the existing biomass there emits an extra 16 tonnes of CO2 a year on average (and this is likely an underestimate).
So, instead of saving 30 tonnes, we save four tonnes at most. And this is the best-case scenario. Of the 12 production modes analysed, two would reduce annual CO2 emissions by only two tonnes, while the other 10 actually increase total emissions up to 14 tonnes a year.
At the same time, we are paying a king's ransom for biomass. Germany spends more than $3 billion annually or $167 per tonne of avoided CO2 emissions, which is more than 37 times the cost of carbon reductions in the European Union emissions trading system.
And the estimate of avoided emissions ignores indirect land use changes, making the likely real cost at least eight times higher.
Ten years ago, the EU and the US embraced biofuels to combat global warming. Today, the US turns 40 per cent of its maize into ethanol to fuel cars. This has driven up food prices, caused tens of millions to starve, costs more than $17bn a year in subsidies and causes agricultural deforestation elsewhere in the world, with more total CO2 emissions than the entire savings from the ethanol. Biofuels are an almost unstoppable, unmitigated disaster.
We need to confront the potentially much bigger biomass boondoggle. Yes, we should turn waste into energy and be smart about agricultural leftovers.
But we are about to diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive, and waste hundreds of billions all while cutting down trees to burn them and potentially increasing CO2 emissions. We have been brought up to know and do better.
Bjorn Lomborg is adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School.
Posted 22 May 2013 - 10:12 PM
Here's the abstract. If I have the correct article it looks to me that thesefive authors are arguing just the opposite of what the article's author you quoted thinks and states .
Owing to the peculiarities of forest net primary production humans would appropriate ca. 60% of the global increment of woody biomass if forest biomass were to produce 20% of current global primary energy supply. We argue that such an increase in biomass harvest would result in younger forests, lower biomass pools, depleted soil nutrient stocks and a loss of other ecosystem functions. The proposed strategy is likely to miss its main objective, i.e. to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, because it would result in a reduction of biomass pools that may take decades to centuries to be paid back by fossil fuel substitution, if paid back at all. Eventually, depleted soil fertility will make the production unsustainable and require fertilization, which in turn increases GHG emissions due to N2O emissions. Hence, large-scale production of bioenergy from forest biomass is neither sustainable nor GHG neutral. http://onlinelibrary...1169.x/abstract
I found the full article here: http://ncfp.files.wo...bon-neutral.pdf
On Lomborg himself all is not what it appears to be. This is from the site Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.or...-skeptical.html
The heavily promoted book, published by Cambridge University Press, has received significant attention from the media and praise from commentators writing in The Economist, The New York Times, and Washington Post. For example, the Post's reviewer (a philosophy professor from New Zealand) concluded that it was "a magnificent achievement," and "the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962." Meanwhile, groups with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo are using the book to promote their "no need to take action to address global environmental problems" agenda. For example, the "Cooler Heads Coalition" -- formed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and others to "dispel the myths of global warming" -- featured Lomborg in a Capitol Hill briefing on global warming.
Does this book merit such positive attention? Does Lomborg provide new insights? Are his claims supported by the data? A healthy skepticism towards the claims of others is, after all, one of the hallmarks of good science. And, at first glance, Lomborg's book appears to be an objective and rigorous scientific analysis. It is published by a leading academic press, and contains an extensive bibliography and nearly 3,000 footnotes.
So is this a nail in the coffin? Doesn't look like it is to me.
Edited by ohreally?, 22 May 2013 - 10:13 PM.
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Posted 28 May 2013 - 01:31 PM
For those of you who have not yet slashed your wrists in despair, check this out:
It's unclear to me why we should have slashed our collective wrists by now. What is the point you are making about a company doing what it can to mitigate it's carbon footprint. Watts wrong with reducing your carbon footprint? Even Anthony does it by using less energy. From his blog. http://wattsupwithth...ghts-fantastic/
Posted 28 May 2013 - 08:42 PM
Thank you for reaffirming Einstein.
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A 31-year-old Massachusetts man was fatally stabbed early Thursday at a marina in Fells Point, according to police and a city councilman. Police said a suspect, a 43-year-old Odenton man, was in custody.
Police identified the victim as Osher Perez and the suspect as Raymond Mundy. The killing happened around 2:30 a.m. off the 2100 block of Aliceanna St., after an argument between the two, Perez's friends told police.
According to charging documents, Perez's friends told police they were with him in a red, two-door Ford Mustang at the intersection of Aliceanna and S. Washington streets when the suspect approached. They said Perez rolled down the window as the man walked up to the driver's side of the car, then swore at Perez and lunged, punching him in the face and body. Perez drove off, realizing that he was bleeding and must have been stabbed, his friends said.
He pulled over in the 2400 block of Boston St., where a patrol officer found them with their emergency lights on, police said. Perez was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he died just before 4 a.m., police said.
A motive for the killing was not identified by police. Mundy, of the 1300 block of Huntover Dr., was identified in a lineup by witnesses and arrested Thursday in the 2000 block of Aliceanna St. He faces charges of first-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and use of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure, police said.
The Baltimore Police Homicide unit is investigating, and anyone with information may call 410-396-2100.
The killing had "nothing to do with the area," Councilman James Kraft said. "They ancitipate the case being closed rather quickly."


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Mosher's Gambit
Everybunny is familiar with the usual run of ideas
- First they ignore you.
- Then they ridicule you.
- And then they attack you and want to burn you.
- And then they build monuments to you
CRU data was requested by McIntyre for one purpose and one purpose only. To ascertain whether there was any "value added" by CRU as they had repeated and claimed. The purpose was not to create an "independent" assessment, although many of us have done that. In short we found what we expected to find: nothing, no substantive value added by their processing.The tactic being to bury such silly claims in a large pile of offal so that others simply pass over the new insertion, rinse, repeat and as we all know, say it once and it is a habit, twice a revered tradition. But this is Rabett Run and the Rabetts RTFR.
Of course some idiots expected that CRU had somehow cooked the data. This was never McIntyre's supposition. This was never my supposition. Quite the opposite. We expected that CRU was overselling they "value" that they added to the data, featherbedding if you like.
In short this is arrant nonsense. Jones was the first to build a reliable global temperature record. The CRU, GISS and NOAA surface temperature records provide(d) reliable regional as well as global patterns of surface temperature change. Each of these (and the BEST and the RSS and UAH records as soon as they release their software to the public) have different advantages and disadvantages which are and have been discussed in the literature, and, sad to say distorted on several blogs with with Mosher is associated.
Now Eli could go on about the value of the CRU surface temperature record, but the Oxburgh committee summed it up
In the latter part of the 20th century CRU pioneered the methods for taking into account a wide range of local influences that can make instrumental records from different locations hard to compare. These methods were very labour intensive and were somewhat subjective. Much of this work was supported by the US Department of Energy and was published with the details of station corrections several times a year. Since the 1980s the Unit has done no more of this work and have concentrated on the merging and interpretation of data series corrected by others. There have been various analyses of similar publicly available data sets by different international groups. Although there are some differences in fine detail that reflect the differences in the analytical methods used, the results are very similar.Whatever
The Unit has devoted a great deal of effort to understanding how instrumental observations are best combined to derive the surface temperature on a variety of time and space scales. It has become apparent from a number of studies that there is elevation of the surface temperature in and around large cities and work is continuing to understand this fully.
Like the work on tree rings this work is strongly dependent on statistical analysis and our comments are essentially the same. Although there are certainly different ways of handling the data, some of which might be superior, as far as we can judge the methods which CRU has employed are fair and satisfactory. Particular attention was given to records that seemed anomalous and to establishing whether the anomaly was an artefact or the result of some natural process. There was also the challenge of dealing with gaps in otherwise high quality data series. In detailed discussion with the researchers we found them to be objective and dispassionate in their view of the data and their results, and there was no hint of tailoring results to a particular agenda. Their sole aim was to establish as robust a record of temperatures in recent centuries as possible. All of the published work was accompanied by detailed descriptions of uncertainties and accompanied by appropriate caveats. The same was true in face to face discussions.
We believe that CRU did a public service of great value by carrying out much time-consuming meticulous work on temperature records at a time when it was unfashionable and attracted the interest of a rather small section of the scientific community. CRU has been among the leaders in international efforts to determining the overall uncertainty in the derived temperature records and where work is best focussed to improve them.
The Unit has demonstrated that at a global and hemispheric scale temperature results are surprisingly insensitive to adjustments made to the data and the number of series included.


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Great Expectations
I'm scared about tomorrow night.
No, I'm not scared of Lucifer. I'm not scared of the apocalypse.
I'm scared of my own expectations.
Season 4 was awesome. Best season ever, consistently good. And I'm scared they're going to drop the ball. I remember being so excited about the premiere of season 3, after the death of Azazel, the opening of the devil's gate, Dean's deal.
And we got "The Magnificent Seven." I still don't like that episode and I couldn't say why. I think maybe they were trying to do too much, introducing new characters, and the rhythm was off. So I'm scared that this will happen again. I mean, they do have a lot of ground to cover, with the boys learning to trust each other again, and, well, Lucifer rising. I'm hoping they pace themselves.
I hope it's as good as "In My Time of Dying," or "Lazarus Rising." I hope we get the balance of brotherly angst and humor and the scary. I hope my expectations aren't too high.
Am I the only one worried? Or do you trust in Kripke?


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The last few years have seen amazing growth in the wireless industry. Wireless network operators have recognized that real growth in revenues and efficient usage of their networks require introduction of non-voice services that provide an opportunity for increased average revenue per user. Such non-voice services include games; entertainment; news; and productivity applications such as calendars, email, and instant messaging. These data-driven applications have become a way for a network operator to define its competitive advantage.
Not so long ago, consumers had little (if any) choice of applications on their handsets. This is rapidly changing. As wireless operators add data services to their networks, virtually any Internet-enabled device within reach of a cellular base station can initiate and maintain a connection to the Internet. The ability to download games or productivity and business applications "over the air" provides significant advantages for increasingly mobile customers.


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Sprint Chairman Says He Wants to Buy T-Mobile
Deal Would Likely Face High Regulatory Hurdles
Sprint Corp. Chairman Masayoshi Son said in a television interview Monday that he would like to buy smaller rival T-Mobile US Inc., confirming his interest in a deal that would combine the country's No. 3 and No. 4 wireless companies and likely face heavy scrutiny from regulators.
In excerpts from an interview with Charlie Rose, Mr. Son made clear he has no formal agreement with T-Mobile and said there are "steps and details" that would have to be worked out. But he said a deal would help Sprint gain the scale needed to better...
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I recently read an article about the insurance industry's assessment of "five global certainties that will impact insurance, business, and the world." With a title like that, you just have to open it and read it, right? I mean, it's only prudent to get smart about global certainties that will impact the world.
So what are these earth-shaking 'megatrends' that will impact business, the world, and of course, the insurance industry?
Well, they are nothing we haven't heard or seen before, and in fact several of them are in the headlines every day, but it is instructive to consider how the insurance industry, which is all about the business of assessing risk, considers the impact of these big trends.
Author Laura Mazzuca Toops reported on an analysis that has been underway for the last three years by PriceWaterhouseCooper, and which was presented recently to the IICF Women's Insurance Forum.
Five Global Megatrends
- Technological breakthroughs
- Climate change and resource scarcity
- Demographic shifts
- Accelerating urbanization
- Shift in global economic power
The panelists, Kelley Buchanan and Tim Ryan of PwC, note that global trends are large scale changes already underway and while they may appear modest now, are estimated to have a profound effect on life as we know it in coming years. The analysis cites some startling statistics about these megatrends. For example, regarding technological breakthroughs, they note that there were only 0.08 connected devices per person in 2003, but by 2020 there will be over 50 billion connected devices, more than six per person!
In terms of resource scarcity and climate change, the world will need to produce 40 percent more water, 50 percent more energy and 35 percent more food just to keep up with population growth. The impacts of global warming in sea-level rise, extreme weather and temperature increases will stretch natural resources even more.
It is widely predicted that the U.S. will become a minority-majority nation by 2043, but perhaps more striking is that a few years after that, we will have the highest percentages of people over 70 and under 5, something that has never occurred before.
Another megatrend that has received widespread attention is the increasing urbanization of, not just our nation, but the world. Back in 2008, half the population lived in urban areas, but by 2050, nearly 75 percent will live in urban areas. The trend will be especially prevalent in the United States with up to 80 percent of the U.S. population predicted to live in urban areas.
So what does all this talk about megatrends have to do with parks and recreation? Plenty.
NRPA Connect is already lit up on a daily basis with questions and discussion about how technology is affecting how people enjoy their parks and participate in recreation programs and events. More and more agencies are going online to reach patrons and purchase registration systems, perform automatic monitoring of buildings and the environment, monitor public safety and employ technology to complete missions. Parks and recreation is being dramatically affected by leaps in technology. In addition, kids will clearly turn to tech to connect to nature and the outdoors. Will it be a barrier or a gateway to richer experiences?
Our nation's greatest environmental challenges will be tested by climate change and global warming. Already climate change is starting to have major effects on coastal cities and park and recreation agencies in low-lying elevations, and it is not just flooding and storm surge that are affecting agencies nation-wide. Extreme weather events in the heartland, scorching drought in the South and West, and concerns about protecting fresh water everywhere are making people ask what can be done? Parks will be in the forefront of public education and coastal protection strategies.
When you consider the implications of the rapid urbanization of America, parks and recreation will have an increasingly important role to play in shaping successful cities. This is where the people will be, this is where the funding will be, this is where the action is.
Parks and recreation will be involved through economic development, urban revitalization strategies, innovation districts and walkable, dense, urban places, (WalkUPS, as they are called by hip urbanists). Combined with huge demographic shifts, majority-minority populations and the rise of metropolitan areas, urban parks will play one of the most important roles in shaping cities. NRPA along with the American Planning Association recently released a white paper that discusses how parks influence economic development, health outcomes and green infrastructure in urban locations.
These five global megatrends are like tidal currents—you don't sense the tide is inexorably coming in, but all of a sudden, you can be floating free and far from shore.
Parks and recreation needs to be on the cutting edge of making these trends work for the people we serve.
What has your response to these trends been so far? What role do you think parks and recreation play in these five trends? Tell us in the comments below or tweet us @NRPA_News.
Barbara Tulipane, CAE is NRPA's President and CEO.


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Section 1031 would strip Americans of all constitutional rights if they are declared 'terrorists'
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The Senate has overwhelmingly voted down an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have provided oversight to check the military's power to arrest U.S. citizens as suspected terrorists on American soil and detain them indefinitely without trial.
"The Senate soundly defeated a move to strip out controversial language requiring mandatory detention of some terror suspects, voting it down 61 to 37 and escalating a fight with the Obama administration over the future course of the war on terror," reports the National Journal.
The amendment, introduced by Colorado Senator Mark Udall, was an attempt to weaken Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, which would basically turn the entire "homeland" into a battlefield and allow the military to arrest individuals accused of being terrorists and detain them indefinitely without trial. Americans would be stripped of all constitutional rights and posse comitatus would cease to exist.
Confusion surrounding whether or not the bill would apply to American citizens was firmly put to bed by Republican Congressman Justin Amash yesterday, when he pointed out that the language clearly gives the executive branch the power of discretion to decide who is a terrorist, whether they are a U.S. citizen or not.
Amash described the 'indefinite detention' provision of the bill as "one of the most anti-liberty pieces of legislation of our lifetime."
Senator Rand Paul has introduced a separate amendment that strikes Section 1031 from the bill altogether, but seeing as the Senate firmly rejected Udall's watered down version, it's unlikely Paul's will be met sympathetically.
Although President Obama has threatened to veto the bill, political observers aren't convinced that he will do so.
"He has said he will. Whether he will is a difficult question because, politically, it's difficult to veto a defense spending bill that 680 pages long and includes authorization to spend on a whole range of military programs," Daphne Eviatar, Senior Associate, Human Rights First's Law and Security Program, told Democracy Now.
Eviatar's organization has which has obtained signatures from 26 retired military leaders urging the Senate to vote down the legislation if the 'indefinite detention' provision is not removed.
"This would be the first time since the McCarthy era that the United States Congress has tried to do this," warned Eviatar. "In the 1950's, that was actually repealed before it was ever used. In this case have seen the administration very eagerly hold people without trial for 10 plus years in military detention, so there's no reason to believe they wouldn't continue to do that here. So we're talking about indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens, of lawful U.S. residents as well as of people abroad."
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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Two systems with 10%, 40% chance of development churn in Atlantic Ocean
The National Hurricane Center is tracking two systems with potential for tropical cyclone development in the Atlantic Ocean.
One of the systems is by the coast of Africa and has a 40 percent chance of tropical cyclone development.
The center said the broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave has slowed down. Environmental conditions were conducive for development as of Friday morning and the system has the potential to become a tropical depression during the next couple of days as it moves toward the Cape Verde Islands.
After the system reaches the islands however, conditions make it difficult for the disturbance to develop further, the center said.
Another system the NHC is monitoring is about 700 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and remains disorganized. The system has a 10 percent chance of development.
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Snowmobile crash in NH leaves man dead, child hurt
9-year-old child suffers leg, chest injuries
A 41-year-old man was killed and a 9-year-old child was seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a snowmobile collision in Auburn.
Officials with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said the two were riding together on a snowmobile in Front Park near Lake Massabesic about 3:30 p.m. when according to witnesses, the two hit a bump, causing the machine to speed up. The victims were ejected from the machine and thrown onto the rocks, while the snowmobile was launched about 72 feet through the air and into a small brook.
Officials said a friend was riding on a separate snowmobile behind the victims when the accident happened. The friend called 911, while two nearby fishermen ran over to help and stood by until the rescuers arrived.
Officials said the man and the boy were both wearing helmets. Auburn Rescue crews responded just after 4 p.m. and transported the child to the Elliot Hospital in Manchester with chest and leg injuries.
The man was also taken to the Elliot Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
"This incident serves as a reminder for all riders to use due care and caution at all times when operating snowmobiles and OHRV's," said Conservation Officer Geoffrey Pushee.
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El Tronco
How 'bout Ramon Troncoso? What an incredible outing he had last night and what an great call by Joe Torre to keep him in there to protect the lead. I guess there's a reason he's going to be in the Hall of Fame as soon as he decides to hang up the uniform. Troncoso's numbers are sick but it's his road ERA that blows me away – 0.53. I think we need a nickname for him. Tronco just doesn't cut it. And while I love that his mom's favorite player was former Rafael Landestoy, hence Ramon's middle name, that might be a bit of a mouthful, too. Any ideas?
And how much more can one say about Juan Pierre? I don't know that I've been this happy for a player in a long, long time. He easily could've pouted his way through the last year and a half and then stunk up the joint when he finally got an opportunity to play, but he didn't and he's been the catalyst for baseball's best team over the past several weeks.
It's a good time to be a Dodger fan, and we should all enjoy the good times as much as we hate the rough patches. At least that's what I try to remind myself.
Meanwhile, it may be rainy and overcast here in LA, but out on Waveland Ave and in Wrigleyville, they surely don't care about the 74-degree overcast weather. They're probably starting their party early for some day baseball and here's the lineup that'll take to the field in a couple hours:
Pierre, LF
Martin, C
Hudson, 2B
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Ethier, RF
Kemp, CF
Castro, SS
Billingsley, P
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Why did we call up a 3rd catcher when we never use our 2nd catcher? Oh and its MAY! why wasted one of Ellis' options?
Gosh damn I'd rather have Kemp bat 2nd.
I'd certainly rather have Hudson bat second – he did well there when it was Furcal, Hudson, and Manny in that order. Now I want to see how Martin can respond in that spot and following all of my disparaging remarks. Get some fire in your belly, you, you former All-Star catcher.
Ramon "The Tank" Troncoso (or) Ramon "Tank" Troncoso. That's got to be taken by someone but it sounds good and just fits.
Hey Max/aeversw!! I forgot to welcome you back the other day……………It's great to see you here again!!!
Have a great game Dodgers!!!
JOSH thanks for the update. And yeah EL TRONCO has been wonderful…we've complained about our pitchers, but boy surprinsingly they have done wonderful. PIERRE is another surprise…now I'm waiting for MARTIN'S surprise…LOL Wow rainy in L.A. rain hasn't hit Riverside yet, but I do see the overcast in L.A. direction.
Will Manny #99 be doing rehab with the 66rs (Inland Empire)?
Ramon THE TANK….LOL I just don't want to see him running around naked LOL! (Old School – movie Frank the Tank Will Farrel)
The Young Guns .38 Special… He has been point blank on the mound.
Why not something simple for Ramon – El Toro. Then they can play Herb Alpert's, The Lonely Bull when he comes in.
Enchanted love your idea…EL TORO…and each time he pitches and the batters strikes, we say OLE!
Too bad he isn't Spaniard
E- Wait isn't that song what Ethier is coming out too?
I like that name enchanted 🙂
Howzitgoin' Everybody
Sorry I can't think of a better nickname than, "El Tronco"
Just hoping for a nice afternoon in Chicago and more important, another win.
I gotta say I really enjoyed watching last night's game on MLBN, I guess I'll have to put up with MLB.TV today with all the problems, but it will be good to get back to Conners and the good humored Lyons.
REDLINED! E- Wait isn't that song THAT Ethier comes out too?
Don't know Russy – I don't get he broadcasts.
O.K. ANDRE' Now shut off the oven and pick up that bat and CLOUT ONE.
El Tronco is good but how about R-Tron?
I was getting my mlb.tv set up to watch the game ( I told my class they can watch a half hour of it until lunch time), and I turned it on only to see Andre's restaurant review he did a while back………………………… LET'S GO ANDRE!!!!!!! LET'S GO DODGERS!!!!!!!!!
I agree oldbrooklynfan …………………. let's go boys!!!!!!!!!!!!
How about Ramon "The Road Warrior" Troncoso?
"Remain breathing."
Excellent advice! LOL!!!
I liked the callup of Ellis to free up Ausmas to PH occasionally and get us back to a 12-man rotation until I read this:
"……but he's expected to stay only until Hiroki Kuroda is activated off the disabled list, which could be as soon as next week."
Wouldn't the return of Kuroda be the opportunity to can Mota? Either Milton or Stultz would go to the pen and either one would be more reliable than Mota. Of course, neither of them makes $3 mil.
I also applauded Torre's decision to leave Troncoso in last night, but it's a shame that he had no choice. Several rested arms down there and not a one to be trusted.
Herb Alpert's TJ Brass……brings back a lot of memories. My dad used to listen to his stuff all the time. I remember drooling over one of his album covers in particular…..LOL!!! Anyone remember that one?
How about T-RAM, or just keep EL TRONCO (and when he is not doing so good we'll change it to EL TRONCO-SO-SO)
I remember the TJ Brass, Dodgereric. And, yes, I remember the one you were drooling over! lol
In case someone missed that, Loney Ked to end the inning.
That's O-Dog for you!!! Let's go Boys!!!
Conners: "Hudson, as advertised"
Nice start Billz!!
Eric, so you like whipped cream?
I like it a lot lbirken! Especially when I was 13!! LOL!!!
Groan……..lead off walk…….started him 0-2…….
Another Ramon name: Ramon "El Oso" Troncoso (Ramon "The Bear" Troncoso)
Eric, that cover still looks pretty good.
Russell is batting and Rick and Charlie are still talking about Juan! They are definitely Juanpians!!!
The album cover in question I believe:
Thanks, Enchanted………now you can make Dodgereric and lbirken drool once again!
Good to see Russell can still reach the seats.
Very nice enchanted! I remember seeing a magazine years ago redo that cover, but with Salma Hayek. Those were some very nice pics!
JP or whipped cream! What a choice of topics.
Atleast Russell got the pitcher to pitch to him 9 times. Get him tired!
Make the Lilly wilt!!!
lbirken ~ I prefer whipped cream!!!
Eric, I am not going to post it here but check out the cover on the re-whipped album.
RE-WHIP it good!
I like to consider myself a boob man.
Surprising then I'm not a fan of Ned and Joe.
And, Enchanted, on that note…..I know I'm getting old when I put my bra on backward and it fits!!!
LMAO Tru!!
E – that's cause you are a boob man not an *** man!
Butt man…sorry I forgot to bad words but it began with an 'A', and end in double 'S'
Hey girls, you're getting into my favorite spot.
LOL, oldbrooklynfan!
Yeah, probably too old.
Eric, see what you started?
Clint Hurdle has been fired……Jim Tracy will be new Rockies manager.
STRIKE out LIL' TED
lbirken ~ it wouldn't be so bad if we had some runs scored so we could chat about the game!
OMG Tru!
Poor Jim…..he sure has a lot of work ahead of him!
Tru, you are right; while we have been talking about body parts there is a heck of a game going on between our boys and the Cubbies.
Is it just me or are we zooming through these innings?
LMAO, lbirken!!! Chad and Ted are both pitching a great game right now.
We are zooming!!!!
C'mon Martin can we get a Homerun from you….pleaseee!
Get rid of Pierre; he has no hits and no runs scored today. He stinks. There, does that make everyone feel better?
Much better, lbirken. Thanks!
Not really – IBERKEN… Martin has done less and I don't wish that for Martin, so I can't wish that to others.
BILZ is having trouble in the odd number innings only.
You all know I'm just kidding about Juan! I want all of our players to do well.
🙂 lbirken
I meant the even numbered inning.
A senior moment there, I guess.
For what it's worth, Torre might use Loney and Blake interchangeably in the cleanup slot, depending on whether we're facing a righty or lefty. Of course, we're facing Lilly on one of his really good days. Maybe we'll have a chance to get into their bullpen, so hold on Billz for another inning, or better yet two.
IBER : that was odd!
Wow – heck of an inning!
I hope Piniella don't get fired now.
Nice defense after Fukudome's hit!!!
Did you hear Hurdle is done?
Hey, anything for a laugh.
We are now officially Happy Kempers!!
That was a scary moment with Fukudome…I was like "WHAT THE ***-U-DO-ME!"
Now that's the MARVELOUS MATTY I Know.
It's about time!
I sure am a Happy Kemper, sparkleplenty!
Getting totally fed up with Andre about this time. Sit down and let Hoffmann or anybody else play for you. Way to go Kemp – it was about time too.
OK time to sing…so ya'll better get up:
That's the problem with these day games! Work gets in the way and you have to step away and look what happens! Just what the doctor ordered.
Whoops, it happened again only for the bad guys.
ouch !!!!!!! a double play… what a terrible may. get this month over and hopefully he starts hitting and fielding like April. But he has more homers this month than Russel
Here we go again….
BILLI wha'zappenin' BILLI!
Bills pitched a good game, but he's over 103 pitches. What ot do?
Bills pitched a good game, but he's over 103 pitches. What ot do?
It could have been worse . . . .
Now, let's get those bats warmed up and make something happen, boys!
we need hits
Another 7 inning gem for BILZ, but I think it's time for the boys in the pen.
He losing it.
Nice Ferk!
Looked like a bad call at first.
The umps sure blew that one . . . and then the DP – darn!!!
A struggle but to no avail.
What is going on…"Twilight Zone"…Rain in SoCAl in May…Martin gets on base and Hudson strikes out! YEY MARTIN! SNIFF SNIFF HUDSON!
Another job WELL DONE by the relief corps.
Come on Boy's!!!!!! Keep on Battling!!!!
Let's go Dodgers, let's go!
Let's go Dodgers, let's go!
Let's go Dodgers, let's go!
Maybe the Doders can do today what the Cubs could not do yesterday.
Hey, James, we want to sing the Loney Song!!!
4 K's today for James…………..not good 😦
Is it going to be up either?
Thank God for that hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Andre!!!!
ETHIER keeping it alive.
Still breathing . . . . . ouch my nails!!!
Way to go Dre!
Let's keep it going Matty!!!
Let's go Loretta!
U can do it!!!!
Let's get the next two in front of national audiences and show them exactly what we can do!
Well, what can you say…………..it was a well pitched game, and we were just on the short end this time……………….nothing to be upset about really.
Almost! Good game!
Well get em tomorrow!!!
Nelly, my sentiments as well. Not much else to say except to come back tomorrow and try again. The Cubs got some good pitching today and turned the double plays they needed just like the Dodgers did yesterday.
OK, I'm not looking at whipped cream any more.
So what's happening? Did we win?
You are funny 🙂
We got whipped!
I was on my way to school this morning, and I was listening to my favorite gnat station (lol), and one of the guys said…….."Those Dodgers just tick me off because they are playing so well." It's great to hear even the gnat radio hosts admit we have an awesome team.
Have a great rest of your day everybody….:-)
We are still in 1st!!!
Music to my ears nelly!
Oh, D4! You really know how to hurt a guy!! LOL!!!
Three out of 4 in ChiTown still sounds good to me!
My desire to keep this a G-rated forum prevents me from saying anything about the whipped cream on top of the ice cream sundae with the cherry on top.
……..and that was funny, msrussy!!!
Things can always get worse. Check out this guy's bad day…
Well, that got an "access denied" on this computer lbirken 🙂
Man, that must have been a real bad day. I wasn't allowed access! I'll have to wait 'till I get home!
Sorry about that. It is a site my son sent me showing a guy cutting down a tree but things did not go quite as he expected.
I don't understand Torre, He pulls wolf after a lead off Home run yesterday, yet he keeps Bils in after the same.
When he was equally high in pitch count. I dont get it, especially when the bullpen had a rest. Oh well
this loss was tough, what happen to our offense.
Not exactly hammering the ball at Wrigley, huh?
"I don't understand Torre"
By koufax1963
Boy, ain't that the truth?
Tough game today. I missed most of it seeing as my opener at work overslept and I was called into work on my day off.
So my day was pretty crummy to begin with. Then I get home to see the lead run score.
I'm not to upset with the loss however. We aren't going to win them all.
Oh & Josh I'm sort of in +1 if the bosses allow it. We'll know by Monday! But we really want to drive down from Nor Cal to go. Just need to work out the logistics with work.
Could it be that Bills is the ace and Wolf is basic a 6 innings pitchers.
Gosh hate seeing former player hitting homerun off of us.
Sorry to hear about Snowboarding gold medalist Karine Ruby passing in a climbing accident.
Congratulations to the Martin Rink;
2009 Alberta Provincial Men's Curling Champions
Hello everyone. Just to let you know, I've started a new blog, different from my drawing blog, at http://mlbsbiguglytruth.blogspot.com .
I am thankful that Major League Baseball has provided us with a free blogging community. Yet, I do have some disagreements with MLB about how the issue of PED's is being handled. Not wanting to bite the hand that feeds, and wanting my Drawing blog to stay a positive site, I figured I'd use the other one to tackle the thoughts on the ugly issues that face the sport today, with the freedom of speech without doing it on Bud's dime.
I'll still do the drawing blog, I just feel these issues are too important to ignore, and I want to get into the minds of baseball fans and see how they view this growing problem. Thanks for your time.
I think it's ridiculous for people to be saying Ethier should be benched because he's going through a slump. The Dodgers wouldn't even be where they are this season without his production the first month of the season and they may not have made the playoffs without his production last season. He was a solid player before Manny ever came to the team, so the reason he's struggling right now has nothing to do with Manny. What really bothers me is the double standard.. He's always been held on a really short leash as far as performance is concerned. Casey Blake and Russell Martin were terrible the first month of the season and Martin had a prolonged slump last season. I didn't hear anyone calling for them to be benched. During the time that Ethier was raking the first month of the season, Kemp and Loney both went through pretty bad dry spells and I didn't hear anyone say they should be benched either. Furcal hasn't produced all season long and again, I don't see people calling for him to be benched. I am not saying they should be benched, but neither should Ethier. He should be allowed to work his way out of it just like they have been. I have no doubt that he will pull out of his slump and be a huge contributor to the Dodgers again this season.
Come on Lakers don't blow this lead after a prefect 1st half.
Bluecrewgirl ~ I agree with you 100%! Andre WILL BE EVERYDAY DRE very soon!
Come on Lakers don't blow this lead after a prefect 1st half.
Urgh stupid double post.
BLUECREWGIRL – THAT POST GETS A STANDING OVATION AND ALL CAPS………………..FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! …………….and you know I agree with you 100%. He still has the 2nd most HRs on the team, he has scored the 3rd most runs (29) on the team, and he has 30 RBIs. Andre's batting .257 with an OBP of .313. Just to put him in perspective with Grady Sizemore(who is one of my favorite non-Dodgers) who is in a slump of his own, and has been for some time. Grady has 8 HRs, 28 Runs, 30 RBIs and he is batting .223 with an OBP of .313, and he was an All-Star last year. I have no doubts that Grady will be batting his usual by the end of the season, and I have no doubts Andre will be doing the same.
…………..and we are winning regardless of how badly he is slumping, so he should be allowed to ride this out without worrying about losing his position.
I posted pretty much the same thing on the comments on the article on today's game because some guy said he should be benched or in a platoon. He was also going on about how Joe took his advice to put Blake in cleanup, blah, blah, blah. It was pretty funny though because someone else quoted what he said and then commented as follows:
Comforting to know he trolls this site for your commentary. Yeah let's make one of our best hitters a platoon guy.
I got a laugh out of that, lol.
Josh: I'm in +3 (maybe 4)
Hope I'm not too late.
I will really be ticked off if Andre ever becomes a platoon guy again! Last year was painful enough for me to endure. If Joe does that, I will lose all respect for him.
nsblues ~ You get to go? ALRIGHT!!!! …………..that's awesome!!!!!
bluecrewgirl – I really don't care how well JP is hitting the ball right now, come July 3rd, he doesn't belong in center field anymore. His hitting is not worth him being there. I am sorry, but today, he literally had to run the ball in to the infield because it was faster than if he had thrown it in. I would also like to know is he going to get a day off to rest. I mean he hasn't had a day off, and Andre and Matt have both had days off (and Andre was hitting everyday back then) to rest them up, so why shouldn't he? Why can't Hoffman play for him some day. Matt, O-Dog or even Raffy can take his lead-off spot for the day, and see what happens. Talk about a double standard.
Trublu, the funny/annoying thing is that when he starts raking again, which I know he will, these same people calling for him to platoon will be singing his praises. Of course the team and their overall success is the most important thing, but I'm loyal to the players I like. Conversely, though I give Pierre total credit for his contribution, I'm not going change my basic opinion that he's not my style of player.
Totally agree, Nelly.
I know what you mean, Bluecrewgirl. I totally agree with you about Juan. How many games did he play last year when he coudn't get on base to save his life?! But Joe stuck with him until he got injured and that is when Matt and Andre took off and became the players we all knew they were!
I see Tracy got his 1st win at the Rockies coach good job Tracy but we just had to beat the other Denver team lol.
NellyJune ~ Juan is so special, he doesn't need a day off! :-{
BCG — Who is saying that Dre should be benched? Who? Show them to me! (Said in the voice of the guy from Seinfield when Kramer wouldn't carry a flag or wear the pin — I can't remember!)
Lakers looked much better tonight, Spit. They really came to play from the opening tip off.
BCG ~ did you know your name is coming up two ways — bluecrewgirl and BCG? Now it's all back to Bluecrewgirl!
Yes I've been messing around with my nickname. I had never noticed the link under the profile where you can put a nickname, but when I posted on the comments on that article, it made me select a nickname before I could post. I tried to put in bluecrewgirl, but it said it was already taken. When I noticed it changed my name on here by inputting the nickname, I tried again to put in bluecrewgirl, but I capitalized the b and it accepted it. Not sure why it shows a little b now, but whatever. Anyway, I never could figure out why none of your email addresses showed and mine did, not that I use that email address for anything, I just used it to sign up for here. I guess I'm a little slow, lol.
That's funny, Bluecrewgirl!
Good Night and God Bless everyone 🙂
I am thinking Andre will be full of positive energy tomorrow.
Stults will be outstanding and the Dodgers will be as intense as ever….:)
Have a wonderful night and fantastic Saturday everyone 🙂
Good Night Dodger4life!!!!! Take Care and God Bless!!!!!
Looks like JoJo wants to rush Kuroda back for no apparant reason. He stunk it up in his last rehab start against single A competition. What's the hurry? Shouldn't he take a couple weeks and stretch it out so that maybe he can go 7 innings? Another 5 inning starter isn't what we need right now.
And then who is he bumping on Monday – Kershaw. Why not wait another few days and bump Stults (who still has a sore thumb) or Milton?
Tough game yesterday. Just got outpitched. The boys do have to start swinging the bats better as a team though. I'll still be happy with a split in Chitown.
I agree. He doesn't seem to be quite ready.
Tough game yesterday, but the Cubs have a lot of good ball players, too. Catfish Hunter once said, "The sun don't shine on the same dog's *** every day".
Who will be going if Kuroda is coming? I wish he'd wait a little bit on his return too, Enchanted. Three runs scored in two games, not good. However, we were able to win on of them. Today we are on Fox so, come on Dodgers, show the Nation what a fine team we are!
Knouffbrock ~ Love the Catfish line!
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!!! With Stults pitching with a hurt thumb, let's hope the bullpen is rested and ready to help win this one. I am with the rest of you………….why bring Kuroda before he's fully ready. Do you think there is some other reason. We are winning so why would you push him back so fast? It doesn't make any sense, but then sometimes, what the management does, doesn't make sense, does it?
Good morning, everyone!
Hoping the bats come alive today – GO DODGERS!!
Way off the subject – I have a job interview at 11 this morning, and I'd appreciate any who are of a mind to, please pray for favor for me here. I really believe this would be a good job for me.
Talk to you all later! And thanks!
Good morning ITD, Dodger Faithful….
Game 3 in the Windy City….. Stults vs Dempster. Live on Fox Saturday Baseball at 1:10 PT.
Enjoy your day everyone and enjoy the game 🙂
Good morning spark, and good luck…I will say a prayer for you now 🙂
Me, too Sparkleplenty! You go get 'um!!!
….Already done sparkleplenty, and best of luck to you:)
I get to watch the Nascar racing so far until the Dodgers/Cubs comes on.
Ramon Troncosco… R-Co? like Arco? I like it!


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The Girard Township Board of Supervisors shall appoint, by resolution, a Floodplain Administrator to administer and enforce this chapter.
The Floodplain Administrator may:
Fulfill the duties and responsibilities set forth in these regulations;
Delegate duties and responsibilities set forth in these regulations to qualified technical personnel, plan examiners, inspectors, and other employees; or
Enter into a written agreement or written contract with another agency or private sector entity to administer specific provisions of these regulations.
Administration of any part of these regulations by another entity shall not relieve the community of its responsibilities pursuant to the participation requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program as set forth in the Code of Federal Regulations at 44 CFR § 59.22.
In the absence of a designated Floodplain Administrator, the Floodplain Administrator duties are to be fulfilled by the Chief Executive Officer.
A permit shall be required before any construction or development is undertaken within any area of the Township of Girard.
The Floodplain Administrator shall issue a permit only after it has been determined that the proposed work to be undertaken will be in conformance with the requirements of this and all other applicable codes and ordinances.
Prior to the issuance of any permit, the Floodplain Administrator shall review the application for the permit to determine if all other necessary government permits required by state and federal laws have been obtained, such as those required by the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (Act 1966-537, as amended); the Pennsylvania Dam Safety and Encroachments Act (Act 1978-325, as amended); the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Act (Act 1937-394, as amended); and the United States Clean Water Act, Section 404 (33 U.S.C. § 1344). No permit shall be issued until this determination has been made.
During the construction period, the Floodplain Administrator or other authorized official shall inspect the premises to determine that the work is progressing in compliance with the information provided on the permit application and with all applicable municipal laws and ordinances. He/she shall make as many inspections during and upon completion of the work as are necessary.
In the discharge of his/her duties, the Floodplain Administrator shall have the authority to enter any building, structure, premises or development in the identified floodplain area, upon presentation of proper credentials, at any reasonable hour to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
In the event the Floodplain Administrator discovers that the work does not comply with the permit application or any applicable laws and ordinances, or that there has been a false statement or misrepresentation by any applicant, the Floodplain Administrator shall revoke the permit and report such fact to the Board of Supervisors for whatever action it considers necessary.
The Floodplain Administrator shall maintain in perpetuity all records associated with the requirements of this chapter, including, but not limited to, finished construction elevation data, permitting, inspection and enforcement.
The Floodplain Administrator is the official responsible for submitting a biennial report to FEMA concerning community participation in the National Flood Insurance Program.
The responsibility, authority and means to implement the commitments of the Floodplain Administrator can be delegated from the person identified. However, the ultimate responsibility lies with the person identified in the floodplain ordinance as the floodplain administrator/manager.
The Floodplain Administrator shall consider the requirements of 34 Pa. Code and the 2009 IBC and the 2009 IRC or latest revisions thereof.
Application for such a permit shall be made, in writing, to the Floodplain Administrator on forms supplied by the Township of Girard. Such application shall contain the following:
Name and address of applicant.
Name and address of owner of land on which proposed construction is to occur.
Name and address of contractor.
Site location, including address.
Listing of other permits required.
Brief description of proposed work and estimated cost, including a breakout of flood-related cost and the market value of the building before the flood damage occurred where appropriate.
A plan of the site showing the exact size and location of the proposed construction as well as any existing buildings or structures.
If any proposed construction or development is located entirely or partially within any identified floodplain area, applicants for permits shall provide all the necessary information in sufficient detail and clarity to enable the Floodplain Administrator to determine that:
All such proposals are consistent with the need to minimize flood damage and conform with the requirements of this and all other applicable codes and ordinances;
All utilities and facilities, such as sewer, gas, electrical and water systems, are located and constructed to minimize or eliminate flood damage;
Adequate drainage is provided so as to reduce exposure to flood hazards;
Structures will be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement;
Building materials are flood-resistant;
Appropriate practices that minimize flood damage have been used; and
Electrical, heating, ventilation, plumbing, air conditioning equipment, and other service facilities have been designed and located to prevent water entry or accumulation.
Applicants shall file the following minimum information plus any other pertinent information as may be required by the Floodplain Administrator to make the above determination:
A completed permit application form.
A plan of the entire site, clearly and legibly drawn at a scale of one inch being equal to 100 feet or less, showing the following:
North arrow, scale, and date;
Topographic contour lines, if available;
The location of all existing and proposed buildings, structures, and other improvements, including the location of any existing or proposed subdivision and development;
The location of all existing streets, drives, and other accessways; and
The location of any existing bodies of water or watercourses, identified floodplain areas, and, if available, information pertaining to the floodway, and the flow of water including direction and velocities.
Plans of all proposed buildings, structures and other improvements, drawn at suitable scale, showing the following:
The following data and documentation:
Detailed information concerning any proposed floodproofing measures and corresponding elevations.
Documentation, certified by a registered professional engineer or architect, to show that the cumulative effect of any proposed development within an AE Area/District without floodway [See § 100-18A(1)], when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the base flood elevation more than one foot at any point within the community.
A document, certified by a registered professional engineer or architect, which states that the proposed construction or development has been adequately designed to withstand the pressures, velocities, impact and uplift forces associated with the base flood. Such statement shall include a description of the type and extent of floodproofing measures which have been incorporated into the design of the structure and/or the development.
Detailed information needed to determine compliance with § 100-23F, Storage, and § 100-24, Development endangering human life, including:
The appropriate component of the Department of Environmental Protection's Planning Module for Land Development.
Where any excavation or grading is proposed, a plan meeting the requirements of the Department of Environmental Protection, to implement and maintain erosion and sedimentation control.
Applications for permits shall be accompanied by a fee, payable to the municipality, based upon the estimated cost of the proposed construction as determined by the Floodplain Administrator.
A copy of all applications and plans for any proposed construction or development in any identified floodplain area to be considered for approval shall be submitted by the Floodplain Administrator to the County Conservation District for review and comment prior to the issuance of a permit. The recommendations of the Conservation District shall be considered by the Floodplain Administrator for possible incorporation into the proposed plan.
A copy of all plans and applications for any proposed construction or development in any identified floodplain area to be considered for approval may be submitted by the Floodplain Administrator to any other appropriate agencies and/or individuals (e.g., Planning Commission, Municipal Engineer, etc.) for review and comment.
After the issuance of a permit by the Floodplain Administrator, no changes of any kind shall be made to the application, permit or any of the plans, specifications or other documents submitted with the application without the written consent or approval of the Floodplain Administrator. Requests for any such change shall be in writing and shall be submitted by the applicant to Floodplain Administrator for consideration.
Work on the proposed construction or development shall begin within 180 days after the date of issuance of the development permit. Work shall also be completed within 12 months after the date of issuance of the permit or the permit shall expire, unless a time extension is granted, in writing, by the Floodplain Administrator. The issuance of a development permit does not refer to the zoning approval.
The actual start of construction means either the first placement of permanent construction of a structure on a site, such as the pouring of slab or footings, the installation of piles, the construction of columns, or any work beyond the stage of excavation; or the placement of a manufactured home on a foundation. Permanent construction does not include land preparation, such as clearing, grading, and filling; nor does it include the installation of streets and/or walkways; nor does it include excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or foundations or the erection of temporary forms; nor does it include the installation on the property of accessory buildings, such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units or not part of the main structure. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of a building, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the building.
Time extensions shall be granted only if a written request is submitted by an applicant who sets forth sufficient and reasonable cause for the Floodplain Administrator to approve such a request and the original permit is compliant with this chapter and FIRM/FIS in effect at the time the extension is granted.
Notices. Whenever the Floodplain Administrator or other authorized municipal representative determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there has been a violation of any provisions of this chapter, or of any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, the Floodplain Administrator shall give notice of such alleged violation as hereinafter provided. Such notice shall:
Be in writing;
Include a statement of the reasons for its issuance;
Allow a reasonable time, not to exceed a period of 30 days, for the performance of any act it requires;
Be served upon the property owner or his agent as the case may require; provided, however, that such notice or order shall be deemed to have been properly served upon such owner or agent when a copy thereof has been served with such notice by any other method authorized or required by the laws of this state;
Contain an outline of remedial actions which, if taken, will effect compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
Any person who fails to comply with any or all of the requirements or provisions of this chapter or who fails or refuses to comply with any notice, order or direction of the Floodplain Administrator or any other authorized employee of the municipality shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall pay a fine to the Township of Girard of not less than $25 nor more than $600 plus costs of prosecution.
In addition to the above penalties, all other actions are hereby reserved, including an action in equity, for the proper enforcement of this chapter.
The imposition of a fine or penalty for any violation of, or noncompliance with, this chapter shall not excuse the violation or noncompliance or permit it to continue. All such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations and noncompliance within a reasonable time.
Any development initiated or any structure or building constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, altered, or relocated in noncompliance with this chapter may be declared by the Board of Supervisors to be a public nuisance and abatable as such.
Any person aggrieved by any action or decision of the Floodplain Administrator concerning the administration of the provisions of this chapter may appeal to the Zoning Hearing Board. Such appeal must be filed, in writing, within 30 days after the decision, determination or action of the Floodplain Administrator.
Upon receipt of such appeal, the Zoning Hearing Board shall consider the appeal in accordance with the Municipal Planning Code and any other local ordinance.
Any person aggrieved by any decision of the Zoning Hearing Board may seek relief therefrom by appeal to court, as provided by the laws of this state, including the Pennsylvania Flood Plain Management Act.


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Ask a Physicist Answers
Does Einstein's relativity of simultaneity mean that two events cannot be simultaneous or that we cannot prove that two events occurred simultaneously?
An artist's impression of Gravity Probe B — a spacecraft used to test Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Image Credit: NASA
The answer to this question is, in a sense, both. There are two distinct cases. In one case, two events cannot be simultaneous; in the other case, they can be, but not everyone will agree that they are.
These two cases are called "timelike" and "spacelike". In the case of timelike events, a particular observer will measure that there is enough time for a light ray to go from one of the events A (the earlier one, obviously) to the other one, B. In that case, all observers moving with constant velocity with respect to the first one will agree that event A came before event B. No observer will see A and B as simultaneous.
In the case of spacelike events, a particular observer will measure that A and B are sufficiently close in time (and/or sufficiently far apart in space) that no light ray could make it from A to B. All observers who are moving with constant velocity with respect to the first one will also conclude that no light ray could make it from A to B.
But some of these observers will say that A and B are simultaneous, some will observe that A came before B, and others will observe that B came before A. The concept of ordering in time is no longer meaningful (because according to relativity, all observers are equally "right") but the statement that the two events A and B are spacelike does have meaning.
Answered by:
Alan Chodos, PhD
Associate Executive Officer
American Physical Society
Submitted by:
Lipton from Massachusetts


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Bond Allocation — LPFA Air Products and Chemicals-Methane
Reformer Project in Garyville
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Act 51 of the 1986 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Executive Order No. BJ 2008-47 was issued to establish: (1) a method for allocating bonds subject to private activity bond volume limits, including the method of allocating bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limits for the calendar year of 2008 (hereafter "the 2008 Ceiling"); (2) the procedure for obtaining an allocation of bonds under the 2008 Ceiling; and (3) a system of central record keeping for such allocations; and
WHEREAS, the LPFA has requested an allocation from the 2008 Ceiling to provide a solid waste disposal, recycling, resource recovery or industrial and sewage and wastewater Tx facility in St. John Parish in the state of Louisiana, in accordance with the provisions of Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
NOW THEREFORE, I, BOBBY JINDAL, Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and the laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: The bond issue, as described in this Section, shall be and is hereby granted an allocation from the 2008 Ceiling in the amount shown:
Amount of Allocation
Name of Issuer
Name of Project
Air Products and Chemicals-Methane Reformer Project in Garyville
SECTION 2: The allocation granted herein shall be used only for the bond issue described in Section 1 and for the general purpose set forth in the "Application for Allocation of a Portion of the State of Louisiana's Private Activity Bond Ceiling" submitted in connection with the bond issue described in Section 1.
SECTION 3: The allocation granted herein shall be valid and in full force and effect through December 31, 2008, provided that such bonds are delivered to the initial purchasers thereof on or before December 23, 2008.
SECTION 4: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 25th day of November, 2008.
Bobby Jindal
Jay Dardenne
Secretary of State


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Look around you. There's a good chance someone you see each day is hungry. In Tampa Bay, hundreds of thousands of people are food insecure, meaning they lack consistent and easy access to safe, nutritionally adequate food. And the problem isn't limited only to the homeless. Many who struggle to find adequate food are working adults, children and the elderly.
Some of our partners in feeding the hungry.


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March 2012 Sake Tastings
It's officially Spring namazake season so our tasting line-up this month favors the latest seasonal offerings that we look forward to sharing with you every year at this time. Please join us to enjoy these bright, lively sake that welcome the arrival of Spring!
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 5-7pm
Azumaichi Junmai Tasting (Saga)
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 5-7pm
Japan Prestige Sake Association Namazake Tasting
Harushika Shiboribana Junmai Ginjo Nama (Nara)
Koshino Homare Junmai Nama (Niigata)
Ichinokura Tokubetsu Junmai Nigori Nama (Miyagi)
Friday, March 16, 6-8pm
Spring Namazake Tasting
Thursday, March 22, 6-8pm
Kikusui Brewery Sake Tasting (Niigata)
Saturday, March 24, 5-7pm
Tedorigawa Kinka Daiginjo Namazake (Ishikawa)
Friday, March 30, 6-8pm
Tedorigawa Kinka Daiginjo Namazake (Ishikawa)
We look forward to seeing you at SAKAYA!
Rick & Hiroko