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Keep country music at the fair
Keep it country! I enjoy the Okanogan County Fair every year. However I would like to see the music kept country.
This is only my opinion but when I am taking in the fair and hanging out with family and friends at the food court, listening to the local country singers was always enjoyable at the fair. I missed that this year.
Roberta Tonasket
Support Brian Dansel for Senate
I served as Stevens County commissioner District No. 1 for eight years until I retired at the end of my second term in 2008.
It has been almost five years since I left public office, yet I keep involved with the issues facing Stevens County residents out of loyalty to my constituents.
Early in the race for the Washington State's 7th Legislative District, I openly endorsed the incumbent, Sen. John Smith. However, after carefully examining the resumes of both Ferry County Commissioner Brian Dansel and Sen. John Smith, I have reconsidered my position and decided to support Commissioner Brian Dansel for District 7 senator.
Brian, in three years as county commissioner, is well-acquainted with our natural resource base industries timber, mining, ranching, forest recreational use etc. and feels that the wolf problems are living proof that agriculture should be represented on the state Fish and Wildlife Commission, which calls for legislative restructuring of that department.
Brian Dansel is committed to find solutions to support our public schools system, and also feels that the state Highway 395 north-south corridor being a NAFTA route should have high priority. Please vote for Brian Dansel.
Tony Delgado
Loon Lake
Tests measure students poorly
So the state results measuring student progress and proficiency are showing poor results in our schools. Well, like Mr. Swanson said, "It's how one kid did on one day."
He is absolutely right and I think most teachers would agree with him. After spending years in the educational system, I think these tests are a poor indicator of student achievement.
The majority of school patrons and parents do not understand these tests and I wonder if the designers of the test do.
I would like The Chronicle to find and publish some examples from these tests. The school districts usually have sample ones in their offices in case parents have questions. Find several of the math and science questions from different grade levels and print them so we all can take our chances on answering them. And, if you have room, print some of the others.
Darlene Morava
Coulee Dam
Dansel has funded campaign locally
Elections in large districts can be difficult for voters. It's difficult to personally know the candidates. I decided to check the State Public Disclosure Commission and was shocked by the amount of money our current state senator has received from outside the 7th District. Whereas, Brian Dansel's funds are all local businesses and people.
After researching those figures I went to the candidate's county auditor's website and found the voting results of the primary. Sixty-three percent of John Smith's neighbors, those who know him best, voted against him. Interestedly, I found that the town of Colville where Smith has had several businesses and interactions, voted against Smith by 59 percent.
On the other hand, Brian Dansel received 77 percent of his neighbors' vote. If you are like me and have limited personal knowledge of a person's character and actions, just look for those who do.
After all my research I will be voting for Brian Dansel and am sharing with any and all who will listen because I want a senator who doesn't owe favors to special interest groups and has gained the respect of his neighbors.
Jeanie Thompson
Kettle Falls
Council needs strict oversight
What is going on with the Colville Confederated Tribes? Just my opinion, but I still adamantly say strict oversight by the peoples is necessarily there against a still that we the concerned membership fighting for council reform truly and necessarily need more support from the general membership to enact once again constitutional governance as non-transparency from council is still the rule rather than the exception.
A "new" third CCT corporation? No! No! No! It will only be one more corporate siphon off of our CCT fiscal sustainability. Going clear back to last April, council applied for and received a sizable federal grant toward the CCT youth. Since that timeframe, have you seen, heard, read about any CCT program monies going to our tribal youth? I haven't.
Where has this money gone? Perhaps still another reason for forensic audits. Perhaps more fiscal mismanagement, jeopardizing any future federal grant monies. In this dangerous detente, idly sitting by, waiting on that court decision, become participative to change! Look for and find those lady elders who are recall petition carriers. Yes, they are still out there folks. When, and only when, those recall petitions are put into motion will we, the Colville tribal peoples, begin to see reform on the Colville tribal reservation.
Truman V. Covington
Vote 'yes' on Initiative 522
Right now in the state of Washington there is no law requiring companies to label food that contains genetically engineered (GE) ingredients.
Genetically engineered plants or meat products have had their DNA artificially altered. We're talking about corn that contains an insecticide inside the kernel itself. There are no long-term studies that prove genetically engineered foods are safe.
Join me and pledge to vote "yes" on Initiative 522 today and join the millions of Washingtonians who want to know what's in their food.
Lou Stone
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Fears of security breaches and terrorist attacks at Sochi are rampant, but one American lawmaker believes U.S. athletes will have no worries at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., returned from a trip to the Black Sea resort city and told media members his impressions of Russian security. However, he says while the Games themselves are under a tight clamp but areas outside the venues and athletes village are worrisome.
"These terrorists can move it out from areas that are less secure, and make a statement there," Keating said, according to The Boston Globe.
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Keating said Russia has about 100,000 security personnel assigned to the Sochi Games.
Female suicide bombers are among Russians' concern. Three so-called "Black Widow" terrorists have been identified, with one believed to be in Sochi ahead of the Games, which begin Feb. 6.
Rebels in Chechnya are wreaking havoc, and at least one terrorist group has warned of attacks during the two-plus weeks of Olympic competition.
As expected, Russian officials aren't sharing much with the U.S.
"We're willing to do everything we can," Keating said, "but it's their country. When you do it with the U.S. and Russia there's room for improvement."
Athletes are worried. Zach Parise is one of two Minnesota Wild players who will compete with Team USA. He gave his thoughts to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Parise has told his family not to go to Sochi. Teammate Ryan Suter also decided against have his famly make the trip.
"I'm actually really concerned about it," Parise wrote in an e-mail to the newspaper. "I know they say they have evacuation stuff for us and all, but you just never know. I guess you have to wonder at what point does someone say it isn't a good idea for us to go."
Meanwhile, USA Today posted results of a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday. Its results: 38 percent of Americans believe "somewhat likely" a terrorist attack will disrupt the Olympics; 12 percent see that possibility as "very likely."
John and Diana Herman of Bloomington, Minn., told the Star-Tribune they will go to Sochi to watch there daughter compete. Keri Herman, a slopestyle freeskier for the U.S. Olympic team, is in her first Olympics.
Hard as it might be, John Herman says he is putting trust in Russian president Vladimir Putin's word on security.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list event," Herman said. "It's incredibly special because our daughter will be competing and representing the United States … We're doing everything that we can to be thoughtful when we travel and be careful."
While al-Qaeda terrorists are foremost on Americans' thoughts, it's wise to remember other extremists, separatists and anarchists are at work in Russia. Chechnya remains a flashpoint.
"With all the terrorist activity that has been the case in one of the most dangerous parts of the world, security measures are enormous, too," Keating said.
Keating and other U.S. lawmakers were in Sochi on a junket with the House Homeland Security Committee. He said the Russian forces include 40,000 police, 30,000 military personnel, drones and six anti-missile systems.

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Edmund Burke Essay Topics
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Edmund Burke 1729–1797
British political philosopher and statesman.
The following entry provides critical discussion of Burke's writing on political theory.
A philosopher and statesman, Burke ranks as a preeminent figure in western political thought. Long regarded as the father of modern conservatism, his career as a polemicist and politician spanned years of significant political turmoil in England and the West. Writing and speaking passionately about actual and potential excesses of state authority, Burke espoused the desirability of limited, divided government. He feared the threat to liberty posed by concentrations of governmental power whether wielded autocratically by the Crown or collectively by radical reformers in democratic assemblies. Burke conceived of the state as a divinely-ordered hierarchy where an elite of property owners sitting in Parliament, mindful of tradition and owing allegiance to the past, would collectively posses the forbearance to govern wisely. While affirming the need for constitutional government to adjust to new circumstances, Burke believed that reform should be prudent, practical, and specific—not predicated on abstract theories of natural rights. Writing in the Age of Enlightenment, Burke parted rank from such philosophers as John Locke, who championed a faith in the perfectibility of humankind and effectively erased the idea of original sin. Rejecting revolutionary change predicated on a facile faith in individual will, Burke held a particular disdain for Jean Jacques Rousseau, who argued that all rights and liberties were inherent in individuals in a pre-social state, and that political allegiance was a voluntary exercise that could be revoked if the state no longer served the general will of the people. Although his age was one of increasing secularization and faith in individual volition, Burke's political philosophy had deep religious underpinnings as he believed that the original covenant between God and man both prefigured and predestined the nature of all social contracts. Thus, government had a positive duty to provide a moral framework for the cultivation of a virtuous society. Burke's spirited and thoughtful defense of faith, order, and historical continuity distinguish his contribution to political thought, while his eloquence and cogency continue to engage new readers in each generation. Biographical InformationBurke was born in
Dublin in 1729 to Richard Burke, a prominent attorney and a Protestant, and to Mary Nagle Burke, a staunch Roman Catholic. His Irish heritage and the influence of his mother's Catholicism played an important role in defining his political attitudes and shaping his moral sensibilities. He attended a Quaker school in Dublin before graduating from Trinity College with a degree in Classics. At his father's urging, Burke went to London in 1750 to study law, but soon became captivated by literary and philosophical pursuits. Much to his father's disappointment, Burke never joined the bar. Soon married and a father himself, Burke was unable to support his family solely by writing and editing, even though his literary talents were championed by such writers as Samuel Johnson. To increase his financial security, Burke first turned to politics in 1761, when he enlisted in the service of the Earl of Halifax. But his political future was decisively cast when he became the private Secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth. A prominent Whig, Lord Rockingham led the conservative opposition party most favored by the Crown. Burke's alliance with the influential leader led to his securing a seat in Parliament in 1765, where he soon established a reputation as a gifted orator and thoughtful statesman. While Burke focused much of his energy on domestic politics, he was frequently preoccupied with events outside of Britain. He was especially sympathetic to the complaints of the American colonists in their grievances over the Crown's taxation policies, insisting that much of the colonists's discontent stemmed from their perception that, as the descendants of Englishmen, their rights and liberties were being infringed. Burke also took up the cause of Indian subjects under British rule. In his speeches he continually railed against Parliament for its failure to provide proper oversight to the Indian population. For seven years Burke played a major and often controversial role in the long impeachment trial of Governour Warren Hastings for alleged abuses and neglect of the basic needs of the Indian subjects under his charge. Burke insisted that governments had positive obligations to colonized people, whether that meant building roads, schools, or hospitals. Burke's attitudes were shaped in part by his status as an outsider, for his Irish ancestry had precluded full acceptance into British society. Having a lifelong interest in the plight of the Irish, Burke especially criticized the Crown's penal laws, which were harshly punitive to Catholics in limiting their ability to amass wealth. As a statesman, he believed in voting in the interest of the entire realm, and refused to be influenced by the narrow interests of any one borough; as a result, he often grew unpopular with local constituencies whose concerns were naturally parochial. Thus he was unable to permanently hold onto any single seat in Parliament, and never achieved much personal political power. Yet Burke's writings and speeches were widely read throughout the West during much of his lifetime, and, despite never achieving high office, he enjoyed widespread acknowledgment of his work, and publicly debated through pamphlets with such men as Thomas Paine. After Hastings was acquitted in his impeachment trial in 1794, Burke resigned from Parliament and retired to his rural estate in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where he kept up correspondence and writing before succumbing to stomach cancer within three years.
Major Works
Burke's allegiance to the Whigs meant that he was politically allied with the minority party through almost all his tenure in Parliament. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), Burke's first major political essay, was largely a defense of the necessity of political parties to channel oppositional thought, check the power and prerogatives of the Crown, and secure balanced legislation. In his Speech on American Taxation (1774) Burke eloquently urged his peers to reconsider retaliatory measures aimed at the colonists for their militant opposition to the Crown's tax policies. He believed the colonists had just cause in resisting a government too willing to over-reach and meddle. While he did not support the idea of colonial independence, he warned his colleagues that oppressive Parliamentary measures might result in revolution. In his Speech on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies (1775) Burke appealed to reason and circumstance by using historical data to shore up his arguments for the benefits of British-colonial trade. While defending the Crown's right to tax the colonists, Burke urged the repeal of repressive measures that would only further exacerbate strained relations. Burke's most famous essay, Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event (1790) was a passionate diatribe denouncing the radical ends of French revolutionaries. Burke cautioned against radical change and held up the British constitution as a model which provided for responsible government reform. His polemic prompted Thomas Paine to reply with his Rights of Man (1791) pamphlet. In An Appeal from the New, to the Old Whigs (1791) Burke (writing anonymously) addressed critics of his anti-revolutionary tracts by reiterating his contention that all members of civil society live with an incumbent duty to constitutional fidelity, and that other moral obligations are not a matter of choice in an divinely ordered world.
Critical Reception
Burke was generally well-received and respected by peers in Parliament who admired his eloquence and cogency even though they frequently voted against him. But when policy debates turned to Anglo-Irish affairs, Burke's ancestry led to charges that his perceptions were unbalanced, biased and shaped by emotion. His laborious persistence in the impeachment pursuit of Hastings contributed to the perception that he often became zealously single-minded. Perhaps the most painful political breach for Burke occurred when he parted ways with many of his former Whig colleagues over the French Revolution. These quarrels spilled over into ongoing discussions of English politics, exacerbating competing interpretations of the Glorious Revolution and its consequences for British constitutionalism. Placing a much heavier emphasis on tradition and historical continuity, Burke defended long-standing institutions such as the aristocracy, the Church, and the state, but these only put him at odds with the revolutionary spirit of his times. He further asserted that the sovereignty of the Crown had not been diminished with the ascension of Parliament, but only its powers circumscribed. Other Whigs held that Revolution was necessary to assert the supremacy of the people. Thus, at the end of his life, he was philosophically more aligned with the modern-day Tories. Neglected for the most part during the nineteenth-century, Burke is enjoying a significant revival in the latter half of the twentieth century, especially by neo-conservative critics. The emergence of dictatorships following political revolutions in the modern era has, according to these critics, vindicated Burke's mistrust of radical reform predicated on rational faith and utopian promises. A current theme in Burkean scholarship is the extent to which he was a disciple of Adam Smith, and the degree to which he believed government should intervene in the economy. It is a testament to the depth and breadth of Burke's political legacy that his writings remain a rich source for scholarship and that they continue to engender vigorous debate.


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Alumni in the Field
Graduates from Clarkson's software engineering program find positions of leadership and influence in some of the largest and most prestigious companies today:
Brad Newswanger '07 is a software engineer at Lockheed Martin. When asked how Clarkson prepared him for his work, he says, "I think the engineering background and working on projects in small groups helped prepare me most. We didn't just learn a language—we learned how to solve problems using technology."
Bill Carr '07 is a software development engineer for Microsoft. He says Clarkson's emphasis on core competencies in object-oriented languages, teamwork skills and junior/senior lab all prepared him well for his day-to-day work.


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"Hold My Beer and Watch This!" is a video blog of Stephanie, a thirty-one year old woman from California.
I'm a thirty-one year old married tech writer in California. I have one cat, many betta fish, and no human children.
View my complete profile
I post my vlog entries in MPEG-4 format using the H.264 codec so they will be iPod-compatible.
You can view them using QuickTime 7
(download without iTunes)
On Linux, you can install MPEG4IP or any other MPEG4 player, though I don't know if h.264 works on them.
How do I do that?!?
First, you need to make the movie. I use a camcorder and iMovie, which came with my Mac.
If you're on Windows, you might use Windows Movie Maker. Once you have made your movie,
there's a tutorial right here for posting your
vlog entries to the Internet, or you can wait till July and buy my book Videoblogging for Dummies.
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yes i know i just dont like the english text, the english covers. Its just the whole remade into a american version.
I want it just to look like a japanese dvd, with covers, text, etc. So its feels more from it's origin: japan.
And then you can choose with english subtitles
|2006-06-07, 08:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tejas
Age: 42
I'm not necessarily sure it's Sayoko (that'd be my best guess too, but it's hard to tell from the picture, it could also be another character that I don't recognize), but that's definitely Ah my goddess.
Wow, I'd never though of AMG's art style as being so unique until I looked at that. Neat!
|2006-06-07, 12:19
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Join Date: May 2006
Age: 35
Name me the movie, please!
I`ve seen it very long time ago.
I think it was movie, - not series.
There was cyborgs - as i can remember, male and female.
And they were hunting two girls. And there were soldiers
that were hunting that cyborgs.
I also, remember the scene, where soldiers shoot the male cyborg,
and he set down on the soldiers` car and turned into poison smoke,
and then all of the soldiers put on filter masks.
And in another scene (closer to the end) female cyborg followed
that two girls in the elevator. She died at the end.
Has somebody seen this?
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Join Date: Feb 2004
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|2006-06-07, 21:54
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In the Tatami Galaxy ↓
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tejas
Age: 42
Really? I never finished watching it.
It didn't seem that awful to me, just a bit of mindless, shonen romantic comedy. Lots of these series exist. Personally I didn't enjoy what I saw of it that much, but that was more for the gratuitous wish-fulfillment of old man with high school wife (I'm a little more self-conscious of that due to the fact that I'm actually older, and it probably bugs me more because I've always preferred older women). It probably doesn't help that my favorite series tend towards the Cowboy Bebop (Noir, GiTS, Last Exile, FMA, FMP, etc, etc) end of the anime spectrum.
In terms of plot construction, humor, etc, it seemed about on par with Kage Kara Mamoru, Himawari, Inukami, etc. All of which were/are series I enjoy.
Most things in life are not as bad as people who dislike them think they are, nor are they as good as most people who like them think they are. I will say, if you can't deal with fanservice, don't watch OwJK.
|2006-06-07, 22:52
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In the Tatami Galaxy ↓
Join Date: Feb 2006
Cowboy Bebop is among the best. I won't question that.
Although I should say that it's you who's unique here - almost all who have watched this show disliked, hated, despised or abhorred the show. But of course, that's your taste.
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ERWIN, Tenn. (September 8, 2003) - Last Saturday the Lady Bucs soccer team held a soccer clinic at the Unicoi county YMCA. The clinic was a great success as 85 young children from the YMCA parks and recreation program in Erwin attended the event. The organizers of the Erwin YMCA worked diligently to help increase attendance and make the event a success.
"We had many new faces at the clinic, but we also have many familiar faces back from last years clinic," said head coach Heather Henson. "You could feel the energy between the ETSU players and the children. Everyone was having fun playing soccer. The children came away from the clinic with some new soccer tricks, skills, and many women's role models that are collegiate soccer players.
The soccer clinic held in Erwin was the second clinic that the Lady Bucs have held this year.
"We really enjoy the soccer clinics in the community," said Henson. "It is our opportunity to show to the community how important they are to ETSU Soccer. We appreciate all of the community's support and smiling faces."
The Lady Bucs invite soccer fans to join them at Shoeless Joe's on Sunday, September 21st to watch the Women's World Cup Game, USA vs. Sweden. The team will arrive at Shoeless Joe's at noon and the World Cup Game is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m.


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The 2013 donation hits a record high since the program began 10 years ago.
New York Farm Bureau reported Friday its Harvest for All program reached a record in farmer donations to food banks since the program began a decade ago.
With the final donation efforts tallied for 2013, farmers statewide gave nearly 9.3 million pounds of food to regional food banks including those in upstate, New York City, and Long Island, the bureau announced in a release. Including 2013, New York farmers have contributed more than 40 million pounds of food over the past 10 years.
Harvest for All is a nationwide, annual farm donation partnership linking the Farm Bureau and Feeding America in each state. In New York, NYFB's Young Farmers Committee and the Food Bank Association of New York State administer the statewide donation partnership. Under the project, NYFB members donate excess farm products to the 10 New York state Feeding America food banks.
The 2013 amount placed New York as the third largest contributor in the country behind farmers in two states with longer growing seasons, Florida and California.
"This effort displays the heartfelt generosity of the farm community in this state that consistently steps up to the plate to help those in need," stated Dean Norton, New York Farm Bureau president. "The partnership with the Food Bank Association is one that works to get healthy food from the fields and orchards and into the homes of low-income New Yorkers. I congratulate all those involved for having another successful year."


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Yankees beat Red Sox in one-game playoff
Yankees beat Red Sox in one-game playoff
Bucky Dent blasted a three-run home run that helped defeat the Red Sox in the Yankees' 5-4 win in the one-game playoff.
Dent had just four home runs all year before popping one into the net.
Red Sox manager Don Zimmer lifted starter Mike Torrez after Dent's home run.
Yankees reliever Goose Gossage, center, was able to retire the Red Sox without allowing a run in the ninth to secure the win.
The win allowed the Yankees to move on to the American League Championship Series.
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner came to the Red Sox clubhouse and shook hands with Carlton Fisk after the game.
"I feel so sorry for Mrs. Yawkey," left fielder Carl Yastrzemski said of the team owner.
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Jaws (US - BD)
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Jaws is among the most popular motion pictures of all time. It arguably started the trend of the blockbuster summer release, constantly appears among both critical and personal top ten lists, and, when ticket price inflation is taken into account, it is still the seventh highest grossing film of all time ( Avatar is #14, The Avengers is #27, and The Dark Knight is #29). It's also arguable that no film, outside of maybe The Godfather or The Exorcist, has a more well-known story of behind the scenes strife. Following decades of monumental reputation, books, and documentaries, nothing I say about Steven Spielberg's Jaws is going to be particularly innovative or even interesting. Instead, I'm going to write a bit about the film's impact on exploitation genre cinema.
Besides marking the beginning of the end to a second renaissance in independent American cinema, Jaws was the first of three films that, for better or worse (the cynic in me wants to say worse), took high concept exploitation away from B-movies. Following Jaws' big-budget creature feature trappings, George Lucas released the ultimate sci-fi pulp picture, Star Wars, and Ridley Scott blended the simplicities of raw horror and camp sci-fi into Alien (which was, by the way, at one time pitched as ' Jaws in Space'to studio executives). All three films took the world by storm and their popularity saw the barons of exploitation scrambling to catch up. Being the first in line, Jaws saw the most imitation, eventually leading an entire subgenre of nature-run-amuck and monster movies. Jaws itself has all the high concept ingredients, but, like Star Wars and Alien, it stands apart from basic B-movie release with ace production values, a solid script, and more than mere exploitation thrills on its mind. It's always curious when it is counted among the greatest horror films, because, outside of a handful of frightening sequences, it is every inch a character study masquerading as an adventure story. The films born of the Jaws tradition tend to take liberties with the formula and skew more towards straight horror, or at least what passed for straight horror, on minuscule budgets.
The two best of the Jaws-chic movement weren't really rip-offs, but slightly veiled spoofs. The first and most wel- known of these is Joe Dante's Piranha (1978), which was produced for Roger Corman's company. Piranha was followed by a sequel of its own directed by none other than James Cameron (not to be confused with Antonio Margheriti's heist movie Killer Fish, which was marketed as Piranha II in some territories), remade for TV in 1995, also produced by Corman, and then remade again, this time in 3D, by Frenchman Alexandre Aja in 2010.The other pseudo-spoof, and possibly the best of all of the most obvious Jaws frauds, is Lewis Teague's Alligator (1980), which itself was followed by an official sequel, Alligator II: The Mutation (1991), and a series of calamitous Crocodylia imitations, including Sompote Sands' Crocodile (1981), Fabrizio De Angelis' Killer Crocodile (1989), Steve Miner's equally humouriously-slanted Lake Placid (1999), and Michael Katleman's ill-advised Primeval (2007). Arch Nicholson' equally Jaws-inspired Dark Age (1987) is likely the standout of these films, while Sergio Martino's truly awful The Great Alligator (1979) actually predates Alligator. Tobe Hooper's bizarre and colourful Texas Chainsaw Massacre follow-up, Eaten Alive (1977), follows parts of Jaws' basic 'tourists eaten by an aquatic critter' tropes, but otherwise doesn't really fit this mould, and wasn't successful enough to warrant much in the way of mimicry. Both Piranha and Alligator were written by celebrated writer and director John Sayles, which likely explains their general quality. The other particularly distinguished pseudo-spoof of the formula is Ron Underwood's Tremors (1990), which, like both of the Sayles-penned films and the original Jaws, leans heavily on its characters to sell its thrills and laughs.
Italian filmmakers expectedly excelled in terms of sheer number of Jaws rip-offs. Spaghetti-shark entries are also among the most notorious in terms of their habit of directly aping Spielberg's original. These include Inglorious Bastards director Enzo G. Castellari's Great White (1981), Lamberto Bava's Devil Fish (aka: Monster Shark, 1984), Raffaele Donato and Joe D'Amato's Deep Blood (1989), and schlock-meister Bruno Mattei's Cruel Jaws (1995), which used footage from the official Jaws series and was marketed as Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws. Though distributed by American International Pictures, and starring classic American actors like John Huston, Shelley Winters and Henry Fonda, Oliver Hellman's octopus-flavoured take on the material, Tentacles (1977) was an Italian co-production. Michael Anderson's killer-whale-flavoured Orca (1977), was another Italian/American co-production (Paramount Pictures and The Dino De Laurentiis Company), and is another personal favourite due to strong performances, a fantastic Ennio Morricone score, and gob-smacking leaps in narrative logic. Not to even mention that scene where a killer whale aborts her baby on the deck of Richard Harris' boat, leading her mate to swear blood for blood vengeance via slow motion whale scream. Other foreign market releases include two René Cardona Jr. features – Tintorera (1977) and Cyclone (1978) – both of which were shot in Mexico with international casts – and William Grefe's Filipino-lensed Mako: Jaws of Death (1976).
Other filmmakers discovered that they didn't need to utilize only water-dwelling creatures to recycle the formula and, soon, plenty of land-based predators. In fact, just about every monster movie of any note released after Jaws owes something to the film. These non-aquatic entries include a pile of surprisingly entertaining films like William Girdler's Grizzly (1976), Jeff Lieberman's worm-infested Squirm (1979), John Frankenheimer's killer-mutant-environmentalist-bear movie, Prophecy (1979), Russell Mulcahy impeccably shot Razorback (1984), and Juan Piquer Simón's goopy Slugs (1988). There is even a series of films where nature itself, not one specific creature or set of creatures, sets out to kill mankind, including Girdler's Grizzly follow-up, Day of the Animals (1977) and Colin Eggleston's fantastically unsettling Long Weekend (1978). Jaws' basic storyline was eventually borrowed by less likely sources, including Thomas R. Rondinella's killer lawnmower movie, Blades (1989), Roger Donaldson's evil volcano movie, Dante's Peak (1997) and Christophe Gans' action-movie-cum-historical-melodrama, Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001). The plot structures and similarities of these films are often so striking that it's almost as if the screenwriters filled in a Jaws-themed Mad-Lib.
Jaws' exploitation legacy also extends to its three official sequels. Jeannot Szwarc's Jaws 2 (1978) is a modest little action/adventure film that might've been better received had it not been a sequel. It has an important place in the legacy of never end 'more = better' cinematic sequels that chug by almost entirely on special effects and pyrotechnics, but not a particularly important place in the pantheon of Jaws rip-offs. Joe Alves' Jaws 3D (1983) is the most amusing and messiest of the sequels. Alves and company pull inspiration from all of the wrong corners and crafts them into the ultimate bad killer shark movie. At the very least it has the ultimate high concept in setting the film at Sea World. The fact that Sea World was willing to lend their likeness to a movie where the company's bad management causes massive shark-related death and destruction is one of the most overlooked, delectably wrongheaded stories in the history of bad movies. Joseph Sargent's Jaws: The Revenge (1987), on the other hand, is joyless and only notable for being one of the worst movie a major studio has ever produced.
The trend never really stopped, but there was a sort of 'second wave' of seafaring thrillers, which started when George Pan Cosmatos' Leviathan, Sean S. Cunningham's Deep Star Six, and James Cameron's The Abyss (which is just barely Jaws-inspired) were all released in a row in 1989. The subgenre failed a third resurfacing when Steven Sommers' Deep Rising (1998) and Renny Harlan's Deep Blue Sea (1999) both failed to find their audiences (despite being generally entertaining and subversive films). But this subgenre shows no real signs of fading with the twentieth century, as apparent in a never-ending series of made for Sci-Fi/Syfy Channel, Asylum and, sadly, Roger Corman productions like Shark Attack parts one through three, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus (2009), Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010), and 2-Headed Shark Attack (2012).
For more information about these and other Jaws rip-offs I haven't seen myself (or even heard of in some cases) check out the Jaws Rip-Off Library.
Everytime a new home video format arrives, people start hankering for Star Wars, The Godfather series (well, really, just the first two), the Indiana Jones series (not the last one), and, time willing, Jaws. Universal took some time on this release, presumably so they could roll it out this year as part of their 100th anniversary celebration. The studio has put plenty of effort into this release, but, following previous prestige releases like, Spartacus, Universal's efforts have been approached with a particularly critical eye. The DVD release was pretty well cleaned, but a good stare will notice plenty of film artefacts on the release that are not present here. This, along with all the restoration-based extras on this disc, would suggest that the original 35mm material got a good scrubbing. But you knew that already. You want to know about digital cleaning and corrections, specifically DNR enhancement. If you're looking for them, you will notice some signs of noise reduction work and such things do see slight increases and decreases from sequence to sequence. However, there is still plenty of fine, natural grain on this transfer, along with all the old wet lens artefacts and the film never appears waxy or plastic, aside from (arguably) a handful of sweaty faces. I'm sure there will still be detractors calling foul, but in this case, I'm content with Universal's efforts.
The increase in fine detail and texture is surprisingly more substantial than anticipated, revealing teeny-tiny additions no one could've possibly noticed outside of a cinematic release. Most of these are trivial, of course, like pinstripes and stitching, but they work in tandem to create a more authentic experience. Backgrounds see the most valuable boost in clarity and the lack of banding effects ensure plenty of lifelike backdrops. The colour quality is quite vivid and vibrant throughout as well. The DVD release never appeared particularly washed-out before, but, now that we have something more definitively brilliant to compare it to, it's a bit surprising. This Blu-ray features much warmer and more pure yellows and oranges (the DVD features noticeable green infiltration within the warmer hues). The richer red levels feature the same fine grain as the rest of the film, but, basically, nothing in the way of the minor blocking effects that surround the DVD release. Skin tones appear natural as well, though the summer sun has still clearly 'pinked' up most of the flesh. Blue hues are boosted to richer levels, but don't overtake nighttime or sea-bound sequences (I'm looking at you, William Friedkin). There are still plenty of pink highlights in the twilight sky and the beaches are still brown enough to count as sandy. The purposefully darkened scenes, such as the ill-fated opening morning swim, remain plenty dark, but the detail increase helps ensure the fine highlights are still discernable. The dark bits are deep and sharp without a lot of additional crushed quality to the black levels.
One of the most interesting things I notice in directly comparing this Blu-ray to the DVD is that the DVD appears to have been vertically stretched. The Blu-ray clearly corrects this distortion, but also features measurably less information on both the right and left sides of the screen during throughout the film. On the other hand, there's more information than found on the DVD in other shots, so I guess Spielberg's supposed involvement with this transfer marks the Blu-ray as the proper framing.
Jaws has always been treated well in terms of sound quality on DVD. The original release came in both a separate Dolby Digital and a DTS version in order to save space and prevent compression. This Blu-ray ups the ante with an uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track and it does not disappoint. The original sound design has always been impressive, but was mono in source and mono sources don't make for the best 5.1 or 7.1 remixes. In fact, they tend to make for the worst. Occasionally, this remix leads to some jarring increases in stereo and surround spread, but there's nothing approaching the level of awkward additions found in older DVD remixes of mono tracks, where additional effects were added from digital sources to 'modern-up' the sound. There's nothing here that sounds particularly 'canned'; rather, the source stereo tracks have just been restructured a bit to fill out the extra channels. The sharpness and loudness of some elements versus others (often effects vs. vocals) creates some uncomfortable balance, but nothing the average viewer won't happily ignore in favour of effective ambience and the occasional directional movement. The majority of minor aural artefacts found here (mostly vocal reverb effects) have been present on every home video release I've ever seen, so I'm inclined to assume they are just part of the source recordings (except, of course, the source's occasional canned effects, of which there are plenty). John Williams' seminal score is given a nice overhaul, featuring much richer fidelity and bass tone in those classic low strings. The more noisy flourishes, like scare cues and bells, stand out more than those of the DVD release (at least the Dolby Digital copy I own), but not in the same occasionally awkward fashion as some of the effects. These highlights are a genuine improvement to my ears. The purists should be happy to know that the original mono track is also on this disc, presented in lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 sound.
Aside from the obvious values of HD video and audio, many fans are looking forward to this Blu-ray release for one very specific special feature – Erik Hollander's 2007 documentary The Shark is Still Working: The Impact and Legacy of Jaws (1:41:20, SD, non-anamorphic). I know what you, the more passive fan, is thinking – 'Why do we need another feature length documentary on Jaws? Wasn't the two-plus-hour long making-of documentary on the Laserdisc and DVD releases enough for you?' That's a good question. The short answer is 'Because we need it, duh!,' but the longer answer has something to do with the precise qualities of this documentary versus those of Laurent Bouzereau's more behind-the-scenes driven The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws. This doc is split into ten parts. 'Martha's Vineyard, 1974' sets the stage with the basics of Peter Benchley's book and the process of pre-production. Effectively, it's a compacted version of Bouzereau's doc. 'This is a Great White…A Big One!' follows the film's release, advertising blitz, and massively popular reception, including its never-ending line of merchandising (my favourite bit concerns the history of the iconic poster art). 'The Theme' covers the simplistic beauty of John Williams' score and its lasting impact. 'The Shark is Not Working' takes another step back to Bouzereau's doc and covers the film's blessing in disguise – failed shark special effects. 'Call Me Ishmael' is all about the book and screenplay's simple, engaging themes and the production's use of locals as extras. 'I Love Sharks…I Love Them' explores the film's real shark footage and 'The USS Indianapolis' covers the history behind the famous speech, both of which are also covered in Bouzereau's doc. 'JAWSFEST' takes a visit to the 2005 celebration of the film in Amityville, complete with footage of wacky fans. 'Life Imitates Jaws' briefly covers the true story of a great white that actually appeared in Amityville in 2004, along with public opinion of sharks since the film. 'The Shark is Still Working' wraps things up in a nostalgic little bow.
Interview subjects throughout the doc include Spielberg, author Peter Benchley, actors Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Jay Mellow, Jeffery Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Lee Fierro, Jeffery Voorhees, Jonathan Filley, Roy Pluger, Hershel West, and Roy Scheider (who also acts as narrator), co-writer Carl Gottlieb, director of photography Bill Butler, production designer Joe Alves, special effects designers Roy Aborgast and Kevin Pike, producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck, production assistant William S. Gilmore, CEO Sid Sheinberg, trailer narrator Percy Rodrigues, documentary director Bouzereau himself, poster artist Roger Kastal, composer John Williams, shark cinematographers Ron and Valerie Tayler, B-movie historian Bob Burns, author/critics Brian Godwa, John Forham and Steve Awalt, and filmmaker fans Kevin Smith, M. Night Shyamalan, Robert Rodriguez, Patrick Read Johnson, Bryan Singer, Eli Roth, Edward Sanchez, Tom Savini, Greg Nicotero, and a litany of Jaws fans.
The other new extra is Jaws: The Restoration (8:30, HD). This exploration of the arduous restoration process covers each step, from choosing the original negative elements, to chemical processes, digital scanning, digital manipulation, colour correction, and original soundtrack restructuring. It features comparison footage along with interviews with VP of content management and technical services Peter Schade, Sr. VP of technical operations Michael Daruty, VP of image assets and preservation Bob O'Neil, project manager Seanine Bird, sr. colorist Daniel DeVincent, 'Inferno' artist Eric Bauer, mastering supervisor Phil Defibaugh, colorist Leo Dion, Universal Studios BluWave Audio executive Director Richard LeGrand, supervising sound editor John Edell, and Spielberg. The featurette ends with an assurance that a new negative has been struck, ensuring that the digital footage isn't the only thing that has been archived.
This Blu-ray also features all of the extras found on the previous 30th anniversary release, including Bouzereau's uncut The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (2:20:50, SD, non-anamorphic), a deleted scenes/outtake reel (13:30, SD, non-anamorphic), a vintage EPK reel of on-set footage (9:00, SD), a storyboard archive, production photos, a marketing gallery, a merchandise gallery, and the original theatrical trailer (3:20, SD, non-anamorphic).
Jaws hasn't lost any of its bite, if you'll excuse the terrible pun, and most fans are probably going to have no problem updating their old DVDs in favour of this new Blu-ray release. The remastered HD video is pretty great, minus what might be some minor framing issues (not a lot really shows up on these screen shots, the new 7.1 audio remix utilizes the mono tracks without too many distracting surround embellishments, and the extras are quite extensive (if not disappointingly not HD or anamorphically enhanced).
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and DVD releases and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
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Marcus1138 Contributor Join Date: June 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 910
It's so annoying the UK are getting this later than the US. Same goes for E.T.
llama Member Join Date: February 2008 Location: United States Posts: 503
This thing is a thing that I would like to buy with money. Also, good review.
keffa Member Join Date: July 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 436
sept 3rd..cant wait...steelbook ordered...was hopeing sideshow would make an orca boat with a blu-ray that slides in the hull but i can dream
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
Jesus, look at the blocking artefacts on the DVD! It wasn't that bad, was it?
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I took the caps directly from source using VLC then blew them up to the same size as the Blu-ray caps. At the very least the smaller caps are accurate. Was there an improvement from the first and second DVD releases?
Shawn Fitzgerald Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: United States Posts: 344
Great review. One small bit you might want to revise: "The Making of Jaws" runs 2:02 and not 2:20.
Great review. One small bit you might want to revise: "The Making of Jaws" runs 2:02 and not 2:20.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th August 2012
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 and 2.0 Mono English, DTS 5.1 French and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: The Shark is Still Working, The Making of Jaws, Jaws: The Restoration, Deleted Scenes and Outtakes, From the Set, Storyboards, Production Photos, Marketing Jaws, Jaws Phenomenon, Trailer, Pocket Blu App, BD-Live, DVD Copy, Digital Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror and Thriller
Length: 124 minutes
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According to state Liquor Control Board documents reviewed Monday, only five retailers will be licensed to sell recreational marijuana in Okanogan County, one of which must be located in Omak.
Only one retailer will be licensed in Ferry County.
Six businesses in Okanogan County and one in Ferry County are among the applicants. Those businesses are:
"The application window is closed," Liquor Control Board spokesman Brian Smith said Monday, noting the North-Central Washington list posted may not be fully up-to-date as there is a backlog of applications to be processed.
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Election results for OCLC's three Regional Councils, Americas (ARC), Europe, Middle East and Africa Regional Council (EMEARC), and Asia Pacific Regional Council (APRC), were also announced during the Global Council Meeting in Dublin, Ohio, April 11-13. This year, 44 delegates representing 17 countries participated in the meeting under the direction of Jennifer Younger, President, OCLC Global Council, and Chair, Board of Directors, Catholic Research Resources Alliance, and Librarian, Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame.
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From the article.....clem wrote:Rogers (Sportsnet) is taking a serious look at bidding on the rights to Saturday night hockey when they come up for renewal in two years.
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Expect Sportsnet to be more open to regional interests, and less likely to sign the MacLean/Cherry gong show.... if they get the rights.
That can be paraphrased as, "I can stick my dick so far up CBC's ass and they will obligingly take it, write it off as great chemistry between business partners, and then pay me more money to keep doing it because they know that they would lose a fortune if the NHL wasn't a part of their broadcast every Saturday night."Bettman (that little prick) wrote: "There's probably no more iconic brands in Canada than the CBC, Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL," he said. "That accounts for 60 years of a great relationship, which is unprecedented because we work so well together."


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Devices set for installation on at least 101 Mississippi-based diesel trucks will save on fuel costs and help the environment, officials said Thursday.
Federal, state and university officials spoke about a $1.08 million grant to Mississippi State University at a formal ceremony at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems.
"The Mississippi State University project will make a significant impact of reducing diesel emissions by eliminating the need to idle for over 101 road trucks by installing the battery-operated air-conditioning packs," said Carol Kemker, Region 4 director of the Air, Pesticides and Toxics Management Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Dr. Michael Mazzola, associate director of advanced vehicle systems at CAVS, talked about the immediate impact the devices deliver.
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MSU researchers did not develop the technology, he said, but the devices "we're installing on these trucks as part of this grant will help people yesterday. I can prove that because these things are already on the trucks," Mazzola said.


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Skip to comments.SENATE EPW MINORITY RELEASES REPORT ON CRU CONTROVERSY
Posted on 02/23/2010 10:11:31 AM PST by PhiKapMom
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WATCH: Inhofe Releases Climategate Report During EPW HearingWashington, D.C.-The Minority Staff of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report today titled, "Consensus' Exposed: The CRU Controversy." The report covers the controversy surrounding emails and documents released from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). It examines the extent to which those emails and documents affect the scientific work of the UN's IPCC, and how revelations of the IPCC's flawed science impacts the EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gases.
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The report finds that some of the scientists involved in the CRU controversy violated ethical principles governing taxpayer-funded research and possibly federal laws. In addition, the Minority Staff believes the emails and accompanying documents seriously compromise the IPCC-based "consensus" and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.
In its examination of the controversy, the Minority Staff found that the scientists:
- Obstructed release of damaging data and information;"This EPW Minority Report shows that the CRU controversy is about far more than just scientists who lack interpersonal skills, or a little email squabble," said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. "It's about unethical and potentially illegal behavior by some the world's leading climate scientists.
- Manipulated data to reach preconceived conclusions;
- Colluded to pressure journal editors who published work questioning the climate science "consensus"; and
- Assumed activist roles to influence the political process.
"The report also shows the world's leading climate scientists acting like political scientists, with an agenda disconnected from the principles of good science. And it shows that there is no consensus-except that there are significant gaps in what scientists know about the climate system. It's time for the Obama Administration to recognize this. Its endangerment finding for greenhouse gases rests on bad science. It should throw out that finding and abandon greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act-a policy that will mean fewer jobs, higher taxes and economic decline." ###
After all these years and the ridicule Progressive Democrats like Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and others spewed at Senator Inhofe, he has been proven correct.
For years we have heard him refer to the data as 'junk science' that some of climate scientists were publishing. With no Peer Review, there was no one to either back up or refute their claims except a few scientists willing to stand up.
The media ran with the Al Gore Global Warming mantra and never considered the fact the the data might not have been correct -- never crossed their minds. Anyone who dared doubt Gore and the Global Warming agenda were considered people who didn't care about the environment and out of touch with reality. When, in fact, it was the Global Warming crowd who were out of touch with reality and costs Governments around the World billions.
Americans should be thanking Senator Inhofe who never gave up the fight and in the end was proven correct -- 'junk science' was used to support the political agenda of Al Gore's Global Warming that the Nobel Committee saw fit to award him a Nobel Prize. Those Nobel Prize Committees might want to rethink who they are awarding these prizes with monetary awards after the last few years.
Our Senator was correct all along — it was 'Junk Science' which Inhofe has made part of the vocabulary when talking about Al Gore and Global Warming.
Please ping the OK Freepers!
We sent Jim Inhofe back to the US Senate to do this type of work in spite of the fact that Soros sent in two consultants and tons of money to Andrew Rice to defeat Jim Inhofe in 2008. Red State Oklahoma came through against Obama and Rice!
But...he's been a very much needed pit bull on this subject!!
PKM, the link isn't working. And glad to see this report.
Now, the EPA needs to be throttled back in their CO2 endangerment findings... go Sen Inhofe...
Clicked on the link and no document. What up?
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The Senate has put this up at the link — personally think they did it on purpose as it worked when I put it up — will call his office and find out:
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I just finished reading this. I would encourage everybody to take the time to do so. It is one hell of an indictment on the sloppiness and lack of scientific method that these criminals (for that is what they are, in my opinion) are guilty of.
EPW POLICY BEAT: CONSENSUS EXPOSED, PART 2 ( Global Warming Consensus that is )
The following is Part 2 in our series of excerpts from the Senate EPW Minority Report, titled, "Consensus' Exposed: The CRU Controversy." Here the excerpts focus on two points from the report. First is the distinction made between "utterly politicized scientists," such as those at the center of the CRU controversy, and scientists committed to disinterested, objective science in the field of climatology (and all other fields), who deserve praise and support. It points to the importance of openness and transparency in practicing good science-and shows how those principles were, at times, ignored or flouted. Second, it shows how the EPA relied heavily on the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report to make its endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. The IPCC's report was marred by errors and exaggerations. EPA failed to do its own independent review of the IPCC's science, so its finding is flawed, and EPA should dispense with it and start over again.
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