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3dfx Voodoo4 4500 & Voodoo5 5500 Previewby Anand Lal Shimpi on April 24, 2000 3:05 AM EST
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For the past few months the focus of the industry has pretty much been exclusively on the desktop microprocessor market. With the megahertz and, just recently, the gigahertz wars occupying most of the publication space online, it is refreshing to see that die down for a bit and the graphics war heat up yet again.
Just about one year ago, the furious 3dfx versus NVIDIA debates began erupting because of the release of the Voodoo3 and the TNT2. While 3dfx chose to focus on fill rate and the resulting frame rate, NVIDIA chose to focus on adding playable 32-bit color support to their TNT (while the TNT supported 32-bit color rendering, a lack of memory bandwidth kept it from being a truly playable solution). The lack of any support for 32-bit color rendering left 3dfx with quite a bit of flack from NVIDIA supporters even though, at the time, most games didn't really benefit from switching to 32-bit color rendering.
Six months later, both 3dfx and NVIDIA were scheduled to release their next-generation parts, and once again, there was a fine dividing line between what 3dfx's goals were and what NVIDIA's goals were in terms of implementing features. NVIDIA felt that it was time for the graphics card to take some of the load off of the host CPU by performing all of the transforming & lighting calculations on-board instead of on the host CPU, while 3dfx felt that hardware T&L wasn't worth focusing on because there was still a need for greater fill rates and other features.
Today, no one can honestly say that NVIDIA's hardware T&L really made a difference in their gaming experience because the games that would truly take advantage of a hardware T&L engine were not out at the time the GeForce was released and are only now beginning to appear. Nevertheless, it won't be until later this year that a large number of games will begin to take advantage of hardware T&L.
Chances are, that if 3dfx released their next-generation Voodoo4/5 parts alongside NVIDIA's GeForce as planned, the GeForce wouldn't have grown to become the gaming card of choice. But, although 3dfx was adamantly denouncing hardware T&L as an unnecessary feature for the time being, the GeForce was racking up sales and the Voodoo4/5 had yet to be seen.
As painful as it was for them to admit, 3dfx had no part that could compete with the GeForce. Things have changed quite a bit during the past 6 months, and while the market eagerly awaits the successor to the current gaming card of choice from NVIDIA, 3dfx is finally ready to bring the Voodoo4/5 to the table.
It will be a couple more weeks until you will see a final review of the Voodoo4/5, and although we usually don't like doing too many previews on a single product, this time around we are armed with much more to show you than a few screenshots and promises of an amazing product.
We'll save in-depth talk about T-Buffer and the features of the Voodoo4/5 for the final review of the product and make this preview more of an indication of what to expect from the Voodoo4/5.


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How glad am I this weeks over
won't bore you all with why
just know I'm glad it's gone
now don't think I expect the next one to be all
wine and roses
but it hasn't shown itself yet
so we can have hope
yes we can!!!
they say it's going to snow
and then
right before
it all turns to rain
so I made sure all the important things were taken care of
I refilled the biscuit tin
ginger snaps and shortbread
now we can move forward
I keep reading how people love their smart phone cameras
so I decided that if I've got one I may as well start just using it
and getting used to it
just like I did with
so I took some snaps while the kettle was on
and these are the result
you can crop the photo right on the phone!
I discovered how to zoom
and turn the flash off
how to zero in on something
it still feels really clumsy and awkward
but soon I won't remember how not to do it
obviously need to retake
I wanted to show the
I wanted to show the
violets are blooming
so we have a tiny bit of colour around
sorry that's really bad!!!!!
should go back and re-do these
oh well
a tiny bit better
my favourite colour
so sweet sitting there blooming its little head off
and the orchid is still going
I had to move it back to the bedroom
because every time I switched the light on
I broke a flower
so here it sits looking over the lake
which is empty at the moment
the birds come and go
and as the snow is on its way
who knows where they went
the knitting is going slowly
my little finger cramps quite a bit so I've not been at it that much
it's the way I hold the yarn and I can't hold it any other way so.....
I have found two other things that I am dying
to do
have you noticed all the
"houndstooth" around
hats gloves
scarves and shawls
so I wondered if one could knit it
of course one can
of course one can
so one is going to
as soon as the pinky cramp goes away
it's starting to cramp now as I type!!!!!!
and then the other thing
is from our friend over on Flickr
that some of us know and love
with her burst of colours and talent
is making a new blanket
and want to do it
before I finish anything
isn't it fabulous!!??
such a clever belle she is
such a clever belle she is
hope all of you are well
and that you have a great weekend
take care all

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UCCA (Ullens Center for Contemporary Art)
Introduction: Founded through the Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation in Switzerland and established in November 2007, the Ullens Center aims to be a non-profit-making catalyst on the Chinese art scene. It has already established itself as one of the most influential institutions in the Beijing scene with some exhilarating and high-impact shows.
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Creation Art Gallery - 可创铭佳艺苑
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Add: Northeast of Ritan Park
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F2 Gallery
Introduction: A foreign-owned gallery representing a handful of Chinese contemporary artists, as well as occasional shows of overseas artists such as Julian Schnabel and Keith Haring.
Add: No.319 Caochangdi
Tel: 6432 8831
Hrs: 10:00am-6:00pm(Tue-Sun)
National Art Museum of China - 中国美术馆
Introduction: Hosts traveling exhibits and well-curated shows from its own collection. A must-visit for anyone interested in 20th century socialist and traditional art, and has recently put on some stunning contemporary exhibitions.
Add: No.1 Wusi Dajie, Tian'anmen
Tel: 6401 7076/2252
Hrs: 9:00am-4:00pm
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery II
Introduction: The French owners of these two spaces in 798 show a consistently interesting program of international and local art photographers.
Add: Dashanzi, 798, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road
Tel: 8459 9263
Hrs: 10:00am-6:00pm
Chambers Fine Art - 前波画廊
Introduction: Leading New York gallery specializing in Chinese contemporary art which finally opened its Beijing branch in 2007. It has plans to diversify by showing international contemporary artists.
Add: Red No.1-D, Caochangdi
Tel: 5127 3298
Hrs: 10:00am-6:00pm(Tue-Sun)
Yan Club Art Center - 仁俱乐部艺术中心
Add: 798 Art Area, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road
酒仙桥路4号, 798艺术区
Tel: 8457 3506
Hrs: 10:00am-6:00pm
DoArt Gallery
Add: No.261 Caochangdi
Tel: 8477 5185
798 Space - 798时态空间
Add: 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, 798, Dashanzi Art District
酒仙桥路4号, 大山子艺术区
Tel: 5978 9180
Hrs: 11:00am-9:00pm
GalleriaContinua - 北京常青画廊
Add: Room8503, 4 Jiuxianqiao Road
Tel: 5978 9505
Hrs: 11:00am-6:00pm
Yuanfen New Media Art Space
Add: 798, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Seven Stars East Street
酒仙桥路4号大山子艺术区内, 7星东街
Hrs: 11:00am-7:00pm(Wed-Sat)
Pekin Fine Arts
Add: No.241 Caochangdi, Cuigezhuang
Tel: 8610 5127 ext.3220
Hrs: 10:00am-6:00pm(Wed-Sun)
Pace Beijing
Add: No. 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, 798
Tel: 5978 9781
Hrs: 11:00am-7:00pm(Tue-Sun)
Imagine Gallery - 想象画廊
Add: 8th Art Studio, Feijiacun Donglu, Laiguangying Donglu, Wangjing
Tel: 6438 5747
Hrs: 10:30am-5:30pm(Tue-Sun)
Art Galleries
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It was a quiet day to kick off a quiet week.
First the scoreboard:
Dow: 13,971, -21.7, -0.1 percent S&P 500: 1,517, -0.9, -0.0 percent NASDAQ: 3,192, -1.8, -0.0 percent
And now the top stories:
- There was no major economic reports or earnings announcements today. Furthermore, much of Asia has been closed in observation of the Lunar New Year.
- Speaking of New Years', it's now the year of the snake. UBS's Art Cashin pointed out this morning that years of the snake are the worst. "The prior snake (2001) saw a loss of 13.1% after losing 28% at one point," wrote Cashin. "We saw things like 9/11 (2001), the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) and the stock market crash (1929)."
- According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors, home prices jumped in Q4 at their fastest pace in seven years. Prices rose in 133 of 152 metro areas. "Home sales are being fueled by a pent-up demand and job creation, along with still favorable affordability conditions and rents rising at faster rates," said the NAR's Lawrence Yun.
- Later this week, we'll learn how retail sales did in January. Some analysts have dubbed the release of this report as the " moment of truth" as we'll find out if the recent expiration of a payroll tax cut had any major impact on consumer spending.
- Jim O'Sullivan, the top U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, thinks that the negative impact of the the payroll tax hike is unlikely to appear in the January numbers. "[D]espite the payroll tax hike on January 1, retail sales appear to have been resilient," wrote O'Sullivan in a note citing Bloomberg data.
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Making fractals
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For Teachers
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Other Math Lessons
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They're everywhere, those bright, weird, beautiful shapes called fractals. But what are they, really?
Winners and New Champions!
Sierpinski 2002 Champions! Congratulations on an awesome Sierpinski Triangle
Congratulations! Students in Mr. Lynch's class in Sandpoint,Idaho created this 12th iteration Jurassic Park Fractal. It took 256 copies of their original to make. Great job.Here's last year's 11th-iteration version.
Elementary School Champions! Third grade students in Ms. Renner's class at Alief ISD's Chambers Elementary in Houston, TX made this this 9th iteration Jurassic Park Fractal. Wow!
And look at what preschoolers do!
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[Note: The original review of "Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie", which was written by Scott Alisoglu upon the DVD's initial release in 2010, can be found at this location.]
There once was this heavy metal band that preferred tea over whiskey, so much they had boxes of it shipped from England on their first jaunt through the United States way back when. The band was SAXON and they may not have had a taste for American tea, but as history reveals, they had a yearning to ram their native Union Jack up the bums of their bratty brethren across the pond. So much, the desire to break out of their fruitful UK habitat nearly destroyed SAXON on their quest for global success.
You might consider this the premise of "Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie", a punchy and honest recount of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends whose story is long overdue. The mighty SAXON continues to rage proudly through a long succession of impossibly heavy albums this deep into their careers, beginning with 1995's "Dogs of War" and rolling into recent days with "Into the Labyrinth" and "Call to Arms". This lengthy examination of the band will present better insight (for better and worse) into the ascension of a heavy metal juggernaut and how ego, mismanagement and trend-hopping divided segments of the classic SAXON lineup and nearly put the band to rest altogether.
Trailing the band from their working class roots in Yorkshire, England, "Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie" relays stories of how the former SON OF A BITCH evolved into SAXON, sleeping on dirty mattresses at fans' shacks and shagging groupies in the back of their van from town-to-roughneck-town during their formative years. SAXON recorded the original demos for their metal masterpiece "Wheels of Steel" in a shoddy studio filled with mouse dung. Coupled with a climate of political and social upheaval in the UK prior to the album's release in 1980, it's no wonder "Wheels of Steel" transcended the '79 self-titled debut with such ferocity, staking SAXON's claim to a rock 'n roll market growing heavier by the minute back in the day.
As the demand for SAXON's punishing style of metallic mayhem grew, inevitably so too would the in-house friction once the band ventured east towards the glitzy glam parade of Los Angeles. On the heels of a step-by-step implosion, three of SAXON's core members would be wiped clean. Say what you will about SAXON ever since. Their metal hearts are always in the right place and seldom few traditional-minded metal bands can compete with their enduring professionalism. Yet SAXON carries a stigma that's hashed out in this film and there's a price to be paid, fan-wise, for the revelations brought forth.
"Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie" presents apposite viewpoints of the band's career from Biff Byford and Paul Quinn on one end of the spectrum, the long-lost Steve Dawson and Graham Oliver on the other. For a while, the tone is reverential as each member reflects on the band's glory days and specifically targets SAXON's yeoman tour with MOT?RHEAD on the latter's "Bomber" cycle as a breakout period.
The more "Heavy Metal Thunder: The Movie" digs and probes, however, we're forced to acknowledge that rifts and wounds gush as they ever have and this leaves an intentionally somber air that almost negates the cathartic position of the movie. SAXON carries on today with honor musically-speaking, having weathered adversity and a handful of dismissible albums from the mid-Eighties to early Nineties. It's that period of awkward transition which found Steve Dawson voicing his displeasure at SAXON's surrender to Hairball Hell and which found him sacked from the group. Later, the band would put Graham Oliver on the street in a dispute over leaked tapes of the band's renowned Donington gig from 1980. To this day, the sores continue to ooze pus and that makes for a compelling spectacle, yet it also leaves extra density upon the heart when you go back and listen to the blistering magic of "Saxon", "Wheels of Steel", "Denim and Leather", "Strong Arm of the Law", and, depending on which side of the fence you sit on, "Crusader".
Added to the teeming interview guest list (which includes former managers plus current members Doug Scarratt and Nigel Glocker) are Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell, Mikkey Dee and "Fast" Eddie Clarke from MOT?RHEAD plus Lars Ulrich from METALLICA. Ulrich is especially amusing in his recount of the first time he saw SAXON live, much less opened up for them in METALLICA. Stay tuned for a hilarious story regarding METALLICA and Biff Byford's stage fan, as well as a more recent snippet of Byford singing "Motorcycle Man" with them. Kickass stuff we'd like to see in full.
For all of the suppressive drama presented by the film, the aesthetic and audile joy comes on the second disc filled with hours of behind-the-scenes traipsing, interviews and recording outtakes from "Crusader", "Innocence Is No Excuse" and "Into the Labyrinth", plus two live shows showcasing opposite ends of SAXON's career. The "St. George's Day, 2008" concert reveals the perpetual power of SAXON in the new millennium, but the entire project's moment of supremacy comes via "Saxon On the Beat Club, 1980." The latter contains a near-hour set of vintage SAXON cuts featuring the halcyon lineup of Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Steve Dawson, Graham Oliver and Pete Gill. Cleaned up beautifully for modern presentation, this concert is full-on energy. SAXON fans old and new will delight in this rare opportunity to see "Heavy Metal Thunder", "Wheels of Steel", "Strong Arm of the Law", "Machine Gun", "747 (Strangers in the Night)", "Frozen Rainbow", "100 Years", "Show Me the Way", "The Band Played On" and others at a maniacal tilt by the original players.
It's not so much a case of what might've been to the story of SAXON. Doug Scarratt, Nigel Glocker and Nibbs Carter have filled their roles with valiance and tenacity, principal reasons why SAXON continues to flourish and why they still matter in metal music today. However, now that certain truths have come about (one being that they're not wholly tea-totallers), there remains a smudge on the resume of these genre titans. Had they never veered towards the commercial pastures their peers reaped with far more lucrativeness, who knows what SAXON might've achieved through that lackluster period? On the other hand, it could be said SAXON came out a much stronger unit having learned their brutal lessons.
As a postscript, this review was written over a cup of PG Tips.


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Samples: Single Digit Addition Match. Place value - 'Adding On' single digit numbers.
5.NA.1 – Apply additive and simple multiplicative strategies and knowledge of symmetry to:
5.NA.1.a – Combine or partition whole numbers
Samples: Reading numbers – to 10 000. Write numbers – to 10 000. Comparing numbers – to 10 000.
6.NA.1 – Apply additive and simple multiplicative strategies flexibly to:
6.NA.1.a – Combine or partition whole numbers, including performing mixed operations and using addition and subtraction as inverse operations
Samples: Write numbers – to 100 000. Reading numbers – to 100 000. Comparing numbers – to 100 000.
6.NA.3 – Describe spatial and number patterns, using:
6.NA.3.b – Rules that involve spatial features, repeated addition or subtraction, and simple multiplication.
Samples: Addition two Digit - Missing Numbers. Addition Make 100. Make 100. Challenge puzzle. Addition Of Five Digit Numbers.
Number and place value
ACMNA073 – Apply place value to partition, rearrange and regroup numbers to at least tens of thousands to assist calculations and solve problems
Samples: Place Value to 1000. Identifying place value to 10000 (includes empty columns). Expanded Notation Part 1.
KS2.Y3.N.AS – Number - addition and subtraction
Pupils should be taught to:
KS2.Y3.N.AS.4 – Solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction
Samples: Two digit addition. Challenge Puzzle - Addition Pyramid. Addition two Digit - Missing Numbers. Make 100.
2.OA.1 – Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem. (See Glossary, Table 1. http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/glossary/glossary/ )
Samples: Adding multiples of 10. Split Strategy. Add On Numbers Under 10. Jump strategy.
2.NBT.5 – Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Samples: Place value - 'Adding On' single digit numbers. Place value - Two digit addition without trading.


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Sometimes science is political
In "Science slowdown" (SN: 11/30/13, p. 14), Beth Mole reported on how the recent U.S. government shutdown affected science and on the long-term decline in federal research funding. In the same issue's editor's note, Eva Emerson expressed concern that efforts to foster scientific curiosity and talent among students will be wasted if there aren't enough research career options open to brilliant and motivated young people.
Many readers shared our concern, sharing personal stories about the excitement of doing research in the decades after Sputnik, when the United States became a mecca for aspiring scientists from around the world. Others lamented a culture that rewards college football coaches with astronomical salaries while scientific superstars struggle to pay for their work.


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I am starting my Project 52 Book and have high hopes that I will finish it this year . . . a simple page design using the same background paper throughout and Katie's Rounded Corner Clipping Masks along with minimal journaling should make this project fairly easy. I've a terrible track record with my books . . . something or other always comes up to side track my best efforts. I am working of four or five UFO's right now . . . someday, I will finish them and have them printed. Our year began with a bang . . . we were so pleased that our youngest grandchild would be spending six days with us!! Photos galore for a few days.
Journaling: We started the new year out by taking a few Christmas decorations down and being lazy! Bess & Doug and the children left on the morning of New Year's Eve and we spent the Eve watching football. On Friday I drove to Centre to meet Bess and pick up little Amelia to bring her back home for a few days at our house. Bess & Doug flew to Miami on Saturday for the Alabama - Notre Dame BCS bowl game! Michael has some sort of awful cold, so I've talked to him a few times this week . . . it looks like Mitchell & James are over their bout with bronchitis, thank goodness. I think that all of the children started school on the 4th except for Amelia and Mitchell. Our New Year's prayer is for healing for all who suffer and are frail.
Happy New Year Brushes and Stamps - Ali Edwards
Krafty Ledger Paper Pack - Katie Pertiet
Rounded Corner Clipping Masks Brushes - Katie Pertiet
Serendipity Solid Paper Pack - Mindy Teresawa
Shimmer Me Tidbits: Fireworks - Pattie Knox
Times Of Your Life Hand Drawn Brushes - Ali Edwards
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July 9, 2008
Hard-to-Find Week Pre-Party: Alternatives to (the evil) NARS Zulu
A while back I wrote an article complaining about NARS Zulu and the insistence of the nail polish industry of discontinuing highly sought after colors. I understand that creating 'limited edition' nail polish inflates demand and creates profits for nail polish companies, but discontinuing really highly sought after colors doesn't make any sense from a business stand point. NARS Zulu, for example, has been off the market for over a year and still consistently sells for $70+ on ebay. That's profit that is going to scalpers when it could be going to the polish companies. It just seems like bad business sense to not re-release those colors.
In any case, I still don't own Zulu. Whenever I'm near a balcony, I run out on to it à la A Streetcar Named Desire and scream , " Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuluuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!! Zuuuuuuuuuuuuuluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!" A long time ago I bought all the supplies to attempt to franken Zulu. I never did it because frankening Zulu was akin to accepting I would never own it. I'm starting to accept that, so I gave the franken a shot.
Here are some of the greens in my collection.
Unfortunately none of these are exact dupes of Zulu. Check out Blogdorf Goodman for swatches of Anna Sui #915 and Chelsea Psycho Green which are traditionally thought of as Zulu dupes and are, unfortunately, as difficult to find as Zulu. Chelsea Psycho Green, also pictured above, is very close but Zulu is a creme with a jelly finish and Psycho Green has very subtle shimmer visible only in the light, no jelly finish.
I bought Icing Envy and New York Summer Amaranth specifically for the purpose of trying to duplicate Zulu. I've seen an Amaranth based Zulu franken before, it was dead on. Amaranth has a jelly quality that is similar to Zulu so it's a perfect base green for Zulu frankens, just add black. The only problem was that I loved Amaranth so much I didn't want to use it for a franken. I decided to try it out only with Icing's Envy (which I also love but happen to have two bottles). I'll order a second bottle of Amaranth to franken with and post my results later, I promise.
I mixed roughly half a mini bottle of Icing Envy with the rest being 1/4 OPI Black Onyx and 1/4 OPI Top Coat. This is what I ended up with:
And this is Ponchy's picture of Zulu:
As you can see, I failed, while I like the color I ended up with, my franken looks nothing like Zulu.
Zulu escapes me again.
*sobs quietly*
Special thanks to my love Ponchy for allowing me to use her image in this post. : )


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We import among the best coffee from 35 different countries, then roast it like master craftsmen, we sell to only those who want the best. Our customers tend to be young (18-35) year old men, but not entirely. They are edgy, casual, contemporary... willing to spend good money for the best. Our name, Fratello, means BROTHER. My two brothers and I run the company - 2nd generation company. We sell our product mostly to independently owned coffee shops.
We have strong relationships with the farmers who grow our coffee in South America, Africa, Asia.
Our website is: http://www.fratellocoffee.com
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Guys, 18-35 years old, contemporary, edgy, skate boarders or single speed pedal bicycles, tattoos. People who live in the city (NYC or San Francisco) - urban, live in lofts, trend setters, willing to spend money on things that are done well. Not formal. Casual. Alternative. A lot of the customers would listen to music, enjoy album art work. Many would be listening to LP records again - as they are vintage & analog & better quality then digital recordings. They might appreciate film photography and old vintage cameras as it is more artful & creative then shooting with digital cameras.
AUTHENTICITY is an important quality with our customers.
Companies who are doing coffee & image right:
Looking for a t-shirt design, incorporating our name. We do not have a formal logo - so the WORD "Fratello Coffee" can be a totally RANDOM word mark & or font. Images can also be RANDOM. We do NOT want to see a cup of coffee or coffee bean on the image.
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Lady Bisons close out tournament at Murray State
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons closed out their first tournament of the fall season at the Murray State Drake Creek Invitational.
Katie Pursell finished in a tie for 20th to lead the Lady Bisons. She closed out the tournament Tuesday with an 81 to give her a three-round total of 236. Pursell's 72 in the second round Monday was the only round under 80 for a Lady Bisons golfer.
Also shooting an 81 in the final round was Mary Leigh Baker. He three-day total was 245. Baker tied for 40th.
Lindsey Beard shot an 82 in the third round for a total of 250, good enough for 49th place.
Allie Pancake's 83 gave her a three-round score of 254. She finished in 51st place.
Maggie Siddons tied for 52nd after shooting an 83 in the final round.
Host Murray State won the tournament.


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William King was born on February 8, 1768, in Scarborough in the District of Maine.
He was the fourth of six children of merchant Richard King and Mary (Black) King, Richard's second wife.
William received his education at home except for one term at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
After working on the family farm and in various mills, William left Scarborough at age 19 to join his younger sister, Betsy, and her husband, Dr. Benjamin Porter, in Topsham, Maine.


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Log on - Make the wood stove hotta.
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Monitor - Keep an eye on that wood stove.
Download - Getting the firewood off the truck.
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User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff.
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Internet - Complicated fishnet repair method.
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News - 03.04.12
Alberto Arizu Jr. to Remain in Charge of Wines of Argentina
El 28 de Marzo de 2012 se llevó a cabo una Asamblea General Ordinaria donde Wines of Argentina eligió nuevas autoridades.
Winemaker Alberto Arizu Jr. was reelected president of Wines of Argentina last Tuesday. Alberto Arizu Jr., a member of the Leoncio Arizu S.A. firm, was appointed WofA's president once again during a general meeting of members held at NH Cordillera Hotel, where 57 associates cast their vote. He will hold office for another two years.
Roberto de la Mota, from Mendel Wines, was elected Vice President of the organization promoting Argentine wine around the globe. Juan Marcó, from Permasur S.A. (Finca Decero) will remain as Treasurer, while the Pro Treasurer's office will be under the responsibility of Guillermo Barzi, from Humberto Canale S.A. Patricia Freuler de Ortiz (Fincas Patagónicas – Bodega Tapiz) and Julio César Viola (Bodega Fin del Mundo) will serve as Secretary and Pro Secretary, respectively.
Following the guidelines established in the organization statute, half of the executive committee was renewed during the event, while a few new additions in a number of posts were made. "A figure of international prestige and great technical prowess, having Roberto de la Mota in one of WofA's most public areas is indeed an invaluable addition," stated Mr. Arizu.
The reelected president was enthusiastic before the media, claiming that "the last two years have been fruitful in that we have accomplished a good number of our intended goals. We are now up against new challenges in a highly competitive international scenario."
He then expanded, "From now on, expansion may probably not be as powerful as it was for the last 20 years in Argentina. Our country grew at an average rate of 23% in the last 10 years (average aggregate growth per year). Back in 2011," he explained, "we set up an action plan scheduled until 2014 with the aim of reaching USD 1,100 million in exports, which meant a 15% increase in growth. Our main concern is to be able to maintain that 15% increase rate in Argentine exports and export as much as we set out to by 2014," Mr. Arizu concluded.
The new authorities briefly went over the annual action plan, which will feature about 225 activities a year. The organization's 2012 budget, which amounts to an estimated 25 million pesos, practically equals last year's. The worldwide schedule this year features activities such as Malbec World Day and WofA's participation in international fairs and special events.
The markets Wines of Argentina is planning to focus on in 2012 "are the strategic markets we have already set a foot on. We are working very hard on our new agency in China, where we believe we will accentuate our efforts," de la Mota asserted. Established in China since the end of 2011, WofA's new office has been operatively functioning since early this year. "This is wonderful news, especially for Argentine wines, since they will now have their own headquarters in Beijing. We are excited about the impact of this, especially on Argentina's strategic work in China," Mr. Arizu concluded.


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Big East M5: 04.02.13 EditionPosted by Will Tucker on April 2nd, 2013
- Georgetown fans received some measure of consolation after a disappointing Second Round upset when the AP named Otto Porter a first-team All-American yesterday. Tying Trey Burke for the most first-team votes received, Porter became the first Hoya to claim the honor since Allen Iverson did so in 1996, and was the sixth first-team All-American in program history. (Patrick Ewing earned the distinction in three difference seasons, so Porter's appearance is actually the eighthin Georgetown history.) Joining the Big East's Player of the Year with AP team honors was Louisville's Russ Smith (third team), while teammates Gorgui Dieng, Peyton Siva, Syracuse's Michael Carter-Williams and Notre Dame's Jack Cooley captured honorable mentions.
- Shortly before going into surgery to repair the compound leg fracture he'd suffered against Duke on Sunday, Louisville guard Kevin Ware borrowed a nurse's cell phone to contact his mother, knowing "she'd be freaking out." Six hundred miles away in suburban Atlanta, Lisa Junior was just as much in the dark regarding her son's status as anyone watching the CBS broadcast: "He didn't even say hello. He just said, 'Mom, I need you to calm down.' He knew I'd be a mess. Once I heard his voice, I was better." Ware was walking with the aid of crutches yesterday after surgeons successfully stabilized his broken tibia with a metal rod and closed the ghastly wound where it had broken skin. He will reportedly travel to Atlanta with the Cardinals this week and sit on the bench for the Final Four match-up with Wichita State.
- USF has inked a home-and-home deal with Detroit, to begin in Tampa in 2013-14. Detroit's visit to the Sun Dome will feature three returning rising senior starters, including star Ray McCallum Jr. (18.8 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 4.5 APG this season). But the return trip to Detroit in 2014-15 will be a homecoming for native sons head coach Stan Heath and incoming guard Byron Ziegler, while freshman JaVontae Hawkins will be playing an hour down the road from his hometown of Flint. It will also probably be a rebuilding year for the Titans, giving Heath a golden opportunity to recruit the area and sell the idea of a non-conference series close to home to Detroit prospects.
- Tulsa is slated to announce in a late-morning press conference that it will join the New Old Zombie Big East in all sports. The impending additions of Tulsa and ECU reflect an emphasis on football stature in Mike Aresco's new lineup, but Rob Dauster points out that Golden Hurricane basketball isn't a complete disaster, and says "[coach Danny] Manning has the team going in the right direction, despite a depleted roster from transfers." After winning 17 games in 2011-12, Manning held serve at around .500 in his first year as head coach, going 17-16 before losing to Wright State in the CBI.
- Just to salt the wounds from last weekend's loss, Carmelo Anthony subjected Marquette fans to further indignity yesterday when he shamed Golden Eagles alum and fellow Knick Steve Novak on Instagram yesterday. Novak was apparently on the losing end of a bet on the Elite Eight game between their alma maters, and well, he made good on his wager in this shot:


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No Spare Tire in USA...any regrets?
No Spare Tire in USA...any regrets?
Not yet. :-)
I will when I get a flat and the flat repair kit doesn't work.
No, and I don't expect to regret it. My last car (a LEAF) also did not have any spare at all, and I never had any issue. In fact, during my more than 30 years of driving, I have never had a flat that I couldn't just pump up enough to get to a service station/etc.
The wife shredded a rear on the audi last summer. And then proceeded to drive a mile with a flat tire...
At that point, I was glad to have a proper spare. Kudos to Vredestein, as the rim was unscathed.
I agree with jat.
The last 4 cars I had never had a spare tire come out of the trunk. I carry goo & a compressor (& I have never used them on the road either).
My wife is worried enough about it that she does NOT want me to buy one. I may have to buy a "donut" spare and keep it in the frunk just to ease her mind.
Won't fit, if it's big enough diameter for the car. Do you get flats much? How many in the last decade?
@BrianH - I think you could get a low-profile tire on an 18" rim and it would fit in the frunk, but I don't know what having mismatched size tires will do to the yaw control systems or the air suspension.
I have an escalade hybrid. It does not have a spare tire. Last year we were leaving Palm Springs around 5:00 pm on a Sunday. I hit something on the road and blew a tire.
Every place AAA called was closed....
No need to explain the rest.
I wonder how many original BMW Z3 owners regretted not having a spare tire? Would be a fairly good litmus test, as there will a LOT of Z3's on the road at one time.
Does the goo affect the tire after its repaired?
A side note to my above comments on the Escalade.
The Tesla S is incredible! Wouldn't trade it for any car, spare tire or not.
We still have our 2001 Z3. But it does have a spare.
Honestly I do not know why they do not offer one as a option... The lack of a spare disturbs many buyers not just me...
When I lived in New York the pothole pocked and garbage strewn streets made flats a normal occurance... I still get them on occasion here in relatively benign Florida.
Come on TM lets get real! Offer a spare tyre! It is not that expensive or difficult...
@FLsportscar - many newer cars, particularly BEV/HEVs, don't have spares. Tesla is just following the trend.
@ TikiMan
My 1999 Z3 has the spare and I have needed it more then once in the last 14 years. Only the M roadster has no spare. It did come with the goop and lifetime tow. The Z4 has no spare but came with run flats.
the wheel size is irrelevant. To be useful, it must be wheel + INFLATED tire. And that is a fixed dimension.
A smaller inflated tire would only occasionally touch the ground. Bad idea.
Pirelli makes a run flat that fits the 21" rims. If I were that worried about flat I would go with that. Chance it will compromise performance and smoothness a bit but would give peace of mind. Gives you plenty of range to drive to a tire repair shop from almost anywhere.
TireRack has the tires I am referring to. Here is the URL.
I bought a tire compressor kit at Sears for about $15/$20 bucks.. At about 2000 miles in my S I hit several screws, one tire I was able to get the screw out without a puncture, the second tire had a slow leak. The compressor got me to a Discount Tire where they could patch it (barely). FYI - He said not to every use the slime unless it is an emergency.
I figure 4-8 hours of delay every three years for having space in the trunk and less weight is worth it. even if there is a risk of being stranded out somewhere.
BTW - I wrongly assumed the PilotSport 21s on the S, would be about the same price as my Pilot Sport A/S on my 18inr Infiniti - Wrong!!
The Model S has an appeal beyond just the traditional BEV buyer, you need to serve the wider market not just what the 'avant guarde' buyer thinks is cool. We want a fully functional car, not a glorified golf cart. This car has a big future and will not draw just Leaf buyers, it will draw Cadillac, Buick, Audi, Mercedes and Lexus buyers and will likely trickle down to Chevy and Ford drivers in used sales. It is big enough to be used as a family car, high end taxi, police cruiser even old style performance guys will love it. This car will be everywhere from the mountain roads of Norway to crappy urban streets of inner cities, many potholes and extreme conditions to deal with, not just perfectly kept California suburban roads...
It needs an optional spare (if you do not see its necessity and you want you can skip it, but I want one!). Same with music, devices older people can use, I hate touch screens! They crack, break and misalign so easily! I will not buy a phone without buttons! I want a CD and tape player so I will not be dependent on 3G connectivity to play music... Was joking about the eight track player in the earlier thread, but seriously... Older people need cars too and Model S will appeal to them but a touchscreen is confusing and you need alternatives, even for people that are comfortable with the touchscreen what happens when they crack, misalign or stop working?
1) get a pano, that allows roof racks.
2) install roof rack
3) lash spare tire to roof rack.
All done!
I plan on buying an extra rim and spare (19 inch) I was quoted $275 for the rim. I must be unlucky because I have had plenty of flat tires, a few on the side which are unrepairable.
Why not have a spare, lets say its night time and you blow a tire what are you going to do with your car, have it towed to Tesla service center and leave it overnight? Id rather have either spare on me in trunk or leave it at home and change it myself or have tow guy change it. A lot less headache than leaving it overnight somewhere and getting someone to pick you up.
@BrianH - that isn't the way it works -- do you think that all the cars with compact spares basically drive around on 3 wheels even though they have a total diameter less than the regular wheels?
You mean to say you'd be uncomfortable leaving your S on the curb overnight in Roxbury? (Boston joke)
yep. Geometry rulz. Only the other diagonal pair would reliably touch the ground, unless all 3 regular tires were deflated to the same diameter.
@BrianH - if the suspension were perfectly rigid, sure. But it isn't. Are you seriously saying you have never actually ridden in or seen a car that had a compact spare mounted on it?
I have a space saver spare in my 928 that expands to be the same outside diameter as the other wheels, but deflates to a little over the rim size. Only good for an emergency, but better than nothing on a Saturday afternoon 100 miles from home.
Maybe a continental kit might be a good idea.
Not sure I'd want the spare in my Tesla. A heavy car to jack up. Ah.... You'd also need a jack.
My Smartcar (3 yrs old) had no spare. But then, it would need 2 since front and rear are different sizes.
However, there is a built in electric pump with the goo. (My first purchase while awaiting my MS)
@hsadler - my MR2 had different size front/rear tires, and yet it had a compact spare that was smaller than either. The car is already going to be lower at that wheel, and the suspension just adapts to it and it isn't perfectly level. They are intended only for emergency and getting to a tire repair place.
In my 16 years of driving that MR2 (which was also the last car I had with a spare), I put the compact tire on once. If I had had a compressor with me, I wouldn't have used it that time either, as it was a slow enough leak I would have just pumped up the tire and drove to a service station.
In dangerous circumstances, just drive on the flat. It may kill the rim but you will be safe. It is worth the cost.
My Porsche does not have a spare tire either. In the 6 years of having the car there were never a single instance that I needed to use a spare if I have one or needed a tow. What a nail usually will do is create a slow leak for which you will have enough time to pump it up and drive home or to the repair shop. I never even need to use that gooey stuff. I once drove the car with unrepairable leak for days waiting for my replacement tire order to come. All I needed to do is to pump it up once in a while with a portable pump in the trunk.
Those tire pressure monitors are great for giving you a warning before it's too late. This is what we have the older cars that need to carry a spare don't.
Our Roadster doesn't have a spare, just a can of goo. Hasn't been a problem.
I'm not concerned that our S doesn't have a spare and neither does my wife (and it's her car). Of course, we haven't had flats in several decades.
I did run into a guy that did a LOT of driving in his S for work. In the places he goes, he has had his share of flats, so he bought a spare from Tesla and keeps it in the back of his S.
FLsportscarenth- the touch screen is WAY LESS CONFUSING than a bunch of little buttons that you can't see in the dark. After 6 weeks my wife's ICE car seems ridiculously complicated. Model S: Sit down, foot on brake, flip lever to D, go; then stop, put in P, walk away.
No extra parking brake buttons, on off buttons, mirror adjusting (it remembers your profile). No radio adjusting (just use slacker with voice). Climate is stupid simple. All the apps are right on the top of the screen. Don't adjust lights- they are automatic.
Don't even have to use the brake pedal except at lights.
Seriously... this car is WAY SIMPLE.
Spare tire- there is no place for it. Not under the car like my minivan. Not in the car. Waste of space and weight. In 35 years of driving I have had ONE bad blowout. Fine I will call AAA or the Tesla ranger once every thirty five years....


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Here is the new Board Members of the Academy of Country Music....
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Hubble Finds that Extrasolar Planet Has a Hazy Sunset
A team of astronomers, led by Frederic Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, has detected for the first time strong evidence of hazes in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a distant star. The new Hubble Space Telescope observations were made as the extrasolar planet, dubbed HD 189733b, passed in front of its parent star in an eclipse. As the light from the star briefly passes through the exoplanet's atmosphere, the gases in the atmosphere stamp their unique spectral fingerprints on the starlight. Where the scientists had expected to see the fingerprints of sodium and potassium, there were none; implying that high-level hazes (with an altitude of nearly 2,000 miles) are responsible for blocking the light from these elements.
Artist's Concept of Extrasolar Planet's Hazy Atmosphere
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This border fortification, begun by the Romans in 122 AD and finally abandoned in 383 AD, traverses England from the Solway Firth in the west to the River Tyne in the east, and is punctuated by "milecastles" and forts. This scene in the open countryside occurs in the Northumbrian part of the wall — about its midpoint — after it has already passed through Cumbria.
Hadrian's Wall has a special relevance to Victorian studies because a Victorian, John Collingwood Bruce (1805-92), the proprietor of a school in a Newcastle and a keen antiquary, first drew the general public's attention to the importance of these remains by putting together the various findings about it in The Roman Wall (1851) and The Wallet Book of the Roman Wall (1861). Collingwood began the fashion for making pilgrimages to the wall, and walking or cycling the length of the wall are both popular pursuits now, for the countryside along it, not far south of the modern border with Scotland, is very beautiful.
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Fridays oh Fridays, which means I have just made it to payday and I have cash burning a hole in my pocket. That's probably why I post about things I want to buy on Fridays. Plus, I'm feeling extra cheery today which is why I must be feeling a pull towards yellow. Now that I'm looking at this post all I can sing in my head is "Let the sun shin, leeet the sun shine, the suuuun shiiinnne innn!" Haha, you are so lucky you can't hear me!


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2011 Census
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Categories: Population, Population Estimates, Population Estimates by Age and Sex, People and Places, Households, Number of Households
Frequency of release: Decennial
Language: English
Geographical coverage: England and Wales
Geographical breakdown: Local Authority and County
Survey name(s): Census
The resident population of England and Wales on the 27 March 2011 was 56.1 million, a seven per cent (3.7 million) increase since 2001 with 55 per cent (2.1 million) of this increase being due to migration. One in six people were aged 65 or over (16 per cent, 9.2 million).
In 2011, four out of every five (81 per cent, 45.5 million) residents of England and Wales described themselves as being in good or very good health.
The number of residents who stated that their religion was Christian in 2011 was fewer than in 2001. The size of this group decreased 13 percentage points to 59 per cent (33.2 million) in 2011 from 72 per cent (37.3 million) in 2001. The size of the group who stated that they had no religious affiliation increased by 10 percentage points from 15 per cent (7.7 million) in 2001 to 25 per cent (14.1 million) in 2011.
Of the 13 per cent (7.5 million) of residents of England and Wales on 27 March 2011 who were born outside of the UK, just over half (3.8 million) arrived in the last 10 years.
The number of cars and vans available for use by households in England and Wales increased from 23.9 million to 27.3 million between 2001 and 2011. In 2001 there were on average 11 cars per 10 households whereas in 2011 there were 12 cars per 10 households. The proportion of households with access to no cars or one car declined over the decade whereas the proportion with two or more cars rose. London was the only region where the number of cars and vans was lower than the number of households.
In 2011 there were more people with Level 4 or above qualifications, eg Bachelor's degree (27 per cent, 12.4 million), than people with no qualifications (23 per cent, 10.3 million).
This release 'The Key Statistics for local authorities in England and Wales' is the first release of key figures that describe the population of England and Wales and add detail to the 2011 Census population estimates published 16 July 2012.
The statistical bulletin decribes the defining characteristics of the population, who we are, how we live and what we do. The census is unique because it is the only information source that measures these characteristics together across the whole population.
The release includes all Key Statistics tables and selected Quick Statistics tables for England and Wales and constituent regions, counties, London boroughs, districts and unitary authorities as at census day, 27 March 2011.
More detailed analyses of the census estimates are provided for some topics in four 'short stories'. Three present analyses of international migration, ethnicity and religion. The fourth is a report on how the 2011 Census labour market statistics differ from those estimated from the Labour Force Survey at the national, regional and local authority level.
In addition to the tables and commentary included, interactive data visualisations are also available to help interpretation of the results.
This release is published alongside the Key Statistics for unitary authorities in Wales which includes the same Key and Quick Statistics tables for areas in Wales, and a statistical bulletin that describes the characteristics of the population of Wales.
Key and Quick Statistics tables for Output Areas (OAs) and for wards will be published on 30 January 2013. Further short stories will be published with this and subsequently, covering families, general health and disability, unpaid care, language, occupation and industry, qualifications and economic activity.
During 2013 ONS will release cross tabulations between characteristics, such as by age or ethnicity. This will provide an even richer and more valuable data source for the many users of the census.
Further information about the census estimates, including details about the methodology used and information about how other population sub-groups are counted and defined, is available in the Definitions and supporting information.
Further information on the fitness for purpose of the statistics in this release can be found in the Quality and Methodology Information paper (157.6 Kb Pdf) .
These National Statistics are produced to high professional standards and released according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.


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Wednesday, March 06, 2019
2005: Minutes after an AAAS writers' email exchange on an embargoed McIntyre/McKitrick paper/story, Mann forwards it to Briffa, Santer, Schneider, Schmidt etc?
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Dick Lindzen on cold and heat extremes
Friday, May 13, 2016
RICO20 emails
Five PDFs, 190 pages
Pages 1- 59
Pages 60-102
Pages 103-133
Pages 134-178
Pages 179-190
Related post on Watts Up With That
Click on this Twitter thread for some excepts. I plan to post more excerpts on Twitter using the #RICO20 hashtag.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton tells thrilling tale of Obama/Clinton planet-saving heroism at Copenhagen 2009
President Obama and I went to the global climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. We ran into a solid wall of opposition from countries like China, India, and Brazil. The president and I literally had to crash a secret meeting between them to force real negotiations. We marched right by startled Chinese security officials. I had to duck under their outstretched arms. We got into the room--you should have seen the looks on the leaders' faces because they'd been dodging us all day and the president said wow, we've been looking for you. Persistence paid off..we did hammer out an agreement..
Friday, April 10, 2015
"Limits to Growth" co-author "argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate action"
'Global warming going from bad to worse'
Randers, co-author of the seminal 1972 report "Limits to Growth," which highlighted the devastating impacts of economic and population growth on the Earth, argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate action.
...And capitalism and democracy will remain strong for a very long time because people have trust in that system as it delivered impressive improvements in many people's quality of life over the past century, he said.
Note that "The Limits to Growth" was commissioned by the Club of Rome.
Thursday, April 09, 2015
Obama emphasizes threat to public health as part of climate change [scam] push
Obama emphasizes threat to public health as part of climate change push | US news | The Guardian
Murthy said the issue was "personal" for him, since he once lost an uncle to a severe asthma attack. "We have more people exposed to triggers that can cause asthma attacks, and more asthma attacks mean more days of school missed. They mean more days of work missed. They mean more costly trips to the doctor," Murthy said. "And they most importantly mean more scary moments for parents and for children." In a background call with reporters ahead of the event, administration officials identified the elderly, children, minorities, the sick and low-income individuals as being at particularly high risk levels for injuries caused by extreme weather.
Warmer is better; 17th century--Global cooling caused "famines, wars and political upheaval"
Historian Reveals Climate Change Lessons from 17th Century
In his book "Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century," Parker surveys the broad impact that long, harsh winters and cool, wet summers have had on human populations across the globe. Parker uses firsthand accounts and scientific evidence to examine how changing weather patterns caused famines, wars and political upheaval during that time. The book won the Society of Military History's Distinguished Book Prize and a medal in 2014 from the British Academy for "a landmark academic achievement … which has transformed understanding of a particular subject."
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Judith Curry pulls no punches: Draft climate "statement is an embarrassment to the APS"
Draft APS Statement on Climate Change | Climate Etc.
JC reflections
Well, their paragraph on Climate Science is a rather astonishing take on the APS Workshop. Their paragraph on Climate Change seems to come from the Guardian. Their statement on Climate Action reiterates their rather crazy statement in 2007
Apart from the issue that no one on the POPA seems to understand any of these issues beyond a superficial level (after Koonins and Rossner departed from the POPA), and that their statements are naive and unprofessional, here is my real problem with this. This is an egregious misuse of the expertise of the APS. Their alleged understanding of issues like spectroscopy and fluid dynamics are not of any direct relevance to the issues they write about in this statement. The statement is an embarrassment to the APS.
...JC message to APS POPA: no one cares about your political preferences in the climate change debate. You have demonstrated that you bring nothing intellectually to the table (once Koonins and Rossner left). You simply have no business issuing a policy statement on climate change. You have embarrassed the APS membership.
Monday, April 06, 2015
Freeman Dyson: It would be crazy to try to reduce CO2
3:20: "First of all there is man-made climate change ...it's a question of how much and is it good or bad..we don't understand the details. It's probably much less than is generally claimed. The most important thing is that there are huge non-climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue--the Earth is actually growing greener..it's increasingly agricultural yields, it's increasing forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth... That's more important and more certain than the effects on climate.
5:20: CO2 is "enormously beneficial both to food production and also to biodiversity, preservation of species and everything else that's good. The remarkable thing is that these effects which have nothing to do with climate...are so much easier to measure than the effects on climate and so much more certain"
9:15: [On warmists] "There certainly is an enormous religion in which there are lots of true believers who think that climate change is evil and that we're going to run into big catastrophes if we don't do something drastic. That's a sort of belief system which exists...I don't understand it and I don't pretend to understand their motives."
11:00: "The real world is far more complicated than the models...I don't think any of these models can ever be predictive"
13:45 On sun's effect on climate: "The correlation is certainly there. Exactly how the activity of the sun influences the climate is not completely clear. Something to do with cosmic rays...probably an effect on clouds"
15:15 "CO2 is so beneficial in other ways, it would be crazy to try to reduce it"
16:40: "Average temperature of the Earth..is a very poorly defined thing anyway"
18:50: "Carbon dioxide will increase. We will continue to burn oil and coal; probably it does us good. The Earth will get greener as a result"
19:30: "[People from Asia] don't feel pessimistic at all...This sort of mood of doom and gloom...only is particularly in the academic communities, particularly in the western societies...The media have gone alone with it, but I think the general public has a lot more common sense."
20:20: Dyson brought along Lomborg's book "Cool It". Dyson says "I think it's the best general summary I've seen, in a way...I think he's very sound"
21:45: "Man-made climate change certainly is real..question is how much and whether it's good or bad...I would say it's on the whole good..it's not as large an effect as most people have imagined".
22:00: "I'm an optimist...Everything I look at has improved compared to the 1930s"
Nice FOIA warning on Gavin's page
NASA GISS: Dr. Gavin A. Schmidt
Please note that emails sent to government addresses may be subject to disclosure under FOIA and that you should have no expectation of privacy. If you want to contact me in a non-official capacity, please do so via my columbia email. (Replace the -at- with the @ sign).
Efficiency company CEO: "statistics we use to understand global climate phenomena are telling a tragic tale"; solution involves buying lots of efficiency products
Climate Change -- Just a Data Problem?
Unfortunately, the statistics we use to understand global climate phenomena are telling a tragic tale, and we must find a way to change these trends. I believe that a large part of the solution to this process involves using mass production methodologies to roll out efficiency at a rapid and global scale.
Jason Trager is CEO and co-founder of Persistent Efficiency, maker of the stick-on energy sensor. He is an energy scientist and sustainability engineer with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Sunday, April 05, 2015
The Mask Slips on the Climate Scam
The Mask Slips on the Climate Scam | Power Line
We're always told that revenue from emissions trading or a carbon tax will be used for energy and climate change adaptation purposes. But Inslee has let the mask slip and made obvious that it is a lie. Liberal politicians especially are drooling for a carbon tax as a new revenue source. It isn't going to be rebated to taxpayers. It isn't going to be used as a bargaining chip for a decent tax reform. It's going to be used to pay for more government goodies.
Inslee isn't the first to let the mask slip. In California, Jerry Brown is planning to use emissions trading funds to pay for his high-speed-rail-to-nowhere project, on the ludicrous grounds that high-speed rail will reduce emissions. (The opposite is likely the case.) No one should fall for the carbon tax trap.
Baffling stuff from Washington Gov. Inslee: He's selling anti-CO2 policy as being about kids' lungs and education, not AGW
Washington Governor Puts Focus on Climate Goals, and Less on Debate - NYTimes.com
The deeper reason he is pushing for tough new air-quality policies is to combat worsening health problems, like asthma in children, that are caused by pollution. "It's not the flowers," he said. "It's kids' lungs."
"You don't even have to allude to climate change," Mr. Inslee, a first-term Democrat, said in an interview. "One can support this simply on the fact that you want to support the education of your children."
Saturday, April 04, 2015
1998: Hockey stick hype coincided with real-life temperature spike. Scientists and public fooled by natural variation?
My hypothesis is that the natural 1998 temperature spike was crucial in selling both scientists and the public on the validity of Mann's bogus hockey stick. If the exact same paper had been published after, say, an 18+ year hiatus, not nearly as many people would have been fooled.
This article looks back at the late 1990s
Many scientists who had until then remained sceptical of climate change were convinced and the headlines and broadcasts meant that large swathes of the public were simultaneously concerned about the activities of the oil companies, the profligate use of coal and oil in developed countries, and the amount of carbon dioxide pouring into the atmosphere.IPCC TAR and the hockey stick | Climate Etc.
JC comments: Christy's assessment, when combined with the UEA emails, provides substantial insight into how this hockey stick travesty occurred. My main unanswered question is: How did Michael Mann become a Lead Author on the TAR? He received his Ph.D. in 1998, and presumably he was nominated or selected before the ink was dry on his Ph.D. It is my suspicion that the U.S. did not nominate Mann (why would they nominate someone for this chapter without a Ph.D.?) Here is the only thing I can find on the U.S. nomination process [link]. Instead, I suspect that the IPCC Bureau selected Mann; it seems that someone (John Houghton?) was enamored of the hockey stick and wanted to see it featured prominently in the TAR. The actual selection of Lead Authors by the IPCC Bureau is indeed a mysterious process.Note in Mann's book "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars", page 26, Mann suggests that skepticism was just fine in the early 1990s--you might say his advisor Barry Saltzman was skeptical, and Mann's "was closer to Barry's position than Hansen's or Schneider's.
Note the 1998 temperature spike.
Do NOT miss this: 90-sec video compilation of 1970s Ice Age scare reporting from ABC evening news
Glaciers Down to the Mason-Dixon Line!
40 Years of Media Hype for Climate Alarmists | Heartlander Magazine"
"Warm periods like ours last only 10,000 years, but ours has already lasted 12,000. So if the rhythm is right, we are over-ready for a return of the ice," Smith said in his comment on the January 18, 1977, ABC evening newscast.
He cited "experts like Reid Bryson" who based their worries on "cooler temperature readings in the Great Plains" and elsewhere and the "retreat of the heat-loving Armadillo from Nebraska to the southwest and to Mexico." Bryson argued the return to an ice age had begun in 1945.
In 2006, Gavin Schmidt claimed that greenhouses gases "quite clearly" caused the warming over the last few decades
Why? Well, warm periods have occured in the past, and if not the medieval period, then probably the last interglacial (120,000 years ago), certainly the Pliocene (3 million years ago), without question the (Eocene 50 million years), and in particular the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (55 million years ago), and so on. Current theories of climate change do not rely on whether today's temperatures are 'unprecedented'. Instead they examine the physical causes of climate change and match up what we know about their physical effects and time history and see which of the multiple drivers or combination can best explain the observations. For the last few decades, that is quite clearly the rise in greenhouse gases, punctuated by the occasional volcano and mitigated slightly by the concomittant rise in particulate pollution.
Friday, April 03, 2015
Skeptics should enjoy BBC's March 31, 2015 "Costing the Earth" show
It's a panel of warmists, but lots of interesting admissions are made, such as that evidence fitting the warmist narrative is over-emphasized.
At 7:00, Hulme says "there has been a pause for sure". He admits in the early 1990s, there was "an idea that [surface temperature would] rise in a linear way...maybe we didn't understand enough about natural cycles".
At 8:00, Hulme admits that in the mid-1990s, there was "a rather simplistic understanding" of global warming. "Models at that time did not have a rich enough understanding of how the oceans worked in order to point out that actually rhythms of the climate could produce pauses and hiatuses".
At 11:20, Czerski claims "scientists tend to be really happy, actually, when [reality] doesn't meet their models, because it means they're going to learn something. There tends to be a delight in it, rather than a disappointment."
At 11:30, Heap asks why Antarctic sea ice has grown, when 95% of the best 50 models had Antarctic sea ice *decreasing* over the last 30 years.
At 19:58, Mark Lynas says "if you're in the polar regions, you might be able to grow pineapples in 2080".
"Tom Nelson & Steve Goddard suspension, a reminder Twitter's part of the Establishment"
Planetary Vision: Tom Nelson & Steve Goddard suspension, a reminder Twitter's part of the Establishment
I was inspired by Tom Nelson to utilise Twitter a lot to express my climate views. I know Twitter is public, and anyone can see it. But this supension's a timely reminder that Twitter is also an organ of the establishment. They monitor and surveille, and will shut up free speech if their schemes such as global warming are threatened.
Tom Nelson is an important account for us climate sceptics and not having it damages Twitter's credibility as a platform for free speech, and for an open exchange of views.
Although in the scheme of things it will statistically be just be a blip for a company as large as Twitter if sceptics boycott en masse, it will be a blow to the Twitter brand.
I VERY much appreciate the idea of boycotting Twitter, but since I think that's Mann et al's dream, let's not do it.
Thursday, April 02, 2015
Dozens dead as Russian trawler with 132 aboard sinks – Ice may be at fault
Dozens dead as Russian trawler with 132 aboard sinks – Ice may be at fault | Ice Age Now
Although there is the possibility that the vessel was carrying too much cargo, the main theory "is that a large body of ice shattered the vessel's hull, sinking it," said a source. The Interfax news agency echoed those words, saying that "drifting ice in the chilly Pacific waters may have played a role."
Regarding Trenberth's hoped-for "jump in global warming": I doubt it
Long-Awaited 'Jump' In Global Warming Now Appears 'Imminent' | ThinkProgress
Flashback: "Climatology's Nutcracker" was a very vivid example of junk climate scientists' intense fear of public debate
Totally settled science: Dessler says Ringberg "consensus was that there are lots of legitimate ways to get ECS as high as 5°C"
Andrew Dessler on Twitter: ".@DavidWLea @ericsteig we talked about that at #ringberg15.
Consensus was that there are lots of legitimate ways to get ECS as high as 5°C.
Climate Nuremberg guy: CO2 threatens birds far more than 1000 times all other threats combined?
Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are | Grist
Take one step back and you see that birds are far more threatened by the combination of fossil fuels and climate change than they are by any other threat, including cats and wind turbines combined. Times a thousand.
"blog by Sir Richard Branson demanding a crackdown on global warming has been met with a barrage of criticism"
Branson's blog on global warming gets fierce reaction
A blog by Sir Richard Branson demanding a crackdown on global warming has been met with a barrage of criticism, including a rather blunt response from comedian Frankie Boyle. Branson called for urgent action over low levels of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, but critics said it was rich coming from an airline boss who was also investing heavily in space travel. Boyle replied on Twitter: "You own an airline you mad c**t."


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Kid Achieves Master Troll Status, Pranks Whole Apple Store By Uploading His Face on Every Device's Screen
The user responsible for sharing this gem of a troll heist with us was quoted in the original photo saying, "I don't know about you guys, but I already found my new role model for 2017." Yo. Right there with you.