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Global Weirdness (Hardcover)
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Pantheon Books, 9780307907301, 214pp.
Publication Date: July 24, 2012
Other Editions of This Title:
Compact Disc (7/24/2012)
Compact Disc (7/1/2012)
Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we know about the science of climate change; explains what is likely to happen to the climate in the future; and lays out in practical terms what we can and cannot do to avoid further shifts.
Sixty easy-to-read entries tackle such questions as: Is climate ever "normal"? Why and how do fossil-fuel burning and other human practices produce greenhouse gases? What natural forces have caused climate change in the past? What risks does climate change pose for human health? What accounts for the diminishment of mountain glaciers and small ice caps around the world since 1850? What are the economic costs and benefits of reducing carbon emissions?
Global Weirdness enlarges our understanding of how climate change affects our daily lives, and arms us with the incontrovertible facts we need to make informed decisions about the future of the planet and of humankind.
With black-and-white images interspersed throughout.
About the Author
Praise For Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future…
"Without talking down to readers, the authors do a masterful job of clarifying all aspects of a complicated and alarming topic, making it that much more difficult for global-warming denialists to keep their heads in the sand." –Booklist (starred review)
"With quippy titles, helpful summaries, and a jargon-free writing style, Climate Central integrates scientific, historical, and sociological facts in an appealing and informative manner.... A great starter text on climate-change issues--fans of Bill McKibben will enjoy this work and then pass it along to skeptical friends." –Library Journal
"An ideal introduction to the facts about global warming . . . Lucidly written and thoughtful."
—Kirkus Reviews
"An easily digestible read, with most chapters less than three pages long. Divided into four sections ('What the Science Says,' 'What's Actually Happening,' 'What's Likely to Happen in the Future,' and 'Can We Avoid the Risks of Climate Change?'), the book covers all the basics, including descriptions of Earth's previous climates and how hard it is for different cultures to adjust to changes; the difference between weather and climate; the greenhouse effect; and how climate scientists' predictions are coming true."
—Publishers Weekly
"Slim and elegant…written in the kind of plain English of which Strunk and White would approve, that lays out what we know about climate change while hewing to the facts and taking great care to avoid bias and hysteria."
—The New York Times
"Written in straightforward prose and fact-checked by the world's eminent climate scholars, Global Weirdness reads like the 9/11 Commission Report: all of the facts, none of the hyperbole. In four succinct sections, its authors detail the truth about climate change."
—CBS Smart Planet
"a breath of fresh air: just the facts, efficient and easy to understand. It'll be within arm's reach of my own desk."
—Scientific American
"Global Weirdness is probably the weirdest book about global warming you're going to read…because it's nonpartisan, making absolutely zero attempts to agitate for legislation."
—Time Out Chicago
"so welcome…explains climate change in simple, easy-to-understand language and ultrashort chapters."
—Mark Bittman, The New York Times
"This primer on the science of global warming provides a fact-filled explanation of how climate change impacts, and will continue to impact, our daily lives. The 60 concise and easily digestible chapters tackle such questions as: Is climate ever 'normal'? What risks does climate change pose for human health? What are the economic costs and benefits of reducing carbon emissions? The authors are up-front about the potential downfalls of alternative energy and technological fixes."
—Conversation Magazine
"Written in language that most people can understand, with nine pages of supporting scientific references, the book probably comes as close as possible to satisfying journalist Thomas Friedman's 2010 public plea in The New York Times for a report 'summarizing everything we already know about climate change in language a sixth grader could understand, with unimpeachable peer-reviewed footnotes'…A concise summary for anyone who wants a better understanding of what is happening to the planet and the possible actions that can be taken."
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What do you do when someone wants to cure your child with Lourdes Water or the "laying on of the hands"?
True Story
"Where's Aaron?" my mother asked while I was still putting the phone to my ear. I explained Aaron was at his house and we wouldn't be seeing him until the weekend.
"Well, as soon as you pick him up, you need to bring him here. My friend got holy water directly from the fountain of Lourdes and she gave me a small bottle."
I took a deep breath and knew exactly where this conversation was going. My youth was filled with The Song of Bernadette and books of Saints and miracles.
With more enthusiasm than I've heard from my mother in years, she said, "I'll make the sign of the cross on his forehead and we'll see if we can cure his autism and disabilities."
I hesitated and didn't say anything, but mom gushed about her friend's trip, the history of Lourdes, photos of the shrine, and the walls of abandoned crutches each with written testimonials and pictures from the people who were miraculously cured.
My mom was eager to start her letter of Aaron's miracle.
So, What do I say:
1. Mom means well. Her religion is important to her. She would love to be the one to "cure Aaron."
2. This isn't the first time this has happened. I've had strangers in the grocery line want to "lay hands on Aaron and cure him."
3. I really don't want to go down this road again.
So, what to do?
In the comments please share your thoughts.
Remember there are no "right or wrong" answers. Please share your thoughts. What would you say to my mother or another person who wanted to try and cure your child? Would you allow her to use the holy water on your child? What attitudes and messages does this convey for the individual, the family, the church, the culture?
Have you tried any miracle cures? If you don't want a cure, what does that say?
Keep Climbing: Onward and Upward,
All my best,
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Three miles into our 3,300-mile trans-America mission, Webb – my photographer and sole travelling companion – sheepishly admitted he couldn't "drive stick". For those of you not fluent in American, this translates as, "I cannot operate a car with a clutch pedal and gearstick."
Our Focus ST had both a clutch pedal and a gearstick. This, I realised with a groan, meant I'd be driving the entire trip, Los Angeles to New York. In five days. Without using interstates. On my own. This Ambitious Road Trip suddenly seemed very much less amusing than it had done in the pub a few weeks ago.
In fact, on a pitch-dark Sunday night – Webb's satnav criss-crossing us north out of LA, chasing back roads in a city built around freeways, return flight departing JFK on Friday afternoon – I decided this might be our most stupid idea yet.
Photography: Webb Bland
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VMware has unveiled the latest version of its ESX-based virtualization software to capitalize on Microsoft's rollout of Windows 7.
The company has launched VMware View 4.0, featuring a new communications protocol called PC-over-IP to provide real-time screen rendering, plus the ability to deploy and manage tens of thousands of virtualized desktops without the need for custom engineering.
Planned for the first-half of 2010, meanwhile, is a native hypervisor so that PCs can run offline, using the machine's local resources, and then synchronize when re-connected to the network.
View 4.0 will come in two flavors - enterprise and premier, priced $150 and $250 per concurrent user. The former features vSphere, vCenter, and View Manager, while the latter features these plus View Composer for single-image management and storage and application virtualization and ThinApp 4 for working on thin clients.
VMware believes the changes will bring desktop virtualization to a mass market of power users in addition to more traditional types in call centers through the addition of things like PC-over-IP.
PC-over-IP was a hardware protocol VMware licensed from Teradici and that was used in high-end graphics and CAD. The companies have implemented PC-o-IP in software to run provide real-time rendering of graphics like Flash and text in the virtualized desktop.
It's never a smart idea to introduce a new protocol, so VMware's made sure it's got the backing for partners for PC-over-IP - Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and Wyse.
On management, VMware claims View 4.0 will now scale to tens of thousands of PCs out of the box, beyond the previous 500 to 1,000 PCs. The View 4.0 vSphere ESX-based virtualization component on the desktop and View Manager management server have both been updated to support what VMware called "multiple connections at scale". View Manager will authenticate users against Microsoft's Active Directory.
So what does this have to do with Microsoft and Windows 7?
VMware believes the vSphere 4.0 changes in performance and management will make its desktop virtualization attractive to organizations rolling out Windows 7. Rather than paying Microsoft for client copies, they can run virtualized instances instead, potentially saving on licensing, and the work of rollout and on-going management by working through instances and images.
In particular VMware's making a pitch for those with legacy Windows XP applications. Windows 7 introduces Windows XP Mode to run Windows XP applications on the desktop. With vSphere 4.0, though, VMware will let you run both Windows 7 and Windows XP, while also managing the rollout of Windows 7 using just a single Windows 7 image.
Separately, VMware is today expected to announce partnerships with four hardware companies building reference architectures based on View 4.0. Cisco Systems and EMC, HP and Dell will provide architectures around computing, storage, networking and software, with Cisco and EMC also providing services. NetApp will provide storage reference architecture. ®
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Glycemic index refers to a food's ability to raise blood sugar to a particular level within a given period of time. Glycemic index applies only to carbohydrate foods because they are the foods that most affect blood sugar levels.
Some starchy foods have a high glycemic index. These foods may cause high blood sugar levels after meals. High glycemic foods include instant rice, baked potatoes, and raisins. Foods that contain mostly fat and protein do not affect blood sugar levels very much, so their glycemic index is not calculated.
Most nonstarchy vegetables, fruits, and legumes have a low glycemic index. These foods may help prevent high blood sugar after meals. Low glycemic foods include rye grain, dried beans and lentils, apricots, and peanuts.
The glycemic index of a food can change depending on the variety of the food (for example, red potato or white potato), its ripeness, how it is prepared (for example, juiced, mashed, or ground), how it is cooked, how long it is stored, and the foods eaten with it.
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Making Connections
Win Linux Eyeon Software announced Eyeon Connection, a new virtual file system technology that speeds workflow and management by allowing Fusion machines to directly access Autodesk's Stone file system over a LAN, giving users the ability to interoperate with Inferno, Flame, Flint, Fire, and Smoke systems without having to import, export, or publish media. Eyeon Connection allows for direct reading and writing of file sequences directly to and from the Stone storage array. Eyeon Connection will be available to all existing Fusion 5 customers and is expected to ship in the fourth quarter for $995.
Eyeon Software; www.eyeonline.com
Suite Upgrade
Win - Sony Media Software announced the immediate availability of the Vegas+DVD Production Suite, a significant upgrade to its award-winning professional video, audio, and DVD production software solution. The suite includes Vegas 7 and DVD Architect 4 software, as well as a Dolby Digital AC-3 multi-channel encoder for 5.1 surround output. The all-new Vegas 7 nonlinear editing software combines HDV and XDCAM support with workflow enhancement tools.
It offers full frame-rate playback of native HDV on the Vegas timeline and includes improved memory for handling HDV 1080i long-form projects. It is now available for $699.
Sony Media Software; www.sonymediasoftware.com
Colorful Wares
Win | Mac - Boris FX, developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, demonstrated new versions of its Boris Blue, Boris Red, and Boris Continuum Complete. The company added new performance enhancements and features to its Boris Blue real-time 3D motion graphics software for Windows only, including new Image Processors such as Glow and Film effects, as well as Deformer effects that enable users to shatter and explode 3D objects. Blue now supports a wider range of graphics cards and is available for $995.
Meanwhile, Boris Red 4.0, for integrated compositing and effects for the Windows and Mac, sports dozens of new features, including 16-bit color support and a sophisticated new paint engine. The new paint engine is equipped with clone and roller brushes as well as a raster-to-vector converter tool that can automatically convert a bitmap raster file into an animatable extruded vector shape. Other image treatment enhancements include an optical stabilizer feature that uses optical flow technology to automatically remove unwanted motion from an image. Among many of the new filters, Boris Red 4.0 ships with a Motion Path filter that animates objects on a spline path. The product is priced at $1595; upgrade pricing is available.
And Boris Continuum Complete, for native compositing and effects creation, contains the new BCC Motion Key, an image-treatment tool that allows users to remove objects from a scene without having to use complex rotoscoping or masking tools. Other next-generation BCC features include Color Choker for push/pull style color correction, an enhanced Noise Map, and Turbulence for image distortion. Pricing depends on the software system on which it is run.
Boris; www.borisfx.com
A Hot Intro
Win | Mac The Foundry debuted Tinderbox 4, a major new product release for After Effects. Tinderbox 4 is a new collection of 18 visual effects filters featuring new plug-ins such as Colorist, for automatic color correction and balancing; Cartoon, for giving images a hand-drawn cartoon look; and Fire, for generating animated flames and other effects. In addition to the new Tinderbox 4 range, The Foundry's Tinderbox 1, 2, and 3 have been re-engineered to take advantage of the new features within After Effects 7.0, including automatic synchronization with the After Effects built-in camera and lighting features, support for 32-bit floating-point images, and more.
Now shipping, the new Tinderbox collection is priced at $500 per node-locked license. Existing customers can upgrade for $250 per box.
The Foundry; www.thefoundry.co.uk
Showing Intensity
Win | Mac Blackmagic Design rolled out Intensity, an ultra-low-cost HDMI capture playback card that allows, for the first time, low-cost consumer cameras with HDMI video connections to move beyond the quality limits of HDV compressed video to uncompressed editing and design. Intensity is a small HDMI capture and playback card that instantly switches between 1080HD, 720HD, NTSC, and PAL video standards.
Once Intensity is plugged into compatible PCI Express Windows or Mac OS X computers, users get the quality of uncompressed video via HDMI from cameras, decks, and set-top boxes, enabling them to play back to any HDMI big-screen television or video projector for video editing, in SD or HD, and with real-time effects. Intensity is fully compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, and any DirectShow- or QuickTime-based software application. Intensity, available in mid-October, will be priced at $249.
Blackmagic Design; www.blackmagic-design.com
Card Rollout
Win | Mac | Linux - Bluefish444 announced a new series of multi-channel SD SDI uncompressed video cards supporting Windows XP, Windows 2000 Pro, Linux, and Mac operating systems. In all, five new SD SDI video cards are available: the SD Dual Link Pro, SD Ingest Pro, SD Lite Pro, Iridium AV Pro, and SD Single Link Pro. The new video cards are well suited to applications such as video servers; encoding, decoding, and streaming of MPEG and H.264; live and non-live CG; and more. The cards are available now for $17,995.
Bluefish444; www.bluefish444.com
ShapeHand Solution
Measurand, a developer of portable motion-capture systems, has introduced its ShapeHand wireless hand motion-capture solution for animators. Portable and lightweight, ShapeHand features flexible ribbon sensors capable of attaching to virtually any glove and fitting any hand size. The system incorporates the data-capturing system of 40 sensors and disposable, interchangeable gloves. ShapeHand integrates with Vicon, Motion Analysis, Measureand's ShapeWrap II, and other motion-capture systems to deliver hand, finger, and full-body motion-capture information. Measurand also offers ShapeHand Plus, a system that combines ShapeHand with the company's Arm Shape Tape arm-tracking utility. Measurand; www.measurand.com


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Considering a Long-term Career Transition
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 12pm (Central)
Some people make a career transition, while others consider a transition and decide against it. We will explore both possibilities and methods for determining what is best for you and your career.
For those who decide to stay with their job/career, we'll cover:
- Tools available to help you evaluate a significant career transition.
- How to reflect on what made you think of leaving in the first place.
- The importance of evaluating what are you looking for or running from.
- How to think about the sunk costs you've put into your current career.
- How to actually make a transition.
And for those who decide to stay in their current career and not make a transition, we'll address:
- What you can do while maintaining your career to make your life even better.
- Why staying in your current career does not have to be a #fail -- it can be a great new chapter.
- How to be sure you have adequately considered why you were thinking of changing careers and appropriately closed the book on that option.
- How can you convert your current unfulfilling career/job into one that fulfills you.
- Whether you decide to leave your current career or stay in it, you will leave the webinar with more clarity and tools to move forward.
About the Presenter:
Keith R. Sbiral helps professionals cut through distortions and distractions to decide where they want their careers and lives to go, and then develop the tools to get there. He is a certified professional coach and principal at Apochromatik.
Keith brings to Apochromatik a career of management and efficiency work which makes him uniquely qualified to coach and consult in a variety of organizations. In addition to countless hours of professional development in his focus areas, he is a graduate of the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching and a member of the International Coach Federation.
Keith is the City Manager for a Chicago suburb. He holds the ICMA Credentialed Manager designation as well as being a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has spent the majority of his career in management, specifically personnel management.
He received his B.A. from Luther College in political science with a minor in economics, his M.S. in Urban and Regional Planning with emphases in economic development and land use planning from the University of Iowa in May of 2001.
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Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 12pm (Central)
Cost: Complimentary
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INDIANAPOLIS — Shane Franklin arrived at a Gold's Gym in Indianapolis with baggage from his previous two stops.
Franklin has been accused of bilking business partners and gym members in Reno, NV, and San Diego, where he operated clubs under the Powerhouse Gym brand.
Franklin faced allegations of forgery and money mismanagement in Reno. In December, the Reno Police Department decided not to file charges against Franklin after an eight-month investigation.
Franklin also was accused of taking money for memberships to Reno gyms that never opened. That investigation, which is being handled by the Nevada attorney general's office, is still open, but Franklin is not under active investigation.
In San Diego, Franklin also was accused of taking money for memberships for a Powerhouse Gym that did not open. Details were unclear about where the money collected for the San Diego club and the club in the Reno suburb of Sparks, NV, went and whether it was returned.
Franklin, now the general manager of the Gold's in Indianapolis, admits he has made mistakes as a club operator.
"Did I do some things wrong that I probably shouldn't have done? Yeah," Franklin said in an exclusive interview with Club Industry. "You kind of have to stand up and say, 'I did it.' I'm not proud of what I did. I'm not happy with what I did. It was just the circumstances that happened."
Franklin began working at Gold's on Dec. 15. He was hired by American Club Systems, Columbus, GA, which serves as a consulting company and handles the billing and management operations for the Gold's.
"The guy does a good job," says Von Hardin, national director for American Club Systems. "He is a very knowledgeable individual. He does what he's supposed to do. Whatever he's supposed to have done [in the past], we've not seen anything like that."
Franklin, who says he will hire an attorney in San Diego in anticipation of civil litigation there, says he's trying to move on with his career.
"With everything that happened in Reno and California and stuff like that, I'm really just trying to look at maybe not owning anymore, just really managing like I know how to do," Franklin says.
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Baldwin Park leads the day's news:
Officers are looking for the shooter.
Baldwin Park police Lt. Joe Bartolotti said the woman is the wife of one of the men.
The shooting broke out about 7:30 p.m. in a church parking lot at Stewart Avenue and Los Angeles Street.
Bartolotti said the men got into a fight during an AA meeting held at the church. He didn't know what the dispute was about.
The fight spilled into the parking lot. Bartolotti said one of the men pulled out a gun and fired once.
The round didn't hit the other man who police said was the intended target. The man's wife who was sitting in a car was shot instead.
Police weren't sure if the husband was also inside the car at the time of the shooting.
The vehicle rolled across the street and came to rest at the curb.
Bartolotti said the woman was taken to Los Angeles County USC Medical Center where she was listed in stable condition.
The suspect fled the scene. He was only described as a Latino about 20 wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and jeans.