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Motion sickness or kinetosis, also known as travel sickness, is a condition in which a disagreement exists between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement. Depending on the cause it can also be referred to as seasickness, car sickness, simulation sickness or airsickness. Dizziness, fatigue, and nausea are the most common symptoms of motion sickness. Sopite syndrome in which a person feels fatigue or tiredness is also associated with motion sickness. Nausea in Greek means seasickness (naus means ship). If the motion causing nausea is not resolved, the sufferer will frequently vomit. Unlike ordinary sickness, vomiting in motion sickness tends not to relieve the nausea. You'll find medications for motion sickness treatment in this category.


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Westchester Dermatologist Offers New Neck Lift Surgery Alternative
RYE BROOK, NY, May 22, 2013 /PressRelease/ —Abadir Associates, a Westchester County cosmetic dermatology clinic that specializes in combining treatments for optimal results, is offering a new technique designed to smooth and thicken thin skin on the neck. The practice has successfully treated multiple patients over the past year and seen dramatic results.
"Basically, [this approach] is for women who want to do everything but a neck lift," says Westchester dermatologist Dr. Michelle Abadir of Abadir Associates. "It allows you to add another method to thicken up the neck skin, which can be difficult." Normal aging may cause the skin of the neck to become thinner, bumpy, and nodular as well as to lose elasticity – thus allowing it to take on a "crepe-y" appearance. By addressing these issues with one treatment program, she can offer patients a stronger result without needing to resort to surgical techniques.
The treatment program involves combining the dermal filler Sculptra with wrinkle-releaser Botox and skin-tightening treatment Thermage to combine the benefits of all three. Additionally, Dr. Abadir is the only dermatologist who offers diluted Sculptra treatments for a significantly more natural result. By diluting the injectable down to one-quarter its usual strength (and gradually increasing the concentration every few months as the treatment progresses), Dr. Abadir is able to combine Sculptra perfectly with Botox and Thermage.
The program can be customized to suit each patient, and many may choose to combine Sculptra with only Botox or only Thermage. Dr. Abadir reports that her favorite treatment plan involves all three in a sequence designed to improve skin quality (this is an approximation of the schedule, individual needs may vary):
- Week 1: Botox
- Week 3: Sculptra
- Week6: Thermage
- Week 9: Sculptra
- Week 15: Sculptra
Patients following this plan see thicker neck skin with less wrinkling and no nodules. They also report high levels of satisfaction with their treatment and their results.
Dr. Abadir offers additional advice to her patients seeking to keep their skin healthy and maintain their treatment results. "Anything you do – no matter what you do – a good skincare regimen should always include a retinoid, a c-serum, a growth peptide, and a zinc-based sunscreen."
About Abadir Associates
A leading cosmetic dermatology clinic in Westchester, New York, Abadir Associates provides a wide range of dermatological solutions – including injectables, skin tightening treatments, and innovative new approaches. For more information, visit them online at https://www.drabadir.com/.


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Distorted Map Shows Each Country Forced Into Its Time Zone
It's a pretty weird picture of the world.
It's a pretty weird picture of the world.
Now its fourth instalment, Randall Munroe's XKCD Phone series is superb satire on the ludicrous.
If describing rockets as the "US Space Team's Up Goer Five" is what it takes to get kids into STEM, it's probably worth it.
Presumably someone at Google is making sure that the car knows its driver is actually a human, rather than a rock. Or a particularly large cat. [XKCD]
Following the huge success of the XKCD Phone 1 and XKCD Phone 2, Randall Munroe has announced the XKCD Phone 3. Read more >>
We're big fans of xkcd here at Gizmodo (who isn't?), and also of learning about things, so we're pretty excited for Randall Munroe's upcoming book of explainer drawings, THING EXPLAINER: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words.
The first XKCD phone's design was good, but your second hand no doubt feels... empty. Fortunately, there's now a another design for you to imagine using.
Apple's QuickType means that iOS 8 can now create entire sentences for you based on what you've already typed. But what happens when you challenge it to complete famous movie quotes?
The only place you can find answers to questions like "How many LEGO bricks would it take to build a bridge capable of carrying traffic from London to New York?"
Was Facebook's research ever really ethical?
Tip-tap-tip-tap-tippety-tap. We all spend our days bashing keys at our computer—so how much energy could we create if we could recover just a little of it?


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I am retired both from full-time work and from tournament bridge. My main bridge interest is researching the history of the tournament game in England: the first (and possibly only) instalment, covering the period up to the end of WW2, was published on the EBU website in December 2016.
My first serious bridge partner was Richard Granville and he suggested that I sign up to this site.
Inspired by a discussion elsewhere on this site.
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If you're looking for a gun dog that hunts for you and not you for him, then check out my Elhew bred English Pointers. After having raised and trained gun dogs for over 25 years, I can say that these dogs have what it takes to be the ultimate in a hunting companion. They will ensure your game bag is filled to it's limit every day you go hunting if the game is available.
Good puppies are no accident. Careful selection of brood matrons is crucial to our breeding program. All matrons are selected with the intent that they pass on their characteristics to their puppies. They are chosen with confirmation, style, nose, birdiness, biddability, and personality in mind. All brood matrons are completely finished gun dogs so that we may ensure they possess the characteristics we expect them to pass on to their puppies. The dam attributes 60% + to the characteristics of their pups.
If you want or need a started or finished dog, we have available, at most times,
several out of our proven brood matrons. Price range of started dogs is based on
availability, extensiveness of training, nose and style. The average price on
started dogs begins at $1500 . Since training is finished once it is begun,
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"started" are those that are totally broke on their game, whoa and back, handle
to whistle and voice commands...and may or may not retrieve based on their
natural ability to do so. I do not usually force break dogs to retrieve until
their second year of hunting.
Price range of finished dogs - $2500 and UP. Price is dependent on training, experience, and style.
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Dottie is a special needs girl looking for that special forever home! Dottie is a very sweet, 6 yr old sable female that just came into Second Chance Sheltie Rescue. She is crate trained and has lovely manners. She gets along well with other dogs and is always looking for a hand to give her some ear scratches!
Dottie had a mammary tumor removed which was cancerous, but thankfully it was not an aggressive form of cancer and all was removed. She is a breast cancer survivor and wears her pink ribbon proudly! (She will need a chest x-ray every 6 months for 2 years.)
Dottie also has arthritis in her elbow and hip and will need to be on a joint supplement and possibly some pain medication. Although she is still quite playful!
Sadly, Dottie had also been shot in the foot by some abusive boys. One toe is partly missing and another (a weight-bearing toe) was broken and never treated. That toe healed completely crooked and therefore offers no ability to help bear weight on that leg. This does cause her to limp some.
She would need a house with only one or two steps to the yard — preferably none. To learn more about her & to see a video of her playing, visit her page at Second Chance Sheltie Rescue.
UPDATE 7/6/11: Dottie's was seen here on Sheltie Nation by Suzie in FL. Her super sweet face could not be resisted & her adoption is now in progress! Woot!


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I need to generate a mouse click for any control themed or not on a Window from the view model. I need to to a Click Programmatically because I am gating on a flag coming from a a hardware device, a Leap Controller. I need to be able to get the event or "Gesture" from the device and Click on the window the mouse is over.
I need to figure out what window the mouse is over and click it. I can't do it with Win32 User32 calls, they do not work.
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The Dynamo take on the New England Revolution tomorrow night. Check out the game preview and know the facts before you watch the game. With some defensive struggles on the season and injuries as of late, head coach Dominic Kinnear might consider moving Geoff Cameron back to the center back position he held last season.
The injuries are piling up for the Dynamo as Brad Davis and Adrian Serioux will not make the trip to New England. Even though the Dynamo have been plagued with various injuries, the Revolution have the same problem going into tomorrow night's game.
Although their records might not reflect it, both teams are still in the hunt for a playoff spot.
SB Nation answer three questions about the Dynamo season heading into the home stretch.
Kansas City Wizards president Robb Heineman confirmed via Twitter last night that Omar Bravo has indeed signed on with the Wizards, and will begin training with them next preseason.
Jaime Moreno announced that he won't be returning to D.C. United next season, after spending 14 seasons with the club.
David Beckham is reportedly refusing to play for England in a friendly match for a farewell, simply on a matter of principle.
After a brief stay with Seattle, John Rooney, brother of Wayne Rooney, will be moving over to Portland and working with the Timbers on trial.
As the English Premier League season kicks off, ESPN.com examines American players playing in Europe.
SI.com columnist Steve Davis breaks down the group stage of this year's CONCACAF Champions League.


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Ada Lovelace Day: Karen Sandler
Ada Lovelace Day is a day for sharing stories about women in science and technology who have influenced us. To me, these stories are an important way to simultaneously highlight both the underrepresentation of women in these fields and -- based on the achievements of women who are in these fields -- the potential we could realize if barriers to participation can be named and removed.
I'm sure I won't be the only one writing about her today, but I'd like to take this chance to thank Karen Sandler for all of the ways she has helped the free software cause, and the Free Software Foundation in particular.
My contact with her started with her employment in 2005 as a lawyer at the Software Freedom Law Center. Since then, she has advised us on innumerable issues, including being a key part of progressing the transition to GPLv3 within the GNU Project. She's always shown not only professionalism, skill, and commitment as a lawyer, but also a deep understanding of free software.
In fact, you might say she has a deeper understanding of free software than anyone, if you consider her groundbreaking work examining free software in implantable medical devices. You can't get much deeper than your own heart! If you haven't read her work on this, please do, starting with her paper "Software Defects in Cardiac Medical Devices are a Life-or-Death Issue".
I've also enjoyed her role in hosting the Free as in Freedom oggcast, an informative show she co-hosts with FSF board member Bradley Kuhn. The show stands out for its emphasis on free software ideals, and ability to communicate nuances of sometimes complicated legal and ethical questions.
Given all of this, I was very happy to hear in June that Karen would be the new executive director at the GNOME Foundation. I'm looking forward to working with her, and I know she will be a great leader and organizer for the GNOME community.
Thank you, Karen!
P.S. Don't forget to nominate your women honorees for the Free Software Awards!


text: Megatron Posted July 26, 2013 Okay, after searching the internet for a few weeks on topics for correctly setting camber and caster on a solid axle front end I have come to a conclusion: Very few people know this answer and of those few that do, very few want to share it. I know the general consensus is to take your vehicle to an alignment shop and kick it in the lobby reading old Car and Driver magazines while they run your car or truck through the paces. In the end, they hand you a paper with + this, - that, drop some terminology on you, you shake your head and agree, plop 60 bucks on the counter and drive away. Well that's fine and dandy on the old Buick Le Sabre, but guys like us with lift kits, oversized wheels and tires and custom front end work, well...not so much. I have yet to find a shop that will entertain the idea of even aligning my truck. I can't believe that there is no way a DIY can do this at home. Yes it may not be aligned within +/- .0001, but neither is yours after the first pothole you hit leaving the shop. There had to be a way they did alignments before the construction of the modern alignment machine. I believe with some time and effort, a DIY guy can get pretty close if not close enough to get within spec. My questions here are to cover the solid front axle of my '06 Dodge Ram 3500, and I assume this will carry over, in principle, to a lot of other solid axle trucks. To my understanding there are 3 basic adjustments to consider. Camber, caster and toe. Now this leads me to my first set of questions before we even go to these 3 topics. Axle placement under the vehicle. This seems to be a grey area in knowledge on the web so here goes. 1. I have an adjustable track bar that will allow me to adjust my axle left and right in the vehicle. What is the proper way to measure the placement of the front axle so you know it is truly centered under your truck? I have done some simple string lines and measurements and feel mine is good. I just want to get the proper information out in the open so I can verify my work and others can use it if needed. 2. How do you measure your front axle and know it is square with and in the truck? You know, to verify the left tire isn't further forward in the vehicle that the right tire. Now, I have read this is how you would align a solid front axle vehicle to control it veering right or left while driving. Is that true? If so I would still assume you would want to have a zero starting point for making adjustments. I also assume this measurement is probably based off of the rear axle's location in the truck. Well, since I have never had any rear axle damage or any changes done, I assume it is straight and located within spec. Or should we back this whole conversation up and start by confirming the rear axle location and making all other measurements from there?? Well if we make it through this first part I guess we can move onto my camber/caster questions: Camber. I have a basic understanding of how camber and caster is adjusted and how it affects the vehicle so no need to cover that, but feel free to if you want. I also know that with my truck the upper and lower ball joints are fixed and centered. This would lead me to believe that camber on my solid axle front end is at the mercy of the axle caster settings. Without the use of some offset ball joints of course. I recently have upgraded my ball joints to the Carli Suspension ones. Very nice and very well built. During this install is when I noticed my truck had a serious amount of negative caster, which possibly was one of the underlying issues of the poor handling. Well possibly partly lol. Most of the handling issues were poor steering components. That topic is covered by one of the other threads on this forum. Now on to caster. From where on the front axle do you take the measurement for caster? Do you really have to have a special tool or is there more of a DIY approach that can be done? I can't believe you must have NASA grade tools with Sheldon Cooper knowledge. It's only a few degrees. If this is possible to do at home what are some others pointers to consider? Should both sides match or is this something that has a "room for error" type thing? Like I mentioned before my truck has a long arm 4 link front end with adjustable links. I can move my front axle front, back, left, right, twisted front, rolled back, in, out you name it, so making caster adjustments should be very easy. Making proper adjustments...well that's why I'm here. Toe adjustment. While this seems to be the simplest one, I believe that it should be last. I figure with the way the knuckle works, if you made any toe adjustments before properly setting caster adjustments, it would be off?? I assume your castor must be set before taking anything else into consideration. Considerations...What are considerations to any of these adjustments and measurements when dealing with oversized wheels, tires and lift kits? To me, I can see an issue with the offset of my wheels and the intersection of the caster angle through the ball joints in correlation to the ground surface and the contact spot of the center of my wheel and tire. I see that instead of my wheel and tire rotating on this centerline I am instead actually arcing around it if you will (if that makes sense). Maybe these things only matter at high speeds, maybe not. I can see the offset being harder on ball joints but that's why I choose Carli. I understand with a lift kit people run into problems because the need to get your pinion angle on the front axle correct to reduce vibrations. Well I have installed a free spin kit with lockouts so pinion angle is not a priority. I am willing to deal with a front end vibration the 2 days out of the year I need 4 wheel drive in exchange for 363 days of correct steering geometry. For others without the free spin kit I can see your need to address this issue differently. I don't know, maybe this is all secret squirrel information, and nobody will share it. I don't deem it rocket science, but I believe it should be done properly. If an alignment shop is the only accepted way to do it, so be it. I just can't believe that's the case, though. Any input on any of this subject would be appreciated. As always, I know Moses will break it down tech style, and that's fine by me. Attached are a couple pictures of my front end with corrected 4 link angles and new poly joints. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Ittan (イッタン, Ittan) is an Iwagakure shinobi.
Seemingly stemming from his age and experience, Ittan is a calm and collected individual. [2] This is seen both when he reminded his team-mate Zaji not to get overly confident because they were at war [3] and his quick thinking while under enemy attack. [4] He is a very cautious shinobi and was able to put aside his comrades' deaths and continue fighting. [5]
Ittan has light-coloured, spiky hair and a dark-coloured beard (both of which are depicted as brown in the anime). He wears the standard Iwagakure shinobi outfit complete with his right sleeve missing as well as the forehead protector of the Allied Shinobi Forces.
Ittan could be considered a skilled shinobi to have been put in the Surprise Attack Division under Kankurō's command. Ittan can use earth element techniques, and can use them to make trenches, allow area's of the earth to rise or fall, or create a dome of earth to protect himself as well as others. Ittan also showcases himself to be a well-experienced shinobi as shown by reminding Zaji not to be too confident of himself.
Part II
Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation
Ittan was assigned to the Surprise Attack Division of the Allied Shinobi Forces. In the anime, he was one of the shinobi who got into fights with people from other villages, Ittan himself getting into an argument with Kiri, who said that Iwa-nin couldn't be trusted. They are however able to set their differences aside and work together after hearing Gaara's speech.
Shortly after he and his team-mates had set up camp where Ittan was designated to create several trenches around the location, they were ambushed by Akatsuki's Surprise Attack and Diversion Platoon.
From Hoheto Hyūga's description he was able to recognise Deidara's explosive clay. He quickly used his Earth Release technique to transport his team-mates to safety by sinking the entire area where they had set up camp. During the battle between the two ambush squads, on Kankurō's orders, Ittan raised the part of the earth he had previously sunk sending Sasori crashing into the rising surface. He also used his ability to create a dome to protect the injured and Kiri while he was healing them.
Later he and the part of his division encountered a back up for the Surprise Attack and Diversion Platoon. When they tried to flee from them, they are hit with Ibuse's Poison Mist and soon succumb to its paralysing effects. They are however rescued by Mifune and the samurai of the Fifth Division who carry them to the Logistical Support and Medical Division for treatment.
- "Ittan" (一旦) means "once" or "for a moment".


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A Shelby County man has lost his appeal of a federal tax evasion case, and his Nokomis attorney is in hot water with the chief judge of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
A Shelby County man has lost his appeal of a federal tax evasion case, and his Nokomis attorney is in hot water with the chief judge of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote in his opinion earlier this month that all 19 issues raised by Denny Patridge in his appeal of criminal convictions for tax evasion, money laundering and wire fraud were "frivolous," as was his appeal from tax court.
Easterbrook also wrote scathingly of Jerold W. Barringer, Patridge's attorney during the original trial, in tax court and during his three appeals. Barringer "has performed below the standard of a pro se litigant" (an untrained person who acts as his own lawyer), Easterbrook said, adding that he has doubts about Barringer's fitness to practice law.
Easterbrook gave Barringer 14 days to show why he shouldn't be fined $10,000 "for his frivolous arguments and non-compliance with the rules," and why he shouldn't be suspended from practice until he demonstrates "an ability to litigate an appeal competently and responsibly."
Barringer, admitted to practice in Illinois in 1983, did not return a phone message to his office on Friday seeking comment.
Easterbrook has the authority to suspend Barringer from practice in federal court within the 7th Circuit. But only the state Supreme Court can suspend an attorney's license to practice law in Illinois.
Patridge, 58, who operated an insurance agency out of his home in Strasburg, shielded his income through three offshore trusts, two of which listed expenses equal to income and the third of which never filed a tax return.
Patridge filed tax returns in some years, but not in others, and claimed to have negligible income.
He refused to cooperate with an IRS audit, which found he owed $125,000 in taxes for 1996 and 1997. Penalties took the total to more than $200,000, plus interest.
A federal court jury in Urbana convicted Patridge in July 2005. He subsequently was sentenced to five years in prison, fined $100,000 and ordered to pay his back taxes and accumulated penalties.
Easterbrook said many of the 19 issues raised by Patridge in his criminal appeal "are in the style of tax-protest arguments that we might expect from a layman representing himself but do not expect to see in a brief filed by a member of the bar."
For example, Patridge's appeal claimed that avoiding taxes by assigning earned income to a third party can be penalized only if the taxpayer knows the section number of the Internal Revenue Service code that applies. Easterbrook dismissed that notion and said the jury found beyond a reasonable doubt that Patridge knew he had to pay taxes on what he made from his business.
"It is scarcely possible to imagine otherwise; the system of offshore trusts and the fictive loans show that Patridge was trying to hide income that he knew to be taxable," Easterbook wrote. "Why else all this folderol?"
Patridge also challenged his conviction on the grounds that the IRS's Form 1040 has displayed the same Office of Management and Budget control number since 1981, when it should be assigned a new number every three years. That, he claimed, made the forms illegal.
"How any of this could block a conviction for tax evasion is a mystery," Easterbrook wrote.
Of Barringer, the judge wrote: "The problem is not simply his inability to distinguish between plausible and preposterous arguments. It is his disdain for the norms of legal practice and the rules of procedure."
Barringer's statement of facts in the case "contains not a single fact and verges on illiteracy," Easterbrook wrote.
Barringer was censured by the state Supreme Court in 2001. In a 1999 divorce case, the court said, Barringer filed a motion for a judge substitution that contained statements about the judge that Barringer knew or should have known were false.
Peter Rotskoff, manager of the state Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission's Springfield office, said he couldn't comment on any specific case. However, he indicated that the ARDC regularly reviews appellate court opinions in which sanctions against lawyers are requested.
Chris Dettro can be reached at (217) 788-1510 or email@example.com.


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Honor the Heroes of the Game, Preserve Its History, Promote Its Values & Celebrate Excellence Everywhere
"Baseball has become successful because of the excellent way in which it is organized and I can honestly say that I believe the National Football League is just as strongly entrenched as any lease in baseball. The fly-by-night birds are now on the outside looking in, and we intend to keep them there."
(No College)...Joseph Francis Carr. . .Sportswriter, promoter who founded Columbus Panhandles team, 1904. . .NFL co-organizer, 1920. . .NFL president, 1921-1939. . .Gave NFL stability, integrity with rigid enforcement of rules. . . Introduced standard player's contract. . . Barred use of collegians in NFL play. . . Worked tirelessly to interest financially-capable new owners. . .Born October 23, 1879, in Columbus, Ohio. . . Died May 20, 1939, at age of 59.
No one better understood the necessity of bringing some order to early-day professional football than Joe Carr, a former Columbus, Ohio newspaperman and manager of pro football's Columbus Panhandles. Carr's persistence finally paid off when, in 1920, the American Professional Football Association (APFA) was organized in Canton, Ohio. Jim Thorpe, the best-known name of pro football in 1920, was named the APFA's first president. But a year later Carr replaced him in the leadership role.
The next year, in 1922, the league changed its name to the National Football League. Carr strongly felt the public had the inherent right to know the league was being run honestly and capably. Immediately, he established a standard player contract modeled on the one used in baseball. He cracked down on the hiring of collegians under assumed names. When the Green Bay Packers, a new team in 1921, ignored Carr's edict, he forfeited the franchise and then renewed it under new ownership a few months later.
In 1925, Red Grange stunned the football world by joining the Chicago Bears just 10 days after his final game with the University of Illinois. Sensing that resentment in college circles would persist if such practices continued, Carr ruled, in the future, no NFL team could sign a college player until his eligibility was completed. Violators were promised a stiff fine or loss of franchise or both. Carr recognized that, to survive, the NFL needed teams in large cities. His first target was New York City and, through Joe's efforts, the New York Giants were born in 1925. The 70,000 crowd that turned out at the Polo Grounds later that year to see the Red Grange-led Bears proved big-city fans would support pro football.
A dedicated, no-nonsense administrator, Carr also served in executive positions in minor-league baseball and professional basketball during his tenure as NFL president.
Full Name: Joseph Francis Carr
Birthdate: October 23, 1879
Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio
Died: May 20, 1939
High School: None
Enshrined into Pro Football Hall of Fame: September 7, 1963 (represented by Dan Tehan)
Presenter: Earl Schreiber, President, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Other Members of Class of 1963: Sammy Baugh, Bert Bell, Earl "Dutch" Clark, Harold "Red" Grange, George Halas, Mel Hein, Wilbur "Pete" Henry, Cal Hubbard, Don Hutson, Earl "Curly" Lambeau, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, John "Blood" McNally, Bronko Nagurski, Ernie Nevers, Jim Thorpe


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I am not skeptic by nature.
I like to explore and then make my own idea about something.
This is a website that gives you an analysis of your character analysis using our name and your birthdate.
You can use it with an ancestor.
This is what I found on my great-grandmother Henriette Alexandre born on April 6, 1845.
Personality of Henriette Alexandre (4/6/1845)
Your expression number – the 8 – summarizes your first and your last name and accounts for your wholesomeness and your acute sense of justice. Your incredible energy somewhat needs some focusing. You are adamant and you refuse half-measures.
Quite a tornado!
You always need activities at a sustained rhythm, you can't stand relying on the others and you are continually seeking balance. You need to watch your sense of authority and your inclination for stubbornness.
You are combative and concrete by nature and you enjoy taking risks… This what helps you in adversity.
In short: Avoid your occasional stubborn and pushy reactions and use your energy for a fair cause: there is no better balance!
Your first name – Henriette – shaped by number 5, reveals an undeniable charism.One listens to you and admires you because you always manage to adapt to one's level. You look self-assured. But do not neglect your needs for new experiences… It is written within your very constitution!
The name you have inherited – Alexandre – characterized by number 3, is undoubtedly at the origin of your unquestionable self-control, of your skillfulness and of your creativity…
Your soul urge number – 9 – extracted from the vowels of both your first and last names, provides information about the personality, as experienced from the inside, on your desire, your motivation… As far as you are concerned, you clearly aspire to achieve yourself in a wholesome manner. You have an emotional and sensitive nature and a strong idealistic character, not always connected to the harshness of reality and hence prone to disenchantment. You want to be useful to the others (and to the world in general) and you probably enjoy teaching and sharing. You seek total and true love and are capable of an incredible affective investment. Your affective life, often fragile, grows stronger and stabilizes with maturity.
Your inner-self number, the 8, is calculated with the consonants of both your first name and your last name. It reveals your skills on a material and/or professional level. In your case, the number shows your sense of practical initiative. Your are especially efficient when it comes to fieldwork, and you have good vibrations as far as business and transactions, of any kind, are concerned.
Your psychic number, the 6, reveals that, as far as you are concerned, feelings prevail! Hence your perpetual quest for affective harmony and your sensitivity to criticism. You fear isolation and abandonment. You are most probably gifted with artistic talents and have this tendency to feel guilty for a mere trifle.
It is through your activities and your ambition that you make your way in life. At least, that is what your evolution number (1) says. Your 1 also confirms your brainy disposition, your gift for logics, your independence, your self-mastery and your creativity. In any case, your 1 enables you to achieve and attain almost anything, but you must rely on yourself.
Your inclusion table:
Missing numbers: 7.
7: Your missing 7 could also translate as "lack of self-confidence". This is the origin of your fears, your anxiety and pessimism. You often suffer from insulation because you can't always understand the others (and you simply don't always like life). If you haven't started yet, it's now more than ever that you really ought to try and find a way of overcoming your problems.
Prevailing number: 5.
5: Your qualities of adaptation, self-reliance, mobility, your passion for travelling and novelty, not to mention your charisma and your gift for persuasion all strongly suggest a brilliant career as a lawyer, actress, politician, or maybe even as a soldier. In either case, we are talking about strong mobility.
Life cycle:
Your life path – 1 – based on your birth date, provides valuable information about your destiny in a theoretical manner, without taking your actual context into account. Number 1 is a path that keeps going higher and higher. It can lead you really far. In short, this is the path of the leaders, determined and tough. Number 1 accounts in essence for you enthusiastic nature and you willingness. The more you progress on your path, the more traits such as shyness or indecisiveness tend to disappear. The main obstacles on your path are a tendency to be bossy with the people you love. Now this a trait that you absolutely want to master! You need to be an example for the others.
Your life cycle – the 9 – mainly explains your openness to the world and your need to make yourself useful. You have been in your third and last cycle, the harvest cycle, since April 6, 1899. After a painful adolescence, in pursuit of a just cause, after a hectic working life made of fantastic encounters and overcommitment, you are now indulging yourself into new aspirations… This is the time of your great cause for which, if you haven't already, you will fight with brilliance!
Your life cycle is made of four major achievements. Since the April 5, 1898, you are experiencing your fourth and last achievement, which has the value 4, and is about self achievement through work, discipline, organization. This being said even if your life path in 1 pushes you towards autonomy, you will have understood by now, with the help of your experience, that self-assertion demands some kind of rigor. There is no way one can get there without a little work! It makes no doubt that you know perfectly well how to deal with this last achievement and to take the most out of it.
Temporal cycles:
Numerology considers 9 personal years. Each of which helps evaluating the general trends of the current calendar year. As far as you are concerned, your personal year is 6, symbol of consistency. This year, you need to feel comfortable in your environments: you really need to feel at ease inside your family and at work… Whatever happens, you will adapt and make your surroundings feel logical, consistent, understandable. Actions such as house moving or finding another job are not to be excluded if either (or both) can provide you with a sense of stability.
Your astrological house (or sector) gives a useful little extra information to your personal year. This latter changes at every birthday, whereas the astrological house is valid from January the 1st to December 31st. You are currently in house 4, symbol of roots and home. You will invest more time in your home this year (or even move!) and this will drive you to feel more connected to reality.
Your personal month, the 1, provides the overall tonality of the current month: This is the time for you to take the initiatives.
Today is your personal day 9. You can finish the things that you have left up in the air for the past 9 days.
(Analysis computed on April 17, 2012 at 22:26)
Now you can explore numerology and then make your own idea about one of your ancestor's character.


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Are we ready for pizzacones?
Here's an idea for a new eatery: pizza cones. Apparently, they are creating quite a buzz in New York City, and have been popular for some time in Brazil, Russia, and Italy. If fact, according to this New York Press article, a blogger from Charlottesville named "Alex" took a bus to NYC during a blizzard just to try a pizza cone.
That would be recent UVA grad Alexander Patton, 22, now charter coordinator for the University Transit Service, who rode with a friend up to NYC on the Starlight Express February 24.
"How often does a revolution in pizza technology occur?" says Patton. "The last major innovation could arguably be the creation of the stuffed crust pizza, back in '95."
Unfortunately, a category 5 blizzard was hitting the Northeast at the time, and during the trip they couldn't see the road, and the wind was rocking the bus. But they made it.
People told Patton he was "stupid" to travel so far for a slice of pizza, even if it was rolled into a cone, but Patton says it was "definitely worth the trip."
"One of the best things about eating a pizzacone was definitely how clean it was," says Patton. " I didn't get any grease dripping onto my hands, and I was easily able to eat it with one hand"Š like an ice cream cone."
Overall, Patton calls the experience "fantastic."
"I got to have an awesome trip to NYC and try out an innovation in pizza technology," he says. " Some may say that this is merely a novelty, but I believe that this is a pretty awesome concept, and I would love to see this spread. I mean, come on, it's pizza in a cone! It really just makes me wonder, "Why didn't I think of this first?"


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The GRO for England and Wales has just posted the following update at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/ips/civil-registration/modernising-civil-registration/, entitling the post Modernising Civil Registration:
The way we register births and deaths, and give notice to marry is being modernised.
Registration online In March 2006, the General Register Office (GRO) introduced a web-based system that enabled civil partnership to be registered online. This system –
Registration Online (RON) – has since been extended to cover birth, death, stillbirth and marriage registration together with the legal preliminaries to marriage and civil partnership.
In a further modernisation initiative, the registrars general for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland launched the disclosure of death registration information scheme in January 2008
Following feedback from customers, this scheme was further extended in July 2011 to provide the opportunity for existing customers to obtain death data for England and Wales dating back to January 2007.
GRO is also currently reviewing its options for digitising all birth, death and marriage records dating back to 1837 – details are below.
Digitisation project
The digitisation and indexing project is the project to scan and digitise civil registration records for England and Wales from 1837 to present and create a new online index of events. This project has been in a pause status since September 2010.
Project update November 2011 Around 50% of the birth, death, adoption and marriage records have already been digitised. During the financial year 2011/12 IPS will decide the future plans for the digitisation of its remaining records.
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Farewell, Serious Eaters!
Today is my last day as General Manager of Serious Eats.The Serious Eats community is a very special corner of the internet and I'm thankful to have called it my home for the last six years.Thank you, Ed, for convincing me to join you on this journey. Thank you, Ben, Carey, Carrie, Erin, Jen, Jessica, Jim, Kenji, Lauren, Leandra, Maggie, Max, Nick, Niki, Paul, Robyn, and Tracie for being some of the smartest, wittiest, hardest working, passionate, and caring people I've ever had the honor of working with. I never imagined we would come this far, and I can't wait to see what you and the community cook up next. But before I go, a handful my favorite Serious Eats moments and posts from over the years:
- A post most of you have probably never seen, the First Annual Serious Eats Food Rorschach Test
- That time Snapple sent ALL the Snapple to Serious Eats HQ
- Adam's genius masterpiece, The Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt
- Anyone recognize this guy?
- Adam's Star Trek Food and Drink Primer
- The inaugural holiday cookie swap
- That time we ate pastrami with Nora Ephron
- Who could forget peepshi?
- We won 2 (!!) James Beard Awards (2010)
- A tour of the Serious Eats office (2010)
- The best tips, tricks, etc. you've learned from Serious Eats
- Kenji's well-researched argument for Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical
- Boiled Water, A Recipe
- International Serious Eats Days
- A poem, Pizza Is...
- Carey's review of Guy's American Kitchen and Bar
- The definition of a Serious Eater
- And many more!
Goodbye! -Alaina
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University of Massachusetts in Boston
"Out of Equilibrium."
The annual Fall joint meeting of the New England sections of APS and AAPT will be held on Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th of October at the University of Massachusetts Boston (100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA).
Invited Speakers will include:
Bulbul Chakraborty of Brandeis University
Daniel Needleman of Harvard University
Pedro Reis of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gene Stanley of Boston University
Dan Steck of the University of Oregon
Jeff Urbach of Georgetown University
AAPT will offer workshops.
Update information, including links for registration and abstract submission will be available at www.physics.umb.edu/APS_AAPT_Meeting
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April 4 - 5, 2008
Richard Paolino, Conference Coordinator
Schedule and Program
Friday April 4, 2008
US Coast Guard Academy Dimick Hall
|Noon – 6 PM
|Registration, Exhibitors , Posters – Lobby of Dimick Hall
|Welcoming Remarks from RADM J. Scott Burhoe, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy - Dimick Auditorium
|Plenary Talk I – Dimick Auditorium
Dr. Daniel McKinsey, Yale University
"Gamma Ray Detection"
|Refreshment Break- Lobby of Dimick Hall
|Plenary Talk II - Dimick Auditorium
Dr. Joseph Schumer, Naval Research Lab
"Pulsed Power Technology for the Active Detection of Special Nuclear Materials"
|Plenary Talk III - Dimick Auditorium
Dr. John Lugisland, NumerEX Corporation
"Simulating Directed Energy Devices: Advancing Technology to Protect the Homeland at the Speed of Light"
|Joint APS-AAPT poster session - Lobby of Dimick Hall
|Banquet - Officer's Club
|Post-banquet talk:
Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Former U.S. Senator, Apollo Astronaut
"A Trip to the Moon and Beyond"
Lunar Module Pilot —
Dr. Harrison Hagen (Jack) Schmitt, Ph.D. civilian
Jack was born July 3, 1935 in Santa Rita, New Mexico, and grew up in the nearby town of Silver City. He received a B.S. from Caltech in 1957 and then spent a year studying geology at the University of Oslo in Norway. He received a Ph.D. in Geology from Harvard University in 1964. Before joining NASA as a member of the first group of scientist-astronauts in June 1965, he worked at the U.S. Geological Survey's Astrogeology Center at Flagstaff, developing geological field techniques that would be used by the Apollo crews. Following his selection, Schmitt played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface. After each of the landing missions, he participated in the examination and evaluation of the returned lunar samples and helped the crews with the scientific aspects of their mission reports.
Banquet speaker, Harrison Schmitt
(picture courtesy of Nick Nicastro, NES-AAPT)
Because Schmitt was the only geologist in the astronaut corps and, as well, had spent considerable time becoming proficient in the CSM and LM systems, it came as no surprise when, in March 1970, he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to receive a crew assignment. He joined Richard Gordon (Commander) and Vance Brand (Command Module Pilot) on the backup crew for Apollo 15 and was clearly in line to fly as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 18. After the cancellation of Apollo 18 in September 1970, many people expected that he would be assigned to fly on Apollo 17, the last lunar mission. That assignment was announced in August 1971. After the completion of Apollo 17, Schmitt played an active role in documenting the Apollo geologic results and also took on the task of organizing NASA's Energy Program Office. In August 1975, Schmitt resigned from NASA to seek election as a United States Senator representing New Mexico. He served one term and, notably, was the ranking Republican member of the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee. He was defeated in a re-election bid in 1982 and, since then, has kept very busy as a consultant in business, geology, space, and public policy. In 1994, he was appointed as an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin and Chairman and President of the Annapolis Center for Environmental Quality.
NASA photo S71-52260 is Jack's Official Mission Portrait
- from http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.crew.html
-"Extract from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal used with permission from Eric M. Jones"
Saturday April 5, 2008
Smith and Dimick Halls
|AAPT Executive Committee meeting (Smith Hall Room 201)
|Continental Breakfast - Lobby of Dimick Auditorium
|8:00 AM – Noon
|Registration - Lobby of Dimick Auditorium
|Parallel APS and AAPT contributed talks
|Refreshment break - Lobby of Dimick Hall
|Plenary Talk IV - Dimick Auditorium
Dr. Tim Dasey - Associate Leader of the Biodefense Systems Group at M.I.T
"Tactical Systems and Homeland Protection"
|Plenary Talk V - Dimick Auditorium
Ms. Leah Beaulieu, Joppatowne H.S. Joppatowne, MD
"Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness studies at the high school level- an interdisciplinary approach"
|Lunch (Box Lunches can be picked up in the Lobby of Dimick)
Tables on patio of Dimick/Smith Hall or use Smith Rms 119, 126, 129 or bring on bus for EAGLE tour)
|APS Executive Committee lunch meeting (Smith Hall Room 201)
|AAPT Workshop
(Smith Hall Room 219, Moderator, Dr. Lorraine Allen)
"Teaching about Robotics with Lego NXT"
Randy Brown – U32 High School
|AAPT Workshop
(Smith Hall Room 223, Moderator, LCDR Bill Richardson)
"Using Interactive Simulation-based Virtual Laboratories for Teaching Physics and Technology"
Yakov Cherner – Atel, LLC
|AAPT Workshop (Smith Hall Room 219, Moderator, Dr. Lorraine Allen)
"Using the digital GLX datalogger in lab and lecture" Lara Sharp- Pasco Corp.
|AAPT Workshop
(Smith Hall Room 223, Moderator, LCDR Bill Richardson)
"Determining the Temperature of an Incandescent Light Bulb" Michael Schaab, Maine Maritime Academy
Spring 2009— Northeastern University
Fall 2009 — University of New Hampshire
Spring 2010 — Southern Connecticut State University
Please Note: These remarks express each writer's considered opinion and should not be construed as representing any official position of the Executive Board of the New England Section of the American Physical Society.
From the letters and editorials below, the reader may surmise that the issue of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is not settled. This can also be seen from contributions to the debate existing in recent publications of this Newsletter. (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 issues can be obtained from the NES APS website) What is surprising to us is that, given the apparent importance of the topic, there are so few people who have sent us letters (positive or negative) about the issues.
Paul Carr and Larry Gould, Co-Editors
NES APS Newsletter
Email Letter to the Editors by Professor Frank S. Levin
(received 26 June 2008) —
Items referenced: 1. Editorial — GLOBAL WARMING from a CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE; Fall 2007 issue of the New England Section Newsletter 2. AN OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND SECTION OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY — Anthropogenic Global Warming Alarmism: A Corruption of Science; Spring 2008 issue of the New England Section Newsletter. Each item can be found at the NES APS website
A Response to Laurence Gould's Editorial and Open Letter
Frank S. Levin, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Brown University (email@example.com)
For many years, skeptics/deniers have inveighed against aspects of global warming, in particular rejecting one or more of the following: that global warming is occurring, that it is caused by human activities, and that its likely consequences are potentially harmful. Overall, however, the arguments underlying their rejections are untenable: unlike the atmosphere, they generally do not hold water.
Laurence Gould's recent Editorial (E) and Open Letter (O), in the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Newsletters, recycled a number of the deniers' specious arguments. Because the maximum space allotted to me for this response is limited, I can address only some of these arguments. What I present here is based on material gathered for an adult education course on earth's climate and global warming that I taught in Fall 2007.
1. As an example of the methods often used by deniers—falsification and distortion through omission (cherry-picking)—I'll first consider Gould's complaint (E, p 4) that Hanson gives no references to "treading close to 'scientific fraud' ". Here's what happened. James Hanson, a noted climatologist, testified to the US Senate in 1988 about possible global warming outcomes, presenting a graph with three curves, A, B, C. He stated that B was the most likely outcome. Patrick Michaels, also a climate scientist, in his 1998 testimony to the US Senate, having deleted curves B and C from Hanson's 1988 graph, claimed that just A represented Hanson's prediction, that it was obviously wrong compared to data, and thus AGW wasn't occurring. In fact, Hanson's omitted result B (the most likely) was correct. For Hanson's and Michaels' curves, reference to Michaels' testimony, and graphs showing the successes of models (theory) in fitting climate data, type the URL www.logicalscience.com/skeptic-arguments/models-don't-work.html into Google. Hanson recounted Michaels' action in a 1999 post on the NASA GISS website, while in a New York Times op-ed column of May 29, 2006, Paul Krugman described Michaels' action as "it isn't treading close, it's fraud, pure and simple" (to my knowledge, Krugman has not been sued over this statement). Patrick Michaels' calumny was later recycled by Michael Crichton in the "EN ROUTE , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8" chapter of his book State of Fear. (See also Mark Bowen's book Censoring Science). 2. Re "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (E, p 7): Gould failed to note that the denier claims in the cited DVD are invalid, as recounted in the 9 March 2007 entry of the website www.realclimate.org (RC). RC is run by researchers in climate science who refer to actual calculations (theirs and others) and to peer-reviewed papers, and who tell you when denier science articles have not gone through peer review (though peer review is not a guarantee that a paper is correct). See the 20 January 2005 post on RC for comments on peer review and citations of denier articles that didn't go through it. 3. Only McIntyre & McKitrick are cited re the "hockey stick" chart (O, p 12), and that's cherry-picking, for what's omitted are references to papers that show that the original hockey stick analysis was correct and that Mc&Mc are wrong: see, e.g, the 2nd RC post on peer review —27 January 2005—plus references cited therein for a detailed analysis of the errors in Mc&Mc. The invalid claim that Mc&Mc are correct and the "hockey stick" graph is wrong has been repeated by various deniers.
4. Gould (O, p 11) refers to the Solanki et al article (Nature, 2005) claiming that the last 50 years have been one of the most active solar periods. What Gould left out is that in previous Nature articles (2004), both Solanki et al and Mueschler et al (who don't agree with Solanki et al's claim about the last 11,000 years) state that "solar activity reconstructions tell us that only a minor fraction of the recent global warming can be explained by the variable sun." This quote is in the article "Global Warming Controversy" from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia (to get to it, type wikipedia into your browser and then global warming controversy into its search engine). The latter article has much info on the GW Controversy. In case you distrust Wikipedia, similar conclusions about solar activity and GW are reached in the RC post of 19 May 2005, where, following the main article, you can find additional material under the heading Addendum "Celestial Driver" Part 2, Solar Cycle Length. 5. The lag of CO2 behind temperature in paleoclimates (O, p11) has been a favorite of deniers who use it to "prove" that the recent increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases do not lead to global warming. Omitted by them and Gould is any reference as to why such a "proof" is false. One such reference is the RC post of 27 April 2007, especially the letter by Jeff Severinghaus following the main text. 6. Gould (O, p 13) and other deniers have cited the alleged "errors" in Al Gore's film that were found by a British judge, but this, too, is cherry-picking, for two items that Gould omits are (i) the judge's statement that "Al Gore's presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change in the film was broadly accurate," a statement that re-affirms the film as a documentary and not "propaganda" as Gould claimed, and (ii) the post of RC, 15 October 2007 (plus others referred to there), which analyzes the so-called "errors" in detail, and points out why they are not really errors.
7. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) has been pilloried by deniers, as in O, pp 12 and 13, but the claim that it has multiple scientific errors is false. Gould cites the work of Monckton, whose statements/inferences about the hockey stick chart and solar activity don't hold up, as I've already noted in 3&4 above. Here are a few more misrepresentations (among others). Gore did not insist on a link between increased frequency of hurricanes and GW: he stated, AIT, p 81, that there is less agreement among scientists on this point, but that there is an emerging consensus that GW and increasing hurricane intensity are linked. The IPCC notes that this linkage is likely: p 864 of their report Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis. Re the sea level rise of 20 feet by 2100: what Gore actually said (AIT, p 197) is that if Greenland melted or broke up, or half of it and half of Antarctica melted or broke up, sea levels would rise by 18 to 20 feet. Monckton falsified by removing the conditional clause ("if…broke up"). Re Kilimanjaro's glacier: its loss of ice/snow began in the late 19th century and GW did not initiate it, but what Monckton omits is recent work—RC, post of 23 May 2005—noting that there is data providing powerful support that East African glaciers, including Kilimanjaro's, have been subject to the influence of warming. Al Gore was thus not wrong to have implied that GW is now involved ("implied" because the book never states this directly about Kilimanjaro).
8. Gould claims (O, p 11) that there has been no warming trend since 2000. But there is a trend—one that has leveled off. Look at the graphs in the HadCrut3 website. But also remember that climatology deals with weather averages over space (large regions) and time (30 years or more), and so lack of an increase—even a decrease—in the global temperature for any one year—or two or three—is not evidence against GW, just as the presence of a drought or higher temperatures in some region is not evidence for it. 9. In O, p 16, Gould repeats a denier myth, viz, that "science is about facts … not consensus". This myth has been presented to the general public by deniers as part of the scientific-method paradigm. But science is partly about achieving consensus, e.g., that a theory is valid in some domain of applicability—as exemplified by Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, electrodynamics, etc, etc.
10. The RC post of 9 October 2006 deconstructs the misinformation of Claude Allegre (O, p 15). 11. For analyses of Alexander Cockburn's invalid claims/comments (O, p 15), see the RC posts of 4 May 2007 and 7 June 2007, where you can click on the link to ZNet (3 articles and responses), which then links to Cockburn's articles and responses to them by George Monbiot. 12. For more on Christopher Monckton's spuriosities (O, pp 12, 14, 20), go to the web site www.monbiot.com and type Monckton into Monbiot's search engine. See also RC, 7 February 2007, for their comments on Monckton. 13. For some of the activities of Frederick Seitz (O, p 18) and S. Fred Singer (O, p17), plus information on the JunkScience web site (E, p 7), see Chapter 2 of George Monbiot's book "HEAT—How to Stop the Planet from Burning."
14. Finally, for general info on, plus other responses to, denier claims, go to: www.metoffice.gov.uk, and search on climate change myths; www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan and then click on climate change fact sheet and the climate skeptics; or the RC index entry Responses to common contrarian arguments. For FAQS and answers from the IPCC, type ipccFAQS into your browser. See Chapter 2 of HEAT for some denier tactics.
REPLY to Frank Levin by Larry Gould —
I would like to start with a comment about the term "denier(s)," which has been much used by supporters of AGW. Professor Levin's letter in effect applies that term to me 14 times. But what could the term mean?
It might mean that someone knows the facts and is evading them. Or it might mean that someone considers that the facts do not support the claims being made. Since I have argued at length (particularly in the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 issues of the Newsletter, http://www.physics.ccsu.edu/aps-nes/News.htm) that there is insufficient evidence for, as well as much contradictory evidence to, the anthropogenic global warming alarmist (AGWA) claims, I clearly am in the second category. Thus applied, I do not consider the term "denier" to be pejorative even though it appears intended to be so when used by the AGWAs.
At the beginning of his letter, Professor Levin might also be using the term "skeptic" pejoratively. However, as my Open Letter explains (heading 11. Rhetorical ploys to deflect attention from the science, item 4, quoting Robert M. Carter):
[a]ll good scientists are skeptics: that is their professional job. To not be a skeptic of the hypothesis that you are testing is the rudest of scientific errors, for it means that you are committed to a particular outcome: that's faith, not science.
I will only make some brief comments about the substance of Professor Levin's letter because Viscount Monckton has — coincidentally — pretty much answered that letter with his own that follows.
In Professor Levin's letter, his point 1 takes issue with my critique of Hansen (which stands). But my critique did not just focus on Hansen but on the APS NEWS for not printing replies (or properly justifying why there weren't any) by Michael Crichton and Pat Michaels — the people Hansen attacked. So although Prof. Levin gives his own explanation of what happened, we still do not have an explanation by Crichton and by Michaels.
His point 2 argues that claims made in the video "The Great Global Warming Swindle" are invalid. Readers may judge for themselves whether Prof. Levin's statements are accurate by comparing the scientific arguments given in his references with those which lend support to the video (including the 100 minutes of supplementary interviews I mentioned). An excellent resource for seeing a critical analysis of the "global warming/climate change" issue is the book Taken by Storm (TS) — which has many references and is described in my following brief Editorial — by Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick. In that book is also an extensive discussion of the "hockey stick" model (referred to in Professor Levin's point 3), including an explanation of why its methodology is flawed (also see Monckton's letter).
About his point 4, I will again refer to TS as well as to Monckton's letter. Point 5 attributes to me a "proof" which (as the reader can check) I never claimed or implied — I was using the lag of CO2 with respect to temperature to criticize Gore's claim (in the context of the film/book An Inconvenient Truth) that CO2 drives temperature and to point up a non-scientific error being propagated by a children's book (one of the authors also being one of the producers of the film). Points 6 and 7 refer to Gore's film; I have already explained what are some of the problems, as does Monckton's letter. But the most comprehensive critique (including references) is given in Marlo Lewis' 154-page free on-line document A Skeptic's Guide to an Inconvenient Truth (referenced in my Open Letter; an updated and wider selection associated with the Lewis document is at http://cei.org/gencon/030%2C05821.cfm). In addition, given Mr. Gore's pervasive elementary error in logic — as I have explained in my Open Letter — I remain baffled as to why so many people still support his film/book.
Point 8 says that a leveling off of the warming since 2000 "is a trend"; and the rest of that point just indicates that there is no clear statement about what constitutes GW and hence there does not appear to be a scientific statement that can be falsified. For point 9 the full quote (by Robert M. Carter) is that "science is about facts, experiments and testing hypotheses, not consensus" (see my Open Letter, heading 11. Rhetorical ploys to deflect attention from the science, item 1).What I believe is meant by "consensus" here has to do with the number of people who agree, not (as Professor Levin indicates) whether there are overlapping domains of applicability of theories.
I will not comment on points 10 – 14 except to remark that I have looked at George Monbiot's website and found that, when commenting on Frederick Seitz (Past President of the American Physical Society, Past President of the National Academy of Sciences), he commits error 2, (He is paid by…), under the Rhetorical ploys … heading just mentioned.
Email Letter to the Editors by Viscount Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
(received 14 July 2008)
Item referenced: A RESPONSE TO LAURENCE GOULD'S EDITORIAL AND OPEN LETTER (above; current, Fall 2008 issue of the New England Section Newsletter). Christopher Monckton was invited to respond to Dr. Levin's charges. Due to the length constraints on Letters to the Editors, detailed references could not be included with Monckton's letter. However, one of the Editors (LIG) has put them (which are included in Monckton's longer letter containing two graphs) on his website http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/lgould/ — click there on the item listed as MONCKTON_LongerLetterToEditors_NESAPS Newsletter Fall 2008
To the Editors – Prof. Levin (July) offensively brands me a "denier". He implies I baselessly reject the notions that "global warming" is occurring, is caused by us, and is harmful. He says I am wrong to cite only McIntyre & McKitrick (2005) in repudiating the "hockey-stick" graph by which Mann et al. (1998, 1999, corrigendum 2004) had purported to eradicate the medieval warm period; wrong to cite Solanki et al. (2005) to the effect that during the solar Grand Maximum of the past 70 years the Sun was more active, for longer, than at almost any time in 11,400 years; and wrong to say Al Gore had stated that "global warming" caused more frequent hurricanes, will cause sea level imminently to rise by 20 ft, and is melting Kilimanjaro.
The only "authorities" Levin cites against me are a notoriously unreliable online encyclopedia "that anyone can edit"; a zoologist with little knowledge of climate math or physics; and a propaganda website created by two authors of the flawed "hockey-stick". Levin does not cite a single peer-reviewed paper in support of his unprovoked, ad hominem assault on me. I hope that you will let me reply briefly, seriatim, ad rem, and with references. [All figures and references are at www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org ("Monckton papers"), with the full text of the present letter; and see MONCKTON OF BRENCHLEY, C.W. 2008. Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered. Physics and Society ].
Is "global warming" occurring? "Global warming" occurred naturally at a near-linear ~0.5 °C/century for 300 years after the Maunder Minimum. During all but the last 35 years, our influence was tiny (Akasofu, 2008). From 1975-1998, there was a small uptick of ~0.2 °C in the warming trend, but that has been canceled following a phase-transition in the surface temperature trend late in 2001, since when all datasets show the Earth has been cooling: not for the two or three years Levin mentions, but for seven (Figure 1). None of the models relied upon by the IPCC had predicted so long and strong a cooling. Global temperature in June 2008 was actually lower than 20 years ago, when Hansen (1988) showed his now-disproved graphs to Congress (Figure 2, curves A-C). Contrary to Levin's assertion, Hansen's curve B has not proven to be a skilful prediction: compare it with the actual trend F, corrected for urbanization by McKitrick (2007) at H.
Is "global warming" caused by us? A little. The issue is not whether we are warming the Earth: our direct output of heat, including waste heat, may have increased global temperature by 0.1-0.2 °C in 50 years.
Might we cause dangerous "global warming"? The key question is how much warming we have indirectly induced by causing CO2 to occupy one-ten-thousandth more of the atmosphere than in 1750, and how much further warming we may yet cause. I conclude (Monckton, 2008, op. cit.) that, at CO2 doubling, global temperature may have risen just 0.58 °C. As temperature fails to rise as the models had predicted, the IPCC too posits lower climate sensitivity: 3.8 °C in its 1996 assessment; 3.5 °C in 2001; 3.26 °C in 2007. None of these estimates (still far too high) is properly explained; none is justified by theory or observation. Low climate sensitivity now is the rule in the literature: see Chylek (2008); Lindzen (2007); Spencer (2007); Wentz et al. (2007); etc. The probability that "global warming" will prove dangerous is vanishingly small.
The "hockey stick" graph, according to an NAS report (North et al., 2006) has "a validation skill not significantly different from zero," concurring with Wegman et al. (2005), who also demonstrate that many of the numerical analyses supporting the "hockey stick" that appeared after McIntyre & McKitrick (2005) had demonstrated its falsity were by previous co-authors of the "hockey stick's" creators. Levin is wrong to say I cite only one paper. I have cited the following, because each has a graph in which the mediaeval warm period is visible, providing empirical (not mere numerical) evidence for the global fact of the MWP: Wilson et al., 1979; Kitagawa & Matsumoto, 1995; Dahl-Jensen, 1998; Tyson et al., 2000; Chu et al., 2002; Khim et al., 2002; Seppa & Birks, 2002; Hallett et al., 2003; Noon et al., 2003; Esper & Schweingruber, 2004; Williams et al., 2004; Rein et al., 2004, 2005; Mangini et al., 2005; Qiang et al., 2005; Gupta et al., 2005; Pla & Catalan, 2005; Holzhauser et al, 2005; Bjorck et al., 2006; Grinsted et al., 2006; etc.
The Sun's role in warming cannot have been as insignificant as the IPCC suggests: otherwise, absent any other causative agent, global temperature could not have recovered as it has in the 300 years since the end of the Maunder Minimum. Sami Solanki thinks that perhaps one-third of the warming of the past 50 years is solar. The International Astronomical Union (IAU, 2004), goes further, concluding that the Sun is chiefly responsible for late 20th-century warming. Svensmark et al. (2006) posit a reinforcement of solar forcing by cosmic rays. Also, the IPCC's models do not take due account of the fact that a given quantum of solar forcing raises temperature more than a like quantum of terrestrial forcing because almost half the incoming solar irradiance is already in the near-infrared when it reaches the top of the atmosphere. Also, warming coincident with that on Earth is seen on Mars, Jupiter, Neptune's largest moon, and even on distant Pluto.
Al Gore's "errors": I was an expert witness in the London court case in which the judge (Burton, J, 2007) identified nine "errors" sufficiently serious to require correction before schoolchildren saw Al Gore's sci-fi comedy horror movie. It contains at least 36 scientific errors: all tend to invent a danger where none exists, or otherwise to exaggerate the imagined danger, sometimes by one or two orders of magnitude. The three errors that Levin says are not errors were in the list we submitted to the judge. He upheld us on all three:
It would surely be more constructive if, in future, the debate about the climate were conducted courteously, in accordance with the scientific method, and with at least some reference to the peer-reviewed literature.
Monckton of Brenchley
Carie, Rannoch, PH17 2QJ, Scotland. 2008 July 14
Editorial by Larry Gould —
The "global warming" or "climate change" alarmist claims have been proclaimed by major print media, in the movies, on TV, by many politicians, by a numbers of scientists, and through the IPCC's Summary for Policy Makers. The alarmist claims have also begun to gain a hold on our educational system.
However, if one looks into the scientific research literature (and I have), besides papers which can be used to support the alarmist claims, there are also well-argued papers which present evidence that contradicts the alarmist claims. The problem is that the evidence from those latter papers is hardly mentioned by most sources. As a result, evidence contrary to the alarmist position is, for the most part, either unknown, ignored, or suppressed. [Indeed, even the following important IPCC Third Assessment Report statement is one of which few seem to be aware: "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future exact climate states is not possible." (1)] This state of affairs cannot give scientists and the public the information they need to make intelligent decisions about matters that could severely affect their lives.
As a way of rectifying the situation by putting forth more knowledge about the so-called "skeptics" side of the arguments, I highly recommend the following sources:
Video: Carbon Dioxide and the "Climate Crisis" - Reality or Illusion? This introductory DVD is broken down by topics (including Climate Models, Ice Sheet Disintegration, Sea Level Trends, and Atmospheric Methane), well illustrated with graphs, and with commentary by researchers in climate science. http://co2science.org/index.php
Book: Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming by Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick, Revised Edition (Key Porter Books, 2007). Both authors have been doing research in climate science for many years. The book is a treasure of information, unveiling some of the methodological and scientific problems behind AGWA claims. Some of the scientific topics include: an analysis of climate models and the physical meaning of a mean global temperature.
Website: The Science & Public Policy Institute (SPPI) has a large number of scientific papers devoted to a critical examination of AGWA claims: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/
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(1) http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/pdf/WG1_TAR-FRONT.PDF (p. 88). (Note the difference in wording to the IPCC Third Assessment Report; 2001, Section 142.2.2, page 774.) I should mention that although a "probability distribution" approach for obtaining "future climate states" is introduced (in a statement which follows the one I quoted), the value of such a distribution is dubious considering the problems with the "models" (see, e.g., the book by Essex and McKitrick, op cit)
Editorial by Paul H. Carr, www.MirrorOfNature.org
Free Energy Forever
"All good things are wild and free" (Thoreau).
In the above controversy over the causes of global warming, one should not overlook the growing consensus among conservatives and liberals. The $700 billion per year we spend to import oil from countries, often hostile and politically unstable, puts our national security and economy at risk. This money could create renewable-energy jobs in our own country. Wind and solar energy is FREE, after the up-front cost is paid off, and will last until the sun burns out. The US, with 5 per cent of the world's population, is guzzling 20% of its oil production. This and a renewed appreciation of the intrinsic beauty of nature can motivate its conservation (1). We must balance economics with ecology.
Global climate change, driven largely by the combustion of fossil fuels and by deforestation, is a growing threat to human well-being (2). Significant harm from climate change is already occurring, and further damages are a certainty. The challenge now is to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe. We need to manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable.
The solution to climate change and national security is the same: wind, solar, biomass, and nuclear energy. Wind power is rapidly becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels. The First Solar Inc. proprietary technique of making solar cells, by depositing CdTe/CdS films on large sheets of glass, promises to be competitive with coal within five years (3).
(1) Carr, Paul H. 2006. Chapter 9, "The Beauty of Nature versus Its Utility" of Beauty in Science and Spirit (http://www.BeechRiverBooks.com/id08 Center Ossipee, NH).
(2) Executive summary, Sigma Xi Scientific Expert Group Report, "American Scientist," May-June 2007.
(3) Stevenson, Richard. "First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt." IEEE Spectrum, pg 27, August 2008.
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It's interesting to learn lots of women are concerned about wrinkled cleavage. Others are equally worried about scars left by their chemo port. To me, my chemo port scar is my "badge of courage" and wrinkled cleavage, a sign of aging, will be a gift I've been given because I'm still here. If we think about it, both are badges of courage, for if you're old enough to have wrinkled décolleté, you've probably endured your fair share of heartache and grief.
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