Thursday, 30 July 2009
He may be Joe Hockey's cranky old uncle, but Wilson Tuckey makes a lot of sense and stands up for his constituents.
Wilson opposes the ETS on both sides of the issue, i.e. need and effectiveness, but will say also that if a response is needed, other options are available that provide energy efficiency and security.
Wilson has agreed to be one of the speakers at our protest at Parliament House on the 13th August, 2009.
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Here is some scary, irrational stuff.
From today's "The Land" story by Ben Cubby.
AUSTRALIA is about to see its first legal challenge to carbon emissions from a coal-fired power plant, after a Land and Environment Court case was initiated yesterday against Macquarie Generation, a NSW Government-owned utility.
An environmental group that opposed the development of the Anvil Hill coal mine in the Hunter Valley is now targeting Bayswater power station in the Upper Hunter, one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the state.
In the civil court proceedings it will be alleged that the company is "negligently disposing of waste at their Bayswater power station by emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a manner that has harmed or is likely to harm the environment", which could be a contravention of the NSW Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.So what is atmospheric pollution?
Well, we find it on another site of the NSW Government. NSW Health:
What is air pollution?
Air pollution occurs when the air is affected by chemicals or particles that are not normally present and have the potential to affect health. Its composition can vary greatly, depending on the season, the weather and the different types and numbers of sources.
Well, Co2 is normally present, so by their definition - not pollution.
The main pollutants in large cities are ozone, particles, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide.
The two main air pollutants in Sydney are ozone and particles. Vehicle exhaust, industrial emissions, gasoline vapours, and chemical solvents are some of the major sources of ozone. Particle pollution is formed directly from sources such as vehicles, factories, power plants, and smoke from bushfires.
No mention of Co2, so - not pollution.
Monday, 27 July 2009
A native of Fresno, CA (where he learned to pan for gold), Christy was a missionary in Kenya for two years. After earning his divinity degree he founded a Southern Baptist church in South Dakota before pursuing a career in science and teaching. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric sciences from the University of Illinois. He also has a master's degree in divinity from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
He is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science, and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He was appointed Alabama's state climatologist in 2000. For his development of a global temperature data set from satellites he was awarded NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the American Meteorological Society's "Special Award." In 2002, Christy was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
From an Editorial by Glenn Milne in the Sunday Telegraph today (26/7/09) - headline: "Give (wilson) Tuckey a humane end."
Glenn, It all comes down to whether some-one is a politician or a statesman.
Should Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals vote for the "Good of the Nation" or should they vote for the "Good of the Party?"
Independent Senator Steve Fielding asked Penny Wong to answer three simple questions re global warming (not climate change).
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong could not justify her government's stance. Glenn Milne paints Tuckey as some-one who has lost it, but Tuckey is supporting the opinion of his constituents whilst Malcolm is voting for Liberal Party (and possibly his own financial) interests. (See Previous post:
The Warmists say we are approaching a tipping point. They are right!
We are near financial tipping point. For the good of Australia, we need to reject the ETS.
Friday, 24 July 2009
Protest against the ETS in Canberra Aug 13th
If you are concerned the Emissions Trading Legislation being voted on in Canberra on 13th Aug will not have any effect on climate and in fact be a waste of money, then please join us.
We are organising a protest against the ETS on Aug 13th in front of Parliament house. We will assemble at 9.30 am on Federation Mall behind Old Parliament House, (At 9.30am you will see a few banners being put together on the lawns)
We then march up to the precinct in front of Parliament House and hear speeches, limericks and songs from 10 am to 11 am and organise a publicity stunt involving Balloons finishing around 11 am.
The theme will be "Man Made Climate Change is Bull" and a quiet bull is being organised to be at the event. Bring a Placard or two in line with the theme. Barnaby Joyce will be one of the speakers.
The ETS vote is expected to be in the afternoon and some of us plan to be in the chamber for the vote. 3 of our 5 Executive members will be at the protest and we hope to meet everyone properly afterwards in one of the cafes in Parliament house.
For anyone travelling let us know if you need accommodation.
For More Info email firstname.lastname@example.org or phone 0887235550
This legislation could end up being the all time worst legislation ever in Australia's history and it will be good to have as many people saying so before it gets voted on.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
Structural break models of climatic regime-shifts: claims and forecasts
(Dr David Stockwell has Ph.D degree in Ecosystem Dynamics from the Australian National University; Anthony Cox is Secretary of The Climate Sceptics Party and has degrees in English Literature, Climate Studies and Law.)
Abstract: A Chow test for structural breaks in the surface temperature series is used to investigate two common claims about global warming. Quirk (2009) proposed that the increase in Australian temperature from 1910 to the present was largely confined to a regime-shift in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) between 1976 and 1979. The test finds a step change in both Australian and global temperature trends in 1978 (HadCRU3GL), and in Australian rainfall in 1982 with flat temperatures before and after. Easterling & Wehner (2009) claimed that singling out the apparent flatness in global temperature since 1997 is 'cherry picking' to reinforce an arbitrary point of view. On the contrary, we find evidence for a significant change in the temperature series around 1997, corroborated with evidence of a coincident oceanographic regime-shift. We use the trends between these significant change points to generate a forecast of future global temperature under specific assumptions.
|Comments:||Submitted to the International Journal of Forecasting on 5 July 2009|
|Subjects:||Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)|
|Cite as:||arXiv:0907.1650v3 [physics.ao-ph]|
Robert D. Brinsmead – Web Published, April 2009
(The Climate Sceptics readily accept there has been a recent period of global warming and that climate change is a reality. What the Climate Sceptics reject are the alarmist claims that human activity is the main cause of climate change. It is because of this that we vehemently reject all Emissions Trading Schemes, Carbon Pollution Reduction Schemes or any form of carbon taxation. On both scientific and common sense grounds we hereunder passionately argue our case against all these efforts to demonize and to reduce carbon emissions.)
The evidence is piling up every day that the world is now getting cooler instead of warmer, the oceans are now cooling instead of warming, the ice is returning to the Arctic rather than receding, the sea ice in the Antarctic is at record levels, and that rising sea levels have moderated. The sun has recently gone into a less active phase of fewer sun-spots, and the ocean decadal currents have changed from a warming to a cooling phase.
Before too long the global warming scare will be as dead as the scares about the Y2K bug or acid rain. Already some of the global warming alarmists, anticipating this may soon happen, are re-inventing their alarmism into the scare about the oceans becoming acidified by our CO2 emissions – even though the oceans already contains 90 times more CO2 than the atmosphere (Chilingar, et.al.) Beyond all these things, however, we need to get to what this debate and this climate change alarmism is really all about.
Beyond all this alarmism about global warming or ocean acidification, we need to see that on a deeper level it is a debate about carbon, and when we dig into that level of the debate we will finally see that behind the demonization of carbon and CO2, it is all about an attack on humanity itself.
Global warming alarmism is not a science, but a religio/political movement. This paper will show why it a dangerous totalitarian ideology and a more serious threat to human freedom than Communism or Nazism. It is also like a bad joke, because carbon just happens to be the most wonderful of all the elements in the periodic table because of its ability to make so many organic compounds that are fundamental to the formation of life. Yet here is a movement that is all about demonizing carbon.
The Wonders of Carbon
Nearly every new product that human ingenuity has devised on the road of human progress is a carbon-based product. Steel, for instance, is made by blending carbon with iron. There would be no construction industry without carbon. Nearly every product in a modern house, including most of the surfaces, with the exception of the glass and the bricks, is a carbon-based product.
If our clothes are not made of natural fibers such as wool, cotton or silk (all of which are carbon-based), then they will be made from synthetic fibers, all of which are carbon based too. All plastics and polyethylene products are carbon-based materials. All the foods we produce and eat are carbon products - and that not only includes our carbo(n)hydrates, but all the fats and proteins in our food are made of carbon compounds too.
Not just the petrol and oil that run our autos, but the cars themselves, right down to their brake linings, are made of substances that would not exist without carbon. There could be no aviation or space industries apart from a whole plethora of carbon-based products. There are ten million naturally occurring carbon compounds (more than all the other elements of the periodic table combined), and beyond these, man is finding that there are almost limitless opportunities to come up with new products using carbon -from fantastic nanotubes composed of the toughest stuff known to making better tennis racquets. This never-ending variety of new products is all due to the amazing and unique features of the carbon molecule that is so adaptable and so flexible that there is no end to what new products might be made with it - from the hardest to the softest substances known. Carbon is not just the fourth most common element in the universe, but through its millions of compounds it is as ubiquitous and as necessary to life as oxygen and water.
Carbon is the Basis of Life
This brings me to my main point. Human ingenuity, as I have pointed out, can make an astounding array of new products that are carbon-based, including products that play a vital role in taking man into space. But, for all that, we cannot make living things with carbon because we can't solve the mystery of replicating life. But when the time came for the good Lord (or Gaia or Lady Luck if you insist) to make a world of living things, whether amazing plants that live and reproduce, or animals that can live and reproduce, or the human brain that can actually think creatively, what do you suppose this life-generating power used? Carbon, of course! Any good biology text book will tell you that life is carbon-based. All living things, starting at the cellular level which is common to all life, is based on carbon compounds, including the DNA that carry the gene sequences of the genetic codes. Of the trillions of cells in the human body, there is not a one of them that is not made of carbon.
Think of giant Cedars, Californian Redwoods and Tasmanian Mountain Ash - they are all made of carbon. Every blade of grass, every delicate orchid, every kind of fruit (there are ten thousand known varieties) is made of carbon. Think of all those tantalizing flavors in fantastic variety - juicy mangoes, buttery avocados and versatile limes, all filled with fruit sugars so varied and in such abundance - they are all made of a carbon/hydrogen combinations. Ordinary pure sugar is made up of ten atoms of carbon compounded with sixteen atoms of hydrogen. There are eight kinds of sugars essential to the human body and vital in cell to cell communication. Glucose, fructose, lactose and mannose are the more common ones. Sugar is fundamental to brain function. Every diabetic knows that.
When we turn to the animal kingdom, including mankind itself, we find too that leaping deer, frolicking seals, lumbering rhinos or thinking humans are all forms of animated carbon. In the human species we have thinking carbon through which the universe actually becomes conscious of itself. The human brain is the most complex and intricate piece of equipment in the universe. This is the organ of the human mind through which carbon not only becomes thinking carbon, but reaches the sublime heights of becoming caring, sharing, loving carbon.
So who is going to tell me that carbon is just some black old ugly stuff that deserves to be demonized as the world’s great pollutant?
Stand back, and let your mind take in this whole wondrous biosphere - the living earth - and what you are surveying is the awesome wonder that carbon has come alive in the great dance of life.
What is made of carbon must be fuelled by carbon
Now consider too that this great dance of living things is not just made of carbon, but it has to be fuelled by carbon. It needs to feed on carbon to grow and reproduce. Yet we have people who call themselves scientists or leaders of society who are so deluded with a disease called carbophobia (an irrational fear of carbon), that they label carbon a dangerous pollutant which has to be regulated and sequestered to the nether regions of the earth. For pity's sake, how can their carbon-thinking brains reach such anti-carbon conclusions? This is not just madness; it is madness gone mad. Mad science. Mad politicians. Mad anti-carbon activists on a mankind-hating, life-hating crusade of self destruction. In the entire history of civilization, no mass hysteria has ever come close to being such a monstrous threat to civilization as this!
Where do animals, including mankind, get their carbon-based fuel? All animal food has to originate from plants, of course. Plants start this food chain by making carbo(n)hydrates for the animal kingdom. No plants = no food chain = no animals = no mankind. So where do the plants source their carbon so that they can make all this carbon-based food to sustain all creatures great and small?
The only gateway through which carbon can enter the food chain to enable the biosphere to exist is through the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. There is no other way. It all starts with CO2 in the atmosphere. The entire chain of life starts with plants absorbing this entirely natural, colorless, odorless, absolutely non-toxic aerial gas called CO2.
They used to teach these simple facts to primary school kids, but nowadays teachers who are way off with the environmental fairies are scaring the daylights out of our children with hobgoblin stories about the evils of CO2.
This insanity must stop. It's time to teach the kids again and to remind the adults of this world that CO2 is the primary plant food that ends up feeding them too. They need to be told again the simple fact that the leaves on a plants have stomata through which they absorb or breathe in C02, and by a process of photosynthesis, the plants turn this CO2 into carbo(n)hydrate food for animals and man. They need reminding that more than 90% of the dry matter of plants is simply processed C02. Whether it is a cow eating the grass or humans eating the cow, all are eating -and being fuelled - by processed CO2.
CO2 is as natural and as necessary to life as water and oxygen. It is not a poison. It is not a pollutant. It feeds the whole world.
Unless the soil gave off carbon emissions into the atmosphere, unless the sea (which contains 90 times the amount of CO2 than the atmosphere) gave off carbon emissions, unless the micro-organisms which comprise more than two-thirds of the world's biomass gave off their carbon emissions, unless the termites gave off their carbon emissions, unless cattle gave off their carbon emissions (their belching and flatulence actually give off more carbon emissions than the entire human transport system), and unless we as part of this tapestry of life gave off carbon emissions, then life could not go on for the simple reason that the plants would have no food by which to grow, and then no creature on earth would have anything to eat. For life to go on, the carbon used to make all living things and to feed all living things, must be circulated back from whence it came to start the life-cycle all over again. Every form of life simply borrows the carbon by which it lives only to give it back again. We give some of it back when we breathe, we give some of it back in our bodily wastes and we give the last bit of it back when the shovel thumps the ground on top of us.
Demonizing Carbon is a Dangerous Nonsense
In the light of all this, it is a sheer nonsense of the highest and most dangerous order to put forward the notion that carbon or carbon dioxide is a pollutant. It is double nonsense to say that the carbon emissions of either humans or cattle is a threat to the earth anymore than the much more abundant carbon emissions of the soil micro-organisms or the carbon emissions of the oceans that outdo our human carbon emissions in an order of magnitude many times to one are a threat to the earth.
Be warned: this dangerous eco-Taliban wants to subject us to a carbon taxing, carbon regulating police state. It surely has to stand to reason that you can't regulate human carbon emissions without regulating every aspect of human existence - and that would be more totalitarian than anything the world has ever known. This is a religio/political ideology masquerading as science. Their plans to decarbonize our footprint and to decarbonize our economy will reduce our civilization to a weakened and impoverished state of carbo-anorexia. Does that sound like a lot of fun?
People need to be told the plain truth that much higher carbon emissions and much higher levels of atmospheric CO2 than we see at present would mean more plant food, more plant growth and more food for man and animals to eat. Carbon is the greenest stuff on the planet. The anti-CO2, anti-carbon people are anti-green, anti-life, and anti-nature. Their own fight against carbon has trapped them in their own self-deception and lies. The so-called Green movement is anti-green and anti-environment.
I speak now as a horticulturist. Plant nursery operators know that CO2 enrichment of the air in the nursery house means that the plants grow quicker, have bigger roots and get by on less water. Certainly every indoor tomato grower in New Zealand, Australia, Holland or anywhere for that matter knows that he can increase the yield of tomatoes 40% simply by increasing the CO2 content of the air by about 300%. What's good for plants is good for animals because animals and plants evolved together and share a common basis in life based on cells.
A great leap forward in world agricultural productivity took place in the 1920's when they learned to take nitrogen out of the air and put it into the soil where it could stimulate plant growth. Our highly populated world could not feed itself today without recourse to synthetic nitrogen. The second leap forward is staring us in the face. It is to take the carbon out of the earth and put it into the air where it can benefit plant life and so enhance food productivity. The technology has already been proven and demonstrated thousands of times. It is estimated that the agricultural industry today enjoys a 15% increase of food productivity due to the modest rise of atmospheric CO2 levels of the last 100 years from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 385 ppm.
More and more evidence accumulates that in an ideal world we would have 1000 to 1500 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere instead of 385 ppm (a mere 0.0385% of the atmosphere) as we have now, or a 280 ppm that the carbophobics would take us back to if they have their way. That level of CO2 happens to be only a tad higher than the point at which plants suffocate for lack of CO2. (See the Wikipedia article on CO2) 300% to 400% higher levels of CO2 will have no adverse impact on humans or animals. In evolutionary history, the explosion of life-forms took place during the Cambrian Age when there were many times more CO2 in the atmosphere than we have today. Besides, humans work in indoor tomato-growing facilities and indoor offices where the CO2 levels are around 1,000 ppm.
As for world temperatures, more and more evidence piles up every day, especially over the last five years, that higher levels of atmospheric CO2 have no catastrophic effect on climate.
In the theory of the global warming alarmists, CO2 has heat-trapping properties, meaning that the more CO2 builds up in the atmosphere, the warmer the world will become.
There are some inconvenient facts, however, that destroy this theory:
(1) CO2 is only a small player when it comes to greenhouse gas, more than 90% of which is water vapour – and who gets paranoid about water vapour?
(2) The earth and her systems – including the very complex climate system – are robust, resilient and self-regulating. Apparently, they easily adjust to a bit more CO2 just as easily as all the plants and animals do.
(3) The proof of any scientific theory is in observing and measuring what takes place in the real world irrespective of what computer modeling might indicate. While CO2 levels have continued to rise over the last decade, world temperatures have begun a downward trend. If the current behavior of the sun with its diminished sun-spots and magnetic strength is any guide, and if the recent changes of the Atlantic and Pacific Decadal Currents are any guide, then this cooling trend will continue for a least another 20-30 years – all proving that C02 never was and never can be a primary driver of climate.
Carbophobia - the irrational fear of carbon - has become the disease of our age, the religious myth of our time and the apocalyptic delusion of this moment of history. It can be cured, however, with a good dose of common sense.
Why then worry about the size our carbon footprint? - the bigger the better if the aim is to green the earth and to feed the world. As for pollutants, let's direct our attention to the real pollutants in our environment like the sulphurs, the nitric oxides and real chemical pollutants. CO2 is not one of them. Before we get too morbidly obsessed about the size of our carbon footprint, it might help to remind ourselves that the termites and the micro-organisms have a very much larger carbon footprint than we do. As for the oceans, their carbon emissions are so massive that they make human carbon emissions appear about as significant as some flatulence in a hurricane.
Carbon is good for you, good for every living thing, and good for the earth. So relax and enjoy your good portion of carbon under the sun, especially if it happens to be a carbonated cold one.
The fear of carbon is the fear of life. The love of carbon is the love of life. Humans are animated carbon. Everything we consume and emit is carbon-based. Everything we make or purchase causes carbon emissions. It is not possible to control and regulate carbon without controlling and regulating every aspect of human existence. To be anti-carbon is to be anti-human freedom.
The war on carbon is an ill-disguised war on humanity, a war on human freedom. Carbon and carbon emissions are simply a proxy for human activity. This whole movement to demonize carbon is driven by a world-denying, man-hating worldview. It is time to rip away the mask and expose the movement whose real aim is to put the human race in chains to a system that controls every aspect of human existence. It is time to stand up and say, “You take your jackboots off my carbon and off my life.”
It is heartening to see that more and more scientists are waking up to the junk science of man-made global warming alarmism and that they are are now coming out of the woodwork to say so. The movement to shut down our energy sources by a beat-up against CO2, if successful, would turn off the lights of civilization. It is fitting that the symbolism of the recent Earth Hour was darkness rather than light.
There has never been more than a small coterie of pseudo-science activists and social engineers driving this global warming alarmism cart. They have been remarkably successful in closing down the debate and silencing opposition by their big lie about their enjoying an overwhelming scientific consensus. They have intimidated a lot of scientists with the fear of losing academic funding if they should open their mouths with a contrary opinion.
As for the Media that refused to obey their own credo of rigorous investigative journalism, that ducked from asking the hard questions, that forgot they were supposed to be independent journalists instead of advocates for the popular hysteria, its integrity and credibility has been trashed by its own hand. Long live the free spirits of the Internet, the indefatigable bloggers who would not be silenced.
For further reading, click on: www.climatesceptics.com.au
*Robert D. Brinsmead is a Horticulturist and a free-lance Writer. Robert set up a working orchard/tourist attraction in the Tweed Valley just south of the Gold Coast (see http://www.tropicalfruitworld.com.au/) Robert is also a committee member of the Climate Sceptics Party.
Copyright © 2009 Robert D. Brinsmead
Letter to the Editor by Leon Ashby - President; The Climate Sceptics Party.
Will Malcolm Turnbull Profit from Emissions Trading?
Sir / Madam
We all know that sometimes politicians are seen to look after their mates when they make political decisions and what should have occurred was prior public disclosure.
I therefore have two questions for Malcolm Turnbull to be honest about a couple of matters.
Malcolm, we know you have been a Goldman Sachs partner in the past.
We know that Al Gore along with ex Goldman Sachs partners Henry Paulson, Peter Harris, Mark Ferguson and David Blood set up a carbon trading and sustainable investment company, Generated Investment Management (GIM).
And we know Goldman Sachs owns 10% of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
Since the Liberal party is looking at the Emissions Trading Scheme and you are suggesting you want to support it, I believe the public should know
" Will you either directly or indirectly benefit from carbon credit trading?" and
"Will any former colleagues of yours benefit directly from carbon credit trading?"
We look forward to your public reply.
President The Climate sceptics
PO box 721, Mt Gambier SA 5290
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Thursday, 16 July 2009
Jay Lehr, PhD will be visiting a centre near you in Australia next month.
Tour dates will be announced here soon.
Here are some extracts from his "A Primer on Global Warming: Dispelling CO2 Myths."
The scientific facts clearly show carbon dioxide is a good thing, not something we should fear.
CO2 is not a pollutant.
On the contrary, carbon dioxide makes crops and forests grow faster. Satellite mapping shows the Earth has become about 6 percent greener overall in the past two decades, with forests expanding into arid regions. The Amazon rain forest was the biggest gainer, with two tons of additional biomass per acre per year.And
CO2 is merely a trace atmospheric gas.
The world will laugh when we finally understand the pursuit of economic ruin in the name of saving the planet from carbon dioxide has been a terrible joke. It is an unarguable fact that the portion of the Earth’s greenhouse gas envelope contributed by man is barely one-tenth of 1 percent of the total.
Do the numbers yourself. Carbon dioxide is no more than 4 percent of the greenhouse gas envelope—with water vapor being more than 90 percent, followed by methane and sulfur and nitrous oxides. Of that 4 percent, man contributes a little more than 3 percent. Three percent of 4 percent is .12 percent, and for that we are sentencing people to numerous damaging economic impacts.
From the USA Today SCIENCE FAIR web-site:
Could the best climate models -- the ones used to predict global warming -- all be wrong? Maybe so, says a new study published online today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The report found that only about half of the warming that occurred during a natural climate change 55 million years ago can be explained by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What caused the remainder of the warming is a mystery.
Well, well, well - could the BEST climate models be wrong?
"In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record," says oceanographer Gerald Dickens, study co-author and professor of Earth Science at Rice University in Houston. "There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models."
The conclusion, Dickens said, is that something other than carbon dioxide caused much of this ancient warming. "Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models -- the same ones used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for current best estimates of 21st century warming -- caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM." (“Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum”)
All this in a peer-reviewed Journal -Nature Geoscience.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
From IBD Editorials:
During Senate hearings last week on cap-and-trade legislation, Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma produced a chart generated by the Environmental Protection Agency that shows it makes little difference what developed countries do to limit greenhouse gas emissions if undeveloped countries such as China and India don't do the same.
And so it is with Australia, also. Compared with the USA (even if you believe in Santa and Man-made Global Warming) Australia's contribution to the CO2 emissions is negligible.
In response, and to her credit, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged that unilateral limits on carbon dioxide emissions "would not impact CO2 levels." But Energy Secretary Steven Chu, without elaboration, simply said he didn't agree with the chart. Which says a lot about how global warm-mongers react these days when confronted by facts.
Like Al Gore, Disregard something that you don't agree with!
Letter sent to most Australian MSM editors:
During an interview on ABC TV 7:30 report this week, Al Gore was asked: “There was also, though, a British judge who ruled that there were in fact, I think, nine errors when it was challenged in court?”
To which, Al Gore replied: “Well, the ruling was in my favour.”
Like his Inconvenient movie, this statement was inconveniently untrue
A leading UK lawyer, who represented the parent that sued Al Gore in the British High Court, has laughed off Al Gore’s claim. Speaking from London John Day, a senior partner in Malletts Solicitors, said Mr Gore was misrepresenting what the judge had found. “The judge found there were nine serious scientific errors in the film." He said the court ordered that the film was "not suitable to be shown in British schools without a health warning. Mr Justice Burton said an Inconvenient Truth wasn't fit to be shown in British schools without suitably corrected guidance which drew attention to the errors in the film and its political partisanship."
How long do we have to put up with Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lies?
The Climate Sceptics
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Written by Chris Ryall
Art by Jamal Igle
Release Date: June 13, 2012
You wanted the best, you got… well, you got this comic book. Kiss is my favorite band, period. I have always hoped that the comics produced with their characters will be as awesome as the music is for me. I am invariably disappointed each and every time. This comic tries very hard to be a relevant part of Kiss lore, and features many song references. I am not saying that this book is bad, just that it suffers from unrealized potential.
Chris Ryall struggles with the dialogue in this book. Some of the things that people say seem stilted and lack flow. There are some interesting moments throughout, and in some cases the references to Kiss’ songs and characters work very well. One of the more difficult moments of the comic, is trying to figure out which people will eventually become the ‘band’, as they are written as little more than caricatures of the real Kiss’ personalities, and by extension are not easy to pick up on.
The art is one of the better elements of this book. There are some very nice splash pages, which show good attention to detail. Unfortunately detail is one of the things lacking in the people and many of the backgrounds. Igle does seem to be on the right track, and certainly does a nice job on Kiss; he just needs to spend more time on the non-splash pages.
It seems a difficult concept to bring Kiss into the world of prohibition era United States. It is obvious that they are looking to tell a story that features the characters more so than the band. Once the book gets into the story, and we see the full scope of what is intended to be told, then it will be easier to judge; until then, it seems a bit disjointed. As a Kiss fan, full of hope, I may be back for issue two.
Verdict: Kiss fans 6.5/10….. non-Kiss fans 3.0/10

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If there is one thing Kylie Jenner is known for it's her enviable wardrobe.
From a Hermès Birkin collection to rival sister Kim Kardashian's to countless Louboutins, the beauty mogul has an impressive portfolio of designer goods.
But Ky had us doing a double take on her closet after posting a selfie to her Instagram Stories featuring, wait for it, a completely bare wardrobe.
Yup, you read that right, the Fendi coats and Chanel purses simply vanished in place of just two humble racks of clothes.
That doesn't mean the Kylie Cosmetics founder ran out of space in her enormous wooden walk-in though, which appears to be in her newly purchased Homby Hills mansion (where she's been quarantining with baby daddy Travis Scott and BFF Stassi Karanikolaou). Which begs the question, what's up Ky?
Is the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star doing a massive spring clean like the rest of us in lockdown and having a major overhaul? Is Travis doing a Kayne and taking control of Ky's wardrobe? Rumour has it the two are close to reconciling. Or has she added yet another property to her real estate portfolio and is moving once again?
We have so many questions. The reason behind this sudden departure of her racks of Balmain, Gucci and Versace threads remains a mystery.
A recent Insta-Story Kylie shared of her new mansion, showed what appears to be the same closet fully stocked with our the '90s Prada bag of our dreams and an array of Jimmy Choos:
We also spy a few spare hangers in the background racks, so we're betting Ky is just re-doing her closet as we transition into summer, because what billionaire wouldn't? We've all seen a Kardashian fitting, it's like a mini department store set up in your living room.
While we wait and see what looks will fill Ky's new wardrobe, we imagine her new set-up will be even grander than the last, which is pretty hard to beat.
But, hey, when you sisters are Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, you've gotta keep is fresh.
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Recipe by Cookin In Texas
This is a very good and yummy fudge. You cannot taste the crackers in this candy.
- 2 cups sugar
- 3⁄4 cup milk (can or whole)
- 6 tablespoons creamy peanut butter (fresh not stale)
- 2 tablespoons margarine
- 30 saltine crackers (finely crushed)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Directions See How It's Made
- First butter a cake pan and set aside.
- Then measure out your peanut butter, vanilla and crackers(make sure they are crushed and ready)also set this aside.
- Now in a heavy sauce pan wipe the 2 T butter around the inside of the pan, this coats the pan and helps keep the sugar from crystallizing.
- Add the sugar and the milk to the pan.
- Heat over med heat stirring constantly.
- Bring to a boil. let boil but keep stirring for three minutes.
- When time is up remove from heat *work quickly here* add crushed crackers, peanut butter and vanilla stir fast and well because it will start to get hard.
- Pour this into your prepared cake pan and let cool. cut into squares and enjoy.

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Madison, WI (NNCNOW.com) -- A 3-year-old buck harvested in Adams County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease.
The deer, harvested and volunteered for sampling by a bow hunter, is the first CWD-positive in the county.
The DNR has been using a 'weighted' testing strategy outside the CWD zone, focusing on older bucks because these animals are more susceptible to the disease.
The DNR says this would increase the probability of early detection.
The CWD-positive deer in Adams County is voluntary and is performed in partnership with participating taxidermists.
To date, the DNR has collected 72 samples through the voluntary effort and will continue to collect samples through the end of the late archery hunt.
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Tron: Legacy is due out in theatres on December 17, with Daft Punk's soundtrack rumoured to be heading our way on November 23.
Check out the new trailer below, and thanks to a post on The Stranger late yesterday (July 22), see how to make your very own Daft Punk helmet - in 17 months - in the video below the trailer.
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What do you get when you have three crafters, two competitive rounds of do-it-yourself projects and one $10,000 prize? Craft Wars! TLC‘s new series re-defines the art of crafting by showcasing imaginative contestants who put a modern spin on an long-treasured American pastime. Contestants will have access to a fully stocked craft closet designed to give them all the supplies and inspiration needed to create their crafts.
Actress, designer and avid crafter Tori Spelling is the series’ host and executive produce, serving as both a guide for the audience and a mentor to the contestants. Expert judges Stephen Brown, Erica Domesek and Jo Pearson will critique contestants on their creations and will decide who continues to the next round of competition.
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GOLDSBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- Goldsboro Police arrested and charged a man Friday after one person was killed in a shooting on John Street.
According to the Goldsboro Police Department, officers responded to calls about a shooting in the 1600 block of John Street just before 8:45 p.m. When officers arrived they found 45-year-old Vincent Kornegay with a gunshot wound. Vincent was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police arrested and charged Tyrone Dontrez Garner, 33, of Goldsboro with one count of first-degree murder.
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For the U.S. Secret Service, protecting the new first family does not come cheap. In fact, the agency has recently asked for an additional budget as it deals with security arrangements of the entire family of President Donald Trump.
The Secret Service had recently requested for as much as $60 million in additional funding for next year. This is in due to rising costs of travel and protection for Trump and his family.
Nearly half of the requested additional funding would go into protecting Trump’s private home. According to a report from The Washington Post, $26.8 million would go to protecting the Trump Tower in New York.
Additional funding requested to protect Trump Tower.
Today, the Secret Service is facing a rather odd arrangement after first lady Melania Trump chose to remain in the Trump Tower with their son Barron. The request stated that the $26.8 million is meant for “residence security operations at the president’s private residence in Trump Tower.” Meanwhile, around $12.5 million is intended for “personnel related costs in New York.”
Secret Service spending constantly for Trump family business trips.
According to a previous report by NBC News, the Secret Service has picked up huge tabs in recent months due to travels by Trump’s children. In early January, $97,830 was spent during Eric Trump’s business trip to Uruguay. Meanwhile, the Secret Service also spent $4,162.02 for rental vehicles when he visited the Dominican Republic on January 29.
The following month, the Secret Service had spent $16,738.36 for Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s business trip to Dubai. Later in February, the agency picked up another tab amounting to $53,155.25. This is for Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Tiffany Trump’s business trip to Vancouver. At the same time, Morning News USA reported that the Secret Service issued a purchase order for $12,208.25. It was for “lease or rental of equipment – clothing, individual equipment and insignia.” The Trump children recently took a ski vacation in Aspen with their families.
Meanwhile, around $33 million has been earmarked travel costs for the “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.” For fiscal 2017, the “operations and support” protection budget amounted to $734 million. This is said to be for the protection of individuals and foreign heads of state.

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Should You Give Up Dairy to Lose Weight
One in 10 millennials are vegan, according to to a report in Nutrition Business Journal. Call it a lifestyle or call it an elimination diet—either way, it′s picking up steam due in part to like backers like Beyoncé. (Who doesn′t want to be a little more like Queen Bey?!) And even Khloe Kardashian recently claimed that she lost 11 pounds just by cutting cheese and milk from her diet.
Why is veganism going mainstream? Cynthia Radnitz, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University who studies vegetarian diets, says there are many contributing factors. "Increasing interest in adopting a vegan diet has occurred for a variety of reasons including health optimization (weight control, disease prevention and reversal), animal rights/welfare (opposition to killing animals for food, horrible conditions on factory farms), and concern for the environment (realization that animal agriculture contributes to several forms of environmental degradation including deforestation, rising greenhouse gas levels, water pollution, and depletion of sea life)," says Radnitz.
Social media has also spread the word about blogs and other media touting veganism. Many restaurants have added vegan options, and stores are stocking more plant-based substitutes for meat, dairy, and egg products, eliminating some of the roadblocks that used to make vegan diets hard to stick to, she says.
Ditching dairy for environmental or animal welfare reasons is totally a personal choice, but going vegan as a way to lose weight is a little more complicated. Just because it worked for Khloé doesn′t necessarily mean it′ll have the same effect on you.
"The difficulty of course with celebrity endorsements is they haven′t been assessed by science, and there′s no science to support that their strategy would work reproducibly in a wide variety of people," says Susan Barr, Ph.D., R.D., a professor of nutrition at the University of British Columbia. "But, on the other hand, you can never argue with what an individual says and feels."
Just like fat was feared in the ′90s, dairy may be going through a period of undue criticism, says Paige Smathers, R.D.N., a dietitian based near Salt Lake City. "We kind of go through these cycles of what we vilify, and I think this is part of the ebb and flow of nutrition and how people like to vilify things," says Smathers. "Right now it′s dairy, and it′s pretty unfounded."
One thing you may have heard is that milk contains hormones. Some cows are given bovine somatotropins—growth hormones that increase milk production. However, only a minuscule amount makes it into milk, and your gastric juices break it down, says Richard Raymond, M.D., a food safety and public health consultant based in Colorado. And although milk contains some estrogen, the concentration is too low to be a concern, he says.
Consider how dairy may or may not fit into your diet:
Dairy is rich in bone-building nutrients.
You′ve heard it a million times: Calcium is good for your bones. However, this mineral′s skeleton-preserving properties are particularly crucial when you′re trying to drop pounds. "As you lose weight, you can also lose bone," says Barr. "If you have sufficient calcium intake during weight loss, that can reduce the impact on bone density." A cup of 1% milk provides 314 milligrams of calcium—nearly a third of what you need in a day. Sure, there are other sources of calcium, but they often aren′t as concentrated. "You do get calcium from broccoli or kale, but you′d need to eat quite a heroic amount of broccoli or kale to get the same amount of calcium," says Barr. (Like 13 cups of raw kale pieces—which we don′t advise downing all at once.) Plus, milk packs bone-boosting vitamin D, says Smathers. "It′s great to get vitamin D with calcium because you′re getting fat from the milk, which helps you absorb the fat-soluble vitamin D, and the vitamin D helps you absorb the calcium," she says. Many of us can use more vitamin D anyway: About 42 percent of the population is deficient, according to a study in Nutrition Research.
Dairy may help you stay slim.
Yes, you read that right. "There′s actually some pretty good research suggesting that dairy products are actually helpful with weight loss," says Smathers. She recommends two to three servings of dairy products a day—and not the fat-free variety. You know that protein-rich Greek yogurt is a filling snack, and even cheese can be part of a weight-loss diet in reasonable quantities, Smathers says. Take, for instance, a sprinkle of feta on a salad. "It adds that bit of creaminess and deliciousness that makes you feel satisfied and not like you want more and more and more," she says. In fact, in a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, people who ate three servings of dairy a day gained slightly less weight as they aged than those who consumed less. Study author Paul Jacques, D.Sc., director of the Nutritional Epidemiology Program at Tufts University, says more research is needed, but there are a few theories about how this might work. For example: "Calcium intake is believed to be associated with lipogenesis, which is the formation of new lipids in the body," he says. More calcium may equal fewer fat cells.
Dairy can be difficult to digest for some people.
About 30 million Americans are lactose intolerant, which means they develop problems like bloating, gas, and diarrhea when they eat lactose, a sugar found in milk. These symptoms occur because these folks lack the enzyme needed to digest lactose. For lactose-intolerant people, reducing dairy could help them drop inches by reducing the bloat that can lead to a puffy stomach, says Smathers. However, the effects likely wouldn′t be drastic, because lactose intolerance doesn′t cause weight gain. It′s often the opposite: "People with severe maldigestion/malabsorption are actually at risk for weight loss and underweight, because they′re not absorbing all the calories in the foods they eat," says Barr. What′s more, lactose intolerant people don′t always need to totally ditch dairy. Yogurt and hard cheeses contain very little lactose. Some lactose intolerant people can even consume a serving of dairy without symptoms as long as they don′t eat it on an empty stomach, says Barr. If you suspect lactose intolerance, your doctor can test you. It′s tricky to detect by yourself because the symptoms are similar to the fallout from other conditions like irritable bowel syndrome.


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FOXBORO, Mass. -- Corey Dillon thinks it's funny.
"I get up and laugh," the Patriots running back said about playing for the defending Super Bowl champions.
Actually it isn't very funny at all. An offense with a two-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player at quarterback and a six-time 1,000-yard rusher at running back is no joke.
With the Patriots' receiver corps depleted by injury, Dillon continues to pick up the slack. He picked up 105 yards and two touchdowns, including the clincher with two minutes left, on 23 carries in New England's 30-20 win over Seattle. It was his second 100-yard effort of the season. He's more than halfway to 1,000 yards (522) and the season isn't half over. At his pace, he'll run for a team-record 1,670 yards. That also would establish a career high.
It's really sad when you think about what could have been for Dillon. In his first six years in Cincinnati, he never had a quarterback worthy of backing up Tom Brady. Dillon almost never faced fewer than eight defenders in the box, yet he ran for 1,200 yards for four straight seasons. There is no doubt that if he had been on a better team, he'd be challenging the career rushing record.
He's never even played for a team with a winning record. He was reminded after Sunday's game that the Bengals went entire seasons without as many victories as the undefeated Patriots have (five).
"There were a few of those," Dillon agreed.
"God is good," he said. "God is very good. I just thank Him for giving me an opportunity to be in a different situation. I'm pretty sure he saw my struggles and my tears down there and answered. He put me in a totally different situation and in an organization where things are done the appropriate way. And I'm having fun."
More than before, it's no fun dealing with New England's offense. The Patriots haven't been this balanced since 2001, Antowain Smith's first year, or anywhere near this dangerous since Curtis Martin lined up behind Drew Bledsoe almost a decade ago. Not counting sacks or accounting for scrambles, three years ago the Patriots passed 482 times and ran 473 times. In 2002, the distribution was a whopping 605 to 395 in favor of the pass. Last year it was 537-473.
Through five games, New England has run 156 times and passed 143 times. Dillon was relieved to be joining a team for which he didn't have to be the guy, but he's been just that the past two weeks, each of which no fewer than two of the team's top five receivers have been sidelined. He gained 94 tough yards against Miami while Brady had his toughest day as a pro throwing the ball, finishing with just 76 yards.
The offseason trade that brought Dillon here truly was a win-win-win. The Bengals got rid of a player they didn't want and received a draft pick as compensation. The Patriots got a running game that commands respect. Dillon got to go someplace where the team is going places, like the playoffs. All the talk about how Dillon, a malcontent in Cincy, and the Patriots looked like an odd couple looks foolish now. They're great together. What would they have done had they gotten together sooner?
"He really gives us a real dimension offensively in terms of balance to be able to run the ball with power, to be able to make some yards outside," said Patriots coach Bill Belichick. "He's elusive out there and he can push the pile with a number of people. It's good to have him on the goal line in tough situations. He's good in the whole field. He keeps the defense honest when they're over pursuing."
Meanwhile, the defense can't cheat up the line of scrimmage, or else risk dying at the right hand of Brady. With more room to work than he's ever had, Dillon is averaging almost five yards per carry. He hasn't averaged more than 4.2 in three years.
"I haven't really seen too many eight-man fronts or safeties dropping down to stop the run," he said. "That tends to happen to teams that are one-dimensional. That's just a complement to our offense, that we're balanced. You try to take away one and we'll do the other."
Dillon isn't slowing down even though he'll turn 30 next Sunday. He's experiencing a renaissance.
"After last year, I rededicated myself to what I want to do and what I want to become," he said. "There was a lot of speculation out there, 'Oh, he can't do this. He can't do that.' Or, 'He's turning such and such.' It just gave me extra incentive to come in here and be the best I could be. And it makes it a lot easier when you're playing with guys like this."
"He's a very dependable player," said Brady, whose play fakes are commanding more respect these days. "You get the ball to him and he makes things happen."
The date April 19, 2004, could go down as one of the most important in Patriots' history. It's the day they made the Dillon trade happen.
Michael Smith is a senior writer for ESPN.com


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TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – 24 years of probation and prison time was awarded to three accused sex offenders in Taylor County Thursday.
Gilbert Niyo received 5 years of probation and must register as a sex offender for 10 years for Online Solicitation of a Minor. Michael Simmons received 10 years of probation, 120 days in jail, and must register as a sex offender for life for Possession of Child Pornography. Isaac Flores received 9 years of probation, 180 days in jail, and must register as a sex offender for life for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
All three offenders gave open or guilty pleas to their respective child sex crime charges in Taylor County courtrooms Thursday.
Court documents state Niyo is accused of messaging an officer who was posing on a social media site as an underage girl. He then allegedly solicited her for sex, and when he went to meet her, he was greeted by the officer and arrested instead.
An investigation into Simmons began after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported an IP address that was traced to his home in Merkel had been involved in uploading child pornography, according to court documents, which also state images of child pornography was found on Simmons’ personal computers and phone during a search warrant execution.
Flores was the only accused sex offender to receive prison time Thursday. He’s accused of sexually abusing a child alongside his brother, who in December received a 9-year prison sentence for his part in the crime.


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‘Skyfall’ Offers an Olympic Preview
'Skyfall' is one of the most anticipated films of the year, and it's just raised the stakes with the start of the Olympics. Not only did Danny Boyle stage an opening to the ceremony in honor of England's famous spy, but there's a new TV spot to go along with it. And it's a whole lot of awesome.
Little is shown about the plot, though there are glimpses of bad guy Javier Bardem, and some of the women that Bond may or may not sleep with (this is a modern Bond, who's not as eager to jump in bed with the ladies as previous generations did).
But the star of the spot is - at is should be - Daniel Craig as Bond. Though he's been great in the last two films, it's the last moment where he jumps off an exploding train only to straighten his cufflinks that comes across like one of the best moments of a Connery Bond (like in 'Goldfinger' when Connery lights up as an explosion goes off in the background). This is a man who has seen it all and can act a little bored having survived something that would kill a normal person. 'Skyfall' opens November 9, and we can't wait. Here's the TV spot:


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Scratching tirelessly for tasty treats in the dirt can be tiresome but it’s such a bonus when I grab some up! And there is always the smorgasbord of delicious seeds and nuts in the neighborhood feeders when pickings get slim. And they’re a great place to meet a date, particularly when you’re cheep!Find Food
Gliding on the summer breezes, gently swooping and swirling creating a feathery dance among the rays of sunlight and scutting clouds, why, soon you’ll see me trending on PetTickTock!
There’s a time to every season, and this time is for contemplation. Deep thinkers take in the world around them and see what can be changed, or improved, but the only suggestion I can think of is maybe a few more handfuls of sunflower seeds in Mrs. Smith’s feeder?
Your pet becomes an expert at finding its own food!Birdsong
Birdsong is as old as time. Birds sing to announce their ownership of territory, to find a mate, or just for the joy of living. Of course they all sing completely different tunes, but all birds understand the nuances of other bird’s songs, even though they may sound entirely different.
There is a natural order of things. Little tweeting birds hear one another in the hedges; hawks scream in the skies; blackbirds warble across the fields. And they ignore other species.
But when the wrens first saw a microphone and realised they could make themselves heard by everybird everywhere, that changed all the rules. Suddenly it wasn’t good enough to have just the right song for your environment; you had to scream just to be heard over the wrens!
Peace could only be achieved by giving everybird a microphone, but only in designated places. Then with everybird having an equal chance to be heard, competitive interspecies birdsong began. And the fields and skies went back to the natural order of things.
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Manner Crispy Snack Coconut 25g
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Two layers of cream, crispy wafers and shredded coconut. Milk cream, cocoa cream, crispy wafers and grated coconut. 25g of sweet pleasure for snacking on the go in two flavours: whole grain and coconut.
Manner Crispy Snack Coconut is produced in accordance with the Manner quality guarantee and the principles of sustainable cocoa farming.
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Crazy busy in my studio and at least I am getting to some of my serious printing tasks. Since I am gearing up for vending night at ARTFEST 2011 (wow is it really next week?) I have been doing some printing. First some cheesecloth skins on my new 7890. Those are already packed so you won’t be seeing those, but these can prints are in the drying process and on their way to be varnished. Loving our weather in Northern Arizona, my drying time is sweet. I will be printing some more cheesecloth skins this weekend, since that will be about all the time left before finishing packing. LOTS of stuff to get ready before my 2 workshops and vending night. It’s always so wonderful when you get there and it all comes together.
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We have several openings to join our medical team as Endoscopy Technicians. We are looking for someone who interacts well with patients, provides support to physicians and nurses during procedures, and handles specimens collected. As part of your responsibilities, you will prepare the rooms plus prep and sterilize equipment.
Qualified candidates will have an understanding of surgical procedures ranging from scrub duties to anticipating the needs of the surgeon. You will prepare the operating rooms for surgery by checking and gathering supplies and equipment. You will assist with patient upper endoscopy, gastroscopy, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), colonoscopy, and sigmoidoscopy.
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Set in Rome's exclusive Prati area, the Orange Hotel offers a rooftop terrace with hot tub and views of St. Peter's Dome. The rooms feature individually controlled air conditioning and satellite flat-screen TV. Guests receive a voucher for 30 minutes of free internet connection.
From here you can reach the Vatican museums and St Peter's Square on foot in less than 10 minutes. Ottaviano Metro Station, on line A, is 300 metres away and provides direct links to the Spanish Steps and Roma Termini Train Station.
This boutique hotel features modern accommodation with parquet floors, a USB port, and a fully equipped private bathroom with branded toiletries. The junior suite comes with a bath in the bedroom.
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The La Crosse Tribune first mentioned Chick-fil-A possibly coming in March of 2020 (read >>).
Earlier this month, La Crosse-based commercial contractor DBS Group announced >> that Venture Pass Partners LLC of Minneapolis chose their company to build a multi-tenant building at that same Onalaska Corner. DBS’s name is also on the promotional website for the location. The architecture matches that of the Chick-fil-A location. (read >>)
The promotional materials show Chick-fil-A’s at the corner with two lanes driving around the building. The second building if farther northeast along Highway 16, also with a lane around the Highway 16 side of the business ending near and outdoor patio, which would be believed to be for Caribou Coffee. There are a total of 136 parking spaces for all of the businesses in the development
A call by Engage Greater La Crosse to the developer was not returned at this time.
Chick-fil-A’s nearest locations are in Rochester, Madison and Dubuque.
Five Guys Burgers & Fries has its nearest locations in Rochester, Eau Claire, and Madison.
MattressFIRM’s nearest locations are in Rochester, Eau Claire, and Madison.


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Richland, Holmes County, Mississippi
Main façade of the Eureka Masonic College
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Historic Eureka Masonic College, birthplace of the Order of the Eastern Star, is located along State Highway 17, in the unincorporated community of Richland. The historic schoolhouse has also housed Masons and Company C, 15th Mississippi Infantry, of the Confederate States Army, during the American Civil War.
|“||The ladies at Richland, a little village near where we are camped, sent us a very nice battle flag yesterday (September 12, 1863). It is the first flag we have ever had (regimental). It is a blue flag with a red cross extending clear across the flag from the four corners, with white stars in the cross, and a yellow border all round it. It makes a very pretty appearance.||”|
|— Lieutenant-Colonel Frank A. Montgomery, in a letter to his wife|
- Mississippi Historical Marker Program (1951). O. E. S. Birthplace (Mississippi Historical Marker). Richland, Miss.: Mississippi Historical Commission.
- Montgomery, Frank A. (1901). Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company Press. p. 139. LCCN 01023742. OCLC 1470413. OL 6909271M – via Internet Archive.

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CAMBRIDGE: The shaded garden where Dr. Timothy Winter has strung a hammock for moments of contemplation during Ramadan is also a place where students and staff at Cambridge Muslim College can enjoy a respite from the rigors of academic life.
In the future, this serene retreat will be redeveloped to increase capacity at the college where Winter, a leading Muslim scholar and convert to Islam, teaches the next generation of British imams to “explain to their congregations how British Islam will best flourish through positive engagement with others.”
“Whatever the present-day fundamentalists might think, it’s just the norm of Islamic civilization that it generates cosmopolitan, diverse, multi-religious, multi-ethnic societies. History shows us that,” he said.
At the beginning of Ramadan, the college hosted an iftar barbecue in a small clearing behind the 170-year-old building, which is tucked down a sleepy side street behind the local church. With its vaulted roof and wood-panelled decor, Unity House still resembles the English vicarage it once was, but the colorful stained-glass window halfway up the stairs bears one of the 99 names God is given in Islam — reflecting its new religious identity.
“We take a basically optimistic view, looking at the historical success of Islam in integrating itself in an indefinitely wide range of cultural contexts and having a very positive, invigorating effect … with a strong tradition of promoting diversity and pluralism,” said Winter, who is dean at the college.
Winter, who is also the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, one of the UK’s leading seats of learning — ranked second in the world — founded Cambridge Muslim College nine years ago so that students could draw on the intellectual atmosphere of the historic English city.
A Sunni convert who adheres to the mystical traditions of Sufi Islam, he first encountered the faith while studying Arabic at Cambridge University’s Pembroke College in the late 1970s. After graduating with a double-first, he traveled around the Middle East, living in Jordan and Egypt before returning home six years later. Today, the 58-year-old is one of the foremost scholars of Islam in Europe, earning a place among the 500 most influential Muslims in a list published by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in 2010.
Speaking to Arab News in his study at Cambridge Muslim College, surrounded by shelves groaning with books and a desk piled with paper and volumes, Winter recalls himself as a “rather serious” teenager sitting down with a black coffee at night to read and ponder life’s questions while others his age were out chasing girls and drinking in bars.
His family were Congregationalist Anglican ministers who preached in small chapels around Norfolk, one of which has since become a mosque. “My grandfather was from that last generation that took the temperance pledge,” said Winter, whose unease with aspects of Christian doctrine stems from this nonconformist upbringing.
Coming of age at the tail-end of the hippie-trail era in the 1960s and 1970s, when many soul-searchers looked eastwards to Afghanistan and India, Winter was drawn by the same spiritual quest to find something “higher or deeper.”
Disillusionment with Christianity and a sense that “bog standard atheism would not satisfy human beings’ deepest desires for meaning and a moral code” set the stage for the Cambridge undergraduate to convert.
Several of his university friends also “fetched up as Muslims,” including Gai Eaton, a British diplomat and well-known Sufi Islamic scholar, who was a consultant to the Islamic Cultural Center at Regent’s Park Mosque in London.
Another was Denys Johnson-Davies, an eminent literary translator who brought the works of Naguib Mahfouz and other Arabic writers to English-reading audiences.
After exploring Judaism, “which struck me as a religion of extraordinary moral and intellectual richness,” he settled on Islam, in part because it “already answers a lot of the questions people have about Christianity.”
At the time, Anglicans with a knowledge of Islam were unusual and converts even rarer, but recent years have brought a notable rise in Britons embracing the faith. According to a 2011 study by Swansea University in Wales, there are up to 100,000 Muslim converts in the UK, or about one in 600 of the overall population.
“With many people, it’s a spiritual epiphany in their lives or they are just intuitively unconvinced by a purely materialistic view of the world,” said Winter. For him, the Christian concept of the Holy Trinity was difficult to digest, while monotheism — the concept of a single God that is central to Islam — is “the most powerful idea that has ever been.”
Next door to his study, in a sunny upstairs library where students revise quietly for their final exams, he points out a section labelled British Islam spanning several shelves: “There are more and more books on this topic.” Muslims here are “moving into the mainstream,” he said.
With the UK’s Muslim population rising rapidly — the US Pew Forum think-tank suggested that it would treble from 4.1 million to 13 million by 2050 — the group is outgrowing its minority status. “We’re no longer looking at a minority … but rather a very significant, central part of what Britain is,” said Winter, adding that the UK’s Muslim communities represent a “cross-section of the entire Islamic world.”
One mosque in Cambridge calculates that there are about 60 national groups among its congregation, including those of Chinese, Venezuelan and Kazakh heritage.
While the younger generation born and raised in the UK is increasingly intermarrying and developing a distinctly British Muslim identity, their parents and grandparents remain rooted in the ethnic affiliations of the past.
According to Winter, 90 percent of British mosques can be readily identified by some kind of cultural marker, and from town to town the nature of Islam practiced by local Muslim communities varies.
This partly stems from initial patterns of migration. According to Winter, Leicester, in the East Midlands, now one of the country’s first majority non-white cities, was the target for many migrants from Gujarat in India, who were typically prosperous and upwardly mobile. Muslims there are much wealthier than the mainstream and the area has become “a model of coexistence in many ways.”
But in Peterborough, the Cambridgeshire city where many first-generation Muslims migrated from rural, semi-literate areas of Kashmir, the community is affected by educational underachievement, addiction and other problems typical of low-income inner-city areas, he said.
Attempts to approach such a rich and varied community with a one-size-fits-all mindset are bound to backfire, particularly in the absence of any representative voice for UK Muslims. “If you’re the home secretary and want to know what Muslims think about women or Iraq or anything, it makes it very difficult to talk to us,” Winter acknowledged.
With lack of leadership repeatedly raised as an issue among Muslim youth, access to authentic information about Islam needs to be more readily available. “Much of the mosque leadership in the UK feels beleaguered and confused … they cannot relate psychologically to the issues and turbulences that are affecting the young.”
The principle source of information about Islam for most young Muslims now is the Internet, which is also the primary recruiting ground for extremists, putting young people searching for answers at risk of gravitating toward “whoever happens to be shouting most loudly.”
Countering this with authentic interpretations of the faith to which he has devoted his life is integral to Winter’s work. His demeanor — calm, contemplative, and softly spoken — has the unhurried air of someone who has spent much of their life deep in thought.
At Cambridge Muslim College, students doing the year-long diploma, which is accredited through the Open University and accepts 15 male and female graduates a year, are given a solid grounding in defining aspects of British culture.
When Arab News visited, several students had been to a lecture on the 18th-century English poet William Wordsworth, and throughout the year seminars on subjects including physics, philosophy and literature form part of the syllabus. Students also attend talks given by high-profile religious figures, such as the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior rabbis, on major faiths represented in the UK’s multicultural society — “so they can see what has made this country whose passports they hold,” Winter said.
One of his former pupils, Ghulam Moyhuddin, now head imam at Ashton Central Mosque, said that third-generation Muslims in the UK are “rapidly developing a stronger sense of British Islam.”
“As they move away from their ancestral roots they are making Britain a home for their faith and future. In order for this progress to continue and remain deeply embedded in the society, the transplantation of Islam from Asia and the Middle East must decline,” he told Arab News.
Many of the male graduates at Cambridge Muslim College become imams, while a lot of women have gone on to head NHS chaplaincy teams.
“We are trying to facilitate the process of rooting the next generation of imams, Muslim chaplains and faith leaders in what is most authentic in the scriptural and religious heritage of Islam, while at the same time showing how fundamentalism is not the most proper reading of that heritage, and never has been,” Winter said.
A better knowledge of Islam isn’t just relevant to Muslims communities in the West, he said. Islam’s place in the modern world is one of the biggest questions facing us at the moment: “Everybody has to be informed on it, whether or not they are religious.”


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Make a nursery rhyme singing basket for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to enjoy singing their favourite songs with parents and care-givers! Fantastic for early language development and creativity for the very smallest children and a great activity for children learning English as an additional language too. I recently wrote about the fantastic benefits of rhyming...Read More »
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This article came from the Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy website. This article states that heavy metal music can be used as a form of therapy for young cancer patients. This is because heavy metal music provides adolescents who have cancer with a source of meaning, a source of tranquility and a source of self expression.

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While big rival General Motors’ struggles in Europe have been highlighted by the sale of Opel to PSA, Ford is enjoying something of a resurgence in the region.
A resurgence that has seen Ford of Europe turn in profits of around USD1.2bn in 2016 on the back of five straight quarters of growth.
Chief operating officer Steve Armstrong said this has been driven by the restructuring of the business in recent years along with the right products.
“We are in a different place to some of the competition,” he added. “We will be watching with interest what happens with PSA and Opel and, if we need to respond, we will.”
Sales and marketing chief Roelant de Waard said: ” We have proved that you can be successful in Europe with a volume brand in terms of sales and revenue. We are not afraid of new competition.”
There are headwinds heading Ford’s way this year, however. Armstrong said profits could be halved due to softening in some markets, uncertainty over Brexit and a weaker pound as well as the outcome of looming elections in major countries such as France and Germany. However a big portion of the drop in profits will be accounted for by new product launches.
De Waard added that while there might be uncertainty in some markets there is encouraging news from Russia.
He said: “The country has come through a downturn and is starting to grow again, the rouble is gaining in strength and there are a lot of encouraging signs. The Russian market has been as high as 2.6m before falling to 1.3m. It is currently at 1.5m and rising. We have a very strong presence there.”
Electrification is also high on the Ford agenda. Armstrong said there are plans to launch 13 electric products globally over the next few years, many of them going into European markets.
“The first models will be launched around 2020 and will be SUV/CUV style with a range of 480 kilometres (300 miles). Ahead of that we will be launching a plug-in hybrid version of the Transit commercial van in 2019. It has an electric range of 50km (30 miles) and we will be running trials of this vehicle in London from the fourth quarter of this year.”
In terms of combustion engines, there was no further news on what will be happening to Ford’s engine plant in Wales which is facing job losses when a contract to supply Jaguar Land Rover runs out ahead of 2020. Armstrong said: “There is plenty of work there for the next couple of years and we are working with unions and regional government to see what options there are.”
Despite recent concerns and controversies over emissions, Ford has no plans to cut back diesel production. De Waard said: “The diesel take rate was down two points last year in Europe to 48% but it is still very significant and the most economical. [European emissions rules] stage 6 diesel technology deals with many concerns over NoX and the new generation of engines will be with us for a long time.”


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If you follow my blog, you know this boy loves a pool party. Makes sense! I live in Palm Springs and throw them all the time. Pool parties should be about bright, fun foods - and nothing shouts bright and fun more than my Pretzel Salad Cups. By the way, you can play with any color you want for these, by changing up the Jello flavor and adding food color for football games, gender reveals, and any number of other celebrations by the pool or patio! Today, I'm going with an orange Aperol Spritz theme since those drinks are a mainstay at a pool party.
Pretzel Salad Cups
1. In large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups of crushed pretzels, 4 tablespoons of melted butter, and 3 tablespoons of sugar.
2. Spread this mix onto a baking sheet and bake for about 10 minutes, until golden brown.
3. Remove the mixture from the oven, and spoon a layer into the bottom of six small serving cups.
4. In a medium size mixing bowl, beat 8 ounces of softened cream cheese, 8 ounces of cool whip, and 3/4 cup of powdered sugar, until smooth. Spread a layer of this onto the pretzel layer.
5. In another mixing bowl, dissolve 1 six-ounce box of Jello (your choice of flavor, I like to use peach) with 2 cups of boiling water.
6. Allow to cool completely, then stir in 2 cups of fresh peach slices and one 8-ounce can of crushed pineapple. Spread a layer of this on top of the cream cheese layer.
7. Cover with plastic wrap, and allow to set in the fridge for about 3 hours. Before serving, garnish with a dollop of whip cream and some more peach chunks on top.


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Copper X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has been used to examine the structures of the Cu(II) and Cu(I) forms of the cytochrome bo3 quinol oxidase from Escherichia coli. Cytochrome bo3 is a member of the superfamily of heme-copper respiratory oxidases. Of particular interest is the fact that these enzymes function as redox-linked proton pumps, resulting in the net translocation of one H+ per electron across the membrane. The molecular mechanism of how this pump operates and the manner by which it is linked to the oxygen chemistry at the active site of the enzyme are unknown. Several proposals have featured changes in the coordination of Cu(B) during enzyme turnover that would result in sequential protonation or deprotonation events that are key to the functioning proton pump. This would imply lability of the ligands to Cu(B). In this work, the structure of the protein in the immediate vicinity of Cu(B), in both the fully oxidized and fully reduced forms of the enzyme, has been examined by Cu XAS, a technique that is particularly sensitive to changes in metal coordination. The results show that in the oxidized enzyme, Cu(B)(II) is four-coordinate, consistent with three imidazoles and one hydroxyl (or water). Upon reduction of the enzyme, the coordination of Cu(B)(I) is significantly altered, consistent with the loss of one of the histidine imidazole ligands in at least a substantial fraction of the population. These data add to the credibility that changes in the ligation of Cu(B) might occur during catalytic turnover of the enzyme and, therefore, could, in principle, be part of the mechanism of proton pumping.
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- Activity Level: moderate
- Grooming Level: moderate
- Trainability: high
- Adaptability: moderate
- Kid/Pet Friendly: often
- Average Size: Large
- Average Lifespan: 6-8 years
- Prey Drive: high
- Watchdog: aware
- Registered?: aca, akc
Bernese Mountain Dog Dog Breed Information
Did You Know?
The beautiful and majestic Bernese Mountain Dog is a versatile and intelligent working breed from the mountains of Switzerland. The Bernese Mountain Dog was first recognized by the American Kennel Club as part of the working group in 1937. Originally, “the Berner” was used as a farm dog, being able to herd livestock, stand guard over his farm, pull carts of produce, and still have the capacity to be a loving companion to its owner.
A dog of medium to high intelligence, the Bernese Mountain Dog is a very easy dog to train. When dealing with a dog of working origins, you will usually recognize a heightened ability to pick up voice and hand commands as compared to other breed classes. While the Berner has a thirst to learn, it is recommended that novice owners join their dog in obedience training early to build trust and establish your role as a confident leader. Currently, the Bernese Mountain Dog has become a popular choice for a family pet, having a calm and friendly demeanor.
Just like a big teddy bear, the Bernese Mountain Dog will love hugs and attention. They have a calm and sweet demeanor, but be aware that these dogs are a large breed that is very strong and sturdy. Because of their size, they can at times accidentally knock over small children, so early socialization and teaching them to be gentle with kids is a key to a successful integration into your family.
This dog breed has a fairly high prey drive also, meaning he/she may not be a big fan of your cat or even some smaller dog breeds. If you have other family pets, socialize them and teach the puppy that the other pets are part of the family, not something they should chase down. That being said, that may not stop him from howling at the neighbor cat. All things considered, you will be hard-pressed to find a more versatile and loving companion than the Berner.
The Bernese Mountain Dog loves his family, and needs to be with them and involved in their lives! If you are a person who lives in an apartment, doesn’t have a large yard, and won’t be active with your pet, the Bernese Mountain Dog is not for you.
This dog breed requires a strong and present role in the pack, being involved in family picnics, hikes, and vacations if possible. When this breed is left alone for extended periods, or separated from its family, it can develop bad behavior. This is the case with most working class dog breeds, as they are breeds developed with the purpose to serve their owner. This breed is very comfortable in a cold climate, but will not like extreme heat.
This is a generally healthy breed, but like any canine, there are certain things to be aware of. Because of their size, hip and elbow dysplasia are a concern. Ask your breeder about the parents to determine a good bloodline. Being a large, deep-chested breed, they can also suffer from gastric torsion as their age progresses.
This breed should work well for most novice owners, but training is key. Obedience training is recommended.
He’s a shedder, so have a good brush and he will love you for it! Begin getting your dog accustomed to being groomed at a young age by handling his paws and brushing him/her three times a week. He will shed in certain seasons, so increased grooming may be necessary at those times. Brushing his teeth at least twice weekly is a good idea, as it will help reduce dental issues. Trimming any dogs nails once a month is recommended, ask your vet for tips on how to do this properly.
The Bernese Mountain Dog is an intense and playful breed, but he is not a high energy breed. He will wear out quickly in warm weather, but will play hard until he is tired.
The Bernese Mountain Dog will range from 23 to 28 inches tall and weigh between 80 and 110 pounds.
Bernese Mountain Dogs generally live for 6 to 8 years.
Roman soldiers invading Switzerland over two thousand years ago are credited with bringing the ancestors of the Bernese Mountain dog into the region.

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The seven members of the Outlaws motorcycle club who had "murder in their hearts" were told they must serve a minimum of 25 years before they will be considered for parole for the murder of Hells Angel Gerry Tobin.
Armed police guarded Birmingham crown court outside which around 100 members of the club, believed to number 200 in the UK, gathered yesterday as the sentences were delivered.
"This was an appalling murder," Mr Justice Treacy told the seven as he sentenced them to life. "A totally innocent man was executed for no reason other than that he belonged to a different motorcycle club. Gerry Tobin was a decent man of good character. He was a total stranger to you. The utter pointlessness of what you did makes his murder more shocking."
The judge said that the men had "murder in their hearts" as they searched for a Hells Angel to kill on the M40 at the end of the Bulldog Bash motorcycle festival in Warwickshire last year.
He added that the life of Tobin's fiancée, Rebecca Smith, had been "utterly changed". Smith has attended the whole trial, sitting with Tobin's mother.
He said Tobin's parents had found it difficult to come to terms with the fact their only son had been "cold-bloodedly executed". He told the Outlaws: "None of you has showed the remotest feeling, consideration or remorse for what you did.
"This dreadful crime falls into a particularly high category of seriousness because it involved the use of a firearm and because of its cold-blooded and ruthless nature."
Simon Turner, 41, from Nuneaton, the chapter's sergeant at arms, was told he must serve a minimum term of 30 years; Dane Garside, 42, 27 years; Sean Creighton, 44, from Coventry, whom police believe was the chapter's president, 28 years and six months after pleading guilty at the start of the trial; Malcolm Bull, 53, from Milton Keynes, 25 years; Dean Taylor, 47, 30 years; Karl Garside, 45, 26 years; and Ian Cameron, 46, all of Coventry, 25 years.
Police believe the entire south Warwickshire chapter of the Outlaws, the main rival club to the Hells Angels, was in the dock. The chapter had fallen out among themselves prior to the trial with some of them angry that Bull, the treasurer, had spoken to police after his arrest.
Police believe that Creighton's strategy in pleading guilty may have been an attempt to take the blame for himself.

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