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Alice in Wonderland science
Guest Blogger / November 29, 2012
Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar
Guest post by Dr. Kelvin Kemm
A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the "global warming disaster" convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa's Department of Environment Affairs took out a full-page advertisement in our country's newspapers, promoting National Marine Week.
The ad showed a map of the Antarctic continent, from above the pole, surrounded by the vast blue Southern Ocean. It also promoted South Africa's new Antarctic research vessel, SA Agulhas II.
The advertisement's text mentioned the massive Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which is responsible for distributing vital nutrients to the world's oceans. It noted that the truly massive quantities of phytoplankton found in the ocean are vital marine building blocks in ocean processes. All that is true, and I certainly applaud efforts to protect the environment and promote National Marine Week and our country's research efforts.
But then, sadly, the ad's discussion of physics content went off the rails. Referring to phytoplankton, it said "these microscopic creatures also use carbon to create energy." Wrong!
The most basic law of thermodynamics says energy is neither created nor destroyed, but merely converted from one form to another. The only way to "create" energy is via a nuclear process, whereby matter is converted to energy in a nuclear reaction, as Einstein famously postulated over a century ago. Nuclear processes operate outside the laws of thermodynamics, but there is certainly no nuclear process going on in phytoplankton.
I could have lived with that slip up in the physics. But it got worse – much worse. The ad went on to blame global warming for upsetting the phytoplankton. In a declaration straight out of Alice in Wonderland, it asserted: "The increase in surface temperature over Antarctica from climate change is having a catastrophic knock-on effect, depleting phytoplankton stocks, melting the Antarctic ice sheet and causing an alarming reduction in all marine life."
First, to the best of my knowledge, there has been no "alarming reduction in all marine life." None of my colleagues are aware of it. Second, the surface temperature over Antarctica is not increasing.
In fact, a new record has just been attained. Antarctic sea ice has just reached an all-time record for total acreage. Day 265 of the year 2012 set an all time record, and then on day 266 that record was broken. The days 265 to 270 were the six highest Antarctic sea ice extent days of all time.
The environment department then compounded these errors by committing the unforgivable scientific sin of claiming a supposed increase in surface air temperature over Antarctica "is having a catastrophic knock-on effect" – then providing no evidence to back up its assertion and not telling readers what the alleged knock-on effect is.
I cannot even begin to imagine how this knock-on is supposed to alter the Circumpolar Current, which in turn is somehow supposed to affect the "energy creation" capabilities of phytoplankton. Come off it, folks.
There is so much good Antarctic science to be proud of – and, for that matter, really fine South African scientific achievements in the Antarctic to brag about. That the DEA would feel compelled to celebrate National Maritime Week by resorting to phytoplankton scares supposedly related to nonexistent Antarctic heating is beyond mystifying.
Meanwhile, over the last few months, newspaper stories have told of reduced sea ice extent at our planet's other pole, the Arctic. Terms like "alarming rate" of ice depletion were bandied about casually. Yes, there were reductions in Arctic sea ice cover.
However, on September 18, a video posted by NASA on its website showed that a large and long lasting Arctic cyclone "wreaked havoc on the Arctic sea ice cover," by "breaking up sea ice." The unusual reduction in Arctic sea ice cover was due to high winds – not to any warming of the Arctic or global warming in general. NASA's belated analysis demonstrated that a large section of ice north of the Chukchi Sea was cut off by the churning storm, broken up and pushed south into warmer waters, where it melted.
The storm also broke up other ice, accelerating drifting and melting elsewhere. Reuters finally reported that "NASA says a powerful cyclone formed off the coast of Alaska in early August and moved toward the centre of the Arctic Ocean, weakening the already thin sea ice as it went."
NASA noted that this was an "uncommon event" and that there have been only about eight storms of similar strength during August in 34 yearsof satellite records. However, a major storm every four years is not all that "uncommon." Paul A. Newman, Chief Scientist for Atmospheric Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, added that such wind disturbances produce many effects and can also lift warmer water from the depths of the Arctic Ocean up to the surface to accelerate melting.
For some reason – probably having to do with its regular promotion of "dangerous manmade global warming" claims – the storm story was barely mentioned in the mainstream popular media. By contrast, the "alarming ice cover reduction" narrative was covered extensively.
Now jump back in time five years, to December 12, 2007. On that date Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein distributed an article that stated: "An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer – a sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One scientist even speculated that summer sea ice could be gone in five years."
Well, five years have come and gone. Borenstein was dead wrong. Does anyone suppose the AP will now publish an apology, admitting that its "science writer" was on thin ice when he made this outlandish statement, and saying he should not have tried to scare thepublic like that?
Perhaps the answer can be found in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
"There's no use trying," Alice said. "One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Especially with the Doha climate change confab in full swing, taxpayers, newspaper readers – and anyone dreaming of a better life through reliable, affordable energy – deserves more honest reporting and more science-based energy and environmental policies than they have been getting.
Dr Kelvin Kemm is a nuclear physicist and business strategy consultant in Pretoria, South Africa. He is a member of the International Board of Advisors of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), based in Washington, DC (www.CFACT.org). Dr. Kemm received the prestigious Lifetime Achievers Award of the National Science and Technology Forum of South Africa.
November 29, 2012 in Oceans, Ridiculae, Science. Tags: Antarctic, Antarctic Circumpolar Current, antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Marine Week, NASA, Polar ice packs, South Africa
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51 thoughts on "Alice in Wonderland science"
R Taylor says:
The endothermic nature of photosynthesis seems to be a concept-too-far for Warmistas.
vukcevic says:
If anything odd is happening in the Antarctic, don't blame humanity, blame the changes on the sun which are directly plugged into the Antarctic
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/TMC.htm
Dave Stephens says:
The poor phytoplankton – feed 'em some tax dollars to make 'em immune to climate…
Merovign says:
Facts are for the little people.
And what's really going to bake your noodle later on is that *your* specialty isn't the only one they get wrong – they do this with everything.
William Sears says:
Quote "Nuclear processes operate outside the laws of thermodynamics"
Nothing operates outside of the laws of thermodynamics, nuclear or otherwise. Also, all energy processes can be thought of as a change in mass. It is just more noticeable with nuclear energy. Carbon containing organisms are food (energy); all of which ultimately leads back to solar illumination. The rest of your article is enlightening.
The increase in surface temperature over Antarctica from climate change is having a catastrophic knock-on effect, depleting phytoplankton stocks, melting the Antarctic ice sheet and causing an alarming reduction in all marine life."
Of course. When will these barstards stop the lies? What alarming reduction in "all marine life"? All???
Doug Huffman says:
Humpty teaches Alice, in Wonderland, who is to be master, that is all!
Humpty appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1872), where he discusses semantics and pragmatics with Alice.
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master that's all."
Gunga Din says:
For years I've read about Man controlling the weather … but I've read a lot of science fiction and fantasy books.
If we could just get The Enerprise to transport The Carbon Ring to Mount Doom ……
Pat Frank says:
Well, Dr. Kemm, did you offer an Op-Ed to set the record straight? Or at least write a letter to the editor(s)? Not that they're likely to publish it.
You're not telling anyone here something they don't already know. Misinformation and outright lies are the stock-in-trade for climate alarmism. It's evident to anyone who looks and most of the media systematically avert their eyes. They are complicit in deceit. One gets so tired of their relentless cant.
Taphonomic says:
It should be noted that the NASA website specifies that Paul A. Newman ESTIMATES that there have only been about eight storms of similar strength during the month of August in the last 34 years of satellite records.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-storm.html
It would be nice to know how many storms of similar strength during the month of August in the last 34 years of satellite records there actually were.
Steve Woodside says:
"The days 265 to 270 were the six highest Antarctic sea ice extent days of all time."
In the interest of accuracy and consistency should it not be "the six highest … days since satellite records began". If one is going to criticise hyperbole and inaccuracy, then one should not commit the same sins.
RobW says:
This little gem from the CBC report today about the Science paper on polar ice.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/29/pol-ice-sheets-melting-greenland.html
"In contrast, Antarctica is more or less stable, although the research shows there has been a 50 per cent increase in ice loss since 1992."
Words fail me on this quote…
For years I've read about Man controlling the weather …
No, No, you have that wrong. It is Mann controlling the weather data…. Or was that Hansen, or Jones. They all seem the same after awhile. Just ask Humpty Dumpty.
Urederra says:
"these microscopic creatures also use carbon to create energy."
It is like when they say that "trees sequester carbon" It is just truth avoiding propaganda. Phytoplankton, trees and grass are NOT carbon sinks, they are living creatures that use CO2 to grow. It is called metabolism and is is a life defining process.
It is so painful for me to see this carbon sink idea being spread in biology and ecology papers. A biologist or ecologist should study living creatures, they should never objectify them.
eo says:
Nothing unusual. It is not just carbon but a lot of chemical energy carriers or storage are marketed those days as source of energy. Hydrogen is another substance that will produce energy by magic creating a fantasy land called the "Hydrogen Economy" where energy is available cheaply, non-polluting (the emissions are all water), the source is inexhaustible ( hydrogen could be derived by breaking water to hydrogen and oxygen) and electricity could be generated off grid. The meetings of parties of the Kyoto Protocol and conference of parties of the UNFCCC used to have a number of side events promoting the emergence of the "Hydrogen economy" or the " hydrogen age". With good graphics, sound effects and "Disneyland like presentation" in those side events you could see the delegates, press and NGOs really fixated. Mere mention that it requires more energy to get hydrogen from water than the energy released when hydrogen is converted back to water and you could get booed down. The magazine "The Economist" run a number of articles on the coming paradise called the "Hydrogen Economy" in the same way as the other world respected British establishment the BBC is doing to climate change. With The Economist running those articles it was difficult to find a decision maker anywhere in the world who is not sold out to the Hydrogen economy.
cartoonasaur says:
The poor phytoplankton – feed 'em some tax dollars to make 'em immune to climate…
Berényi Péter says:
"Nuclear processes operate outside the laws of thermodynamics"
Nothing really operates outside the laws of thermodynamics, not even black holes. Nuclear processes certainly not.
But microscopic creatures, using carbon to create energy is an even more surrealistic notion. Belongs to the realm of Not Even Wrong.
falling into the Carbon-Data Void:
29 Nov: Bloomberg: Alex Morales: Qatar Hosting Climate Talks Spotlights Carbon-Data Void
Five of 2,199 publicly traded companies in the Middle East reported their CO2 output last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Those that did report, which included National Bank of Oman SAOG (NBOB) and Strauss Group Ltd. (STRS) of Israel, were 0.2 percent of the total. That compares with 4.2 percent in the 27- nation European Union, 3.9 percent in both Latin America and Africa, 3.2 percent in Asia and 1.3 percent in North America…
Of the EU's 11,331 listed companies, 475 report emissions, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In Asia-Pacific, the tally was 762 out of 24,144; in Latin America it was 68 out of 1,722 and in North America it was 229 out of 17,371. Fifty-six of Africa's 1,425 listed companies disclosed emissions in their most recent annual reports…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-29/qatar-hosting-climate-talks-spotlights-carbon-data-void.html
looks like common sense is winning everywhere. why should any company be wasting time and energy & money on such a ridiculous exercise?
Just The Facts says:
The increase in surface temperature over Antarctica
What increase in surface temperature over Antarctica?
RSS Southern Polar Temperature Lower Troposphere (TLT) Brightness Temperature Anomaly;
[caption id="attachment_54067" align="alignnone" width="568"] Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) – Microwave Sounding Units (MSU) – Click the pic to view at source[/caption]
andrewmharding says:
I think that we need to redefine "science" to take into account AGW; because if we don't, AGW might be disproved. This would be a major problem to the hypocritical parasites who cannot then jet off to exotic places to wag their fingers at those of us who like warm houses, fast cars and politically incorrect thoughts.
D.I. says:
This was a National U.K. News Broadcast by I.T.V. tonight,
http://www.itv.com/news/2012-11-29/ice-sheets-melting-three-times-faster-than-in-1990s-new-study-says/
Is this true or B.S.?.
No reference to a 'Scientific Paper' just some-one called Dr. Andrew Shepheard of Leeds University.
Anyone heard this before?
If this is untrue who do I complain to?
Rosco says:
Am I wrong to think that the only way to "trap" energy on Earth is to convert it to mass ?
I stand corrected. (If only they would!)
cementafriend says:
William Sears, you are right that is why Engineers (especially Chemical Engineers) have a discipline called heat and mass transfer. -something no so called "climate scientist" understands. (Dr) Gavin Schmidt (of the RealClimate blog), on another blog, basically admitted he did not know about the Schmidt number . He looked it up on Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_number) but did not understand its use (as well, he probably had not heard about the Prandtl number ). Engineering science is based on empirical measurement. It goes well beyond simple physics to which people with no engineering knowledge on this and other blogs continually make reference. It is not possible to make any assessment of climate without a thorough knowledge of the full range of engineering science.
vukcevic above at least has knowledge of some engineering science and his contribution is worth noting.
"…the surface temperature over Antarctica is not increasing. In fact, a new record has just been attained. Antarctic sea ice has just reached an all-time record for total acreage."
If that is true, how can a new peer-reviewed study, published today in the journal Science, claim that Antarctic ice is melting at an increasing rate? Can anyone explain the contradiction that Antarctic sea ice is at an all-time high, yet Antarctica is losing ice overall? Something doesn't quite add up. The quote below is from a news report on the new paper:
'…experts on Thursday published a peer-reviewed study they say puts to rest the debate over whether the poles added to, or subtracted from, sea level rise over the last two decades. "This improved certainty allows us to stay [sic] definitively that both Antarctica and Greenland have been losing ice," lead author Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds in Britain, told reporters. Not only that, but the pace has tripled from the 1990's the data indicate.'
Martin Clark says:
@ Doug: Interestingly prophetic quotes from Carroll/Dodgson – thanks.
I pick up on "Alice" references because I once lived in the house originally occupied by Alice Liddell's governess. (Damask wallpaper still attached to the walls in some places.)
Say what ??????? Maybe within our very limited records.
but saying something like that makes him sound like a warmist in reverse.. not a good look !!
MostlyHarmless says:
Ben Cubby, "Environmental Editor" of the Sydney Morning Herald seems to think "More of the sun's heat reaches the earth because of human contributions to global warming" in a report "Where even the earth is melting" – about permafrost of course. Alice couldn't understand what was happening either.
The lead author of the paper referred to says
"We're seeing biological activity in various places in Alaska that's much more active than I would have expected, and also much more variable from place to place … There are changes as much as 10 to 12 parts per million for CO2 – so that's telling us that the local biology is doing something like five or six years worth of change in the space of a few hundred metres."
Parse that for bovine excrement.
He thinks they've found the fingerprint of permafrost melt
"What we can say is that methane is significantly elevated in places – about 2000 parts per billion, against a normal background of about 1850 parts per billion".
That's "significantly elevated"? They've found a bit more CO2 and a bit more methane, in a place where one might expect a bit more of both in normal circumstances. We might as well all pack it in now then? Jump off the nearest bridge? Wait – wouldn't that add to sea-level rise? Damned if we do, damned we don't.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/where-even-the-earth-is-melting-20121127-2a5tp.html
Sarcasm says:
Vukcevic, your website is not user friendly. Please create (or link if you already did it) a thesis. I'm trying to understand why your message about the magnetic fields is important. I see lots of charts and data, curve fits and equations, but no big picture. What's your point?
gymnosperm says:
"these microscopic creatures also use carbon to create energy." Wrong!
C'mon you guys, they create energy for themselves by transforming the energy from the sun and the energy stored in carbon. And there is a very good reason they do it in the upwelling zones.That upwelling water is nearly fizzing with CO2.
Mark.R says:
Just on TV3 news tonight poles melting 3 times faster now than 20 years ago.
New laws coming in here in New Zealand that homes built near the sea have to
have the floor 1.2 mtre above the ground.
dp says:
This is an over-reaction to conversational language. The plankton use carbon to create energy in a form they can use. Not unlike what happens when you go to a bar and knock back buffalo wings all night. Nobody thinks you are going to create energy in the raw from buffalo wings although you may from the chili. I give this rant a 2 – good rhythm but you're banging the wrong drum.
Tom Harley says:
Finally, a real scientist (not Lewandowski) from University of WA wins an award: http://pindanpost.com/2012/11/30/winning-with-science/
If that is true, how can a new peer-reviewed study, published today in the journal Science, claim that Antarctic ice is melting at an increasing rate?
Same reason Nature publish papers depicting hockey stick graphs. Nothing published is gospel, not even "peer-reviewed" studies.
Larry Logan says:
I just sent a disparaging email to the South Africa's DEA with a link to this posting. You can find the Media contacts for the DEA at http://www.environment.gov.za/?q=content/contacts/media-contacts
Thanks.Yes, all working life in practical engineering (strongly biased towards electro-magnetism).
vukcevic …… What's your point?
Yes, website is not user friendly. Not everything found in the data is immediately translatable to a simple theory or even hypothesis. My point is: no strong data correlation of two physical events should be automatically excluded, just because I'm not in position to give a full scientifically verifiable account of the process that may be taking place.
NASA scientists also have a hunch that there is something in the geo-magnetic correlations :
"One possibility is the movements of Earth's core (where Earth's magnetic field originates) might disturb Earth's magnetic shielding of charged-particle (i.e., cosmic ray) fluxes……Other possibilities are that some other core process could be having a more indirect effect on climate, or that an external (e.g. solar) process affects the core and climate simultaneously. "
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20110309.html
You might ask: "What's the NASA's point?"
Bob Layson says:
Climate change cannot be responsible for changes in climate. That is what constitutes climate change. Likewise, global warming cannot be caused by, or be the cause of, rising temperatures. My height is not caused by the distance from my head to my feet.
HenryP says:
Interesting post. I also live in Pretoria. I think I heard the honourable dr. on radio here the other day. Not that I agreed with him then – I think you all know that am not particularly in favor of nuclear energy. But here it seems we can agree on antarctica – there is no warming there. In fact there is no warming anywhere. What we have is pockets of warming here and there due to the increased clouds and weather systems which in turn is due to the increase in cooling. It looks like we are now near at the bottom of the curve.
http://blogs.24.com/henryp/2012/10/02/best-sine-wave-fit-for-the-drop-in-global-maximum-temperatures/
but we are not there yet……
Henry@Just the facts
Could you provide me with the raw data of the station of that graph (of surface temps for Antarctica). I could not find any station on antarctica with complete daily temp. records. I am particularly interested in looking at maxima data.
Espen says:
There's no warming of the Southern Ocean – in fact it almost seems to have gone trough a step-like cooling during 2005-2008: http://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/13-southern.png
William Sears, you are right that is why Engineers (especially Chemical Engineers) have a discipline called heat and mass transfer. -something no so called "climate scientist" understands….
Boy have you got that right!
This is an over-reaction to conversational language. The plankton use carbon to create energy in a form they can use…
It is STILL WRONG. What the plankton are doing is using carbon (CO2) to STORE the energy from the sun in a usable form for future use. They are not CREATING energy.
For example for the glucose produced: C6H12O6 + 6O2 —> 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy
Did you see this? Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field Discovered
Dec. 16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
"At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction."
…The solar wind presses against Earth's magnetosphere almost directly above the equator where our planet's magnetic field points north. Suppose a bundle of solar magnetism comes along, and it points north, too. The two fields should reinforce one another, strengthening Earth's magnetic defenses and slamming the door shut on the solar wind. In the language of space physics, a north-pointing solar magnetic field is called a "northern IMF" and it is synonymous with shields up!
"So, you can imagine our surprise when a northern IMF came along and shields went down instead," says Sibeck. "This completely overturns our understanding of things."….
And they keep telling us the "Science is settled"
kent Blaker says:
There are so many potential flaws in the whole polar ice thing.The methodology for arriving at the sea ice numbers is fatally flawed because it ignores the effects of the wind and especially in Antarctica the effect of the currents. When glacial ice enters the ocean it increases sea level but then it cools the sea water causing a lowering of sea level. Since the ice melt water is fresh water it cools the sea surface. It is also less dense preventing warmer water from rising to the surface. None of which we read about in the media.
Kevin Kilty says:
…Nuclear processes operate outside the laws of thermodynamics, but there is certainly no nuclear process going on in phytoplankton.
No they do not. This is what one calls "internal energy" in thermodynamics.
Mark.R said on November 29, 2012 at 9:58 pm
have the floor 1.2 metre above the ground.
Could be inadvertently useful if NZ starts seeing regular heavy snow.
Hi Ms Combs
Thanks. One more stone into the foundation of a new approach to the climate science; he says forever hopeful.
I've been going on for some time now about geomagnetic storms, North Atlantic Precursor (geological records) and the AMO (N. Atlantic SST) correlations
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SST-NAP.htm
they aren't perfect, but again neither is the data, in addition only CMEs which hit the Earth with a leading edge that is magnetized north open a breach and load the magnetosphere with plasma starting a geomagnetic storm.
Note disparity between number of geomagnetic storms and the SSN
http://www.bu.edu/cawses/images/image020.jpg
Jim Butts says:
When someone starts out an argument by discussing conservation of energy and reveals immediately a lack of understanding of same by implying that this conservation law applies differently in "nuclear reactions" than in other reactions, " Nuclear processes operate outside the laws of thermodynamics" it is hard to focus on the rest of the argument. Dr. Kemm seems to think E=MC2 applies only to nuclear reactions but it applies to all reactions and all systems. Compressed springs are heavier than uncompressed ones, wound up clocks are more massive than run down clocks, hot objects are more massive than cold ones, the output molecular products in exothermic chemical reactions weigh less than the input molecular molecules, etc, etc.
What Did I Tell You!? says:
The shudderingly low level of grasp of physics by the typical AGW religion believer is past incredible, it's got to be nothing more than an attempt to see how big a mob of stupid, evil people can be built, using mass communications principles, and a government employee's lack of fear of fraud laws.
These people claim there's no way to look into the atmosphere and actually check whether it's gotten hotter.
These people claim there's no instrument on earth to check whether a narrow spectrum of low power infrared light has increased in the planet earth's atmosphere.
These people claim there's no way to check whether the troposphere where about 50% of all man's aviation takes place, has gotten on average, a whole lot warmer the past 40 years.
These people claim there is magically undetectable radiation being deflected down toward the ground a night and say when man put liquid nitrogen-cooled infrared detectors out on the ground at night, that 'yew awl jus don't wawnuh buhLEEvE!.'
These people believe in a universe where a man invented a 'whole new branch of mathematics' only to have his algorithms leaked accidentally after sharing online with a cohort and discovered to make hockey sticks from calibration data; and anyone can do it, it's well known –
yet the followers of the AGW religion are utterly silent on why 'climate math' hasn't been proclaimed on math sites to be the greatest thing since invention of electricity: a WHOLE NEW BRANCH of MATH.
These people believe there is a magic gas hiding magic infrared from every instrument known to man, but that the magic hockey stick math and some bore holes, say it has never been this hot.
And the entire array of mankind's raw instruments – infrared astronomy, sensors on military and other high flight commercial aircraft where human life's the gold standard for reliability and accuracy in instrumentation – find an instrument bank not jiggled by these government employees' 'magical math' – not one of these can detect any more heat in the atmosphere than normal – but everybody who doesn't want to put these government employees' policies into place are 'murderous child hating rabble.'
But they don't dare show their work because either 'all you would want to do is find something wrong with it,' or 'I might need these proprietary algorithms for something MORE important, later.'
More important than the impending doom of civilization.
From magical low energy light in the atmosphere not one infrared telescope can find one trace of.
And which not one thermometer on any instrument cluster not jiggled by these very government employees, shows exists.
And it doesn't matter that it's not actually happening, the thing is, we should all be scared.
And install the policies these government employees want, making the breath you breathe out, pollution, while men in nuclear subs have lived with 4,000 ppm carbon dioxide levels in submarine air for fifty years.
But when you breathe out, or start a fire, it's a pollutant and you have to be taxed on that. Because of your 'carbon usage.'
It's crime.
Crime.
Here's the details on Antarctic ice.
Sorry, forgot to paste the link.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-sets-another-record/
Steve Thatcher says:
'…experts on Thursday published a peer-reviewed study they say puts to rest the debate over whether the poles added to, or subtracted from, sea level rise over the last two decades. "This improved certainty allows us to stay [sic] definitively that both Antarctica and Greenland have been losing ice," lead author Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds in Britain, told reporters. Not only that, but the pace has tripled from the 1990′s the data indicate.'
One has to read very carefully when dealing with these slippery people. The art of comprehension is gradually being lost. When things are not specific there is a reason. Sometimes an error, but often there is an intent to mislead. When John Major (British Prime Minister in early nineties) was confronted by things he had said which were now considered wrong, he always knew EXACTLY what he had said and was able to quote himself showing that he hadn't said EXACTLY what people thought. This deflected the discussion away from the deliberate intention to mislead in his original statement.
First, ice is always melting somewhere, the last paragraph doesn't mention overall ice loss.
There is no doubt that Arctic ice had fallen sharply earlier this summer ( but, according to NASA (see up thread) this is largely due to severe storms) but is now recovering in terms off recent coverage.
There is no link to the Antarctic ice melting article, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it refers to a specific part of Antarctica (probably the western peninsula ice sheet) which sticks out into the southern ocean. Eastern Antarctica is gaining ice I believe.
There is also no mention of the newer report (peer reviewed etc.) which has been featured on WUWT this past week, that says the rate of loss of Greenland ice has probably been overestimated – they've had their headlines and now make a comparatively under-publicized climb down.
As I say, one has to read carefully and critically or you are lost.
Steve T

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Elgin Scott  (ur. 2 czerwca 1900 w Lisku, zm. 21 października 1984 w Trynidadzie) – polski lekkoatleta pochodzenia szkockiego, który specjalizował się w biegach sprinterskich oraz pchnięciu kulą.

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Urodził się 2 czerwca 1900. Był synem Szkota i Polki ze Lwowa.

U kresu I wojny światowej w listopadzie 1918 wziął udział w obronie Lwowa w trakcie wojny polsko-ukraińskiej jako jedyny uczestnik pochodzenia szkockiego, zgłosił się wówczas do kawalerii. Po uwolnieniu miasta przez Polaków był żołnierzem dywizjonu kawalerii lwowskiej "Wilków". Otrzymał Krzyż Walecznych, Krzyż Obrony Lwowa.

W 1920 zdobył brązowy medal mistrzostw Polski seniorów w biegu na 100 metrów. Rok później, podczas kolejnego czempionatu, był piąty w pchnięciu kulą. 29 września 1916 roku we Lwowie był członkiem sztafety szwedzkiej, która ustanowiła rekord kraju wynikiem 2:25,0. Startował w barwach Czarnych Lwów. Zajął piąte miejsce w Mistrzostwach Polski w Skokach Narciarskich 1923 w Sławsku.

Po wojnie uhonorowany Złotą Odznaką Honorową Koła Lwowian w Londynie. 5 maja 1973 obchodził złote gody małżeńskie. Zmarł 21 października 1984 w Trynidadzie.

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Головачі́ — село в Україні,  Сумській області, Сумському районі. Населення становить 30 осіб. Орган місцевого самоврядування - Вирівська сільська рада.

Після ліквідації Білопільського району 19 липня 2020 року село увійшло до Сумського району.

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Розташоване на відстані 1 км від річки Вир. Примикає до села Кравченкове, за 2 км розташовані села Горобівка, Барило та Вири.

Поруч пролягає автомобільний шлях .

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За даними на 1864 рік на казенному хуторі Головачів Прорубської волості Сумського повіту Харківської губернії мешкало 75 осіб (36 чоловічої статі та 39 — жіночої), налічувалось 19 дворових господарств.

Село постраждало внаслідок геноциду українського народу, проведеного урядом СРСР 1923-1933 та 1946-1947 роках.

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Charles Oakley has a memoir coming out next year that includes a brief assist from former Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan.
Charles Oakley wins right to jury decision on assault claim
NEW YORK – A jury can decide whether former New York Knicks star Charles Oakley was ejected from Madison Square Garden with excessive force when he was removed as a spectator to a 2017 game, an appeals court ruled Monday. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated assault and battery claims Oakley made in a lawsuit brought against the team's owners after his February 2017 removal from a game the Knicks lost to the Los Angeles Clippers. The appeals court, though, rejected Oakley's claims of defamation and false imprisonment. Oakley was a Knicks fan favorite from 1988 to 1998. It said Dolan and Madison Square Garden then launched a defamatory public relations campaign, accusing Oakley of abusing fans and staff, acting inappropriately and struggling with alcoholism.
Tiger King star Carole Baskin to Dancing With the Stars
Like all cool cats and kittens, Carole Baskin is going to Dancing With the Stars.The reality TV star who became a pop culture sensation with Netflixs docuseries Tiger King is joining the new crop of celebrity dancers that includes TV and film actress Anne Heche, former NBA star Charles Oakley and Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean. On the Netflix series Tiger King, Baskin, who owns a big cat refuge, sought to shut down Joseph Maldonado-Passages for-profit breeding of big cats. In June, a federal judge awarded Baskin ownership of the private Oklahoma zoo run by Maldonado-Passage. Others slated to appear on the dancing show are cheer team coach Monica Aldama, Bachelorette star Kaitlyn Bristowe, NFL star Vernon Davis, actress Skai Jackson, actress Justina Machado, TV host Jeannie Mai, Jesse Metcalfe, rapper Nelly, TV host Nev Schulman, real estate agent Chrishell Stause and Olympian Johnny Weir. Supermodel and businesswoman Tyra Banks will host the new season after longtime co-host Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews announced their exits from the series in July.
Judge dismisses ex-Knicks star Oakley's lawsuit against Dolan, MSG over removal from game
REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File PhotoNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed former New York Knicks star Charles Oakleys lawsuit against team owner James Dolan stemming from his forcible, televised ejection from a basketball game at Madison Square Garden. Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan said Oakley failed to show that the defendants, including Madison Square Garden Co and MSG Networks Inc, defamed him by falsely branding him an alcoholic and accusing him of assaulting Garden workers at the Feb. 8, 2017, game. Sullivan also said Oakley failed to show that his treatment by Garden personnel at the game amounted to assault and battery, as well as false imprisonment. A lawyer for Dolan and the MSG defendants did not immediately respond to similar requests. Sullivan was a federal district judge when the lawsuit was filed, and now sits on the 2nd U.S.
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Walter Tschinkel's Aluminum Casts of Ant Colonies Reveals Insect Architecture
By Rain Noe - October 9, 2012
Portrait by Mark Wallheiser
This is pretty freaking amazing, and gives new meaning to the term "sacrifical casting." Retiree Walter R. Tschinkel is an entomologist and former professor of Biological Science at Florida State University. He recognizes ants as "some of nature's grand architects" and, curious to understand their self-created habitats, devised a clever (if cruel) way to do it: By pouring molten aluminum down into the hole.
Unsurprisingly, the ants die in the process. But after the aluminum cools and Tschinkel has completed a meticulous excavation, he unearths these wondrous, chandelier-esque shapes revealing the alien architectures of the colony.
Tschinkel has discovered that colonies can be up to twelve feet deep and house between 9,000 and 10,000 workers.
If you're wondering how he can tell how many ants were in there, he started doing this in the '80s by making plaster casts, which did not vaporize the ants. By breaking apart the plaster, he could count the little buggers. (BONUS: Watch the Video of the Process after the jump)
So why the switch from plaster to aluminum? For the same reason manufacturers will make car parts out of one but not the other. "The disadvantage of plaster casts is that they break easily so after you dig them up, you have to glue the pieces back together again," Tschinkel said in a 2008 interview. The aluminum has proven more robust.
In addition to aluminum, he also uses zinc "for its low melting point," and harvests both materials from old objects.
I get the zinc free from old anodes at marine shipyards. Zinc corrodes and steel doesn't, so they attach zinc bars to the hull of the ship, and replace them when they are about half corroded away. Sometimes I use aluminum from old aluminum scuba tanks. We place charcoal in an insulated garbage can, and put the aluminum in the bottom half of a steel scuba tank to melt metal [placed in a smaller container within the tank and then pour the molten metal down the nest opening].
Here's a video showing the process:
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Mackinal
I like this premise: Don't destroy what you're not capable of re-doing your self afterwards, ( and I'm not thinking about the ant's dwelling ) I'm thinking about the ants, if you can not make an ant don't kill it.unless you're doing it to help preserving a bigger form of life. As simple as that. Is not about sins,religions,cheap drama, you name it, is just a simple principle that helps more than hurts.beautiful final product the " chandeliers" but...........like more simple principles with deep meanings if we know how to "read" into them.
If a lot of you came to the deep south and inadvertently stood on a fire ant mound for a minute, I think you might not have quite so much sympathy. I can personally think of no more fitting end for the little buggers.
mark pilato
great argument and this alone makes it a great work of art, bringing up the questions we are talking about. if there is a way to get the ants out, should this be considered? i think so, the ants are the artists as well, they are the ones who have shaped the works we are seeing. i think they should be given every opportunity for life. How cool would these works be if this artist was able to find away not to kill the ants, showing us his process of relocating them. i feel then the work would speak on many levels and showing our humanity towards all life big or small, taking the steps toward greater understandings. I dont think this guy is a bad person and i bet he is an amazing guy in his life, i just think he could be doing this a better way and not killing ants in the process. http://voices.yahoo.com/natural-ways-rid-ants-without-killing-them-8888327.html
To everyone complaining that "He shouldn't KEEP doing it, we know what ant colonies look like after the first one!" - I'm sorry, you people are idiots. I suspect that nearly every species of ants digs differently-shaped colonies, and you might even be able to identify the species by the look of the nests. How will we learn if that's true? By making castings of LOTS and LOTS of different nests, as many different species as one could find, in as many different places as possible.
He's not being "cruel" to repeat this with different colonies, he's doing good science - and he's working with a creature that has almost no brain whatsoever. He's certainly not doing anything to bring down the vast number of ants that surround us at all times, nor is he 'torturing' anything. I think being surrounded by molten aluminum is probably about the quickest death I could think of for a critter that size - poison would take far, far longer, and would probably cause far more distress, whatever 'distress' an ant can feel as it begins to fail.
I agree with the comments about cruelty. While I understand the need to do this for science, how many casts do we need? We already know what ant colonies look like, and I've seen many of these casts done before. I think it's important to gather scientific information, but after it's been done so many times, I think there comes a point when you just need to stop being so cruel for the sake of curiosity.
To all the whiners here complaining about "killing living things".
Did you wash your hands this morning and kill billions of bacteria? Brush your teeth and kill billions of bacteria? Cut the grass and got the blood of innocents staining your shoes?
Did you not sever the ovaries of plants and throw them in a blender so you could make a healthy fruit smoothie? Didn't tear off the limbs of plants for your salad? How many bugs died in the plants you consumed?
Oh, what's that? Bacteria and plants and pests don't count as life forms because they're not cuddly, cute, or curious and it would contradict your twisted personal worldview which you judge the world by (a world which runs on established law and not your worldview)? Keep telling yourself that so you can pretend to be better than other people.
Mother nature doesn't care about you. Mother nature hates your guts. Mother nature will kill you every chance it gets with everything it has. There is no crueler force than mother nature, killing off trillions of living things and wiping phylums and classes and orders and families and genus and species off the face of the planet for billions of years.
Lisa Nelson
Thank you Frank, after hearing all the intense discussion about the preservation of 'all' life, (and veganism) you have expressed my thoughts perfectly.
This is NOT science
We did know how ant colony looks like, this is unnecessary and cruel no matter how many ants are there in world.
One of the most idiotic comment here - "Ants don't feel pain"
HypocritesShouldShutUp
This "sick" person has probably already contributed more to science and society in general than his critics possibly ever will in their entire lifetimes.
Cruel? Yes. But hey, eating meat is cruel too, but the entire world does it and it's universally accepted. I don't see people slamming pest-busters either.
Science has to be done. Without it, most of us would probably not even be alive to debate about retarded things like whether this guy is "sick". (cus most of our ancestors would have died from famines)
Then again, this world might be better off without science cus we'd be too busy running away from lions to have retarded debates about inconsequential things. In particular, I'd thoroughly enjoy the sight of his critics running away from lions. You can label me as "sick", but at least I'm not a hypocrite.
MrBurrows
1. Ants don't feel pain. Asking how we would feel if the tables were reversed is foolish, as to truly reverse them, we wouldn't "feel".
2. Seriously, if you want to complain about killing ants, go protest raid.
3. Just stop trolling, you're making yourself look retarded.
Dahlia Blair
Doing this barbarous experiment a few times to discover more about ant hills could be accepted as science. This ass has been repeating this since 1980 according to the article. What has been learned that wasn't already known by the first hundred casts? What possible question could he still be trying to answer that is important enough to justify burning to death an entire ant society of up to 10,000 ants? This is no longer science but just sick vanity. No ethics board would OK such research when the answer is already known (as is the interior form of anthills). As others have noted, this guy is just sick.
Everyone who doesn't like the fact that this guy is killing ants:
Are you vegan, or at least vegetarian? Do you wear leather shoes or have leather in your car? Do you spay and neuter your pets to reduce the number of unwanted and euthanized cats and dogs?
He's doing this FOR SCIENCE. Ant behavior, etc. Just because you don't know anything about it doesn't mean someone else doesn't want to, or that it's not worth knowing anything about.
I'm not sure if sclarke is trolling with the GPS tracker comment, or really that uneducated? A GPS tracker needs a receiver as well as a transmitter, and also a power source. I'd love to know how you're going to make that small enough to attach to even a carpenter ant.
Then there's the problem of receiving/transmitting the GPS signal. Have you ever tried using your cellphone inside a tunnel? No signal? GPS works the same way, except you need to be able to receive a signal from SPACE. That might get through the first inch of dirt, and that's about it.
I've probably killed more any colonies in my backyard than this guy has in the name of science.
Willy G
Would they be poor ants if they were in your house
Webjundub
Imagine aliens coming to earth and vaporizing us so that they could study our architecture...not so cool when the roles are switched. I get that there are LOTS of ants, that doesn't change the reality of each individual act of destruction.
Lowonprozac
You dirty ant lovers! Ants ate my mother!
wimpstophe
I saw a Nova special on this guy well over 5 years ago. He actually scouts out antholes that are dead or otherwise uninhabited. He makes it a point to do that if he is using the zinc or aluminum casting method.
cyclux
..GPS.. for ants!?...hope you are kidding!
When children torture and kill animals we call that having "serial killer tendencies". When a grown man tortores and kills ants over and over again for questionable additional gain each time, we call him a scientist? This weirdo needs help, not praise. Killing any living thing just out of curiosity is evil, plain and simple.
Sclarke, you have to be kidding me. A GPS tracker? Even with our miniaturization processes that would hardly fit in an anthill, let alone on the back of an ant.
sclarke
Those poor ants! I guess a better way would be to place GPS trackers on some ants and let them do the work, obviously not something that would happen in the 80's though. As cool as the product is, I wouldn't be as cruel as this guy even with ants. It is no wonder why so many species go extinct each year!
I can't believe there is even a debate over whether or not killing ants for science is justified. This is inarguably a useful scientific endeavor, if only in that perhaps we can learn something useful from studying the habitat and habits of the single most successful organism on the planet. Even those of you bashing human habits can see that we have a lot to learn on cohabitation in small spaces, and better utilization of resources. Every day, people kill off anthills invading their yards. He's doing so in the name of science. I think that is a noble reason to do so. There are few places where the natural sciences can still be expanded, and this is one of them.
@@Puckles
That would be completely unfeasible, as radiation is shielded by dirt. Even if you dusted the ants with a powdered Uranium core from a nuclear powerplant, the amount of radiation which would reach the surface in from the bottom of a 12-foot-deep colony would be 1/(1.25x10^12) of the original (assuming it's dry dirt, wet dirt would shield even more), and that would be directly from above, which would give no resolution in your mapping scheme. In order to get the type of resolution you're thinking of, you'd have to excavate the entire colony first (a task for which you'd have to first know the dimensions of the colony, which you don't) , use your radioactive dust, and then get incredibly low-resolution scans of the completely collapsed ant colony containing those thousands of dead, irradiated ants. Then you'd have to explain to the EPA why they have to pay thousands of dollars to bury your dangerously radioactive dirt under 36 feet of concrete in New Mexico.
@Puckles
True, maybe a better way might be some sort of underground sonar mapping, or giving the ants some harmless barely radioactive material that they take underground, and could then be read by sensors and mapped on a computer. But this is more homegrown than that, and it will do absolutely nothing to the worldwide ant population. There are more ants in a single acre than people in the average city. We are talking like 10,000,000,000,000,000 ants. The weight of all of the ants put together is equal to all of the humans....seriously.
"It's been said that the boys have great sport killing frogs; but that the frogs don't die in sport, but in earnest." We make a lot out of monsters, demons, vampires, etc. But to the other inhabitants of this planet, HUMANS are the monsters.
@Puckles you are a knucklehead. IT'S ANTS!! And like a previous poster said, if ants could they would pour molten aluminum on US.
Puckles
It is pretty disgusting that this man is killing a life form for no reason whatsoever other than to satiate his curiosity. He does not NEED to know what an ant home looks like. This is a total disregard for life and the reason why the earth is in the state it is in right now.
gmoke
Here's a video by J Scott Turner (http://www.esf.edu/efb/turner/index.html) of work with casting, dissecting and modeling an African termite mound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0qdJh0YEAI&list=UUpIGFcvUqnoUALWXqmQ6YnA
This is the most detailed model of such a mound ever made. Turner also has some clear ideas about how termites control the temperature and humidity in their mounds, knowledge that can help make buildings more comfortable and energy efficient.
ZZX
great looking 150 million years old design
slippyfish
Really cool and alien. I wonder if the ship/pyramid designers in Prometheus took inspiration from these structures.
Geez, these look amazing. Obviously it is kind of sad that he is destroying complete colonies in the process, but I'd like to think that ants would pour molten aluminum on humans if they could.
Rain Noe
I'm a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I'd die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.


What negative thoughts distract you? Thinking of what others have done? Or what they havee not done? Telling yourself stories in your head? Focusing on the past? Or the future?
Are you aware of these negative thoughts? They are a distraction. When we focus on negative thoughts we block the way for being in the present moment and experiencing true happiness, joy, love and conscious living.
But …. being aware of what is really happening every day, every moment, is difficult. It takes work. It takes choice. And only you can make that decision.
How many times have you had worries or made up a story in your mind that was absolutely untrue? These stories come from our former beliefs, those thoughts we grew up with, and the judgments that we carry with us throughout our lives. We have trained ourselves to judge and criticize others and ourselves, not to have self-empathy and self-compassion, telling ourselves that we don't deserve what we have. It comes from the opinions that we have held for years and years. It could be about ourselves or someone else. In the end, it just makes us sad and depressed, worried and unhappy. Somehow it just seems easier to keep those self-criticisms and live with them day after day rather than letting them go.
As youngsters we learned to pay attention to what we were thinking. Can't you hear your Mom telling you to pay attention right now? We have become so used to paying attention that we forget about what is really going on around us in the present moment. Or one person tells us that we can't do something right and we believe it and carry it with us for the rest of our life. As we grow older, we hold on to all those negative sayings and thoughts and tell them to ourselves every day. It's the same ole, same ole day in and day out. We are living in our heads instead of our hearts.
It took years to build these thoughts and feelings of the Ego so it can be difficult to let go of them. The Egoic Mind, as Eckhart Tolle says, is a reflection of our childhood beliefs that we grew up with and we have been relying on them and telling ourselves stories stemming from these thoughts for years and years.
It's time to make the choice to get our of our heads and into our Inner Being. Let go of the worry, the stories, the fears and just be.
So how do you do this? I could tell you what I am experiencing as I sit here typing this into my blog. But you wouldn't feel it. Only I can feel it. You have to experience being aware for yourself. No one can do it for you.
First, be aware of what is happening in this very moment. What are you thinking right now? Is it positive or negative? Feel where you body is right now. If you are sitting in front of the computer, feel your body in the chair, feet on the floor, feel your back against the chair. Really stop to feel these sensations. Is the air around you warm or cool? Is your body warm or cool, or just right? What do you smell? What do you see in front of you? What do you hear inside or outside? Now do you hear the birds singing? So many times we are unaware of their beautiful symphonies until we stop and listen.
By becoming aware we allow our senses to feel the juiciness of our being. Give yourself love and compassion because you do deserve it. Tell this to yourself every day, several times a day. When you walk past a mirror, look yourself in the eyes and say, "I love you!" And really mean it.
Add awareness to your thoughts this coming week. When you add awareness to your behavior, feelings or thoughts you tune into your Inner World. So instead of beating yourself up with negative thoughts and untrue stories, be gentle with yourself. Lighten up and stay aware. Observe your thoughts more closely. Check in with yourself often to make sure you are being aware. Step back from any dramatic situation and wake up to awareness. This takes work but you will gain insight and those thoughts and feelings will gradually be replaced by positive thoughts, awareness and insight.
Try that exercise during this coming week. Notice what happens.
Thank you for all the followers and supporters that have read and commented.
Congratulations on #200, and a great post / theme for such a milestone too!
Wonderful Mazi, very clear, very timely. Kryon says our only real work is to pay attention to what we are doing and thinking in the moment. This is the "new normal". The only thing that matters is what are we doing and thinking, and to learn to love ourselves.
Everyday, I try to focus on the positive. It works! Great post.


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Brisbane theatres welcome crowds back as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted
By Tony Moore
November 23, 2020 — 11.53pm
Crowds returned to Brisbane's performing arts theatres over the weekend as COVID-19 restrictions were again relaxed in Queensland.
The venues, which until Friday were operating at 50 per cent capacity, can now be fully booked, although guests are encouraged to wear masks during indoor performances.
Capacity crowds are returning to Queensland's theatres following the relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions. Credit:Tony Moore
Queensland Performing Arts Complex announced its 2021 program on Friday, including its Christmas/New Year shows Spirit of Christmas, Circa's Carnival of the Animals, Queensland Ballet's 60 Dancers: 60 Stories, and shake & stir theatre co's A Christmas Carol.
QPAC chief executive John Kotzas described the return to 100 per cent capacity as "wonderful".
"After months of closure and then only being able to operate at 50 per cent capacity, it's wonderful that we are able to bring artists and audiences together in greater numbers again," Mr Kotzas said.
La Boite Theatre Company has two world premieres in its 2021 season, which it also announced on Friday as the COVID-19 restrictions relaxed.
Louise Brehmer, Matthew Ianna and Bryan Probets in "The Holidays", which wraps up Queensland Theatre's 2020 season.
Its program includes Naked & Screaming, a new play by Mark Rogers, and the premiere of comedian Steven Oliver's new show, Bigger and Blacker, plus the world premiere of The Welcome, a collection of short films.
Queensland Theatre welcomed a bigger audience on Friday night with The Holidays – a black drama about a small family dealing with the passage of time – which runs until December 12.
Its 2021 season opens with a production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town, centred around the life of a Wall Street high-flyer, followed by Triple X – a New York-centred sex comedy – then Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, and Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe.
A tribute to theatre supremo Robyn Archer closes out Queensland Theatre's year, starting in November 2021.
Archer first generated public acclaim in 1981 with her London production A Pack of Women, which eventually became an ABC television show in 1986.
Her career diversified and flourished and she has since served as artistic director to many arts festivals across Australia.
In 2016, Archer chaired the arts forum that helped design the expanding Surfers Paradise arts precinct behind Surfers Paradise.
Brisbane Arts Theatre has the British black comedy The Ladykillers and has announced it will open its 2021 season with the classic whodunit The 39 Steps.
Queensland Theatre's 2020 season finishes with The Holidays, which opens with Dad (aka Bob Holiday), Mum (Summer Holiday) and their son, Oliver Holiday, heading off to their beach house.
Bryan Probets and Matthew Ianna in a scene from Queensland Theatre's "The Holidays".
The set is taut, with the single wall facing the audience representing the inside and outside of the beach house, the edge of the beach, the inside and outside of a hospital, and an old pub.
Effective lights and video screens set into the wall show the ocean, then high-rise apartments beside the old beach house, and moving images in the sand. At other times, they show flashbacks of a younger Bob and Summer.
The experienced Louise Brehmer (Summer Holiday) is always sweeping and cleaning, except when trying to tease Oliver (Matthew Ianna) into dancing with her. She strikes a good balance as she tries to keep the holidays going by keeping her son occupied and her husband busy as he comes to terms with his father's health.
Bryan Probets is excellent as the tense and distracted Bob, while the interplay between the three is crisp and well-timed. The dialogue is excellent and the very good lighting transforms gentle beach days into tense nights as the plot unravels.
The Holidays, written by David Megarrity and directed by Bridget Boyle, runs until December 12 in the Bille Brown Theatre.
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Undergraduate Seminars
Intellectual Encounters
Nathaniel Peters
Nathaniel Peters is the Executive Director of the Morningside Institute and a lecturer at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in linguistics, with a focus on French and Latin, his M.T.S. from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in the history of Christian thought and Christian ethics from Boston College. At Boston College, he taught courses in the Department of Theology and lectured in the Perspectives Program, BC's great books program. He is currently working on an English translation of letters of William of Saint-Thierry and has published articles and reviews in Religious Studies Review, America, Commonweal, First Things, and Plough Quarterly. A native of Edgartown, MA, he lives in Harlem with his wife and son.
Sergio Leos
Sergio Leos is the Director of Operations of the Morningside Institute. Sergio was born in Mexico and raised in Miami, Florida. He attended Princeton University where his studies focused on Latin American history, especially on the intellectual currents of colonial encounters. Sergio graduated Phi Beta Kappa and received his A.B. in history magna cum laude as well as a certificate in Latin American studies. His senior thesis recently explored the life and thought of the Cuban patriot José Martí and its implications for national communities in a globalized world. His current interests are in the changing intellectual perspectives of the early modern Atlantic world.
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5G will Transform CX and Role of Contact Centre Agents
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The Human Benefit of 5G – How 5G will transform the customer experience and the role of the contact centre Agent
Nick Beardsley, Enterprise Director at Cloud Telephony and Unified Communications (UC) provider, Olive Communications, examines how the hotly anticipated 5G technology will be a step change to mobile working, and the positive impact this will have on the flexibility and scalability of a business's customer service centre and the role of the contact centre operator.
The next generation in mobile technology has been dubbed as 'here to change the world.'
Never more is this true than for the contact centre industry. 5G, with its superfast speeds of around 10 times greater than 4G, according to Vodafone means even greater quality, ultra-high resolution video calls (the same used for commercial digital cinema) and much quicker downloads to mobile devices. 5G's use of millimetre wave spectrum enables the technology to support more devices – one million per square KM compared to 4G's 4,000 devices – so more uninterrupted video streaming and voice calls.
5G in the contact centre
Greater speeds and capacity for a larger number of connected devices will empower the customer service operator to work anywhere at any time, whilst delivering a faster and more efficient service, often remotely, enabling greater flexibility.
5G will allow for the delivery of even greater customer experiences through speed, efficiency and next generation AI integration. AI is already rapidly establishing itself across Contact Centres via chatbots, virtual agents, agent assist technology etc and, according to Olive's own recent research, is radically transforming the role of the contact centre agents.
Olive's study into AI in the contact centre revealed that 60% of customer service operators now work from home. 59% feeling more empowered, motivated (51%) and positively challenged (23%) as a result of the technology available to them.
This in turn can transform the contact centre's service delivery, productivity and operating costs; less overheads, faster productivity and opportunity for increased sales. For example, video interactions will become the norm. Agents will be able to push content to the customers' mobile device in real time, and digital interactions will be managed at lightning speed – all increasing customer loyalty.
But, one can argue, as 4G is already providing consumers with an immersive experience – and even that is yet to have full adoption throughout the UK, what will really be the difference? The answer? Opportunity for exponential growth. As the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) stated in its report, connectivity had become a "necessity" in society and 5G will play a crucial role in the economy.
What are the challenges?
Overall, it remains a big challenge to deliver 5G in the UK. There is a lack of dark fibre and numerous infrastructure challenges, not to mention that the rollout of 4G is still ongoing. In a Parliament report, The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) identified
'investment risk and uncertainty' as an important policy challenge for 5G deployment and urged policy makers to 'focus on boosting 4G networks while 5G investment cases develop.'
That said, Vodaphone's 5G network has now successfully gone live in seven UK cities, including Cardiff, London, Manchester and Glasgow, plus a focused regional rollout, and further cities to follow.
In reality, it maybe some time before businesses are able to truly harness the potential for 5G beyond mobile telephony, until all the networks go live. In the run up to this, however, it's important to be prepared by having a cloud based digital strategy in place that accommodates for 5G's arrival, so the organisation is ready to reap the benefits for when the time does come.
Nick Beardsley, Enterprise Director at Cloud Telephony and Unified Communications (UC) provider, Olive Communications
For additional information on Olive Communications visit their Website
Outdated Contact Centre Tech Holding Businesses Back


The 2018 Annual Impact report is here! Read how Genesys Works is opening doors of opportunity for high school students like Tarrell.
It feels great to be in a positive environment, where people appreciate what you do and offer to help you with your plans for the future.
Julie, Senior Program Coordinator at Genesys Works Twin Cities, began her journey as a Genesys Works intern.
At some point during my year at Genesys Works, I set a goal for myself to one day work for Genesys Works. I wanted to make a difference in a young person's life, as Beth did for me.
Across America, millions of young people are shut out of today's workforce due to lack of relevant skills and work experience. At the same time, millions of entry-level jobs go unfilled because companies struggle to find qualified candidates.
What if we could bridge that gap? What if we could connect motivated youth with real opportunity?
We can. And we do. We're Genesys Works.
The partnerships between Genesys Works and our nearly 200 corporate partners are at the heart of our program's success. We want to thank some of our larger partners for the life-changing opportunities they have provided.
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Sure I'm months behind...but I saw LA!
I admit I was a tad bit disappointed. It was exactly the same as his original show....almost word for word! Which I mean....I love it, this is how I know it's almost word for word. But I was hoping for more new material other than just adding a couple new relevant jokes here and there. But I saw Pee Wee live...so who cares??
It was so long ago but still brings us some memories of that time :) the show was great though I did not get a chance to meet Pee Wee in person and that's a total shame. Thank you for posting.


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Q: I am trying to create an app with mysql android connection. but the app abruptly halts I am trying to create an app with mysql android connection. but the app abruptly halts. I don't understand what is causing the problem. I have asked about the same problem in my previous questions. Pls help. I am desperate. It's for my academic project
the error is
04-28 15:43:29.918: D/dalvikvm(8036): Late-enabling CheckJNI
04-28 15:43:30.278: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 78K, 12% free 9560K/10759K, paused 33ms, total 33ms
04-28 15:43:30.288: I/dalvikvm-heap(8036): Grow heap (frag case) to 10.705MB for 437672-byte allocation
04-28 15:43:30.358: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_CONCURRENT freed <1K, 11% free 9986K/11207K, paused 13ms+7ms, total 70ms
04-28 15:43:30.358: D/dalvikvm(8036): WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 55ms
04-28 15:43:30.449: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 2K, 11% free 10211K/11463K, paused 56ms, total 57ms
04-28 15:43:30.649: D/libEGL(8036): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_mali.so
04-28 15:43:30.759: D/libEGL(8036): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_mali.so
04-28 15:43:30.789: D/libEGL(8036): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_mali.so
04-28 15:43:30.879: D/OpenGLRenderer(8036): Enabling debug mode 0
04-28 15:43:32.130: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_CONCURRENT freed 11K, 9% free 10906K/11975K, paused 4ms+6ms, total 56ms
04-28 15:43:32.130: D/dalvikvm(8036): WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 31ms
04-28 15:43:32.200: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed <1K, 10% free 11335K/12487K, paused 47ms, total 47ms
04-28 15:43:32.290: D/dalvikvm(8036): GC_CONCURRENT freed 3K, 8% free 11992K/12999K, paused 3ms+13ms, total 71ms
04-28 15:43:32.681: E/SpannableStringBuilder(8036): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-28 15:43:32.681: E/SpannableStringBuilder(8036): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-28 15:43:34.422: E/SpannableStringBuilder(8036): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-28 15:43:34.422: E/SpannableStringBuilder(8036): SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE spans cannot have a zero length
04-28 15:43:35.994: D/ProgressBar(8036): setProgress = 0
04-28 15:43:35.994: D/ProgressBar(8036): setProgress = 0, fromUser = false
04-28 15:43:35.994: D/ProgressBar(8036): mProgress = 0mIndeterminate = false, mMin = 0, mMax = 10000
04-28 15:43:36.124: W/ResourceType(8036): Failure getting entry for 0x010802c8 (t=7 e=712) in package 0 (error -75)
04-28 15:43:36.474: D/AndroidRuntime(8036): Shutting down VM
04-28 15:43:36.474: W/dalvikvm(8036): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x41a162a0)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036): android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at android.os.StrictMode$AndroidBlockGuardPolicy.onNetwork(StrictMode.java:1118)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:385)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByNameImpl(InetAddress.java:236)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:214)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:137)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPoolEntry.open(AbstractPoolEntry.java:164)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractPooledConnAdapter.open(AbstractPooledConnAdapter.java:119)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:360)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:555)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:487)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:465)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at com.mahavega.qcdemo.JSONParser.makeHttpRequest(JSONParser.java:62)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at com.mahavega.qcdemo.MainActivity$GetEventDetails$1.run(MainActivity.java:198)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:615)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4856)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1007)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:774)
04-28 15:43:36.534: E/AndroidRuntime(8036):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

A: The problem is that you are trying to make network connections on the "main" thread which android doesn't allows.
Try using AsyncTask.

A: I think I found it. Probably your android version is android 4.0 and above, you are trying to carry out a network operation on your main thread. But android 4.0 and above does not allow this operation because you are not allowed to interrupt main thread of application with a network operation. You should do your network operation in an AsyncTask.  Hope this helps.

A: From your log it seems that you are trying to do slow network operation on main thread because this can block UI and application will not respond.
try to do whatever stuff you are doing in background using doInBackground()

A: Although it's for an academic project, you never should access a remote sql database from a client application. This is unsafe, especially in java/android.
Create a nice REST webservice layer between your app and your remote database. so you can sanitize user input on the server side, because all user input is per definition evil :)
But, as I intepret the logcat you are already using a webservice. the exception is really clear on the error: NetworkOnMainThreadException

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A Szászcsávási Zenekar egy hagyományos cigányzenekar az erdélyi Szászcsávásról, akik 1967 óta játszanak rendszeresen együtt.

Történet
A szászcsávási cigány zenészek több nemzedékre visszamenően a környék híres muzsikusai: bár a kórusnak nem tagjai, az énekeket ők is jól ismerik, és az átlagosnál zeneileg igényesebb közönségük a gyenge muzsikusokat nem tűri meg. Az erdélyi mérték szerint jómódú faluban a cigányok alkalmi mezőgazdasági munkából és téglavetésből tengődve külön telepen, cigánysoron élnek. A nyomorúságos körülmények közül való kiemelkedés egyetlen lehetősége a zenélés. A cigányok közül igen sokan játszanak valamilyen hangszeren: főleg vonóshangszeren, újabban tangóharmonikán, dobon, szaxofonon, elektromos orgonán is. A faluban ma is több zenekarra való zenész él. A vonóshangzás egy nemzedékkel korábban még általános volt az erdélyi népi tánczenében, amelyet a hozzá tartozó repertoárral együtt mára egyre jobban kiszorít az elektronikus zene.

A zenekar felállása
Szászcsáváson egy vonószenekar alapvető felállása a hegedű-kontra-bőgő hármas. A hegedű a klasszikussal megegyező; a kontra az Erdélyben általános, egyenesre vágott pallójú a-d1-g hangolású brácsa, amelynek három húrja egyszerre szólal meg. A bőgőről az E húr hiányzik, csak az A, D, G húrokon játszanak. Húsz-harminc évvel ezelőtt a kontra helyett a prímkontrát használták. A prímkontra a hegedű áthangolásával készül, a1-d1-g húrjai szintén egyszerre szólalnak meg. Játékmódjára a kontránál alkalmazott, dúr hármashangzatokon alapuló harmóniakíséret mellett a hegedű által megszólaltatott dallam hangjainak kijátszására, vagy minél hűbb követésére való törekvés volt jellemző. Ma önmagában a hegedű kíséretére már nem használják, de alkalmanként, a kontra mellett kiegészítő hangszerként még igen. Régebben gyakran használták a mélyhúros kontrát az énekek kíséretéhez, és nem a tánchoz használták. A háromtagú alapfelállás kiegészülhet másik prímással és kontrással.

Tagok
A Szászcsávási Zenekar magja Jámbor István "Dumnezeu" (született 1951) prímás; testvére, Csányi Mátyás "Mutis" (szül. 1953) bőgős; és sógoruk, Mezei Ferenc "Csángáló" (szül. 1951), a kontrás által alkotott együttes. Mindhárman "Csángáló" nagyapjától, a halála után harminc évvel is emlegetett híres prímás Horvát Mezei Ferenctől, a "Vén Kránci"-tól tanultak muzsikálni; őket egészítik ki a fiatalabbak: "Csángáló" unokatestvére, Mezei Levente "Leves" (1969-2017) prímás; Jámbor István és Csányi Mátyás öccse, Csányi Sándor "Cilika" (szül. 1959) prímás; és "Csángáló" fia, Jámbor Ferenc "Tocsila" (szül. 1970) kontrás. Fő hangszerükön kívül valamennyien jól játszanak a többi hangszeren is, és általában kiváló táncosok. Alapvetően a zenélésből élnek.

Repertoár
A szászcsávási zenészek repertoárja rendkívül széles. Ennek egyik oka, hogy magyaroknak, románoknak, cigányoknak egyaránt muzsikálnak. A repertoár vidékenként és nemzetiségenként is eltér. Hagyomány Erdélyben, hogy ha a menyasszony és vőlegény egymástól távol eső faluból származik, akkor a kétféle vidékről való rokonság számára a lakodalomba két zenekart fogadnak meg. Így a szászcsávási zenészek gyakran eljutottak a Belső-Mezőség, Kelet-Mezőség távoli falvaiba is, bár ilyenkor néhány helyhez kötődő speciális dallamon (pl. menyasszonykísérőn) kívül csak saját vidékük táncait kell muzsikálniuk.
A szászcsávási zenészek legnagyobb érdeme az, hogy azt a hagyományos erdélyi vonós tánczenét játsszák, ami egykor még Erdély-szerte virágzott. A zenekar tagjai rendszeresen és folyamatosan zenélnek: szinte minden hétvégén lakodalom, közben egy-egy alkalmi muzsikálás, ha másért nem, hát saját örömükre.

 Sűrű verbunk (a Kis-Küküllő vidékén általános gyors tempójú férfitánc)
 Csárdás (fenthangsúlyos páros tánc, változó tempóval)
 Szökő (a csárdás gyorsabb változata)
 Lassú csárdás (egy lassabb változat házaspárok és öregek számára)
 Székely verbunk (egy férfitánc a Székelyföldről)
 Féloláhos (a lenthangsúlyos székelyföldi forgatós egyszerűbb helyi változata)
 Pontozó (a Magyarózd környéki magyarok szóló férfitánca)
 Szegényes (a pontozó lassabb formája)
 Öreges pontozó (a pontozó gyorsabb, speciális változata)

Lemezek

 Muzică populară maghiară din Valea Târnavelor (Kis-Küküllő menti magyar népzene). Gyűjtötte és szerkesztette Pávai István. (LP, Electrecord EPE 03468 1989, Bukarest)
 Musique folklorique de Transylvanie (CD, Quintana, QUI903072 1992 Franciaország)
 Szászcsávás Band - Erdélyi népzene (CD, Thermal Comfort Kft 2BZAPG, 1996, Budapest)
 Szászcsávás Band 3 (CD, Thermal Comfort Kft. 3BZATH2, 1998, Budapest)
 Amit tudok (CD, Figurás Néptánc Együttes 1999, Bern, Svájc)
 Live in Chicago (CD, Thermal Comfort 4ALTHC3 Kft, 2000, Budapest)
 Cigány vagyok, árok partján születtem (CD, Dancsmarket Records DMR 120, 2008, Románia)

Koncertek

 2002. október 11-12. San Diego, Santa Ana
 2002. szeptember 11. Kalifornia, The Hungarian Harvest Festival
 2003. március 21. IV. Országos Maratoni Folk Hétvége
 2003. július 13. Diósgyőr, XXIV. Kaláka Folkfesztivál
 2003. július 27. – augusztus 3. Magyarlapád, VI. Maros és Kis-Küküllő menti Népzene és Néptánctábor
 2004. november 6-8. Amszterdam, Budapest Nights - Mediawave Festvial Days
 2005. július 21. XVI. Bálványosi Nyári Szabadegyetem és Diáktábor
 2006. május 1. Komárom, Mediawave Fesztivál
 2006. szeptember 15. Örökség Fesztivál – Pécsi Napok
 2008. június 13. Diósgyőr, Borsodi Fonó
 2008. július 19. Győr, MonarchiaFest és Kisalföldi Folklórfesztivál
 2008. augusztus 2-9. Jászberény, XXVII. Nemzetközi Táncház és Tánctábor és Zenésztábor
 2009. június 26. Szeged, VI. Martin György Országos Néptáncfesztivál
 2009. július 26.-augusztus 2. XI. Kommandói Cigányfolklór tábor
 2009. augusztus 6-9. Jászberény, XIX. Csángó Fesztivál
 2009. szeptember 19. Budapest, Kobuci kert
 2009. szeptember 19. Aradványpusztai Falunap
 2009. december 10. Budapest, Uránia Mozi
 2009. december 20. Sopron – Közreműködés a Muzsikás Együttes karácsonyi koncertjén
 2009. december 21. Budapest, Művészetek Palotája – Közreműködés a Muzsikás Együttes karácsonyi koncertjén
 2010. április 4-5. Hollókői Húsvéti Fesztivál
 2010. május 11-12. Budapest Folk Fest
 2010. május 25. XXI. Pécsi Folknapok
 2010. június 11. Győr, koncert és táncház
 2010. június 12. Mecsér, Ladikos Fesztivál
 2010. július 10. Kőszeg
 2010. július 14. Somló Hangja Fesztivál
 2010. július 18. XVI. Székelyföldi Tánctábor
 2010. július 25. XII. Kommandói Cigányfolklór tábor
 2010. augusztus 7. Szentendre, Jazz és Folk est
 2010. augusztus 6. Jászberényi Nyár – Vigadalmi Napok
 2010. augusztus 8. VI. Szászcsávási Népzene és Néptánctábor

Kritikák
 "A Szászcsávási Zenekart hallgatva igen nehéz megállapítani, mikor játszanak magyar és mikor cigányoknak való zenét. Aki nem kellő óvatossággal vagy szakértelemmel figyeli és meg akarja tanulni a szászcsávási és környékbeli táncokat, akár helyszíni élményei is könnyen félrevezethetik a magyar és cigányzene és táncfigurák elkülönítésében."
 "A »világhírű« jelző nem tekinthető túlzásnak, hiszen a zenészek a világ számos országában koncerteztek már: Szlovákiában, Szlovéniában, Németországban, Svájcban, Hollandiában, Belgiumban, az Egyesült Államokban és Japánban. Portréfilm is készült a zenekarról, melyet a 2003-as filmszemlén mutattak be A Szászcsávási Banda címmel."
 "A zenészek nyilvánvaló élvezete és erőteljes bemutatója átragadt a közönségre… A csárdást és a három ráadást jókedvűen, tapssal köszönték meg. (eredetiben: …the musicians obvious enjoyment and dynamic presentation transported the audience… The csardas dances and the three encores sent the audience into clapping spasms and delighted cheering.)"

Külső hivatkozások
 A Szászcsávási Zenekar honlapja
 Szászcsávás honlapja
 A Szászcsávási Zenekar a MySpace-en
 Szászcsávási zenekar - Székely verbunk
 Szászcsávási mahala
 Szászcsávási cigány pontozó
 Szászcsávási cigánytánc

Források

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