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Blockchain use cases proliferate, but to whose benefit not yet clear
Blockchain use cases are cutting across industries and making use of a spectrum of technologies. Is it time to talk standards?
When Brian Behlendorf learned that blockchain technology was being applied to a land registry project in Honduras,...
the proverbial lightbulb went on. Land titles in the Central American country are currently stored on a centralized server, so anyone with admin rights can make changes to the registry without a record of why or how the changes were made and take someone's land away.
Blockchain technology offered a way to prevent that kind of criminal activity. The technology uses a decentralized ledger approach to recording transactions. When a transaction is made, it is packaged up with other transactions into a "block" and recorded across a network of computers, a majority of which are required to confirm the transaction in order for it to be accepted as legitimate -- a process referred to as achieving consensus. The block is then time-stamped with a cryptographic hash. Each block also contains a reference to the previous block's hash, creating a "chain" of records that is considered impossible to falsify.
Behlendorf called his hearing about the Honduran land registry project his aha! moment: He said he realized blockchain use cases do not just extend well beyond the financial industry, but also carry the potential for effecting profound societal changes -- similar in scope to the impact the internet has had on the way we live.
Indeed, as an early web developer and an advocate for open source systems, Behlendorf said he believes the current state of blockchain is very much like the early days of the internet, when it was a decentralized, permissionless system and a "generative platform" in which anyone could tinker and build.
"It's what allowed for a raft of new companies to emerge," Behlendorf, executive director at The Hyperledger Project, an open source collaboration effort to advance blockchain technologies, said at the recent Business of Blockchain event in Cambridge, Mass. "Most economists would tell you that the more diverse [a] marketplace or ecosystem [is], the more competitive it is, but also the more it advances from an innovation perspective."
Hyperledger, for its part, is attempting to develop open standards by bringing together different technology approaches to blockchain, of which there is a spectrum. Permissionless, public systems such as bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that is often conflated with its underpinning technology, live alongside permissioned ledgers that automate business processes. And, as Behlendorf realized, blockchain use cases already are cutting across industry boundaries -- from how records are kept and how money is exchanged to how the diamond industry identifies conflict diamonds and how retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recalls tainted food. The technology's ability to create transparency even in supply chains is a powerful feature, and it will require a collaborative approach.
"Even Wal-Mart, which is implementing this pork supply chain project in China, doesn't have the market force to say to the pork industry, 'We're implementing a track-and-trade system, please use the Wal-Mart API every time you move product from A to B,'" Behlendorf said. "Even they have to walk in and say, as an industry, 'Let's work together on this.'"
Mapping out the spectrum of blockchain uses cases and applications is vital because the technology's potential for disruption is so enormous, according to Behlendorf. If blockchain reaches its potential, it will upend hub-and-spoke industries like finance, which has seen the strongest blockchain testimonial in bitcoin. By eliminating the middleman and relying on automation, the role of intermediaries will change and even disappear, Behlendorf said.
"Instead of [hub-and-spoke industries] being infrastructure providers and central routers, they'll become governance organizations," he said. "They'll become the ones who define the standards, but in conjunction with the participants, the ones who then implement the auditing systems and provide that type of coordination."
Wall Street reacts
Wall Street's financial powerhouses appear to be very attuned to blockchain's disruptive nature, as they are not only following its development, but also experimenting with the technology.
Last year, JPMorgan Chase & Co. rolled out Quorum, a variant of the cryptocurrency Ethereum and an open source initiative that's accessible on GitHub. It's a permissioned blockchain, where access to the network is controlled. "This has been all about getting senior management to understand what open source software means and that anything can be open-sourced," said Amber Baldet, blockchain product and strategy team lead, at the Business of Blockchain event. "That doesn't make it good, intrinsically."
Baldet said the next step is to add zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptography protocol where information can be proven to be true without revealing the information itself.
CME Group, the world's largest options and futures exchange, is partnering with the U.K. government to launch a digital gold product called Royal Mint Gold, or RMGs. The product is based on bitcoin code, but tweaked "to address some of bitcoin's shortfallings," said Sandra Ro, head of digitization at CME, at the event. "The use case is initially an investment product for institutions," she said. "And over time, we expect this new network to evolve."
Whither blockchain?
Behlendorf's story about curtailing land theft in Honduras in juxtaposition with the efforts of financial corporations like JPMorgan and CME to establish digital currencies is part of what makes blockchain an interesting technology to watch. With such competing interests at this early stage, how will the blockchain evolve?
Behlendorf used his closing remarks to urge attendees to think about how civic values should be architected into a technology like blockchain that has the potential to radically change how industries and societies operate.
"The only way we're going to make sure that these chains, as they get built, are going to embody these principles of protecting human rights or, in the medical space, for example, protecting the access of patients to their own medical records, the only way that's going to work is if the first couple of systems that we implement have those principles at the heart," he said.
Otherwise, Behlendorf implied, blockchain could ultimately go the way of the internet and become monopolized by big corporations. For now, he remains optimistic: "I see enough points of light inside all these different sectors to indicate that we can get there first and build something that will work that way."
Say what?!?
"It can be interesting sometimes to think about [blockchain] as some extraordinary event in the history of technology. But this is, in fact, how revolutionary technologies are always commercialized: A crazy idea that almost no one believes in becomes a standard through some mixture of smart, technical design, hard work and just a bit of luck." -- Jason Pontin, editor in chief and publisher, MIT Technology Review
"It's important to have a foundation of a noncommercial group creating the open standards [for emerging tech]. So, we have David Clark here at MIT who worked on TCP/IP. We have Tim Berners-Lee, who famously gave away the protocol for the web to make it widely disseminated. So, MIT is known for creating the open standards on top of which the West Coast builds their monopolies. We're following in this rich tradition of not making any money on this stuff that changes the world." -- Joi Ito, director, MIT Media Lab
"It turns out if you're talking about commoditizing trust, it could be very disruptive to our business models." -- Amber Baldet, blockchain program lead, JPMorgan
"It's very difficult to tell how much technology is being invested in blockchain, because every company probably now has a team focused on looking at this technology that didn't exist two or three years ago, and they're probably investing people and time and effort into projects that are not public yet." -- Sandra Ro, head of digitization, CME Group
"This is one of my favorite pieces of technology: the $20 bill. In one of the great ironies in American history, we put Andrew Jackson's picture on the $20. What is the one thing Andrew Jackson hated more than anything else in the world? Paper money. And banks." -- Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz professor of entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of Management
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How to create a budget in 6 easy steps Whether you're paying down credit cards or saving for daily necessities, the best place to start is with a budget. Some simple tools can help.
Tools To Help You Get It Together
How to spend less money, starting with a budget
Updated December 21, 20221:33 PM ET Originally published August 17, 20209:00 AM ET
Shannon Wright for NPR
Budgeting gets a bad reputation.
"The first image that comes to most people's mind is dieting or imprisonment," says Jesse Mecham, founder of the budgeting software You Need A Budget. But that, Mecham says, is an inaccurate picture. "Budgeting is not about being handcuffed. It's really about being liberated."
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It might just be empowering for you. Keeping tabs on where your money is going is a good first step to cutting back on spending and saving more, if you're able to do so.
These six budgeting tips will help you track your spending and make more informed decisions about your money — and your life.
1. Don't budget just because you think you should.
If you're budgeting because you think that's what responsible grown-ups do, that's not super-concrete or motivational. Instead, set a specific goal that has meaning to you, like paying off credit card debt or student loans or saving for a vacation, says Kristin Wong, author of Get Money: Live the Life You Want, Not Just the Life You Can Afford. "Now you have a reason to say no to that $50 dinner, because you have something to say yes to now," Wong says.
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2. Harness your freakout.
Big life changes — a move or a job loss — can bring big stress. Leverage that anxiety by channeling it into motivation to adjust your budget. "Those moments, where you have the willpower or you have the energy, you have this motivation," Mecham says. "That motivation is fleeting."
So take advantage of budgeting momentum while it lasts. If you mess up or overspend later on, don't quit. Mecham stresses the importance of being flexible: "You just make adjustments, like a coach [at] a basketball game making halftime adjustments. You just adjust to how the team plays."
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3. Follow the 50-30-20 method.
When you get started, try the guidelines that Sen. Elizabeth Warren helped develop as a Harvard University professor. The largest portion, 50%, of take-home income should go toward basic living expenses — housing, groceries, etc. Then 30% for discretionary expenses, like entertainment and clothes; and 20% for savings and paying down debt.
4. Use the power of scarcity.
With credit cards and overdraft protections, "we've gotten really used to the idea that we never really run out of money," Mecham says. But having a sense of scarcity can be helpful when you're trying to save. Remember back when you were a kid and all you had was that $5 from babysitting or mowing lawns? You were probably pretty careful about how you spent that money because once you did, it was gone. Try designating a certain amount of money for each budgeting category every month, and when you run out, it's out.
5. A roommate is worth a thousand coffees.
It's unlikely you'll reach your budget goal just by cutting back on coffees. Housing, food and transportation are usually the biggest expenses. "If you get a roommate or move to a cheaper place, those major decisions are going to save you so much more money," says Wong. "They're harder decisions to make, obviously. But they give you more bang for your buck."
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6. Try different budgeting techniques to see what works for you.
Whether it's a simple spreadsheet or a budgeting app with lots of categories, use the system that works for you. Mecham says the main thing is not to wait until a "normal month" to get started — that will never come. So just start doing it, like right now. It's worth making a budget now, and if it changes in the coming months or year, that's OK.
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Sylvie Douglis produced the audio portion of this story, which was originally published in 2019. You can listen to the original episode audio here.
We'd love to hear from you. Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org.
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Q: How to make random number generator not repeat the same number more than twice vb? so I did a memory game which works perfectly well, except for one thing: there are too many duplicates! I'm trying to have a max of 2 image repeating. Thing is all the code I tried (such as the following) makes every picturebox contain the same image instead of having different ones. I tried making a list as suggested but the result was the same. What am I doing wrong?
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Bad news for Dragon centric RPG fans as the long awaited sequel, Drakengard 3 has been delayed in it's home developed country of Japan. The new release date for Drakengard 3 is December 19th which is more than a month after it's previous release of October 31st.
Unlike the previous two Drakengard games, Drakengard 3 has a new cast of characters and by the looks of it doesn't seem to be connected to the previous games storywise. Drakengard 3 isn't being developed by it's original team at Cavia either, as it's now made by Lord of Apocalypse developed Access Games so a whole lot has changed.
Will the game be good or end up being mediocre like most JRPGs this gen? Guess only time will tell.
Side note: We're talking about the game's Japanese release here, don't let the Drakengard name in the title confuse you. I used that because the game's original Japanese name Drag-on-Dragoon isn't very well know. Anyway we're still only confirmed for a Japan release, whether this games comes to the west is still not decided.


Down the years, The Libertines had alway threatened to one day play the big arenas, and now they'll get that opportunity with the new they will play seven huge shows in January 2016.
The new run of dates includes a night at London's 02 Arena on January 30th – and those who we at the 'postponed' Electric Ballroom show last-week will be entitled to a FREE ticket to the London leg.
Tickets go on sale on September 25th from 9am.


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Kumeyaay Cosmology Dome
Kumeyaay culture curated by Kumeyaay scholar, Michael Connolly Miskwish, and Mataam Naka Shin, the San Diego-Panama Exposition Centennial Intertribal Committee at the Museum of Us. This is the first time that Kumeyaay culture has been curated by the people themselves at the museum (formerly known as the Museum of Man).
What do you see when you gaze up at the night sky? Do you look for familiar shapes in the stars like Orion's Belt or the Big Dipper? What do the Kumeyaay Peoples see when they look at the stars?
For generations, the Kumeyaay Peoples have studied the night sky, developing a deeply-rooted cosmological belief system that centers on the Kumeyaay Mat'taam (calendar year), My Uuyow (sky knowledge), and constellation map.
This extension of the main exhibit gallery explores the traditions and meanings of these cosmological beliefs, like how the Kumeyaay Peoples have different names and forms for constellations than those given to them by Europeans.
When the Kumeyaay Peoples spot Orion's Belt or the Big Dipper, they actually see the constellations 'Emuu (Mountain Sheep) and Selq Hatun (Arm)?
They also see Kwellyap Ketull (North Star) at the center of the night sky, keeping watch over all human activities, surrounded by Hutcha (6 Laughing Girls) and Shaii (Buzzard), Hechkulk (Wolf) and Nemuuly (Bear), and Awii (Rattlesnake), the conveyor of punishment for improper deeds.
See if you can spot these constellations and many others on the exhibit's giant constellation map – or better yet, the next time you're looking up at the night sky!
Visit the Museum of Us website for more information.
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Kumeyaay Corner
Our Life Under the Oaks
Kumeyaay story "Our Life Under the Oaks" with English Subtitles Featuring Norma, Jon y Emilia Meza and Lupe Cota Directed by Michael Wilken-Robertson
What Does It Take To Reawaken a Native Language?
Learn about efforts to Reawakan native languages in California including those of the Kumeyaay tribes upon whose traditional lands Rose Creek flows. "Now there's hardly a Chumash or Kumeyaay who don't speak their language, Read more…
Kumeyaay Culture Keeper
University of California, San Diego alumna and Kumeyaay Native Eva Trujillo (Class of 2020) has become the university's repatriation coordinator. The university has had a complicated relationship with local tribes. Read more…


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« Trump is NOT above the law.
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Joe Biden is Responsible for Increased Gun Violence
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Hardly a day goes by without at least one story about firearm violence in America.
Senator Joe Biden as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee when he helped write the Firearms Owners' Protection Act, which overturned 6 Supreme Court rulings, popularized the modern gun show, created the "Gun Show Loophole," and facilitated mass shootings by allowing guns to be sold through the U.S. Postal Service and Internet.
It would be darkly funny only if it weren't so true.
But, on the day after Friday the 13th, this past Saturday, December 14th, 2019, while shoppers thronged the Cumberland Mall in search of Christmas gifts in the Atlanta, GA area, the Cobb County Police Department said that, at 1:18PM EST (local time), following an argument, 18-year old Ethan Green was shot in the neck and shoulder while in the food court by 18-year-old Zaire Dhanoolal and accomplice 19-year-old Joweer Ponce.
Both the accused young men are from nearby Marietta, GA, and Dhanoolal was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, while his accomplice Ponce was charged with reckless conduct and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit.
Police relied upon surveillance video to identify the suspects, which showed that the suspects first pointed their pistols at 21-year-old Anthony Ezell who wasn't injured, but was considered a victim of aggravated assault because the suspects pointed a gun at him before Green was shot.
That is nothing but purely shameful. Firearms are killing us.
"But," counter some people, "guns don't kill people, people kill people."
Yes, that's true, but we don't have to ignore the "elephant in the room" which is the alarming number of injuries and deaths from firearms – deliberate and accident – including mass shootings. It's nothing short of inexcusable.
Firearm-related violence is at catastrophic proportions in our nation, and gun sickness is the root cause.
In 1981 Gil Scott-Heron prophetically sang a song entitled simply as "Gun," from his album "Reflections" which lyrics are in part as follows:
"Everybody got a pistol, everybody got a .45
And the philosophy seem to be,
At least as near as I can see,
When other folks give up theirs, I'll give up mine.
This is a violent civilization;
If civilization's where I am.
Every channel that I stop on
Got a different kind of cop on
Killing them by the million for Uncle Sam.
Saturday night just ain't that special.
Yeah, I got the Constitution on the run.
'Cause even though we've got the right
To defend our home, to defend our life,
Got to understand to get it in hand about the guns.
Everybody got a pistol, this mosty be the NRA
Yeah 'cause when it's time to line up
You know damn well they're gonna shine up
Point being, that it wasn't always like this.
And, sad to say,
then-Senator Joe Biden had a direct hand in
relaxing and eradicating hundreds of laws, and
vacating at least 6 Supreme Court decisions by
his advocacy of the
Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA).
The NRA has called the 1985 Firearm Owners Protection Act "the law that saved gun rights."
Joe Biden, as Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was not merely a proponent of, and voted for the FOPA, he significantly helped advance it by unanimously voting it out of committee. So realistically and ultimately, he bears significant responsibility for the increase in mass shootings and gun violence in America.
What is the FOPA?
The Firearm Owners' Protection Act (FOPA):
• Overturned six Supreme Court rulings,
• Over-ruled at least 33% of the hundreds of lower court rulings interpreting the Gun Control Act (undid numerous firearms regulations),
• Was the measure that allowed gun dealers to sell rifles, shotguns and ammunition through the U.S. Mail and the Internet (which facilitated James Holmes' mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater July 20, 2012),
• Limited federal inspections of Firearms Dealers,
• Simultaneously allowed firearm dealers to sell guns at gun shows, and by so doing,
• Helped gun shows grow significantly in popularity and size,
• Popularized modern gun shows,
• Created the so-called "Gun Show Loophole," allowing of "straw purchases" of firearms, and
• Significantly contributed to mass shootings.
The FOPA also made it easier for private collectors to sell guns without obtaining a federal dealers' license, which would play a role in what later became known as the "Gun Show Loophole.""
Here are Biden's comments in 1985 about his support of the FOPA which are published in the Congressional Record:
"I give credit to Senator HATCH and the National Rifle Association for their willingness to compromise and develop a revised bill that would strike a fair balance between unnecessary restrictions and regulations on lawful ownership of rifles and handguns and the legitimate interests of law enforcement in carrying out their responsibilities. I believe the compromises that are now a part of this bill have resulted in a balanced piece of legislation that protects the rights of private gun owners while not infringing on law enforcement's ability to deal with those who misuse guns or violate laws.
During my 12 1/2 years as a Member of this body, I have never believed that additional gun control or Federal registration of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with or without gun control. In my opinion a national register or ban of handguns would be impossible to carry out and may not result in reductions in crime. … However, on the whole, I am satisfied with the revisions to the bill made in committee, and I believe this bill makes improvements to existing law. "
– Delaware Senator Joe Biden, July 9, 1985 in Congressional Record – Senate, p18229
Perhaps Joe Biden should be called "Gun Show Joe."
Illustrations from http://www.GunViolenceArchive.org/
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This is one heck of a guitar! Once owned by Joe Bonamassa and now up for sale on Ebay. The 1968 Les Paul, which is rumored to be a reissue using an original 1950's left over body and neck. Joe owned it for about ten years and was his main Les Paul during 1998-2000. He used this guitar on the title track from his first solo album, "A New Day Yesterday." This guitar traded by Joe to Holy Grail Guitars in Santa Monica, CA.
Joe traded this guitar for two other guitars; a 1953 Gibson ES-295 and a 1968 Gibson ES-355. The guitar comes with the case and COA's from both the guitar shop and Joe himself. The current bid on Ebay is up to 5.5k. You can bid and view more pictures at Ebay.


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Global Warming Articles and answers. Have a look.
More about global warming.
Investigate these global warming articles when you get a chance. Are you conducting research and want answers? This will help you find articles on global warming now.
Below is a list of ten common questions with straightforward responses, along with some links for more detailed information. Try this page if you want additional scientific articles emailed to you.
Check this list of global warming articles currently posted on StuffintheAir.com:
global warming pictures - to get you started
solutions for global warming - a few possibilities
global warming carbon dioxide - Is it the real culprit?
air pollution cause global warming - It probably contributes
cause of global warming - The $64,000 question
global warming cartoons - Insight and perspective
global warming in the past - It was always warming or cooling
globle warming - a really bad spell of global warming
global energy balance - upsetting this may lead to global warming
dire predictions of global warming - see the film
another view of global warming - from a special guest
global warming evidence - Facts against global warming
Pollution to the evolution
by Jake Ingram
Stockton on Tees, England
Over flooding
Low rotation
Under water cities
Now there's pollution
1. What would you say are the most important green house gases? And what is their origin?
Most global warming articles will include:
Carbon Dioxide CO2 – From many sources. Natural ones include respiration and decay. People create CO2 primarily through combustion, industry and transportation. CARS! CARS! CARS!
Methane CH4 - A natural product of decomposition, including digestion and soil emissions. So agriculture contributes this one consistently. Global warming articles indicate our industries tend to leak fuel gases containing this stuff. See the article on natural gas leak detection for more about this.
Ozone O3 - at lower elevations – Like the others it traps radiation under its blanket. Some natural processes suck ozone from the ozone layer and bring it down to ground level according to a few global warming articles. We call this stratospheric intrusion. Industry creates its fair share of ground-level ozone as well.
Do not confuse it with stratospheric ozone, which we want to preserve. Certain emissions in the past have led to destruction of the ozone layer. And it remains a frequent item in the news. See below.
Nitrous Oxide N2O - Natural sources involve the decomposition of ammonia. Again, agriculture is a major contributor.
Water vapor H2O - Evaporation puts this guy in the air. Of course, with global warming, the air will be able to "hold" more of this one. One example is power plants, which release great quantities of steam.
Halocarbons any gas whose chemical formulas includes a combination of C, H, F, Cl and numbers - Not produced naturally. Used to propel aerosol sprays, manufacture foams, and enable refrigeration. This is the group of culprits causing the problems addressed in the next question.
Aerosols - Also known as particulates. Naturally produced by fires and volcanoes. Many human activities release dust and smoke.
Bear in mind that without greenhouse gases, the whole planet would be at least 50°F colder than it is now. So we need them.
2. How does ozone depletion tie into global warming and or climate change?
Depletion of stratospheric ozone is caused by the emissions of other chemicals. Materials which act as catalysts for reactions resulting in the dismantling of ozone molecules. These substances contain chlorine and fluorine atoms within their molecules. And global warming articles call them halocarbons, chloro- and fluorocarbons.
In general, we consider this a different although just as serious global environmental problem.
3. How will global warming affect the polar ice caps?
Global warming articles and even one documentary film point to a study that seems to indicate that the Greenland ice cap and glaciers are destined to melt away and raise the sea levels by over 20 feet.
This melting is supposed to be responsible for the salt dilution, which could stop the ocean currents and cause wintry scenes like those depicted in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. Now wouldn't that slow the melting? Anyway this melting is predicted to take hundreds of years.
4. With the possibility of rising emissions of greenhouse gases what will happen to the Earth's climate?
Most popular weather predictions featured in global warming articles:
Temperatures will rise – Anywhere from about 2 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, as a global average.
Some areas will be colder – Caused by the desalination of parts of the ocean and suppression of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which keeps the northern hemisphere mild. This is the possible experience shown in that movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Areas will be wetter – The Great Plains and US southwest, for instance, according to some researchers.
Areas will be drier – Generally, the pattern of rain and drought is predicted to change, though exactly how remains up for debate. Dispute, in fact.
5. How does the increasing population affect global warming?
The most obvious consequence global warming articles point out is that with more people, there should be more man-made greenhouse gases, unless people suddenly become aware of their consequences and change their activities accordingly.
6. How does the concentration of carbon dioxide affect the world?
True facts on global warming:
It is first on many greenhouse gas lists found in global warming articles. This is because there is so much of it being produced, and it is the subject of Kyoto and similar agreements. See the Solution Global Warming for further details. Greenhouse gases trap heat energy trying to escape from the planet's atmosphere. It normally goes out through virtual windows, which are becoming plugged. Incoming energy comes through different windows that are not blocked as completely.
If there is enough CO2, we all would suffocate due to a decreased oxygen concentration. But this would take a lot. Conceivably, after a certain amount is produced, an incremental increase would have minimal effect on the global warming green house effect. That's because once that particular radiation window is filled, adding to it would be redundant.
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Green house gas reduction from industrial sources.
Consumer awareness of environmentally friendly products and smart purchasing decisions.
Green taxes and rebates.
Global warming articles.
Government agreements and emissions reduction, emission credits and trading.
Cars -
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Alternate energy sources - how many can you think of? Hydrogen, nuclear, solar and wind to name a few.
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8. Which regions have most at stake?
Global warming articles like to visualize disaster. A few examples…
Heavily populated low-lying areas, homes lost due to rising sea levels and flooding. Many third world areas severely affected.
Temperate regions which have not yet been subject to diseases such as Lyme Disease, West Nile and Malaria could now get them.
Agricultural areas dependent on marginal and perhaps decreasing precipitation.
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Heat Our breathing, animals, cars, houses, industries. You get the point.
Green house gases Our bodies, animals, cars, houses, industries. All emit Carbon dioxide, methane (cows are famous here), or both, plus others. Heat becomes trapped and the temperature goes up.
What is global warming? Just a change in the average temperature. Many articles and websites show global warming graphs of how historical temperatures fluctuated upwards and downwards by amounts much more than we are currently seeing.
Global warming history - The earth has survived. Many of these changes occurred before man was around, so there is some question whether mankind will survive. There is only one way to find out for sure, but I am willing to bet YES.
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Much as been written about it and even more about An Inconvenient Truth. Keep in mind that this is Hollywood, and sacrificing some grim reality for excitement and profit is the norm here. However, any of those things shown in the film is possible.
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Daily Howler: Has polling ever failed this badly? Try New Hampshire, way back in 2000
WINDS OF CHANGE CHANGE! Has polling ever failed this badly? Try New Hampshire, way back in 2000: // link // print // previous // next //
WINDS OF CHANGE CHANGE: The winds of change blew through New Hampshire. And then the winds of change changed course, and blew through New Hampshire again.
Why were New Hampshire's polls so wrong? Last night, cable talkers were pimping "the [Tom] Bradley effect," in which whites tell pollsters they plan to vote for black candidates even when they don't. (For what it's worth, this effect was not observed in the 2006 Tennessee and Maryland senate races.) Others said that Democratic voters, especially women, reacted to the trashing of Clinton by grave-dancing pundits in recent days.
A few basic observations:
Hard to poll: Does our side ever know any damn thing about our recent electoral history? Our once-brightest liberal says, today, that he knows of no recent election where polling failed as it did this week. That's typical. In fact, the last time New Hampshire held a two-party primary, the polling failed by a larger margin! Here's the Dean, in a Washington Post "news report," one day before John McCain racked up his Granite State win over Bush during Campaign 2000:
BRODER (1/31/00): Vice President Gore shifted abruptly from a stance of lofty disdain and denounced the tactics of challenger Bill Bradley today as the New Hampshire primary campaign entered its final hours with polls showing tightening races in both parties.
On a day when the five Republican hopefuls and the two Democrats raced from television studios to town meetings before joining the rest of America in watching the Super Bowl, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, deadlocked in the latest surveys of the GOP race, took heart from enthusiastic crowds and continued their polite sparring for advantage.
On January 31, Broder reported that Bush and McCain were "deadlocked in the latest surveys." The next day, McCain won the race—by 18 points! But then, New Hampshire can be hard to poll, in part because of its large numbers of independents, who are free to vote in either party's primary (more below).
At any rate, the polls were "wrong" by a larger margin the last time New Hampshire ran a two-party primary! Typically, our side hasn't heard. But then, neither had our old pal Chuck Todd, who whiffed on this completely and totally on MSNBC last night. Maybe it's time for Chuck, who's superb, to hire us as expert staff. We'll need Chris' office, of course.
(Quick postscript: To appreciate the flavor of daily reporting from Campaign 2000, note Broder's contemptuous opening sentence, in which he refers to Candidate Gore's "stance of lofty disdain." And yes, this was a front-page news report, not an op-ed column. It was written with—who else?—Ceci Connolly.)
Two parties: Why did the polling fail this week? Like you, we don't know, but here's one guess: In New Hampshire, independents jump parties depending on where the action is. In the past few days, pundits said the Democratic race would be a blow-out—that the action was on the Republican side. A guess: Some independents who polled for Obama jumped over to vote for McCain (or for Ron Paul; or for somebody else). In the last eight years, pundits have routinely said that the late surge to McCain in Campaign 2000 cost Bill Bradley a bunch of votes. Last night, as is so typical, this thought fled these same pundits' heads.
Warm-weather friends: It's often very cold when New Hampshire votes. Last evening, we called our sister in Portsmouth—and she said, with suitable amazement, that the temperature there was 61! We'll promise you: Some of Clinton's "older woman" voters would have stayed home on a colder day. (How many? We have no idea.) Inevitably, good weather boosts turn-out. This disfavors the campaign with more passion, which would have been Obama's.
The [Tom] Bradley effect: Did some whites tell pollsters they were planning to vote for Obama, even though they knew they weren't? Presumably, somebody did that in New Hampshire, although it's a slightly odd approach in a two-party primary. (Again, this effect was not observed in Maryland or Tennessee, 2006.) In 1982, when the "Bradley effect" got its name, voters had only two choices when pollsters called—the Democrat Bradley, or the Republican Deukmejian. In New Hampshire, voters had all sorts of "politically correct" choices available aside from Obama.
By the way, the 1982 "Bradley effect" was more minor than this week's poll swing—and some have attributed it, at least in part, to bungled polling. In 1982, Bradley's lead had been shrinking for a month; he ended up losing by an eyelash. In 1989, Tom Rosenstiel analyzed the matter in the Los Angeles Times:
ROSENSTIEL (11/9/89): If the idea that voters lie to pollsters is unfounded or at least exaggerated, what happened in Tom Bradley's gubernatorial race in California in 1982?
Several polls, including The Los Angeles Times Poll, showed Bradley winning handily. With a week to go, Field's California Poll showed Bradley ahead by seven points.
One problem, which cropped up again Tuesday, was that pollsters overestimated minority turnout.
Field and others expected it to be about average, 20 percent. But since Bradley chose to run as a mainstream candidate, not mobilizing his base, minority turnout was only 15 percent.
Another factor was the failure to measure undecideds.
And when exit polls failed to predict George Deukmejian's victory over Bradley, that was partly because pollsters had not anticipated that relaxed restrictions on absentee voting would cause a rise in that segment of the vote, and that it would go 80 percent Republican.
Field now asks people in pre-election votes if they are voting absentee, and weights those figures into his exit polls.
Did the "Bradley effect" play a role in New Hampshire? Like the pundits you watched last night, we don't have the slightest idea. But that didn't stop the clowns from their clowning. In recent days, Chris Matthews had expressed his outrage at the (vastly embellished) claim that the Clinton campaign had accused Iowa voters of sexism. Last night, after roughly a ten-second delay, he began savaging Granite Staters for their disgraceful racism. Suddenly, Matthews was feeling the spirit. To him, Democrats are "sweaty, crazy, yelling" people (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 1/22/07). Last night, the disappointed talker seemed to say they were big racists too.
The winds of change blew through New Hampshire—and through the caverns of a sad talker's mind. But readers, New Hampshire is hard to poll. Dead even with Bush, McCain won by 18. All four hopefuls were white guys that year—and the polling was way off then too.
Not that we liberals would ever attempt to learn from our recent elections.
ASTOUNDING: Obviously, there is nothing left to say about Maureen Dowd. On December 30, the nation's most visible public crackpot wrote a deeply strange year-end column about having a faith healer come to her home to "clear" it of karmic disorder. (And no, she didn't seem to be joking—click here.) This morning, she gives us a look at the giants among whom she works. Incredibly, her extra-long piece is headlined thus: "Can Hillary Cry Her Way to the White House?" Even we were startled:
DOWD (1/9/08): When I walked into the office Monday, people were clustering around a computer to watch what they thought they would never see: Hillary Clinton with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes.
A woman gazing at the screen was grimacing, saying it was bad. Three guys watched it over and over, drawn to the ''humanized'' Hillary. One reporter who covers security issues cringed. ''We are at war,'' he said. ''Is this how she'll talk to Kim Jong-il?''
Another reporter joked: ''That crying really seemed genuine. I'll bet she spent hours thinking about it beforehand.'' He added dryly: ''Crying doesn't usually work in campaigns. Only in relationships.''
Bill Clinton was known for biting his lip, but here was Hillary doing the Muskie. Certainly it was impressive that she could choke up and stay on message.
There you see them, swapping quips in their small, cramped part of the palace.
Jesus, what a gang of losers! Clinton was "doing the Muskie," Dowd says. Of course, as we recently noted, David Broder acknowledged, long ago, that Muskie quite likely didn't "do the Muskie" himself (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 11/28/07), but people like Dowd never drop preferred stories. Indeed, she may be showing professional courtesy; "the Muskie" is one of the few confections about Major Hopefuls of the last half-century which she herself didn't invent. (Al Gore said he inspired Love Story! And: George H. W. Bush asked for a splash of coffee! And: John Kerry said, Who among us doesn't love NASCAR! The crackpot helped dream them all up.)
Beyond that, note the portrait Dowd provides of the people around whom she works. (It's odd to think that she goes to an office to write about her ghost-busting.) A security expert thinks the next president will be chatting it up with Kim Jong-Il. Others offer hackneyed quips about the way Clinton was faking—although she obviously wasn't. (If you don't know that, you don't understand why acting schools exist.) But the dopes who write our big newspapers instinctively rush to such speculations. (They did the same with Romney in the past few weeks.) Maybe the faith healer has a good friend who can freshen the air inside heads?
Dowd's whole column today is appalling, even by her own bizarre standards. (Clearly, the Times has gone way past the point of embarrassment.) Her remarks about LBJ are utterly stupid. ("Living Democrats" know that Johnson was a giant of the civil rights movement, despite the tragedy of Vietnam. Dr. King also knew that.) She offers the standard non-analysis analysis of the Kyl-Lieberman vote. (Do you think she has any idea what the measure may have entailed?) She says Bill Clinton put Bush in the White House through his affair with Miss Lewinsky, who must appear in all such columns. (We agree with Dowd's assessment. But did she herself put Bush in the White House when she invented the Love Story blather, months before we'd heard of Monica? When she wrote, from the soul of her spreading illness, that Candidate Gore "is so feminized...he's practically lactating?") And then too, inevitably, there's feigned non-comprehension:
DOWD: [I]n the end, she had to fend off calamity by playing the female victim, both of Obama and of the press. Hillary has barely talked to the press throughout her race even though the Clintons this week whined mightily that the press prefers Obama.
Should Clinton engage the press more? It's hard to say. But duh! Targeted pols avoid the press because they know they're targets. To state the blindingly obvious, that's why Gore had to stop talking to reporters after Dowd invented the Love Story claptrap—after it became abundantly clear that every trivial, accurate comment would now be used against him. Often, we liberals still don't seem to understand these dynamics; we echo complaints like this by Dowd—and we haven't yet come to understand that we have to defend all our leaders, even those whom we might not prefer. Of course, life-forms like Dowd will always pretend they don't understand this game either.
There's very little left to say about this gruesome figure. But we liberals still haven't publicly defined Dowd's cohort, whom we mock among ourselves as "the Villagers." Average people still haven't heard about their culture—this average person, for example:
LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (1/3/08): I have been a daily Times reader for nearly 40 years, beginning with my first subscription at my New England preparatory school in the 1960s.
The opinion section has always drawn me into thoughtful discussion, with distinguished columnists from William Safire to Maureen Dowd, and from Paul Krugman to David Brooks (about whom I still have doubts).
But surely something has gone wrong when The Times embraces William Kristol, one of the neocon architects of the Bush administration's failed first-strike Iraq strategy, and an unapologetic hawk on similar aggression against Iran.
Good God. This reader still thinks Dowd is a "distinguished columnist" offering "thoughtful discussions." Liberals should flesh out our ideas about "the Village"—and make sure that such voters have heard them.
For decades, people like this have been told that the Dowds are driven by a vile "liberal bias." They've heard it over and over again; indeed, they still seem to think that the press is "too liberal" when it covers elections (see THE DAILY HOWLER, 12/20/07). We mock Village morés—among ourselves. We need to do what conservatives did—we need to find ways to tell the public, not just ourselves, about this broken-souled clan.
TOMORROW: Kurtz spots liberal bias.


Vancouver, B.C. - July 24, 2012 - Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") - (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) is pleased to release the final results from the 2012 phase 1 core drilling program that ended June 2012 at the North Bullfrog Project, Nevada. Final assays from hole NB-12-138 in the Yellow Jacket target area defined a thick mineralized zone around the previously discovered high grade vein (NR12-14, May 23, 2012) that has now expanded the overall intercept to 72.4 metres @ 1.74 g/t gold and 98.7 g/t silver or a gold equivalent* grade of 3.53 g/t (0.114 opt gold equivalent* over 237 feet), beginning at about 40 metres vertically below surface (Table 1).
At the Yellow Jacket target the complete results from hole NB-12-138 has now outlined a thick, near-surface zone of high-grade mineralization which could expand the Sierra Blanca open pit deposit north in this direction (Figure 1). Hole NB-12-139 at the Yellow Jacket target, 60 metres north of NB-12-138 drilled through a fault into the distal footwall zone of the high-grade vein target intersected in hole NB-12-138 and intersected a high-grade quartz veining with 5.14 g/t gold over 1.5 metres. It also encountered extensive explosive hydrothermal zones indicating the target boiling zone lies below this elevation. These new intersections have opened up potential for defining a new, higher grade, bulk tonnage zone of mineralization to the North of the currently defined deposits. In August, a 3D induced polarization (IP) survey will be carried out over Yellow Jacket to evaluate the depth and continuity of this new high-grade discovery. Phase 2 drilling of the Yellow Jacket target is scheduled for Q4 2012, subject to drill permit issuance.
Additionally, results from large diameter core drilling at the Mayflower Deposit has validated and enhanced earlier reverse circular (RC) drilling results. This drilling also intersected a massive quartz-adularia vein (Figure 2) which returned high-grade gold within a broader lower grade interval (54.4 metres @ 0.81 g/t gold including 1.1 metres @ 6.85 g/t gold). This intersection and the general higher grade nature of the core drilling over RC drilling results (Table 1) suggests higher-grade mineralization may be underrepresented in the Mayflower resource estimate where the current indicated resource averages 0.38 g/t gold (Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment for the North Bullfrog Project, Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, February 28, 2012). The current phase 2 Mayflower infill drilling program will determine the extent of the higher-grade mineralization and result in an updated resource summary and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) in Q4 of this year.
*Intercepts calculated with 0.1 g/t cutoff and up to 2.0 m of internal waste.
The current North Bullfrog mine development program is focussing on infill drilling, advanced metallurgical work and environmental baseline characterization studies in conjunction with a completion of a feasibility study by early 2013 on the Mayflower deposit. The recently completed financing has now provided the Company with the financial resources needed to rapidly advance the mine development assessment of the North Bullfrog area as well as continued exploration of this major new high-grade Nevada gold discovery.
Figure 2: Brecciated banded quartz adularia vein from NB-12-141, @ 116 meters. The banded texture of the pink adularia is commonly associated with high-grade mineralization in Bullfrog type gold systems.
Corvus Gold Inc. is a resource exploration company, focused in Nevada, Alaska and Quebec, which controls a number of exploration projects representing a spectrum of early-stage to advanced gold projects. Corvus is focused on advancing its 100% owned North Bullfrog, Nevada project towards a production decision while continuing to explore for major new gold discoveries. Corvus is committed to building shareholder value through advancing new gold discoveries to production while leveraging noncore assets via partner funded exploration work into a portfolio of royalty and carried interests in its projects.


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By Nicole Drum - September 2, 2021 12:45 am EDT
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings opens in theaters this week and will introduce Simu Liu's titular hero to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but as we've seen in trailers, the film will also see appearances by other MCU characters. Both Wong and Abomination appear in the film, potentially tying the film to Doctor Strange and The Incredible Hulk. And with trailers for the film also revealing a portion of the film is set in San Francisco, fans have wondered if Ant-Man or Wasp could also make an appearance. As it turns out, according to producer Jonathan Schwartz, the idea of having other characters appear is something that was discussed, though the film evolved over time.
"We did talk about other characters who might make sense, both in San Francisco and elsewhere, so there are a few different iterations [with] other folks who could have popped up," Schwartz told The Direct. "I think there's always a little bit of give and take there. But you know, the script evolved over time, into what it was, and ultimately we were telling Shang's story, so I think we're very happy with the version that ended up on screen."
It sounds like Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) probably isn't a character that will make an appearance, but there is the appearances of Wong (Benedict Wong) and Abomination and the film even got Tim Roth to return to voice the character, his first time back in the MCU since 2008.
"Roth did some vocalization for us... he certainly was part of that process," Schwartz told The Direct. "There will be more of Abomination to come, so more of that story to be told. With regards to Shang-Chi, it sort of came down to who would be the coolest character for this moment? Who do we want to see in that ring? And then understanding who would make sense for whatever ongoing stories they have going on out there in the bigger universe."
Speaking with ComicBook.com's Brandon Davis, Schwartz opened up about the inclusion of Abomination over other characters and said it was simply a matter of a good fit and great timing.
"We love that moment. We sort of knew, [director] Destin [Daniel Cretton] and I, that there had to be a big, kind of showcasing fight between two known characters in there, and it just became this big talk with us in talking about who made sense, and who'd be cool, and who we would think it would be a good fight between, and we ended up with wanting Abomination because it seemed to make the most story sense for where we're going to find him in this universe, and also, just be a cool, awesome fight. And it fell along those lines, like it was a good time to refresh Abomination's look. We haven't seen him for a while, so I think everyone was excited to kind of see him at all in weird glory."
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Top Ten Best Characters in Breaking Bad
One of the best shows on TV since The Wire, Breaking Bad brought about the transformation of Bryan Cranston for idiot father in Malcolm in the Middle, to an unassuming chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. In the five series as Walter White he makes the transition from wanting to provide security for his family after his gone by a one-off crystal meth drug cook, to dealer, schemer, and eventually killer. The show is very well acted and, like the Wire, has some great set scenes, some unexpected shocks, a strong storyline and characterisation, and black humour. My only criticism is that the female characters in the film, while well-acted, are just not very interesting, although Hank Schrader's wife has some good scenes and lines.
10. Jesse Pinkman
Walt White's bag man is initially rather uninteresting, but as the series develops the ups and downs of their relationship grows ever-more interesting. A loser and drifter, Pinkman begins to see new opportunities for satisfaction outside of recreational drugs and becomes a substantial and important force in the later series. Arguably his most shocking scene is to kill Gale, that avoiding Walt's execution by Gus, because Gale and Walt are the only two people who can manufacture Blue Sky Crystal Meth to the required standard.
9. Hank Schrader
At first your inclination is to write off Hank as a dumb-ass bull-in-a-chine shop Albuquerque cop, but when the cards are down he can pack a punch and give as good as he gets. He's also a persistent and determined detective who at the end of Series 5, while sitting on the loo, makes the connection between Walt Whitman/Walter White and the crystal meth manufacture and distribution. However the brutality of it all gets to him, and he's shown as not as a hard-as-nails kick-ass dude, but someone who bears psychological scars from the attempts on his life.
8. Gale Boetticher
A real oddball, this over-polite slightly effeminate chemist learns the meth trade from Walt White and eventually is asked to take over the production of crystal meth. He's a vegan nerd who likes Thai music and karaoke and it's hard not to feel some sympathy when he's bumped off in his own flat.
7. Brandon Mayhew: "Badger"
(On the left) is a mate of Jesse and with Skinny Pete helps to sell Blue Sky at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. A bit of a turnip and regular drug user, he nevertheless helps Jesse out a few times in the series.
6. Mike Ehrmantraut
Rough and ready ex-Philadelphia cop, Mike is a fixer, hit-man and bodyguard who works for Gus and occasionally Saul. He has an uncomfortable and doomed relationship with Walter White that eventually ends with Walther shooting him for not giving him the names of Gus' associates.
5. Tuco Salamanca
One of the first heavy villains you come across in Breaking Bad, he's a drug-whacked psychopathic drug King Pin, prone to violent outbursts and craziness. He captures Walt and Jesse and prepares to kill Jesse and make Walt produce crystal meth in a new superlab in Mexico. However Jesse escapes and wounds him, and Hank arrives on the scene to finish him off.
4. Saul Goodman
A sleaze-ball lawyer with awful fashion sense, Saul Goodman is a superb comedy character in Breaking Bad. His appalling TV adverts ("You'd better call Saul"),dodgy deals, and brilliant un-pc dialogue are a joy to witness.
3. Hector Salamanca
Also known as the "ting ting" man, this character is about as scary as it comes, despite being crippled in a wheelchair and attach ed to a respirator, and exudes menace. Never speaking since his stroke he communicates only by a simple bell on his chair. One ting is yes, two tings, no, and a lot of mad tinging means he's seen someone trying to poison his cousin with ricin! Is instrumental in finally exiting Gus from proceedings in a memorable scene.
2. Walter White
Without a doubt Bryan Cranston's finest moments. He plays the transformation of Walter White from mild-mannered teacher to ruthless businessman and drug boss with skill and verve. All of the five seasons centre around Walt and during his "Heisenberg" phase becomes genuinely a disturbing character- a million miles away from the coughing terminally ill teacher/car wash assistant we see at the start.
1. Gustavo (Gus) Fring
Also known as the Chicken Boss. We first meet him as the Chilean proprietor of a tex-mex fried chicken fast food joint, Los Pollos Hermanos where he is polite, well-mannered and one would think, nothing beyond what he seems on the surface. But no. This is a major Player in the drug cartel and that cold politeness and clipped vocal delivery begins to exude menace and not civility. When he despatches his second-in-command, Victor, it is unexpected and shocking. By far and away, the best fleshed-out baddy in the series, the scenes with him in it are mesmeric.
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Aaron Skinner (left) and Chris Murray won gold in the adaptive double over 1000m at the national rowing championships last week. Nestles Rowing Club members Angela Meade (left) and Rachel Mahony will compete in this weekend's Schoolgirls Championships in Geelong.
WHILE rowers Aaron Skinner and Chris Murray have just returned from their major event with a golden glow, clubmates Angela Meade and Rachel Mahony are preparing for the peak of their season.
It is a busy period for Nestles Rowing Club, which will be represented by Meade and Mahony at the Head of the Schoolgirls Championships in Geelong this weekend.
Coach Tom Bertrand said the Emmanuel College students would be rowing in the open single sculls, starting with heats tomorrow.
"I think they're both capable of at least making the semi-finals," he said.
"They've done heaps of work.
"I would say they've been doing four water sessions a week, as well as their fitness training."
The competition, held on the Barwon River, is the biggest single-sex rowing regatta in the southern hemisphere.
"It's huge," Bertrand said.
"This is what they've been aiming for."
Last week's Australian championships in Perth was Skinner and Murray's major meeting.
It saw the pair take out gold for the first time in the adaptive double over 1000 metres.
"Three or four year ago we started to try and get them to row in the double scull," Bertrand said.
"Aaron's six-foot-three, maybe, and Chris is five-foot-six, which isn't ideal teaming.
"One is autistic and one has Down syndrome, so their thinking is not the same, but they've just worked and worked and worked."
The coach said that competing against able-bodied competitors in numerous regattas had benefited the duo, who also picked up individual medals at the Champion Lakes course last week.
In the adaptive single scull over 500 metres, Skinner defended his title by claiming gold, while Murray collected silver.
Their efforts helped Victoria win the Bob Blake perpetual trophy, awarded for the most points gained over the regatta in the adaptive division.
Bertrand said the pair were winners regardless of their medal tally.
"If they do everything right, that's winning," he said. "To get a medal, that's a super bonus."
Meanwhile, Bertand's son and former Nestles Rowing Club member Tommy had a successful campaign at the national championships, claiming gold in the men's lightweight pairs with Sydney's Oli Zuk.
He also clinched silver with his club Mercantile in the lightweight eight, while he represented Victoria in the President's Cup men's lightweight fours, collecting a bronze.
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Jan Satyagraha 2012
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Joint Statement
AGREEMENT ON LAND REFORMS BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (GOI) AND JAN SATYAGRAHA
1. National Land Reforms Policy: While land reforms is clearly a state subject under the Constitution, the MoRD acknowledges that a National Land Reforms Policy announced by the Central Government could have its own importance. The MoRD will initiate a dialogue with States immediately and put out a draft of this policy for public debate and discussion in the next 4-6 months and to be finalised soon thereafter. The draft Land Reforms Policy prepared by the Jan Satyagraha organized by EktaParishad will be an important input into the preparation of this draft. Civil Society Organisations will also be actively involved in this exercise.
2. Statutory backing to the provision of agricultural land and Homestead Land: MoRD will proactively initiate the dialogue process with States to take up steps on the issue of giving statutory backing (like MGNREGA and FRA) to (a) provision of agricultural land to the landless poor in the backward districts; and (b) provision of Homestead Rights to the landless and shelter less poor of rural areas, all over the country, so as to guarantee 10 cents of homestead to every landless and shelter less rural poor household.
3. Homestead Land: MoRD will propose doubling the unit cost to enable provision of 10 cents of land as homestead for every landless and shelter less poor family as a component of the Indira Awas Yojana (IAY).
4. Enhanced Land Access and Land rights for the poor, marginalized and deprived landless: The MoRD agrees to issue detailed advisories in the next two months exhorting the States to focus on the effective implementation of various laws enacted by legislatures aimed at protecting the land rights of dalits, adivasis and all other weaker and marginalized sections of society. Details of these advisories will be worked out in consultation with civil society organisations active on this issue. MoRD will also, through a set of advisories exhort and support the State Governments to take up a time-bound programme, for securing access to land to specific categories of marginalized and deprived landless families.
5. Fast Track Land Tribunals: The MoRD agrees to initiate a dialogue with States to establish Fast Track Land Tribunals/Courts for speedy disposal of the cases pending in revenue and judicial courts.In addition to the Central Scheme for legal aid, States too will be exhorted to extend legal aid to all the persons belonging to socially deprived sections, whose lands are involved in litigation, particularly dalits and tribal communities.
6. Effective Implementation of Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 (PESA):
MoRD will work with the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and Panchayati Raj to complete stakeholder consultations over the next four months so that detailed circulars to States could be issued for ensuring effective implementation of PESA by empowering the Gram Sabhas to exercise the powers given to them under the Act.
7. Effective implementation of Forest Rights Act: Ministry of Tribal Affairs have issued a comprehensive set of revised rules on 13th September, 2012 under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers(Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. States will be actively exhorted and supported for effective implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the light of the revised rules and directives issued by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and in light of suggestions received from civil society organisations.
8. Forest and Revenue Boundary Disputes: MORD agrees to issue an advisory to States to set up joint teams of Forest and Revenue Departments to undertake a thorough survey of the forest and revenue boundaries to resolve disputes. The Gram Panchayats and Gram Sabhas will be fully involved in the survey and settlement process.
9. Survey, updating of records and governing Common Property Resources: The MoRD will exhort and support the States to carry out survey of Common Property Resources (CPRs) with the direct involvement of the Gram Sabha and the Gram Panchayats concerned. The States will also be advised to ensure full implementation of recent Supreme Courts' directions on this matter.
10. Task Force on Land Reforms: The MoRD will immediately set up a Task Force on Land Reforms headed by the Union Minister for Rural Development to implement the above agenda. Members of the Task Force will include representatives of MoRD, state governments, civil society organisations working on land reform issues and all stakeholders concerned.
In light of this Agreement Jan Satyagraha agrees to discontinue its present march and work with the MoRD to carry forward this agenda.
Jairam Ramesh,
Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India
PV Rajagopal,
for Jan Satyagraha
Dated: October 11th 2012, Agra
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The act of gathering intelligence is one of the most important for any political administration, particularly at states of war or tension. The consequences for failures can be catastrophic, such as terrorist attacks, leaking of military secrets and even wars fought on false pretences. The Iraq War, based upon assertions of weapons of mass destruction that were proven to be false, is just one example of how false knowledge can have a seismic effect on the geopolitical stage and is proof of the importance of intelligence.
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Get a copy of the current Advancement Guidelines and Procedures and look at item #6 of the Steps to Eagle (sorry, it don't have the page number). It clearly lays out the procedures for letters of recommendation. In a nutshell, the Scout is responsible to provide the names and addresses and to contact the people to make sure they know they will be asked to provide a reference. The Scout may be asked to give the references a form letter and return envelope. That's it for the Scout's involvement.
If the letters aren't forthcoming, it is the responsible of the district/council to follow up. In no case is the Scout to be penalized if the letters don't come through.
OF COURSE, our council doesn't follow this (or much else related to Eagle procedures). They require the Scout to collect at least four letters in sealed envelopes and include them with his application. If the letters aren't attached to the app, it won't be accepted by the service center.
As I stated earlier, in my Council, the youth is supplied the shells for his recommendations. His mission is to deliver the shells and a self-addressed stamped envelope to his references. They fill out the reference (or do a letter instead) and mail it to someone in the Troop or Crew concerned.
Is it what National wants? No.
Is it what our Council Advancement Committee mandates? Yes.
Is it worth the battle with senior volunteers and Professionals alike to change? NO.
This "letter of reference" requirement happens in my district. It got interesting with the last Scout I took for his EBOR. The advancement chair asked for the "letters of reference" to which I replied, "What letters are your talking about?" To which the advancement chair replied "The letters of reference that are required" to which I replied "The requirement is to provide the names & contact information of people that would be willing to give the Scout a reference. Nothing states any letters are required" to which the advancement chair replied "We can't have an EBOR without them" to which I replied, "Show me in the Advancement Procedures it states that".
The Scout had his EBOR & passed. The EBOR stated the references must be checked prior to sending this on to National. I stated that was fine as long as the Scout was not held accountable for this and as long as it didn't hold up the process. I don't know if the references were ever checked, but the final approval from National came in good time.
I did have 1 scout in my unit who needed to petition national his EBOR sicne it was more than 3 months after his 18th birthday. What was his excuse, district could not send a representative to the EBOR before the young man left for basic training. Upon his return from basic training, all arrangements were made and on the nite of the EBOR, that was whenwe were made aware of the 3-6 month rule. So no EBOR. HOWEVER, the EBOR did have anice little "chat" with the young man about what he's learned im Scouting and how he has applied it to his life. The district rep also explained the entire appeals process so that it could be expedited. the Dist. Advancement chair, troop committee members that would sat on the EBOR, unit leaders, and his reserve CO all wrote letters to national encouraging them to grant the EBOR.
He got permission from national, had an EBOR that lasted about 15-20 minutes, and passed.
My suggestion is start the appeals process NOW and document everything. I would also have the eagle candidate make the calls himself on a regualr basis, documenting thathe did so.
Thankfully, our council complies with what is written in the requirements, nothing more. They have never, in my experience, asked for letters - only a properly completed application. They have never asked for the workbook. The only thing they have ever questioned is whether all the dates are correct for advancements and merit badges, and whether or not all the signatures are in order. I have never seen a boy who completed his requirements on time fail to earn the rank.
The idea that somehow by completing the requirements hours before the deadline, the boy has brought on himself this trouble - is unfair to the boy. It's called a 'deadline' for a reason. If he met the deadline then he has complied with that requirement. The deadline ISN'T for filing the application but rather for completing the requirements including the project. The EBOR and application can be completed any time within three months of his birthday without further question. I see this happen often these days and as long as the boy met the deadline for the requirements, and had the EBOR and filed the application within three months. he has always attained the rank.
A three-hour EBOR is an 'ordeal', not a review. It's absurd. I agree with the 30-minute idea although I've seen them go to an hour or so if the boy just wants to shoot the breeze (adults always seem to be eager to participate).
If I was the parent in this case, I'd be prepared to support my son in an appeal of a decision.
Well, Matt's employer (who is also a Scouter) got his letter in--again--yesterday. Thank goodness he had saved a copy. The assistant principal at the high school said that he had sent his in ages ago. However, he said that after school today he would go to the scout office in person, get the form, and fill it out right there and hand it to a live human being to ensure that it was received this time. Fortunately, the high school is less than a mile from the council office, so this is not a problem.
Thank you all for your support. By the way, to answer a couple of questions: yes, OGE, I am the freelance writer, but I don't think I'd write about this. Narraticong, I live in Lansing.
I'll let you know when Matt has his EBOR and earns his Eagle.
Good luck to Matt. I'm sure he'll do fine.
Our Council is similar to others. Letters are requested, usually by the Unit CC who chairs the EBOR. (Our EBOR are run by the units with a District rep present). In most cases letters are received, but I know of NO case where an EBOR was postponed or a Scout denied Eagle because of the lack of them. They are considered just additional information that the EBOR can consider in their deliberations.
If the EBOR is 3-6 months after the 18th birthday, the scout needs to appeal to National?
My oldest turned in his packet the night before his 18th birthday, Nov. 6th, missing the deadline for the Nov. EBOR day. The next EBOR day was in late February, falling in the 3-6 month zone. We never were informed that we had to appeal to National for an EBOR. He had his EBOR without incident. I wonder if the DAC contacted National about why the EBOR was held after 3 months, instead of making us appeal? If so, I guess our district is blessed.
0-3 months after 18th birthday: No explanation required. Normal EBOR.
3-6 months: A letter explaining the delay accompanies the application. This is a formality, they do not approve or reject the letter. I used to keep a form letter on my computer because I had to send the letter for at least three scouts.
Over 6 months: Need permission from National to hold EBOR.
I believe this info is all in the Advancement Committee handbook but I cannot find my copy to verify it.
"Boards of review conducted between three and six months after the candidate's 18th birthday must be pre-approved by the local council. A statement by an adult explaining the reason for the dealy must be attached to the Eagle Scout Rank Application when it is submitted to the Eagle Scout Service."
It is pretty much a formality in our district. Our council delegates that approval process to the district advancement committee's Eagle board which essentially delegates it to the the Eagle board member working with the scout. Approval has been close enough to automatic to not be noticeable.
Our district does expect letters of recommendation. In our troop the SM sends out a form to the references. We have held EBORs with as few as three letters having been received.
In our district the EBORs are scheduled and organized by the troop with one or more Eagle reps. It seems to facilitate the process of getting the EBOR done in a timely manner.
Yah, I never quite understand the adults who feel it's such an awful burden for a lad who is applying for our highest award to ask a bunch of people he knows for reference letters. He's got to do the same thing for college applications, many job applications, etc. No responsible lad would think twice about it.
Just for the record, the council sets the means of contacting the references, and it is perfectly OK and completely within the rules for the council to specify that the boy should request letters of recommendation be mailed to 'em. And for the council to wait for responses. At least in bigger councils and districts, it's the norm.
I reckon it's da helpful thing to do, as otherwise the lads goin' up for Eagle BOR's are expectin' a busy district tryin' to get 40+ people on the phone and scribble notes, eh? That burns a lot of volunteer time, and doesn't offer as much insight for a good BOR as the letters do. A Scout is Helpful.
I've never been on a job interview where I was required to bring four sealed reference letters with me as a condition of sitting for the interview. The process spelled out in the policy is more in line with what normally occurrs in a job situation.
You're right, John, this is real-world. It's too bad that real world Scouting doesn't include following the rules.
Don't think of Eagle as a job interview. Think of it as the home stretch of "employee of the year" for a moderately large business.
Yes, in my company, for employee of the year, there are about 10 letters of reference required, and yes, the employee has to make sure they're in play.
As I've said before, I have only so much energy. I choose the issues worthy of battle. This is not one of them.
The process spelled out in the policy is more in line with what normally occurrs in a job situation.
Yah, just depends on your line of work, eh? In my line of work where yeh have a lot of applicants for a given job, if yeh don't have reference letters you don't get the interview. We're not goin' to spend our time doin' the work for a lazy applicant.


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Now up: September's Best Jazz on Bandcamp recommendations
And here we go. Let's do some catch-up on notifications about my latest Best Jazz on Bandcamp recommendations posting on The Bandcamp Daily. This monthly installment covers albums for September 2019. There's ten primary recommendations in total, plus some bonus recommendations, to boot. There's been no let-up on the deluge of new music in 2019, so if you were thinking about maybe settling into a prior month's purchases, forget about it… you've got more excellent new music to discover. I have been saying this same thing nearly every month, and every month it is true. On that note, let's begin.
Follow this LINK to read those recommendations and listen to music from each album.
Check out past recommendations by running through my contributor archives.
Have fun going through the list!
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Recommended: Christian Meaas Svendsen – "Avin"
There's a heavy emotional weight that acts as a counterbalance to the lovely melodic persona of Avin. The key component that secures both qualities is how Christian Meaas Svendsen slips between evocative, poignant expressions with a fluid grace that's almost stunning for its subtle transformations. The album is effectively split between two suites. The gentle lullaby of "Da du og var vi" transitions into the tense "Kretsløp" without a pause between, and the comforting tone becomes more ominous. And then this, too, shifts into the wistful title-track "Avin." Here, the harmonics reflect an uneasy state of existence… a far cry from the thick, heartmelting harmonies of the suite's opening. Svendsen's vocals are delivered with an even hand and a light touch, and nothing about those qualities hides the impassioned feelings of the words themselves.
"I Berlin" is a solitary piece that separates the two sections. The ensemble's chamber music nature shines strongest here, and the seamless way in which the string section switches between a disarming and a choppy melodicism is emblematic of the album's approach and its structure.
"Katarsis" begins the second section with silence, interrupted by spoken word that leads into the melancholy "11 Dager," a song that features Svendsen's acoustic guitar, a duet with another vocalist, and then a thin ray of sunlight at song's end in the form of warm harmony from a children's choir. Those harmonics lead right into the album finale "Tørr og sliten jord." It's a song that brings the album full circle with the emotional tones and personable tunefulness of the album's opening track, but with a mood that shades more to a state of contemplation.
The album's title and the artist's liner notes indicate this album is about love and his current relationship and all of the turbulence, uncertainty and joy that comes with it. That assertion rings true from every note of this gorgeous album.
Your album personnel: Christian Meaas Svendsen (vocals, guitar), Vilde Alnæs (violin), Adrian Løseth Waade (viola), Kaja Fjellberg Pettersen (cello), Inga Aas (double bass), Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone), Espen Reinertsen (saxophone) and Agnes Hvizdalek (vocal).
Avin by Christian Meaas Svendsen
Released on Nakama Records.
Listen to more of the album at the label's Bandcamp page.
Music from Oslo, Norway.
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My name is D and I´m a great admirer of your work.
I´d like know your opinion on gay adoption and how it might be approached from the point of view of property rights and welfare of children. My motto is: "If it moves, privatize it; if it doesn't move, privatize it. Since everything either moves or doesn't move, privatize everything." I'm not sure if adoption agencies move or don't move, but I'm sure they should all be privatized, and allowed to sink or swim insofar as they please their customers, like any other business.
I think adoption, too, ought to be privatized, and those in charge should decide this sort of thing.
If a thief steals $100 from you and $100 from me and I am the one who catches him, do I get to keep all the money or do I have to give half of it to you?
Based on the natural laws of salvage, you have to give me $33.33. Maritime law as I understand it set the salvage fee at 33%. So, you have to give me 1/3 of my money, but only if I ask for it. You don't have to come to me and offer to give it to me. If I sue you for it, the libertarian court would award me $33.33.
This is a complicated issue since for many libertarians, the government is a thief.
Suppose A works for the state as a teacher in a public school. Where did the government get the money to pay A's salary? Why, from the B's. May a B now sue A to get his money back from her? Based on what I said immediately above, the answer would be yes. However, there are complications here. For one thing, A could counter sue B, because B, too, "takes" money from government: he uses state roads, currency, libraries, museums; he even eats food, which government subsidizes. A has another defense against B, and this might work, assuming the court is a libertarian one: "Hey, I took money from the thief, which is a mitzvah (good deed, in Yiddish). In suing me, you are objectively supporting the government, which no libertarian should do. If you don't like what the state is doing, stealing money on a massive scale, go to them, not to me, and take some of their money from them, just like I did. In other words, your lawsuit against me in contrary to libertarianism, in that you are now attacking one of the good guys, me, a libertarian public school teacher who is relieving the government of some of its ill-gotten gains.


Brody Stephens, diagnosed in 2010 with acute myeloid leukemia, is a fighter. The New Palestine native is just eight years old but he's had to battle like no kid should ever have.
While at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Brody was visited by Andrew Luck and Jack Doyle of the Colts, Steph Curry and coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors – which made his wish come true. And, Glenn Robinson III of the Pacers took an interest in Brody after reading about his fight.
Brody has become fond of GRIII, who visited him several times in the hospital. He brought shoes and hats. He has a jersey on the way. They talked NBA and discussed Brody's extensive card collection. Yes, he even has one of Robinson III, from Gary, Indiana.
Recently, I talked with Glenn about Brody, their relationship, and why Brody inspires him. Listen below.


DWL025 . Released December 2001 . Add To Cart : $4 Description Our second compilation, a mix of dwl faithful and regional artists that attracted praise both locally and nationally for its wide range of styles and cohesive vision. Reviews Given their roster's predilection for incestuous band-hopping and creative, self-made music, it's surprising that Datawaslost hasn't attained an Elephant 6-type reputation. Datawaslost: Building has as many (if not more) different visions and ideas crammed into its 43 minutes as you'll find on most better-known labels' compilations.
A little bit of every kind of music that's too cool to not get played on the radio is represented here.. Cincinnati apparently has a good batch of underground bands just reaching for some recognition.
Building is a superb representation of one of the more interesting sub-scenes happening in Cincinnati right now, and it should have broad appeal to Indie-philes worldwide.
Building suggests that there's is a quiet revolution of sorts happening in Cincinnati's underground and proves that Datawaslost is at the center of it.