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Drums of Benny Greb
Benny Greb was born in Germany, in Hamburg in 1980 and began to play drums at the age of six years self-taught, playing over the songs. At 12 he took his first drum lesson and thanks to his experience in previous years he progressed very quickly. He joined a punk band but soon discovered rock and jazz playing in school bands.
Today Benny Greb at age 38 has already collected dozens of collaborations, DVDs, live, very popular clinics and is among the drummers with the greatest artistic and educational depth. His unmistakable style combined with his light approach and a little nerd place him among the greatest modern drummers. It goes smoothly between many genres from jazz to classical, from rock to Latin, combining an unusual fantasy with an excellent technique, without ever giving up the sense of humor.
He is considered an excellent teacher and demonstrates this both in his publications, in drum classes and workshops and through the lectures he holds regularly at the music schools of Hamburg, Mannheim, and Hammelburg.
It is endorser Sonor, Meinl, Vic Firth, and Remo.
Enough with the story of his life. Let's move on to what interests us:
Let's start with Benny Greb's drums. Since 2004 he is a Sonor endorser and every time I saw him in the clinic, he used the SQ2 series and lately Sonor has also released a beautiful video that I put below.
His setup consists of a 20 × 16 ″ case, 16 × 16 ″ eardrums, 10 × 7 ″ toms (all with Vintage Maple drums), his inevitable Benny Greb signature 13 × 5.75 ″ snares and 600 Series hardware.
Two words for the signature snare drum which is made of 5mm thick Scandinavian beech wood and 45 ° edges. Mounts 2.3mm Power Hoop wheels in steel with 8 TuneSafe tie rods and blocks.
He often uses a second 12 "snare drum to the left of the Charleston and another tympanum, a 14 × 14"
As for the dishes, use the Meinl and specifically the Byzance series.
Its standard setup (which obviously varies depending on the situation) has as its constant the 8 "Crasher Hats, which obviously bear his name and which are small charleston he uses very often to create beautiful games of independence and sound. You can see all his setup directly on the Meinl website.
Always with Meinl, he has created a whole series of personalized products, from the cases for the dishes to the famous training pad with personalized graphics.
Use the Vic Firths with which he signed his own custom series. They are 16 "long 5B, with a diameter of 0.595 and a teardrop tip shorter than the smooth model, in order to have more definition and rebound on the plates. They are distributed in Italy by Aramini.
More technical features directly to the Vic Firth site.
Benny Greb uses Remo skins, Emperor coated hinges and resonant Ambassadors. Use the Powerstroke 3 for the case.
In my opinion, he wrote and produced 2 very interesting ones which are " The language of Drumming " and " The art & science of groove ".
My advice is to take a look at it because unlike classic educational DVDs, these are full of exercises, but they also have tons of taste and inspiration, which are the things that matter most in a teacher.
Greb's teaching is simple: Practice, lots of practice, but above all you need to know what to study before you start doing it. " Groove is not a gift, but only the fruit of so much practice, " he says. Free to think as you wish, but in his second DVD he tackles this issue in-depth and I must say that he is very convincing.
If (understandably) you don't want to spend money with a locked box, I suggest you take a ride on Youtube and look for one of the clips where you can guess the style of the DVD.
Often live uses two snare drums (Benny Greb Signature) simultaneously tuned one high and one low so as to have on the first the sound of the classic snare drum and on the second a sound more like an electronic drum.
To compose the songs of his latest group "Moving Parts" he was inspired by the New York jazz scene in recent years, especially drummers like Mark Guiliana, Jojo Mayer and Zach Danziger.
As a teenager, he played in a punk band.
If English is not a problem, don't miss out on his advice on Drumeo.
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"There are times we forget the obvious," said Mark Finley in his keynote address on the closing day of the 2018 Adventist Laymen's Services and Industries (ASi) international convention in Orlando, Florida, United States, on August 4. It is the reason, the long-time evangelist said, we often need friendly reminders.
Drawing lessons from the Bible book of 2 Peter, Finley urged the 3,000 attendees and Orlando-area visitors not to get sidetracked but to refocus and recommit as the day of Jesus' second coming approaches.
The passage of time causes us to tend to forget, Finley reminded his listeners. And just like the recipients of Peter's letter in the first century, Christians living in the twenty-first century may be forgetting about the certainty and nearness of Jesus' coming.
"It is easy to forget," said Finley, "to become complacent, apathetic, half-hearted, especially because of Jesus' apparent delay." Drawing on an athletics metaphor, he added, "Historically, the Adventist movement came into existence to sprint, not to run a marathon." It is the reason, he explained, that as we wait for Jesus' second coming, we may get discouraged before the end of the race.
Finley explained that Peter based his conviction about Jesus' return on "two immutable facts" — he had already witnessed Christ's glory, and prophets had heralded the Second Coming for long ages. Even more, Jesus Himself affirmed the word of prophecy when He said, "I will come again" (John 14:3).
Dwelling on Peter's description, Finley explained that "often we plateau in our Christian experience not because we need to discover some hidden truth but because there is some hidden sin or habit." It is the reason, he said, that we need to surrender to God and by His grace become overcomers.
And scoffers? Scoffers fail to understand God's view of time, which is dramatically different than ours, Finley said. "God is never in a hurry." They also fail to understand God's patience, since He desires all humanity to be saved. "God is not tardy but longsuffering," he reminded his audience.


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  let(:uid_value) { '12345' }

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    @request.env['devise.mapping'] = Devise.mappings[:user]
    @request.env['omniauth.origin'] = double()
  end

  describe '#google' do
    it 'GET google' do
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        extra: double(
          username: nil,
          first_name: 'Fake',
          last_name: 'Fakerson'
        ),
        info: double(
          email: 'fakename@fakedomain.org',
          uid: uid_value
        ),
        provider: 'google',
        uid: uid_value
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      get :google

      expect(response).to have_http_status(302)
    end
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  describe '#schoology' do
    it 'GET schoology' do
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        extra: double(
          username: 'fakename',
          user_id: uid_value,
          domain: 'fakedomain.org',
          first_name: 'Fake',
          last_name: 'Fakerson'
        ),
        info: double(
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        provider: 'schoology',
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There is more than adequate unrestricted on-street parking to accommodate for residents and visitors alike, while the paved front garden can be used as a single driveway.Extras (Included in the Sale) : All fixtures and fittings, including; blinds, curtains, light fittings, carpets and fitted floor coverings. Please note, other items may be available through separate negotiation.


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So i finally prioritized to get myself a crawler, I wanted a "real" crawler after i got my lego crawler and saw how much fun it was.
I decided to go for the CR-01 with the Land cruiser body, since I have always thought that it's a nice looking car.
Must say that I was amazed how big the box is, this car is going to be quite big.
I can't wait to get some more building time, hopefully i will get some time today.
I forgot to mount the stabilizator stag on this one, so i had to take it apart and mount it one more time.
Realized after I had built these ones that there is hop-up's for these as well so I ordered them. They also has lock diff, which I think will be good for crawling, any experience with it?
After looking in the manual I saw that I was short of some hop-up's since I'm going to make the car 4WS. I also needed 4 more king pins, I'm to used thinking the buggy way so i ordered only 4 the first time around In addition I also had to order a hi torque servo saver.
Still waiting for some parts, so decided to jump to some steps that I could actually do. So I built the hop-up dampers.
So today a package from Banzai Hobby was waiting for me 🙂 Didn't get two aluminum servo mounts as i wanted, so one must do for now.
Now i should have all the parts i need to finish this build the way i want to, that said i got a very nice roof rack on the way to me via mail. I got the waterproof servos that I'm going to use from HobbyKing a few days ago.
First of all just let me say that I'm sorry for the different quality of the pictures, I got a new phone this week and I'm struggling with getting good pictures.
So did some more building today.
The trained eye can probably see that I have done something wrong on this step, but it have been sorted out after I took this picture.
For now I'm gonna use these electronics, but I'm going to change later on.
Got the last part's for my build yesterday, I think this will be nice on the car.
but I discovered that one of the moving parts of the upper damper mount go up into the frame, should it be like this?
So now I must try to understand how to get this 3 channel receiver to work.
Not many step's left before the chassis is done, and I can start on the body. I'm so looking forward to taking this one for a ride, I can't wait.


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text: Q: Why doesn't position and momentum commute? I'm trying to understand the reason for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle which I read is a "fact of nature" rather than an experimental limitation. I found this thread in which the accepted answer talks about quantum objects as being wavepackets which seems to satisfy the criteria for HUP and how position and momentum can be related by Fourier transforms. However we can reach this result without even considering quantum objects as wave-packets from commutator relations between position and momentum. I'm aware of how to calculate the commutator of position and momentum from their definition in Schrodinger's equation. What I am seeking is the reason why they can't commute. The introductory textbooks (Griffith's: Introduction to Quantum mechanics and Arthur Beiser's: Modern physics) I've read so far don't seem to mention the reason why they don't commute and take it as an axiom. I would like some justification for it.

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The Fulford File, By James Fulford | Richard Nadler Asks Republicans To Appeal To Disloyal Hispanic Voters By Not Deporting Their Illegal Compadres. Hmm.
James Fulford
Richard Nadler is a neoconservative Republican who recently spoke at CPAC—which, let me remind you, stands for Conservative Political Action Conference, rather than "Republicans Trolling For Minority Votes Action Conference." (And not just because RTFMVAC would be much harder to pronounce.)
He's the president of something called America's Majority [email it], headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, which is 90.65 white. In spite of the name, America's Majority seems to concentrate on GOP outreach to minorities who traditionally vote Democratic.
But that's a problem with the modern conservative movement. You have Republican operatives who are willing to sell out both conservative principles and, in the case of amnesty, sell out the United States itself, in return for votes that aren't there.
Speaking of which…Nadler has also published this idea in National Review. [At What Cost? Conservatives should rethink their opposition to 'comprehensive' immigration reform February 23, 2009]
NRO still has a couple of people working for it who understand the immigration issue (not Ramesh Ponnuru) and so Nadler has been forced, or to put it another way, has been allowed to publish another article on NRO: Against Mass Deportation | Answers to my critics, March 9, 2009.
Someone sent us Nadler's CPAC speech. I've fisked it.
Richard Nadler: CPAC—Feb. 26, 2009
Panel: Building the Conservative Hispanic Coalition: First: Do No Harm!
It is customary at forums like this to celebrate the natural affinity of Latinos and conservatives on issues such as family, right-to-life, and entrepreneurship. [So it is. It's also mostly untrue. See James Antle's The Myth Of Minority "Natural Republicans"] I'm here to say: forget that. If we conservatives continue to insist on the mass removal of illegals, [Nadler gets one point for not saying "undocumented workers"!] either by roundups or by starving [No one is starving in America, least of all Latinos. (See photo.) What we actually want to do is stop them earning illegal money] them into self-deportation, our losses in the Latino community will persist and intensify. And contrary to a delusion widespread among us, these losses will be reinforced rather than offset by the votes of non-Hispanic whites. [That would be more or less "the voters" aka "The American People."]
In 2008, conservative and Republican losses among Hispanics were devastating. This isn't speculation. It is what happened. The national backdrop was a shift of roughly five percent favoring Democrats. Obama's 53% improved on Kerry's 48%. McCain's 46% fell 5% short of Bush's 51.
But among Hispanics, GOP losses were more severe. Bush's 44% Latino vote-share fell 13 percent, to McCain's 31. [Bush did not get a 44% Latino vote share, Steve Sailer proved that. But even if he did, 44% would have meant a massive landslide the other way. But see NRO Rebunks Bush's Hispanic Share Myth, where Sailer dealt with a previous Nadler attempt to revive this number.] And GOP congressional candidates garnered only 29%—15% below 2004 totals. [Of course the 2008 candidates were facing a Democratic Party led by Barack Hussein Obama, a left-wing member of a minority group. Hispanic "natural conservatives" voted for him in droves.]
Our loss was the Democrats' gain. In plain language, between '04 and '08, Republican national candidates lost 30 Hispanic votes for every 100 cast. That's not the national trend. It's a bloody massacre.
Latinos now comprise 15% of the American population.
Legal Latinos—U.S. citizens—outnumber illegals by better than 3-to-1.
In 2004, they accounted for 7% of votes cast—roughly 8 million votes.
In 2008, they accounted for 9%—roughly 11.5 million.
By 2012, they will account for more than 14 million votes cast.
Without a substantial percentage of that vote, conservatives can kiss goodbye to New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California yesterday; we can kiss goodbye to Florida, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico today; and we can kiss goodbye to Arizona and Texas tomorrow.
The deal breaker between Latino voters and conservatives isn't border security, or official English, or future immigration levels. A Republican can run right on any of these, and sustain significant Latino support. The deal-breaker is deportation.
A mass of evidence explains this.
There is the fact that 40% of Hispanic citizens fear a deportation action against a friend or family member.
There is the fact that 44% of Latinos hear their clergy preach against "enforcement only" in the churches they attend. [Not just their clergy, unfortunately. Our clergy, too. ]
There is the fact that 80% of Latinos favor comprehensive immigration reform.
But forget all that. Use your common sense. I have yet to meet a conservative who doesn't understand the dynamic of the Elian Gonzalez incident in 2000—how a SWAT team, on orders from a Democratic attorney general, invaded an ordinary Cuban home, [An American home. That was the problem.] and tore a screaming child from the arms of his protector. That sight, revisited nightly in Miami-Dade, carried Florida (and the presidency) for George W. Bush. What Republican didn't understand that?
[The point of the Elian Gonzalez case was that the Clinton Administration decided to send a child whose mother had died bringing him to freedom back to Communist dictatorship which is still an enemy of the United States, and to a father who had never married Elian's mother. Mostly what deportation does is send adult Mexicans back to Mexico, which is a free country, and which you are allowed, even encouraged to leave, if you can find someplace to let you in.]
But due to our commitment to enforcement-only immigration policy, Hispanics are treated to Elian Gonzalez-style incidents nightly on Univision and Telemundo. In living color, viewers watch huddled Latinos cuffed by ICE raiders at their place of work, moms clutching their rosaries, priests pleading for mercy. It's not rocket science to understand how Hispanic citizens react. [We are not persecuting clergy, for God's sake. They are persecuting us. American clergymen aid, abet, and harbor illegals, and Mexican clergymen do the same thing in the staging areas south of the border. But they're not persecuted. They're just complaining on behalf of their parishioners.] Only now, the villains are Los Republicanos rather than the Clintonistas.
We all enjoy happy talk about the natural affinity between Republicans and Latinos. [Speak for yourself, Nadler.] But given this broadcast bombardment, it is increasingly irrelevant that Hispanic opinion on right-to-life, or marriage, or school choice mirrors that of conservatives. [Hispanics aren't really that worked up about gay marriage. What they have is a traditional old-fashioned homophobia which makes them actively dangerous to anyone they think is a maricón. ] The linked prospects of ICE raids, persecuted clergy, ruptured families, and mass profiling spooks the legal, working-class Latino. As long as the prospect of mass deportation remains in our playbook and in our platform, Democrats will clobber us with it. [Here's what he's saying, in effect—Hispanics, whatever their political principles, put being disloyal to the United States first. This disloyalty manifests itself as a refusal to allow the US to protect itself from any invasion coming from south of the border. There is a certain amount of truth in this, and it's why Republicans should not be seeking Hispanic votes. It's also why they shouldn't be listening to Richard Nadler. ]
Now, some of you think that we can lose the Hispanic vote by 40 percent, and make it up among non-Hispanics. I say: think again.
First, it didn't happen. In 435 contests, not a single Congressional district with a historical trend of voting Democrat elected a Republican "enforcement only" advocate. But dozens of enforcement-only Republicans went down to defeat, most of them in historically Republican districts.
Some wedge issue, huh? [Read Marcus Epstein on this. Nadler apparently hasn't)
There is a reason why the anticipated anti-illegal backlash didn't deliver. The war against low wage labor is a war against entire major industries in both rural and urban America. [OK, but the war in favor of low wage labor is a war against the American worker, who represents a larger number of votes than the Chambers of Commerce, or the Business Round Table.] And the bulk of the beneficiaries of these threatened industries are by not Hispanics, or immigrants, or low-wage-earners.
This isn't a panel on economics. But to understand immigration politics as they are unfolding before your eyes, you need to understand one economic fact: With or without immigrant labor, American businesses must compete with producers from low-wage countries. The only question is whether they will do so here or offshore.
Millions of high-value-added jobs in our nation depend on the availability of low-wage workers. [However, they don't depend on the labor being that cheap. A very small amount of the cost of a basket of strawberries is paid to the picker. ] The entire white collar world of management, sales, and distribution in fruit and grain production, ranching, meat-processing, forestry, horticulture, and sea food requires low-cost seasonal labor in the United States. [The problem with this that the benefit of cheap labor goes to the employer. The cost (medical, schools, welfare and policing) is paid by everybody else.]
There is no question whether such labor will be used in these major export industries. The only question is where. You can hypothetically deport 9 million Mexicans from America, but you'll have less luck eliminating the Mexicans in Mexico, the Argentinians in Argentina, and the Chinese in China. Rural export enterprises—agriculture, horticulture, forestry, fishing, ranching—can, and will, go elsewhere. And they will take their white collar jobs with them. That's why Farm Bureaus nation-wide oppose "enforcement-only" immigration laws. [We call this corruption. In fact, we call it "organized crime."]
In urban America, the hospitality industry is built on low-wage work, and with it, all the jobs that the convention and tourism business generates in restaurants, entertainment venues, and museums. These industries can't relocate—but they can contract. That's why urban Chambers of Commerce and hospitality groups demand a comprehensive immigration reform that includes guest workers. That's why they are launching lawsuit after lawsuit against conservative-sponsored laws that insist on enforcement only.
Deportationism—enforcement without simultaneous guest worker provisions—alienates major blocks of traditional Republican support in both rural and urban areas. And that's why the much-trumpeted anti-illegal backlash failed to materialize.
So far, I've talked politics. But let me conclude with some moral considerations. What is the pro-family rationale for breaking up 6.6 million "illegal" families whose members include 4.9 million children and 3.5 million American citizens? [There is never any need to break up families when an illegal parent gets deported. The parents can take their children with them. If you got deported from France, would you leave your child behind just to stick the French taxpayer with the costs of his education?]
Do you really intend to do that, then tell the Latino community that you are pro-family?
How is our right-to-life commitment advanced by antagonizing the nation's fastest growing pro-life demographic—Hispanics—and the nation's most organized pro-life institutions—the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention?
I don't know how it advances free market principles to terminate seven million voluntary labor agreements with seasonal workers, low-wage workers, and high-tech specialists. And I can't even guess how it advances national security to spend billions to track and bust millions of busboys, grapepickers, and nannies. [Busboys and agricultural workers can be dangerous. In the long run, they're more likely to kill you than actual terrorists.]
I don't know why anyone calls this nonsense "conservative". [It's the patriotism and rule of law aspects, along with "nativism," itself a naturally conservative force.] But I do know that it must stop. Its persistence in conservative circles not only alienates Hispanic voters: it places our national security, free market, right-to-life, and pro-family agendas at risk.
If the conservative movement is to thrive, mass deportationism must be explicitly repudiated, in our campaigns and in our platforms.
Final point: there are some votes that a political party shouldn't want. America is facing an illegal invasion. If Hispanics don't' support fighting that, (some do) then Republicans shouldn't be trying to appeal to them, on principle, anymore than they would try to appeal to relatives of enemy aliens during wartime.
If Republicans do, they'll continue to alienate the majority of Americans. (This means mostly white Americans, because black voters hardly vote Republican at all.) The numbers in Steve Sailer's November 28, 2000 article GOP Future Depends on Winning Larger Share of the White Vote are still valid. Nadler should read it. But he won't.

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Image of the Day: U.S. Leads World In Carbon Reductions, No "Green New Deal" or "Green Real Deal" Necessary
Posted by Timothy Lee Print Email
In this week's Liberty Update, CFIF wonders what Congressman Matt Gaetz (R – Florida) was thinking in throwing Congressional climate alarmists and their "Green New Deal" a lifeline with his "Green Real Deal." We noted how the U.S. already led the world in carbon reductions, which they claim is their goal, even without either bill and the economically disruptive policies they'd impose, and after President Trump rightfully withdrew us from the indefensible Paris climate accord. This helpful image from the American Enterprise Institute illustrates our leadership in that regard:
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, Green New Deal, Green Real Deal
March 29th, 2019 at 10:49 am
Want Green Power? Go Nuclear.
In our Liberty Update this week, CFIF highlights how this week's Senate vote on leftists' "Green New Deal" once again exposed their hypocrisy. We note how if climate alarmists really meant what they said, they'd support nuclear power, which offers carbon-free, reliable, safe power. In a Wall Street Journal piece entitled "The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal," nuclear scientists John Rie and Alan Emery further detail nuclear power's record of safety:
Is nuclear power dangerous? The only major nuclear accident in the U.S. – Three Mile Island, in 1979 – caused neither death nor increase in cancer areawide. The 2011 'disaster' at the Fukushima plant in Japan also directly caused neither deaths nor disease from exposure to radiation.
World-wide, there have been fewer than 150 deaths from nuclear plants, mostly from the 1986 Chernobyl accident, in which bad design and a series of operator errors led to a significant release of radiation into the environment. Thanks to the Soviet government's attempt to keep it secret, lifesaving efforts such as the provision of iodine pills to local residents never happened."
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, Green New Deal, Nuclear
Image of the Day: Greenpeace Founder Takes Down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)
So "Green New Deal" fanatic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D – New York) apparently doesn't practice what she preaches, as her extravagant personal carbon use doesn't accord with what she advocates for everyone else. Now, Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore just absolutely takes her apart on the matter:
AOC, the "Green" Hypocrite
That's gonna leave a mark.
Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Climate Alarm, Climate Change, global warming, Green New Deal, Greenpeace
Image of the Day: Another Blown Climate Alarmist Prediction
From our friends at AEI in honor of Earth Day, another "inconvenient fact" refuting hysterical climate alarmist claims:
Another Inconvenient Fact
Tags: Climate Change, Earth Day, environment, global warming, Tornadoes
June 1st, 2017 at 2:31 pm
Image of the Day: Global Warming Projections' Poor Performance Record
The next time a global warming alarmist cites climatologist "consensus" (which is false, by the way) in support of their argument, offer them this straightforward reminder of past performance, courtesy of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI):
Tags: Climate Change, Climate Models, global warming, Projections
January 3rd, 2017 at 9:56 am
Amid Other Failed 2016 Predictions, Don't Forget Climate Alarmists'
Amid the wreckage of failed political predictions last year, we shouldn't overlook another year of failed global warming predictions. One year ago, Cambridge University professor and global warming alarmist Peter Wadhams predicted that in 2016, Arctic ice would either disappear or decline to "record low" levels:
'My prediction remains that the Arctic ice may well disappear, that is, have an area of less than one million square kilometers for September of this year,' he said. 'Even if the ice doesn't completely disappear, it is very likely that this will be a record low year. I'm convinced it will be less than 3.4 million square kilometers [the current record low]. I think there's a reasonable chance it could get down to a million this year, and if it doesn't do it this year, it will do it next year.'"
So how did that turn out? Ice levels actually grew by a significant amount:
Dire predictions that the Arctic would be devoid of sea ice by September this year have proven to be unfounded after the latest satellite images showed there is far more now than in 2012… [W]hen figures were released for the yearly minimum on September 10, they showed that there was still 1.6 million square kilometers of sea ice, which was 21 percent more than the lowest point in 2012. For the month of September overall, there was 31 percent more ice than in 2012, figures released this week from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) show. This amounts to an extra 421,000 million square kilometers of sea ice."
Oh, well. Although the climate alarm industry believes that there won't be a next year, there's always next year.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming
Poll: Public Overwhelmingly Opposes Persecution of Climate Alarm Realists
The political tyranny du jour among climate change alarmists is leveraging the power of the state to persecute anyone who contradicts their orthodoxy using actual facts and data. As we've highlighted, that abusive effort has blown up in their faces, including countersuits from targeted organizations.
There's more good news to report: The persecutors' effort has hit a thud in terms of public opinion as well. In an election season marked by narrow partisan divisions, a new Rasmussen survey demonstrates a rare degree of public consensus against politicians hoping to silence climate realists:
Attorneys general in 15 states are attempting to prosecute corporations and individuals that they believe are misleading the public about global warming. Their action, which critics claim is a violation of free speech, has prompted a Congressional investigation. Most voters continue to believe that the scientific debate about global warming is not over, and oppose government action against those who question it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 69% of likely U.S. voters oppose the government investigating and prosecuting scientists and others, including major corporations, who question global warming. Just 15% favor such investigations."
It's rare to find a 69% to 15% public agreement on anything these days, but it's worth celebrating that despite the constant onslaught of demonizing rhetoric from climate change alarmists, the overwhelming majority of Americans continue to reject their agenda.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, poll, Rasmussen, Survey
Ramirez Cartoon: Biggest Threat To America
Posted by CFIF Staff Print Email
Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.
View more of Michael Ramirez's cartoons on CFIF's website here.
Tags: cartoon, Climate Change, global warming, Michael Ramirez
September 1st, 2015 at 9:16 am
Apocalypse Not, Cont'd: In 2008, ABC News Aired Some Amusing Climate Catastrophe Visions for 2015
In our latest Liberty Update we highlighted in "10 Years After Katrina, Failed Global Warming Prophecies Accumulate" how global warming alarmists continue to rely on predictions of imminent doom, despite the fact that their record of prediction is one of failure after failure.
Add another glaring and amusing example to that list. In 2008, ABC News ran a "news" feature entitled "Earth 2100." It's worth watching the 9-minute clip, which suggests such possibilities as milk at $12.00 per gallon and gas at $9.00 per gallon, as recalled by The Daily Caller:
Newsbusters notes that then GMA anchor Chris Cuomo, who teased the special at the time, said to [Bob] Woodruff of the predictions, 'I think we're familiar with some of these issues, but boy, 2015? That's seven years from now. Could it really be that bad?'
Woodruff replies, 'It's very soon, you know. But all you have to do is look at the world today. You know, you've got gas prices going up. You've got food prices going up. You've got extreme weather. The scientists have studied this for decades. They say if you connect the dots, you can actually see that we're approaching maybe even a perfect storm. Or you have got shrinking resources, population growth, climate change. So the idea now is to look at it, wake up about it and then try to do something to fix it."
In related news, gas recently dipped below $2.00 per gallon in many parts of the country. So much for that.
As Barack Obama plays the role of broken record again on his boondoggle to Alaska, it's imperative to keep in mind how a global warming alarm movement that constantly relies upon predictions of doom maintains a 25-year record of failed predictions.
Tags: ABC News, climate, global warming, Obama, predictions
Obama's Clean Coal Initiative: A Warning from California
Posted by Ben Boychuk Print Email
The Los Angeles Times' front-page headline Tuesday comes across as remarkably upbeat: "California is ahead of the game as Obama releases Clean Power Plan."
But the story's lead paragraph reads more like a threat than a promise: "President Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution from power plants over the next 15 years will force states to address climate change by pushing them to act more like California."
The president cited California's example when he announced the plan on Monday, recalling the smog that hung over the Los Angeles basin in the late 1970s and early 1980s. "You fast-forward 30, 40 years later, and we solved those problems," Obama said.
Well, yes, we did — and it's a good thing, too. But the president is conflating those clean-air rules with policies of a more recent vintage.
California has led the way in pushing utilities to adopt renewable energy from sources such as windmills and solar panels in lieu of natural gas and coal-fired plants. According to the Times: "In 2013, the most recent year available, nearly 19% of California's electricity came from renewable sources, while less than 8% came from coal, according to the California Energy Commission. In January, Brown proposed an ambitious target of 50% renewables by 2030."
The story doesn't mention, however, that the Golden State ranks close to the top in terms of energy prices. It's no coincidence that the cost of renewable energy in California increased by 55 percent between 2003 and 2013, as the renewable portfolio standard was being phased in. And costs will continue to rise, in no small part because the state Public Utilities Commission earlier this year ordered changes in California's tiered pricing for electricity, moving from four tiers to two. As a result, the first tier rate will increase significantly, and the second tier rate will rise marginally.
The Times also reports that California is on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 as required under AB 32, the "Global Warming Solutions Act" of 2006. Gov. Jerry Brown in January issued an executive order that would accelerate the mandate's requirements, with the goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030. Expect rates to go higher still.
Not surprisingly, Brown hailed Obama's plan as "bold and absolutely necessary."
But a new Manhattan Institute report by Jonathan A. Lesser of Continental Economics highlights the real consequences of California's decarbonization efforts, some unintended, some not. Among Lesser's key findings:
California households' electricity prices have risen as a result of the state's renewable-energy mandates and carbon cap-and-trade program—and will likely continue to rise at an even faster rate in coming years.
The aforementioned policies have created a regressive energy tax, imposing proportionally higher costs in certain counties, such as California's inland and Central Valley regions, where summer electricity consumption is highest but household incomes are lowest.
In 2012, nearly 1 million California households faced "energy poverty"—defined as energy expenditures exceeding 10 percent of household income. In certain California counties, the rate of energy poverty was as high as 15 percent of all households.
This is the model that President Obama lauds and his EPA wants to emulate. The EPA's new regulations would mandate that states cut carbon emissions 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
A tough Wall Street Journal editorial notes that the EPA's final rule "is 9 percent steeper than the draft the Environmental Protection Agency issued in June 2014," and opines: "The damage to growth, consumer incomes and U.S. competitiveness will be immense—assuming the rule isn't tossed by the courts or rescinded by the next Administration."
Steven F. Hayward, a professor of politics at Pepperdine University and an expert in environmental policy, observed in a post at Power Line on Monday, "By [EPA's] own admission, full implementation of the emissions targets will avert only 0.018 degrees C of warming by the year 2100. I'm sure we'll all notice that much change in temps!"
The final rule is nearly 1,600 pages long, and the regulatory impact analysis is nearly 400 pages, so needless to say it will take some time for the lawyers and wonks to sort everything out. But Hayward found an odd paragraph in near the middle of the impact analysis that led him to wonder if the government is putting us on:
As indicated in the RIA [Regulatory Impact Assessment] for this rule, we expect that the main impact of this rule on the nation's mix of generation will be to reduce coal-fired generation, but in an amount and by a rate that is consistent with recent historical declines in coal-fired generation. Specifically, from approximately 2005 to 2014, coal-fired generation declined at a rate that was greater than the rate of reduced coal-fired generation that we expect from this rulemaking from 2015 to 2030. In addition, under this rule, the trends for all other types of generation, including natural gas-fired generation, nuclear generation, and renewable generation, will remain generally consistent with what their trends would be in the absence of this rule. [Hayward's emphasis.]
Hayward poses a fascinating question: "if the electricity sector under this new regulation is going to unfold more or less along the lines of business as usual, why are we bothering with this regulation in the first place? Is the EPA seriously admitting that their regulation does nothing substantial at all, or that they've spotted a parade going down the street and decided to march at the head of it?"
The Wall Street Journal's editors encourage a vigorous legal challenge to the new rules, noting:
The Supreme Court did give EPA the authority to regulate carbon emissions in Mass. v. EPA in 2007. But that was not a roving license to do anything the EPA wants. The High Court has rebuked the agency twice in the last two years for exceeding its statutory powers.
"When an agency claims to discover in a long-extant statute an unheralded power to regulate a significant portion of the American economy, we typically greet its announcement with a measure of skepticism," the Court warned last year. "We expect Congress to speak clearly if it wishes to assign to an agency decisions of vast economic and political significance."
Congress did no such thing with the Clean Power Plan, which is a new world balanced on a fragment of the Clear Air Act called Section 111(d). This passage runs a couple hundred words and was added to the law in 1977, well before the global warming stampede. Historically Section 111(d) has applied "inside the fence line," meaning the EPA can set performance standards for individual plants, not for everything connected to those sources that either produces or uses electricity.
When the EPA rule does arrive before the Justices, maybe they'll rethink their doctrine of "Chevron deference," in which the judiciary hands the bureaucracy broad leeway to interpret ambiguous laws. An agency using a 38-year-old provision as pretext for the cap-and-tax plan that a Democratic Congress rejected in 2010 and couldn't get 50 Senate votes now is the all-time nadir of administrative "interpretation."
"This plan is essentially a tax on the livelihood of every American," the Journal's editorial concludes, "which makes it all the more extraordinary that it is essentially one man's order." As California goes, so goes the nation? Let's hope not.
Tags: Barack Obama, Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, EPA, global warming, Jerry Brown, Manhattan Institute, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Solar Power, War on Coal, Wind Power
July 3rd, 2015 at 8:13 pm
More Uses and Abuses of Laudato Si'
In last week's column about Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment and creation, I pointed out some of the ways climate change alarmists have appropriated the pontiff's language to advance agendas quite different from that of the Catholic Church. (Population control? Seriously?)
Well, the hits just keep on coming. Actor/activist Robert Redford on Sunday cited Pope Francis in his case for doing something — anything — to address the threat of climate change.
"As Pope Francis has told us, we have a moral obligation to be responsible stewards of the earth and all it supports," Redford wrote, which is true as far as it goes. "That means protecting future generations from the dangers of climate change." Well, maybe.
But what does Redford have in mind exactly? On that point — and as with so many others who share his point of view — he's maddeningly vague. "Our best business minds grasp the historic opportunity for us to lead the world in the clean energy economy of tomorrow," he writes. "And a new American generation understands the urgency of acting now."
He may be referring to the U.N.'s stated desire to "decarbonize the economy" by the end of the century. Or he might be talking about covering the country with solar panels and windmills. Whatever it is that he means, it won't be cheap and it will require plenty of coercion.
It's one thing to point out how greens lean on the Pope's encyclical for their pet causes, but in fairness, Francis hasn't made himself easy to defend. The Pope's latest choice in climate change advisors is enough to send the most devout Catholic or free market devotee into the slough of despond. As I mentioned in the column, Francis is hardly a friend of capitalism. But he looks like Milton Friedman compared to Naomi Klein.
Tags: Climate Change, environment, global warming, Pope Francis
Is Global Warming Really the World's Biggest Threat?
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses why global warming is not the world's greatest threat, why Vice President Joe Biden was wrong on his 2010 prediction about Iraq proving to be one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration, and why former President George W. Bush is not to blame for ISIS.
Listen to the interview here.
Tags: global warming, ISIS, Joe Biden, podcast, Timothy Lee
April 21st, 2015 at 6:48 pm
What It Takes to Prove Global Warming Exists
Posted by Ashton Ellis Print Email
Lost amid the charge of "inconvenient truths" and "hockey stick" graphs is a clear notion of what it would take to prove that global warming is real, man-made and alterable.
Robert Tracinski has an answer.
"We don't know whether current warming departs from natural variation, nor have scientists proven the underlying mechanisms by which humans could cause such an increase," writes Tracinski at The Federalist. "But even if we did know these things, we would have to be able to forecast with reasonable accuracy how big the effect is going to be. A very small warming may not even be noticeable or may have mostly salutary effects, such as a slightly longer growing season, whereas the impact of a much larger warming is likely to cause greater disruption."
And therein lies the trillion dollar question: If meteorologists can't consistently predict the weather from day-to-day, how on earth can humanity justify spending vast amounts of money on temperature predictions that fluctuate from "global cooling" to "global warming" only to settle on "climate change"?
As Tracinski says, "Given the abysmal record of climate forecasting, we should tell the warmists to go back and make a new set of predictions, then come back to us in 20 or 30 years and tell us how these predictions panned out. Then we'll talk."
Tags: Climate Change, environment, global warming
Global Warming… Back in 1821?
Like clockwork, climate alarmists attributed Hurricane Sandy in 2012 to anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming. In one typically irrational commentary, Paul Barrett equated global warming to steroids in its effect on the storm.
With that hyperbole and hysteria in mind, a Discovery Channel item this week provided appropriate humor. Entitled "Thought Sandy Was Bad? Revisit This 1821 Hurricane," its historical piece offers beneficial perspective:
Remember all the hype about Hurricane Sandy being a 'superstorm,' a once-in-500-years convergence of meteorological nastiness? According to a newly-published study by a Swiss insurance firm, Swiss Re, things could have been a lot worse. Though the combination of factors that created Sandy was indeed unusual, Sandy wasn't the most powerful storm that's ever hit the U.S. East Coast. That distinction probably belongs to the massive 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane, which moved along the Mid-Atlantic before striking the New York/New Jersey coastline with wind speeds of 156 miles per hour."
Too bad the alarmists weren't around in 1821 to attribute causation to steam engine technology. But perhaps contemporary alarmists can instruct us on how this only substantiates their ongoing charade.
Tags: global warming, Hurricane Sandy
From Climate Summit Charades to Scorched-Earth Judicial Politics
CFIF's Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs, discusses this week's United Nation's summit on climate change, more inconvenient truths about global warming, and Harry Reid's court packing efforts.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, Harry Reid, podcast, Timothy H. Lee, United Nations
California Lawmakers Agree to Raise Gas Prices 40 Cents-Per-Gallon
With California's tax policy, the only certainty is that consumers will lose money.
The latest example is the growing fight over whether to include fuel distributors in the Golden State's controversial global warming regulatory scheme. Doing so would subject them to the same cap-and-trade system applied to industrial facilities, and could add between 12 – 40 cents-per-gallon to fuel purchases within the next year. The leading alternative would opt for a flat 15 cent-per-gallon carbon tax, which grows to 40 cents by 2029.
In short, California lawmakers have agreed that gas should cost an additional 40 cents-per-gallon. They're just torn over how long to wait before imposing it on taxpayers.
This is what passes for deliberation in a state dominated by tax-and-spend liberals.
No wonder the middle class is fleeing in droves.
Tags: California, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, global warming, middle class
The Los Angeles Times Opinion Page Bars Opinions About Climate Change
Posted by Drew Johnson Print Email
In a chilling decision to silence discussion about climate change, the Los Angeles Times opinion page announced that letters to the editor that "deny global warming," imply that "climate change is a hoax," claim global warming is "a scheme by liberals to curtail personal freedom," or dispute that "that human activity is indeed linked to climate change" are banned from its pages.
The choice by the hysterically hyper-environmentalist loons that run the LA Times opinion pages to restrict sincere debate and differences of opinion from a forum that is intended to challenge readers' views is equal parts depressing, disgusting and alarming.
The LA Times opinion page points out that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently claimed "it was was 95 percent certain that we fossil-fuel-burning humans are driving global warming." The problems with that statement are numerous. For one, that nagging 5 percent of doubt should be enough to keep the channels of discussion and debate open. Also, there remains a significant minority of members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who disagree with the assertion that humans alter the Earth's climate. Many others debate the extent to which human action is responsible for changes in the climate. In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's majority rule structure, their voices are powerless.
Even if there were indisputable proof that human actions directly cause climate change, there would be the question of "how much?." Solar activity appears to play a much larger role in climate change than humans ever could – and we can't do anything about that.
That means the real debate should be: "If humans play a minute role in climate change, what reactions are actually justified?"
If human activity causes temperatures to rise or fall a tiny fraction of a degree over some long period of time, should we prevent developing countries from rising out of poverty? Should we stand in the way of economic growth that would lead to greater global stability, improved health and educational outcomes, and increased longevity? Should the poorest people in the world be left without food, medicines and clean drinking water in the name of stopping them from producing CO2?
Those are serious questions that must be raised, considered and debated in years to come. Sadly, it appears the LA Times is more than happy to keep such discussions out of its pages.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Los Angeles Times
Feds Mandate Non-Existent Solution for Non-Existent Problem
Posted by Troy Senik Print Email
In my column last week, I wrote about how rapidly predictions of catastrophic global warming are unraveling. Despite the fact that the case for skepticism is probably better than ever, the Obama Administration is still proceeding with new EPA regulations to cap carbon emissions, which will have the practical effect of crippling the coal industry.
What's perhaps most remarkable about this crusade is that the EPA claims the problem can be handled through carbon sequestration — a technology that's not commercially viable (though this should come as no surprise coming from the same people that think solar and wind power are the wave of the future). As Larry Bell notes at Forbes:
EPA's latest climate battle plan is to prohibit construction of new coal-fired power plants that can't achieve 1,100 pound per megawatt hour carbon emission limits. To accomplish this will require plant operators to capture and store ("sequester") excess CO2, something that cannot be accomplished through affordable means, if at all. [The Institute for Energy Research estimates] that this "regulatory assault" will eliminate 35 gig watts of electrical generating capacity…10% of all U.S. power. As the Competitive Enterprise Institute observes, "If the carbon dioxide emissions standard for power plants proposed by the EPA today is enacted, the United States will have built its final coal-fired power plant."
The liberal environmental establishment wants to bankrupt the coal industry. That's their prerogative. But they should at least be honest about it instead of acting like they're simply helping the industry transition to the next best thing. Perhaps they could take a page out of this fella's book:
Tags: Alternative Energy, Barack Obama, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, carbon dioxide, Carbon Emissisons, Coal, energy, environment, EPA, global warming, Greenhouse gas
October 4th, 2013 at 10:20 am
Video: Green Hysteria
In this week's Freedom Minute, CFIF's Renee Giachino discusses the rhetoric and actions of global warming alarmists and how the actual facts contradict their ideological crusade.
Tags: Climate Change, Freedom Minute, global warming, video
The Unspooling Global Warming Narrative
The more time passes, the more global warming's apostles begin to look like members of a doomsday cult. You can only predict the end incorrectly so many times, after all, without losing your credibility amongst all but the true believers. After early leaks of the upcoming report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed that the (Nobel Prize-winning, mind you) IPCC had dramatically erred in calculating global temperature changes, a study in the journal Natural Climate Change found that:
Out of 117 predictions [made during the 1990s], three were roughly accurate and 114 overestimated the amount of warming. On average, the predictions forecasted two times more global warming than actually occurred.
More damning still is this news:
A peer-reviewed climate change study released Wednesday by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change finds the threat of man-made global warming to be not only greatly exaggerated but so small as to be "embedded within the background variability of the natural climate system" and not dangerous.
A more thorough summary is here.
Tags: Climate Change, environment, global warming, IPCC
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Pennsy Pocket Park
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, Pedestrian	on May 14th, 2013
Recently, I learned of a new Pocket Park project being launched in Irvington by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. The park is located to the south of the Marsh store, along the Pennsy Trail:
Image Credit: Google Maps
The KIB webpage linked to a photo of the park's construction, which is obviously in the early stages:
Image Credit: Brian Burtch, via twitter
Image Credit: Ben McGhee
I contacted Ben McGhee, who helped to design the park to find out some more information. He sent along a few renderings:
Ben McGhee, Brian Burtch, and Chris Stuart of Design Authority answered some questions I had about the project:
1. Where did the reclaimed material originate?
In early discussions, KIB was interested in exploring low cost design solutions for various seating applications, both at their offices and also within this park space along the Pennsy Trail. As a result of these discussions, KIB came into contact with the city about previously discarded limestone curbs the city had in its possession from curb replacement projects dating all the way back to the 70s. When Design Authority received word of the quantity of these existing limestone curbs, we immediately latched onto these as a design opportunity, not only for a simple bench, but actually to become the driver for the entire green space design.
2. How did the partnership with KIB come about?
Originally, KIB reached out to industrial designer and the DA co-founder, Christopher Stuart to design seating and a play area for the Irvington green space. After seeing that the plans also called for a rain garden and was to be a community space for the passionate people of the neighborhood, Chris realized that it could be the perfect project to officially kick-off the DA. This would allow Irvington and KIB the opportunity to work with a diverse group of designers from fields ranging from architecture and landscape to product design and, in turn, it would give the DA the opportunity to expand beyond simply brainstorming ideas and design discussions to designing and building the collective's first public outreach project.
A brief description of the design.
The design is based off the module of the reclaimed curbs. We created a pattern of stone benches and steps that encourages users of the Pennsy Trail to flow from the trail into the space. Within the space exists multiple zones designed to facilitate gatherings of different sizes and activities. The entire space is held together by a cedar and gravel framework that informs the placement of the limestone curbs as well as the various plantings, and this organizational structure allows for the bleeding together of both hardscape and softscape, seating and plantings. The use of this modular framework allows for the hardscape to begin to break down and extend into the adjacent rain garden, a space full of a diverse selection of native plantings meant to aid in the alleviation of the immense stormwater runoff from the adjacent parking lot.
3. What's next for Design Authority?
The Design Authority is still in its infancy. The idea and concept of the DA has existed within the group for quite some time, but the challenge is always moving from idea and concept to reality. As we have worked on this outreach project, the DA has had the opportunity to better understand, define, and sculpt who we are and what our purpose is as an organization. As designers who are passionate about design and Indianapolis, as we move forward we will be continuing with the belief in good design and the ability for design to be a driver in the betterment of our city. We have many ideas still in their infancy, both in self-initiated work and in potential collaborations. Whatever comes next, though, will be driven by design and by the desire to empower the local design community and the entire Indianapolis region.
The Design Authority is a collective, consisting of designers from diverse industries, brought together by the shared idea that design should be an authority when solving issues within our community.
Together, we Discuss/Solve/Propose/Implement creative solutions in an effort to bring design to the forefront of our city.
We are a voice with reason.
4. When is the rest of the Pennsy Trail going to be completed?
We are not familiar with the planned completion dates for the Pennsy Trail, but the city is currently working on its Greenways Master Plan, of which the Pennsy Trail is a part. For us, being that this is the first designed greenspace along the trail, it is our hope that this space can become the precedent for future development along the trail and inspire future projects to capitalize on these often under-utilized and under-designed pockets that exist along the entire planned trail and, frankly, throughout the city. The DA does not see these spaces as problems but as opportunities; opportunities to create a sense of place and purpose.
10 Responses to " "Pennsy Pocket Park"
ahow628 says:
I don't know if anyone saw it at Get Down On It, but there is also a pocket park along the Cultural Trail on the Virginia leg at Merrill St by the Mozzo apartments. It is currently in the construction phase and is being spearheaded by KIB.
Eric M (American Dirt) says:
I saw that park getting constructed with a bunch of volunteers. Months ago, I was hoping some enterprising developer would see it as creative micro-infill, but I guess a pocket park is still better than an ignored, completely unused lawn.
Be careful what you wish for! It was almost developed and it wasn't going to be pretty.
About three years ago, the owner of that parcel was approached by the owner of the adjacent Costume Shop building (where South of Chicago is). The Costume Shop owner wanted to turn it into a parking lot with three spaces and a dumpster.
Fortunately, the owner of the parcel did not want this to happen so the HOA for the Merrill St Townhomes (which is where I lived up until about a year ago) and Canfield Row (the adjacent condos on Merrill St) ended up getting it in a quitclaim deed transfer.
After that it was used sparingly by Calvin Fletcher Coffee Company for live music occasionally, but it is really nice to see it absorbed into the Cultural Trail.
Jeffrey C says:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is "the DA" that is references throughout the article. I didn't see it spelled out anywhere, but maybe I missed it beyond differing it is a group of professionals with design and engineering background.
Kevin Kastner says:
A new group called Design Authority. Sorry for the lack of clarity on that.
Idyllic Indy says:
Is the park going on the north side of the trail, or the south side?
And is there really an airplane in the front yard of that house on Kenmore Road?
North side of the trail.
That is an airplane. Occasionally aerial photos will catch other planes in mid-flight, which is the case here. Always gets a laugh whenever I see it.
It's good to see progressive landscape design here. Especially in our common, everyday spaces.
Crossed wires says:
Irvington Terrace neighborhood is working with KIBI on this Pennsy Trail park. They have had a partnership on this and other projects such as: planting trees in the Eastgate cloverleaf, adding trees and flowers to East Washington Street and cleaning up trash along the Pennsy trail for the last 3 years.
US40 says:
There is another pocket park just east of the DQ. When finished, it will include benches and a bike rack, taking out a few parking spaces.


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Q: How do I cite a Stack Exchange answer in MLA? I'd like to cite an answer to a Stack Exchange question in an MLA-format paper. What's the correct way to do this? Should I cite the specific answer I'm using, or the question page as a whole, and if the latter who counts as the author? Everyone whose contributed?
Word has done it as such:
GordonM. Why is Global State so Evil? 10 May 2012. Web Page. 21 April 2014.
    <http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/148108/why-is-global-state-so-evil>.

A: Eh, this is tricky. MLA doesn't have an official style for citing forums, likely because they wouldn't qualify it as valid source material for academic purposes. Oddly, though, they do have a citation recommendation for Tweets (but I imagine that's because Twitter is quickly becoming a news source).
I would try the following:

Full name (username). Post title, answer/comment hashtag. Date and time of comment/answer. Forum post. URL.

Citing my own answer would be:
Justin (jboneca). "How do I cite a Stack Exchange answer in MLA?" #165204 . 21 April 2014. Forum post. How do I cite a Stack Exchange answer in MLA?


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Q: javascript program that prints all files in current directory with requested file extension and which contains specific string the line "node jsfile.js txt mama"
should result in finding all files with the .txt extension and which contain the string "some".
I've tried this which works pretty good but have a little bug - if mia.txt and mama.txt files have the string "some" it prints mia.txt, mia.txt instead of printing mama.txt, mia.txt
JAVSCRIPT CODE:
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if (process.argv.length != 4) {
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var path = require('path');
var dirPath = path.resolve(__dirname);
var files = fs.readdirSync(dirPath);
var requestedExtension = "." + process.argv[2];
var requestedString = process.argv[3];
var amountOfMatchingFiles = 0;
var resultListOfMatchingFiles = "";
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/*
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A: This is a classic JavaScript problem and it's in your last for loop:
for (var i in extensionFilter) {
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    if (err) throw err;
    if (data.indexOf(process.argv[3]) >= 0) {
      // HERE extensionFilter[i] is "mia.txt" since i has reached
      // it's last value
      console.log(extensionFilter[i]);
      amountOfMatchingFiles++;
    }
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Use a .forEach() instead
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    if (err) throw err
    if (data.indexOf(process.argv[3]) >= 0) {
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We Fact-checked VAIDS, a New Antivax New Conspiracy (Hint: It Doesn't Exist)
Eva & Daiva @ The Inoculation 20 May 2022
In this episode, we fact-check VAIDS, a made-up syndrome anti-vaxxers are using to scare people away from getting vaccinated.
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It's just not a real syndrome. What is not? Hello and welcome to the inoculation. Today we're going to look at how anti Vax groups are pushing the idea that vaccination can harm the immune system. So it's not real syndrome is what vana Farber, Chief of the Division of surgical scientists at Columbia University, told Reuters by an email,
what was she reacting to?
You know, she was reacting to a thing called vaids. This is something that I literally found that I stumbled across in a tweet last week. vaids is a thing. And so I just started scrolling around Twitter. And that was not the only tweet I found. So I just decided to look around what vates could possibly mean, though, what
did you find Vator? What
anti vaxxers? Save it is it's it's a vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. And it's basically just a new spin on the falsehood that vaccines can make people sick. I think the most famous take on that is probably that childhood vaccinations cause autism, which we know is not true.
So first of all, is there any merit or issue? No,
there's no merit at all. And maybe we'll just take a quick look at the science. So that you know, so that we can show our listeners that vaids doesn't exist. First of all, they it sounds like AIDS. Yeah, I think you're right. And I think this is probably also just a choice of a name to really scare people, because AIDS was, for a long time, and still is, in many parts of the world, a life threatening disease, contrary to AIDS, which is a real disease with real medicines to cure it. There's no scientific fact, to back up the claim that veyts does exist, I see that
there were fact checks on it back in December. So why are we looking at it now?
Well, I think one, it's a really good example, how anti vaxxers work. So how they actually take bits of factual information, and weave weave them together into this one big falsehood. And it also shows how, then these little falsehoods, they work their way into the mainstream. And then we have, you know, politicians picking up on these anti Vax, who used to score points with voters.
I thought only marginal Twitter accounts were making this claim but a mainstream politician.
Yeah. And I think this is surprising, because we do tend to think that maybe anti vaxxers are just ill informed, or maybe not that smart. But here we have a US senator, saying that it may be true that vaccines against COVID cost aids. So this was wrong. countin, who was who's a senior senator from Wisconsin, which is a fairly high ranking politician in the United States, and what is it? So basically, it's it's just a fabricated claim that COVID vaccines harm our immune system, and deplete our body's defenses against illnesses.
Are they just saying that or do the anti vaxxers? Haven't you
proof? Well, of course, the anti vaxxers say they have proof and the proof they have is a real study. They have a study? Yes. And it's a good study in a well known medical journal, what? Yes, and they're actually really pushing the fact that there's a study in a journal phase is real. But the problem here is and it's almost like, if it was tragic, it would be really funny. The study doesn't really show in the slightest what the anti vaxxers says it does show
what what does the study say?
So the study was published in a leading medical journal, The Lancet, and it was conducted by a real physician at a leading Swedish University. What they wanted to actually find out was what happens in the days and months after people have gotten a vaccination against COVID. What happens to the protection that the vaccines give them? So they looked at how effective vaccinations were protecting people against infection, hospitalization and death during the first nine months after they received the
vaccination, and what did they find out?
Expanding was a really good study. So they had almost a million participants. So 840,000 individuals who were fully vaccinated, and then they had the same number who were unvaccinated, and then they follow Have them for the nine months after the second vaccination.
And did they really find that the unvaccinated were better off than the vaccinated participants?
No, not at all. Of course not. What they didn't, didn't see was that over time that the vaccine was less effective over nine months, the first month, there was still some effectiveness of about 90%. And then the effectiveness started waning. After seven months, the effectiveness was basically non detectable. Okay, but what I think is important that the vaccines did continue to protect against people having to go to the hospital or people dying from COVID If they were vaccinated.
Okay, so that's why we have the boosters. But what do the study findings mean?
Well, what they actually did say this is what the researchers very clearly stated is that you should get more vaccines, you should actually go get a booster not you shouldn't take a vaccine at all, but you should go out and get a booster
what? So the study says, Get More COVID shots, but anti vaxxers is claiming that you should get fewer shots.
Yeah, because that is not extremely crazy.
Well, this is just how anti vaxxers and other peddlers of disinformation work, right? Yes, it
really is. So we really have to see that they're taking a study conducted by a researcher at a big university, published in a really renowned journal, and, you know, turning it into the worst kind of vaccine disinformation that's meant to scare people away from taking vaccines and away from protecting themselves.
Isn't this with someone called Mel information?
Right. And I think that was Brett Shafer, who talked to us last year, he's an analyst at the Alliance for securing democracy.
Look, I just stuck out the clip. Let's listen to it.
Bret Schafer 6:51
So what we've seen is just sort of cobbling together selective bits of information to create a narrative that is damaging to InMail information, in some ways, the most difficult to deal with, because it exists technically in this sort of world of truth, or at least a sort of gray area of truth. And this is honestly, this is this is what we see with our own partisan news outlets. Right? I mean, for the most part, they are not making up stories. There's just this intense sort of selection bias of the stories that cover to create this view of the world that they want to pass along to their audiences that their audience is looking for. And but the problem with this mal information is when it is technically true, most of our measures to try to mitigate the effects of falsehoods are based on trying to highlight lies. So if you talk about fact checkers, or labeling and all of these things that the social media companies have tried to do, it's it's hard to fact check and label a tweet that, again, it's sort of technically true. But you really need context there. And context takes a lot of explanation. It's hard to get across to people.
And where's this idea being spread?
So we already talked about it last year with sub carbon who is a research analyst with a background in economics and international relations at first draft.
Okay, and what did he say last year? What did he tell
Seb Cubbon 8:25
us kind of actors that typically evolve on these sort of more niche fringe communities and platforms try to get their content to be diffused on major social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc, and then also be reported on by, by mainstream media and not talked about by politicians. And and it's kind of a model to try and alert on the dangers of potentially reporting on stuff when you do have large holdings. Because once you might inadvertently amplify the content itself.
Who is pushing one of the people is pushing it is Joseph America. So he's basically one of the people who's been at the forefront of the anti vaccine movement. What he does is he's made lots of money from selling so called immunity boosters. He's one of the so called disinformation doesn't be the 12 people who push about two thirds of all vaccine disinfo
classic. So we can see the conspiracy spreading on Twitter, but its proponents are also using substack and other newsletters and Facebook to to transmit their views.
Right. And so this is really what's quite dangerous is that, of course, often newsletters are not edited. So there's no editorial oversight. And this is when when we talk to subcut in the last year, he said that tackling This info will will just require audiences to become more selective and more informed.
Let's listen to what he said detailed,
Seb Cubbon 10:08
specific and creates nuanced information can never rival sensation, information in terms of its immediate immediate appeal in terms of its value, etc. So much of the conversation minimal around in terms of health communications, well, how can we produce messaging that isn't a 30 page PDF for you, that's never going to compete with a mean. And there is something to that there is something to try and kind of simplify messaging and making it more accessible, etc. However, there comes a point where, as I said, nuanced information, taking information that isn't supplemented with kind of visual and emotive means can't compete. And that's why I think we have to redirect efforts towards making sure that people are less prone to being attracted by sensationalized content to make sure that yeah, as I said, critical thinking, media literacy, all these things. And obviously, these these are more long term solutions. But I think that, as I said, it comes to the point where we can't make accurate information that often is detail heavy, as appealing ism as a funny meme. The match itself contains information. And so that's, I think we really need to make sure that it becomes appealing by it by developing people's receptiveness to different types of content and appreciating that just because something might be appealing will necessarily be a trend.
Okay, so that was really interesting. And this is I don't think this is going to be the last conspiracy theory we hear of. So but I don't think it's fair to say that, I mean, it can only be on consumers to educate themselves.
Yeah, exactly. How much research can a single individual make for every claim they see on social media? So this is going to need the long term multi pronged solutions. I totally
agree with you.
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