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The Lord Loves you so much. Do you know how much? Read on beloved….
2000 years ago on a cross in the middle eastern region of Jerusalem on the outskirts of the city, beyond the city walls, was a rough hone road called the Via Delarosa. There, a man who had done no wrong was forced to carry a cross made from rough timber. The weight was incalculable and tried as much as it could to force the man to stumble and fall. His cross was picked up by order of the guard and given to Simon of Cyrene to carry. The man condemned to death was Jesus of Nazareth. His crime? He declared that He was the Son of God. Beloved indeed He was and was tortured beaten and hung on that cross with nails driven into both his hands and His feet. Why? Simply this reason, it was the price that had to be paid for the sins of the world. Because of your sin and mine, so we could go to the Father and through the death of His precious son Jesus we could receive forgiveness for what we have done and had done. Is this not love? Of course it is. Unquestionably.


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Q: app not showing up on android market  I finished uploading my app to android market an hour ago.
 I did all the steps recommended here.
 I also have my copy off. Its paid and and I set up a merchant account too.
 My app is not showing on the market. How long does it take to show up?
 And why is not showing up?
 Is there any setting I am missing that I should do?

A: Could be one of several reasons:

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*Delay - Market does sometimes take a little while to show new or updated apps.

*Manifest - your AndroidManifest.xml may be too restrictive, so your app will not show up in the Market app of your test device (even if that's the same device you used for testing)

*User-error - double-check you've actually saved and published the app. The new UI has caught me out twice already!

A: Currently, it takes a few hours until submitted apps (or updates) are showing up on Google Play. Maybe there is a short review process or some caching involved. If everything looks correct with the status info displayed to you, just get yourself a good cup of coffee and give it a few hours. ;)

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John Baptist Byrne entry into the Society of Jesus
Bracken, Kevin, 1904-1931, Jesuit brother
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12 February 1904-29 April 1931
Born: 12 February 1904, Limerick
Entered: 23 November 1923, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Professed: 02 February 1913
Died: 29 April 1931, St Ignatius College, Manresa, Norwood, Adelaide, Australia - Australiae Province (ASL)
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◆ David Strong SJ "The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848-2015", 2nd Edition, Halstead Press, Ultimo NSW, Australia, 2017 - ISBN : 9781925043280 :
His early education was at Belvedere College SJ. He then studied Pharmacy and worked as a qualified Chemist in Dundalk.
1926-1930 After First Vows at St Stanislaus Tullabeg, he went to Rathfarnham as Infirmarian and in charge of the servants
1930 He became ill and was sent to Australia, stationed first at Riverview, then at Sevenhill and finally at Norwood, Adelaide, where he died.
Brother of Brendan Bracken (1901–58), politician.
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Br Kevin Bracken
Br. Bracken died at Norwood, Australia, on Wednesday 29 April 1931. His unexpected death, at the early age of 27, was a shock to all his friends in Ireland. Since the sad news arrived one of our Scholastics received a letter written by Br. Bracken 29 March. It is showed him to be in excellent health and as energetic as ever. Unfortunately, no details of the sad event have yet come to hand.
Br. Kevin Bracken was born 12 Feb. 1904. educated at Belvedere, and on leaving school, spent some time in the world as a chemist. For good reasons he preferred to join the Society as a Lay Brother, and began his noviceship 23 Nov. 1923 at Tullabeg. The noviceship over he get a hospital training in England that made him - when he returned to Ireland - a very efficient infirmarian at Rathfarnham. In addition to his work as infirmarian he had charge of the general up-keep of the house, and it was often remarked that under his care Rathfarnham was second to no house in the Province in neatness, and general material order. It came as a surprise to many that Br. Bracken sailed for Australia with the party that left Ireland in 1930.
Having spent a short time at Riverview he was sent to Sevenhill to nurse Fr. Fleury, and, when the patient died, was changed to Norwood to look after the material up-keep of the house. Here he died 29 April.
Br. Bracken was indeed a conscientious religious and attended as carefully to the interests of his own soul as he did to the various household duties that he discharged so thoroughly and so well. RIP
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Brother Kevin Bracken SJ 1904-1931
Br Kevin Bracken was born in 1904. His family resided first at Kilmallock and then at Templemore. He was a brother of the famous Brendan Bracken, who was Minister of Information in Churchill's Cabinet in World War II.
Kevin was educated at Belvedere College and spent some years after school training to be a chemist. He entered the Society in 1923 as a temporal coadjutor, declining the priesthood., He was of large stature, powerfully built with a luxuriant shock of red hair, cheerful nay even gay in manner, following that dictum of WB Yeats "For the good are always the merry save by eciul chance…"
He was very popular with generations of Juniors in Rathfarnham, where he acted as Infirmarian. In September 1930 Br Kevin went to Australia where, to the surprise of al, he died the following year on April 29th 1931, young in years, but rich in merit.
◆ The Belvederian, Dublin, 1931
Brother Kevin Bracken SJ
It was only last August that Brother Bracken, full of buoyancy and health, left us for Australia. He was then in his twenty-seventh year. Bidding him farewell his many friends wished him every blessing during the long years of service that seemed in store for him under the southern skics. How great then was the shock with: which, at the end of April last, we received the sad announcement of his death. Few could have dreamt that God had destined to call him so soon from our midst. As we write, details of his death are not yet to hand. Having left Belvedere, in 1919, Kevin Bracken, the son of the late J K, and Mrs Bracken of Ardvullen, Kilmallock, and of Templemore, for some time studied pharmacy and worked as a qualified chemist in Dundalk. In 1923, however, he abandoned his position and at his own special request was admitted as a lay-brother postulant into the Society of Jesus. He did his noviceship in Tullabeg College, Offaly, and went afterwards as infirmarian to Rathfarnham Castle where he remained until his departure for Australia last August. In Australia he spent some time at St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, at St Aloysius', Sevenhills, and went finally, to Norwood in Adelaide, where he was stationed at the time of his death. He was the first Jesuit lay-brother ever attached to the house of the Society there and, as he said himself in a letter, tragically received some days after the announcement of his death, was the . cause of "a lot of curiosity", at the time of his arrival. In his care of the sick none could be more devoted, while his previous training and experience as a chemist made him most efficient in every way. Deeply do we regret his early death; and to the sorrowing members of his family most truly offer our sincere sympathy. RIP
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Denver Police Gain New Officer With Four HoovesDenver's police force just got some new horsepower.
School Of Mines Competing In Concrete Canoe CompetitionIt's may sound like a counter-intuitive construction project, but to the concrete canoe team at The Colorado School of Mines, it's about finding a creative solution to a unique problem.
Members Of 1999 Columbine HS Football Team Inducted To Hall Of FameThey came together to win the state championship just a few months after a mass shooting rocked the same school.
Junior College In Sterling Helping Train Much-Needed TechniciansAs Colorado continues to use more renewable energy, a small college in northeast Colorado is creating a nationally recognized program to train the needed Wind Technicians.
Nationally Recognized Junior College In Sterling Helping Train Much-Needed TechniciansAs Colorado continues to use more renewable energy, a small college in northeast Colorado is creating a nationally recognized program to train the needed Wind Technicians.
Engineering Students Create Concrete Canoe For National CompetitionIt's may sound like a counter-intuitive construction project, but to the concrete canoe team at The Colorado School of Mines, it's about finding a creative solution to a unique problem.
Wild Mustang Added To Police Patrol: Denver Kids Swear in Police HorseDenver's police force just got some new horsepower.
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DENVER (CBS4) – Police officers in Denver joined cleanup crews to help a non-profit school recover after Monday's massive hail storm.
The Laradon School helps both children and adults with developmental disabilities.
The school at 51st and Lincoln Avenue suffered nearly $2 million in damages. Every day the school remains closed, it loses about $80,000 a day in funding.
Police have been at the school for the past eight weeks training and learning about Laradon's services and the 600 adults and children who attend the campus.
All 21 roofs must be replaced along with dozens of skylights and windows that were shattered when the storm hit. The broken windows allowed heavy rain to pour inside the buildings, leaving behind a lot of water damage.
"The amount of work that the teachers put in here to get these children to a certain place where they can function in society is awesome," said Denver Police Department Technician Dan Figuero.
"I think for us, if you look at the amount of love and care that they put into the communities that they serve… we can't give back enough," said Denver Police Department Technician Tyrone Campbell.
Officers joined other members of the community who pitched in to help with the cleanup process.
Laradon is asking volunteers to join their cleanup efforts in hopes of reopening the center Monday, May 15.
Anyone interested in volunteering can contact Angela Rotello at angela.rotello@laradon.org or (720) 974-6827.
They are also asking for help with expenses not covered by insurance.


This weekend saw the Prerelease events for the newest Magic: The Gathering set, Rivals of Ixalan. I already had plans for most of the weekend, but was able to attend the Sunday event at 1pm. I attended at my LGS where I took part in the Ixalan prerelease as well, and just like the first time I was not disappointed. I have been very lucky with my pulls from packs over the last year or so. Not only have I pulled both an Invention and an Invocation from the past two masterpiece sets (Kaladesh block and Amonkhet block), but I've managed to pull some of the desirable cards from these past two Ixalan sets as well!
Unfortunately I was only able to stay at the event long enough to crack my packs, throw together a 40-card Simic Merfolk deck, and beat my first opponent 2-1. At that point I had to jet, but got a participation pack as well that also had a decent rare inside! I'm curious what would have happened had I stayed, as my roommate managed to essentially win the whole thing and earned extra packs. Regardless, it was a good time and I felt I got my money's worth for the small $30 investment. On top of the normal chaff that is to be expected from a small pile of packs, I ended up with cards that I needed for decks that I'm constructing, and Dinosaurs are going to be amazing at this point. Once the set officially releases next week I'll be placing an order for singles and finishing that deck off finally, along with getting some additional power for other decks.
People were hoping that Zacama was going to be a 5-color elder dinosaur so they could utitlize the other five mono-colored elder dinosaurs, but I'm just fine with the card being Naya, and slotting right into the 99 of the Gishath deck I'm building. Not only is this card very versatile on its own, but I could use it as an alternate commander for the deck and that's more useful to me. Zetalpa is going in the same deck, along with the Green and Red elder dinos. Amazing stuff. I managed to also pull Tetzimoc, but without being able to use black in the dino deck, that one will collect dust for a while. It's a great card, but I can't use it at the moment.
I pulled three of the Forerunners, but these are the only two I'll use. The Pirate one is only good in Pirate decks, and that's not something I intend on building, despite owning an Admiral Beckett Brass. My dino Forerunner was also a foil, so that's a bonus and I pulled a foil Goring Ceratops which is an upgrade of sorts since I already had a non-foil version. There were some other rares that I pulled but nothing too exciting.
Overall I still managed to get my hands on some good cards, and I might be able to trade my roommate for some others that I need to finish off some of these decks. It's a fun time, and I'm hoping to continue to go to these events as they come up. We're also trying to use the opportunity to find some new members for our EDH group, and apparently a few people were invited from what my roommate said, so perhaps we'll get the steady games going again. In the meantime I'm going to try and finish up the decks I'm working on to be adequately prepared when that day comes!


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Culture of John Conyers: Some staffers call work atmosphere disturbing; others praise him
By Todd Spangler and Paul Egan
WASHINGTON – If there is anything many former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers agree upon, it is that even into his 70s and 80s, the Detroit Democrat — a civil rights legend — didn't lack for female attention.
There were "girlfriends" some say, women, both young and mature, who wanted to take care of him, hang on his arm, climb into the back of a car with him as he left an event. There were those who got special treatment, say others. Those who just wanted to be around. Those who thought he was a "rock star."
[John Conyers has retired after 53 years in Congress, remaining adamant that his legacy will go untarnished. Read more here.]
"They wanted to flirt with him," said TaMorie Sanders, who was Conyers' Washington, D.C., office manager in the early 2000s. At times, she said, the flirting got so bad she had to stand between the congressman and some woman who wanted his attention, just to keep him on schedule.
More: U.S. Rep. Sander Levin will retire from Congress when term ends next year
More: Conyers' attorney calls accuser an 'opportunist'
Conyers now finds himself accused of far more than flirting, with a series of women raising specific and disturbing accusations of harassment, of sexual advances, of troubling remarks and behavior over the years. A House Ethics Committee investigation has been launched. A female colleague, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., on Friday likened his conduct to that of a "predator."
But while not passing judgment on the merits of the claims made against him so far, several former staffers — from among the more than two dozen that the Free Press contacted or attempted to contact in recent days — say the portrait of Conyers that emerges from the accusations is often at odds with the man they believe they know, that they never saw his behavior stray into what they considered harassment.
"It's hard to believe he harassed anyone," said Sanders, who has known Conyers for decades and said he helped her, encouraging her to get her law degree, steering her to free food at receptions when she was a struggling law student. "He's a good man."
At 88, Conyers, a civil rights legend, co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the longest-serving active member in Congress, stands on the precipice of being forced from the office he has held since 1965 by claims from at least six former female employees that he sexually or otherwise harassed them or others, making sexual advances, rubbing or groping them, showing up to meetings in his underwear.
They come as the political world, along with the entertainment and media worlds, is becoming consumed by allegations of sexual harassment with Conyers, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and others battling claims even as women in Congress press for changes to a byzantine system that keeps claims under wraps and allows settlements paid for by taxpayers.
On Friday, news reports out of Washington noted that another member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, settled a sexual harassment claim brought against him by his former communications director, for $84,000.
In the case of Conyers, the sheer number of accusations against him carry weight.
Marion Brown, a former district director, accused Conyers of taking her to his hotel room in 2005 and telling her to touch his genitals or find a woman who would; of insisting she stay in his room with him on other occasions; of creating a work environment where a mostly female staff competed against each other and were expected to babysit or have his laundry done or other personal tasks. She says she was fired in 2014 — when Conyers would have been 85 — after years of refusing his sexual advances; that he had lost interest in her being his "side piece."
She ended up signing a nondisclosure agreement and a settlement for more than $27,000 — a document in which Conyers expressly denied her claims.
While Brown is speaking out, she is hardly the only one who has accused Conyers:
In affidavits supporting Brown's claims received and vetted by the website BuzzFeed.com, two other former employees said Conyers rubbed parts of women's bodies in sexually suggestive ways and had a relationship with someone in his office.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this year — and quickly withdrawn when a judge wouldn't seal it — another woman accused him of inappropriate comments and touches, blowing kisses at her in public and kissing her forehead. She pulled the lawsuit, however, saying she didn't want to hurt Conyers' reputation.
Melanie Sloan, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who worked for Conyers in the '90s, said he berated her, hiring and firing her several times; criticized her for not wearing stockings; made her babysit his children. And while she said she never felt sexually harassed, she said Conyers called her to a meeting once in his office where he was in his underwear.
And Deanna Maher, who worked for him from 1997 to 2005 in Michigan and had raised other complaints against him with the Free Press more than a decade ago, came out last week to claim Conyers stripped in front of her after inviting her to stay in his Washington suite and on two other occasions groped her.
"I needed money to live on," Maher told CNN last week. "It's awful, you're so vulnerable and you're willing to say. 'OK, OK.' The person says jump, you say how high."
The accusations led House Speaker Paul Ryan, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and three of the four other Democrats in Michigan's congressional delegation last week to call for Conyers — who abandoned Washington for Detroit last week despite Congress being in session and is now hospitalized with unknown symptoms — to resign.
So far, he has resisted, denying all the claims against him.
But even with the drumbeat of calls for his resignation getting louder, there are those who worked for him who say — while not disputing the claims made by the women who have come forward — that those accusations don't entirely comport with their experience and don't form a complete picture of the congressman's office and his behavior.
"It was constantly women approaching him," said one woman, a staff veteran who no longer works for the congressman and spoke to the Free Press anonymously because of the sensitivity of the accusations against him. "He was treated like a rock star."
The woman said there was "questionable" behavior in the office — his flying women to Washington or Detroit so he could see them, rumored relationships with women in his employ, and one instance where she opened a door and said she saw Conyers and another employee kissing.
To her, none of it rose to a level of what she would describe as sexual harassment, believing it was consensual, even though others might interpret any kind of involvement between Conyers and his staff as potential harassment.
"He didn't have to approach them," she said about the women who made their way to Conyers. "They fought to get into his face."
"He was susceptible to it. That's probably where he was guilty."
Another woman who worked for Conyers and who spoke on condition of anonymity said it was open knowledge that he had "relationships" but that in terms of sexual advances from the congressman, she never experienced it — and had experienced far worse behavior on Capitol Hill, including from one member of Congress she said who asked her, the first time he met her, to go on vacation with him.
Secret tales of sexual liaisons and harassment by people in power toward staff and others have been rampant in Washington for decades but have only recently started to come into the open, as women — including some members of Congress themselves — have talked about the groping, the advances, they've had to fend off.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, told the Free Press about a "prominent, historical figure" whom she will not name, trying to force his hand between her legs at a function in the U.S. Capitol decades ago when she worked for General Motors and a U.S. senator making frequent advances. Speier, meanwhile, has discussed how when she was a staffer in the 1970s, another top-ranking staffer forcibly kissed her.
There are 110 women in the current Congress — 20% of the total — a record number.
The woman who worked in Conyers' office said she had been propositioned on numerous occasions and recognized sexual harassment when she saw it. Not with Conyers, who, the worst thing he did to her, she said, was call her "honey."
But she said she saw lots of people — women and men — "who tried to get closer to him, to get closer to power."
"I don't know that I saw a whole lot that was unique to John Conyers (in his office)," she added.
If anything, said another woman, the problems with other women in the office who were in Conyers' personal favor had it easier than those who were seen differently.
"His office was a really strange place to be," she said. "You could be a worker bee, or you could be a girlfriend bee. If you were a worker bee, you got lots of work. Girlfriend bees didn't have to do anything."
But this woman, too, while criticizing Conyers' office practices — and, again, not questioning the accuracy of the claims against him but only relating her experience —said she never experienced or saw any overt sexual advances in terms of comments or groping.
"He's not a stupid man," she said, adding that "rampant" solicitations on Capitol Hill often take the form of opaque invitations and remarks that can later be denied or explained away with an excuse. "Nobody's that stupid."
On Friday, as he continued to try to knock down the allegations against Conyers —including that the $27,000 settlement he paid Brown was improper because it came from his taxpayer-backed office funds — lawyer Arnold Reed posted on Twitter a signed statement from a former worker, Shawn Campbell, who said he worked with Brown in the congressman's office and that Brown never expressed any concern about being harassed.
He also said that Brown urged Conyers to give her daughter — Nailah Ellis-Brown, now the CEO and founder of Ellis Island Tropical Tea in Detroit — a job, which he did. Contacted by the Free Press on Friday, Ellis-Brown said her mother didn't ask Conyers to give her a job — that Conyers contacted her directly.
Reed, Conyers' lawyer, said it begged the question, though, "Why do you bring your daughter into an environment that's hostile?" Ellis-Brown said she didn't have time to speak further about the claims, other than to say she supports the accusations made by her mother.
Beyond those claims, however, there seemed to be widespread acceptance that the lines between Conyers' personal habits and responsibilities sometimes merged with those of the office in ways many believed were unacceptable and — as the Ethics Committee had previously found — disallowed.
"I felt really abused by this guy. I felt like I was mistreated by this guy," said Sloan, who said she was "furious" when Conyers pulled her out of a field hearing in the 1990s she had organized to babysit one of his children.
Others also said they were asked to babysit the Conyers' children. More than a decade ago, the House Ethics Committee investigated those complaints, made by Maher and others, which Conyers denied. Eventually, a settlement was reached in which staff was to be trained on where their professional responsibilities began and ended.
But some women who worked for Conyers said there were still times when staff interacted with the Conyers kids, not because they were ordered to do so, but because their father was always so busy. Conyers and his wife, Monica — who is more than 30 years younger than him and whom he married in 1990 — have two children, John III and Carl, now grown.
Others said Conyers abused the staff's time when it came to his kids.
"He thought, 'You pick up the kids. I'm busy,' " said one woman who worked in his office. " 'What I'm doing is important.' "
Meanwhile, several women acknowledged that it wasn't unusual to see Conyers in his underwear — as Sloan described to the Free Press — but that it was more a function of his practically living in his office, which had a bathroom, and not being suggestive or harassing.
"He worked all the time. He'd work and go to sleep at his desk," said Sanders. "He might be in his shorts (when you saw him) but he had shaving cream on him too. … This is a working man."
Some people who worked for him complained more — as one woman put it — of a culture of "mismanagement" and "incompetence" in the running of the office, both in Washington and in Detroit.
"I never personally witnessed or experienced any sexual abuse or misbehavior," said Patricia Hartig, a former chief of staff and district director for Conyers. "I spent a lot of time with him. Everything was professional."
But she said that there were people on staff — she didn't name them — who took advantage of Conyers' "kindness" and were allowed to remain working for him even though they weren't "up to par."
"I do think he was taken advantage of by many female staff," she said. Again, she said she was not disputing the claims that have been made against him — only describing her experience and that she didn't see it going on herself.
Jared Hautamaki, a former legislative assistant to Conyers in Washington from 1999-2004 and an attorney with the Environmental Protection Agency, did question the claims, however, saying, "I've been talking to other staffers, and we are of the unanimous opinion that it's a bunch of BS."
He said Maher, in particular, was a staffer who took advantage of what was sometimes a management vacuum in the office, recalling an incident in which he and other staff were "flabbergasted" when business cards arrived for Maher that gave her the title "district chief of staff" in Conyers' Downriver office — a title Hautamaki said Maher never held.
Maher confirmed Friday that business cards arrived with her name and "chief of staff," but said she didn't order business cards and had nothing to do with the mistake. She said Conyers gave her the title "deputy chief of staff" in the early 2000s when he sent her to run his Downriver office in Southgate.
Hautamaki said working for Conyers was one of the best experiences of his life, but confirmed there were management issues and sometimes a vacuum in leadership. He recalled a December 2002 incident in which office staff had to be temporarily laid off or shifted to campaign staff because there was no remaining office money to pay them.
Even as the accusations have continued to gather steam, former staffers have stepped up to defend Conyers. Shortly after the first word of Brown's 2014 complaint was published by BuzzFeed on Nov. 20, a dozen former staffers issued a statement saying, "While we do not pass judgment on the specific allegations reported in the press or the women who brought them, our experiences with Mr. Conyers were quite different than the image of him being portrayed in the media."
They called him a gentleman, said he respected their opinions, called him "respectful."
Erica Morris Long, an Atlanta attorney who worked in the Clinton White House after working for Conyers, recently posted on Facebook that during her time in his office, Conyers "always treated me with the utmost professionalism and respect."
In the end, however, it may be that the accusers and the serious allegations they have brought against Conyers — the specificity of the details, the number of them, and the apparently accepted fact by many who worked for and still defend him that Conyers seemed to always have women around him despite being married — will overwhelm the congressman and define his legacy, despite his insistent denials, despite counterclaims that those allegations don't fit with what others saw or believed that they saw.
It may be that the truth of their experience with Conyers is far different than the experience of those who say he harassed him.
But even if that's the case, some are prepared to forgive him.
"If you needed something from him, he gave it," said Sanders, his former office manager. She added, "He may have made a mistake. But we're all human."
Contact Todd Spangler: 703-854-8947 or tspangler@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter at @tsspangler.


We often get asked our advice on a variety of issues to do with customers' water supply. So Beck Anderson, one of our inspectors, has made a series of videos to help with some of them. Click on the video to find out more.
It's a sad fact that Bogus Callers often pretend to be from your water company or "the water board". Beck gives you some sound advice on what to do if you suspect a caller is not genuine.
By fitting one of the devices you could save up to 2.5 litres of water every time you flush the toilet. That's a real saving especially if you have a water meter. Beck shows you how simple they are to fit.
In the event of an emergency, it's very important to know where your stop tap is. Beck shows you how to locate your outside stop tap.
In the event of an emergency, it's very important to know where your stop tap is. Beck shows you how to locate your inside stop tap.
It's not necessary for you to read your water meter as we'll do it. But if you interested in keeping a closer eye on your water usage Beck shows you what to do.
Beck gives advice on everything from who owns your water supply pipe, to preparing for winter and changing your boiler.
Beck shows you how easy it is to lag your household pipes. Don't be caught out when the temperatures drop. Burst pipes cause misery and are expensive to repair.


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• Conduct Outage Impact Workshop to identify affected work areas in both city.
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• Assess physical workgroup needs including remote access.
• Consider commercial workgroup recovery sites, cold sites, reciprocal agreement options.
• Implement by end of 2014 or early 2015.
• Working collaboratively with the customer implement Emergency Response & Management Plan (ERMP).
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• Prepare and conduct ERMP training.
• Operationalize ERMP through standing team meetings, exercises and evacuation drills, management reviews.
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• Identify and communicate workplace hazards, remove hazards, and establish engineering and administrative controls (including training) uniquely matched to the hazards.
• Maintain awareness of advancing technology, innovations in safe workplace practices and which impact employee safety and health, the environment, and external perceptions of the company.
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• Ensure the following safety compliance activities are conducted according to site procedures and regulatory requirements: accident and incident investigations with follow up Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) Plans; risk assessments; safety self-assessments; indoor air quality assessments; Job Hazard Assessments (JHAs); and compliance training.
• Assist in establishing Contractor Safety Program to oversee compliance with work performed on-site by external service providers involved in construction projects, Site Operations, Global Engineering, R&D Lab Operations, and Bio-Process and Manufacturing Sciences.
• Ensure all elements of the Contractor and Outside Service Provider (OSP) activities are conducted according to site procedures and regulatory requirements including, but not limited to: OSP Prequalification; Critical Activity Risk Register; Project Pre-Planning and Orientation; Safety Plan Review and Permitting; JHA Review; Case Management; Safety Task Assessment; and Field Compliance.
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• Design core OSHA programs; deliver such program on a timely basis.
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• Develop and implement Site Safety Programs designed to address site-specific requirements.
• Establish Core OSHA Safety Compliance Programs including, but not limited to: contractor safety, construction safety, hazard communication, fall protection, working from heights, electrical safety / arc flash, fire and life safety, fire alarm impairment, emergency response, Lockout Tagout (LOTO), hot work, powered industrial vehicles, and confined space.
• Assist in defining, developing and delivering Site Safety and regulatory compliance training programs.
• Ensure the following safety compliance activities are conducted according to site procedures and regulatory requirements: accident and incident investigations with follow up Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) Plans; risk assessments; safety self assessments; indoor air quality assessments; Job Hazard Assessments (JHAs); and compliance training.
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This Subject Matter Expert (SME) will work closely with our client's Director of Resiliency within Corporate Security and Resiliency (CSR). This position will develop innovative scenarios for business impact and workflow interruption at the local, regional, and national levels. This Resiliency Exercise Designer will be able to build scenarios that prompt "outside the box" thinking by exercise participants.
The five categories of our client's resiliency plan include Emergency Management, Facility Recovery, Business Continuity, Technical Recovery, and Disaster Recovery. Parameters for each exercise may include both tabletop and full-interruption formats.
Develop scenarios to determine business impact and workflow interruption at the local, regional, and national levels.
Develop and analyze Crisis Management planning, development, process mapping and exercises.
Build scenarios that prompt "outside the box" thinking; Scenarios built should facilitate operational assessment of the adequacy of any or all of five categories of resiliency plan used at client and will include both tabletop and full-interruption formats.
Craft deliverables that allow facilitation by a designee.
Develop 4-6 exercises within a calendar year.
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Organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham Azerbaijan) the 2nd AmCham Conference on "Ethics and Compliance in Azerbaijan" has been held, AzerTag reports.
In their opening remarks, AmCham Executive Director Natavan Mammadova, AmCham President Nuran Karimov, as well as BP Azerbaijan`s Vice President for Communications, External Affairs, Strategy and Region Bakhtiyar Aslanbayli (concurrently as a Member of AmCham Board of Directors), emphasized the significance of raising awareness among the business community about the role of consistent compliance with laws, regulations, professional standards and ethical business behaviour for strengthening the business environment in the country.
Addressing the event, Prosecutor of Anti-Corruption General Directorate under the Prosecutor General's Office Elnur Humbatov highlighted the implementation progress of anti-corruption measures undertaken by the government, the role of ASAN service for ensuring transparency, as well as general ethics and compliance related matters.
The Conference featured two-panel discussions. The first one was dedicated to the role of compliance function in strengthening corporate values beyond corruption as well as issues related to beyond-conventional bribery (conflict of interest, workplace harassment, respecting business partners and so on). The second-panel discussion focused on effective third-party risk management on compliance (including risk-based assessment, conducting supplier due diligence and monitoring and assurance).
Conducted in an interactive discussion form, the conference was followed by an active Q&A session.


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As I was reading from the book of Proverbs, the words in chapter 6 verses 20-23 struck me. Maybe more so now since I have 2 sons who are growing up ever so fast and on the brink of manhood - one entering his final year of high school and one entering his first.
I'm a very visual person, and as I read I began to see these verses come to life. It was so peaceful to take a break from the busyness of life to put the words to pictures. I need to do this more often.
As I am sure you've noticed, being a mom of teens isn't easy for me, but joy fills my heart to overflowing watching you embrace the faith in which you've been trained up and seeing you make an effort to follow the values and principles your dad and I have instilled in you.
I won't lie, though, it can be scary witnessing the struggle in each of you to find your own way in the world. It aches, too, when I feel the slip and fall of yet another apron string. I know you need to form your own thoughts and ideas about life, and I know you need to experience the power, the realness, of this God who made you and who lives in you for yourselves.
But trying to keep the balance of letting go and reigning in, and knowing when to step in and when to stay out is hard.
It gets messy on both sides, but my prayer has always been that my love for you and your love for me will cover a multitude of sins.
It is also my prayer that you both will always remember these wise words from Proverbs 6:20-23. Following God's commands will never lead you astray. If you keep them, bind them, fasten them, and forsake them not; they will guide you, watch over you, and speak to you all the days of your lives.
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It's hard for me to stay focused on the day and what's in front of me right now in the final days before the start of a new year.
I've just about decided to put lots more energy into using either my Google+ Page or my SBCC Blog for helping foster more real help for startups.
Doubles the amount of work, does it add anything at all to the experience for you, the reader?
And a dozen or so others. You get the idea.
I need to either boil this down, or start viewing myself as a publishing company. Either way, I need help. Your ideas right now as a comment right here, an email to John@JohnWren.com or a call to me at (303)861-1447 would be very much appreciated.
Someone will undoubtably ask, because it's what we are all trained to ask, "what are you trying to do?" Of course all of us are much better at asking this question than we are at answering it ourself.
But here goes. What do I want?
3) is an opportunity for learning and growth for all of us.
The purpose I've had of starting this successful business for the last 20 or so years is to strengthen the grassroots, the voice of the common person, in business and politics.
What a waste of time. I almost delete this. No one will answer my question. Almost no one will read it. But no, I'll keep it up. Can always delete it later. Sorry to have wasted your time.
Late for Mass... "Speak Lord, your servant is listening."


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More "settled science" – Unexpected environmental source of methane discovered
Some nitrogen-fixing microorganisms contain an enzyme for the simultaneous production of ammonia and methane
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE
An unexpected source of methane in the environment has been inadvertently discovered.
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are the chief means by which nitrogen gas in the air is changed into a form that plants and animals can use. Roughly 10 percent of these nitrogen-fixing microorganisms contain the genetic code for manufacturing a back-up enzyme, called iron iron-only nitrogenase, to do their job.
Recent research reveals that this enzyme allows these microorganisms to convert nitrogen gas to ammonia and carbon dioxide into methane at the same time. The ammonia is the main product; the methane is only a sideline.
This enzymatic pathway is a previously unknown route for the natural biological production of methane.
The findings are reported Jan. 15 in Nature Microbiology. The senior author is Caroline Harwood, the Gerald and Lyn Grinstein Professor of Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The lead author is Yanning Zheng, a postdoctoral student in her lab.
"Methane is potent greenhouse gas. That is why it is important to account for all of its sources," Harwood said.
In addition to being released from fossil fuels, methane also comes from microbial activity. In a single year, microorganisms, including many living in the ocean and decaying swamps, form and consume at least a billion tons of methane.
The archaea, single-cell life forms that tend to like harsh environments, are the main methane generators. To accomplish this, they avail themselves of complex chemical pathways, some of which already have been traced by scientists.
Besides its ecological significance, a better understanding of the various ways microorganisms manufacture methane is medically important. Methane production can play a role in the interactions in microbial communities that inhabit humans and animals. Methane in the gut, for example, is suspected of contributing to some digestive disorders.
However, although iron-only nitrogenase was identified several decades ago, scientists had not yet noticed that it, too, could be used by some microorganisms for methane production.
"It's been a neglected enzyme," Zheng said.
His team is studying an adaptable bacteria that can acquire its energy from a variety of reactions, Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Still, the researchers did not expect that the methane they were seeking would be generated by iron-only nitrogenase in this organism.
"There is now recent evidence that iron-only nitrogenase is active in microbes more often and in more conditions than we had previously thought," Zheng observed.
To make sure this methane-generating pathway was not exclusive to Rhodopseudomonas palustris, they tested for similar abilities in three other nitrogen-fixing bacterial species that have iron-only nitrogenase.
They also examined data that showed that genes for iron-only nitrogenase were detected in a number of physiologically diverse microorganisms that also vary in the conditions under which they survive.
They learned, too, that the Rhodopseudomonas palustris ability to produce even a tiny amount of methane enabled a methane-utilizing bacteria to grow in the same lab culture.
It is likely, according to the researchers, that interactions like these occur in nature and support the activities of methane-oxidizing bacteria. This form of methane production might, for example, help shape microbial community interactions in marine sediments, in the soil, and in microbiomes living in humans and animals.
The researchers' work was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition to several other University of Washington researchers, the team included scientists from Utah State University and Montana State University.
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Mr_Ed
"In a single year, microorganisms, including many living in the ocean and decaying swamps, form and consume at least a billion tons of methane." Create?
This story casts doubt on the accuracy of another WUWT story where researchers purport to calculate the methane budget to within 1%.
I never cease to be amazed at research that gives +/- 1% results based on +/- 50% measurements.
Shanghai Dan
No issue at all! Don't you just need to measure a half-dozen times to get that 50% accuracy down to 1%?
Reply to Shanghai Dan
That works if your errors are truly random. An example would be extracting a signal where the noise exceeds the signal by 20 dB. That means that for a 1 mW signal, the noise would be 100 mW. If you can average over a long enough period, you can get an eight bit output for a one bit digitizer (ie. a comparator). (Of course, your signal bandwidth will be crap.)
What I have seen for papers computing things like carbon budgets is errors that probably aren't random, measurements that differ by orders of magnitude, and measurements taken at different times and different places with different instruments. There's no justification for assuming that the errors will cancel themselves out with enough averaging. It is just as likely that the system error will exceed any of the component errors.
Suppose that I am designing something with a lot of parts. Each part will have a tolerance. Sometimes the errors will cancel each other out and we get a well functioning product. Sometimes the errors will all add in the same direction. In that case our product won't function at all.
As a rough example, we may have to specify 1% parts to ensure that most of our products will function within 10%.
It's complicated but where we are faced with 'red' noise (ie. the signal drifts), averaging doesn't reduce error at all.
Nitrogen fixation by a methanogenic archaebacterium
And the climate scientists still haven't included this information into their models.
Max Hugoson
Latitude: Thanks for the humor for the day. What's that quote from Ecclesiastes? "There is nothing new under the sun."
Reply to Max Hugoson
If they had any clue how nitrification, denitrification, ammonification, nitrogen fixation worked….they would have already known this
Lat, it seems that even the simplest concepts will have to be rediscovered in the post-modern science paradigm. After all, humans have changed everything in their perspective, so the previously accepted order of nature no longer pertains.
My boss once told me, "Ninety percent of all aerospace research today has already been reported in the German Journal of Physics between 1900 and 1910.
paqyfelyc
Reply to jorgekafkazar
And ninety percent of what wasn't, is rubbish, worth falling into oblivion even before publishing.
Research has a huge diminishing return.
Gary Kerkin
The authors of this paper are not the same as the ones Anthony cites. The authors of the 1984 paper are Patti A. Murray & Stephen H. Zinder.
That paper simply notes that bacteria that are well known to produce methane can also fix nitrogen. Not the same.
Reply to Nick Stokes
not the same, but proof that enzymatic apparatus producing CH4 and NH3 respectively are connected (which is coherent with basic chemistry, as both are reducing process), so it can be expected that when one is there, the other is, too. So the "discovery" is all but "unexpected".
'all but "unexpected"'
Even if something might be expected, it's still worth reporting that it has been observed. But I think the unexpected here was reducing CO2 all the way to CH4. Reduction to CO is known.
Reduction to CO is highly unusual in biology, not normal. Everything is "known" only because there are unusual pathways, and reaction by-products, even from enzymes.
Greenhouse gas is everywhere, all over the planet. It's on the land, in the air and the oceans and the ocean floors are filled with it – and it's our fault?
Reply to James Cook
and the planet has co-existed with it all for billions of years …. none of these
bacteria and their chemical activities are new to the ecosystem even if they
are new to some scientists.
I have my doubts that so-called "Greenhouse Gases" actually
contribute very much to temperatures at all.
The claim about methane being an important greenhouse is a lie see https://cementafriend.wordpress.com/2011/10/ . Beside the link look at page 5-35 of Perry's Chemical Engineering Handbook Table 5-9 shows that methane is no more important than ammonia.
NeedleFactory
OK, this is interesting — but I think it's not very relevant to moving AGW arguments one way or another as I assume that (for climate issues) the importance of methane is how much is in the atmosphere (which I think is measured accurately) and not where it comes from. Correct me if I'm missing something.
TDBraun
Reply to NeedleFactory
They take the amount measured in the atmosphere and subtract from that what they calculate as coming from known natural sources, and the rest is assumed to be caused by mankind. Except they keep finding new natural sources.
Reply to TDBraun
Very good answer, TD. Thanks
And it's worse than we thought.
"the rest is assumed to be caused by mankind"
They don't believe that they can do accounting on methane sources. The main reason to think that mankind has an effect is that methane has been rising a lot.
Of course it's caused by humans! Have you never been subjected to the digestive disorder that follows the consumption of mass quantities of beans or chili w/beans, or for that matter, red beans and rice?
"Nick Stokes January 15, 2018 at 4:13 pm
The main reason to think that mankind has an effect is that methane has been rising a lot."
Evidence please to support your post.
Nick, ah yes, the standard AGW claim. Absent man, nothing in the world would ever change.
"the standard AGW claim"
No, it's not. AGW says that if GHGs rise, warming will follow. It doesn't say that GHgs will rise. That, for CO2 at least, is a choice. For CH4, we mostly don't know, but certainly some human activities (eg directly discharging methane) has an effect.
This paper isn't about AGW either. It's a bunch of microbiologists looking at a microbial process. If it does discharge CH4, and that seems to be very small, it's something that has always been there.
"AGW says that if GHGs rise, warming will follow"
Which is of course not an empirically demonstrable fact but a statement of faith more relevant to a religion than to any known form of science.
@Nick
You have it all wrong, as usual. At no point it is necessary to presume that all new methane in the atmosphere is man made. Each anthropological production (natural gas, rice production, waste etc. ) are estimated, and that is enough.
Samuel C Cogar
Nick Stokes – January 16, 2018 at 1:50 am
[quoting MarkW] ""the standard AGW claim"
No, it's not. AGW says that if GHGs rise, warming will follow."
Nick Stokes, if that what "AGW says". ……. then why in ell would anyone but the "troughfeeding" government employees at "institutions of learning" and at government agencies, ….or any of the learning-disabled/mentally-handicapped individual citizens ….. be adamant believers and partisan supporters of the "junk science" AGW or CAGW?
"DUH", ….. GHGS, namely atmospheric CO2, has been STEADILY rising for the past 20 years ….. but no "near surface" warming has followed suite.
Nick, do you have a CYA to explain your continuing belief in/of AGW?
rckkrgrd
Since it is not evenly distributed and breaks down rapidly, I don't believe there is any way that measurements of atmospheric concentrations could be accurate. Not knowing all the sources complicates things further.
Reply to rckkrgrd
Yes. Or almost yes. They can certainly measure accurately at any given location. But the rapid breakdown, and inhomogeneity of methane sources, coupled with large uncertainties, limits their ability to say anything concrete on bigger scales or longer time spans. This is also true for CO2: Some of the alarmists case could be true, but so could be many other far less-alarming interpretations. The methane budget is harder still to interpret than the CO2 budget. Only climate scientists love uncertainty, because it allows them to say whatever they like, and be dead or retired before they are proved wrong.
All that aside, at a quick glance, the biochemistry in the article is interesting and seems worthy. Back in 2010 I saw someone describe a paper that showed satellite fluorescence measurements indicated just how many oceanic photo-synthesizing cyanobacter also commonly fixed nitrogen when circumstances changed. The same speaker also said 10% of the 'biospheric' carbon is turned over 24 hours. That number ought to scare savant climatologists.
Fraizer
Bacterial symbiosis. One set of organisms produces a product that another adjacent colony uses. Anyone that keeps a Berlin system reef aquarium is familiar with this in terms of the nitrogen cycle.
Reply to Fraizer
..exactly Fraizer….and anyone that ferments pig slop to get methane is putting it into practice
A conversion of nitrogen to ammonia needs energy and hydrogen. A conversion of carbon dioxide to methane also needs energy and hydrogen. This is a great discovery, but it would be nice to know where the energy and hydrogen come from.
Leonard Weinstein
Reply to Curious George
George, water is source of Hydrogen, and Sun is source of energy (also possibly volcanic vents underwater).
R. Shearer
Sunlight and water
The energy comes from oxidative metabolism. The trick is to reduce the carbon (or nitrogen) without reducing the oxygen needed for the metabolism.
It looks like Nick Stokes has no understanding of chemistry adding to his lack of understanding to the engineering subjects of heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics and engineering mathematics.
Care to explain?
the nitrogen to ammonia process doesn't need energy, it releases energy: think of nitrogen as the oxidizing agent, replacing oxygen, and think of NH3 as the result of the combustion just like H2O.
The hydrogen just as to come from any fat (or sugar), as usual in living organism. It can even come from water, if in a very reducing milieu (like, rich in metal)
CO2 to CH4 does require energy, but again you can think of carbon as an oxidizing agent, replacing oxygen, and think of CH4 as the result of the combustion just like H2O. Again, any fat, as usual in living organism, will provide hydrogen, and some reducing agent will take care of the oxygen from CO2 (and provide some energy in the process)
Reply to paqyfelyc
"The hydrogen just as to come from any fat"
Yes. But that is a reduction and needs a lot of energy. Once you have molecular hydrogen than, yes, the reduction of nitrogen releases energy, but the coupled process requires energy. Not that it happens that way in bacteria.
Nick, it is only the way it happens in organisms that live in those specific environments. Redox reactions release energy from imbalances in their environment. Much of creation lives in an oxygen-rich environment and the cycles of such (non-photosynthesizing) organisms go in one direction. Other organisms in oxygen-depleted environments work by going in the other direction. I'm sure you know this. So why do you try to obfuscate when you know enough to educate?
cephus0
Waiting for Moonbeam to tax those planet-busting microorganisms in 3.. 2 …
rbabcock
Reply to cephus0
I'm waiting on Moonbeam to declare global warming is tipping the scales where more of these microorganisms create the nasty gases than consume them.
Martin C
If the bacteria is PULLING CO2 out of the atmosphere to create the CH4 methane, then methane then goes back INTO the atmosphere; which then will decompose to CO2 , and we're back where we started.
No 'net CO2' increase because of this bacteria; so no big deal to me on this . . . or is there something missing here . . ?
Reply to Martin C
Well it means that every couple of million years your average carbon atom will spend a few years in a methane molecule rather than in CO2 molecule, and thereby being infinitesimally worse than we thought.
the big deal is, if there are more natural CH4 production that we thought, then there must be more CH4 destruction that we thought, too.
Hmmm…If the Global Warming (or what ever) "science is settled" then, why do they keep finding out new stuff after it was "settled"?
Stupid me!!!
Some mine for Bitcoins.
Some mine for grant$.
Methane is potent greenhouse gas.
is one of the "please support my research" triggers.
Crispin in Waterloo but really in Ulaanbaatar
Grant mining uses less electricity.
I have read several articles here about new sources if methane being discovered. Are there any new carbon sinks discovered?
I know the idea is to make it serm like we have less time than we thought because there is more methane in the atmosphere. But doesn't that cut both ways? Most if these new sources if methane we present before the industrial age; indeed, perhaps even more numerous. Wouldn't that also imply that the methane mankind has added since then has a more diluted effect than previously estimated?
This isn't really an article about methane sources. It's an article by microbiologists in Nature Microbiology. The abstract is here. They do mention methane as a GHG, but they say that it's a minor byproduct of nitrogen fixation here, produced in small amounts. It has been known for a long time that nitrogenases will reduce a lot of things that look a bit like N2. The unusual thing here is that CO2 goes all the way to CH4; normally it just goes to CO.
The unusual thing here is that CO2 goes all the way to CH4; normally it just goes to CO.
No it doesn't. Chemists know very well that reduction of CO2 is difficult to stop at carbon monoxide (CO). Just as the reverse, oxidation of methane, is difficult to stop at methanol. When it is done it is often done inefficiently. To a large extent, biology has found ways round this problem when it needs to.
Carbon monoxide mostly has effectively zero biological utility (frequently less than zero). It is in no way a free "normal" product in biology. Research methanogenesis in text books, and you will not see carbon monoxide cited as an intermediate in production of methane.
Oh, dear – not another GHGas attack!
Would it help if some benighted soul (like me) pointed out that methane is a naturally-occurring gaseous byproduct of micro-organic metabolism and it's been around longer than long? So long, in fact, that it made early Earth warm enough for molecules to get sticky, stick together, form chains specifically friendly to the creation of life,and without it, we wouldn't have heating and cooking gas? Okay, that sounds backwards, but it isn't.
This is just silly, and those people know it. It appears to be another 'gimme, gimme, gimme' with the hand or basket held out for your cash, and not much else. We have a balanced atmosphere on this planet, which allows us to thrive and be productive, these bozos want to fiddle with it. They forget that in the gas composition that makes up our atmosphere and makes it breathable, too much oxygen is a bad, bad thing.
Reply to Sara
"Sara January 15, 2018 at 4:59 pm
We have a balanced atmosphere on this planet, which allows us to thrive and be productive, these bozos want to fiddle with it."
Alarmists say humans burning fossil fuels increasing CO2 concentration is throwing the atmosphere, and thus climate, out of balance. A planetary experiment some say.
Yes, but Patrick, they have yet to prove that.
If The They can show that anyone besides India and China NOW is MORE productive than industry in Europe and the US in the 18th and 19th centuries, they might have a case. But since the burden of proof is on The Them (CAGWers, Warmians, Greenbeans) I don't think their arguments will hold water.
There is so much science still does not know about the real world.
douglascooper
Methane is reported to be 30 times as potent as a greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide, presumably per molecule.
John F. Hultquist
Reply to douglascooper
Multiplying a small number by 30 produces a product that is also a small number.
What does "potent" mean?
What does a "green house" do?
I investigated this and found that a green house does not rely on radiatively active gases to function, although CO2 is used by plants therein.
Every time I see the phrase "green house gas" I check to see if my pant legs are rolled up.
yet another incorrect statement, the CAGW theory is packed full of.
A gas per se has no greenhouse potency at all. It only has a marginal potency, relative to the current emission by the Earth and absorption by the atmosphere.
The 30X reported potency is a partial derivative (hope you know what I talk about; if not, check wikipedia) of energy absorbed relative to the increased in concentration. That is, an increase in CH4 concentration makes the atmosphere absorb ~30x more energy that the same CO2 concentration increase. This is because, as pointed out by Patrick MJD January 15, 2018 at 7:37 pm below https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/15/more-settled-science-unexpected-environmental-source-of-methane-discovered/comment-page-1/#comment-2718330 ,
methane is a radiative gas in two LWIR bands that CO2 and H2O do not absorbs, and currently not fully absorbed (because CH4 is currently in small enough quantities that it is still not absorbing all the energy in these bands). If there were more CH4 in the atmosphere, the reported "potency" would drop.
Peter JMS
Methane production by micro-organisms is a well known phenomenon. It is the basis of the anaerobic digestors used in sewage treatment plants for over a century. Swamp or marsh gas has been known about for centuries. Bacteria have evolved to thrive in a range of very different environments using metabolic pathways specifically suitable for these environments.
Three thoughts. 1.this is not news, only another Ph.D thesis hype. 2. This thesis biology is also not news. Methane is a very complex methanogen/methanotroph Archea (third phylum of bacteria) biolologial issue. For a simple overview, read essay Ice that Burns in ebook Blowing Smoke. 3. The alarmist methane'bomb' studf simply is NOT borne out by observations.
BallBounces
Hopefully this means "it's much worse than we thought". We climate alarmists live for the terrors and horrors, and the thought that it might be less worse is, well, terrifying.
Rubbish! It absorbs all LWIR in two bands that CO2 and H2O do not. There is no overlap.
ptolemy2
"Settled science" on methane?
Another source of methane is an unsettled stomach.
Erik Pedersen
What do you know? Methane has been "poisonous" for decades, so has carbondioxide in some ears…
Our dangerous future is obviously not connected to those trace gases any more, as I read this article. Let's celebrate…
The moon controls the release of methane in Arctic Ocean
Microbes might be gatekeepers of the planet's greatest greenhouse gas reserves
Study Calls for Ban on Gas Appliances, Misleads Californians
Alaska is getting wetter. That's bad news for permafrost and the climate


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