When you think of the term broken what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
Here are some things that came to my mind.
I could easily list many more things and you might have some of the same things on your list. Yet these are only the negative thought about being broken. Do you like nuts? I love them. To get to the nut you have to break the shell. Some shells are easier to break open than others like sunflower seeds or peanuts. Walnuts or pecans are are not so easy to break open. You need a nutcracker to get to the good part of these nuts, and if you don't have a nutcracker a hammer works as long as you don't hit the too hard. It takes effort to break their outer shells to get to the good part that you can eat and enjoy.
So being broken even though painful can lead to something good for you. The process hurts and is not fun. Imagine you are the nut and you can see the nutcracker coming for you. Then you feel trapped in its grip till you crack and break open. Scary thought. Most of us would run from pain if we knew it was going to happen was going to hurt. Yet if we all ran away from the possibility of pain we would cease to exist. Women would not have babies because labor is pain! Life is going to have some very painful moments. Just as a woman who goes from the pain of labor to the joy of holding her newborn baby, life can take your pain and turn it into joy.
Sometimes we have to be broken to get to the good part of ourselves that is hidden deep within.
Psalm 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness, Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
I was recently told that I was one of the happiest people this person knows. My response was courteous but I deflected the compliment with a response of, 'No I am far from happy, but I am grateful for the eyes to see God everywhere I look.' I also said a few other things that I do not recall at this moment. I however just realized that this person was paying me a compliment and I had basically rejected it even though I did not do so consciously. This is a bad habit of mine that I have had for the majority of my life. Someone compliments me and I say thank you but you are wrong and point out a flaw in me that counters their compliment. I know it is a self defense mechanism to put myself down if even in a joking manner. A beat them to the punch type of attitude. You can say I gave myself a thick skin by doing this. Trying to dull the pain, before it can actually happen.
The negative view I have had of my own self for too long has to change. No matter what was done to me. The abuse, betrayals, rejections, abandonment and this list goes on can no longer have a hold on me. To be free of my past I have to stop thinking like that girl who lived through all of this as if I was still living it. A victim or prisoner mentality will only keep me a slave to my past. Yes I have come a very long way in my life and in my relationship with Jesus. I have however held on to the pain and misery of my past in ways that I do not always see.
Today however I see that every time I put myself down or reject a compliment it is because I do not feel worthy or that I am afraid of being hurt again. These are of course only a couple of reasons but no matter what the reason use to be it is time to stop and make some changes. I know these are not changes that I can make on my own but I know Who to turn to. My Creator, and The Potter and I am His clay. He is working on me every day. Turning me into a vessel that will carry His love to others who are hurting and in need of His love. I have worked so hard not to speak negatively of others but have gone on speaking poorly of myself. I am a daughter of the True King, it is time to remember who He says I am.
For those who have complimented me and encouraged me I am sorry for rejecting your affection and grateful for your kindness God bless you. I have also come to realize that you are vessels God is speaking through to me so thank you.


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BHS principal Bobby Ashley talks with Jason Lloyd about his and wife April Lloyd's visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ultimately adopt their son Samuel and bring him back to the United States. Through photos the Lloyds told teacher Candie Groves (right) and students in her French IV class how poverty-stricken the DNC is despite it being so wealthy in minerals and resources.
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Jason and April Lloyd hope the Blytheville High School students they talked to in December don't have to endure what they did to keep their family together and ultimately get back to the United States. If any of them do have to overcome obstacles, however, chances are they will still believe what the Lloyds do: The prize was well worth the struggle.
The Lloyds, owners of Soul Reflections Photography, recanted to the students and other guests on Dec. 1 at the BHS library the struggle to bring their adopted son Samuel back from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, diplomatic conflict with the American State Department caused the DRC to refrain from allowing the Lloyds to bring Samuel to the United States. So what should have been a relatively brief delay ended up being a four-year process before the family could finally be together.
The Lloyds were invited to BHS by French IV teacher Candie Groves, whose students are learning about the oral history and traditions of French-speaking countries of Africa through original authentic fables, and then combining it with their own research about the present-day social, economic and political struggles that the people from each of the nations are facing.
"The DRC is one of the French-speaking nations that is presented in this project," stated Groves. "Jason was the Arts Council of Mississippi County's featured gallery artist at the Ritz last month, so the timing was perfect to invite him to speak to my students about his photographic journey in the Congo. Hopefully, this would put a human, real-life perspective on what would otherwise be "just another project" about a place they will likely never see."
Jason Lloyd was featured last month by the Arts Council of Mississippi County for his "Telemana" photographs about his time in Kinshasa. "Telemana is the lingala word for "stand"; lingala is the native language of the DRC. The Lloyds embarked into what Jason said is known as the "heart of darkness." Although the DRC is Africa's richest country in minerals and resources, it is marred by historical and political scars which suppress the advancement of most of its citizens.
In a July 2014 story by Shannon Spears Harris for The Courier News, the Lloyds first began investigating possibly adopting Samuel four years ago, but only this fall were they allowed to legally adopt him and take him from Kinshasha, the urban capital of the DRC, back to Dyersburg, Tenn. While Jason Lloyd stated that he would gladly "pay that price again" to have Samuel reunited with them, he didn't have much good to say about Kinshasha, and even less about the diplomatic processes that caused his family so much pain.
"Kinshasha is a city of about 11 million people, and rampant poverty is everywhere," he said. "And yet, the cost to live there is just so extremely high. Whenever April and I had to go to get groceries, we would be approached by so many people who thought we had a lot of money simply because of the color of our skin. We also dealt with a number of orphanages during our visits there, and I could not begin to describe how poor those orphanages are and how in need the children there are of even the basic necessities."
Groves had hoped her students would find something that they could take away from the Lloyds' presentation, "and I was definitely not disappointed. "They were on the edge of their seats and full of questions for the Lloyds," she stated. "And still, the students cannot stop talking about the insightful photos they saw and the stories they heard about everyday life in the Congo. This experience has really enhanced their understanding about their research on the other French-speaking African countries."
"The whole presentation was very eye-opening," said student Ashton Goff. "They shared useful information with us that helped to broaden our understanding of life in Africa."
"I was saddened by the poverty and over-population in the Congo," according to Katie Beth Pankey. That was something I just cannot imagine."
April Lloyd told the students that after waiting for months for the Congolese Government to approve the adoption, the issuance of adoption letters for children being adopted by U.S. families had been shut down and their plans were put on hold indefinitely. "We decided not to bring any undo attention to the situation because we didn't want to offend the Congolese Government, but after several months of inaction we began to do whatever we could to bring the issue to light," April said.
BHS student Brianna Dunham summed up everything about the Lloyds in one statement. "I never knew how lucky we have it until I saw the pictures they took in the Congo of the different struggles they have," she said.
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Suspected hoodlums on Saturday mobbed a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria covering a local election in Port Harcourt, Rivers.
Chief correspondent, John Amieyeofori, recounted that thugs descended on him at an INEC registration centre in Port Harcourt city, hitting him and taking his money and other valuables.
Rivers, the oil capital of Nigeria is one of the nation's political hotspots where political positions are determined by fisticuffs and guns.
Amieyeofri said: "When the thugs approached me, one of them grabbed my shirt and started hitting me.
"The thug then tore my shirt into shreds and dispossessed me of some money and other valuables I had on me.
"As if that was not enough, the thug attempted to use his dagger on me but miraculously missed on several attempts.
"I have never witnessed such vicious and unprovoked attack in my many years of monitoring elections."
Amieyeofori, who said that he did not sustain life-threatening injury, wondered why anyone would want to harm a journalist performing his civic duty.
But the visibly traumatised reporter is currently receiving treatment at a hospital in Port Harcourt.
INEC is conducting a bye-election to fill a house of assembly seat vacated by Victor Ihunwo, who became a Local Government Council Chairman.
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Comedy singer Jon Courtenay became the fourth act to advance to the final after another night of tough competition.
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David and Ashley both voted for Jon while Alesha voted for Belinda. This left Amanda to be the deciding to send Jon into the final.
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                    return callback(new Error('ERR pessimistic concurrency failed'));
                }
                while (args.length < f.length - 1) {
                    args.push(undefined);
                }
                if (args.length === f.length && typeof args[args.length - 1] === 'function') {
                    args.pop();
                }
                args.push(function (err, reply) {
                    if (err) {
                        return callback(err);
                    }
                    locker.unlock(id, function (err2, unlocked) {
                        if (err2) {
                            return callback(err2);
                        }
                        if (!unlocked) {
                            // We lost the lock before completion, so the operation
                            // is invalid.
                            return callback(null, null);
                        }
                        callback(null, reply);
                    });
                });
                args.push(locker);
                args.push(id);
                f.apply(context, args);
            });
        };
        return pf;
    }

    /**
     * Implement concurrency operations within redis. This abstraction exposes 2 interfaces
     * for concurrency: optimistic concurrency, and pessimistic concurrency. It's also
     * written in a literate style. An example of using this class:
     *
     * <pre><code>
     * var mover = new RedisReliableMover(redisClient);
     * (new RedisConcurrency(new RedisReliableLock(redisClient, lockKey)))
     *     .should
     *     .be
     *     .optimistic
     *     .on(mover.move, mover)
     *     .and
     *     .tell(function (err, member) {
     *           // Do stuff.
     *     })
     *     .when
     *     .invokedWith(key1, key2);
     * </code></pre>
     *
     * This piece of code will try optimistic concurrency 10 times on mover.move(key1, key2).
     * <br/>
     * <br/>
     * NOTE: Pessimistic concurrency uses a lock to enforce its pessimism. We only allow
     * that lock to be locked for some maximum time, currently 1h, in case the process dies
     * while holding the lock. Let's say the operation
     * pulls a key's value from redis, asks a different service to manipulate it, then sets
     * the key to this new value in redis. If that different service takes > 30s to respond,
     * the lock will have expired and is no longer valid. To allow pessimistic functions to
     * check this condition, the locker and lock id are passed to the function <i>after</i>
     * the callback. The operation can then check whether its lock is still valid before
     * setting the key in redis. This timeout can be extended using the 2nd parameter
     * to atMost, up to 1 hour (3600 seconds).
     * <br/>
     * <br/>
     * NOTE 2: Both optimistic concurrency and pessimistic concurrency are protocols, and
     * can be livelocked by a client not adhering to the protocol. For instance, in
     * optimistic concurrency, a producer that is heavily modifying a structure while we're
     * trying to do optimistic concurrency can starve any optimistic producer out. Just like
     * with redlocks, redis currently has no ability to enforce these protocols.
     *
     * @memberof! RarefiedRedis.Reliable
     * @class
     * @param {Object=} locker An object that implements lock semantics. This locker does pessimistic locking. If only doing optimistic concurrency, this parameter is not required.
     */
    function RedisConcurrency(locker) {
        var that = this;
        this._times = 10;
        this._f = 0;
        this._locker = locker;
        this._timeout = 30; // seconds!
        this.should = this;
        this.be = this;
        this.times = this;
        this.and = this;
        this.when = this;
        this.optimistic = {
            on: function () {
                that.on.apply(that, arguments);
                return that.optimistic;
            },
            tell: function () {
                that.tell.apply(that, arguments);
                return that.optimistic;
            },
            invokedWith: function () {
                var args = arguments;
                var f;
                f = optimism(that._f, that._context, that._times, that._callback);
                setTimeout(function () {
                    f.apply(null, args);
                }, 0);
                return that;
            },
        };
        this.optimistic.about = this.optimistic.on;
        this.optimistic.attempt = this.optimistic;
        this.optimistic.and = this.optimistic;
        this.optimistic.when = this.optimistic;
        this.optimistic.invoked = this.optimistic.invokedWith;
        this.pessimistic = {
            on: function () {
                that.on.apply(that, arguments);
                return that.pessimistic;
            },
            tell: function () {
                that.tell.apply(that, arguments);
                return that.pessimistic;
            },
            invokedWith: function () {
                var args = arguments;
                var f;
                f = pessimism(that._f, that._context, that._times, that._locker, that._timeout, that._callback);
                setTimeout(function () {
                    f.apply(null, args);
                }, 0);
                return that;
            }
        };
        this.pessimistic.about = this.pessimistic.on;
        this.pessimistic.attempt = this.pessimistic;
        this.pessimistic.and = this.pessimistic;
        this.pessimistic.when = this.pessimistic;
        this.pessimistic.invoked = this.pessimistic.invokedWith;
        this.eeyore = this.pessimistic;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Specify the operation to do concurrency on.
     *
     * @param {Function} f The function that does the operation.
     * @param {Object} context The context to call f with.
     */
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.on = function (f, context) {
        this._f = checkFunction(f);
        this._context = context;
        return this;
    };
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.about = RedisConcurrency.prototype.on;
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.attempt = RedisConcurrency.prototype.on;

    /**
     * Specify who to tell on whether the operation succeeded or failed.
     *
     * @param {Function} callback The callback to call when the operation is done. The reply will always be (null, null) if the operation failed. Anything else is context-specific to the concurrenct function.
     */
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.tell = function (callback) {
        this._callback = checkFunction(callback);
        return this;
    };

    /**
     * Specify how many times the concurrency should try before giving up.
     *
     * For optimistic concurrency, this number decides how many times to
     * attempt the operation before bailing.
     *
     * For pessimistic concurrency, this number decides how many times to
     * attempt to lock the resource before bailing.
     *
     * If the number given here is 0, we will never bail on the operation,
     * just keep trying.
     *
     * Negative times numbers are equivalent to 1. So atMost(-5) = atMost(1).
     *
     * Also, for pessimistic concurrency, you can pass a second timeout parameter
     * that determines how long the operation has to complete before being considered
     * invalid. This number is validated to be greater than 0 and less than 1 hour
     * (3600 seconds). It is specified in seconds.
     *
     * @param {number} t times to attempt the operation. = 0 to attempt forever.
     * @param {number=} timeout Determines in pessimistic concurrency how long an operation has to complete. Always validated such that 0 < timeout <= 3600.
     */
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.atMost = function (t, timeout) {
        this._times = t;
        if (isNaN(parseInt(this._times, 10))) {
            this._times = 10;
        }
        this._timeout = timeout;
        if (!this._timeout || isNaN(parseInt(this._timeout, 10)) || this._timeout <= 0) {
            this._timeout = 30;
        }
        this._timeout = Math.min(3600, this._timeout);
        return this;
    };

    /**
     * Invoke the chain
     */
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.invokedWith = function () {
        // If we're called invokedWith on a naked concurrency object,
        // assume we are optimistic.
        this.optimistic.invokedWith.apply(null, arguments);
        return this.optimistic;
    };
    RedisConcurrency.prototype.invoked = RedisConcurrency.prototype.invokedWith;

    /**
     * Return a concurrency object that only does optimistic concurrency.
     */
    RedisConcurrency.Optimistic = function () {
        var concurrency = new RedisConcurrency();
        var invokedWith = function () {
            return concurrency
                .optimistic
                .invokedWith
                .apply(concurrency, arguments);
        };
        concurrency.pessimistic = undefined;
        concurrency.attempt = concurrency.about;
        concurrency.invokedWith = invokedWith;
        concurrency.invoked = invokedWith;
        return concurrency;
    };

    /**
     * Return a concurrency object that only does pessimistic concurrency.
     *
     * @param {Object} locker An object that implements lock semantics.
     */
    RedisConcurrency.Pessimistic = function (locker) {
        var concurrency = new RedisConcurrency(locker);
        var invokedWith = function () {
            return concurrency
                .pessimistic
                .invokedWith
                .apply(concurrency, arguments);
        };
        concurrency.optimistic = undefined;
        concurrency.attempt = concurrency.about;
        concurrency.invokedWith = invokedWith;
        concurrency.invoked = invokedWith;
        return concurrency;
    };

    // Export the reliable object for **node.js/io.js**, with
    // backwards-compatibility for the old `require()` API. If we're in
    // the browser, add `RedisConcurrency` as a global object.
    if (typeof exports !== 'undefined') {
        if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
            exports = module.exports = RedisConcurrency;
        }
        exports.RedisConcurrency = RedisConcurrency;
    }
    else {
        root.RedisConcurrency = RedisConcurrency;
    }

}).call(this);</textarea>

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On the 14th Ledger turned two. Can you believe we officially have a two year old? Pat and I were absolutely thrilled to be able to celebrate a 2nd Birthday with one of our kids, something we've looked forward to for a long time.
We went with a Cars theme, Ledger's all time favorite movie. I had pinned about a million ideas for his party, but about a week before his party I realized with how pregnant I am, I could either stress over everything and literally exhaust myself, or make it extremely simple and enjoy having a two year old. Needless to say I chose the latter, and I'm grateful I did.
Once Ledger saw the decorations he continually kept saying, "Zoom," "Go," and "Truck!" all night long. He was quite upset when we cut Lightning McQueen (His cake) apart.
Ledger still isn't too fond of sweets, so I baked some cookies and thought between the two desserts he'd be tempted to try at least one. I was wrong, he didn't eat anything the whole night. Oh well, the rest of us enjoyed the cake, ice cream, and cookies.
Ledger was spoiled with trucks, cars, and lots of boy toys.
He hasn't climbed off Mater since.
Ledger loves tires/wheels. He goes crazy while walking through parking lots, and tries to touch every car he can. In the video he's admiring Mater's tires.
All three sets of grandparents were able to make it, and I was disappointed that Grandma and Grandpa Merritt left without getting a picture with him.
Pat let Ledger drive Mater home. Perfect ending to a perfect night.
Happy 2nd Birthday Sledge, we love you!
What a cool cool truck! happy birthday!!!
Too cute! Yeah for simple!
Simple parties are the best! I pinned a million things for my daughters birthday too - we debated between Minnie Mouse and Finding Nemo. We had a very simple Nemo party :-) He's a precious little boy!
I can totally see Pat and his excitement to give Ledger the Mater truck! Haha. Looks like a fun party!
When my (now six year old) son was two he was obsessed with tires! I mean OBSESSED! He would pet them on every car he saw, it was all we could do to constantly try and keep his hands clean from that black mess. At fairs his favorite part was the giant tires on the tractors.
I've never heard of anyone else's child having the same facination!
Hey Ledger and I share a birthday! :) :) It's a great day for a birthday!
Happy Birthday Ledger! Boys are so much fun!!! Next year make him a meatloaf "cake", you could decorate with whipped potatoes.
My younger son turned 2 yesterday (My older son turned 5 on the 16th), and he also got this Mater truck! He calls him "Truck" as well, lol. Great minds think alike!!
What a wonderful 2nd birthday for your little guy. He is growing up so fast. What a cutie and such a darling smile. Happy happy Birthday (a little late), Ledger!!!
Oh my gosh, he is soooo darn cute! Those lips! Happy Birthday to your little man and keep those two other little men baking a bit longer:) I'm sure Preslee is so proud of all her little brothers!


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EPA Recognizes Columbia University for Leading Green Power Use
New York, NY, October 15, 2019 - Columbia University announced today that it recently joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership. Columbia is using about 270,897,887 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually from wind, which is enough green power to meet 100 percent of the university's electricity use. In using wind power, Columbia is helping advance the voluntary market for green power and development of those sources.
"This is a huge honor and we are proud to be recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency," said Jessica Prata, Assistant Vice President for Environmental Stewardship. "At Columbia, we are always looking for ways to reduce our environmental footprint and act as a leader in sustainability."
By moving the needle in the voluntary green power market, Columbia University and other Green Power Partners are helping to reduce the negative health impacts of air emissions including those related to ozone, fine particles, acid rain, and regional haze. Together, Green Power Partners are collectively using more green power annually than the electricity consumed by Montana and Utah combined.
According to the U.S. EPA, Columbia University's green power use of about 270,897,887 kWh is equivalent to the electricity use of more than 25,000 average American homes annually.
"Using green power helps our community lower its emissions footprint, while also sending a message to others across the country that green power is an affordable, accessible choice," said Gerry McGillian, Vice President for Operations at Columbia University. "It's a pillar of Columbia's sustainability plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and we take that very seriously."
About Columbia University
As of 2018, Columbia has reached 100 percent reported zero emissions renewable electricity for the Morningside, Manhattanville, Irving Medical Center, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Nevis, and Baker Athletics Complex campuses. The university advanced its strategy for clean, renewable energy with a purchase of renewable energy certificates (RECs) for off-site wind generation, continued use of hydropower, and new investment in solar power.
Columbia's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through renewable energy supports the goals laid out in the university's Sustainability Plan.
About EPA's Green Power Partnership
The Green Power Partnership is a voluntary program that helps increase green power use among U.S. organizations to advance the American market for green power and development of those sources as a way to reduce air pollution and other environmental impacts associated with electricity use. The Partnership currently has almost 1,500 Partners voluntarily using more than 60 billion kilowatt-hours of green power annually. Partners include a wide variety of leading organizations such as Fortune 500® companies; small and medium sized businesses; local, state, and federal governments; and colleges and universities. For additional information, please visit www.epa.gov/greenpower.
Columbia Kicks Off the Strategic Planning Process for its Next 10-Year Sustainability Plan
As Columbia's first campus-wide sustainability plan will come to a close in 2020, the Office of Environmental Stewardship launched the planning process to build the next iteration. Plan 2030 – a larger, more ambitious 10-year plan encompassing all four of Columbia's campuses – will provide a roadmap for the University to take progressive, urgent action around climate change.
Sustainability Plan Plan 2030
Columbia Featured on MSNBC During Global Citizen Festival
During its coverage of the Global Citizen Festival in September, MSNBC featured members of Columbia University in a segment focused on individuals and groups engaged in social issues including health, education, sustainability and sanitation.
Electric Chevy Bolt and Hybrid-Electric Subaru Crosstrek Join Campus Services Fleet
Campus Services recently added a new electric Chevy Bolt and a hybrid-electric Subaru Crosstrek to its sustainable vehicle fleet.
transportation mail campus services
Columbia University Combined Effort Donates Lockers to a Community Organization in Need
When Columbia Athletics purchased a set of new lockers for the women's softball locker room last month, a multi-departmental effort found a new home for the old lockers, which were still in good condition.
reuse Recycling


A few photos from last weekend's trip to the market. The market is in full effect and renovations in the surrounding village are looking great!
Hey, lookey here! It's my AnnArbor.com co-worker Tom Perkins peddling his homemade pickles! And I can vouch, they are tasty! Check him out!


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The Tech Subscribe to our newsletter Newsletter DormCon overspends on already controversial overnight retreat
DormCon overspends on already controversial overnight retreat
At a May 16 meeting of MIT's Dormitory Council (DormCon), members were informed that the their annual retreat cost more than anticipated, by an amount not mentioned in the DormCon meeting minutes. The original budgeted cost for the retreat was $4000 — a figure that had already caused discontent among some undergraduates who felt the money would be better spent on events that directly benefit residents of each dormitory.
The overnight retreat was hosted at Endicott House, a meeting facility that has been the site of many student and faculty meetings and retreats in the past, including last year's DormCon retreat. The 12 executive members of DormCon and the 11 dorm presidents were invited to attend, and each could bring one guest. These guests were dormitory vice presidents and underclassmen who wished to become more involved in DormCon. The purpose of the retreat, according to former DormCon President Edward A. Mugica '13, was the "clarification of our goals and intentions" as an organization, as well as the facilitation of communication between members.
When asked about the unanticipated costs of the retreat, Mugica stated that a miscommunication between members of DormCon occurred, as well as "charges that we didn't realize would come into play." The combination of these caused the retreat's total cost to far exceed the budgeted amount. Those making the decision, Mugica said, were unaware that the group would be charged for rooms that they did not end up using. As a result, the reservation was made for 35 people, only 19 of whom attended, according to Mugica. He said, "We were aware that there was a slight risk" of being charged, but that it was important that there be enough space should all invited members have decided to attend. When asked for specifics about the cost of the retreat, Mugica deferred to newly-elected DormCon President Eli H. Ross '14, who said he did not know the figure, which was planned and budgeted for before he entered office. According to Endicott house's student rates, the per-person charges amount to $5,530.
DormCon has decided not to return to Endicott House, and its executive members have agreed to explore less expensive options for future retreats. "There is a general consensus … that any future retreats will be on campus and at minimal cost. We want to put as much money as possible into inter-dorm and dorm-hosted events, which we believe are great ways to enhance campus life," Ross said, adding that a revamped DormCon website will feature a line-item budget.
—Laura E. Forte
Anonymous over 9 years ago
"Mugica, who plans on the retreat becoming an annual occurrence, said that the event is essential to bringing DormCon members together [...] The retreat is important, said Mugica, because dorm presidents can learn how other dorms work, know where other people stand on issues, and develop a personal rapport with the other presidents." (from http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N9/dormcon.html)
So important that it had a whopping 54 per cent attendance. Classy.
Cindi Duke over 9 years ago
Hmm, Seems like line items do not have as much oversight by student committees. What a great way to avoid future controversy, a quick jump to approval with the general budget, instead of having to take the heat when luxury far surpasses need.


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(UK) Customer Engagement Summit
(Egypt) Customer Engagement Summit
Rail fares set to rise again by up to 2.8%
Rail users in the UK will be hit by a further rise in ticket prices which will come into effect next year.
The increase will be based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation measure for July of 2.8%.
The figure is likely to lead to an increase of more than £100 in the annual cost of getting to work for many commuters.
Passenger groups urged a change in the way ticket prices are calculated, as RPI is no longer a national statistic.
The cost of most train fares are set by train companies themselves, but about 40% of fares in England, Scotland and Wales are regulated so that they are only allowed to rise by an amount pegged to the RPI rate of inflation in July the previous year.
These regulated fares include annual season tickets.
The government's preferred measure of inflation, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), increased to 2.1%.
The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) has repeatedly said that CPI, the most widely watched and used measure of inflation, should be used instead of RPI.
Last month this was 2% and it is typically lower than the RPI rate of inflation.
CBT chief executive Darren Shirley said the expected ticket price rises were "exorbitant".
"The government should commit now to January's fares rise being linked to CPI," he added.
The difference between the two is stark. For every £100 paid on a season ticket, using RPI over CPI has increased prices by about £6 since RPI was abandoned by the National Audit Office as a national statistic in 2013.
"The only benefactors of using the retail price index (RPI) to calculate the cost of rail fares are the train companies," said Kevin Brown, savings specialist at Scottish Friendly, an investment firm.
"Passengers are therefore having to fork out more money to travel despite regularly having to deal with over-crowded and unpredictable services. The general outlook for consumers is already difficult and this will feel like another kick in the teeth for many hard-working families who are facing the prospect of a second recession in 10 years.
A monthly season ticket from Widnes to Liverpool, currently costing £129.80 will cost £133.43, an increase of £3.63.
A monthly pass from Reading to London will go from £442.00 to £454.38, up £12.38.
A season ticket from Bath Spa to Bristol Temple Meads today costs £162.10 a month. From January it will be £166.64, up £4.54.
Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: "It's tempting to suggest fares should never rise. However, the truth is that if we stop investing in our railway, then we will never see it improved."
The TUC, a federation of unions, renewed its call for the railway to be renationalised, arguing it would lead to lower ticket prices.
"We're already paying the highest ticket prices in Europe to travel on overcrowded and understaffed trains.
"The number one priority should be running a world-class railway service, not subsidising private train companies," said TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady.
Rachael, a commuter in Watford, Hertfordshire, told the BBC: "I've seen the rail fares increasing again this year, and for me it's just becoming impossible to justify, and I'm worried I'll be priced out of working in London within a few years if this keeps happening.
"The cost of my train ticket, and the dreadful service is causing me such grief, and I'm only travelling from Watford junction to Euston. It costs me £3,680 on an annual ticket.
"Something needs to change. Please."
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DETROIT - The 15th annual Detroit Tree Lighting is set for Friday, Nov. 16 at Campus Martius Park and Beacon Park.
Headlining the show at Campus Martius Park is 12-time GRAMMY award-winning, gospel artist and Detroit native CeCe Winans. Taking center ice are U.S. Olympic figure skating duo Alex Shibutani and Maia Shibutani.
Visitors can also enjoy the jazzy sounds of Ben Sharkey and The Woodward Horns plus performances by an assortment award-winning of local choirs and skating groups like the Avondale Choir and The Dearborn Crystallettes!
The evening will also mark the opening of the Cadillac Square Lodge and Markets, carriage rides and Detroit's ice skating rink!
The tree lighting will take place around 7:45 p.m. but the event starts at 5 p.m.
At Beacon Park, guests can enjoy a live stream of the tree lighting plus live performance by Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers and Nadir Omowale inside the heated Winter Lodge tent.
Santa will also make an appearance at Beacon Park, alongside the spectacular, larger-than-life holiday lighting installments that transform the park into a winter wonderland.
An assortment of food and beverage will be available a both parks via bars, food trucks, restaurants and more.


SABI (Iberian Balance sheet Analysis System) is a unique tool developed by INFORMA in collaboration with Bureau Van Dijk, which lets you handle in a quick and easy way general information and annual accounts of over 2,5 million Spanish companies and more than 800,000 Portuguese ones.
SABI is an essential tool for financial analysis and strategic marketing, which is characterized by its extensive coverage, the standardization of financial statements, the easy software operating and the flexibility to obtain and exploit information.
SABI (berian Balance sheet Analysis System) is a unique tool in DVD or web format developed by INFORMA D&B in collaboration with Bureau Van Dijk, which lets you handle in a quick and easy way general information and annual accounts of over 2,5 million Spanish companies and more than 800,000 Portuguese ones. SABI is an essential tool for financial analysis and strategic marketing, which is characterized by its extensive coverage, the standardization of financial statements, the easy software operating and the flexibility to obtain and exploit information.
You would be able to set up a permanent file of your customers and suppliers in order to track their financial progress according to the criteria you are interested in.
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You are here: Home / Reserves / Sagehen Creek Field Station / Why art at NRS reserves?
Why art at NRS reserves?
July 22, 2014 By Kathleen Wong
By Faerthen Felix, Assistant Manager, Sagehen Creek Field Station
Erica eyes an elderberry. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
Located on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, in a bowl lined with conifer forests and fens, Sagehen Creek Field Station is a research area owned by the U.S. Forest Service and administered by UC Berkeley. It's one of 39 reserves in the UC Natural Reserve System, a network of wildland areas across California encompassing more than 756,000 acres. In addition to hosting science research ranging from native fish populations to forest health, and offering education at all ages, Sagehen explicitly encourages the arts.
The purpose of the art program at Sagehen is to inspire reflection, connection, and new insight into the ecosystem of which we are a part. This insight can and should inform scientific inquiry into, and management of, this ecosystem.
The process of forming a scientific (or any other kind of) question is essentially an artistic one. People seldom, if ever, come up with their research question via the scientific method; science is a criterion of truth and a test of knowledge, not necessarily its originator. Science has been so successful at this that the term "knowledge" is often assumed to mean only scientific fact, leading to conflicts with other cultural knowledge like religion, ethics, politics, and even economics.
Art—whether literary, visual, musical, performance, or other form—is, at its core, the discovery process whereby we connect apparently unrelated elements to create new knowledge of any flavor. This knowledge can then be explored and tested via the scientific method, or brought to cultural attention through the application of pattern, beauty, or controversy.
As environmental artist Helen Harrison once told me, "It becomes art when it starts to reverberate in your mind."
Stonefly nymph. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
The history of Sagehen is peppered with this kind of occasional alchemy. For example, graduate students frequently, even typically, come to Sagehen with a thesis question that changes dramatically as they see things on the ground. One can only work with the raw material already in one's head, and just being in the field allows the possibility of seeing something unconceived, creating new knowledge to be tested. One student discovered that slave-making ants parasitize different species here than anywhere else. Another found that traditional timing of grazing severely impacts native bees. Their willingness to notice differences and open their eyes to new patterns put them on a path that led from art to science.
In another example where connections between formerly unrelated elements created knowledge leading to action, researchers living at Sagehen in the 1950's randomly happened upon large rainbow trout spawning in tiny ephemeral rivulets. This serendipitous discovery ultimately changed Forest Service management policy for these formerly devalued, temporary watercourses. Again, the journey from art, to science, to policy.
Our Sagehen Forest Project is another prime example.
This project will soon begin restructuring the Sagehen Basin forest for greater resiliency against climate change and wildfire, more natural structure, and friendlier wildlife habitat. I would argue that the collaborative, two-year process of designing the project was essentially about writing a community narrative. It followed a trajectory that moved from science, to art, to policy.
Planning the project began with a meeting of all the stakeholders we could think to invite: loggers, environmentalists, wildlife biologists, NGOs, agencies, and other interested parties. The first meeting essentially consisted of the Forest Service and the UC Berkeley saying, "The science suggests our forest is failing, and we'd like you to help us figure out what to do about it," to which everyone else replied, "Okay, show us what you are thinking and we'll tell you how we feel about it."
Water droplet in pine sprout. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
It was such a vast departure from management precedent to begin like this—without preconceived notions, without a strategy, without preferred alternatives, starting with just a problem in which everyone felt invested—that no one could initially wrap their head around it. We discussed the science; we walked in the woods; we looked deeply at the forest; we marked trees for removal; we cordoned off animal habitat; we cut and burned test plots.
A year and a half later, the team had hammered out a radically new prescription and proposed action for the Forest Service to codify and execute. No one got everything they wanted, but everyone got something they could live with. We would remove lots of smaller trees from roughly 30% of the basin, in patchy, topographically driven patterns.
Then at the eleventh hour, the day before the final meeting, an endangered northern goshawk moved its nest out of the area marked for its protected habitat and into an area slated for forest restructuring.
This was the moment when environmental groups could have vetoed the entire project. In the meeting, we addressed the bird's movements. Everyone tensely turned to the environmentalists' representative, who thought for a moment before saying, "What we are trying to do will make things better for those birds. I can't see stopping this project because of that bird."
Reflections. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
We let out a breath of relief, carved the nest site out of the map, and agreed to wait until nesting season was over before working in the vicinity. Remarkably, the process moved forward.
The Forest Service received three letters of support during the public comment period: one from UC Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station, one from Sierra Pacific Industries (the loggers), and one from Sierra Forest Legacy (the environmentalists).
This kind of agreement among these very different stakeholders is unprecedented. Such folks don't usually agree, much less voice support for the same forest project.
It would have been helpful in all these cases to have a physical artwork to mold and share the narrative, to provide a doorway to participation and ownership by the community of the new truths…and the subsequent science and policy emerging from them.
We are now working toward the installation of such an approachable physical artwork at Sagehen, the Invisible Barn. Conceived by designers stpmj, the barn consists of a small building wrapped in reflective film. The building blends into the environment and enables visitors to view themselves standing in the midst of the forest. The structure encourages contemplation of the meaning and presence of people in nature, without telling them explicitly what to think or how to feel.
Water strider. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
Invisible Barn is a departure from the idea of imposing preconceived, top-down form on a community narrative. It's more abstract.
Invisible Barn builds on the techniques of the Aldo Leopold Land Ethic Leadership (LEL) workshops held here at Sagehen a few years back. LEL teaches participants to "Observe, Participate, Reflect," which provides "a framework to help you facilitate values-based discussions in a new and open way, allowing you to come to a deeper understanding and appreciation of your own views as well as those that differ." There is no end goal except to start a conversation around a subject and see what commonalities emerge to guide future action.
Given the almost universal reduction in natural history emphasis, collections, and field time within university science programs in favor of lab work, art is naturally going to play a far larger role in discovering and exploring future scientific questions, and will create linkages between and within communities to effect policy change as a result of this science. Somebody has to be out there observing the world as it is and reporting its meaning back to us.
Hermit warbler. Image credit: Faerthen Felix
The point of this lengthy manifesto is that the public doesn't seem to understand what art has to do with our research program, or why art is important beyond its aesthetic value.
We have heard this directly from an agency partner, and from many confused visitors who, perhaps understandably, can't wrap their heads around Force Majeur, the 50-year art project by Helen and Newton Harrison that explores enhancements to the water carrying capacity of the soil in this watershed and in the other mountains of the world.
At least the Sagehen art program is already stimulating questions.
Addressing this confusion would be very helpful to our community, to Sagehen, and to the UC Natural Reserve System in general.
Maybe it would be a good idea to talk to other groups about this issue and ways to address it? Maybe we need more partners? Maybe we need a larger effort in the form of a workshop of some kind? Maybe there are tools out there already that we are missing? Maybe we need to incorporate this priority of communicating the value and purpose of art in science and at reserves into artist-in-residence criteria? This would be at least as useful as any actual artwork produced.
We've had some interesting feedback and would like to continue the conversation about how to move forward from here. We hope you will weigh in on this conversation with your ideas.
Faerthen Felix, ffelix@berkeley.edu.
California Ecology and Conservation
California Ecology and Conservation brings together 27 students from across the UC system for seven weeks of intensive learning at NRS reserves.
UC Santa Cruz offers virtual tour of Younger Lagoon Natural Reserve
In memoriam: Antony Orme, 83, geographer, professor, and former White Mountain Research Center director
Timeworn cattle ranch remade into NRS reserve
Keeping Carpinteria Salt Marsh connected to the tides
2020-21 Mathias Grant recipients
Wildfire expands Blue Oak Ranch hydrology study
Wildfires spark burn recovery study at 9 UC Natural Reserves
Teaching a field program amid a pandemic
California Biodiversity Network to protect state's natural heritage
Land donation expands Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve


Hugh MacMillan is a poet whose work often focuses on the culture and history of his home region of Dumfries and Galloway. He has had six poetry collections published, as well as numerous booklets. At this event he will launch his latest collection "Conversation With Sheep".
Browse more than 20 stalls showcasing a selection of the best food, drink, art and crafts from across Galloway. Visit Santa for an early Christmas gift, and enjoy light refreshments in the Kist Tearoom.
Join Gatehouse of Fleet story teller and singer Susi Briggs, especially good for weans, or those in touch with their inner wean.
Poet and storyteller Sandy McKnight from the Rhins, entertains with children's stories.
Sandy McKnight tells the gruesome tale of Sawney Bean, but in this version, one of them survives!
Learn some Galloway folk songs, with Nicola Black. Nicola is a singer songwriter, who has played in bands, festivals, and recorded her own albums.
Booktown Writers present Tales of Galloway Smugglers, the premier of a collaborative piece of writing.
A fabulous 3 course Scottish dinner for St Andrew's Day, followed by historian Ruaridh Souter of the Whithorn Trust. Ruaridh will talk about medieval pilgrimage in relation to St Andrew. Tickets are £25. You must book & pay at Beltie Books or Curly Tale Books beforehand.


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Paul Saltzman
Paul Saltzman, Director/Producer
Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy Award winning, Toronto based film and television producer-director known for over 300 productions.
After briefly studying Engineering Science, he did congressional civil rights lobbying in Washington, D.C., and voter registration work in Mississippi with SNCC. He began his film and television career in 1965 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher, interviewer and on-air host, and then moved to the National Film Board of Canada. In 1967 he interviewed American inventor and visionary Buckminster Fuller, who would later say that Saltzman changed his assessment of the '60s generation.
In 1968, he learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, an experience that changed his life. There, he photographed the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love. In 1968-69 he assisted in the birth of a new film format as second-unit director and production manager of the first IMAX film, produced for the Osaka 1970 World's Fair. In 1969, he attended the Woodstock Music Festival; later producing a Leonard Cohen concert tour as well as producing and directing his first film, a documentary on Bo Diddley.
In 1973, Paul founded Sunrise Films Limited. He produced and directed documentaries for the next decade, including the acclaimed series Spread Your Wings. His work included producing, directing, writing, editing, cinematography and sound recording. In 1983, he turned to drama, producing and directing the premiere of HBO's Family Playhouse and a special for American Playhouse. In the same year, he co-created and produced the family action-adventure television series Danger Bay. The hit CBC-Disney Channel series ran for 6 years and 123 episodes.
He has produced television series like My Secret Identity, Matrix and Max Glick, as well as miniseries and MOW's. He co-produced Map of the Human Heart, an international epic directed by Vincent Ward, starring Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack and Jean Moreau. He also executive produced Martha, Ruth & Edie as well as Sam & Me, which received an Honorable Mention in competition for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2000, Paul released his first book, The Beatles in Rishikesh, through the Viking Studio. In early 2006 he self-published his second book, a deluxe Limited Edition Box-Set, The Beatles in India. In 2008, he made his feature-film directorial debut with the documentary, Prom Night in Mississippi, with Morgan Freeman, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, 2009. He is currently completing his 2nd feature, the documentary The Last White Knight, featuring Delay de la Beckwith, Jr., Harry Belafonte and Morgan Freeman.
In 2011, with Patricia Aquino, he founded the non-profit, Moving Beyond Prejudice, to work with students, youth-at-risk and community groups utilizing Prom Night in Mississippi. In December 2011, Paul was invited to the White House to screen the movie and hold a Moving Beyond Prejudice discussion with the audience. While there, he was honoured, as a Community Leader, at a reception with the President and the First Lady.
Paul is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He loves travelling, skydiving, scuba diving, and plays ice hockey, often. He has one daughter.
Patricia Aquino, Producer
The multi-award winning feature documentary, Prom Night in Mississippi, is Producer Patricia Aquino's first film. She is currently producing the feature documentary, The Last White Knight, featuring Byron de la Beckwith Jr., Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte and members of the KKK, among others. She began her media career as a franchise owner of Black Isle Communications and in 2000 she joined Sunrise Films Limited as V.P. of Operations and Administration for the The Beatles in India. She is also co-publisher of two limited edition, fine art books, The Beatles in India.
Tom Schlesinger, Co-Executive Producer
Tom Schlesinger was the story consultant on Nowhere in Africa, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and Beyond Silence nominated for an Academy Award. Tom was also the story consultant on the HBO documentaries Prom Night in Mississippi, with Morgan Freeman, and the Emmy nominated A Small Act. And he is currently working as a story consultant on the The Night Trilogies with M. Night Shyamalan


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It goes without saying that we've seen a sea change in the streaming media industry over the last three years, with factors like increased broadband penetration and user-generated video shifting the business and technology focus from the enterprise and institutional markets to the consumer space. When I attended my first Streaming Media East show in 2004, the conference session topics and vendors on the show floor were focused almost exclusively on enterprise solutions and applications, by a ratio that I'd estimate was close to 4-to-1.
At Streaming Media East 2006 in May, the pendulum had swung almost entirely in the other direction, with both session subject matter and vendor pitches highlighting ways to capitalize on the booming media and entertainment market. As one enterprise-centric vendor said to me, only half-jokingly, "What about us?" The technologies that were perfected in the enterprise space while broadband penetration in the "outside world" lagged behind are some of the very solutions that have allowed media and entertainment publishers to sieze audiences who, now that they have the access, are hungry for online video. Whether they're willing to pay for it is another matter.
In the enterprise, however, the ROI is proven, as the following case studies—think of this article as a "virtual panel presentation," if you will—attest. The experiences of each organization—Lockheed Martin, Target, Verizon, and Wachovia—reveal different challenges and successes in the enterprise space.
What we hope you get out of this is a series of "lessons learned" that can help you in your video communications efforts. The information in these case studies is only a fraction of the valuable content that these and other organizations provided; you can read an expanded version of this story, which includes the interviews in their entirety as well as insight from enterprise streaming product and solutions vendors, at http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9428.
As one of the largest government contractors in the United States, it's no surprise that Lockheed Martin has been using streaming video for communications regularly for three years, beginning with the company's "all-hands" meetings led by the business unit's president in 2003. Since then, the use of both on-demand and webcasting has grown exponentially, with the number of individual webcasts increasing by 400% in the last year, according to Eric Hards, senior design engineer and leader of Lockheed Martin's multimedia solutions team.
Because Lockheed Martin's network is financially supported by individual business units, Hards says that obtaining funding for each new development step has been a constant struggle. As a result, his team began piecing together servers and capture devices, sometimes using beta versions of Microsoft's Media Services and Media Encoder, ending up with a "hodgepodge" of equipment. Luckily, he adds, acceptance of video by the corporation's 135,000 employees was almost immediate. "As a diverse and virtual organization, employees welcomed the direct communication from the president," he says.
Employee acceptance allowed Hards to further his cause by investing in Sonic Foundry's Mediasite, which he says gave him the necessary ability to both manage existing content that had been created with the Microsoft products and quickly set up new webcasts. With a reliable turnkey solution in place for capture, Hards says his biggest challenge now is in constructing a 100% multicast-enabled network. "That's the holy grail for live broadcasting across the network, since it consists of just one stream taking very little bandwidth across the intranet," he says. Since each business unit at Lockheed Martin runs independently, however, it's taking some time for each one to recognize the need to multicast-enable. Indeed, Hards says the biggest failure he's had to reckon with was a high-profile executive leadership initiative that was delivered several years ago, before the network was robust enough to support the continual stream.
So it's no surprise that, when asked what advice Hards has for organizations, he says he can boil it down to four words: Multicast-enable your network. "This is the single most important thing you can do to guarantee a successful streaming initiative," he says. "Think of it as a solid foundation on which to build. Without it, the building will come tumbling down."
While close cooperation between business units is crucial for any enterprise-wide initiative's ultimate success, sometimes a top-down directive is the best way to get things started. That was the case with Target's internal video on demand efforts, according to Robert Luna, media manager for the corporation's corporate media center. In 2002, Target's chief information officer wanted to communicate with his team of 5,000 managers more frequently than at the annual meeting. Today, four departments utilize the VOD service to communicate to more than 15,000 desktops. "Because it was championed by the CIO, video on demand at Target was no challenge to get off the ground," says Luna. "Ramp-up only took about a year."
Having a champion at the top didn't prevent Luna's unit from having to deal with the nuts and bolts of actually getting the corporate video to work successfuly for all users. Target's corporate media center publishes all VOD content using Microsoft Producer, which allows the synchronization of Windows Media files along with PowerPoint and Photoshop files into a rich-media presentation.


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Revealed: Exxon Made "Breathtakingly" Accurate Climate Predictions in 1970s and '80s
Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global warming.
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The oil giant Exxon privately "predicted global warming correctly and skillfully" only to then spend decades publicly rubbishing such science in order to protect its core business, new research has found.
A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use.
A new study, however, has made clear that Exxon's scientists were uncannily accurate in their projections from the 1970s onwards, predicting an upward curve of global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that is close to matching what actually occurred as the world heated up at a pace not seen in millions of years.
Exxon scientists predicted there would be global heating of about 0.2C a decade due to the emissions of planet-heating gases from the burning of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. The new analysis, published in Science, finds that Exxon's science was highly adept and the "projections were also consistent with, and at least as skillful as, those of independent academic and government models".
Geoffrey Supran, whose previous research of historical industry documents helped shed light on what Exxon and other oil firms knew, said it was "breathtaking" to see Exxon's projections line up so closely with what subsequently happened.
"This really does sum up what Exxon knew, years before many of us were born," said Supran, who led the analysis conducted by researchers from Harvard University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "We now have the smoking gun showing that they accurately predicted warming years before they started attacking the science. These graphs confirm the complicity of what Exxon knew and how they misled."
The research analyzed more than 100 internal documents and peer-reviewed scientific publications either produced in-house by Exxon scientists and managers, or co-authored by Exxon scientists in independent publications between 1977 and 2014.
The analysis found that Exxon correctly rejected the idea the world was headed for an imminent ice age, which was a possibility mooted in the 1970s, instead predicting that the planet was facing a "carbon dioxide induced 'super-interglacial'". Company scientists also found that global heating was human-influenced and would be detected around the year 2000, and they predicted the "carbon budget" for holding the warming below 2C above pre-industrial times.
Armed with this knowledge, Exxon embarked upon a lengthy campaign to downplay or discredit what its own scientists had confirmed. As recently as 2013, Rex Tillerson, then chief executive of the oil company, said that the climate models were "not competent" and that "there are uncertainties" over the impact of burning fossil fuels.
"What they did was essentially remain silent while doing this work and only when it became strategically necessary to manage the existential threat to their business did they stand up and speak out against the science," said Supran.
"They could have endorsed their science rather than deny it. It would have been a much harder case to deny it if the king of big oil was actually backing the science rather than attacking it."
Climate scientists said the new study highlighted an important chapter in the struggle to address the climate crisis. "It is very unfortunate that the company not only did not heed the implied risks from this information, but rather chose to endorse non-scientific ideas instead to delay action, likely in an effort to make more money," said Natalie Mahowald, a climate scientist at Cornell University.
Mahowald said the delays in action aided by Exxon had "profound implications" because earlier investments in wind and solar could have averted current and future climate disasters. "If we include impacts from air pollution and climate change, their actions likely impacted thousands to millions of people adversely," she added.
Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke University, said the new study was a "detailed, robust analysis" and that Exxon's misleading public comments about the climate crisis were "especially brazen" given their scientists' involvement in work with outside researchers in assessing global heating. Shindell said it was hard to conclude that Exxon's scientists were any better at this than outside scientists, however.
The new work provided "further amplification" of Exxon's misinformation, said Robert Brulle, an environment policy expert at Brown University who has researched climate disinformation spread by the fossil fuel industry.
"I'm sure that the ongoing efforts to hold Exxon accountable will take note of this study," Brulle said, a reference to the various lawsuits aimed at getting oil companies to pay for climate damages.
Exxon was approached for comment.
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