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The Lisbon Bissell Golf Club invites you to participate in a charity golf tournament benefitting Hospice of the Red River Valley.
The four-person scramble will take place on Saturday, August 18. Registration will begin at 11 a.m. with a shotgun start at noon. Cost to play is $45 per person, which includes the green fee and a meal following the scramble. Golf teams are limited and pre-registration is encouraged.
For more information about the charity golf tournament, or to register, contact Sam at the Lisbon Bissell Golf Club at 701-683-4510.


The textbook summarizes and systematizes the phased development of the theory and practice of forming the methodology of scientific research. The process of transformation of the methodology into research methods and means of their application in the environment of computer technologies is described. It is substantiated that the textbook is the basis for obtaining knowledge and skills in various disciplines of managerial and economic direction.
For students of higher educational establishments, postgraduates - applicants of the first degree of doctor of philosophy (PhD), lecturers and specialists.
This book concludes the cycle of monographs by the author: "Beyond the Boundary of Being on Earth" and "Otherworld. Life on the other side of death. " All three books tell about the events of our life from the actual death and our existence in the Astral and Spiritual worlds until the subsequent reincarnation.


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Update 15th November 2015 10th July 2016
Matt voted 6th Most Influential LGBTI Person in Britain on the 2015 Rainbow List
It is with great honour that I have been voted the 6th most influential person on this year's Independent on Sunday Rainbow List – an annual list compiled to celebrate today's 101 most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in Britain.
It took nine judges more than seven hours to decide who would appear on this year's Rainbow List. Thousands of public nominations were submitted by email and by post, in the way of drawings, and letters.
Now in its 16th year, the Rainbow List changed its direction this year to focus more on pioneers. The list would recognise and celebrate those who had paved the way for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality, and also actively celebrate those who, in 2015, fought for recognition from the intersection of different cultures, religions, and identities.
It would celebrate those fighting adversity.
It would celebrate those actively working to raise visibility and change lives.
Thank you everyone who voted for me, who recognise the work that Naz and Matt Foundation is doing to end homophobia triggered by religious and cultural beliefs. This year has been hard, it's been tough, we are slowly making impact, but there is still so much work that needs to be done here in the UK, and around the world.
Next year, we must, somehow, make an even bigger impact. To make a bigger change. We must not stop. We will get there.
View the full list of everyone on this year's Rainbow List (.pdf version)
Matt set up the Naz and Matt Foundation in memory of his soulmate and fiancé, Naz, who passed away two days after being confronted about his sexuality by his religious parents. It was the first time that they knew their son was gay, in a relationship with Matt for 13 years and that they were planning to get married.
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Spoonfoolery Creative Cooking & Baking, located at 2113 Greenleaf St. The demonstration and teaching kitchen opened Sept. 7 and offers cooking lessons for children, includes after-school care and hosts events.
When Mamata Reddy started thinking about opening her own kitchen, she knew she wanted its name to reflect how children cook.
So, she launched Spoonfoolery Creative Cooking & Baking, a new demonstration and teaching kitchen that opened Sept. 7 on 2113 Greenleaf St.
The kitchen primarily serves as a place where children can learn to cook and where parents can send them for after-school care. There are classes for children from ages 3 to 14 as well as options to host birthday parties, corporate events and bridal showers, according to a Sept. 7 news release.
Reddy, who has been an Evanston resident since 2010, was a traveling culinary educator for eight years. She said she wanted to open the business in Evanston since her children are about to start school in the area.
"I just really want to be able to teach and share and create and be a part of the Evanston community as a parent and educator," Reddy said.
Her children also served as inspiration for Spoonfoolery: Reddy's son, a picky eater, is always more willing to try new foods if he helps her make them in the kitchen. Reddy is hoping the kitchen will expose kids to new flavors and help them appreciate healthy eating.
According to the news release, Reddy also previously worked at the Gary Comer Youth Center in Chicago, where she taught students in grades 3 through 12. The center had a garden where students could take horticulture and gardening classes, and Reddy said she wants to bring a similar farm-to-table experience to Spoonfoolery.
Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), whose ward includes Spoonfoolery, said he is excited for the business.
"I think it's going to be a great complement to the other businesses and services our town offers," he said.
Reddy added that children coming to Spoonfoolery also learn math and reading skills. She cited a report by the National Association of Education for Young Children which says cooking and making grocery lists can help further a child's development in those areas.
Reddy said she hopes her students take the skills they learn in her after-school programs to their kitchens at home.


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Gauteng learnt lessons from Gauride pilot project
Johannesburg - The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport learnt valuable lessons when it piloted the Gauride project during the FIFA Confederations Cup in June.
"We were able to transport 20 000 spectators in 1 833 taxi and 45 bus trips. We are satisfied that this was a valuable experience from which lessons have been drawn," said Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Bheki Nkosi.
He said they had observed how they could sharpen their efficiency in areas of co-ordination and integration between the department and host cities, timeous proclamation of operating permits and communication and marketing.
"We are now engaged in a process to make an assessment and prepare for the FIFA 2010 World Cup following the challenges around transport raised by FIFA and the 2010 FIFA Local Organising Committee," said Nkosi.
Minibus taxis and buses were branded with a GauRide logo and made available to transport soccer fans to stadia across Gauteng during the event.
In an effort to improve licensing and registration services to members of the public, the department recently entered into an agreement with the South African Post Office to carry out and administer responsibilities of vehicle registration and licencing within a regulated framework.
"The service is accessible in more than 70 post offices across the province," he said.
Two new Driver Learning Testing Centres were opened in Johannesburg and Sedibeng to help deal with the licence backlogs.


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Prosperous New Fear
Before we get stuck into 2009, we missed a spillage from the festive period that needs mopping up…
In a remarkably gullible news item, the BBC covered a new report revealing that 2008 was a 'Huge year for natural disasters':
The past year has been one of the most devastating ever in terms of natural disasters … climate change [is] boosting the destructive power of disasters like hurricanes and flooding
The report finds that:
Although there were fewer "loss-producing events" in 2008 than in the previous year, the impact of natural disasters was higher […]
More than 220,000 people died in events like cyclones, earthquakes and flooding, the most since 2004, the year of the Asian tsunami.
Meanwhile, overall global losses totalled about $200bn (£137bn), with uninsured losses totalling $45bn, about 50% more than in 2007.
This makes 2008 the third most expensive year on record, after 1995, when the Kobe earthquake struck Japan, and 2005, the year of Hurricane Katrina in the US.
The BBC article quotes expert Torsten Jeworrek:
"Climate change has already started and is very probably contributing to increasingly frequent weather extremes and ensuing natural catastrophes,"
Thing is, Torsten Jeworrek is an expert in insurance, not climate. He is on the board of insurance giants Munich Re. And Munich Re are the authors of the new report. It goes without saying that insurance companies need to keep abreast of developments in risk if they are to provide a service for their clients. But it also goes without saying that generating alarm about those same risks is also to their advantage. To paraphrase what we have said before, fear of risk is to Munich Re what oil is to Exxon. Indeed, Munich Re says as much on its website:
Risk is our business: Among other things, we reinsure the risks connected with oil rigs, satellites and natural catastrophes, and those arising from the use of genetic engineering and information technology or from the management of companies.
Climate change is not the only issue Munich Re is whipping up alarm about. It also desires that we flap over other scares du jour, such as piracy…
Piracy reaches new dimensions: The frequency and severity of piracy attacks have reached alarming levels
Megacities extremely vulnerable to natural perils, technological risks, terrorism and environmental hazards / More risk awareness and greater transparency urgently needed with regard to hazard exposure / Munich Re presents its views at the UN's World Conference on Disaster Reduction
and obesity…
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are spreading at an alarming rate around the world
But, mostly, it's climate change…
India: Increase in losses due to climate change / Board member Torsten Jeworrek: "In coming decades, the effects of climate change will make themselves felt particularly in emerging countries like India."
Munich Re exhibition in Tokyo highlights risks and opportunities of global warming
climate change..
Natural catastrophe figures for 2007: Higher losses despite absence of megacatastrophes, very many loss events / Overall economic losses of US$ 75bn / Board member Dr. Torsten Jeworrek: Loss figures in line with the rising trend in natural catastrophes, Munich Re is prepared
High death toll marks the 2008 half-year natural catastrophes figures
and climate change…
Munich Re signs the "Declaration on Climate Change" of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative. / Munich Re Board member Torsten Jeworrek: "Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. What we do today is crucial for future generations. Therefore, swift international action is urgently needed." / Munich Re forecasts long-term increase in demand for risk protection as a result of climate change and growing concentrations of values.
And there's plenty more climate change where those came from.
Munich Re is certainly not the first insurance company to try to cash in on climate alarm by generating more of it. Back in April 2007 we reported on the efforts of risk assessment giants Risk Management Solutions (RMS) to do the same. Bob Ward, RMS's Director of Global Science Networks, was continuing a crusade against the dirty denialist industry – namely, Exxon and Martin Durkin – that he started while in his previous employment as Senior Manager for Policy Communication for Exxon-slayers the Royal Society.
What is surprising is that the BBC have deemed the witterings of an insurance company worthy of a news story, and moreover, that they have chosen to take those witterings entirely at face value. At the very least they could have wondered why earthquakes were lumped into the analysis or how much the figures were skewed by one devastating cyclone in Myanmar.
Torsten Jeworrek's quotes – like the whole BBC story, in fact – are lifted directly from Munich Re's press release. But then, perhaps the BBC didn't have much choice (other than to ignore the story completely) because Munich Re haven't actually made their report available. When we emailed them for a copy, media relations officer Alexander Mohanty replied that:
there is no additional report or publication.
Munich re's annual report on natural catastrophes is a press relase only traditionally.
But we will publish a more in-depth report in march called 'topics'.
The BBC has been known to argue that the existence of 'the consensus' on climate change means that they are not obliged to seek balancing viewpoints from anyone who doesn't entirely sign up to it. With this story however, they seem to be going rather further than is necessary to live up to their own journalistic ideals. They back up Jeworrek's comments with quotes from Peter Hoppe, head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research, which are also lifted verbatim from the presser:
"It is now very probable that the progressive warming of the atmosphere is due to the greenhouse gases emitted by human activity," said Prof Peter Hoppe, head of Munich Re's Geo Risks Research.
"The logic is clear: when temperatures increase there is more evaporation and the atmosphere has a greater capacity to absorb water vapour, with the result that its energy content is higher.
"The weather machine runs into top gear, bringing more intense severe weather events with corresponding effects in terms of losses."
The company said world leaders must put in place "effective and binding rules on CO2 emissions" to curb climate change and ensure that "future generations do not have to live with weather scenarios that are difficult to control".
Yes, 'the logic is clear'…
– the world has been warming up a bit
– human activity probably has something to do with that
– some models say this might influence the frequency of severe weather events
– therefore, an expensive year for civilisation (and insurance companies) means that climate change is already happening
– therefore, we need a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions
Other than pointing out that Hoppe's clear logic is clearly not, it's hard to comment on the accuracy and rigour of Munich Re's analysis, because, as we said, the analysis is not available for scrutiny. But it's hard to see how an insurance company can have had more success than 'the world's 2500 top climate scientists' at isolating the effect of climate change on the occurrence of severe weather events. But then again, perhaps we can look forward to the IPCC citing Munich Re on matters of climate-change induced weather patterns in its own reports in the future. And in a world where top scientists are wont to defer to economists on scientific matters of climate change, that is not such an unlikely possibility.
It is perhaps interesting that the economist in question, Professor Lord Sir Nicholas Stern, has rather a close working relationship with Munich Re. Understandably, Munich Re is rather proud of the fact that its dirty insurance money funds such a high profile environmentalist:
In 2008, Munich Re launched a cooperation with Professor Lord Nicholas Stern and the London School of Economics (LSE), the aim being to advance research into the economic impact of climate change.
And Prof Lord Sir Nicholas has nothing to be embarrassed about. Because nobody – least of all the BBC – seems at all bothered by any such conflict of interests. They are all too busy worrying about who Exxon is funding. Those who shriek the loudest about climate change – whether it's insurance companies, Stern, the Royal Society, Lord Adair Turner or the Tickell dynasty – often have the most to gain from alarmism. It seems that the greens have been right all along: an economic tail really does wag the scientific dog.
Author EditorsPosted on January 6, 2009 Categories BlogTags BBC, Bob Ward, catastrophe, Crispin Tickell, Lord Adair Turner, Munich Re, Nicholas Stern, Oliver Tickell7 Comments on Prosperous New Fear
The Silly-Season's Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot
Explorer Lewis Pugh, self-proclaimed 'Voice of the Arctic' took a break from cold-water swimming to try to become the first person to kayak to the North Pole to raise awareness of himself the shrinking Arctic ice mass:
There is one side of me that really hopes I can get there, that I can kayak all the way from Europe to the North Pole. Because if I'm able to do that, I hope I'm able to show world leaders just how much the Arctic has melted, and just how much it's going to affect each and every one of us. But then there's the other side of me which says I really hope I don't get there – I hope I fail, I hope I don't succeed. Because if I am successful, then it's a very worrying situation, because it shouldn't be possible to kayak right across what used to be a frozen ocean.
It would certainly be an impressive feat of paddling. But Pugh should not kid himself that he is raising awareness; he is simply riding a mighty bow wave of awareness that has already been raised by the mainstream media, environmental activists and scientists.
The progress of the Arctic ice melt has been this year's big climate story. Following an unusual winter, with record snows in China, Baghdad, and across the world, climate alarmists were unable to supply the media feeding-trough with upwardly-record-breaking statistics. After dismal 2007 and 2008 summers, and unusually heavy and late wintry storms, the public wouldn't buy the idea that the UK was being ravaged by global warming. And as we all know, the Antarctic isn't warming. Consequently, all eyes pointed north, which has caused much rumination over the significance of the level of ice at the end of the 2008 Northern Hemisphere's summer. The Arctic has become less the subject of scientific investigation, and more the arena for a battle.
Just as environmental policies are based on the precautionary principle, global warming alarmists exploit the unknowable territory of the future. It is not knowledge which drives environmentalism, but the unquantified possibility of catastrophe. Quantified risk spoils the story, because quantified risks allow the possibility of solutions. So alarmism seeks refuge in the furthest reaches of the world's most inhospitable locations, where it cannot be challenged. It is no accident that the harsh landscapes of the developing world and the polar regions are where the bulk of arguments about global warming rest, it is hard to get there, and it is almost as hard to get people from these places to tell you what it's really like, and what they really want. Thus, environmentalists speak for distant people, and far off lands… and polar bears. In much the same way, quantum physics is frequently used to 'explain' parapsychology and quackery; telepathy and precognition, ghosts, and homeopathic medicine. The harder it is to penetrate the science, the better a home it makes for ideas that owe more to wishful than rational thinking.
In order to achieve leverage in the political arena, environmentalists have had to construct story-lines to keep the idea of climate change alive in people's consciences. These double-up as morality plays, in which 'climate criminals' are responsible for the plight of species such as the polar bear, and poor people throughout the world. Unfortunately for environmentalists, science cannot produce data and research fast enough for them, and to a sufficient level of certainty. Therefore, the stories come and go. If there's a hot summer, we are told to expect them to get hotter, and more frequent. If there are floods, we are told that they too will get more frequent and intense. And so on. The abstract results of climate research do not connect with the public as well as images of catastrophes and starving animals, nor with people's direct experience of the weather.
For example, take the words of George Monbiot in 1999:
Climate change is perhaps the gravest calamity our species has ever encountered. Its impact dwarfs that of any war, any plague, any famine we have confronted so far. It makes genocide and ethnic cleansing look like sideshows at the circus of human suffering. A car is now more dangerous than a gun; flying across the Atlantic is as unacceptable, in terms of its impact on human well-being, as child abuse. The rich are at play in the world's killing fields.
The problem George has is in convincing people that any of this is true is that it defies all their senses. There is no visible climate chaos, such as he describes. Sure, there are occasional floods, heavy rain, and heatwaves, and so on. But there always has been. For those affected, life eventually returns to normal, and for the vast majority of people who remain untouched by these events, life carries on. Where people are less fortunate, such as in the developing world, George attributes their misfortune to climate change, whereas a much more compelling argument is that their predicament is explained by their poverty. He wants to say "IT'S HAPPENING NOW". But alas, it is not.
Back to the ice.
We all know what ice is. It is fairly evident when it is there. It is not some unusual social or scientific construct. So if you divide the amount of ice there is today, by the amount of ice there was yesterday less the amount of ice there is today, then you should know for certain how many days we have left until the end of life on Earth. Or, at least, that is the depth of thinking behind the current round of alarm emerging from the polar melt debacle.
A lot of the heat has been generated by a graphic issued by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), showing sea ice extent over the summer months. The question is whether the blue line representing 2008 will match the dotted green line representing the record-breaking 2007.
Well, that's supposed to be the question. The reality is that the progress of the curves represents a real-time unfolding narrative, rather like a soap opera, which gives gravity to the background and humdrum story-lines of who-is-in-bed-with-who, villainous schemes, and blood-feuds. Will the deniers finally be exposed as ruthless and back-stabbing murderers, or will they once again foil the valiant efforts of the greens? Tune in, for the next exciting episode. Except that, just like a soap opera, it never ends. The turn of the curve provides the tension of the moment, but it never fuly resolves. A new story line emerges as the old one fizzles out, with the plot left slightly hanging, so that its protagonists can return at a later date (ie, when the writing team have run out of ideas).
Speaking of running out of ideas, Oliver Tickell, son of miserablist Malthusian Sir Crispin (just like Dynasty, it's often the children of rich and powerful men who get to continue the story), wrote on commentisfree, citing the decline in summer ice, that:
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps thebeginning of our extinction.
See how the narratives stack up? At the top, global warming provides the situation. Beneath, sub-plots such as the ice extent story provide battle grounds for the constant war. At the bottom layer, the groupings and affiliations of goodies and baddies give rise to the politics. And in the sludge, the turbulent challenges that the heroes face. How can Tickell Jr. keep on side those who are losing faith in the good fight, and who appear to be making concessions to the enemy?
By linking to other story lines, of course. Such as Observer 'science' editor Robin McKie's, who writes the episode called, "Meltdown in the Arctic is Speeding Up":
Ice at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013.
In that week's installment, the blue line had nudged slightly closer to the green dotted one. Everybody held their breath. Who would be vindicated: the deniers, or the warmers?
Steven Goddard broke the silence on The Register, after noticing that the NSIDC graphs showing this year's ice retreat didn't match the graphics published by the University of Illinois.
More importantly, the data did not support the panic that the Pole might be free of ice this summer, as had been reported by various news outlets, and attributed to David Barber of the University of Manitoba. This was upped by Dr. Olav Orheim head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat, who claimed that the entire polar cap might disappear. Others were more circumspect, yet still predicted that this year's melt would be worse than last year's. Yet the NSIDC data failed to show this. It looked like the deniers would be vindicated.
A National Geographic article captured the confusion which the characters of the soap opera were caught up in. It was written in June, just before the little blue line stopped following the trajectory set by the progress of ice last year. As has been mentioned, David Barber raised the possibility of an ice-free 2008 Arctic summer. Next up in the article, Sheldon Drobot, at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research lowered the stakes, saying that some ice might survive, but it might melt at the pole. But then the magazine announced that models suggest an ice-free Arctic is not likely until 2013. Spoiling the party, Ron Lindsay, of the University of Washington, Seattle's Polar Science Center tells NG that, "Nobody knows for sure." Finally, the article concludes that, whatever the differences between the predictions, "Almost all models have the Arctic completely ice free in the summer by 2100." We might have to wait nearly a whole century for this plot line to terminate. Over the course of just 700 words, Aalok Mehta, the article's author, had taken the viewers from a frenzy of expectation about a sensational conclusion, headlined "North Pole May be Ice Free for First Time This Summer", down to the disappointing perpetual cliff-hanger.
The suspense was killing us. We had to find out more. Like fans possessed, we sought the contact details of the actors in the drama. What was the truth? What would the next turn of the plot be? Would ice disappear this summer? Or would it be 2013, as had been predicted by a model created by Professor Wieslaw Maslowski of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Or would we have to wait a century to find out?
NSIDC senior scientist Mark Serreze was on hand to help put us straight. The Observer and National Geographic articles were simply 'tabloid' journalism.
MS: Our empirical data would suggest that 2013 is too aggressive […] What we've been on record as saying, and for quite some time now – and I'll go on record saying it again – that, in our view, going to an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer – going to a seasonally ice-free Arctic ocean – could be as early as 2030
For fans of the drama, it is a disappointment. But it was an improvement on the 100 years given by the NG, and 50-100 years given by IPCC's AR4. Serreze says that the IPCC's predictions are conservative, and that new data has come to light since AR4. The melt had proceeded faster than expected. But what about the sub-plot – the 2008 melting versus the year before?
Serreze's colleague, Walt Meier, had contacted The Register to tell them that Goddard was mistaken. There are two different ways of measuring arctic ice, and they shouldn't be compared.
The absolute numbers differ between the UI and NSIDC plots because UI is calculating ice area, while NSIDC is calculating ice extent, two different but related indicators of the state of the ice cover. However, both yield a consistent change between Aug. 12, 2007 and Aug. 11, 2008 – about a 10% increase.
As Meier reveals, it turns out that counting ice is not quite as straightforward as one might think. The ice thins, but the plot thickens. The NSIDC produce two measures of ice – extent and area. Area is beset by the satellite hardware's inability to make a distinction between melt water on top of ice, and ice-free open water, and an upgrade in 1987 meant that the area covered introduces an upward error into the data. Extent is calculated by analysing the same source data, but measuring each pixel, and counting the number of 25x25km 'pixels' where the coverage of ice is greater than 15%. In other words, it's not actually counting ice. As the NISDC website informs us:
The extent values are useful in a temporal series, but caution should be used citing the numbers apart from the time series or comparing with values derived from other studies. Ice concentrations are sensitive to the algorithm used, and resulting numbers for extent depend not only on algorithms but on other processing steps as well. The extent values have uncertain significance when taken individually. For example, the 15% concentration cutoff for extent is somewhat arbitrary. Using a 20% or 30% cutoff will give different numbers, although similar trends, for extent (for examples, see Parkinson et al. 1999).
For a moment, it looked like the deniers had seized the day. But Meier stole the plot back for the warmers, to accuse Goddard for an article which "consists almost entirely of misleading, irrelevant, or erroneous information about Arctic sea ice that add nothing to the understanding of the significant long-term decline that is being observed".
Oh? Goddard's error was in thinking that an absolute index of ice existed – for which he apologised. But what about the claims that 2008 would be worse than 2007? And the claims that the North Pole and even the entire ice cap may be ice-free this year? Was it misleading to ask questions about those? Were they not themselves misleading? Is it misleading to point out that 2008 was not turning out to be ice-free? The ball was no longer in anyone's court. The blue line carried on.
On the 26th August, the NSIDC announced on their website that "Arctic sea ice now second-lowest on record". The actors in the drama were now fully engaged in writing it, and commentating on it. When we spoke to Serreze earlier in the month, he told us that the 2007 ice extent was not the result of global warming, but because…
… essentially we had a perfect atmospheric storm, in which we had a pattern of winds that brought warm air to the Arctic and helped melt the ice.
Like El Nino is largely responsible for the high global temperatures in 1998, we ask. Exactly, replies Serreze.
But Serreze is apparently reticent to offer information on the complexities of ice melt unless asked specifically. Otherwise, he is happy to feed the narrative with sensational plot twists of his own that owe little to NSIDC data. As he told Der Spiegel on 28 August:
"An Arctic Ocean that is ice-free in summer is inevitable," he said. Any recovery made by the ice sheet, he said, wouldn't last "more than a couple of years in the best case scenario." By the summer of 2030, he says, the Arctic will be completely ice free for a few weeks at a time.
And yet when we spoke to him, Serreze told us just how much of a guesstimate the 2030 figure actually is:
CR: So what sort of confidence intervals do you have around the 2030 figure then?
MS: Well, just that it's an educated guess based on where we're going. If you look at what the climate models have been saying – this is from those that were in the latest round of the IPCC, OK? – they're saying that, depending on the model you select as the truth, you could be going to an ice-free Arctic Ocean anywhere from say 2050 to anywhere out beyond 2100. That's what the latest round was saying, OK? About a year ago now, we had a paper led by my colleague Julienne Stroeve, which was showing that the current rate of decline is faster than any of these climate models are telling us. In other words, we are sort of faster than forecast […] when we say 2030, as the number that we throw out there, it's based on the recognition that the models are too slow. And it's based on just looking at what the observed behaviour of the system has been. So that 2030, you know, you wish I could put error bars around it – plus or minus seven years, right?
And when he's not selling tentative extrapolations as inevitabilities, Serreze is drawing on catstrophe-lingo du jour to over-egg his pudding. As he told the BBC for an article that starts 'Arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second smallest extent since satellite records began, US scientists have revealed' (which is a remarkably underwhelming observation given how recently satellites have been used to record anything at all):
We could very well be in that quick slide downwards in terms of passing a tipping point
Serreze neither explains what this tipping point might be, nor why his NSIDC data suggests we might be passing it. In this sense, 'tipping point' is used simply as a sciencey-sounding synonym for 'something terrible might happen'. And reporters don't even think to ask him what on Earth he is talking about.
We don't want to be too hard on Serreze and his fellow scientists. They have a big job to do. And in a world that attaches such importance to the path of a little blue line, much is expected of them. But it is to disparage the way in which such complex research and tentative conclusions are transmuted into unassailable facts for the purpose of gaining influence in the political arena. Here's a correlation for you: the extent of Arctic sea ice is negatively proportional to the desperation with which politicians and the media will cling to it, like starving polar bears, in the absence of any political straws to clutch at. But Serreze and his colleagues should not be exempt from criticism – they are playing their own important role in the soap opera. The articles in Der Spiegel and the BBC were in response to press releases issued by NSIDC a couple of days previously. First, they whetted our appetites with this:
Sea ice extent has fallen below the 2005 minimum, previously the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. We will know if the 2008 record will also fall in the next several weeks, when the melt season comes to a close. The bottom line, however, is that the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues.
Then followed it up the next day with the money shot:
Update to yesterday's advisory
Numbers are now available concerning current Arctic sea ice extent compared to the previous second-lowest year, 2005. Visit http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ for more details.
You can hardly blame NSIDC for getting excited and wanting to tell the world about it. They've been slaving away for years gathering physical data from an obscure backwater of planet Earth, and suddenly they now find that data – and themselves – the focus of the media's gaze. Their research is suddenly 'relevant'. It doesn't get much better than that when the accumulation of knowledge is increasingly hard to justify to the powers that be. Understandably, they want to make the most of it. And that means pumping out easily digestible, simplistic information. In fact, according to Walt Meier, the NSIDC scientist who complained to the Register, keeping it simple is a high priority for NSIDC. We were interested in why NSIDC seem to pay little attention to their area data, when it might be expected to provide additional information, in that it takes into account a measure of ice cover (from 0-100%) within each pixel. He told us that not only was the area data more problematic than extent, but that it's important not to confuse people by making things complicated:
When you're talking to the public and the press and so forth […] adding areainto the discussion can cause confusion. So we've kept to extent to keep things consistent in how we're reporting things and reporting one parameter instead of two […] We've chosen to not include the area [data], even though there are interesting things to say about it, just because, for a lot of people, it does tend to muddy the water.
The irony is that the simplistic messages they put out are far more confusing than the state of knowledge in its full complex glory – as witnessed by the confusion generated by a year's-worth of simplistic predictions and press releases.
Keeping things simple for the press and public has other implications. The NSIDC's raison d'etre is to provide the data, which can then be used by scientists to describe and predict ice behaviour. Scientists obtain that data through the same website used by the press and public. And unlike the extent data, the area data is very hard to find. Try it. Could it be that the area data has not been scrutinised like the extent data simply because it is buried so deep within the website? If so, we have a strange situation in which the PR strategy of the NSIDC directly influences the nature of scientific investigation.
If the importance attached to NSIDC blue line is strange, then so is the fascination with the arbitrary 'ice-free summer' landmark. Like frogs spawning earlier or butterflies flying later, ice-free Arctic summers are, in themselves, neither evidence for global warming, nor a harbinger of doom – and yet that is exactly how it is used in the media. All are consequences of climate change. If global temperatures have been a bit higher than usual recently, it's the most natural thing in the world that species adjust their life-cycles accordingly and that ice melts that bit faster. We should be far more worried if frogs did not make the most of an early spring, or if ice didn't melt when it got hotter.
The twists and turns of little blue lines excite the audience, and provide superficially important news fodder. It fuels debates, but with wild speculation and utterly meaningless and inconsequential factoids that will be forgotten by the time the next climate record is set. Repeat ad nauseam. These artificial dramas are elevated to ludicrous heights by claims that our entire futures depend on them. Consequently, life imitates this art. The drama extends into our real lives. It becomes politics, ethics, laws. The more we look to little blue lines, the less we realise that whatever little blue lines do only determines what our existences will consist of if we believe that the direction of the little blue line is instructive. It isn't. As we have argued before, environmentalism is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because environmental determinism – upon which environmentalism is founded – posits that human history is the product of environmental conditions. If ethics, politics, and society is formed according to the twists and turns of blue lines because we decide that it ought to be, then sure enough, history will be determined by little blue lines. We will make ourselves vulnerable to climate in order to prevent climate change catastrophe. The fact is that human history occurred in spite of the direction of blue lines.
By the time we finished this post, Lewis Pugh had already failed in his mission to paddle to the North Pole. He got as far as 81 degrees north before becoming trapped in the ice. (Even last year – with its record low ice cover – he managed to reach 82 degrees north.) Strange then, given Pugh's declaration that "I hope I fail, I hope I don't succeed. Because if I am successful, then it's a very worrying situation", that he seems to have decided not to shout about how pleased he is that the world isn't coming to an end just yet. Far from it. As he writes on his blog:
Although the expedition is over, in many ways the real work is still to come – my job now is to act as an ambassador for the Arctic, to convey to policy makers the changes that are taking place here. This starts immediately – I am going to Washington DC soon to speak to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. I spoke with Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) and his team in May, and it was a wonderful conversation – one I look forward to continuing. Smart people working hard to push these important environmental issues forward.
Author EditorsPosted on September 9, 2008 Categories BlogTags Arctic, ice, Lewis Pugh, Mark Serreze, NSIDC, Observer, Oliver Tickell, Robin McKie, Walt Meier6 Comments on The Silly-Season's Soap-Opera Ice-Storm in a Tea-Pot


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The Strange Story of the 2012 Mets and the 2015 Padres
by Alex Crisafulli | February 13, 2017
On the late afternoon of Thursday, April 9, 2015, Tony Wright settled in to his usual seat in the middle of Row B, Section 319 at pleasant Petco Park in San Diego. Section 319 had been his preference since the park opened in 2004. Seats were cheap, it had a nice view of the old Western Metal Supply building, and the sun over his left shoulder rarely obstructed his view. Furthermore, even for a home opener against the defending champion San Francisco Giants, a season in which new GM A.J. Preller had invested in a lot of high-cost talent, tickets weren't all that hard to come by.
Tony stayed for the entire game, a four-hour affair in which the Giants won 1-0 in 12 innings. As soon as Wil Myers grounded out to end the game, Tony quickly escaped down the back stairway to Park Blvd., walked a few blocks to a nearby parking garage, and arrived at his modest home in the North Park neighborhood barely ten minutes away. He repeated this routine about twenty times over the course of the season even as his enthusiasm waned into September as the Padres would eventually stumble to a disappointing 74 wins.
Truth is, and Tony didn't know this at the time – he couldn't have – but he probably didn't need to go to a single game that season. The 2015 San Diego Padres had already once existed and played a full schedule, only it was in the form of the 2012 New York Mets.
The 2012 New York Mets also opened their season at home with a 1-0 score against the Atlanta Braves, only they were on the wining side. Guided by second-year manager Terry Collins, the 2012 Mets started off their season well enough and cruised into the All-Star Break with a 46-40 record, only 4.5 games back from the emerging NL East power Washington Nationals. It wouldn't last though, and no one really expected it to. They collapsed in the second half and finished with the same 74 wins as the 2015 Padres. Both teams finished fourth in their respective divisions.
The 2012 Mets weren't expected to contend because the offense wasn't there. (It usually isn't if Ruben Tejada is your second most valuable position player.) They finished the season scoring a meager 650 runs, barely over four runs a game. That's what happens when you only slug .386 as a team. The 2015 Padres know. In spite of acquiring Matt Kemp and the Upton brothers in the offseason, they only slugged .385 as a team and scored exactly 650 runs.
Real quick, back to Tony. What really hurt the 2015 Padres in his eyes was their mediocre pitching. As a team, they had a 4.09 ERA, 11th worst in the league. The 2012 Mets can say the same. Exactly the same – a 4.09 team ERA, 11th worst in the league. It didn't help matters that the 2012 Mets pitchers stranded only 71.1% of runners, which fell below league average, even though they were one of the better strikeout staffs in the NL. And to Tony it didn't help that the 2015 Padres always seemed to give up a hit when the opposing team had runners in scoring position. Most frustrating was when it happened with two outs. And even though the 2015 Padres struck out their fair share of hitters – third most in the NL – they stranded a below-league average 71.1% of the runners they allowed on base.
Maybe these strand rate numbers obscured something from Tony, mainly that while the 2015 Padres were hardly the run prevention monsters that the St. Louis Cardinals were that year, they didn't have the greatest of luck either. Their team FIP was 3.93, 16 points below their ERA. Conversely, the 2012 Mets would have needed a decent amount of their own luck to keep pace with the Nationals. Unfortunately, luck is never something to rely on, and they underperformed their team FIP of 3.93 by 16 points.
So on that 2015 season went for Tony and the Padres. Because of their aforementioned deficiencies, the 2015 Padres struggled to sustain momentum and never won more than five games in a row. In August they endured a six game losing streak, their longest of the season, and as a result found themselves in the rearview of the upcoming playoffs, a place they hadn't been since 2006. The 2012 Mets knew this fate all too well. Even with their encouraging start out of the gate, their longest winning streak was five games. Come August, they struggled through a six game losing streak, their longest of the season, and any plans they had for extra baseball that season were finished. They would have to wait until 2013 for their chance to return to the postseason for the first time since 2006.
Through it all, Tony Wright enjoyed the 2015 season in Section 319 anyway. He saw two games end in walk-off fashion, soaked in the ubiquitous San Diego sunshine for six months, and ultimately had zero regrets that he invested more time and money into a baseball team that was destined to underwhelm. Looking back on the season, that first game in April was still his favorite. The season still had hope, the crack of the bat still sounded fresh, and not even twelve scoreless innings from his favorite team could damper that. Twelve innings – the longest game the 2015 Padres would play that season. Twelve innings – the longest game the Mets would play in 2012.
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The ongoing decline in complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) is an encouraging sign, but the industry must do more to meet the needs of residential and small business customers, according to Ombusdman Judi Jones.
Complaints to the TIO declined 27.7% year-on-year during the last six months of 2018 to 60,998, the regulator's latest six-month update shows.
Complaints about landline phone services decreased by 18% and accounted for 12.6% of the total; complaints about mobile services fell 19% and constituted 30.6% of the total; and complaints about internet services fell 21% and made up 30.6% of complaints.
The remaining complaints related to multiple services (23.3%) or property-related issues (0.8%). The total number of these complaints fell by 45% and 24% respectively.
But Jones said these figures do not tell the full story, noting that complaints related to internet services increased slightly during the final quarter of the year.
The top five complaint issues included no or delayed action on a customer's issue by their service provider (18,845), disputed charges for services or equipment (18,324), no working phone or internet services (8025), delays with connections or switching providers (7202), and complaints about intermittent service or dropouts (6387).
Meanwhile, while the overall number of complaints being filed by small businesses fell by 6.4% during the six-month period, the proportion of complaints from small businesses increased to 15.2% from 11.7% a year earlier.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield said the results demonstrate that "the measures put in place by the government and regulators as well as the efforts of industry are continuing to deliver results".
But he stressed that "one complaint is a complaint too many" and there is plenty of room for improvement.
John Stanton, CEO of telecommunications industry peak body Communications Alliance, concurred.
"These latest results do not represent 'job done', by any means. Industry recognises that there are still challenges to overcome and that we are still in the middle of an accelerating [nbn] rollout — with multiple partners in the supply chain — that inevitably generates a degree of disruption and a level of customer complaints," he said.
ACCAN CEO Teresa Corbin noted that the results show that nbn service quality complaints per thousand premises added to the network nearly halved year-on-year.


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When New Yorker, Rachel Chu (Constance Wu), accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore she is excited about visiting Asia for the first time and also nervous about meeting Nick's family.
However, Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. Not only is he the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families, but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick's arm puts a target on Rachel's back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick's own disapproving mother (Michelle Yeoh) taking aim.
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Constance Wu gives a charming and engaging performance as fish out of water / cinderella character, Rachel Chu. Wu conveys the lighter, comedic elements of the story and the deeper, more emotional scenes with ease. Meanwhile, Michelle Yeoh is brilliantly austere as Eleanor Young, the mother of Chu's boyfriend, Nick.
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For a start, we are never invited to covet or particularly admire the wealth on display. The film's emphasis is definitely on the craziness of the riches that we are seeing. The cars, the clothes, the homes, the parties - while stunning - are all viewed with a rather skeptical eye.
Crazy Rich Asians is also interesting (and refreshing) in the way that it focuses more on the inner lives of its female characters than on the tired rom com "how to get your man" trope. Indeed, the movie is at its strongest when exploring the culture, customs and changing beliefs of generations of strong and powerful women.
In addition, Crazy Rich Asians is an important film from a cultural perspective. It is wonderful to see another culture being represented in this story - rather than a typical all white, American tale. I loved the scenes exploring Chinese culture and would have welcomed many more.
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Q: Sending ID from as3 to asp & geting sql result parameter at the SAME time? I can send a parameter from as3 to asp. And I can get a value from db. But unfortunatelly I cant combine both of them. Is it possible to send a ID parameter from as3 to asp where I want to make a sql query on a db. Then query result will return back to the as3. Users can login with their id number. And they can see their own datas on the as3 application. My sample codes are given:
I can send values with these codes:
var getParams:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www***********/data.asp");
getParams.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
var paras:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
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getParams.data = paras;
var loadPars:URLLoader = new URLLoader(getParams);
loadPars.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadCompleted);
loadPars.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
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function loadCompleted(event:Event):void
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I can get values from db with these codes:
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urlLoader.load(new URLRequest("http://www***********/data.asp"));
urlLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
urlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onXMLLoad);
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What is the logic of combining them?
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A: To combine the second one into the first, you just need to read the URLLoader's data property (which is the response from the server) on the loadCompleted method (same as you're doing in the onXMLLoad method):
function loadCompleted(event:Event):void
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}

The COMPLETE event for a URLLoader fires once the request has received a response.  If your server adds data to that response, it can be found in the data property of the URLLoader.
So to summarize, sending and receiving can be done all in one operation with one URLLoader.  The data you send to the server, is found in the URLRequest object passed to the URLLoader, the data that comes back from that request, is found in the data property of the URLLoader object (but only after the COMPLETE event fires).

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The Mary Tyler Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the Captain William Barron and East Texas Chapters of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution dedicated a memorial marker Saturday, Aug. 6, in the LaGrone Chapel Cemetery for revolutionary war soldier William Delefield.
The dedication began at 10 a.m. with the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution Color Guard presenting the colors.
Mr. Delafield served in the militia in Virginia as a young man and later moved to Georgia where he reared a family. His son, Nicholas, brought his family to Harrison County before 1850 and settled near the current Harrison–Gregg County line.
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Sometime before 1860 William Delafield died and is believed to have been buried in a private plot near their home about five miles slightly northwest of Hallsville on the Old Mont Hall farm.
The graves in the family plot have been lost in time and can no longer be identified, so William Delafield will be remembered with a memorial stone being placed in the LaGrone Chapel Cemetery between the graves of his daughter-in-law, Sarah Delafield, and his grandson, Charles Delafield.
LaGrone Chapel Cemetery is located next to LaGrone Chapel Methodist Church on the corner of CR 2208 and Noonday Rd. in Harrison County. It is about five miles northeast of Longview.


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Re: UC Irvine $$ v. USC
by 1800calturk
tbd wrote:
ENGINEERD wrote: I just learned that you cannot transfer out of UCI due to its lack of accreditation.
So If you have any hopes of transferring into T14 you might want to consider that.
... that is a huge consideration I would have never thought of. Seriously?
I wouldn't go to a school with a plan to transfer. Is it even worth transferring after 1/3 of your LS education is over? I mean you gain reputation, but you lose all the contacts, faculty relationships, friendships, etc. and you have to move/readjust all over again. Not to mention the awkwardness of asking one of your 1L profs to write a letter of rec to leave his school.
That said I'm not one to limit my options, does UCI's lack of accreditation have any other negative effects?
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:52 am
So I am VERY heavily leaning towards USC at this point, here's why...
- EMPLOYMENT. USC has a proven track record in terms of employment at the kind of prestigious firms I aspire to be at. Although UCI has a lot of OC buzz and a reputable faculty pulling for each student's employment, I feel that when the rubber hits the road, firms will go for the known quantity - especially if a healthy portion of their current employees are from the same school you are from. Every job I've ever gotten has been at least partly attributed to networking and my personal connections with people. I believe USC can't be beat in this regard.
- ENVIRONMENT. I am getting more and more excited about living in LA. It's one of the world's great cities, and it offers not only glitz glamor, but unlimited opportunities. You're around the entertainment industry, and the city just feels so alive. The USC campus is GORGEOUS, as are the people on it. Movies and TV shows are shot there on a regular basis. The UCI area may be cleaner and more relaxed, LA seems like the place to be for the young and ambitious.
-MOBILITY. As someone said, if you want hopes of transferring, UCI may have some problems. Also, UCI doesn't have abroad programs, which I'm not sure if I'll be interested, but at UCI it's not even an option. Further, USC is more mobile in the sense that it is more recognized in other parts of the country. Whether or not the degree carries to employment, USC Law is heard of everywhere. I also believe a USC grad will have an easier time finding work in OC, rather than a UCI grad in LA.
- OPPORTUNITY. At UCI, a big draw for me was being one of the founding classes and getting to shape the program. The problem with that is that you're personal influence is debatable, and further, you are shaping the program for future generations of UCI student. I'd like to have the opportunity to join established student groups with established connections and networks, established abroad programs and journals, which I will have the opportunity to explore and join. It's easier to influence the direction of something existing by shaping it, rather than having to create what you can from the resources available. I can still be a leader in the school's available institutions, and having all of USC's time-tested resources at my finger tips can translate to more freedom than if I was restricted by what's made available by a greenhorn institution.
- PRESTIGE. Getting into USC was a huge deal for me and my friends and family. I will readily admit that what others think of me is a factor in my ambitions, and while not my primary motivation, it just feels good when people are impressed with what you are doing with your life. UCI still has the "huh? they have a law school?" response, and since the undergrad is nothing special by UC standards, the lay-prestige is not really there. I'm also worried about the long term prestige of the school, when UCI finally hits its 300 student class sizes, standard UC scholarship practices, and loses the hype of being the new kid. Would I be bummed that the degree hanging on my wall 10 years from now isn't from USC?
Everything else - the awesomeness of professors, the friendliness of students, the collegial atmosphere and small class sizes - is pretty comparable. Obviously UCI's class sizes are tiny and you'll get a lot more personal face time with the profs, so if that is a huge factor, UCI takes the cake. However, USC's class sizes are small by most standards anyway and will stay that way. UCI is the clear winner in the $ department.
UCI is still the friendly cute one who seems very down to earth and that I'd enjoy taking strolls in the park with. UCI dotes on me and gives me a lot of good reasons to go that way. But USC is the smokin' hottie I can't believe I actually have a chance with, and also genuinely seems interested in me, although admittedly doesn't pay me as much attention. I've only just met both of them, so it's hard to judge how well I'd vibe with either for the long haul, but as of now it looks like I'll have to ask UCI if we can just be friends. I mean sure I like it, but do I like like it?
by ruleser
1800calturk wrote: So I am VERY heavily leaning towards USC at this point, here's why...
If you were going to use that metaphor, you should have gotten in right: you know for a fact that USC puts out, at least 25%-50% of the time, if things are going well even more.... while you don't know for sure that UCI will ever be able to put out at all (access to Big Law/top jobs being the eqivalent of sex in this one)
by Stupendous_Man
I have a similar situation, and I'm waiting to visit all the options I'm seriously considering before making my decision. I'm hoping what everyone says about getting a "feel" for the school will just magically make sense to me once I'm there! Goodluck and congrats!
by lakerfanimal
1800calturk wrote: I wrote in both applications that I was interested in corporate. I think both schools are looking for all kinds.
Right but USC has more resources and the name to help you more with the corporate route in my opinion.
Just today one of my friends who is waiting on USC but got into UCI said he won't automatically go to USC even if he gets in. We agreed that UCI just has huge boom or bust potential, but the boom potential we decided was bigger for many reasons people have already mentioned (too many big-name reputations put on the line for the success of the school). That being said, I think at best UCI in the next few years still won't be as big for you in getting into corporate law as USC will be, OC or LA. Good luck!
Edit- sounds like you know where you're going!
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:22 am
lakerfanimal wrote:
Right so, does your friend think that UCI's boom potential is bigger than USC current potential? What a lot of people are saying is that in UCI's best case scenario (debuting in the top 20), it's still not going to trump what USC is already doing. For me, UCI makes a lot of sense for the public interest focused, and more so than USC just because you end up with a lot less debt, and the big name connections can make up for the lack of alumni network in PI. However, I gotta agree with lakerfanimal, I can't see how UCI can offer any advantage over USC in the corporate world.
by pany1985
UCI could end up being about equal to USC/UCLA for jobs in Orange County, which has a surprisingly large amount of biglaw jobs... although it's not that surprising when you look into it more, since OC is home a lot of corporate headquarters and has a population of about 3 million (which is actually a higher population density than Los Angeles County). The OC legal community is pretty jazzed about finally having a top law school in their backyard.
by ViP
Big news today: every single member of UCI's first-year class has landed a summer job.
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/uc-irvin ... has-a-job/
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 11:04 am
ViP wrote: Big news today: every single member of UCI's first-year class has landed a summer job.
That's nice, but it seems like Irvine is VERY public interest focused. Other schools fill public interest positions as well and also place in firm jobs so if Turk is looking to do private stuff, it seems like that article could be used to argue against UCI. Also, I feel like it's misleading when UCI uses percentages. For example, 60 employed students is 100% at UCI, but 30% at USC. USC could employ 50% of its students and that'd still be more than UCI. I get nervous when UCI is touted as the "most selective" and "highest employment rate" in the country. I guess a budding school needs that kind of hype to survive, but it's starting to sound like the same statistical hyperbole used in timeshare presentations.
Stupendous_Man wrote:
That's not misleading at all. The % is precisely what matters, not the absolute number.
If 100% of the students at your prospective school have jobs, doesn't that give you hope that you'll find a job if you attend that school (regardless of the absolute number of students)?
As per your example, if 50% of USC students have jobs, that's already way more than UCI. But so what? That also means 50% of USC students don't have jobs... Also way more than the 0% of UCI students that don't have jobs.
And I agree that Irvine is clearly PI focused, but half of the class is not interested in PI and they have jobs, too. I think the hype and prestige around the school has allowed students to pursue their own interests, regardless of the school's focus.
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 3:04 pm
No, because it's misleading to suggest UCI students have a 100% chance of getting a summer job than USC students because 100% of 60 students got a summer job. All you can safely say right now is that UCI was able to place 60 of its students in summer jobs. Everything else is just an assumption. Let's say for arguments sake there are 200 jobs in the country. If USC only places 50% of its students and UCI places 100% of its students, then USC claimed 50% of the jobs whereas UCI only got 30%. What happens if the number of jobs decreases? What happens when the number of UCI students increases? Percentages can be manipulated. Real numbers matter. Especially when you argue that 50% of its students took PI jobs.. The article says 30 students took PI jobs, and 17 took government jobs. So all you can really say is that UCI can place 13 people in firm jobs.
I'm not saying it's wrong or bad, 60/60 students employed is great. It just isn't the 100% employment rate it sounds like.
Stupendous_Man wrote: No, because it's misleading to suggest UCI students have a 100% chance of getting a summer job than USC students because 100% of 60 students got a summer job. All you can safely say right now is that UCI was able to place 60 of its students in summer jobs. Everything else is just an assumption. Let's say for arguments sake there are 200 jobs in the country. If USC only places 50% of its students and UCI places 100% of its students, then USC claimed 50% of the jobs whereas UCI only got 30%. What happens if the number of jobs decreases? What happens when the number of UCI students increases? Percentages can be manipulated. Real numbers matter. Especially when you argue that 50% of its students took PI jobs.. The article says 30 students took PI jobs, and 17 took government jobs. So all you can really say is that UCI can place 13 people in firm jobs.
You're absolutely right about private firm jobs. There's no way of telling how UCI students will hold-up with private firms. Only time will tell, so it's not fair to speak in hypotheticals.
But in terms of employment, the current numbers suggest you have a much, much greater chance (at least in the short-term) of getting an immediate summer job out of UCI than you would out of USC.
In 5 or 10 years, who knows what UCI's employment rate will be. At the moment, though, I don't see the 2nd or probably 3rd year class struggling to find employment (just what kind of employment, though- as you've rightly noted- is a different matter altogether).
To only say UCI was able to place 60 students, disregarding the 100% aspect of it, is understating your prospects of getting a job. At USC or any other school, who knows where you'll place? At UCI, who cares where you'll place (again, this is only pertinent for the next year or two. The distant future is unknown)? You are one of the 60 students that comprise the 100%. I know a UCLA 2L that can't find a summer job for the life of him (good student, too).
In summary, I totally understand and respect your point, but I think we're arguing slightly different things here (type of job, present vs. future, etc.).
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I believe we agree on everything. I really hope you get into USC, good luck!


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Halcolite Company was located in Brooklyn, NY on 68 34th Street.
The date of this chandelier is 1938 or before as it appears on a price list from Halcolite dated 1938. This chandelier was from their Danbury Series.
They were not as big of company like Lincoln or Markel, but, they did make some very interesting, and uniquely different Art Deco lights....and now... harder to find Art Deco lights.
This 5 slip shade, with additional bottom shade, chandelier is just such a "hard-to-find" and collectible light. Naturally, this 6 shade chandelier was considered top-of-the-line since it was the most expensive model of this series. The design elements are definitely Streamline deco.
The shades are in excellent condition. The metal of the chandelier has not be over-cleaned. It is still showing the aged condition, compenserate with being produced in the 1930s.
We have totally re-wired this collectible chandelier in our UL shop with medium base sockets All 5 slip shade sockets can handle 100 watt bulbs.
Measurements: Overall from the top of the canopy to the bottom of the finial is 24"; diameter is 17". The length can be increased if so desired..for a small additional charge.


The State Concern "UkrOboronProm" now is the engine of the country's economy. This was stated by Director General Roman Romanov in his interview to Channel 5.
"80 thousand people, more than 100 enterprises in nearly all regions of the country – this is UKROBORONPROM. Having signed a memorandum of cooperation in the field of import substitution and fulfillment of the state defense order, the State Concern has provided more than 200 jobs to thousands of people, attracting domestic enterprises any form of ownership to cooperation,"- said Roman Romanov.
According to him, "UkrOboronProm" returns highly qualified workers and attracts young people to the field. Arrangements with more than 40 universities allowed nearly 4 thousand young professionals undergo training at defence industry enterprises and stay working in Ukraine.
"A particular ecosystem is formed around the State Concern, uniting industry, economy and science" – said the head of the State Concern.
"UkrOboronProm" represented a defense industry reform strategy. It provides simultaneous operation in the legal, technological and production sectors. The reform assumes the following steps: implementation of corporate management, creating of supervisory boards, audit involving international companies, enterprises clustering by equipment types, extensive measures on technology protection, platform for innovations. These changes will enable integration of defense complex of Ukraine into the international community, to ensure its reliable and highly technological work.