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Posted on January 9, 2010 January 20, 2018 Tags News, You Love CO25 Comments on Love it! Wear it! Stick it! Merchandise now available
The environmentalists attack schools – Indoctrination alert
I've read the story about the high school student who stood up to climate change propaganda and, unfortunately, this kind of thing happens more often than we think and at all levels (from junior kindergarten to post graduate studies)
Here is my fifth grade daughter's experience with the global warming propaganda apparatus, Canadian edition.
On the second last day of school before Christmas holidays (December 17th) a group of 6 and 7 grade students (recommended as "gifted" by the school's principal) came to my daughter's class to make a presentation about the alleged effects global warming have on planet's life. The presentation, which, in the principal's words, was the result of "wonderful research made by the gifted students," showed pictures of melting ice glaciers, flooding cities and drowning polar bears and generally used the scare tactics of the environmental groups to "urge the governments to act in order to save the planet." But the presentation was not only an information session. The sixth graders had a political agenda too and at the end of the show they circulated a petition addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper in which they, again, urged him to "act for the future of the planet by signing the Copenhagen Accord." Needless to say that being pressured (the Principal and two teachers were present in the presentation room and encouraged the students to sing the petition) and not knowing what to do, all the children ended up by putting their names on the list, although some of them, including my daughter, felt deeply uncomfortable doing it. But who cares about little children feelings when is for such a "noble" cause?
The next day I've discussed with the Principal and the teachers and they removed my daughter's signature (and other students' whose parents complained) from the petition. They also agreed that they will inform the parents regarding any future presentations, so that the parents/legal guardians should decide whether they want their children to participate or not.
Here I'd like to make few points:
1. I'm OK with the freedom of speech. Any individual should be allowed to express their opinions. However, this is a two way street, and one should not impose his or her opinions on others by forcing them to support their views. The teachers showed to be biased regarding the climate change topics and completely disregarded students' right to question the arguments of the presenters. They didn't give them the right to refuse to be part of it, and assumed that there was a "general consensus."
2. The fact that the "gifted students did a great research job" doesn't give them the right to use other students' coerced accord to push their agenda. I'm afraid these gifted students have been in fact used by their activists' parents in desperate search and need for political support. But apparently some parents would do anything, even violate others rights, to impose their views.
3. There is a legal aspect here too. The school doesn't have the right to disclose its student's personal information without parents/ guardian consent. In this case a list containing the names and signatures of potentially hundreds of students was allowed to circulate freely with a group of sixth graders. And that with the blessing of the principal and teachers. Is allowing that wise and safe?
4. The presenters used children emotions to push their propaganda. The show implied that the climate change would cause the extinction of polar bears, penguins and other catastrophic effects and suggested that students' refuse to sign would make them responsible for this. At one point a student asked what would happen it they didn't sign and one of the presenters answered with a grave tone: "bye-bye world." This may look unimportant for adults but making 10 year old children feel guilty for the destruction of planet is a despicable act.
All this happened at a number of schools in Canada but I'm sure that, unfortunately, it's not an isolated case. As mentioned before I managed to have my daughter's name removed from the petition and the school will inform me about future presentations. It's a small victory against the system but it's a victory of truth and freedom of speech.
Marco Piti,
Posted on January 2, 2010 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, You Love CO24 Comments on The environmentalists attack schools – Indoctrination alert
The problem all along, of course, is that people jump to conclusions. Sure, concentrated CO2 exposed to infrared will get somewhat warmer than everyday air. But this only proves that everyday air (99.96% of which is nitrogen, oxygen and argon) is more transparent to IR and less apt to be heated that way. Air molecules, CO2 included, initially acquire heat by contact with warmer surfaces. Via mutual collisions and convective transport, this heat gets spread around within an airmass.
To some slight degree, CO2 also has the option of acquiring heat by radiative transfer. But, rather ironically, it cannot radiatively transfer this heat to the nitrogen, oxygen and argon molecules which surround it because, as said, they are largely infrared-transparent. As a result, an excited CO2 molecule is obliged to share its heat just like the rest of them do, by bumping into other molecules. In short, there's nothing special about CO2 in a real-world context. Outnumbered 2500 to 1, CO2's energy is lost in a busy buzz of collisions, its radiative properties wasted.
Moreover, any heated gas radiates infrared — and in this case 99.96% of the gas consists of molecules other than CO2.
Yet no one seriously imagines that back-radiation from 99.96% of the air has a role in raising the earth's surface temperature.
Only when CO2 comes up do we lose touch with reality.
Here's a succinct point: Immersed in the vacuum of space, the earth has but one means of losing heat: radiation. And what does carbon dioxide do? It radiates.
It's amazing that so few people have bothered to give this theory a second look.
Via email By Alan Siddons
Posted on December 22, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, News, You Love CO21 Comment on Food for Thought
DO SMOKING GUNS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO?
By Ann Coulter
As we now know (and by "we" I mean "everyone with access to the Internet"), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature.
Recently leaked e-mails from the "scientists" at CRU show that, when talking among themselves, they forthrightly admit to using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in the Earth's temperature since 1960 — as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: "[W]e can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!"
Am I just crazy from the heat or were they trying to deceive us?
Global warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails, explaining that, among scientists, the words "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage" do not mean "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage." These words actually mean "onion soup," "sexual submissive" and "Gary, Ind."
(Boy, it must be great to be able to redefine words right in the middle of a debate.)
Also, of course, the defenders said that the words needed to be placed "in context" — the words' check was in the mail, and they'd like to spend more time with their families.
I have placed the words in context and it turns out what they mean is: gigantic academic fraud.
The leaked e-mail exchanges also show the vaunted "scientists" engaging in a possibly criminal effort to delete their own smoking-gun e-mails in response to a Freedom of Information request. Next, the fanatics will be telling us that "among scientists," this behavior does not indicate knowledge of guilt.
If I recall correctly, their next move should be to fire the special prosecutor late Saturday night.
These e-mails aren't a tempest in a teapot. They are evidence of pervasive fraud by a massively influential institution that has dominated news coverage of global warming.
CRU was regularly cited as the leading authority on "global climate analysis" — including by the very news outlets that are burying the current scandal, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. The CRU alone received more than $23 million in taxpayer funds for its work on global warming.
Having claimed to have collected the most complete data on the Earth's temperature for the last half century, the CRU's summary of that data was used by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its 2007 report demanding that we adopt a few modest lifestyle changes, such as abolishing modern technology, reverting to hunter/gatherer status and taxing ourselves into servitude.
But then last weekend — in the middle of the "Let's Cook the Books!" e-mail scandal — the CRU said that all its data on the Earth's temperature since 1960 had been irretrievably "lost." (Although I suspect "overcooked" might be a more apt term.)
The way this episode is unfolding, the environmentalists may be forced to drop their phantom threat of global warming and go back to the phantom threat of global cooling.
Most disturbingly, the CRU-affiliated "scientists" were caught red-handed conspiring to kill the careers and reputations of scientists who dissented from the religion of global warming. Indignant that scientific journals were publishing papers skeptical of global warming, the cult members plotted to get editors ousted and the publications discredited.
This sabotage of global warming dissenters may be more galling than their manipulation of the data. Until now, the global warming cult's sole argument has been to demand that everyone shut up in response to the "scientific consensus" that human activity was causing global warming.
That's their idea of a free and open debate.
It's always the same thing with primitive people — voodoo practitioners, rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts, debate and a weighing of the evidence, religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor, a "scientific consensus," "the Constitution" or "historians are agreed."
Liberals won't tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent lightbulbs by 2014 — a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead, they tell us there's a "scientific consensus" that we have to use fluorescent lightbulbs or we'll all die.
They won't tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead, they tell us "the Constitution" says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesn't remotely say).
They won't tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that "few American Communists were spies" — until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)
This is precisely what liberals accuse Christians of doing, but which Christians never do. We don't cite the Bible as authority — and then refuse to let anyone read it. We certainly don't claim to have "lost" it, so you can't check for yourself. But that's exactly what the CRU has done with its secret data allegedly showing a warming Earth.
Also, biblical data on the great flood and Noah's ark have held up remarkably well.
Even if the Earth were warming — which apparently it is not — the idea that humans using energy-efficient lightbulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs' belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living, breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.
Sadly, the "human sacrifice deniers" lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists, who explained that there was a "scientific consensus" on the benefits of ritual murder.
But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of "climate change." The global warming cultists want us all dead.
Posted on December 3, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Climategate, Global Cooling, Guest Post, You Love CO2Leave a comment on DO SMOKING GUNS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING, TOO?
Support us – and let the debate go on
By Jens Robdrup
The debate is not over as the Al Gore will have us to believe.
It's the end of our western civilisation as we know it and enjoy it to day, if he gets his way. To cut carbon emissions as the warmists propose will bring us back to 1910!
Do You want to give up your present standard of living because of a dubious and flawed scientific theory?
The warmists want to govern your life: don't eat meat, no australian wine, no air travel, no cars, only one minute in the shower, no oil or coal, but wind power even if you freeze, and anyone who oppose is a denier and should be procecuted for crimes against the climate. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley would be surprised. Its come true, what they warned against.
But we can stop this madness. Reason will prevail. But help us to bring it along.
We plan an advertising campaign in Danish and international newspapers, a poster campaign and issuing of leaflets during the IPPC conference in Cph 7.-21. December. Already we have arranged an alternative conference for the 8th of December.
But we need your support.
Any amount will be spent on this cause. Help us with £/$ 10,- or more and we fight for the same cause!
Go to www.climate-sense.com and learn more about us. It's the only sceptical danish/English website. Or email us at: climate-sense@live.dk and ask for more information
Thank You for reading the above
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Posted on November 16, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, You Love CO2Leave a comment on Support us – and let the debate go on
Barack Obama's Suicide Mission to Copenhagen
By Tom Deweese
For more than fifteen years I have been studying and reporting on international United Nation conferences, treaties, and policies, warning that they are a road map to global governance and eventual UN global government. In addition, I have warned that the international environmental movement is not really concerned about protecting the environment at all – rather it is using mother earth as an excuse for an age-old drive for power and wealth. For those same fifteen years my warnings have fallen on deaf ears in Congress, in state houses and in city councils across the nation. Instead, I and others like me, have been labeled radical fringe and conspiracy nuts. As a consequence, I have been ignored by much of the media, dropped from major nation radio and television news shows that once invited me as a guest on a regular basis. Letters, petitions and meeting requests on Capitol Hill are ignored. Vindication comes in surprising ways sometimes. Case in point, on October 27, 2009, The Washington Times, DC's "conservative" newspaper ran an editorial entitled: "Green World Government, the UN uses environmentalism to seize control." Readers of The DeWeese Report, would not have found the Times revelation to be news. What is important is that after my warnings have been one of the lone voices in the wilderness, some in the media are beginning to see the threat – just as it is about to be jammed down their throats. The fact is, the warnings I've been sounding are now transformed into urgent alarm bells. The Times editorial was about the coming UN Copenhagen Climate Treaty and it contains just about every threat to our nation's economy and sovereignty to vindicate my fifteen years of forced isolation. All the players and issues are here to enforce global control over our nation and our personal lives. The UN; World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace; global warming; Sustainable Development; and attempts by the UN to enforce global taxes. I have issued articles on every one of those. And there is the new player in the game – Barack Obama. He of course, is the reason why this new Treaty is causing such a stir and why even some main-stream media is beginning to pick up on the danger. Obama is just nuts enough to actually sign a document that would make our nation subservient to UN schemes of global control. In fact, that is exactly what he intends to do. And here are some of the details of what Obama would be signing – essentially committing the United States to comply. First, The Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty will enforce dire restrictions on all humankind. One provision called the "Facility" will be used to "reorder society" to change the structure of civilization, making the environment the ruling principle. The Facility is designed to bring together a massive number of "fragmented" environmental organizations and existing regulating structures, so they can all work together. In other words, any action taken by mankind will be regulated – because anything we do has some impact on the environment. Energy, of course, will be the prime target. The policy won't be to find more – it will be to cut back on its use. Homes will not be warmed or cooled. Cars will not be driven. And manufacturing will be sharply curtailed – at least in the "developed" countries. The price of everything manufactured by using energy (EVERYTHING) from toothpaste to food will skyrocket. Shortages will abound. Most of all, however, the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty is a vicious global indictment of developed industrial nations. Its pretense is that Third World nations are suffering economically because of their carbon emissions, which have changed the environment, thereby causing them economic and social loss. To compensate these poor victims of unbridled capitalism, the Treaty calls for compensation from the big, bad developed nations (the United States), in the form of at least 0.7% of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from each nation. That adds up to about $800 billion over five years, with additional funding requirements assessed on an "as needed" basis. However, the Treaty language is not yet complete and there is talk of making that figure as much as 2% of the GDP, which is roughly half of our nation's total defense budget. To collect these taxes, the treaty will establish a new governing body called the Conference of the Parties (COP), which will be given ultimate authority over the administration and enforcement of the treaty provisions. For additional resources, COP will have the ability to tax aviation and shipping. But, in the small print, things get worse. It says COP's taxing authority "is not limited to" the above. That means they can tax anything that moves. Again, what's this money supposed to be used for? Oh yes, compensating those poor Third World nations. The UN calls it a "carbon debt" that the developed nations owe to the rest of the world. This is to be a punishment on the developed nations because they refused to abide by previous UN efforts, such as the Kyoto Climate Change Accord which called for reducing energy use by as much as 30%, and thus would destroy the economies of entire nations. Shame on us for not playing along. The actual language of the treaty says: "The adverse effects of climate change and response measures, due to the historical cumulative GHG emissions of developed countries, constitute an additional burden on all developing country Parties (particularly low-lying coastal, arid and semi-arid areas or areas liable to floods, drought and desertification, and developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems) in reducing poverty, developing strategies to address social vulnerabilities and attaining sustainable development and a threat to achieving the United Nations Millennium Goals." There it is. We are to be punished for refusing to destroy ourselves. And why were we supposed to do that? Because of global warming. It doesn't matter that scientists from around the world, including leading UN climate scientists now report that there is absolutely no evidence of man-made global warming. In fact, more and more scientists are reporting an actual cooling taking place. There is no nation drowning under rising oceans. There are no floods or hurricanes consuming nations. Droughts and desertification in most cases is natural. The only man-made desertification taking place in the world is being caused by bad government policy. The worse example of desertification is taking place in the middle of California in one of the previously most productive agriculture areas in the world. Today, because of environmental protection policy, farmers have had their water cut off to save a one inch long fish. Will treaty money be sent to those farmers to pay them back for such policies? Of course not. It doesn't matter that science shows that CO2 is not a pollutant but a valuable natural substance necessary for the existence of life on earth. Above all it doesn't matter that the largest emitters of CO2 are China, India, and Brazil, and they are all exempt from the treaty's massive restrictions on emissions and energy use. How, then, does such a treaty pretend to have anything to do with helping the environment? In truth it doesn't, and every party involved, from the environmental groups to Barack Obama, knows that this treaty is designed to do one thing- redistribute wealth away from the developed nations to nations that want to suck the life blood out of the United States. Nations like those in Africa are poor, not because of pollution, or lack of resources or even lack of education. They are poor for one reason—bad government. Those that refuse to allow their people to own property and build their own wealth and dreams. Oppressive governments that confiscate the results of the labor of their people. Governments like Robert Mugabe's in Zimbabwe, who took the breadbasket of Africa and turned it into a desert. And those same governments intend to be first in line to gather their share of the booty from the treaty. Will their people be better off? No. Will the environment be better off? No. Will the United States be better off after Obama signs this monster? No. So who benefits? The United Nations finally gets its global government. The environmental groups finally get their power inside the elite. The totalitarian dictators of the poor, undeveloped nations get their Swiss bank accounts enlarged and all the trappings of wealth that go with it.
If Barack Obama signs the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty he will be committing national suicide
Will Barack Obama sign the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty? Insider reports indicate that there are two things that could keep him from making the trip. First, if the language isn't finished by the December meeting deadline he says he won't go. Second, if the U.S. Congress has not yet passed the Cap and Trade fiasco (the domestic version of the treaty) he says he won't go. One thing is very clear. If Barack Obama signs the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty he will be committing national suicide. Americans must not ignore this threat. They must not sleep while Obama and his radicals drive us to destruction. Elected officials and the news media can no longer dismiss these threats as silly conspiracy theories. The time is now to let every elected representative in the Congress know that we will not tolerate Cap and Trade or the Climate Change Treaty. Allow either to become law of the land and stand back and watch the lights go out on the shining city on the hill.
Tom Deweese the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and is the President of the American Policy Center, a grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, Virginia. Tom can be reached at: apc@governance.net
Posted on November 13, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, You Love CO2Leave a comment on Barack Obama's Suicide Mission to Copenhagen
Global Warming – A Convenient Untruth
By Clive Francis
We all now appear to be talking about greenhouse gases, global warming and climate change as three interchangeable and emotive subjects; the three being held equally and indiscriminately as the reprehensible consequence of burning fossil fuels. I suggest that the three subjects are all entirely different and utterly separate. Moreover, these three subjects are now being used conjointly and emotively to vilify carbon dioxide and fossil fuels to justify supposedly remedial actions which sane inspection tells us are quite unjustifiable, hopelessly expensive and some plainly quite unachievable.
There has been an undeniable increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last decade. This increase can be made to look huge or miniscule according to your espoused point of view – depending on whether you calculate the rise as a percentage increase or expressed as a fraction of the Earth's atmosphere. However, in spite of this increase, coupled with the direst warnings complete with complex computer based predictions, the Earth's temperature has obdurately refused to rise over the last 11 years – in fact it has fallen.
Over geological time, atmospheric carbon dioxide content has been for long periods far higher than at present. The only proven correlation in geological history between the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the Earth's surface temperature is that the periodic rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide content have followed rises in global temperature and not the other way round.
Yes, the climate is changing but it has always done so. It has changed throughout Earth's geological history and continues to change as a result of a number of variables such as the Earth's wandering axis of spin, the sun's varying output, solar wind and the solar system's galactic traverse.
Ice ages, warming periods, glaciation and deglaciation have been the geological history of this Earth. Moreover, local climates change as a result of altering oceanic currents, varying weather patterns, volcanic activity plus deglaciation since the last ice age, etc. Forces are involved which are far more powerful than man's puny input.
Yes, you may carefully select particular trends over very small periods of history to justify particular points of view and the alarmists are very skilful at doing this. However you just cannot buck the facts of geological history. The alarmists, those who actually believe and the bandwagon opportunists as well, have been ruthless in the pursuit of their religion. They have played on every fear and every emotion to great effect. Sadly, science, fact and common sense had been trampled in the rush.
In the past 100 years or so the scientific consensus has twice held that the earth was definitely cooling (1895-1930 and then 1968-75) and forecast that a catastrophic ice age was approaching.
Scientific consensus has also held on two occasions the contrary view that, instead of cooling, the Earth was dangerously warming up (1930-60 and 1981-now) to the imminent destruction of coral reefs and polar bears. Mankind has been blamed in each of these four separate alarms and thus mankind must do something about it. What a cavalcade of bandwagons these dire warnings have engendered.
Grapes were once grown in Britain as far north as Newcastle, crops and cattle were once raised in Greenland and the Thames has frozen over on occasions. The very same scientists who were forecasting in the 1970s the imminent disaster of the approaching new ice age are now forecasting doom by global warming. What a myriad of businesses this new religion of climate change has spawned and what a bandwagon on which to advance both careers and profit. En passant, an entirely new concept has been created – that of policy based evidence making.
The thinning of the polar ice caps has not just started to happen – it has been going on constantly but irregularly since the last ice age. The Earth's polar regions have had ice caps for only about 20% of the Earth's geological history. To parade precariously poised and puzzled polar bears as being the consequence of man's burning of fossil fuels is political gimmickry of a low order — yet it sells, and how!
Yes, the Arctic ice is thinning but do we hear at the same time about the contemporaneous extension and thickening of the Antarctic ice? Why are some populations of polar bears actually increasing?
If it were not so serious it would be profoundly funny to witness the very building block of life, carbon dioxide, vilified as a pollutant. Nitrous oxide, nitric oxide, sulphur dioxide, the fluorocarbons and the particulates of combustion are all pollutants and do damage. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant; it is an essential part of all life on Earth. Furthermore, atmospheric carbon dioxide is but 0.0001% of the carbon dioxide held in the Earth's oceans, rock, terrestrial structure, soil and life itself.
There is no notional greenhouse surrounding us. The Earth has an atmosphere composed of a number of gases, some of which absorb and impede heat re-radiated from the Earth but others do not. The atmosphere contains two main absorbers and retainers of Earth's radiated heat – water vapour and carbon dioxide. Water vapour accounts for some 70% of the retention whilst carbon dioxide accounts for less than 10%, with methane and ozone accounting for nearly all the rest. I.e. by far the largest culprit in so-called global warming is water vapour but do we hear anything about that?
Without these heat-retaining gases Earth's surface temperature would be some minus 18°C and life, as we know it, could not exist. It is more accurate and meaningful to describe the atmosphere as a sweater round the earth, protecting us from the cold, rather than a greenhouse intent on boiling us and doing us harm.
To ascribe modern climate change to one single variable (carbon dioxide) or, more correctly, a small proportion of one variable (i.e. human produced carbon dioxide) is not science, for it requires abandoning all we know about planet Earth, the sun, our galaxy and the cosmos.
The Kyoto agreement has fallen apart, whilst the Russians for a long time resolutely refused to join it. That is until they belatedly realised just how much money they could make out of the EU with carbon trades. They have made billions out of these trades, to which you and I have contributed involuntarily, without needing to modify their emissions by one puff.
The disaster of chopping down and burning of carbon-absorbing rainforests in order to grow biofuels has added measurable amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere – never mind the immorality of diverting agricultural output for us to drive our cars whilst many in the world are starving. This gives an inkling of the degree of human idiocy involved in trying to interfere with the natural change of Earth's climate.
In a bid to outdo the EU in idiocy Britain has exceeded the bounds of sanity by passing the Climate Change Act thereby hobbling any attempt to produce a rational energy policy for this country. Britain stands alone in the world in legislating such folly into law. When the lights start to go out in Britain will you blame it on climate change or the Climate Change Act? No other country in the world has embodied into its statute book such a specific and powerful legal prescription for the destruction of its own industrial base.
Meanwhile, the City of London is enjoying the joke tremendously whilst trading Carbon Credits enthusiastically and profitably. This form of trading is an unedifying up-to-the-minute, state-of-the-art, revival of the mediaeval practice of selling indulgences. If you made this up who would believe you?
What a wonderful self-sustaining activity this global warming delusion has generated. We now have a whole new and expensive Government Department, that of Energy and Climate Change, which has brought new lustre and dimension to the term "tilting at windmills"
I pity the party in power when the public arrives at the full realisation of how completely misled it has been by its own Government and how many trillions of their money had been wasted (accompanied by falling standards of living) in vainly trying to pursue the deluded folly of stemming naturally occurring climate change. The two concepts of King Canute and the Flat Earth Society spring to mind. I can just imagine the wrath that will be visited on the party in power when the full realisation sets in.
To summarise: scares may come and scares may go but there is no universally accepted evidence that the burning of fossil fuels and the consequent production of carbon dioxide has anything whatsoever to do with climate change or even temporary global warming.
In ending may I commend and acknowledge valuable help from Nigel Lawson's book "An Appeal to Reason – A Cool Look at Global Warming": Professor Ian Plimer's book "Heaven and Earth – Global Warming: the Missing Science": Christopher Booker's "The Real Global Warming Disaster."
I fear that "climate change" has simply become a Convenient Untruth; now being peddled to conceal a hopelessly delayed and utterly inept energy policy for Britain.
"Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree and on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a rollback of the industrial age"
– Professor Richard Linden of MIT.
"Global warming is largely a natural phenomenon. The world is wasting stupendous amounts of money on trying to fix something that cannot be fixed"
– Doctor David Bellamy, Lecturer in Botany and wildlife broadcaster.
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Posted on November 9, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, You Love CO22 Comments on Global Warming – A Convenient Untruth
Former Global Warmer Dissents
By Doug Plumb
I love truth.
Please trust me, I'm one of Al Gores Experts who signed the global warming list many years ago as one of the 2,000 "experts". But I am smarter than the other signers on the list are because I just have a bachelors degree in engineering. I didn't have to go get a masters or a Phd in climatology to be an expert and do all that schooling. People that become experts without schooling must be smarter than those who require schooling. Now as an expert I am telling you these people are liars.
If you believe in global warming, you must also believe the official version of 9/11, vaccines are good, chemtrails are being used to stop limit sunlight and slow global warming, pharmaceuticals are good and there is no need for nutrition in health, the government will protect you, everything you see on TV news is true, lawyers are there to protect your rights, doctors are here to save people, and you live in a "free country"
*OR* you just trust liars because they are the authorities and you are therefore a moron.
When the UN web site shows us that drug export for Afghanistan are at $700 billion, up from $40 billion just before the Afghan war and that one million slaves are bought and sold yearly they are BRAGGING !!!! These things are institutionalized. This is verifiable beyond any reasonable doubt and global warming is the biggest fraud in history is also verifiable for those who only trust schooled experts at www.petitionproject.org . Nine thousand Phd's have signed a note stating that global warming is a fraud.
Doug Plumb
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Posted on October 25, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, You Love CO24 Comments on Former Global Warmer Dissents
Greenhouse gas my ass! CO2 is our friend!
By John Ziraldo
I am a grandfather of two wonderful boys for whom I want to do everything within my means to provide a decent future. I have been very worried about the Global Warming threat and I set out about two months ago to learn everything I could about it. I am now more worried about the impact the AGW alarmists are having on politicians and businesses. Climate Change seems minor compared to the threat of the alarmists to change our economy and way of life.
I wanted to complement you on your website and wish you all the best in being heard and getting this monster back in it's cage. Unfortunately, it appears to me that it is going to take more than a few decades of cooling temperatures to undo the damage caused so far by Gore, Hansen, the UN, and even David Suzuki in Canada.
FYI, in order to draw some attention on this subject within my list of contacts, and hopefully influence a few people at a time, I made up this image and put it on a t-shirt. I thought it went well with your site name.
John Ziraldo
Posted on August 21, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags Guest Post, Views, You Love CO21 Comment on Greenhouse gas my ass! CO2 is our friend!
CO2 saves the planet! Those who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels are the mortal enemies of the biosphere
By Frank J. Tipler, Physicist
As the Senate considers the fate of the cap-and-trade bill, we should consider what it means for more carbon dioxide to be added to the atmosphere, something the bill intends to prevent. Carbon dioxide is first and foremost a plant food. In fact, plants take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and use the energy from sunlight to combine the CO2 with water to yield glucose, the simplest sugar molecule. Carbon dioxide is also the source of all organic — this word just means "contains carbon" — molecules synthesized by plants. Without carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there would be no organic molecules synthesized by plants. The less carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the fewer organic molecules synthesized by plants. All animals depend on plants to synthesize essential organic molecules. Without the organic molecules synthesized by plants, the animal world could not exist. Without plants, there would be no biosphere. Several million years ago, a disaster struck the terrestrial biosphere: there was a drastic reduction in the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere. The flowering plants evolved to be most efficient when the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere was about 1,000 parts per million. But the percentage had dropped to a mere 200 parts per million. Plants tried to adapt by evolving a new, more efficient way of using the little remaining CO2. The new mechanism, the C4 pathway, appeared in grasses, including corn and wheat, which enabled these plants to expand into the plains. If the carbon dioxide percentage had stayed low — or worse, had decreased further — the entire biosphere would have been endangered. Fortunately for the plants and the rest of the biosphere depending on them, a wonderful thing happened about 150,000 years ago: a new animal species, Homo sapiens, evolved. This creature was endowed with a huge brain, enabling it to invent a way to help the plants with their CO2 problem. Gigantic amounts of carbon had been deposited deep underground in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas. Not only were these reservoirs of carbon locked away in rock, but they were in forms of carbon that the plants could not use. These wonderful humans, however, worked hard to help the plants. Not only did the humans dig the coal, oil, and natural gas, bringing it to the surface, but they converted these raw materials into the only form of carbon that plants could use: carbon dioxide. Due to the diligent plant-saving efforts of the humans, the CO2 atmospheric percentage is now at nearly 390 parts per million. Were humans to continue in their biosphere-rescuing efforts at the present rate, the CO2 level will be returned to normal in a mere few hundred years. The cap-and-trade bill is designed to stop this effort to save the biosphere. This is a profoundly evil act. In the words of the Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman, anyone who supports the bill, or any measure aimed at reducing the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, is "guilty of treason against the planet"! Those who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels are the mortal enemies of the biosphere. They must be stopped at all costs! Write your senator at once! The astute reader will have noted that Krugman actually accused those who opposed the cap-and-trade bill of "treason against the planet." What I have done is use well-known science to show that, from the biosphere's point of view, it is the cap-and-trade bill that is "treasonable." Remarkably, Krugman assumes that the climatic conditions of a mere century or so ago are the "natural" ones that must not be changed. A very anthropomorphic point of view is being used to denounce humanity. An ultraconservative reactionary political position is being called "progressive."
Posted on August 11, 2009 January 20, 2018 Tags News, You Love CO2Leave a comment on CO2 saves the planet! Those who want to reduce the use of fossil fuels are the mortal enemies of the biosphere


Sophie Perry is mourning the passing of her father, and she took to social media to share a touching post that included a never before seen picture of the late actor. Luke Perry's shocking death at the age of only 52 has been very hard on everyone who's known and loved him, including his Riverdale co-stars and of course, his family members.
Perry passed away after suffering a severe stroke and left behind a 21 year old son named Jack and an 18 year old daughter named Sophie, as well as his fiancée Wendy Madison Bauer.
Sophie posted a snap that featured her snuggling her boxer pup while in the car, sitting next to her dad.
At the time her dad was hospitalized, Sophie was on a volunteer trip in Malawi, Africa and she flew back immediately to be with her family during that hard time.
The teenage girl has praised her mother for being their 'rock' after Luke's passing.
Jax Taylor And Brittany Cartwright Bought A House 1 Mile Away From 'Vanderpump Rules' Co-stars Tom Sandoval And Ariana Madix!


Nicestsolution wants to provide affordable software to support risk analysis. Nicestsolution is a spin-out of the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, where the SafetyBarrierManager software was developed. DTU Management Engineering has transferred the intellectual property rights of SafetyBarrierManager to Nicestsolution per 21 March 2016. Nicestsolution is from that date onward responsible for support and further development of SafetyBarrierManager.


Tufted, year long green perennial with dense, fluffy inflorescences.
origin All states, not found in Northern territory.
cultural notes Prefers full sun to part shade in well drained soils.
tolerates Frost and drought tolerant. Will resprout after fire.
flowering season July to December, climate dependant.
flower colour Green tinged with purple, the inflorescenses are narrow dense and fluffy.
foliage colour Flat dark green leaves to 20cm.
recommended uses An ornamental grass often used in native landscapes.


Trying to build an emergency fund, down payment or rainy-day fund? These savings vehicles offer stability and liquidity.
Moneys used for saving and investing are different. With investing, the goal is to grow your principal above the rate of inflation, so that when you need the money down the road, you have more than you started with.
Investing focuses on taking advantage of the power of compound interest over a long period of time. High annual earnings combined with an investment that last decades can result in a balance far in excess of what you started with. For most people, mutual funds are the easiest investment choice, with a history of significant returns and affordable fees.
Nobody should invest all of their money, though — especially if they need access to it in the short term or can't afford to lose any principal. This is because although investments usually appreciate in value, they sometimes decrease. It's no fun if you invest $1,000 and a year later, when you need it, it is worth $800.
If you can't afford to lose value, then you should consider savings vehicles instead of investments. Not counting hiding money under your mattress (a "Savings for Dummies" move), the main ways to save money are with a savings account, money market account or certificate of deposit.
Savings accounts are the most popular and liquid saving option. You can open one for the lowest amount and keep the lowest balance without paying a fee. It also pays the lowest interest rate.
Money market savings accounts are the next most popular, but usually require a higher opening and minimum balance. A plus for this kind of account is a higher interest rate and limited check writing access.
Certificates of Deposit pay the highest rate, but they also commit the saver to hold the CD until maturity, which can run from one month to five years. The longer the term, the higher the rate. Pull the money out early and you pay an interest penalty.
Which Savings Vehicle is Best?
If you are going to be saving just a few hundred dollars, a standard savings account will do. If you plan to save a few thousand dollars, perhaps for an emergency fund, or for a future large planned purchase, a money market savings account would be a good match. CDs are a good choice if you want to keep inflation from eroding too much of your cash.
In today's rising interest rate environment, locking yourself into current CD rates may leave you earning less than if you wait to get a CD later. One way to get around this is doing what is called "CD laddering." Here is an example of how this works using $5,000 as an example, but you can do it with higher amounts, too.
Instead of opening one CD for $5,000, you open five $1,000 CDs with maturities ranging from one year to five years. As each year's CD matures, you renew it for five years. That gives you the highest current rate and you still get access to 20 percent of your money each year if you need it.
Zions Bank is offering a special promotional rate on a 1-year CD. The CD requires a $1,000 minimum balance to open.
Regardless of which savings choice you make, they all qualify for the standard FDIC insurance coverage of $250,000 per depositor.
Whether you have a savings account, money market account, or CD, having money set aside that is easy to get to is a great thing.


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import unittest
from unittest.mock import patch

from ..exceptions import PapermillRateLimitException
from ..iorw import GCSHandler, fallback_gs_is_retriable

try:
    try:
        try:
            from gcsfs.retry import HttpError as GCSHttpError
        except ImportError:
            from gcsfs.utils import HttpError as GCSHttpError
    except ImportError:
        from gcsfs.utils import HtmlError as GCSHttpError
except ImportError:
    # Fall back to a sane import if gcsfs is missing
    GCSHttpError = Exception

try:
    from gcsfs.utils import RateLimitException as GCSRateLimitException
except ImportError:
    # Fall back to GCSHttpError when using older library
    GCSRateLimitException = GCSHttpError

def mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(exception=None, max_raises=1):
    class MockGCSFileSystem(object):
        def __init__(self):
            self._file = MockGCSFile(exception, max_raises)

        def open(self, *args, **kwargs):
            return self._file

        def ls(self, *args, **kwargs):
            return []

    return MockGCSFileSystem

class MockGCSFile(object):
    def __init__(self, exception=None, max_raises=1):
        self.read_count = 0
        self.write_count = 0
        self.exception = exception
        self.max_raises = max_raises

    def __enter__(self):
        return self

    def __exit__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    def read(self):
        self.read_count += 1
        if self.exception and self.read_count <= self.max_raises:
            raise self.exception
        return self.read_count

    def write(self, buf):
        self.write_count += 1
        if self.exception and self.write_count <= self.max_raises:
            raise self.exception
        return self.write_count

class GCSTest(unittest.TestCase):
    """Tests for `GCS`."""

    def setUp(self):
        self.gcs_handler = GCSHandler()

    @patch('papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem', side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper())
    def test_gcs_read(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        client = self.gcs_handler._get_client()
        self.assertEqual(self.gcs_handler.read('gs://bucket/test.ipynb'), 1)
        # Check that client is only generated once
        self.assertIs(client, self.gcs_handler._get_client())

    @patch('papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem', side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper())
    def test_gcs_write(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        client = self.gcs_handler._get_client()
        self.assertEqual(self.gcs_handler.write('new value', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb'), 1)
        # Check that client is only generated once
        self.assertIs(client, self.gcs_handler._get_client())

    @patch('papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem', side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper())
    def test_gcs_listdir(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        client = self.gcs_handler._get_client()
        self.gcs_handler.listdir('testdir')
        # Check that client is only generated once
        self.assertIs(client, self.gcs_handler._get_client())

    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(
            GCSRateLimitException({"message": "test", "code": 429}), 10
        ),
    )
    def test_gcs_handle_exception(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_DELAY', 0):
            with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MULTIPLIER', 0):
                with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MAX_DELAY', 0):
                    with self.assertRaises(PapermillRateLimitException):
                        self.gcs_handler.write('raise_limit_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb')

    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(GCSRateLimitException({"message": "test", "code": 429}), 1),
    )
    def test_gcs_retry(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_DELAY', 0):
            with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MULTIPLIER', 0):
                with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MAX_DELAY', 0):
                    self.assertEqual(
                        self.gcs_handler.write('raise_limit_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb'), 2
                    )

    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(GCSHttpError({"message": "test", "code": 429}), 1),
    )
    def test_gcs_retry_older_exception(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_DELAY', 0):
            with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MULTIPLIER', 0):
                with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MAX_DELAY', 0):
                    self.assertEqual(
                        self.gcs_handler.write('raise_limit_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb'), 2
                    )

    @patch('papermill.iorw.gs_is_retriable', side_effect=fallback_gs_is_retriable)
    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(
            GCSRateLimitException({"message": "test", "code": None}), 1
        ),
    )
    def test_gcs_fallback_retry_unknown_failure_code(self, mock_gcs_filesystem, mock_gcs_retriable):
        with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_DELAY', 0):
            with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MULTIPLIER', 0):
                with patch.object(GCSHandler, 'RETRY_MAX_DELAY', 0):
                    self.assertEqual(
                        self.gcs_handler.write('raise_limit_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb'), 2
                    )

    @patch('papermill.iorw.gs_is_retriable', return_value=False)
    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(GCSRateLimitException({"message": "test", "code": 500}), 1),
    )
    def test_gcs_invalid_code(self, mock_gcs_filesystem, mock_gcs_retriable):
        with self.assertRaises(GCSRateLimitException):
            self.gcs_handler.write('fatal_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb')

    @patch('papermill.iorw.gs_is_retriable', side_effect=fallback_gs_is_retriable)
    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(GCSRateLimitException({"message": "test", "code": 500}), 1),
    )
    def test_fallback_gcs_invalid_code(self, mock_gcs_filesystem, mock_gcs_retriable):
        with self.assertRaises(GCSRateLimitException):
            self.gcs_handler.write('fatal_exception', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb')

    @patch(
        'papermill.iorw.GCSFileSystem',
        side_effect=mock_gcs_fs_wrapper(ValueError("not-a-retry"), 1),
    )
    def test_gcs_unretryable(self, mock_gcs_filesystem):
        with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
            self.gcs_handler.write('no_a_rate_limit', 'gs://bucket/test.ipynb')

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The decision to seek substance abuse treatment in Phoenix, AZ isn't one that's made lightly. Often, it comes with feelings of dread, anxiety, uncertainness or doubt. These emotions can be confirmed or challenged depending on the atmosphere of the rehabilitation facilities. It's why Advanced Sober Living offers a homelike setting—because we know there's no place like home.
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V-Day tomorrow, and we're pretty sure most of you haven't planned a night-out with your loved ones. Today, we're making your life easy by sharing some ace restaurant/cafe V-Day deals. You have to make it special, right? Don't worry. You'll find at least something here to make tomorrow special for your loved one.


Dar SEA0946 2 light satin chrome Wall Bracket with clear and frosted glass shades and a pull cord switch. Height: 35cm, Diameter: 11cm, Width: 20cm. Requires: 2x 40W G9 Capsule lamps. Lamps not included! This stunning product is a part of the gorgeous Dar Seattle Collection.


New BOOK on mining policy and civil society !!
Click on this link to access our new publication dealing with the influence of civil society in mining policies in Latin America in seven countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay). The book is free to download and it is in Spanish.
Looking forward to hear your comments!
Thanks, Paul. I am doing my PhD about mining policy and civil society in Brazil and I am sure the other Latin American examples in your book will be of great value to my thesis.


text:
TSA Christmas poetry
The horror!
by The Economist | WASHINGTON DC
"BLOGGER BOB," who seems to be the lead writer on the blog of America's Transportation Security Administration (the agency in charge of airport security), has offered up his own rendition of Clement Clarke Moore's 1823 classic "A Visit from St. Nicholas," more popularly known as "The Night Before Christmas." It's about as good as you might expect:
T'was the night before travel and all through the suitcase,
Not an item was stirring not even the toothpaste.
The stockings were packed in the bag with great care,
With hopes that they soon would be in the air.
There are 13 more lines, if you want to know what Bob rhymes with "destination." If you're interested in just-as-amusing but slightly better-constructed parodies of Mr Moore's poem, however, it's worth checking out the New York Times' "Prescriptions" blog. After Roland Burris (D-Ill.) and Kit Bond (R-Mo.), two US senators, created their own (fairly awful) versions of the "The Night Before Christmas," "Prescriptions" held a contest to find the best health care reform-related version of the poem. Here are the first few stanzas from the winning entry, which was submitted by Steve Harrell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington (the state, not the city):
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the Hill
Not a solon dared say they would soon get a bill
Amendments were hung with meticulous care
In hopes that the 60 votes somehow were there
And DeMint with his smarm and Mitch with his bluster
Had just settled themselves for a good filibuster
The rest is here. It's funny stuff. But this is a business travel blog, so don't worry about besting Mr Harrell. If you think you can beat Blogger Bob, on the other hand, have at it in the comments.
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Christmas tree prices are higher this year, but that's not stopping customers from buying premium trees in Philadelphia. Photo credit John McDevitt/KYW Newsradio
By John McDevitt, KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — It's Black Friday, but you won't find any deals on real Christmas trees this year.
From supply chain issues to climate change to high transportation costs, tree prices have increased compared to last year. Despite the bigger price tags, there is still a high demand for premium trees.
"Our prices went out the roof this year — believe me when I tell ya — but everybody has to deal with it," said Rocky of Rocky Yo-Mo's Christmas Trees, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Front Street in South Philadelphia.
He said a tree last year went for about $85. Now, they are up to $125 each.
"With the gas prices unbelievable, freight, you know, all of that comes together," he explained.
At D&D's Christmas Trees at Fourth Street and Washington Avenue, prices are up about $15 or $20 more than last year. That didn't stop one shopper from buying one for $110.
Tree seller Geno says there is a shortage, and he advises people to buy now rather than later while there is still a good selection.
"Frasers are usually our bestsellers," he said. "It's a more pricey one. I mean, it doesn't shed as much in your house. If you have kids or if you have pets, it's the perfect tree to go for. It's smaller, it's not as big, but it looks nicer."
Black Friday isn't what it once was, but there are still deals aplenty
Expensive or not, you'll need to keep it alive for the next month or more. Rocky shared his two cents.
"After we give it a fresh cut and all — that's how it drinks water, it helps it get healthy and strong," he said, "[add] a little eggshell in the water [mixture]. The chemical from the eggshell helps the tree get healthy and stronger."
Geno has a different method.
"A lot of people laugh at me when I say this, but put two baby aspirins in [the tree's water], and just like you have a headache, it works, and it will last that tree until New Year's — and if not, I will pay for it."
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Toxorhynchites ramalingami är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Neal L. Evenhuis och Wallace A. Steffan 1986. Toxorhynchites ramalingami ingår i släktet Toxorhynchites och familjen stickmyggor.

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Every now and then, social networks come up with new features that help the businesses. So far in the year, we have seen many new features of various social networks. In our previous posts, we have learnt about the features and using them for your marketing.
This time, we are here with some upcoming features that you are to have on social media in a few days. These features are in test mode now. Take a look at the features and make strategies to use them, now itself.
Earlier this year, Facebook launched Live Streaming feature. We have all witnessed the success of this feature. Many celebrities and brands have succeeded in using this feature for their marketing.
Now its acquisition Instagram, the largest photo-sharing app, is about to launch the Live streaming feature on its platform. In the month of August, Instagram has launched its Stories feature which is the Snapchat-Stories-like feature. At the event of launching this feature Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, has stated that they were trying to launch a Snapchat-live-events-like feature.
Recently, it was learnt that this feature includes a Red colored button "Go Insta!".
Seems, they are so desperate to beat Snapchat totally out of the race.
The 150 M active user social community, Pinterest, gives more priority to the quality of the Pins. Be it from a common pinner or a business of any scale, they feel that the pins nurture the ideas of its community members.
In order to improve the quality of the pins of businesses, Pinterest introduces the new Pin Collective feature on its marketing platform. Pinterest has selected some great creators in its community. These creators will work directly with the businesses who are leveraging the Pinterest platform.
In its post describing the feature, Pinterest has mentioned some names as an example of the expert creators who are going to help the businesses.
The social media giant always strives to do a lot for businesses. It has an excellent advertising platform and marketplace features. And now, it is about to come up with Jobs feature on its pages.
Usually, you can only add the Jobs tab on your page with the help of some third-party tools. But now, we are going to have this feature from Facebook itself.
So you can add free Job listings on your page itself and describe the job roles clearly to your audience.
As of now, this feature is in test mode. We have to wait for a few more days to get this feature for our pages. To know how to use the feature, Workable is giving a small guide.
Looks like, Facebook is about to give a competition to LinkedIn.
What actually matters on Facebook – Likes?
But it seems, Facebook doesn't believe in likes anymore. From a tweet by Matt Navarra, Facebook is testing a feature removing the Likes count on the pages.
Though we don't what exactly makes Facebook trying this type of feature, but such test is going on for sure.
However, according to the general attitude of the public, a page with some thousand likes attract more users than that of a page with some ten likes. So let's see what Facebook will say on this development.
Well, as a marketer, you are leveraging the Facebook Live feature for your business promotions. And now, it's time to schedule your live streaming that gives more flexibility for your audience to watch your streaming.
Facebook is making changes to its Live API to enable you to schedule your streamings. This also includes a tool that sends reminders to your audience who are interested in your streaming. So that, they can't forget your show.
Once you schedule your live video, you can share the live streaming video link on your website or you can embed it on your blog. As of now, this feature is available to the verified pages only. And very soon, all the pages are going to have this feature.
These are the new features that are launched in test mode and are about to be launched. With these features, we are sure that social media marketing is about to plunge and your business would reach the new heights.
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SyFy aired the premiere for the new series "Nightflyers" last night. The series is based on a 1980 novella by George R.R. Martin. It is one of several stories set in what can be described as "The Thousand Worlds" universe. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the series show runner Jeff Buhler stated that the aim of Nightflyers is to "barrel headlong into those worlds, beginning with what he hopes is the first of multiple seasons inspired by Martin's dangerous storytelling sensibilities".
For trailers, and episode descriptions please visit the SyFy link below to the page for the new series. Can't wait for next week's episode! The cast was very happy to be at Comic Con 2018 (photo above from the press room).
This entry was posted in News and tagged Comic Con, David Ajala, Eoin Macken, Gretchen Mol, Nightflyers, SyFy on December 3, 2018 by admin.


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Q: Send data from 1st component to 2nd component Angular this is my 1st component
     @Component({
        selector: 'app-amount',
        template: `

Amount component

        <form #f = "ngForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit(f)">
         <input type="number" name="number" ngModel id="number">
         <button type='submit'>Add</button>
          </form>

{{item}}

Total: {{total}}

      `
    })
    export class Amount  {
      @Output () total = new EventEmitter<number>();
      @ViewChild('') submitForm: NgForm;
      numberArray = [];

      constructor(){

      }
      onSubmit(form: NgForm){
        const total = 0;
        this.numberArray.push(form.value.number);
        this.total = this.numberArray.reduce((prev: number, next: number)=>{
          //this.total.emit(prev + next);
          return prev + next;
        })
      }
    }

This is the 2nd component
    @Component({
     selector: 'app-total',
     template: `

Total component

     I want the Total value appear here. What is the best way to implment/get?

     `,
    styles: [`h1 { font-family: Lato; }`]
    })
   export class Total  {

     totalValue;
     total(number: number){
     this.totalValue = number;
   }
   }

I can get the Sum value of Input box from 1st component but cannot send it to 2nd component. I tried to use Output but it didn't work. Where am I wrong?
Here is my stackblitz link code
https://stackblitz.com/edit/get-value-from-other-component?file=app%2Ftotal.component.ts

A: The code is updated
https://stackblitz.com/edit/get-value-from-other-component-tsbko6?file=app%2Famount.component.ts
You were using the event emitter incorrectly. Secondly, in your app component you were not subscribing to the event and then you needed to pass that value as an input to the second component.

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Q: AndroidX causing AppCompatActivity to crash The application was running just fine until oll of a sudden this error got triggered somehow :

E/AndroidRuntime: at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:543)
    at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:136)
    at com.thorsguild.company..Activities.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:89)

I should mention that I just started using this library from GitHub which serve a group toggle buttonsand was about to test it
Q: What does this error means and how to fix it ??
UPDATE
Entire Stack trace
2019-05-31 12:04:14.216 14753-14753/com.hablo.company.hablo E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.hablo.company.hablo, PID: 14753
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.hablo.company.hablo/com.hablo.company.hablo.Activities.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #126: Binary XML file line #111: Error inflating class com.nex3z.togglebuttongroup.button.CircularButton
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2947)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3008)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap14(ActivityThread.java)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1650)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6688)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1468)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1358)
 Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #126: Binary XML file line #111: Error inflating class com.nex3z.togglebuttongroup.button.CircularButton
 Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #111: Error inflating class com.nex3z.togglebuttongroup.button.CircularButton
 Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.nex3z.togglebuttongroup.button.CircularButton" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/base.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_dependencies_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_0_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_1_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_2_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_3_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_4_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_5_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_6_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_7_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_8_apk.apk", zip file "/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/split_lib_slice_9_apk.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.hablo.company.hablo-1/lib/arm64, /system/lib64, /vendor/lib64]]
    at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:56)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:380)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createView(LayoutInflater.java:616)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:794)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.createViewFromTag(LayoutInflater.java:734)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:865)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:873)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:873)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:873)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.parseInclude(LayoutInflater.java:1011)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:861)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:873)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflateChildren(LayoutInflater.java:828)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:525)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:427)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:378)
2019-05-31 12:04:14.216 14753-14753/com.hablo.company.hablo E/AndroidRuntime:     at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:543)
    at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:136)
    at com.hablo.company.hablo.Activities.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:89)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6912)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1126)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2900)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3008)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap14(ActivityThread.java)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1650)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6688)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1468)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1358)

A: It looks like you have misread the class name. You are supposed to use CircularToggle but you are using CircularButton which is not there in library. You can check the sample usage mentioned on github which is as below
<com.nex3z.togglebuttongroup.button.CircularToggle
        android:id="@+id/choice_a"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="A"/>


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Isabelle Jagellon, dite la reine Isabelle, est née le  et morte le . Elle fut l'épouse de Jean Szapolyai (1487 - 1540), roi de Hongrie de 1526 à 1540, et la mère de Jean Sigismond Szapolyai (1540 - 1571), roi de Hongrie et prince de Transylvanie.

Famille
Isabelle Jagellon était le premier enfant du second mariage (consacré en 1518) de Sigismond  le Vieux, (1467-1548), roi de Pologne et grand-duc de Lituanie, et de Bona Sforza, fille de Jean Galéas Sforza, duc de Milan. Ses frères et sœurs furent Sigismond II Auguste (1520-1572), roi de Pologne, Sophie, duchesse de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Anna, épouse d'Étienne Bathory, co-roi de Pologne, et Catherine, épouse de Jean III de Suède. Elle a également une demi-sœur aînée issue du premier mariage de son père avec Barbara Zápolya : Hedwige Jagellon, électrice de Brandebourg.

Biographie
Le , elle épouse à Székesfehérvár le roi Jean  de Hongrie, qui après de nombreuses luttes avec Ferdinand  du Saint-Empire assoit ainsi sa légitimité. Mais deux ans plus tard, le  à Szeben, quinze jours après la naissance de leur fils Jean Sigismond Szapolyai, Jean  meurt, confiant la régence à son épouse et à son conseiller Giorgio Martinuzzi, dit le moine György.

Régence
En tant que régente on la surnomme plus couramment la reine Isabelle, compte tenu de sa forte personnalité et de sa ténacité à protéger la succession de Jean  et assurer la pérennité de la couronne de Hongrie pour son fils, contre l'armée turque de Soliman, contre l'ambitieux du Moine György, contre l'empereur Ferdinand .

Elle fait élire rapidement son fils Jean II roi de Hongrie par les partisans de Jean , et ce en dépit du traité de Nagyvárad avec le Saint-Empire, son tuteur étant dès lors Giorgio Martinuzzi, devenu cardinal. La cour s'installe à Buda, que Ferdinand s'empresse d'assiéger pour obtenir la suprématie totale sur la Hongrie. Le sultan Soliman reprend ses conquêtes et en 1542 contraint l'archiduc Ferdinand à signer un traité de paix : la Hongrie est partagée entre le sultan à l'est, Ferdinand à l'ouest et Jean II en Transylvanie, depuis Alba Iulia.

Mais des conflits naissent rapidement entre la reine et Martinuzzi : en 1549, pour des raisons militaires face aux turcs, le tuteur de Jean II signe la Convention de Nyirbator qui reconnaît la suzeraineté de Ferdinand  sur la Transylvanie, et ce à l'insu de la reine, qui elle travaille en silence à réunifier la contrée, qui prévoit la renonciation au trône de Hongrie de Jean II, moyennant une compensation financière et territoriale, et la reconnaissance de Ferdinand  comme seul souverain élu de Hongrie. La reine Isabelle dénonce le traité et réaffirme les droits de son fils, mais elle doit abdiquer le , et se retirer avec Jean-Sigismond en Silésie pendant que la diète de Cluj du  reconnaît Ferdinand  comme seul souverain. En échange, l'ex-régent Martinuzzi est nommé voïvode de Transylvanie et la reine Isabelle obtient le duché de Münsterberg.

Dernières années
En réaction à l'occupation de la Transylvanie par les Habsbourg, Soliman envahit à son tour cette Principauté dont la Diète rappelle en 1556 Jean II et sa mère, désormais seule tutrice, pour gouverner le pays sous suzeraineté nominale ottomane. La reine-mère passe ainsi ses dernières années de sa vie auprès de son fils.

Ascendance

Notes et références

Bibliographie
 Jean Bérenger avec préface de Sándor Csernus La Hongrie des Habsbourg: Tome I de 1526 à 1790. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes (2010)  401.

Souverain de Transylvanie
Duc de Münsterberg
Isabelle
Naissance en janvier 1519
Naissance à Cracovie
Décès en septembre 1559
Décès à Alba Iulia
Décès à 40 ans
Personnalité inhumée dans la cathédrale Saint-Michel d'Alba Iulia
Reine consort de Hongrie du XVIe siècle
Princesse polonaise du XVIe siècle


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"He thought that, unlike physical deseases, which sometimes can be also treated using the force, renouncing to a false religious belief cannot be imposed by using the iron hand. Even if the hands is burning incense, conscience will blame that hand, accusing the weakness of the body and maintaining the same certainty as before. The result is an empty appearance of change rather than a real conversion in opinions: then those denied their religion obtain the absolution and those sentenced to death are honored like gods".
"Pensava infatti che contrariamente a quanto avviene con la malattia fisica, che talvolta può essere curata anche con la forza, non è col ferro e col fuoco che si può imporre la rinuncia ad un falso credo religioso. Anche se la mano brucia incenso, la coscienza rimprovera quella mano, accusa le debolezze del corpo e continua ad avere le stesse convinzioni di prima. Il risultato che si ottiene è una vuota apparenza di cambiamento, non una conversione reale delle opinioni e in seguito succede che quelli che hanno abiurato ottengono il perdono e quelli messi a morte sono onorati come dei".
Some days ago, as usual, I went to the forest in the hills around my house to make the legnaticum.
I have made a long walk with my baculum (I left my car in the garage any time I can: I prefer to walk whenever I can): I went through the forest to pick dead branches the trees leave on the ground. With these branches I make some bundles I use during winter at home for my fireplace.
As usual, while walking inside the forest, my thoughts were directed to those Goddesses giving life to these so particular places. First of all Diana: then I invoked Marica in order to be able to make my legnaticum in harmony with the trees and the forest in that moment were hosting me (we are always guests in any sacred place) giving me the possibility to make the legnaticum.
Marica is "the Lady of the Forests", an Italic potnia (maybe with origins in Sabinia): she was very well-known and respected in the past in the countryside in Central Italy. This Goddess had a lucus near Minturno, but all the forests (in particular the moist and swampy forests) are sacred to Marica (mara = swamp). Marica moreover gives life to the wild plants and grass in the forests giving to these plants their peculiar properties.
Marica, sometimes also assimilated to Circe, symbolically gives life, support and help but in the sametime she can give Death: she transfers these characteristics to the wild plants. It is thus important for the Arvales to have a deep knowledge about Marica and the properties of the wild plants and herbs.
She is the sacralization of these places scarcely contaminated by the human presence. She is the Lady of the "Nobody's Land".
I have written this brief invocation, to be used before entering a forest, using contributions from Callimachus and the Orphic Hymn to Artemis.
Alcuni giorni fa mi sono recato nei boschi sulle colline intorno alla mia casa per fare il legnaticum.
Ho fatto una lunga camminata a piedi con il mio baculum (lascio la macchina e mi muovo a piedi ogni volta che posso): giro per i boschi raccogliendo i rami secchi che gli alberi lasciano cadere. Con questi faccio delle fascine per il camino con cui scaldo casa durante l'inverno.
Come sempre in questi casi, mentre mi inoltravo nel bosco, il mio pensiero è andato alle Dee che animano questi luoghi così particolari, in primo luogo Diana. Poi però ho voluto invocare Marica per poter procedere al legnaticum in armonia con tutti gli alberi e con il bosco che in quel momento mi ospitava (siamo sempre ospiti di un luogo) e che mi offriva il legnaticum.
Marica è una "Signora delle Selve", una potnia italica forse di origine sabina, molto conosciuta e rispettata nelle campagne dell'Italia Centrale. Il lucus della Dea Marica si trovava vicino a Minturno, ma tutti i boschi molto umidi e paludosi sono sacri a Marica (mara = palude). Marica inoltre vivifica molte erbe selvatiche che crescono nei boschi attribuendo a queste erbe le loro proprietà.
Marica è anche protettrice dei neonati.
Marica, identificata anche con Circe, è simbolicamente portatrice di vita e soccorritrice, ma anche portarice di morte: essa trasmette queste caratteristiche infatti a molte erbe selvatiche.
Rimane comunque la sacralizzazione di questi luoghi scarsamente contaminati dalla presenza umana, Signora delle "Terre di Nessuno".
Ho scritto questa invocazione a Marica, da utilizzare quando ci si inoltra nei boschi, usando contributi di Callimaco e l'Inno Orfico ad Artemide.
Gods and Goddesses are not personal entities subjected to a passional devotion aimed to achieve their favour and intervention. They are Entities of the Universe: they are components of the Universe as well as other entities through which the Universe appears to us.
"Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius"
"Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels of the work of one thing are procured and perfected"
This sentence clearly highlights the deep link bonding together everything within the great flow of the existence.
It means that a man or a woman undertaking the Via, thus becoming a Cultor or a Cultrix, becomes aware of this continuity and the presence of these interrelated contacts.
The invocatio (as theurgic expression of a prayer) is therefore the way through which we can develop and strengthen these contacts with the Divine dimension creating a continuity with the Deities. A Cultor or a Cultrix doesn't invoke a Deity demanding favours, but rather to creating a continuity between the Human and the Divine Dimension. Through the invocatio we awake inside our souls a quiet force in contact with the Divine one.A we can feel it.
The word invocatio is linked to the term Vox or the Thought (Mens) becoming expressed and embodied: the invocatio thus gives an expressed "shape" to the Thought.
For this reason the Traditional Roman Spirituality is a practice rather than a religion in profane terms. A real Cultor/Cultrix within their everyday life, even in the simplest actions, convey an invocatio because they have this awareness, this feeling: they are in a permanent contact with the Divine.
"Invoking means acting, acting means invoking"
The invocatio therefore confirms the right direction of the human acting by a Cultor/Cultrix. When we are in contact with our Gods and Goddesses, we can also "perceive" the Divine Help because the Human and Divine Dimension are integrated in harmony. We can call this also "Divine Providence".
Gli Dei e le Dee non sono entità personali oggetto di una devozione passionale cui si richiedono favori ed interventi. Sono entità dell'Universo allo stesso modo di tutte le altre entità in cui l'Universo stesso si manifesta e ci appare.
L'Universo si ritrova in tutte le cose: ciò che è in alto è uguale a ciò che è in basso, ciò che è piccolo è uguale a ciò che è grande. Questa affermazione illustra il profondo legame che tiene unite tutte le cose all'interno del Grande Flusso dell'Esistenza.
Ciò significa che l'uomo o la donna che si incamminano lungo la Via del Divino, divenendo pertanto un Cultor ed una Cultrix, diventano consapevoli di queste "continuità".
L'invocatio (forma teurgica della preghiera) è quindi il modo in cui possiamo stabilizzare e sviluppare questa continuità con il Divino. Il Cultor e la Cultrix non invocano una Divinità per chiederne i favori, ma per stabilire una continuità fra la dimensione umana e quella divina. Con l'invocatio risvegliamo in noi stessi una forza tranquilla che si collega, si incontra con quella divina.
La parola invocatio si collega al termine Vox ovvero la materializzazione ed espressione del pensiero (Mens): con una invocatio il pensiero prende quindi forma.
Per questo motivo la Spiritualità Tradizionale Romana è una pratica, più che una religione in senso comune e profano. Il vero Cultor e la vera Cultrix già con il loro agire quotidiano, anche nelle piccole cose, esprimono un'invocatio perchè in loro esiste questa consapevolezza, esiste questo contatto permanente con il Divino. Così si comprende anche perchè il Pontifex e la Pontifica sono letteralmente "coloro che aprono la Via".
"Invocare vuol dire agire, agire vuol dire invocare".
L'invocatio è quindi la conferma della giusta direzione dell'agire umano del Cultor/Cultrix. In questo modo, poichè ci sintonizziamo con gli Dei e le Dee, possiamo metaforicamente percepire l'aiuto delle Forze Divine, semplicemente per il fatto che le rispettive dimensioni (Umana e Divina) sono armonicamente integrate.


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