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Harry_Ba11sach
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Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: niteowl]
#486975 - 10/11/10 06:46 PM (11 years, 3 months ago)
niteowl said:
Yes, we produce green house gasses but....
What percentage of those gasses could be used by the plants near highways?
We don't know.
What percentage falls to the ground?
Don't know.
What percentage goes all the way to the stratosphere and is actually causing a problem?
ITS BULLSHIT FUCKING SCIENCE GUYS!!!!!
1) Yes we do. The answer is "not anywhere near as much as we're emitting."
2) Yes we do. This is very fucking easy to measure also, and a perfect example of what I mean when I say that you're speaking way out of your league.
3) Once again; yes, we do know. Additionally, it's not just CO2 in the stratosphere that causes the issue. I don't know where you heard that the stratosphere was the only important layer of the atmosphere, but it's a pretty laughable notion for you to even bring up.
The only bullshit science going on in this debate is uneducated people like yourself who blindly spout ignorant fallacies without any sort of legitimate reason to bring them up.
THEBats
The Bridge Master
What's your peer reviewed journal of choice? How much data have you gone through to reach this conclusion? Sleepless hours I assume.
Using an argument of peer pressure makes no argument against global warming itself. Going against Darwinian evolution is also academic suicide, that doesn't mean that the theory of evolution is any less valid.
You're starting to sound like Ben Stein, rather than scientifically debating the data you debate the circumstances under which the data is created.
kickin-two-hundo said:
you know what i did in english class? I came to class stoned out of my mind every day, i chugged vodka in the back of class, i put dead fish in the ceiling tiles. i put a gallon of old milk and orange juice in the file cabinet before winter vacation. i brought snakes in a tied up sweater and let them loose during class. i didnt go to school to learn, i went because i had to. i didnt care, and i didn't fucking listen to that stupid bitch. and i still don't fucking care. i tore the pages out of her books and burned them, and threw away all the books in the class, two books per day.
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: THEBats]
Stratosphere was probably the only layer he could name off the top of his head.
Another argument to present is that yes, plants are natural absorbers of CO2. However not only are we exceeding their capacity to absorb it but our continued deforestation is only making the situation worse.
I don't see what's so hard to understand. CO2 is a greenhouse gas which is normally recycled by plants to create sugars. We have not only in the last hundred years increased our CO2 output, but we have reduced the foliage necessary to recycle the CO2. Add onto the fact that a common way to clear jungle in the amazon for farms is by controlled burning it shouldn't be hard to see our continued methods are worsening our planets ability to recycle CO2, which increased concentrations cause warming.
Jungle doesn't just grow back you know.
DieCommie
Loc: West of the Wall
THEBats said:
Ha, thats funny because I remember debating evolution with him a few years back.
niteowl
GrandPaw
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: DieCommie]
For all the Global Warming Fundies Please watch this video by a guy that completely debunks the whole Global Warming Hoax. He exposes the lies and the corrupt 'science' that Al Gore used in his film An Inconvenient Truth.
The whole thing is a politically driven hoax.
Take the 1.5 hours of your day to watch this presentation. Since it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Global Warming Theory is a bold faced LIE
The Ego is a pathological conditionlike a calcareous tumor or cystthat begins growing in the personalityin the absence of hallucinogenic substances-Terence McKenna-
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: Harry_Ba11sach]
#487485 - 10/13/10 08:45 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)
Harry_Ba11sach said:
The whole Global Warming Scare is based on bullshit science.
Stats were pulled out of politicians asses
Glaring facts that disprove the theory were ignored
Time after time the politicians either ignored or changed the scientists information.
The video I posted is begging you to prove it wrong.
Although you wont be able to, I'm dying to hear your retort on it.
I'm a little hesitant to waste my time watching and rebuking that video because the last 10 "facts" from you that I've debunked have gone completely ignored. I'd appreciate if you'd take the time to respond to TheBats and Myself as we've taken for you. Otherwise this is less of a debate and more of us just talking to the internet for no reason. We've made some very legitimate points, and you seem to just completely skim over them and ignore that they exist because they don't fit in with your conspiracy-nut worldview
NizzyJones
Fight Evil with Funk
Loc: Somewhat North of Normal
Irrelevant: Al Gore is not a climatologist. If you'd like discuss actual science instead of popular film I'll take this seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome
Herbsman
Loc: Devils Marbles
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: NizzyJones]
Now tell me, why on earth would I trust the opinion of a Roman Catholic politician over someone who actually works in the field of science? Hell, any field of science would do, but this guy does not have a degree in anything remotely related to science. Not to mention his view on AIDS is as follows, ""There is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently."
Rather than posting videos which you think answer your questions for you, which they don't as there's plenty of faulty science in that video, why don't you debate us word for word? Rather than copy and paste, watch videos on the subject from people not qualified enough to teach high school science, why don't you make an attempt to express yourself in your own words, and debate our points made.
drawde
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: T-Rex]
Is anyone knowledgeable on those claims that the whole solar system is warming?
Is there sustenance to that?
King Koopa said:
The amount of pot that Gask smokes is equivalent to a guy shooting heroin on weekends
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: drawde]
The only evidence for that is the planet mars, and even then scientists link other factors for mars warming and don't detect an overall warming trend for the planet globally but rather a regional trend.
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: drawde] 1
drawde said:
That word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
SmOakland
Now with Grow!
Loc: Oaktown to NOLA
What is causing global warming if it is not human emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: SmOakland]
well it's actually a very complex equation involving Milankovitch cycles, Solar output variation, and alteration of global Albedo (from ice-recession, and land-use change). That said, we have a very good handle on exactly how much those other variables influence our climate (it's literally one of the oldest sciences in existence), both in historical trends, empirical data, and from climatological modeling. We can say with a very high degree of certainty that the rate of temperature change we're experiencing right now is considerably above the historical and predicted rates. Nearly every single climate model, no matter how complex, falls below our current rate of change until they factor in anthropogenic carbon emissions.
We can say with a very high degree of certainty that the rate of temperature change we're experiencing right now is considerably above the historical and predicted rates.
You need to check who did those 'tests'. Many were blown out of proportion.......
Such results add to the overwhelming evidence provided by other paleoclimate records that have shown, in their words, that "Holocene climate was punctuated by widespread cooling events, recurring every ~1500 ± 500 years (Bond et al., 1997; Bianchi and McCave, 1999; Broecker, 2000; Mayewski et al., 2004; Debret et al., 2007; Allen et al., 2007)." And since this periodicity suggests that the world was fully ripe for a recovery from the last of these coolings (i.e., the Little Ice Age), 20th-century global warming is seen to be neither unusual, unnatural nor unprecedented, which latter three adjectives are routinely - but very wrongly - used by climate alarmists to suggest that the most recent upward swing of this recurrent temperature cycle was caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. It was not. It was merely time for the earth to naturally recover from the coldest interval of the current interglacial period, which further suggests that a good deal of warming was only to be expected.
Virtually every study done on medieval climate (prior to the global warming scare ~1990-95) showed a much higher mean temp than they show now.
Nearly every single climate model, no matter how complex, falls below our current rate of change until they factor in anthropogenic carbon emissions.
Here is another article that flies in the face of global warming....
A recent article in the journal Science has provided a new, detailed climate record for the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), also know as the Medieval Warm Period. It was the most recent pre-industrial warm period, noted in Europe and elsewhere around the globe. The researchers present a 947-year-long multi-decadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) reconstruction and find a persistent positive NAO during the MCA. The interesting thing is that the MCA had basically been removed from the climate record by Michael Mann's infamous "hockey stick" history graph that was adopted by the IPCC a decade ago.
The bottom line? Once again the climate models used by the IPCC and other climate catastrophists are shown to be inaccurate, incomplete and not up to the job of predicting future climatic conditions. What does the IPCC have to say about all of this? Here is a quote from Paleoclimate, chapter 6 of the 2007 IPCC report:
"Palaeoclimate science has made significant advances since the 1970s, when a primary focus was on the origin of the ice ages, the possibility of an imminent future ice age, and the first explorations of the so-called Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period. Even in the first IPCC assessment (IPCC, 1990), many climatic variations prior to the instrumental record were not that well known or understood. Fifteen years later, understanding is much improved, more quantitative and better integrated with respect to observations and modelling."
Meaning all of the earlier IPCC predictions were wrong because they really didn't know what they were doing. Of course that didn't prevent them from predicting a coming climate catastrophe with great confidence. The thing that they don't tell us is that their current "improved" predictions, which are also based on computer models, simply can not be considered accurate either. If the Holocene truly marks the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age and a return to the conditions that prevailed during the Pliocene, parking your SUV and buying carbon credits won't do a thing to stop it.
and another......The `Hockey Stick': A New Low in Climate Science
In 1995, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 5-yearly report on climate change [10], in a blaze of publicity, which contained the now infamous phrase that there was "a discernible human influence on global climate".
In their previous 1990 report [33], the IPCC illustrated their, then, understanding of how global climate had changed, not just during the previous 95 years, but also the past 1,000 years. In so doing they presented this graph (Fig 1.) of temperature change since 900 AD.
Fig.1 - Global temperature since 900 AD
This graph asserts that temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period were higher than those of today (as suggested by the opening lines to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer), while it was much cooler during the Little Ice Age (as suggested by John King). Historical records from all over Europe, and Greenland attest to the reality of both events, and their profound impact on human society. For example, the colonisation of Greenland by the Vikings early in the millennium was only possible because of the medieval warmth. During the Little Ice Age, the Viking colonies in Greenland collapsed, while the River Thames in London often froze over, resulting in frequent `frost fairs' being held on the river ice.
The dating of these two climatic events depends to some extent on what one regards as `warm' and `cold' in comparison with present temperatures, but the following dating approximates these events -
1) `Medieval Warm Period' (AD 700 - 1300)
2) `Sporer Minimum' cool period (AD 1300 - 1500)
3) Brief climatic warming (AD 1500 - 1560)
4) `Little Ice Age' (`Maunder Minimum') (AD 1560 - 1830)
5) Brief warmer period (AD 1830 - 1870)
6) Brief cool period (AD 1870 - 1910)
7) 20th century warm period (AD 1910 - 2000)
As to what caused these two major climatic events, the most probable candidate is the variable sun, particularly with respect to the Little Ice Age. This is because we have direct observations of sunspot counts going back to 1600 AD, which allows us to compare variations in the sun with variations to global climate. Fig.2 shows how the sun has changed over time, the radiation being greatest during a sunspot maximum and least during a sunspot minimum, both recurring on an 11-year cycle.
Fig.2 - The Solar Cycle since 1600 AD
This account of climatic history contains two serious difficulties for the present global warming theory.
1) If the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today, with no greenhouse gas contribution, what would be so unusual about modern times being warm also?
2) If the variable sun caused both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, would not the stronger solar activity of the 20th century account for most, if not all, of the claimed 20th century warmth?
Both propositions posed a serious threat to continued public acceptance of the climate modeller's catastrophic view of future climate. This is because new findings in solar science suggested that the sun, not greenhouse gases, were the primary driver of 20th century climate trends.
Dr Michael Mann of the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts was the primary author of the GRL paper, and in one scientific coup overturned the whole of climate history [16].
Using tree rings as a basis for assessing past temperature changes back to the year 1,000 AD, supplemented by other proxies from more recent centuries, Mann completely redrew the history, turning the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age into non-events, consigned to a kind of Orwellian `memory hole' [22]. Fig.4 shows Mann's revision of the climatic history of the last millennium.
Fig.4 - The `Hockey Stick'
At that point, Mann completed the coup and crudely grafted the surface temperature record of the 20th century (shown in red and itself largely the product of urban heat islands) onto the pre-1900 tree ring record. The effect was visually dramatic as the 20th century was portrayed as a climate rocketing out of control. The red line extends all the way to 1998 (Mann's `warmest year of the millennium'), a year warmed by the big El Niño of that year. It should be noted that the surface record is completely at variance with the satellite temperature record [20]. Had the latter been used to represent the last 20 years, the effect would have been to make the 20th century much less significant when compared with earlier centuries.
As a piece of science and statistics it was seriously flawed as two data series representing such different variables as temperature and tree rings simply cannot be credibly grafted together into a single series.
In every other science when such a drastic revision of previously accepted knowledge is promulgated, there is considerable debate and initial scepticism, the new theory facing a gauntlet of criticism and intense review. Only if a new idea survives that process does it become broadly accepted by the scientific peer group and the public at large.
Now that I have provided you with evidence that the IPCC was toying with the numbers....will you please take the time to watch that video. He goes into far more detail on the hoax than I can.
fuck I had like 10 windows ...er tabs, open for that post, Im surprised my browser didn't crash
Edited by niteowl (10/13/10 10:12 PM)
kyuzo
Last seen: 9 years, 26 days
was any of that material even peer-reviewed?
DoctorDarkMatter
Re: Another example of why I don't believe the Global Warming Hoax [Re: kyuzo] 1
Earth has gone through many hot times. Back in the Renaissance time they had record heat waves just like we are having. The sun is having increased solar activity which is completely normal, if you research you will find that saturn, jupiter etc. Are actually heating up as well. So it is not just us, and the nwo and government are using this as an excuse that WE are causing this but this is false. The excuse gave the government the right to throw carbon taxes on us and many other taxes. And if really pay attention now they are saying(or have ben saying) That kids are adding to this. Gore pitched that humans are leaving a carbon foot print due to high child birth rates etc.
And if you look china has already put law on child birth. Chinese are only allowed to have one child per family, first where fined for having more, now they are being jailed for having more then 1 child per household. Eventually the sun will calm down and the heat will recede, this has nothing to do with humans. The arctic ice melting etc, it's caused by the sun heating the earth, not the earth trapping gasses. This is also giving them the excuse to spray chem. trails into the atmosphere.
Their flawed logic is spraying chemicals, aluminum's and metals into the atmosphere will help "reflect" the sun. They create a panic, and then provide a solution that they see fit. you have to understand carbon levels have ben high in the past, this is normal. Just because its happening now does not mean that we are the main cause.I do believe it is a hoax, its ben proven they paid off half the scientists who claimed global warming was happening to say it was happening.
NizzyJones said:
Sorry, substance*. Was stoned...
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Microsoft will prompt you to review your privacy settings if you have not installed the Windows 10 Creators Update, the company said on Friday (29 June).
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Breaking Down Gun Violence: No 'Simple Formula'
Tom Lynn
People attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Aug. 5 shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis., on Aug. 7.
In 1990, 78 percent of Americans supported tougher restrictions on gun sales, according to a Gallup poll. A decade later, that number fell to 44 percent.
Part of the reason has to do with how the debate has been framed: one between those who want to ban all guns and those who want to protect the right to own them.
The reality is far more complex. Private gun ownership is a fact of life in the U.S. The country tops the charts worldwide in terms of civilian gun ownership. A 2007 study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime [PDF] reported there were 270 million private firearms in the U.S.
The question is how to keep them away from people who perpetrate crimes like the recent shootings in Aurora, Colo., and in Oak Creek, Wis. That's the tricky part — partially because getting a gun in the U.S. can be fairly easy.
Purchasing Guns
At the Blue Ridge Arsenal in Virginia, sales rep Mark Warner says the process can take only about 25 minutes. You pick any gun, fill out a form and wait for approval.
"If you're a law-abiding citizen and you don't have a criminal record and the computer likes you in Richmond, you're done in 15-25 minutes," he says.
And that's if you buy it in a shop.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, says 40 percent of legally sold guns are sold without a background check. That 40 percent includes the guns sold at gun shows or through classified ads, where legal loopholes don't require background checks.
"Every day in our nation, 32 Americans are killed by guns," Gross says.
He argues that a few simple changes — tighter background checks, a ban on certain types of weapons — could all make the difference.
It's been done before. In the early 1990s, the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act, or the "Brady Bill," introduced background checks. Then-President Clinton signed it into law in 1993. From 1994 to 2004, the sale of assault weapons was banned.
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But is there a link between gun restrictions and fewer murders?
Paul Barrett, author of a book on the history of the famous Glock handgun, says the answer is no.
"Criminologists have studied it, and the consensus is that those laws simply did not have a statistically meaningful effect on crime rates," he tells Guy Raz, weekends on All Things Considered.
Barrett says making slight changes to existing laws won't bring down the homicide rate. The equation of "more guns equal more crime" just doesn't add up, he says.
"There's a relationship between the presence of guns and the lethality of crime, but there is not a cause-and-effect, simple formula that will solve crime problems by simply regulating, in slightly different ways, how easily you can acquire a gun," he says.
Gun-control advocates point to the shootings in Colorado and Milwaukee as justification for stricter laws. But Barrett argues that's not the nation's biggest gun issue.
"We fixate, understandably, on the aberrational mass-shooting events, but they're actually not our main social problem," he says. "Our main social problem is the overall gun homicide rate."
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Still, neither the overall homicide rate nor the recent atrocities have spurred real political action. Barrett says President Obama is probably just taking history into account and deciding that "it is not worth the political punishment to tinker with gun laws."
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Enzyme applications are increasing in popularity due to their efficiency, and the green processing they offer. Enzymes do, however, have several inherent problems which restrict their use, such as their solubility and instability in organic media or under harsh conditions. Enzyme stabilisation and immobilisation aims to attenuate such problems. Immobilisation allows supporting or confining the enzyme for the duration of the reaction. This leads to improved product purity, allows the enzyme to be reused, offers the option of continuous processing and can increase enzyme stability, therefore increasing potential applications and improving process efficiency. Many of the current approaches to enzyme immobilisation, however, suffer from several problems such as long preparation times, tedious multistep procedures and loss of enzyme activity during immobilisation. Furthermore, due to the materials and techniques involved, many immobilisation methods could not be classed as green. These drawbacks therefore restrict their industrial applications. One promising area of enzyme immobilisation appears to be through immobilising enzymes using silica produced via a bioinspired route. Such routes aim to mimic nature's approach to producing silica, and are favourable due to their simplicity, mild conditions, low cost and short preparation times. In this review, we detail various immobilisation techniques adopted, with example of lipases, and compare them with a recently developed bioinspired silica route for enzyme immobilisation. We hope that this comparison will enable us with a better understanding of this new method, as well as help identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Zheng S (2005) Effect of Pore Curvature and Surface Chemistry of Model Silica Hosts on Biocatalytic Activity if Immobilised Lipase. (Electronic Thesis or Dissertation). Accessed https://etd.ohiolink.edu/. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati.
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Earlier this month, I had the privilege of serving as the tour guide/educator on a ten-day Taglit-Birthright Israel trip. This was the first time I have served in this role; I hope it will be the first of many such opportunities.
As has been widely noted and acknowledged, Birthright is a phenomenally successful program. Begun 16 years ago as the bold initiative of a single American philanthropist, as of this summer the program has brought over half a million (!) young Jewish adults to Israel. For most participants, Birthright is the first time they have been to Israel; in many cases it is the first meaningful Jewish experience of their lives. Statistics have shown a marked uptick in connection to Israel and engagement with Jewish life among Birthright participants. I can personally attest to the lasting impact this trip has made on some young American Jews with whom my family and I are acquainted. Therefore, I considered it a great privilege to be able to lead such an encounter.
Interestingly, the group I was given for my first Birthright experience was far from typical. Although the participants in my trip met the ordinary eligibility requirements (they were Jewish, between the ages of 18-26, and had not been to Israel for more than three months since the age of 12 – in fact most had never been here at all), they did not match the profile of the average Birthright participant. This is because my group was a specially-organized "niche" trip geared towards the "ultra-Orthodox" population. It was comprised of nine married couples from the Hasidic communities of Brooklyn and Monsey, and another 22 single women, mostly graduates of "Bais Yaakov" high schools in New York and New Jersey.
The trip was an incredible, enlightening and uplifting experience for all.
Beyond this, though, the trip was a learning experience for everyone involved.
For the participants, this trip accomplished all the things that a "regular" Birthright trip does, and maybe more, starting with the fact that they got to see the land of Israel, in most cases for the first time. I don't know if I will ever forget the exhilaration I felt on the fourth day of the trip as we ascended to Jerusalem after several days in the north, singing "Im eshkachech Yerushalayim" ("If I forget you, O Jerusalem" – Psalms 137:5) as the bus slowly climbed the hills past Maaleh Adumim. For most of the participants, this was the first time in their lives they had entered the holy city. What a privilege to be able to facilitate that!
Although they have a much stronger background in Jewish studies than the typical Birthright participant, concepts such as Zionism, the Israeli government and army were very new to them. Of course it did not surprise me that, just like many Birthright groups, during the closing session a large number of participants listed Friday night prayers at the Western Wall as one of the most meaningful moments of their trip. But I was amazed that so many of them also mentioned the visits to the Har Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem and to Independence Hall in Tel Aviv. The group picture (above) taken spontaneously in front of a Merkava tank parked on a flatbed truck at the side of a road shows how significant this experience was for everyone.
But it wasn't only the participants who learned a lot on this trip. I (and some of my family who joined for Shabbat) learned just as much from them as well. Having lived in Monsey, NY before making Aliya, and having subsequently worked for many years in a haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem, I have had many opportunities to interact with haredim and Hasidim. Still, spending ten intense days together enabled me to get to know them and to experience their world in a deeper way than I have been able to previously do.
Seeing how they reacted to sites like Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's grave on Har Meron and Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel's at Amuka (especially for the young women; this site is considered a very auspicious location to pray for an appropriate shidduch) was eye-opening for me. Sitting down after dinner on Friday night with the entire group for an hour and a half of singing (I usually call things like that an "Oneg", but apparently it's called something like "butteh" in Yiddish) with refreshments purchased by the participants themselves was also amazing. The interactions among the participants from different communities, and the amount of respect, openness and genuine interest that they showed towards Jews from the National Religious and mesorati (Traditional) communities who they met during the trip was also very noteworthy.
In the end, perhaps the greatest lesson of this trip was that despite the unique religious and cultural demographic, ultimately this was a Birthright trip like any other.
According to the Birthright organization, the objective of the trip is "to ensure the future of the Jewish people by strengthening Jewish identity, Jewish communities and connection with Israel…to foster participants' understanding and identification with Israel, and…motivate young people to continue to explore their Jewish identity." I watched that miracle happen over a mere ten days with these 40 young adults, in pretty much exactly the same way it does for tens of thousands of others every year.
Maybe the biggest lesson of this is that despite our tendency to focus endlessly on the religious, ideological and political differences that divide us into a seemingly infinite amount of groups and sub-groups, we Jews are still one people, which so much more that should unite us and bring us together.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2015 by rabbihaber.


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The Protect Country Alliance is calling on the NT Gunner Government to take immediate action to better protect the Beetaloo's underground aquifers from the fracking industry.
Fifty days have now passed (as of April 7) since a scientific report was released proving the interconnectedness of the Beetaloo underground water network through the discovery of genetically similar crustaceans known as stygofauna. That report also confirmed the existence of corrosive bacteria that have the potential to eat through fracking infrastructure, thereby posing a contamination risk to the entire aquifer network.
"The Pepper inquiry said its 135 recommendations could not offer protection if Stygofauna were present in groundwater, so the government must revisit this issue as a matter of utmost importance," said Protect Country Alliance spokesperson Graeme Sawyer.
Mr Sawyer said the Gunner Government had also so far failed to uphold its 2020 election promise that it would finally implement all recommendations of the Pepper Inquiry.
"It appears the Gunner Government is failing Territorians by bending over backwards to the fracking companies and their lobbyists at APPEA," he said.
"We were told the full suite of Pepper Inquiry recommendations would be implemented, but the Gunner Government is yet to even explain to the community how it plans to do this.
"Instead, the Strategic Regional and Environmental Baseline Assessment (SREBA) and final risk assessment are being pushed aside.
"In fact, the government and its ministers have refused to meet with interested groups such as the Protect Country Alliance since the release of the stygofauna report, instead drawing down the shutters and pretending no one is home.
"Meanwhile, fracking companies are rolling out their drills across the heart of the Territory while a lacklustre, half completed regulatory system is in place.
"Land access laws are still vastly inadequate, with fracking companies able to run roughshod over pastoralists even if the landowner refuses to allow access to the industry. This poses an extreme threat to the Territory's billion dollar cattle industry.
"The Pepper Inquiry stressed the importance of transparency and accountability from the government, but Michael Gunner and his ministers are doing the exact opposite.
"The government's policy says its decisions are guided by the principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development and yet the current plans seem to be just another example of corporate greed being put ahead of long term public risk.
"We are in a time when the fracking industry is unravelling in the USA and has been banned in many jurisdictions. While governments the world over are scrambling to deal with leaking frack wells abandoned by bankrupt industry members, we are calling on the NT Government to explain how it is going to manage these risks at home. Territorians have a right to know. Their water supply and economic livelihoods are at stake."
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Judicial jousting emerges at Supreme Court of Canada
OTTAWA—This is what brawls look like on the top court bench.
Judges don't throw off their robes and come to blows. What they do — judicial jousting — is more subtle.
Split rulings. Lengthy dissenting opinions. Constitutional decisions that see judges split not only into two groups, but sometimes going three or four different ways.
Wary court watchers are now wondering if the Supreme Court of Canada is as divided or as polarized as the rest of us.
Since becoming prime minister in 2015, Justin Trudeau has named three new judges to the country's top court, and elevated Justice Richard Wagner to the post of Chief Justice.
In that time, the nine-member Supreme Court of Canada has turned into an unruly crew.
Outwardly, they are friendly, collegial and professional.
But a look at their rulings — as legal scholars and lawyers are increasingly pointing out — shows a judicial team "of equals" that is struggling to find its voice as Canada's top court.
When the latest rookie, Justice Nicholas Kasirer, was publicly sworn in on Nov. 4, Wagner quipped that the top court was unanimous on this point: the newest Quebec judge had already proven to be a "rare commodity" — "an academic with his feet firmly planted on the ground."
He said Kasirer is "a fantastic addition to this bench" who will undoubtedly "enrich" their work.
Here's hoping.
The high court has seen a lot of turnover in the past 15 years, including during Stephen Harper's time as prime minister. Its past leader, Beverley McLachlin, retired two years ago, as the country's longest-serving chief justice.
Now the most senior judge is Rosalie Abella, 73, appointed in 2004. All her other colleagues including Wagner, 62, were appointed to the top court well after that, starting in 2011 with Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis, judges from Ontario.
What is clear is the Wagner court, after two years, is proving to be very different than the McLachlin court.
Where McLachlin was extremely cautious about how the court — and its judges — should put their foot forward in public, Wagner has gone all in on public relations. He took the court on the road to Winnipeg for its first-ever sitting outside Ottawa, uses Twitter to highlight the court's work, publishes plain-language summaries of the court's rulings online, and has vowed a more open and transparent institutional approach.
Where McLachlin strove for consensus, clarity if not unanimity, and actively sought to minimize the number of times the court issued dissenting opinions, Wagner embraced dissent from the get-go.
And as the dissenting judgments began to pile up, he defended the practice.
Wagner told reporters in June he'd be concerned if "in every case we hear, any topics we hear, that the nine judges coming from nine backgrounds, coming from different provinces, languages, training would be unanimous on every decision.
"I would feel like some countries in Asia or East Europe or South America where they don't see a difference between politics and the judiciary."
It is, of course, too soon to assess the impact of Kasirer's arrival.
But by now, the others have started to find their groove, and it's not what you might have expected.
All that messy intellectual debate is spilling out into the open.
Harper appointees Suzanne Côté of Quebec and Russell Brown of Alberta often line up with Trudeau appointee Malcolm Rowe of Newfoundland and Labrador on big constitutional cases, very often in the minority, opposing a majority viewpoint, writing robust dissenting opinions that break down why their peers are dead wrong.
They're sometimes joined by Moldaver or others but often let rip on their own.
Côté, Brown and Rowe express a small-c conservative perspective on matters like the role of the court, judicial deference, and balancing individual rights and social goals, frequently showing more judicial restraint when it comes to tough cases, says Carissima Mathen, professor of law at University of Ottawa.
"I think it will be really interesting to see how they deal with the carbon tax," says Mathen. That hot-button issue comes up in the winter 2020 session.
At times, on the Wagner court, the disagreements among colleagues are delivered respectfully. At times, the respectful formalities are set aside, and the tone is downright sharp.
Lawyers and legal scholars, who first took a wait-and-see approach, have taken note.
The numbers tell a clear story of a court where certain judges flex their intellectual muscle, collegiality be damned, while others take a decidedly lower key approach.
University of Toronto's Jamie Cameron says under Wagner's leadership, the court saw a distinct rise of division in its decision-making in 2018.
In a paper titled "A Chief and Court in Transition: The Wagner Court and the Constitution," Cameron looked at the Wagner court's work in 2018, saying Côté, Brown and Rowe have emerged as forceful voices.
"Whether in a threesome, as a pair, or alone, Justices Côté, Brown and Rowe wrote 13 of the court's 19 minority opinions," she said. Measured by output, she says, "these judges formed a powerhouse of significant strategic, jurisprudential, and institutional strength and intensity."
And measured by their tone, she says, "the Côté-Brown-Rowe jurisprudence exposed significant differences of opinion within the court, and at times expressed flashes of attitude in doing so."
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Even so, it has led to disappointing results, Cameron writes. A long-awaited decision on the B.C. law society's denial of accreditation to Trinity Western University's proposed law school led to a 5-1-1-2 split on the court.
"In four sets of reasons, members of the court staked and defended strong positions but failed to engage with the concept of freedom in any meaningful way," she said.
"The court's longest constitutional decision in 2018 yielded scarce insight on freedom of religion, expression, or association."
Vanessa MacDonnell, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, took an in-depth look at the dissenting record of Côté, the first woman to be elevated to the top court directly from law practice, and found her rate of dissents is "very high, even by historical standards."
MacDonnell found Côté surpassed other well-known dissenters like Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé "the most frequent dissenter between 1982 and 2007," and former Justice Bertha Wilson.
"Justice Côté dissented in 32.2 per cent of cases and concurred (agreed with an outcome but for different reasons than other judges) in 4.1 per cent." The average rate of dissents between 1982 and 2007 was 16.8 per cent, she found.
Côté dissents not just on actual appeals but also — and more unusually — on applications to the court where litigants ask permission to be heard, said MacDonnell.
MacDonnell says even if you accept the general value of dissents, you could ask whether Côté's "persistent practice of dissenting could undermine important goals or aspects of the court's functioning. This includes eroding consensus where it might otherwise have been achieved with some additional work, or weakening the collegiality of the court through resistance to the conventions of the institution."
It's a concern Prof. Jamie Cameron flags as well, pointing to a 2018 pay equity ruling, written by Abella for the 6-3 majority that struck down a Quebec law as discriminatory.
The Côté-Brown-Rowe dissenting "analysis was rigorous but also dismissive of and condescending toward the majority opinion, variously describing Abella J.'s analysis as 'tainted,' 'wrong,' 'mistaken' and 'absurd.' "
Cameron accepts that judicial independence is a valued principle that tolerates judges' ability to express their own views and "to write reasons that are uncompromisingly her own."
But Cameron warns that raising the rhetorical temperature in a written opinion "does not necessarily or even usually improve the persuasiveness of its point of view," and when disagreements "are personalized" it cannot help but affect "collegial relations."
In other words, she's urging judges to keep it classy.
Lawyer Eugene Meehan says 2019 appears to have continued the trend of divided rulings, with Brown and Côté being the leading dissenters.
But Meehan, a former executive legal officer of the Supreme Court who works at an Ottawa firm called Supreme Advocacy LLP, is not bothered by it.
"When the law itself is on trial, one cannot reasonably expect unanimity," he said. Meehan says judges write dissents, not because they are lone wolves, but "because they demonstrably have a genuine desire to improve the law."
"The lone wolf image is not reality; what is reality is that part of the wolf pack votes with their paws to go in a different direction." And sometimes, that's where the law eventually goes, he said.
"If there's any place in our juridical world to write a strong dissent, it's the Supreme Court. Strong personalities, on strong principles, can strongly disagree. They are not nine versions of 'I, Robot'; they each bring their own different experiences and different personalities, and that's certainly a good thing."
For Meehan, what is more important is the way Wagner is allowing judges freer rein to write. He said, for example, former chief justice Antonio Lamer, also of Quebec, would not have permitted non-Quebec common law judges writing on Quebec law, and vice versa. Lamer worried it would be "too risky. They might get it wrong, and how would parts of Canada respond?" Meehan said. That's all changed, he said, adding Quebec judges are "are fully and completely national judges. National judges on a national court."
Two of the most senior judges are likely next to retire, barring unforeseen circumstances like Claude Gascon's battle with depression. Abella will be 74 in July, and Moldaver turns 72 on Dec. 23, not far from the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Their replacements will give Trudeau an opportunity to further shape the country's judicial and legal landscape.
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package oauth2

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"io/ioutil"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"
	"sync"

	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

// FileSystemRepository represents a mongodb repository
type FileSystemRepository struct {
	*InMemoryRepository
	sync.Mutex
}

// NewFileSystemRepository creates a mongo OAuth Server repo
func NewFileSystemRepository(dir string) (*FileSystemRepository, error) {
	repo := &FileSystemRepository{InMemoryRepository: NewInMemoryRepository()}

	// Grab json files from directory
	files, err := ioutil.ReadDir(dir)
	if nil != err {
		return nil, err
	}

	for _, f := range files {
		if strings.Contains(f.Name(), ".json") {
			filePath := filepath.Join(dir, f.Name())
			oauthServerRaw, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filePath)
			if err != nil {
				log.WithError(err).WithField("path", filePath).Error("Couldn't load the oauth server file")
				return nil, err
			}

			oauthServer := repo.parseOAuthServer(oauthServerRaw)
			if err = repo.Add(oauthServer); err != nil {
				log.WithError(err).Error("Can't add the definition to the repository")
				return nil, err
			}
		}
	}

	return repo, nil
}

func (r *FileSystemRepository) parseOAuthServer(oauthServerRaw []byte) *OAuth {
	oauthServer := new(OAuth)
	if err := json.Unmarshal(oauthServerRaw, oauthServer); err != nil {
		log.WithError(err).Error("[RPC] --> Couldn't unmarshal oauth server configuration")
	}

	return oauthServer
}

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In this 2016 file photo, Jian Ghomeshi arrives for his first day of court in Toronto.
Jian Ghomeshi, whose high-profile CBC career crashed to a halt after allegations of sexual misconduct became public in 2014, broke his long silence about the matter on Friday in a 3,500-word personal essay for the New York Review of Books. The piece includes much about the former radio host's feelings and reflections on the events before and after two court processes in 2016, but only a general apology for unspecified incidents while he was dating or attempting to date unnamed women.
Mr. Ghomeshi was found not guilty of charges laid after complaints by three women, including four counts of sexual assault and one of overcoming resistance by choking. A separate process, involving former CBC colleague Kathryn Borel, was resolved without trial when Mr. Ghomeshi apologized to Ms. Borel in court for "conduct in the workplace [that] was sexually inappropriate," and accepted a peace bond.
The piece opens with a sardonic reflection on how Mr. Ghomeshi used to speak daily to hundreds of thousands, and now performs publicly only in a neighbourhood New York karaoke bar. In between, he launched a podcast called the Ideation Project in April 2017, which ran to 13 episodes and has a note online promising a second series.
He reflects on the challenge of seeming to be contrite "without validating every crazy thing that is being said about you by people you've never met." He also writes of his feelings about "former media colleagues and friends who reported on my downfall with a zeal that was transparent in its efforts to display their own virtue, [though some said privately] 'What happened to you could have been me.'" Other friends, including women, assured him they would speak up for him, but were cowed by the media storm.
"Even if your lips are speaking words of contrition, your mind is a ferment of petty, selfish fury," he writes. Still, his downfall and its aftermath gave him "a crash course in empathy," he says.
Mr. Ghomeshi also criticizes his professional and personal milieu while he was flying high. "Everything around me seemed to condone the bullish way a successful single guy might act,' he writes. His dealings with others, he says, fell out of touch with his professed progressive beliefs.
The piece ends with a description of a chance encounter with a woman on a train in Europe, during which Mr. Ghomeshi resists the urge to promote himself with tales of his many celebrity interviews. Instead, he mostly listens to her – a choice that seems to imply the birth, or rebirth, of a sensitive, respectful Jian Ghomeshi.
It remains to be seen whether his lengthy De Profundis wins over any of his critics. It seems likely that some may see his essay as the work of a man who in important ways remains tone-deaf.
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Kid Rock is still Kid Rock — it's the culture that has changed since he hit the scene
Brian McCollum | Detroit Free Press
Activists denounce Kid Rock's tirade against Oprah
Civil rights activists applaud news that Kid Rock won't renew the licensing agreement for his Made in Detroit restaurant (Dec. 4)
Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2000 for his first cover appearance in the iconic music magazine, Kid Rock summed up his career mission:
"I'm not going to change all my s--- around because someone might take it the wrong way, because I might start a spark. I'm here to start sparks."
Nearly two decades later, has much changed? Not really. But then … oh yes, you better believe it.
The topic at hand in that Rolling Stone exchange was the prevalence of gay slurs in Kid Rock's early lyrics. It was one of countless contentious matters he would waltz through in the years ahead hoisting a defiant middle finger — and for which he was largely given a pass by the pop-culture establishment.
As Kid Rock approaches 50, recent events have shown he's still got that edgy behavior in him. But the reaction now is starkly different from those early years, back when mainline pop culture generally laughed off — and often laughed along with — the colorful rock 'n' roll guy with the raunchy raps, celebrity disses and trailer-park shtick.
In its own Kid Rock cover story in 2001, Spin magazine noted of his blossoming popularity that "just about everyone in the world seems to like Kid Rock."
For years, Kid Rock was a rabble-rouser operating in a world where the rabble weren't actually much roused. Flash forward, and the Michigan-bred star is one of the most polarizing figures in popular culture.
Whether you love or loathe Kid Rock, the recent uproar over his graphic rant about Oprah Winfrey tells us more about the state of culture than it does about the artist himself. In 2019, Kid Rock hasn't fundamentally changed. But the environment around him certainly has, dominated by deep political division and debate about the roles of tolerance and identity consciousness.
Amid last week's outrage and argument over Kid Rock, what you were really hearing was the grinding of fault lines as entertainment, celebrity and politics continue settling into an era of heightened sensitivity and tightening moral expectations. He's an old-school figure who awakened to find himself in the age of woke.
His latest confrontation with the new reality unfolded quickly after Thanksgiving: In a video obtained by TMZ, an apparently intoxicated Kid Rock was seen onstage at his Nashville restaurant, ranting about Winfrey in a sexually profane tirade. Days later, in a delicately worded statement, Ilitch Holdings announced that Rock won't be renewing the restaurant deal that has put his name front and center at Little Caesars Arena since 2017.
Amid outcry from a Detroit civil-rights group denouncing the Winfrey rant as racist and sexist, Rock shot back with an obscenity-laced response and a clear message: The homegrown rap-rocker was fed up with Detroit. Having once made the city an essential plank in his public identity, Kid Rock seemed to be waving bye-bye, and many here happily waved him along.
The TMZ video wasn't pretty. Kid Rock was boorish, offensive, over-the-top. He was in a hard-partying mode.
But that's the thing: Kid Rock's persona has been boorish, offensive, over-the-top and hard-partying from the start.
More: Kid Rock lets loose on Facebook after Detroit restaurant closure news
American society has shifted dramatically since Kid Rock's arrival in the '90s — the era of shock-jock radio, Marilyn Manson and masculine rap braggadocio.
In hip-hop and rock — Kid Rock's two primary musical sources — the latest generation of artists increasingly reflect the new standards. Much has been written about today's crop of hit rappers, figures like Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and J. Cole, who ply a socially conscious brand of work. In rock, the swagger and shock that marked the '90s has given way to juice-bar patrons like Greta Van Fleet and ongoing discourse about diversity.
But that wasn't the currency in play when Bob Ritchie, coming of age in the late '80s and '90s, shaped a sound and image that mixed streetwise flash with a trashy twist. "Devil Without a Cause" was released in 1998, and for the next several years, the album turned Kid Rock into a household name as it hummed along to 11 million copies sold.
In Detroit, recent hostility toward Kid Rock is invariably amplified by issues of race. For a long while, the kid from Romeo who called himself "Son of Detroit" was welcomed — rubbing shoulders with mayors and Motown stars, being introduced at concerts by Lions players, accepting honors from the local NAACP. Incidents such as the Winfrey rant, along with Rock's vocal embrace of Republican politicians, have stoked cynicism in the heavily African-American city.
Still, it's no leap of imagination to picture a young Kid Rock back in the day blustering across a club stage appearing out of his gourd, calling for some television icon to provide him oral sex. What's hard to imagine is that in 1999, or even 2009, it would have been national news.
More Kid Rock and Eminem controversy
Another recent furor, this one involving fellow Detroit star and onetime collaborator Eminem, reinforces just how much everything has shifted.
In a snippet of a never-released 2009 track that leaked online last month, Eminem is heard making light of Chris Brown's assault of Rihanna earlier that year: "Of course I side with Chris Brown," he raps. "I'd beat a bitch down too."
The unearthed verse spurred global headlines and widespread condemnation. The mass indignation wasn't surprising — but it also wasn't there 20 years ago, when the opening 60 seconds of Eminem's first hit song featured rhymes about impregnating Spice Girls and ripping off Pamela Lee's breasts.
That's not to say Kid Rock and Eminem didn't have their detractors in those days. But the heat then was isolated and less intense, typically coming from traditional-culture defenders — the ones who got parental-advisory stickers slapped onto albums — and progressive enclaves that probably felt they were shouting into the wind.
It's interesting to recall a time when backlash toward Kid Rock largely came from the right: In 2005, for instance, when rumors swirled he was booked to play George W. Bush's inauguration, the conservative American Family Association led the protests that got him booted from the bill.
That's why last week's brouhaha was telling. The same media and cultural establishment that once uplifted Kid Rock is now out to hang him for being the guy he always was.
Amid the clamor, it was left to one of Rock's biggest foes to raise that point. Activist Sam Riddle of the Michigan National Action Network, the Detroit civil-rights group that has spearheaded recent protests against the musician, singled out his true target of ire.
"The real deal here is not about Kid Rock," Riddle said Wednesday outside Little Caesars Arena. Gesturing at gathered reporters, he said the culprit is the media that has "normalized" him.
Matt Friedman of the Detroit public-relations firm Tanner Friedman says what we might be seeing with the Kid Rock flap are evolving expectations for celebrities.
When it comes to reputation, entertainers long benefited from the maxim that any publicity is good publicity. Kid Rock found success because of — not despite — his brand "as a rebellious figure who cuts against the grain," as Friedman puts it.
"We've held them to a really low standard, historically," says Friedman, whose specialties include crisis management. "That's what makes this case interesting: Are we now saying as a society that we're going to hold this celebrity to a higher standard, at least in his backyard? The fact that that question is being asked is interesting and new. Because I'm not sure there have been standards."
More: Kid Rock's LCA restaurant to close; decision follows controversial video
Has Kid Rock morphed over time? In some ways, sure. His sound has moved in new directions — from that early Beastie-Boys-meet-Van-Halen mishmash into something more country-rock. Over time, the pimp-of-the-nation character gave way to the buccaneering redneck-rock-'n'-roller he's best known as now. In recent years, he's made Nashville his primary home, with close pals like Hank Williams Jr.
And unlike his early stage — when Rock was vaguely right-leaning, but not explicitly partisan — he's become increasingly outspoken about politics, most notably in his embrace of President Donald Trump.
Indeed, many close to Rock argue that when it comes down to it, that's all you need to know about the broadside he's now encountering.
"That's when all this started — when he took a public political stance," says John Stone, a Nashville musician and longtime friend of Rock. "They know Kid Rock has been an outspoken supporter of Trump, and they're going to get him any way they can."
For his part, Kid Rock hasn't taken it lying down. In Trumpian fashion, he has parlayed the backlash into a badge of honor — the guy fighting back forces determined to take him out, political correctness be damned. Even as the culture shifts, he's found a way to get something out of it.
But the loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed character in last week's TMZ video — was that really some new, off-the-rails, game-changing version of Kid Rock? The guy who once cranked out indie releases like "Balls in Your Mouth"? Who went on to introduce himself on MTV as "Pimp of the Nation"? Who rapped about feeling up female airline attendants?
And who nevertheless was swept to fame, riches and establishment approval?
In other words, from Kid Rock's point of view, he long ago got the green light to be Kid Rock.
Perhaps his consistency shouldn't be a surprise. In a hit song from his 2001 album "Cocky" — which harmlessly name-checked Oprah, for what it's worth — Rock declared he was going to be himself for the long haul.
"I'll forever be the Kid Rock," he rapped. "Forever!"
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.


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Written by Fred Swan
The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's great Inland Valley, also known as the Central Valley. San Joaquin Valley includes all or part of eight counties: San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Fresno, Madera, Kings, Tulare, and Kern. At roughly 25,900 square km (10,000 square miles), the valley floor is larger than the entire state of Maryland. The valley includes vast tracts of flat land that is arable when supported by irrigation.
The San Joaquin River runs southwest, down from the eastern mountains and into the valley. When the river hits the center of the valley, it turns northwest, eventually emptying into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which connects to the greater San Francisco Bay complex. This river, along with the Kings and Kern Rivers, provide water which serves the valley's massive agricultural industry.
Physical Wineries
Total Plantings
Acreage Under Vine (Acres)
Crush (Tons)
Acreage Under Vine (Hectares)
34,4736,000
Crush (Liters)
Key Varieties
Chardonnay 14%, Zinfandel 14%, Cabernet Sauvignon 11%, French Colombard 10%, Merlot 8%, Rubired 6%, Pinot Gris 5%
Hot-summer Mediterranean in the north; Desert in the south
Key Soil Types
Tokay Sandy Loam - Mokelumne River AVA; Redding Clay - Borden Ranch, Clements Hills; San Joaquin Series
Local Terroir
Signature Varieties
The massive San Joaquin Valley accounts for the southern half of California's great Inland Valley. It is bounded on the east by the Sierra Nevada mountains, the Tehachapi Mountains to the south, and by coastal mountain ranges on the west. The northern end abuts the Sacramento Valley.
The San Joaquin Valley covers almost the same amount of land surface as its northern neighbor, but the two valleys differ in significant ways. Most importantly, the southerly location of the San Joaquin Valley and its greater isolation from the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay complex contribute to a hotter, drier climate.
Unlike the Sacramento Valley which is dominated by one river that runs throughout, the San Joaquin Valley can be seen as having a northern and southern half. The north features the San Joaquin River which heads west, downhill from the Sierra Nevada Range, then turns north on the valley floor to reach the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The southern portion features two different rivers, Kings and Kern, but they don't leave the valley. Their waters are managed in order to provide water for the valley's agriculture and southern towns.
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Q: Unity 5.1.1 skips "Input.GetKeyDown" line sometimes I use Unity 5.1.1 on a Win 64 bit machine, more than capable to run what i'm creating of games. In the making of a 2D sidescroller, i found my character sometimes doesn't jump when prompted. Here is the code:
public float speed;
public float MomentAcc;
private float moveVertical;

private float score;
private float scoreP;

public GameObject wallRight;
public GUIText scoreText;
public bool touching;

void Start() {
    MomentAcc = 10;
    score = 0;

}

    //Jump limiter
    void OnCollisionStay2D() {

    touching = true;
}

    void OnCollisionExit2D() {

    touching = false;
}

    void Update() {

    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && touching == true || Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch (0).phase == TouchPhase.Began && touching == true) {

        moveVertical = 29;

    } else {

        moveVertical = 0;

    }

}

    void FixedUpdate () {

        scoreP = GameObject.Find ("Ball").GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().position.x + 11;

        if(scoreP > score) {

        score = score + 10;

        }

            UpdateScore ();

                if(GetComponent<Death>().startGame == true) {

            float moveHorizontal = 5;

            Vector2 forward = new Vector2 (moveHorizontal, 0);
            Vector2 jump    = new Vector2 (0, moveVertical);

            //Maxspeed limit

            GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().AddForce (moveVertical * jump);

            speed = moveHorizontal * MomentAcc * Time.deltaTime * 5;

                if (GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().velocity.x < 7.000000) {

                GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().AddForce (Vector2.right * speed);

                    if(GameObject.Find ("wallRight").GetComponent<wallRightScript>().wallJumpRight == true) {

                    GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().AddForce (new Vector2 (-420, 300));

                    }

                    if(GameObject.Find ("wallLeft").GetComponent<wallLeftScript>().wallJumpLeft == true) {

                        GetComponent<Rigidbody2D> ().AddForce (new Vector2(420, 150));

                    }

                }

        }
    }

    void UpdateScore() {

        scoreText.text = "Score: " + (score );

    }

}
(Sidenote: wallLeft/wallRight are for walljumping)

A: Here is your problem!
you are using Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && touching == true in this case your jump is dependent on touching variable which can be false at the time when you press the "W" key. You are using rigidbody you cannot expect it to always colliding with ground when it is being dragged in horizontal. So you may need to change your implementation for ground check.
This Tutorial is good for learning about 2D character.
And one more advice! try to store reference of objects/components in some variables to access them easily. Using GetComponent<>/GameObject.Find() in Update()/FixedUpdate() is not efficient so not a good practice.

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Entrepreneurship of the era of subversion
Who says women can only stay behind every successful man?Look at these outstanding women entrepreneurs, and you will understand that there is no distinction between gender and merit.
The story of Coco Chanel and her legendary stories, even after more than three decades of death, have been captured by brand Coco Chanel and her legendary extravagant style.The success of Chanel marked the active participation of women in the 20th century, not only from family life, but also to men.(Extended reading: [Buye-looking] imitating a climate, a cheap startup, and a male dominated: Is Berlin's entrepreneurial culture supposed to be an imitation of the United States?)
Coco: " A woman without perfume is not in the future!" (Une femme sans parfum n' a pas d' avenir)
Coco Chanel | Source
the women of the new century look back and see the ancient Chinese marketplace where men dominate, and there are no signs of women's hard work.The Ch'in dynasty's "Qing dynasty" was perhaps the first woman to have written in history. In the face of a widow, she inherited the family's vermilion and sand, and eventually developed into a great wealth of Shu, and even suffered from the gift of Qin's emperor.
woman's widow was sung, she was the first woman from the business of ancient times, considering that she even used the wealth to form a local force to rival the princes, and that she was probably not a vanity by calling her "a great gift of honor and fame."However, readers may have doubts: Since it is a family business, there is certainly nothing to do with entrepreneurship, and there are not too many risks of risk.To put it more directly, the second generation of entrepreneurs seems to have more than just a little distance from the hands of the white hand.The army of the terracotta warriors and the widows of the Qin Dynasty may also be able to contract the source of cinnabar required for the tomb.
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, of course, one of the characteristics of ancient women businessmen. In most cases, women who widowed inherit their husbands' careers, and inevitably made their success more subordinate to men's shadow.However, attentive readers think that, as Chanel's early years were funded by É tienne Balsan or Arthur Capel ", women entrepreneurs still need to rely on their ability and diligence to find a place in a fast-changing shopping mall.
The story of the Shanghai area about Huang Dao-po may be a good example.As a legendary figure in the late Song dynasty, Huang was believed to have acquired the technology of weaving the weaving, and brought it to Shanghai to make a major difference in the cotton industry in the Yangtze River Delta.The Southern Sung and the "Ou" can not forget that women have always been the main force in the textile industry.(Extended Read: Old fashions!The Black Cat of a Shirt for a lifetime: The clothes are the same as the others, and it is not reasonable to do so )
Women who have successfully pioneered their career by virtue of their professional abilities are very few.Although her technique was inherited from her husband, she was told that she only needed to touch stones on top of her feet, and that she knew that quality was good, and that she could be called "stone-stone".
However, the traditional business history of being dominated by men and written by men is somewhat hostile and doubtful about the attitude of women entrepreneurs.This may also explain why the successful women, under male literati, occasionally have a mercient, or even a strange, element of the spirit.In the Tang dynasty, one of the Panamons, who was rich in a restaurant, was portrayed as a black-hearted businessman using an evil technique. She used a banshee method to make a burro, and then turned into a donkey. She could take the belongings of the guests and then sell them as guests of the donkey.
Tao Huang-ying, a female of the Qing dynasty, relied on superb techniques to get a full victory in the Chrysanthemum aquaculture industry, but she was actually a Chrysanthemum.Of course, readers don't have to believe that these stories are true, but they also reflect some of the doubts about women businessmen at the time, and thus verify that these women's achievements are not easy, and that they are very rare.
, women's entrepreneurial opportunity has already surpassed Chanel in the West. In modern China, Zhang Youyi (the first wife of Xu Zhimo) founded the women's commercial bank. Later, Wu Shun-wen inherited her husband's vast industry, and created Yue Loong's car kingdom. Another Zhang Lan, who was in Beijing, established an unparalleled eating empire.
women come from different backgrounds and face different challenges, but return to the most primitive nature. The passion, innovation, adventure and profession seem to be the common characteristics of women who have come to business this time. Looking back on the tracks of the past and the new generation of entrepreneurial women, are they ready to go to success?(Sibling: The learn failure is successful!to see the stories of six successful women )
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Q: GCP - Compute Instance running active directory DNS config and sometimes failure on client startup I maintain an infrastructure with 2 Domain Controllers (DC) and other servers for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) infrastructure.
The 2 DC run also DNS server for local AD domain, so on the other servers I will use the DC IP as DNS Server Address.
In the RDS infrastructure there are some Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) that overnight are turned off.
Sometimes a random server fail at startup, in the event viewer I can't find specific error, but all event show a network error, more specifically a DNS error, for example:

Log Name:      System
  Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service
  Date:          19/02/2019 08:20:52
  Event ID:      134
  Task Category: None
  Level:         Warning
  Keywords:
  User:          LOCAL SERVICE
  Description:
  NtpClient was unable to set a manual peer to use as a time source because of DNS resolution error on '"metadata.google.internal,0x1'"'. NtpClient will try again in 15 minutes and double the reattempt interval thereafter. The error was: No such host is known. (0x80072AF9)

Or in the application event

Log Name:      Application
  Source:        GCEMetadataScripts
  Date:          19/02/2019 08:20:51
  Event ID:      2
  Task Category: None
  Level:         Error
  Keywords:      Classic
  User:          N/A
  Description:
  ERROR: 2019/02/19 08:20:51.435448 main.go:258: GCEMetadataScripts: ERROR main.go:258: error connecting to metadata server, retrying in 3s, error: Get http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/?recursive=true&alt=json&timeout_sec=10&last_etag=NONE: dial tcp: lookup metadata.google.internal: getaddrinfow: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found.

So I think that mi machine can't resolve internal google domains using MS DNS.
Is there a way to manually configure google internal DNS in the instance? What are IP addresses of Google Internal DNS?
Thank you all.
Davide.


After the second game in the Los Angeles Angels' series against the Washington Nationals (which also features the battle of Bryce Harper and Mike Trout, the best pair of position players the league has ever seen at the same time), Albert Pujols became the third-youngest player to reach 500 home runs in his career when he hit his second of the evening. It was a good return to form for Pujols, who didn't manage to crack 100 games last year owing to a handful of nagging injuries. The Angels won that game, 7-2. Pujols had 5 RBIs (runs batted in).
But where does this accomplishment move him on the all time home run leaderboard? Currently, Pujols is the twenty-sixth player to ever reach 500 hits, which slides him a little bit in front of Lou Gherig (493), but Albert is also still playing, and he's only facing down one other active player in the top twenty-five — and that's Alex Rodriguez. How far can he go over the rest of the season?
Over his last three mostly-healthy seasons, Pujols has averaged about 36 home runs a year. His pair of homers last night brought his season total to 8 already, in 20 games, and the two-time World Series Champion looks better than he has in a little while. Assuming he hits about as well as he has been over the last few years, here are the eight players that could feasibly be moved down the ladder by Albert's 2014 homers.
Steady Eddie won a World Series with the Baltimore Orioles, was an eight-time All-Star, won three Golden Gloves and three Silver Sluggers (his last, in 1990, coming a solid thirteen years after he was drafted) all on his way to a retired number with the Baltimore club and a 2003 admittance to the Hall of Fame. Not a bad chest of accolades to accrue over a career that spanned two decades — Murray retired in 1997.
First things first: Gary Sheffield is the nephew of Dwight Gooden. That's a fun fact. Here's another fun fact: He works as an agent now. So there's two things to Gary Sheffield beyond his play in the Major Leagues. After beginning his pro-baseball career in 1988, Sheffield would embark on an eight team journey, eventually playing for the Brewers, the Padres, the Marlins, the Dodgers, the Braves, the Yankees, and the Tigers on his way to a one year stop with the New York Mets before retiring in 2009.
Along his way, Sheffield would hit a whole bunch of home runs — peaking with 43 in 2000 as a member of the LA Dodgers and careening as low as 2 during his 1991 campaign with the Brewers — and parlay his play into nine All-Star appearances, five Silver Slugger awards, and a 1997 World Series victory with the Florida Marlins (now the Miami Marlins). Sheffield was named in the Mitchell Report as one of the MLB players who had taken steroids, although he has never admitted to PED use in public. Here's some Hi-Def highlights from his time with the Yankees in 2004, a season that saw him add 36 homers to his eventual total.
Master Melvin, who was the first National League player to break 500 home runs, played from 1926 until 1947 as a member of the New York Giants, recording twelve straight years as an All-Star, winning a World Series in 1933, and having his number, 4, retired by the franchise. He is also immortalized in a statue located in his home town of Gretna, Louisiana.
To put his career into some perspective, he was able to enter the MLB directly at the age of 16, whereupon it is certain that he ate many hot dogs and provided vast swaths of entertainment to the fans that sorely needed it (Ott played through the entirety of World War II as well as The Great Depression). And, because baseball is often more entertaining to watch than it is to read, here's some footage of Ott hitting one of his 511 home runs.
Ernie Banks, who you can see enshrined outside Wrigley Field, was a Chicago Cub for his entire career. It should go without saying, then, that he never won a World Series. He did, however, accomplish almost everything else a hitter in the MLB could ask for, garnering fourteen All-Star Nods, leading the National League in home runs (and RBIs) twice between 1958 and 1960, and grabbing a pair of National League MVP awards over that same stretch. After serving in the Army for the Korean war, Banks also briefly played hoops for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Eddie Matthews, who made the Hall of Fame in 1978 after playing for the Braves as they moved from Boston to Milwaukee and then to Atlanta — the only player to play for the franchise in each city — as well as the Houston Astros and the Detroit Tigers, is similarly decorated. A two-time World Series Champion (in '57 and '68), as well as a twelve-time All-Star, Matthews was noted for his swing. You can check it out below, in another one-minute Hall of Fame biography on YouTube.
And, at last, here are the three final players that Pujols can be expected to threaten for the rest of the 2014 season. Since Pujols has averaged about 36 home runs a season over the last few years, and he's already hit 8, the safe money is on him finishing up the year with about 525 homers to his name. In order to keep going up the ladder again, Albert would need to finish the year with at least 42 home runs, which is possible (he did it as recently as 2010), but not all that likely.
Ted Williams, his likeness pictured above, needs little introduction. A life-long Red Sox player, Williams won six batting titles, was a nineteen-time All-Star, a four-time AL home run champion, and a four-time RBI champion. Designated hitter Frank Thomas, who played for the Chicago White Sox, the Oakland A's, and the Toronto Blue Jays, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014. And Willie McCovey, who played for the New York/San Francisco Giants, owns the record for home runs hit at Candlestick Park, with 231.


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South Plains area hospitals devoted plenty of time and care into giving back to the community in 2018 - as they do every year - both in Lubbock and other areas in the region.
Covenant Health System and University Medical Center aim to give quality care to citizens year-round, but time dedicated toward volunteer programs by employees is also something administrators and staff at the hospitals work hard to accomplish.
Last year, caregivers from Covenant Health System, including locations in Plainview and Levelland, dedicated 1,180 hours to volunteering.
"In 2018, we specifically worked really hard to get caregivers out in the community," said Tavia Hatfield, regional director of community outreach for Covenant Health System. "That's one thing I'm the most proud of with the Covenant employees - my department gets calls a lot from employees and managers saying, 'Where can we volunteer?'"
Employees with Covenant volunteered with several organizations such as the Ronald McDonald House, South Plains Food Bank, Open Door, Haven Animal Care Shelter, Legacy Play Village, Keep Lubbock Beautiful, Covenant Community Day, Hale County Meals on Wheels, Plainview Clean Up and Levelland Clean up.
"I'm really proud of our caregivers," said Hatfield. "Sometimes people feel like they have to volunteer, but here it doesn't feel like that. I think it's because there's so much encouragement by leadership."
University Medical Center's volunteer efforts are also impactful across the community. UMC's efforts have included sponsoring Brown Elementary, through the Partners in Education program, since 2008. Since that time UMC has done numerous activities and provided support in different ways based on what the school identifies as needs.
"In addition to providing school supplies yearly, we provide food bags to the students, so they have meals outside of school," reads a UMC news release ahead of their donation event for Brown Elementary in August 2018. " UMC also puts on a staff appreciation dinner for Brown Elementary staff each year."
In 2018, UMC employees donated school supplies needed by students at Brown Elementary School. UMC Legal and Compliance and UMC EMS delivered the school supplies to the school at the beginning of the school year.
UMC got a list of school supplies needed from Brown Elementary and put the list of school supplies requested out for employees to see. Employees then donated items to be delivered.


Two women, two very different lives. In We Are All That's Left by Carrie Arcos, the complications of familial relationships and the brutality of war are all explored with gripping characters and a heartbreaking story of recovery and family. Telling the story of Zara and her mother in both the past and present, Arcos takes readers on a journey through time, detailing the struggles of war, the pain of loss, and the hope that can be found in the darkest of times.
Zara and her mother simply don't understand one another. Zara wants her mother to accept her passion, and she wants to understand the events of her mother's youth that left her scared and damaged. But when Zara's family is put in harm's way and almost everything feels lost, Zara meets Joseph, a boy who might just help her broken heart heal. While trying to understand her mom's past and still grappling with her own suffering, she struggles to move on and to come to terms with her relationship with her mother, messy aspects and all. Arcos allows readers into Zara's family and into the suffering and brutality of the Bosnian War. Both painful and moving, We Are All That's Left celebrates family and comments on the struggles of adolescence and the fallout of violence. With a complex and historical plot, We Are All That's Left brings history to life, as well as the lives of Zara and her mother, two broken and completely relatable women who are impossible to forget.
We Are All That's Left is a book that will always have a piece of my heart. This book made me laugh, kept me up all night reading, and caused me to cry in public. It is that good. Acros delves into the more serious topic of war and develops characters and a plot that feels so real you almost forget she is writing fiction. YA fiction can tend to only tackle tough topics, such as bullying and suicide, but Arcos takes the genre in a new direction, writing about war. This novel challenged me and brought to my attention where YA fiction needs to go. While her previous releases were very well-written and enjoyable, this is by far her best work. Arcos gives young adults the chance to experience history they may not be familiar with while tackling relatable topics that are certain to resonate. In short, We Are All That's Left is beautiful and has to be read.
Zara is still recovering, only finding solace in her photography and in her new friend, Joseph. But while her world is falling apart, Zara might just find a way to put it back together again. We Are All That's Left is a must-read novel that brings to light the horror of the Bosnian War and the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, ultimately speaking to the hope that can always be found.


How can your business benefit from using deli spear tags to promote a variety of food items, cheaply? These delicatessen badges are made of write-on plastic for advertising prices and types of fresh fish, meats, cheeses, and pre-made salads in a glass showcase. These deli spear tags for a grocery store are available in an assortment of designs to suit all types of edible merchandise. The injection-molded food badges are sturdy enough not to flop over in a bed of ice when showcasing the per-pound price of shellfish under a display counter. These deli spear tags, also known as plastic price signs, are a no-hassle way to present a variety of baked goods from muffins to chocolate chip cookies. Each of these quality sign holders for advertising the price of meat can be purchased in sets of 24 or 50 at bulk rates to save money! These deli spear tags, display picks, have a white shiny surface that can be written on with dry-erase markers and reused. These food signs for a delicatessen provide information about items in a grocery store cabinet, saving staff from having to answer questions, so they can focus on serving.
What types of inventory are these commercial price picks best suited to advertise?
The deli spear tags comes in a variety of configurations for myriad types of advertisements for edibles, and because sign picks are re-usable, companies save money!
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