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Home Arts Orchestra 'family' faces the music once more
Daniel Manley (centre), pictured with the Highlands Chamber Orchestra, is part of a group which wants to build a new multimillion dollar arts centre in Haliburton. File photo.
Orchestra 'family' faces the music once more
Sam Gillett
The Highlands Chamber Orchestra is marking its 10th anniversary with a live performance after more than two years off stage.
The orchestra's 'Welcome Back Performance' will feature compositions from James Bond, The Lord of the Rings, Superman and other beloved musical universes. More than 40 violinists, trombonists, trumpeters and more will perform at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion Nov. 26.
"It's been a long time in the making," said conductor Dan Manley.
He said the music was chosen both to suit the orchestra's strengths and challenge certain sections and instruments. It was "a pretty emotional moment," Manley said, when the orchestra reunited for practices last year after COVID-19 restrictions halted group gatherings.
"We considered potentially putting on a show last spring, but there were just too many unknowns." The ensemble was formed in 2012 after a trial run performing with the Highlands Wind Symphony.
"We thought 'hey, this seems so much fun and so promising'," said Manley, who was playing tuba at the time. After Glen Carter stepped down as conductor, Manley picked up the baton. "I thought I'd love to do this. And 10 years later, here we are." Throughout the years, practices and performances tightened the group's bond.
"There's quite a family that's made… seeing each other every Friday and putting on these concerts. It's very rewarding." Now, the orchestra is able to share its music with the Highlands. Manley said that's one of the highlights of being part of it. "It's that musical rush that you experience in an orchestra," he said.
"It's so different than playing in a small group." The Highlands Chamber Orchestra plays at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion in Haliburton. Tickets are available at Russell Red Records in Haliburton, or by calling 705- 286-0413.
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#include "llvm/ADT/None.h"
#include "llvm/Support/Casting.h"
#include "llvm/Support/raw_ostream.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Func/IR/FuncOps.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/Attributes.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/Builders.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinAttributes.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/MLIRContext.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/Operation.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/IR/PatternMatch.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/Pass/Pass.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/Transforms/DialectConversion.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "mlir/Transforms/GreedyPatternRewriteDriver.h"  // from @llvm-project
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/lite/ir/tfl_ops.h"
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/lite/transforms/passes.h"
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/lite/utils/variables_utils.h"
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/tensorflow/ir/tf_ops.h"
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/tensorflow/ir/tf_ops_n_z.h"
#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/tensorflow/ir/tf_saved_model.h"

namespace mlir {
namespace TFL {
namespace {
// Attribute name to identify whether variables should be legalized to TFLite or
// not.
const char kLegalizeTflVariables[] = "tfl._legalize_tfl_variables";

bool HasSupportedElementType(Operation* op) {
  return utils::IsSupportedVariableType(op);
}

bool IsSupportedElementType(ShapedType type) {
  return utils::IsSupportedVariableType(type);
}

#include "tensorflow/compiler/mlir/lite/transforms/generated_legalize_variables.inc"

// Pass which legalizes TF variables which are already passed as bounded
// arguments to functions, to TFLite variables.
class LegalizeVariables
    : public PassWrapper<LegalizeVariables, OperationPass<ModuleOp>> {
 public:
  MLIR_DEFINE_EXPLICIT_INTERNAL_INLINE_TYPE_ID(LegalizeVariables)

  void getDependentDialects(DialectRegistry& registry) const override {
    registry.insert<TFL::TensorFlowLiteDialect>();
  }

  StringRef getArgument() const final {
    // This is the argument used to refer to the pass in
    // the textual format (on the commandline for example).
    return "tfl-legalize-variables-tf";
  }
  StringRef getDescription() const final {
    // This is a brief description of the pass.
    return "Legalize TensorFlow variables to TensorFlow Lite dialect";
  }

  void runOnOperation() override {
    auto module = getOperation();
    // If TFLite variable legalization is not allowed, then we skip this pass.
    if (auto legalize_tfl_variables_attr =
            module->getAttr(kLegalizeTflVariables)) {
      if (!legalize_tfl_variables_attr.cast<BoolAttr>().getValue()) return;
    }

    RewritePatternSet patterns(&getContext());
    populateWithGenerated(patterns);
    (void)applyPatternsAndFoldGreedily(module, std::move(patterns));
  }
};

}  // namespace

std::unique_ptr<OperationPass<ModuleOp>> CreateLegalizeVariablesPass() {
  return std::make_unique<LegalizeVariables>();
}

static PassRegistration<LegalizeVariables> pass;

}  // namespace TFL
}  // namespace mlir

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THE 97 PERCENT "STATISTIC" REGARDING GLOBAL WARMING
Jonah Goldberg introduces the video below by saying:
This video clip of Ted Cruz disemboweling Aaron Mair, the head of the Sierra Club, is making the rounds. It shows Cruz at his very best, cross-examining a witness to a pulp. The most striking thing, however, is how unbelievably hackish and ill-prepared Mair is. Here's the video:
Goldberg writes further:
Over and over again, Mair simply says that he's going to rely on the 97 percent of scientists who say that global warming is happening, it's caused by man and it's a huge problem. People of good faith can take Mair's position on one or all of those particulars. But the 97 percent stat is pure public relations b.s.
Here's a good explainer by Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer on where that number — which Barack Obama, John Kerry and countless other politicians and journalists retail uncritically: [more. . .]
Wednesday, 07 October 2015 in Climate Change, Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0)
MAUREEN MULLARKEY OFFERS A "NO-HOLDS BARRED" ATTACK ON POPE FRANCIS' ENVIRONMENTAL ENCYCLICAL
In addition to Rich Lowry's negative commentary on Pope Francis' encyclical posted previously, I now offer Maureen Malarkey's which is even more strident, but very much worth reading. She titles her contribution (published June 24, 2015), "Where Did Pope Francis's Extravagant Rant Come From?" Mularkey writes: [my bolding]
Subversion of Christianity by the spirit of the age has been a hazard down the centuries. The significance of "Laudato Si" lies beyond its stated concern for the climate. Discount obfuscating religious language. The encyclical lays ground to legitimize global government and makes the church an instrument of propaganda—a herald for the upcoming United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Accommodation by church hierarchy to green dogma has been metastasizing since the UN proclaimed Earth Day in 1970. Two decades later, Kevin Costner went dancing with wolves while the Fraser Institute prefaced "Religion, Wealth, and Poverty" (1990) by Jesuit scholar James V. Schall with this:
. . . the relatively sudden appearance of religion not primarily as worship or doctrine, but as social activism, has been not a little perplexing. Numerous sympathetic critics, many of the faithful, and interested observers sense that something is occurring with vast and unsettling implications for the well-being of the public order and for religion itself. They are not at all sure, however, that what is happening is itself in the best interests of religion or of the poor and outcast for whom it is said to be occurring.
Propelled by the cult of feeling and Golden Age nostalgia—enshrined in the myth of indigenous peoples as peaceable ecologists—that elusive something picked up a tincture of Teilhardian gnosticism as it grew. It bursts on us now as "Laudato Si," a malignant jumble of dubious science, policy prescriptions, doomsday rhetoric, and what students of Wordsworthian poetics call, in Keats' derisive phrase, "the egotistical sublime."
Eco-Activists Thrive on Distortions
The document's catalogue of distortions and factual errors are those of the climate-change establishment swallowed whole. There is no scientific consensus on man-made global warming, no consensus on the role of human activity in any of the environmental phenomena cited.
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore abandoned the organization in 1986, highlighting its abandonment of scientific objectivity in favor of political agendas:
By around the mid-1980s, when I left Greenpeace, the public had accepted most of the reasonable things we had been fighting for: stop the bomb, save the whales, stop toxic waste dumping into the earth, water, and air. Some, like myself, realized the job of creating mass awareness of the importance of the environment had been accomplished and it was time to move on from confrontation to sustainable development, seeking solutions. But others seemed bent on lifelong confrontation, 'up against the man' 'smash capitalism'. . . .
In order to remain confrontational as society adopted all the reasonable demands, it was necessary for these anti-establishment lifers to adopt ever more extreme positions, eventually abandoning science and logic altogether in zero-tolerance policies.
That was 30 years ago. Since then, "the 'green' movement has not only become more hard line, they have also become irrational and fanatical."
Climate has fluctuated since the planet formed. Sea levels have been rising for thousands of years with no current increase in the rate. Catastrophic extinctions occurred millions of years before industrialization. Not so long ago in geological time, Arctic islands were covered in sub-tropical forests and no ice covered either pole. Climate temperature has been flat for nearly two decades despite rise in CO2. On it goes.
Enter Jorge Bergolio. Informed objection to the pope's roster of pending disasters is widely available—but also, at this point, moot. Reducing greenhouse gases has just been deemed a religious obligation. What should concern us now is the ecclesial climate that yielded this extravagant rant.
A Short List of What's Wrong with 'Laudato Si'
There is nothing to admire in its assault on market economies, technological progress, and—worse—on rationality itself. Bergolio, whom we know now as Pope Francis, is a limited man. His grasp of economics is straitjacketed by the Peronist culture in which he was raised. "Laudato Si" descends to garish, left-wing boilerplate. The pope is neither a public intellectual, theologian, nor a man of science. Yet he impersonates all three.
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Thursday, 25 June 2015 in Climate Change, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Pope Francis, Roman Catholicism | Permalink | Comments (0)
JOHN COLEMAN, WEATHER CHANNEL CO-FOUNDER: MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE 'A MYTH'
Nat Brown reports:
Appearing on the "Kelly File" last night, Weather Channel co-founder and meteorologist John Coleman discussed an open letter he had recently authored in which he declared that "man-made global climate change is a myth." The letter was written to UCLA's Hammer Museum forum and criticized one of its recent panels, entitled "Tackling Climate Change," for not including any skeptics in the event.
Coleman noted that it has been tough for climate skeptics to voice their opinions in the media "ever since Al Gore made [climate change] a plank of the Democratic party." When host Megyn Kelly raised the point that even certain Republican political candidates will label such views as "nuts," Coleman replied, "It's very difficult to be against it when the media has told the nation that the oceans are rising, the polar bears are dying, the ice is melting, that storms are going to sweep the earth, and that we're all going to die of a heat wave," adding, "this is bad, bad science."
Wednesday, 29 October 2014 in Global Warming, Science | Permalink | Comments (0)
"Climate change has become what philosophers call a "non-falsifiable hypothesis." Everything—Hurricane Sandy, warm winters, cold winters—is said to be proof of climate change.
"Try this parlor game out at a cocktail party next time you're clinking ice-free glasses with a warmist: ask him to specify what climate or weather phenomenon would not be consistent with the general theory of climate change. And then step back and enjoy the fun." - Steven Hayward at Powerline blog. (more . . }
Thursday, 09 January 2014 in Global Warming, Quotes of the day | Permalink | Comments (0)
"GLOBAL WARMING" SCIENTISTS TRAPPED IN ANTARCTIC ICE
** Update 1/2/14 - 98% of Stories Ignore that Ice-bound Ship Was on Global Warming Mission
A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks' reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change. [more. . .]
** (Original post) - The U.K. Daily Mail reports: (HT: Drudge)
Global warming scientists forced to admit defeat... because of too much ice: Stranded Antarctic ship's crew will be rescued by helicopter
Chris Turney, a climate scientist and leader of the expedition, was going to document 'environmental changes' at the pole
In an interview he said he expected melting ice to play a part in expedition
MV Akademik Schokalskiy still stuck among thick ice sheet 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart, the Tasmanian capital
Called for help at 5am Christmas morning after becoming submerged in ice
Australia's back-up ship, Aurora Australis could not break through
Me: No doubt many will miss the irony of Global warming scientists trapped in ice. Read the full story complete with pics and video.
Monday, 30 December 2013 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0)
STEVE GOREHAM: CLIMATISM THE "GREATEST GLOBAL DELUSION IN HISTORY"
Goreham, author of Climatism! Science, Common Sense, and the 21st Century's Hottest Topic (New Lenox Books, 2010) and The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania (New Lenox books, 2012), appeared July 25, 2013 on the 700 Club
Goreham maintains an interesting website - www.climatism.net
Saturday, 03 August 2013 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0)
HEAVENLY BODIES MIGHT BE DRIVING LONG-TERM WEATHER TRENDS
Anne Jolis reports on "The Other Climate Theory" in the pages of today's Wall Street Journal.
-- Update 9/14/11 - "Cosmic Rays, Cloud Influences and Climate Change" - Five letters to the editor in response to Jolis' report.
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
WINTERY KNIGHT POTPOURRI
I am a fan of Wintery Knight's blog. It should be checked frequently. In case you haven't done so lately, here are some links to recent posts:
- If Obamacare is so great, then why do so many Democrats get waivers?
- Do pro-lifers care about people who are already born?
- Wayne Grudem defends what the Bible says about same-sex marriage
- Former alarmist scientist admits global warming is a "fiction"
- Does sex education reduce teen pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections?
- UK Telegraph on Richard Dawkins' cowardly refusal to debate William Lane Craig
I have referred to Wintery Knight's website many times (e.g. here, here, here, and here)
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 in Global Warming, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Life, Same-sex marriage, Sex Education, Wintery Knight | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
- Daily Caller - Sen. Inhofe turns tables on global warming ambushers -- and gets it on tape [video]
- John Fund - "What's at Stake in Wisconsin's Budget Battle" "Who's in charge of our political system, voters or unions?"(WSJ)
"Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues, gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits," Mr. Siegel told me.
- Marcel Dicke and Arnold Van Huis - "The Six-Legged Meat of the Future" (WSJ)
"Insects are nutritious and easy to raise without harming the environment. They also have a nice nutty taste."
- Kay S. Hymowitz - Where Have the Good Men Gone? Hymowitz argues that too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adosescence. (WSJ)
Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This "pre-adulthood" has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it's time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn't bring out the best in men.
Saturday, 19 February 2011 in General, Global Warming, Quick Takes, Unions, Wall Street Journal | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
"COOL IT" OPENS THIS WEEKEND
Hugh Hewitt says:
The critically-acclaimed new documentary that rips global warming alarmism opens in theaters across the country today, and every opponent of cap-and-tax and the hysteria that drives it should turn out to see the entertaining expose of sky-is-falling climate change doomsaying.
Bjorn Lomborg drives the Goreites crazy, as will this film for years to come. A big first weekend at the box office will drive its release so find time to be amused and enlightened this weekend.
Saturday, 13 November 2010 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Movies | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
ENVIRONMENTALIST "WACKOS" AND HUMAN WELL-BEING
It's hard to find a more dramatic beginning to an article than this . . .
Who is the worst killer in the long, ugly history of war and extermination? Hitler? Stalin? Pol Pot? Not even close. A single book called "Silent Spring" killed far more people than all those fiends put together.
"Dr. Zero" proceeds to unpack and defend his opening paragraph and along the way makes other accusations:
The DDT ban isn't the only example of environmental extremism coming with a stack of body bags. Mandatory gas mileage standards cause about 2,000 deaths per year, by compelling automakers to produce lighter, more fragile cars. The biofuel mania has led resources to be shifted away from growing food crops, resulting
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Wednesday, 17 February 2010 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Religious Left | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
THE CONTINUING CLIMATE MELTDOWN
The stories keep coming. I didn't want to keep posting one after another so I've waited for a fairly comprehensive overview. The editors of the Wall Street Journal published such an article today.
It has been a bad—make that dreadful—few weeks for what used to be called the "settled science" of global warming, and especially for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is supposed to be its gold standard.
First it turns out that the Himalayan glaciers are not going to melt anytime soon, notwithstanding dire U.N. predictions. Next came news that an IPCC claim that global warming could destroy 40% of the Amazon was based on a report by an environmental pressure group. Other IPCC sources of scholarly note have included a mountaineering magazine and a student paper. . .
All of this matters because the IPCC has been advertised as the last and definitive word on climate science. Its reports are the basis on which Al Gore, President Obama and others have claimed that climate ruin is inevitable unless the world reorganizes its economies with huge new taxes on carbon. Now we are discovering the U.N. reports are sloppy political documents intended to drive the climate lobby's regulatory agenda. [more. . .]
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CHUCK COLSON - THE CULTURE OF POLYAMORY IS AT WAR WITH THE CULTURE OF MONOGAMY
Chuck Colson writes:
In Touchstone magazine, Patrick Fagan writes that the culture of the traditional family, based on life-long monogamy, is competing with another culture—one that is polyamorous in nature. "In the culture of monogamy," he writes, "men are anchored in their families and tied to their children and wives, through the free and deliberate focus of their sexuality."
By contrast, the culture of polyamory treasures sexual license. In fact, Fagan writes, any attempt to constrain sex "would be the antithesis of the main project of the culture of polyamory"—sexual relations when you want, with whomever you want.
That's why the culture of polyamory attempts to control childhood education, sex education, and adolescent health programs. This control, Fagan warns, "enables the polyamory culture to reach into the traditional monogamy culture and gradually dismantle it."
Fagan's article, which Colson quotes above, is MUST READING. It illuminates the culture we inhabit powerfully and insightfully. And it's not just about sex. It touches on government, laws, and the future. It should be printed out and discussed in small groups throughout the country.
Having said that, Colson's own article centers around the recently-published study on sex education that demonstrated the effectiveness of abstinence-based sex education. I have reprinted his article below.
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Friday, 12 February 2010 in Global Warming, Marriage, Sex Education | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CORNWALL ALLIANCE - THE BEST WAY TO KEEP UP WITH WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN COPENHAGEN AND THE "GLOBAL WARMING CROWD"
E. Calvin Beisner is live blogging in Copenhagen. See the Cornwall Alliance's website and note in particular "An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming which has been signed by scores of Evangelical leaders. About the Cornwall Alliance:
The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.
So far as I can tell, the Cornwall Alliance is strongly concerned about how global policies will affect the poor -- which is often quite different from what major media outlets would have us believe. Also, an often overlooked or hidden agenda of the Global Warming crowd is to dramatically reduce world population. The Cornwall Alliance gets behind the "alleged facts" to the truth. This is definitely a website to consult often.
Thursday, 17 December 2009 in Economics, Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
ONE MAN MAKES A DIFFERENCE - NON-CLIMATOLOGIST STEPHEN McINTYRE ANALYZED THE DATA AND CHANGED THE CLIMATE SCIENCE WORLD
I found this article fascinating. (HT: HotAir) It proves once again that the right man, in the right place, with the right background and mindset, with focus and deliberation, can take down a Goliath. One man!
McIntyr states a somewhat startling fact:
"There is far more independent due diligence on the smallest prospectus offering securities to the public than on a Nature article that might end up having a tremendous impact on policy."
** Also, consider this video (not directly related to the McIntyr story above) demonstrating the deceptive use of the "hockey stick" set against an historical perspective : (HT: HotAir via the Autopsy)
Sunday, 13 December 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Heroes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
KRAUTHAMMER - The "NEW SOCIALISM" USES THE "RELIGION OF ENVIRONMENTALISM" AS ITS PRETEXT
Charles Krauthammer's article lays out the goals and technique of the "New Socialism" now raising its hydraheaded spectre once again. It's must reading for anyone interested in what's really going on, and for understanding the enormous threat the new socialism poses.
Friday, 11 December 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Socialism | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
AL GORE IS A LIAR
- Update - Sarah Palin on her Facebook repeats her contention that President Obama should stay at home and not go to Copenhagen. Excerpt: (HT: HotAir)
In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to "restore science to its rightful place." But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific practices, the president has upped the ante. He plans to fly in at the climax of the conference in hopes of sealing a "deal." Whatever deal he gets, it will be no deal for the American people. What Obama really hopes to bring home from Copenhagen is more pressure to pass the Democrats' cap-and-tax proposal. This is a political move. The last thing America needs is misguided legislation that will raise taxes and cost jobs -- particularly when the push for such legislation rests on agenda-driven science.
- (Original Post) -That's the only conclusion one can come to if one reads Andrew Bolt's post: (HT: Drudge) (Note: Readers must click through to the extended page for the revelation of Gore's falsehoods.)
Al Gore has studied the Climategate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as mere piffle:
Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?
A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it's sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven't read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.
And in case you think that was a mere slip of the tongue:
Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.
A: I think it's been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you're referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn't be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 in Absurdity, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Palin, Sarah | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
THE TOTALITARIAN IMPULSE OF CLIMATE CONTROL
Bret Stephens, writing in the Wall Street Journal, sees the intellectual methods of true believers in global warming as instructively similar to Stalinists: (HT: NRO Corner)
• Revolutionary fervor: There's a distinct tendency among climate alarmists toward uncompromising radicalism, a hatred of "bourgeois" values, a disgust with democratic practices. So President Obama wants to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% from current levels by 2050, levels not seen since the 1870s—in effect, the Industrial Revolution in reverse. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, insists that "our lifestyles are unsustainable." Al Gore gets crowds going by insisting that "civil disobedience has a role to play" in strong-arming governments to do his bidding. (This from the man who once sought to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.)
• Utopianism: In the world as it is, climate alarmists see humanity hurtling toward certain doom. In the world as it might be, humanity has seen the light and changed its patterns of behavior, becoming the green equivalent of the Soviet "new man." At his disposal are technologies that defy the laws of thermodynamics. The problems now attributed to global warming abate or disappear.
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
FORBES MAG: "THE WEST'S GOALS IN COPENHAGEN ARE TANTAMOUNT TO SUICIDE"
Forbes magazine published an important article, The West's Goals in Copenhagen are tantamount to Suicide." (HT: HotAir) A few paragraphs near the end especially caught my eye:
Hegemony-seeking communist capitalists in China might fancy seeing America and the West decline to the point that they can no longer compete or fund their militaries. A weakened European Union or U.S. also won't be able provide a model of a more democratic version of capitalism to counter China's ultra-authoritarian version.
The Chinese may win a victory in Copenhagen greater than anything accomplished so far in the marketplace--and our leaders will likely thank them for it. Forget bowing to the emperor in Tokyo; like vassal states at the height of the old Middle Kingdom, the new requisite diplomatic skill for Westerners will be kow-towing to Beijing.
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 in Economics, Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SARAH PALIN TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: BOYCOTT COPENHAGEN
- Her latest Facebook message is here.
- Update 12/4/09 - On a different subject, Ben Smith names Sarah Palin a "Pro-Life Star" (he calls her the "anti-abortion star"). It's an excellent article that needs to be read in full. (HT: HotAir) It begins:
In the months since she returned to the public spotlight, Sarah Palin's continually evolving political identity has undergone a subtle change as her public persona centers increasingly on her disabled son, Trig.
Palin began her political career as a reformer breaking up Alaska's corrupt boys club and shifted seamlessly into last fall's campaign trail culture warrior. But her decision to carry to term her Down syndrome child established a special relationship with anti-abortion activists, and now Palin has transformed herself from a politician who was anti-abortion into the leading figure of the anti-abortion movement. . .
But the most striking evidence of her son's impact has been Palin's book tour promoting her memoir, "Going Rogue." As she descends from her tour bus or private jet to meet her fans, 19-month-old Trig has been a conspicuous presence — and generated a huge response. "There's a lot of people who come through the line to see Trig instead of to see her," says Jason Recher, a campaign aide who remained close to Palin and is now accompanying her on her book tour.
And those people, says Greg Mueller, a veteran anti-abortion political operative and former spokesman for Pat Buchanan, are getting a powerful message. "She's going out there as a pro-life woman to say that there's great joy in special-needs kids — and that we shouldn't be aborting them." [Read the whole thing. . .]
See also Gary Bauer - Trig Palin has divided America
Thursday, 03 December 2009 in Abortion, Down syndrome, Global Warming, Palin, Sarah, Pro-Life | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CLIMATEGATE - THE SCIENCE IS NOT SETTLED!
Update 12/3/09 - In addition to Michelle's recommended article linked below, Jonah Goldberg gives a fine overview of what ClimateGate is all about. Perhaps the best and most detailed summary has been provided by Lord Moncton who challenged Al Gore to a debate long ago. Read his most recent summary here. I blogged about Lord Moncton's warnings about the hoax of global warning and the threat to national sovereignty it entailed here.
- (Original post) - Michelle Malkin has penned an excellent article on ClimateGate. Top notch. Take a deep breath everyone: the science is not settled! She points out the great number of Obama administration people "who are working overtime to paper over the ClimateGate scandal."
Wednesday, 02 December 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CLIMATEGATE SENTENCE OF THE DAY
Clive Cook writing in The Atlantic: (HT: HotAir)
The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering."
Monday, 30 November 2009 in Global Warming, Quotes of the day | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CLIMATEGATE: HAS THE IDOL OF "SCIENCE" BEEN SMASHED?
- Update 11/29/09 - UK Times Online article: "Climate Change Date Dumped" (HT: Drudge)
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years.
Me: Oh great. Get a load of the comments on this article.
- (Original Post) - The idols of our time are falling with breathtaking rapidity. The oldline media has been revealed to be biased and unreliable. It suppresses information it doesn't want us to know, and pushes themes and stories it wishes to promote.
The idol of Congress has been smashed. Ordinary trust has been destroyed. How can senators and representatives retain the people's confidence when they vote on bills they haven't read, and saddle generations to come with debt that staggers the mind?
And what about groups supposedly devoted to helping the poor like ACORN, which when the stone is lifted show themselves immoral, vote-rigging, and power hungry arms of the democratic party.
And what about President Barack Obama? Rather than continuing to bask in his Messiahship ("change you can believe in"), more and more segments of the nation have come to question his judgment and regret giving him stewardship over this great land.
And now, our trust in "science" has been smashed, as we see scientists fudging data, withholding information, lying, converting journals into propaganda organs, and misleading the public. "Climategate" articles keep pouring from the press. An earlier one is Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate." John Hindraker over at Power Line has written a lot about the East Anglia emails, here, here, here and here. Viscount Monckton (the man who challenged Al Gore to a debate) expresses his anger.
See also James Lewis's "Climate-Gate: It's the Totalitarianism, Stupid." He pulls no punches. An excerpt:
Global warming was a fraud, and it has now been exposed.
That little fraud would have cost the taxpayers of the world trillions of dollars, not to mention wrecking their economies with carbon taxes and penalties.
But that's not even the worst of it. The most important take home lesson is that global frauding was the clear and conscious work of a political machine aiming to steal your money, your liberties, and your country. It was a massive, worldwide attempt at a coup d'etat, and the
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Political Correctness | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
VACLAV KLAUS, PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Peter Robinson interviews Vaclav Klaus:
Communism and environmentalism—we are talking about two ideologies that are structurally very similar. They are against individual freedom. They are in favor of centralist master-minding of our fates. They are both very similar in telling us what to do, how to live, how to behave, what to eat, how to travel, what we can do and what we cannot do. There is a huge similarity in this respect.
Full video interview here.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 in Environmentalism, Europe, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
OBAMA TO CEDE U.S. SOVEREIGNTY IN DECEMBER
- Update 10/27/09 - AP - UN Signals Delay in Climate Change Treaty
UNITED NATIONS — Just weeks before an international conference on climate change, the United Nations signaled it was scaling back expectations of reaching agreement on a new treaty to slow global warming. [more. . .]
- (Original post) So says Lord Christopher Monckton, a global warning skeptic, and former science adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Pamela Geller, of Atlas Shrugs, has posted one of the most dire warnings I have read in a long time. It represents MUST READING. Be sure to view the four-minute video (embedded in her post) of Lord Monckten issuing his warning at Bethel University on October 14, 2009.
Geller writes:
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 in Global Warming, Leftists & Liberals, Obama foreign relations, Transnationalism | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
PROBLEMS WITH THE SCIENCE BEHIND GLOBAL WARMING CATASTROPHE THEORY
Iain Murray reports that Marlo Lewis over at Master Resource has produced a very useful round-up of the latest problems.
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
"GLOBAL GOVERNANCE" BEHIND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE
Marc Morano over at "Climate Depot" headlines: "Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance.'" (HT: Drudge) Morano writes:
Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about "global governance."
"I bring you good news from the U.S., "Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.
"Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey climate bill," Gore said, noting it was "very much a step in the right direction." President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep the Earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees C.
Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it "will dramatically increase the prospects for success" in combating what he sees as the "crisis" of man-made global warming.
"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements." (Editor's Note: Gore makes the "global governance" comment at the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video.)
Gore's call for "global governance" echoes former French President Jacques Chirac's call in 2000. [Keep reading...]
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Saturday, 11 July 2009 in Global Warming, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
HAS WASHINGTON GONE INSANE?
Hugh Hewitt titles his post: "Voting for Economic Suicide" He writes:
They could not have read the bill.
A 300 page amendment to a bill that greatly impacts every American and greatly burdens every American business was introduced at 3:00 AM Friday and passed 16 hours later.
The spectacle of the House voting for a massive tax increase and a 300 page amendment they could not have read is a low point for post-segregationist Congresses. Never have so few read so little about so important a proposal, and yet brazen forward oblivious to the the deeply embarrassing charade it presents to the world. Banana republics make a better show of governing themselves than did the U.S. House of Representatives today.
. . . The Senate may stop this attempt at economic suicide, but independents and Republicans cannot allow the public to forget the recklessness of today's abdication of responsibility by the hard left House leadership. [more . .]
Me: I feel like I am at the bedside of a sick patient who is being treated by a mad doctor who doesn't know what he is doing, or who possibly intends to kill the patient via a slow, agonizing death. It infuriates.
Update - Kim Strassel in the Wall Street Journal explains the haste to pass the climate change bill: the number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.
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Friday, 26 June 2009 in Global Warming, Leftists & Liberals | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CHUCK COLSON - CO2, EPA AND US
Chuck Colson's perspective is worth weighing.
Just recently, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are "pollutants that threaten public health and welfare." The "threat" comes from the effects of man-made global warming.
This ruling is the first step in regulating the very gas that makes life on Earth possible. If that sounds odd to you, it should. A lot of what is going on here has little, if anything, to do with public health.
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Monday, 04 May 2009 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
REPORT: DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO ALLOW SKEPTIC TO TESTIFY ALONGSIDE GORE AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING
Click here. (HT: Drudge)
Me: This represents another case of the Left's commitment to "controlled speech." They lock out opponents, shout down opponents, or sue opponents. Anything but allow opponents to speak freely.
Update: I saw a book mentioned on TV the other day. It may be worth taking a look at. It's Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them by Steven Milloy
Also, did you see the article, "One in Three Children Fear an Earth Apocalypse?
One out of three children aged 6 to 11 fears that Ma Earth won't exist when they grow up, while more than half—56 percent—worry that the planet will be a blasted heath (or at least a very unpleasant place to live), according to a new survey.
Me: This is sad. The new earth religion is sapping the life out of children, and for no reason. Talk about irresponsible fear-mongering!
Friday, 24 April 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
U.N. 'Climate Change' Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy
Oh, brother. As in World Big Brother controlling the world economy! Click here for the Fox news report. (HT: Drudge) Ed Morrissey offers analysis and commentary and concludes:
If one tried to get as many foolish ideas into one 16-page document as the UN does here, they'd be hard pressed to do so. If Obama cooperates with this, we will have willingly traded American sovereignty for rule by thieves and knaves. Republicans need to win some seats back in the Senate to ensure this treaty never gets ratified.
- Speaking of the UN, Another Day, Another Scandal
Friday, 27 March 2009 in Economics, Global Warming, United Nations | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Vaclev Havel - President of the Czech Republic. Is There a National Leader Deserving More Respect?
He's not afraid to confront Al Gore over global warming. He worries about freedom in the world. And he fears economic "reforms" more than he does the economic crisis itself. Jay Nordlinger reports from Davos:
A group of us met this afternoon with Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, which has the presidency of the European Union at the moment.
I asked Klaus something about global warming: "Al Gore calls people who disagree with him 'deniers.' I heard him do this just yesterday, in the Congress Center." (The main forum here in
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Saturday, 31 January 2009 in Europe, Global Warming, Heroes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Saturday, 17 January 2009 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jonah Goldberg reports:
Arctic Sea Ice is back to 1979 levels. Funny how that hasn't been front page news. Of course, it's just a snapshot, but whenever the snapshots point to global-warming-catastrophe, it's headline news.
1/12/98 Update/correction follows . . .
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SACRIFICES TO THE CLIMATE GODS
Dr, Roy Spencer makes many good points. Note: I would have provided excerpts of the article but the updated software associated with "Typepad" (the software associated with this blog) has all kinds of bugs in it making posting very difficult these days.
Thursday, 29 May 2008 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
GLOBAL WARMING: THE LEFT'S LATEST WAR ON THE FAMILY
Don Feder's article has lots of statistics and arguments (actual facts!) to disarm the Global Warming, anti-family zealots.
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 in Abortion, Global Warming, Leftists & Liberals, Population Control | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
EARTH DAY -BAD FOR THE UNBORN!
"Earth Day" was yesterday, April 22nd. Our friends at the Family Research Council remind us that anti-life agendas piggy-back on the day. (My underlining below).
An estimated billion people are celebrating Earth Day around the world, but few seem to understand its true motivation. Today isn't just another reminder to use recycled paper or drive energy-efficient cars. It's a calculated attack on the sanctity of human life. Population control is inextricably linked to the environmental and abortion movements. For years, the Sierra Club and other green militants have said that the best way to consume fewer resources is to have fewer children. Their own website says, "Talk to your decision-makers and demand an increase of funding for voluntary family planning programs and access to comprehensive sex education for young people." Last year, Optimum Population Trust released
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 in Abortion, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Population Control | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV KLAUS WITH DISSENTING VIEWS ON GLOBAL WARMING, RUSSIA, KOSOVO, AND AMERICA
Brian M. Carney of the Wall Street Journal reports on his interview with Klaus. An excerpt:
Mr. Klaus is also interested in the politics of global warming. He has written a book, tentatively titled "Blue, Not Green Planet," published in Czech last year and due out in English translation in the U.S. this May. The main question of the book is in its subtitle: "What is in danger: climate or freedom?"
He likens global-warming alarmism to communism, which he experienced first-hand in Cold War Czechoslovakia, then a Soviet satellite. While the communists argued that we must all sacrifice some freedom in pursuit of "equality," the "warmists," as Mr. Klaus calls them, want us to sacrifice liberty -- especially economic liberty -- to prevent a change in climate. In both cases, in Mr. Klaus's view, the costs of achieving the goal, and the impossibility of truly doing so, argue strongly against paying a price of freedom.
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Saturday, 08 March 2008 in Europe, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SO MUCH FOR GLOBAL WARMING... NEW DATA SHOWS THE ICE IS BACK
Phil Brennan reports:
Are the world's ice caps melting because of climate change, or are the reports just a lot of scare mongering by the advocates of the global warming theory?
Scare mongering appears to be the case, according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly "lost" ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.
Moreover, a Feb. 18 report in the London Daily Express showed that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than usual, challenging the global warming crusaders and buttressing arguments of skeptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming. . . . (more)
Wednesday, 20 February 2008 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed "Man-Made Global Warming" Claims in 2007
From the U.S. Senate report. More here. (HT: Drudge)
Friday, 21 December 2007 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Record Low Temperatures Being Set All Over the World
David Deming of the Washington Times reports a year of global cooling. (HT: Drudge)
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert
Oh my... This item would go in the "hard to believe department" if I had such a category. (HT: Drudge)
A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy" at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child.
Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime.
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Monday, 10 December 2007 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Hard to Believe Department | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How Global Warming Activisim Hurts the Poor
Mark D. Tooley does his usual excellent job of analyzing the negative effects of what at first seems a noble endeavor, but in the end proves otherwise. The Religious Left more often than not can be relied upon to make false judgments of this sort. Click here
Sunday, 04 November 2007 in Global Warming, International Scene, Religious Left | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Gore Wins 2007 Nobel Peace Prize - Plus a Look Back at Past Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Al Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Powerline asks the question, "When did the Nobel Peace Prize go off the tracks?" and supplies this reminder of past recipients (HT: Hugh Hewitt):
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran.
WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world.
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have
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Friday, 12 October 2007 in Environmentalism, Global Warming, Political Correctness, United Nations | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bjorn Lomborg on the Global Kyoto Craze
Update 10/10/07 - British Court finds inaccuracies in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Judge rules it should only be shown in schools with guidance notes to prevent political indoctrination.
David Freddoso refers to Bjorn Lomborg's article as
a must-read — a reductio ad absurdum for the Global Warming religion from someone who believes in man-made warming but sees through the hype.
Freddoso says:
Bjorn Lomborg is not a skeptic of man-made global warming. But he is a skeptic of the millennialist views of Al Gore and other adherents. The world is not coming to an end, he says, and no, Kyoto will not solve the world's problems. Nor is Global Warming the cause of all the world's problems — it might actually solve some of them.
Excerpts from Lomborg's article:
According to the first complete peer-reviewed survey of climate change's health effects, global warming will actually save lives. It's estimated that by 2050, global warming will cause almost 400,000 more heat-related deaths each year. But at the same time, 1.8 million fewer people will die from cold.
The Kyoto Protocol, with its drastic emissions cuts, is not a sensible way to stop people from dying in future heat waves. At a much lower cost, urban designers and politicians could lower temperatures more effectively by
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Monday, 08 October 2007 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ocean Currents to Blame for Warming: Expert
THE United States' leading hurricane forecaster says global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming.
William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher, also said the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years. (more)
Monday, 30 April 2007 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What Does Recent Sunspot Activity Have to Do with Global Warming?
Possibly a lot. An important Investors Business Daily editorial demands attention. Some excerpts:
The same day that Al Gore lectured Congress about man-made global warming, NASA made a startling announcement: The sun is hotter and more active than thought.
NASA detailed new observations of solar explosions from a powerful space telescope that recently beamed back X-ray images of the sun's outermost layer. Scientists expected to see a calm region but instead saw a bubbling mass of swaying and arching spikes, some more than 5,000 miles long . The tangled magnetic fields dump energy back into the corona, causing huge temperature flares.
The sunspot intensity shocked NASA astronomers, who held the press conference in Washington as Gore testified nearby that the planet has a 'fever' caused by carbon-spewing humans. Of course, the media were too busy genuflecting before
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Sunday, 25 March 2007 in Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
British TV 4 "Great Global Warming Swindle" TV Program (Video) Available on the Internet
** Update: (HT: Drudge)
- Researches Question Validity of a "Global Temperature"
- Al Gore Challenged to Intenational TV Debate on Global Warming
- Scientists Blame Hollywood for Increased Fears Over Global Warming
I have posted many items before on global warming and environmentalism, including the "Great Global Warming Swindle" produced by British Channel 4 Television. Now, however, I want to provide a link to the actual TV Program that you can view on the internet. A friend passed along the following commentary by Thomas Sowell on the British Channel 4 production. Sowell concludes, "Global warming" is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible." More excerpts:
The documentary goes into some of the many factors that have caused the earth to warm and cool for centuries, including changes in activities on the sun, 93 million miles away and wholly beyond the jurisdiction of the Kyoto treaty.
According to these climate scientists, human activities have very little effect on the climate, compared to many other factors, from volcanoes to clouds.
These climate scientists likewise debunk the mathematical models that have been used to hype global-warming hysteria, even though
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Monday, 19 March 2007 in Environmentalism, Global Warming | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Quick Takes on "Global Warming"
Update 3/13/07 - The New York Times today published a major article on the "Global Warming" debate. It offers a balanced assessment, and in so doing it printed a representative number of strong critiques. It's worth a read.
Some articles from Drudge worth checking:
Environmentalism is a Religion says Czek President.
From Babylon of Gilgamesh to post-Eden of Noah, every age has viewed climate change cataclysmically, as retribution for human greed and sinfulness..
Scientists threatened with death for 'climate denial'...
'New world order' to fight global warming...
Jamie Glazov of Frontpagemag conducts an interesting (and alarming in its own way) interview with Christopher Horner, the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism).
What is the true agenda behind the global warming hysteria? Who profits? This interview tells us. It's important. A must read.
My previous posts on global warming can be found here.


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Donald R. Korb, OD, Joins New England College of Optometry Faculty
Donald R. Korb, OD.
BOSTON—New England College of Optometry (NECO) has announced that Donald R. Korb, OD, an alumnus, had joined the faculty as an adjunct professor. Korb is recognized as an international authority on dry eye, having named and described meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), the leading cause of dry eye, and co-invented two of the leading dry eye products currently marketed. Korb, a Boston-area researcher, lecturer, inventor and practicing optometrist, has more than 60 patents and 110 publications in referred scientific journals.
In addition to this, he has discovered and named three ocular conditions which have proven fundamental. He has received over 40 major honors, was elected to two halls of fame and awarded three honorary degrees.
Korb's work has included creating examination methods and products to enhance patient care, achieved by co-founding five research companies. He brings to NECO his extensive background of developing innovative treatments and products, collaborating with optometric leaders throughout the world, and conducting groundbreaking research.
"Dr. Korb's participation at NECO is a phenomenal chance for our students to have the opportunity to learn from a successful doctor and optometric leader who has pushed the bounds of what optometry can accomplish to help people change the way they see the world," said NECO president Howard Purcell. "Dr. Korb embodies the sense of leadership, innovation, service, and lifelong learning that we strive for at NECO."
Korb's career began with focusing on improving contact lenses. He invented the contact lens design which remains the foundation of the modern contact lens. This work began a lifelong passion for creating innovations in eyecare that he continues today. His contributions have impacted the care of over 50 million contact lens patients and tens of millions of dry eye patients.
"The impact of science and technology guarantees an exciting future for eyecare," said Korb. "I look forward to working with students to help them see how their passion and drive can provide an exciting career and also move the profession and eyecare forward."
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St. Patricks Day has been the most community focused evect with over 40 years running. Floats from as far away as Philadelphia have arrived to join the popularity of the 17th March, in Kiltimagh; County Mayo. (3pm)
In 2017 Kiltimagh sees the return of the Philadelphia Band, the parade market stalls, children's entertainment and the local business floats. See what themes they come up with this year!
If you want to enter your float or to get involved, then you can contact us here.
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Irish: Pádraig was a fisth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba. He is also venerated in the Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as equal-to-apostles and the Enlightener of Ireland.
The dates of Patrick's life cannot be fixed with certainty but there is broad agreement that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fisth century. Early medieval tradition credits him with being the first bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, and they regard him as the founder of Christianity in Ireland, converting a society practising a form of Celtic polytheism. He has been generally so regarded ever since, despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence in Ireland.
According to the Confession of Patrick, when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain, and taken as a slave to Ireland, looking after animals, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to northern and western Ireland. In later life, he served as a bishop, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.
Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17th March, the supposed date of his death. It is celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself.
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Nikolai Batalov
Born: November, 24th (December, 6th) 1899
Deceased: 10th November 1937
Well-known Russian film and theatre actor
Nikolai Batalov was born on November, 24th (on December, 6th) 1899. In 1916 he joined the troupe of Moscow Art Theatre. Batalov's first role was that of Petya in The Green Ring, Gippius, 1916. With comedy shine, bright temperament, and terrific charm he played the role of Figaro in The Mad Day, or Marriage of Figaro after Beaumarchais.
Batalov's powerful scenic charm, inherent optimism, keen feeling of the present, sincerity, inborn wit, and temperament were most vividly manifested in his role of the simple Russian guy Vaska Okorok in Armored Train 14-69 (1927). "Batalov creates a hot, violent, and cheerful image" – A. Lunacharsky wrote about this role (" Evening Moscow ", February 26th, 1927).
A great master of internal transformation, Batalov created a deeply satirical portrayal of the anarchist and marauder sailor Rubtsov (Blockade Vs. Ivanov) in 1929. Batalov's other theatre roles were those of Lup Kleshnin in (Tsar Feodor Ioannovich by A.K.Tolstoy), Medvedev ( The Lower Depths), Lopakhin (The Cherry Orchard). Batalov's last work on theatre stage was the role of Sobakevich (The Dead Souls after Gogol, 1933).
Nikolai Batalov was discovered for cinema by Yakov Protazanov - the maestro of the pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, unmistakably good at casting actors. In his sci-fi picture Aelita (1924) Batalov played the Red Army soldier Gusev, who is ready not only for world revolution, but also for interplanetary revolution. From the somewhat odd and eclectic Aelita Batalov at once stepped to the cinema classics. He played Pavel Vlasov in Vsevolod Pudovkin's film Mother (after the novel by M. Gorky, 1926).
Warmth and humanity, the life-asserting power, so inherent in Batalov's art, were characteristic of the chief of labour commune Sergeyev in the first Soviet sound film Road to Life (1931.)
Then he played the role of the chief of construction Lacis in Three Comrades (1935).
In the course of time Batalov got fed up with roles of the Red Army men and heroes of the Civil War. They say that he declined from the role of Petka in Chapaev , destined to become a cult movie. Afterwards he regretted.
Batalov dreamed of playing Alexander Pushkin; there remained photos of the actor wearing make-up for portraying the poet… He even wrote some sketches of the script about Pushkin. Unfortunately, this role and many others were not destined to happen.
It happened so, that Nikolai Batalov played only ten film roles. Ten roles within thirteen years… This cheerful and mighty-looking person was seriously and painfully ill. As early as 1923 Nikolai Batalov developed tuberculosis. On the 10th of November 1937 the actor died.
A year before the death of Nikolai Batalov he was undergoing treatment in Italy. One of his letters reads: "I always admired Leonardo da Vinci's ingenious hues of the sky, the background of his Madonna, but I believed that these tones were his fancy. And now, two days back, the sky in the sunset was just like that - turquoise, greenish, and orange!"
Nikolai Batalov was buried at the Novodevich Cemetery in Moscow.
He was married to actress Olga Androvskaya (1897-1975).
His brother was the actor and director Vladimir Batalov (1902-1964).
His nephew was the actor and director Alexei Batalov (р.1928).
His son-in-law was actor Pyotr Chernov (1917-1988).
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These words are coming from hell. There are many broken hearts screaming with headache because we have been kept here for such a long time with nothing except failing lives.
Our stories might not be interesting to you. If you spend lots of time doing nothing please listen to our voices and try to feel what these voices and what this letter tells you.
It is not magnificent. It is pain. Yes, extreme pain. This pain makes tears for all and everyone's tears have made this letter for this beautiful nation.
Yes our dreams are failing , we are failing with out hopes and we are failing with our future too.
Our lives set on fire by inhuman politics. That fire burns us little by little every single second.
Those who can feel our bodies and souls burning with our dreams, you are the real Australians and great humans.
We can't imagine why humanity is disappearing from this nation. Waiting and waiting, just a little bit of hope in everyones deep hearts that the disappearing humanity will return back to everyone. Then we will see that humanity will feel our pain and extreme grief and share our feelings. Let's see… we are waiting.
We have kids yet we can't think about our future. We can't do anything for them, even their smallest wish. Our kids are dying slowly infront of us. We can see it with our own eyes. Every second our hearts are crying so badly about our kid's future. Where are they going to go? What are they going to do? All these questions aare killing us. You also have kids. You have made plans for when they growing up but what can we do? Just one thing … dying slowly day by day.
Please give us your hand to get us out of this deep dark hell.
We are so broken. Our souls are crying silent every night. Only our pillow and our bed knows. We can't share our pain with each other here because everyone is in same boat. We are travelling into the darkness with extreme pain. We can't smile, we can't be happy. These things are all gone. Our minds are melting away from us. Now our heads are empty, our lives too.
Oh our nations many of our mothers and fathers have children and babies. They are all happy with their freedom and they trust with their lives. We are wasting our lives inside the fence. Our joy and freedom is locked up in this hell. Still we can't start our lives.
We are asylum seekers. Sorry but we have forgotten our names because now we are just called by our boat numbers. We have been in detention for years in this hell you call offshore-processing centre. We cannot describe our suffering. We are tired of being tired. We are dying every single second because of your inhumane treatment. Our presence is burning here.
When we came here we became victims of your offshore policy sent to offshore and kept with about 2000 people. By the end of 2012 almost 2700 asylum seekers reached your country by boat. Where are they now? You know well some are unlucky and innocent and are still kept in the hell of offshore processing centre.
All the time we are sorry about our life inside the fence on this dry land. We are coping with time emptiness day by day. You make life hard every second and cause us pain too.
We are wondering why our lives were saved from the ocean. If we died in the sea it would have been wonderful because we can't cope with your inhuman actions. You took our joy, hope and dreams and locked us inside the fence.
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China has nearly completed construction of a runway and other facilities on Panganiban Reef, on the Philippine side of the Spratly archipelago in the heavily disputed South China Sea, a US-based think tank reported on Saturday.
Also known as Mischief Reef, Panganiban Reef is 216 kilometers west of Palawan, well within the Philippines' 370-km exclusive economic zone recognized under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
China is also rapidly completing construction of a runway and other facilities on Zamora Reef (Subi Reef), also part of Philippine territory in the Spratlys.
Zamora Reef is 23.4 km away from Pag-asa Island (Thitu Island), a small municipality in Palawan province that is home to a small civilian population.
The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (Amti) released its latest report on the developments in the Spratlys on Friday, complete with satellite images that show in detail China's swift construction undertaken in less than six months.
"Mischief Reef sits just [37.8 km] from the BRP Sierra Madre, which was deliberately grounded by the Philippines at Second Thomas Shoal (Ayungin Shoal) in 1999 and is home to a contingent of Philippine Marines," the Amti report said.
"China has maintained a constant coast guard presence around Second Thomas since 2013 and attempted to prevent resupply of the Sierra Madre in March 2014. Mischief is also about [108 km] from Reed Bank (Recto Bank), where the Philippines hopes to drill for natural gas deposits over China's objections," it added.
"This strategic location combined with its size (China has reclaimed twice as much land at Mischief Reef as it did at Fiery Cross [Kagitingan Reef] and about 50 percent more than at Subi) makes developments at Mischief of particular concern for the Philippines," Amti said.
"China has become [daring]. They have completed their construction, so what's next?" Cabalza told the Inquirer by phone.
Cabalza said China was actually "challenging the international community" with its expansive construction activities on the disputed areas in the Spratlys.
"China wants to let the international community know that 'This is ours,'" he said.
Cabalza said China had been able to follow the timeline it set for staking claim to nearly 90 percent of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in global trade passes every year.
"The next step is to totally claim what they say is theirs. They know how the international community, especially the US, Japan and India, would react," Cabalza said.
On Friday, China announced that it would invite private investment to build infrastructure on the artificial islands it had built in the South China Sea and that it would launch flights to one of them this year, moves likely to anger the Philippines and the other claimants to territory in the strategic waterway.
Besides the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan also has claims in the South China Sea.
The Philippines controlled Panganiban Reef until 1995 when China seized it and put up structures on stilts there, supposedly to provide shelter for its fishermen. It has controlled the reef since then.
The Philippines responded by grounding the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting naval hospital ship, on Ayungin Shoal in 1999.
Amti's latest satellite images that showed progress on Panganiban and Zamora reefs were dated Jan. 8, the same day Manila filed a diplomatic protest over China's test flights to Kagitingan Reef.
China rejected the Philippine protest, saying it had "undisputed sovereignty" over the South China Sea, where islands, reefs and atolls are believed to be sitting on vast energy reserves.
On Jan. 6, China landed two test flights on the 3,125-meter-long runway on Kagitingan Reef, a follow-up to the Jan. 2 landing that prompted a protest from Vietnam, which also claims the reef, and drew sharp criticism from the United States.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said China's flights to the Spratlys should be challenged, as it might next impose an air defense identification zone above the contested region similar to the air exclusion zone it had declared in the East China Sea, where it is locked in dispute with Japan over ownership of five uninhabited islands.
The United States urged China to stop land reclamation and militarization in the Spratlys and Britain declared that freedom of navigation and overflight in the area were nonnegotiable.
The think tank observed that if construction of the Kagitingan airstrip took "at least seven months from the start of grading," China's work at Zamora is taking at least six months.
"A fully formed and compacted sand runway could be seen by Oct. 19, and by Dec. 5 the runway and apron had been covered with gravel and about [150 meters] of concrete. As of Jan. 8, concrete covered most of the runway, which appears to be nearing completion," Amti said, describing the work on Panganiban Reef.
Satellite images show that as of Jan. 8, the northwest side of Panganiban Reef already has a 570-m-long seawall, housing facilities, artificial turf parade grounds, cement plants and docks.
China has also constructed a seawall and completed a dock on the artificial island it has built on the southern end of Panganiban Reef.
Zamora Reef, which can be seen from Pagasa Island, now has an "octagonal tower with a conical feature at its top" measuring 27 to 30 m high and 12 m on each side, Amti said.
Construction of the tower, located on the northeast side of Zamora Reef, was almost complete as of Jan. 8.
"A seawall and docks have been constructed, and work continues on a number of hardened buildings," Amti said.
Also as of Jan. 8, the "southern end of the runway" on Zamora Reef "had been paved with concrete as had most of the runway and apron at the northern end, while the gravel base had been completed and concrete strips were visible in the central portion," Amti said.
Cabalza said the Philippines "reacted with grace" when it pursued the legal and diplomatic track in responding to China's expansionism in the South China Sea.
But the Aquino administration is also pushing for joint patrols with the United States in the South China Sea through the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca), which the Supreme Court declared constitutional last week.
The Edca is seen as a deterrent to China's aggression as the Philippine and US militaries could conduct joint patrols in the South China Sea, although Manila and Washington stress that the agreement will greatly contribute to faster humanitarian assistance and disaster response.
In a speech at the East-West Center Association International Conference held at Manila Hotel on Friday, President Aquino said the "basic logic behind" the Edca was "interoperability" between the Philippine and US militaries.
"Anybody who is reasonable will see that this agreement is an enhancement of both our countries' abilities, rather than a threat to anyone else," the President said.
"To my mind, the Edca has a very practical purpose for developing our own armed forces: All the modern hardware carries a significant price tag; yet with the Edca, we have a chance to try the cutting-edge equipment and see just how suitable they are to our needs, without having to buy them first … On the reverse side, the US gets to learn how to make do with fewer resources, which in a conflict situation is always a high probability if not an intense possibility," the President said.


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Algorithm Development with MATLAB
Sumit Tandon, MathWorks
Learn how you can use MATLAB to transform your ideas into algorithms. The MATLAB environment combines all the tools and functionality that you need to rapidly develop, test, and analyze design concepts and methods, allowing you to quickly iterate toward an optimal solution.
The presentation includes topics such as:
Interactive analysis, visualization, and exploration of design concepts
Editing, debugging and optimizing algorithms
Building complete and stand-alone executables from MATLAB functions
View the example code from this webinar here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/39851-algorithm-development-with-matlab
About the Presenter: Sumit Tandon received his BE in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, India and worked as a software developer in COBOL and Mainframe technology for a year. He went back to school to earn his MS in Electrical Engg from University of Texas at Arlington. His masters thesis was focused on cancer research and he developed a simulator for biopsy using concepts of computer graphics, computer vision and haptics. Sumit joined MathWorks in EDG in 2007 and worked on CDA and code generation products before transferring to AEG as an LTC Application Engineer in 2011.
Recorded: 14 Oct 2014
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Because mental health conditions can negatively affect employment, people with these conditions make up a large share of federal disability program participants. Federal agencies have tested supported employment (SE) interventions designed to help those with mental health conditions keep or obtain employment and reduce their dependence on public programs. This brief describes the characteristics of adults with mental health conditions who participate in the federal disability programs and reports evidence from three recent studies of longer-term impacts of SE on the employment of people with mental health conditions. The findings indicate that, although a large share of disability program participants with mental health conditions report that they want to work, many face barriers, including being discouraged by failed past work attempts. Although there is evidence that SE interventions can lead to positive impacts on employment and earnings for this population, the SE interventions studied to date have not reduced long-term reliance on federal disability benefits among those with mental health conditions.


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A national study shows that women are less likely than men to get at least 30 minutes of exercise per day, resulting in greater odds of developing metabolic syndrome – a risky and increasingly prevalent condition related to obesity.
Metabolic syndrome is a name for a group of risk factors – including high cholesterol, high blood pressure and extra weight around the middle part of the body – which occur together and increase the risk for coronary disease, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. The researchers initially were interested in the correlation between physical activity, depression and metabolic syndrome, and ended up finding a gender difference.
The study, now online in the journal Preventive Medicine, was conducted at Oregon State University by Paul Loprinzi and Bradley Cardinal, professor of social psychology of physical activity at OSU. Loprinzi is now an assistant professor of exercise science at Bellarmine University. He conducted the research when he was a student in Cardinal's lab at OSU.
"The results indicate that regular physical activity participation was associated with positive health outcomes for both men and women; however, there was a greater strength of association for women," Loprinzi said.
Looking at more than 1,000 men and women from a nationally represented sample, the researchers found that women were getting only about 18 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise daily, compared to men who, on average, were getting 30 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise daily.
"Those who get at least 30 minutes of exercise a day are less likely to be depressed, less likely to have high cholesterol and less likely to have metabolic syndrome," Loprinzi said.
Loprinzi and Cardinal's study is unique in part because it is the first to use an "objective" measure of physical activity – in this case participants were outfitted with accelerometers that measured daily activity. In their study, slightly more than one in three women had metabolic syndrome, and one in five had symptoms of depression.
"It's pretty striking what happens to you if you don't meet that 30 minutes a day of activity," Cardinal said. "Women in our sample had better health behavior – they were much less likely to smoke for instance, but the lack of activity still puts them at risk."
Cardinal said depression puts people at more risk of abdominal fat and insulin resistance, and both are risk factors for metabolic syndrome.
"Physical activity has been shown to reduce depression," he said. "So the key message here is to get that 30 minutes of exercise every day because it reduces a great deal of risk factors."
"Research has shown that around ages 5 or 6 these patterns begin," Cardinal said. "Parents tend to be more concerned with the safety of girls, and have more restrictive practices around outdoor time and playtime than with boys."
Loprinzi said this pattern tends to continue into adulthood, and that overall confidence may be a factor.
"Some evidence indicates that women, compared to men, have less confidence in their ability to overcome their exercise-related barriers," Loprinzi said, adding that women also often cite a lack of time to exercise due to child-rearing.
The researchers have a study coming out that may help those time-challenged women. Loprinzi said he and Cardinal found that adults can still enhance their health by accumulating physical activity in short periods throughout the day, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator or pacing while talking on the phone.


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Studia Orientalia Tartuensia
Studia Orientalia Tartuensia. Series Nova
Editor-in-Chief: Märt LÄÄNEMETS (Centre for Oriental Studies, University of Tartu)
Editorial board: Audrius BEINORIUS (Vilnius University, Indian and South Asian Studies), Manfried DIETRICH (University of Münster, Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies), Peeter ESPAK (University of Tartu, Ancient Near Eastern Studies), Sebastian FINK (University of Innsbruck, Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies), Frank KRAUSHAAR (University of Latvia, Chinese Studies), Tarmo KULMAR (University of Tartu, Comparative Study of Religions), Jaan LAHE (Tallinn University, Religious History of the Roman Empire), Sergey LEPEKHOV (Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Buddhist Studies), Victoria LYSENKO (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Indian Studies), Jaan PUHVEL (Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, University of California, Indo-European and Anatolian comparative philology and linguistics), Vladimir SAZONOV (University of Tartu, Ancient Near Eastern and Islamic Studies), Siddharth SINGH (Banaras Hindu University, Buddhist Studies), Ülo VALK (University of Tartu, Comparative Folkloristics).
Volumes available
Vol. 3. Tarmo Kulmar, Märt Läänemets (eds.). Humanistic Base Texts and the Mahāyāna Sūtras. Studia in Honorem Linnart Mäll. 2008. 374 p. ISBN 978-9985-4-0540-6.
Vol. 5. Märt Läänemets, Teet Toome (eds.). Studies in early Mahāyāna literature and art. 2012. 126 p. ISBN 978-9985-4-0692-2.
Vol. 6. Peeter Espak, Märt Läänemets, Vladimir Sazonov (eds.). When Gods Spoke: Researches and Reflections on Religious Phenomena and Artefacts. Studia in honorem Tarmo Kulmar. 2015. 435 p. ISBN 978-9949-32-980-9.


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After opening a support ticket, you'll be able to send a new email, but keep in mind that you should do it only if you have a different issue. If you need urgent support, an alternative way to contact Airbnb is through Twitter since the social support team is usually quite responsive there.... Every support unit that you send with your paladin marches as fast as he does if you have researched "Forced march". For example, sword fighters walk more than twice as fast as they would without him. As soon as you have built several statues, you can also let your paladin move between your villages.
28/05/2018 · Paladins can come from anywhere. If they're sponsored by a church, maybe a big city like Amn. If they're an Oath of the Ancients maybe they come from one of the elf homelands.... Every support unit that you send with your paladin marches as fast as he does if you have researched "Forced march". For example, sword fighters walk more than twice as fast as they would without him. As soon as you have built several statues, you can also let your paladin move between your villages.
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Sending an Email from a Ticket TeamSupport is built around a very strong base of email communication, and we make it very easy to communicate with clients via email directly from the ticket. We call this feature "Web Conversations" and it is the ability to hold communications with your customers entirely within TeamSupport.
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