We feel that you can never have enough good tips to help out in the garden and landscape areas of your home. We would like to share a few more that cover everything from cleaning clay flowerpots to plants.
Clean salt off clay flowerpots - clay pots are notorious for ugly salt deposits and other debris that can harbor disease or dehydrate stems resting on them. To clean off the salt, mix a solution of one part bleach to nine parts water. Let pots soak for 10 minutes, then place in a solution of dish detergent and water. Scrub with a wire brush to remove mineral deposits and other debris. Rinse thoroughly and soak pots in bucket of clean water till ready to use.
Recycle an old garden hose by making it into a soaker hose. Just drill 1 to 2 inches apart on one side. Attach one end to a water spigot and cap the other end. Turn the water to a low flow for a half hour once or twice a week. Add a timer for auto watering. Cover the hose with much.
Wait before mulching. Allow soil to warm up and dry out a bit before mulching in spring. Fluff up existing mulch before adding more so it doesn't form a hard surface that deflects water. Avoid creating a volcano of mulch around plants. Strive instead for a donut effect.
Ensure peony blooms. Peonies are among the easiest plants to grow in a garden pot but many gardeners, miss out on the flowering. Place potted peonies where they receive at least 6 hours of sunlight every day. Wait to cut the foliage until after the first frost so leaves have the opportunity to return food reserves to the roots for next years blooms.
Add off season plants to your pottery. When shopping for plants in spring, add out of season stalwarts such as aster, chrysanthemum, and goldenrod. They may look boring in your shopping cart but in a few months you will be glad you have them to beef up your landscape.
So, hope you got some good ideas here.


1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Holiday spirit. In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately… Go next door, where they're serving rum balls.
2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. It's rare. You cannot find it any other time of year but now. So drink up! Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're going to turn into an eggnog-alcoholic or something. It's a treat… Enjoy it. Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!
6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's. You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do. This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.
8. Same for pies. Apple, Pumpkin, Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day?
1. Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable…Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.
Sometimes we just need to remember….
2. You need only two tools, WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.
5. When you make a mistake, make amends immediately. Crow is easier to eat while it's still warm.
7. If someone says that you're too good for him or her, believe it.
10. Be really nice to your friends and family. Some day, you may need them to empty your bedpan.


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Versant Power Seeks 25.4% Distribution Rate Increase
DJ Fred Published: January 6, 2021
Photo courtesy of Versant Power
The power company that serves the majority of eastern Maine will ask for an increase in distribution rates for each of the next two years.
Versant Power has just sent a letter of intent out to its customers, that explains the company's need for more revenue to "make necessary investments in system reliability, customer service, and operations." The letter goes on to state that any increase in the "distribution" portion of a customer's bill would be the first in 39 months, and that users had also received "a temporary rate decrease that saved customers $8.1 million between September and December of 2020."
On or after January 18th, the company will ask the Maine Public Utilities Commission to grant approval to an "alternative rate plan", that would ask for a two-step increase of 12.7% per year, over the next two years, amounting to a total increase in distribution rate of 25.4%.
If approved by the Maine Public Utilities Commission, the alternative rate plan would go into effect on both October 1, 2021, and October 1, 2022.
Versant Power says that the typical residential customer with usage of 500kWh per month will see the following impact to their bill:
October 1, 2021 - approximately $4 per month, or a total bill increase of 4.7%.
As we all know, it's imperative to keep the power on, and companies like Versant Power must continue to invest in it's distribution system which takes a beating here in Maine especially during the cold winter months.
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About TPS Foundation
Trevor Platt Science Foundation is a section 8 company (not for profit) registered in India.
The vision of the foundation is to uphold the legacy of Prof. Trevor Platt by striving for the betterment of our environment and our society and by equipping young scientists to take up leadership roles for stewardship of our planet.
The objectives of the foundation are:
Create and sustain a forum for promoting science and societal applications of environmental sciences.
Conduct outreach programmes at schools, college and community levels.
Help in capacity building by conducting training programmes to students, offering fellowships and scholarships and travel grants.
Build collaborative networks with other organisations having similar activities and goals.
Actively seek and secure funding to carry out research and educational activities in environmental sciences.
Explore and implement ecosystem-based solutions to environmental problems and threats, especially of aquatic systems.
The foundation aims to achieve the objectives above with the help of its members. Let us all work together to make TPS Foundation a universal organisation.
About Prof. Trevor Platt
The very renowned scientist in oceanography, Professor Trevor Platt, FRS, was born in August, 12 1942, in Salford, England. He finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Nottingham in UK (1963) and moved to Canada to study for MA at University of Toronto (1965) and Ph.D. at Dalhousie University (1970). He was the Head of Biological Oceanography during 1972-2001, and senior scientist during 2001-2008 at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2008, he moved back to UK and joined the Plymouth Marine Laboratory as Professorial Fellow as well as the executive director of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO).
He provided remarkable contributions in fundamental and applied research in the broad fields of oceanography, phytoplankton ecology, marine ecosystem dynamics, marine optics, ocean colour remote sensing, ocean carbon cycle and climate change with more then 320 scientific publications during his scientific career.
Professor Platt received numerous honors, medals and awards in recognition of his contributions to oceanography, including 'APICS-Fraser Gold medal (1982)', 'Rosenstiel Gold medal (1984)', 'G. Evenly Hutchinson medal (1988)', 'Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Science (1990)', 'A. G. Huntsman medal (1992)', 'Fellowship of the Royal Society of London (1998)', 'Plymouth Marine medal (1999)', 'Timothy Parsons medal (2006)', 'Prix de Distinction (2007), Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada', ' Prix d'Excellence, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (2008)', and 'Jawaharlal Nehru Science Fellow of the Government of India (2014)'.
Professor Platt also showed his strong leadership in numerous international scientific organizations, and contributed to: NATO Advance Study Institute, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), International Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG), and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO).
In particular, as a founder and the first chairman of IOCCG, he played significant roles to raise recognition of importance in ocean colour remote sensing. He had special interests in educating and encouraging young scientists and scientists from developing countries. He organized international training courses to promote capacity building for young scientists through IOCCG and POGO since 1997.
Professor Platt, passed away on April 5, 2020. He is survived by his loving wife and colleague of over 30 years, Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath.
The text above was kindly provided by Dr Seunghyun Son and originally published in the book Satellite Derived Global Ocean Product Validation/Evaluation. Seunghyun Son, Trevor Platt and Shubha Sathyendranath (Eds.). Pages: 280. December 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-03943-646-0
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According to the Bible's creation account, after making the heavens and the earth, God created humankind. The Adam and Eve story in Genesis 2 states that God formed Adam out of the dust of the ground, and then Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs. But was it really his rib? In a BAS Library special collection of articles, learn about a controversial interpretation of the creation of woman, and explore other themes related to Adam and Eve in the Bible.
Scroll down to read a summary of these articles.
Was Eve Made from Adam's Rib—or His Baculum?
BAR, Sep/Oct 2015
by Ziony Zevit
Creating Woman
BAR, Mar/Apr 2016
by Mary Joan Winn Leith
Did Eve Fall or Was She Pushed?
Bible Review, Aug 1999
by Susan L. Greiner
Eve and Adam—Is a Feminist Reading Possible?
Bible Review, Jun 1988
by Pamela J. Milne
How Did Adam & Eve Make a Living?
Bible Review, Apr 1995
by Eleanor Ferris Beach and Frederic L. Pryor
Was Eve created from Adam's rib? In "Was Eve Made from Adam's Rib—or His Baculum?" by Ziony Zevit, a controversial Bible translation is put forward. The Book of Genesis tells us that God created woman from one of Adam's ribs, but Zevit contends that Eve actually came from a different part of Adam's body—his baculum.
In "Creating Woman," Mary Joan Winn Leith looks at the etiological and euphemistic support for Ziony Zevit's interpretation of how Eve was created, and she considers how this would have fit into ancient views of biology. Then Leith focuses on an interesting part of the Adam and Eve story in the Bible: the "punishment poem" in Genesis 3:14–19.
The first woman has been blamed for a host of ills—from inspiring witches to being the very source of sin. Tracing the roots of Eve's bad reputation leads not to Genesis (as many people assume), but to an obscure set of texts known as the pseudepigrapha, says Susan L. Greiner in "Did Eve Fall or Was She Pushed?"
"The devil's gateway, the unsealer of that forbidden tree, the first deserter of the divine law"—so Eve was described by the Christian theologian Tertullian (c. 160–240 A.D.). And it's been downhill since then for the popular image of the Biblical mother of all humanity. Downhill, that is, until feminist Bible critics started studying the creation stories in Genesis 2–3. In "Eve and Adam—Is a Feminist Reading Possible?" Bible scholar Pamela J. Milne offers a lucid and fascinating interpretation of the Eve and Adam story, and compares her own view with many others that have been promoted, past and present.
Does the Garden of Eden story in Genesis tell us how primitive peoples actually lived? Well, maybe. In "How Did Adam and Eve Make a Living?" Frederic L. Pryor and Eleanor Ferris Beach draw on anthropological research and on the economics of primitive societies to demonstrate that the description of Adam and Eve's transition from gatherers—in Eden—to farmers/shepherds—after the expulsion from Paradise—closely resembles the evolution of early humans.


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The X Button - Further Complications
by Todd Ciolek, Jan 26th 2010
This week's news starts with the Shin Megami Tensei series, and it's made me think about just how far these games have come in North America. In the days of the NES and Super NES, no company in their right mind would release a full Shin Megami Tensei title in the West, what with the games' tendencies to feature grotesque monsters and final bosses who happen to be the actual Christian God. Things loosened up in the later 1990s and Atlus released some games in the SMT-related Persona series, though fans still had to watch titles like Soul Hackers and the Innocent Sin half of Persona 2 gather dust in Japan.
Today, things are different. Atlus can release three different versions of Persona 3 in North America, and every Shin Megami Tensei game stands a good chance of coming here. Well, except for the PSP version of Devil Summoner. You can't have everything.
But what was the first Shin Megami Tensei game released in the West? It wasn't the original Persona, which was localized for the PlayStation in 1996. About a year before that, Atlus took a risk on Jack Bros., a Shin Megami Tensei spin-off for the Virtual Boy.
A maze-based shooter, Jack Bros. stars Atlus mascot Jack Frost and two other similarly cute heroes named Jack. Unlike other Shin Megami Tensei titles, the game required minimal sanitizing for kids: the three brothers became "fairies" instead of demons, and Jack Ripper was dubbed "Jack Skelton" for the English version. It's a charming little game, encumbered only by the Virtual Boy's harsh red-on-black color palette. Not many noticed it, since Nintendo killed the Virtual Boy after its first two and half minutes on the market, but Jack Bros. would live on as the most expensive of the dozen or so Virtual Boy games released in North America.
So when you next play a game from the Shin Megami Tensei franchise, remember the minor debt we all owe to the Jack Bros.
PERSONA 3 PORTABLE OUT IN JULY, STRANGE JOURNEY IN MARCH
It's hard to imagine someone buying and playing through the regular Persona 3 and Persona 3 FES on the PlayStation 2 and then doing it all over again with the PSP version, but it's the sort of game that invites replays with branching paths and multiple relationships. Persona 3 Portable isn't quite the definite version of the game, as it lacks the "Answer" epilogue from Persona 3 FES, but it has all sorts of other enhancements.
The biggest such enhancement is the chance to play as a female character with her own Persona spirit-avatar, storyline, and dating options. Portable also features redone, sprite-based overhead graphics and, better still, the option to directly control party members in battle (a choice absent from the PlayStation 2 versions). So there are several good reasons to play or re-play it when it hits North America this July.
For those who can't wait, Atlus has Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey arriving in March. It's a little more grim and a little less character-driven than Persona, as Strange Journey's all about exploring the bizarre mazes that lie on the other side of an Antarctic rift between dimensions. Atlus is shipping it with a GameStop pre-order incentive, even if it's just a poster of the game's nondescript cast. Buyers also get a soundtrack CD, whether they reserve the game or not.
DEAD OR ALIVE PARADISE ALSO COMING IN MARCH
I find it hard to be outraged or even mockingly amused by the Dead or Alive Xtreme series. On one hand, it's a silly and shameless parade of the women from the Dead or Alive fighting games as they're playing volleyball, jumping around, and posing in bikinis (and less) for the player to faux-photograph. On the other hand, it's usually such conventional titillation, the sort you'd see in the pages of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (well, aside from Xtreme 2's pole-dancing). Compared to what regularly comes along in Japanese gaming circles, Xtreme is mild stuff.
And now there's more of it. Dead or Alive Paradise recreates diversions from the first two Xtremes on the PSP, including the volleyball matches, the poolside games, the casinos, and, of course, the rampant and convenient photo-ops. Paradise also adds Rio, the mascot of numerous fine pachinko properties, to the lineup of models. Custom soundtracks can be spliced from music files from the PSP's memory stick, so you can feel clever by playing that awful Duran Duran song whenever Rio's dancing. And if you're one of those Dead or Alive fans who demands plastic abstraction, the Japanese special edition of Paradise comes with a Kasumi statue. In America, there likely won't be any such bonus when the game arrives on the PSP in March.
AGAREST SENKI LIMITED EDITION HOLDS NOTHING BACK
Some publishers may balk at releasing suggestive trinkets with their titles, but not Aksys Games. No, no, no. Their newly announced Record of Agarest War special edition includes, to borrow the press release's phrasing, a "Yearning Ellis" pillowcase, a selectively rounded "Sensual Vira-Lor" mousepad, a "Naughty Collector's Box," and a soundtrack with apparently risqué labels.
Though I wasn't keeping track, this may be the first time a North American game publisher has sold a boobs-gel mousepad with a game. The pillowcase may also be a historic first, but I'm not sure if it qualifies as one of those body-pillow covers that one reads so much about nowadays. Both are featured in this suitably lascivious trailer for the special edition, which will run $59.99 when it ships for the Xbox 360 this spring. PlayStation 3 owners must content themselves with the game's downloadable version.
FRONT MISSION EVOLVED COMING HERE, POSSIBLY IN MARCH
Square Enix really wants Front Mission to do well in North America. Sure, they never released Front Mission 5 over here, but they released the DS port of the original game and made sure that the newest entry in the series, Front Mission Evolved, was developed by Double Helix Games, which is based right in Irvine, California.
Evolved's storyline is standard fare for Front Mission: in a near-future world where massive empires control warfare and commerce, a youth named Dylan Ramsey stumbles into an international conspiracy involving politics and giant mecha called Wanzers. Of course, the real change is in the gameplay: past Front Missions were strategy-RPGs, and Evolved is a third-person shooter.
Currently headed for the PS3 and Xbox 360, Evolved breaks further from its predecessors by letting players control humans outside of their battle mecha. Many Front Mission fans disowned the game upon sight of these somewhat generic scenes, but I'm intrigued by the potential. Will Wanzer pilots be able to hop from their mecha and explore on foot, as players could in Blaster Master and Metal Warriors? If Evolved can pull that off, it might win over all sorts of new fans when it arrives in North America this spring.
IN BRIEF: AFTER BURNER CLIMAX, SAMURAI SHOWDOWN: EDGE OF DESTINY STILL ALIVE
If After Burner Climax proves nothing else, it's that people can still get excited about arcade games coming home. Climax, a visually splendid follow-up to the 1980s jet-shooter After Burner, arrived in arcades back in 2006, complete with a special cockpit-like cabinet. Sega recently slipped out news of the game coming to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this spring, presumably without the giant pilot-seat apparatus.
Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny hasn't stirred up much talk over here, as past attempts at making the Samurai Shodown fighters into 3-D games have fallen flat. However, Edge of Destiny is still on its way to the Xbox 360, and after sitting at Ignition for a while, it's now being published in North America by Xseed Games. It's also now called Samurai Spirits Sen. This is all a reversal of what happened with Muramasa: The Demon Blade last year, when it jumped from Xseed to Ignition.
IMPORT ROUNDUP: JANUARY
CORO PATA
Developer: LukPlus
Publisher: LukPlus
The puzzle-platform game isn't all that prominent on the DS, though there are offerings like Henry Hatsworth and Boing! Docomodake. Coro Pata is a similar idea, albeit one wrapped up in too-cute anime trappings. DS stylus in hand, the player manipulates objects to guide a small girl named Himawari through side-scrolling levels. Puzzles range from jumping challenges to odd contraptions that must be built, all to keep Himawari from falling over or crying uncontrollably or being anything less than completely happy. It's simple in appearances, though the character animation is reasonably impressive for the DS. As far as the intended audience goes, I'm not quite sure if Coro Pata is supposed to be some Yotsuba&!-like charmer for both kids and adults, or just something for aging otaku seeking a childlike escape from the soul-deadening lives they've built around themselves. I prefer to think it's the former.
Import Barrier: Much of the gameplay is visual, though players will be lost when it comes to dialogue that's all in Japanese.
Chances for a Domestic Release: Not good, though it might catch the eye of Atlus or a competing publisher.
THE DEVIL HUNTERS: EXORSISTER
Developer: Tamsoft
Publisher: D3
Players: 1-4 (ad-hoc)
Here's a premise soundly familiar to anyone who watched anime or read comics or played video games too often in the last twenty years: there's this group of women, OK? And they fight monsters, OK? And they do it while wearing revealing outfits! The Devil Hunters: Exorsister is this sort of production, a violent action game wherein four women, all members of the anti-monster task force code-named Exorsister, take down various creatures in various ways. The heroines, who have names like "Silva Conscious" and "Mina Berry," get bladed weapons as well as firearms (and numerous costumes) to use in 3-D brawling levels. Up to four players can join the carnage, and it all lives up to the spirit of Tamsoft's own Onechanbara series. Like Onechanbara, Exorsister is part of the Simple 2500 line of budget games, so don't expect Bayonetta-level detail and design in terms of game complexity. Still, Onechanbara started just as small, and now it's a live-action film. Laugh now, but perhaps you'll one day see the name of The Demon Hunters: Exorsister on a movie poster. Next to the name of Uwe Boll.
Import Barrier: Dialogue's in Japanese, but the controls and various dress-up options should be easy to figure out.
Chances for a Domestic Release: Moderate. Onechanbara came out here for the Xbox 360, after all.
MAGICAL GIRL LYRICAL NANOHA A'S PORTABLE: BATTLE OF ACES
Developer: Witchcraft/Natsume
Publisher: Namco Bandai
I've seen Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha described as a fighting series in the guise of a girlish magical-heroine drama, so it's only fitting that a Nanoha game is a grandiose fighter. Well, it's grandiose in terms of the attacks hurled by the game's lineup of magicians as they brawl in spacious arenas (which sometimes don't even have ground to stand on). Flashy projectile attacks are emphasized, and dodging those projectiles is all but essential. Battles often come down to building up a power meter and unleashing some straight-from-the-anime destruction, but that's likely the main draw for the Nanoha fan. Less grand is the game's lineup of only nine combatants, though it includes most of the principal cast from the A's sequel, with rival warriors Nanoha and Fate joined by Hayate, Signum, Reinforce, Vita, Shamal, Chrono, and Zafila. If the characters are few, they're at least customizable, as each fighter can equip up to four different powers before battle. That alone should keep Battle of Aces above water for a few days of play.
Import Barrier: The story is entirely in Japanese, but any English-speaker who buys this likely knows the plot.
Chances for a Domestic Release: Nothing to speak of.
RELEASES FOR THE WEEK OF 1-31
Developer: Level-5
Publisher: Sony
Sony doesn't challenge the RPG empires of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest too often, but they usually bring in Level-5 when they do. After developing Sony's last major console RPG with the space-opera Rogue Galaxy, Level-5 adopts a more fantasy-themed style with White Knight Chronicles. The story smacks of routine, since there's a hero with mysterious transformation-based powers, a shadowy organization, and a princess to save. In gameplay, however, White Knight Chronicles carefully swipes from recent RPGs. Enemies are visible well before battle, and combat gives the player direct control over the lead character, with the others using AI-based attacks and combos to take on the game's frequently huge monsters. The game's "Georama" mode also creates a customized town for other players to visit online, complete with recruited townspeople. Sure, that idea probably came from the Suikoden games, but at least Level-5 steals only the best. And for all of its generic mashing-ups of clichés, White Knight Chronicles has traces of a unique style, at least as far as huge suits of armor are concerned.
Get Excited If: You want a big-budget console RPG that stands just a hair apart from the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest milieus.
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So yes that's a happy news. See, this friend of mine has been married 10 years ago and they've been waiting for this gift ever since.
Ten long years and God did not fail them.
This mail made me more hopeful that someday soon it will be our turn. Someday soon it will be me emailing friends, announcing that we are expecting. Someday soon.
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So Si Bon to resume in Aurie's Star Stakes at Flemington
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Co-trainer Tom Dabernig acknowledges that entering cult galloper So Si Bon for the Cox Plate is ambitious but if ever he is going to run in the race, this could be the year to do it.
"The Cox Plate may not be as strong due to the travel restrictions," Dabernig said.
"If he's going well then who knows? We might think about it but he would have to be in good form."
The seven-year-old resumes in the Group Three Aurie's Star Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday, a race he won first up 12 months ago.
Last campaign, for the first time in his career, So Si Bon put together back-to-back wins to take his overall tally to five.
He then ran sixth at Flemington over 1600m on a heavy track behind Reykjavik in May when he had a tough run and was subsequently spelled.
Dabernig said they had decided to take the blinkers off for his first-up run as they wanted him to relax while fresh.
"If he can relax early and there's good pressure on, he'll finish strongly and should be a genuine top-three chance," Dabernig said.
"He had three weeks off and has a lot of residual fitness. He's had one trial. We're taking the fresh approach with him knowing there's improvement to come.
"He'll like the conditions with a bit of rain about. There should be good pace, which he'll like, and if he's left alone early he should run a good race.
"The main difference is that he's got the topweight of 60 kilos and he only carried 55-1/2 kilos last year."
So Si Bon won the 2019 Aurie's Star Stakes then finished second in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield and Dabernig said they would most likely follow the same path.
"Maybe the Memsie Stakes but we will see what is in it. Last year he ran well in the same race so it's a good option," Dabernig said.
So Si Bon will be ridden by Mark Zahra who has partnered him four times for two wins and two seconds.
With David Hayes moving to take up a position in Hong Kong, Dabernig is now training soley alongside Ben Hayes.
The new-look partnership has started well with 10 winners, including one at each of the city meetings held this season with Hard Landing scoring at The Valley last Saturday and Ring Of Honour at Sandown the next day.
"I'm surrounded by a good, experienced team. There's not that much difference except that David isn't there. It's really business as usual," Dabernig said.
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Badly needing an emotional lift following Saturday's throttling by the San Antonio Spurs, the Washington Wizards got just that Monday when center Brendan Haywood practiced with the team for the first time since tearing a ligament in his right wrist in training camp.
Haywood, who had surgery in November, had been taking gradual steps forward in his rehabilitation and had been a regular observer at practice. The center also had been taking time to develop his left hand.
In the past week, Haywood began taking shots with his right hand. After receiving clearance from his doctor to resume noncontact action, he wasted no time getting to work Monday.
Haywood's work with the Wizards basically consisted of running through plays, catching and cutting to the basket and shooting in a nonphysical setting. He did pretty well considering he hasn't played since October, interim coach Ed Tapscott said.
Tapscott praised Haywood for maintaining his playing weight of between 265 and 270 pounds, but Haywood said that hasn't been a challenge.
"It wasn't like I was sitting around idle and watching old reruns of 'The Cosby Show' and eating Jell-O all day - I was actually doing some work," Haywood said.
After working with his teammates, Haywood's session with Massenburg was anything but light. The 13-year NBA veteran and former Maryland player has spent the season working as an assistant with the Wizards. He bodied Haywood up, tried to block his shots and worked to get a hand on the ball when Haywood was dribbling.
Haywood responded positively, holding his ground while posting up and catching passes from assistant Wes Unseld Jr. He was even hitting fadeaway jumpers and spinning for baseline jams with his right hand.
Haywood, who said he will return to New York in two weeks for his surgeon to assess his progress, has the range of motion to shoot with no difficulty but still experiences some swelling. He is working to redevelop the range of motion that allows him to bend his hand backward, which is key to playing defense and contesting shots.
No timetable has been set for Haywood's return, and he and the team remain committed to not rushing him back and risk reinjuring the wrist. But Haywood admitted it has been tough watching his teammates struggle to a 13-43 record.
"I was expecting this team to be a playoff team. And around this time I'm trying to fight back to make a playoff run, and obviously that's not the case now," said Haywood, who was coming off a career year with 10.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 1.7 blocks a game. "I [would rather have] this team be on pace for 40 wins or more and try to do something in the playoffs.


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Ayyan to end her five-year hiatus after money laundering case with new tracks
Pakistani model Ayyan Ali, who had sullied her name earlier over a money laundering case, is gearing up for her comeback in the entertainment industry.
Turning to her Twitter, the 26-year-old model and singer announced the release date of her upcoming tracks, marking a return to the showbiz scene after a hiatus following her money laundering scandal.
"Time to ride & double check my upcoming 7 tracks in one of my favourite oldest lambo," she wrote alongside a picture of her striking a pose with her cars in her driveway outside her residence in Dubai.
'Time to ride & double check my upcoming 7 tracks in one of my favourite oldest lambo,' she wrote alongside a picture of her striking a pose with her cars in her driveway outside her residence in Dubai
"I just wanna make sure they sound awesome. So u all can enjoy my hard work that I m putting out after 5 years. Guys all 7 songs will be released in about one week or max two weeks time span, [sic]" she added.
She had returned to social media earlier this year in March after a break that lasted almost four years.
Ayyan had kept herself away from the limelight since she was granted bail four months following her arrest in 2015 on charges of money laundering after customs officials had caught her flying to Dubai while being in possession of over half a million dollars.


The Times of Israel reports: A top Palestinian body on Monday passed a motion urging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend all agreements with Israel and revoke recognition of the Jewish state until Israel formally recognizes a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines.
"We recognize the right to resist the occupation in all methods that comply with international law," the Palestinian Central Council, a Palestine Liberation Organization decision-making body, said in its decision.
The body, convening in Ramallah, said Palestinians should end "all forms" of security coordination with Israel and nullify several financial agreements that it said were being "ignored" by Jerusalem.


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Aspen parents group wants to 'take back our school'
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rcarroll@aspentimes.com
Some Aspen parents handed out this flier last week at Back to School Night. They plan to meet Tuesday.
A group of parents plan to gather Tuesday to collect feedback on what they consider to be a broken Aspen School District that has alienated teachers through self-interest and nepotism, while the superintendent said the initiative comes from "good intentions" but runs counter to open dialogue.
Parents Marla Butler and Anna Zane are behind the fliers that were handed out to parents at last week's Back to School Night at the elementary school. The group, called the Aspen Parent Action Committee, will gather at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Butler's residence.
Butler and Zane declined to go into what their ultimate goal is. It is the first of what they said will be a number of meetings among parents who are worried about what they say is teacher dissatisfaction.
"We feel that we need some change in the district in a positive direction," Zane said. "We would like to get together and figure out how we can do that. We're worried about the culture in the school."
Teacher morale at the school is low, and a number of educators have lost confidence in the administration but lack the means to address the issue publicly, Butler alleged.
"Are you tired of hearing about the fear of repercussion?" states the flier. "We must empower ourselves to speak out and demand change."
Superintendent John Maloy, in an email response to The Aspen Times seeking comment from him and the Board of Education, said he and the board learned of the circular after it was handed out "to a select group of parents and teachers, including the Teachers' Association, which I was informed as an organization is declining to participate."
Maloy's email said he and the board support open engagement from the parents, but he questioned the new group's approach.
"The Board of Education and administration agree wholeheartedly with the select group of parents' desire to prioritize the needs of our children and create a safe work environment for our teachers and students," Maloy said. "The flier states that the ad hoc parent group wants a 'collaborative and transparent working environment' yet the flier states they want to 'take back our schools' and 'demand change' through a process whereby one must email to learn of the group's location and those leading this initiative. Finally, the picture they have chosen for their ad hoc parent group is a fist or strong arm which seems counter to the group's stated objectives.
"As always, members of the Board of Education, building and district administration, and teachers would continue to welcome the opportunity to meet with any individual or group of parents to foster an open and honest dialogue for the benefit of all students in our schools."
The meeting comes after recent newspaper reports that the school district learned in July that its director of human resources, Elizabeth Hodges, had been disbarred in April by the state of Missouri over estate-planning for a couple in her previous career as a lawyer.
A Missouri grand jury also indicted Hodges, who took the school district job in July 2016 following on-the-job training, for a felony in February 2016, a charge to which she pleaded down to a misdemeanor for deceptive business practices in December 2016.
The criminal conviction and disbarment were related to the same incident, while Hodges has said she didn't fight the disbarment proceedings because she didn't have the money and wanted to move on from a situation that was spurred by vindictive relatives of the deceased couple she represented.
Maloy and Board of Education Chair Sheila Wills have stood behind Hodges, but the district recently opened what it said is a second, more expansive background check into Hodges.
This week's meeting will address "more of the bigger picture" at the school district, Zane said.
"The Hodges thing is the icing on the cake that lit the fire under a lot of people and helped them realize this is now or never," she said.
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Q: Is there a way to monitor /dev/random? We're investigating some JDBC issues, and one of the possible problems is /dev/random being exhausted. The workaround is to switch the JVM to using /dev/urandom, but I wan't to try and determine whether or not the /dev/random is being exhausted.
Is there a way to check if the entropy pool is being exhausted? I've gone hunting for nagios plugins and general bash commands, but I've turned up nothing.

A: as read someplace else... each new process get entropy from /dev/random
a simple way to avoid stealing the pool is a program, such as:
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import time

while True:
    with open('/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail', 'r') as f:
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A: Sure!  Ask /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail.


After some recent traveling, we returned home to find that while we were away, our garden had been doing some serious growing. In one week, I swear our garden went from being a cute little vegetable patch to something akin to the amazon rainforest. I couldn't believe it! Most of the herbs were in danger of some serious bolting (bye bye cilantro), but I think I was able to salvage most of them, after quite a large herb harvest. I have a surplus of pretty much everything, which I've arranged in this decorative vase until I can come up with a use for them. Makes a nice little centerpiece (and tasty too).
Of all of my herbs, the ones that went the craziest were the basil and the arugula. Seriously, I was up to my ears in the stuff, so it seemed that some pesto making was in order. Let me just say that I LOVE pesto and will put in on anything and everything. Sandwiches - check, salad dressings - check, stirred into soup, on top of grilled meat, I mean really, the possibilities are endless. And let's be honest, the possibilities for making pesto are endless too. You have too much lemon balm you say? Make it into pesto (great on fish). Too many garlic scapes or kale in your CSA? Make some pesto, you won't regret it. As I mentioned, I had a plethora of basil and arugula, so that's what I used here, but feel free to sub whatever you have lying around for the greens here.
Note: for some inexplicable reason, I'm not a huge fan of pine nuts (please don't hold it against me), so I left them out of this recipe. BUT, for all you pine nut lovers out there, never fear! You can easily add about ¼ c pine nuts (or almonds, or walnuts, or whatever you have handy) to this recipe and get your pine nut fix.
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James Stephenson, from South Yorkshire, often travels on the UK rail network
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James Stephenson, who has gone missing from South Yorkshire
Police in South Yorkshire are appealing for help in tracing a missing man who often travels on the railways.
James Stephenson, 40, was reported missing almost two weeks ago but has since been spotted getting onto trains in London and Leeds.
Officers believe he could head anywhere in the UK using the rail network.
A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: "Despite extensive enquiries across the country, including in London and in West Yorkshire, Mr Stephenson is yet to be found.
"He was last seen at around 10.15am on Tuesday, March 18, when he left the Cambian Oaks Hospital in Sheffield Road, Barnsley.
"He told staff he intended to go shopping in the Huddersfield area, but never returned.
"Since then, there has been a confirmed sighting of Mr Stephenson getting on a train in Leeds and getting off the train in London. Following this, it is believed he caught a train back north to West Yorkshire."
Mr Stephenson is described as having ginger-coloured hair and is approximately 5ft 8ins tall. When last seen, he was wearing a dark overcoat with a grey hooded top underneath and jeans.
Anyone with information should call South Yorkshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 589 of March 18.
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Tallahassee, Fla. – Anders Albertson continued his recent hot streak by firing a 6-under-par 66, lifting Georgia Tech into a tie for fourth place after the opening round of the NCAA Tallahassee Regional golf tournament.
In near perfect weather conditions Thursday at the 6,965-yard, par 72 Golden Eagle Golf and Country Club, Albertson turned in a bogey-free card and stands one shot off the pace set by MJ Maguire of North Florida (65). The Atlantic Coast Conference individual champion has broken 70 in seven of his last eight rounds.
But the seventh-ranked Yellow Jackets, seeded second in this regional, find themselves in a bit of an uncomfortable position at the close of Thursday's round after getting out of the chute quickly with an early lead. The top five teams at the conclusion of 54 holes Saturday will advance to play in the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, which begins May 28 at the Capital City Club's Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga. Tech is the host institution.
North Florida, ranked 19th nationally, grabbed the early lead by posting a 16-under-par 272, four shots clear of top-seeded and 6th-ranked Washington (12-under 276) and five ahead of third seed and 14th-ranked Florida State (11-under 277). Tech is tied with Oregon and South Florida at 8-under-par 280.
Wake Forest and Oklahoma are tied for seventh place at 4-under 284, the only other teams to break par Thursday.
Ollie Schniederjans shot a 2-under-par 70, while Bo Andrews added a 1-under 71 and Shun Yat Hak chipped in with a 1-over 73 for the Yellow Jackets in the opening round.


On January 1, California's new laws take effect. There are many that affect health care in the state.
SB 1077 This is one that affects al physicians in the state either now or in the future. It has always been the law that when a physician retires he/she has the ability to keep an active license and partake in the necessary CME units or go to a inactive license with less pay and no CME units. This latter license allowed a very limited practice of medicine. The new law does away with this choice. Now you either have an active license or you have no license. The same law does away with the fictitious name requirement that had been needed to be issued by the Medical Board. It still needs to be issued by the local agency and by the Department of Corporations if the entity is a corporation. This also applies to accredited ASCs as well as physicians.
SB 420 directs the Department of Health Services to issue ID cards for those that qualify for the use of medical marijuana.
SB 2 is the controversial play or pay law that will go to the voters for a thumbs up or down vote in November.
SB 244 states that enrollees of managed care organizations may continue to see their health care provider even if the provider is no longer contracted with the plan.
SB 853 is an unfunded mandate by the state to managed care plans and their contract organizations to provide interpreters for the enrollees.
SB 969 states that if call centers are utilized only licensed professionals may give advice. The rub here is can non-licensed operators give written instructions based on a decision tree. The law seems to state "no", but Kaiser is taking the opposite approach.
SB 292 In another unfunded mandate the pharmacies will be required to not only label the medication with the name, physician, dosage and instructions as presently done but will also have to include the physician description of the medication on the label. This should confuse patients so they will not be able to read the instructions.
AB 663 prohibits people in medical training from doing unconsented to pelvic exams on female patients while they are under anesthesia unless it is part of the surgical or diagnostic procedure being performed.
SB 151 removes the triplicate narcotic forms that have been used in the state and replaces them with special forms which are onerous to the physicians prescribing the medications since the physicians will be required to keep a daily log of the prescriptions written and submit them monthly to the state and to put on the prescription an identifying number of the pharmacy that will fill the prescription. This does not give the patient choice in finding the most economical place to purchase the prescription.
SB 376 allows certain money losing rural district hospitals to employ not more than two physicians with concurrence of BOTH the hospital AND medical staff, not just the executive committees.
EMTALA has changed the Medicare billing for hospitals. It was the law that if the final diagnosis did not go along with the tests the hospital could not expect to get paid for the tests. This is no longer the case. Now if the test is indicated because of the initial symptoms the test will be paid for, no matter the final diagnosis.
The administration has requested an additional $5.6 billion for VA care in the next fiscal year. The main question is, why? Not why the increase, but why is their a VA system at all? This unnecessary system is pure pork for the areas where hospitals or clinics are located. There is no reason why they should be in existence. The men and women who have true service connected disabilities can and should be treated by the best trained and best equipped people and places in the country. This can be accomplished with the use of the community or university hospitals and the bills paid by the government for not only their outpatient and inpatient care but also for their prescriptions. They can be given Medicare with full prescription benefits with much less money than building more hospitals and clinics that stand next to or in close proximity to excellent civilian facilities. The newly requested budget seems to be slowly heading in that direction by now paying for non-veteran hospital urgent or emergent care and ending copays of the POWs and pharmacy copays for indigent vets. Those veterans, such as myself, who have no service connected disability and who use the VA only because they are too cheap to obtain prescriptions or care with traditional insurance should not be given those privileges.
The Washington State Senate has approved a bill for a $350,000 cap on non-economic damages as well as other changes. The bill now goes to the House where it met its death last year.


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The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: What Kind Of Crime Against Humanity, Tort, Human Rights Violation, Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing Is It? Part Two: Is The Disinformation Campaign a Human Rights Violation Or A Special Kind of Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing ?
Posted on February 4, 2013 by dabrown57
This is the second in a series looking at how to classify the climate change disinformation campaign given that it is some new kind of assault on humanity, yet not easily classifiable into existing categories of behaviors that cause great harm. Part One of this series identified four prior articles and three videos that Ethicsandclimate.org has previously produced on this subject as well as looking at whether this effort to undermine the mainstream scientific view about climate change can be classified as a crime against humanity or a tort under common law. These previous articles distinguished the tactics of the disinformation campaign from responsible skepticism and the acceptable exercise of free speech after explaining what is meant by the "climate change disinformation campaign" and how it operated.
I. Is The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign A Human Rights Violation?
A. Introduction
A very strong case can be made that human-induced climate change triggers human rights violations because of the destructive nature of climate change damages. If human rights are to be understood to be recognition of those norms that are necessary to protect human dignity, inadequate climate change policies must be understood to trigger human rights violations because climate change will not only make human dignity impossible for millions of people around the world, including countless members of future generations but also directly threaten life itself and resources necessary to sustain life. And so, as we shall see, climate change causing activities create human rights violations because of the enormity of harm to life, health, food, property, and inviolability of the right of all people to enjoy the places where they live.
Yet finding legal remedies under human rights legal theories for the the destructive role that the disinformation campaign has played in preventing or delaying solutions to climate change will require finding at a minimum: (a) a specific human right under and an existing human rights regime that has been violated by climate change, (b) a human rights regime that has the jurisdiction and legal authority to grant the requested remedy in the specific human rights controversy before it, (c) a legal theory supporting the claim that non-state actors, not just governments, responsible for the violations of human rights have duties to prevent human rights, and (d) a legal justification to link the duties of non-state actors to prevent human rights violations to the activities of the disinformation campaign.
B. Which human rights are violated by climate change and do human rights fora have the authority to adjudicate claims based upon the tactics of the disinformation campaign?
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is usually viewed to be the foundational document in modern international human rights law. (UN, 1948). The UDHR is a non-binding 'soft-law' agreement among nations that over time has been complemented by a series of legally binding international treaties while retaining its status as customary international law. Because it is customary international law it could be relevant to damage claims made in civil litigation requesting damages in cases before international courts such as the International Court of Justice.
The two most important global human rights treaties in addition to the UDHR often stated to be the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights identifies the following as entitled to rights protections that are relevant to climate change:
(a) Life, liberty, and security of person. (Article 1)
(b) Right to an effective remedy by national tribunals for violations of fundamental or constitutionals rights. (Article 8)
(c) Full equality to a fair public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of a person's rights and obligations. (Article 10)
(d) Freedom from arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home or correspondence. (Article 12)
(e) Freedom from being arbitrarily deprived of property. (Article 17)
(f) Right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (Article 25)
(g) Rights to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms can be fully recognized. (Article 28) (UN1948)
The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) identifies the following as entitled to rights protections relevant to climate change protections:
(a) The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent. (Article 11)
(b) The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:
a. To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources;
b. Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.
(c) The right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health… The steps to be taken by the States Parties to the present Covenant to achieve the full realization of this right shall include those necessary for:… (c) prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic, and occupational and other diseases. (Article 12)
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) identifies the following as entitled to rights protections that are relevant to climate change protections:
(a) Inherent Right to Life. This right shall be protected by law. (Article 5)
(b) Right to be protected from arbitrary and unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home…. (Article 15)
A strong case can be made that climate change prevents people all around the world from enjoying the above rights.
These three documents i.e. the UDHR, the ICESCR, and the ICCPR are often considered to be the foundational documents that comprise an international bill of rights. Yet not all nations have adopted all three documents. Although the UDHR has been accepted by most nations of the world, the ICPCR and ICCPR have been less widely so. In fact the ICESCR has not been ratified by the United States and therefore may be inapplicable to climate change caused human rights violations in the United States. To date, these two treaties have been ratified by about 75 percent of the world's countries. The UDHR is a "soft-law" document which has normative, but not legal force in the international system. The ICESCR and ICCCPR were the first of many treaties that have been enacted to give the protections identified in the UDHR the force of law.
A country ratifying a UN human rights treaty agrees to respect and implement within domestic law the rights the treaty covers. It also agrees to accept and respond to international scrutiny and criticism of its compliance. It does not necessarily agree to make the human rights norm directly enforceable in domestic courts. That usually requires implementing legislation.
Treaty enforcement is accomplished within the UN often with the creation of a body to monitor states' performance, and to which member states are required to submit periodic reports on compliance. For instance, the ICCPR is implemented through the Human Rights Committee (HRC) which was created to promote compliance with its provisions. The HRC frequently expresses its views as to whether a particular practice is a human rights violation, but it is not authorized to issue legally binding decisions. Other treaties and bodies exist within the UN system with varying enforcement and implementation powers and duties to implement human rights goals. For the most part, these enforcement powers are weak and improvements in human rights violations are best achieved through holding offending nations to the court of international opinion rather than law.
In addition, several regional human rights regimes have been enacted that promote human rights in particular parts of the world. These regions include Europe, the Americas, and Africa which have their own declarations and conventions for enforcement of human rights on a regional basis.
Thus far no one has successfully brought a human rights claim for climate change caused damages although the Inuit Peoples filed such a claim in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Before a successful human rights claim can be brought in an existing legal forum in regard to climate change, several potential legal hurdles need to be overcome that have little to do with whether a nation or an individual has committed a human rights violation. These hurdles include jurisdictional, issues, questions of proof, and authority of the relevant forum. For this reason, the failure to successfully bring legally recognized human rights claims may have little to do with whether the offending behavior has created a violation of the protected right but more with the limitation of the existing legal regime. And so, the failure to bring a successful action against the climate change disinformation campaign in an existing human rights forum does not mean the disinformation campaign is not responsible for human rights violations.
Examining climate change through a human rights lens has the benefit of providing potential access to legal fora that have been created to adjudicate aspects of human rights violations. Given that there are no obvious legal fora to bring civil actions against those who have participated in the climate change disinformation campaign, pursuing remedies for human rights violations caused by climate change has the advantage of being able to file legal claims in existing judicial fora.
Potential fora include, at the global level, the Human Rights Committee established by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights established by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Regional tribunals include the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition, claims could potentially be pursued in national courts–for example, in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute.
Yet each of these fora have different jurisdictional limits on bringing legal actions on human rights basis. In this regard, a case brought on behalf of the Inuit Peoples in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights sought to find that the United States was responsible for international human rights violations is illustrative of potential road blocks to bringing successful cases for human rights violations in existing legal rights fora.
The petition detailed the effects of rising Arctic temperatures on the ability of the Inuit to enjoy a wide variety of human rights, including the rights to life (melting ice and permafrost make travel more dangerous), property (as permafrost melts, houses collapse and residents are forced to leave their traditional homes) and health (nutrition worsens as the animals on which the Inuit depend for sustenance decline in number). The petition connected the rising temperatures to increasing levels of greenhouse gases, and in particular, to the failure by the United States to take effective steps to reduce its emissions.
In November 2006, the Commission informed the petitioners
that it had determined that "it will not be possible to process your
petition at present." The IACHR did not explain its reasoning, stating only that "the information provided does not enable us to determine whether the alleged facts would tend to characterize a violation of [protected human] rights." The Commission did hold a hearing on the connection between climate change and human rights in March 2007, but it has taken no further action.
It would appear that IACHR did not believe it had the legal authority to order the specific relief requested by the petitioners, namely to issue an order to the United States to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. And so the IACHR did not decide the case on the merits of the underlying claim that the United States had contributed to human rights violations of the Inuit people, it appeared to decline to act on the basis of legal issues about its own authority.
(B) Do the duties to prevent human rights violations bind non-state actors including corporations?
It is not clear as of yet the extent to which human rights regimes create duties for individuals and corporations, that is non-state actors. Bodansky summarizes the current state of this legal question.
[A] crucial question is whether the duties to respect, protect and fulfill apply to private actors as well as states. International criminal law demonstrates that international law can in some case impose duties directly on individuals, and some have proposed that corporations have duties to respect human rights. So, at least in theory, human rights law could impose a duty on private actors to respect human rights by limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases. But generally, human rights law – like international environmental law – imposes duties on states rather than on corporations. If this is true of climate change,then human rights law limits the activities of non-state actors only to the extent that states have a duty to protect against climate change by regulating private activities.
And so, it is not clear whether the corporations that have participated in the disinformation campaign can be sued in the various human rights tribunals, yet nations may have a duty to regulate emissions from those corporations participating in the climate change disinformation campaign under human rights theories.
(C) Are the participants in the disinformation campaign liable for contributing to human rights violations?
A final issue that needs to be overcome to successfully bring a legal action against the participants in the disinformation campaign for violating civil rights of people around the world is identifying a legal basis for concluding that the disinformation campaign unlawfully caused the violation of civil rights. Because most of the participants in the disinformation campaign are corporations that are also emitters of greenhouse gases, these corporations like all greenhouse gas emitters arguably have duties to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to levels that in combination with other emitters do not deprive people around the world from enjoying legally protected rights. Yet it is not clear, that the tactics of the disinformation campaign alone make the participants in the disinformation campaign responsible for human rights violations by themselves.
However, most governments make it a crime for individuals to conspire to deprive people of their human rights. For instance, under US law it is a crime for persons to conspire to deprive another of the rights of an individual that has been secured by the individual through the United States Constitution or through any other laws of the United States. Although this specific law has not been tested in regard to climate change, it is generally viewed to be a breach of civil and sometimes criminal law to conspire to deprive people of their rights. As we saw in Part One of this series, the Plaintiffs in the case of Kivalina versus ExxonMobil et al asserted that the fossil fuel companies that have been part of the disinformation campaign conspired to harm the residents of Kavalina. And so there may be sufficient facts about the disinformation campaign that could form the basis of a claim that if proven could be the basis for finding responsibility for individuals participating in the climate change disinformation campaign yet only an actual case will test this possibility.
(D) Conclusions in regard to classifying the disinformation campaign as a violation of human rights.
There is little question that the more than 20 year delay in taking action on climate change in the United States for which the disinformation campaign is at least partially responsible for has prevented people around the world from enjoying a host of human rights that are now recognized in a variety of human rights regimes around the world. Yet, as was the case in categorizing the disinformation as a crime against humanity or a common law tort, there may be no existing legal remedy under existing human rights law that can be deployed to deal with the harms created by those participating in the disinformation campaign. And so once again, there may be serious deprivations of human rights caused by the disinformation campaign without legal remedies. Only time will tell whether those who have been harmed by climate change will be able to successfully bring a legal action against those engaged in the disinformation campaign for damages.
II. What Kind of Malfeasance, Transgression, Villainy, Or Wrongdoing is The Behavior of the Disinformation Campaign?
We have seen thus far from the previous analysis in this two part series that there may be no legal remedy under existing law relating to crimes against humanity, civil tort, or human rights law for the harms caused by the climate change disinformation campaign. Yet the harms attributable to the disinformation campaign are so potentially catastrophic to hundreds of millions of people around the world that laws relating to crimes against humanity, civil tort, and human rights should be amended to provide legal sanctions under these legal theories for at least for the more egregious tactics that have sometimes been deployed by some participants in this campaign.
Yet there is no doubt that some of the tactics deployed by the disinformation campaign, to be distinguished from responsible skepticism that should be encouraged, constitute some kind of malfeasance, transgression, villainy, or wrongdoing. To understand the full moral abhorrence of the disinformation campaign, a complete description of the tactics employed by the disinformation campaign is necessary and how the moral abhorrence of these tactics can be distinguished from the reasonable exercise of free speech, the right of individuals to express opinions, and the benefits to society from skeptical inquiry. Ethicsandclimate.org reviewed these issues in four articles and three videos. These prior articles explained what is meant by the disinformation campaign, distinguished the tactics of the campaign from responsible scientific skepticism which should be encouraged, and described how the disinformation campaign was funded and organized.
The four part written series can be found at:
1. Ethical Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Introduction to a Series.
2.Ethical Analysis of the Disinformation Campaign's Tactics: (1) Reckless Disregard for the Truth, (2) Focusing On Unknowns While Ignoring Knowns, (3) Specious Claims of "Bad" Science, and (4) Front Groups.
3.Ethical Analysis of Disinformation Campaign's Tactics: (1) Think Tanks, (2) PR Campaigns, (3) Astroturf Groups, and (4) Cyber-Bullying Attacks.
4. Irresponsible Skepticism: Lessons Learned From the Climate Disinformation Campaign.
The three part video series can be found at:
Why The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is So Ethically Abhorrent.
The Ethical Abhorrence of The Climate Change Disinformation Campaign, Part 2.
We particularly recommend the first video for an overview of why the disinformation campaign is so morally abhorrent. Here it is:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPdMFYMJ8dc
This video explains how destructive the disinformation campaign has been in preventing or delaying government action to reduce the threat of climate change.
In summary, at least some of the tactics of the climate change disinformation campaign are some new kind of assault on humanity which could be dealt with under expanded legal theories about crimes against humanity, civil tort, or human rights.
The philosopher Hans Jonas argued that the potential of new technologies to create great good and great harm creates the need to establish new social norms about how to deal with scientific uncertainty. Following Jonas' logic, the enormity of potential harms from a problem like climate change creates the need to establish new norms about the need to be extraordinarily careful about claims that there is no danger threatened by certain human activities. We have examined in the last of the four articles above, what these new norms might look like given the need to encourage responsible skepticism yet assure that assertions that there is no danger are made responsibly. Because the climate change disinformation campaign deployed tactics that were designed to undermine the scientific basis that supported taking policy action to reduce the threat of climate change and in so doing used tactics that are ethically abhorrent, the climate change disinformation campaign should be used to develop new legal and moral norms about the need to be responsible when discussing very dangerous human activities. Just as it would be morally abhorrent for someone to tell a girl who is lying on a railroad track that she can continue to lie there because no train is coming when that person did not have reliable knowledge that no train was coming while having an economic interest in the girl staying on the track, so it is deeply ethically troublesome for those engaged in the disinformation campaign to tell the US people that there is no evidence that fossil fuels are causing climate change without subjecting their claims to the rigor of peer-review.
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Die unbewohnbare Erde ist der Titel eines Artikels im New York Magazine aus dem Jahr 2017 und eines Buches aus dem Jahr 2019, beide verfasst vom US-amerikanischen Journalisten David Wallace-Wells. Die amerikanische Originalausgabe trägt den Titel The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming und ist bei Tim Duggan Books erschienen. Der Untertitel des Buches in der deutschsprachigen Ausgabe lautet Leben nach der Erderwärmung.

Prolog
Zwar werden verschiedene Aspekte der Klimakrise in den Medien häufig thematisiert, doch wie sich die Lebensumstände auf der Erde in den nächsten Jahrzehnten im Detail verändern könnten, spielt in der öffentlichen Diskussion eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. David Wallace-Wells hat konkrete Szenarien für eine möglicherweise unerträgliche Zukunft entwickelt. Der Autor bekennt: "Ich bin kein Umweltschützer und sehe mich nicht einmal als Naturliebhaber". Er wollte nicht über die wissenschaftlichen Aspekte der Erderwärmung schreiben, beispielsweise die exakten physikalischen Folgeerscheinungen der Kohlenstoffdioxid-Emissionen. Seine Texte beruhen jedoch auf Forschungen und Prognosen anerkannter Wissenschaftler. Daraus entwickelte der Journalist Szenarien, welche konkreten Auswirkungen die Erderhitzung auf die Biosphäre und auf menschliche Gesellschaften haben könnte. Der Autor beschreibt die schlimmstmöglichen Folgen im Rahmen verschiedener Worst Case-Szenarien, zeigt sich jedoch optimistisch, dass die Menschheit in der Lage sein wird, die kommende Krise zu bewältigen.

Kernthesen des Artikels
Titelbild des New-York-Magazine-Artikels ist die Darstellung eines männlichen Skeletts mit Sonnenbrille. Die Resonanz auf den Artikel sprengte sämtliche Erwartungen, er wurde zum meistgelesenen Artikel dieser Publikation.

"Es ist, das verspreche ich, schlimmer als Sie denken." Mit diesem Satz beginnt der erste Abschnitt über die von Menschenhand geschaffene Apokalypse, die sich, so der Autor, deutlich angekündigt hat. Er beschreibt die Probleme des Svalbard Global Seed Vault, eines weltweiten Saatgut-Tresors auf Svalbard in Norwegen, erbaut 2006 und 2007, welcher aufgrund des Klimawandels und dem Auftauen der Permafrostumgebung massive statische Probleme bekam. Er sieht das Schicksal dieser Rettungsstruktur als Metapher für das der Erde. Er erinnert daran, dass im arktischen Permafrost 1,8 Billionen Tonnen Kohlenstoff gespeichert sind, mehr als doppelt so viel wie derzeit in der Erdatmosphäre schwebt, und wie dessen Freisetzung den Klimawandel beschleunigen kann. Die Sprache des Autors ist klar und unmissverständlich: "Die meisten Menschen reden, als hätten Miami und Bangladesch noch Überlebenschancen. Die meisten Wissenschaftler, mit denen ich gesprochen habe, gehen davon aus, dass wir sie innerhalb des Jahrhunderts verlieren werden, auch wenn wir im nächsten Jahrzehnt aufhören, fossile Brennstoffe zu verbrennen."

Doomsday steht im Englischen für den Weltuntergang, für das Jüngste Gericht. Der Spitzname des norwegischen Saatgut-Tresors war "Doomsday". Wallace-Wells zitierte weiters die Szenarien des Weltklimarats (IPCC), die im ungünstigsten Fall (repräsentativer Konzentrationspfad RCP 8.5) einen Temperaturanstieg von 2,6 bis 4,8 °C bis zum Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts veranschlagen, wenn die gegenwärtigen Emissionen nicht drastisch verringert werden. Als oberen möglichen Wert prognostiziert der IPCC bis zu acht Grad, wobei die Folgen des schmelzenden Permafrosts noch nicht eingerechnet wurden. Der Autor erinnerte weiters an das Perm-Trias-Ereignis vor rund 252 Millionen Jahren, in dessen Verlauf etwa 95 Prozent der marinen Lebensformen und 75 Prozent der Landfauna ausstarben.

Rezeption
Laut einer Rezension des Österreichischen Rundfunks biete das Buch keine dezidierten Lösungen an. Lediglich Steuern, öffentliche Investitionen in alternative Energien und vor allem die Wahl von Regierungen mit klimafreundlichen Agenden würden hervorgehoben. Der Autor werte individuelle Konsumentscheidungen wie den Verzicht auf Plastiktrinkhalme oder auch einen veganen Lebensstil eher als Ablenkung und als Ersatz für politisches Handeln.

In einem offenen Brief lobten ihn zwar drei namhafte Akademiker für die drastisch beschriebenen Szenarien, widersprachen hingegen dem Optimismus und dem Glauben an die mögliche Rettung des Planeten. Insbesondere seien die Perspektiven des Geoengineering zu optimistisch dargestellt. Um eine Klimakatastrophe zu vermeiden, müsse der Gesellschaft vielmehr vor Augen geführt werden, dass ein Kollaps (some kind of eco-induced societal collapse) inzwischen nicht nur möglich, sondern auch wahrscheinlich sei.

Auszeichnung
Das Buch ist auf der Bestsellerliste der New York Times und wurde als Books of The Times ausgezeichnet. Die überregionale deutsche Wochenzeitung Der Freitag wählte das Buch zum Buch der Woche.

Artikel
 The Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells, Artikel in der Onlineausgabe der New York
 Auf deutsch am 8. September 2017 in der Freitag veröffentlicht: Der Planet schlägt zurück (Übersetzung von Zilla Hofman, Holger Hutt)

Buchpublikation
 Die unbewohnbare Erde: Leben nach der Erderwärmung. Übersetzt von Elisabeth Schmalen, Verlag Ludwig 2019, ISBN 978-3-453-28118-9.

Einzelnachweise

Sachliteratur
Klimawandel (globale Erwärmung)
Zukunftsforschung