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Incident response team
Emergency response team (zoo)
Emergency Response Team (RCMP)
Nuclear power plant emergency response team
An incident response team or emergency response team (ERT) is a group of people who prepare for and respond to any emergency incident, such as a natural disaster or an interruption of business operations. Incident response teams are common in corporations as well as in public service organizations. This team is generally composed of specific members designated before an incident occurs, although under certain circumstances the team may be an ad hoc group of willing volunteers.
Incident response team members ideally are trained and prepared to fulfill the roles required by the specific situation (for example, to serve as incident commander in the event of a large-scale public emergency). As the size of an incident grows, and as more resources are drawn into the event, the command of the situation may shift through several phases. In a small-scale event, usually only a volunteer or Ad hoc Team may respond. In small but growing, and large events, both specific member and ad hoc teams may work jointly in a unified command system. Individual team members can be trained in various aspects of the response, be it Medical Assistance/First Aid, hazardous materials spills, hostage situations, information systems attacks or disaster relief. Ideally the team has already defined a protocol or set of actions to perform to mitigate the negative effects of the incident.
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Zoo emergency response teams, also called emergency weapons teams, lethal restraint teams or firearms emergency response teams, are teams that respond when zoo animals escape their enclosure and threaten zoo visitors and employees.
Emergency response teams are responsible for the capture of escaped animals. Goals include: (listed in order of priority)
Ensure public safety
Ensure staff safety
Ensure animal safety
Recapture the animal
Emergency response teams are not full-time but are typically composed of zoo employees who have received special weapons training with the police. They are trained to use deadly force, but only as a last resort when the escaped animal is threatening the life of a human being. Zoos frequently perform training drills in order to keep the team up to date and ready for a real animal escape.
Escaped animal procedures
When an animal escapes, guests are immediately evacuated from the area and escorted to secured buildings on zoo grounds by the zoo's emergency response team (veterinarians armed with tranquilizer equipment, zoo firearms team and animal management staff). The zoo's perimeter is sealed off for safety and is usually reopened after the animal is secured.
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The Emergency Response Team (ERT) (French: Groupe tactique d'intervention) is the paramilitary tactical police arm of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. According to the RCMP, the ERT "is a group of highly-trained RCMP members capable of employing specialized weapons, equipment, and tactics to resolve extremely high-risk situations." The ERT is also mandated to assess the situation and determine whether extreme danger or the presence of small arms cannot be easily resolved by RCMP officers on general duties or by other police forces throughout Canada. The ERT offers consulting services to its fellow officers such as firearms files and shootings that involve police officers.
ERTs operate as a floating work-site team, which allows them to be called up for duty from their residences and not in a RCMP office. They also operate under a threat-based priority system if multiple emergency calls require ERT presence. ERT teams are legally bound to operate in Canada and overseas when required.
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A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical in all conventional thermal power stations the heat is used to generate steam which drives a steam turbine connected to an electric generator which produces electricity. As of 23 April 2014, the IAEA report there are 435 nuclear power reactors in operation operating in 31 countries. Nuclear power plants are usually considered to be base load stations, since fuel is a small part of the cost of production.
Electricity was generated by a nuclear reactor for the first time ever on September 3, 1948 at the X-10 Graphite Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the United States, and was the first nuclear power plant to power a light bulb. The second, larger experiment occurred on December 20, 1951 at the EBR-I experimental station near Arco, Idaho in the United States. On June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid started operations at the Soviet city of Obninsk. The world's first full scale power station, Calder Hall in England opened on October 17, 1956.
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A nuclear power plant emergency response team (ERT) is an incident response team composed of plant personnel and civil authority personnel specifically trained to respond to the occurrence of an accident at a nuclear power plant.
Each nuclear power plant is required to have a detailed emergency plan. In the event of a potential accident (as defined by the International Nuclear Event Scale), the ERT personnel are notified by beeper and have a set time limit for reporting to their duty station.
Potential duty stations include:
The nuclear power plant's Control Room
The nuclear power plant's Emergency Operations Facility
An offsite (i.e., not near the nuclear plant) operations facility
A news center
Roving teams of health physicists who scan for possible radiation
Police traffic direction
In the United States, ERT personnel are required to train twice a year and typically train four times. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (with support from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other agencies) grades some of the drills. The drills normally are not announced in advance so as to simulate "surprise" conditions.
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Earth Hour 2008: a huge success?
This my last post about Earth Hour, I promise.
The TV news propaganda machine was telling me how big a success Earth Hour was. They showed pictures of people sitting in their homes looking bored staring at candles. I use candles when the power goes out.
I came across this graph at A Dog Named Kyoto. It shows the power usage during Earth Hour. Take a look
Electricity, not candles, makes the world go round. Ask anyone that doesn't have electricity if they would trade their candle for a wall switch. Beware the GREENIES, they want everyone to return to the middle ages.
How much energy was used and how many trees died to promote Earth Hour. The Toronto Star printed a twelve page section to promote 1 hour of darkness.
The above graph show the impact of tonight's Earth Hour on Ontario's electricity demand. Actual demand is shown in green, forecast is in blue. The red box highlights the hour between 20:00 to 21:00 hours, or 8:00 to 9:00 PM, a.k.a. "Earth Hour".As you can see, "Earth Hour" had practically zero effect on the electricity demand in the Province of Ontario. While electricity use was barely below forecast, it was actually up slightly from the previous hour!
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Perhaps the climate change models are wrong
The National Post seems to be the only media outlet asking the hard questions that need to be asked about the science of Global Warming. Where is the rest of the media in Canada?
Lorrie Goldstein from the Toronto Sun tries, but I have the feeling the owners of the paper are not allowing him to print his true feelings on the subject.
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, March 24, 2008
Bob Strong, ReutersIcebergs near Jakobshavn Fjord, Ilulissat
They drift along in the worlds' oceans at a depth of 2,000 metres — more than a mile deep — constantly monitoring the temperature, salinity, pressure and velocity of the upper oceans.
Then, about once every 10 days, a bladder on the outside of these buoys inflates and raises them slowly to the surface gathering data about each strata of seawater they pass through. After an upward journey of nearly six hours, the Argo monitors bob on the waves while an onboard transmitter sends their information to a satellite that in turn retransmits it to several land-based research computers where it may be accessed by anyone who wishes to see it.
These 3,000 yellow sentinels –about the size and shape of a large fence post — free-float the world's oceans, season in and season out, surfacing between 30 and 40 times a year, disgorging their findings, then submerging again for another fact-finding voyage.
It's fascinating to watch their progress online. (The URLs are too complex to reproduce here, but Google "Argo Buoy Movement" or "Argo Float Animation," and you will be directed to the links.)
Full story at nationalpost.com
Tags:climate change, cooling, Global Warming, National Post, oceans
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Gore sustainable investment fund raises $5B
Any questions about why Gore is pushing Global (fill my pockets with cash) Warming. A con man to look up to.
GENEVA: The sustainable investment firm run by Al Gore, the former U.S. vice-president, is about to be closed to new investors, having raised close to its $5 billion target.
Generation Investment Management will probably restrict inflows into its main Global Equity Fund next month, Gore and David Blood, co-founder of the company, said at a news conference Tuesday.
Is there any doubt why Al Gore is the greatest climate fear-monger in the world?
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New Report counters IPCC AR4.
The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (N-IPCC – not to be confused with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC) has been published by the Heartland Institute.
It has been described as the most complete, up-to-date, authoritative summary of peer-reviewed critical positions with respect to "Anthropogenic Global Warming".
The report is titled Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate and is edited by S. Fred Singer. From the report's Forward:
In his speech at the United Nations' climate conference on September 24, 2007, Dr. Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, said it would most help the debate on climate change if the current monopoly and one-sidedness of the scientific debate over climate change by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were eliminated. He reiterated his proposal that the UN organize a parallel panel and publish two competing reports.
The present report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) does exactly that. It is an independent examination of the evidence available in the published, peer-reviewed literature – examined without bias and selectivity. It includes many research papers ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006.
The report is highly critical of the UN's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) released last year. From the N-IPCC's Summary for Policymakers (SPM):
The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group-1 (Science) (IPCC-AR4 2007), released in 2007, is a major research effort by a group of dedicated specialists in many topics related to climate change. It forms a valuable compendium of the current state of the science, enhanced by having an index, which had been lacking in previous IPCC reports. AR4 also permits access to the numerous critical comments submitted by expert reviewers, another first for the IPCC.
While AR4 is an impressive document, it is far from being a reliable reference work on some of the most important aspects of climate change science and policy. It is marred by errors and misstatements, ignores scientific data that were available but were inconsistent with the authors' pre-conceived conclusions, and has already been contradicted in important parts by research published since May 2006, the IPCC's cut-off date.
In general, the IPCC fails to consider important scientific issues, several of which would upset its major conclusion – that "most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations" (emphasis in the original).
The IPCC does not apply generally accepted methodologies to determine what fraction of current warming is natural, or how much is caused by the rise in greenhouse (GH) gases. A comparison of 'fingerprints' from best available observations with the results of state-of-the-art GH models leads to the conclusion that the (human-caused) GH contribution is minor. This fingerprint evidence, though available, was ignored by the IPCC.
The following is taken from the report's Conclusions:
The extent of the modern warming – the subject of the first question – appears to be less than is claimed by the IPCC and in the popular media. We have documented shortcomings of surface data, affected by urban heat islands and by the poor distribution of land-based observing stations.
This report shows conclusively that the human greenhouse gas contribution to current warming is insignificant. Our argument is based on the well established and generally agreed-to 'fingerprint' method. Using data published by the IPCC and further elaborated in the U.S.-sponsored CCSP report, we have shown that observed temperature trend patterns disagree sharply with those calculated from greenhouse models.
And finally, this statement on Policy Implications:
Our findings, if sustained, point to natural causes and a moderate warming trend with beneficial effects for humanity and wildlife. This has obvious policy implications: Schemes proposed for controlling CO2 emissions, including the Kyoto Protocol, proposals in the U.S. for federal and state actions, and proposals for a successor international treaty to Kyoto, are unnecessary, would be ineffective if implemented, and would waste resources that can better be applied to genuine societal problems [Singer, Revelle and Starr 1991].
Even if a substantial part of global warming were due to greenhouse gases – and it is not – any control efforts currently contemplated would give only feeble results. For example, the Kyoto Protocol – even if punctiliously observed by all participating nations – would decrease calculated future temperatures by only 0.02 degrees C by 2050, an undetectable amount.
In conclusion, this NIPCC report falsifies the principal IPCC conclusion that the reported warming (since 1979) is very likely caused by the human emission of greenhouse gases. In other words, increasing carbon dioxide is not responsible for current warming. Policies adopted and called for in the name of 'fighting global warming' are unnecessary.
It is regrettable that the public debate over climate change, fueled by the errors and exaggerations contained in the reports of the IPCC, has strayed so far from scientific truth. It is an embarrassment to science that hype has replaced reason in the global debate over so important an issue.
Contributors to the N-IPCC report are: Warren Anderson United States, Dennis Avery United States, Franco Battaglia Italy, Robert Carter Australia, Richard Courtney United Kingdom, Joseph d'Aleo United States, Fred Goldberg Sweden, Vincent Gray New Zealand, Kenneth Haapala United States, Klaus Heiss Austria, Craig Idso United States, Zbigniew Jaworowski Poland, Olavi Karner Estonia, Madhav Khandekar Canada, William Kininmonth Australia, Hans Labohm Netherlands, Christopher Monckton United Kingdom, Lubos Motl Czech Republic, Tom Segalstad Norway, S. Fred Singer United States, Dick Thoenes Netherlands, Anton Uriarte Spain, Gerd Weber Germany.
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It's green fever madness!
It's green fever madness!
Only a politician would try and sell you on the idea that more taxes can save the planet
There was a time that when politicians raised taxes, they called it what it was: Raising taxes.They didn't, at least not with a straight face, make grandiose claims that raising taxes was all part of their plan to save the planet and kickstart a "social movement" into being.But that was before green fever madness gripped our politicians.
It was in the throes of that condition last week that B.C. Finance Minister Carole Taylor actually claimed, with a straight face, that her province's imposition of Canada's first carbon tax (a tax on fossil fuels) could be the start of a new "social movement" across the country.
For gawd's sake, let's hope not.
Because that "social movement" is designed to hoodwink taxpayers into believing they no longer have the right to complain about our usuriously high taxes, lest they be shamed into silence by the Suzuki Nation as global warming "deniers."
This madness would be laughable, if it wasn't happening right before our eyes.
* In B.C., where charging people more for gas and heat by Premier Gordon Campbell's government, part of a tax shell game we're assured will be "revenue neutral" (no comment), is praised by the politician doing it as courageous and revolutionary, while mesmerized media pundits, having forgotten the story about the emperor having no clothes, mindlessly repeat the mantra.
* In Ontario, where Premier Dalton McGuinty is paying outrageously high prices, using tax money, for very little solar power, instead of doing something that would help the environment — cleaning up the air pollution spewing out of the province's coal-fired energy plants, the same ones he promised five years ago to close by last year, and now won't close, or even clean up, for six more.
* In Quebec, where consumers are being told by their government, with a straight face, that there's nothing it can do to stop a new "green" tax intended to target oil and gas industry profits, from being passed along to them. Gee, how about not imposing the !@$@?! tax in the first place?
* And finally in crazytown … Ottawa … where, amongst so many other absurdities on the environmental front, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, a man who can't control his caucus, has a plan to control the climate.
In the real world, if you understand the first thing about man-made global warming, Canada's relatively minor contribution to it, and what a cluster muck the Kyoto Accord is, all of these things are beyond farcical.
Actually, they're entering Twilight Zone territory.
Here's another absurdity courtesy of our hysterical politicians, as they shamelessly don green shoes, sport green ties and name their dog "Kyoto" to convince us of their environmental "street cred." (You can't make this !@$# up.)
Years ago, governments used to do a thing called "capital spending." It wasn't glamourous, but it was important — stuff like buying garbage trucks, police cruisers, ambulances, buses and building subways, highways, hospitals, schools.
But today, whenever governments buy a garbage truck, or some new garbage bins, or a garbage dump, or some new buses, or promise us another subway to nowhere (a Toronto specialty), or raise gasoline taxes, in exactly the same way they've been doing it for decades, we're supposed to believe it's all part of their big "green" plan to save the planet from global warming. It's utter nonsense.
Finally, have you noticed how politicians have suddenly stopped talking about the outrageously high gasoline prices we're paying — something you couldn't shut them up about for decades — although of course they never did anything about it?
POLS CAN'T COMPLAIN
Problem is, politicians can't complain about high gas prices now that they're all thinking of raising them higher, ostensibly as part of their "green" plan to prevent a 20-foot rise in sea levels from wiping out Newfoundland.
It's as if we all went to sleep one night and woke up in the Oceania of George Orwell's 1984, where, instead of telling us on Monday that we've always been at war with Eastasia and on Tuesday that we've always been at war with Eurasia, now on Monday its: "High gas prices bad" and on Tuesday: "High gas prices good."
I can hardly wait for the Two-Minute Hate and the free Doublethink classes.
• You can e-mail Lorrie Goldstein at lorrie.goldstein@sunmedia.ca• Have a letter for the editor? E-mail it to torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca
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Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back
I can hardly wait to hear Gore and Suzuki proclaim "Global cooling caused by CO2"
Hope they do time, like any other two bit scam artist. Hope they throw the self serving politicians in prison with them.
Scaring and brainwashing innocent children. Hang your heads in shame.
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.
The Daily express recalls the photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg which has been widely hailed as proof of the need to fight climate change and has been used by former Vice President Al Gore during his "Inconvenient Truth" lectures about mankind's alleged impact on the global climate.
Gore fails to mention that the photograph was taken in the month of August when melting is normal. Or that the polar bear population has soared in recent years.
As winter roars in across the Northern Hemisphere, Mother Nature seems to have joined the ranks of the skeptics.
As the Express notes, scientists are saying the northern Hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades, adding that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966. The newspaper cites the one exception — Western Europe, which had, until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10 C in some places, been basking in unseasonably warm weather.
Around the world, vast areas have been buried under some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades. Central and southern China, the United States, and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms. In China, snowfall was so heavy that over 100,000 houses collapsed under the weight of snow.
Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman, and northern Saudi Arabia report the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. In Afghanistan, snow and freezing weather killed 120 people. Even Baghdad had a snowstorm, the first in the memory of most residents.
AFP news reports icy temperatures have just swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster relief office told AFP.
Twelve people have died there, state Xinhua news agency reported, and four remained missing as of Saturday.
An ongoing record-long spell of cold weather in Vietnam's northern region, which started on Jan. 14, has killed nearly 60,000 cattle, mainly bull and buffalo calves, local press reported Monday. By Feb. 17, the spell had killed a total of 59,962 cattle in the region, including 7,349 in the Ha Giang province, 6,400 in Lao Cai, and 5,571 in Bac Can province, said Hoang Kim Giao, director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, according to the Pioneer newspaper.
In Britain the temperatures plunged to -10 C in central England, according to the Express, which reports that experts say that February could end up as one of the coldest in Britain in the past 10 years with the freezing night-time conditions expected to stay around a frigid -8 C until at least the middle of the week. And the BBC reports that a bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather.
Meanwhile Athens News reports that a raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend and continued into the early morning hours on Monday, plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures. The agency reported that public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed.
Scores of villages, mainly on the island of Crete, and in the prefectures of Evia, Argolida, Arcadia, Lakonia, Viotia, and the Cyclades islands were snowed in.
More than 100 villages were snowed-in on the island of Crete and temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.
Temperatures in Athens dropped to -6 C before dawn, while the coldest temperatures were recorded in Kozani, Grevena, Kastoria and Florina, where they plunged to -12 C.
If global warming gets any worse we'll all freeze to death.
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Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within the Frame of Physics
Once you understand that Global Warming is a scam, you have freed your mind from the Bull.
Global warming is about fear and you giving up your rights.
Global Warming is a scam. Therefore there is no reason to be trampling the rights of people in a rush to install wind farms, with the promise of saving the environment. Your Govt. is complicit in this scam. Will you wake up in time, or will you spend your time on the planet sleeping. Help your friends and neighbors fight the scourge of wind farms.
By OnTheWeb Tuesday, February 12, 2008
It is my sincere wish that climate alarmism has finally hit the buffers with the definitive and scientific deathknell administered by two German physicists, Dr. Gerhard Gerlich, of the Institute of Mathematical Physics at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig and Dr. Ralf D. Tscheuschner, co-author of a July 7, 2007 paper titled "Falsification of the Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within the Frame of Physics".
The full story is online here, with all relevant links within the document:
Allow me to quote some highlights, so you can decide whether or not to read the whole document.
"The main results of our paper are:
– the CO2 greenhouse effect is not an effect in the sense of a physical effect and, hence, simply does not exist;
– computer aided global climatology will not be science, if science is defined as a method to verify or falsify conjectures, according to the usual definition of science."
"Due to research grants, huge amount of financial support, virtual global climatologists suffer from a kind of omnipotence delusion comparable to the state of highness of the early super string community. However, physics is different. "Physics is where the action is", I.e., finally, reproducible results in the lab. We cannot overemphasize that science is a method to prove conjectures, and not to go on-stage like the pop star Al Gore performing what-if-when-scenarios beyond any reality and scaring kids."
"We (Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner) are very sorry that we cannot reply to all statements published in Internet blogs since our "times on-line" are rather limited. Especially, we do not reply to semi-anonymous virtual climate pets like Eli Rabett and other Internet geniusses such as Gavin Schmidt, Stefan Rahmstorf and others at "Real Climate" or "Atmoz Blog" anti-scientific smear sites. Most of them do know so little about physics such that they quote the second law of thermodynamics incorrectly in order to falsify our work. Even the difference between energy, work and heat seems to be unknown to these experts. This cannot be the basis of a scientific discussion."
"To put it bluntly, virtual climate research (Pierrhumbert and his buddies may call it "real climate" research) is nonsense (non-science). The thousands of publications reviewing the results of these computer games are not worth the papers they are printed on, not to mention the hardware, CPU times and memory."
Do please make the effort to inform yourselves of the contents of this document and pass it around – it is high time that this news got through to the bureaucrats who appear to be stuck in a self-perpetuating cycle of self-delusion induced by elitist green pressure groups who should instead be deeply ashamed of themselves for abusing their alleged intelligence on continuing the hoax that is mankind's influence on the climate through emissions of carbon dioxide – the very essence of life.
Please prepare for a sudden and sharp u-turn, that will be far less painful than the continuation of this climate change claptrap.
Source CFP
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2008: Discrediting the Climate Alarmists
Anyone who's been paying attention knows that this has been a cold winter so far. Is it due to La Niña? the new solar minima?
First there's Monday's RSS Satellite data for Jan08: 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years:
Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa just posted the latest MSU (Microwave Sounder Unit) data.
January posted a -.08°C near global anomaly between -70S and 82.5N latitude (the viewshed of the satellite sounder). That makes it the coldest month since January 2000, and the 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years. Both northern and southern hemispheres posted negative anomalies of -.120°C and -.038°C respectively, happening for the first time since January 2000.
The United States posted a -.557°C anomaly for January 2008 and a -0.196°C anomaly for December 2007.
Emphasis added. He's followed up with today's post UAH Satellite data for Jan08 in agreement with RSS data
University of Alabama, Huntsville (John Christy) just published their UAH lower troposphere data for January 2008. Like the RSS data set, it shows a negative anomaly, and a steep decline in the past 12 months though the magnitude of the anomaly is slightly lower at ∆T -.588 than the RSS ∆T -.629 degrees Centigrade.
But what I like best is this quote from Accuweather's Joe Bastardi:
"It is straight out of the book of climate. The pattern is so much like the 1949-1950 La Nina, which was signaling the start of the reversal of the warming of the earth's climate in the 1930s, '40s and early 50s. Only someone choosing to ignore it, or not wanting to see it, would not be cognizant of it. But because such a pattern leads to warmer than normal conditions in areas where the greatest centers of human induced global warming information comes out of, western Europe and the eastern part of North America, no attention is being called to the fact that the winter this year does have outstandingly large areas of colder than normal temperatures and in areas, the vast expanses of the tropical Pacific, and the vast expanse of the air above us."
Related: 2008: the Year the Climate Alarmists will be Discredited
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Kyoto snow job by Lorrie Goldstein
I would like to thank Mr. Goldstein for bringing this to the attention of his readers. Write or call him and encourage him to continue to enlighten his readership with news that matters.
Health care,Education,Energy and Agriculture, all vital to our economy and well being, and all badly under reported.
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the
industrialized civilizations collapse?Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?"
– Maurice Strong, former Secretary General of UNEP
Sun, January 6, 2008
Skip the Kyoto snow job
Canadians will back a realistic green plan — we just haven't seen it yet
By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, TORONTO SUN
Let's examine what the Kyoto treaty on man-made or "anthropogenic" global warming (AGW) is and isn't.
First, it's an example of globalization, despite the fact many of its advocates claim to oppose globalization.
But it is not, primarily, an environmental treaty.
If it was, it would require the developing world to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as it does for a relative handful of industrialized nations, including Canada.
The lack of targets for the developing world reveals Kyoto as primarily a mechanism for redistributing wealth from the First World to the Third, unsurprising given its origins in the United Nations.
Then there's Kyoto's accounting tricks.
Russia is in compliance with Kyoto and has billions of dollars of "hot air" credits to sell to countries like Canada — not because of its environmental policies, but because the base year for Kyoto was deliberately set at 1990, just as the economy of the former Soviet Union was imploding, causing the shutdown of many GHG-producing industries. Similarly, Germany and the European Union benefit from the collapse of the East German economy.
Kyoto envisions the First World paying billions of dollars to the Third in the faint hope the latter will use that money to reduce its rapidly-growing GHG emissions.
Kyoto's successor will be even more controversial.
To be environmentally credible, it must compel developing nations like China (the world's largest or second largest GHG emitter in tandem with the U.S., depending on whose calculations you believe) to cut its emissions.
But forcing the Third World to do so will be an example of the First World imposing its priorities on the Third, the very thing critics argue is immoral about globalization.
Besides, does anyone seriously believe totalitarian countries like China, given their low public health, environmental and manufacturing standards, will comply with GHG cuts, even if they agree to them?
That said, we must ignore simplistic environmental rhetoric that portrays nations which meet (or try to meet) their Kyoto targets as "good" while those that don't as "bad." In reality, all countries act in their own perceived best interests.
China rejects GHG cuts (as has the U.S. through both the Clinton and Bush administrations) not because it favours global climate catastrophe several decades from now if Al Gore's apocalyptic rhetoric is correct, which is unlikely.
It does so because it has more pressing problems, such as feeding its 1.3 billion people today.
It's pointless to condemn China for acting in its own interests, just as it's silly to portray Canada as an energy glutton, a favourite guilt-inducing tactic of environmentalists.
In fact, Canadians have shown a serious commitment to environmentalism, when they are provided with realistic ways to do so.
But we are also a big, cold, sparsely-populated, northern country, which has logically used our fossil fuel resources to improve our quality of life, exactly what China and the developing world aspire to today.
If we're telling them, post-Kyoto, they cannot even attempt what we did through industrialization powered by fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas, we had best offer them better reasons than Gore's doomsday hysteria.
Why do you think the Liberals, for all their pro-Kyoto rhetoric, let Canada's GHG emissions skyrocket during their 12-year reign, despite promising in their 1993 Red Book to cut them well beyond what later became the Kyoto standard?
They (like the present Conservative government) knew accomplishing this would demand enormous sacrifices Canadians might well reject, if the choices were put to them clearly and honestly.
INCREASE POVERTY
For us to comply with Kyoto now would see huge spikes in the price of everything sensitive to the cost of fossil fuels, meaning gasoline, electricity, heat and water as well as transportation, most manufactured goods and food, all of which are directly or indirectly sensitive to the price of fossil fuels.
This would dramatically lower our standard of living and just as dramatically increase poverty.
Despite what Kyoto propagandists and opportunistic politicians pretend, this isn't about making an easy choice between "good" and "bad."
It's about making intelligent choices from the options we have, all of which have positive and negative consequences.
• You can e-mail Lorrie Goldstein at lorrie.goldstein@sunmedia.ca
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Global Warming Exposing the Scam
Will this fraud ever hit the "main stream media"? Gore and Suzuki are going to have to move to China with their mentor Maurice Strong. The worst part of this scam is the great harm it will inflict upon the citizens of Canada and the USA, and your govt is complicit in this scam.
Global Warming and Pagan Emptiness
Cardinal George Pell on the latest hysterical substitute for religion.
Interview by Michael Gilchrist | January 2008
In the debate over the theory of global warming, Cardinal George Pell of Sydney is a decided skeptic. His forthright reservations about the claim of catastrophic man-made climate change have made him a target for criticism in Australia. CWR talked to him about the controversy.
Your recent remarks questioning the claims about man-made climate change have drawn fierce criticism here in Australia. How do you account for that?
Cardinal Pell: Despite the fact that Australians like to see themselves as a ruggedly independent, rational, and democratic people, in some respects a herd-like mentality still prevails. Right now, the mass media, politicians, many church figures, and the public generally seem to have embraced even the wilder claims about man-made climate change as if they constituted a new religion.
These days, for any public figure to question the basis of what amounts to a green fundamentalist faith is tantamount to heresy. The angry editorials and letters to newspapers certainly suggest this.
You are one of very few public figures in this country to express open skepticism about man-made climate change and its alleged long-term effects. What is your reading of the scientific evidence for climate change? What is the basis of your skepticism?
Cardinal Pell: I am certainly skeptical about extravagant claims of impending man-made climatic catastrophes. Scientific debate is not decided by any changing consensus, even if it is endorsed by political parties and public opinion. Climate change both up and down has been occurring, probably since earth first had a climate.
Science is a process of experimentation, debate, and respect for evidence. Often it is dealing with uncertainties rather than certainties, and so its forecasts and predictions can be spectacularly wrong. We must not ignore evidence that doesn't suit our cause. Long-term weather forecasting is a notoriously imprecise exercise.
In the 1970s some scientists were predicting a new ice age because of global cooling. Today other scientists are predicting an apocalypse because of global warming. It is no disrespect to science or scientists to take these latest claims with a grain of salt. Commitment to the scientific method actually requires it.
Uncertainties on climate change abound. Temperatures in Greenland were higher in the 1940s than they are today, and the Kangerlussuaq glacier there is not shrinking but growing in size. While the ice may be melting in the Arctic, apparently it is increasing in extent in the Antarctic. Overall world temperatures have not increased since 1998 according to the statistics—whatever the case might be in particular locations.
Do you accept that human activities may have contributed to at least some of the global warming?
Cardinal Pell: Significant evidence suggests that average temperatures rose by 0.6 degrees centigrade during the last century, and there is no doubt that large-scale industrial activities can have an adverse impact in particular locations, as in the larger Chinese cities. But when averaged out across the globe, it is difficult to see this being the main culprit for any overall global warming, let alone bringing us to the verge of catastrophe. Again, we are dealing with a very imprecise science here, whatever the computer models might suggest. There are so many other variables.
The journal American Scientist recently published a study on the melting glacier on Mount Kilimanjaro. The study confirms that air temperature around the glacier continues to be below freezing, so it is not melting because of global warming. Instead, the melt pattern of the glacier is consistent with the effect of direct radiant heat from the sun. Human activity can't be blamed for that.
Michael Gilchrist is editor of the Australian religious monthlyAD2000<
A cold spell soon to replace global warming
MOSCOW. (Oleg Sorokhtin for RIA Novosti) – Stock up on fur coats and felt boots! This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world.
Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.
The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.
Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.
This is my point, which environmentalists hotly dispute as they cling to the hothouse theory. As we know, hothouse gases, in particular, nitrogen peroxide, warm up the atmosphere by keeping heat close to the ground. Advanced in the late 19th century by Svante A. Arrhenius, a Swedish physical chemist and Nobel Prize winner, this theory is taken for granted to this day and has not undergone any serious check.
It determines decisions and instruments of major international organizations—in particular, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Signed by 150 countries, it exemplifies the impact of scientific delusion on big politics and economics. The authors and enthusiasts of the Kyoto Protocol based their assumptions on an erroneous idea. As a result, developed countries waste huge amounts of money to fight industrial pollution of the atmosphere. What if it is a Don Quixote's duel with the windmill?
Hothouse gases may not be to blame for global warming. At any rate, there is no scientific evidence to their guilt. The classic hothouse effect scenario is too simple to be true. As things really are, much more sophisticated processes are on in the atmosphere, especially in its dense layer. For instance, heat is not so much radiated in space as carried by air currents—an entirely different mechanism, which cannot cause global warming.
The temperature of the troposphere, the lowest and densest portion of the atmosphere, does not depend on the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions—a point proved theoretically and empirically. True, probes of Antarctic ice shield, taken with bore specimens in the vicinity of the Russian research station Vostok, show that there are close links between atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide and temperature changes. Here, however, we cannot be quite sure which is the cause and which the effect.
Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin, Merited Scientist of Russia and fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, is staff researcher of the Oceanology Institute.
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Q: Yii2: Easy way to render page size selector at the paginator Is there any easy and native way to add html rendering of items per page selector to the paginator at the ListView ? I've looked through the docs:

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*Yii widget listview

*Yii data pagination

*Yii widgets linkpager
Found everything I need, except rendering the page size selector. This is a bit strange, as this is a very common feature.

A: No there were no native way to do this, you can create your own or use this one:
Define in your model filter:
    class YOUR_CLASS_FILTER extend YOUR_MODEL

        ...
           public $pagesize; // Property pagesize.
           const ITEMS_PER_PAGE_INIT = 12; // Initial items per page
           ...

           //Add or edit this in the same model `search` method:
           public function search($params){
           ...
           $dataProvider = new ActiveDataProvider([
                    'query' => $query,
                    'pagination' => [
                        // this $params['pagesize'] is an id of dropdown list that we set in view file
                        'pagesize' => ($this->pagesize) ? $this->pagesize : self::ITEMS_PER_PAGE_INIT,
                    ],
                ]);
           ...
           }
           ...
           public function rules()
            {
                return [
                    ...
                    [['pagesize'], 'integer'],
                    ...
                ];
            }
            ...
    /**
     * Return Static Array of elements per page
     * @return array
     */
    public static function itemsPerPage()
    {
        return array(
            12 => 12,
            24 => 24,
            48 => 48
        );
    }
}

This is how i implemented in view file:
<?= $form->field($filter, 'pagesize')->dropDownList(
    $filter->itemsPerPage(),
    array(
      'id' => 'pagesize',
      'class' => 'form-control',
      'onchange' => 'this.form.submit()',
    ))->label("Items per page: ")
?>

A: Create a menu with links to current page with the different per-page options as GET parameter:

<?= yii\helpers\Html::a('10', yii\helpers\Url::current(['per-page' => 10])) ?>

<?= yii\helpers\Html::a('25', yii\helpers\Url::current(['per-page' => 25])) ?>

<?= yii\helpers\Html::a('50', yii\helpers\Url::current(['per-page' => 50])) ?>

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Syrian, Iraqi Kurds main sufferers of failed US, KRG policies
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Posted By: thegreatmiddleeast 30.10.2017
The U.S. strategy to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the PKK terror organization's Syria affiliate, the Democratic People's Union (PYD) and its armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG), under the pretext of the fight against Daesh, and led by Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani's push for an independent state in northern Iraq with the Sept. 25 referendum, have left Kurds in Syria and Iraq to once again become the victims of wrong policies in the region.
According to experts, the situation for Kurdish people, both in Syria and in Iraq, as a result of wrong policies, have led to the emergence of antipathy against Kurds, as the U.S. and the KRG took significant steps, despite local and regional balances and sensitivities. The Kurds in Syria suffer from the PYD's oppressive methods based on an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ideology, including attacks on opposition Kurdish voices, involuntary military service, in addition to demographic changes and forced relocation of other Turkmen and Arab minorities.
The Kurds in northern Iraq, due to Barzani's persistence on holding the independence vote, are now dealing with internal political uncertainty, as well as severe economic sanctions, as a result of opposition from neighboring states and turmoil emerging from instable security and order.
'Barzani's miscalculations in bid to independence'
Although some analysts blame the lack of support by the U.S. and harsh stance from regional actors against Barzani for the post-referendum failure of the Irbil administration, many others disagree, saying Barzani's insistence on holding the Sept. 25 vote, based on personal ambitions despite strong opposition from the local, regional and international community has led to chaos for Kurds in northern Iraq.
Daniel Serwer, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, as well as a Senior Fellow in the Center for Transatlantic Relations and a Scholar at the Middle East Institute, says the independence vote was not a calculated step, as Barzani "failed to appreciate the depth of Baghdad, Tehran, Ankara and Washington opposition to KRG moves toward independence.With regard to the referendum, "Instead of burnishing the nationalist credentials of Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Region, and strengthening the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) leverage with Baghdad, it has done just the opposite," says Denise Natali, director of the Center for Strategic Research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University.
This argument has been voiced mainly due to critical voices also coming from Kurds in northern Iraq, particularly from the Gorran Movement and also the Talabani-led Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the Sulaymaniyah region. In fact, after the reported negotiations between the PUK, which has the tradition of Iranian support, and the central government, there has been speculation that the new political center of the KRG will be Sulaymaniyah, not Irbil.Serwer says this was another moment of failure for Barzani, as he "over-estimated political and military cohesion within the KRG, where the PUK was not on board for making Barzani a great national hero by enabling him to take credit for independence."
Natali, who is among the leading experts in Washington on the issue, adds that Barzani's referendum move has "deepened intra-Kurdish divisions, which played in Baghdad's favor. Over time, some Kurdish officials, mainly those in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] grew increasingly concerned about warnings from Baghdad, Turkey, and Iran."
Commenting on the U.S. position over opposition to the KRG vote, Johns Hopkins scholar Serwer says: "The most it [the U.S.] can do for the Kurds in their conflict with Baghdad is to underline American commitment to Kurdish autonomy within the context of the Iraqi constitution, which means support for Baghdad in rolling back Kurdish forces from areas they took after 2003."
A recent report published by the Crisis Group, "Oil and Borders: How to Fix Iraq's Kurdish Crisis," also criticized Barzani's move, saying he "overplayed the Kurdish hand by pressing ahead with the referendum over the international community's near-unanimous objections and refusing to negotiate with Baghdad about anything except Kurdish independence."
Yesterday, Barzani dissolved his powers as president, distributing them between the Kurdish prime minister, Parliament and the judiciary, Barzani's senior assistant, Hemin Hawrami told The Associated Press (AP).
Hawrami added that the KRG president also informed parliament that he will not seek an extension of his term which is set to expire Nov. 1, adding that Barzani could remain in office if mandated to hold the post until the next Kurdish presidential elections are held, which were suppose to be held on Nov. 1, but are now postponed indefinitely. According to AP report, Hawrami added that Barzani did not "step down" and "will stay in Kurdish politics and lead the high political council."
On Saturday, a government official said that Barzani would not extend his presidential term beyond Nov. 1, while the KRG Parliament was expected to meet yesterday to redistribute the powers of the president. Last week, the KRG parliament announced that the previously announced Nov. 1 elections were postponed for eight months.
The main opposition party in the region, the Gorran Movement, called on Barzani to step down after the loss of Kurdish-controlled territory. Kurdish MP Iden Maarouf said parliament will meet on Sunday to see how best to "redistribute the president's powers" among legislative, executive and judicial authorities. The mandate of Barzani, the first and only elected president of the autonomous Kurdish region, expired in 2013. It was extended for two years and then continued in the chaos that followed Daesh's sweeping offensive across Iraq in 2014.
The Crisis Group report also underlines that with Barzani's independence bid, and the turmoil after, including Baghdad taking over all disputed areas controlled by Irbil, has led to "set back the cause of Kurdistan instead of advancing it by frittering away international goodwill for the Kurdish cause."
Can Acun, a Middle East expert at the Ankara-based Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) think tank, who also observed developments during the referendum, said Irbil's miscalculated insistence has led to major economic losses for the people in northern Iraq. "With the current situation the KRG has been forced to return to its 2003 borders and has been losing trade income generated through border gates and oil exports. The peshmerga's military capability, which has led to trauma for Iraqi Kurds whose nationalist feelings were boosted, is now being questioned," Acun said.
Since the recent launch of operations to retake control over disputed areas, Iraqi government forces have moved into several disputed provinces, including oil-rich Kirkuk.
Similarly, Denise Natali also argues that due to lost oil revenues and given the KRG's reliance on this income, "This territorial loss will deepen the KRG's debts and ability to repay international oil companies and oil traders."
Acun also underlines that the KRG controlling political influence in disputed areas through Kurdish nationalism was triggering a strong response from the Turkmen and Arab populations in ethnically diverse, disputed areas. The central government retaking control over the disputed areas from Irbil has, thus, led to major satisfaction from the Turkmen and Arabs in the regions, Acun adds.
'US's PYD support a blockade for development of Kurds in the region'
The U.S.'s support of YPG terrorists has left Kurds suffering from similar consequences they faced with Barzani's aim of an independent state. They are being agonized with wrong policies and are now seen as a threat by neighboring states and also by other local ethnic groups inside Syria.Rights groups and critical Kurdish groups have voiced concern over the PYD's oppressive methods in Syria, as part of its aim to establish an autonomous region in the northern part of Syria and gain ultimate control over all the Kurds, many amounting to human rights violations.
Can Acun, a Middle East expert at the Ankara-based Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), said that with the U.S. as its main supporter, the PYD has been able to oppress critical Kurdish voices, beginning with the Kurdish National Council (ENSK). "More than 500,000 Kurds who are critical of the PYD were forced to seek refuge in the KRG region and Turkey. In areas under its control, it has forcefully made girls and boys under 18 years old do military service, despite their families opposition," Acun said.
He added that despite being recognized as a terrorist group by the U.S. and the EU, support for the PKK's affiliate groups in Syria constitutes a threat to the people of the region, as it also acts as a "narco-terrorist" group, "being the main obstacle in front of development, stability, peace, and economic advancement."
The U.S. has long been criticized for the military support it provides the YPG under the pretext of the fight against Daesh; the PYD has been trying to change the demographics of the area it controls. Emboldened by U.S. military aid, the terrorist group's forced migration of Arabs and Turkmens, as well as arbitrary arrests targeting critical voices and the recruitment of child soldiers have been covered by international human rights groups, including the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and KurdsWatch.
Despite Washington turning a blind eye to the organic links between the PYD and the PKK, the group has openly said that the PKK's imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, is the ideological force behind the YPG in Syria. This was clearly shown in a recent video released by YPG terrorists after Daesh was cleared from Raqqa province in Syria.
Analysts also argue that the lack of an exit strategy in partnership with the PYD, given its affiliation with the PKK, a group recognized as a terror organization by the U.S., after Daesh is cleared from Syria, is also a reflection of an uncertain strategy.
"Washington has a big decision to make: Leave Syria entirely, abandoning the YPG/PYD to the whims of the Turks and [Bashar] Assad, or stay there to restrain Kurds from attacking Turkey and to discourage Turkey from attacking the Kurds. The options are not very appealing. The exit strategy is not yet clear," Serwer underlined.
Acun, on the other hand, argued that the recent rapprochement in the region, particularly between Tehran, Baghdad and Ankara over the KRG, might push Washington to re-evaluate its strategy with the PYD and reconsider its options. However, he added that the U.S., given its Syria policy being drawn by CENTCOM and the Pentagon and that they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, it is hard to define an exit strategy.
Ankara has repeatedly said it will not allow the establishment of a terrorist corridor along its southern borders in northern Syria, adding that it will do what it takes, including a cross border operation if need be, as it eliminated Daesh terrorists from Syrian towns bordering Turkey within the scope of Operation Euphrates Shield. In addition, Turkey has argued that the fight against Daesh should be carried out by partnering with local forces, rather than the YPG terrorists. As such, ultimately, the YPG's antagonism against Turkey through terror means it is further pushing Kurds into long-lasting armed conflicts in the region, deepening instability and turmoil among the region's Kurds.
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namespace ash {

const char kShelfAutoHideBehaviorAlways[] = "Always";
const char kShelfAutoHideBehaviorNever[] = "Never";

// If any of the following ShelfAlignment values changed, the ShelfAlignment
// policy should be updated.
const char kShelfAlignmentBottom[] = "Bottom";
const char kShelfAlignmentLeft[] = "Left";
const char kShelfAlignmentRight[] = "Right";

namespace {

// Returns the preference value for the display with the given |display_id|.
// The pref value is stored in |local_path| and |path|, but the pref service may
// have per-display preferences and the value can be specified by policy.
// Here is the priority:
//  * A value managed by policy. This is a single value that applies to all
//    displays.
//  * A user-set value for the specified display.
//  * A user-set value in |local_path| or |path|, if no per-display settings are
//    ever specified (see http://crbug.com/173719 for why), |local_path| is
//    preferred. See comment in |kShelfAlignment| as to why we consider two
//    prefs and why |local_path| is preferred.
//  * A value recommended by policy. This is a single value that applies to all
//    root windows.
//  * The default value for |local_path| if the value is not recommended by
//    policy.
std::string GetPerDisplayPref(PrefService* prefs,
                              int64_t display_id,
                              const char* local_path,
                              const char* path) {
  const PrefService::Preference* local_pref = prefs->FindPreference(local_path);
  const std::string value(prefs->GetString(local_path));
  if (local_pref->IsManaged())
    return value;

  std::string pref_key = base::NumberToString(display_id);
  bool has_per_display_prefs = false;
  if (!pref_key.empty()) {
    const base::Value::Dict& shelf_prefs =
        prefs->GetDict(prefs::kShelfPreferences);
    const base::Value::Dict* display_pref = shelf_prefs.FindDict(pref_key);
    if (display_pref) {
      const std::string* per_display_value =
          display_pref->FindStringByDottedPath(path);
      if (per_display_value)
        return *per_display_value;
    }

    // If the pref for the specified display is not found, scan the whole prefs
    // and check if the prefs for other display is already specified.
    std::string unused_value;
    for (const auto iter : shelf_prefs) {
      if (iter.second.is_dict() && iter.second.FindStringPath(path)) {
        has_per_display_prefs = true;
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  if (local_pref->IsRecommended() || !has_per_display_prefs)
    return value;

  const std::string* default_string =
      prefs->GetDefaultPrefValue(local_path)->GetIfString();
  return default_string ? *default_string : std::string();
}

ShelfAlignment AlignmentFromPref(const std::string& value) {
  if (value == kShelfAlignmentLeft)
    return ShelfAlignment::kLeft;
  if (value == kShelfAlignmentRight)
    return ShelfAlignment::kRight;
  // Default to bottom.
  return ShelfAlignment::kBottom;
}

const char* AlignmentToPref(ShelfAlignment alignment) {
  switch (alignment) {
    case ShelfAlignment::kBottom:
      return kShelfAlignmentBottom;
    case ShelfAlignment::kLeft:
      return kShelfAlignmentLeft;
    case ShelfAlignment::kRight:
      return kShelfAlignmentRight;
    case ShelfAlignment::kBottomLocked:
      // This should not be a valid preference option for now. We only want to
      // lock the shelf during login or when adding a user.
      return nullptr;
  }
  NOTREACHED();
  return nullptr;
}

ShelfAutoHideBehavior AutoHideBehaviorFromPref(const std::string& value) {
  // Note: To maintain sync compatibility with old images of chrome/chromeos
  // the set of values that may be encountered includes the now-extinct
  // "Default" as well as "Never" and "Always", "Default" should now
  // be treated as "Never" (http://crbug.com/146773).
  if (value == kShelfAutoHideBehaviorAlways)
    return ShelfAutoHideBehavior::kAlways;
  return ShelfAutoHideBehavior::kNever;
}

const char* AutoHideBehaviorToPref(ShelfAutoHideBehavior behavior) {
  switch (behavior) {
    case ShelfAutoHideBehavior::kAlways:
      return kShelfAutoHideBehaviorAlways;
    case ShelfAutoHideBehavior::kNever:
      return kShelfAutoHideBehaviorNever;
    case ShelfAutoHideBehavior::kAlwaysHidden:
      // This should not be a valid preference option for now. We only want to
      // completely hide it when we run in app mode - or while we temporarily
      // hide the shelf (e.g. SessionAbortedDialog).
      return nullptr;
  }
  NOTREACHED();
  return nullptr;
}

}  // namespace

void SetPerDisplayShelfPref(PrefService* prefs,
                            int64_t display_id,
                            const char* pref_key,
                            const std::string& value) {
  if (display_id == display::kInvalidDisplayId)
    return;

  // Avoid ScopedDictPrefUpdate's notifications for read but unmodified prefs.
  const base::Value::Dict& current_shelf_prefs =
      prefs->GetDict(prefs::kShelfPreferences);
  std::string display_key = base::NumberToString(display_id);
  const base::Value::Dict* current_display_prefs =
      current_shelf_prefs.FindDict(display_key);
  if (current_display_prefs) {
    const std::string* current_value =
        current_display_prefs->FindStringByDottedPath(pref_key);
    if (current_value && *current_value == value)
      return;
  }

  ScopedDictPrefUpdate update(prefs, prefs::kShelfPreferences);
  base::Value::Dict& shelf_prefs = update.Get();
  base::Value::Dict* display_prefs_weak = shelf_prefs.EnsureDict(display_key);
  display_prefs_weak->Set(pref_key, value);
}

ShelfAutoHideBehavior GetShelfAutoHideBehaviorPref(PrefService* prefs,
                                                   int64_t display_id) {
  DCHECK_NE(display_id, display::kInvalidDisplayId);

  if (!base::FeatureList::IsEnabled(features::kShelfAutoHideSeparation)) {
    // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| as to why we consider two prefs.
    return AutoHideBehaviorFromPref(
        GetPerDisplayPref(prefs, display_id, prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehaviorLocal,
                          prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior));
  }

  const bool is_in_tablet_mode = TabletMode::Get()->InTabletMode();
  // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| as to why we consider two prefs.
  return AutoHideBehaviorFromPref(GetPerDisplayPref(
      prefs, display_id,
      is_in_tablet_mode ? prefs::kShelfAutoHideTabletModeBehaviorLocal
                        : prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehaviorLocal,
      is_in_tablet_mode ? prefs::kShelfAutoHideTabletModeBehavior
                        : prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior));
}

void SetShelfAutoHideBehaviorPref(PrefService* prefs,
                                  int64_t display_id,
                                  ShelfAutoHideBehavior behavior) {
  DCHECK_NE(display_id, display::kInvalidDisplayId);

  const char* value = AutoHideBehaviorToPref(behavior);
  if (!value)
    return;

  if (!base::FeatureList::IsEnabled(features::kShelfAutoHideSeparation)) {
    SetPerDisplayShelfPref(prefs, display_id, prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior,
                           value);
    if (display_id == display::Screen::GetScreen()->GetPrimaryDisplay().id()) {
      // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| about why we have two prefs here.
      prefs->SetString(prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehaviorLocal, value);
      prefs->SetString(prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior, value);
    }
    return;
  }

  const bool is_in_tablet_mode = TabletMode::Get()->InTabletMode();
  SetPerDisplayShelfPref(prefs, display_id,
                         is_in_tablet_mode
                             ? prefs::kShelfAutoHideTabletModeBehavior
                             : prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior,
                         value);
  if (display_id == display::Screen::GetScreen()->GetPrimaryDisplay().id()) {
    // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| about why we have two prefs here.
    prefs->SetString(is_in_tablet_mode
                         ? prefs::kShelfAutoHideTabletModeBehaviorLocal
                         : prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehaviorLocal,
                     value);
    prefs->SetString(is_in_tablet_mode ? prefs::kShelfAutoHideTabletModeBehavior
                                       : prefs::kShelfAutoHideBehavior,
                     value);
  }
}

ShelfAlignment GetShelfAlignmentPref(PrefService* prefs, int64_t display_id) {
  DCHECK_NE(display_id, display::kInvalidDisplayId);

  // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| as to why we consider two prefs.
  return AlignmentFromPref(GetPerDisplayPref(
      prefs, display_id, prefs::kShelfAlignmentLocal, prefs::kShelfAlignment));
}

void SetShelfAlignmentPref(PrefService* prefs,
                           int64_t display_id,
                           ShelfAlignment alignment) {
  DCHECK_NE(display_id, display::kInvalidDisplayId);

  const char* value = AlignmentToPref(alignment);
  if (!value)
    return;

  SetPerDisplayShelfPref(prefs, display_id, prefs::kShelfAlignment, value);
  if (display_id == display::Screen::GetScreen()->GetPrimaryDisplay().id()) {
    // See comment in |kShelfAlignment| as to why we consider two prefs.
    prefs->SetString(prefs::kShelfAlignmentLocal, value);
    prefs->SetString(prefs::kShelfAlignment, value);
  }
}

}  // namespace ash

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Mountain porters in Nepal are some of the strongest men and women on earth. These rugged people carry loads for the trekking and expedition industry, working for only a few dollars a day. Porters can be seen carrying loads of over 60kgs at altitudes exceeding 5,000 Meters. This is often done in cotton jackets and sandals. Porters are typically lowland farmers who migrate to the popular trekking routes in search of work. The money they earn while trekking is essential to the cash-starved local economies of rural Nepal.
Tragically, too many porters die every year while trekking from preventable altitude sickness, falls, and hypothermia. Still others are crippled by snow blindness and frostbite. Trekking porters, who are the real backbone of the trekking industry, are working under the low basic right and facilities. There is still the lack of appropriate clothing, shelter, good wage and load limit and provision for treatment.
Nepal's trekking industry, in the meantime, faces a critical situation because of the ongoing internal conflict between the Government and Maoist insurgents. The industry's difficulties are now being exacerbated by the power game between the King and the political parties. The problems faced by the trekking industry flow on to Nepal's porters and guides, who have greatly decreased opportunities for work, Porters and guides are struggling for survival of themselves and their families. This only adds to the long term problems with which porters are faced on a daily basis: lack of recognition of basic human rights including education, safe working environments, basic health care, living wages and, perhaps simplest but most fundamental of all, a widely observed load limit.
Trekking companies are often unwilling or unable to provide their porters with even the most basic amenities and many mountain porters have limited education and some possess little or no literacy skills, porters, being unorganized and desperate for work, are unable to speak out against those that exploit them, This is why they are often vulnerable to exploitation and lack the confidence to speak up for their rights.
As we understand and realize, Porters are the real backbone of the Nepali Trekking Industry and a weak backbone cannot carry a heavy load for very long. To improve the working condition and to create the sustainable future of Nepali trekking porters, Nepali trekking companies has the key responsibility and opportunities to create the brighter future of porters' if we became interested just to give a small amount of care and commit.
Considering this fact, dedicating to improve the porters working condition and dreaming to set an example to the trekking operators and trekkers, we have established a trekking company called Himalayan Humanity Trekking: with a Vision "A world in which trekkers experience the magnificence of the Nepali Himalaya and its people while porters and their families live with economic, social and environmental justice" and our efforts are aimed at creating a strong backbone for the trekking industry.
Better working conditions and basic human rights of the porters and field staff are the cornerstone of the Himalayan Humanity.
Porters must be hired through formal contracts, with clear terms and conditions for insurance, wages, load limits, accident/disability treatment provisions and other facilities. Before hiring porters and other staff, health checkups must be provided.
Required equipment must be provided to porters and other field staff, for example; sleeping tents, protective clothing, carrying equipment and kerosene for their own use.
Porters and other field staff must be provided the same standard of medical care as the client will be provided. Porters and other field staff must not be paid off because of illness and the staff leader must have authority to use the medical expenses for porters while they are sick.
Porters must not be allowed to carry more than 30 kg loads in low altitude and 25 kg in high altitude, including personal allowance.
Porters and other field staff must be provided at least 500 to 700 Rs per day in Tea-house trek and 300 to 400 Rs per day and food in camping trek.
Porters should be provided training in First Aid, health and safety issues, altitude sickness, management of emergency situations, general health and hygiene, reproductive health education (HIV/AIDS/STI) English language, local flora and fauna and history. Focus will be given to those porters who are interested in career and personal development.
Membership of porter unions and associations should be encouraged and supported, allowing porters to voice their own needs and concerns.
As equal to the Trekking Company, foreign Trekkers have also strong role and opportunities for the wellbeing of Nepali Trekking Porters. Hiring a porter is the most direct means a foreign trekker has of contributing to the rural economies of Nepal. Over time, portering has fed more people in Nepal than any other industry, and porters need employment now more than ever.
Also, as a paying client, you possess a great opportunity to advocate for the rights of the porters you hire. By employing porters and taking direct steps to ensure that they are given a standard of treatment that you would expect for yourself, you will be setting a strong example for other trekkers and tour operators to follow.
Where will the porters sleep?
Will they be provided with adequate clothing?
Are they provided with adequate rescue and medical insurance?
Are they provided with food? If not, are they paid enough to ensure proper nutrition on the trail?
How much weight will they be required to carry?
Providing for your porters costs money – so don't be stingy. A few dollars per day can make a great difference in the facility available to your porters. Make sure your porters will be taken care of before you leave on your trek, and if your company cannot provide what you ask, find another company. Also, when it comes time to tip your porter (generally around 25% of their wage), be sure to tip them directly. Unneeded clothing and equipment makes a nice addition to your tip as well. Overall, set an example for other trekkers to follow. Treat your porters well, and spend time with them. Get the addresses of your porters after the trek and send them photographs – they will appreciate the gesture more than you can imagine. Lastly, try picking up a load yourself during your trek – it won't take long to see how amazing these men and women truly are.


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Opinion Trump Administration Charts a Course to Criminal Injustice
'Feral' Facebook Comments Show Racism is Alive and Well
Published on Thursday, 15 October 2015 16:33
Written by Julianne Malveaux
By Julianne Malveaux
You can run, but you can't hide from racism. I was preparing to write a column on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the trade agreement that President Barack Obama wants to fast track through Congress. I considered tackling the Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, as Republicans are targeting a most important women's health provider for political purposes. But a friend sent me a link to a photo uploaded by Atlanta native "Geris Hilton" with a string of comments that simply turned my stomach, and I realized that the TPP would have to wait (it isn't going anywhere until January anyway).
Hilton, whose legal name is Gerod Roth, worked at the Polaris Marketing Group in Atlanta, Ga. There he took a selfie of himself and a coworker's child and posted it on Facebook. When one of his "friends" asked why the child was running around the office, Roth replied, "He was feral." The dictionary defines feral as "relating to, or suggestive of, a wild beast", and "not domesticated or cultivated – wild," or "having escaped from domestication and become wild." Excuse me? Roth's own daughter hangs out at the office at the end of the day. She plays with the adorable boy whose innocent little face attracted the most "feral" comments from Roth's intellectually challenged Facebook friends.
From one "friend": "I didn't know you were a slave owner."
Others commented about selling enslaved people another suggested that Hilton "send him back," because they are "too expensive."
Sydney Jade is three-year old Cayden's loving, caring and hard working mother. Gerod Roth knew this, but he never corrected his "friends" who described the child as abandoned and worse. Jade, started using the hash tag #HisNameisCayden on Twitter to affirm her child's humanity and to reject the caricature that Hilton portrayed. She has received an outpouring of love and support from cyberspace.
Thumbs up to company executives at the Polaris Marketing Group, who fired Roth about two weeks after his offending selfie and wrote about the incident and subsequent firing on Facebook. I am among those who think it should have taken less than two weeks, but they deserve credit for taking action instead of hiding behind the "free speech" argument that many make to defend their racist employees. The Root reported that others who made offending comments about Cayden were also fired from their jobs. Yes!
Gerod Roth is one of those pouty little racists who has now described himself as the "victim" in this matter. He "has been targeted", he says. He whines that his remarks were taken out of context. He posted an "apology" that was several paragraphs long attempting to "explain" how he happened to post the selfie in the first place, suggesting that young Cayden actually asked him to take the picture. He had neither the grace nor the good sense to say, "I'm sorry and I'm out of order", and then shut up. Instead, he tried to cover his insensitivity up.
Next thing you know, there will be a group of folks rallying around Roth who some would describe as nothing more than a child molester for his callous exploitation of his coworker's son. Those who railed against this incident will be told this occurrence is isolated.
The late, great writer Bebe Moore Campbell once wrote an essay about "race fatigue," about the many ways she was tired of seeing, living, talking and writing about race. She wrote about ignoring slights she might once have challenged, tamping down an anger that might once have been volcanic. In that particular essay, she wrote about seeking a peaceful respite from race matters. We all seek that respite, those days when we don't have to think about the indignities of both institutional racism and the micro-aggressions that are difficult to quantify. We seek, but we don't find the respite when cyberspace reveals life as both gritty and grand.
While Roth is little more than gas in the wind, not even a footnote in our nation's history, he merits attention, because there are so many more of him, lurking out there, fracturing peace because they are so hateful. Who calls a child "feral" and then describes himself or herself as the victim? And who, in the light of this kind of nonsense, says we live in a "post racial" space?
Julianne Malveaux is author and economist based in Washington, DC. Her new book "Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy" is available for pre-order at www.juliannemalveaux.com
Category: Opinion


Bollywood's Queen actress Kangana Ranaut is currently busy with the promotional activity for her upcoming film Tanu Weds Manu returns with her co-star R. Madhavan. In a recent event, the actress was asked which Bollywood film that is based on marriage is her personal favorite apart from Tanu Weds Manu and the actress revealed that Salman Khan starrer film Hum Aapke Hain Kaun happens to be her favorite.
"I don't actually watch films that often so I don't really know how many films are about marriage. But I like Hum Aapke Hain Kaun," Kangana said.
The actress went further on and revealed that she watched the film for the first time when she was a kid and since then has only liked Hum Aapke Hain Kaun even more. So much that the likeness that Kangana shares for Tanu Weds Manu Returns is similar to that of her fondness for Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. "I watched it when I was a kid and it happens to be one of my favorites. In fact, I like Hum Aapke Hain Kaun as much as I like Tanu Weds Manu 2 and I think it's a complete wedding and family entertainer," the 28-year old actress said.
Whereas her co-star R. Madhavan's favorite marriage theme film is Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, which also stars Salman Khan and Hollywood film My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Directed by Anand L. Rai, the family entertainer film Tanu Weds Manu is all set to hit the theaters this week on May 18, 2015. Apart from Tanu Weds Manu Returns, we'll also get to see Kangana Ranaut in Nikhil Advani's Katti Batti, which also stars Imran Khan.
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Without a doubt, sports media rights are critical to the growth and development of sport globally. Over the last year we have seen further increases in the value of many deals for major sports media rights. We have also seen new entrants into the market in the form of social media platforms dipping their toes into the sports media rights arena.
At the LawInSport Annual Conference a distinguished panel of experts for the legal and commercial sectors will be discussing what this means in terms of the latest trends & developments in negotiating, buying and selling sports media rights both now and in the future.


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32 Souls
Contemplating Myanmar's Shan State
Director & Editor: Sai Naw Kham,
Cinematographer: Nay Lynn Htun,
Sound Recordist: Soe Arkar Htun,
Editing Mentor: Tuula Mehtonen
An old woman from Mong Htet in northern Shan State in Myanmar looks back on a life marked by privation and loss. Her memories are interwoven with images that touch on this conflicted state's past, present and future.
'A quietly poetic and evocative work about the rhythms of daily life, mortality and the persistence of memory.'
BIOGRAPHY / FILMOGRAPHY
Sai Naw Kham grew up in Tangyan Township in Myanmar's northern Shan State. Moving to Yangon in 2007, he first studied chemistry and worked for three years as an editor for Charr Music Production. His first brush with filmmaking came when he filmed his uncle's donation to a Palaung village; the Palaung continue to fascinate him and he hopes to one day make a feature-length film with them. Since joining YFS in 2014 he has directed a documentary, The Crocodile Creek. In 2015 he photographed a short YFS drama, Book Lover.
To me, film is like time travel. In 32 Souls, I wanted to recall past wars and imagine souls gazing on the present; I also wanted to journey into the future via the prayer at the end. 32 Souls is partly a portrait of my grandmother's cousin and partly a poetic contemplation of a society in ruins as a result of war, environmental damage and the gradual erosion of belief systems.
Running time Format Subtitles System Approx. 25' 30'' / 16:9 anamorphic English PAL
09/2016 Wathann Film Fest#6, Yangon, Myanmar, SEA Competition
10/2016 DOK Leipzig International Documentary Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany,
© YFS Productions / Sai Naw Kham 2015
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