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Who's Protecting Pennsylvania's Water?
The scramble over regulating PA's booming Natural Gas Industry raises a centuries old American debate: Who will ultimately regulate it, the Feds or the State? Will it be PA's Tommy Corbett and Mike Krancer or EPA's Lisa Jackson and Shawn Garvin? Or will this foursome somehow find a way to work in tandem on the crucial issue of preventing and responding to the overwhelming threat of toxic water and air pollution from fracking? A little synergy here would go a very long way. Maybe instead of a Beer Summit, we need a Tap Water Summit.
The EPA
Most people are under the misapprehension that we are fully protected by the Environmental Protection Agency. Unfortunately, the EPA of today is nothing like the government agency formed in 1970. In terms of identifying and regulating environmental hazards, its role has been reduced to narrow tasks such as recommending guidelines for plans to deal with contaminating spills and other emergencies. In fact, the EPA's funding is at the lowest point since its inception. But defunding is only a single salvo the Right Wing assault on the EPA.
Remember Christine Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and first Head of the EPA under Bush? In early 2001, the EPA produced a report detailing the expected effects of global warming in each US state. The report was dismissed by President Bush who called it the work of "the bureaucracy." [SOURCE: Wikipedia]
On September 18, 2001, responding to concerns over toxic air pollution from the 9/11 attacks, Whitman infamously said: "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink." In early 2003, a report by the EPA's inspector general determined that such assurances were misleading, because the EPA "did not have sufficient data and analyses" to justify the assertions when they were made.
In July 2003, the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response gave extensive documentation supporting many of the inspector general's conclusions, and carried some of them further still. The report found that the White House had "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" by having the National Security Council control EPA communications after the September 11 attacks. On June 27, 2003, after having several public conflicts with the Bush administration, Whitman resigned from her position to "spend more time with her family."
However, in a 2007 interview, Whitman stated that Vice President Dick Cheney's insistence on easing air pollution controls, not the personal reasons she cited at the time, led to her resignation. She said he pushed the EPA to institute a new rule allowing large polluting plants to make major alterations without installing costly new pollution controls. Refusing to sign off on the new rule, Whitman announced her resignation. Whitman decided that President Bush should have an EPA administrator willing to defend the new rule in court, which she could not bring herself to do. Federal judges later overturned the new rule, saying it violated the Clean Air Act.
In 2005, Bush signed the Energy Act, exempting Industrial Gas Drillers from compliance with the Clean Air Act (1970) and the Safe Drinking Water Act (1974), quietly scuttling these sound environmental laws with what has become known as "The Halliburton Loophole." A bill proposing to close this loophole, the FRAC Act, has been introduced in Congress the 112th congress. This is its third trip to the legislature, yet it remains "just a bill, sittin' on Capitol Hill."
The FRAC Act [H.R. 2766; S. 1215]
If enacted, the laws drafted in the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act will close the 2005 loophole inserted into the Safe Drinking Water Act [SWDA] and require gas drillers to disclose the chemicals they use in the hydraulic fracturing process. The House bill was introduced by representatives Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.). The Senate version was introduced by Bob Casey (D-PA) and Chuck Schummer (D-NY). On March 24, 2011, the FRAC Act was re-introduced in the 112th United States Congress. The bill has gained a small measure of traction among Democrats and Independents. The Gas Industry currently opposes the legislation.
Great for the States
After 2005, the responsibility of regulating the Natural Gas Industry fell to the states. And Pennsylvania, which was known to have a large deposit of natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus Shale formation, was suddenly of great interest to drillers who had just figured out how to hydraulically fracture a gas well not only vertically, but also horizontally. Suddenly, rural pockets of PA began experiencing a Boom Time as gas exploration and extraction activities burgeoned. Gas exploration began in the northwest, in the Wilds, and it quickly spread across the Endless Mountains and into the Northeast. In 2010, responding to public concern over drinking water safety, New York State placed a moratorium on new well permits until further study is concluded. As a result, investment in frack-friendly Pennsylvania skyrocketed.
Before long, in town halls and community centers across Pennsylvania, the debate over water and air pollution from the Industrial Gas boom began to rage, literally fracturing otherwise peaceful communities. Those who were suddenly making boatloads of money faced opposition from neighbors who feared land degradation, water pollution and disease. In 2010, the Oscar-nominated documentary, Gasland, painted a compelling portrait of the death of the American dream in Damascus, PA, making it ground zero in the fight against fracking. Landowners say they don't want water people telling them what to do, yet water activists insist that our most precious resource is at grave risk. All the arguments in favor of Natural Gas Drilling Permits are economic, while all the reasons to maintain the current moratorium and proceed with extreme caution are based in science.
Disposing of massive volumes of the highly toxic, radioactive bi-product known as "frack water" has become a major industry dilemma. It is not economically or logistically feasible for aging municipal water treatment facilities to remove the 200+ chemicals which include radioactive solids, carcinogens, neurotoxins and known endocrine disruptors.
Currently in Pennsylvania, millions of gallons of toxic, radioactive frack wastewater are sitting in open double-lined, bermed-up pools near well bores, evaporating methane and formaldehyde into the air; or sloshing around in the back of a tanker truck barreling down what once was a quiet, county road; or being injected back down into the ground for another frack. Whatever's left is distilled and deposited in a wastewater treatment facility, upstream from some poor soul's drinking water supply, or swept under the proverbial rug into a deep injection well in New York or Ohio to be dealt with in another lifetime.
The PA DEP: Then and Now
These days, it's the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's responsibility to uphold the Constitution of Pennsylvania and ensure every citizen's right to clean water and air, now and for future generations. The politically appointed DEP is the sole agency charged with upholding our state's environmental laws.
The PA DEP was formed in 1992 when then Governor Tom Ridge replaced the 25-year-old Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources with two new agencies, the DEP and the Department of the Conservation of Natural Resources, fulfilling a campaign promise to split the state's environmental regulatory functions from its resource management actions. The legislation was intended to underscore the importance Pennsylvania places on its parks and forests and publicly recognize "something we already know, Pennsylvania's parks, forests, recreational assets and tourism attractions are second to none in the nation."
Environmental groups were split on the legislation. Some, such as The Nature Conservancy, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy supported the breakup, while others, such as the Sierra Club, opposed the move.
"We were opposed fundamentally to creating a barrier to the management of our air and water resources and the management of our public lands," said Jeff Schmidt, who headed the state chapter of the Sierra Club. "This further distances professionals in those agencies." Schmidt also noted that air pollution can impact forest health, and that oil and gas drilling and timber activities can affect water quality, but those activities will now be housed in different agencies, creating an artificial barrier for managers. SOURCE: Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal, 1995
"At the end of the day, my job is to make sure gas is done and gas is done right," said Secretary Krancer of the PA Department of Environmental Protection upon his appointment in April. According to its website, however, the PA DEP mission is to "protect Pennsylvania's air, land and water from pollution and to provide for the health and safety of its citizens through a cleaner environment," and to "work as partners with individuals, organizations, governments and businesses to prevent pollution and restore our natural resources." SOURCE: depweb.state.pa.us
In March 2011, sworn testimony of four DEP staffers, responsible for processing permits, suggested that applications for natural gas well permits are rubber-stamped, rushed through with little scrutiny and rarely rejected. The staffers' statements indicate that DEP regulators are overburdened – and possibly ignoring environmental laws – as they struggle to deal with an unprecedented drilling boom.
SOURCE: The Times-Tribune
For his part, Governor Corbett has proven his enthusiasm for gas drilling by repealing a 4-month-old policy that prevented natural gas drilling in state parks, which the former director of Department of the Conservation of Natural Resources stated could hurt recreation and the environment of parks in the Western part of the state.
In April, 2011, PA DEP reported elevated levels of bromide, a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process, in rivers and streams in the Western part of the state. It called on companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale to stop taking wastewater to 15 treatment plants by May 19. Krancer further stated, "if operators would stop giving wastewater to facilities that continue to accept it under the special provision, bromide concentrations would quickly and significantly decrease." SOURCE: The Times Leader
Today's DEP seems to be taking its cue from Corbett, far more intent upon working with drillers on compliance than limiting drilling to a pace which it can effectively regulate. The fact is, the PA DEP is understaffed and ill-equipped to handle the massive workload that is piling up in their six regional offices.
"The lack of technical oversight applied by PA DEP and the neglect of basic anti-degradation issues painfully illustrate that Pennsylvania is churning out gas well drilling permits as fast as possible, glossing over the most fundamental environmental aspects of a review such as proximity to special protection waters," said Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director of Delaware Riverkeeper Network. "How can anyone feel safe if PA DEP is asleep at the wheel like this? This kind of disregard by the environmental agency in charge of drilling in the State is scandalous; no wonder there are so many accidents and pollution incidents across the Commonwealth."
The Health of the Commonwealth
While leaving the matter of regulation to the states may have seemed like a viable, conservative option before the Gas Boom, it's entirely impractical now. PA DEP, and by extension the Corbett Administration, may be unwilling to relinquish regulatory control but clearly it needs the EPA, and even the DRBC in the regulatory structure if gas it to "get done" at all.
In February, 2011, the EPA announced that it proposes to characterize toxicity in almost every stage of the hydraulic fracturing life-cycle, and plans to summarize all available data obtained on chemicals and naturally occurring substances used and released during the hydraulic fracturing process in order to characterize and understand potential human health effects. The study, due to be completed later this year, will include:
1) Water Acquisition
2) Chemical Mixing
3) Well Injection
4) Flowback and Produced Water
5) Wastewater Treatment and Waste Disposal
It's more than a matter of check and balances, or even appeasing the rapidly growing contingent of vocal tree-huggers. The Gas Industry itself needs clarity and intra-state regulatory consistency to move forward, to improve their drilling and waste disposal practices in Pennsylvania, and to avoid liability exposure and excessive fines.
The PA DEP should also support the FRAC ACT because it would help them do their job more effectively. If drillers were required by law to publicly disclose fracking chemicals, the agency would have already known what chemicals were exploding from Chesapeake's LeRoy, Bradford County well blowout on April 19. They would not have had to ask the company for it on April 22.
Since Krancer assumed the helm in Pennsylvania, much has been made of the strongly worded, at times bristling, correspondence between his office and EPA Regional Administrator, Shawn M. Garvin. On May 18, 2011 The Legal Intelligencer asked Joseph Freudenberg, chair of Philadelphia-based Dilworth Paxson's environmental group, for his take on the potentially brewing animosity. Freudenberg said, "Marcellus activity is moving forward so quickly, I think you have both the federal EPA and the DEP reacting to that and trying to appropriately manage it."
In an e-mailed statement, EPA spokeswoman Terri White said the "rapid expansion of natural gas drilling operations in Pennsylvania presents enormous challenges for regulators at all levels. To ensure that drinking water, public health and the environment are protected, EPA is continuing to work with PADEP and other state officials who are on the frontlines of permitting and regulating natural gas drilling activities."
Katherine Gresh, a spokeswoman for the DEP, issued a similar e-mailed statement: "As the frontline regulatory agency of the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, we work with EPA and will continue to do so." SOURCE: Zach Needles, The Legal Intelligencer
Perhaps it's an encouraging sign that EPA and PA DEP are using the same language, even as they are jockeying for position. With all that toxic, carcinogenic wastewater out there, and all that's yet to be produced, Pennsylvanians can only hope that this signals a new beginning. Never in the history of our Commonwealth has the need for two ideologically opposed agencies to coordinate their efforts been so great.


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Well I feel like I need to keep this short and to the point until it actually comes out (January 15th)! This was a good book. That being said, did I expect more? Kind of.
There were so many wants inside him that he doubted there was room for blood in his body.
At this point I honestly don't know if I didn't LOVE it because I started reading it a few months ago, put it down and read a ton of really great books in-between, and then just now finally finished it. I do think that this also might suffer from a case of "people said it was super similar to Six of Crows so my bar was set SUPER HIGH" or what. And I get that, it had a cast of misfit and super diverse characters that came together to pull of a heist which was awesome. BUT. I guess there was also a lot I didn't get. Maybe it was because unlike Six of Crows which is set in a completely fictional world, this was set in France is 1889 and I kept forgetting that. There are instances of people being treated a certain way because of their race and talks of revolution and things of that nature that had me pausing for a second because I honestly have no idea what kind of a place France was during that time period. I do always feel bad too, when books are compared to a series that was hyped up so much and so loved by so many. I'm always nervous like, okay, is this book set up to fail because too many people are going to go into it expecting something exactly like the other series??!?! I really hope not!
EITHER WAY, this book has solid bones. The characters, like I said, were really diverse and fun and had hilarious banter with one another. A lot of things really intrigued me about them (like their different powers and mysterious pasts) and I hope that we continue to get more back story on all of them, ESPECIALLY Laila..Also, the ending set the next book up in a way that I NEED IT YESTERDAY. I need more Severin and Laila (they are the definition of tortured romance, folks), I need to know more about last thing that was said about a certain someone being an heir……I just need to know a lot of things. So again, this wasn't life-changing great like I thought it was going to be, but it was still really good and I will be 100% checking out book two. Chokshi's writing is as amazingly rich and vibrant as it was in her previous books and I still think this will get a lot of buzz and that a ton of people will fall madly in love with the characters, too.


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The Type 3278 pneumatic rolling diaphragm actuator is designed for all industrial applications. This actuator is a rotary motion device ideal for all types of rotary valves. The torque output of the actuator depends on the actuator area, pneumatic supply pressure, spring stiffness, distance traveled, initial compression of the spring, the number of springs internal to the actuator, etc.
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Re: Oppinions on cabinet panels?
If it is mockernut, leaflets are 7 and the rachis is wooly tomentose. The nut involucre dehises completely exposing the whole nut. The nut involucre is also thick, up to 1/4". In pignut, the leaflets are in 5's, the rachis is smooth, and the nut involucre only partially dehises 2/3rds to the base. The nut involucre is thin.
Then, there is shagbark, shellbark, sand, bitternut, water, pecan, and red hickory .
Hard to discern this in a panel unless you have paranormal powers. I always thought that Don was just a bit para-normal .
This was mostly shagbark T&G, but I ran out. Can you pick out the mockernut boards. The client could not, they kind of yell "what were you thinking" to me.
Don and WDH, yer killing me.
Now, my option isn't shown, but I would prefer a plain flat panel.
The mockernut boards are the ones with anastomotizing bark ridges, not large dehiscent scales .
Now you're just being downright clairvoyant , yup mockernut has chain link bark.
Look at the middlish 2 heartwood boards in the center panel, the left of center board in the third panel and the brilliant white one towards the right end, those are mockernut. The op is also very common coloration in white hickory that I've not seen in the others... which I cannot tell one from the other of, mockernut is the oddball hickory. In a broad brush generalization, the heartwood of mockernut is muddier, not as striking, the sapwood is whiter, where in the others the opposite is more true, their sapwood tends to have muddier whites but sharply defined and deeper heartwood coloration.
It just jumps out at you and knocks you down .
I can tell a difference between shagbark/scalybark and other hickory's... But only when the bark is on.
Back in the dark ages, I learned one called pignut, is this another name for one of the above Danny?
There is a species called pignut. Carya glabra.
Great looking cabinets and countertop. Excellent job.
She looks excited to be in her brand new kitchen!
Yes, I'll get down your way in the next couple of months. Would really like to see your work.
Great looking combination behind the happy young lady ! What did you finish the counter top with ?
Polyurethane. Wanted a tough finish.
Prettiest thing I've seen, and I like those cabinets too.
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Barton Rovers turned in one of their best performance in many years as they hammered one of the title favourites Royston Town 6-3 on Tuesday evening.
The visitors romped into a 3-0 lead after only 13 lucky minutes with a brace from Connor Calcutt and one from Billy Adcock.
Lewis Todd was called into action shortly after as Royston were awarded a penalty and the keeper expertly saved Jack Bradshaw's spot kick.
However, Bradshaw did find the net moments later turning in from close range to give the hosts some hope at 3-1.
They then pulled another back on 23 mins before Rod Orlando-Young fired home an unstoppable strike at the other end to put Barton 4-2 in front at the break.
The second half was played at the same frantic pace with Todd called into action as much as Crows keeper Joe Welch.
Barton extended their lead on 74 mins with another wonder goal, this time from Jordan Wynter who gave Welch no chance burying his rocket shot in the top corner.
Orlando-Young then popped up to make it 6-2 to Rovers shortly before the end, as Scott Bridges' late effort was just a consolation.
Barton boss Jimmy Gray said: "As impressive performances go that has to rate as one of the best, the lads dug deep and gave everything.
Rovers are now up to fifth in the table and visit Aylesbury United on Saturday.


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Chris Hemsworth praises children's hospital Covid doctors as 'real superheroes'
Laura Harding, PA Deputy Entertainment Editor
10 June 2020, 1:16 pm ·1-min read
Chris Hemsworth has praised the doctors and nurses on the coronavirus ward of a children's hospital as the "real superheroes".
The Thor star also met patients at the Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, answering their questions about the Avengers films and posing for photos over Zoom.
Impressed by the detailed questions the kids asked @ChrisHemsworth. It's just one of their many superpowers! Shout-out to our @ChildrensNational studio team Nichole and Becca for hosting. #SeacrestStudios
A post shared by Ryan Seacrest (@ryanseacrest) on Jun 10, 2020 at 8:14am PDT
As he greeted medical staff dressed in protective clothing over video chat, shared by Ryan Seacrest on Instagram, he told them: "You guys are fantastic, thank you so much for your wonderful, selfless, fantastic work, you're the real superheroes.
"Its absolutely incredible, as I said you guys are the superheroes, I pretend to be one but you guys are the real thing.
"So, from myself and everyone around the world, we are beyond appreciative for the work you guys do, it's beyond incredible."
Flooding Reveals Outline of 400-Year-Old Fort in Cambridgeshire
Flooding from heavy rain revealed the outline of a 400-year-old English Civil War fortification in the town of Earith in Cambridgeshire, England, on January 18, local media reported.The Earith Bulwark fort was built between 1643 and 1645 to protect crossing points on the local rivers during the English Civil War, according to Historic England. It was "amongst the most elaborate fortifications" from the English Civil War and was later used as a gun emplacement during World War II.England's Environment Agency issued flood warnings from the southeast to the northeast of England after days of persistent heavy rain. Credit: Terry Harris via Storyful

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Haden Hire Essentially Puts Kevin O'Neill on the Hot Seat
By Joey Kaufman Jul 26, 2010, 1:42pm PDT
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In many ways, Kevin O'Neill has always been on the hot seat at USC.
When hired by Mike Garrett just over a year ago, it's safe to say that O'Neill was never thought of as the long term replacement for the departing Tim Floyd. Big names like Jamie Dixon have always been thought of as the right guy to lead a Trojan hoops program - now supposedly an "it job" with the construction of the Galen Center. Nobody was clamoring for a guy like O'Neill.
But because of an NCAA investigation, which was ongoing at the time, nobody was eager to succeed Floyd at USC. Luckily, Garrett found a guy in O'Neill, who was simply an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies, and thus, would be interested in any available coaching gig - even if it meant moving to Siberia.
But even though O'Neill was a last resort in many respects, he was also a seemingly perfect fit at the time. With a postseason ban and heavy departures leaving the roster depleted, it was tough to imagine any coach coming in and leading the Trojans above the .500 mark. So they hired a coach who would at least keep the program's nose clean. But O'Neill didn't do just that. He led the Trojans to an 18-14 mark, surpassing all expectations and causing many members of the Trojan faithful to start drinking the K.O. kool aid.
But with 2011 on the horizon, the future for O'Neill at USC is still rather hazy. The program is now eligible for the postseason, and a year from now, will no longer be on probation and be able to offer the maximum number of scholarships. In short, USC is now an attractive job again.
So does the fact that the USC basketball coaching gig looks a little more prominent nowadays place current head coach Kevin O'Neill on the hot seat?
It absolutely does.
Since the construction of the Galen Center in 2006, its charm has slowly begun to erode. What became a major selling point to coaches in the middle of the decade (a new on-campus arena) is becoming less and less significant annually. In five-to-ten years, the novelty of Galen will have worn off, and 'SC's power to attract a big-name coach will likely have declined as well.
In turn, with Galen still relatively new, and with the NCAA sanctions now in the rear-view mirror, USC basketball is once again an attractive Orange County blonde bombshell as opposed to a single mother who has put five kids through school already.
And that means Pat Haden and USC need to capitalize on its basketball "youth" moving forward.
They don't have a 3-5 year window to wait and see what O'Neill "does with this opportunity." Not to sound like a Kentucky basketball fan, but O'Neill needs to prove capable of guiding teams to the postseason relatively soon. And by postseason, I mean the NCAA Tournament, not the NIT.
What I fear, however, is that I may be asking too much, because 2011 could be a rocky season in the Pac-10 for USC with the loss of its top three perimeter players in Mike Gerrity, Marcus Johnson, and Dwight Lewis. Earlier this month, Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News echoed some of these concerns:
7. USC (6th): The Trojans lost three of their top-four scorers, their point guard and the their best all-around player. Yes, they should have one of the top frontcourts in the conference with Nikola Vucevic and Alex Stepheson, but so much depends on Fordham transfer Jio Fontan to prop up an otherwise barren backcourt. Fontan was the A-10 freshman of the year in 2008-09. But he isn't eligible until December and won't have played for a year.
The fact is that O'Neill is depending on freshman guards Bryce Jones and Maurice Jones to essentially save his job. Granted, it's doubtful that O'Neill would be canned after a sub-par 2011 campaign just so Haden could insert his own guy at the helm. However, you have to think that if O'Neill is afforded the opportunity to bring in two recruiting classes and has the chance to see them compete as freshmen and sophomores, that he will be expected to produce results.
And if 2011 or 2012 do not result in an NCAA Tournament appearance, expect a pink slip to find itself upon O'Neill's desk.
But if he wins, he keeps his job. It's as simple as that.
The problem lies in the fact that O'Neill has never been much of a winner previously in his coaching career. At his last three coaching gigs, his performances have been underwhelming strictly when it came to wins and losses. At Arizona, he finished just four wins above .500. At Northwestern, he went 30-56, and when he was on Rocky Top (I guess we like former Tennessee coaches), he led the Vols to a 36-47 mark over three years.
None of that inspires much confidence that 2011 or 2012 will be banner seasons for 'SC.
Granted, I hope I'm wrong, but with a new athletic director at the helm, the pressure is on O'Neill to prove that he's the right guy for the job.
Based on his track record, that's going to take a lot of convincing.
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Climate Change and India
#GS3 #ClimateChange #Environment
India's first ever national forecast on the impact of global warming on the subcontinent in the coming century, expects annual rainfall to increase, along with more severe cyclones and — paradoxically — more droughts.
These projections, based on a climate forecasting model developed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, will be part of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), expected to be ready in 2022.
What does the report say?
The report 'Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian region' says that from 1986-2015, the hottest day and coldest night have warmed 0.63°C and 0.4°C, respectively.
By the end of the 21st century, the report says, these temperatures are projected to rise by approximately 4.7°C and 5.5°C, respectively, relative to the corresponding temperatures in 1976-2005. This under a hypothetical scenario where no steps are taken to curb global greenhouse gas emissions or the RCP 8.5 as it is called. Currently countries have signed an agreement to reduce emissions to restrict global temperature rise by the end of the century to less than 2°C.
RCP8.5 is the worst-case scenario used by climate modellers worldwide. In a medium GHG emissions scenario, called RCP4.5, average temperature in India would rise by 2.7 degrees in the last three decades of this century.
The frequencies of future warm days and warm nights are projected to increase by 55% and 70%, respectively, relative to the reference period of 1976-2005. Summer heat waves over India are projected to be three to four times higher by the end of the 21st century.
The projected rapid changes in India's climate will place increasing stress on the country's natural ecosystems, agricultural output, and fresh water resources, the report says.
There has been observed a change of 0.7°C in average temperatures over India which has already registered a spike in extreme weather events over the region.
Impact of climate change on India
On Himalayas – The IITM experts have calculated that the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) experienced a temperature rise of about 1.3 degrees between 1951 and 2014. Several areas of HKH have experienced a declining trend in snowfall and also retreat of glaciers in recent decades, though some glaciers in the high-elevation Karakoram range has escaped this retreat due to more winter snowfall. By the end of the twenty-first century, the annual mean surface temperature over HKH is projected to increase by about 5.2 degrees Celsius under the RCP8.5 scenario.
On Monsoon – Sea surface temperature (SST) of the tropical Indian Ocean has risen by 1 degrees Celsius on average during 1951–2015, markedly higher than the global average SST warming of 0.7 degrees Celsius, over the same period. The summer monsoon precipitation (June to September) over India has declined by around 6% from 1951 to 2015, with notable decreases over the Indo-Gangetic Plains and the Western Ghats. There has been a shift in the recent period toward more frequent dry spells (27% higher during 1981–2011 relative to 1951–1980) and more intense wet spells during the summer monsoon season. Over central India, the frequency of daily precipitation extremes with rainfall intensities exceeding 150 mm per day increased by about 75% during 1950–2015." The report predicts an increase in this variability.
On Land and Sea – The report records that around India, the sea has risen 3.3 mm per year between 1993 and 2017. The scientists forecast that even in an RCP4.5 scenario, by the end of the century the seas around India will rise by 300 mm from the average level between 1986 and 2005. This means a larger area along the coast will be affected by storms and saltwater intrusion.
What should be done?
As per the report, the points of action include "passive reduction of indoor temperatures, water conservation and rainwater harvesting, groundwater regulation, reversing land degradation, reduction in food and water wastage, waste segregation and recycling, low impact urban development, expansion of urban green spaces and urban farming, pollution control, increasing the area under irrigation and improving the efficiency of agricultural water use, forest conservation and proactive afforestation, construction of coastal embankments and mangrove restoration, improvement in disaster response, phasing out fossil fuels and transition to renewables, electrification, expansion of walking, bicycling and public transport infrastructure, and carbon taxation."
Overall, climate change has already made India hotter and drier since the middle of the twentieth century, with more droughts, cloudbursts, floods, rising seas, stronger cyclones and a change in the monsoon pattern.
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is being observed on June 17, 2020 with the theme "Food. Feed. Fibre – the links between consumption and land".


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04 – Of Mike And Men
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Ana Chronistic
August 7, 2018 at 12:03 am	| #
"yeah, I left a dump in your bed but somehow I don't think that's what you're talking about"
"NOT IF I KILL THEM FIRST"
wait no
Logical though.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
August 7, 2018 at 1:00 am	| #
And this is why in the present-day, Mike cares about no-one at all. So that Blaine can never threaten the ones he cares about.
It suddenly all makes so much SENSE! xD
Pizzafairy
"I have so much in common with your wife. We both seem attached to turds."
Dingleberry or Daggs ?
DailyBrad
What happened to Mike, indeed.
BBCC
I hate Blaine. So so so much.
oh boy blaine you always succeed at being the worst don't you
ShinyNeen
Oh geez I do not like Mike hearing what Blaine has to say. Especially those last two panels! I can believe that part of how we have the Mike we have in the present is from a "never show vulnerability" mentality, and… ugh.
PigeonPollyx
tyranidswarm
"HA! jokes on you I'm an asshole to everyone!'
Wait this is past Mike
timemonkey
August 7, 2018 at 11:43 pm	| #
"HA! jokes on you I'm gonna be an asshole to everyone!"
Anyone else fearing for Ethan's safety?
Inahc
ohhhh. >.<
woobie
I did not expect this.
shadowcell
"yes, i too, once upon a time, ambushed and beat up children half my size!"
William Leonard Reese Jr.
Guessing that Mike left the receipts out where Amber's mom can find them? Oh dear. . . Wait this is on school grounds right? There are cameras. How is he not arrested or getting the shit kicked out of him by the security guards?
Xujhan
It makes me so sad that security guards at a public school are considered normal in some places.
Needfuldoer
It wasn't when I was a kid. Of course that was 20+ years ago, pre-Columbine.
Br44n5m
There was one at the local Highschool in my area maybe ten years ago or so, if the other schools had a problem student, usually me, they'd call him in. He had either a razor or gun, not sure which, holstered at all times.
Tualha
August 7, 2018 at 7:04 pm	| #
I hope you mean a taser?
Rhee
Nothing like a close shave to keep the peace.
If you run in the halls I'll shave your legs?
Mollyscribbles
I went to school immediately post-Columbine. The security guards were more suspicious of students than adults.
Leorale
Pre- and post-Columbine, poor rural NY highschool, had a cop or two in the halls. I knew that anyone could get a gun if they wanted (it was a small town that liked hunting). We all knew it could happen here.
In elementary school at that time, the biggest threat was an abusive parent breaking custody rules and kidnapping their kid. The teachers signed the kids out, and on occasion, secretly circulated a picture of the parent who was Not Allowed to pick up his or her kid.
Nowadays I teach 3rd Grade private afterschool in NYC, and all the little kids are very familiar with lockdowns.
autogatos
This is so depressing to me. I think we had a security guard at my high school, but his job was mainly keeping an eye on the parking lot and I think he was only hired after a break-in (someone broke into the school at night and stole a bunch of computer equipment). This was back in the late 90s/early 00s though.
I have a 3 year old daughter now, who will be starting kindergarten in 2 years, and the thought that she will likely end up having "lockdown" or "active shooter" drills just breaks my heart and stresses me out so much.
All we had when I was a kid were earthquake and fire drills…
buckybone
Had a cop splitting time between the middle and high schools in my hometown when I was there (2001-08)…small town in northern WI, half of the guys (and some of the girls) had guns in their cars during the deer and duck seasons, wasn't really a big deal.
Also, yep, 2001 was around the time we started running lockdown drills, except we called it "Code Blue".
Over here in Germany, if a school hires security, it still makes the news. And we learn a lot about schools with predominantly Arab background children with each.
But then, we had only three school schootings in the last 15 years or so and none before that, though there were two cases of the police closing a school because someone threatened a shooting this year alone in my region. I don't know if that was people playing with the power of threats or actually wanting to go on a schooting spree. (My autocorrect always makes schooling of it).
In a way, it's quite laughable that the right wingers over here get so many votes by people who feel their security threatened.
Mr. Bulmbin
It's even worse when that security is completely useless. Take it from a guy who was shoved down a flight of stairs in elementary school.
I was a freshman when Columbine happened but we never got security guards. We did have security drills.
We had fights, maybe once a week, and it always made me sad that it was the teachers job to break them up. We also had plenty of drug dealers but I dont know if any teachers or administrators did anything about them. Nat that the drugs were really impacting life, it just felt ridiculous that so many of us ignored the obvious smell.
I went to a "good" scool: high test scores, high graduation and college acceptance rate, lots of honors and AP classes, involved parents, successful sports and other extra curricular activities. So I always assumed our problems were pretty standard for a large high school and it seemed absurd that the only enforcer of the rules were teachers.
Just for kix
Wow, you guys are so pampered – not having to worry about getting kidnapped or bullied or molested or raped. Clearly, all your countries have only good people.
badumtiss
I don't know why you reacted so defensively. Do you NOT think it's sad that some places have this happen AT SCHOOL so often that it makes security guards necessary?
Would you not like to live in a world where they weren't?
thejeff
It's actually not entirely clear to me that they happen frequently enough to make school guards necessary. Nor clear how much use they are, really.
Partly it's just that we are more aware of them now and partly that by selectively reporting on them, we think they're more common than they are. We're not properly wired to handle things that happen rarely in a population of hundreds of millions – if we hear about them semi-regularly, we react as if they're likely to happen to us or someone we know. That's how it was for most of history – if you heard of multiple attacks at schools, it was because they were happening multiple times in your neighborhood.
Bullying and other internal abuse has always been common of course, but security guards aren't a good solution to that. Security also tends to raise the stakes of any kind of punishment, especially when they're actual cops. School discipline then tends to slide over into legal consequences. And as usual in this country, black kids wind up bearing the brunt of that.
As they do of regular school discipline of course, but that's still a lower level.
Wait did you not have security guards at your school??? Maybe this is became I grew up in a Jamaican private school (ie rich kids to protect from a very violent county) but not having security guards at a school just sounds unafe. What if some creep comes in pretending to be a parent, or someone come in to steal something (actual thing that happened at NY school)
Zee- in my school the doors weren't open during school hours. The receptionist had to buzz people in, and anyone leaving had to sign out. Seems like a perfectly adequate security system to me, at least for the country I live in.
And most things like kidnap, sexual abuse etc isn't done by strangers. It's far more commonly done by someone the victim knows. And a school would surely be an inconvenient place to try those things?
In my schools, all the doors were unlocked around 7am, and were all unlocked until at least 5pm, later if somebody was using the building, anybody could pay the janitor to stay late and use the building for meetings or whatever after school. It was a perfectly adequate security system, because it worked. Nobody got kidnapped.
There were a few security guards in college, but that's mostly because it was a big university and most of the buildings were open 24/7, in case somebody was working late or needed a quiet classroom to study.
Nope, none at my school. Small town, public school, nobody would have even thought of it back then. Nobody came in and stole anything, nobody pretended to be a parent, and all the bomb threats were kids wanting to get out of a test. (We had 3 or 4 bomb threats every year, they were treated like a fire drill, we'd go stand outside until whatever time the bomb was supposed to go off, then go back in. After all, if somebody really wanted to blow up the school they'd do it at night, like that one time they blew it up back in the '50s.)
Jon Rich
"Like that one time they blew it up back in the '50s."
Wait, what the hell? Don't cut us off there, what happened?
Also, am I the only one stunned at the regularity of bomb threats here? I never even had *one* in all my years of public school.
at my canadian schools, not only was everything unlocked, most of the grounds were un-fenced – the trees and grass led to sidewalk, and then residential streets. (or ravines. 🙂 )
and if kids wanted to get out of an exam, they pulled the fire alarm. I don't remember bomb threats being a thing at all.
in england there was a fence around the school, but I don't remember there being any guards.
Alanari
Interesting. I'm scared by security guards in schools. If there are guards, there's a thread that creates the need for guards. I grew up with safe schools.
You never leave your wallet in the classroom and if someone wants to steal a bunch of books, well, they're school property anyway. And you wouldn't need to pretend to be a parent, schools usually are free to enter. During break, a teacher supervises the yard, if someone looks suspicious, he or she will take care of that. No need for a guard.
Never had guards when I was a kid. Some 30ish years ago admittedly.
Semi-rural US school – not private rich kids or urban poor.
We had the usual problems, but nothing a security guard would help with. Bullying kids, probably teachers molesting (there were rumors at least), petty theft – mostly between kids, not outsiders breaking in, some drug use and sales, again between kids. No kidnappings, no mass shootings.
During college I came back a couple times to visit teachers and friends from lower grades. Just wandered in and hung out.
I think in the US, security guards started in public schools in urban schools worried about gang violence and heavy drugs. Partly of course because those urban schools were minority and thus obviously needed more cops to control them. Private schools likely had them already, to keep the riff-raff out.
Never had guards until high school and even then I don't think she actually did anything. She hung around the entrance by the lunchroom. That was it. I think occasionally she broke up a fight, but most of the time I believe it was teachers who did that.
They had security officers in my high school, too. I didn't like them being around; I felt trusted little more than a prisoner.
Ed Rhodes
I am old (no, probably older than that) When I started school in the second grade (November baby meant I was too old for kindergarten, and after two days in the first grade, they decided my reading scores indicated I should be skipped ahead -NEVER LET ANYONE DO THIS TO YOUR KID! I STILL have anxieties that I can trace back to that decision!) Where was I? Oh, second grade, I was there just for the end of the "Duck And Cover" period, where we would pretend an atomic bomb had just gone off and we would get under our desks and put our heads between our knees.
biggo
Duck and cover: almost as useful as security guards XD
carms
you have security guards?
abysswatcher1993
Schools are requiring them to deal with parents that kidnap their own children after a horrific divorce, or maybe the occasional psychopath that wants to shoot kids and be protected by trumpian ideologies. Even college campus need a lot of guards here in mexico because of drug dealers fighting the police.
If Mike could find the evidence in a few bored minutes at Amber's, Amber or her mom could also find them. Just saying.
Reltzik
So there's been a running gag over in IW! Reloaded involving Mike kicking someone in the crotch over and over again, and I'm wondering if Willis is clever enough to have synced up the two storylines…
Well, if we don't see how this scene resolves I'm definitely going to be headcanoning that!
Bathymetheus
This is supposed to be more realistic. It would be extremely dangerous for Mike to do that to Blaine unless there are other adults present. Which obviously there aren't, or Blaine wouldn't be doing this.
That said, Mike is remarkably self-possessed in panel 3. At that age, I would have been terrified in such a situation.
Keeping calm in a crisis doesn't mean you're not terrified.
Felgraf
Some people's stress/crises/adrenaline reactions are very sort of-
".. I can tell that I am terrified, but those emotions also seem to be very far away and belong to someone else."
(It's like my brain bifrucates, or sequesters them, or something. I tend to have my "OH GOD" flipout AFTERWARDS.)
And then there are people with flattened affect.
Oh, I'm in this situation. What's the emotional response I need to give for that again so people don't think I'm a robot?
It's kind of the same as what you're talking about, but for kind of everything. It makes it difficult to connect with people, but at least you can look bad-ass in a crisis. Without meaning to.
Stephen Bierce
"You can't kill me because of that moral thing of yours, and I can't kill you because you're too much fun!"
Meanwhile, McDonald's has announced they really are selling 48-piece Chicken Nugget buckets.
laladoria
Wait, wait. Let's focus on the important part of this comment.
When do these buckets go on sale?
Stock up on sauce packets.
a4lbi
"The promotion has come about in collaboration with the J-pop group NGT48 but will unfortunately only be available in the city of Niigata."
*books a flight*
But Walky had fity McNuggest earlier, FIFTY! Where did the two extra nuggets come from!?
merbrat
*shrugs* Hawaii and Alaska?
I figured he bought 5 10-packs.
Benjamin Geiger
Why would he do that when three twenties would be cheaper and give him ten more nuggets?
Uh . . . the store's supply was running low and they only had 50 ready to fry; if he wanted to get 60 he'd need to wait like 15 minutes longer and they were willing to give him a discount for the inconvenience.
First off, let me say… what the fuck?!
And now.
Is he actually like. Publicly assaulting a child?
I'm assuming Mike left some incriminating evidence out at Amber's house to maybe let Stacy and Amber see that Blaine is a piece of garbage. Maybe cops came to his house after the stabbing incident, and they also saw the evidence? I doubt Blaine would be out and about if that were the case (although, bail does exist). Blaine probably NEEDED Stacy and Amber as a sort of…alibi? Cover story? For some of his mafia activities.
But holy shit. Why am I surprised that he's assaulting Mike, assumingly on the street? I shouldn't be surprised. I know he's a piece of shit. But somehow…. I'm surprised that he keeps doing things to throw himself farther ahead in the Worst Dad Contest.
MatthewTheLucky
He already attacked someone in canon. I mean, the focus of the scene was on Amber and her trauma, but he was on the midst of a violent crime against a bystander during that beatdown.
whoa what? i don't remember that, what happened?
Not during the robbery, he was filling the car with gas while that happened.
King Daniel
@Needfuldoer, alice:
It wasn't during the robbery, it was during the confrontation between Blaine and Amazi-Girl – Blaine grabbed and gagged Danny and tried to pull him away and back into the car, which is what triggered Amazi-Girl's no-holds-barred beatdown on Blaine.
Oh yeah, that's right! That time he held Danny captive under false pretenses and got his ass handed to him.
oh right. thank you!
He attacked someone with a canon?
Unless you're accusing Blaine of grabbing a priest and using him as a weapon, you're thinking of cannons.
3-I
What's better, a normal bludgeoning tool, or one with papal infallibility?
HMRC4EVR
I'd rather have Megatron shoot him with his fusion cannon.
Maybe we can shoot him with Pachelbel's Cannon. (In the D.)
adjudicus
This seems like a relevant place to put this.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cannon_(disambiguation)
(read down to the bottom)
That's my new head cannon.
I actually doubt Mike actually did that. The way he's being portrayed in these flashbacks, he wouldn't willingly give up future leverage on someone he could end up needing to manipulate again. I just assume whatever was found on Blaine here is actually unrelated to Mike, but Blaine is just experiencing a combination of recency bias, narcissistic rejection that he could have made a mistake, and a general desire to strike back at the dude who just wounded his pride a single time, for which any excuse will do.
Also…wait, when was it established that Blaine is in the freaking mob?
Psi Baka Onna
Joe's dad told him Blaine was a mob stooge, so yeah… that's a thing…
BigDogLittleCat
Wha–? When was that?!
Though my current theory is that he's not actuallyin the mob, he's just a stooge – letting them launder money through his construction company or some such.
I suspect it wasn't Stacy or the cops that found something, but his mob associates.
Because of course Blaine is skimming from the take.
Krys Brynhildr
I'm more weirded out by the distinct possibility that somehow despite all the windows no one is around to see this at all.
At least when I was in Junior High it was pretty rare for all the adults to already be gone before kids were generally picked up or had gotten on the bus/walked home.
But at the same time if he was about to get sent to jail for assaulting a child in public…I'm not sure that'd fit with the timeline this series of flashbacks lead to either. So yeah, less weirded out by Blaine doing this and more by Blaine not being stopped from doing so?
Mike, with him lifting you up, and your relative heights, you are in optimal crotch-kicking position. Please take note.
wow Amber knifed the wrong person
If you can't knife the one you Loathe, Knife The One You're With!
Marsh Maryrose
You can't do it right with the one you loathe.
3oranges
If it helps, she puts him in the hospital later.
(And even if doesn't help.)
Deanatay
It's not her fault he didn't die! Danny stopped her!
Oof, that's dark to joke about. Maybe not.
there can be more than one right person to knife!
…oh, just realized what you meant. i thought you meant ryan. yeah, sal wasn't the right person to knife.
I stand by my theory that Amber's violence towards Sal and later Ryan was because she had so much repressed rage and homocidal feelings towards Blaine that she had no escape for. So eventually it EXPLODED out, but still not towards the person she WANTS to be able to stab, to get vengeance on, to punish.
Nikolai Geier
Especially if she finds out about this, and blames herself for letting Blaine hurt one of her only friends.
Kyrik Michalowski
Well Mike, you knew this was a possibility, and you knew that you'd have to ctually deal with him at some point. And still, it's scary how accurate that statement is, and yet even at his worst Mike is not Blaine. At least not yet?
I actually don't know that Mike knew this was a possibility, or that he'd have to deal with it at some point. I have sincere doubts anybody he's provoked this way – at this young point in his life, remember – wields the kind of vindictive rage that would make a full-grown adult see a barely-teen as a viable target for complete and utter destruction. I figure when he does his schtick, he usually just wins. This might literally be his first experience with his manipulation playing out in a way that's actually seriously detrimental to him or his goals.
Though the other time we saw him try his schtick in flashback, he got slapped and thrown out the door by Amber's teacher.
Which, like, sucks, but I guess my point is that there's no long-term or greater consequence to that. Mike went to bat and that was practically the worst thing that could happen. That's his barometer for "negative consequences." I doubt it really had any effect on him; it's not like he had a positive opinion of that woman, but I would presume he doesn't care about getting hit by a grumpy old bag. This is a big fucking escalation in what is possible to go wrong in terms of his past experience.
Based on Mike's attitude, I feel like he's had similar experiences. Perhaps not with an adult at this point, and/or with this level of violence but Mike didn't seem shook by getting slapped by the teacher, only being abandoned by Amber. He's also not showing any shock here, though that could be just a really good poker face. Granted this is all theory but Mike seems like he at least had an idea of what Blaine was capable of, not just to him but to Amber and her mother, and maybe that is why he stepped in. My big question now is, what are they both going to do?
I'd love Mike to stab Blaine in the neck but since this is a flashback and I know he's alive I guess that won't happen, will it? Also not really Mike's style I guess.
Mike would have a ways to go to get down to the Blaine, Ross, and Ryan level of awful. He hasn't even fallen to the Mary and Ethan's mom level yet.
Willis, have you ever known anybody like Blaine?
Rosicrucian
Apparently the "bunches of illegitimate children and trouble with the Korean mafia" part was… real?
Kernanator
I mean, it could just be that you aren't as clever in covering your tracks as you think you are. Don't attribute to the malice of others what can be easily explained by your own stupidity.
big time false equivalency
Man, just when you think Toe Dad is the worst, Blane puts down his beer and starts doing stuff. Depending on what happens next, it could be anyone's game…
Toe Dad is a brainwashed idiot whose life experience and trajectory convinced himself to believe in garbage which let him justify acting like a monster, because he convinced himself he was doing good. Blaine doesn't believe in anything other than his own goals and his own happiness, and doesn't care whether any of his actions are justifiable beyond serving that core drive.
They're both disgusting. But they are very different kinds of disgusting, and which is worse depends on personal opinion.
Clint needs to step up his game or people are going to forget about him.
I'm not being funny; I genuinely don't know who you're talking about.
Ruth's grandfather.
So that's his name. I don't know I ever connected it to him before…
Oh, the "Clint" that should be spelled all-caps with the L and I kerned together. That Clint.
Khyrin
Clint is ruth's grandfather. Mister "falling in love with a drunk driver means you didn't really love your parents."
C.T Phipps
I'm assuming Blaine is actually wrong here and attempting to blame Mike for the fact running a second life is actually difficult.
BenRG
I'm thinking that Blaine has the sort of personality where he needs to blame other people for his every mistake.
Ding ding ding.
You could even say that's the core difference between Blaine and Amber: Blaine externalizes every outcome he doesn't want as being because of someone else. Amber internalizes every consequence she sees around her as evidence that she didn't do the right thing, or do it well enough. It's probable that the former is a core cause of the latter.
I wouldn't say your exactly the same considering unlike you he's smart enough to know not to go for intimidation tactics right in front of the school.
Blaine fundamentally sees himself as bulletproof. He literally can't adequately conceptualize the potential consequences of his actions. He's so flagrantly narcissistic, he just assumes he is always capable of overcoming them without ever thinking about it.
Given him doing stuff like assaulting Ruth in front of a bunch of people that one time she had to flip him, loudly declaring he physically abused Amber's mom right in front of Dina and her parents like it was no big deal, and other shit he's pulled, yeah, he has zero concern for appearances.
Oh, I wouldn't put it that way. He does everything he can to cultivate the appearance of "I will do bad things to you and I will definitely get away with it, and there's nothing you can do to change that" any time the chips are down and he's out of other options. How he appears is very important to him. What he has zero concern for are the potential consequences of his actions…because his internal compass for morality is permanently set to "I will do bad things to people and I will get away with it, and nobody can do anything to change that."
QueerCat
Hopeful Theory: Mike has an endgame revenge plan on Blaine that is just taking years and years to make happen. Can't kill an adult easily as a child…waiting a few years tho? Shouldn't be too hard
Not so happy theory that probably is actually the case: Mike gave up on caring about anyone after this and then spent too much time online where he grew edgier and edgier til he became a massive dickwad himself
Oh yeah. It takes a lot of advance planning to make a plan involving a steamroller, an open elevator shaft, and elephant tranquilizers look like an accident. Get him on one of those "Most undignified death" lists without taking the easy way out with staging it to look like autoerotic asphyxiation.
Oh, and he has to remain in position to give Amber and/or her mother advice on choosing the headstone.
Mike's plan already came to fruition. He fucked Faz's mom for a nickle. Now he's just playing the waiting game.
That is the best plan I have heard since Lex Luthor's 1490 failed plan to kill Superman.
Mr D
FORTY WHOLE CAKES!
Foxhack
Willis already said there'd be no deaths.
Agemegos
There has already been one: Becky's mother.
But that was in flashback, in the past. Willis has said that no-one would die because the mourning period would take over the comic. Becky's mom died years before the main characters went to college.
Or in Blaine's case, the celebrations, not the mourning.
^This.
Okay, fine, Mike's got an elaborate plan to humiliatingly *injure* Blaine in a way that is technically survivable but eternally devastating.
More reasonable supplementary theory that gels perfectly with this exact comic: Mike literally started acting in a way that alienates absolutely fucking everyone around him so that people like Blaine wouldn't have victims to use against him.
Also, heavy doubt on Mike having any plans to KILL Blaine. In line with this current theory, he's heavily in favor of justice. If he has some kind of long-term plan, it's to trap Blaine in something so stupid that it either forces him out of the lives of his victims, or lands him in prison.
cbwroses
If a Red panel occurs in the middle of a blue flashback scene, does it become purple?
No, but you might want to put on your 3D glasses.
So maybe he's a 'smart' abuser now because he was stupid enough to assault a child in public ~5 years ago.
Hey, I said Blaine would strike back at Mike; the shit Amber went through wasn't the only consequence. Blaine is not the type to accept that someone has something on him and not respond in a stupid way.
Chaucer59
Damn, Willis you've done an outstanding job of making Blaine the complete villain. He's vile. In fact, it's hard to believe he could have any redeeming attributes. That said, you've got me wondering: how has no one killed this guy?
Fart Captor
Because he makes sure to only do this stuff when there's nobody around who can stop him
Because abusers very often hide it better from outsiders. Remember back when he managed to convince Danny he was a caring father briefly? And how he was able to turn off the worst when Billie actually caught him that one time? Yeah.
To an outsider, he might just look like someone with an anger problem who needs to get some help and if someone offered that advice, he might even take it with a smile. He's not the smartest villain, but he really doesn't have to be because in real life people are not that observant and he can condition people to see him as the victim or in a sympathetic position by simply reframing events. A lot of abuse victims get advice that leaves them stuck because the way the abuser told the story might sound 'fairer' or 'less judgemental' or 'show more desire to work it out'.
ischemgeek
Yeah this.
People who have met my father don't ever believe me about him because he is great at seeming like a really nice guy. If they do hear about the shit he has done, they tend to make excuses for him.
Abusers are masters at obtaining bystander support.
I was afraid of this the first time a certain friend of mine met my mother. I made a point of, prior to the meeting, spending a week mentioning some of the horrible things she's done and reiterating how manipulative she is.
Five minutes after the meeting, "Your mother's so nice!"
Of course, I later did a lot of thinking and realized how similar that "friend" really was to my mother.
I'd imagine a lot of vile people are alive because nobody wants to go to jail.
TemporalShrew
Imagine being pathetic and stupid enough to be this unreasonably angry at a minor.
This is your brain on Blaine.
i get it, but mike is not exactly the most realistic 13 year old character. both the blackmail sequence and mike's reaction to being physically threatened here would indicate really remarkable self-possession in a grown man.
Not in a major introvert. Self might be all Mike has, he's not doing well, you know.
Basically Blaine fucked himself up and because he can't accept his own flaws he is blaming the last person that threatened him like some desperate brat. Blaine probably is going to threat Ethan, or Mike's parents. If Blaine existed I would kick him in his crotch and break his nose with a wrench.
Mr. Random
I like how he accepts that a child could figure out everything that was going on but not the authorities.
JessWitt
Blaine's such a Scooby Doo villain.
The authorities can't figure out something they weren't looking into
… but isn't he involved in organized crime?
Doesn't mean they know or can prove he's involved in organized crime.
You try to fool the authorities harder than a kid, though. A lot of adults think kids are stupid, but they're not really stupid. And Mike's Mike, he's pretty perceptive.
Somehow I feel certain that Blaine was never Mike.
I just happened to be listening to Duel of the Fates when I read today's strip and it seemed oddly fitting.
Darn it Blaine.
brasca1
Does Mike have someone he cares about? Ethan seems obvious considering the last strip and I think he has some love for his parents, but I'm not sure who Blaine thinks he can threaten. Perhaps he will go after his Dad only to learn the hard way that appearances aside Mr. Warner is a former marine.
wwwhhattt
I'm wondering if his storyline is coming to a clash between him actually caring about Ethan but refusing to admit it to himself because that could give Blaine et al ammunition
That's what I'm seeing here. This is the turning point where Mike learned that having ties makes you vulnerable, and that if he wants the freedom to duel with reprobates like this, he'd better not set anybody up to be caught in the crossfire. He clearly knows how manipulation works, he's not going to give bad people a screw to turn against him.
He is? I did not know that.
He knocks them, but he clearly, even at this stage, has at least some affection for Ethan and Amber. Like, sure, he also went after people targeting them for spite, but it definitely seems like there was more to it than that.
Outside of them or his parents or something, uhh, no idea. Maybe he likes the football player kid, we didn't get to really see much of that.
I think Blaine's assumption is that Mike cares for Amber, given that he asked Blaine to be nicer to her. So, even the threat of a drawn-out custody battle and plans to move her away would technically qualify.
Amber. "Back off, kid, or it'll be worse for Amber."
Platypus King
While i know that they both walk away from this encounter, I can't help but feel that (maybe in the future) this very encounter is gonna come back to haunt one of them.
"You've made a powerful enemy this day, asshole!"
-Either one of them.
Openly assaulting a minor in public. See, Blaine, this kind of stupidity is why you're a low level stooge and not a Don.
And doing it to give the kid "threats" can only weaken his position. Does Mike have any loved ones? Can Blaine find out? Can he get to them? Then why isn't he doing that instead of threatening to do it? Why give Mike time to prepare his defense?
This is why he's such a crappily low-functioning psychopath as well.
But it's the Korean Mafia, I doubt he'd get anywhere if he was smarter anyways, he's not very Korean.
(Kind of assuming here, but that went through my head.)
No, you're right. Blaine is not very Korean.
ADLegend21
Does no one see the grown ass man holding a child up by his collar????????????????????????????????????
Most of Willis's educational institutions seem to have an attitude towards its students that is only barely this side of openly advocating abuse if it makes adults' lives easier.
Brian K. Pittman
In my experience, this is a very accurate depiction of educational institutions. Adults never intervened in anything and often actively ignored problems.
Willis'? Sorry, that's my experience with every educational institution I've ever witnessed, public or private, religious or secular.
Vulcanodon
My high school, and this was one of the teachers. Lived a whole career and had a nice retirement party. I work at an educational institution now and the threat of lawsuits with sharp pointy teeth is the only thing that brings change.
stoodmuffin
I had this happen to me from a Cop at our school back when I was the closet, for yelling the F word.
And I'm in no way POC and was a very scrawny tiny person. Only put me back down cause he saw I was in no way a threat and scared shit less.
I'm not surprised.
Charles Kuhman
I had this happen to me. The assistance principal grabbed me just like this from out of a crowded hallway between classes, and pushed me against the wall, yelling that he never wanted to see me do "that" again. To this day I have no idea what he was referring to, but I made sure to never walk by his office again, even if it meant that I went down a floor and up a floor to get where I wanted to go.
That's interesting, Blaine. Who was the person that you cared about that 'they' used against you?
I feel like if we did find out, it'd actually make him worse of a character not better.
look at the last panel. mike is going to find the Secret Spawn that blaine cares about *now*.
HOW is Mini-Mike not even scared, he's dangling in the air there, being like "I'm not sure what this is about Sir". What?
Also, generally, what?
Eldritch Gentleman
Sociopaths do not feel fear.
Mike is not a sociopath.
Who told you that?
I don't know that he isn't afraid, but he definitely wouldn't want to give Blaine the satisfaction. He's 13, but that's plenty old enough to be defiant.
Also some abusers just get more enraged by expressing your fear. If you have experience with that kind you learn to go expressionless when scared.
and then there's those who will get angry if you're *not* visibly upset. >.<
Why not both?
He looks stressed, more than usual. I don't think its that he's unafraid, just good at hiding it
He looks noticeably alarmed in the panel where Blaine is grabbing him. However, it's entirely possible to be defiant in the face of a threat. Some people's fight or flight instincts lean more heavily toward "fight".
I really think at SOME level there's a false equivalence here
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Ray Radlein
This is Mike's opportunity to answer, "Yeah: Your mom"
Siyajkak
"Yes, police? Some man is manhandling a 13 year old boy in the middle of a public area"
Seriously, I know the legal system has major blindspots for domestic abuse, but how has Blaine not been arrested several times by now.
Rowen Morland
I saw a school bus driver do this to a 13 year old once in the UK. Pretty sure he got away with it.
Growing up the cops were literally never called on my folks, even when my I ran out of the house at midnight cuz my dad threatened my life or when my father publicly threatened to beat me senseless in the mall or I could go on.
Plenty of times the bystanders took it upon themselves to tell me I needed to see it from his pov and learn to be more cooperative so he wouldn't get mad tho.
I am not surprised at all Blaine got away with this.
Bystander fail.
Blaine, you were never Mike. You were one of those "women are ruining Star Wars" types, most likely, judging by your "blame everyone for what I did" mentality. You're a toxic void in human skin.
Judas Peckerwood
"Officer, the bad man touched me in a bad place. His name is Blaine, and I am prepared to testify in court. Just put him away for a long time."
NinjaNick
Blaine needs a kick in the face.
Crumplepunch
WE CAN RULE TOGETHER
CianM1301
Threatening a 13 year old boy in what appears to be broad daylight. Guess keeping up appearances just went straight out the window, huh Blaine?
Justaian
Someone really needs to sort Blaine out but that wont happen because people like him get away with stuff like this..
Blaine : "I'm gonna f your mom for a nickel"
Xccj
Okay, I was completely lost here for a moment, but then I checked back and realized I missed the flashback where Mike threatened Blaine.
Zaxares
OK, wait, I'm confused here. Due to the way these flashbacks aren't necessarily time linear, I'm not sure just what Blaine is mad at Mike about. (Not that it matters that much. Blaine's still a P.O.S. either way. :P)
He's referring to when mike was going through Blaine's receipts. And I did believe the flash backs are linear
The flashbacks for this storyline all seem to be in chronological order. They skipped over the actual robbery, since we'd seen those in another storyline, but other than that I think they've all been linear
Good lord, you're still around? I remember when you used to be hosted on Keenspot!
"You're making a serious error of judgement here, Mr O'Malley. Because it currently suits my whims, I am fighting on the side of angels in this single, narrow issue. This does not make me an angel."
Then Blaine kills hismelf (sorta) and make a convoluting plot across two seasons of a British show.
Ooh! Ooh! Including a weird special episode where everyone is in Victorian period costume! Sal would KILL a bustle!
Back in '74 a PE teacher did approximately this to me because I was wearing a hat in the presence of an American flag and did not immediately remove it when he went all patriot on me about it. He assaulted kids all the time, and somehow there was never a penalty for it.
So believe me when I say, I would be happy to see Mike turn around years later and bring the sky down on Blaine.
FacelessDeviant
"…I was you. Taking cheap shots and scurrying away to safety."
Buddy, you're assaulting a child. And you are constantly harassing your own daughter. Both of these things in secret. Your scurrying skills would shame a rat.
MutantSentry
I'm confused about the time line, this is all before the confrontation with Sal so I assume this is about his affair but I missed what young Ethan was upset about yesterday. How long after the birthday party is this?
No this is after the convenience store robbery and that's what Ethan was upset about.
To be fair, these flashbacks are only set after the robbery starting with yesterday's strip. The birthday party was right before the robbery (possibly as soon as the night before the incident).
I'll admit I get way too involved in the lives of fictional characters (does explain why the epilogue of Digimon 02 still incites an unholy rage in me) but I really, REALLY hate Blaine and wish he would get put genitals first into a industrial shredder.
Doom Shepherd
The one person I care about is all that keeps me from being much, much more dangerous.
Do. Not. Break. The. Morality. Chain.
King Monster
NEVER BREAK THE MORALITY CHAIN.
Tealjoy Grove
Blaine just has no redeeming qualities. Just fucking disgusting.
Blaine is a pain.
That is the truth.
HeatherJean
Mike, gazing into an abyss after battling monsters, vows never to be seen to care about someone else. Problem solved.
My own father was exactly like Blaine and ALL my friends were TERRIFIED of him.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope you've been able to put it behind you.
HE HAS TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE HE DOESN'T CARE SO HE DOESN'T FALL FOR WHAT EVER BLAINE DOES TO HIM. THAT'S HIS MOTIVATION. FOR THE ASSBUTT-NESS
Panel 3, Blaine's last line: does Blaine only suspect Mike "left something"? Like, associates are treating him differently and Blaine assumes it's bc something Mike did?
Damnit Willis- you better not cut this arc off short. This is killing me.
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BOY… BECAUSE YOU'RE ME!
CMasta
I want to look at this another way: Blaine is admitting he had something he cared about (and presumably lost it for doing something like what he figures Mike did to him)
What was the thing?
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Spoiler. Mike's wearing a wire.


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import ballerina.data.sql;function main (string[] args) {
    endpoint<sql:ClientConnector> testDB1 {
        create sql:ClientConnector(
        sql:DB.MYSQL, "localhost", 3306, "testdb1", "root", "root",
        {maximumPoolSize:1, isXA:true});
    }
    endpoint<sql:ClientConnector> testDB2 {
        create sql:ClientConnector(
        sql:DB.MYSQL, "localhost", 3306, "testdb2", "root", "root",
        {maximumPoolSize:1, isXA:true});
    }
    int ret = testDB1.update("CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER (ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
                                    NAME VARCHAR(30))", null);
    println("CUSTOMER table create status in first DB:" + ret);
    ret = testDB2.update("CREATE TABLE SALARY (ID INT, VALUE FLOAT)", null);
    println("SALARY table create status in second DB:" + ret);    boolean transactionSuccess = false;
    transaction {
        var insertCount, generatedID = testDB1.updateWithGeneratedKeys("INSERT INTO
                                     CUSTOMER(NAME) VALUES ('Anne')", null, null);
        var returnedKey, _ = <int>generatedID[0];
        println("Inserted count to CUSTOMER table:" + insertCount);
        println("Generated key for the inserted row:" + returnedKey);
        sql:Parameter para1 = {sqlType:sql:Type.INTEGER, value:returnedKey};
        sql:Parameter[] params = [para1];
        ret = testDB2.update("INSERT INTO SALARY (ID, VALUE) VALUES (?, 2500)", params);
        println("Inserted count to SALARY table:" + ret);        transactionSuccess = true;
    } failed {
        println("Transaction failed");
        transactionSuccess = false;
    }
    if (transactionSuccess) {
        println("Transaction committed");
    }
    ret = testDB1.update("DROP TABLE CUSTOMER", null);
    println("CUSTOMER table drop status:" + ret);
    ret = testDB2.update("DROP TABLE SALARY", null);
    println("SALARY table drop status:" + ret);
    testDB1.close();
    testDB2.close();
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Ballerina by Example: Distributed Transactions

Ballerina distributed transactions are used when the transaction is happening over
 two or more databases or JMS endpoints. This sample use two MySQL DBs and before
 running the sample copy the MySQL JDBC driver to the BALLERINA_HOME/bre/lib folder
 and change the DB connection properties as required.

import ballerina.data.sql;

function main (string[] args) {

Create an endpoint for the first database named testdb1. Since this endpoint is
participated in a distributed transaction, the isXA property of the
sql:ClientConnector should be true.

    endpoint<sql:ClientConnector> testDB1 {
        create sql:ClientConnector(
        sql:DB.MYSQL, "localhost", 3306, "testdb1", "root", "root",
        {maximumPoolSize:1, isXA:true});
    }

Create an endpoint for the second database named testdb2. Since this endpoint is
participated in a distributed transaction, the isXA property of the
sql:ClientConnector should be true.

    endpoint<sql:ClientConnector> testDB2 {
        create sql:ClientConnector(
        sql:DB.MYSQL, "localhost", 3306, "testdb2", "root", "root",
        {maximumPoolSize:1, isXA:true});
    }

Create the table named CUSTOMER in the first database.

    int ret = testDB1.update("CREATE TABLE CUSTOMER (ID INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
                                    NAME VARCHAR(30))", null);
    println("CUSTOMER table create status in first DB:" + ret);

Create the table named SALARY in the second database.

    ret = testDB2.update("CREATE TABLE SALARY (ID INT, VALUE FLOAT)", null);
    println("SALARY table create status in second DB:" + ret);

    boolean transactionSuccess = false;

Begins the transaction.

    transaction {

This is the first action participate in the transaction which insert customer
name to the first DB and get the generated key.

        var insertCount, generatedID = testDB1.updateWithGeneratedKeys("INSERT INTO
                                     CUSTOMER(NAME) VALUES ('Anne')", null, null);
        var returnedKey, _ = <int>generatedID[0];
        println("Inserted count to CUSTOMER table:" + insertCount);
        println("Generated key for the inserted row:" + returnedKey);

This is the second action participate in the transaction which insert the
salary info to the second DB along with the key generated in the first DB.

        sql:Parameter para1 = {sqlType:sql:Type.INTEGER, value:returnedKey};
        sql:Parameter[] params = [para1];
        ret = testDB2.update("INSERT INTO SALARY (ID, VALUE) VALUES (?, 2500)", params);
        println("Inserted count to SALARY table:" + ret);

        transactionSuccess = true;
    } failed {
        println("Transaction failed");
        transactionSuccess = false;
    }
    if (transactionSuccess) {
        println("Transaction committed");
    }

Drop the tables created for this sample.

    ret = testDB1.update("DROP TABLE CUSTOMER", null);
    println("CUSTOMER table drop status:" + ret);
    ret = testDB2.update("DROP TABLE SALARY", null);
    println("SALARY table drop status:" + ret);

Close the connection pool.

    testDB1.close();
    testDB2.close();
}

$ ballerina run distributed-transactions.bal
CUSTOMER table create status in first DB:0
SALARY table create status in second DB:0
Inserted count to CUSTOMER table:1
Generated key for the inserted row:1
Inserted count to SALARY table:1
Transaction committed
CUSTOMER table drop status:0
SALARY table drop status:0

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EXO's Chanyeol, who is serving in the military, showed his good influence through donations.
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by Madeline Hislop | August 5, 2019
The number of women aged 55 and over who experience homelessness in Australia has grown by 31% between 2011 and 2016. This trend is expected to continue unless social housing provision is expanded, given the gap in men's and women's lifetime wealth accumulation.
As part of National Homelessness Week (4-10th August), Dr Jane Bullen from the Women's Electoral Lobby has called on Federal and State governments to respond to the homelessness crisis for women.
"Current resourcing for people who become homelessness is inadequate and the funding under the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement with states falls short in addressing the housing affordability crisis or gender responsive service requirements," Dr Bullen said.
According to Bullen, the primary causes of women's homelessness are violence, women's income inequality, their relative poverty and unaffordable rentals.
"Women and children who have experienced family violence or relationship breakdown are the largest single group of people presenting at homelessness services," she said.
While initiatives that help those who are sleeping rough are important, only 7% of people experiencing homelessness are identified as sleeping rough.
Often, women experiencing homelessness attempt to hide their homelessness and manage it themselves, by moving between the houses of family and friends. They may end up staying in severely overcrowded or unsafe dwellings, sleeping in a car or outside in concealed locations.
"This invisibility means that they may lack basic survival resources and their homelessness may be prolonged, with adverse physical and mental health impacts."
"At the same time, the number of women presenting homeless to services nationally has recently overtaken the number of men, and women are two thirds of those turned away from homelessness services."
Dr Bullen condemns the lack of affordable rental housing and the long wait lists for social housing (currently almost 200,000 nationally). She says the woeful Newstart allowance means that more women of all ages are likely to be tipped into homelessness because of their already precarious financial and personal circumstances.
The need to start treating the problem of homelessness as a national emergency has never been more urgent.
Women's Electoral Lobby is calling for additional social and affordable housing targeted to women including women with children fleeing domestic violence, older women, single women, single mothers and women with disabilities.
Additional emergency accommodation including specialist domestic violence refuges to meet the needs of women across Australia is also a priority.
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by Madeline Hislop
Madeline Hislop is a journalist & editor of The Sporty Wrap, a weekly newsletter published by Women's Agenda, covering all things #WomenInSport.