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Links 23/7/2011: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 is Out; Linux Distribution From DoD
Posted in News Roundup at 5:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Devices/Embedded
Free Software/Open Source
Pinoy IT activist Manny Amador found dead
Passionate Linux advocate and local IT pioneer Manny Amador was found dead by authorities on Friday in his rented house in Cebu where he had relocated to work for open-source firm InfoWeapons.
Software Wars are updated now in git
Stats for browsers and operating systems accessing sutor.com
Linux 12.82%
Google's Problems with Android Apps, Webmaster Tools and Oracle – RMS Says Don't Go There
Simmtronics Launches India's First Solar-powered Desktop
The operating system used is Linux (exact distro is unknown) and the kit includes a 74W solar panel with charge controller, SMF battery and AC inverter.
This Desktop runs on Solar Power, Courtesy Simmtronics Semiconductors
Can sunlight power a desktop?
Audiocasts/Shows
Going Linux #145
Podcast Season 3 Episode 14
Listen to Linux Radio!
Kernel Space
Linux by the numbers
The latest version of the Linux kernel, Linux 3.0, was pushed out last night, marking the end of the 2.6 kernel series.
As most people in the know understand, this does not represent a big sea change, since the new version numbering was really just a way to discontinue the 2.6 numbering, which would have been 2.6.40 for the kernel today, had not Linus Torvalds announced in late May that the time had come for a new numbering scheme.
Don't Panic! It's only Linux 3.0
There have also been improvements with how the kernel works with the still experimental Btrfs (B-tree file system) and the now standard ext4 file system. This, in turn, should lead to faster and, in the case of Btrfs, more reliable, file systems.
Graphics Stack
July 2011 Open-Source Graphics Driver Comparison
This article presents these Linux graphics results for eight configurations.
Geeqie: A Lightweight Image Viewer on Ubuntu
We've Just Revolutionized Alpha Testing
Think back to the last time you wanted to look at a newer, unstable release of some app. Was it easy to do? Or was it a compilation from source full of mystical errors, booting a newer OS release from a live CD while fighting black-screen-on-boot bugs, or a terribly slow and awkward virtual machine installation (which still didn't make much sense because you couldn't try it with your real data)? I'll guess it was closer to the latter.
3 graphical clients for managing the Uncomplicated FireWall
ufw, the Uncomplicated FireWall, is Ubuntu's user-friendly, command line frontend to IPTables, the command line utility for managing Netfilter, the firewall application built into the Linux kernel. It is installed not just on Ubuntu, but also on all Ubuntu-based distributions. As simple to use as ufw is, a graphical interface is even better, especially for new users.
Google Music Manager Finally Launches On Linux
Instructionals/Technical
Formatting Files in Bash
The Five Minute How To Install VirtualBox 4.1 Guide
Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 15 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
DIY: Secure a MySQL installation on Linux
How to free some space with apt-get
How to Rotate Apache Log Files in Linux
OpenSSH Best Practices
Quick Tip: Install Canon MP250 Drivers in Linux
Effortless File Sharing Across Platforms with FreeNAS
How To Install OpenERP 6 On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server
Recently at, we've been setting up several new instances of OpenERP for customers. Our server operating system of choice is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Installing OpenERP isn't really that hard, but having seen several other "How Tos" online describing various methods where none seemed to do the whole thing in what I consider to be "the right way", I thought I'd explain how we do it. There are a few forum posts that I've come across where the advice is just plain wrong too, so do be careful.
Blocks That Matter Tech Demo Updated
BEEP now on USC
0 A.D. Alpha 6 'Fortuna' Released with New Maps, Sounds, Textures and Many Other Features
Desktop Summit Announcements
In case you missed them, there have been a couple of exciting announcements around the Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany.
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC)
public transport plasmoid looking for your input
I really like the ability to quickly see route information with times and associated alerts for my home station, and with multiple instances of the Plasmoid I can keep track of several stations quite easily at a glance. The journey features are also indispensible.
Using it with Contour, which is getting support for random Plasmoids in addition to the Nepomuk-derived resources that are associated with an activity, is going to be very, very nice for someone like me who travels a fair amount: I'll end up with one Activity on my tablet per trip with all my files, contacts and even transit information agregated in one place that I can switch to with a simple thumb swipe. Oh, yeah!
++performance
Plasma uses a lot of files from disk, particularly when using QML and scripted Plasmoids, but also whenever something requests an image from the theme. The Package class is responsible for the former functionality and the Theme class for the latter. We already cache the results of the Theme rendering, but not the results of looking around on disk for the requested image. There is essentially no caching at all for Package: every request for a file sends it looking on disk for it.
KDE Plasma Desktop Introduction
KDE Commit-Digest for 17th July 2011
Improving KDE's Plasma Performance
Due to KDE's Plasma extensive use of the hard disk for Plasmoids and other activities, and thinking about KDE's performance on mobile device, Aaron Seigo has been working to make the library consume less memory. He has achieved at least partial success in this effort.
GNOME Desktop
Setting up GNOME 3 on Arch Linux
It must have been my curiosity that drove me to exploring Arch Linux a few weeks ago. Its coming on a Linux Format DVD and a few kind words about its being a cutting edge distribution were enough to set me installing it into a VirtualBox virtual machine for a spot of investigation. In spite of warnings to the contrary, I took the path of least resistance with the installation even though I did look among the packages to see if I could select a desktop environment to be added as well. Not finding anything like GNOME in there, I left everything as defaulted and ended up with a command line interface as I suspected. The next job was to use the pacman command to add the extras that were needed to set in place a fully functioning desktop.
A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense
Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)-A Linux disto from the US Department of Defense
Preview: What's Coming Up In VectorLinux 7?
A while ago I received an invitation to view a video presentation giving 10 good reasons to review VectorLinux, and it's true that I cannot recall to have read a review of it in years. This venerable distribution has been around for a long time but has also garnered some controversy around offering a paid for Deluxe version, introducing a paid for members club, and has been accused of not making source code freely available and thereby infringing on the GPL. It seems the club did not take off as I cannot find any mention of it anymore on the web site.
All that aside, VectorLinux 5.0.1 was my distribution of choice when returning to Linux in 2005, and a nice experience it was. Basically what I had been looking for was something like Mandrake Linux back in the late 90′s but based on Slackware, and Vector did just fit the bill.
It had and probably still has a very enthusiastic, helpful and polite community, and the forums were a great resource. I still remember the names and the fact that all these people are still actively involved as you can see in the credits during installation speaks volumes.
Not Your Average Linux Distribution: DOD's Flavor
The Department of Defense (DOD) has released a unique Linux distribution designed to be a secure option for people, such as telecommuters, who need remote access to internal government and corporate networks from potentially insecure desktops.
Created by a collaboration between the DOD and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Lightweight Portable Security (LPS) can be booted from a CD or flash drive onto nearly any Intel-based PC or Mac, according to information posted on the project's website.
Arch Linux: I stand corrected
In my last article, ArchBang: A small review I was a bit unfair to the distro. I did not want to see these distros (ArchBang and Arch Linux) for what they really are and I consider that to be very wrong. Therefore, I bring you a few thoughts on Arch Linux after playing around with it for about 2-3 days.
Arch is not your average, over-dressed, underpowered and over-popular Linux… as I so wrongly tried to see at as. Arch has the ability… no, gives you the power…
Google Kills Labs, Experiments Continue
PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandrake/Mandriva Family
On exorcisms and other fun – specially for opennet.ru
Red Hat Family
Apple Lion? No – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 instead
In a week peppered with massive exposure for Apple's new OS X release Lion, open source converts will hopefully be more interested to read that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 is now here.
Key "extra toppings" in this iteration centre on features that enhance the flexibility, security and stability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Updates Linux Security
Red Hat updates Enterprise Linux 5.7
Red Hat has updated Enterprise Linux 5.7, which now includes several features from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The operating system processors supports deployments on Intel, AMD, POWER and IBM System z architectures.
Red Hat also offers a security framework based on the OpenSCAP Security Content Automation Protocol, including a library and set of utilities, giving a standardised approach to validating Red Hat Enterprise Linux security.
Ouch! Oracle Drops Support For Red Hat, Suse Linux
Oracle is dropping support for the leading open source operating systems — Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux. The company made this announcement post its acquisition of Ksplice, the creator of innovative zero downtime update technology for Linux.
The changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
The main improvements to the latest release of RHEL series 5 are optimised virtualisation with KVM and Xen, as well as new and revised drivers. Slowly but surely, the series is nearing the end of the first and most active phase its lifecycle.
Font Rendering in Fedora
Shortly said, it's not very impressive. But what are the options we have? Can we improve it? Well, there are some font settings that are available. See e.g. this blogpost about making fedora fonts look Ubuntu-like. Although I personally see that as making things worse, there are people who think otherwise. What I decided to do was to skim through most of the hinting options we have and decide for myself what looks best. And of course, provide my readers with some images so that they could decide for themselves.
Fedora 15 Shutdown
Debian Family
Canonical/Ubuntu
What Do You Dislike or Hate About Ubuntu?
The responsibilities of ownership
Android Market adds multiple-APK support to battle fragmentation
Android Market now lets developers mount multiple Android Package (APK) files optimized for different devices and releases, instead of selling the optimized versions separately, says Google. Meanwhile, security firm Dasient reports that eight percent of Android apps are transmitting personal user data to unauthorized computers, and some Android malware is specializing in "drive-by downloads," leaving users unaware of what's being installed.
Toshiba tablet's loaded with ports, but too hefty for eWEEK reviewer
Toshiba's Thrive is a decent, if unspectacular, entry to the trundling Android "Honeycomb" tablet market, according to this eWEEK review. However, the availability of multiple ports will please enterprise users, who might also like the removable battery better than did author Clint Boulton.
Open source Vs proprietary: the war goes on!
Torry Harris Business Solutions (P) Ltd., (THBS) is one among them who are actively embracing open source solutions and contributing to open source community.
"Being a player in the software services space, Torry Harris considers the open source software as a key enabler to cost-effective software solutions," says Karthik T S, head of CoE SOA, Cloud and OSS, Torry Harris Business Solutions (P) Ltd. in an interaction with CIOL.
Indian open source community, biggest in the World
The technology industry in India has developed significantly in the last few years and India has evolved relatively well to the idea of open source software and adoption rates are remarkably good.
With many companies embracing for open-source technologies, the role of open source in IT has been changed in many companies.
Before you get locked into Lync, consider open source options
Talking About Linux and Open Source for Public Administrations
During the first meeting of the Open Source Focus Group 2011, held in May at the ForumPA, I have been interviewed by the organizers to take stock of how Linux and Open Source are doing in the Italian public administrations.
Java 7 Summit to be held at EclipseCon Europe
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that, in collaboration with Oracle, it will be presenting a Java 7 Summit at this year's European EclipseCon conference. EclipseCon Europe 2011 will take place from 2 to 4 November at the Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
OSCON Will Stream Keynotes and More Online
Thunderbird 6.0 arrives in Beta Channel
Mozilla has announced the release of version 6.0 of Thunderbird – its open source news and email client – into the Beta Channel. While a final release date for Thunderbird 6.0 has yet to be confirmed, a production version will likely follow shortly after Firefox 6.0, which is scheduled for 16 August.
Google Toolbar drops support for Firefox. Why now?
Google has decided to drop support for Firefox for the Google Toolbar.
No, that's not a bad thing at all. The toolbar is a relic of any older era. An era when Firefox Sync didn't exist, an era when the awesomebar wasn't truly aweseome.
Apparently however, Mozilla is seeing the Google Toolbar issue as being a potential barrier to adoption for Firefox 5.
Is open source in the cloud still open source?
Open source platform as a service (PaaS) platforms are one of the most exciting topics in the software industry nowadays. Following the $212M acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce.com, we've seen how in a matter of months, platforms like dotCloud of VMWare's Cloud Foundry have emerged with complete PaaS suites based on popular open source technologies.
The value proposition behind this type of PaaS offer is very simple. These platforms will enable the foundation to host, manage, provision and scale solutions based on some of the most renowned open source technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Hadoop, MySQL among dozens of others.
Open source and the IT company, a lucrative proposition
As my colleague Derrick Harris suggests, the open-source cloud-computing project OpenStack has come a long way in just a year. But it's only one of a growing number of open-source projects challenging expensive and proprietary incumbents across the IT industry. From storage to networking, open-source projects are emerging that offer viable alternatives.
Rackspace's cloud going all OpenStack
WS02 Brings Middleware to the Cloud
Middleware servers used to be locked down to on-premise deployments, but that has now changed in the modern world of the cloud and Platform-as-a-Service.
EnterpriseDB Announces the Postgres Enterprise Manager BETA!
EnterpriseDB is proud to introduce Postgres Enterprise Manager, the first enterprise-wide architected management tool for database professionals who are looking to efficiently manage and monitor Postgres servers throughout their organizations.
Oracle/Java/LibreOffice
Test-Driving VirtualBox 4.1 on Linux: Bumpy but Pretty Good
Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1 on July 19 with a slew of improvements ranging from usability improvements to rasing the ceiling for RAM to 1TB for 64-bit hosts. With 4.1, we decided to take VirtualBox out for a spin and see how it handles.
I've been using desktop virtualization since the early days, when VMware was a scrappy little company shipping a nearly unheard-of product — a desktop virtualization tool that would let you run Windows in VM in Linux. No more dual-booting for those folks who had to have access to Microsoft Word or QuickBooks but wanted to enjoy Linux as their desktop of choice.
Acquia Raises $15 Million, Plans Drupal Sales Push
The specialist in commercial support for open source content and community management will use the money to gain share in the social software market.
Semi-Open Source
Zenoss Community Alliance (ZCA)
The community has created the Zenoss Community Alliance (ZCA) which is a group of senior community members who are working to evolve Zenoss core and the community to better serve the needs of the community and the entire Zenoss ecosystem. To this end, the board of ZCA has provided the following agenda…
Jaspersoft may be looking to acquire with its $11M funding
Business intelligence software maker, Jaspersoft, announced yesterday that it raised $11 million dollars in funding. The round was lead by existing investors Red Hat and SAP Ventures in addition to including newcomer Quest Software.
Jaspersoft caters to the enterprise with business intelligence products. It aims to centralize the way data is secured, delivered and analyzed.
FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC
GNU Parallel 20110722 ('Murdoch') released
Project Releases
nginx-1.0.5
nginx-1.0.5 stable version, nginx-0.8.55 and nginx-0.7.69 legacy stable versions have been released.
Imixs open source BPM, workflow engine reaches 3.0
And in May, BonitaSoft upgraded its open source BPM suite which is also developed in Java and available under the GPL.
The Evolution of Asterisk (or: How We Arrived at Asterisk 10)
We are fast approaching the seven-year anniversary of the release of Asterisk 1.0.0, which occurred at the first AstriCon in September, 2004. If you look back a little further, there were various "0.x" releases made as early as December of 1999… my, how time has flown!
We've had quite a few 'major' releases of Asterisk since then, including 1.2, 1.4, and most recently, 1.8. Each of these releases has included significant changes, and sometimes architecture-improving changes. Each of them has also included substantial new functionality for Asterisk users. Along the way, we've been asked by many people in the community when we are going to start working on (or release) "Asterisk 2.0." Typically, we've responded by saying that will not happen until we can really justify such a significant change in the version number. Many open source projects have gone through similar progressions, and quite a number of them have in fact undergone complete (or nearly complete) rewrites resulting in new 'major' versions.
Harmony's curiously flat tune
Linux Foundation Releases New White Paper on FOSS Compliance for Suppliers
The Linux Foundation strives to provide relevant, useful guidance to organizations setting up their free and open source software (FOSS) compliance programs. Last month, we released a white paper titled "A Five Step Compliance Process for FOSS Identification and Review."
Openness/Sharing
Azavea Releases Source Code for PhillyTreeMap to Provide Municipalities and Citizen Groups With Collaborative Urban Forestry Inventory Tools
Open Access/Content
Thousands of scientific papers uploaded to the Pirate Bay
A user called Greg Maxwell just uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to the Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swartz for data theft as well as the scientific publishing model in general. All the documents of the 32-gigabyte torrent were taken from JSTOR, the academic database that's at the center of the case against Swartz.
ActiveState Advances New Cloud Platform, Stackato, to Beta With New Features
PostgreSQL, Python 3 and Additional Core Services Added, Opens Testing Group Further
Google Summer of Code 2011: midterms and statistics
Google has published "a few more interesting statistics" from this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) event; in May, a statistical breakdown of accepted students was published. According to a post by Stephanie Taylor on the Google Open Source Blog, 202 (18.1%) of this year's 1,115 student participants took part in last year's programme. Of those students, 35 were also part of the 2009 programme, meaning that 3.1% are three year students.
Gearing up for Java 7
The last four Java Specification Requests (JSRs) required for Java 7 have received the blessing of the Java Community Process (JCP). JSR 292, support for dynamically typed languages, JSR 334, small enhancements to Java language and JSR 203, more new I/O APIs (NIO.2), all passed with unanimous support in the final approval ballot. The only note of dissent was from Google in the final approval vote for JSR 336, the umbrella JSR which incorporates all the JSRs required for Java 7.
European Space Agency Summer of Code
Standards/Consortia
DOJ Delays Web Accessibility Regulations
Earlier this month the United States Department of Justice admitted what many of us have suspected: we will not be seeing web accessibility regulations in the United States for commercial and public entities any time soon. Some time in 2013 at the earliest.
In July, 2010, the Department issued what is called an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making indicating that it was planning to issue regulations about web accessibility. The step after an "Advanced Notice" is a "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" (NPRM). After that is the rule itself. In its semi-annual regulatory agenda for Spring 2011, however, the DOJ called the NPRM for Web Accessibility a "Long Term Item" not expected until December, 2012. That's well over a year from now. And it is close to two years after the public comment period on the Advanced Notice closed, and almost two and one half years after the DOJ announced the possible regulations in July, 2010.
TinyOgg finally comes to an end
But now, it seems that what we are doing is obsolete. In May 2010, Google set free the WebM format which was quickly adopted by major web browsers in addition to the largest online video provider, YouTube. 99% of what people watch on YouTube is now available in WebM and thus playable without Flash or any other unfree technologies. (Well, in addition to the fact that I have not posted any entry in many months, which meant that there was no itch anymore!)
Now is the time to move on to other projects (or to college life, who knows? ). By July 15th, TinyOgg entries URLs will be automatically redirected to the original video page and I will run the service for at least eighteen months more.
Government shutting down hundreds of data centers
The U.S. government is aiming to pull the plug on hundreds of unneeded data centers over the next few years in an attempt to save taxpayers some hard-earned cash.
No apologies for Microsoft Windows
Recently I've had some discussion with colleagues about Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux in comparison to each other. Generally, I've found that most people agree that Mac OS X is more stable than Windows, and those that are familiar with Linux feel that it too is more stable than Windows. But after that being said, they come back with an apology for Microsoft stating that they (Microsoft) have to get Windows to run on fragmented hardware, whereas Apple standardizes the hardware and can therefore provide a more stable operating system for it, because there aren't nearly as many variations in hardware configurations.
Cablegate
Petition defends David Hicks from censorship attempt
Julian Assange, John Pilger and Noam Chomsky have added their names to a new online petition in support of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks.
They join scores of other signatories, including Greens MP Adam Bandt, human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, Liberty Victoria President Spencer Zifcak and Overland Journal editor Jeff Sparrow. Overland released the online petition on July 21.
Framing The Narrative: Murdoch v. Assange
In Murdoch's empire, talking points from above dictate the news delivered to the masses. Yet Rupert's writers need only scan the front pages to discern how best to please their boss and get prominently featured. It's a culture of corruption, as countless recent articles have documented, designed to maximise profits and political power.
But the media landscape is changing. Why should we ordinary citizens of the world keep paying for news, when we can get it online for free? But then, if media organisations are not making a profit, how can they afford to keep supplying news for free? This remains the great unresolved Catch-22 of the C21st Fourth Estate.
News Corporation is planning more firewalls to protect media content, despite the previous failure of such models at organisations like the New York Times. The UK Independent newspaper is now running an online survey asking readers to tell them how the paper can deal with the shifting media paradigm. The Economist prominently features an on-going debate on the subject.
Meanwhile, I suspect The Guardian's apparent anti-WikiLeaks crusade may be motivated by a desire to "own the space" that WikiLeaks has staked out (namely, the safest place to publish leaks in this new globalized, digital world). Yes, all the big media organisations are scared, even Murdoch's dreaded nemeses at The Guardian.
Wikileaks report reveals corruption in Lithuanian newspapers
Library of Congress: We didn't call WikiLeaks 'extremist'
The Library of Congress says it was not responsible for categorizing a WikiLeaks-related book as "extremist" and that it has decided to removed that label.
Consumer Bureau Launches in Shark-Infested Waters
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Wall Street and the financial services lobby spent an eye-popping $1,400,000,000 between 2008 and 2010 to kill financial reform. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a whole unit dedicated to killing it. This year, the those same forces spent $156 million on lobbying in the first quarter. The big banks are fighting the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill with a stable of willing Congressmen and an army of lobbyists fanned out across a dozen federal agencies where Dodd-Frank rulemaking is underway.
Debt debate reverberates in state governments
Virginia's governor is livid that his famously tight-fisted state could face higher borrowing costs to build roads and schools. Maryland has put off a $718 million bond sale for three days because of the current financial uncertainty. And California plans to borrow about $5 billion from private investors next week to ensure it can cover day-to-day operating expenses should the federal government default on its debt.
House votes to check new consumer agency
The House greeted the official opening Thursday of the new agency to protect consumers from financial abuse by voting to change its structure and reach.
Republican sponsors said they were trying to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau more transparent and accountable. Democrats said Republicans wanted to cripple the agency before it gets on its feet.
Morgan Stanley Posts Loss That Hints at Recovery
At Morgan Stanley, even a loss can be a win.
Although the financial firm reported a second-quarter loss of $558 million on Thursday, three crucial divisions posted significant gains, a promising sign that the turnaround plan Morgan Stanley embarked on after the financial crisis was taking hold.
On Its First Day, Consumer Bureau Finds Support
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally opened for business on Thursday, much to the consternation of Congressional Republicans.
But as conservative lawmakers step up their attacks on the new regulator, aiming to undermine its structure and authority, champions of the bureau are pushing back.
4 more Credit Suisse bankers charged in tax case
Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four more bankers with Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group with conspiracy in what they say was a long-running scheme to help U.S. taxpayers hide as much as $4 billion in assets.
Prosecutors originally charged four people in the scheme in February, so the charges announced Thursday bring the total number of people charged up to eight. Charging documents filed in the case do not specify what bank the group worked for, but The Associated Press previously reported its identity.
Why aren't Obama's numbers lower?
Harry Reid: Cut, cap may be among 'worst legislation' in history
Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will vote Friday on the Cut, Cap and Balance Act, a bill backed by conservatives that he called "weak and senseless" and "perhaps some of the worst legislation in the history of this country."
The Senate had been expected to vote Saturday on the House-passed bill, which has little chance of passing the Democratic-controlled upper chamber. But Reid expedited the vote so the Senate can quickly move to a backup plan he and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are hatching to raise the debt ceiling and avert a financial default by the Aug. 2 deadline, a Democratic aide said.
Economy's spring slump could last through summer
The economy could lapse even further if Congress and the Obama administration fail to reach an agreement on raising the nation's borrowing limit in the coming week.
Goldman wins dismissal of Timberwolf CDO lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of causing an investor to become insolvent by fraudulently misleading it about risky debt it expected would tumble in value.
In a decision made public on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones in Manhattan said the plaintiff, Basis Yield Alpha Fund, failed to sufficiently show that its investment in the Timberwolf 2007-1 collateralized debt obligation was a "domestic" transaction, entitling it to sue in a U.S. court.
Goldman Model Championed by Blankfein Planted Seeds of Distress
The window shades were lowered to block out the sunlight soaking lower Manhattan on a Friday afternoon in June as 14 students in Eric H. Kessler's executive MBA class gathered in a conference room to present their analyses of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s leadership.
The firm's management shows "resistance to change" and is "doing business in a bubble," one of the three student teams explained in a PowerPoint presentation. Another recommended creating an "ethics role" within Goldman Sachs's securities division. Kessler, who teaches management at Pace University's Lubin School of Business, peppered the students with questions. Could cohesive culture be a weakness as well as a strength?
15 Reasons You Don't Want To Work At Goldman Sachs
There are plenty of good reasons to work at Goldman Sachs; we've written about them before.
But inspired the bank's miserable earnings report this morning, we realized that the negatives are piling up considerably.
PR/AstroTurf/Lobbying
ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
Hundreds of ALEC's model bills and resolutions bear traces of Koch DNA: raw ideas that were once at the fringes but that have been carved into "mainstream" policy through the wealth and will of Charles and David Koch. Of all the Kochs' investments in right-wing organizations, ALEC provides some of the best returns: it gives the Kochs a way to make their brand of free-market fundamentalism legally binding.
The Murdochs must stop spinning and resign
In 2004, I created Outfoxed to expose Rupert Murdoch's war on journalism. Focusing on Fox News, we examined how NewsCorp has long blurred the line between corporate interests and journalistic integrity. The film presented an in-depth look at the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know. Those dangers were shown to include ethic-less journalism, as well as the role of public relations spin in replacing the honest presentation of facts.
On Tuesday, as Rupert and James Murdoch appeared before parliament, this theme was repeated. Their testimony was less about true and honest answers and more about the script of a public relations firm, and an attempt to spin the public debate on issues of corporate disgrace.
If their testimonies presented any information at all, it would be how much the Murdochs want to promote the spin of willful ignorance. For two incredibly involved businessmen, their testimonies would lead you to believe that they have long had absolutely no idea about what happens within their company.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News ran 'black ops' department, former executive claims
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News television channel had a "black ops" department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged.
Website blocking minutes released under FOI
109 MPs have now signed Julian Huppert MP's EDM 1913, which called for the Government to reconsider policies such as website blocking, in light of the recent UN Special Rapporteur Report that was expressly critical of blocking on freedom of expression grounds. More recently, the Organisation for Security an Cooperation in Europe released a report that reached similar conclusions about disconnection and website blocking jeopardising rights to freedom of expression. Over 8,600 people have written to their MPs about this issue.
The Government still wants to hack your phone
While politicians are convinced that Murdoch's press has over-stepped the mark by routine hacking of citizen's phones, let's remember that plans for mass, pervasive hacking of our phones and emails is still sat waiting for revival by the Home Office.


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Никола́й Ива́нович Неча́ев ( — 2 сентября 1954) — русский общественный деятель и политик, член IV Государственной думы от Воронежской губернии.

Биография
Потомственный почётный гражданин. Землевладелец Воронежской и Тамбовской губерний (641 и 656 десятин), домовладелец (дом в Боброве).

Окончил Лицей цесаревича Николая (1894) и Императорский Московский университет.

По окончании университета посвятил себя общественной деятельности в родной губернии. Избирался почетным мировым судьей, гласным и председателем Бобровской городской думы, председателем Бобровской уездной земской управы.

На выборах в IV Государственную думу состоял выборщиком по Бобровскому уезду от съезда землевладельцев. 18 декабря 1914 года на дополнительных выборах от общего состава выборщиков был избран вместо Т. Д. Попова. Входил во фракцию земцев-октябристов. Состоял членом комиссий: по народному образованию, по городским делам, по запросам и по местному самоуправлению. Был членом Прогрессивного блока.

В феврале 1917 года выехал в Воронежскую губернию, участвовал в частном совещании гласных Воронежской городской думы.

После Октябрьской революции эмигрировал во Францию. Участвовал в церковной жизни Александро-Невского собора в Париже и в Сент-Женевьев-де-Буа. Состоял председателем Объединения бывших воспитанников Императорского лицея цесаревича Николая, был основателем Общества друзей и почитателей И. С. Шмелева (1953).

Скончался в 1954 году в Париже. Похоронен на кладбище Сент-Женевьев-де-Буа.

Семья
Был женат, имел троих детей.

Источники
 Нечаев, Николай Иванович  // Государственная дума Российской империи: 1906—1917. — М.: РОССПЭН, 2008. — С. 408.
 Российское зарубежье во Франции 1919—2000. — М., 2008.

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Выпускники Императорского Московского университета
Члены Государственной думы Российской империи IV созыва
Русские эмигранты первой волны во Франции
Похороненные на кладбище Сент-Женевьев-де-Буа

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Joaquim Ferrer i Ferrer (Vilalba dels Arcs, Terra Alta, 1882 - Tortosa, Baix Ebre, 12 de gener de 1929), fou un metge i polític català.

Al seu poble era conegut amb el sobrenom de lo metge Ferré. Provenia d'una família de fortes conviccions carlines, fet que va ajudar, amb els anys, a que esdevingués cap del Partit Tradicionalista en els districtes de Tortosa, Roquetes i Gandesa. Fou també director del diari La Tradición, l'òrgan oficial dels carlistes, i des d'on va combatre Marcel·lí Domingo, el seu principal rival polític. Fou membre del Sometent, i el mes de novembre de 1922 fou processat per injúries a l'Exèrcit per uns articles sobre els soldats de quota que va escriure a La Tradición.

Pel que fa a la seva carrera política, es presentà a la candidatura de Tortosa-Roquetes, juntament amb Francisco Canivell Curto i Joan Tomàs Villalbí. Ho féu, també, en la candidatura per a diputats a Corts, tot i que en aquesta ocasió no va obtenir elecció. Sí que va ser diputat provincial a partir de les eleccions de 1919, en què quedà en tercera posició amb 6.509 vots. En l'ens provincial s'integrà en la Comissió Permanent d'Hisenda i també en la Mixta de Reclutament, el primer mandat com a suplent, i el segon com a titular. Com a diputat, passà a formar part de l'Assemblea de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya l'agost de 1921, a la qual acudí sota l'epígraf de jaumista. Es presentà de nou als comicis provincials de 1923, però no entrà, ja que va quedar en setena posició amb solament 1.924 vots.

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Published by Kathimerini on Sun, 12/30/2018 - 15:21
The ministries of Citizens' Protection and Transport have signed an agreement to boost security on the Greek capital's public transportation system by assigning officers of the Greek Police (ELAS) to guard duty in exchange for free transport.
The decision published last week in the Government Gazette, aims to curb burgeoning vandalism on Athens's buses, trolley buses, metro, ISAP electric railway and tram, but also incidents of violence against ticket inspectors, while not burdening the cash-strapped and state-subsidized Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA), with the cost of additional security.
Past estimates have put the number of security guards needed to keep the capital's transport system safe and operational at 200, while OASA also hopes that the presence of uniformed police officers will be more effective than private security guards, whose powers are...
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'Need for a vaccine is still very large' Covid immunity could only last a few months say scientists
It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide
Scientists have found that coronavirus immunity could only last a few months after a study revealed a decline in protective antibodies.
Research by Imperial College London estimated just 4.4% of adults had some form of immunity against Covid-19 in September, when cases began to increase again.
This is compared with 6% found to have antibodies between June 20 and July 13, and 4.8% between July 31 and August 31.
Experts said the data from the Real-Time Assessment of Community Transmission (React-2) study showed immunity was "waning quite rapidly", which could lead to an increased risk of reinfection.
Some 365,104 adults took part in three rounds of testing for the study between late June and September to measure the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in England.
The study found that antibody levels fell by 26.5% overall during the three-month period.
Those aged 18-24 had the highest prevalence of antibodies and lowest decline in antibody levels at 14.9%.
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Meanwhile, people aged 75 and over had the lowest prevalence and saw the largest drop, with antibody levels falling by 39%.
It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide, or for how long this immunity lasts, scientists said.
Graham Cooke, professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College London, said: "The big picture here is that after the first wave (of coronavirus), the great majority of the country still did not have evidence of protective immunity.
"So although we are seeing a decline in the proportion of people who are testing positive, we still have a great majority of people who are unlikely to have been exposed.
"So the need for a vaccine is still very large if you want to try and get a large level of protection in the population."
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The study found there was no change in antibody positivity in healthcare workers between June and September.
Helen Ward, professor of Public Health at Imperial College London, said this could indicate "ongoing transmission" of coronavirus in those settings or "repeated exposure".
Asked about herd immunity, Prof Ward said: "Even at best, (in the first round of the study) 94% of the population remained not likely protected, and now that has declined to over 95% of the population who don't have evidence of antibodies.
"So I think we are a long, long way from any idea that the population will be protected by other people."
She added that immunity in England was "waning quite rapidly".
In the latest round of the study, between September 15-28, the prevalence of antibodies remained highest in London, and in those of black and Asian ethnicity.
The decline in people testing positive for antibodies was largest in those who did not report having had Covid-19, compared to those who said they previously tested positive for the virus.
Professor Paul Elliott, director of the React programme at Imperial, from the School of Public Health, said: "Our study shows that over time there is reduction in the proportion of people testing positive for antibodies against the virus that causes Covid-19.
"It remains unclear what level of immunity antibodies provide, or for how long this immunity lasts.
"If someone tests positive for antibodies, they still need to follow national guidelines including social distancing measures, getting a swab test if they have symptoms and wearing face coverings where required."


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The rundown for this Sunday's show
By Hardy Spire, CNN
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Coming up on this week's Reliable Sources at 11am Eastern time Sunday:
Brian is off to get married this weekend, but before he left, the team put together this show!
This week's BuzzFeed profile of would-be New York gubernatorial candidate Donald Trump turned out not to be the puff piece he anticipated. Trump's response was to take on reporter McKay Coppins who Trump had hosted aboard his private plane and at his Florida estate during the interviews. Brian speaks with Coppins and Politico's Maggie Haberman about the reaction and whether the media should continue to take Trump and his political ambitions seriously.
And there are some stories which do not have two sides. The climate change debate is one of them. Nevertheless, many news organizations continue to equate the skeptics with the scientists. This week NBC's Meet the Press faced criticism for its debate between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Rep. Marsha Blackburn. We'll talk to Michio Kaku from the City University of New York and CBS News as well as Jack Mirkinson, Senior Media Editor at the Huffington Post.
We'll also focus on an "Undercovered" news story – Bowe Bergdahl, the American soldier who has been missing in Afghanistan for five years. Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent and anchor of "The Lead" joins Brian.
Finally, Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott raised eyebrows this week when he took the stage with former rocker Ted Nugent whose recent inflammatory comments about President Obama have caused many to ask whether the media should call out hate speech when they see it. Christy Hoppe, Austin Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News speaks with Brian.
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Far too often Climate Alarmists like CNN seem oblivious to the larger historical and cultural context. They see only one thing – their own, narrow agenda. I find fanaticism of this sort rather frightening.
The REAL denialists are the Climate Change alarmists in CNN who ignore the new Holocaust caused by their anti CO2 Climate Change beliefs. Beliefs that are responsible for 33,000 dead from hypothermia in UK last year http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9959856/Its-the-cold-not-global-warming-that-we-should-be-worried-about.html and 2 million Africans dead from starvation thanks to the ethanol program that lays waste land for food crops to plant biofuel crops.
Moreover, thousands of birds, eagles and bats http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/11/15/study-shows-wind-turbines-killed-600000-bats-last-year/ are killed by wind turbines and solar panels. But what is inexcusable is that the solar and wind turbines require tax payer subsidies to exist which attracts corruption like a magnet http://greencorruption.blogspot.com
What is even more alarming is that after dumping billions on failed renewable energy projects like solar and wind Germany and the EU is going back to coal as a source of energy due to the fact all billions they spent on wind and solar could not meet their needs.
"Rotterdam 1 was expected to be the first of three coal-fired plants to come on line in the Netherlands this year. But the delay now puts its expected commissioning date behind those of Germany" http://www.argusmedia.com/pages/NewsBody.aspx?id=888045&menu=yes&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=sendible&utm_campaign=RS
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/10/04/should-other-nations-follow-germanys-lead-on-promoting-solar-power/
"Many people are surprised to hear that Germany only gets a tiny 2.0% of its total energy / 4.6% of its electricity from solar power (in 2012). [5,13)
"Here's the truly dismaying part: the latest numbers show Germany's carbon output and global warming impact are actually increasing [5] despite flat economic output and declining population, because of ill-planned "renewables first" market mechanisms. This regime is paradoxically forcing the growth of dirty coal power. Photovoltaic solar has a fundamental flaw for large-scale generation in the absence of electricity storage — it only works for about 5-10 hours a day. Electricity must be produced at the exact same time it's used. [29] The more daytime summer solar capacity Germany builds, the more coal power they need for nights and winters as cleaner power sources are forced offline. [6] This happens because excessive daytime solar power production makes base-load nuclear plants impossible to operate, and makes load-following natural gas plants uneconomical to run. Large-scale PV solar power is unmanageable without equally-large-scale grid storage, but even pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities are being driven out of business by the severe grid fluctuations. They can't run steadily enough to operate at a profit. [2,7] Coal is the only non-subsidized power source that doesn't hemorrhage money now. [8] The result is that utilities must choose between coal, blackouts, or bankruptcy. Which means much more pollution."
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Svensmark has a well documented effect of solar variations of solar wind and cosmic ray formed clouds controlling climate change. Our sun was the most active in 8000 years in cycles 22&23 now the least active in 170 years in cycle 24. Cycle 25 will be a Maunder Minimum worthy decline, famine from crop failure is more likely than any warming for the next 30-100+ years http://youtu.be/ANMTPF1blpQ
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I am joining mild mannered Dr Roy Spencer , U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite , in labeling those who promulgate such anti-science propaganda as the watermelons' attack on the molecule of life , CO2 , nazis . Spencer lists a number of criteria of which CNN's claim of their being only one side fits nicely .
In the face of such an attack on rationality and human , and indeed , ecological welfare , such a sobriquet is well earned .
There is one effect of the increase of a molecule per 10,000 of air of the sole source of carbon to the biosphere which is provable , and in fact visible from satellites : the greening of the planet . CNN is palpably telling just one side of the story if it is leaving that vital to every living being on earth . That is worthy of Goebbels .
You do know Bill Nye's "science" background is an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering, and that the whole "Science Guy" thing started on a Seattle-based comedy show, right?
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Is this really a surprise, coming from the Communist News Network?
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This, CNN is evidence, not some computer model producing GOGO.
This is well worthy of debating.
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Neither fossil fuels use nor carbon dioxide affect climate. Carbon dioxide IS NOT a 'greenhouse gas". CO2 is in perfect equilibrium in the environment. A high-school sophomore can compute a mass balance for carbon dioxide using credible public information sources. Do your homework!
We can use as much fossil fuels as we please without having any effect on climate. Anthropogenic global warming is a textbook mania, based on falsehoods. The media continues to feed the mania by promoting false assumptions. We can use as much fossil fuels as we please without having any effect on climate. Regulating or limiting human CO2 emissions is a colossal waste of money and effort.
While carbon dioxide may show nominal greenhouse properties in the lab, it has no adverse effect on climate. Changes in atmospheric ambient CO2 are the result of natural temperature changes caused by other forces, likely the solar Maunder cycle. A warmer temperature results in a higher equilibrium CO2 content. Cooler weather means less ambient CO2.
96.8% of CO2 emissions are from natural sources. The earth reabsorbs 99.9985% of CO2 emitted from all natural and human sources. The average residence time of CO2 in the atmosphere is less than 11 minutes. It goes into seawater, where it is quickly converted to carbonate rock, where it will remain for tens of millions of years.
Limestone, for example = CaCO3. An acre of oysters or coral can form more than ten tons of carbonate rock in a single growing season. The carbonate formation process is voracious and robust, and will consume all the carbon dioxide that humans can generate.
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NewsBusters: CNN Declares No Two Sides to Climate Change Debate
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The chair of Earth and Atmospheric science at Georgia Tech has serious problems with AGW, but I guess her point of view is unfit for discussion. Didn't Hitler and the Nazis burn books?
revdrebuzz
Solar winds are strong enough to literally peel Mars' atmosphere from the planet.
And we are to believe that the huge ball of fusion has no effect whatsover on climate variability on the earth. The sun created life on earth, but we are supposed to believe, after a few decades of observation, that it now has no impact at all on climate variability.
To understand the climate of earth thoroughly is to understand the hidden keys to the universe. But we aren't quite there, are we. The models are diverging, but we can still rely on them for prediction. Why not show that these models work everywhere all the time, on any planet?
The Soviets had Lysenkoism...the lefties are trying again.
No debate...spare me.
My side: "The polar bears will be fine". – Freeman Dyson.
Advocates of climate change are asking the public to pay for hundreds of billions to prepare for the future their models predict. After watching the piece about climate change this Sunday, I am left asking why doesn't Reliable Sources bring on real climate scientists to talk about both sides. For instance Messrs Richard McNider and John Christy, both professors of Atmospheric Science, have much to say about the dangers of basing policy on non-predictive climate models. Mr. Christy shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former VP Al Gore. Both Mr McNider and Mr. Christy argue that it is wrong, and wasteful to base actions on computer models built almost entirely by scientists who believe catastrophic global warming that have been proved to over-predict warming. Garbage in garbage out. If warming is assumed and models are build based on assumptions not science there is no scientific reason to believe that they will some how accurately predict the future.
ZAW
It seems that we're having the wrong debate about the environment. Of course the climate is changing, and that's beyond debate. Are we responsible for it? Most experts say 'yes.'
But what about the economics of it? What about jobs? Suppose you close a dirty coal power plant, citing environmental concerns. Where do people now get their power? Where do the people who worked at the coal power plant now get their pay checks? It gets more complex when you consider a global economy. If we put new environmental controls on manufacturing here in the US, and a China doesn't – we stand to lose even more manufacturing jobs.
What frustrates me about some environmental scientists is that they seem to pooh-pooh these concerns. It would be so much better if, instead of writing more and more papers about the devastating effects of environmental change, they teamed up with economists and public policy experts to show us how we can have a cleaner environment without sacrificing our economy.
pokyrick
Ted Nugent practices hate speech. Yup. Nugent should be regarded as an embarrassment and a pariah by any political candidate. Yup. Nugent, as a rocker, is a "has been." Nope
After watching this piece of garbage I suggest this program be more accurately named "Biased & Closed Minded Sources"
P Gifford
your show of 2/23 on the Wilding of the weather and global warming was right on. There is no debate. after a life in science there is no debate. even though we are only touching the surface of big data, which is the source of climate change information, it is pointing for a disappointing future for humans if we do not respond. Just like the fundamentalist want to stop the porgress toward human freedom for all hman beings, they want to stop the freedom to recognize scientific truths, so they can contimue to have their way with our shared earth. keep up the great show.
Try opening your mind by investigating a new theory when current models all fail to match the data...http://youtu.be/ANMTPF1blpQ
Rational Db8
And there are some stories which do not have two sides. The climate change debate is one of them. Nevertheless, many news organizations continue to equate the skeptics with the scientists.
You mean like the following tens of thousands of skeptics (far more than you can find who support significant AGW), all of which are accredited credentialed scientists, including many Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences, some of the most eminent scientists of our time, and even IPCC authors?? I'd LOVE to see the authors of this bunk try to show how their supposedly not scientists.
**1350+ peer reviewed research papers supporting skeptical arguments http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
**100 eminent scientists including Nobel winners and IPCC lead authors contesting Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW-e.g., human caused) who wrote the U.N. http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=d4b5fd23-802a-23ad-4565-3dce4095c360
**31,000+ scientists disavowing AGW, including over 9,000 Ph.D's
http://www.petitionproject.org
**Over 1000 scientists worldwide disavowing AGW signed onto USA Senate report http://hatch.senate.gov/public/_files/USSenateEPWMinorityReport.pdf
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/9035/SPECIAL-REPORT-More-Than-1000-International-Scientists-Dissent-Over-ManMade-Global-Warming-Claims–Challenge-UN-IPCC–Gore
**100 plus scientists rebuke Obama as 'simply incorrect' on global warming, March 30, 2009
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9764
[ Note: Many of the scientists are current and former UN IPCC reviewers and some have reversed their views on man-made warming and are now skeptical. Also note Nobel Laureate for Physics Dr. Ivar Giaever signed. Giaever endorsed Obama for President in an October 29, 2008 letter. See: Portfolio.com]
**Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming There's no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to 'decarbonize' the world's economy.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html
**Professor Lindzen has systematically destroyed every CAGW argument:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02148/RSL-HouseOfCommons_2148505a.pdf
**Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ivar Giaever, elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a supporter of President Obama in the last election, publicly resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) with a letter that begins: "I did not renew [my membership] because I cannot live with the [APS policy] statement: 'The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now.' In the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible?"
**eminent "Prof. Hal Lewis resigns from the American Physical Society, writing:
"The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer "explanatory" screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake."
from: NoTricksZone by Pierre Gosselin http://notrickszone.com/
**One of the fathers of Germany's modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt's skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, "Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?"
Vahrenholt decided to do some digging. His colleague Dr. Lüning also gave him a copy of Andrew Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion. He was horrified by the sloppiness and deception he found. Well-connected to Hoffmann & Campe, he and Lüning decided to write the book. Die kalte Sonne [The Cold Sun] cites 800 sources and has over 80 charts and figures. It examines and summarizes the latest science.
Conclusion: Climate catastrophe is called off. The science was hyped.
**Dr. Lawrence Solomon, once a believer in AGW, realized belatedly, that he was wrong, because he found out that there were too many eminent Professors, who were skeptics and he decided to write a book, titled: "The Deniers" and he explained that he was sad about the enormous corruption among the doomsday "scientists", especially when they were in the management of institutions like universities and weather-departments. http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/06/23/lawrence-solomon-supreme-skeptics/
**Like Professor Emeritus Robert Tennekens, a Dutch professor in meteorology, who after a 10-year stint lecturing in the U.S. was asked to lead the Dutch meteorological department in the Bilt, Holland. After he found out about the corrupt way his staff was following the I.P.C.C.'s computer-modeling, he tried to stamp this habit out, but because too many of his staff and colleagues had powerful friends in the then Dutch government, he was sacked from his job.
**Professor Bellamy the British botanist also received the sack, when he decided to speak out against the AGW corruption on B.B.C. That is not science, that is corruption, when honest people dare to speak out for the truth and then get sacked from their job/career.
**Professor Tim Flannery who was appointed by the Australian Prime Minister and who is paid Audlrs. 180,000 in tax-payers' money to advise her on climate change, predicted over and over again for the last 5 years, that Australia by 2009 would be a total arid and barren place, with all the dams in the major cities totally empty. Well, since last year a number of states saw huge floods destroying their properties and crops as dams in Queensland overflowed and the same now is happening there and we in Sydney, New South Wales experienced the coldest days in our summer since 1916! [text from last three items copied from another commentator]
Fred B
Your Michio Kaku obviously hasn't read many papers. Have him take a look at a few of these 1350 Peer Reviewed papers. http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html.
Anybody that says the science is settled is lying or naive. Just ask Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Get yourself some more reliable soources.
asokasus
"And there are some stories which do not have two sides. The climate change debate is one of them"
ROTFLOL!
Hardy boy, kinda hard to have a "debate" with only one side. I think you meant to use the word "dogma" instead of "debate". Otherwise, your "debate" would be pretty much just mental masturbation, which BTW, is what so-called global warming (oops, I mean "climate change") is really all about.
Medbob
You are correct insofar as the fact that there IS NO evidence for anthropogenic climate change. CO2 was linked to temperature until the Industrial revolution. After that, the evidence is incontrovertible that CO2 was a DEPENDENT factor.
AGW is about power and economics.
Kaku is a crackpot. An opportunistic crackpot totally untrained in the field.
John Swenson
Hardy Spire is a pathetic brainwashed liberal, spouting the usual pathetic liberal brainwashed talking points.
CNN is completely discredited and i s no longer a viable news organization. According to polls, it has the same news organization credibility as Comedy Central. People like Hardy Spires are the reason why.
Q: Only one side to this story?
A: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
Amy Shulkusky
The only "... stories which do not have two sides" are those you self proclaimed gatekeepers close your minds to!
All you global warning extremists should walk the walk or just be quiet. All of you starting with Al Gore should get out of your cars and climb into a golf cart. Do not fly in those polluting airplanes. Get those CFL bulbs and buy solar panels. Redistribute your own wealth. Leave the normal people alone. The only truth about all of this is The Science is Not Settled no matter how often you say it.
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DarPot
"Nevertheless, many news organizations continue to equate the skeptics with the scientists."
Talk about Bias. CNN supports those promoting Anthropological Global Warming by calling them "the scientists", while demeaning those who have also done research, analyzed weather data, applied physics, ect. as "the skeptics".
Never mind "the scientists" have a vested interest in promoting AGW in that it's job security. Besides getting paid, "the scientists", get lots of funding to pay for new equipment ("toys"), new computers, new labs, and in NASA's case expensive planes, rockets, and satellites. Along with all money and funding, "the scientists" get expense paid trips (vacations), money from book deals, and fame.
Whereas, "the skeptics" get what? Hint: Dissed for nothing.
Noting who gets what and who doesn't, the fact that for last 17-years there has been no Global Warming, changes in CO2 lag behind changes in Temperature, Physics shows effects of increasing levels of CO2 on air temperature diminish due to limited amount of IR light, Hockey Stick graph was a fabrication, they had to hide decline in order to promote AGW – seems there is a more applicable term for "the scientists".
Timothy Lane
So the many scientists (including climate specialists such as Roy Spencer and Richard Lindzen) skeptical about the unproven theory of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming are inferior to such "scientists" as Bill Nye, Al Gore, and Barack Obama. How liberal.
Exactly, please tell Freeman Dyson, noted physicist, and Richard Lindzen, MIT, are "deniers" and not worthy of adding to the non debate. Lol
Only if you cherry pick your "scientists" can you say science is settled. And yes, it was once settled science that the world was flat, and the sun revolved around the moon. Those damn deniers just didn't give up when someone called them deniers.
"Scientists"? You are seriously calling Bill Nye a scientist? He's an ACTOR and has been a paid public relations mouthpiece for a number of different organizations who count on suckers not being able to realize that he's an...actor.
jwp
So called weather scientists can't accurately tell me what the weather will be two days from now, but I'm supposed to believe they can accurately predict it hundreds of years into the future...BS. Global Warming/Climate change/environmentalism are the latest tools being used by leftist to transfer wealth from developed to undeveloped countries...make everyone equally miserable. It is garbage, just like communism before it.
Doowleb
The story about a news network that has be-clowned itself and has only immediate family as viewers, has only one side as well.
I understand Nugent's comment the Left leaning media is trying to make into an "Abbott-gate" scenario was made some time in January and not in the presence of Abbott - which is a critical fact which is frequently if not always OMITTED by the media. Unfortunately, not many Americans are shocked by anything our Pravda media does any more....except when they actually factually cover the news.
"And there are some stories which do not have two sides. The climate change debate is one of them." Spoken like a true open minded and tolerant liberal! I love it when you fools show your true colors. Environmentalism: The next great, highly suppressive, intolerant and possibly murderous religion!
TexasJew
Global Warming is a hoax perpetrated to suck grant money into mediocre scientist and crony capitalist pockets by the truckload
They can't even run a Their own business but they know better then everybody else on global warming?
SteveinTexas
CNN like all the other true believers can't be troubled with the actual data, let's just hide the decline, adjust our computer models to match our epic fails, and ridicule and silence anyone who asks "what's wrong with this picture?"
TheMadKing
"And there are some stories which do not have two sides. The climate change debate is one of them."
The writer omitted the most important last three words of that sentence:"here at CNN."
What stories at CNN or MSNBC ever show two sides, really? It's why they're both tanking. Even the converted get tired of beng preached to.
Govdonogoodccnknownothing
Every "model" that now has history behind it has been completely erroneous. Every one of them. All the dire predictions – history shows us a fraction of a degree increase in the last 120 years, it being averaged down over the last 50 years.
The shrieking grows louder as the public funding for "research" (I didn't say scientific research) goes down.
Well I guess we have all been put in our place by all the brilliant scientific minds at the failing "news" network CNN that somehow fancies itself a think tank. Weird how they want to end debate....do you think it's because NONE of the "evidence" they rely on ever stands up to REAL scientific scrutiny ......?
So, it looks like the people at CNN cannot be bothered to pick up a high school science book.
Guess the science is settled. A lot of great scientists always moved in that way, just called it good, you know.
This is very infantile behavior, but expected out of the most trusted source of news?
We have frequent "Global Warming Updates" (pun intended) on Common Cents:
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-updates.html
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/01/global-warming-update-winter-storm.html
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/02/global-warming-update-lake-superior-to.html
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/09/global-warming-update-polar-icecap.html
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/08/global-warming-update-2899-record-cold.html
wwschmidt
Yanukovych sends snipers to kill unarmed protesters? Oh, that story has two sides.
Maduro sends his gangs out to shoot civilians, who kill a 17 year old beauty queen? Oh, that story has two sides.
Hafez Assad slaughters thousands of women and children, just to hang on to power? Oh, that story has two sides.
Climate Change? Oh No, CNN has proclaimed that there is ONLY ONE SIDE!!!
This is the ranting of a religious fanatic, the follower of a Hellfire and Brimstone Religion tailormade for people who think they're too smart to fall for Hellfire and Brimstone Religions.
This is the message of the warmists: REPENT! REPENT O YE SINNERS, OR YE SHALL ALL PERISH IN FLAME AND FLOOD! REPENT!!! (and give all your money to the High Priests of our Church, just to show how True your Repentance is!!!)
Bpbatista
No wonder CNN ratings are lower than Death Valley.
49erDweet
Every story has multiple sides, many serving to inspire press competition. A network failing to comprehend this tenet sadly ceases to offer "news", but instead sinks to the level of a "views" organization. As a former newsman, I'm embarrassed by today's journalists' general lack of intellectual curiosity and integrity.
The Klown
Every story has at least two sides.
Now I see why CNN's ratings are in the toilet.
Agreed. Don't forget that columnist Ellen Goodman said climate change critics are just like Holocaust deniers. The left's behavior on this topic is just despicable.


Our Truckee Donner PUD irrigation days are Tuesday and Friday and lawn's are our largest outdoor consumer of water yet they are not as bad as they are often made out to be. They clean volumes of air pollutants and dust and they produce vast amounts of oxygen and they give us an outdoor room where our children can run. ("Plant containers, trees, shrubs, groundcover, and vegetable gardens may be watered as needed when using automatic drip irrigation or hand watering.") Please Share this.
My lawn tips: • Keep lawns small. Sheet Mulching is an easy method of reducing your extra turf without injuring tree roots. Mow tall and leave the clippings. Lawns mowed to ≥3" use less water, have far fewer weeds, require less fertilization and require less frequent mowing than short lawns. The longer blades photosynthesize far better (feeding and encouraging deeper roots) and they shade the soil surface (reducing temp's, moisture loss and impeding weed growth). • Aerate and Topdress (with a deep-tine or plugger aerator - Truckee Rents) twice a year (or at least once) and then top dress with your own mature compost or bags of Kellogg Topper (a fine screened mature compost). Aeration opens compacted soils and allows for deeper water penetration and better aeration (healthy soils, roots, microbes NEED oxygen). Topdressing compost adds humus that helps soil hold much more water, reserve nutrients and supports microorganisms that break-down lawn clippings, digest & excrete organic fertilizers and protect the lawn from pathogens. We apply 2cu.ft. over 200 sq.ft. and it defies logic that it helps as well as it does. It really helps lawns retain moisture through the summer. • Use organic fertilizers. We usually apply BIOSOL (food-grade organic cottonseed & soy meals that have been completely digested by fungi :) in fall. Biosol seems to minimize rodent damage under snow in "normal" winters and releases throughout the rest spring and summer. We use G&B Organic Lawn Fertilizer in spring (and at a lighter rate every time we aerate & topdress) to give lawn a little boost while the living microorganisms in the fertilizer go to work digesting the brown straw (no, it's not "thatch") left over after every winter. • Water deeply and infrequently. In a normal summer I'll water 3 days a week in July & August but 2/week June & Sept. and occasionally, as needed in the shoulders. This summer I'll water Tuesday & Friday. Break-up your irrigation on watering days. For example, if you put your gauge out on the lawn and found it takes 30 minutes to apply 1/2" of water, then water for 10 minutes at 5am, 10 min at 6am and 10 min at 7am. Like a light rain, the first watering, wets the soil, breaks the surface tension and allows the next watering to go deeper without running-off, the third, allows water even deeper into the soil. Do not water for 10 minutes at 5am, 10 min at hood and 10min at 5pm as the moisture will simply evaporate & transpire without getting to the deepest roots that you are really trying to encourage. This is especially important if you have any slope to your lawn or if you planted sod (often grown in dense Nevada clay). Syringing is a technique, used in the hottest weeks, where we apply 1-2 minutes of water to the lawn, near the hottest time of day (on your lawn) in order to cool the grass blades, increase humidity and halt evapotranspiration (moisture loss) for a few hours which actually saves much more water than it uses. On those Tuesdays & Thursdays, in July & August, you might try this at ~about~ 2:00pm. Watering late in the day is generally discouraged because moist leaf surfaces at night invite disease. • If you have dandelions it is a strong indicator of poor soil (bluegrass in rich soil, will not allow many weeds). Aerate & top dress more frequently and avoid chemical fertilizers. There is a relatively new natural selective herbicide (Natria) of chelated iron, that kills broadleaf plants in lawns without killing grass.
Bluegrass can go many months without water in a summer dormant state and come back to life when moisture returns. Turf-type Tall Fescues are slightly more drought tolerant in a daily basis but will die in a month without any water. Fine Fescues Meadow Blend (meadow-like grasses) are shade tolerant and can stay green on once a week watering and once a month mowing. Native Grass Blend is six species we selected for relatively short growth, drought tolerance and the ability to thrive when grazed (or mowed occasionally). Clover added to a lawn at 1/4-1/2 lb / 1000 sq.ft. reduces the lawn's need for fertilizers, improves the color of the grass and the lawn as a whole, improves the soil, and is NOT a weed in lawns. Bluegrass is a weed, that's why it makes such durable turf.


The Snowdome Foundation and Maddie Riewoldt's Vision are back with the second Bloody Good Dinner. And with $720,000 raised it really was a bloody good night.
Hosted by Maddie Riewoldt's Vision and The Snowdome Foundation, The Bloody Good Dinner is a night aimed at raising much needed funding for blood cancer and bone marrow research. We were again tasked with branding the event and wanted to make it better than ever. That's no mean feat considering last year the event raised nearly $400,000 and had to add more seats to accommodate the extra demand.
Thanks to the success of last year, Chinese Tuxedo had come on board for 2018. Located in a 1920s Chinese theatre, it is one of the hottest new restaurants in New York. With this in mind, we transformed Melbourne's Meat Market into a scene from 1920s Chinatown, NYC. Everything, from the website to the menu, was designed as an ode to the kitsch decor of old-school Chinatown. We wanted to capture the hectic enjoyment of a night out in New York while infusing it with contemporary Chinese pop culture.
And the result? Within under a week nearly 400 tickets had been sold and the event itself was a huge success. On the night we raised over $720,000 to fight blood cancer and bone marrow research. That's nearly double what was raised last year and definitely a bloody good result.
The Bloody Good Dinner is one of the select pro bono projects Town Square undertakes every year to give back to the community.


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Knockout: An oral history of Muhammad Ali, Atlanta, and the fight nobody wanted
David Davis - October 1, 2005
The notion that Muhammad Ali—a conscientious objector who was a member of the Nation of Islam—would make his comeback in the deep South at the height of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War seemed laugh-out-loud ridiculous. But thanks to one fortuitous telephone call to a local businessman—and the political savvy of State Senator Leroy Johnson—Atlanta stunned the world by granting Ali a boxing license and playing host to his return on October 26, 1970.
Old Timer: Chipper Jones is the kind of vintage baseball player fans have craved
Scott Freeman - April 1, 1996
His eyes are the eyes of a hunter. Even though he cloaks them under the shadow of his low-slung baseball cap, there's no escaping the complete focus, the fierce confidence. Necessarily arrogant is the way he likes to describe it.
Coming: Mr. 715
Michael Hinkelman - April 1, 1974
He is almost always just Hank. He is recognized wherever he goes and people want to touch him, get his autograph and pose for pictures with him. He was 20 when he began these sojourns, swatting No. 1 in 1954, when Eisenhower was President.
Ivan Allen and the Stadium
Furman Bisher - August 1, 1964
There's a cavernous concrete oval rising like an elevator on the edge of town, and Ivan Allen Jr. has staked a piece of his political future on his ability to fill it with mayor league ballplayers and playing customers. What will it mean for the city?


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According to the reports, Samsung Galaxy F22 can be launched in both 4G and 5G models. It may include features like FHD+ display, 48MP back camera and 5,000mAh battery.
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According to the reports, Samsung Galaxy F22 can be launched in both 4G and 5G models. It may include features like FHD+ display, 48MP back camera and 5,000mAh battery. According to reports, this F-series smartphone from Samsung could be a re-branded version of the Galaxy A22 that the company announced earlier this month.
Samsung Galaxy A22 5G (Galaxy F22 5G) Specs
Samsung Galaxy A22 5G flaunts a 6.6-inch FHD+ display that supports 90Hz refresh rate. It is equipped with MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor. This device has up to 8GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. There are three camera sensors on the back of the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G phone including a 48MP main camera sensor, a 5MP ultrawide angle lens and a 2MP depth sensor.
The phone has an 8MP front camera and this device works on Samsung's OneUI 3.1 skin based on Android 11. It has a 5,000mAh battery that supports 15W fast charging. The device has Bluetooth v5.0, USB Type-C port and a side mounted fingerprint sensor.
Samsung Galaxy A22 5G flaunts a 6.4-inch HD+ Super AMOLED display that supports 90Hz refresh rate. It is equipped with MediaTek Helio G80 processor. This device has up to 6GB of RAM and up to 128GB of storage. There are four camera sensors on the back of the Samsung Galaxy A22 5G phone including a 48MP main camera sensor, an 8MP ultrawide angle lens, a 2MP macro lens and a 2MP depth sensor.
The phone has a 13MP selfie camera on the front and the device works on Samsung's OneUI 3.1 skin based on Android 11. It has a 5,000mAh battery that supports 15W fast charging. The device has Bluetooth v5.0, USB Type-C port and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
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