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IPCC and Climate Alarm - How It Started16-02-2017 03:53
rwswan
How Climate Alarms Started
Curiosity about AGW - Anthropogenic Global Warming has been around for millennia. Even ancient Greeks debated whether cutting down forests would bring more or less rainfall. It was in 1859 that an English scientist first supposed that water vapour and CO2 - carbon dioxide trapped heat in the atmosphere. The idea was expanded in 1896 by a Swedish scientist who said that burning of fossil fuels such as coal added CO2 to the atmosphere and would raise the temperature of the Earth.
In the 1930s it was assessed that the US and North Atlantic regions had warmed significantly. In the 1950s some scientists started looking further into the possibility of AGW. In 1960 a young scientist established that the temperature was rising year by year.
An idealistic "new-age", greenish mood began in the 1960s with young people protesting environment damage and smashing things to "save the planet". Environmentalism picked up steam in the 1970s. Scientists starting raising the stakes saying that dust and smog were clogging the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and cooling the world. An analysis of Northern Hemisphere statistics showed a cooling trend had begun in the 1940s.
Scientists started advocating that there was a severe threat and agitated for funding for research with state of the art computers. The age of computer modelling had begun.
International programs began to assemble data. Expeditions across polar ice caps to retrieve ice cores started. Swamps were tested. Tree rings were analysed. By 1979 instead of cooling, computer models consistently showed a trend towards severe global warming. It was thought the planet was probably going to warm by about 3 degrees Celsius.
A study of the Greenland ice cores showed that large and sudden temperature changes had happened in the past, though these are now thought to be more regional than global. A new theory emerged that it only takes a small "trigger" to induce a catastrophic change to the global climate e.g. a change in the composition of the atmosphere.
Things suddenly started to look more serious regarding human survival. In 1985 the UN sponsored a meeting of scientists in Austria who concluded that increased greenhouse gases could cause nasty global temperature rises. Some scientists such as Swedish activist and meteorologist Bert Bolin began agitating for something to be done to save the planet from greenhouse gases. Influential and rich businessmen such as Maurice Strong were involved.
By 1988 public concern at the time was rising including for example the hole in the ozone layer in Antarctica and how it might ultimately affect the worlds climate systems.
The IPCC
A number of people were eventually appointed to map out a framework for some kind of organisation to look into the matter and by 1988 the IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was created by the United Nations with the support of the United States.
The IPCC comes under the UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme and the WMO - World Meteorological Office. It has direct input into the UNFCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change which is an international treaty for stabilizing world greenhouse gas emissions
Structure: It was deliberately framed as a political and bureaucratic organisation rather than scientists to control the research.
Purpose: Its stated purpose was to prepare reports based on available scientific information or assessments on all aspects of climate change and its impacts, with a view of formulating realistic response strategies.
Mandate: On the surface it all sounds very noble, but the IPCCs mandate went on. It was not to study climate change in the round, or to look at natural as well as man-made influences on climate. It was to specifically find and report on any human impact on climate, and thereby make a scientific case for the adoption of national and international policies that would supposedly reduce that impact."
See: http://climatechangereconsidered.org/abouttheipcc/
This is where I believe the whole system was flawed from the beginning. They zeroed in on only one potential cause of an observed change of global temperatures measured only over the last 150 years or so, some recordings of which might be considered dubious. By doing so and by continuing to do so they are unrealistically funnelling everyone's focus into an area which may – or may not – be the real cause of the problem, if one actually exists.
Today the IPCC is a massive organisation but the leadership only has a small bureau of 34 people. These people are bureaucratic public servants not scientists themselves as such. The Panel itself has 195 members which meet every year and consists of representatives from various countries, usually government representatives but again, not necessarily scientists. The whole organisation by its structure and nature is bureaucratic and political, not scientific.
Given that the focus was now drawn to AGW, governments around the world started seeking advice to which the IPCC responded with various reports. Thousands of non-paid scientists from various scientific disciplines around the world were also drawn into it and contributed voluntarily as authors, contributors and reviewers, which they still do.
From these, the IPCC prepares:
Summary for Policy Makers: A guide for governments which converts the sometimes highly technical scientific writings into more easily understood language.
Assessment Reports: Published every five to seven years, the last one was the Fifth Assessment Report published in 2014.
Earth Summits: Such as those held at Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Bali, Bonn and Copenhagen between 1992 and 2009. These are also political by nature so of course any agreements between nations can be difficult to reach. In fact the Copenhagen Earth Summit is considered by many to have been a complete flop.
Growth of the IPCC
The IPCC stated making a name for itself with its first Assessment Report (AR) in 1990 which clearly stated that human activity was likely to be the cause of unprecedented global warming. Subsequent ARs have all highlighted mankind's culpability and each new report has successively been more alarmist that the previous one.
In 1995 the IPCC allowed the convening lead author, activist Ben Santer to rewrite a section of Chapter 8 – Detection of Climate Change and Attribution of Causes in the Second Assessment Report. It was done in alarmist terms which said that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate".
This is allegedly a complete opposite to what was actually stated in the conclusion to Chapter 8 by the scientific authors. Santer declared he was only responding to comments on the draft from various governments, scientists and NGOs.
The world's press, ever keen for alarmist sensation picked up on the theory of AGW. Politicians responding to media and public pressure picked up on it. It was picked up by the NGOs of environmentalist movements and by idealists. Over time, the world began to just accept anything the IPCC said as totally true – without question. The focal point for all things climate change related was now well and truly on AGW.
The IPCC today holds the esteemed position of being among the world's leading authority on climate change if not the leader, yet technically it should only be on issues related to the potential of AGW activities. Its summaries and reports of scientific papers are being read by governments, environmental and scientific organizations all around the world. Many regard these papers as the ultimate truth and use it to justify expenditure on reducing "dangerous greenhouse emissions". Whether we actually need to do so for global warming is still debatable but it would be nice to reduce smog.
That by itself probably wouldn't be too much of a worry if there were equally notable organisations to provide transparent, steadying, counter views by those who are looking at world's climate systems as a whole. But any scientist or organization brave enough to put a hand up risks the incurring the wrath of the whole of the alarmist system, including public media and commentary which simply swamps any voice of dissent.
IPCC – Bias?
The material coming out from the IPCC is undeniably slanted towards AGW. They don't try to deny it. There is little effort made to try and find other solutions. So is the IPCC biased? Technically yes though remember they still operate within their mandate. But let's explore just a few examples that might point to it.
In 2010 the Dutch Government stated that the IPCC had a "tendency to single out the most important negative impacts of climate change" in its summaries to policymakers. Apparently they do highlight the positive aspects but they get drowned out by the negatives and mentioned less in the summary.
In 2014 a Dutch professor Richard Tol resigned from the Climate Panel because he believed the consequences of climate change were being systematically over-estimated and alleged it was more concerned with the environment lobby than the science.
Also in 2014 Dr Robert Stavins was a Co-Coordinating Author for AR5 – the IPCCs Fifth Assessment Report. He said that under IPCC rules, the dissent of one country is sufficient to grind the entire approval process to a halt unless and until that country can be appeased. As an example he said that during group deliberations, the assembled government representatives would only approve the text if certain "controversial" items were removed i.e. read uncomfortable for any single government. Allegedly about 75% of the text was removed.
He went on to say, "I fully understand that the government representatives were seeking to meet their own responsibilities toward their respective governments by upholding their countries' interests, but in some cases this turned out to be problematic for the scientific integrity of the IPCC Summary for Policymakers."
You can read the full text here: http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/2014/04/25/is-the-ipcc-government-approval-process-broken-2/
Bottom line is that the IPCC is a by its nature a political body that must be considered biased towards AGW. As such it is not only flawed in its approach to the problem of global warming, but unsuitable for use in its role as the leading authority for climate change advice to world governments on how to shape their environmental policies.
How Could It Happen?
Why is it that an organization tasked to focus on only one potential aspect of a potential global warming threat can become the ultimate accepted authority on all things relating to it?
Here are some theories based on known facts ...
Environmental alarms about global climate change began to surface at a time when environmental sentiment was fashionable. Bucket loads of money started to become available in all sorts of ways to those who promoted the cause. There was superb marketing by the IPCC and a host of influential people willing to further the cause of AGW in some form or other. The idealistic took up the call. There was and continues to be strong coverage by an ever willing media for anything alarming or sensational.
Politicians and the bureaucrats who advised them simply didn't have the scientific education or even enough scientific smarts to tell the difference between the actual scientific reports and the manufactured ones. They relied on what they were told. The same can be said of the general public who can be highly susceptible to political or media spin.
I believe that ordinary citizens by and large, habitually accept whatever information is presented by the media, at least in Australia. I know that's a very general statement but unfortunately we still tend to trust the media to be factual.
And that can be at any level of our society. There was a prime example last year when an Australian Prime Minister reacted to a TV media news story by almost immediately calling for a Royal Commission. It was a gross knee-jerk reaction without checking further into the matter.
As the IPCC became the leading authority of climate change, then alarmist predictions multiplied. Few challenged them because they were coming from such august bodies, institutions and scientists regardless of their field.
The situation was made worse because the IPCC then and now still rely on computer modelling on just the last 150 years or so, an insignificant amount of time in climate time scales.
Let's not forget that the use of computers to find solutions ultimately depends on the data that's fed into it. There has undoubtedly been a temperature rise since industrialization but I wonder what the result would be compared to the last (say) 100,000 years if we take the Milankovich cycles into consideration?
By 2000 governments started to create policies to stop AGW, probably one of the most common ones to date is some kind of carbon emissions trading scheme which penalises those who emit dangerous gases.
By 2005 the number of climate sceptics prepared to start speaking out increased. By 2009 several pillars of support for AGW had started to fall, which will be examined in later posts. Two of the most striking perhaps was a finding by a High Court Judge in the UK who found 9 major errors in Al Gore's, "An Inconvenient Truth".
And in December 2009 an incident now known as Climate Gate surfaced with the news that the Climate Research Unit - CRU had been doctoring emails. This may have been blown way out of proportion by selective fact picking, but we'll look at this again in due course. But when mud is thrown some of it sticks.
Scientists are human beings like the rest of us. There can be no doubt there are people on both sides of the debate that have been corrupted to some degree. The issue can provide funding for programmes, institutions and university departments, and also bring fame and influence. Today it has become evident that there has and continues to be a lack of scientific discipline and moral scruples by individual scientists as to what the true focus of science should be – to discover facts.
Regarding the IPCC - it is not my intention to cast felonious aspersions on the IPCC or to those that work within it or connected to it. And at the end of the day, some of the material they receive from scientist sources must surely be either inaccurate or misleading. I am sure most of those people act in good faith and believe what they are doing is for the good of mankind.
But for reasons discussed above it's why I have included them as being an untrustworthy source to cite in any debate about the actual cause(s) of global warming.
1. Book "Climate: The Counter Consensus" by sceptic Professor Robert M. Carter
2. The Discovery of Global Warming: http://history.aip.org/climate/summary.htm
3. An Economic View of the Environment: http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/2014/04/25/is-the-ipcc-government-approval-process-broken-2/
Russ Swan
Issues on Climate Change
http://www.issuesonclimatechange.com
Edited on 16-02-2017 04:15
GasGuzzler ★★★★☆
(1947) The entire problem is right here in these lines.
There was and continues to be strong coverage by an ever willing media for anything alarming or sensational.
(4031) rwswan has presented a good overview of the politics behind AGW. But he hasn't leaned nearly hard enough on those that have committed these acts of forcing unscientific political views upon the public. 80% of the members of IPCC are professional politicians. And since the majority of the world are second and third world nations these politicians aren't worried about AGW - they are worried about getting a cut of the first world abundance.
In the 60's. the drug addled generation was looking for absolutely anything to deny the way that civilization worked. Most people are cowards at heart and they didn't want to go to Vietnam. We had no business there to begin with but JFK and then Johnson made their supporters VERY rich via war.
While the flower generation were busy killing themselves with illegal drugs and using drugs that handicapped their minds they were the one's that became "the media". And the media began taking on more and more a liberal/socialist bend. "I don't know how to do anything so you should pay my way."
Environmentalism became a popular movement but the overwhelming majority of "environmentalists" knew absolutely nothing about it. With total ignorance they could be part of a new "science" that promised to save man from himself. And himself always turned out to be the older generation and anything they have done as normal. Hunting had always been a "manly" sport and now became something that only an outcast would do. Just as today the media is attempting to overturn the 2nd Amendment because guns frighten them. A government cannot seize control of a country in which the number of hunters in one state is larger than the numbers of all of the military combined.
But as everything else that liberals/socialists/environmentalists do it was pure unadulterated hypocrisy. They wanted YOU to stop eating meat but they want steak for themselves. They wanted YOU to stop driving a car but they wanted the sports sedan with the largest most powerful engine. They wanted the "billionaires" taxed but not themselves. They wanted YOU to live in the dark at night while they lit entire cities with 100 times more illumination than was necessary. (All of the bridges in the San Francisco bay area are covered in lights. Most of which are for decoration and not for safe illumination of the roadway.)
California had a two and a half year long drought and the politicians using false AGW "science" took NO efforts to inspect and repair the dams and other power infrastructure. Now the perfectly normal heavy rain season set in and we have entire towns being evacuated because a dam spillway wasn't properly designed because it would never be used anyway. Only by luck we had a five day break in the rains which allowed them to drain enough water out of the dammed reservoir to allow the normal spillway which is also broken due to lack of maintenance to handle the expected rains over the next month and the end of the wet season.
In the USA and apparently in Great Britain, the Democrats here and the Liberal Party there have used AGW in a blatant attempt to build larger and stronger governments. To bring in as many minorities as possible and to promise them anything to retain them as liberal voters.
But as in everything else - the stupid can control nothing. And the worm has finally turned. And it has turned to such an extent that people like Surface Detail dare not speak his twisted mind in public for fear of personal reprisal. In the USA as jobs grow and more Americans get back to work the carefully orchestrated divisions of race, color and creed will disappear again.
The media is already feeling the impact as advertising is dropping like a rock. Large scale companies are simply using their reputations to attract customers and not media advertising that is now blowing up in their faces some more and more Americans will not buy anything advertised on an lying, cheating media.
A local Federal appeals court even allowed an appeal against an Executive Order where neither the originating Judge or the Appeals Court cited THE LAW that gave them the power to do so. We're back to the Stench from the Bench is making me Clinch. Liberals do not believe that power lies in the laws of this land but in the mere fact of holding office.
AGW is not long for this world. It was a false hypothesis from the start and after it FAILED it was proclaimed a FACT.
GasGuzzler wrote:
The entire problem is right here in these lines.
Exactly. The idea that there is any significant doubt among scientists about the reality and seriousness of AGW is purely a media fabrication. Unfortunately, though, people prefer to get their information from newspapers and political websites than from scientific journals and papers.
(1947) Just how many skeptic scientist and whistle blowers do we need to show you? What is your number??
Just how many skeptic scientist and whistle blowers do we need to show you? What is your number??
Every field of human study has a few mavericks and contrarians. The fact that you refer to them as "whistle blowers" is testament in itself to the power of the media.
Surface Detail wrote:
Yep, Pythagoras was quite a maverick when he called the earth round.
The fact that someone that has the intelligence such as yourself, with the inability to apply it correctly, is testament in itself to the power of the media.
Showing up with a gun at all is just weird and gross.--tmiddles
I think that's stretching things to say that Surface Detail has any intelligence. After all of his commenting he has yet to give us any credentials beyond being a British Liberal. I would think that that in itself would disqualify him for having even a passing acquaintance with intelligence.
Meet another maverick: Samuel Rowbotham, English inventor and founder of the Flat Earth Society.
So which maverick do you suppose the AGW deniers resemble more closely? The Greek maverick, who was actually able to demonstrate through experiment and observation the validity of his opinions, or the English maverick, who was apparently able to "counter every argument with ingenuity, wit and consummate skill" and left his audience feeling that "some of the most important conclusions of modern astronomy had been seriously invalidated."
Wake wrote:
You have made a series of statements on this forum that are simply and demonstrably false, ranging from your assertion that the sun's output has remained constant since just after the formation of the Earth to your claim the Earth is currently colder than at any time in the last million years.
Everybody has the right to their own opinion, but nobody has the right to their own facts. You are, quite simply, a liar.
(1947) My bad. Knowledge and intelligence are 2 different worlds. As stated before, most here have far more science back round than I ever will. But I will call BS if you "scientifically" show me that you can knock over a grain bin with a slingshot and a rock. My point is that despite my tiny amount of basic knowledge, I still see right through the propaganda.
One argument that was never finished with Surface Decal and Wake that I would like to see continued is Wake's claim (and mine) of man made CO2 percentage in the atmosphere. Those are fascinating numbers that anybody should be able to understand (with the exception of Litebeer).
I bring it up here because I honestly can't remember which thread it was in but I think SD ran from the issue a bit.
Surface Decal-
What percent of all CO2 is man contribution?
[b]Surface Detail wrote:
The Sun is a main sequence star. The temperature has been more or less the same since shortly after it's ignition. This does not mean that the Sun's output is flat but that it varies the same since severe geomagnetic storms are normal for a star and the Sun is SURPISE! a star.
This is because the TEMPERATURE of the surface is powered by the same hydrogen/helium fusion that it was created with. Your ideas of what "facts" are is distorted by your lack of any education.
The Sun is about half-way through the stable part of it's lifespan. The Earth formed LONG after the ignition and stabilization period of the Sun. Hanging from the trees like that doesn't make you Tarzan, it just makes you look ridiculous.
As for your stupidity about the geologic temperature record:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png
The order the record to more averaging has occurred due to the weight of the geologic strata above so you have to draw and AVERAGE though the entire train.
This is more plainly shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/media/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
If I were you I wouldn't be so openly stupid. You sound like a lawyer.
My bad. Knowledge and intelligence are 2 different worlds. As stated before, most here have far more science back round than I ever will. But I will call BS if you "scientifically" show me that you can knock over a grain bin with a slingshot and a rock. My point is that despite my tiny amount of basic knowledge, I still see right through the propaganda.
Remember that David slew Goliath with but a stone.
This graph shows how the concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere has varied over the last 10,000 years:
The data come from analyses of ancient air trapped in cores of ice taken from Antarctica and, for the last few decades, from direct measurements at Mauna Loa. It's slightly out of date; the CO2 concentration is now about 405 ppm.
It is quite clear that the sudden jump over the last 150 years or so is completely uncharacteristic, and it's very hard to think of an explanation for this other than the obvious one: that it results from human emissions due to industrialisation. If humans did not exist, the concentration would still be about 280 ppm.
Humans are therefore responsible for 405 - 280 = 125 ppm of CO2. As a percentage of current all the CO2 in the atmosphere, this is 125 / 405 * 100 = 31%.
(1947) LOL! Goliath was a big dude but no grain bin.
I've already shown you this:
You can see that the luminosity of the sun has been increasing over almost all of the Earth's history and will continue to do so. This means that it is putting out more and more heat. Or do you think the astrophysicists are part of the conspiracy too?
Just out of curiosity - are you totally unaware that it shows the TEMPERATURE as flat? Excuse me but did I talk about luminosity? Are you aware that there IS a difference?
Why don't you change your pen-name to DUHHHHHHHH?
If we are referencing the bible you do have the jawbone of an arse to help you slay those pencil-heads with their pesky facts.
Arsehole.
IBdaMann wrote:
"Air" is not a body in and of itself. Ergo it is not a blackbody.
Planck's law describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium at a given temperature T.
The sun's output is what heats the Earth, and that's what we were talking about originally. The greater the luminosity, the greater the output. Luminosity depends on both surface temperature and radius. As it ages, the sun is slowly expanding and increasing its luminosity, thus heating the Earth ever more strongly.
They can have a go at me for not being a scientist all they like but I think I can remember this from watching a Carl Sagan documentary when I was a teenager, not to know this basic fact while claiming to be a scientist is extraordinary.
Surface Detail wrote: The sun's output is what heats the Earth, and that's what we were talking about originally. The greater the luminosity, the greater the output. Luminosity depends on both surface temperature and radius. As it ages, the sun is slowly expanding and increasing its luminosity, thus heating the Earth ever more strongly.
What you were complaining about is that I said that the Sun's temperature was STABLE. Is this your crab walk out from under your ignorance?
Tell you what - you also claimed that the Earth wasn't getting colder over time.
Now explain those charts showing that the Earth has been getting colder over time and your conception of the sun growing and luminosity making lots more heat on the Earth.
We're all listening to you Bill Nye the Science Guy.
You don't know about the snowball earth theory?
That's kind of proof that the earth has not been steadily getting colder all the time. Over tens of millions of years the movement of the continents probably has the most profound effect, but that does not explain the current warming.
I don't care what you said about the sun's temperature. We're not interested in that. We are interested in the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth, and that depends on the sun's luminosity. Your original claim was that the sun's output (i.e. luminosity) was stable, and that is incorrect.
And no, I've never claimed that the Earth isn't getting colder over time. I just disputed your claim that it is currently colder than any time in the last million years. This is simply not true.
(42) For Gas Guzzler:
>>What percent of all CO2 is man contribution?
Perhaps you might be interested in this:
http://issuesonclimatechange.com/greenhouse-gases-a-perspective/
(1947) Thanks rwswan,
I've seen all this, I just wanted to hear a solid claim from surface decal.....and then make some popcorn and sit back and watch Wake shred it. It's quite entertaining, and educational. I've learned more on here in week than I ever did in class.
Thanks rwswan,
You don't need Wake to tell you what to think. Use your own intelligence.
What, apart from human emissions, could possibly have caused the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to increase so dramatically, by 125 ppm, over the geological instant of the last 150 years? Where has the CO2 come from? There has been no massive volcanic activity, no asteroid impact. There has, however, been an enormous increase in human consumption of coal and oil - sufficient, in fact, to easily account for the spike in CO2.
But you need people you know nothing about to tell YOU what to think. All they have to do is have the NASA or NOAA label. But then when scientists connected to those same agencies say that they are full of crap you ignore them. That's what is known as political motivation on your part.
Where is the CO2 coming from? From the oceans dummy. As the temperature warms NORMALLY the CO2 that is in the oceans is released. But apparently you aren't bright enough to have actually compared the warming and the CO2 rise.
http://joannenova.com.au/global-warming-2/ice-core-graph/
But there's no need for you to even look at it since you don't believe science. Your life is politics.
An interesting theory, but immediately disproved by the fact that the CO2 concentration in the oceans is also increasing (along with their acidity). The oceans are absorbing CO2, not releasing it.
Can you explain why you demand references but are the last one to provide them?
Sorry, I thought the phenomenon of ocean acidification due to CO2 absorption was common knowledge. See, for example, here:
Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem
Nobody should be surprised that again you need to have your hand held to prevent you from playing with yourself.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/OceanCarbon/
Thanks for another link confirming my point.
Into the Night ★★★★★
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Link War! Learn to think for yourself instead of stealing the arguments of other people that aren't here to make their case.
CO2 dissolved in ocean water largely remains CO2 dissolved in ocean water. A very small amount of it actually turns to carbonic acid. This acid is absolutely necessary for the lives of shellfish and corals. It allows lime deposits to be dissolved in solution so these animals have the calcium they need to build their shells. Without this acid, the limestone would never go into solution. The ocean water essentially acts a ballast for carbon dioxide. Most carbon dioxide in the air comes from the ocean water as part of an equilibrium between the air and water.
Ocean water is alkaline. You cannot acidify an alkaline. You can only neutralize it.
You only acidify neutral or acidic solutions.
It pays to keep your head out of the Scripture of Church of Global Warming that constantly tries to redefine words, including 'acidify', ;science', 'logic', 'data', and 'history'.
BTW, the shellfish and corals are doing just fine. The recent die-off on the Great Barrier Reef involved only a portion of the reef, was caused by predatory activity (starfish and the like), and will recover in a couple of years. Coral is a LOT more resilient than people give it credit for.
The Parrot Killer
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[b]Wake wrote:
Thanks for proving that you didn't even read it.
Of course I read it but, apparently unlike you, I am able to comprehend English.
The caption to the first image says:
One of the largest unknowns in our understanding of the greenhouse effect is the role of the oceans as a carbon sink. Much of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels is soaked up by the oceans, but changes in the climate are altering this absorption in surprising ways.
The article confirms that the oceans are indeed absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but it then goes on to make finer points about the distribution of and likely limits to this absorption.
The fact that the oceans are currently absorbing some of the CO2 emitted by humans is completely uncontroversial, even among scientists sceptical of its warming effect.
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Sometimes the simplest recipes can have the greatest impact on a meal.
Yesterday's Sunday supper was a summer-style menu with my baked farmers market pork chops (since we live in a downtown apartment, we don't have a grill), sliced tomatoes and corn on the cob, along with my husband's favorite birthday baked beans and potatoes roasted with the pork chops. However, I wanted to add a little pizzazz to the meal, so I mixed up a compound butter to melt on the corn and potatoes.
Compound butters are so easy. Just allow a stick of butter to soften and then mix in your favorite flavors. I chose fresh thyme, rosemary, and black pepper. (Be careful to add more thyme than rosemary, since the rosemary's pungent flavor could overtake the thyme.) This made a tasty and versatile butter that will taste great melting on top of just about anything—vegetables, beef, pork, chicken, fish, etc. I even plan to test it out with scrambled eggs.
In our household, this butter passed the ultimate test: My husband, The Picky Eater, declared it to be "good" and used it on all every ear of corn he enjoyed! I did the same, plus I allowed the butter to melt over the top of the roasted potatoes. (My husband used ketchup, of course.) I was tempted to put some on my pork chop, but I managed to exercise a little restraint.
Place the butter into a small bowl. Add the remaining ingredients and, using the back of a spoon, mash the ingredients into the butter. Spoon the butter mixture onto a piece of waxed paper and shape into a small log. Roll up the butter into the paper, twist the ends to close, and refrigerated until the butter is firm.
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Such ubiquity has its drawbacks, however, and within ten years Peter was struggling to find work, mainly, he believes, because casting directors felt he had been over-exposed.
Today, however, Peter is as busy as ever, having enjoyed great success in the West End with the musical Gypsy, as well as reprising his role as the Doctor for a spoof that he wrote, directed and starred in as part of the show's 50th anniversary celebrations.
Then there was his appearance in Grantchester playing a cricket-loving solicitor – echoes of the fifth Doctor – and his brilliantly funny cameo in Toast of London, playing a debauched version of himself.
Despite his impressive CV, Peter has always retained a sense of perspective about his achievements, as well as a healthy, and self-deprecating, sense of humour. His autobiography, Is There Life Outside The Box?, is not the usual collection of self-satisfied, rather luvvy reminiscences, but an honest, and frequently very funny, account of a life and career that has had more than its fair share of ups and downs.
What also comes across very strongly in the book is how fiercely proud Peter is of his mixed-race parentage – his father, Claude, was an electrical engineer from British Guiana in the West Indies, and his mother, Sheila, was English.
"Not a lot of people know about that because I look so damned English, which has been very useful in terms of working but I loved it, this exotic side to the family in the West Indies – it seemed kind of cool," Peter told the Sunday Herald.
Peter was born in Streatham in 1951 and remembers being painfully shy as a child, which wasn't helped by the family moving to live in Knaphill, a village in Surrey, so his father could fulfil, a l o n g - s t a n d i n g ambition to run a grocery store. For a child who struggled to make friends, suddenly being planted in the middle of what seemed like the middle of nowhere was a traumatic experience, at least at first.
In truth it was hard for all the children – Peter had three sisters, Pamela, Shirley and Barbara – "all we knew is that we were dragged away from our friends and from the cosy world we loved". The shop struggled and Claude had to eventually go and work in an electronics shop, leaving Peter's mother to run the shop.
Meanwhile Peter was struggling at school, only finding his niche in plays and amateur theatricals. He passed one 'O' Level and even managed to fail CSE Level Woodwork, "my teacher, in his state of shock, said 'all you had to do is recognise wood'." Intoxicated by the Summer of Love, and inspired by Arlo Guthrie's album Alice's Restaurant, Peter embraced the hippie revolution, learning guitar and piano and wearing a kaftan that his mother had made for him out of old curtain material.
He went back to school and upped his 'O' Level tally to three, but left after one year of the Sixth Form. When Peter told the careers master that he was thinking of a career in acting, "he looked at me the way you might look at someone who's expressed a desire to grow wings and fly." Undeterred Peter researched possible drama schools, while also developing his musical talents (he would later write and perform the theme songs to the TV shows Button Moon and Mixed Blessings). He took any work that would pay the rent, including stints as a mortuary attendant and dry cleaner press operator, eventually winning a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1969. At his audition Peter was asked why he'd left school after just one year of the Sixth Form.
"To experience life," he replied, thinking on his feet.
Peter had married his long-time girlfriend Diane Russell in 1973 but they divorced 2 years later, after Peter embarked on and affair with American actress Sandra Dickinson, when they both appeared in a rock musical version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Peter wrote some songs for Sandra, which didn't register on the chart, but EMI were impressed enough by a demo tape he'd sent them to offer Peter a song-writing contract. For £500 a year he'd have to write 15 songs. He never took up their offer.
"It was a bit like that Groucho Marx thing- I didn't want to be a member of any club that wanted me as a member. Anyway, it was a bad deal and the money was rubbish, so I suppose I thought if EMI was interested, I was good enough to do better than that."
As it turned out, his acting career was taking off with a role in the ITV series Love for Lydia, followed by the part of Tristan in All Creatures Great and Small. The role would not only make Peter a household name, but it would also help him to overcome the crippling shyness that still afflicted him.
At first, though, the old anxieties surfaces. How could someone from Streatham play the brother of Robert Hardy, who was descended from landed gentry. And when Christopher Timothy breezed into the rehearsal room, took one look at Peter and joked,"too tall, recast", Peter was convinced he would not last very long in the series.
As it turned out Tritram become a firm favourite with viewers and the role was quickly upgraded so that Peter became a regular feature in the show. He even found himself absorbing many of Tristram's characteristics into his public persona, a useful device to overcome his shyness in interviews, This had its downsides however.
"When I look t old interviews on YouTube, I don't even recognise the voice of the person speaking" he says now. So completely did Peter allow his alter-egoo ti tale over that he would turn down parts that would have been perfectly suited o his lower middle class background simply because they did not fit in with his 'posh' public image.
So when, in 1981, he was offered the lead role of Doctor Who, Peter's first reaction was that it was a "mad idea". "I grew up with William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton and they were the older Doctors, avuncular figures. I don't think I've ever been offered a part where I've thought 'I'm right for this''. Nearly every part I've ever done, I've though I'm completely wrong and I'm going to get found out. I has no idea what I was doing but by the end, I think I was quite comfortable in what I was playing"
Peter stayed with the show for three years, it did not seem to suffer from the curse of Doctor Who- being forever typecast- and after leaving enjoyed success with A Very Peculiar Practice and Companion. By the end of the eighties, however, his marriage was starting to disintegrate and Peter entered into what he now realised were the wilderness years.
Peter and Sandra had married in 1978 and had one daughter, Georgia, who was born in 1984, but although they presented a public facade of the affluent, TV couple living in heir big house in Berkshire, peter had started to feel suffocated by Sandra's controlling attitude.
"in the past, I was drawn to people who decided things for me. In a way, I was happy to go along with it, and that was a flaw on my part.
"Sandra decided where we went and what we did,. It was just easier for me to be told what I was going to do. But then I realised that it's not the way I want things to be. It' got to the point where I thought: 'I cannot go on like this- I have to leave.
"I just wanted out, I wanted to it to be over. I'm amazed it went on for as long as it did" he recalls in his book.
Very soon after leaving Sandra,Peter had no money, was living in a one bedroom flat and, for the first time in years, had no work to keep him going.
"I think people just got a bit sick to death of me- not the viewers, it was the people who made the programmes. I think probably parts came in and they would say 'what about Peter Davison?' and then 'no, we see him in everything'. There's no doubt I went slightly out of fashion.
After a battle in the courts he won a stay on the payments and gradually things picked up for him.
Peter was offered a part in the TV series At Home with The Braithwaites- which, along with A Very Peculiar Practice, Peter regards as some of his best work- and, most importantly, met writer and actress Elizabeth Morton, the person who would become his third wife.
Elizabeth moved in with Peter and sold her flat, the proceeds of which went towards Sandra's divorce settlement. They also had two children together and married in the summer of 2003. Both children, Louis and Joel, are actors, Louis having appeared in the 2016 film Mrs Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children.
Georgia was also carving out a career for herself as an actress, appearing in The Bill for seven years, before carry o n the family tradition and appearing in an episode of Doctor Who as, appropriately, the Doctor's daughter. The episode proved auspicious in other ways too, for as a result David Tennant, the then current Doctor, started asking Georgia to go out to the theatre with him, as Peter recalls "She said David Tennant keeps asling me to go to Shakespeare, I think he's trying to get me interested in Shakespeare' and I said 'have you thought about the fact that he like you?' and she said 'no, no, it's not that'.
"Her logic was 'he's David Tennant, he could have anyone If he wanted to ask me out, he would just say, come out with me'. He was incredibly slow- I think they had gone o several thatre shows over three months so he persevered and then one day she rang me up and said 'I think we might be going out'."
"He's a charming man so I suppose in a way I'm a but more intimidated by him. But we get on fine. I've always been uncomfortable generally dealing ith male company- I don't know why- perhaps it's just because I@ve got three sisters. i don't have the sprt thing, I can't join in that conversation."
Now reincarnated thanks to his recent roles in Gypsy and the Monty Python musical Spamalot, as an unlikely song and dance man, Peter hopes that he has provided some kind of inspiration to his children and grandchildren.
"They can look at me, pictured in sci-fi magazines, immortalised in six inch high figures with articulated limbs, and in various re-runs on any number of cable channels. and think with some confidence,- if he can do it, anyone can"


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Q: How to create cross domain asp.net web service I have created a web service. I want to access this web service using Ajax jQuery. I am able to access on same domain. But I want to access this web service from another domain.
Does anyone have an idea how to create a cross domain web service in asp.net? Any setting in web.config file so that I access it from another domain?
My web service
[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
    public Service () {
    }

    [WebMethod]
    public string SetName(string name) {
        return "hello my dear friend " + name;

    }
}

JavaScript
$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url:'http://192.168.1.119/Service/SetName.asmx?name=pr',
    ContentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
    cache: false,
    dataType: "jsonp",
    success: onSuccess
});

A: Install nuget and then try these
    Here is the link of Json.Net on the nuget gallery: nuget.org/packages/Newtonsoft.Json
using Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

     [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
        [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
        public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService
        {
            public Service () {
            }

            [WebMethod]
        [ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
            public string SetName(string name) {
         return JsonConvert.SerializeObject("hello my dear friend " + name, Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);

            }
        }

A: the use of jQuery's jsonp datatype is indeed a good choice as it will make cross-domain scripting possible... but since this is json-with-padding you must make sure your webservice returns json..
Check for instance here for a good starter on that: http://encosia.com/asp-net-web-services-mistake-manual-json-serialization/

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Butterfield Congratulates Jean Farmer-Butterfield on Confirmation to North Carolina Employment Security Board of Review
Jul 9, 2020 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement congratulating former state lawmaker, Representative Jean Farmer-Butterfield, on her confirmation to the North Carolina Employment Security Board of Review:
Butterfield Says Supreme Court's Decision Means Trump Not Above the Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement on the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding President Trump's tax and financial records:
Butterfield Announces Grant Funding for North Carolina Reentry Support
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement on the awarding of $2,572,242 in federal grant funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Family Resource Center South Atlantic. The grant funding will go towards the Pathway Home program, which focuses on assisting justice-involved individuals in gaining meaningful employment.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement on the awarding of $400,000 in funding from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments. These funds were made available by the CARES Act and will be used to help local economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Reps. Butterfield, Bass and Sens. Booker, Markey Urge the State Department to Address Racial Discrimination Faced by Foreign Service Officers
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- United States Representatives G.K.
Butterfield Votes to Pass Patient Protection & Affordable Care Enhancement Act
Butterfield Statement on House Passage of the Justice in Policing Act
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Butterfield voted in favor of passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, change the culture of law enforcement and build trust between law enforcement and our communities.
Butterfield Announces Grant Funding for Pitt-Greenville Airport Authority Project
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01) released the following statement on $1,425,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the construction of a taxi lane at the Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, North Carolina.
Butterfield joins Colleagues in Introducing the Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Butterfield joined House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (SC-06), members of the House Rural Broadband Task Force and House Democrats introduced H.R.
Butterfield Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on DACA
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has given nearly 700,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children, known as "Dreamers," protection from deportation and the ability to remain in the United States.
Congressman celebrates black history month, calls for a conversation about guns
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - An Eastern Carolina Congressman called for a conversation on guns while attending a black history month event in Greenville Saturday.
Congressman gives salute of a lifetime
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – On Tuesday, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation hosted an event to honor members who have served in the military.
The event, honorable within itself, proved extra special as North Carolina Congressman G.K. Butterfield saluted General Colin Powell.
Butterfield was honored for his service in the military from 1968 to 1970.
Durham Congressman Butterfield backs kente-cloth Trump protest at State of Union
The nation saw the fashion statement made by first lady Melania Trump with her white pantsuit during last week's State of the Union address.
Health centers fret over federal funds
City to name transportation center for Butterfield
The new Greenville Transportation Activity Center will be named for U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield in recognition of the congressman's efforts to secure funding for the project, the city of Greenville announced on Monday.
Jones and Butterfield vote against the Republican tax bill
WASHINGTON (WNCT) — Two local congressmen from opposite parties voted 'no' on the Republican tax bill, H.R. 1 on Wednesday in Washington D.C.
Congressman Walter B. Jones, Republican, stated that he voted against the bill primarily due to the trillions of dollars that it is projected to add to the national debt.
Black lawmakers will visit Silicon Valley to press Facebook, Twitter and others to improve their diversity
A pair of powerful black lawmakers in the U.S. Congress will visit Silicon Valley next week to push companies like Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, Lyft and Uber to improve diversity.
Butterfield shares story of Wilson's opioid crisis
Oct 13, 2017 In The News
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U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield used Wilson's opioid crisis as an example during a health subcommittee hearing earlier this week on Capitol Hill.
Butterfield slams Trump decision on DACA program
WASHINGTON — Wilson's Democratic congressman criticized President Donald Trump following a Tuesday announcement that the White House would phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
North Carolina's 6 black justices from past, present honored
The Philadelphia Tribune

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The Peak Oil Preacher
by Vera Häggblom
The Shell-Nigeria verdict
by Ama Lorenz
The Change is Economic, Not Ideological
by Itai Lahat
Keep it in the ground!
The People Who Already Live at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels
by Vanessa Ellingham
Holland's Energy Future Looks Set To Be A Huge Struggle
by Jan van de Nes
Divestment Campaign Leading the Way Forward
Since its launch more than 140,000 of you have signed the Guardian's petition calling on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to divest from fossil fuels. Photograph: The Guardian
As the Paris COP 21 UN climate change conference approaches, Keep it in the ground, the Guardian's climate campaign that launched in March, is making a shift in direction to tap into a rare commodity in the climate debate - hope.
Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks (Guardian)
In particular, they are aiming to give a fresh focus on the solar revolution already underway and transforming the global energy system. The campaign wants to show that the transition to a world run on clean energy is possible and indeed already happening outside the doors of the UN. Keep it in the ground is also a platform to the people impacted by the decisions being made in Paris and to showcase the energy and creative actions that our readers can get involved in. So far The Keep it in the ground campaign has surpassed 210,000 supporters from more than 170 countries.
Read more about Keep it in the ground!
Vanessa Ellingham
We might look towards a low-carbon future, but in the meantime, indigenous peoples continue to suffer some of the highest costs of the industries driving climate change.
Explore more dossiers
by Ama Lorenz, Corinna Robertz, Murat Suner
Slavery has had the biggest and most devastating impact on especially Africa and altered global politics and relations.
by Frank Odenthal, Murat Suner, Ama Lorenz
#TimeForAction Two years have passed since we published our first dossier on climate change. We wanted to have a look at the condition our planet is in. We wanted to showcase the latest research, and we wanted to shake up [...]
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Q: Chiral symmetry of the Dirac Lagrangian I need to show that in the mass to zero limit the lagrangian density:
$$\mathcal{L}=\bar{\psi}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu-m)\psi$$
is invariant under the transformations:
$$\psi'=e^{i\alpha\gamma^5} \psi$$
$${\psi^{\dagger}}'=\psi^\dagger e^{-i\alpha\gamma^5} $$
I've used the identity: $e^{-i\alpha\gamma^5}\gamma^0=\gamma^0e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}$
to arrive at the lagrangian:
$$\mathcal{L'}=\psi^\dagger e^{-i\alpha\gamma^5}\gamma^0(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu-m)e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}\psi=\bar{\psi}e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu-m)e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}\psi=\bar{\psi}e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu) e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}\psi-\bar{\psi} me^{2i\alpha\gamma^5}\psi$$
I see that when the mass goes to zero the term on the right dissapears. I can't see how to get rid of the exponentials on the left term, should I find a similar identity to swap $e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}$ and $\gamma^\mu$?

A: The already used identity for $\gamma^0$ can be generalized to arbitrary $\mu$, i.e.  $\{\gamma^\mu, \gamma^5\} =0$, hence one picks up a sign in
$$\gamma^\mu e^{i\alpha \gamma^5} = e^{-i\alpha \gamma^5} \gamma^\mu\ .$$
This means that
$$
\bar{\psi}e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu) e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}\psi
= \bar{\psi}e^{i\alpha\gamma^5}e^{-i\alpha\gamma^5}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu) \psi = \bar{\psi}(i\gamma^\mu\partial_\mu) \psi\
$$
and proves the invariance (i.e. global symmetry and means that the parameter $\alpha$ is a constant not a function $\alpha(x)$) under one-flavor chiral rotations in the chiral limit (i.e. for massless Dirac spinors).


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Guide to Doing Business in Vietnam
The Law on Enterprise and Law on Investment that took effect in 2015 introduced refreshing changes to Vietnam's investment and business landscape. Designed to stimulate and better facilitate foreign investments in the country, the two new laws have since given rise to several implementing regulations that expound on important subjects such as foreign ownership up to 100% in listed companies, private public partnerships, trade, and representative offices. A new Civil Code also took effect in 2017 with provisions that promote the principles of freedom of contract and individual business autonomy.
Influenced by the same momentum of reform, the growing sectors of technology and electronic commerce in Vietnam saw a new Law on Technology Transfer in 2018 as well as considerable legislative efforts to improve cyber security and privacy. The years following 2015 also bore witness to important courtroom reforms in Vietnam. Notably, a new Civil Procedure Code and Penal Procedure Code took effect in 2016 and 2018 respectively, marking the Government's continuing effort to improve courtroom transparency and enforce adversarial principles.
On the international arena, Vietnam has concluded negotiations of free trade agreements with the European Free Trade Association, the European Union, and Israel. It has also signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is awaiting ratification.
In view of these reforms and developments, this Guide answers some of the most common questions which potential investors in Vietnam might have.
IBOR Transition Digest
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Jan Guarino
This month, we caught up with stage and screen actress, director, wife, and mother, Jan Guarino. If you haven't been to the theater in Richmond lately (let's say, in the past forty years) then you might recognize Jan from her long-running stint as a spokesperson for Haynes Furniture. Can you believe those commercials first aired in 1984?
Jan, who lives in Richmond with her husband of twenty-five years, playwright Bo Wilson, says even with her active career in the arts, she has always tried to stay fully engaged on the home front. "The life of a freelancer is a life of saying 'Yes!' to whatever opportunity comes along," says Jan. "Sometimes I'll go days without the phone ringing, and my family is probably praying I'll get a gig somewhere. Other times, I'm juggling three or four jobs at once and our dogs don't remember me!"
Last month, Jan stepped into the role of Truvy in Virginia Rep's production of Steel Magnolias at Hanover Tavern. Prior to that, she graced the Richmond stage in back-to-back productions at Children's Theatre of Virginia, first in Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (which she also choreographed) and then in Busytown, which she directed and choreographed. Grownups might also remember her as Annette in God of Carnage, which garnered a nod for Best Ensemble at the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle Awards.
What's next for Jan? More directing with a popular musical at St. Catherine's next month, a number of shows through Virginia Rep's touring company, and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, the holiday production at the Children's Theatre of Virginia stage at Willow Lawn. The actress is also optimistic about scoring a role in her husband Bo's new play, which will premier next June.
With so many theater credits on her resumé, we wanted to know how her storied career affected her parenting style through the years. Although Jan said her kids, Nora, 21 and Zachary, 19, would have a lot more to say on the topic, she did offer this: "Acting in any medium requires that you be fully present, fully honest, fully aware, and engaged and listening – and I think these are qualities that are good in any parent."
Keep reading to learn more about one of Richmond's most admired stars of stage and screen, the ever perky and prolific Jan Guarino.
Mountains or beach?
Beach. I'd love to live on the water someday.
Dogs or cats?
I love all animals, but if I have to choose, I'll choose dogs every time – unless one of the choices is horses!
What book is on your nightstand right now?
Lonesome Dove – my husband swears I'll like it!
If you were stranded on a desert island, what food would you want to grow on trees?
Can I wish for a potato-chip tree?
Same island – what's the one tech gadget you would want with you?
My computer, so I can play Facebook games.
Favorite Richmond restaurant for the whole family?
Joe's Inn
When it's just you and your honey?
Tarrant's Cafe
What is your favorite way to spend a rainy Sunday?
Eating popcorn and watching movies with Bo.
Favorite family outing?
Except for beach vacations, our family has grown in various directions. My daughter Nora is a very fine equestrian, so she and I are frequently at horsey-type events, but Bo's allergic to horses (no small irony!), so he isn't always able to join us. Meanwhile, our son Zach is probably on his skateboard making it defy physics and posting proof of the latest trick to YouTube.
What is your energy source?
I was blessed with an abundance of energy to begin with, and the great fortune of actually making a living doing work I love has kept the batteries fully charged!
Finish this sentence. "My family loves it when I…
…make spaghetti a la Jan!"
Margaret Thompson never thought she'd be a business owner (or a mom for that matter!), but after realizing a need for a high quality, content-focused magazine for Richmond area families, she dove in! With twenty years of marketing and project management under her belt, she pulls all of the pieces together each month to get RFM out to our eager readers. Mom of two young boys, Margaret and her husband Chris live in Hanover County.
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Coway's Neo Plus Water Purifier Earns NSF Certification for Water Filtration Ability in Low Water Pressure Areas
News Provided by PR Newswire2023-01-23
[16-January-2023]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Coway Co., Ltd., "The Best Life Solution Company," announces that it has been certified for its water filtration ability in low-water pressure areas with the NSF-JWPA P508 certification from NSF, awarded to the Neo Plus Water Purifier CHP-264L. This makes Coway the world's first water purifier manufacturer to receive the NSF-JWPA P508 certification.
The NSF-JWPA P508 protocol evaluates point-of-use (POU) system performance in low water pressure areas. NSF-JWPA P508 was introduced in November 2022 by the NSF and Japan Water Purifier Association (JWPA) to devise household water purifier filtration performance standards according to varying regional water supply conditions and infrastructures.
To earn the NSF-JWPA P508 certification, products must undergo rigorous testing for the safety of materials in contact with drinking water and contaminant reduction performance, as well as a technical review by NSF. Additionally, the NSF audits the company's manufacturing facilities to verify compliance with the protocol's requirements.
As the world's first product to earn the certification, the Coway Neo Plus Water Purifier CHP-264L is proven to filter water to the highest standard, even in regions with low-water pressure and flow. This is the result of Coway's continued effort to develop custom filter systems suitable for low-water pressure areas like Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Coway Neo Plus Water Purifier is one of Coway's best-selling models that has been popular across South Korea and Southeast Asia markets due to its excellent water purification performance.
Coway Neo Plus Water Purifier is equipped with the Coway Reverse Osmosis (RO) Membrane Filter System, which has the best contaminant removal performance among household water purifiers. The innovative system filters out water contaminants down to 0.4 nanometers, a ten-thousandth of the size of human hair, while providing abundant purified water.
Coway Neo Plus Water Purifier has also acquired certifications for removing 100 types of harmful substances, including perfluorinated compounds, natural radioactive materials such as uranium, environmental hormones, and algae toxin.
"As the Best Life Solution Company, Coway is committed to providing safe and clean water to global consumers all over the world. The NSF-JWPA P508 certification gives our customers confidence in the Coway Neo Plus Water Purifier CHP-264L," said Chan Jung Park, CTO of Coway R&D center. "We will continue to develop innovative products and research filter systems to provide safe and hygienic water to our global consumers."
About Coway Co., Ltd.
Established in Korea in 1989, Coway, "The Best Life Solution Company," is a leading environmental home appliances company making people's lives healthy and comfortable with innovative home appliances such as water purifiers, air purifiers, bidets, and mattresses. Since being founded, Coway has become a leader in the environmental home appliances industry, with intensive research, engineering, development, and customer service. The company has proven dedication to innovation with award-winning products, home health expertise, unrivaled market share, customer satisfaction, and brand recognition. Coway continues to innovate by diversifying product lines and accelerating overseas business in Malaysia, the USA, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, and Europe, based on the business success in Korea. For more information, please visit http://www.coway.com/ or http://newsroom.coway.com.
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/* eslint-env node, mocha */
var assert = require('chai').assert
var occamsrazor = require('..')
var fakeOccamsrazor = require('../async-func-queue/fake-occamsrazor')
var flushQueue = require('../async-func-queue/flush-queue')

describe('async-func-queue', function () {
  it('queue methods call', function (done) {
    fakeOccamsrazor('_private', 'events')
    global.events.on('test', function (e) {
      assert.equal(e, 'test')
      done()
    })
    global.events.trigger('test')
    global.events = occamsrazor()
    flushQueue('_private', 'events')
  })

  it('check replacement fix', function (done) {
    fakeOccamsrazor('_private', 'events')
    var events = global.events // oh no, saved a reference from the global object

    global.events = occamsrazor() // global is now loaded

    flushQueue('_private', 'events')

    events.on('test', function (e) { // using out of date reference
      assert.equal(e, 'test')
      done()
    })
    events.trigger('test')
  })
})

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Novelists: The five entries that cleared page six, you will play SUDDEN DEATH. Submit your first 25 pages by tomorrow 9PM CST and Snoop will announce the winner as soon as he can read your manuscripts. (Probably Friday). Snoop will pick a grand-prize winner and one runner up. Grand-Prize winner gets the full-tique and runner up gets the free-tique slot. And two entrants will walk away with the consolation prize. The ability to tout on Verla's that they cleared page 6. Yeah, sorry folks. But we can't do much more.
As for the PB people, only one entrant got as far as they did in the last round. Snoop and I have conferred and because of the time constraints, RLGL must sadly end here. I really had hoped we could play enough rounds for someone to clear. But after we broke Snoop's email, that dream slipped away.
39-YA, 47-PB, 58-YA, 63-PB, 65-YA, 66-PB, 70-PB – Back to start.
5-YA, 11-MG, 12-MG, 22-YA, 24-YA, – You will be playing sudden death.
48-PB, you secured a free-tique slot. Congrats!
50-YA, 53-PB, 56-MG, 64-MG, 59-CB, 67-PB, 68-MG, 69-PB- You cleared your last page. Thanks for playing.
That's it, everyone (except for the Sudden Death entries). You may now start asking Snoop, why, why, why?A few instructions: Please PASTE everything you had sent to Snoop into your email with your entry numbers. That way Snoop won't have to try to look you up in order to tell you why he sent the entry back to start. We'll try to give you that closure every writer lusts for. But keep in mind: your responses might be very short. There were a lot of entries and there just isn't a lot of time to answer.


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By Raunak Raj -
Smriti Irani, a former Indian daily soap actress, has now become one of the powerful politicians. She is a powerful personality. Her life has been a constant struggle as controversies always surround her. However, she has never given up and always managed to come out stronger and better. We never thought that a daily soap actress could become the Tigress of Indian Politics in the future. This article will list some interesting and unknown facts about Smriti Irani that will make you say wow!
Smriti Irani was born on March 23, 1977, to a Punjabi family. Smriti Malhotra is her maiden name. She is married to Zubin Irani, a Parsi, and they have two children, Zohr and Zoish. She graduated from the Holy Child Auxilium School in New Delhi and held a degree from Delhi University.
Smriti Irani was the country's first representative at the Monte Carlo Television Festival and was also appointed as Goodwill Ambassador to India by USAID for the WHO-ORS program for three years.
Smriti Irani had applied for a position as an air hostess at Jet Airways but was turned down. To support herself, she began waiting tables at a popular fast-food restaurant. Smriti Irani started her acting career as one of the beauty pageants Miss India participants in 1998. Later that year, she appeared in a song "Boliyan" of the "Sawan Mein Lag Gayi Aag" with Mika Singh. In 2000 she debuted with "Aatish" and "Hum Kal Aaj Aur Kal".
Smriti Irani is popularly known for her performance as TV's best-loved Bahu, Tulsi, in Ekta Kapoor's "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi." Her performance was soo much loved by the Indian audience that she received nine awards for her role, including 5 consecutive Indian Television Academy Awards for Best Actress and 4 India Telly Awards, WHICH IS A RECORD!
Since she was a child, Smriti Irani had been a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) because her grandfather was an RSS Swayamsevak. In 2004, she was appointed vice president of the Maharashtra Youth Wing after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003.
Smriti Irani faced defeat when she ran against Rahul Gandhi in the Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 General Election. However, in the 2019 General Election, she defeated Rahul Gandhi to win the Amethi constituency.
Smriti Irani's Bachelor's degree has brought her terrible fortune. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, she declared her degree as B.A. from Delhi University, whereas in the 2014 elections, she declared her degree as B. Com. The qualification gap in two nominations has caused her a slew of issues. She also had to go to court over a degree dispute. Smriti Irani also jeopardized her position as Minister of Human Resources and Development due to controversy.
In 2014, Smriti Irani directed Kendriya Vidyalaya's to remove German from their curricula and replace it with Sanskrit. She founded her own NGO, 'People for Change,' in 2007. 'People for Change' has issued sports scholarships in Nasik and drinking water projects in rural India that include borewells.
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VIDEO: Wirral Chamber aiming to have five small business hubs across the borough and grow revenues to £3.5m
Chamber celebrates after gaining full accreditation from the British Chambers of Commerce
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Paula Basnett, chief executive of Wirral Chamber of Commerce
Wirral Chamber of Commerce is planning to operate five centres for small firms across the borough over the next five years and is also aiming to grow its annual turnover from £500,000 to £3.5m.
In an interview with ECHO Business, chamber chief executive Paula Basnett said she wanted the organisation be be one of the major drivers of Wirral's economy.
Ms Basnett and her team are celebrating this week after gaining full accreditation from the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).
The original Wirral Chamber, which had been in existence for more than 100 years, had come close to extinction in 2013 and members were asked to consider a merger with Liverpool Chamber.
However, they instead opted to join forces with Wirral Business Partnership to form a new entity. It has taken more than a year to get its accreditation back.
A year ago the chamber had around 100 members and now this has soared to more than 500.
Ms Basnett believes that number could pass the 1,000 mark in the next 18 months.
She said: "Getting our accreditation from the BCC is a very, very significant step.
"Since we started we have gone from employing just two-and-a-half staff to 29.
"These are very exciting times and we are looking to support even more businesses and help grow Wirral's economy."
The chamber operates out of Egerton House in Birkenhead, which is also a centre for small businesses.
Click to hear Paula Basnett talk about the challenges faced by Wirral Chamber over the past year
It was revealed by ECHO Business earlier this week that the chamber is about to start work on its second business hub – Pacific Road in Birkenhead – in the next few weeks.
The £900,000 facility is expected to be up and running in the summer.
Ms Basnett added: "We have identified a site for a third business centre and we aim to be operating five hubs across Wirral over the next few years.
"Although we are a private sector-led organisation we could not have got to where we are without the support of Wirral Council.
The chamber is also helping to create hundreds of new businesses in the borough as a delivery partner of the Government's Start-Up Loans programme.
Chamber chair, Asif Hamid, said: "When the Wirral Chamber was re-launched, we were determined to build an organisation which was going to be modern, business friendly and one which would serve its members and the wider business community through innovative and effective support.
"This is something the Wirral Chamber team has achieved in a very short space of time.
"With Wirral Chamber of Commerce now being one of only 52 other accredited chambers throughout the UK, it provides our partners and members with the knowledge we are doing well and are assured that they are working with a credible organisation that has an objective to support the growth of its members and Wirral businesses.
"We have a growing and respected reputation among our peers in the business community, locally, nationally and internationally, and as such through BCC accreditation we can look to provide even higher levels of business support services."
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Happy December 1st, aka 2015-16 The Cup is Finally Out Day!
Good luck to all who are breaking, getting in on group breaks, etc. Looking forward to seeing some great show & tell threads in the coming days!
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I hate this day, I've got 28 Cup cards added to my ebay watchlist and a bank account that can pay for maybe 2 of them lol.
Haha, I had to laugh at this. So true. I think every collector here has been there before!
That Iginla is sooooooooooooo sick. Love the goalie booklet too, my dad would go crazy for that many legendary goalies on 1 card.


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Turma da Gafieira é o primeiro álbum do grupo homônimo brasileiro. Lançado em 1957 pelo selo Musidisc, este álbum é considerado o precursor do samba-jazz.

Foi por conta da participação neste trabalho que o trombonista Raul de Souza ganhou, do Programa de Paulo Santos da rádio MEC do Rio, o prêmio de melhor músico do ano de 1957

A modelo presente na capa é Vera Regina.

Recepção Crítica
Conforme Bernadete Siqueira, do site "cidadaoereporter.com.br", "pela primeira vez o jazz improvisado foi gravado em ritmos genuínos do samba", por isso "o ponto mais importante dessa gravação foi o registro, da primeira vez, do ritmo tocado nos tambores da bateria de uma maneira original, porém primitiva, tocado nos pratos com um som mais destacado e modernizado. Isto passou a ser tocado desta forma em todo mundo, a partir desta gravação."

Faixas

Créditos Musicais
Conforme o Instituto Memória Musical Brasileira, os músicos presentes neste álbum foram:
 Sivuca - Acordeom
 Luiz Marinho - Contrabaixo
 Edison Machado - Baterias
 Nestor Campos - Guitarra
 Zequinha Marinho - Piano
 João Leal Brito Britinho - Piano
 Raul de Souza - Trombone
 Altamiro Carrilho - Flauta, Composições
 Maestro Cipó - Saxofone
 Zé Bodega - Saxofone
 Maurílio Santos - Trompete

Álbuns de 1957
Álbuns de samba jazz

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This 'Star Wars' Robotics Kit Lets Kids Build Their Own R2-D2
Whether their droid can fix the hyperdrive though is anybody's guess.
By Marcus Rodriguez
My 7-year-old son is a builder. He spends hours with his Legos, Zoobs, and K'Nex toys, and he's made some pretty fun stuff along the way (ever seen a Zoob exoskeleton?). So deep is his passion for building right now that he wants to be a construction worker when he grows up. All fine and good, but as a 21st-century dad, I also feel compelled to expose him to electronics, programming, and machine learning, and I've enjoyed watching him take a keen interest in technology. So when I came across the $99 Star Wars Droid Inventor Kit by littleBits, I was almost giddy to pick one up. In my mind, this build-your-own R2-D2 appeared the perfect combination of a creative construction toy and robotics kit.
Targeted to young padawans/engineers ages 8 to 12, the kit comes with a transparent plastic R2-D2 body and all the color-coded, electronic building blocks ⏤ motor, control hub, proximity sensor, etc. ⏤ needed to create a moving and beeping custom droid, which can then be controlled via a smartphone. Perhaps sensing a shift in the force, the kit immediately directs users to the app to get started ⏤ no paper instructions here. Our son has been around smartphones his entire life, so after a quick install, he was off to the races.
In fact, in place of a traditional instruction manual, the app begins with a series of training missions, the first several of which involve assembling the R2 Unit. Our son was quickly hooked. The missions start out slow, by identifying and assembling the internal components, but then ramp up to programming motion controls and decorating your bot. In addition to the included sticker sheets, the case can be customized with blocks, arts and crafts supplies, and random stuff you have lying around the house. Depending on your kid's imagination, their Artoo doesn't need to look anything like the droid in the movie.
If I had any complaints, it was that the kit requires a relatively current smartphone or tablet, and the hand-me-down iPads our kids have been using and abusing wouldn't cut it. I had to install the app on my own phone, which admittedly, I'm never big on doing. Also, at least for the younger inventors, the kit does require some adult assistance as things can get a little complicated. That said, watching my son's completed R2-D2 rolling and beeping around the house was every bit as satisfying as I had hoped.
The most exciting present I ever got as a kid was a Transformers Sky Lynx, a NASA space shuttle orbiter mounted atop what resembled a crawler transporter. I have no idea what my parents paid for it at the time (they go for $150 today), but I remember thinking, "Two robots in one, what more a kid ask for!?" Thirty years later, I know. And it's a pint-sized R2-D2 that, not only can they build, program, and re-build all over again, but that will hopefully shape them into a future scientist, engineer, or inventor. It is, after all, the 21st century.
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Bottom images: a great sculpin in the process of eating a spot prawn. Photos by Kelly Fretwell.
This large sculpin reaches 76 cm (30 inches) long, and has a typical sculpin shape: a large head contrasting with a small body tapering towards the tail, and large fan-shaped pectoral fins. It has a large mouth and one long straight spine jutting out at each cheek; these spines are particularly visible when the sculpin flares them out in response to stress. The great sculpin's colour is usually fairly dull: its back is olive green with four dark saddle patches, its underside is pale, and it has dark bars across its fins. Individuals living in more colourful habitats may themselves be a bit more vibrant. Alongside the single long cheek spines, a key distinguishing feature is a patch of fleshy papillae (bumps) on its head, composed of modified scales.
The great sculpin can be found on and around rocky outcrops and nearby sandy areas in the intertidal and subtidal to over 200 m deep or more. Its range extends along the coast of the Pacific Northwest from northern Washington to the Bering Sea coast and Aleutian Islands, and across to Siberia and Japan.
Two similar-looking species, the frog sculpin (M. stelleri) and the plain sculpin (M. jaok), are mostly found in northern Alaska.
This species is edible, and may in some jurisdictions be caught commercially.
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Lamb, A. and Edgell, P. Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest. Revised. (2010). Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing. Pp. 243.


Economist, "Let the Sunshine in". In it, The Economist reports on global efforts to disclose the links between doctors and pharmaceutical firms.
Most of the article focuses on the United States, where the Affordable Care Act has produced yet another surprise. Under its provisions, starting 2014, pharmaceutical and device firms will have to disclose payments and other "transfers of value" to physicians. They also must report research fees and doctors' investment interests.
The article points out that this does not limit these firms' interactions with doctors, and that certain practices, such as free drug samples, are not covered. It also points out the new law does not regulate transactions with others in the healthcare system, such as hospital administrators, pharmacists and nurses.
The piece does note, at the end, that this law "will also provide [pharmaceutical firms] with exhaustive data on how much they and their competitors spend to market drugs to that doctor." This coupled, with data already available on each physician's prescriptions, would presumably allow pharmaceutical firms to determine which marketing results in which prescription sales.
In addition, while the article did not mention this, it enables these same drug firms to track what their competitors are doing and determine their own competitive counter marketing strategies as well.
I don't use this to point out that this is a particularly effective tool, particularly since it will not even be in place until 2014.
However, it does also provide an object lesson for those of us interested in Competitive Intelligence. That lesson: look closely at any legislative or regulatory initiative that uses the magic words "Sunshine", "Transparency", "Open Records", and the like. With some careful study and practice, they can often be used to develop new and occasionally powerful sources of CI. Of course, as we progress on one front, we often relapse on another. In that respect, I suggest reading one of the depressing recent articles about the continued restrictions imposed by the federal government on document production under the Freedom Of Information Act. In some ways, we might well call that the freedom from information act.


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Professor Emeritus, Political Science; Former Mansfield Center Executive Director
Jon Bennion
Government Relations Director, The Washington Companies
Mary Byron
Owner, Cloud Nine Quilts; Liaison, Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors
Dr. Paul Lauren
Regents Professor Emeritus; Founding Director, Mansfield Center
Tom Lopach
President and CEO, Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information
Liz Marchi
Founder, Frontier Angel Fund and Head of Community Engagement, Two Bear Capital
Michael A. McFaul, PhD
Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University
Marc Racicot
Former Governer of the State of Montana
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UM Faculty Affiliate in Economics and Nonresident Senior Associate in Economics for the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Dana Toole
Special Services Bureau Chief at the Montana Department of Justice
Kimberlee Visser
Designer, Community Advocate, Business Advisor
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Founder of ABMJ Consutling, Research Associate at the Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities at the University of Montana
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Geopolitics in Northeast Asia, Specializing in North Korea
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Robert E. McCoy writes and speaks on geopolitical events and international affairs in East Asia, particularly North Korea and its relations with other players in the region. During a twenty-year career in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence professional, he lived in East Asia for more than fourteen years. Subsequently, he has published over 150 political analyses and commentaries in various journals focusing on Asia. He has been interviewed by American and overseas news outlets for his views on regional affairs, and his analyses on North Korea have been officially cited by foreign governments.
Basic Korean Language and Culture Studies, Yale University – Institute of Far Eastern Languages, 1962-1963
Initial Intelligence Indoctrination and Signals Intelligence Training, U.S. Air Force, 1963-1964
Intermediate Korean Language and Culture Studies, Defense Language Institute – West Coast Branch, 1970-1971
BGS in Psychology and Asian Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha, earned in 1979
Graduate Studies in Human Relations, University of Oklahoma – Overseas Division, 1980-1982
MGA in Management Information Systems, University of Maryland – College Park, earned in 1985
Korean (no longer fluent)


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PM sets out plans to upgrade further education and apprenticeships
Responding to the Prime Minister's speech on education and training setting out plans for apprenticeship reform and Further Education upgrades, Joe Fitzsimons, Head of Education and Skills Policy at the Institute of Directors, said:
"More action on skills will be absolutely essential to ensuring our economy is fit for the future, particularly as it recovers from coronavirus. More support for flexible learning is an important step in the right direction, while many employers will welcome the focus on upgrading our further education system.
"The promise of greater funding for SME apprenticeships is a very positive move, but the prospect of greater flexibility is just as important. Apprenticeship starts have been down since the Levy set-up was introduced. The rigid system has caused headaches, and seeing unspent funds evaporate has been a particular frustration. With the pandemic also taking its toll, it's good to see Government taking heed of employers' concerns.
"One area still requiring more emphasis is that of management and leadership skills. This has long been an Achilles' heel for the UK, and directors will hope it is addressed in the White Paper expected later this year."
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The NSW Government is seeking input into it's Travelling stock route review https://www.nsw.gov.au/improving-nsw/have-your-say/nsw-travelling-stock-reserve-review/ & we are here to help identify bird values by providing data by cross referencing TSR layers with Birdata if you want it. Please contact Kerryn Herman before the 5th July if you need any data on key EPBC species for TSRs in NSW or Australia wide, we can help.
So far we know Nth NSW is submitting on 4 sites around Armidale, but haven't heard from anyone else. BiGNET highlighted the importance of engaging with local land managers regarding these sites at their last meeting in May, and everyone is encouraged to have their say and highlight to the government how many groups care about TSRs before 5pm 7th of July.
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Major logging, trading and media interest Rimbunan Hijau (RH) has filed a defamation suit against Papua New Guinea's Post Courier newspaper over its coverage of an official investigation into logging interest by an RH Company in the Pomio district, in the West New Britain Province. The Post Courier reported several stories of police brutality on landowners unhappy with logging operations in the area. It was alleged the police were sent there by Rimbunan Hijau.
Defamation threats were also levelled at reporters covering the sale of the former Prime Minister's official jet. The threats were made by Air Niugini's CEO, Wasanthra Kumarasiri when pressed to explain what the sale plans were and the cost involved.
And in August, a provincial governor named The National (which is owned by RH) in his defamation suit over stories he was unhappy with.
"The spate of defamation suits is a worrying trend. Using legal offices and language against journalists reporting the facts can lead to self-censorship by PNG media at a time when their investigative iournalism is badly needed," says PFF chair Titi Gabi, of Papua New Guinea.
"The national Media Council manages a complaints process on behalf of news organisations who are its members who follow a code of ethics which members of the public are able to call on in their complaints," says Gabi. "It's a model of self-regulation which has worked in the past and should be strengthened because it works. We encourage the current claimants, and the public - especially leaders and companies with grievances over reportage, to take up the media council complaints process.
Under the PNG Constitution, freedom of speech, press, and information are guaranteed and defamation is not a criminal offense. However, journalists can be sued for defamation in civil cases but complaints are usually settled out of court before proceeding to hearings.
PFF co-chair Monica Miller of American Samoa says the PNG Media Council serves the region's largest nation and spread of media organisations, and provides a model from which other developing media councils can learn.
"We are all interested in taking our cue from what works and what needs improving in all our own Pacific contexts - and it's clear that a strong and transparent public complaints process beats a costly legal battle every time," she says.