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Cops as Killers
The numbers are hard to believe, even if the source of them, The Washington Post, is highly credible. As of August 10, 2015, 598 people have been shot and killed by police officers in the United States during 2015 alone. That's an average of almost 2.7 people killed each and every day.
The Post deserves credit for collecting the data. The information comes from the reports of other journalists, reporting from Post reporters and public records. (You can find it yourself, updated daily, online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/)
The narrative that has captured the airwaves is one of police violence directed at unarmed black men. Just this week, Ferguson, Missouri, reignited on the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown. By week's end, shots had been exchanged between citizens and cops, and a state of emergency declared.
But police violence against unarmed men of color is but the tip, and a small tip at that, of a much larger iceberg. The Post reports that of the nearly 600 police shootings to take place in the United States during the first eight-plus months of 2015, only 24, or less than one half of one percent, were of the Michael Brown variety.
I did not believe the Post story when I first read it. The numbers seemed ridiculously high. I wondered whether the piece was, in fact, a spoof published by the Onion, or some other satirist. Then I read the thumbnail sketches of dozens of those killed. So many of the cases seemed to be similar. Surely, a satirist would have had a better imagination than the sad stories reported.
Here are three examples, chosen from last week's killings.
"Richard Tyler Young, a 24-year-old man driving a vehicle, was shot on Aug. 10, 2015, in Gilbert, Ariz. A Gilbert police officer stopped Young's vehicle for speeding in a school zone. During the encounter, Young accelerated his car toward the officer."
"Robert Patrick Quinn, a 77-year-old man with a toy weapon, was shot on Aug. 9, 2015, in an apartment building in Pittston, Pa. Officers from the Pittston Police Department encountered Quinn, who was on a motorized scooter, waving a handgun in front of his apartment building. He refused to drop the weapon, which was later determined to be a pellet gun."
"An unidentified person, a man armed with a gun, was shot on Aug. 8, 2015, in Spokane, Wash. Spokane police followed him home because he was suspected of stealing a car. After a brief standoff, he came out of his residence and fired at officers."
Read several dozen accounts and note the themes: Armed men, and most are men, threatening cops; a deranged person posing immanent risk of harm to others; suicide by cop; anger.
I suppose there is a reason that the government does not keep statistics of this sort, although it easily could – the FBI's uniform crime statistics can keep track of burglaries but not police homicides. Reading the Post story has me wondering whether we really train police well for the challenges they face on the street.
Our streets are awash in guns, we have inadequate mental health services, the middle class is disappearing. Streets are often theaters of despair. Police officers responding to calls are trained that they can use force, even deadly force, when they have good reason to believe they are at risk.
We've militarized the police when what they need is training in how to deal with disturbed, and often mentally ill, people.
There's no doubt hundreds more people will be killed by officers before year's end. The courts and reviewing police departments will find almost all of these killings justified.
Read the Post's coverage of this violence and ask yourself if we really can't do better.
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It's literally a worse void walker.
Void Walker is also a class card, footman is not.
Seriously, everyone playing this guy now. It always trades 2 for 1 because it's such an effective card and you can't get around it because it has taunt. I always need to run 2 tuskstone boars into it while he can swarm the field because he started footman on turn 1.
If you compare this to other taunt creatures, he's the only one that gets more than double the cost value in stats (3 stats for 1 cost, while other creatures are 2/2 for 2, 3/3 for 3, 3/5 for 4 or even worse: 1/4 for 3, 3/6 for 5).
It's not fair that a 1 drop with taunt can 2 for 1 another 1 drop. It even kills my favourite 3 drop magma rager!
I'm not bad, but I'm stuck at rank 20 because everyone runs this card!
Taunt minions usually take a stat hit, Footmen do not, so it's a bit over budget it's not a bad card...But when you have more advanced decks, footmen are less important.
Really loved this guy when I just started HS.
Same here. I would put one in all my decks. Now its unused lol.


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ReleaseAnnouncement
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)
on desktop and server, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest
and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux
Read more about the features of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in the following press
Desktop edition    http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-desktop
Server edition     http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.04-lts-server
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will be maintained and supported for three years on the desktop
and five years on the server.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is also the basis for new 8.04 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu,
UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu:
http://kubuntu.org/news/8.04-release
FIXME: don't list these flavors without somewhere to link to, otherwise
they can do separate announcements
8.04 brings a restructuring of Edubuntu as the Ubuntu Education Edition.  The
education desktop and application bundle now installs as an add-on to a
standard Ubuntu desktop.
http://www.edubuntu.org/news/8.04-release
To Get Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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Users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS may wish to wait for the first point release
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We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
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Esports Funding Guide – DNA – define your mission statement
Identity your DNA – Mission Statement
Before we start looking at money and sponsorships in esports we need to start with the basics. Every esports organization must describe its mission, two V´s (vision and values), and goals. An organization's mission, vision and values set the direction of the organization. These may sound like things that only large companies need (or have the time to do) but you will quickly find that without direction, you will quickly get lost. These are essential, especially in the constantly changing environment of esports and gaming,. In this chapter, I will show you how to define the DNA of your esports team through the mission, vision, as well as core values and goals.
When done right, these statements and lists will all tie into each other. The trick is understanding how each component provides value alone and then finding a way to thread them together. Make sense? Hopefully this will help…
The mission statement states what your esports organization actually does. It should be short and easy to remember. A lot of organizations get this wrong and end up using big fancy words that don't really mean anything. Your mission statement should also be specific enough that people understand what you do and how it may differ from other teams and organizations. For example:
The Chicago Bulls organization is a sports entertainment company dedicated to winning NBA Championships, growing new basketball fans, and providing superior entertainment, value and service.
(Source: https://www.nba.com/bulls/news/mission_statement.html)
For esports it could be something about challenging the status quo, creating fantastic moments for esports fans, developing the greatest esports athletes, etc. You have to develop the mission statement for your organization based on who you are, what you want to do and with whom.
More than just a team, Fnatic's mission to bring eSports into every household. Headquartered in London, the Fnatic operation spans across San Francisco, Berlin, Belgrade and Kuala Lumpur. From designing hardware gear and apparel to launching community experiences, we at Fnatic are dedicated to building the first globally recognized lifestyle brand to emerge from the world of eSports– and continuing to entertain new audiences far and wide.
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Q: Saving Image to Memory I have an dev-c++ Application which makes an Screenshot and writes it into an File. Now I want to write the image into an Variable/Stream. Originally I used three Writefile Functions, which write the header, the info and the hbitmap into an file. Now I want to save the data not to the file, but to an Stream, so I can use it for further processing. The Code I use is this:
/* <Include> */
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
/* </Include> */

/* <Const> */
const char *AppName="Yeah";
using namespace std;
/* </Const> */

/* <Function> */
void SaveScreen(HWND pScreen, stringstream Path)
{
    int     Width  = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);//1280;
    int     Height = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);//1024;

    HDC hdcScreen;
    HBITMAP hbmScreen;

    //---------------Bitmap Informationen
    BITMAPINFO infobmp;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biWidth = Width;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biHeight = Height;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 24;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biCompression = 0;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biSizeImage = 0;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biXPelsPerMeter = 0;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biYPelsPerMeter = 0;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biClrUsed = 0;
    infobmp.bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;

    int* bitmap = new int[Width*Height*3];

    BITMAPFILEHEADER bfheader;

    bfheader.bfType = 19778;
    bfheader.bfSize = sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) + Width*Height*3 + sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
    bfheader.bfReserved1 = 0;
    bfheader.bfReserved2 = 0;
    bfheader.bfOffBits = sizeof(BITMAPFILEHEADER) + sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER);
    //Bitmap -----------------------      Informationen

    hdcScreen = GetWindowDC(pScreen);
    hbmScreen = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcScreen, Width, Height);

    // tempor?rer DC
    HDC hdcTemp = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcScreen);

    // Bitmap reinselektieren
    HBITMAP hbmOld = (HBITMAP)SelectObject(hdcTemp, hbmScreen);

    // Inhalt von Desktop ?bertragen
    BitBlt(hdcTemp, 0, 0, Width, Height, hdcScreen, 0, 0, SRCCOPY);

    int iResult = GetDIBits(hdcTemp, hbmScreen, 0, Height, bitmap, &infobmp, DIB_RGB_COLORS);

    // aufr?umen
    SelectObject(hdcTemp, hbmOld);
    DeleteObject(hbmScreen);
    DeleteDC(hdcTemp);

   // HANDLE hfile = CreateFile(Path, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, OPEN_ALWAYS, 0, 0);

    //Datei Schreiben
    DWORD word;
    WriteFile(Path, &bfheader, 14, &word, NULL);
    WriteFile(Path, &infobmp, 40,& word, NULL);
    WriteFile(Path, bitmap, Width*Height*3, &word,NULL);
//    Path = &bfheader & &infobmp & bitmap;
    ReleaseDC(pScreen, hdcScreen);
//    CloseHandle(hfile);
    delete[] bitmap;
}
/* </Function> */

int WINAPI WinMain(
    HINSTANCE hInstance,
    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
    LPSTR lpCmdLine,
    int nCmdShow)
{
    HWND hWnd = FindWindow(NULL, AppName);

    stringstream ms;
    SaveScreen(hWnd, ms);

    return 0;
}

Can someone please show me what I am doing wrong?

A: You can create a structure like this:
struct ScreenShotBuffer
{
BITMAPFILEHEADER bfheader;
BITMAPINFO infobmp;
int* bitmap;
};

Then create a global variable using that structure.
struct ScreenShotBuffer myScreenShot;

Anyway you are allocating the "memory" to hold the data using malloc.
So you can just use these three lines instead of WriteBuffer() :
myScreenShot.bfheader=bfheader;
myScreenShot.infobmp=infobmp;
myScreenShot.bitmap=bitmap;

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Q: Rails best_in_place gem not updating data I've looked everywhere for a solution to this, but all of the common solutions to this issue aren't working for me.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
My problem is just that the rails best_in_place gem doesn't save any of my data after I make a change.  It will allow me to type in the new change, but it won't update the database after I press enter (it also doesn't work if I refresh the page, which was the initial problem on the RailsCast for this gem).
Controller code:
def update
respond_to do |format|
  if @renter.update_attributes(renter_params)
    format.json { render json: @renter }
    flash[:success] = "Profile updated"
    redirect_to @renter
  else

    render 'edit'
  end

end

end
View page code

Name: <%= best_in_place @renter, :name %>

Thanks in advance!
Edit: Adding renter_params from controller
def renter_params
    params.require(:renter).permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
end

(Note: I've never had any problems with renter_params per se, my updates always save OK in the database)
Edit: adding code from javascripts/application.js
//= require jquery
//= require best_in_place
//= require best_in_place.purr
//= require jquery_ujs
//= require jquery.purr
//= require bootstrap
//= require turbolinks
//= require_tree .

renters.js.coffee
# Place all the behaviors and hooks related to the matching controller here.
# All this logic will automatically be available in application.js.
# You can use CoffeeScript in this file: http://coffeescript.org/
jQuery ->
    $('.best_in_place').best_in_place()

A: If you haven't yet, modify your gem as this:
gem 'best_in_place', github: 'bernat/best_in_place'

by simply doing gem 'best_in_place' didn't work for me.
if that doesn't work, as the documentation suggest, replace:
format.json { render json: @renter }

with:
format.json { respond_with_bip(@renter) }

respond_with_bip is a "utility method you should use in your controller in order to provide the response that is expected by the javascript side, using the :json format", says the documentation. I'm not sure how much this matters as my Rails 4 app is working without it.
Finally, if the update action is restricted to logged in users only, make sure you are logged in.


Using the method described here would work, union and then use the geometry of the union feature to select what falls within it. But if your feature layer has thousands of polygons, the union would take forever.
So my question is, am I approaching this issue wrong? Is my only option to union the layer before publishing it on a server ( which I sadly can't do, because I don't have the feature layer and rely on NOAA hosting it).
I would tackle this in a multi-step solution then.
Use the new MultiPoint geom to query the NOAA Polygons.
Take those NOAA Polygon results from the query and send then to the Geometry service to union them.
You may need to consider your workflow for this. Do you really need to use all of the polygons from the NOAA map service in your app? Can you not set your workflow to minimize the intersect query before it is performed (i.e. have the user do some query to minimize the polygons evaluated or only query the polygons in the current map extent)?
that might be an idea. Maybe I should have explained what my goal is.
I would like the user to be able to add their point featurlayer and see which points would fall within the flood zone.
What does their point FL represent? Will it be a handful of points, hundreds, thousands?
I would say anywhere between 10 - 200.
That is a great idea, I'll try that.
One more question, how do I do step one?
I assume this happens here?
//What code do I need?
Can one assume that the layer has been added as a FeayureLayer and thus you will have access to the layer geometry without doing a QueryTask?
Yes, it will be a FeatureLayer.


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Victoria Crowe
Victoria Crowe OBE, DHC, FRSE, MA (RCA), RSA, RSW (b.1945)
Browse & Darby are delighted to present our third solo show of work by the pre-eminent British artist, Victoria Crowe (b. 1945).
Crowe's beguiling work has earnt her widespread critical acclaim. She is recognised as one of the most significant contemporary painters working in Scotland today, with an impressive and multifaceted career spanning some fifty years. She divides her time between Scotland and Venice, undertaking new projects and continuing to work with seemingly inexhaustible vigour.
This exhibition will include a series of new paintings completed by Crowe in Venice, Edinburgh and the small Scottish town of West Linton, situated just south of the capital. There will also be a number of works on paper relating to two major projects which have occupied the artist's attention since 2014. Firstly, the preparatory drawings which won her the prestigious commission to design a decorative frieze for the new hall of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers in the City of London. And secondly, a collection of sketches completed for a collaborative project in which the artist was invited to create an animated backdrop for an operatic performance of Schubert's lieder 'Winterreise', staged at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh and at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Crowe's latest paintings, six large canvases in total, draw upon a rich iconography amassed over years spent in the two disparate settings. Whether on the canals of Venice or immersed in the wild outdoors of east Scotland, she produces captivating work of a distinctly lyrical charm continually introducing novel techniques and compositions.
In spite of this innate ingenuity, Crowe's recent work retains the familiar markers of her hypnagogic style; the ethereal quality of the landscapes, the scenery overlaid with intricate, organic forms, and her characteristically rich and smouldering palette. Elements are lifted directly from her immediate surroundings and seamlessly married to those teased from memory to produce intriguing narratives. Though perplexing at times, the paintings offer a compelling glimpse into Crowe's fertile imagination. Her work is an ocean of past, present and future emotion and experience, laid bare in luminous shades of amber, crimson, burnt umber and azure blue. Intended meaning is often shrouded in the sheer complexity of the layered forms, and yet it retains clarity of form and expression.
The variety of media represented in this exhibition, ranging from pencil and charcoal, to watercolour, oil and silkscreen, demonstrates Crowe's versatility as an artist. Furthermore, her preparatory sketches for 'A Parallel Journey' and the tapestry design for the Leathersellers' Dining Hall (measuring a staggering 1.3 x 40 metres) reveal her innately perceptive and sensitive approach. Indeed, the sheer scale of her contribution to both projects and her ambition as a modern painter, show her to be an artist of enduring relevance and tenacity, whose unwavering work ethic has allowed her to produce some of her most beautiful and arresting work to date.
An illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. All works will be offered for sale.
Victoria Crowe studied at Kingston School of Art from 1961-65 and at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1965-68. At her postgraduate show she was invited by Sir Robin Philipson to teach at Edinburgh College of Art. For 30 years she worked as a part-time lecturer in the School of Drawing and Painting while developing her own artistic practice. Her first one person exhibition, after leaving the Royal College of Art, was in London and she has subsequently gone on to have over 50 solo shows.
She is a member of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW). She has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken many important portrait commissions, including RD Laing, Peter Higgs and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. She is represented by Browse and Darby in London, and by The Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh. She has received many Bursaries and Research Awards and her work is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide.
In 2000, her exhibition A Shepherd's Life, consisting of work selected from the 1970s and 80s, was one of the National Galleries of Scotland's Millennium exhibitions. It received great critical acclaim. The exhibition toured Scotland, and was re-gathered in 2009 for a three month showing at the Fleming Collection, London.
Victoria was awarded an OBE for Services to Art in 2004 and from 2004-7, she was appointed Senior Visiting Scholar at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge. The resulting work, Plant Memory, was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2007 and subsequently toured Scotland. In 2009 she received an Honorary Degree from The University of Aberdeen and in 2010 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2013, Dovecot Studios wove a large-scale tapestry of Victoria's painting Large Tree Group. This collaborative tapestry was acquired for the National Museums Scotland and became part of an International touring exhibition.
In 2015, Victoria was an invited Artist-in-Residency at Dumfries House, and in 2016 a group of her works were acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland.
Victoria was commissioned by the Worshipfull company of Leathersellers in 2014, to design a 40 metre tapestry for their New Hall in the City of London, which, taking three years to weave, was installed in January 2017. This year has also seen Shubert's Winterreise, a Parallel Journey a collaboration with opera singer Matthew Rose and pianist Gary Matthewman, performed at The Wigmore Hall in London and The Benjamin Britten Studio at Snape, in which a video of Victoria's work provided a visual dimension to the song cycle.
In 2018, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery is holding a retrospective exhibition of Crowe's portrait work, which will coincide with an Edinburgh Festival Exhibition of New Paintings at The Scottish Gallery.
For a full CV and further details of the artist's work, please visit the Browse and Darby website www.browseanddarby.co.uk or www.victoriacrowe.com
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Stephanie Mehta
CEO of Mansueto Ventures | Former Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company
What makes the world's most creative people—and companies—tick? The most qualified person to answer the question is Stephanie Mehta. As Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company—the influential magazine championing creativity, disruption, and thriving workplace cultures for a new generation of business— Mehta is the rare editor who talks to pure creatives and corporate leaders in equal measure. She draws on her decades in business journalism to show us how to inject imaginative thinking, entrepreneurial zeal, and unbridled innovation into everything we do.
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Nina Tandon is changing medical science as we know it. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Epibone, she is successfully leading her business through exciting new entrepreneurial territory by growing artificial tissues, like hearts and bones, that can be safely put into the body. Named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, Tandon speaks to the innovative, symbiotic future of health care, business and technology—while creating it herself.
Laura Huang
Harvard Business School Professor | Author of Edge
In her groundbreaking research on edge—the elusive quality that gives us an upper-hand—Laura Huang reveals that a large part of success relies on how well we can shape others' perceptions of us. As one of the top business professors in America, Huang masterfully shows us how we can leverage both our strengths and our flaws to our advantage—creating an edge that will keep attention, beat competition, and win.
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At 25 years old, Ellen Bennett was a cook at a 2-Michelin-Star restaurant in LA; yet she was still tying on the same $5 apron found in every diner and pub along Hollywood Boulevard. So she took her modest $300 savings and turned it into the largest gourmet apron manufacturer in the world. The same go-getter attitude that helped her launch Hedley & Bennett—a multi-million-dollar brand beloved by the likes of Martha Stewart and Momofuku's David Chang—is also what allowed her to rapidly pivot (within 24 hours!) in the wake of the pandemic. In her inspiring, actionable talks, as well as her new book, Bennett reveals what you need to get out of your head and launch into action, even during a crisis.
Nicholas Thompson
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Doug Stephens
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John Ibbitson
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CEO of Trend Hunter | New York Times Bestselling Author of Create the Future
Jeremy Gutsche is "an intellectual can of Red Bull" (Association Week), a New York Times bestseller and a management consultant to brands, billionaires, and CEOs With contagious enthusiasm, he shows us how to use methodical innovation to generate ideas and kickstart creativity in times of rapid change.
Tom Wujec
World Renowned Expert on Innovation | Former Chief Disruptor at Autodesk | Author of The Future of Making
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Chief Content Officer of Forbes Magazine
Randall Lane is the chief content officer of Forbes Magazine, where he has helped it reach its highest-ever U.S. readership (6.7 million) with new emphases on young innovators and disruptors.
Michael Casey
Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk | MIT Media Advisor | Author of The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency | Web3 Expert
Our 21st century digital society suffers from a trust deficit, and our outdated 20th century institutions are unable to fix it, says MIT Media Lab advisor Michael Casey. Casey's solution is shaped by the decentralizing ideas of the blockchain movement: an incentives-driven mechanism for verifying information that, if designed in humanity's interests, will help us reclaim agency over our data and creative output.
Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan | Author of The Power of Little Ideas and of Brick by Brick
We tend to imagine innovation as slow, incremental change or else industry-shifting disruption. Yet for most companies, neither works. MIT Sloan professor David Robertson outlines a third way of innovation.
Yancey Strickler
Co-founder & Former CEO of Kickstarter | Author of This Could Be Our Future
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Michael Katchen
Founder and CEO of Wealthsimple
Michael Katchen is the founder and CEO of Wealthsimple, whose easy-to-use service has redefined investing for a young generation, and whose massive success has disrupted the financial services industry. In keynotes, he talks about how an embrace of innovation as an organic, practical process allows companies to solve big problems, to reinvent themselves and their industries.


In Fall 2017, I surveyed some seniors with a minimum GPA of 3.5 asking them about their to-do recommendations before graduating. Whether you have four years to go or are in your final semester, here are the top five things Samford students should do before they graduate. (They are listed in reverse order.) Scroll past the top five for some extra recommendations!
Samford Gives Back is an annual day of service that involves students volunteering their time in the community. The service projects range in variety -- meaning that you could be on a build site, planting trees, or in an assisted living facility. All of these are ways to engage with the community and possibly build connections. However, those are not the only benefits. Samford also provides multiple convo credits for your participation, and these credits are needed before graduating. Additionally, you receive a free Chick-fil-a breakfast and a Samford Gives Back t-shirt!
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Samford prides itself in its Christian culture. Many students have Christian beliefs and grew up attending church. However, the recently conducted survey suggests that students try a church outside of their culture. Personally, I think this is crucial because, depending on your upbringing, you may not have experienced a worship setting completely different from what you've always known. College is a great time to figure life out and learn more about yourself and the world around you. Why not explore a different church culture? It's helped me get a better awareness of who God is, among other things that I've learned. There are currently about 676 churches in the Birmingham area. With so many options, Birmingham provides many opportunities to explore a different type of church.
Samford's Study Abroad program is a big deal at Samford. According to Samford's Office of Global Engagement, there are 15-20 study abroad programs each year. If you want to study abroad but are having concerns about cost, Samford offers numerous scholarships. I have yet to study abroad but I hope to do so before I graduate. It's a great way of submerging yourself in a different culture while making new connections.
Step Sing is one of THE MOST talked about events on Samford's campus. Honestly, it's as if we live and breathe Step Sing. What is Step Sing? According to Samford.edu, "Step Sing began as a sing-along on the steps of Renfroe Hall at the Howard College East Lake Campus in 1951. It was held once a semester and soon became a competition." Basically, students put together a show of singing and dancing with themed costumes and compete against other student groups to win. However, Step Sing is not all about competition. A main theme is raising money for a chosen charity through ticket sales, t-shirt sales, and any extra donations. It's all about coming together for a purpose, but having fun while doing it. Even if singing and dancing isn't your thing, you should at least watch. Samford offers many ways to participate -- even off stage -- so do Step Sing!
1. Attend a Broadway in Birmingham play at the BJCC.
2. Go to the top of the Vulcan statue.
3. Use Samford Library's resources.
Just visit Samford Library's website, and you will see why you should. You're welcome!
4. Go to Eli's Jerusalem Grill.
5. Attend a BACHE reading.
Depending on your interests, I think you'll enjoy this!
6. Take a class outside of your major that seems interesting to you.
7. Go to Seed's Coffee.
8. Run across the football field (when approved by Samford Athletics).
9. Get to know your professors!
Trust me! You will not regret it in the long run. Professors have been where you are as a student and would love to see you succeed in your classes and in life. As a junior, I am so grateful for the professors who helped me get internships.


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The retail brand responded to a customer's email about the possibility of a new Primark store
Primark store front (Image: (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images))
Primark have issued a response to suggestions a new Primark store should come to Bridgwater.
After publishing a story highlighting empty shops in Bridgwater and what should fill them, the most popular suggestion was a new Primark. 45 percent of Somerset Live readers voted for it ahead of a new nightclub, restaurant and shopping outlet.
A member of the public, Ian Michael, contacted Primark's customer services team who sadly confirmed the retail brand has no plans for a new store in the town.
A spokeswoman for Primark stated: "Unfortunately, we do not have any plans to locate a store in Bridgwater in the near future.
"Thank you very much for taking the time to write to us and for your interest in Primark."
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A follow up email from Somerset Live to Primark's Press Office verified his email in which they confirmed the news was correct.
The nearest Primark to Bridgwater is on Taunton's East Street or an hour's drive to Yeovil. These are currently the only two stores in Somerset.


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Promoting the "spirit" of the American Motors Corporation family of cars from 1902-1988
About Us – A Little History
Northern Ramblers Car Club Inc. was established in 1979.
A Look Back; a Short History of the Northern Ramblers Car Club
In 1979, American Motors Corporation was having its difficulties, as were most car manufacturers, but posted record breaking profits for the year. The Gremlin had been replaced by the Spirit this year and the Matador was now discontinued, but one could walk into an AMC dealership and order a 304 powered Spirit based AMX or Pacer, or perhaps a new Concord, which had replaced the Hornet for 1978. All cars came with a new "3-year corrosion warranty" (which is still an industry standard today). Those "in the know" were excited to see how the rumored AWD Eagles, a Concord with Jeep underpinnings, would change AMC fortunes in 1980.
Building French cars was in the future, and the original two-seater AMX was a neglected memory, treated with disdain (as were most "gas guzzling muscle cars") by most in the emerging era of the four cylinder front wheel drive car. But six or seven Canadian die-hard enthusiasts, tied together by the common bond of recognizing and appreciating the inherent value of the AMX, decided that the time was right to form a club for people who shared their enthusiasm for the car. They had no idea that 25 years later, what they had started would still be going strong with 200 members, devoted to the preservation of the entire marque, spread across Canada.
Club Founders The idea came up after the club founders attended the 1978 Classic AMX Club (founded by Larry Mitchell) international convention in Kenosha, Wisconsin . Founding members Harm and Barb van der Veen (first president), Ken Perrier, Roy Hopkins, Jim Battelle (first secretary/treasurer), and John Workman formed the Classic AMX Club of Central Canada, affiliated with the AMX Club International and devoted solely to the two seater car [note; most of these original members are still members of the NRCC today]. The yearly dues were $12, and the first newsletters were 3 pages double-sided, done up by Barb Vanderveen on a typewriter (wow!) While she worked at home raising her young family.
Ray Pugh (from Baltimore), John Workman, Deb Workman, Barb van der Veen, Harm van der Veen
The picture at right was taken on the way back from that first Kenosha trip; from left to right, Ray Pugh (from Baltimore ), John Workman, Deb Workman, Barb van der Veen and Harm van der Veen.
Eventually the logistics of having a two-seater car with a young family, as well as interest from owners of Javelins and other AMC cars, made the need for a club devoted to cars other than the AMX evident to the van der Veens. In 1983, the Northern Ramblers Car Club was formed to meet this need. Barb and Harm traded in their AMX for an SC/Rambler (now owned by Jeff Spratt; see July/August "03 AM Spirit).
On the way back from that first Kenosha trip; from left to right, Ray Pugh (from Baltimore ),
John Workman, Deb Workman, Barb van der Veen and Harm van der Veen.
By the end of 1983, the newly-formed Northern Ramblers had just 10 members, but they were a solid and involved core group. At the Motion 1984 Car show at Exhibition Place in Toronto , the club display showed 4 cars, and took home an award for the 3rd best club display–out of 15 clubs!
The newsletter met the needs of both AMC clubs, and was called "Xs and Os" (for "AMXs" and "Others"?). During the decade that followed, American Motors met its demise at the hands of Chrysler shareholders and executive, and the last AMC made (an Eagle wagon) would come out of the Brampton, Ontario plant in December, 1987. But the two clubs would continue to grow simultaneously until 1994, with a combined membership now up to 127. The clubs were still separate, but due to resource-sharing, finances and management were some what intertwined. In a move to end duplication and ensure the longevity of a club for AMC owners, in early 1994 the two clubs were amalgamated, and took the name we"re familiar with today.
The first president of the newly amalgamated club was Michael McNiece. Norbert Axtmann edited the newsletter (now called, simply, AM Spirit), with technical assistance from Ken Parkman and Dave Baker. Other board members included Kathy Axtmann and Steve Paulitzki. It"s interesting to note that most of this executive board are still members as well!
Membership continued to grow after the amalgamation. Other than a brief bit of political rough water surrounding the AMO and the National convention (held in London in 1995), the club would continue to grow and improve unabated. We now have roughly 200 members nationwide (with a few from the United States ), and the legacy of those who paved the way is a well-established club with a very strong foundation and the rest, as they say, is history!
A meeting at the home of Brian Lewis in 1981. Barb van der Veen (with back to the camera),
Rod Marler (?), Dave and Cindy Chapman (seated on picnic table), Ken Perrier directly behind them, Gary Freelen – standing and the van der Veen"s eldest (and then only) son, Sye, in the AMC red, white, and blue top
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I'd like to welcome back lovely Aryana, I first photographed her when she was just a few days old. It's always special to see how 'my babies' have grown when they come back for their first birthday photo session. Mum and dad opted for an outdoor session and we were so lucky to be able to use the pretty wild flowers as backdrop. This is her sneaky peak.


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An examination of the papers that critics claim refute the consensus are found to actually endorse the consensus or are review papers (eg - they don't offer any new research but merely review other papers). This led the original critic Benny Peiser to retract his criticism of Oreskes' study.
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Naomi Oreskes' study on consensus was flawed
The claim of "consensus" rests almost entirely on an inaccurate and now-outdated single page comment in the journal Science entitled The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change (Oreskes 2004). Benny Peiser conducted a search of peer-reviewed literature on the ISI Web of Science database between 1993 and 2003. Dr. Peiser's research demonstrated that several of the abstracts confounded Oreskes' assertion of unanimity by explicitly rejecting or casting doubt upon the notion that human activities are the main drivers of the observed warming over the last 50 years. (source: Consensus? What Consensus?)
In 2004, Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of all peer reviewed abstracts on the subject "global climate change" published between 1993 and 2003. She surveyed the ISI Web of Science database, looking only at peer reviewed, scientific articles. The survey failed to find a single paper that rejected the consensus position that global warming over the past 50 years is predominantly anthropogenic. 75% of the papers agreed with the consensus position while 25% made no comment either way (eg - focused on methods or paleoclimate analysis).
Benny Peiser's rebuttal
Benny Peiser repeated Oreskes survey and claimed to have found 34 peer reviewed studies rejecting the consensus. However, an inspection of each of the 34 studies reveals most of them don't reject the consensus at all. The remaining articles in Peiser's list are editorials or letters, not peer-reviewed studies. Peiser has since retracted his criticism of Oreskes survey:
"Only [a] few abstracts explicitly reject or doubt the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) consensus which is why I have publicly withdrawn this point of my critique. [snip] I do not think anyone is questioning that we are in a period of global warming. Neither do I doubt that the overwhelming majority of climatologists is agreed that the current warming period is mostly due to human impact."
The Viscount Monckton of Benchley's rebuttal
Despite Peiser's retraction, the same argument was repeated by the Viscount Monckton of Benchley (and plagiarised by Schulte). Here are the five studies Monckton claims Oreskes should've included in her survey as rejecting the consensus position:
Multi-resolution time series analysis applied to solar irradiance and climate reconstructions (Ammann 2003) finds a correlation between solar activity and temperature. However, the temperature reconstructions used end in the mid-20th century before the modern global warming trend and don't address the consensus position that warming over the past 50 years is primarily anthropogenic. However, Amman has published a more recent study examining more up-to-date temperature records, concluding "although solar and volcanic effects appear to dominate most of the slow climate variations within the past thousand years, the impacts of greenhouse gases have dominated since the second half of the last century" (Ammann 2007).
Solar Forcing of Global Climate Change Since The Mid-17th Century (Reid 1997) finds a link between solar variability and climate change, concluding that "solar forcing and anthropogenic greenhouse-gas forcing made roughly equal contributions to the rise in global temperature that took place between 1900 and 1955". Considering CO2 forcing before 1955 was much lower while solar forcing was much greater due to increasing solar activity, this conclusion only serves to reinforce the consensus position. More on the sun...
Ad Hoc Committee on Global Climate Issues: Annual Report (Gerhard 2000) is non-peer reviewed. Oreske's survey only included peer reviewed studies. This is even conceded by Schulte.
Atmospheric Greenhouse-Effect in the Context of Global Climate-Change (Kondratyev 1995) is a review, not an article - it doesn't actually include any research but reviews other studies. Oreskes' survey only included articles, not reviews.
Review and impacts of climate change uncertainties (Fernau 1993) is another review, not an article, and is found in the Social Science Citation Index. Oreskes sampled articles only from the Science Citation Index.
Intermediate rebuttal written by John Cook
Update July 2015:
Here is a related lecture-video from Denial101x - Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
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Deltoid analyses the studies quoted by Schulte, Monkton and Peiser that they claim Oreskes should've included in her survey as rejecting the consensus. He includes an interesting comparison between Schulte and Monkton's text.
Fergus Brown critiques Schulte's critique of Naomi Oreskes (interesting comment thread on this post).
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You can now view a YouTube video of Naomi Oreskes' presentation The American Denial of Global Warming (it's 58 minutes but well worth viewing).
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thingadonta at 12:42 PM on 20 May, 2009
There is no scientific consensus on the causes of recent (~150 years) global warming amongst scientists. What there is, however, is a continuing distortion of the statistics representing scientific research and opinion. For one thing, one can't simply report the views of climatologists only, (who generally have a vested interest), but more importantly, this would leave out the greater fields under which climate science is a subset-e.g. earth history and solar science. If you include earth history (i.e. geology etc) and solar scientists etc etc, the figures for 'consensus' always become smaller. Take for example the idea 'that global warming creates more deserts'. Nice idea to do research on. Climatologists, who are naturally assumed to best answer such a question, then go and gather lots of data, project models, debate, discuss etc etc, and yet don't even bother to consult the past geological record. This would be like a lawyer arguing a case without reference to any case histories. The geological record indicates, that warm periods correspond to less deserts, which is not mentioned in the subsequent climatologist reports. An example is the drying of Africa during the onset of glacial (cooler) periods in the last ~5 Ma, which led to reduced rainforests and more savannah, and the consequent evolution of an upright ape on the savannah-the hominid line (that's us). But according to the IPCC, Africa does the opposite-it is projected to get drier overall with projected warming, which means, according to the IPCC, we wouldn't even be here. The statistics and reporting of consensus regarding human-induced climate change has been distorted, similar to what went on in the Soviet Union in the past, eg something like "928 tractor factories were surveyed in the Soviet Union, with 75% supporting the Party's position that production has increased and living standards are better, and 25% are looking more into improving worker conditions, whilst none claim that things have got worse...etc etc". Or to take a more contemporary example, if you asked various USA banks a few years before the recent financial crisis what state their financials were in, what kind of answer do you think you would have got? The Oreskes report is a gross distortion. Here is a link to all 928 abstracts so you can check them for yourself-http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Oreskes-abstracts.htm- the vast majority of which are COMPLETELY NEUTRAL as regarding the question of human-induced climate change. Think of it another way, if you are studying squirrels, and want to do research, what better way than looking into how any climate changes might affect squirrel numbers, dung chemistry of whatever. Note, however, that in this context, there isn't any 'position' taken on whether or not humans are causing climate change, (or even that it is occurring), something which such a study couldn't answer. The vast majority of the 928 abstracts fall into this 'neutral' category. To say that "none of the papers disagree with the consensus position" (i.e. human-induced global warming), is a gross distortion; a small percentage have come to stronger conclusions which question it, and a small percentage have come to stronger conclusions which support it (the relative proportions for both cases is difficult to put a figure on, because the data, by its very nature, is ambiguous), but the point is, the vast majority are not even attempting to answer the question.
thingadonta at 22:12 PM on 8 August, 2009
In your Peiser 'retraction' link and quote you have misrepresented what he is saying. Here is the longer version (from which you have cherry-picked/distorted) of what he said: "I do not think anyone is questioning that we are in a period of global warming. Neither do I doubt that the overwhelming majority of climatologists is agreed that the current warming period is mostly due to human impact. However, this majority consensus is far from unanimous. Despite all claims to the contrary, there is a small community of sceptical researchers that remains extremely active. Hardly a week goes by without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory. (For the latest developments, see http://greenspin.blogspot.com/2006/10/do-i-detect-first-tiny-rumblings-of.html) Undoubtedly, sceptical scientists are a small minority. But as long as the possible impacts of global warming remain uncertain, the public is justified to keep an open mind. How decision-makers deal with these scientific uncertainties is another matter. But it is vital for the health and integrity of science that critical evaluation and scepticism are not scorned or curbed for political reasons." http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/ep38peiser.pdf
Another example of misrepresentation of what Peisner said, from the same source you quoted: "Please note that the whole ISI data set includes just 13 abstracts (less than 2%) that *explicitly* endorse what she has called the 'consensus view.' The vast majority of abstracts do not deal with or mention anthropogenic global warming whatsoever. I also maintain that she ignored a few abstracts that explicitly reject what she calls the consensus view. You can check for yourself at http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Oreskes-abstracts.htm" You 'conveninently' left this statement, and others like it, by Peisner out. reference: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/ep38peiser.pdf.
jsam at 20:37 PM on 29 January, 2011
Poor Benny Peiser, having to eat so much crow, as this article highlights his analysis of data was 97% wrong http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/BPeiser.html. Naomi Oreskes is an outstanding scholar.
Dellewho at 09:49 AM on 2 July, 2011
I think thingadonta has it right. I worked at ISI and delivered the first electronic version of the database that Oreskes used. Understanding how the indexers created the data that was searched I see the flaw in her thesis. She searched with the term "Climate Change" as though that would provide an exhaustive search of the scientific literature. I believe that the indexers would select that term for a keyword or mention it in an abstract only on articles that used the term. To me this provides an enormous bias. Would a scientist who does not believe in the Climate Change/Global Warming orthodoxy use their terminology? I believe that what she retrieved was a group who as thingadonta suggests use the term to ensure publication and funding. Their publication may not have anything to do with a proof or even discussion of the role of anthropogenic CO2 in any change in average temperature much less climate change. So what is it that Oreskes proved? That climate is changing? That average world temperature increased? That some biological event can be explained to some degree by an 1.4 degree rise in average world temperature? The important questions is the contribution of anthropogenic CO2 to any warming. What portion of her retrieved set of publications demonstrated proof of a dominant or even significant contribution? Climate change is certainly a tautology. Climate has always and will always change.
[DB] "Climate has always and will always change."
I can understand why someone would think that. Many others have expressed similar sentiments before. Of those, those who have taken the time to actually study the science of climate change now would disagree with you.
Please see Climate's changed before and learn why.
adelady at 10:04 AM on 2 July, 2011
Dellewho "Would a scientist who does not believe in the Climate Change/Global Warming orthodoxy use their terminology?" Absolutely. My casual reading suggests that contrarians are much more likely to use these specific words. Scientists generally tend to use wording specific to the topic they're working on. This may or may not include such terms. It's the contrarians who consistently use these general terms within the paper itself even when the very specific physical, chemical or biological process in question doesn't necessarily require it. (Of course this says nothing about how journals categorise papers - and, therefore, how writers submitting papers are expected to include appropriate search and reference terms.)
EnergyPolemist at 04:20 AM on 18 January, 2012
I am not a "climate sceptic", far from it, having had the chance to discuss the topic in depth with various scientists. However, I do think that the points raised by Dellewho need to be considered. I have done a lot of "bibliometric" research, which is basically what Oreskes did. With bibliometrics, you need to find the right keyword combination to capture as many relevant publications as possible while excluding the irrelevant. It's not easy. No matter what the keyword combo, you will either end up missing a lot of papers (because your keywords were too strict) or the opposite (if your keywords were too wide). I believe that a lot of papers who might AGREE with the consensus view might not mention "climate change" in their abstract. Like adelady above, I doubt that many sceptics would NOT include those words though. So if anything, Oreskes might have understated the level of consensus! BUT, this needs to be verified. I think a more comprehensive study is needed, one that makes explicit the keyword strategy, and that compares and discusses various alternative strategies (bibliometrics is like statistics, you will get different results with different strategies). I doubt this will result in any significant change in Oreskes' conclusions, but it might help to silence the sceptics... By the way, I am available to do such as study if anyone has funding :)
Sorry for the long comments, but I have another one. The sceptics claim that Oreske type studies miss the point about the political nature of science funding. They say that the reason why so many studies agree with the anthropogenic perspective is that you need to be part of the consensus to get funding. I.e., that scientists follow the money. Another point often made is that money or not, you have more chances of being published if you work within the dominant paradigm. After all, you won't see many Marxist or Libertarian papers in mainstream economics journals. Does this mean that Marxist or Libertarian theory is wrong? One thing for sure, you will never convince Marxists or Libertarians of this by saying that "99% of articles in peer-reviewed economics journals agree with mainstream (neo-classical/neo-keynesian) theory". However, I believe the political nature of science is exagerated in physical sciences (as opposed to social sciences). I believe that in many fields, there is no consensus. So what might be useful to silence the sceptics would be comparative studies - compare Oreskes (or the study I proposed above) to other bibliometric reviews. If you can show that there is an unusually robust consensus in climate science, that might be more convincing...
CBDunkerson at 04:53 AM on 18 January, 2012
EnergyPolemist, it would be difficult for Oreskes to have 'possibly understated the level of consensus'... given that she found 0% disagreement. This is not to say that there are not any peer reviewed papers which disagree with the consensus that humans are responsible for most of the warming over the past ~50 years. Oreskes' study didn't find any, but that wasn't meant to suggest that none exist... just to demonstrate that they are so vanishingly rare that the claims of a huge scientific controversy on the issue were nonsense. You'd have to do a much more thorough search to find out that the actual value is something like 0.00023%.
roxanne at 10:35 AM on 24 September, 2012
What are people's thoughts about Bray's study, which also refutes that there is a true consensus? Bray, D. (2010). The scientific consensus of climate change revisited. Environmental Science & Policy, 13(5), 340-350. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.04.001 final draft at http://www.schulprojekt-klimawandel.de/imperia/md/content/gkss/zentrale_einrichtungen/bibliothek/journals/2010/Bray-envscipol.pdf
DSL at 13:02 PM on 24 September, 2012
Roxanne, I would say that this is an apples and oranges situation, and Bray knows it. As he points out, Oreskes tested for consensus on AGW basics, which at the time were being attacked by "skeptics." Bray wanted to see if there was consensus not on whether it was happening or whether it was us or even whether it was bad, but on specific issues -- sensitivity, model projections, etc. I'll read Bray further and see if I have anything to add. It's all kind of goofy to me, though, since the science is what it is. Consensus convinces the untrained and unfamiliar, or it makes research direction decisions. For the former, all you really need to know is that all of the world's major scientific bodies have issued statements of acceptance and concern. For the latter, read Spencer Weart's work at AIP. There is consensus for a limited range of sensitivity, but there is no consensus on a single figure. That is clear in the literature. If someone wants to turn that into "there is no consensus on AGW," well, they are free to abuse the untrained public. We'll all just deal with the aftermath.
KR at 13:29 PM on 24 September, 2012
roxanne - Even a quick look at Bray is very informative. After noting that there is a range of opinion (in particular a fair distribution of scientists who feel that the IPCC is either over or under estimating attribution, risks, etc), he concludes:
When, as is often prematurely claimed, 'the science is settled', then, and only then, should the public and politics enter the fray. What this analysis has disclosed is that the science is NOT settled and that perhaps beneficial scientific skepticism, albeit in an infant stage, is growing and may wrest the issue from the hands of politico quasi-scientific institutions that have become fashionable in the era of 'global' studies.
In other words, even though the mean of the surveyed scientists fall right along the generally accepted center of opinion as expressed in the IPCC, Bray wishes to Demand Impossible Perfection, a form of "Moving the Goalposts" - no action until there is unanimous consent (and possibly more than that, I'm certain additional criteria could be added) before acting. There is a consensus, a very strong one - in fact, stronger than the science in the CFC/ozone issue that led to the Montreal Protocols and success with addressing that problem. Brays work (IMO) is simply an attempt hair-splitting to raise doubts and delay action. I am not impressed.
JasonB at 16:12 PM on 24 September, 2012
The final paragraph of the conclusion of the Bray paper is truly bizarre. I am sure that the 38% of scientists who participated in the IPCC but thought that the IPCC reports underestimated sea level impacts would be horrified to discover that their disagreement with the 50% who said the IPCC got it right was being used to argue that the science is not settled. If someone really wants to argue inaction, then they need to show the percentage of scientists who support that inaction, not use the scientists who think the situation is even worse than reported to justify their stance. Spelling mistakes aside, there are a few other phrases in the conclusion that make me surprised this passed peer review — the suggestion that the current science is not devoid of "dogma and politics", the need to "wrest the issue from the hands of politico quasi-scientific institutions", the reference to ClimateGate and "the ensuing crisis in climate science concerning transparency", and "it will be interesting to see whether the facts will remain constant and the truth will change or the truth will remain constant and the facts will change". It seems to me that perhaps there is dogma and politics involved, but not where the author indicates.
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