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About a third of the sunlight that hits Earth gets reflected back out to space mainly by clouds, ice or bare earth. A small change in this can make a big difference to the global energy balance. And the energy balance is kinda "everything" in the climate debate. So this new paper by Palle et al really ought to attract quite a bit of interest. But for lots of reasons real data was never going to provide much joy for most climate scientists.
Image of the moon taken by Bob King of Sky and Telescope.
The thing is, climate models predict that CO2 will cause warming, which will in turn cause ice to melt and the albedo to get smaller, which will cause more warming… it's a positive feedback. So if albedo was shrinking during the last 2 decades, the Crisis Team could say the models were right about albedo, but then, golly, they were even more wrong about that warming that didn't happen. On the other hand, if albedo was growing, they could add it to the list of excuses for The Pause and write headlines like: Global clouds increase — hiding the effect of CO2! But then skeptics could point out that if more CO2 causes more reflective clouds, the albedo may act as negative feedback — disaster averted.
But back to that data. One of the ways to measure albedo, can you believe, is to track Earthshine — the light that the Earth shines on the dark side of the moon. Obviously Earthshine is the lucky lotto-winning-light that reflects off Earth and hits the Moon, and then reflects back again to Earth again.
A new study by Palle puts together 16 years of data on this and finds there are big changes from year to year but overall there is no trend, which rather fits with The Pause.
Somehow, strangely, even though Life on Earth depends on calculating our Energy Balance, the golden river of climate gravy is not running through the land of Earthshine research. The researchers shifted from a meagre one telescope up to two in 2006. There's a big gap in the global data in Figure 2 when that happened (see below). But even two telescopes are barely adequate. Palle et al estimate that with eight automatic robotic stations they could achieve 2 – 3 times the precision they have now. But while we can find funds to subsidize 225,000 wind towers, we can't afford to do the proper basic research that might tell us whether we needed those 225,000 wind towers. Crony-renewables anyone?
If there is a crisis in our global energy balance, a lot of people don't seem to be taking it seriously.
The Earth's albedo is a fundamental climate parameter for understanding the radiation budget of the atmosphere. It has been traditionally measured from space platforms, but also from the ground for sixteen years from Big Bear Solar Observatory by observing the Moon. The photometric ratio of the dark (earthshine) to the bright (moonshine) sides of the Moon is used to determine nightly anomalies in the terrestrial albedo, with the aim is of quantifying sustained monthly, annual and/or decadal changes. We find two modest decadal scale cycles in the albedo, but with no significant net change over the sixteen years of accumulated data. Within the evolution of the two cycles, we find periods of sustained annual increases, followed by comparable sustained decreases in albedo. The evolution of the earthshine albedo is in remarkable agreement with that from the CERES instruments, although each method measures different slices of the Earth's Bond albedo.
Palle, E., et al. (2016), Earth's albedo variations 1998-2014 as measured from ground-based earthshine observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL068025.
Taking shots of the Moon? Bob King, of Sky and Telescope explains the finer details: To take your own photo like this, you need to get up just before dawn on April 6th (probably not possible now) to see the last tiny sliver of the moon. April 7th is a new moon. April 8th we'll see a sliver of the waxing moon just after the sun sets. The post there counts the hours after the new moon occurs… Moongiant tracks the phases.
During the 1980s and 1990s, ISCCP cloud albedo fell, equivalent to a reduction of cloud area by ~3%. The subsequent steady albedo might be considered to be from reduction of cloud area. However, the real explanation is probably that it was from the extra aerosols produced by Asian industrialisation reducing cloud albedo, the real AGW.
The present steady state appears to be from Brownian Motion agglomerating those aerosols, hence the 'Asian Brown Cloud', first detected in 1999.
The change in cloud cover during the 90s was worldwide, consistent with a changes in zonal/meridional forcing. asian smog is clearly not the cause.
Crazy idea… why not measure earth's albedo directly through satellite measurements rather than with a proxy which may, or may not, be an accurate one? Am I missing something here?
The Moon is a satellite.
But, as you note, there's a lot of jiggery pokery to get useful results as observing the Moon through the atmosphere intrinsically introduces distortions.
If "global warming" had been a problem in the 1960′s (it was warmer at the start of the decade, but not a problem), then the Apollo missions may have deployed an albedo observatory on the Moon's surface with direct telemetry back to Earth. But then again, if it had been a "problem", then we'd never have landed people on the Moon and returned them safely to Earth.
Given that is take of the order of 5% change in albedo between climate optima and ice ages, even artificial satellites struggle to measure the difference over the necessary period. It takes much more than one "measurement" and their addition accumulates errors.
Yes; there ARE satellites which do measure radiation from the Earth. They were used by Lindzen, et al. to measure the nett "negative feedback" during warming.
Lol Bulldust! ISCCP mentioned above stands for International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project! Data runs from 1982-2009, Climate4you.com has all the stuff under climate and clouds page.
Earth's albedo can be measured directly from space using the Deep Space Climate Observatory. The observatory (aka GoreSat) is a satellite in a Lissajous orbit at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point. At this position it has a continuous view of the sunlit side of the Earth, apart from the lunar transits at the time of the New Moon when the fully lit Far side of the Moon crosses in front of the Earth's disc.
Not smog: aerosols which are carried around the World.
In time I will give the quantitative analysis of why current aerosol optical physics predicts the wrong sign for the AIE, also how the climate models use this incorrect physics to give imaginary CO2-AGW and positive feedback.
This scam started in 1969 when Hansen made a fundamental error in his corrections for Mie Scattering. Two year earlier, van de Hurst made the same mistake.
Typically, "dark side of the moon" refers to the "far side" or "back side" of the moon — which the earth never sees and upon which the earth can never shine.
Yes, I was confused about this. The unseen side of the moon is typically and historically referred to as the dark side, the unseen far side, the fixed side and unchanging side of the moon, unseen and unknown and mysterious until the mid 20th century, a side which is fixed and definite.
This dark side reference is to the part of the moon currently in shadow and as it moves continually and varies in size is not a side at all, simply the part of the moon in its own shadow as visible from earth. This varies in size from nothing at a full moon to a full circle in the middle of the day.
Absolutely – it had me wondering at first, too.
That shows a drop in albedo during the warming spell and a slight increase in albedo at the time warming ground to a halt.
Thereafter, albedo has on average remained stable, hence the pause.
Note that albedo tends to increase during solar quietness (the very low solar minimum around 2010 is a clear example.
So, I expect to see albedo increase further during the remainder of cycle 24 and into cycle 25 with a global cooling effect in due course.
If you an I, and a lot of other unhatted men of a certain age were to stand in sunlight, Earth's albedo would rise.
I've lost even more since that photo was taken.
No joy for Burke and Wills up there Steve.
Doing your bit against global warming.
Re-enter the cosmic ray hypothesesis? Or to give credit the "Svensmark hypothesis".
Or there again perhaps several effects have their origin in the one cause.
The paper you quote gives one more piece in the puzzle.
A few weeks ago, on Weekend Unthreaded, I discussed the variation in Solar Intensity resulting from the slightly elliptical Earth' orbit. The variation between perihelion and aphelion amounts to 90W/m2 at the upper atmosphere level (by the inverse square law).
The puzzling think is that the average global temperature estimates do not show any annual variation.
Figure 1 of your first reference however shows a strong periodical annual variation in global cloud cover, with the peak cloud cover occurring in January (perihelion).
That seems to me to be good evidence that clouds are a negative feedback mechanism on global temperature, predominately cooling.
We find two modest decadal scale cycles in the albedo, but with no significant net change over the sixteen years of accumulated data.
…a detector for EDA perhaps..
Our planet being an orb, light then is bent on the surface and as it goes towards the moon, defused wider.
Like using lenses that you can concentrate or defuse the light depending on the curvature of the lens.
Doesn't the atmosphere do that?
The nice thing about empirical observations is that one can often verify them from a range of entirely different perspectives. Business as usual, as it has been over the last 8000 years.
But then, it never was about the science was it?
Palle, E., et al. (2016), Earth's albedo variations 1998-2014 as measured from ground-based earthshine observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43.
McKitrick, R.R. (2014) HAC-Robust Measurement of the Duration of a Trendless Subsample in a Global Climate Time Series. Open Journal of Statistics, 4, 527-535.
The moon's rotation is locked in phase with its orbit, so the same face is always turned to us. The face permanently turned away from us has traditionally been called the moon's Dark Side for eons, although it's more accurately the the Far Side. It was called the Dark Side because we never saw it and its topography was unknown until the Space Age orbited cameras around to it.
It's not to be confused with Pink Floyd's 1973 album of that name.
Does the moons far side get any light via albedo from other planets?, and if so how is this measured or observed?
To be honest I've never thought of the idea it does.
Yes but it gets a lot more starlight in comparison. You can measure other planets albedo by directly looking at them.
It would we wouldn't be able to measure it without posting a permanent satellite round there or landing instrumentation on the Far Side. We can't see it. Most probably it would be so small to be almost unmeasurable. Venus is the only other `close' planet, which could `illuminate' it but considering how brightly earthshine lights it, Venuslight would be insignificant.
All `sides' or `faces' of the moon get about the same starlight but not at the same time. Between the morning and evening new moons, the dark face receives starlight and earthshine. By full moon, the Far Side receives only starlight (and maybe a tiny amount of Mars shine).
Maybe there would also be some light from Venus and Jupiter. They can be very bright depending on position re. the Sun and us.
Years ago we walked up to Steavenson's Falls at Marysville and forgot to take a torch with us. We had to walk back down to Marysville by starlight only. It was enough, just, to see where we were going and thank goodness it was a very clear night!
Some commentary on this at "notrickszone".
This method appears (to non expert me) to be a simple, cost effective, verifiable, stable reference measurement of importance. I'm surprised it has only been done for such a short time when potentially it could be very informative. It seems sometimes we do things the hard way.
Its well understood that filthy dark clouds close to the surface is reckoned to be negative feedback, while the cool high cirrus can be negative or positive. Why is it so?
These characters seem to be of the opinion that higher clouds are a positive feedback.
A group of scientists recently put out a new study confirming the 15-year "hiatus" in global warming.
What went largely unnoticed was a major admission made by the paper's authors: the climate models were wrong.
Overall, the paper is an admission by prominent members of the 'mainstream' scientific community that the earth's surface temperature over the past two decades or so has not evolved in a way that was well-anticipated by either the scientific community and/or the climate models they rely on.
How many scientists does it take to admit the obvious? How many research grants and PhDs to prove that the billions spent trying to blame steadily rising CO2 for changing the planet's temperature are completely wated and the unproven theory is wrong?
The real question is why something like this hypothesis has to be disproven at all. It would be far better for someone to have actually proven CO2 caused warming. The best and only argument I have read for CO2 driven Global Warming is 'everyone knows' CO2 is a 'greenhouse gas'. That's it for the science folks.
In Australia nothing unusual has happened in that regard, same old drought and flooding rains depending on ENSO, but looking ahead we should expect more La Nina.
Richard Lindzen proposed his IRIS hypothesis where high level cloud cover acted as a regulator of the Earth's temperature.
Following is a quote from the abstract of his paper; Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?
and it has been found that the area of cirrus cloud coverage normalized by a measure of the area of cumulus coverage decreases about 22% per degree Celsius increase in the surface temperature of the cloudy region.
A number of possible interpretations of this result are examined and a plausible one is found to be that cirrus detrainment from cumulus convection diminishes with increasing temperature.
The implications of such an effect for climate are examined using a simple two-dimensional radiative convective model.
Somehow I seemed to have cut off a fair section of that abstract quote from Richard Lindzens paper.
Ah well you will have to read it yourselves as darned if I know what is going on!
I take it that there are no studies/data that precede that used study to see if the reflected light measured on the moon matched expectations when the earth's temperature trend was increasing prior to the pause?
happy to rephrase to, "…was supposedly increasing…" or similar.
What would the "studies" match then? Nothing to nothing? Something to nothing or nothing to something?
but overall there is no trend, which rather fits with The Pause.
This is something you know all about. Your life's work, so to speak.
Just the 16 years by the sound of it.
Something caused it, what is your opinion?
I suspect an extended period of zero cloud, allowing a lot of UV into the upper water surface.
The wet season failed because of the Madden Julian Oscillation and as you said, no cloud means higher SST.
I'll put this in for those who maybe vaguely interested.
darn, and I hadn't even looked at the data for that region.
The bleaching is in the very northern section only.
In the last 4 years, the coral coverage in the southern section has nearly DOUBLED. !
They never tell the full story in the AGW sites, do they !
There is a question about the technique itself. The light from the shadow side is probably impossible to measure during the day because of background scattered light, so it is a night time only exercise except for satellites. A half moon can only be seen for half the night and a quarter moon for quarter. So what are you measuring? The albedo of the earth or the amount of light which makes it around the planet, which would depend on many things other than the albedo? This is not light which has bounced off the earth or necessarily even struck the earth's surface.
For example Lord Monckton's paper was about the lack of clouds over the oceans in the 1980s as a possible cause of warming through the decreased reflection/albedo. However the real heating from the sun happens during the day, when the moon is not visible and certainly not the shadow part even if it is in the sky.
On the other hand the technique might be useful or even available from satellites when the sun is fully on the earth, but why aim at the moon? We have those numbers and they show no change in radiation from the planet. This is an interesting aside which reveals that what they are measuring changes around a fixed mean, but what is it really? It may not be the earth's albedo.
I think that's why they said more observations from more locations would increase accuracy. I don't think the technique is as fragile as you suggest because when the moon is just a "slither" it is between the sun and earth but off to a side, I.e.a viewer looking at earth from the unlit side of the moon facing earth would see the better part of an almost fully lit earth. Consistentcy of measurment is important. Using the ratio of bright sunlit moon slither : earthlit portion shaded from the sun should make scattering less of an issue.
Yes but the sliver you mention means the sun, moon and earth are nearly in line, the sun nearly behind the moon. This can only happen at the two ends of the night, close to sunlight. The moon in this condition is not up for long against the very black night sky at midnight but either just falling at dusk or just rising before sunset. Neither are good times to measure anything with accuracy. The major shadow is clearest when the moon is up during the day. A moon overhead at midnight is a full moon. Please correct me if I am wrong.
As I see it, you are right: the window of best measurement is small. That doesn't mean it's not useful.
My question is what is it measuring? Human light is not enough to light up the moon. So while we are in night, the light comes from that scattered around the edges of the planet, which is a sort of albedo measurement at extreme angles through a very thick atmosphere and glancing angles from the surface, if it happens to hit. The proposition that you are indirectly measuring the albedo of the planet in full sun striking directly is not obvious.
You would be measuring a pretty large sample disc of average light intensity eminating from earth. You can compare it to the known intensity from the sun (measure the slither).
The unlit side of the moon is facing the lit side of the earth but you measure it in the dark (just beyond twilight) from earth.
Oops, slither should be sliver.
You are not measuring the albedo of the moon, but the reflection of the sun from the earth. So it should be a reflection from the earth, not sun which goes around the earth in a corona or bent through the atmosphere, not even touching the earth. I suspect that is what slightly lights up the shadow on the moon during the night. You are not looking at the sliver, you are looking for the other bit. The brighter, the more light from earth and they argue, the higher the reflection from the earth except that it is not reflection.
We are all familiar with moonlight and know that this light is a reflection of sunlight from the surface of the Moon. We also know that moonlight is strongest and brightest at the time of the Full Moon, when on a clear night; it can produce a moon shadow on the ground from any freestanding object.
Imagine that you are an astronaut standing on the nearside of the Moon at the time of the New Moon, the sun is below the horizon and it is night time over the whole hemisphere of the Moon's nearside. Above you in the black lunar sky is the completely sunlit orb of the Full Earth, the lunar surface around you is brightly illuminated by earthlight, the reflected light shining down onto the night time Moon from the sunlit Earth. It is this earthlight illuminating the New Moon that we can see and measure from Earth at this time.
Full Moon, when the nearside lunar hemisphere is fully sunlit, typically occurs fourteen days after New Moon. For an astronaut standing on the nearside at this time; the sun is above the horizon and it is daytime over the complete hemisphere of the Moon's nearside. In the sky above the Moon is the completely dark orb of the night time New Earth with a twilight terminator rim of transmitted sunlight passing through the earth's atmosphere. The surrounding lunar surface is brightly illuminated by sunlight, but there is now no reflected earthlight reaching Moon, as the night time darkside of the New Earth does not reflect any sunlight.
Consequently we can only observe earthshine and so deduce the Earth's albedo at the time of the new moon.
The record heat waves continue, according to evening television news channels, and no doubt their BOM climate change media release suppliers who were discredited by a BOM internal audit last year, errors and omissions in media releases that did not match BOM historical records.
But they say the earlier period of heat now being exceeded was 1986. So it has been cooling now for thirty years?
Over the past few days there have been record cold days set in NE USA.
Picked this up from AER, it feels like climate change.
'The overall negative trend both in the AO and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) will help to maintain below normal temperatures in eastern North America while temperatures will likely cool relative to normal across northern Eurasia, including Western Europe and East Asia.
Can anyone from the ENSO Fantasy Club point out the 'two modest decadal scale cycles in the albedo' in the above graph?
What the graph does show, is the obvious 'albedo' effects caused by the Icelandic volcanic eruptions of 2010,(that closed Heath Row) – and the South American eruptions of 2013, that caused the closure of Tullamarine and Auckland airports.
The depletion of 'water vapour/cloud albedo, brought about by the influence of the 'X Factor', is varied by the moon's 'nodding' on its axis every 18.61 years, (Lunar Metonic Cycle,) thus 'interfering' with the passage of the X Factor 'flux', and its interaction with the Earth's atmosphere.
So, it seems there are two opposing phenomena at work simultaneously. The increase in volcanic activity and wind-blown dust producing 'albedo' (therefore Cooling,) and the rise in temperature brought about by the X Factor- induced depletion of upper level cloud/water vapour albedo.
The proximity of the current Lunar Metonic Cycle,(2016) – may render 2018 'Dry', when it should be 'Wet'/Normal.
Note; Australia is one of the last countries affected in the East to West longitudinal orbit of these Solar-induced Cycles.
I'm sorry to hear about Mr Row.
So you think these measurements have meaning and you immediately apply the meaning as evidence for your pet idea?
Yes Gee Aye, I think the albedo measurements have meaning – and the consequences of the noted volcanic events actually happened. I apologise for my spelling error.
16 years is not very long to come to conclusions about trends in a data signal that noisy.
If they release the study free of a paywall, I will have a look at their discussion.
sets of albedo anomalies are in good agreement over the 14 years they have in common.
to resolve these issues, as well as pinning down the role of large-scale phenomena.
would be able to obtain global coverage with about 2-3 times the precision we have now.
Indeed. It sounds like a work in progress to me.
The results from the DSCO aka "Goresat" will be interesting. The spacecraft is far enough out to sample most of the earth's visible in single snapshots. Give it several more years.
Apparently there has been no significant decrease in albedo for 16 years (January1999- December 2014) although there are decadal cycles, which fits with an 11 year solar cycle.
This appeal to the earth's albedo (reflectivity) as measured by light reflected from the earth, reflected from the moon, back to the earth as a proxy measure of earth's temperature apparently saves the "pause" from the embarrassing fact that actual temperature measurements now show statistically significant warming.
For the period of January 1999 to December 2014 at least four temperature data sets show statistically significant warming NOAA, Gistemp Berkeley, Hadcrut4 krig v2.
The basis of the claim that reflected lunar albedo is a reliable proxy measurement for temperature, more reliable than actual temperature measurements, is not made by the scientists themselves.
And note that this is a measure of visible light, not infra red radiation trapped by greenhouse gases such as CO2.
The albedo loss from the earth is primarily associated with the loss of the arctic ice cap, which as this data shows clearly has decreased over the last several decades.
The decrease in area from 1999 to 2014 is about 1 million sq km, or 0.02% of the earth's surface.
And note that the seasonal variation in arctic ice cover in 2012 was almost 3 million sq km, the largest such change in area, and therefore one would conclude, the albedo.
Yet the albedo measurements for 2012 in the chart displayed in the introduction show one of the smaller seasonal variations.
So the fact that there should be no significant reduction on the twice bounced sunlight as measured by the moon over a sixteen year period would surprise no scientist.
Where are the 'decadal cycles' and how do they 'fit in' with an eleven year solar cycle?


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Any idea what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

A: You don't need to create a map for a list, just map the entities.

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Italian wine and the world e-commerce boom, with the pandemic: the "Russia case"
For Russians, the most popular cuisine in the world is Italian. The Covid effect? The demand for Italian wine has tripled in May 2020
Moscow, 10 August 2020, 12:56
Wine & food made in Italy e-commerce grows in Russia
If in the global e-commerce boom, in time of the pandemic, even the wine & food made in Italy is growing, there is a "Russia case": in the exponential increase in online food purchases due to the Covid effect, which saw the sector grow 4.5 times between March-April 2020 over the same period 2019, according to data from Yandex.com analyzed by InfoLine, in May 2020 alone, the demand for Italian wine tripled (+216%). In particular, Italian wine searches on Russia's largest search engine rose from 10,750 in May 2019 to 34,074 in May 2020. All in all, in a Russian digital market, the largest in Europe, which globally is worth 30 billion dollars in 2020, will reach a value of 52 billion in 2023 according to Morgan Stanley's forecasts, with a growth of 170%, and in which online food will grow from 45 billion rubles (518 million euros) to 130 billion rubles at the end of 2020 (one and a half billion euros) to reach 300 billion rubles in turnover (3.45 billion euros) by 2023.
With many opportunities for Italian producers, especially for niche or prestigious products, given that Italy is the leading exporter to the Russian Federation, with a 30% share of volumes, in a market of 900 million euros and 4.1 million hectoliters of wine imports, where sparkling wines have grown in recent years, but also because for Russians the most popular cuisine in the world is Italian: according to a recent survey by Delivery Fest-ResearchMe, out of 4,000 people interviewed, it is the first ranked with 32% of preferences.
But already at the end of 2019, the foodtech market in Russia has grown by 67% to over 45 billion rubles (excluding the restaurant delivery segment), thanks to new users have made online purchases, reaching 63 million, a growth of 40%, and the desire to learn more about food and wine through online courses on demand. And the e-grocery sector is also growing a lot according to Gazprombank: by the end of 2020, the market for online sales of food products will grow to 121 billion rubles (1,385,772,513 euros) from 42 billion rubles in 2019 (481,044,480 euros). In 2023, the market volume will reach 518 billion rubles (5,930,841,000 euros), in 2024 716 billion rubles (8,197,842,000 euros).
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Alta Langa, wine producers will plant suitable trees for white truffles
Wine tourism: it's women's call. Bookings are made closer and closer to visits to the winery
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Inter and Juve on the pitch, Umbria on the table with Caprai wines and Vissani's recipes
Asti DOCG has closed a stellar 2021: promotion and 102 million bottles produced
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Diese Liste deutscher Orte und Gemeinden, die den Klimanotstand ausgerufen haben umfasst – in chronologischer Reihenfolge – einen Teil der deutschen Gemeinden und Städte, die den Klimanotstand ausgerufen haben. Eine weitere Quelle zum Status von Kommunen zum Thema Klimanotstand stellt das Klimabündnis Hamm bereit.

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In den Städten Wülfrath, Aldenhoven, Krefeld, Kempen und Siegburg sowie in den Kreisen Soest und Osterholz (unabhängig von den Städten des Kreises) wurde ein entsprechender Antrag zum Ausruf des Klimanotstands abgelehnt.

Seit 3. Mai 2019 läuft auf Change.org eine von Extinction-Rebellion-Aktivisten initiierte Unterschriften-Kampagne, mit der die Abgeordneten des deutschen Bundestags sowie die Bundesregierung aufgefordert werden sollen, den Klimanotstand auszurufen. Die Anzahl der Zeichnungen dieser Petition überschritt am Abend des 10. Mai die 50.000er-Marke. Die Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke hat mit Beschluss vom 14. Mai 2019 auf Initiative ihres Energie- und Klimapolitischen Sprechers Lorenz Gösta Beutin einen Antrag in den Bundestag zur namentlichen Sofortabstimmung im Parlament eingebracht, in dem sie die "Anerkennung des Klimanotstandes" fordert. Klimaschutz sei "bei politischen Entscheidungen prioritär zu behandeln", um die Klimaziele des Pariser Klimaabkommens zu erreichen müsse zudem als Sofortmaßnahme ein entsprechendes Klimaschutzgesetz verabschiedet werden. In der Namentlichen Abstimmung stimmten außer den Fraktionen der Grünen und der Linken, die geschlossen für den Antrag votierten, auch einzelne Abgeordnete der FDP und der fraktionslose Abgeordnete Marco Bülow dem Antrag zu. Die Fraktionen der CDU/CSU, SPD und AfD stimmten geschlossen dagegen.

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D.C. Paid Family Leave: Not A Done Deal Yet – She Can Do It!
When I was about seven months pregnant, I attended a town hall-style event by my then-employer. Someone of importance took to the podium to explain to the rest of us why paid parental leave was overrated. As he framed it, paid parental leave was a form of discrimination against everyone else. After all, an employer could be paying for all kinds of things for all kinds of people. Why, of all things, parental leave for a few? A newish twist to an old plot, perhaps, but you may have heard the basic story before: why should we pay for your baby?
Of course, if you took the "why should I pay for you" argument to its logical conclusion, no one would pay for anything that they don't immediately derive direct value from – schools, parks, roads, public transport, wars. Thanks to this kind of regressive reasoning, there continues to be no federally-mandated paid parental leave law in the US, despite its many, many documented benefits (e.g., healthier, happier children and parents, immediate economic relief for new parents, greater workforce participation and earnings for women in the longer-term, greater gender equity, yada yada yada). In the absence of federal laws, its been up to states or individual employers in the US to provide this benefit to their residents and employees. But only a handful of states and individual employers choose to do so.
As it turned out, I was one of the lucky ones. My old employer eventually succumbed to popular demand for more discrimination of the paid parental leave kind and upgraded its paid leave package to something respectable (if not excessively generous). I also had the good fortune of having healthy pregnancies, deliveries and newborns. Although I would have loved to have more generous paid parental leave, I was able to patch together close to 4-month maternity leaves after the birth of each of my children with some combination of paid leave, saved-up vacation time, and a few weeks of unpaid leave. By the time my leave was over, I was ready to go back to work.
But that's not everyone's story. Many don't have employers that provide any paid parental leave, and they cannot afford to forego their wage for more than a few weeks. Others may be able to take some unpaid leave, but it requires significant sacrifices. Many families face difficult healthcare situations after childbirth that require extended periods of leave. Some employees do not even have job protection if they take leave after the birth of a child, let alone paid parental leave.
So when, in December 2016, the D.C. Council (D.C.'s legislative body) approved – in a 9-4 vote – one of the most generous paid leave laws in the country, D.C.'s overwhelmingly progressive residents did a collective happy dance. It was certainly one of my proudest moments as a longtime D.C. resident. Formally called the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act, it promises eight weeks of leave to new parents (both mothers and fathers). But it does not stop there. In addition to paid leave for new parents, it also offers six weeks to those caring for a seriously ill family member, and two weeks for personal sick leave.
As with many paid leave policies, the biggest fight over the D.C. Paid Leave Act was over the form of enforcement and funding. In the version that was passed by the D.C. Council in December, the proposed funding took the form of a public insurance plan. This meant that the D.C. government was to be in charge of administering and enforcing the program, the funds for which would be collected via an increase in employer payroll taxes (this is similar in design to other paid leave programs in the US and around the world). Small businesses, which find it particularly hard to weather the financial risks of having to pay for long absences by employees, would benefit from the insurance provided by the payroll tax-funded scheme. A study by the D.C. Budget Office found that the additional tax on employers would have minimal negative impact on the local economy over the next 10 years in terms of employment and GDP.
The proposal had its opponents too. At the last minute, business groups and their allies on the D.C. Council pushed for an alternate plan that called for an "employer mandate" instead of a payroll tax-based public insurance scheme. Under this alternative policy, all D.C. businesses would have to offer leave to their employees (the "mandate") and pay the cost of it in-house. Small businesses that found it hard to incur this cost could apply for a tax credit from the city.
But a majority on the D.C. Council rejected the employer mandate, citing its many loopholes. For instance, it was not clear how the "mandate" on employers would be enforced. What if employers denied employees the mandated amount of paid leave? Or retaliated against employees if they insisted on receiving paid leave? Could employers avoid the mandate by discriminating based on gender and wage in hiring? How much exposure to financial risk would smaller businesses have under the mandate?
The bill then went over to D.C.'s mayor, Muriel Bowser, who signaled her own reservations about the bill by returning it to the Council without signing it (among her reasons were the tax burden on businesses and the bureaucratic burden on the D.C. government of having to administer the program). But the bill had enough support on the Council to survive without Bowser's explicit approval. So on it went to Congress for review. Following congressional review, D.C.'s Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act became effective April 7, 2017.
A law is a law is a law, right? That's what you might think. Thinking that this was a done deal, I was pretty surprised when, just a few weeks ago, the D.C.-based women's advocacy group of which I am a member received a call for help from other D.C. Paid Leave activists. Like me, many thought that the fight for paid leave in D.C. was over, but owing to continued opposition from some business interests, a few people on the D.C. Council were having second thoughts about the design of the paid leave law. At issue again was the financing and administration of the program. The employer mandate was back on the table and some were contemplating alternative hybrid versions of financing the law.
Fearing a long delay and possible setbacks in the future, the immediate goal for D.C. Paid Leave activists was to lobby the D.C. Council to allocate the funds necessary to implement the law. Because the implementation of the law, as originally conceived, requires administration by the D.C. government and financing through a social insurance scheme, the initial set-up costs are fairly large (some estimate it to be close to $40 million). Without the appropriate funds allocated to get the process started, delays in its implementation are inevitable.
I joined D.C. Paid Leave advocates in some of their D.C. Council lobbying efforts. "Lobbying" may sound like a scary word to those who have never done it before. Or perhaps just dirty and dingy, involving men in black suits, briefcases, cigars, and smoke-filled rooms. It is none of those. Instead, lobbying with activists involves a few hours of hanging out with some highly committed and experienced advocates and community organizers (and a few everyday people like me). On a given lobbying day, you may have a scheduled meeting with one of the Council member's staff. Alternatively, you could just make unannounced visits to different Council member's offices. Or some combination of both. Before dropping in on a Council member's office, its helpful to learn about his or her position on the legislation (an experienced advocate will be happy to walk you through the details). Depending on the length of the meeting, the size of the group, and the particular issues involved, you may say a few words at the meeting to explain your position as a tax-paying D.C. resident or just show up as part of a larger group to demonstrate your support.
For someone unfamiliar with the process of grassroots advocacy, there are many reasons to do it. For one, you meet incredible activists, advocates and organizers whom you may not have the opportunity to meet otherwise (given my immediate professional and social circle, I certainly would not have). You also learn very specific details of local policies, their effects on people, and the positions of individual legislators on policies that are hard to get from public sources. Think of it as a hands-on mini-course in local politics.
But for me, what perhaps left the biggest impact was listening to the personal stories that I would otherwise never hear – at least, not first-hand – about how policies impact people. For instance, during one of my lobbying days, I met Diana, who was by now an experienced activist for the Paid Family Leave movement. During our visits to various Council member's offices, she told her harrowing story: 24 weeks into her first and otherwise normal, healthy pregnancy, she went into labor. Born very, very premature, her newborn son faced numerous survival and health challenges. For weeks, Diana and her husband did not know whether he would live. Her son spent months in NICU before he could even breathe on his own. By this time, Diana had used up the four weeks of paid leave that her employer provided and all of her unused vacation and sick leave. Fortunately, her son is now a happy 5 year old, but his recovery process was long and expensive. Diana and her husband deferred student loans, sold their car, and racked up significant credit card debt.
The most remarkable thing about Diana is that she took her own personal ordeal – one that most of us cannot even imagine having to endure – and turned it into a cause for action. She was aware that while her own employer was accommodating, not everyone had the same job protection. She spoke of the weeks she spent in the NICU sitting at the bedside of her son. But often, she found herself alone. There were 20 babies in NICU but many of the other caregivers were not around. They had no choice but to be back at work. When activists first began to organize around the D.C. Paid Family Leave Act, Diana enlisted to help. And now she is back again to remind the D.C. Council why this law matters. The eight weeks of paid leave, while certainly not sufficient to wholly address her specific situation, would have helped her family and others like them significantly.
Another woman whom I met on one of my lobbying trips recounted how she, on her first trip out to a coffee shop with her 6-week old baby, ended up chatting with a server. When the server noted that she had a newborn of the same age, the woman realized that the server was already back at work, while she herself was still struggling through the early stages of her maternity break. She then found out that the server had already been back at work for 4 weeks (i.e., two weeks after giving birth), a scenario that seemed unimaginably challenging.
Other people have told stories or offered formal testimonies of the hardships they faced when a close family member fell gravely ill. Many such stories are available here.
In my world, during discussions about policy, people tend to morph into data points very quickly. You may learn that a policy will benefit thirty thousand people (and that's important for policymakers), but what you don't hear often enough is the hardship that the policy's absence causes to the thirty, forty or hundred people that need the policy the most.
There are several ways to get involved in the D.C. Paid Family movement: you can visit the website to learn more. You can like or follow it on social media (this will also keep you informed about the latest news and efforts on this front). You can learn more about your Council Member's position on the law and tweet at him or her in support of D.C. Paid Leave. If you have a story to tell, you can sign up to lobby or testify before the D.C. Council.


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Inaugural ACERO Benefit Dinner Held In Sydney, Australia
February 4, 2015	2,876
On 1 February 2015 ACERO Australia in association with NSW Ecumenical Council were proud hosts of the Inaugural ACERO Benefit Dinner held in Sydney, Australia. The blessed evening was presided over by His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia AM, Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon. The inaugural ACERO benefit dinner was held with two key aims which were focused on raising awareness of the plight of Assyrian and Christian minority groups across the Middle East in addition to raising much needed vital funds for ACERO's life giving relief works across this region. The occasion was a resounding success and saw in excess of 500 guests across Sydney's local and wider community gather to offer their collective support to the Middle East's Christian communities. Guests were treated to informative presentations on the subject of Christianity and plight of Christians across the Middle East from the following esteemed individuals; – His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia AM, Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon – The Very Reverend Father Shenouda Mansour, General Secretary of the NSW Ecumenical Council; – Sr Elizabeth Delaney, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Australia; – Reverend the Honourable Fred Nile MLC, of the Christian Democratic …
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES USA MEETS WITH THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EAST'S CIRED
January 23, 2015	2,545
On Friday, January 16, 2015 the Ecclesial Relations Committee of the National Council of Churches USA met with representatives of the Assyrian Church of the East. The cordial, all-day meeting took place at the rectory on the campus of St. Mary's church, in Roselle, Illinois. The Assyrian Church of the East was represented by His Grace Mar Awa Royel, Bishop of California and the President of CIRED (Commission on Inter-Church Relations and Educational Development), and His Grace Mar Paulus Benjamin, Bishop of the Diocese of Eastern USA. The National Council of Churches was represented by Jim Winkler, the General Secretary and President of the NCC-USA, Dr. Tony Kireopoulos, the Associate General Secretary of the NCC-USA, and other members of the Ecclesial Relations Committee. The meeting began with a general overview of the goals, mission and mandate of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, founded in 1950 in the US in order to foster ecumenical cooperation among the various member Churches and to address social issues and concerns in the United States. There are 37 member Churches or communions who are members of the NCC-USA thus far, which include the various Orthodox, Protestant and Historical African …
Californian Youth Retreat a Spiritual Success
This past weekend, from Friday January 9th to Sunday January 11th, youth from across the Diocese of California convened upon Mount Hermon near Santa Cruz, California, for the Diocese's 2015 Winter Youth Retreat. With the blessing and guidance of His Grace Mar Awa Royel, this year's retreat, was themed "Built by Him and for Him," and was dedicated to meditating upon the life and teachings of Mar Aphrahat the Persian Sage (born c. 270 AD) who was a member of the bney qyama (or Sons of the Covenant) and also an important teacher and defender of the true faith in the early Eastern Church. The focus of the retreat was centered around three Bible Study sessions, based upon the Demonstrations of Mar Aphrahat himself; on faith, deeds, and communion with God. The sessions were taught by various deacons of the Diocese and invited the youth to imagine themselves as each being a dwelling for God, with their foundation in Our Lord Jesus Christ, and their walls built sturdily from righteous internal (such as prayer and fasting) and external (such as charity toward the needy) deeds. With a strong foundation and edifice, according to Mar Aphrahat, and through continual effort and …
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U.S. Bishops Hold First Episcopal Conference
The bishops of the dioceses of the Assyrian Church of the East in the United States held their first episcopal conference from October 30th to the 31st, in San Diego, California. The conference, blessed by His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch, was attended by: His Grace Mar Aprim Khamis, Bishop of the Western United States, the chair of the episcopal conference, His Grace Mar Awa Royel, Bishop of California and Secretary of the Holy Synod & President of CIRED, and His Grace Mar Paulus Benjamin, Bishop of the Diocese of the Eastern USA and President of ACERO USA. The bishops were also in San Diego to take part in the rite of the consecration of the altar of the Rabban Hermizd Parish, which took place after morning prayers on the First Sunday of the Hallowing of the Church, November 2, 2014. His Grace Mar Yosip Sargis, bishop emeritus, was also present for the consecration rite. The meeting of the bishops' conference was held at the offices of St. Rabban Hermizd Parish in San Diego, and was hosted by His Grace Mar Aprim Khamis. The items on the agenda for discussion and implantation in the United States dioceses included, among others: …
PRESS RELEASE Visit of His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Rome 1- 4 October 2014
PRESS RELEASE Visit of His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Rome 1 – 4 October 2014 His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, came to Rome from 1-4 October to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV arrived with his delegation on Wednesday 1 October. On Wednesday evening a dinner was hosted by His Eminence Cardinal Koch in honour of the Patriarch. On Thursday morning 2 October, there was the private meeting of His Holiness Mar Dinkha with the Holy Father, followed by the meeting of the delegation with the Holy Father, comprising speeches, an exchange of gifts and a group photo. On Thursday afternoon and Friday morning two meetings were held at the office of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The members of the delegation of the Assyrian Church of the East were His Beatitude Mar Meelis Zaia, Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon, His Grace Mar Awa Royel, Bishop of California and Secretary of the Holy Synod, His Grace Mar Yohannan Yousif, Auxiliary Bishop of India, Very Rev. Archdeacon William Toma and Very Rev. Cor-bishop George Toma. The Catholic …
Bishop of Europe Attends Swedish Heads of Churches Meeting
October 3, 2014	2,685
His Grace Mar Odisho Oraham, Bishop of Europe, attended a heads of churches meeting in the Swedish capital Stockholm on 29 and 30 September 2014. As part of the meeting agenda several topics were discussed including relations between Swedish churches and the current situation of Christians in the Middle East with particular regard to their persecution and displacement. His Grace provided the delegates with copies of His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV's two letters to the United Nations and European Union explaining the tragedy facing Assyrian and other Christian groups in the Middle East and the systematic human rights abuses perpetrated against them. Churches participating in the meeting included the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Sweden, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Salvation Army along with a number of Evangelical churches. It is noteworthy that the Assyrian Church of the East is a member church of the Christian Council of Sweden, an ecumenical group of 26 member churches founded in 1992. The Swedish Ecumenical Council is the predecessor of the current body and was formed in 1932.
September 24, 2014	2,853
The Youth Conference of the Archdiocese of India was held in Thrissur, Kerala between 3 and 7 September 2014 under the theme 'Life In Its Abundance (John 10:10)'. In particular, the theme was considered with respect to its multifaceted implications in the religio-political and social life. The inaugural Youth Conference of the Church of the East in India was staged with the imprimatur of His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East and under the patronage of His Beatitude Dr Mar Aprem, Metropolitan of Malabar and India. His Grace Mar Awgin Kuriakose, Auxiliary Bishop of India gave leadership to the organising committee with the support of The Rev'd Dr Sr Jincy Otthotil. The conference's opening day commenced with more than 200 Indian youth participants registering. Joining the Indian delegates were 5 Assyrian participants visiting from abroad; 2 from the United Kingdom, 2 from Australia and 1 from Latvia. A large number of attendees were expected to be present but were prevented from attending owing to the ongoing crisis facing the Assyrian community in Iraq. Regrettably, a number of delegates from the United States were also unable to attend having been refused visas by the Indian …
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I am a dreamer, one night at the fair and still I want it all !
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Eleni Larchanidou, LLM
I decided to be a producer/director since a very young age, when I saw Alain Delon's film "Pour la peau d'un flic" (also known as "For a Cop's Hide"). I studied Film and television production in Southbank University of London and took my master of Arts degree at University of Patra, in Greek Civilization.
I started my career in 1997 at Alpha Television Network as a permanent producer/director in news department. I was responsible to provide creative input, working closely with the newscast producers and production crew. I was also responsible for clean technical creative execution of the overall look of the news stories. In 2000 I joined Alter Channel Network as Producer/Director and run 2 news documentary shows supporting a superstar host here in Greece, Costas Hardavellas. The shows entitled "Gates of Unexplained" and " Invisible World" provided stories from ancient mystery themes, history, factual dramas and minority report issues. I was responsible to direct multi cameras in studio and filming with one camera in locations, to approve scripts, storyboarding each story and preparing graphics elements cooperating with graphics department and finally I recommending and directing talents and managing budgets, for all episodes. These 2 projects came to end in 2011 when Alter Channel Network has officially gone bankrupt after economical crisis in Greece.
In parallel from 2008 to 2011, I co-operated with Orama New Age production company as a freelancer creative director. This cooperation was the beginning of my acquaintance with the advertising industry. I there run 4 projects on behalf of Cartier, Public, Camel and the Mall Athens. I was the creative leader and supported the team of designers, artists, copywriters, sales teams and marketers to create production events or themed nights for a product or product sold.
In 2012, I signed a 5-years contract with IYQ Media Agency in Amman, Jordan. My position was Executive Director in TV Programming. My responsibilities were to buy television programs such as shows, dramas and movies and sell them with appropriate on air promotion to various Arabic television networks' clients. Unfortunately, in July of 2013 I was forced to give up the company for personal issues. The unexpected death of my father created several obligations in Greece, such as pending economic arrangements, family property arrangements etc, which did not allow me to stay in Amman.
In September 2013 I signed a one year contract with Crete Television Network in Greece, based in Iraklion city, as Creative Director consultant, in order to change the whole on air image. I was responsible to lead, inspire, motivate and manage a diverse team of creative's, producers and talents. I directed, designed, edited television live and tape programs, on-air promotion and social media campaigns. Conceptualized, produced, designed and supervised all promotional materials for clients, wanting to be advertised on Crete TV.
When my contract ended with the Crete TV, I signed a full time job at Expus ltd, a company outside of media industry. Expus is a trading and logistics company which deals with the wholesale of consumer electronics, pc gadgets and mobile accessories products. I signed as Creative director to support Advertising and Marketing department. My responsibilities was to shoot, design and produce creative elements for the company products. Ι executed promotional strategies in social media, VOD for YouTube and advertising prints to support and promote company products, including spots, ads, models and other initiatives. In addition I produced supporting material and design elements to help the sales department and helped the marketing team in copywriting.
I left Iraklion and Crete in 2016 and got back to Athens looking for a break in my career and a breath in order to research new artistic endeavors in stage theater and cinema. I wrote two best-seller novel books here in Greece and till today, I work on various projects as a freelancer film/TV/Stage director, creative personnel and producer.
From 2000 till today I produced and directed four short films, winning 3 awards in international film festivals, and directed two plays for famous stage theater in Athens. In parallel I cooperated with University of Patra and Akmi and Domi college as a lecturer of directing and screenwriting.
Those 20 years in media wasn't easy. I learned and I was trained to a lot of things. Technically I became a very good user in Adobe Creative Suite, Avid Media Composer, WaveLab Sound Software and Movie Magic software's such as Screenwriting, Scheduling and Budgeting. Artistically, I learned how to control ideas, how to manage team members of producers, sales and of course talents at various levels, mentoring and directing day-to-day workflow on key network or movie studio properties.


she's fallen for Paul, too.
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What is it about guys with guitars in their hands that makes them so irresistible, even when they are obviously self-centered jerks? If Abby and Maggie could answer that question, maybe they could finally get over Nathaniel. There's just something about him when he picks up his guitar and gets behind the microphone, something that makes sensible women act like teenyboppers instead of rational, self-respecting adults.
What does Nathaniel hope the New Year will bring? An escape from the disappointing realities of his life. He's thirty-four years old and he's barely making ends meet as an adjunct philosophy professor, which was always only a backup plan anyway. Nathaniel's real goal was always to make his living as a musician, but his band, The Latecomers, broke up a couple of years ago, and he hasn't picked up his guitar in months. When he decides to spend the holiday with some high school friends instead of hanging out at the bar where Abby works, he gets the happy surprise of reuniting with his long-lost friend Maggie. Newly divorced, Maggie has just moved back to her mother's house to regroup.
Nathaniel and Maggie were supposed to be the ones who left Worcester forever to conquer the world. He was going to be a rock star. She was going to take the world of art by storm. He's never gotten farther than Boston, and her best efforts only left her broke and heartbroken. As they ring in the New Year together, Nathaniel decides it's time to take control of his life and to start making his dreams come true. He thinks the first step will be easy. All he needs to do is break up with Abby and finally admit his feelings for Maggie. But the New Year has more surprises in store, and nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
-will be released on November 1 at all major retailers and in paperback via Amazon. Currently available for preorder.


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Q: $g(x) = \lim_{y \to x} f(y)$ is continuous.
Let $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ be a function such that $\lim_{y
 \to x} f(y)$ exists for every $x \in \mathbb{R}$. Prove that $g:
 \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}: x \mapsto \lim_{y \to x} f(y)$ is
  continuous. (source problem: Spivak chapter 6)

My attempt:
Fix $a \in \mathbb{R}$.
Let $\epsilon > 0$. Choose $\delta > 0$ such that $|f(x)- g(a)| < \epsilon/2$ for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ with $0 < |x-a| < \delta$ (such $\delta$ exists because $g(a) = \lim_{y \to a} f(y)$)
Fix $x \in \mathbb{R}$ with $|x-a| < \delta/2$.
Choose $\delta' > 0$ such that $|f(y)-g(x)| < \epsilon/2$ for all $y \in \mathbb{R}$ with $0 < |y-x| < \delta'$ (such $\delta'$ exists because $\lim_{y \to x} f(y) = g(x)$)
Pick $z \in \mathbb{R}- \{a\}$ satisfying $0 < |z-x| < \min \{\delta/2, \delta'\}$.
Then, we have $0 <|z-a| \leq |z-x|+|x-a|  < \delta$, hence $|f(z)-g(a)| < \epsilon/2$ and we also have $|g(x)-f(z)|< \epsilon/2$.
Hence, for $x \in \mathbb{R}$ with $|x-a| < \delta/2$, we have $|g(x)-g(a)| \leq |g(x)-f(z)| + |f(z) - g(a)| < \epsilon$
and we are done.
Is this correct?


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You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / Police say Klunder not connected to Evansdale murders
Police say Klunder not connected to Evansdale murders
May 15, 2014 By Radio Iowa Contributor
Investigators say they've ruled out Michael Klunder as a "person of interest" in the unsolved disappearance and murders of Evansdale cousins Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey almost two years ago.
Klunder is the convicted sex offender who authorities say committed suicide after abducting two girls near Dayton in Webster County last May. One of the girls escaped and Klunder was found dead. Kathlynn Shepard's body was later found in the Des Moines River.
Because of the similarities between the two high-profile cases, Evansdale police chief Kent Smock says an investigation team was assigned to gather evidence concerning Klunder's whereabouts on July 13, 2012, the date Collins and Cook-Morrissey disappeared.
According to Smock, the evidence shows no connection between the two cases at this time. Smock says Klunder hasn't been the sole focus of the local case. Even though it hasn't been in the public eye, Smock says investigators are still receiving and reviewing evidence and they remain confident that the case will eventually be solved. The girls' bodies were found in December 2012, in a secluded area of Bremer County.
A $175,000 reward is offered to anyone with information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. Anyone with information should call Evansdale police at 319-232-6682, Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers at 866-300-8477, or any law enforcement agency. Callers can remain anonymous.
By Elwin Huffman, KOEL, Oelwein
Filed Under: Crime / Courts, News


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King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic: MJ's Online Memorial Pushes Internet's Limits
Om Malik Jul 7, 2009 (Jun 5, 2020) -- Blog Post
Michael Jackson's memorial held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles turned out to be one of the biggest online events ever, according to various reports. Akamai (s akam) says that it was the second-largest day in terms of total traffic on its network. Akamai delivered more than 2,185,000 live and on-demand streams in both the Flash and Windows Media formats. Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second during the memorial service. Akamai says that it delivered 548 Gbps of live and on-demand Flash streams utilizing Adobe Flash technology.
There were 3,924,370 visitors per minute as of 1 pm EST and an average of more than 3.3 million visitors per minute overall. That is second only to the 4,247,971 global visitors per minute who visited news sites on June 25th when the news of Michael Jackson first hit the web. Unlike June 25th, there weren't many outages reported, but there were widespread slowdowns. According to Gomez, a company that monitors the web, the availability of the home pages of seven of the mainstream news media sites from 12:45 pm-3 pm EST only dipped as low as 98.2 percent even though the response time was slower than usual. Response time (page load times) ranged from 6.5 seconds to 18.5 seconds (usually spans 3.5-7.3 seconds), according to Gomez. However, when it comes to live streaming, Gomez saw lots of rebuffering (i.e.. video 'stalling issues') at these news sites — time spent waiting rather than watching was under 5 percent in the U.S. but as high as 40 percent in Asia.
According to AlertSite, which also monitors web performance, E!Online and TMZ reported a few errors during the 12 pm-2 pm EST period. The response time for E!Online's home page reached as high as 20.75 seconds at 2 pm EST. TMZ's home page response time reached 10.41 seconds at 1 pm EST. "Overall we saw about a 10 percent uptick in response times on average for the sites we were monitoring," said AlertSite Chief Strategy Officer Ken Godskind, who pointed out that, "Even Twitter was affected, with login success in the 50 percent range during the 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm hours (EST)."
Here are some other random stats associated with this event.
Verizon Wireless network says that from 1 pm-3 pm EST today, voice attempts on Verizon network around the Staples Center went up 10 percent from same time Monday, while data attempts for texting and mobile web were up 86 percent around the Staples Center from same time Monday.
Michael Jackson tributes accounted for nearly 5 percent of the total tweets on Twitter, according to Twist (via Pete Cashmore.)
According to Facebook, a million users posted about 800,000 status updates. That compares to the 1.8 million Facebook status updates with the word "Obama" on Inauguration Day. The Michael Jackson page, however, has grown to have nearly 7 million fans, a million more than President Obama's page. And Facebook says some 800,000 virtual MJ gloves have been given away as gifts.
Related post: Live streaming grief: Saying goodbye to Michael Jackson.
Twitter traffic visualization, courtesy of Twist via Mashable


I have had many requests to reprint some of the short articles on worship published by the Biblical Recorder. With the help of the BR staff, I have compiled all the articles on this site. Feel free to use these in church newsletters or distribute to your worship teams. You will see a sample below.
You may print & distribute any of these Biblical Recorder worship articles that you desire.
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga University's School of Leadership Studies is launching a Certificate in Women's Leadership with evaluation of applications beginning July 11. The three-month, non-degreed course begins in September and is designed for men and women who wish to develop skills and practices for advancing women in the workplace.
Organizers expect a high volume of applications for the 20 spots available for the first group of students. As a result, the selection of the pilot group will be competitive with attention to diversity of ethnicity, gender, experience, organizations and industries. Applications for the program opened June 11.
Through online learning and on-campus immersions, the course will expose students to research and studies regarding women in the workplace, as well as current readings and materials on the subject. Additionally, the course will offer practical skills for overcoming common barriers facing women in the workplace.
•	Understand one's individual, unique leadership identity and how it surfaces in teams.
•	Enhance one's emotional intelligence for greater effectiveness in leadership roles.
•	Develop skills to communicate and negotiate authentically and confidently in various situations.
•	Identify practices and attitudes that contribute to a healthy, fulfilling work-life integration.
The course is online with the addition of four full-day classes on Gonzaga's campus. For more information or to apply, visit the program online.
Media: Please contact Rachelle Strawther, director of leadership training and development for the School of Leadership Studies, at (509) 313-3579.


According to a study published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, a serum test to detect mammaglobin, a protein secreted by breast cancer cells, offers promise as a screening tool. The test may also improve monitoring of treatment response and recurrence.
An important focus for many cancer researchers is identifying biologic markers of cancer that can be easily detected in serum. Such markers are used for cancer screening and can improve treatment follow-up. An example of such a marker is prostate-specific antigen (PSA), which is used to screen for prostate cancer and to monitor prostate cancer patients after treatment. Although the accuracy of the PSA test is far from perfect and thus somewhat controversial, it is widely used. There have been no comparable serologic markers for breast cancer.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have recently identified and tested a potential serologic marker for breast cancer. The protein, called mammaglobin, is produced by breast tissue. Serum levels of mammoglobin may distinguish women with and without breast cancer.
To evaluate whether mammaglobin testing accurately identifies women with and without breast cancer, the researchers assessed mammaglobin expression in various types of tumor tissue, as well as the level of mammoglobin in the serum of women with and without breast cancer. Tumor tissue from patients with cancer of the breast, prostate, colon, lung, uterus, or ovary was evaluated. Serum testing was conducted in 26 women with metastatic breast cancer and 56 women without breast cancer (all had a negative mammogram and no history of breast cancer or other breast disease).
Analysis of the tumor tissue found that 72% of the breast tumor tissue tested positive for mammaglobin, whereas none of the prostate, colon, lung, or ovary tissue tested positive. One of 31 uterine tumors tested positive for mammaglobin, but the researchers note that it's possible that this tumor came from a woman with undetected breast cancer.
Analysis of the serum samples also found that mammaglobin levels could distinguish between women with and without breast cancer. Level of mammaglobin was significantly higher among women with metastatic breast cancer than among women without breast cancer. Level of mammaglobin did not vary by age, race, hormone therapy, estrogen/progesterone receptor status, or HER-2/neu.
Reference: Bernstein JL, Godbold JH, Raptis G et al. Identification of Mammaglobin as a Novel Serum Marker for Breast Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 2005;11:6528-35.


Pitner Pocket Park is a 1.29-acre, unstaffed play area with swings, a trail, picnic tables, and barbecue grills.
For more information, please call 281-353-8100.
Open daily from dawn to dusk. Precinct 4 parks are open every day except: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.


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EEI > Resources & Media > Newsroom > ESCC: Electric Power Industry Applauds Trump Administration for Its Continued Commitment of Resources to Help Puerto Rico
ESCC: Electric Power Industry Applauds Trump Administration for Its Continued Commitment of Resources to Help Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 23, 2018) – Since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico in September, the CEO-led Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council (ESCC) has been working across the electric power sector and with federal government partners to assess damages to the energy grid and to support and accelerate power restoration efforts on the island.
"Responding to major events like Hurricane Maria requires strong industry-government coordination," said ESCC Co-chair Tom Fanning, chairman, president, and CEO of Atlanta-based Southern Company. "We applaud the action taken today by President Trump and his administration to extend the 100-percent cost sharing by the federal government. This action is an unprecedented show of support by this administration and recognizes that, while significant progress has been made to restore power, more work remains."
Hurricane Maria caused catastrophic damage and created unprecedented logistical challenges. Through the ESCC, the entire electric power industry has worked closely with our government partners to marshal the necessary resources and expertise to aid our fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico. As of today, power has been restored to more than 86 percent of customers across the island.
"We thank President Trump and his administration for the continued support," said Kevin Wailes, ESCC co-chair and CEO of LES, the customer-owned utility based in Lincoln, Neb. "The unprecedented extension of 100-percent federal cost sharing is appropriate given the extraordinary situation and the complexities of restoration that remain."
"The industry's mutual assistance program is an essential element of restoring electric service to homes and businesses after major events," said Duane Highley, president and CEO of the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and ESCC co-chair. "Crews from the mainland have made significant progress in recent months, yet more work remains to bring electricity to all residents of the island."
"Our industry's focus remains squarely on those customers who are still without power," added Fanning. "While crews continue to face some of the most challenging work of any restoration effort in our nation's history, particularly in the most remote and hardest-hit areas, they remain steadfast in their commitment to working safely and as quickly as possible to restore power."
About the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council
The ESCC serves as the principal liaison between leadership in the federal government and in the electric power sector, with the mission of coordinating efforts to prepare for national-level incidents or threats to critical infrastructure. Protecting the energy grid from threats that could impact national security and public safety is a responsibility shared by both the government and the electric power sector. The ESCC facilitates and supports policy- and public affairs-related activities and initiatives designed to enhance the reliability and resilience of the energy grid. These activities include all hazards, steady-state preparation, and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery for the nation's electricity sector.
More information is available at: http://www.electricitysubsector.org/
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I have played for two months now and my experience of Xsyon so far is that it won't keep me playing for another two. The reasons are many and Ill try to point out a few that you as a community will flame me for (but recognize), and you as a developer might look into and consider (hopefully). Some will think I had better posted it in suggestions, but I think that thread is connected to a black hole somewhere in the universe.
First I would like to say the two months have been fun and its nice to see a game that dares to be different. The core of the community is awesome and even though we have different ways of expressing ourselves we all have the best of Xsyon in common.
it could use a total makeover. I know you are pretty proud of what you made with the new patch, but it has a long way to go to be called smooth.
Icons representing items for example are so dark that you can hardly see that there is anything there at all. It is also very hard to imagine that the blob of black should be some kind of greaves..or shoes..or... The different slots in the paper doll could use more info (that pops up when hoovering with the mouse pointer). The problem I've seen the last 5-6 weeks, that really wins the prize, is how you have to click 2-4 times on a material to add it for crafting - every time. If the crafting was a clicking nightmare before, it surely is alot more painful with the glitch.
It is better now than it was 4-5 weeks ago, but it still happens too often for comfort. I checked my crashlogs and found 63 of them - generated during 2 months of playtime. I have never come across a game that crashes that often. In fact, I have a hard time remembering a vanilla game crash at all. With addons/extensions/modules games are a bit more prone to crashing, but this .. is just ridiculous.
I started when everything was possible. At first I thought the idea of specializing in skills would benefit trade and make for a more dynamic world, but that has changed. The population is too small for any serious trade to take place. And seriously - some skills are just mind numbingly boring to practice and trying to get high quality items from those will be pretty hard to come by. Perhaps an approach where you choose 1-2 main crafting skills and get all the relevant gathering skills would be an option? There is also a need for more skills to make the game a bit more interesting (cooking, alchemy, mining, forging, blacksmithing, trapping, etc. etc) And these skills need to go into the game alot faster than the plan suggests.
There are things in the game that are really annoying. Like, how can I swim with a cart at 10m depth of water, but not 17? Either prevent swimming with a cart totally, or allow it for any depths.
If I can plant my shovel in the dirt and take a shovelfull of it and put it in my bag when Im on my tribe land, why can't I do it when I walk 30m in any other direction?
Why can't I build when not on tribe land? Are my skills geographically dependant?
Why don't buildings deterioate and wither?
Why do I have to pile dirt up in order to build a second storey building? Most houses I've built are built by starting at the foundation.
Why do I have to put down a project on a flat surface and then move it all the way to where I want it?
Why can you /unstuck into a tribal area at all?
How come you can jump like a bloody kangaroo over distances that are totally ridiculous and forcing us to build even more ridiculous walls to protect vs that?
How come there are no bridges or anyone who can build them in the game? If we can do carts we must surely have picked up the basic concept of transportation somewhere.
Ok, don't get me wrong here. The game needs a sink of some sort that generates a flow that could be called economy. Todays "currency" is nails/scews/twine but it would need a bit of tweaking to be completely satisfying. A currency that depends on luck (nails) is a bit ... unsatisfying. Twine is a better currency since it depending on time/skill - not luck. As a developer you need to think this through and make a design to support a better economic system. Perhaps the time to produce items is too short? What is the price difference between a protective shirt that has taken 1hr to make and another one that took you 5s? Since I got no background in economy I won't debate further into this, all I can say is that it is lacking in one way or the other.
Grass Hermit, for having lower hp than me and for knowing how to swing a straw.
Economyfail is actually one of the things I like about Xsyon. Barter system ftw! Too many adam smiths here. This isn't EVE or a tycoon game is it? The world was destroyed, money too. Players should have to bow and scrape to bring currency back if they want it, and it should be a vulnerable system. This game begs for anarchy.
+1 on the freedom of digging/building. I want to be able to dig/build anywhere. My guess, based on the long loading time, is the way they have it programmed it doesn't allow for such freedom, nor will it ever, a shame indeed.
I'm gone too. Long time ago. Neat concept but too many annoyances from the start. Much of what you said in your lovely post. Keeping an eye on it though.
I won't dispute your review of Xsyon, there has been plenty of that to go around but I would like to try and address your topic of inconsistencies.
I believe this is because bridges are not in game yet but will be soon and for now it allows us to cross rivers until we can build bridges.
This is in keeping with earning your place in the world, and real property value. All games require you work hard for the best things. Games need to have challenges. If you want a large spread, you have to work for it like everyone else.
Decay is coming unless you are talking about visually withering? Sure that would be great but can you imagine the coding for that? I don't believe it would be practical, and the developers have bigger fish to fry before things like that could be considered.
The Piling of dirt to build a two story building was created by the players who found a way to work outside the parameters of the games original design. That is "Sandbox" at it's very best, and that alone is one of the reasons I love this game, the ability to be creative. I LOVE this part LOL. However Xsyon has stated that large building and multi story buildings are in it's future. This is part of Xsyons evolutions. In time the world will evolve and so will the things we can do and build.
He has said recently they are looking at changing the placement pitch for architecture to make placement easier.
As for using "Unstuck" to get into tribes? You're not suppose to be able to. That is why you can't Unstuck through objects and structures. but I have not tested it much since there isn't really any reason to need to keep people out.
This one I do agree with since the distance we can jump is quite unrealistic, but again if someone wants to jump into our place, I really don't care until which time there is a reason to keep people out.
Is this soon like archery soon? You know where they said it was ready since release over a year ago?
Anyways to the OP. Take care, I hope to see you come back and check it out when things are working and more content for players. I cant even force myself to log in right now as there hasnt been anything new for months.
I will certainly keep an eye open for updates and progress within Xsyon. I just hope they manage to implement what's in the plans before other games have it all and more.
Azzym is right with his post, and I think it was probably one of the best posts to point out the flaws in the the current state of the game. It is good but it is so unfinished still. Feels like Wurm online so many years ago shortly after release.
Sorry to see you go Azzym, hope you comeback one day when the game is better.


She would have been 40 today – a birthday she planned to celebrate by retiring! She had it all planned – and she worked hard to achieve her plans. And then, two years before her fortieth birthday, she died in an accident. She was my cousin who I had carried as a baby – but someone who outgrew us all in the way she lived her life. A tiny woman, she lived life large and left a legacy of love behind.
Her immediate family, our extended family and her very large group of friends continue to ask: 'Why?' ………No easy answers….I guess she had achieved all she wanted to and her time had come…….
Or perhaps, God just needed another angel to help pour out the rain!


Many folks understand the importance of protecting and supporting nature in our yards. Snags, brush & rock piles, plus properly maintained small bee nesting boxes are features sometimes overlooked, but can easily be incorporated into our yards to benefit wildlife.
Living quarters – wildlife often live in the cavities, crevices and peeling bark of dead trees and in the crevices and tunnels of rocks both on land and in water.
Storage areas – wildlife use crevices and cavities to store food, especially in the winter.
Food Sources – decomposing trees and rocks attract many types of insects, fungus, lichens, and moss which are in turn eaten by many other types of wildlife.
Nesting materials – the fungus, lichens and moss found on decomposing trees and rocks are often used as nesting materials.
Hiding places – wildlife often hide from predators and bad weather in cracks and crevices.
Hang outs – the limbs of dead trees serve as perches or breeding areas for many birds. Rocks provide basking areas for turtles, butterflies and dragonflies.
Nature's Gold – decomposing wood and rocks contribute organic matter, nutrients and minerals to the soil.


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What was Aaliyahs relationship like with Damon Dash?
Question: What was Aaliyahs relationship like with Damon Dash?
Who has Damon Dash been married to?
Who is Damon Dash dating now?
Who did Aaliyah marry at 15?
Who did Damon Dash have a baby with?
What network does Damon Dash own?
Dash revealed that his relationship with the singer didnt start out romantic, noting that they were good friends before they began dating. "Our intention at first wasnt even to be in love," he said. "We were just really good friends, and we fell for real. It was almost an accident."
Rachel Roym. 2005–2009 Damon Dash/Spouse
Raquel Horn Dash and his fiancée Raquel Horn have a son, Dusko Dash, born on November 14, 2020.
R. Kelly Kelly married Aaliyah at 15 so she could get an abortion, witness testifies. R&B musician R. Kelly illegally married the late singer Aaliyah when she was 15 and he was 27. A witness testified Monday that disgraced singer R.
In 2005, Dash married fashion designer Rachel Roy, whom he had dated prior to his relationship with Aaliyah. They met when she was working as an intern at Rocawear. Together they have two daughters, Ava Dash (born December 7, 1999) and Tallulah Dash (born May 14, 2008).
Roc-A-Fella Damon Anthony Dash (born May 3, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, record executive, film producer, director, and actor. Dash is best known as co-founder of Roc-A-Fella along with Jay-Z and Kareem Burke.


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Kevin Jones (born January 10, 1964) is a Canadian international lawn bowler.

Bowls career
Jones won two bronze medals in the triples and fours respectively at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in 1987 and 1997.

He was selected to represent Canada at three Commonwealth Games; the 1994 Commonwealth Games, 1998 Commonwealth Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Family
His father is Ronnie Jones.

References

1964 births
Living people
Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Canadian male bowls players
Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada
Sportspeople from London, Ontario


"Haa... Kan mak dah cakap, jangan seronok sangat. Anything can happen bila-bila je..."
"Eh, nape dia kata Indon kena dapat lagi tiga gol untuk menang?"
Because you see mum, this final match, they have to play on a home and away format. So they have to play both in Malaysia and Indonesia. In Malaysia, we won 3-0. And though in Indonesia we lost 2-0, but the total goals we managed to get was 4, and Indonesia 2. That's why.
"Eh haritu kan kita kalah 5-1 dengan Indon"
"Itu lain, mak... Match lain."
She's not the only who just came to know about it. Ni, Bashtiah ni pun sama ja... Eheh. Heh... And I dare tell you that I'm a sports science student. And as for mum, she's a sports science diploma holder. Ahah! Well I guess some girls just don't pay that much attention to football like you guys did. Football players, maybe. Tehehee..
***Read a column on Kosmo!'s frontpage today 'Esok Malaysia cuti umum kerana menang bola'. Somehow that sounds a bit funny to me. Sounded a bit cute actually. Public holiday because we won a football match. Heh. But well, the football players really really deserved to be praised. Like, hello??? We waited 14 years okay to win that cup!
hai, i tengah melawat-lawat my followers. thanks for following, bashtiah (that's a rare name..i tak pernah dgr lagi nama mcm yours).
Nani: Hai! Well well well, I love your blog and your writing style so I followed. ;D Thank you, most people do remember me bcoz of it. Though it's quite hard to pronounce for some people.
Yup, the fact is we won already. Heh.
Sure I will, thanks for dropping by!