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Impact Wrestling – August 7, 2014

Date: August 7, 2014
Location: Manhattan
Center, New York City, New York
Commentators: Mike
Tenay, Taz
Reviewed by Tommy Hall
Tonight is the night.
After all the weeks of build, all the hype and all the stories,
tonight is when it finally happens. I won’t spoil it for you here
because I’m not TNA, but tonight is when something very big takes
place. Granted they showed it on Impact last week, but that’s been
shown to work in drawing an audience in the past. Let’s get to it.

We get a parental
advisory due to mature subject matter for tonight’s show.
Team 3D and Tommy
Dreamer talk about how they’re going to war tonight and promise to
put Dixie through a table tonight.
We get the IT HAPPENS
trailer to open the show.
vs. Abyss
Monster’s Ball. The
bell rings and we’ve already got an ECW chant. They quickly head to
the floor and the fans want tables. The announcers are telling the
fans to call their friends for the Dixie stuff. Weapons are brought
in and the fans want blood. Abyss wedges a chair between the ropes
but takes some trashcans to the head to put him down.
Bram brings in a barbed
wire board but gets sent into the corner for his efforts. He brings
in the wrench but Abyss grates his crotch. Abyss sends him face
first into the chair and it’s time for Janice and the tacks. Bram
tries to fight back but gets chokeslammed onto the tacks, only to
have Magnus offer a distraction. A spear puts Abyss through the
barbed wire board and a Janice shot to the ribs gives Bram the pin at
C+. Picture ANY Abyss Monster’s
Ball match and this was about the same. I’m sick of seeing TNA try
to rekindle the ECW fire though. That’s clearly what they were going
for here and while it was entertaining, I’m totally over it. This
was entertaining, but do something new instead of just rehashing
and Low Ki trade words over who will be X-Division Champion.
Dixie says they’re ready for the war tonight. Snitsky insists it
isn’t his fault.
the Trio with a bunch of women. MVP rants about how he had issues
when he was the boss and how everyone whined to him. As long as they
control the World Title, they control this company. Lashley is going
to be champion for years to come and he’s run through every hero
here. First up there was Eric Young, then Jeff Hardy and last week
it was Austin Aries. There’s no one left for him to beat.
brings out Bobby Roode for a war of words between he and MVP, but
Roode wants to talk to Lashley. Roode says that he’s a former World
Champion and says MVP is going to manipulate Lashley every chance he
gets. Lashley holds up the belt and the Trio attacks, with MVP
nailing him with the crutch. Eric Young and Austin Aries come out
for the save.
and Samuel Shaw are walking in the back when Anderson comes up. He
wants to talk to Gunner but wants Shaw gone. Shaw leaves and Gunner
says Anderson should trust Samuel. Anderson isn’t impressed.
Ray won’t say who their fourth man for the eight man tag is.
Anderson/Samuel Shaw/Gunner vs. BroMans/DJZ
and Jesse get things going with the bigger star nailing a slam and
elbows for two. Gunner comes in and hammers away for some two counts
as I continue to wonder what happened to his big push. Gunner
tries to tag out to Shaw but Anderson tags himself in due to
mistrust. Anderson beats up the now legal Robbie but still won’t tag
Shaw. Instead it’s Gunner again with the heels taking over via some
good old fashioned eye rakes.
nails a missile dropkick and the triple teaming begins. A flapjack
puts DJZ down but Anderson
steals another tag from Shaw. Jesse and Ion save Robbie from a Mic
Check and everything breaks down. Shaw finally comes in and destroys
everything in sight, only to have Anderson get in an argument with
him, allowing Robbie to roll Anderson up for the pin at 5:02.
D+. Standard six man
storytelling here as the BroMans actually get a win for a change.
I’m not sure where they’re going with Anderson/Gunner/Shaw but it
seems like one of those stories where they’re either going very
slowly or have no idea what their end goal is supposed to be.
has King Mo for protection tonight.
and Anderson argue about Shaw. Samuel
comes in and breaks up the argument because it was his fault. This
seems to appease Anderson a bit.
Carter III/Rhino/Rycklon Stephens/Gene Snitsky vs. Team 3D/Tommy
is a hardcore war but entrances are staggered every 90 seconds and
the win can’t take place until the last man enters. It’s Carter vs.
Dreamer to get things going and both have weapons. They quickly head
outside with Dreamer’s knees being sent into the steps. Back in and
Dreamer hits a quick suplex with a Singapore cane before driving in a
bunch of right hands in the corner. Rhino comes in to make it 2-1
and nails Dreamer with the trashcan lid. A bad looking spinebuster
sets up some cane shots but D-Von ties things up with a trashcan.
D-Von takes over with a few shots of his own and we take a break.
with Snitsky giving the
Carters an advantage (and looking to weigh about 400lbs) until Bully
Ray runs out to even things up again and clean house. Ray looks up
at Dixie and Mo as the ECW guys keep dominating. Stephens comes in
to complete Team Dixie and clean house with a chair. The heels
destroy everyone until the big mystery partner is Al Snow.
fans want Head (and have a bunch of mannequin heads of course) as Al
beats up everyone again. Ray nails a top rope cross body (didn’t
look bad either) to take out the mercenaries. Spud tries to make a
save but gets What’s Up from Head. Snow moonsaults onto every heel
not named Rhino as this just keeps going. Not that it matters as 3D
ends Rhino at 17:37.
D+. This was just WarGames
minus the cage and a lot of the talent. There wasn’t much to see
here and Al Snow was about as uninteresting of a partner as there
could have been. Also, I didn’t need a second hardcore match in an
hour but this show is an ECW tribute show anymore so you have to have
tells Dixie that the clock is ticking but Dixie says King Mo will
knock him out by the end of the night.
The Beautiful People
don’t like Taryn. Love wants her title shot.
Ethan says his partner
will protect Dixie tonight.
Bound For Glory is
coming to Tokyo.
Here are the Beautiful
People to complain about Gail and Taryn getting all the attention.
Angelina says they’re hotter and that she’s a better wrestler, so why
isn’t she getting all the accolades? Instead here’s Taryn to say
that she’s never been champion but has Gail’s respect. Angelina says
she’s better than both Taryn, Gail, and every other girl on the
Velvet looks annoyed
but here’s Gail to interrupt. She’s been given the choice of her
opponent, so it’s going to be a fourway next week. Velvet is asked
her opinion but Gail cuts her off and says the title match will
determine the best next week. The Beautiful People cleans house but
gets sent to the floor for their efforts.
James Storm tells
Sanada to win the X-Division Title and bow to him.
Someone whose name
starts with an H and ends with a K is coming.
We get a preview for
next week: the Hardys vs. Team 3D and a fourway Knockouts match.
Bully promises to put
Dixie through a table.
Title: Sanada vs. Low Ki vs. Samoa Joe
The title is vacant
coming in. James Storm introduces Sanada in a nice touch, even
though I still don’t know what he gets out of this. Joe hammers on
Sanada in the corner to start before hitting the chop to his back and
a kick to his face. Sanada avoids a knee drop and hits a quick
basement dropkick before Low Ki comes back in for a slugout. Joe
sends Ki out to the floor but Sanada breaks up a dive. Ki and Sanada
head out to the floor for a brawl with Joe nailing both of them with
a suicide elbow.
Back in and Joe does
his powerbomb into the STF on Sanada. Ki makes a save and hits a
cartwheel kick to Sanada’s face, finally giving us the big showdown.
Joe gets the better of it but Ki counters the MuscleBuster into a
dragon sleeper. Sanada breaks the hold but Ki counters the tiger
suplex into a double stomp for two. Joe puts Ki in a cross
armbreaker before slapping the Clutch on Sanada for the title at
C+. I know a lot of people are
going to love this match but it’s never been my style. I don’t care
for the X-Division triple threat style most of the time and this was
no better than a lot of the other stuff I see. The title isn’t going
to mean much again in a few months, as is always the case for the
Mo is warming up as Dixie cheers him on.
video on Dixie vs. Bully. This is a really weird way of doing a
segment as they’re acknowledging what’s coming but still treating it
like it’s spontaneous.
all of Dixie’s team but she fires Stephens and Snitsky like the
maniac she is. Cue Team 3D
and Dreamer with a table but Dixie hides behind everyone she’s paid
off. Ray promises to put Dixie through a table and Dreamer says
Dixie is everything that’s wrong with this business. Mo nails
Dreamer and the brawl is on with the ECW guys taking over. Suddenly
Dixie is alone in the ring with 3D but runs when she’s about to take
swears it’s never going to happen but the entire locker room comes
out to throw Dixie to the
wolves (Team 3D, not Richards/Edwards). D-Von loads her up (and
grabs her in a rather personal spot)
and Bully powerbombs Dixie off the middle rope through the table, in
what I believe was Dixie’s first bump ever. We even get Bully’s old
euphoric look and the
announcers are WAY too happy to see this.
not sure how I feel about this. I have no problem with a heel, male
or female, taking a big bump to end a story. What I’m not wild on is
how everything was announced in advance. This is going to cause some
issues in the mainstream media given how violent it was, but that’s
the nature of pro wrestling. It felt very scripted though and that’s
not a good thing, but the ending was exactly what it should have
C+. This is a case
where the main angle is going to determine your taste in the show.
It pays off the angle and hopefully keeps Dixie off TV for a VERY
long time but it’s going to draw a lot of controversy. The wrestling
was good enough for the most part, though I’m very sick of the ECW
tribute stuff. Hopefully this blows it off but I want the energy to
stay as it’s been awesome.
Bram b. Abyss –
Janice to the ribs
BroMans/DJZ b. Mr.
Anderson/Gunner/Samuel Shaw – Rollup to Anderson
Team 3D/Tommy
Dreamer/Al Snow b. Rycklon Stephens/Gene Snitsky/Ethan Carter
III/Rhino – 3D to Rhino
Samoa Joe b. Low Ki and
Sanada – Koquina Clutch to Sanada
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TNA Wrestlers Not Getting Paid?

According to several TNA wrestlers who have reached out to, TNA is well behind on payment to their wrestlers. One wrestler said the company is two pay periods behind while another claims he has not been paid since February. Mike Johnson of has reached out to sources in the TNA offices in Nashville and has confirmed that the payment issues are legitimate and a great source of frustration within the offices over the past several weeks as well. One factor involved is that the TNA checks are not cut from the Nashville offices but rather from TNA’s parent company, Panda Energy, and their offices in Dallas, TX. Panda has also moved their offices and while that happened the department that issued the checks for TNA talent was closed.

Vince McMahon High on New Tag Team

It has been reported that Vince McMahon has been impressed with the Lucha Dragons since their debut on RAW, so much so that he would like to make them the Tag Team Champions. He reportedly feels that the duo is over and that their lucha-themed gimmick is a winner.

WWE Ring Announcer Undergoes Surgery

Lillian Garcia underwent surgery for a torn meniscus. She was replaced by JoJo and Eden for the UK tour.

Also, make sure to head on over to Place to be Nation and vote in the “Greatest Wrestling Theme Song” tournament. You can do so by clicking on the links below:

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The WrestleMania Top Ten, Part 12

The WrestleMania Top Ten, Part 12

We are 31 days away from WrestleMania 32.

As we continue down the road to the biggest show of the year, I continue to go through each show to prepare for the big day.

Instead of recapping every WrestleMania (other people here would do it much better than I would), I’ve been putting together a Top Ten list of WrestleMania matches and updating the list after I watch each event.

Today, we are IRON MEN!

WrestleMania XII – March 31, 1996

After a tumultuous (and rather crappy) 1995, it seemed like the WWF was able to right the ship a bit going into WrestleMania XII. With the WWF Title back around the waist of Bret “Hitman” Hart, the quality of the main event scene was much improved from the previous year and the midcard got rid of a lot of the chaff that was holding down the quality of the shows.

The company was still reeling from a depleted talent roster, though, and the departures of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were looming over the WWF. WrestleMania XII was the last hurrah for the “New Generation,” as the seeds for what would eventually be known as the Attitude Era were slowly being planted as the WWF struggled to find ways to counter WCW and Monday Nitro.

With a main event WWF Title match guaranteed to go an hour, the majority of the focus of the show was on that match, with only five other matches on the official Pay-Per-View. So with all the focus of the show going to one match, the next section should be little surprise.

Best Match: Bret “Hitman” Hart vs. Shawn Michaels – WWF Title Iron Man Match. Much like the Michaels-Razor Ramon ladder match from WrestleMania X, a match like this had never before been attempted on a WWF pay-per-view. It really is a technical masterpiece, and something I think only Michaels and Hart could do. Michaels’ rise to the top of the card had to go through Hart, the man who traveled a similar path but beat Michaels to the goal by about three years. For a Broadway, the match pacing never really takes a break and does actually flow quite well. Some would argue that the match needed a couple of pinfalls to make the match more exciting, but I don’t think it was necessary, honestly, and the “sudden death period” leads in to Hart’s feelings of being screwed the following year. It’s not the best match in the history of WrestleMania, but it’s definitely close.

Worst Match: Goldust vs. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper – Hollywood Backlot Brawl. Giving this a “match” designation may be generous, as it was really an excuse to be “edgy.” Goldust in a teddy under his costume, the OJ Simpson Ford Bronco footage in between segments and the general idea that Piper was beating up Goldust for acting like he was gay adds up to a lot of questionable decisions. Had they left the segment alone with the stiff brawl after the first match, this would have been a lot better, but once they returned to the arena, it was just terrible.

Say Goodbye To The Bad Guy: The Goldust match was supposed to be against Razor Ramon – he’s even featured on the poster up above. The match was set up around Goldust hitting on Razor, after all. But having given his notice to the company and apparently failing a drug test, Ramon was held off the show and replaced with Piper. Razor would make one more pay-per-view appearance at next month’s In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies, jobbing to Vader. But I wonder if the WrestleMania XII match would have been improved if Ramon was involved instead of Piper.

5-0 is Best: For all the jokes about Diesel’s and Undertaker’s work rates at this point, the two of them put together a hell of a big man match at WrestleMania XII, making it easily the best match in the so-far short history of The Streak. Diesel would of course join Razor Ramon in leaving after “Good Friends, Better Enemies” the next month, after an even better WWF Title match with Michaels. And Undertaker would go on to have much worse WrestleMania matches the next few years (spoilers, I know).

Rise of the Preshow: WrestleMania XII was the first to feature matches televised before the actual pay-per-view started. A month-long tournament to crown new tag team champions ended with The Bodydonnas, Skip and Zip, beating the Godwinns and the “Billionaire Ted” vignettes mocking Ted Turner and WCW ended with “The Huckster” and the “Nacho Man” having heart attacks in the ring. Because these matches were part of the pre-show and not part of the actual event, they do not get rated as such and are considered “dark matches.”

Bad Night For Hunter: The man we now know as WWE World Heavyweight Champion Triple H had a bad night in his WrestleMania debut. He lost in about 90 seconds to a returning Ultimate Warrior and then got into a brawl backstage with a debuting “Wildman” Marc Mero (WCW’s Johnny B. Badd), who would eventually steal his valet, Sable. It’s amazing to think that 20 years later, this guy is not only a multi-time WWE Champion and WrestleMania headliner, but also COO of the company. But he did have a great head of hair back in the day…

The Top Ten

*DISCLAIMER* Th Top Ten is (obviously) my opinion and meant only to spur on discussion. Leave any and all comments down below (Match winners are in italics).

1 –  “Macho Man” Randy Savage vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat – Intercontinental Title Match (WrestleMania III)

2 – Hulk Hogan vs. Ultimate Warrior – WWF Title vs. Intercontinental Title (WrestleMania VI)

3 – Bret “Hitman” Hart vs. Shawn Michaels – WWF Title Iron Man Match (WrestleMania XII)

4 – Bret “Hitman” Hart vs. “The Rocket” Owen Hart (WrestleMania X)

5 – Ultimate Warrior vs. “Macho Man” Randy Savage – Career Ending Match (WrestleMania VII)

6 – Shawn Michaels vs. Razor Ramon – Intercontinental Title Ladder Match (WrestleMania X)

7 – Hulk Hogan & Mr. T vs. Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff (WrestleMania I)

8 – “Rowdy” Roddy Piper vs. Bret “Hitman” Hart – Intercontinental Title Match (WrestleMania VIII)

9 – Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake vs. The British Bulldogs – Tag Team Title Match (WrestleMania 2)

10 – Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant – WWF Title Match (WrestleMania III)

Bonus Lists!

No celebrity involvement, no musical numbers. So no change in the bonus lists, presented here for completion’s sake.

Bob Uecker – WrestleMania III/WrestleMania IV

Mary Hart – WrestleMania III

Cyndi Lauper – WrestleMania I

Alex Trebek – WrestleMania VII

Vanna White – WrestleMania IV

Burt Reynolds – WrestleMania X

Regis Philbin – WrestleMania VII

Jonathan Taylor Thomas – WrestleMania XI

LT’s All-Pro Team (Reggie White, Steve McMichael, Carl Banks, Rickey Jackson, Chris Spielman, and Ken Norton Jr.) – WrestleMania XI

Muhammad Ali – WrestleMania I

Top Five Musical Performances

Ray Charles, America the Beautiful – WrestleMania 2

Little Richard, America the Beautiful – WrestleMania X

Fife and Drum Corp performing Piper’s entrance – WrestleMania I

Steve Allen rehearses in bathroom with the Bolsheviks – WrestleMania VI

Aretha Franklin, America the Beautiful – WrestleMania III

That’s all for this time. Feel free to send me an email at [email protected]


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Last Days of July

August 3, 2017 - 03:05 -- Admin

I was walking a few kilometers every day. I thought I was going OK. Dexter and Hannah express disappointment if I do not take them out. Then I was undermined what I thought at the time would be a critical injury. I seemed to tear my knee and the muscles. I had difficulty getting out of a chair. The remedy, after going to the doctor was, simple and almost immediately effective. The application of anti-inflammatory gel worked almost immediately.

Subjective opinions do not work with climate. As was the case last year, July was the hottest on record. I thought it was the coldest July, I could remember. Now that winter is mostly over, we will have to start thinking about summer and the prospect for bushfires. Not only has the grass not been cut, by the responsible State Government agency – probably to save money and they have a lot of property to maintain – but I noticed a cigarette butt. I can upset about people littering the environment.

I notice that Tom Despatch relates the facts of Earth Overshoot Day, quoting Patrick Scott in The Daily Telegraph:

“Today marks Earth Overshoot Day – the day by which the human race will have used more of Earth’s natural resources than the planet can renew in the whole year. Put simply, we use more ecological resources and services than nature can regenerate and this puts the Earth on an unsustainable trajectory.
“Through overfishing, overharvesting forests, and emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than forests can sequester, humans are demanding more from the earth than it can produce.

“Every natural resource that we use from this day – 2 August – onwards is in effect unsustainable in the long term. Over the course of a year we use 170 per cent of the world’s natural output.

“Earth Overshoot Day comes far earlier in the year than it did a decade ago when we used just 144 per cent of the Earth’s biocapacity. However, this is still double the 78 per cent that was used in 1963.

“Currently, carbon emissions make up 60 per cent of humanity’s Ecological Footprint. If carbon emissions were cut in half, the date of Earth Overshoot Day would be pushed back by 89 days, or about three months…”

A polical system that cannot fully and appropriately address and act on an existential crisis is both dysfunctional and corrupt. Why are we so disccnnected from reality?

Never mind the geographic dislocation, the music by Silent Partner is Tucson. Whether we realize it not, we all are stepping towards our final curtain. Dexter and Hannah seem to enjoying their time:

The explanation for the death of Dr G is a story worth pursuing. Here he sings Bapa:


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Monday, May 30, 2005

More than 1,000 readers voted in my recent click-poll to determine where area residents believe the boundaries are between the major “sides” of Chicago (see here for a map-intensive blog posting on the subject by “Elwood Grobnik” and here for the background to this poll.)

The results did little other than to reveal that this matter has yet to be resolved:

1. What do you consider the southern boundary of the North Side?

North Avenue 36%
The Chicago River 34%
Madison Street 30%

2. What do you consider the western boundary of the North Side?

Western Avenue 41%
Cicero Avenue / the Edens Expressway -- 33%
The Chicago River / North Shore Channel -- 26%

3. What do you consider the southern boundary of the Northwest Side?

Belmont Avenue 31%
The railroad tracks that run just south of Armitage Avenue, then angle NW along Grand Avenue at Laramie Avenue -- 26%
North Avenue -- 21%
Chicago Avenue 21%

4.What do you consider the southern boundary of the West Side?

Cermak Road 43%
The Sanitary and Ship Canal (Stevenson Expressway) 42%
Archer Avenue 15%

5.What do you consider the eastern boundary of the West Side?

Ashland Avenue --38%
The Chicago River (North and South Branches) --32%
Halsted Street --31%

6. What do you consider the eastern and southern borders of the Southwest Side?

The Dan Ryan Expressway down to 75th Street, west to Western Avenue, south to 87th Street -- 30%
Western Avenue down to 87th Street, east to Vincennes Avenue then south to the city limit (241 responses--28%
Western Avenue --28%
The rail corridor that runs north and south at 2200 west --14%

7.What do you consider the northern boundary of the South Side?

Roosevelt Road -- 39%
Madison Street -- 27%
Congress Parkway 18%
The Stevenson Expressway-- 16%

8. What do you consider the eastern boundary of the South Side?

Lake Michigan, all the way down 54%
Lake Michigan down to 9500 South, then Stony Island Avenue south to the city limit -- 31%
Lake Michigan to the Calumet River, then south to Torrence Avenue south to the city limit --16%

9. What do you consider the western boundary of the East (also called Southeast) Side?

I don't think this area is large or distinct enough to belong in this questionnaire -- 49%
Stony Island Avenue south of 95th Street 36%
The Calumet River / Torrence Avenue -- 15%

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Land of Linkin' -- cables and tropes

Thanks to a reader for this link, following up on the video-cable issue: Why You Should Never Pay More Than $10 For HDMI Cables

Also, I've been hearing quite a bit lately about TV Tropes

Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.

Here's just one example, chosen pretty much at random: Affair Hair:

A wife suspects her husband is having an affair and can prove it by presenting him with the hair she found on his jacket. More likely than not the "affair hair" is also "a fair hair" meaning "blonde", which the wife is not, nor is the husband.

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BY ERIC ZORN | E-mail | About | RSS

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Ice & Oberweis, your GOP senate race roundup

Screen Shot 2014-03-12 at 1.02.28 PMBest wishes for a full and speedy recovery to Republican strategist and frequent thorn in my side Dan Curry (left), who was struck by falling ice today.

Curry received stitches at Northwestern Memorial, and there was concern that he might have suffered a concussion...But Curry was alert enough to post a photo of his bloodied and bandaged face on Twitter, where he thanked the “good Samaritans who helped” him.

The twit pic is here.  Curry, formerly of the Daily Herald, is the spokesman for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Doug Truax, who is running against perennial candidate Jim Oberweis. I look forward to sparring with him again very soon.

Meanwhile, this passage from the same story --

On Aug. 12, 2010, Julie Oberweis declared in a public, notarized document that her domicile was in the State of Florida, Lee County Clerk of Circuit Court records show. She registered to vote in Lee County, Fla., on Sept. 24, 2010, according to the Lee County Elections Office. She is a Republican and last voted there on Nov. 6, 2012, an elections office employee said today.--

prompts me to ask, what's the opposite of carpetbagger?

Our Katherine Skiba reported this morning that Jim "I'm Too Busy to Debate" Oberweis is hanging in Florida with his wife this week.

Republicans, are you enthusiastic about Oberweis? If so, why?

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Is Julie Oberweis running for office in Illinios?
Am I enthusiastic about Jim Oberweis? Yes, he does not have a D after his name.

Doesn't take much to get Mick excited.

Oh Pan, you rascal, you have no idea.

I know you asked for Republican input, but I am a Democrat, and I am excited about Oberweis running for the Senate.

Curry's not on the left, he's on the right. In more ways than one.

@ Mick Taylor

Actually, Oberweis does have a "D" after his name... James D. Oberweis ;-)

It just happens that the "D" is followed by "elusional" ;-)

Let's hope that Curry gets well soon.

I wonder, too, whether someone will ask Truax whether he subscribes to Curry's extreme views about the "innocence industry," about how the police never get it wrong, and about how they didn't get it wrong in the Steidl/Whitlock case.

Mike Miner had an interesting column on this a few months back.

Bruce, nice spin, something the D's are very good at !

Everyone I talked to is voting for Truax, who is voting for Oberweis? However, either one is better than Dick "Eddie Haskel" Durbin.

Rim shot for Bruce

Here's a nice comeback from Truax regarding Oberweis:

I'm sure Durbin smiles to himself whenever he thinks about either of these guys.

Pan, no he smiles because he knows he can keep right on screwing us.
And you are pleased because illinois is in such good shape now because of all the wonderful leadership we have had.

Thank you Eric for the icy shout-out. I am pleased to say I feel fine after an eventful day. We are going to be right back at Sunny Jim tomorrow but I may stay in the suburbs, where buildings are short enough that icicles never reach 36 feet per second velocity.

Wow, Paddy, that is a complete fabrication of my position.

ZORN REPLY -- Kass' Friday column ought to heal all remaining wounds:

Well, OK, Mr. Curry, I confess to a bit of Irish hyperbole there. But you read the column:

People can judge for themselves. The fair summary of the column is that you got paid $8,000 a month to be the PR guy for a person named as an alternative suspect in the Steidl/Whitlock case, and as a paid dog in the fight, you have attempted to cast doubt on the innocence of Steidl and Whitlock, based not so much on the evidence in that case, but based on references to the work of "innocence project" persons in other cases, i.e. if they did bad things on other cases, they must have done bad things here, but all of that ignores the very substantial evidence that Steidl and Whitlock were indeed railroaded. You've opposed Steidl's clemency petition on that ground, and I really question whether someone with an $8,000-a-month axe to grind really ought to be taken very seriously by the governor's office in considering the clemency petition. In so doing you have attempted to tar Northwestern's law clinic attorneys with the reported misdeeds of the university's former journalism professor, when the two are or were very separate operations (as you must know), in attempt to blur the lines even more.

Forgive me for not seeing all this as very principled. In the unlikely event that your candidate is elected and you ascend to some staff position in Washington, I hope you do realize that you will have to set all this other stuff aside, and certainly persons who have advocated for wrongfully convicted people will know that they have someone other than an ally in whatever Senate office building you might land. Respectfully, I think you have some baggage right now as Truax's campaign aide, at least with me and my ilk, but perhaps not with others.

All that aside, I was very sorry to hear that you were injured, and I wish you a speedy recovery on behalf of all of my drunken Irish friends this St. Patrick's Day.

Re Oberweis & his condo in FL. Apparently, you have to live in the state when you are elected as Senator, but after that, you don't. So we could have a Senator whose primary residence is in FL, living there when he's not in DC. Nice.....

No, Liz I think the deal here is that One-for-Six's residence is here in Illinois, but his wife became domiciled in Florida for tax purposes, and he thinks it's OK to lounge around there during the last week of the primary campaign and pretend he isn't available for debates. (Bad judgment, arrogance, typical One-for-Six.) Also the wife doing that while he is a state lawmaker now running for statewide federal office just looks bad and reflects badly on him. Not to mention this business of accomplishing an increase in the highway speed limits and then it turns out he was ticketed 11 times since 1988. The Tribune editorial put it well in endorsing Truax: The paper said it wished One-for-Six had not run for higher office so soon.

In an interview, the three-term senator acknowledged that he did not have a home of his own in Kansas. The house on a country club golf course that he lists as his voting address belongs to two longtime supporters and donors—C. Duane and Phyllis Ross—and he says he stays with them when he is in the area. He established his voting address there the day before his challenger, Milton Wolf, announced his candidacy last fall, arguing that Mr. Roberts was out of touch with his High Plains roots.

"I have full access to the recliner," the senator joked. Turning serious, he added, "Nobody knows the state better than I do."

At least Oberweis has a Illinois residence; that Kansas Republican doesn't.

GJO'L, I remember hearing what he said about his wife living in FL & owning the condo there "for tax purposes". She apparently gets a really good deal because it's her primary residence. But there's nothing to preclude him from moving completely to FL if he were to be elected Sen. Not that I think that will happen. True about the "lounging" and the FL residence even if he continues to live here, it looks bad anyway. And BC, I expected that this happens elsewhere, thanks for confirming it.

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Icy Relations: Extreme-Weather Question Drives Wedge Between Climate Scientists

By Keith Kloor | August 8, 2012 1:33 pm

By Keith Kloor, a freelance journalist whose stories have appeared in a range of publications, from Science to Smithsonian. Since 2004, he’s been an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. You can find him on Twitter here.

Last year, after Al Gore said in a speech that climate change was responsible for various extreme weather events around the globe, he got spanked by Oxford climate scientist Myles Allen, who wrote a column in the Guardian entitled, “Al Gore is doing a disservice by overplaying the link between climate change and the weather.”

I have to wonder if Allen is now thinking the same thing of NASA climatologist James Hansen. Because, as New York Times reporter John Broder puts it, Hansen, this week, has “roiled” the climate science community “with a new scientific paper explicitly linking high concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases to recent severe heat waves and drought.”

The controversial paper was published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS). A day earlier, Hansen previewed the study’s findings in a Washington Post op-ed, in which he made this jaw-dropping assertion:

It is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.

What recent past is he referring to, specifically? Hansen and his two coauthors are attributing the 2003 European heat wave, the 2010 Russian heat wave and last year’s droughts in Texas and Oklahoma to climate change.

These claims, Justin Gillis notes in the Times, “go beyond the established scientific consensus about the role of climate change in causing weather extremes…” Nonetheless, two outspoken—and opposing—camps have already emerged. For example, Penn State’s Michael Mann has lauded the PNAS paper as convincing, while NOAA’s Martin Hoerling has derided it. He told the Times:

This isn’t a serious science paper. It’s mainly about perception, as indicated by the paper’s title. Perception is not a science.

The paper is a bit of an odd duck, stylistically. It begins by editorializing about “the need for the public to appreciate the significance of human-made global warming” and concludes with an endorsement of a policy that would raise the price on carbon emissions sufficient enough “to spur transition to a clean energy future.” In between is a discussion of the study’s results and methods that attributes heat extremes of recent years to anthropogenic global warming. The chances of it being anything else, the paper argues, are virtually nil.

Not so fast, says Peter Stott of the Met Office (the UK version of the National Weather Service), who studies the relationship between climate change and extreme weather. He told New Scientist:

While we can provide evidence that the risk of heatwaves has increased, we cannot say that the chances of such heat waves were negligible before global warming set in.

Despite its bold claims and unconventional format, Hansen’s paper is the latest contribution in a growing, nascent field. A state of the science on “attribution” of recent extreme weather events has just been published in one journal—which was widely covered in the media. But speaking of perception, I wonder if the legitimacy of climate attribution studies (the investigation of extreme weather/climate change linkages) might be undermined by those who have a tendency to emphasize a global warming connection to all extreme weather. I discussed the pitfalls of this in a column earlier in the year for the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. In that piece, I quoted the perspective of numerous climate researchers, including Cliff Mass, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, who, in April, had written on his blog:

It is happening frequently lately. A major weather event occurs—perhaps a hurricane, heat wave, tornado outbreak, drought or snowstorm—and a chorus of activist groups or media folks either imply or explicitly suggest that the event is the result of human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming… Part of the problem is that a small minority of my colleagues—people who should know better—are feeding the extreme-weather/climate hype in the mistaken belief that by doing so they can encourage people to do the right thing — lessen their carbon footprint.”

Last month, Mass again took issue with “over-the-top” claims made in the press by activists, climate writers and national pundits like Paul Krugman. He is not the only one concerned with this trend. John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State Climatologist and a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M, recently laid out why it is “dangerous scientifically to focus on actual [extreme weather] events.” He writes:

First, one loses the ability to specify odds objectively if the threshold for the extreme event is not chosen prior to the actual event itself. Second, purely according to statistics, most actual extreme events that end up getting studied will be events whose odds have increased — the events whose odds have decreased won’t be happening as frequently!

Whatever the verdict ends up being on the Hansen et al. paper, one thing we can be sure of going forward: The chances of extreme weather events being discussed in relation to global warming are now pretty good. What that bodes for the field of climate science remains to be seen.

Image: Hansen / PNAS

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  • Blair

    I’m not sure how any article describing work on this topic can omit discussing the results presented in the IPCC SREX? It is not even a year old and provides a pretty thorough examination of the data in the field. It also appears to contradict Dr. Hansen’s strong assertions by indicating that uncertainty remains in the attibution of extreme weather events to global warming at this time.

  • Joe Peschi

    The science will always be contested. We do it with everything ranging from evolution, to whether the world is round. What people do need to understand however is that it is not scientific proof, beyond doubt that is lacking in order to get people on board. What is lacking is a solution to the problem that makes common sense. People are not naive. They will not sign up to unilateral action that as we saw with Europe already has little effect, but harms the economy greatly. We need fresh solutions on climate and global sustainability, because the stuff on the table currently is what makes people prefer to believe the sckeptics.

  • http://www.mikesmithenterprises.com Mike Smith

    Dr. Hansen is not forthright about the success, or lack thereof, of his 1988 paper. I have a posting pertaining to Hansen’s far too warm forecast and its lack of correlation to Washington, D.C.’s temperatures here: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2012/08/science-by-press-release-story-about.html

  • David Dickinson

    Let’s try to get a couple of things straight: Climate change affects the weather, and extreme weather events must be expected because of climate change. It doesn’t matter if “a particular” event can or can’t be “blamed” on global warming. ALL WEATHER IS THE RESULT OF GLOBAL WARMING.

    And if these scientists who want to weaken public concern about global warming don’t start raising the alarm and telling us what we can do to start fixing the problem, then they’re worthless to us.

  • kirk

    Pay no attention to the inland hurricanes (aka derecho), just run of the mill variations in the weather, nothing to see here… Seriously, if a bear escapes from the zoo and a bear shows up in my front yard — I have not proven causation. But there is still a damn bear in my yard.

  • http://www.collide-a-scape.com Keith Kloor

    Blair (1)

    I agree that the IPCC SREX should have been noted.

    I also neglected to mention the excellent Dot Earth posts by Andy Revkin that surveys the “varied views” on the extreme weather/climate connection. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=%22extreme+weather%22+warming+climate+heat

    If people want to drill down on this further, Andy’s posts are essential reading.

  • http://www.mikesmithenterprises.com Mike Smith

    Hi Krik (#4),

    Derechoes have always occurred. The June 27 storm wasn’t even the most severe to affect the D.C.-area (that was in the late 1980’s).

    The number tornadoes, for example, is below normal in 2012.

    Even the IPCC does not believe there is significant evidence linking global warming to extreme weather. In fact, there is no correlation of earth’s temperature to summer highs in D.C. (see my link under #3).

  • Julian Penrod

    Mike Smith says there was a serious derecho before over Washington, in the 1980’ws. That Mike Smith cannot give a date makes that a suspicious statement. But consider, more importantly, Mike Smith invokes an isolated event to disprove the existence of a chain of events. Just as others say there were hot years before, there were droughts before. But never before was the a massive drought, a derecho on the East Coast, tornado rates near 1200, hundred degree heat waves from London to Siberia, a hurricane season with more than 26 named storms, the National Weather Service altering wind chill to reflect that air retains more warmth than it used to and the first new cloud species to develop in a half century!

    And I asked this before, elsewhere. Would man made climate change deniers state what occurrence or occurrences they would consider absolutely definitive proof that is taking place? Will they say what signs they consider absolute proof man mad climate change is occurring? Everywhere else I asked, I received no answers.

  • Ralph Lockhart

    It seems to me ‘unscientific’ to form any solid conclusion about climate change, let alone whether it is caused by man, based on 30 or 40 year records. The earth is several billion years old and almost certainly has gone through extremes in climate from ice ages to hot, dry periods. Most of these took place over tens of thousands of years, and all of them before man. A rush to judgement can result in extreme financial and human costs while yielding no benefits.

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    So extraordinary loss of ice mass in the Arctic is just a statistical fluke?

  • Nullius in Verba

    Extraordinary loss of ice mass in the Arctic is due to the switch of the Northern Annular Mode changing the prevailing wind directions, which results in more pack ice being blown south through the Fram Strait into warmer latitudes.

    There are some nice graphs of Arctic temperatures here: http://www.greenworldtrust.org.uk/Science/Scientific/Arctic.htm

  • http://www.collide-a-scape.com Keith Kloor

    Cliff Mass, who is quoted in my post, has put up a hard-hitting critique of the Hansen paper: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/08/climate-distortion.html

  • LGCarey

    For those of you checking out Mass’ “hard-hitting” critique noted by Mr. Kloor, but sure to also read the comments, where there are a number of very thoughtful (and dare I say “hard-hitting”) objections to Mass’ own methodology and assumptions.

  • Julian Penrod

    More New World Order doggerel, from Nullius in Verba. Tossing out a sophisticated sounding phrase and trying to intimidate those are unfamiliar with it. The Northern Annular Mode and Oscillation do not cause ice migration. If they did, there would be records of recurrent significant thinning and significant displacement of ice blocks over the centuries. There isn’t anything to match the loss of sea ice in just that past decade or so. Indeed, charts of sea ice coverage show that, from 1900 to about 1970, the avergae on all seasonal winder ice figures was very close to constant, but in 1970, it began to fall. Nulliuis in Verba’s claim is illegitimate in the extreme, if not also utterly disingenuous.

    And, again, I ask the deniers what they would consider conclusive proof of man made climate change? Their silence so far says that they don’t intend to provide a sign, because things will continue to worsen across a wide specturm and anything the sggest will inevitably occur. And they don’t intend ever to admit man made climate change is occurring, not because it isn’t but out craven malignance on the deniers’ part.

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    @Nullius in Verba,
    “Extraordinary loss of ice mass in the Arctic is due to the switch of the Northern Annular Mode changing the prevailing wind directions, which results in more pack ice being blown south through the Fram Strait into warmer latitudes.” Oh really. I say that’s Bait And Switch.

    Karpechko, et al, “Attribution of polar warming to human influence, NATURE GEOSCIENCE, letter, 2008.

    Karpechko, “Uncertainties in future climate attributable to uncertainties in future Northern Annular Mode trend”, 2010

    And it couldn’t POSSIBLY be due to higher SSTs down to 30 meters depth, now COULD it?

    Proshutinsky, et al, “Arctic Report Card: Update for 2011”, http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/ocean.html

  • scribbler

    @ 2: You have the problem well identified. It isn’t that people don’t believe we MAY be causing global warming, it’s that IF the solution is to destroy our economy and STARVE, the so called solution is worse than the problem at hand…

  • http://Climateplace.org Dan Miller

    Dr. Hansen’s study was a simple statistical analysis of 60 years of actual, measured temperature readings (urban stations were excluded to avoid urban heat island issues). It did not use climate models. He found that “Extremely Hot Summers” (defined as summers where the mean temperature is 3 standard deviations (“3-sigma”) or more above the mean in the baseline 1951-1981 period) have increased 50 to 100 times (5000% to 10,000%) in the past 50 years due to global warming. This is not a prediction — it already happened!

    If a type of event increases by 50X due to global warming, then when that event now happens, the chances that it is due to natural variation is 1/50 (2%) and the chances it was due to global warming is 49/50 (98%). The chances that a string of such events are all due to natural variation is vanishingly small. So, if Dr. Hansen is correct (and you can do the analysis yourself if you doubt him), then it is correct to say that 3-sigma events such as the Texas heat wave (and this year’s Midwest heat wave) are CAUSED by global warming with very high confidence.

    Imagine you have a roulette wheel with 1000 numbers. Back in 1951 to 1981, some numbers are blue to represent cold, some are white to represent average, some are red to represent hot. One or two of the numbers is a special dark red color to represent “Extremely Hot Summers” since these extreme events did happen back then, they were just extremely rare. Now in the last decade (2001-2011), instead of one or two numbers being dark red, 100 of them are dark red. When you spin the wheel, you will still get cold, average, or hot temperatures 90% of the time. But now 10% of the time you will get a dark red “Extremely Hot Summer”. While there is a 1 or 2 percent chance that the dark red was one of the original “natural” events, there is a 98 to 99 percent chance that it is one of the new dark red numbers that was added due to global warming.

  • Jim Gregory

    Scribbler- “destroy our economy and STARVE”
    Says who? What evidence do you use to support this statement?

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    @16: It’s not a question of whether or not our economies will be destroyed, or whether or not starvation will occur, it’s a question, in the former case, of when (now or later?), and how widespread starvation will be. The choice is one between controlled disruption, or catatrophic collapse. The collapse won’t be in our lifetimes. And, clearly, the best means of doing the “controlled disruption” is to use market forces, market ingenuity, hence, carbon tax. Cap and trade doesn’t work, won’t work, never could work. It was proposed (e.g.) in Congress as a candidate compromise, but was opposed by anyone who wanted a solution. The experience with cap and trade internationally is that companies are incentivized to produce more carbon so they can get credits for destroying it.

  • Nullius in Verba

    “If they did, there would be records of recurrent significant thinning and significant displacement of ice blocks over the centuries.”

    For how many centuries do you think records exist?

    “It will without doubt have come to your Lordship’s knowledge that a considerable change of climate, inexplicable at present to us, must have taken place in the Circumpolar Regions, by which the severity of the cold that has for centuries past enclosed the seas in the high northern latitudes in an impenetrable barrier of ice has been during the last two years, greatly abated […] this affords ample proof that new sources of warmth have been opened and give us leave to hope that the Arctic Seas may at this time be more accessible than they have been for centuries past, and that discoveries may now be made in them not only interesting to the advancement of science but also to the future intercourse of mankind and the commerce of distant nations.”
    Annals of the Royal Society, 1817.

    “From an examination of the Greenland captains, it has been found that owing to some convulsions of nature , the sea was more open and more free from compact ice than in any former voyage they ever made: that several ships actually reached the eighty-fourth degree of latitude, in which no ice whatever was found; that for the first time for 400 years, vessels penetrated to the west coast of Greenland, and that they apprehended no obstacle to their even reaching the pole, if it had consisted with their duty to their employers to make the attempt.”
    Illustrations of Greenland, the adjacent seas, and the North-West passage, 1817.

    Or there’s Bond’s ice rafting data.

    “Indeed, charts of sea ice coverage show that, from 1900 to about 1970, the avergae on all seasonal winder ice figures was very close to constant”

    That’s because there’s no data! They use default values where there’s no input, resulting in an unnaturally flat line.

    “And, again, I ask the deniers what they would consider conclusive proof of man made climate change?”

    Validated models, shown to be able to accurately predict local climates and changes in detail, showing more points of agreement than there are adjustable parameters. They would need to cover cloudiness, precipitation, wind, and temperature, reproducing the first three or four moments of the distribution, and the frequency spectrum. This would show that all factors affecting climate had been identified and accounted for.

    Climate models currently can’t even reproduce the first moment.

    “And they don’t intend ever to admit man made climate change is occurring, not because it isn’t but out craven malignance on the deniers’ part.”

    Dear oh deary me! This is the level of debate you aspire to?

    The True Believer does not merely believe, but finds it literally inconceivable that anyone could genuinely believe differently. So when people challenge their faith, they cannot accept that it might be a genuinely difference of opinion, and they cannot tolerate that such beliefs should be held or expressed – and so they ascribe malevolent and dishonest motives and invent conspiracy theories to explain it.
    It’s quite common in cults.

    Scientific literacy in modern society is relatively low. Most people don’t know how electricity works or how aeroplanes fly or why the sky is blue. There are a lot of misconceptions and myths around scientific principles, too. People believe a wing works because the air has further to go over the top surface than the bottom. People think glass is a liquid. They think lemmings jump over cliffs. That water spins the opposite way going down the drain in the southern hemisphere. Nobody worries about this. Nobody invents a conspiracy of aerodynamics deniers to explain their views.

    But on certain special topics, differences of opinion acquire incredible cultural significance, becoming shibboleths for ‘tribal’ membership in particular socially approved groups – and an excuse for intolerance. People who dissent from the orthodoxy are excluded, driven out, insulted, treated with contempt, and assumed to be defective in some way. They are dehumanised and persecuted.

    It’s happened to Jews, gays, blacks, minority religions and schisms of all sorts, to pacifists, to vegetarians, to immigrants, to atheists and heretics alike. There is a certain mentality that cannot tolerate outsiders to their ingroup – that cannot understand how anyone else tolerates them either. And, of course, they are absolutely convinced that they’re not being unreasonably intolerant, that they are obviously in the right, their worldview the only rational one and their persecutions entirely justified.

    I understand. It’s only human.

    It has been a long and painful process learning to curb this aspect of human nature. We have free speech. We have democratic decision making. We have civilised debate. But it’s still a constant battle.

    Reduced ice extent causes higher SSTs, by the albedo feedback effect. Which is cause and which effect?

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    @Nullius in Verba,

    “Validated models, shown to be able to accurately predict local climates and changes in detail, showing more points of agreement than there are adjustable parameters. They would need to cover cloudiness, precipitation, wind, and temperature, reproducing the first three or four moments of the distribution, and the frequency spectrum. This would show that all factors affecting climate had been identified and accounted for.”

    Ha-ha! This is the Fallacy of the Beard: Improperly rejecting a claim for being imprecise. In fact, see: L.A.Smith, N.Stern, “Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2011) 369,1–24.

    I quote “Policy-making is usually about risk management. Thus, the handling of uncertainty in science is central to its support of sound policy-making. There is value in scientists engaging in a deep conversation with policy-makers and others, not merely ‘delivering’ results or analyses and then playing no further role. Communicating the policy relevance of different varieties of uncertainty, including imprecision, ambiguity, intractability and indeterminism, is an important part of this conversation. Uncertainty is handled better when scientists engage with policy-makers. Climate policy aims both to alter future risks (particularly via mitigation) and to take account of and respond to relevant remaining risks (via adaptation) in the complex causal chain that begins and ends with individuals. Policy-making proﬁts from learning how to shift the distribution of risks towards less dangerous impacts, even if the probability of events remains uncertain. Immediate value lies not only in communicating how risks may change with time and how those risks may be changed by action, but also in projecting how our understanding of those risks may improve with time (via science) and how our ability to inﬂuence them may advance (via technology and policy design). Guidance on the most urgent places to gather
    information and realistic estimates of when to expect more informative answers is of
    immediate value, as are plausible estimates of the risk of delaying action. Risk assessment
    requires grappling with probability and ambiguity (uncertainty in the Knightian sense)
    and assessing the ethical, logical, philosophical and economic underpinnings of whether a
    target of ‘50 per cent chance of remaining under +2◦ C’ is either ‘right’ or ‘safe’. How do
    we better stimulate advances in the difﬁcult analytical and philosophical questions while
    maintaining foundational scientiﬁc work advancing our understanding of the phenomena?
    And provide immediate help with decisions that must be made now?”

  • scribbler

    @ 17, Tax won’t work either…

    They’ll find a way around it. Has it occurred to any of y’all that some might use SCARE TACTICS to implement their nefarious schemes? It has occurred to the rest of us…

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    @20, Ah, so you can’t refute the point, you attack the messenger. The point stands.

  • scribbler

    I refuted the point: You cannot present solutions the public will violently reject. Don’t get pissy cause you missed the point…

    My side point was that the rich will find ways around it. The government will use it to gain power/money…

    Shame to miss one. Agenda to miss both?

  • scribbler

    Let me add that as I examine this whole global warming claim, it turns out that rather than real science like, oh, planting trees and such are NOT AT ALL examined and the only thing proffered as a “solution” is to go back to living in caves EXCEPT IF you give the Feds/scientist/whoever writes the article, huge swaths of money and power…

    Big negatory, dude…

  • scribbler

    See, I’ve been through all this before. It was lead in gas which got the biggest attention. So called scientist said we were already past the “tipping point” and that all life was doomed. Sure, we ended up taking the lead out of the gas. Was there EVER a chance that all life on earth was doomed???

    I answer such drivel with this: If you account for a two foot square for each human alive today, you can easily stand all 7 billion of us into a square, 35 miles to a side. Compare that tiny square with the total surface area of the earth and you can see why I am so skeptical that we do much at all to affect this ecosystem…

  • http://blog.longitundinal.biz Jan Galkowski

    @22-23-24, scribbler,

    Ah, I see you are upset! Good.

    It doesn’t matter whether or not the “public” does anything, or the “government” does anything. What matters is what is true. It’s one thing to admit the truth and, then, stupidly, because “the public” wants the feel of a vibrating engine between their legs, choose to do nothing, and it’s another thing to deny it is real.

    It’s true. If people don’t want to protect their children’s and grandchildren’s futures, then that is in itself a comment upon them, and they deserve the ignominy they get.

    Again, you did not argue the points, but offered distractions. So, they stand, unrefuted.

  • voice of reason

    On the contrary, we may take up little of the Earths space by ourselves, but our buildings, roads, infrastructure, etc. are significant. You must also remember our newfound ability to gather and alter (or simply relocate) naturally occuring chemicals at incredible rates. We can actually see the effect pollution has on the environment and ourselves. Not saying that we should shut down entire industries, but we should simply bear this in mind. “Environment” is not just some term people coined to give them an excuse to complain; it’s the world around you (source of your food, water, and air). By using fossil fuels, we have altered the carbon cycle of this planet. However, any effect we have would only last a few centuries, so life on Earth is not doomed :) You say these thoeries were invented and evidence was fabricated to benefit scientists and the feds, but denying them benefits companies. This can be argued either way.

  • scribbler

  • Doug Allen

    After his rant, Julian Penrod asks… “deniers…” “Will they say what signs they consider absolute proof man mad climate change is occurring? Everywhere else I asked, I received no answers.”
    Although attempting a conservation with fanatics such as Penrod and Galkowski is likely to result in only more rants, name-calling, and hystrionics , I’ll have a go for just this one round. Julian, please do your homework and you will learn that there has been only 20 years of global warming, 1978-1998, during the past 67 years of increasing CO2 emissions, and that those 20 years of signifiant warming were statistically the same as the warming in the 20th centrury which ended about 1942. Of course we all know there has been no global warming the past 15 years and that there has been no acceleration in sea level rise. Catastrophic events have not been quantified on a global scale until recently so it’s difficult to know if anything unusual let alone unprecedented is happening. There definitely has been no increase in U.S tornadoes and hurricanes.
    So here is your answer from someone who is a liberal, a conservationist, and who teaches a course on climate change. Because the Hansen 1988 temperature model projections and 1990 IPCC model projections show little skill and because there has been no recemt warming despite incresing concentions of CO2, now up to almost 400 ppm, I am a “lukewarmer” who does not deny AGW, but who thinks your ravings (and Hansen’s) about CAGW and weather events are unhelpful, unscientific , and likely to create even more distrust of science and scientists. That distrust of science and scientists, not CAGW, is the tragedy we presently face, and you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. If we actually had global warming and sea level rise that came close to matching the Hasen and IPCC model projections, then, I would certainly show the level of concern that you now mistakenly have with no empirical evidence to validate it.

  • Kennita Watson

    There will continue to be controversy until it’s too late.

    @scribbler, a human may cover a 2 foot square, but over the course of a year a human can denude over an acre of ground, and pollute many, many cubic yards of water and air.

  • Ken Bowdon

    Geologists take the long view. Earth’s temperature has been extremely variable over the past 4 billion years boasting periods with little to no polar ice caps and periods when the earth was nearly an ice ball. The more recent past has seen variations with a series of ice ages and interglacial periods. There have been five cycles over the past 500,000 years each cycle has about 90,000 years of ice and a short interglacial warm period lasting anywhere from 5000 years to 10,000 years. Man can only claim to have had society for half of the last interglacial period which if the pattern of the last 500,000 years repeats, is nearing its end. See the link below to an article including a temperature graph of the Vostok ice cores. Patterns are what geologists look for. When you look at the cycles from the ice core data each cycle correlates very well from cycle to cycle. The temperature patterns repeat nicely. I can’t say what causes the cycles but there have been definite cycles of cooling and warming with the cold periods getting longer each cycle.

  • http://www.mikesmithenterprises.com Mike Smith

    The silliness of some of the pro-global warming people is off the charts these days. The date of the earlier D.C. derecho was July 4-5, 1980. You can learn more about it here: http://www.wjla.com/blogs/weather/2012/06/d-c-derecho-midwest-to-east-coast-destructive-storms-16018.html

    Record low temperatures occurred in Iowa this morning. By the standards of the catastrophic global warming crowd the global warming hypothesis must be invalidated because it is currently cold.

  • Heather

    What makes this all laughable is that everything is accepted as proof global warming is happening and nothing is accepted as proof it is not happening.

    If we have an unusually cold winter we are told this is not proof that global warming isn’t happening, that no one season of weather is proof that global warming is wrong……..

    But when we have an unusually hot summer! All that changes and we have the media telling us the unusual hot weather is OBVIOUSLY due to global warming…………

    Hot weather is proof of global warming, cold weather is proof of global warming, dry weather is proof of global warming, wet weather is proof of global warming…………… everything and anything is proof of global warming!

    And when the data does not show the warming they predicted? They thought up “global dimming”. Go look that one up!

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L. A. Parker. Against the Grain. Charleston, SC: L. A. Parker, 2010.

Sometimes the finer things in life do not come quickly. Some artisan cheeses and wines take years to perfect. Custom-made furniture requires acute attention and gentle care, and it cannot be produced overnight. The cultivation of love can also demand patience and time.

Lee Wynn knows this all too well. A skilled craftsman, his trade has taught him the importance of yielding to time. Recently divorced, his experience of marrying too quickly without being completely in love has also given him a new appreciation for waiting.

When Delaney Daughtry Rice, his life-long crush, walks back into his life with an order for a new bed, Lee knows that he should not be hasty. Sure, she is newly separated, incredibly successful and wealthy, and seems to be interested in him, but Lee is afraid of ruining any chance that he has with her. The two start slow, seeing each other privately. When Lee is ready to profess his love to Delaney to all of Racine, North Carolina, she balks. Although she knows she has developed real feelings for Lee, Delaney cannot get past their blue collar/white collar differences and calls off the affair. However, she soon realizes she was wrong to carelessly and quickly brush away Lee’s affection. In time, Lee and Delaney get back together and decide that their love was worth the wait.

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Moravian is sending 21 athletes to the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, the last qualifying event for the NCAA Division III championships, at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., on Thursday and Friday.

Both Greyhounds squads won their sixth consecutive Landmark Conference Championships late last month for second-year head coach Jesse Baumann.

Locals making the trip are: Salisbury grad Hailey Kester, a sophomore competing in the pole vault; Bangor product Christelle Reglas, a freshman in the 400 relay; Parkland grad Kris Joint, a junior triple jumper who set a school and Landmark Conference record of 48-5.25 (he’ll also be in the long jump); Bethlehem Catholic product Jake Donchez, a senior running in the 10,000-meter run; and Freedom grad Travis Dorsa, a sophomore in the 400 relay.

The NCAA Division III National Championships are May 23-25 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. The top 20 men and 22 women in each event plus the top 16 relay teams qualify.

Entering the ECAC Championships, the Greyhounds have five currently high enough to compete next week, including Kester in the pole vault and Joint in the triple jump.

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World-renowned Pimsleur Language Program Teams with OverDrive

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We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur Language Programs to be the exclusive international (outside the U.S.) digital wholesaler to public and school libraries and non-exclusively to U.S. public libraries and corporate libraries worldwide. The Pimsleur Language Program offers 50 languages for English speakers and has proven expertise in English as a Second… Read more »

Librarian’s share: Create a makerspace for your school

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By: Beau Livengood, Account Specialist. OverDrive Education spoke with School Librarian Jennifer Peterson of Menasha Joint School District in Wisconsin about maker spaces in libraries and media centers. She offers traditional crafting materials, along with eBook supplementation from OverDrive’s reading platform on Chromebooks. Students can find how-to books or inspiration for a project if they are stuck…. Read more »

Using Simultaneous Use digital titles to boost circulation and discovery

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By: Todd Warhola, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst (Ed. Note: Every title and list in this post can be purchased as a part of a Simultaneous Use plan in OverDrive Marketplace. Click Here to see all of our Simultaneous Use Plans.) Discovery is a trending topic in libraries right now. Featured collections are a great way for your library… Read more »

Win over your Digital Doubters: 8 tips for administrators

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By: Tiffany Wincek, Schools Account Specialist. Pushing your school forward into the digital era can take a lot of time and effort, especially if you have people in your district who seem unwilling to change. Some administrators may be unsure how to approach Digital Doubters when integrating new technology. The following list can guide the process… Read more »

eHighlights Prepares You for the Fall Reading Rush

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By: Annie Suhy, OverDrive Collection Development Analyst. Fall is for reading. Students crack open (or instantly check-out) school books, classic novels, and study guides while us adults look forward to the release of some of the year’s biggest books typically released during the busiest season for the publishing world. In this month’s editions of eHighlights,… Read more »

OverDrive to present on expanded global distribution of digital content at Beijing International Book Fair

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This week, a team of OverDrive executives lead by CEO Steve Potash is holding publisher and library meetings at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF). The purpose of this trip is to continue to expand the size and breadth of OverDrive’s digital offerings as we increase the amount of Chinese language content available for libraries… Read more »

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How to talk to your students about eBooks

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By: Christina Samek, OverDrive Marketing Specialist. Technology has become as essential as water. In the modern world, it’s a non-negotiable in how we manage our daily lives, an unseen force that is *everywhere*. As educators and administrators, you are acutely aware of technology’s benefits. It enhances how you teach, communicate, and shape your curriculum. It allows you to… Read more »

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If you are new to visiting blogs, you might not be comfortable with leaving a comment or even know how!  Well if you look under the title for each post you will see the word “comment.” Clicking on the word “comment”  will open a box that will allow you to leave a comment.  It does wonder to the self-esteem of the blogger if you leave a comment, even a short one.  But most importantly it allows you to enter into a conversation that you might have missed.  The very best blog posts are the ones in which the comments drive the conversation, leaving the post behind.  So if you look all the way at the bottom of each post, you will see the word “comment.”  Click on it and a box will appear.

There will be space for your name and an email address, those are required.  There is also space for a website.  If you don’t have a website that’s ok, but if you are a teacher consider leaving one that links back to your school.  Then fill out the anti-spam word, they can be tricky sometimes 🙂  After all the red tape is finished, leave your thoughts in the box for comments.  It’s just fine to state your opinion, give an example of something you thought about while reading, or tell me why you think I am crazy.  I am especially appreciative of people who call me on my biases.  Under your comment, where that big red arrow is, is a box to check if you want to be notified anytime someone else leaves a comment.  That allows you to read comments that respond to yours, or other comments that just add to the conversation.

If you are new to reading blogs,  welcome to mine!  I hope that you join in the conversation.  I know that when I first started reading blogs I never used to comment.  I never felt like what I was thinking was important enough to leave behind, I never thought what I was thinking was god enough.  Well what you think is important here.  I really do want to hear your thoughts, and I would really, really love it if your first blogging comment was left here.  When you become big and famous, just remember where it all started!

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  2. Hi, I like this blog, and would like to follow it by getting notifications in my gmail when you post. But I can’t seem to see how to follow you like that. Do you know? Thanks for your great inspiration on this rainy summer day.

  3. Stumbled on this after sharing some information about the book “If you don’t feed the teachers they will eat the students”…. Thanks for all you do and your energy. Keep it coming.

  4. Your old EDUC570 Cohort absolutely misses you…. Arggghhhh. It’s become straight lecture up to and past 8:45 ….5 weeks until summer. I know this wasn’t the place for this comment. 🙂

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    My name is Laura Bogush and I’m a retired first grade teacher from Northeast Ohio. I’ve been visiting your blog every so often for the last couple of years.

    I teach classes to help teachers use technology in the classroom. I found you a few years ago when I was searching for ways to use video in the classroom and I came across your posts. I just love what you do with your students.

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Street Food Artistry 2011

I know it's seriously last minute, but if you guys are in the Chicago area today, come downtown for Street Food Artistry: an inaugural festival celebrating the tapestry of street food and art in Chicago. It's an event to support and spotlight cuisine from Chicago’s eclectic street food scene, anything from pop-up restaurants, street-inspired dishes, gourmet food trucks, to old school carts. All will be represented. Here's the info:

StreetFood Artistry 2011

I'm going to be down there for a few hours helping out, and I'll try to take lots of pictures to share with you afterwards, but if you can make it, there will be food and music and art and it's all for a great cause. Here's hoping it doesn't rain :D

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The trees are no longer bare, we’ve packed away our heavy winter coats, at last summer is upon us! If you’re anything like us, you’re crossing your fingers and toes for another beautiful Irish summer like the last few we’ve had. All this sunshine is making us of dream of summer gatherings, weddings, bouquets and displays inspired by the warmer climates of the southern hemisphere. The beautiful South African protea flower, the Australian royal bluebell, even the eucalyptus hails from down… Read more »

making carnations happen

Indulging myself on Pinterest for the last half hour, searching for an answer to a very controversial question….I wonder if I could make carnations happen again?! Carnations have become a dirty word in the floristry world, and it’s a bit of a shame as they’re long lasting, reasonably priced, and come in a lot of really interesting and hard-to-find colours. Strangely, they were hugely popular with Victorians and mid-centurians which would make them perfect for current wedding trends, but still… Read more »

If you haven’t found Bloomsday on Pinterest yet, be sure to add us for lots of wedding flower and home decor ideas. We love Pinterest for inspiration, and have found most of our brides do, too! Here’s a peek at a board we’ve put together with a ‘pop of colour’ theme…lots of pretty pastels that are given a punch of colour with bright cobalt, coral, and buttercup yellow. Great for summer brides! Visit our Pinterest page for lots more inspiration,… Read more »

We did the most beautiful spring wedding flowers last week, the bride chose this vibrant combination of anemone, tulips, and roses, and they turned out so amazing!  The bridesmaid wore cobalt blue, and the matching ribbon just made the colours pop, just stunning. Anemone are a great choice for spring weddings, great value and come in brilliant bright colours as well as the popular white variety with the black centre.  Perfect for all the navy and royal blue bridesmaids’ dresses… Read more »

I just uploaded some recent wedding photos to our wedding flower gallery, these are some bouquets from a wedding in June.  The bride wanted all white, and we kept the look on trend by using seasonal summer flowers, including chamomile, astilbe, phlox, stock, and alchemilla mollis.  A great bouquet to capture a country garden feel with an all-white colour scheme.

The summer issue of Martha Stewart Weddings magazine has a beautiful feature on affordable wedding flowers.  Love the images and the ideas are really practical and entirely suitable for Irish brides! Lots of seasonal ‘wildflowers’, which is a look we always recommend, in really loose arrangments and bouquets. Love the gypsophila garland– gyp is cheap, holds well out of water, and is available year round…would look beautiful for a winter wedding. You can see the entire photo gallery at…. Read more »


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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Lovey Dovey - Oh So Yummy!

Happy Valentine's Day my loves!  I found this adorable little recipe and wanted to share it with you all.  It is obviously a Valentine's Day Theme, but this could EASILY be versioned to any occasion with a change out of the ole' cookie cutter.

Petit Fours sound so fancy, and they are oh so delicious.  (My sweet friend Quinn brought me some last week from Fresh Market and Hubs and I smashed the entire box in 2 days! Whew.)  And seeing as to how easy these cute little morsels are to make ... I couldn't help but squeal with excitement in knowing I can now make these perfectly sized, delectable little cakes for all future occasions. Oh the endless possibilities :0)

I have yet to try and make them myself ... but you better believe they are on our dessert menu for the sappy hallmark holiday evening! Ohhhhh baby. Mini cakes that are both tasty and adorable.  Is there anything better?

Since I love all of you and it's the day of hearts, I won't make you wait any longer. To see the original post check out the Purple Chocolat Home.  Here are some photos and brief instructions according to their site:

What You'll Need:
  • 1-2 packages of Sara Lee Pound Cake (freezer section)
  • Betty Crocker ready made frosting (or your own favorite frosting recipe)
  • Fancy, fun and cute decorations to add some extra flare!
  • Slice pound cake into thin layers
  • Frost one side with desired frosting
  • Sandwich together
  • Using small cookie cutter - cut into fancy shapes
  • Put cut shapes on cooling rack with wax paper underneath
  • Heat icing in microwave, 15-20 seconds until soft
  • Spoon icing over cut cakes covering well
  • Let icing harden - VOILA - perfectly, adorable scrumptious morsels!

Enjoy your sappy love day my dears. Kisses, Smooches, and Besos galore! Muah.

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Gulf Coast Shipyards

A Facilities Review ALUMINUM BOATS Aluminum Boats, Inc., is a new shipyard in south Louisiana that is rapidly earning a reputation for high-quality construction and repair of aluminum boats at reasonable prices. As the name indicates, the shipyard

A Preview Of The Latest Offerings Designed To Help Operators Reduce Costs As in other areas, the computer is revolutionizing the maritime industry. Numerous new packages of hardware and software have become available for marine applications during the past year.

Tacoma Boatbuilding Launches Tenth T-AGOS For Navy

The tenth in a projected fleet of 26 Navy oceanographic surveillance ships (T-AGOS) was recently christened "Invincible" at Tacoma Boatbuilding Company in Tacoma, Wash. The USNS Invincible (T-AGOS- 10) will be operated by the Military Sealift

D r a v o M e c h l i n g A n n o u n c es M a n a g e m e n t C h a n g e s In S o u t h e r n O p e r a t i o ns

Dravo Mechling, the barge line subsidiary of Dravo Corporation, recently announced a series of management changes related to its operations in the New Orleans- Baton Rouge, La., area. Tom Terrell has been appointed manager, Southern operations.

Voith to Exhibit VWT Baut at SIMM

At this year's SMM in Hamburg, Voith Turbo (Hall 5, Stand 212) will highlight the new Voith Water Tractor (VWT) Baut (pictured right) which has been put in service by Bukser og Berging A/S in Oslo. It is the fifth VWT of the Bukser fleet, but the first fitted with optimized blades.

U.S. Manifest Presentation Requirements

The United States, like all other nations, has required from its founding that manifests of imported cargo be filed with its Customs agency. Traditionally, the manifest was filed (or "presented") when the ship arrived in port. Official entry was

First Of Two Tugs To Sembawang Towing— More To Be Ordered

In order to provide better tug services and to diversify its activities, Sembawang Towing has embarked on a program to modernize its fleet. The company has recently taken delivery of a highly versatile tug, Sea Cheetah, shown above. The tug, built at Singapore Slipway,

Frazier Appointed Senior Vice President-Sales And Marketing At ACBL

Tom Frazier I I I , formerly vice president of sales, has been named senior vice president of sales and marketing at American Commercial Barge Line Company (ACBL), a unit of the Inland Waterways Services division of Texas Gas Transmission Corporation.

Seabulk Contracts for PSV in Brazil

Seabulk Offshore do Brasil, Ltda.. finalized an agreement with Promar Brazil (Estaleiro Promara I) to build a UT-755L platform supply vessel (PSV) for delivery in the fall of 2004, with an option for a second ship. To be named Seabulk Brasil, the 5,460-hp, 236-ft.

A New Course For AWO's Shipyard Conference

A conscious decision to expand the activities of the American Waterways Shipyard Conference was made by the conference members on March 10, 1989, so that our nation's small and medium-sized shipyards could strengthen their voice in Washington.

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Distance Record!

For the past week or so I've been struggling to get my miles in and it has caused quite a bit of anguish on my part. Mostly because I was working to a schedule and I wasn't hitting my goals in both time and distance.  After taking abou a week off from my schedule I feel much better about my progress after today's effort.  27 days and counting for my 10k but I'm really starting to eyeball and gear myself to get ready for my half marathon that's in May.  The 10k I feel I'm ready for right now and I think I can reach my sub 60 min goal that I've set for myself and with that in the back of my mind, I've started to mentally get ready for my first half.

That all being said - I went out the front door (well actually my in-laws front door) and just started running.  I took Bogey along with me to help me keep my pace slow, but I felt so good over the first 20 mins I started to 'add' distance 3,4,5 miles went by without even a pause.  I felt great and the weather was just perfect for running - overcast with just a touch of a drizzle as I ran along the windswept ocean and harbor area (58 degrees).  After the 6 mile mark I was still feeling good so mentally I added another loop in my head.  Right about then I realized that I was closing in on a personal best in distance (9.5 miles).  But I was starting to worry about my running partner - Bogey had started to try to take 'drinks' out of the standing water collecting in the curbs while we were running.  Twice I stopped at water fountains to try to get him to drink out of my hands, but the stupid dog would rather drink out of the curb on the run.....  I lost about 3-5 mins trying to get Bogey to drink when I decided to just head home (approx 4 miles;  I wasn't quite sure of the distance at this point).  So Bogey and I fought our way home - 1:30:00 on the clock clicked away, then 1:45:00 and I reached the point where we were going to leave the beach behind.  I knew that from this point we were just a little over a mile away from finishing so I gave Bogey a quick little pep talk and we trudged our way home.  2:01:51 was our final time, but how far did we go?  I was guessing just over 10 miles, but I was suprised to see 11.45 come up when I mapped it out!  A personal best on a day when I just wanted to get in about 4-5 miles.

Now just barely removed from this PB I'm wondering if I could break 2 hours 15 mins for my first half?  This run was very, very easy - and the pace felt really good (10:39 per mile).  I walked three times (two of them water breaks for Bogey), and I didn't have any water, gu's or food for the distance - I'm beginning to think that it's possible.  Physically I'm tired, but not worn out and that leads me to believe that I can handle the half distance now and maybe even 'race' that distance.  First I have to see if I can do the sub 60 though before I start planning any thing else.  I have to remind myself that I'm stil training for my 10k.  "Don't get ahead of myself."

Keep Steppin'

Jamoosh said...

Puddles and toilets - what is it about dogs?

Running Through Life said...

Congrats on the new record!. It sound to me that you are ready for the 1/2.

Keep it going!!!

Adam said...

i'm a stretch goal setting kind of a guy, so I say go for it!