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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:14:54 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Hi all, > > I've repackaged the new gkrellm 2.0.0 which is now ported to gtk2 > (woohoo!). Unfortunately, the plugins are incompatible with the previous > 1.2.x ones, and since not many/all have been ported yet, I prefer not to > release the package on the main freshrpms.net site for now. > > For those of you who'd like to try it out, you can grab it here : >  > > I think the themes are still compatible, but haven't tried to install some > with 2.0.0 yet. > Last note, the above packages are for Valhalla. And yes, although GNOME 2 > is not in Valhalla, gtk2 and glib2 have been from the very beginning! ;-) Sweet, dude- I was really hoping it'd be out sooner or later; thanks a bunch! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Fahrländer Linux Zealot, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN My Voyage:  ICQ 5119262 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've been complaining for years, and almost no one listened. "Windows is just easier" you said. "I don't want to learn anything new", you said. Tell me how easy THIS is: _______________________________________________ RPM-List mailing list


Working this loose knit fashion is what keeps the Mekons so exciting, Langford said. "When the Mekons was our whole day job, it became a drudgery," he said. " Sometimes we get bogged down and trapped. But we're usually pretty greasy enough to bite our leg off, squirm free and run off."


Now this is a beautiful thing. #letters Letters to the editor for Tuesday, April 4, 2006 Psychiatric drugs not safe for kids Re "Are kids being overmedicated? Scientologists join fight against psychotropic drugs," article, March 20: Nicely done article about the upcoming bill in the Florida Legislature on informed consent and the over-medication of children. As a registered nurse for almost 30 years, I know that informed consent is the standard in the medical profession for any therapy or surgery that may have life-damaging results. While we know that many medications are going to have side effects worth the risk in adults, it's even more important to have full disclosure to parents before children under 18 are given psychiatric drugs, because of the lack of long-term studies of the new medications' effect on developing brains and nervous systems. We already know what the psychiatric drugs of the 1940s, '50s and '60s have to offer in side effects. Patients have been permanently damaged from these effects. I practice in the geriatric field, and the unconfronted damage to our elderly after long-term use of psychiatric drugs should be a warning for what we may be doing to our children despite the desire to help them. I feel very sorry for Terry Smith's loss of a child. But, knowing what I know about the newer drugs on the market to treat depression and anxiety, I would not let my child be put on them. They are not safe, even in low dosages, for a developing nervous system; and, unfortunately, after more have committed suicide and homicides in the near future, we may finally get the message to pull these drugs off the shelf completely. Informed consent will at least give way to more alternatives to handling the concerns and behaviors of children and open the door to more therapies less damaging physically and emotionally than what is being offered by psychiatry. KEN W. THOMAS, Clearwater __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around


Dear Steven, Please note that the head of Fundamental, Mr. Mark Guo, personally assured us that they will transfer our share of Hotel T before the end of November this year. The delay is due to the time that might take for local companies to process remittance requests to a foreign company. As to Hotel T 2, the deal that we can get from Fundamental is as follows: 1- same terms as Hotel T: minimum 18% and follows a scale system 2- $1million US dollars up front, non refundable and not subject to film's performance 3- day-and-date release and/or at least within 4 weeks of the US release date 4- we can set the date for payment so that we won't have the same problem I believe this is a very good deal so let us know if this other company can top this. Best regards, Li ----boundary-LibPST-iamunique-1940968265_-_---


Keith, This is my first draft of the dendrochronology feature. I wonder if you have time to go through look. I hope you recognise the quotes, but please makes changes if they think they misrepresent you. And if you can answer any of the questions in square brackets that would be most useful. Ideally, can you not change the full text but make notes, remarks, answers referring to it. As ever, haste is of the essence. Regards --Fred Pearce It was one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the past 10 000 years. Mount Changbai [correct?] in China blasted 50 cubic kilometres of rock into the air and deluged much of the far east with hot pumice. Radiocarbon dated the explosion at early in the 11th century. But it took Keith Briffa, sitting in his office in Norwich and juggling data from tree rings round the world, to pinpoint the precise year: 1032. Volcanoes scatter the atmosphere with dust that deflects sunlight and cools the world beneath for a year or more. And when the world cools, trees grow less. That year's growth rings are smaller and less dense. By analysing those rings, Briffa and his colleagues at the Climatic Research Unit in the University of East Anglia have charted these sudden and dramatic shocks to the climate system, from Changbai to Pinatubo in 1991. Larches in the forests of the northern Urals, for instance, have revealed that 1032 was the coldest summer there in a thousand years, more than 6 degrees cooler than the long-term average. Four of the five coldest summers in Europe and North America during the past four centuries (1601, 1641, 1669, and 1912) coincided with known major volcanic events. "We are pretty certain the fifth one, in 1699, did too," says Briffa. "But the geologists haven't found the volcano yet." It is clever work. But the science of tree-ring analysis, dendrochronology, is more than just a party piece for botanists. Every ring in every tree round the world contains a memory of the climate the year it was formed. Reading these rings holds the potential, Briffa believes, to answer one of the most vital questions of our time: has human activity started to warm the planet? With colleagues in laboratories and field stations from Dublin to eastern Siberia, he has within the past year [correct?] begun an attempt to construct a history, year by year, of temperatures across northern Europe and Asia over the past 10 000 years, right back to the waning of the last ice age. The tam, funded by the European Union, hope to help show whether the warming seen across the planet in the past century, and especially since around 1980, is within the limits of normal natural variability, or the start of man-made global warming. For climatologists, the search for an irrefutable "sign" of anthropogenic warming has assumed an almost Biblical intensity. The leading figures of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), claim that, in all probability, they have seen it. Last summer [ed: 1996], the IPCC's scientific working group, chaired by former UK Meteorological Office boss Sir John Houghton, concluded that "the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate". But it is like the "balance of evidence" suggesting BSE causes CJD. The judgment is far from "beyond reasonable doubt". The case remains "not proven". Many researchers most intimately involved in the search are still far from sure how the probabilities balance. And some of the sharpest concerns are coming from the places where the original early warnings of global warming emerged in the mid-1980s. Places such as Briffa's base at the Climatic Research Unit in Norwich, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California. Few investigators doubt that the world has warmed recently. Nor that the enhanced "greenhouse effect" of pollution from gases such as carbon dioxide, will warm the planet. But in the past five years, climate researchers have growing increasingly aware of how little they really know about the natural variability from which they must pick out the "signal" of human influence. One prominent IPCC researcher concerned about this gap in knowledge is Simon Tett from the Hadley Centre for climate modelling at the Meteorological Office, home to one of the world's five leading global circulation models, capable of recreating a mathematical version of how the atmosphere works and of running simulations of climatic changes over decades or even centuries. He says that "in the past, our estimates of natural variability have been based on climate models." But this autumn [date?], he says, those estimates have been thrown into turmoil by a paper published in the journal The Holocene. In it, Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California at San Diego, compared model estimates of natural temperature fluctuations over the past 400 years with the best evidence from the real world -- from instruments in the past century and "proxy data", such as Briffa's tree rings, from before that. The result was bad news for the modellers. The two models examined -- one German, the other American -- generated a natural variability of around 0.1 degree C per century. This was less than half that revealed in the proxy data. "Of course we don't have to believe the proxy data. They certainly have problems attached to them. But my belief is that they both models, and proxy data too, underestimate real variability," says Barnett The models' error was not, perhaps, too surprising. As Barnett points out, they do not include vital "forcing" mechanisms that alter temperature, such as solar cycles and volcanic eruptions. Nor can they yet mimic the strength of the largest year-on-year variability in the natural system, the El Nino oscillation in the Pacific Ocean, which has a global impact on climate. Nonetheless, the findings should serve as a warning, Barnett says, that "the current models cannot be used in rigorous tests for anthropogenic signals in the real world". If they are they "might lead us to believe that an anthropogenic signal had been found when, in fact, that may not be the case." Barnett knows how easily this can happen. He was a lead author for a critical chapter in the last IPCC scientific assessment, which investigated "the detection of climate change and attribution of causes". It formulated the IPCC case that the evidence points towards a human influence on climate, but it warned repeatedly that great uncertainties remained. "We wrote a long list of caveats in that chapter," says Barnett. "We got a lot of static from within IPCC, from people who wanted to water down and delete some of those caveats. We had to work very hard to keep them all in." Even so, when the findings were first leaked to the New York Times, it was under the headline "Scientists finally confirm human role in global warming". Suggestive though the evidence may be, Barnett and his co-authors insist that the uncertainties, especially concerning natural variability, have to be answered. And so, suddenly, the modellers are queuing at Briffa's door to find out what his tree-ring data shows about the real world beyond the computer simulations. "Five years ago, climate modellers wanted nothing to do with the palaeo community," says Briffa with a grin. "But now they realise that they need our data. We can help them to define natural variability." He has already collaborated with Barnett. Tett paid his first visit to the dendrochronology lab in November [1996]. And so to the forests of Europe and Asia where, over the next [how many?] years Briffa will coordinate the work of colleagues in a dozen countries who hope to dramatically increase the available proxy data on past climate change. Much of the best data so far has come from the forests round Lake Tornetrask, on the northern border of Sweden, deep inside the Arctic Circle. This is near the northern limit for Scots pine, a place where their growth rate of the trees can be massively altered by small perturbations in summer temperatures. The result is dramatic differences in the thickness and density of tree rings. The head of this work is Professor W [full first name?] Karlen [ed: acute on e], a geographer at the University of Stockholm, who over many years has taken cores from living trees and from logs and stumps hauled from old peat bogs. Despite the harsh climate, there are living trees here up to 600 years old. And the chronology can be extended ever further by analysing the dead trees. So far the climate reconstruction is complete for more than 1400 years before the present; the aim now is to extent it up to 8000 years. The best data, says Briffa, comes from analysing both ring width and the maximum density of wood in each ring. By firing X-rays through the wood, researchers can now analyse the density of rings as little as 30 microns across -- the equivalent of a tree's girth growing by a centimetre every century. The growth of cell walls late in the growing season creates the densest wood and, says Briffa, "appears to depend directly on the average mean temperature". Even so, ring growth is a product of many factors, including the genetics of the tree, past climate, the age of the tree and soil moisture. The relationships between ring growth and summer temperature are not a precise. But comparisons between the recent rings and known climatic data show that the rings can capture at least half of the summer temperature variability. The temperature graphs produced at Tornetrask show "pronounced variability on all timescales, from year-on-year variations right up to century-on-century," says Briffa. On the longer timescales, for instance, they show 20 major cooling periods during the past two millenia, including long spells between 500 and 850, between 1100 and 1350 and between 1580 and 1750, the little ice age. There were also long warm spells between 900 and 1100, known as the medieval warm period, and 1360 to 1560. [ed: show graph from NERC paper]. Further back, early results suggest a strong warm era from 4000 to 3300 BC, and a cool period ending around 5070 BC. But there are intriguing gaps, for which no tree rings can be found. These, says Briffa, "suggest some major calamity that destroyed trees. Volcanoes, perhaps, or a rapid rise in the water tables." A 19-year gap between 1130 and 1111 BC, for instance, coincides with volcanic ash showing up in Greenland ice. "What all this means," says Briffa, "is that the old image of the 10 000 years since the end of the last ice age -- the Holocene era -- as climatically tranquil looks increasingly inaccurate." Hence the intense interest in the EU project, which will attempt to reconstruct those 10 000 years of climate right across northern Europe and Asia, from Ireland to the Sea of Okhotsk, from the borders of Mongolia to shores of the Arctic Ocean. During the past summer, helicopters flying low over the tundra have spotted logs in hundreds of small lakes in the Tornetrask region of northern Sweden. Karlen has donned his diving suit to help remove samples of timber from the freezing waters [did he?]. In northern Finland, local diving clubs picked some 3000 samples from lakes. In the Arctic wastes of northern Siberia, a major survey is being conducted on the Taimyr peninsula, the largest stretch of frozen tundra in Eurasia and far north of today's tree line. There are well-preserved logs buried in river sediments here that grew between 5000 and 8000 years ago. On the Yamal Peninsula, just east of the Ural mountains on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, wood dug from the permafrost grew in conditions so cold that some summers temperatures never exceeded the threshold for growth of about 5 degrees C, so no growth rings formed. Nonetheless Yamal is the only site so far found that yields tree rings right through a gap at 300 BC. "Interestingly, the Yamal rings show this to have been the coldest period in the entire run," says Briffa. Other, less detailed, surveys are being carried out across the whole of the north of the two continents. And this winter the timber is being analysed at laboratories in Copenhagen and Birmensdorf -- the Swiss home of Fritz Schweingruber, one of the world's top tree-ring analysts. The project will also carry out new analysis on the large numbers of samples of ancient oak already stored in laboratories in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Sweden. The oak has been dragged from bogs and river beds, or liberated from archaeological sites and even the beams of old houses over the past 30 years. "There is a massive amount of data on existing European oak rings. But much of it was done in the 1970s, and then not updated," says Briffa. One of Britain's biggest collections, at Sotterley Park near Lowestoft in Suffolk [Keith: who runs this?], has ring data going back to 1580. "But it stops in the 1980s, missing the recent major droughts. We have got to update that information." Already, the first long data sets are starting to emerge from Siberia. Last summer [ed: 13 July 1995], Briffa, Schweingruber and Stepan Shiyatov of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology at Ekaterunburg in the Russian Urals published a paper on "unusual 20th-century summer warmth in a 1000-year temperature record from Siberia". A complete tree-ring chronology from AD 914, pieced together from larches on the Yamal peninsula, suggested that average summer temperatures since 1901 have been higher than for any similar length of time during the chronology. It estimated that from 1600, the depth of the little ice age, to the present day there has been a 1.14 degrees C warming. The first eight decades of the 20th century were 0.13 degrees C warmer than the next warmest period, nine centuries before in1202-91. The chronology also showed that Europe's "little ice age" extended east of the Urals, but that the medieval warm period did not. But these long trends disguise sharp short-term anomalies. The 11th century seems to have been a particularly turbulent time in the Urals. 1032, the year of the Changbai eruption, yielded the coldest summer in a thousand years. But the following year was the second warmest of the millenium, at 2.11 degrees above the mean. Tree rings are not the only source of proxy temperature data. Layers of ice laid down annually in permanent ice sheets, such as those in Greenland and Antarctica, carry a temperature record in the isotopic composition of the ice. Corals also have a temperature imprint, and even sediments on continental shelves can be mined for climate information. The most work, so far, has been done on ice sheets. American and European researchers in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP), for instance, have drilled for 3 kilometres into the ice pack, going back more than 100 000 years. Besides plotting the course of the last ice age, they have found evidence of constant climate shifts during the past 10 000 years. Briffa says tree rings and ice cores "complement each other, focusing best at different timescales." Tree rings show annual and decade-to-decade variations very clearly. But they do not go back so far, and are not so good at spotting change from millenium to millenium. Ring analysis seems to smooth out long-term trends, probably because trees slowly adapt to these changes, disguising them." On the other hand, ice-core data shows up long-term trends very clearly, but is poor at showing single-year changes. The melting and refreezing of ice in the surface of ice packs means that the ice from individual years tends to mingle together. The patterns of temperature change revealed by these different methods will probably always remain too fragmented to reveal unambiguous trends in global average temperatures. But this may not matter. "Frankly, global averages are not central to the issue of attributing climate change," says Barnett. "What will ultimately prove whether or not we are altering the climate will be the patterns of temperature change -- geographical patterns, seasonal patterns and vertical patterns." It is not how much it warms, but where, that will be vital. Under the IPCC umbrella, Barnett and Phil Jones of the CRU have formed a small "detections group", to look for these tell-tale patterns. "We are systematically looking at the patterns, past and present, of all the main forcings on climate," Barnett says. They will investigate how the world's climate systems respond to volcanoes, to changes in the ocean circulation, to solar cycles and so on. "Then we will compare those patterns with what we are seeing today. What we hope is that the current patterns of temperature change prove distinctive, quite different from the patterns of natural variability in the past." And if that turns out to be the case, he says, "we will be able to close down this issue of attribution, perhaps within three to five years." Here, the climate models will again come into play. If current climate change also accords with what the models predict from global warming, then the "hand of man" will indeed look to be on the planet's thermostat. The models all suggest that anthropogenic global warming will show a very distinctive pattern. For instance, they predict that anthropogenic warming will be greatest in the northern latitudes of the great continental land masses, such as Eurasia. And that makes the finding of Briffa's team that summer temperatures in northern Siberia are higher than for a millenium potentially extremely important. And the prospect of further data from this region to confirm that finding so intriguing. Briffa grins at the prospect. "The trend seems to be accelerating. We are getting reports back from Stepan, our man in the Urals, that it was warmer this spring on the Yamal peninsula there than ever before, and tree growth has been absolutely fantastic. It is a major warming, like nothing seen there for a thousand years -- and it is what the climate models predict." Caution prevails, but the elusive pattern of man-made global warming may just be emerging amid the larch groves on the sunny hills of northern Siberia. ends


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Re: Hotel T Notes (Revised) Great On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:41 AM, "Pascal, Amy" wrote: Perfect send to bob and michelle and michael On Dec 3, 2013, at 1:48 AM, "North, Adam" wrote: Revised Hotel T Notes attached and below. Thanks! Notes from Conversation with Robert Smigel So Far (12-2): Â Pg. 1: Good idea to tweak the opening so that it's not a 3-page scene. Instead it's a part of the opening montage that establishes the relationship between humans and monsters. Â Pg. 9: All of the montage is great – let's just focus more on setting up that Drac and Mavis are in conflict about how human-y Dennis is. Â Pg. 24: We are going to keep Quinston in the movie, but Johnny has to be the driving force behind the idea of modernizing the hotel. Quinston is just an extension of what Johnny wants in the movie, and when Johnny discovers that Dracula's actually been dismissive of Quinston, it will feel like a betrayal because it's as if Drac was dismissive to him. Â At the end of Act One, Dracula will convince Johnny and Mavis that everything will go fine without them at the Hotel because Quinston is coming to the hotel and he'll carry out everything that Johnny wants. Once they leave, Dracula then he'll throw Quinston in the well, and Quinston won't actually do anything at the hotel until the Third Act. Â What doesn't work right now with Quinston is how he's used in the third act, because his decision to go to Northern California to secure his power over the hotel doesn't make sense. But Quinston will be useful at the hotel in the Third Act by playing to the remaining monsters' fears that they're being abandoned by Dracula. Â Pg. 34: Genndy really believes he can make Cakey work, but in order for it to work, Cakey needs to be set up clearly as the kind of monster that Dennis really likes. He'll be a parody of an Elmo-like character, and the idea will stay simple and clear – the stuff about Batman will go so that it's not convoluted. Â End of Act 1/Everyone Going Out of Town Has to be clear that: Dracula's plan is to get Johnny and Mavis out of town so that he can show Dennis the glory of being a Vampire and tease the Vampire-ness out of Dennis. Johnny and Mavis want to be alone because they're not having fun anymore in their relationship. Johnny wants to stay at the hotel because he likes it there, because he's modernizing the hotel and Dracula is taking him seriously as he does it. Mavis is starting to piece together in her mind that she'd rather raise Dennis in the human world. Â Drac will put Eunice and the Human Fly in charge of the hotel after he puts Quinston in the well. Eunice and the Human Fly will not care, and the hotel will soon become a crazy mess. Â Road Trip Drac should have a clear plan for how the road trip is supposed to go, where they're going to stop, etc. Â Pg. 44: Dracula will try very hard to explain his plan for the road trip to his friends in this scene in the sauna, but they be so distracted/freaked out by an old naked man that they don't pay attention. That way Dracula has a clear plan but the trip will be chaotic because the other monsters don't know what the plan is. Â Mavis and Johnny's Trip On Mavis and Johnny's trip around Europe, it will become increasingly clear to Mavis that she wants to raise Dennis in the human world. She and Johnny will be discriminated against at the restaurant in Paris, but the discrimination won't deter Mavis from wanting to live in the human world. Instead, it will clue the audience in to the idea that Mavis living with the humans is a bad idea. It will warn the audience, not the characters. Â While they're on their trip, Mavis will start to relax and become the Mavis that we all remember from the first movie, but she'll attribute that relaxation to being in the human world. Â But, when they're on the roof of the Louvre, Johnny should get Mavis so happy/relaxed that she start thinking that "it doesn't matter where we live, as long as we're together." That way she's almost at the point of deciding to stay at the Hotel, but then she finds out that Dracula is in jail with Dennis, and she decides definitively to move. Â Tracking the Hotel Have to make sure that as we keep cutting back and forth to the hotel, we're really tracking the story there. The hotel has to keep getting worse and worse each time we cut back to it. This idea is in there in the scene on Pg. 67 and Pg. 91 (after Drac has already left for Sunnyvale), but we need to be teasing out the idea of the hotel falling into chaos in Drac's absence over the course of Act 2, and we need to be following it more closely. Â Let's try cutting the scene on pg. 68 where Quasimodo finds Quinston in the well, because Quinston should stay down there until the third act. Â Jail The monsters should still go to jail, but the scene there needs to be shorter and the jail has to feel like a fun, safe jail that's in keeping with the tone of the rest of the movie. Â The scene in at the jail should really be about Dracula finally taking good care of Dennis and being a good grandpa to him. Â Pg. 88: When Dracula comes back to the Hotel, he thinks that everything will be fine when he gets there, but the Hotel is in chaos. Â When Mavis arrives back at the hotel, she has decided – based on Dracula's actions – that she definitely wants to move to the human world. Â When Johnny arrives back at the Hotel, he's hurt by what Drac did to Dennis, and then finds out that Dracula had Quinston put in the well, so his last ounce of desire to defend Dracula falls away and he too decides that they definitely need to go. Â Pg. 89: We don't need the scene of them on the plane to Sunnyvale – that was really only there to service the idea that Dracula followed them on the same plane, and now Dracula will come to Sunnyvale later. Â After Mavis and Johnny Have Left Dracula will mope a bit, but he's dealing with the chaos at the Hotel. He can't have come to the realization fully that he's been doing the wrong thing by Dennis. He can't have come to his senses yet. He's just missing his family. Â Good idea that Mavis accidentally butt-dials Dracula, and he misinterprets the conversation that he overhears between Mavis, Johnny, and Dennis in a way that makes him think that Dennis needs him now more than ever. It'll reinvigorate his desire to go after Dennis and bring out the Vampire in him. He'll be more obsessed with his goal all along, not less. Â Drac Leaving the Hotel Again After the butt-dial, Dracula will decide to leave the Hotel and go after Mavis and Johnny. The Hotel is either in complete chaos, or the monsters at the hotel should really need Dracula to do something for them, but instead Dracula leaves. Dracula doesn't know that over the course of the second act the monsters have become increasingly afraid that Drac is abandoning them, and so him leaving in this moment will make their fear even worse. Â Once Drac Leaves the Hotel, Quinston will come back out and prey on the monsters' fear, make them really think that Drac has abandoned them, Then he'll claim that all of the modernization that he wants to make are actually orders from Dracula. Â The Rest of the Third Act There's still some thinking to be done on how this Third Act will work. We don't need both the costume shop and the Wal-Mart scenes Â Don't know what it is yet, but we have to do something that creates a problem for Dracula when he decides to leave the Hotel. But it doesn't work to have Quinston leave the Hotel and come to NorCal with the other monsters. It just doesn't make sense story-wise to have Quinston go to NorCal in order to secure something in Transylvania. Â Have to motivate Dennis running away better, and clarify how Drac realizes everything has been all his fault Â


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Hi again Tim et al - looks good to me. Obviously, you and Keith need to nail the divergence issue in the text, and also refer to it in the caption for this fig, but otherwise, it's looking good. Thanks, Peck >Hi again, > >attached is the new MWP box figure. > >We reverted back to the figure used in the FOD >because the decision to drop the panel from >Osborn & Briffa (2006) meant that we were able >to show a different selection of curves in the >remaining panel from those we used in our paper. >This allowed us to drop the shorter series that >didn't span the medieval period, simplifying the >figure and also dealing with a number of review >comments that had been made about those series. > >The only differences from the FOD figure are >that the font is now consistent with the others >figures, the composite mean series has been >removed, and the figure has been shrunk >vertically to save space. > >Cheers > >Tim > > >Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:chap6_box6.4_f1.pdf (PDF /«IC») (00143489) >Dr Timothy J Osborn, Academic Fellow >Climatic Research Unit >School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia >Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK > >e-mail: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk >phone: +44 1603 592089 >fax: +44 1603 507784 >web: ~timo/ >sunclock: ~timo/sunclock.htm > >**Norwich -- City for Science: >**Hosting the BA Festival 2-9 September 2006 -- Jonathan T. Overpeck Director, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth Professor, Department of Geosciences Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Mail and Fedex Address: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth 715 N. Park Ave. 2nd Floor University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 direct tel: +1 520 622-9065 fax: +1 520 792-8795


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Thanks all who have commented. Below is the likely final word unless Martin needs more clarification. Seem ok, Martin? Sorry for the confusion. Guess some reviewers are running out of substantive issues, so that might be a sign that we're getting close to the final draft... Best, Peck From Caspar: >Dear all, yes the UCAR version can be considered the "official" one. >I changed the order of pages because I needed to separate the >"primary content" of the paper from its "supplement"; thus I moved >tables xS, figure 1S and its caption to the end. Everything else is >identical. From Keith: "the differences are as I understand , insubstantial and not pertinent to the interpretation used in preparing the draft." and Gene: > >Wahl, Eugene R wrote: >>Hello Peck, Martin, Bette, Eystein, Caspar: >> I just double checked the UCAR website version with the pdf >>version I have, and they are identical with the exception that the >>supplemental tables (Tables 1S and 2S), and supplemental figure >>caption and figure (Figure 1S) are placed at the very end of the >>document in the UCAR version. The content is identical in both >>versions. >> The text (including tables and figure captions) of the UCAR pdf is >>also identical to the WORD text that I sent to Peck, Keith Briffa, >>and Eyestein Jansen on February 24. There was a version sent on >>February 21, which the February 24 version superceded. There were >>3 words changed on p. 17, and some changes made to Appendix 1 in >>the February 24 version. Perhaps this difference between the 2/21 >>and 2/24 versions is the cause of the differences that Martin has >>seen. [Note: I would have sent the graphics separately with these >>versions, and I did not keep copies of the sent files in my email >>account -- to deal with memory limits in the system here. Thus, I >>cannot confirm exactly which graphic files are associated with the >>February 24 version. My apologies.] >> In summary, the UCAR website pdf document should be considered the >>official one that is "accepted/in press". Formal notification of >>acceptance from Stephen Schneider at Climatic Change came on >>February 28. The article is still in this status. >> Let me know if I can help clarify things futher. Please note that >>I will be in Boulder starting May 27, to be a visiting scholar at >>NCAR for a month. I will be keeping up with email from there. >> Peace, Gene Dr. Eugene R. Wahl >>Asst. Professor of Environmental Studies >>Alfred University >> 607-871-2604 >>1 Saxon Drive >>Alfred, NY 14802 ________________________________ >> >>From: Jonathan Overpeck >>Sent: Sat 5/20/2006 8:39 PM >>To: Martin Manning >>Cc: Bette Otto-Bleisner; Eystein Jansen; Caspar Ammann; Wahl, Eugene R >>Subject: Re: Wahl & Amman paper >> >>Hi Martin - We'll look into this asap. I'll cc to Caspar and Gene >>to see if they can clarify the situation and make sure we have the >>correct version. I'll also cc Bette since she may see Caspar around >>NCAR and make sure he know's we are trying to clarify things with >>his paper. >> >>More soon, thx, Peck >> >> >> Dear Eystein and Jonathan >> >> It has been pointed out to us by a reviewer that the version >>of the Wahl and Amman paper (accepted by Climatic Change) on our >>review web site differs from the version that is available publicly >>from the NCAR web site at: >> >> >> [ >> >>  >> >> ] >> >> >> Although the differences are not (in my view) substantial, >>the paper on the NCAR web site is apparently dated Feb 24th (i.e. >>before the date of final submission of the SOD), it has additional >>figures and data, and the running header says "Feb 24, .... in >>press". >> >> Could you please clarify which of the two versions of this >>paper would reflect most accurately the status of the paper as used >>by the Chapter 6 team when preparing the SOD. That has been our >>basis for deciding on which version to include on our reviewer web >>pages up until now, but we are now reconsidering whether to also >>include updated versions of unpublished papers as well. If you have >>any thoughts on that please let me know. >> >> Best regards >> Martin >> >> >> -- >> Recommended Email address: mmanning@al.noaa.gov >> ** Please note that problems may occur with my @noaa.gov address >> Dr Martin R Manning, Director, IPCC WG I Support Unit >> NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory Phone: +1 303 497 4479 >> 325 Broadway, DSRC R/CSD8 Fax: +1 303 497 5628 >> Boulder, CO 80305, USA >> >> >> > >-- >Caspar M. Ammann >National Center for Atmospheric Research >Climate and Global Dynamics Division - Paleoclimatology >1850 Table Mesa Drive >Boulder, CO 80307-3000 >email: ammann@ucar.edu tel: 303-497-1705 fax: 303-497-1348 -- Jonathan T. 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Subject: FW: JP Morgan Conference Call on Enron -----Original Message----- From: Seyfried, Bryan Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:52 AM To: DL-Lon Enron Credit London; DL-Enron Credit Houston; Blesie, Brad; Zipter, Rudi Subject: FW: JP Morgan Conference Call on Enron -----Original Message----- From: Seyfried, Bryan Sent: 31 October 2001 07:28 To: Sherriff, John; Brown, Michael - COO London; Edgley, Anne; Murphy, Ted; Gold, Joe; Lewis, Richard; Scrimshaw, Matthew; Dyson, Fernley; Lien, Thor Cc: Valnek, Tomas Subject: FW: JP Morgan Conference Call on Enron below is a summary, prepared by Tomas Valnek, of the JP Morgan conference call to fixed income and equity investors. 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To alleviate this issue, the analyst would like to see the following: That Enron secures an extra USD 1-2bn in credit lines, preferably USD 1.5-2bn; That the maturity of the USD 2.25bn revolver maturing in May 2002 is extended. From the commodity side, they were confident that there no immediate liquidity issues. They had been in touch with trading counterparties like Dynegy, El Paso, Williams... and had not sensed that any of them would radically reduce their trading with Enron. (However, they noted that a weakening in trading activities could mean smaller market shares, which could negatively affect earnings.) On the debt side, one overall concern was the actual amount of debt, which they estimated to about USD 17.5bn, and related potential debt servicing problems. This includes debt actually held by Enron (about USD 12bn), debt attributable to Enron through unconsolidated equity affiliates, and the Marlin, Osprey and Yosemite debt. 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In particular, improve disclosure, give a better background to the LJM partnership and specify the nature and the value of the assets held in the trusts; Develop a cash flow plan to show how assets are to be monetised to pay down debt; Streamline operations; Provide information about the USD 600m broadband investments. Finally, mark-to-market accounting was discussed as well. The analysts had no issue with that noting that for Enron's type of business this was an appropriate way to account for revenues. They considered the average daily VaR number of USD 60m to be low, thus not showing any evidence of aggressive accounting. Also, the retention of key staff would become very important in the future. Regards Tomas


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I missed the beginning of the Trump interview but came in when he was arguing that his tax plan will be negotiated and not look like what he put out. He claimed it would be a boon for the middle class and raise his taxes. We could/maybe should do a hit on this. Sounded like he didn't know his own plan. On a Fox panel one of the commentators (Kim something?) hit Trump for changing his mind on his tax plan this week. He was asked about his flip flop on the minimum wage and he said he was open to changing it but he really wanted to bring jobs where people could earn more. He was asked how he could keep Carrier and other companies here when the products for the Trump Collection aren't made in the US. He said that the items for his collection aren't made here and didn't think it was hypocritical.... There is probably more from this interview so someone should take a second look.


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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz DNC State of the Union Reception 5.5.16 Kimmel Center - 6 p.m. 6 min remarks Intro Thank you Governor Rendell! We're so lucky to have a true Pennsylvania legend serving so graciously as the Philadelphia Host Committee Chair. Let me start by thanking everyone on the Executive Committee, all our community leaders and members of the Host Committee for your tireless work and commitment to our Party. I know you lead busy lives, but we can't pull off a successful convention without you. Let me also thank our CEO, the unparalleled Reverend, Leah Daughtry for her tireless work. We are so fortunate to have a lifelong Democrat of Leah's passion and expertise steering the ship; And of course I need to thank the honorable Mayor Jim Kenney, as well as all the wonderful people of Philadelphia who he represents. We are enormously grateful that you're hosting and warmly welcoming all the Democrats bringing their enthusiasm, energy, and passion as we arrive in greater and greater numbers over the next few months. And I know Mayor Kenney appreciates all the commerce we'll be bringing with us as conference goers visit Philly's great restaurants, hotels and small businesses. Gearing up We're just 80 days away from our Convention, and we've been making all the right moves to ensure we'll be one hundred percent prepared at kickoff time. We are on time, on budget and ready to run a beautiful convention. But as proud as I am of what we're doing, I have to mention how proud I am of who is doing it. Each day, as our numbers grow, we're making sure that our diversity does too. As Democrats, we believe our diversity is our great strength. That shows in the ranks of the DNC, where last year thirty-six percent of our employees were people of color. And we've awarded at least 35 percent of our contracts to companies owned by women, veterans, minorities, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community. And when the nation looks at our convention, they'll see a portrait of America. Our Party Affairs and Delegate Selection team has worked tirelessly to ensure that every state party has an accessible and inclusive process for anyone to run to become a delegate. Whether it's a school teacher in Orlando, a plumber in Cleveland, or a high school student in Denver, our convention delegates will reflect the diversity our Party. Dangerous Donald But before anyone casts a vote to nominate the next Democratic president of the United States, let me give you a little update from the DNC. Today, and every day until Election Day, we are laser focused on take down Dangerous Donald Trump - and winning seats up and down the ballot in every race across the country. With every other candidate out of the race, Trump is the Republican Party. We are going to hold him accountable for everything he has said and everything he has done. And we are going to hold the GOP accountable for everything they're doing to obstruct, offend, and drag our country backwards. The facts are simple: Dangerous Donald is unfit to be president. He only looks out for himself. He lacks the temperament and judgment to be commander in chief. And every aspect of his presidency would harm our country and damage our standing in the world. Even as a candidate, Dangerous Donald has damaged America's relationships across the globe. In the White House, he would undeniably make America less safe. He has no foreign policy experience - but don't worry about that - he said he'll rely on his "good brain," instead of listening to experts. He has a decades-long record of denigrating women. Seven out of ten women disapprove of his candidacy. He exploits racial anxieties and cultural fears to the point where his rallies have sparked violence against people of color, protestors, and the media. And while he tries to paint a picture of his wealth and business success, his record is riddled with embarrassing failures and cheap schemes that are designed to turn a quick a buck at the expense of his workers or everyday Americans. I'll spare you all the details, but trust me - that's the short version of what the American people are going to be hearing about Dangerous Donald over the coming months. You know, there's a reason why we saw Republicans across the country this week tweeting photos of their burning voter registration cards this week. Advantage, Democrats Well, we have a message for anyone disillusioned and disaffected by this year's unprecedentedly nasty and divisive Republican primary - we have a message for anyone disgusted by Donald: You have a home in the Democratic Party. We have the best candidates, the best ideas, and a fantastic record of social and economic progress under President Obama to run on - 73 consecutive months of private sector job growth and 20 million Americans who have health insurance who didn't before. In poll after poll, Democratic voters are reporting that our primary and our candidates have energized our party. In Nevada, voter registration among Democrats is beating Republicans two-to-one. So no matter what challenges lie ahead in the planning and execution of our convention, let me just say, clearly and unequivocally - I am really, really glad we are not planning the Republican convention. And I am absolutely optimistic about the future of the Democratic Party. Conclusion Finally, I'll just say, this convention is about so much more than the spectacle of big political speeches under red-white-and-blue balloons and confetti, although I think we might have some of that in store... This is about the direction of our nation. This is about the power of the people to come together and choose the best leader for the job. And no matter which of our candidates they choose, they'll be fighting every day for all Americans. We're fighting to level the playing field, raise wages, ensure equal pay, end discrimination, expand voting rights, make our country and our communities more secure and fighting to give hardworking Americans everywhere a fair shot. When it comes time to nominate our choices for President and Vice President, with your help, we will unify, fight together as Democrats. And friends, when the convention ends, we will go roaring into the general election with all the passion, grit and energy it takes to elect Democrats from the top of the ticket down. So thank you for all your work, thank you for your commitment to our party, and enjoy the rest of the evening. Thank you.


Trump, Reagan, and the Downsizing of History In the search for figures bearing comparisons to Donald Trump, one's mind inevitably wanders back in time. After a brief pause to muse over Sarah Palin, one soon moves to the late Ronald Reagan, the last entertainer who ran for the Presidency of the United States, which he won. For all the posthumous veneration that Reagan now receives, there are Americans who point to his candidacy as having fatally lowered the bar for qualifications for entry to the White House. It is hard to recall a moment when anyone accused Reagan of lording a superior knowledge over others. This seems unlikely to happen anytime soon with Trump, too. Unlike Trump, though, Reagan had a pleasingly mellifluous voice and a studied actor's ease at the podium, and he appeared to actually believe in the ideas he expressed. He might not have command of the briefing books, but there was a philosophy there. There was also a convincing sense that Reagan, whatever his political views, was a nice guy. However he may behave in his personal life, Trump's public persona is a mash-up of the prurient cruelties of Jerry Springer with the selfie-stick vanity of the Kardashians. He has repeatedly shown his bullying nature and variously ridiculed his fellow candidates for their physical size ("Little Marco" Rubio), purported dishonesty ("Crooked Hillary" Clinton), and reputed ugliness (Carly Fiorina). When someone at one of his rallies called Ted Cruz a "pussy," Trump immediately repeated the word. But a more telling contrast between the two men comes in the area of foreign policy. Coming into the Oval Office, thirty-five years ago, Reagan was the embodiment of a galaxy of homespun simplicities that he had helped nurture as an actor on behalf of his own Great Generation; as President during the last decade of the Cold War, his good-versus-evil rhetoric was often cartoonish. Nonetheless, it spoke to certain truths. "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" was a line straight out of Twentieth Century Fox, and may have ended up as little more than a hollow flourish had it not been for the collapse of the Soviet Union, a few years later. That event, though, gave Reagan the good fortune of appearing to have been morally righteous, historically clairvoyant, and strong, without ever actually going to war. Since those days, of course, the world has shown itself to be a much more complex place, as subsequent Presidents have learned, usually to their chagrin, with some faring better than others. George W. Bush did a particularly poor job at matching his own efforts at a Reaganesque rhetoric to the moment: "Mission Accomplished" comes to mind. And now we have Donald Trump. Trump's "America First"-themed foreign-policy address last week, in Washington, D.C., was billed as his first attempt at delivering a grown-up speech. It would, it was said, be something other than the usual ad-lib assemblage of stream-of-consciousness riffs, drive-by insults, know-nothing japing, and self-referential preening that some Americans find so fetching (to judge from primary-vote totals) and ratings-worthy (to judge from the airtime the networks give him). And so, on Wednesday, Trump stood in front of a teleprompter, in all his orangeness, and tried his best, with a speech that someone had evidently helped him write, to sound serious. Trump quickly hit all the high-concept trouble spots-Israel, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Russia, China-anywhere he could take a passing swipe at Barack Obama or his current main rival, Hillary Clinton. He invoked them to declare, once and again, as he has many times on the stump, that he would make America great again by being firmer than Obama, and would put America first. There was little that was dramatic or memorable, perhaps by design; it seemed that the speech was more of an exercise in proving that he could get through an appearance without saying something unhinged. In that sense, he was more or less successful, although observers were quick to point out his general superficiality. And the irrepressible man from Mar-a-Lago managed to utter a few off-script Trumpisms-"very bad," "believe me," a "disaster"-the now-familiar verbal crutches of a man who is singularly driven to constantly speak his mind while not really possessing the means to do so. He looked less like Reagan at the Wall than like Dean Martin during his standup routines. Although he didn't repeat it for his "America First" speech, Trump's ultimate foreign-policy statement remains that he will build a wall, a beautiful wall, and make Mexico pay for it. Perhaps he believes that, with such comments, he will gain honor abroad for a disrespected and abused United States-a theme he revisited frequently in his speech. If so, he is far from achieving that goal. Instead, Trump has gained popularity in Mexico as a best-selling papier-mâché piñata, with his mouth obscenely open, the better for people to bash it with sticks at birthday parties, and at any other opportunity. As with his threats about the wall on the U.S.-Mexican border, Trump's main foreign-policy position seems to be about making other countries pay for things. Much as real-estate developers who wish to use his name on their buildings must pay Trump a handsome fee, it seems he wants America's deadbeat allies to pony up a fairer share of the bills. In his speech on Wednesday, for example, Trump promised to make Washington's European NATO allies pay their fair share of their membership dues, or else, he hinted, they'd be cut loose from the U.S. defense umbrella. As for Russia, Trump said, "I believe an easing of tensions, and improved relations with Russia from a position of strength only, is possible, absolutely possible. Common sense says this cycle . . . of hostility must end and ideally will end soon. Good for both countries." Trump went on to say that as President he would engage with Russia and "try and get a deal that's great-not good-great for America" and that if he couldn't get one, he would "quickly walk from the table. It's that simple." In the front row of the audience for Trump's speech at the Mayflower was none other than Sergey Kislyak, Vladimir Putin's ambassador to the United States. He diplomatically refrained from offering his opinion on the speech. Thirty years after Reagan dared his greatest adversary to tear down the Berlin Wall, we have Trump boisterously claiming he wants to build a new one, not to keep out Communists, or even the ISIS terrorists he mysteriously claims to know how to eliminate, but people from Mexico, our closest neighbor to the south, a friendly nation, and one on which we rely for a significant percentage of our labor market, as well as our imported oil. If this is not a downsizing of history, then what is?


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