According to the Louisiana governor: "Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding."
But the Mayor had to sleep on it on start the evacuation the next morning:
In an interview on Eyewitness News, Nagin said his Saturday night dinner was interrupted by an urgent call from Governor Kathleen Blanco who asked Nagin to call the Hurricane Center.
Nagin said he would consider ordering evacuations by Sunday morning and may employ buses and trains to help get people out of the city.
According to the Louisiana governor: "Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding."
But the Mayor had to sleep on it on start the evacuation the next morning:
http://weblog.sinteur.com/?m=20050828
In an interview on Eyewitness News, Nagin said his Saturday night dinner was interrupted by an urgent call from Governor Kathleen Blanco who asked Nagin to call the Hurricane Center.
Nagin said he would consider ordering evacuations by Sunday morning and may employ buses and trains to help get people out of the city.
Once she was under it was difficult to see her due to the depth at the deep end. Before she went under, she didn't struggle or scream, so it would have been difficult to see her at the surface.
Gwynedd Council had considered reducing the depth of the deep end at Bangor because of visibility problems and surface glare, but that would have meant removing the diving boards.
Brian Evans, head of leisure services for the council, said: "The incident was what we would call a 'silent drowning'. The girl did not struggle or scream, and there was no visible occurrence that caused her to lose consciousness.
Stephen Jeselink, interim commander of the New Orleans Corps district, told employees in an internal e-mail dated May 25 that the district is experiencing financial challenges. Execution of our available funds must be dealt with through prudent districtwide management decisions. In addition to a hiring freeze, Jeselink canceled the annual Corps picnic held every June.
Why did he wait until 2006 to cut the picnic if funding has been bad since 2003?
Cutting a picnic is a sign of seriousness not seen before now.
Stephen Jeselink, interim commander of the New Orleans Corps district, told employees in an internal e-mail dated May 25 that the district is experiencing financial challenges. Execution of our available funds must be dealt with through prudent districtwide management decisions. In addition to a hiring freeze, Jeselink canceled the annual Corps picnic held every June.
Double muscled
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US originally described the effect of myostatin in mice. Now a US company set up at the university, MetaMorphix, is hoping to achieve the same effect in poultry and pigs to produce greater quantities of leaner meat.
Interestingly there are naturally occurring examples of mutations of the myostatin gene. Belgian Blue cattle have a less active form of the gene and are said to be 'double-muscled'.
While some scientists are claiming that intelligent design should not be taught because some religious people believe in it, other scientists are actually having difficulty determining if a particular plant is naturally occurring, whether it was created, or whether it is a cross between a naturally occurring plant and a human-created plant.
Researchers at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Dorset, UK, tested the herbicide glufosinate ammonium on plants in fields previously sowed with oilseed rape modified to carry a gene conferring resistance to the herbicide. But a single charlock plant carried on growing happily, raising fears that the gene for herbicide resistance had crossed over to the charlock and created a herbicide-resistant strain.
For a theory to be "scientific," it must provide the basis for testable hypotheses.
Here are two sides of this particular debate:
1) "There is no superweed and there never has been," echoes Brian Johnson, ecological geneticist at English Nature, the nature advisers to the British government. "It's more likely that herbicide resistance in charlock has evolved naturally."
or
2) But according to some media reports, genetic testing of the purported hybrid showed that it carries the same gene as the GM crop.
Why would anyone want to close their eyes and cover their ears and say "I can't hear you - there is only evolution - there is no intelligent design - I'm not listening to you"? When actual real scientists are creating organisms which other scientists cannot distinguish from similar species found in nature?
His Mongolian Chop was the most ridiculous attack in the history of violence. He jumps into the air and comes down a foot in front of where he was with a double handed clap. In the unlikely event that someone is there waiting for him, it hurts about as much as a normal punch.
Now he comes here and gives his "In the future there will be robots" chop all over Slashdot.
I for one have had enough and I say: "In Head Butt, he butts you with his hard forehead" instead
You're not on the history of kin korn karn. He makes the "In The Future There Will Be Robots!" comment in every Slashdot post he makes - that is why it is redundant, not because no one plays GTA.
If you like rainforests, fine everyone likes rainforests- but why do you feel the need to belittle bogs?
Are you a bogophobe?
Bogs are more difficult to transverse than rainforests are, but to those who understand them, they rival the rainforest in beauty and variety of flora and fauna.
One of my favorite vacation memories was to Estonia - home of the bog Nigula.
It may sound funny, but it is truly beautiful - with a lake, plateau, hollows, islands(SALUPEAKSI), and pools.
The world has enough problems without nature lovers fighting about what the best terrain is - you are of course welcome to your opinions about bogs, but please don't belittle bogs - environmentalism isn't a sport, but if it was, bogs would be the Yankees and the rain forests would be the Cubs.
Climate can exhibit abrupt shifts over large regions of the world. As the last glacial period was giving way to the current warm interglacial period, average temperatures in Greenland returned to glacial levels for more than 1,000 years. This unusual period, which is called the Younger Dryas, ended abruptly about 12,000 years ago. Evidence from an ice core drilled in Greenland indicates that temperatures there rose approximately 15F (8C) in less than a decade.
http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1999/10 /20.html
"Scientists used to think that climate took hundreds, even thousands of years to change. Now we know better. Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow from the Mount Washington Observatory and this is The Weather Notebook.
An example of an extremely quick climate change came during a period of time known as the Younger Dryas, which happened right after the last ice age ended, about 12,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas itself lasted about 1,000 years. What we didn't know until recently was just how quickly the Younger Dryas started and stopped. In a period of less than 50 years, the climate from the eastern US and Canada to much of Europe went from climate conditions much like today's, to frigid readings more like the Ice Age, at least a ten degree Farenheit change. That's how it stayed for a thousand years - and then the climate flipped back to normal in as little as 20 years."
David Bellamy said, "We criticise people from the third world countries for not conserving their rainforests, but when it comes to our peat bogs which are actually a rarer habitat than the tropical rainforest, we are doing a much worse job". (The Times, Saturday November 25, 2000).
Exploitation by afforestation, conversion to agriculture and commercial peat extraction has destroyed much of our peat lands. In the last century we lost 75% of our blanket bogs and 94% of our raised bogs. Gardeners and horticulture used a staggering 2.55 million cubic metres of peat each year. In the UK there is less than 9,500 acres of near natural raised bog left.
http://www.waverley.gov.uk/waste/peat.asp#What%20i s%20Peat?Peat is made of incompletely decomposed plant remains, which accumulate in waterlogged soils over thousands of years. It occurs because the natural processes of decay are prevented by the acidic water logging and depleted oxygen.
If the Siberian wasteland was covered with plants and water for thousands of years, doesn't that imply that during that time the wasteland was not frozen?
And, if it was not frozen, doesn't that imply that it was warmer in the distant past than it was in the recent past?
So, the question is, what caused that warming thousands of years ago and what is the "proper" temperature for the earth?
If the earth wants to return the tundra to a boglike state, more power to him!
>> If you don't speak out for others, no one will be left to speak out for you
Yeah!
I we forbid genetic discrimination, we'll have to eliminate affirmative action because it is based on a person's genetic makeup, then where will we be!
I forget - are we supposed to be for or against this genetic discrimination? It gets so confusing sometimes moving from the theory to the practice
If you read the article, you'll see that she had a prosthetic eye.
Just more slashdot jibberjabber.
PORTLAND -- A legally blind and partially disabled woman is suing the Portland Police Bureau over claims of police brutality
Eunice Crowder (pictured) says four officers roughed her up and threw her to the ground on June 9.
The officers were called when she reportedly refused to allow city workers to clean up yard debris. The 71-year-old says she was hit with pepper spray and stung by a taser gun. Her prosthetic eye reportedly fell out during the incident.
I'm glad you made it clear exactly what you were saying!
You said: "due to the direct intervention of Bush that public funding for stem cell research was banned in the USA."
Now here is exactly what Bush said:
"As a result of private research, more than 60 genetically diverse stem cell lines already exist. They were created from embryos that have already been destroyed, and they have the ability to regenerate themselves indefinitely, creating ongoing opportunities for research. I have concluded that we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines, where the life and death decision has already been made."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20 010809-2.html
It looks to me like Health Market Science shares a Copyright with Chip on some of his Perl work.
What did Health Market Science think they were getting for their funding dollars?
AUTHOR Chip Salzenberg,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Heath Market Science for funding creation of this module. Thanks also to Larry, Damian, Allison, et al for Perl 6 subroutine syntax, and to Damian for Filter::Simple and Parse::RecDescent.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005 Chip Salzenberg and Health Market Science.
What this means is that we are still dealing with a very wide range of possibilities for what could have happened yesterday, made even wider by the fact that it kind of sounds like some of the information that we have is contradictory. If the launch vehicle failed, how did we detect signals at Majuro and Panska Ves? On the other side, if the launch vehicle had a problem but still managed to put the spacecraft into some orbit, why didn't Strat Comm see it last night? We don't know what to make of it. We hope to get more information from Lou in an hour or two. Stand by for that
The university curriculums (curriculi?) you're thinking of must be significantly less taxing than any I've ever experienced or heard of - teaching "several subjects" usually amounts to a full-time job
It doesn't say that he taught the several subjects simultaneously simultaneously.
And it seems unlikely that he was teaching 4 or more classes simultaneously. [Although he may have been using a different definition of several: Being of a number more than two or three but not many]
Slashdot Mirror
According to the Louisiana governor: "Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding."
But the Mayor had to sleep on it on start the evacuation the next morning:
http://weblog.sinteur.com/?m=20050828
In an interview on Eyewitness News, Nagin said his Saturday night dinner was interrupted by an urgent call from Governor Kathleen Blanco who asked Nagin to call the Hurricane Center.
Nagin said he would consider ordering evacuations by Sunday morning and may employ buses and trains to help get people out of the city.
According to the Louisiana governor: "Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding."
But the Mayor had to sleep on it on start the evacuation the next morning:
http://weblog.sinteur.com/?m=20050828 In an interview on Eyewitness News, Nagin said his Saturday night dinner was interrupted by an urgent call from Governor Kathleen Blanco who asked Nagin to call the Hurricane Center.
Nagin said he would consider ordering evacuations by Sunday morning and may employ buses and trains to help get people out of the city.
Gwynedd Council had considered reducing the depth of the deep end at Bangor because of visibility problems and surface glare, but that would have meant removing the diving boards.
Brian Evans, head of leisure services for the council, said: "The incident was what we would call a 'silent drowning'. The girl did not struggle or scream, and there was no visible occurrence that caused her to lose consciousness.
\ The system was fitted to the Bangor pool in March 2003 at a cost of £65,000 and involves eight overhead and four underwater cameras.
The funding for the Army Corps of Engineers has increased every year since at least 2002.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy04/pdf/budget/ corps.pdf
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy05/pdf/budget/ corps.pdf
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy06/pdf/budget/ corps.pdf
2002: 4.6 Billion 2003: 4.7 Billion 2004: 4.8 Billion 2005: 4.9 Billion (estimate)
Are you really asking congress to investigate how the lower budget in 2006 was responsible for the hurricane damage in 2005?
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/i s_20050606/ai_n14657367%5Bfindarticles.com%5D
Stephen Jeselink, interim commander of the New Orleans Corps district, told employees in an internal e-mail dated May 25 that the district is experiencing financial challenges. Execution of our available funds must be dealt with through prudent districtwide management decisions. In addition to a hiring freeze, Jeselink canceled the annual Corps picnic held every June.
Why did he wait until 2006 to cut the picnic if funding has been bad since 2003?
Cutting a picnic is a sign of seriousness not seen before now.
You left out the section on their creative solution to the budget cut!
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/i s_20050606/ai_n14657367
Stephen Jeselink, interim commander of the New Orleans Corps district, told employees in an internal e-mail dated May 25 that the district is experiencing financial challenges. Execution of our available funds must be dealt with through prudent districtwide management decisions. In addition to a hiring freeze, Jeselink canceled the annual Corps picnic held every June.
Double muscled Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the US originally described the effect of myostatin in mice. Now a US company set up at the university, MetaMorphix, is hoping to achieve the same effect in poultry and pigs to produce greater quantities of leaner meat.
Interestingly there are naturally occurring examples of mutations of the myostatin gene. Belgian Blue cattle have a less active form of the gene and are said to be 'double-muscled'.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food/d n7729
Researchers at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Dorset, UK, tested the herbicide glufosinate ammonium on plants in fields previously sowed with oilseed rape modified to carry a gene conferring resistance to the herbicide. But a single charlock plant carried on growing happily, raising fears that the gene for herbicide resistance had crossed over to the charlock and created a herbicide-resistant strain.
For a theory to be "scientific," it must provide the basis for testable hypotheses.
Here are two sides of this particular debate:
1) "There is no superweed and there never has been," echoes Brian Johnson, ecological geneticist at English Nature, the nature advisers to the British government. "It's more likely that herbicide resistance in charlock has evolved naturally."
or
2) But according to some media reports, genetic testing of the purported hybrid showed that it carries the same gene as the GM crop.
Why would anyone want to close their eyes and cover their ears and say "I can't hear you - there is only evolution - there is no intelligent design - I'm not listening to you"? When actual real scientists are creating organisms which other scientists cannot distinguish from similar species found in nature?
I think that Mars' global warming is due to the heat generated by all those rovers that we keep sending.
His Mongolian Chop was the most ridiculous attack in the history of violence. He jumps into the air and comes down a foot in front of where he was with a double handed clap. In the unlikely event that someone is there waiting for him, it hurts about as much as a normal punch.
Now he comes here and gives his "In the future there will be robots" chop all over Slashdot.
I for one have had enough and I say: "In Head Butt, he butts you with his hard forehead" instead
YHBT.YHL.HAND
You're not on the history of kin korn karn. He makes the "In The Future There Will Be Robots!" comment in every Slashdot post he makes - that is why it is redundant, not because no one plays GTA.
When does he grow the stretchy, flaming, orange invisible breasts?
Why should I care what browser other people are using?
If you like rainforests, fine everyone likes rainforests- but why do you feel the need to belittle bogs?
Are you a bogophobe?
Bogs are more difficult to transverse than rainforests are, but to those who understand them, they rival the rainforest in beauty and variety of flora and fauna.
One of my favorite vacation memories was to Estonia - home of the bog Nigula.
http://www.loodus.ee/nigula/rada/rada_e.html
It may sound funny, but it is truly beautiful - with a lake, plateau, hollows, islands(SALUPEAKSI), and pools.
The world has enough problems without nature lovers fighting about what the best terrain is - you are of course welcome to your opinions about bogs, but please don't belittle bogs - environmentalism isn't a sport, but if it was, bogs would be the Yankees and the rain forests would be the Cubs.
"The problem is that these phases normally last millions of years, and the transitions between them are often extremely slow"
Antarctic ice cores from the last 300,000 years show something different from what you claim.
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/ historical02.jsp
The data that I have seen shows that the ice-age cycles last 100,000 years, not millions, and that the transitions can be abrupt. (data from 300,000 years of ice cores from Vostok, Antarctica)
Climate can exhibit abrupt shifts over large regions of the world. As the last glacial period was giving way to the current warm interglacial period, average temperatures in Greenland returned to glacial levels for more than 1,000 years. This unusual period, which is called the Younger Dryas, ended abruptly about 12,000 years ago. Evidence from an ice core drilled in Greenland indicates that temperatures there rose approximately 15F (8C) in less than a decade.
http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1999/10 /20.html
"Scientists used to think that climate took hundreds, even thousands of years to change. Now we know better. Hi, I'm Dave Thurlow from the Mount Washington Observatory and this is The Weather Notebook.
An example of an extremely quick climate change came during a period of time known as the Younger Dryas, which happened right after the last ice age ended, about 12,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas itself lasted about 1,000 years. What we didn't know until recently was just how quickly the Younger Dryas started and stopped. In a period of less than 50 years, the climate from the eastern US and Canada to much of Europe went from climate conditions much like today's, to frigid readings more like the Ice Age, at least a ten degree Farenheit change. That's how it stayed for a thousand years - and then the climate flipped back to normal in as little as 20 years."
Are you just making up your claims?
Do you have data to back them up?
David Bellamy said, "We criticise people from the third world countries for not conserving their rainforests, but when it comes to our peat bogs which are actually a rarer habitat than the tropical rainforest, we are doing a much worse job". (The Times, Saturday November 25, 2000).
Exploitation by afforestation, conversion to agriculture and commercial peat extraction has destroyed much of our peat lands. In the last century we lost 75% of our blanket bogs and 94% of our raised bogs. Gardeners and horticulture used a staggering 2.55 million cubic metres of peat each year. In the UK there is less than 9,500 acres of near natural raised bog left.
http://www.waverley.gov.uk/waste/peat.asp#What%20i s%20Peat?
Peat is made of incompletely decomposed plant remains, which accumulate in waterlogged soils over thousands of years. It occurs because the natural processes of decay are prevented by the acidic water logging and depleted oxygen.
If the Siberian wasteland was covered with plants and water for thousands of years, doesn't that imply that during that time the wasteland was not frozen?
And, if it was not frozen, doesn't that imply that it was warmer in the distant past than it was in the recent past?
So, the question is, what caused that warming thousands of years ago and what is the "proper" temperature for the earth?
If the earth wants to return the tundra to a boglike state, more power to him!
Yeah!
I we forbid genetic discrimination, we'll have to eliminate affirmative action because it is based on a person's genetic makeup, then where will we be!
I forget - are we supposed to be for or against this genetic discrimination? It gets so confusing sometimes moving from the theory to the practice
If you read the article, you'll see that she had a prosthetic eye.
Just more slashdot jibberjabber.
PORTLAND -- A legally blind and partially disabled woman is suing the Portland Police Bureau over claims of police brutality Eunice Crowder (pictured) says four officers roughed her up and threw her to the ground on June 9. The officers were called when she reportedly refused to allow city workers to clean up yard debris. The 71-year-old says she was hit with pepper spray and stung by a taser gun. Her prosthetic eye reportedly fell out during the incident.
You said: "due to the direct intervention of Bush that public funding for stem cell research was banned in the USA."
Now here is exactly what Bush said:
"As a result of private research, more than 60 genetically diverse stem cell lines already exist. They were created from embryos that have already been destroyed, and they have the ability to regenerate themselves indefinitely, creating ongoing opportunities for research. I have concluded that we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines, where the life and death decision has already been made." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/08/20 010809-2.html
It looks to me like Health Market Science shares a Copyright with Chip on some of his Perl work.
What did Health Market Science think they were getting for their funding dollars?
AUTHOR
Chip Salzenberg,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Heath Market Science for funding creation of this module. Thanks also to Larry, Damian, Allison, et al for Perl 6 subroutine syntax, and to Damian for Filter::Simple and Parse::RecDescent.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2005 Chip Salzenberg and Health Market Science.
What this means is that we are still dealing with a very wide range of possibilities for what could have happened yesterday, made even wider by the fact that it kind of sounds like some of the information that we have is contradictory. If the launch vehicle failed, how did we detect signals at Majuro and Panska Ves? On the other side, if the launch vehicle had a problem but still managed to put the spacecraft into some orbit, why didn't Strat Comm see it last night? We don't know what to make of it. We hope to get more information from Lou in an hour or two. Stand by for that
It doesn't say that he taught the several subjects simultaneously simultaneously.
And it seems unlikely that he was teaching 4 or more classes simultaneously. [Although he may have been using a different definition of several: Being of a number more than two or three but not many]