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In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 2002 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1970s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.
Sunspot Cycle. The changing weather is apparently connected with differences in the amount of energy that the earth's surface receives from the sun. Changes in the earth's tilt and distance from the sun could, for instance, significantly increase or decrease the amount of solar radiation falling on either hemisphere—thereby altering the earth's climate. Some observers have tried to connect the eleven-year sunspot cycle with climate patterns, but have so far been unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of how the cycle might be involved.
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
Climatic Balance. Some scientists like Donald Oilman, chief of the National Weather Service's long-range-prediction group, think that the cooling trend may be only temporary. But all agree that vastly more information is needed about the major influences on the earth's climate. Indeed, it is to gain such knowledge that 38 ships and 13 aircraft, carrying scientists from almost 70 nations, are now assembling in the Atlantic and elsewhere for a massive 100-day study of the effects of the tropical seas and atmosphere on worldwide weather. The study itself is only part of an international scientific effort known acronymically as GARP (for Global Atmospheric Research Program).
Whatever the cause of the cooling trend, its effects could be extremely serious, if not catastrophic. Scientists figure that only a 1% decrease in the amount of sunlight hitting the earth's surface could tip the climatic balance, and cool the planet enough to send it sliding down the road to another ice age within only a few hundred years.
The earth's current climate is something of an anomaly; in the past 700,000 years, there have been at least seven major episodes of glaciers spreading over much of the planet. Temperatures have been as high as they are now only about 5% of the time. But there is a peril more immediate than the prospect of another ice age. Even if temperature and rainfall patterns change only slightly in the near future in one or more of the three major grain-exporting countries—the U.S., Canada and Australia —global food stores would be sharply reduced. University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1992 in a row."
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Something I found interesting about the Dec 5, 2011 issue cover of Time Magazine. Americans got the "Your life isn't so bad after all" cover and the rest of the world got something different....
Go look for yourself on their website.
http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/3134/timedec52011.jpgSomething I found interesting about the Dec 5, 2011 issue cover of Time Magazine.... more
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Los Angeles Times...
Beatles photographer Robert Whitaker dies at 71
October 2, 2011, 11:19 a.m.
LONDON (AP) — Photographer Robert Whitaker, who shot some of the most famous — and infamous — images of The Beatles, has died at the age of 71.
Whitaker's friend, photo archivist Dave Brolan, said he died of cancer Sept. 20 in Sussex, southern England.
Whitaker took scores of well-known pictures of The Beatles, including the controversial "butcher" cover of the 1966 American album "Yesterday and Today."
The image of the Fab Four in white coats surrounded by decapitated dolls and slabs of raw meat proved too strong for record company Capitol, which ordered the cover withdrawn soon after the album's release.
The record was rereleased with an inoffensive picture of the band sitting on a steamer trunk. Originals are coveted by collectors and can sell for thousands of dollars.
Whitaker — a fan of surrealism — later said the image was a meditation on fame and an attempt to shake up the band's image, inspired by a dream "about The Beatles being ripped to shreds by all these young girls when they came out of a stadium."
Born in Harpenden, southern England in 1939, Whitaker emigrated to Australia in his early 20s and was working as a photographer in Melbourne when The Beatles visited the country in 1964. He was assigned to photograph manager Brian Epstein for the Jewish News; Epstein was so impressed with the resulting image of himself adorned with peacock feathers that he offered Whitaker a job as staff photographer for his company, NEMS.
The job involved photographing "Merseybeat" acts including Cilla Black and Gerry & The Pacemakers, as well as capturing The Beatles — onstage, backstage, in planes and hotel rooms and all manner of locations — over more than two years. He covered the band's final world tour in 1966 and took the pictures used on the collage-style cover of the "Revolver" album.
After parting company with The Beatles, Whitaker photographed Mick Jagger on the sets of the films "Performance " and "Ned Kelly," helped create the psychedelic cover for Cream's "Disraeli Gears" album and worked on the influential underground magazine Oz.
Increasingly wary of being pigeonholed as a "pop" photographer, Whitaker moved into news, covering the Vietnam War and other conflicts for publications including Time and Life. He also spent time photographing his artistic hero, Salvador Dali.
In the 1970s he moved to the English countryside, where he farmed and raised cattle.
Whitaker compiled several books of his Beatles photographs, including "The Unseen Beatles" and "Eight Days a Week."
He is survived by his wife, Sue, and three children. Funeral details were not immediately available.
.Los Angeles Times...
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am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional. But when I look at the world today and the strong winds of technological change and global competition, it makes me nervous. Perhaps most unsettling is the fact that while these forces gather strength, Americans seem unable to grasp the magnitude of the challenges that face us. Despite the hyped talk of China’s rise, most Americans operate on the assumption that the U.S. is still No. 1.am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and... more
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The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year's Person of the Year poll.
Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place. He was 148,383 votes over the silver medalist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
(See the top 10 everything of 2010.)
But Assange wasn't the winner in all aspects -- Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 "likes" on Facebook to Assange's 45,643. See the top 10 readers' choices below, and view the full poll here.
1. Julian Assange
2. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
3. Lady Gaga
4. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
5. Glenn Beck
6. Barack Obama
7. Steve Jobs
8. The Chilean Miners
9. The Unemployed American
10. Mark Zuckerberg
(See TIME's exclusive interview with Julian Assange.)
Will Assange be named Person of the Year? The editors of TIME will unveil their choice on the TODAY show, Wednesday morning on NBC.
Apparently TIME does not give a fuck about people's opinon!!
However, 10. Mark Zuckerberg has won person of the year!!! how the fuck does number 10 beat number 1??The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year's Person of the Year... more
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Every year WHACKO-TV spends hours and hours thinking about who should be our man, woman, thing, or person of the year and this year was no different. We could have picked Julian Paul Assange, that bastard, or perhaps, Boy of the Year, Mark Zuckerberg, for inventing something that we didn’t need before, but we really seem to need now. Or we could have gone with all the miners from Chile, even though we don’t know them. But no, we picked someone who will certainly surprise you; in fact it surprised us.Every year WHACKO-TV spends hours and hours thinking about who should be our man,... more
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Finally some good news for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. This afternoon he was released from custody on bail with strict conditions and earlier today he was crowned the readers' choice for TIME's Person of the Year 2010.
Assange was granted bail earlier today on the conditions that he surrenders his passport, has a curfew (from 10am-2pm and 10pm-2am), reports the the police station daily, and wears an electronic tag.A surety of surety of £240,000, was also requested.
The news were met by cheers both inside and outside the courtroom. However, Swedish prosecutors plan to launch an appeal against the decision to grant Assange bail. They have two hours to lodge an appeal. Assange will not be freed until that process is over at ca 17:45 today.At least Assange won the prestigious Time Person Of The Year awards as voted by the people. He received the most votes in this year's poll, racking up an impressive 382,020 votes out of a total of 1,249,425, resulting in a clear majority as the runner-up, Recep Tayyip Ergodan the Prime Minister of Turkey received 148,383 less votes.But Assange wasn't the winner in all as
But Assange wasn't the winner in all aspects - Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 "likes" on Facebook to Assange's 45,643. Here is the Top 10 people as chosen by TIME readers. 1. Julian Assange 2. Recep Tayyip Ergodan 3. Lady Gaga 4. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert 5. Glenn Beck 6. Barack Obama 7. Steve Jobs 8. The Chilean Miners 9. The Unemployed American 10. Mark Zuckerberg
Finally some good news for Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. This afternoon... more
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He is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those before him (like Daniel Ellsberg) were limited in the ways they could go public with their information. But in founding WikiLeaks.org, Julian Assange gave himself the freedom to publish virtually anything he wants, whether it’s the true nature of Iraqi prisoner abuse,He is a new kind of whistle-blower: one made for the digital age. Those before him... more
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Time magazine recently featured Bob Schulz on the cover of their magazine. Schulz was characterized as belonging to a new movement of violent militias. I happen to be a subscriber to the We The People Foundation and have followed Bob Schulz. Additionally, I have been in contact with Mr. Schulz discussing his articles and mine. I believe that Mr. Schulz was mischaracterized and should have a chance to voice his side of the story. Schulz responded to the editors at Time Magazine.
What follows is Bob’s response. Please send it to as many people as you can. Thank you.
Note: Links to the TIME article and an online interview w/ Bob Schulz are at the bottom of this update.
Please read at the link above:Time magazine recently featured Bob Schulz on the cover of their magazine. Schulz was... more
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When was the last time you hear that being an alcoholic was actually good for you? Well a new report in a respected medical journal claims that abstaining from alcohol would increase your chances of death sooner than some really heavy drinkers.
The journal called “Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research” suggested that people who don’t drink are low on cash because alcohol is expensive which will let them suffer more stress because of that. The study was reported in the Time Magazine which was recorded following about 1,824 people over a 20 year period and concluded that death rates were the highest for abstainers in those two decades while heavy drinkers were next highest followed by moderate social drinker
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And: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2014332,00.htmlWhen was the last time you hear that being an alcoholic was actually good for you?... more
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In "We've Got You Covered," Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of magazines, he digs deep into the print media to find the most colorful photos, articles and advice. From the cast of "True Blood" naked on the cover of "Rolling Stone," to untamed va-jay-jays in "Cosmopolitan," it's all dissected for comedy. Also, watch Conor unleash his inner Bieber.
We've Got You Covered is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of We've Got You Covered, Conor Knighton catches you up on everything you need to know about what's in this week's magazines. For more We've Got You Covered visit: http://current.com/groups/weve-got-you-covered/
and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10/9c on Current TV.In "We've Got You Covered," Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of... more
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Is this photo a cynical piece of propaganda designed to tug at our heartstrings, as some are suggesting? A poorly-veiled attempt to provoke moral outrage that would justify continued occupation in Afghanistan? Or is it simply an image of truth, a terrible story that deserves to be told, symbolic of the larger problem of the oppression of women under the Taliban?
http://talkingskull.com/article/war-porn-or-window-to-realityIs this photo a cynical piece of propaganda designed to tug at our heartstrings, as... more
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In "We've Got You Covered," Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of magazines digs deep into the print media to find the most colorful photos, articles and advice. From Will Ferrell's "Wired" cover to an Intern's account of tracking Jershey Shore's Snooki in "Seventeen," no silliness is left uncovered. Also, find out what happens when Conor finds out Brett has been moonlighting.
We've Got You Covered is a recurring segment on Current TV's weekly television show, infoMania. In each episode of We've Got You Covered, Conor Knighton catches you up on everything you need to know about what's in this week's magazines. For more We've Got You Covered visit: http://current.com/groups/weve-got-you-covered/
and Current TV.
infoMania is a half-hour satirical news show that airs on Current TV. The show puts a comedic spin on the 24-hour chaos and information overload brought about by the constant bombardment of the media. Hosted by Conor Knighton and co-starring Brett Erlich, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman, Bryan Safi and Sergio Cilli, the show airs on Thursdays at 10/9c on Current TV.In "We've Got You Covered," Conor Knighton's weekly roundup of... more
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Before the Persian Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq had one of the largest air forces in the Middle East. Video Journalist Bill Thomas visited an Iraqi Air Force base at Camp Taji to check out their current capabilitiesBefore the Persian Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraq had one of the... more
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The decision by the corporate owner of Newsweek to put the magazine up for sale has once more raised the question in journalism circles as to whether there's a role — or any future at all — for newsweekly magazines.
"The idea of a magazine that looks at the week, wraps it up and puts a little forward spin on it, that's pretty much an anachronism," says Alan D. Mutter, a former newspaper editor and current consultant on digital media ventures. "People are consuming news left and right, and if you aim to be informed, it's pretty hard not to be."
Yet over at the historic Time-Life Building, in offices looking out over Midtown Manhattan from the 23rd floor, editors putting out the nation's leading such magazine are much more sanguine about their fate.
"In terms of our category, we're not only the last guy standing — we're the only guy standing," says Rick Stengel, Time magazine's managing editor, its most senior editorial position. "We convert information into knowledge. Knowledge is what people want. Information is the commodity."
The State Of Today's Newsweekly
Time enjoyed an estimated profit of around $40 million last year. Although the magazine does not confirm the figure, Stengel says it is on track to increase profits this year.
It's Time's competitors that are in rough shape. Last year Businessweek was sold to Bloomberg News for a few million dollars; in 2008 U.S.News & World Report announced its move from a weekly to a monthly publication; and in 2009, after losing tens of millions of dollars a year and with the help of Editor Jon Meacham, Newsweek reinvented itself to be more of a journal of opinion and analysis.
"If we succeed, these well-argued essays will make you feel vindicated — or maybe outraged," Kathleen Deveny, Newsweek's deputy editor, wrote in May 2009. "But they'll draw you in. Because while there is no shortage of information out there, we believe there is a scarcity of insight."
Last month, however, the Washington Post Co., Newsweek's corporate parent of nearly five decades, put it up for sale.
One suitor for Newsweek, Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of the conservative news site and monthly magazine Newsmax, says it's a terrific publication in many ways. But he argues the Washington Post Co. may not have served Newsweek well.
"One of the things that's pretty clear, if you compare Time to Newsweek, is that Newsweek, in order to save money in the downturn, started cutting content," Ruddy says in an interview. "It's pretty thin."
'Looking For Context'
Over at Time, editors say the reinvention of Newsweek, whatever its journalistic merits, represents a retreat from the newsweekly field.
Under Stengel, Time pursued its own reinvention three years ago to try to evolve for a digital age. It changed its publication date to Fridays, saying surveys of readers found they too often put the magazine aside after receiving it on Mondays. Reporters and editors were encouraged to gin up more content for the Web, freeing them to break news more frequently — and not coincidentally pull in more readers to Time.com.
And, just as important, the magazine reduced its circulation to a core audience that's more appealing to advertisers — 3.2 million paid subscribers.
They are, Stengel says, "not so much people who are trying to find out the latest bit of information about how many points did [Sen.] Blanche Lincoln win by, but people who are looking for context, who are looking for larger meaning."
Stengel seems a bit surprised to note his core subscriber base has grown a bit over the in the past year. And he says he's heartened by the response to Time's iPad application. In the future, Stengel says, he'll be happy even if most readers know little about Time's print edition — as long as they're paying for the magazine's electronic touch tablet editions.The decision by the corporate owner of Newsweek to put the magazine up for sale has... more
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Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley To Replace Megan Fox In ‘Transformers 3′
Victoria’s Secret model is relative newcomer to acting.
MTV.Com
By Adam Rosenberg
May 27 2010
With Megan Fox out of “Transformers 3″ and actors already showing up on set, it’s getting down to crunch time for director Michael Bay, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Paramount to find a replacement female lead. The news today is that they appear to have found one.
Click to judge...Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Vs. Megan Fox…(NSFW NUDE PHOTOS)...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/victorias-secrets-rosie-huntington-whiteley-replaces-megan-fox-nsfw-nude-photos/Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley To Replace Megan Fox In ‘Transformers 3′... more
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