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Bringing your Guitar on an airplane

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:48:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some tips if you want to carry-on your guitar, but are nervous about doing it.

Clip Source: stepin2thelight.blogspot.com

Bringing Your Guitar on an Airplane.

If you're reading this right now, no doubt you're a lot like me. You want to take your guitar on an airplane, but you don't really know how to do it without stressing out that your guitar will make it to your destination in one piece, so now your scouring the internet looking for answers.

whenever you're flying with your guitar, at some level you have to prepare yourself that there is a chance something will happen, but if you remain calm and take the actions i describe below you should be alright.

be aware, lots of people carry on their instruments, so this won't be a foreign to the flight staff as you might think. As long as your are calm and keep a level head, you should have no problem. Hope this helps some people out there!

1. Hardshell Case

2. Don't overload on carry-ons

3. Know the plane

4. Confidence.

5. Board Early

6. Smile.

7. Make sure your strings are de-tuned

8. If all else fails, gate check it.

Tags: guitar, airplane, carry-on

Global Warming Debunked 9

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:31:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: further proof. global warming is a sham. its a natural process, and we aren't destroying the world.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Where did global warming go?

planet grew bitterly cold

In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years

the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years

unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Johannesburg experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter-century. Australia had its coldest ever June

44.5 inches of snow fell in New Hampshire last month, breaking the previous record of 43 inches, set in 1876. And the Canadian government is forecasting the coldest winter in 15 years.

Carbon dioxide is not to blame for global climate change,

The sun . . . appears to be the main forcing agent in global climate change

2007's global temperature was essentially the same as that in 2006 - and 2005, and 2004, and every year back to 2001. The record set in 1998 has not been surpassed. For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming

he global mean temperature has remained flat

climate change is a well-known natural phenomenon

Global Warming Debunked 8

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:50:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Senate report debunks global warming. Reveals it as media scare tactics.

Clip Source: epw.senate.gov

U.S. Senate Report: Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007

Senate Report Debunks "Consensus"

Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called "consensus" on man-made global warming.

Even some in the establishment media now appear to be taking notice of the growing number of skeptical scientists.

This blockbuster Senate report lists the scientists by name, country of residence, and academic/institutional affiliation. It also features their own words, biographies, and weblinks to their peer reviewed studies and original source materials as gathered from public statements, various news outlets, and websites in 2007. This new “consensus busters” report is poised to redefine the debate.

Many of the scientists featured in this report consistently stated that numerous colleagues shared their views, but they will not speak out publicly for fear of retribution.

Tags: global warming debunked

Global Warming Debunked 7

Mon, 07 May 2007 06:26:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wecnmagazine.com

Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education.

He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.”

Bryson is a believer in climate change, in that he’s as quick as anyone to acknowledge that Earth’s climate has done nothing but change throughout the planet’s existence.

All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd

It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.

Climate’s always been changing and it’s been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past

Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?

Tags: global warming, false, fake, theory, dubunked, hogwash

Bad Weekend

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:15:50 GMT

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Clip Source: indexed.blogspot.com

Scary stories.

by Jessica Hagy

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Gas Prices will skyrocket this summer.

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:35:51 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

For the past two weeks, Iran has not just been holding 15 British soldiers captive; it's been holding the world's oil markets hostage, too

Things are looking pretty bad for the upcoming summer driving season

U.S. stockpiles of gasoline fell by 5 million barrels in the past week, much more than analysts were expecting.

gasoline prices will head into record territory — currently a nationwide average of $3.07 — by the height of the summer season

Everyone asks me, will we see $4 a gallon? And the answer is, there is a strong possibility that we may see $4 a gallon,

This is the time of year when we're supposed to be building supplies, but it seems like the refiners just can't get ahead of what has been very, very strong demand,

Tags: gas

Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:04:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More from my Global Warming is nonsense research,

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Discussions on global warming often refer to 'global temperature.' Yet the concept is thermodynamically as well as mathematically an impossibility, says Bjarne Andresen, a professor at The Niels Bohr Institute,

He explains that while it is possible to treat temperature statistically locally, it is meaningless to talk about a a global temperature for Earth. The Globe consists of a huge number of components which one cannot just add up and average. That would correspond to calculating the average phone number in the phone book. That is meaningless.

A further problem with the extensive use of 'the global temperature' is that there are many ways of calculating average temperatures.

Depending on the averaging method used, the same set of measured data can simultaneously show an upward trend and a downward trend in average temperature. Thus claims of disaster may be a consequence of which averaging method has been used, the researchers point out.

Tags: global, warming, debunked, fake, false, theory, hype

Global Warming Debunked 7

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:18:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This 1000 character limit sucks for clipping... check out this whole article.

Clip Source: www.lse.co.uk

"The greenhouse effect is seen as a religion and if you don’t agree, you are a heretic.

"Al Gore might have won an Oscar for ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, but the film is very misleading and he has got the relationship between CO2 and climate change the wrong way round."

One major piece of evidence of CO2 causing global warming are ice core samples from Antarctica, which show that for hundreds of years, global warming has been accompanied by higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

He has evidence showing that warmer spells in the Earth’s history actually came an average of 800 years before the rise in CO2 levels.

Scientists in the programme also raise another discrepancy with the official line, showing that most of the recent global warming occurred before 1940, when global temperatures then fell for four decades.

"The greenhouse effect is seen as a religion and if you don’t agree, you are a heretic.

Tags: global warming theory, fake, false, propaganda

Global Warming Debunked 6

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:55:59 GMT

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Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Where’s the scientific support for this claim? Certainly not in the recent Policymaker’s Summary from the United Nations’ much anticipated compendium on climate change. Under the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s medium-range emission scenario for greenhouse gases, a rise in sea level of between 8 and 17 inches is predicted by 2100. Gore’s film exaggerates the rise by about 2,000 percent.

Even 17 inches is likely to be high, because it assumes that the concentration of methane, an important greenhouse gas, is growing rapidly. Atmospheric methane concentration hasn’t changed appreciably for seven years, and Nobel Laureate Sherwood Rowland recently pronounced the IPCC’s methane emissions scenarios as “quite unlikely.”

According to satellite data published in Science in November 2005, Greenland was losing about 25 cubic miles of ice per year. Dividing that by 630,000 yields the annual percentage of ice loss, which, when multiplied by 100, shows that Greenland was shedding ice at 0.4 percent per century.

Mendacity on global warming is bipartisan. President Bush proposes that we replace 20 percent of our current gasoline consumption with ethanol over the next decade. But it’s well-known that even if we turned every kernel of American corn into ethanol, it would displace only 12 percent of our annual gasoline consumption. The effect on global warming, like Kyoto, would be too small to measure, though the U.S. would become the first nation in history to burn up its food supply to please a political mob.

When it comes to global warming, apparently the truth is inconvenient. And it’s not just Gore’s movie that’s fiction. It’s the rhetoric of the Congress and the chief executive, too.

Tags: global warming, debunked, false, theory.

Irony? No.... Hilairous? Yes.

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:44:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: heh. this made me chuckle

Clip Source: www.drudgereport.com

HOUSE HEARING ON 'WARMING OF THE PLANET' CANCELED AFTER ICE STORM
HEARING NOTICE
Tue Feb 13 2007 19:31:25 ET

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

DC WEATHER REPORT:

Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 18. Northwest winds around 20 mph.

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather. The hearing is entitled “Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?”

Wednesday: Freezing rain in the morning. Total ice accumulation between one half to three quarters of an inch. Brisk with highs in the mid 30s. North winds 10 to 15 mph...increasing to northwest 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.

Tags: global warming myth, theory.

Global Warming Debunked 5

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:11:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More from my GW Debunked research. This particular article focuses on recent studies showing how the sun and cosmic rays have been responsible for centuries on the normal warming and cooling of the Earth.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

That levelling off is just what is expected by the chief rival hypothesis, which says that the sun drives climate changes more emphatically than greenhouse gases do. After becoming much more active during the 20th century, the sun now stands at a high but roughly level state of activity. Solar physicists warn of possible global cooling, should the sun revert to the lazier mood it was in during the Little Ice Age 300 years ago.

Disdain for the sun goes with a failure by the self-appointed greenhouse experts to keep up with inconvenient discoveries about how the solar variations control the climate. The sun’s brightness may change too little to account for the big swings in the climate. But more than 10 years have passed since Henrik Svensmark in Copenhagen first pointed out a much more powerful mechanism.

He saw from compilations of weather satellite data that cloudiness varies according to how many atomic particles are coming in from exploded stars. More cosmic rays, more clouds. The sun’s magnetic field bats away many of the cosmic rays, and its intensification during the 20th century meant fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer world. On the other hand the Little Ice Age was chilly because the lazy sun let in more cosmic rays, leaving the world cloudier and gloomier.

In a box of air in the basement, they were able to show that electrons set free by cosmic rays coming through the ceiling stitched together droplets of sulphuric acid and water. These are the building blocks for cloud condensation. But journal after journal declined to publish their report; the discovery finally appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society late last year.

Where does all that leave the impact of greenhouse gases? Their effects are likely to be a good deal less than advertised, but nobody can really say until the implications of the new theory of climate change are more fully worked out.

Tags: global warming, debunked, theory, fake, false

Accidental find of a cancer curing agent?

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:43:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: After the hype of DCA, a drug that isnt getting much attention but may prove to kill cancer, another researcher has stumbled upon another drug that is combating the disease.

Clip Source: www.qj.net

Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the effects of penicillin in 1928 and now it is used to combat a variety of diseases. Now, a lab disaster may lead to a new cancer drug. Could history repeat itself this time?

Apparently, Katherine Schaefer of the University of Rochester Medical Center was quite irked when her cultured cancer cells died because she made a calculation error. Then she realized that her boo-boo could lead to a drug that could combat one of the world's most dreaded disease.

She and her colleagues were testing a compound called a PPAR-gamma modulator - something that was never expected to do anything with cancer. After the lab error, the team ran several tests and found out that it killed "pretty much every epithelial tumor cell lines we have seen". The compound also killed colon tumors in mice without making them sick.

Schaefer also mentioned that the compound is not prone to resistance - which refers to the ability of cancer cells to evolve mechanisms to pump out the drugs that affects it. Apparently, this is the problem being faced by the U.S. National Cancer Institute developed drug, Taxol.

Tags: cancer cure, drug

If you dont know how to use an elevator, you shouldn't be allowed to.

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:10:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A pet peeve is people who don't understand how elevators work. Maybe these 4 little tidbits will help out.

Clip Source: stepin2thelight.blogspot.com

When calling the elevator to your floor, the button need only be pushed one time. This means when you walk up to someone already waiting, you can go ahead and assume that they don't just randomly stand in front of elevator doors in their free time, they've already pushed the button. Another clear cut sign is that the button will already be illuminated, letting everyone know: yes, its on its way. I should also mention that the elevator isn't keeping a tally of how many people are down there waiting, so pushing it again isn't making your wait any shorter.

If you are entering an elevator from a floor that isnt the ground or the roof, something to keep in mind is that you are by no means the "Lord of the Elevator" It has not come merely for your beckoning. It may be on its way up, and you want to go down, and guess what Gandalf, its not going to decide to bring you down first. So try not to look like one of your closest advisers has just poisoned your mead when it continues its upward climb

Upon entering the elevator, you'll notice that some of the buttons will be lit from other people riding with you. Take a look to see if the floor you want to go to has been pushed, if it has, you're in luck... its going to stop there, there is absolutely no need to remind it that you are looking to get to that floor.

Elevators are massive metal boxes. So guess what... your cell phone conversation needs to come to an end. You are seriously putting yourself in danger when, in a crowded elevator, you start screaming "Hello? Hello? Marcus? Are you th....Hello? ::looks at display of phone:: Marcus??" Even if for some ridiculous reason you do get service, no one wants to hear you talk on the phone. Your conversation can wait the 38 seconds. Let it go.

Tags: elevator, idiots, use

Antarctica not shrinking...growing... Global Warming Debunked - 5

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:50:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This relates a study of the thickness of the ice in antarctica and shows some evidence that the mass of ice is actually growing, and the small amount of melting that has occurred is due to natural current flows, not global warming theory,

Clip Source: www.canada.com

Last summer, Dr. Wingham and three colleagues published an article in the journal of the Royal Society that casts further doubt on the notion that global warming is adversely affecting Antarctica. By studying satellite data from 1992 to 2003 that surveyed 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet (72% of the ice sheet covering the entire land mass), they discovered that the Antarctic ice sheet is growing at the rate of 5 millimetres per year (plus or minus 1 mm per year). That makes Antarctica a sink, not a source, of ocean water. According to their best estimates, Antarctica will "lower [authors' italics] global sea levels by 0.08 mm" per year.

If these findings are validated in future by CryoSat-2 and other developments that are able to assess the 28% of Antarctica not yet surveyed, the low-lying areas of the world will have weathered the worst of the global warming predictions: The populations of these areas -- in Bangladesh, in the Maldives, and elsewhere -- will have found that, if anything, they can look forward to a future with more nutrient-rich seacoast, not less.

Dr. Wingham is Principal Scientist of the European Space Agency's CryoSat Satellite Mission, a $130-million project designed to map changes in the depth of ice using ultra-precise instrumentation. Sadly for Dr. Wingham and for science as a whole, CryoSat fell into the Arctic Ocean after its launch in October, 2005, when a rocket launcher malfunctioned. Dr Wingham will now need to wait until 2009 before CryoSat-2, CryoSat's even more precise successor, can launch and begin relaying the data that should conclusively determine whether Antarctica's ice sheets are thinning or not. Apart from satellite technology, no known way exists to reliably determine changes in mass over a vast and essentially unexplorable continent covered in ice several kilometres thick.

Tags: global warming, debunked, theory, fake

Global Warming Debunked IV

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:28:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More from my Global Warming debunked research. This whole article was very interesting, i wish i could have clipped more before reaching the pop limit.

Clip Source: www.canada.com

Dr. Shariv, a prolific researcher who has made a name for himself assessing the movements of two-billion-year-old meteorites, no longer accepts this logic, or subscribes to these views. He has recanted: "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media.

Dr. Shariv's digging led him to the surprising discovery that there is no concrete evidence -- only speculation -- that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming. Even research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-- the United Nations agency that heads the worldwide effort to combat global warming -- is bereft of anything here inspiring confidence. In fact, according to the IPCC's own findings, man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth. Unfortunately, our tools are too crude to reveal what man's effect has been in the past, let alone predict how much warming or cooling we might cause in the future.

All we have on which to pin the blame on greenhouse gases, says Dr. Shaviv, is "incriminating circumstantial evidence," which explains why climate scientists speak in terms of finding "evidence of fingerprints." Circumstantial evidence might be a fine basis on which to justify reducing greenhouse gases, he adds, "without other 'suspects.' " However, Dr. Shaviv not only believes there are credible "other suspects," he believes that at least one provides a superior explanation for the 20th century's warming.

Tags: global warming, debate, debunked, fake, theory