Cancer drugs give Roche a 2012 profit boost

GENEVA (AP) ? Growing demand for its cancer medicines and diagnostic tests used by clinical laboratories helped Swiss drug maker Roche Holding AG post a modest 2.4 percent increase in full-year profits.

The Basel-based company said Wednesday that it made a net profit of 9.77 billion Swiss francs ($10.6 billion) in 2012, against 9.54 billion francs the year before, and that it anticipates further gains this year.

The company, which is the world's biggest manufacturer of cancer drugs, said it delivered strong results for 2012 in part due to the launch of its new breast cancer medicine, Perjeta, in the United States and Europe. Overall sales were up 4 percent at 45.5 billion francs ($49.2 billion).

"We met our financial targets, grew faster than the market, and our strong pipeline positions us well for further growth," said Roche CEO Severin Schwan. "A particular highlight in 2012 was the approval of breast cancer medicine Perjeta, which helps women with HER2-positive breast cancer live longer. We now look forward to getting T-DM1, our other novel breast cancer therapy, to patients as soon as possible."

Roche benefits from having strong sellers whose patents are not expiring soon, unlike many of its major competitors. But like most other major Swiss companies it has in recent years battled against the strength of the franc. That somewhat reversed in 2012 with the fall in the franc against the dollar and the yen.

The drug maker said its top-selling products MabThera/Rituxan, Herceptin and Avastin all performed strongly in 2012 as demand grew in all regions. Genentech, which is owned by Roche, makes those three best-selling cancer drugs in the world. Avastin, which had dipped in sales, was "back on the growth path" after its launch for ovarian cancer in Europe at the end of 2011 and was also helped by stronger sales in Japan, the company said.

And the company cited robust demand for its clinical laboratory products in 2012, with the diagnostics division, which launched several new instruments and devices, reporting a 4 percent rise in sales to 10.3 billion francs.

Roche posted an 11 percent rise in 2012 core earnings per share, which rose to 13.62 Swiss francs ($14.74) compared to 12.30 francs a year ago.

Shares in Roche closed Tuesday at 201.40 francs, up 8.5 percent already this year.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-drugs-roche-2012-profit-boost-082725513--finance.html

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Facebook Gift Cards: The Crappiest Way to Give the Laziest Gift

Facebook has a new physical gift card that works like a regular gift card except you can use it at multiple retailers. But! It's not a cash-equivalent Visa you can spend everywhere. It's not even a stored value card that lets you spend the X-amount of money wherever you want within a Facebook-approved pool of retailers. It takes the saddest and lamest gift possible and makes it worse. More »

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Israeli astronaut's widow carries on after tragedy

JERUSALEM (AP) ? It's a day Israelis will never forget: Feb. 1, 2003, when national pride abruptly turned to national tragedy.

People gathered around their TV screens to watch the anticipated return of Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, from a 16-day journey in space aboard the American Columbia shuttle. A hero's welcome awaited, but as people watched the live broadcast, unbelieving, the shuttle craft disintegrated upon re-entering the atmosphere, killing Ramon and his six crewmates.

For Ramon's widow, Rona, it was the first in a pair of cruel blows. Six years later, her oldest son, Asaf, who had followed in his father's footsteps to become an Israeli air force fighter pilot, was killed in a training accident.

Ramon, 48, is still unable to discuss the loss of her son. "I live that every moment, but at the same time try to still look for meaning in life," Ramon said in a phone interview.

She said she has slowly tried to recover, leading a foundation formed in memory of her husband and son and counseling others who are coping with tragedy.

As the country's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon was a national hero, and Israelis closely followed his accomplishments. Ramon's image while floating in space, a big smile on his face, was shown repeatedly on TV broadcasts.

Though he was not religious, Ramon, who was 48 when he was killed, insisted on keeping Jewish kosher dietary laws in space, since he saw himself a representative of the Jewish people. He consulted a rabbi on how to observe his faith in orbit.

A son of a Holocaust survivor, he also took several meaningful items into space, including a pencil sketch of the moon drawn by a young Jew who later perished at the Nazi Auschwitz death camp. Ramon also took a miniature Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust, along with other religious items.

Ten years later, the memory of the Columbia accident is still strong in Israel. Though the country is accustomed to national tragedies, the Columbia disaster was especially painful. An uplifting journey had captivated a nation and elicited great hope and promise, yet in a minute it turned into an outpouring of grief.

"What I remember most from that day was the expectation, the joy and the longing to see him return. The great loss that followed left me heartbroken," Ramon told The Associated Press. With the families of the other astronauts, she was at the Florida landing site, waiting for the shuttle. "I remember the moment we realized what had happened, and they removed us from the landing site. I just looked up at the sky and said 'God, bring him back to me.'"

Ilan Ramon, a fighter pilot who took part in Israel's bombing of an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, has become a national icon. Dozens of schools and other institutions are named after him. Each year, NASA sends a delegation to a space conference held in his honor. This year's is in progress now.

Rona Ramon largely stayed out of the public eye for years following his death, trying to make sense of her loss. "Realizing in a moment that your life has changed forever is a huge shock," she said. But on Sept. 13, 2009, she was forced back into the spotlight by the death of their oldest son.

Capt. Asaf Ramon, who was 21, was killed when his F-16 warplane crashed in a routine training flight. Inspired by his father, he had excelled in his training and was awarded his pilot's wings by President Shimon Peres. Asaf had expressed hope that he, too, would one day become an astronaut.

The pair of tragedies inspired Rona Ramon to earn an M.A. in holistic health from Lesley University in Massachusetts. She has branched out to psycho-spiritual coaching in hopes of better helping others cope with personal tragedies.

"The decision to go study emerged from the crisis I went through," she said. "Only by directly facing it could I cope."

Her studies have helped her recognize that she is now coping with "anniversary grief."

"Time is tricky. Over time you lose objectivity," she said. "Sometimes it feels like it happened ages ago and sometimes it feels like it just happened."

Over the past few years she has found comfort in her work at The Ramon Foundation, a nonprofit she established that promotes personal and social excellence through space, flight, science and technology. She also gives speeches across Israel and offers grief counseling to others.

She has three surviving children. One son is studying music in college. The other, with her consent, is a combat soldier in the army and her daughter is in high school.

Ilan's parents, who also became well-known figures in Israel during the Columbia mission, have since passed away.

On her way to Tuesday's opening of the Annual International Ilan Ramon Space Conference, hosting 14 heads of space agencies from around the world, including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rona Ramon said Tuesday that she mostly felt pride in her family.

"I'm surrounded by so many friends and so much support," she said. "When I think of Ilan, the first thing I think about is his smile. That is his legacy."

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Teacher's naughty tweets may send career up in smoke

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Photos posted from the Twitter account @crunk_bear.

By Helen A.S. Popkin

A 23-year-old high-school teacher in Aurora, Colo. is on administrative leave pending an investigation after a local news station exposed?half-naked pics and pot-smoking boasts posted from her Twitter account.

"Watching a drug bust go down in the parking lot. It's funny cuz I have weed in my car in the staff parking lot," read one tweet from the account @crunk_bear, which Denver's 9NEWS connected to Carly McKinney, a first-year 10th-grade math teacher at Overland Park High School after the station received a tip from a viewer.

"Just got called Ms. McCutie. Points for being clever, however you are still jailbait," read another of the teacher's tweets.

McKinney reportedly confirmed to 9NEWs that she and a friend launched @crunk_bear as a parody, adding that she wasn?t aware of what her friend tweeted from the account. According to the report which aired Monday, McKinney also denied having drugs on campus. ?

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Carly McKinney's staff photo from the Overland Park High School website.

The @crunk_bear account was disabled from public view soon after 9NEWS contacted McKinney, the station reports. However, TODAY found vestiges of the account Tuesday afternoon via the search tool for social media?analytics?company Topsy. Dozens of marijuana-related tweets and retweets were still visible, as well as a handful of racy, semi-nude photos of McKinney, easily identified when compared to her staff photo on the Overland Park High School website. TODAY reached out to McKinney and will update this story if we hear back.

Tustin Amole, director of communications for the Cherry Creek School District, confirmed to TODAY that a teacher had been placed on administrative leave in connection to on-campus drug activity described on a Twitter account. Though she legally could not confirm the teacher?s name, she acknowledged that it was the same teacher seen on the news. Amole did emphasize that ?administrative leave? did not equal ?disciplinary action.?

?While Colorado voters have legalized marijuana for personal use, it?s still against state and federal law, and having it on school grounds is also against the law," Amole explained. ?We fully respect her First Amendment rights, but we need to know if any of her personal behavior violated district policy and/or state or federal law.?

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?I live a double life. Teacher by day, stoner/raver/rager by night," read one of @crunk_bear?s tweets, but it turns out that McKinney didn?t keep her ?double life? separate enough.

Amole, who noted similar social media fallout in other school districts, chalks up much of this mistake to youth. Young teachers ? not to mention their students ? ?don?t know a world without Facebook or social media,? Amole told TODAY. ?I don?t think they understand, if you put something on the Internet, and you regret sharing it with your friends, you can take it down, but it?s still out there. You?ve given up ownership of what you?ve said.?

Even if the school district determines the teacher didn?t violate any laws, ?she?s still embarrassed on the 10 o?clock news.?

According to the district rules, a?teacher can post whatever he or she wants from a social media account not connected to the school, but in this case the damage may be irreparable. Perhaps it will prove to have some educational value, however.

?I wish it had happened in a different school district,? Amole admits. ?But if it serves to show students and other young teachers about the possible consequences, that would be the right outcome.?

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job on Twitter and/or Facebook.

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Revolutionary cooling system uses lasers

Jan. 30, 2013 ? With the latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), current cooling systems which uses refrigerant harmful to the ozone layer could be replaced by a revolutionary cooling system using lasers.

This discovery, published and featured on the cover of the 24 January 2013 issue of Nature, could also potentially lead to a host of other innovations. This includes making huge Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines, unwieldy night vision goggles and satellite cameras -- all of which require extreme cooling systems -- even more compact and energy saving.

This breakthrough in laser cooling technology can even lead to the development of almost sci-fi like computer chips that cool on their own, minimising heat and thus prolonging battery life for portable devices like tablets and smart phones.

Assistant Professor Xiong Qihua from the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering had cooled down a semiconductor from 20 degrees Celsius down to minus 20 degrees Celsius. Before this, the cooling of semiconductors by laser has never been proven.

The material, Cadmium Sulfide, is a type of group II-VI semiconductor commonly used in solar cells, sensors and electronics.

"If we are able to harness the power of laser cooling, it would mean that medical devices which require extreme cooling, such as MRI which uses liquid helium, could do away with their bulky refrigerant systems with just with an optical refrigeration device in its place," Prof Xiong said.

"Not only that, but it would also remove the need for compressors and coolants in air-conditioning and refrigerators used in our homes and automobiles, saving space, energy and green house gases which are harmful to our ozone layer.

The potential for a compact, cost-effective, vibration-free and cryogen-less cooling system is enormous, as the global market for energy-efficient buildings is estimated to be worth over $100 billion dollars by 2017, according to reports by Global Industry Analysts (GIA).

"This also translates into the ability to build miniaturised coolers to cool infrared sensors used in satellites for imaging and build self-cooling computer chips suitable for use in portable devices like tablets and smart phones."

Prof Xiong, who leads a research team of 25 people including three undergraduates, is now looking to bring laser cooling down to liquid helium temperature at minus 269 degree Celsius. This is because in principle and theory, semiconductors can support laser cooling down to such a low temperatures.

"Our initial results published in Nature, have shown that it is possible to laser-cool a semiconductor to liquid nitrogen temperature, so we are aiming to reach an even lower temperature, such as that of liquid helium," said Prof Xiong, who had directed the research efforts of his researchers Dr. Zhang Jun and Ph.D. student Li Dehui towards this new area.

This experiment which took three years to complete was funded by NTU, Prof Xiong's National Research Foundation Fellowship grant and the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund.

NTU's ground-breaking research into fundamental physics and sciences is one of the key components in Sustainability, one of the university's Five Peaks of Excellence, areas of research which NTU hopes to make a global mark in under its five-year strategic plan.

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NRA chief: More laws aren't a solution

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre argued against increasing regulations on gun ownership during the Senate committee hearing on gun violence Wednesday.

"Proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the thousands we already have, is not a serious solution to reducing crime," LaPierre said in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals. Nor do we believe the government should dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families."

LaPierre, whose organization has been on defense in the aftermath of a string of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent months, repeated his call for placing more armed guards in public schools. In December, 20 children and six adults were killed by a single shooter at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. LaPierre argued that similar tragedies could be avoided with more officers on campuses.

"It?s time to throw an immediate blanket of security around our children. About a third of our schools have armed security already because it works," he said. "And that number is growing every day. Right now, state officials, local authorities and school districts in all 50 states are considering their own plans to protect children in their schools."

In response to calls for instituting deeper background checks, LaPierre said gun sellers should be allowed to search for histories of mental illness in gun purchasers, but argued against background checks at gun shows.

"When it comes to the issue of background checks, let?s be honest?background checks will never be 'universal' because criminals will never submit to them," he said.

The hearing started out with a statement from former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who sustained a gunshot to the head in a January 2011 Tucson town hall shooting. Speaking slowly but forcefully, Giffords urged committee members to be "bold" and "courageous" in dealing with gun violence.

"This is an important conversation for our children. For our communities. For Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important," Giffords said. "Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard, but the time is now. You must act. Be bold, be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you."

After her brief appearance, Giffords was escorted out of the committee room.

Giffords' husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, then testified, calling for action to increase background checks on gun purchasers and to remove limitations on public health organizations that collect gun violence data. He also urged the enactment of a federal gun trafficking statute that increases penalties on illegal guns purchases.

"Our rights are paramount. But our responsibilities are serious," Kelly said. "And as a nation we are not taking responsibility for the gun rights our Founding Fathers conferred upon us. Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership. We are anti-gun violence."

Giffords and Kelly founded a nonprofit, Americans for Responsible Solutions, to promote gun reform following the shooting that severely injured Giffords and 12 others, and killed six.

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Donors pledge $455 million to Mali military push

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ? African and Western nations on Tuesday pledged more than $450 million to fund an African-led military force to fight Islamist extremists in Mali.

Britain, meanwhile, announced that it has offered to send up to 200 military officers to help train a West African force in Mali, including up to 40 people that could be sent to Mali as part of an EU training mission of 500 personnel.

At the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, a top official, Ramtane Lamamra, said nations had pledged $455.5 million for the United Nations-authorized, African-led Support Mission in Mali, or AFISMA. The AU says AFISMA requires an initial budget of $461 million. Additional support needed for Mali's army and the West African bloc known as ECOWAS raises the overall financial need to near $960 million.

African nations like Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Gambia and others lined up with developed countries like the United States, Japan, Germany and the U.K. to pledge funds to the military effort. Among the pledges of assistance:

? The EU pledged 50 million euros ($67 million).

? Germany promised $20 million and a third aircraft to help transport African troops.

? Britain said it will provide a ferry to help transport equipment and French troops and will allow allies like the United States to fly refueling missions from U.K. bases.

? Japan announced $120 million in aid and support to refugees, the Kyodo news agency said.

Johnnie Carson, the State Department's top Africa official, said at the African Union gathering that U.S. assistance for the Mali effort would total $96 million. Carson said that includes $32 million previously pledged and $13 million already spent aiding military efforts.

Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, said that despite the necessity of the military mission "in the long-term there can only be a political solution" to Mali's problems.

Islamist extremists have controlled much of northern Mali since last April. French forces began an operation earlier this month to dislodge them. A top U.S. State Department official warned on Monday that the military effort could take years to complete.

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Bitter Rivals Obama, Clinton Now Bosom Buddies

In something of a parting gift, President Obama is making abundantly clear his deep support and fondness for outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is leaving wide open a possible presidential run in 2016.

Sitting together for their first joint interview, you could almost forget that they once politically bludgeoned each other in the 2008 Democratic primary.

"I'm going to miss her," Obama told CBS News' Steve Croft on "60 Minutes." "Wish she was sticking around."

"A few years ago it would have been seen as improbable," Clinton admitted, before explaining that she ultimately agreed to take the position as secretary of state "because we both love our country."

"I'll tell you what I finally thought. You know, if the roles had been reversed, and I had ended up winning, I would have desperately wanted him to be in my cabinet," Clinton said.

Sitting casually next to each other, laughing and smiling, the president and Clinton praised one another effusively.

"I consider her a strong friend," Obama said, while Clinton described their relationship as "warm" and "close."

Obama said he proposed the joint interview because he wanted to publicly say "thank you" to Clinton for all of her hard work. For those eagerly looking for hints of Clinton's future ambitions, however, the interview certainly felt like a political endorsement.

Clinton notably offered no outright denial, when asked about her plans for 2016.

"Obviously the president and I care deeply about what's going to happen for our country in the future and I don't think either he or I can make predictions about what's going to happen tomorrow or the next year," she said.

"I am still secretary of state and forbidden from even hearing these questions," Clinton joked when asked about her future.

The president brushed off the question.

"You guys are incorrigible," he told Croft of the press. "I was inaugurated four days ago and you're talking about elections four years from now."

Clinton declared herself in good health, following her concussion last December that led to a blood clot.

"I still have some lingering effects from falling on my head and having the blood clot," she said, still wearing her glasses. "But the doctors tell me that will all recede. And so, thankfully, I'm looking forward to being at full speed."

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App d to Fail: Mobile Health Treatments Fail First Full Checkup

Early trials using mobile technology including text messaging and apps lack rigor and show mixed results

By Lucas Laursen

SMS messages in Africa provide reminders to patients to take antiretroviral drugs, reducing HIV virus counts. Image: Flickr/The Reboot

Health care via mobile technology is still in its infancy. Of 75 trials in which patients used mobile tech, such as text messaging and downloadable apps, to manage a disease or adopt healthier behaviors, only three showed reliable signs of success, according to a systematic survey. In an accompanying survey of medical personnel who used smart phones and other devices, to help deliver care, the same team found more success: 11 of 42 trials had positive, reliable results.

Yet mobile device-aided health care, called mHealth, attracts a lot of attention and dollars, as U.S. National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins wrote last year in Scientific American. In 2012 venture capital firms invested more than $900 million in mHealth, according to a report by Mobile Health Market News.

?There?s a lot of enthusiasm for [mHealth] but [its effectiveness] wasn?t very clear,? says epidemiologist Caroline Free of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in England, the lead author of the reviews. In 2011, for example, the World Health Organization found that only 12 percent of mobile health initiatives included an evaluation.

So Free and colleagues conducted the reviews, which appear in PLoS Medicine, she says, to ?put us in the position of knowing exactly in which areas there was good evidence where the evidence was promising.? That information could help investors and researchers make better decisions about how to identify, improve and promote the best mobile health treatments.

In the first review, the team identified 334 relevant mHealth trials in seven medical databases. Most of the trials used text messaging to interact with patients, although some interacted through dedicated applications, downloadable audio and video or the Web. Only 75 of those trials included a control group, which allows researchers to compare experimental interventions with doing nothing.

Of the 75 controlled trials, 26 sought to change patient behavior by methods that included increasing exercise and 49 sought to help patients manage diseases medically such as by taking pills on time. That may not seem like many studies, but medical doctor Rahul Chakrabarti at Monash University in Australia, co-editor of the Journal of Mobile Technology in Medicine, calls it the most comprehensive meta-analysis of mHealth evidence to date.

The bad news is that most trials had weak designs, such as failing to randomize participants in the control group and the experimental group. Others relied on participants to self-report the results, but such methods can be unreliable. Free says such trials should use biochemical tests, instead. In some cases, it?s too early to tell whether a result, such as smaller waist size, would last long enough to improve participants? health. Most trials also neglected the developing world, where mobile phones have the most potential to improve access to health care. ?This does not undermine the outcomes,? Chakrabarti says, ?but shows that going forward, there is a clear need for improved methodology.?

There were a few promising, reliable trials: For instance, receiving text messages helped smokers quit in one trial that did verify its results with biochemical tests. Reminders also helped diabetics stick to their treatments in another trial. In the only successful developing-world trial, in Kenya, SMS reminders to take antiretroviral drugs helped reduce HIV virus counts.

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Dot Earth Blog: Weaker Global Warming Seen in Study Promoted by Norway's Research Council

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Purveyors of climate doubt have seized on a news release from the Research Council of Norway with this provocative title: ?Global warming less extreme than feared?? The release describes new research finding that global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases will be on the low end of the persistently wide spread of projections by other research groups. (There?s a presentation describing the work below.)

[Jan. 27, 9:28 a.m. | Update |With Twitter assistance from Norway, the history of this news release is becoming clearer. It appears to be a fresh English translation of a release from October describing a study (Aldrin et al., below) that had been published. Read on for the rest of the initial post, but this incident no longer calls out for a "publicity before peer review" warning.]

[Post as published Jan. 26:] This may well end up being the case (I?d give it higher than even odds; even so, that doen?t justify an ?all clear? alert). But this particular analysis has, as yet, not been published in a peer-reviewed journal. This means that although the release comes from a prestigious government science agency, the work needs a publicity before publication caution label. I created one just for this purpose (above) and will use it when needed.

This is hardly the first instance of a promotion-before-review approach to climate discourse. For instance, Richard Muller?s Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project took this path (one of that group?s five papers has finally made it into a journal). (This phenomenon is not limited to climate science, of course; here?s an example related to the fight over gas drilling.)

Earlier today I sent the following query to the Research Council of Norway and I?ll update this post when I hear more:

With some urgency I?m trying to get some clarity on the status of the climate sensitivity analysis that the Research Council promoted yesterday. Is it published in a peer-reviewed journal? The only relevant study I could find was published last year (see below).

Perhaps it?s more like a U.S. National Academy report? If so, please describe the level of peer review. The work is being?aggressively disseminated?by bloggers and news outlets that focus on any research casting doubt on the importance of greenhouse-driven warming.

Thanks for any input clarifying the status of the research and explaining why it was released now if it?s?not yet accepted for publication?

I included a link to a presentation on the paper (which you can find below) and to this relevant paper from last year:

Bayesian estimation of climate sensitivity based on a simple climate model fitted to observations of hemispheric temperatures and global ocean heat content

Magne Aldrin,?Marit Holden,?Peter Guttorp,?Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie, Gunnar Myhre,?Terje Koren Berntsen

Here?s a presentation about the new analysis of global warming (the closest thing I?ve seen to the paper itself):

Norwegian Study Finds Limited Warming from Doubled Greenhouse Gases by Andrew Revkin

Finally, for those who want to dig in a bit, here?s a comment I received from Reto Knutti, a Swiss climate scientist, after I sent the Norwegian release and presentation around:

As you said, Aldrin et al. (DOI: 10.1002/env.2140) is published, whereas Skeie et al. is not yet as far as I know. But here are some thoughts that are largely independent of this paper to put these types of studies in context.

If you look at the Fig. 3a in our review (red lines at the top) you see that many previous estimates based on the observed warming/ocean heat uptake had a tendency to peak at values below 3?C (that review is from 2008). The Norwegian study is just another one of these studies looking at the global energy budget. The first ones go back more than a decade, so the idea is hardly new. The idea is always the same: if you assume a distribution for the observed warming, the ocean heat uptake, and the radiative forcing, then you can derive a distribution for climate sensitivity.

What is obvious is that including the data of the past few years pushes the estimates of climate sensitivity downward, because there was little warming over the past decade despite a larger greenhouse gas forcing. Also in some datasets the ocean warming in the top 700 meters is rather small, with very small uncertainties (Levitus GRL 2012), pushing the sensitivity down further. However, in my view one should be careful in over interpreting these results for several reasons:

a) the uncertainties in the assumed radiative forcings are still very large. Recently, Solomon et al. Science (2010, 2011) raised questions about the stratospheric water vapor and aerosol, and just days ago there was another paper arguing for a larger effect of black carbon (http://www.agu.org/news/press/pr_archives/2013/2013-01.shtml, a massive 280 pages?).

b) Results are sensitive to the data used, as shown by Libardoni and Forest DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049431 and others, and particularly sensitive to how the last decade of data is treated. Very different methods (detection attribution optimal fingerprint) have also shown that the last decade makes a difference (Gillett et al. 2011, doi:10.1029/2011GL050226).

c) The uncertainties in the ocean heat uptake may be underestimated by Levitus, and there are additional uncertainties regarding the role of deep ocean heat uptake (Meehl et al. 2011 Nature Climate Change).

Even though we have many of these studies (and I am responsible for a couple of them) I?m getting more and more nervous about them, because they are so sensitive to the climate model, the prior distributions, the forcing, the ocean data, the error model, etc. The reason for this, to a large extent, is that the data constraint is weak, so the outcome (posterior) is dominated by what you put in (prior).

It is important to note that the IPCC assessment of climate sensitivity is based on many lines of evidence (see Fig. 3 in our 2008 review for an overview). The observed energy budget is just one of them. The latest paleoclimate synthesis (Rohling et al. Nature 2012) supports the ?likely 2-4.5?C?, and all GCMs have sensitivities in the range 2-5?C, the mean in CMIP5 is above 3?C, and once you start evaluating models with observations that tends to get pushed upward (Fasullo and Trenberth, Science 2012).

Finally, note that the effect of the last few years of data is smaller on the transient climate response than on climate sensitivity. It?s the transient climate response (TCR) that determines the 21st century warming and peak warming.

7:52 a.m. |Update

I was remiss in not including a link to an excellent recent breakdown of the climate sensitivity question at RealClimate.org. Gavin Schmidt describes the different approaches to the question, and why there are essentially two conclusions, both surrounded by different kinds of uncertainty. His takeaway line:

[T]he ?meta-uncertainty? across the methods remains stubbornly high with support for both relatively low numbers around 2?C and higher ones around 4?C, so that is likely to remain the consensus range.

(There?s a part 2 post there focused on the role of clouds in warming.)

10:56 a.m. |Update

The same goes for Judith Curry?s long exploration of the mix of modeling and observations leading to the range of possible warming projections from a doubling of pre-industry carbon dioxide concentrations.

11:42 a.m. |Update

This paper is deeply relevant (Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado sent a link as part of an e-mail discussion with other climate science and policy researchers:

Anchoring Devices in Science for Policy: The Case of Consensus around Climate Sensitivity

1. Jeroen van der Sluijs1,
2. Jos?e van Eijndhoven2,
3. Simon Shackley3?and
4. Brian Wynne4

This paper adds a new dimension to the role of scientific knowledge in policy by emphasizing the multivalent character of scientific consensus. We show how the maintained consensus about the quantitative estimate of a central scientific concept in the anthropogenic climate-change field ? namely, climate sensitivity ? operates as an `anchoring device? in `science for policy?. In international assessments of the climate issue, the consensus-estimate of 1.5?C to 4.5?C for climate sensitivity has remained unchanged for two decades. Nevertheless, during these years climate scientific knowledge and analysis have changed dramatically. We identify several ways in which the scientists achieved flexibility in maintaining the same numbers for climate sensitivity while accommodating changing scientific ideas.

We propose that the remarkable quantitative stability of the climate sensitivity range has helped to hold together a variety of different social worlds relating to climate change, by continually translating and adapting the meaning of the `stable? range. But this emergent stability also reflects an implicit social contract among the various scientists and policy specialists involved, which allows `the same? concept to accommodate tacitly different local meanings. Thus the very multidimensionality of such scientific concepts is part of their technical imprecision (which is more than just analytical lack of resolution); it is also the source of their resilience and value in bridging (and perhaps reorganizing) the differentiated social worlds typical of modern policy issues. The varying importance of particular dimensions of knowledge for different social groups may allow cohesion to be sustained amidst pluralism, and universality to coexist with cultural distinctiveness.

Source: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/weaker-global-warming-seen-in-study-promoted-by-norways-research-council/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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BERLIN (AP) ? New movies from directors Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant and a trio of films starring French divas will be competing this year at the Berlin International Film Festival.

A diverse selection of 19 movies, including films from Kazakhstan and Iran, will vie for the main Golden Bear prize at Europe's first major film festival of the year. The event runs from Feb. 7-17.

Van Sant's film about the shale gas industry, "Promised Land," starring Matt Damon, and Soderbergh's thriller "Side Effects," featuring Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones, are the most prominent U.S. offerings.

There's a strong contingent from eastern Europe, including Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," about a poor Gypsy family; Calin Peter Netzer's "Child's Pose," which highlights corruption in Romania; and Malgoska Szumowska's "In the name of," a film about a gay priest in Poland.

French actresses Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Isabelle Huppert all star in separate competition entries this year ? Binoche in "Camille Claudel 1915," about the French sculptor's later years; Deneuve in "On My Way;" and Huppert in "The Nun," a movie about a convent.

From Iran comes "Closed Curtain," directed by dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi and fellow Iranian Kamboziya Partovi. Panahi was sentenced to house arrest in Iran and banned from filmmaking after being convicted in 2011 of "making propaganda" against Iran's ruling system. Festival director Dieter Kosslick said Panahi's no longer confined to his home but still isn't supposed to make films.

Kosslick said Monday that organizers "tried to bring new people who are making films for the first or second time into the program," continuing a tradition of having less-heralded directors rub shoulders with established names. This year, there's an entry from Kazakhstan ? "Harmony Lessons," directed by Emir Baigazin.

The top prize will be awarded by a seven-member jury under Chinese director Wong Kar-wai, whose members include actor-director Tim Robbins. Wong's new movie about two kung fu masters, "The Grandmaster," is screening out of competition and will open the festival.

Last year's Golden Bear went to "Caesar Must Die," by Italy's Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, which showed inmates of a high-security prison staging Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/berlin-film-fest-mixes-us-stars-global-contenders-132513013.html

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French, Mali forces retake airport in city of Gao

In this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, a Malian army armored vehicle used by islamist rebels stands charred. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French air strikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, a Malian army armored vehicle used by islamist rebels stands charred. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French air strikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, a videographer films Malian soldiers walking through the rubbles of a former army based leveled during fighting with islamist rebels. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French air strikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

in this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako Saturday , Jan. 26, 2013, an ammunition belt lays on the ground of a destroyed base used by Islamist rebels. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida-linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French airstrikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, a charred flack jacket lays on the ground of a destroyed base used by islamist rebels. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French air strikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In this image taken during an official visit organized by the Malian army to the town of Konna, some 680 kilometers (430 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, a jacket lays on the ground of a destroyed base used by islamist rebels. One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali, in a declaration that indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French air strikes. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

KONNA, Mali (AP) ? French and Malian troops regained control of the airport and bridge of the crucial, northern city of Gao on Saturday, marking their biggest advance yet in their bid to oust al-Qaida-linked extremists who have controlled northern Mali for months, military officials said.

The move comes just two weeks after France launched its military offensive in support of the shaky, central government of this former French colony. It is unclear what kind of resistance French and Malian troops will face in the coming days.

The French military said in a statement on its website that their special forces, which had stormed in by land and by air, had come under fire from "several terrorist elements" that were later "destroyed."

In a later press release entitled "French and Malian troops liberate Gao" the French ministry of defense said they were bringing back the town's mayor, Sadou Diallo, who had fled to the Malian capital of Bamako far to the west.

However, a city official interviewed by telephone by The Associated Press said coalition forces so far only controlled the airport, the bridge and surrounding neighborhoods.

And in Paris, a defense ministry official clarified that the city had not been fully liberated, and that the process of freeing Gao was continuing.

Both officials spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Swooping in under the cover of darkness, the French and Malian forces faced sporadic "acts of harassment" during the day, said Col. Thierry Burkhard, a French military spokesman in Paris. He had no immediate estimate on casualties.

Gao, the largest city in northern Mali, was seized by a mixture of al-Qaida-linked fighters more than nine months ago, and the battle to retake the city is expected to be tough.

The rebel group that turned Gao into a replica of Afghanistan under the Taliban has close ties to Moktar Belmoktar, the Algerian national who has long operated in Mali and who last week claimed responsibility for the terror attack on a BP-operated natural gas plant in Algeria.

His fighters are believed to include Algerians, Egyptians, Mauritanians, Libyans, Tunisians, Pakistanis and even Afghans.

The French assault began with the capture of the airport, a strategic landing strip that opens the way for easier sorties all over northern Mali.

The further capture of a major bridge leading into the town means that the jihadists "saw their means of transport and their logistics sites destroyed," French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a statement.

The operation in Gao comes at the same time as airstrikes in the two other provincial capitals held by the extremists ? the cities of Timbuktu and Kidal, which like Gao fell to the rebels last April, during the chaotic aftermath of a coup in the distant capital. Nearly 30 bombs have been fired from fighter jets over the past two days, said France's military in a communique.

The simultaneous aerial attacks also come at the same time that ground troops are carrying out a pincer movement, with French and African land forces heading to Gao from Niger, where Chad has sent a battalion.

The Pentagon said late Saturday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has told Le Drian the U.S. will aid the French military with aerial refueling missions.

U.S. aerial refueling planes would be a boost to air support for French ground forces as they enter areas of Mali that are controlled by al-Qaida-linked extremists.

The U.S. was already helping France by transporting French troops and equipment to the West African nation.

French and Malian forces are also heading to Timbuktu, via the central corridor that leads straight north from the central Malian city of Segou, via the recently recaptured town of Diabaly.

In an interview Saturday, Col. Shehu Usman Abdulkadir told The Associated Press that the African force will be expanded from an anticipated 3,200 troops to some 5,700 ? which does not include the 2,200 soldiers promised by Chad.

Most analysts had said the earlier figure was far too small to confront the Islamists given the vast territory they hold ? an area larger than Afghanistan.

"Because they've seen that the area itself, northern Mali is too large for that number of troops so there was a need to increase the number and that's why we arrived at 5700," said Abdulkadir, the force commander. "I believe that as time goes on it may be necessary to increase the strength again. Because France pulls out we definitely must have to increase the strength."

Since France began its military operation, the Islamists have retreated from three small towns in central Mali: Diabaly, Konna and Douentza.

For the first time on Saturday, Malian authorities opened the town of Konna to reporters. Although in most places Malians have applauded the arrival of the French, the town of Konna, built around a single, hard-top road, provides a counterweight and reveals the human toll of the operation.

Konna's mayor had earlier said that 11 civilians were killed during the airstrikes. Among them were four relatives of Souleymane Maiga, a young, 20-something man who ran for cover on Jan. 11, the first day of the airstrikes.

He hid between two mud walls separating his compound from that of his neighbor. His aunt, and the four children, including several young girls that were with her, abandoned the pot on an open flame where they were preparing the midday meal and ran inside the house.

French combat helicopters, looking for rebels, strafed the buildings made of nothing more than mud mixed with straw.

"The women were preparing food right here in the shade of this tree, when we heard the noise made by the aircraft. I ran and threw myself between the two walls over there," said Maiga. "After it was over, I went to the house, and when I opened the door, I saw that they were dead. Of the five people inside, only one survived. A toddler. The bodies were one on top of the other. The toddler was crying. The bullets had pierced the door. I tried to find their pulses, but they were gone. I realized it was over. I picked up the child and took him to a relative's house in town."

The zinc door of the modest house is pockmarked by bullet holes, some several inches wide. If you close it behind you, they let in jets of light, which illuminate the unlit interior. The can of tomato paste that the women had just opened in order to make a sauce served over rice, still sits where they left it. It had been partially opened, and now the tomato paste inside has spoiled.

___

Larson reported from Sevare, Mali. Jamey Keaten in Dakar, Senegal; Baba Ahmed in Konna, Mali; and Robbie Corey-Boulet in Abidjan, Ivory Coast contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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Brown Men's Hockey Edged by Colgate, 2-1 - Brown

January 25, 2013

Hamilton, NY ??Sophomore Matt Harlow (Bridgewater, MA) scored midway through the period as the Brown men's hockey team (6-9-4, 2-6-4) attempted to come back from a two-goal deficit, but it wasn't enough, as Colgate (6-10-1, 4-8-0) held on for a 2-1 victory in an ECAC Hockey contest Friday evening at Starr Rink. The result is the fifth one-goal loss of the season for the Bears, all of which have come in ECAC Hockey play.

"The guys had a great week of practice and I thought that would transfer to the game," said head coach Brendan Whittet '94. "I was mistaken as we waited until the seven-minute mark of the third to play with desperation. That will not win many games. Until we mature as individuals and understand the importance of the consistent effort it takes to win, we will have inconsistent results."

The two teams were slow out of the gates, combining for just 10 shots through the first 15 minutes of play. However, things picked up towards the end of the opening period with the teams combining for three penalties in the final four minutes of the frame. After Brown failed to capitalize on its first man-advantage on the night, Colgate went up on its second power play of the game and needed just nine seconds to take a 1-0 lead, as Tylor Spink found the back of the net with 1:23 left in the period.

Just 10 seconds after the goal, the Bears went up on their second power play of the night, which carried into the second period, but Brown could not get past Spencer Finney.

The Bears would earn three more power plays in the middle period to no avail, as the Raiders killed each opportunity to keep Brown off the board, while extending their lead with another late goal.

Jeremy Price started the play when he passed from the right point over to Nathan Sinz on the left. Sinz sent the puck down low to Darcy Murphy, whose back-hander from the top of the crease was initially saved by senior Anthony Borelli (Grand Island, NY). However, Murphy collected his own rebound and tucked the puck underneath Borelli to give his team a 2-0 lead with 4:48 left in the period.

Brown opened the final 20 minutes with 48 seconds remaining on its fifth power play chance of the night, but Colgate continued its strong play on the kill to prevent the Bears from getting on the board.

From about the five-minute mark through exactly 12 minutes of the third, neither team could establish much of a rhythm with four penalties getting called in a span of 5:07. Brown went up on a five-minute power play after Spiro Goulakos was called for hitting from behind at 4:53. With 3:01 left on the extended man-advantage, sophomore Ryan Jacobson (Greenwood Village, CO) was whistled for goaltender interference, as the teams skated four-on-four. Then just a minute later, another Brown infraction gave Colgate a four-on-three advantage for one minute, before Jacobson returned to the ice to even things up at four-on-four. Then just seven seconds after the original five-minute penalty expired, Colgate took another minor, which the Raiders also killed, as Brown was 0-7 on the power play.

The Bears controlled the remainder of the game, finally getting on the board with 7:04 remaining when sophomore Matt Harlow (Bridgewater, MA) knocked in a feed from freshman Mark Naclerio (Milford, CT). Senior Jeff Ryan (Media, PA) also assisted the goal.

Naclerio nearly tied the game just 3:18 later, but his shot from the right edge of the crease, which beat Finney to the far side, missed by the slimmest of margins, hitting the post, before bouncing back out. The referees reviewed the video of the play and it was ruled that the puck did not cross the goal line, as Colgate held on for the 2-1 win, leapfrogging Brown in the ECAC Hockey standings.? ?

For the game, Borelli finished with 29 saves, while Finney made 32 for Colgate, as Brown held a 33-31 advantage in shots on goal, including a 14-10 margin in the third period.

Brown continues action tomorrow evening when it travels to Ithaca, NY to face #18 Cornell in a 7:00 p.m. contest.

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First period?? C, Tylor Spink (Baun, Tyson Spink), PP, 18:37. Penalties ? B, 2-4; C, 2-4.

Second period ??C, Murphy (Sinz, Price), 15:12. Penalties ? B, 0-0; C, 3-6.

Third Period ??B, Harlow (Naclerio, Ryan), 12:56. Penalties ? B, 2-4; C, 3-17.

Saves
B, Borelli (59:13), 7-12-10-x ? 29; C, Finney (60:00), 8-11-13-x ? 32.

Pictured: Matt Harlow '15. Photo by DSPics.net.

Source: http://www.brownbears.com/sports/m-hockey/2012-13/releases/2013012586zxcx

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Spam hits five-year low

16 hrs.

Devin Coldewey , NBC News

A new report from Kaspersky Lab indicates that the amount of spam in the world continues to decline, although it's nowhere near disappearing. It's also being replaced with other, more substantial threats.

Spam levels dropped throughout 2012, and by the end of the year it was steadily below 70 percent of all email detected. In the heyday of spam, it consistently made up around 85 percent, according to Kaspersky's numbers.

A number of factors have contributed to this. People and email providers have instituted more effective spam filters, for one thing, and a major security hole that allowed people to spoof an email's sender was closed this year.

The reduced effectiveness of spam emails means spammers have to send more to get any hits. Kaspersky calculates that it cost spammers $150 for every million emails sent ? cheap indeed, but the success rate is so low that legal, normal advertising on Google and Facebook actually end up beinga better deal.

Of course, not every spammer is just aiming for cheap advertising. There are plenty?selling illegal services or products, or looking to hijack your computer with malicious attachments or phishing attempts. Since legal advertisement isn't an option, they're doubling down on spam. For that reason, Kaspersky suggests spam reduction in 2013 will be "negligible at best."

The full, detailed report, with many more details about the origins and types of 2012's spam, can be read here.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/spam-hits-five-year-low-its-still-two-thirds-all-1C8125282

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If you want to be a SPACE GOD then click this (RPers wanted)

So you clicked this HMM? well then lucky for you! you get to be a god!...that is if I accept you, for as a god in my RP there must be balance and order. For instance what if someone in the RP creates a nuclear pie? now how will that end up? that is why order must be in my RP. But you can still have fun and make anything you want! so if you actually read all this and are interested, then here is the linky link =3 (or it might be in my signuature) http://www.roleplaygateway.com/roleplay/the-celestials/

Also it is my first time being a Gamemaster in this website but I have had some inspiration by others.

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The Business Travel Bad & Ugly? Because There Ain't Anything ...

Curmudgeon ? Blogger ??Podcaster ? Portlander

The Business Travel Bad & Ugly? Because There Ain?t Anything Good About It

by Robert Wagner

I?m currently travelling for business reasons. I do this rather often, though fortunately not as much as I used to. I?ve been pretty much everywhere at one time or another and I can honestly say that I?ve yet to be bitten by the ?hey look at me, I travel a lot so I must be important? bug.

I?d rather be at home actually.

That said, I?ve been pondering a few things this trip:

• How is it that in 2013 there are still airport security personnel that don?t know what a ultrabook, ultraportable laptop, or MacBook Air is and don?t understand that they don?t contain a physical hard drive. And no matter how many times you look at that cool little cheat sheet with the diagram of a 2003 Dell Inspiron, you?re not going to find all of those same parts when you examine my Mac?
• When will airport security make up its mind whether or not the iPad is or is not a laptop and instruct me to either keep it in my bag or remove it accordingly? I don?t care which way you want to go, just standardize your goddamn rules.
• How is a small tube of toothpaste any less deadly than a large tube of toothpaste?
• Why do hotels that refer to themselves as ?resorts? always have scratchier towels and impossibly cheaper bottles of budget brand soap, shampoo, and conditioner?
• When will I learn to bring my own soap, shampoo, and conditioner?
• How come my shitting schedule gets thrown out the window simply because I sat on my ass for several hours and got out of my chair in a different time zone? And what is the best way to return it to normal?
• Why is it legal for powdered eggs to be called eggs at all?
• Who are these Road Warriors? that are satisfied with only 2 cups of shitty hotel room coffee? Sure, it says it makes 4 cups but that?s only if you?re drinking it out of DIXIE? Brand 3oz. containers.
• Is my wifi-only iPad mini really going to make the plane crash if I?m reading a book on it during takeoff? If so, I demand that the tree-hating assholes reading paperbacks be required to put their books down during takeoff and landing ??and we should all sit upright and stare straight ahead like the little lemming-zombies you want us to be.
• Why can?t I pay for the in-flight high school cafeteria quality food with cash? Or, better still, why do you hire flight attendants that can?t be trusted to: a) make correct change, and b) not steal from you.
• Is there anywhere I can fly directly to from Portland International Airport? I hate stopovers.
• Why does it seem like half of the females over 30 take business travel way too seriously? The other half are casual and friendly, what the fuck is your excuse for acting like you?re all that ? you?re in economy class, honey, sit down and shut up. No one is impressed.
• (Continued) Why is it that those same self-important females over 30 act like they haven?t had sex in a decade and try to touch, fondle, flirt with, and fuck every other guy in the room?
• (Continued) And finally?why do those same women (yes, I?m still on this, sorry) act so put off when you decline their advances? I?m sorry you?re hideous and live a meaningless existence but that?s no excuse to be a fucking asshole to someone just because they don?t want to ?go for a few drinks and see where it leads.? I know exactly where it leads ??and I?m sure a few hundred other men probably do too. Go away. Stay away. Fuck off.
• Why does the familiarity of McDonald?s seem so goddamn comforting just because I?m away from home? I don?t eat it when I am at home, so why does it remind me of home?
• The wireless carriers lie ??their coverage is pretty much spotty and shitty everywhere.
• Why must I always call my bank before I travel so that they don?t shut off my debit and credit cards? Seriously, they should know by now that I travel from time to time ??it?s none of their fucking business when or where.

Bon Voyage, bitches.

Source: http://robwagpdx.com/the-business-travel-bad-ugly-because-there-aint-anything-good-about-it/

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