Chinese New Year: 2011 is Year of Rabbit
2011 is the Year of the Rabbit,
which is also known by its formal name of Xin Mao.
How is Chinese New Year’s Day determined?
- In one sentence, the Chinese New Year is the second New Moon after the winter solstice. [mjh: 7:31pm MST 2/2/11]
ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: 2 Fresh Faces Join Board
Katherine Korte won in District 2…. Korte, whose background is as a parent-teacher association president and mother of four, said networking with parents is one of her strengths.
"I’m not going to base decisions on what I think is best or what administrators tell me is best. I really want to hear from parents and teachers and make this a representative position."
ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: 2 Fresh Faces Join Board
Well, except for the ones who believe homosexuality is OK.
ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Candidates Speak on Social Issues
In a questionnaire developed by a conservative group calling itself Concerned Citizens for APS Reforms, candidates gave insight into their views on some controversial issues. Katherine Korte, who is running in District 2, wrote in response to a question about sexual diversity education: "I would define it as teaching children that it is OK to be in a gay/lesbian relationship, to have bisexual tendencies and or perverted views of sex. We don’t need this type of ‘education’ in our schools. There is right and there is wrong. And I don’t want any educator telling my child that sexual diversity is OK …"
How humans are changing the world
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the University of Leicester Department of Geology led the production of the studies into the Anthropocene — a new geological epoch distinguished by the change that man has wrought upon the earth.
Dr Zalasiewicz said: "At the beginning of this millennium, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen suggested that we are now living in a new geological interval of time that is dominated by human activities. He termed this the Anthropocene. Since then, the Anthropocene has increasingly been used both by scientists and by the public as in indication of the scale of human change to planet Earth.
The Sky This Week, 2011 February 1 – 8 — Naval Oceanography Portal
February 2nd is one of our more popular "semi-holidays", Groundhog Day. It is similar in character to Halloween in that most everybody is aware of it and "observes" it in some fashion, but they’re not really sure why they do. … Groundhog day falls mid-way between the winter solstice and the Vernal equinox … [T]he roots of Groundhog Day date back well over a thousand years to an early Christian feast known as Candlemas. This was one of the so-called "cross-quarter" days of ancient timekeeping tradition, which, along with the quarterly seasonal markers, were the dates when serfs paid rent to their feudal lords. Halloween is the other cross-quarter day that’s still widely observed here in America, and Europeans still observe May Day. Lammas, the final cross-quarter day, falls on August 1st, which is the traditional start of summer vacation days in many parts of the world.
The Sky This Week, 2011 February 1 – 8 — Naval Oceanography Portal
From Al Gore (via Ed Bott, hat tip):
Al’s Journal : An Answer for Bill February 1, 2011 : 11:43 AM
Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”
I’m glad we don’t have clue about anything other than that it’s all part of gawd’s plan.
Interesting column by Steve Pearce in which he compiles a number of fears about road closures in the Gila. Considering his access to the Forest Service – direct and quick – it is interesting he says nothing about what’s really going to happen, only what people *fear* will happen. Good man.
New Mexicans speak out on Gila road closings | NMPolitics.net – Get the real story
Now, the Forest Service wants to take away that freedom.
Must be a bunch of progressives running the FS: They just hate freedom and happy memories, don’t ya know.
This guy represents US. No, not really. He represents *some* and his real agenda with this is in doubt, other than to tell the frightened he’s heard them and to frighten any who aren’t already infected. GOP = FUD.
