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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our continuing coverage of their work, here are Pink Floyd performing Us and Them ¤ §, from their A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour, in 1987 (7:35). This song was originally the seventh track on their The Dark Side of the Moon album, in 1973, but I must say that I do think that Scott Page‘s saxophone work in this version is the best I’ve ever heard for this song. And, special for SDA LNR listener Black Mamba: there are no “giant nodding pigs” in this video đŸ˜‰

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The Sound Of Homogenized Science

The latest independent analysis of world climate data by acclaimed skeptic blogger ‘Chiefio’ (aka E. M. Smith) and his blog contributors confirm that the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) has cynically dumped the world’s second oldest and reliable climate record at Prague in the Czech Republic for no scientific reason […]
The Prague raw temperatures correlate perfectly with those of the world’s oldest climate data set, found in the Central England Temperature Record (CET) that has been running continuously for 351 years.
Thus, the two oldest and most reliable raw thermometer records in the world are telling us there is not a shred of real world evidence to show any significant global warming. Rather, it the homogenized or faked data created artificially by climatologists in their laboratories that is consistently being shown as the source of such ‘warming.’

Emphasis mine.

Note the radio silence during the 1940’s, then read the whole thing.

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  Aboard the USS Ranger in 1981
On CV-61 in ’81

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Gladys Knight and The Pips performing Midnight Train To Georgia ¤ § in 1973 (3:13).

I am also delighted to be able to announce that Hellman, Diffie, and Merkle have Won the IEEE Hamming Medal for their work on public- key cryptography ca. 1975. Follow the link for a good story.

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Austin Plane Crash Intentional?

There are IRS offices in the building….

Chris Messer was driving to work about 9:50 a.m. when he was on the flyover exiting MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) to northbound U.S. 183 when he saw a small, single-engine yellow plane in his peripheral vision.
“It flew right in front of me and flew right square into the building,” said Messner, 27. “The fireball was pretty big. It shook my car and the heat came in from my air vents. I was surprised how big the explosion is.”
Messner said the explosion was “as wide as the entire building.”
“The tail was down slightly like it was trying to pull up a little bit,” Messner said. “It happened really fast.”
Sarah Whelan, 28, was also driving on the overpass from MoPac onto U.S. 183 north on her way to work when she saw the plane on her right, flying low over the shops across the street from the building that was hit.
She said all the cars in front of me started slowing down because the plane looked like it could it land on the highway.
“It wasn’t heading into the direction of the building but all of a sudden it took a right and headed straight into it,” Whelan said. “It didn’t look like it was in distress. It wasn’t wavering at all.

Update: The alleged pilot’s alleged suicide note is up at the Smoking Gun.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

The only real problem with wind turbines isn’t their performance record.

Northern New Brunswick’s cold, icy weather is causing wind turbines to freeze and stop producing power at the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst.

The problem is that people still can’t tell the difference between stuff built to generate power….

Official data recording the performance of half the UK’s onshore turbines revealed the problems caused by a lack of wind during the cold snap. On the coldest day – January 7 – they produced just 5 per cent of their maximum output. On January 9 they produced just 9 per cent, and on two other days the figure was only 10 per cent.

… and stuff built to generate tax subsidies.

“If people see a water tower, they expect it to stand still,” said Wally Wysopal, the city manager of North St. Paul. “If there’s a turbine, they want it to turn.”

h/t Manotick and J.A.

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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s song selection is a popular ballad that was first heard in the U.S. in the mid-to-late 19th century, and has been played and sung ever since. There’s some debate about the origins of its melody, with various camps claiming it closely resembles some Irish or Scottish tune or other; suffice to say that anyone who hears a resemblance to some other song is probably right, inasmuch as, with the exception of negro/slave music, virtually every American public-domain folk song from the 18th or 19th century is a variant, however many steps removed, of a particular Scottish/Irish/English folk melody.
Anyway you slice it, it’s a lovely and enduring song. Here’s — the almost painfully-Causasian — Irishman Paul Brady singing The Lakes of Pontchartrain.
You are invited, as always, to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.

Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Saskatchewan Cherry Blossom Festival

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Biological Conservation Newsletter, July 2001Smithsonian scientists have evidence that Washington’s famous cherry trees are blooming on the average seven days earlier than 30 years ago, apparently due to global warming.
WTOP.com, February 2010Along the Tidal Basin near the paddle boats, quite a few of Washington’s iconic cherry trees are damaged. […] In some cases, branches six inches thick have been snapped off. Branches on other cherry trees are bent down to the ground and remain buried under snow.

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