Top 10 Western movies

Vertigo has supplanted Citizen Kane at the top of the Sight and Sound poll for the greatest film of all time.

Should we be dizzy at Vertigo's rise to the top? - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 04, 2012: "The Hitchcock film has topped the only poll that matters – ‘Sight & Sound’ – a list that offers a strong argument for the virtues of patience and serious thinking when assessing cinema

My Choices:

Citizen Kane
Rebecca
12 Angry Men
Running on Empty
Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Godfather
Stand by Me
Local hero
Roman Holiday
Magnificent Seven

Extreme weather: no other explanation, unless one is a Republican

NASA scientist links climate change, extreme weather - CNN.com: ""This is not a climate model or a prediction but actual observations of weather events and temperatures that have happened," he wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece meant to accompany the study.
"Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change."
The study, which was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looks at the past six decades of global temperatures and finds what Hansen described as a "stunning" rise in the frequency of extremely hot summers."

Conviction

Stop this culture of paying politicians for denying climate change | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk: ""The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity." These words, from WB Yeats's poem The Second Coming, came to mind as I read the testimony from Wednesday's Senate hearings on climate change.

They're not a precise description of what took place, as the two most eminent climate scientists who testified before the environment and public works committee, Christopher Field and James McCarthy, were not lacking in conviction. But they were, as scientists should be, careful and meticulous, laying out their evidence calmly and sequentially, saying nothing that was not supported by the data."

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Retail Chains - margin of profit first, margin of safety last

Retail Groups Challenge Trucking Rule | Laws & Regulations content from Supermarket News: "Peter J. Larkin, NGA president and chief executive officer, said NGA is supporting an amici curiae brief filed in support of the American Trucking Association's legal challenge to the rule, explaining, "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration clearly failed to take into account critical information such as costs on the entire supply chain that NGA and others provided in public comments."

The rule, set to take effect next July, reduces by 12 hours the maximum number of hours a truck driver can work within a week. Under the old rule, truck drivers could work on average up to 82 hours within a seven-day period. The new hours-of-service final rule limits a driver's work week to 70 hours.

In addition, truck drivers cannot drive after working eight hours without first taking a break of at least 30 minutes. The final rule retains the current 11-hour daily driving limit.

The rule also requires truck drivers who maximize their weekly work hours to take at least two nights' rest from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. as part of the rule's "34-hour restart" provision that allows drivers to restart the clock on their work week by taking at least 34 consecutive hours off-duty."

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