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Jason Kingsley – The Sunday Times Follow Up
25 January 2014 by Martin Pidsley
Jason and Warlord posing for The Sunday Times. Photography courtesy of Kasumi Kitano.
I’ve been at Rebellion for nearly 6 months now and just in that time we've seen huge changes in the industry, with the next generation of consoles being released and digital distribution becoming ever present in the way developers release their games. Video games are rapidly becoming part of mass culture and where the industry may go over the next 10 could change instantaneously.
Last week The Sunday Times sat down with Rebellion CEO and Creative Director Jason Kingsley, to discuss how he got started in the video game industry and built Rebellion into the award winning studio it is today.
We wanted to do a few follow up questions going into how Rebellion began and what the future may hold for both the studio and the industry as a whole.
When yourself and Chris started Rebellion more than 20 years ago, were there any ways that you set out to prove yourselves in the industry?
Jason: Not really, we were just interested in making games and trying to turn it into a living. We learnt the business side as we went along. Our ethos has remained the same, try to make the best games you can with the resources you have.
Were there any hurdles that you had to overcome during Rebellion’s start up, did working with a family member change any typical business dynamics?
Jason: Again it wasn’t a hurdle at all. Chris and I had been working together on projects for fun for ages, and whilst we shared similar ideas and objectives, Chris was much more technical than me, and I was better at making art, so there were areas we could specialise in and areas where we co-operated.
Rebellion now has just under 200 employees and two studios, what is the most important aspect you need to be able to oversee everything?
Jason: A major burden of having a larger company is that you get removed from the day to day details sometimes, and it’s important that where possible we get to be involved, and properly tuned into the games we make. Having knowledge of every tiny little piece is now impossible, but having talented team members who are true professionals helps make that unnecessary. We also have to keep driving communication, both between the two studios and between individuals in the team. Often a good short chat can sort out any number of misunderstood emails.
Rebellion has worked with some high profile licenses in the past, did you have to work towards gaining various publisher’s trust before working with their IP’s?
Jason: Generally the IP owner has approached us because of our track record, to make games, so the trust was already there. Only very occasionally have we pitched to do a game based on a license, and that business model is probably in fast decline currently. Not many licensed game’s are being made these days.
Over the last couple of years we have seen more studios and developers close down, would you say over the past decade the video game industry has become less stable and how does Rebellion try so safeguard itself against?
Jason: We have tried to have a portfolio approach to the type of games we make, who we work for and the types of business we are in. The idea is that the risk is spread out, and one non-so-successful project does not damage the company, instead we learn from our mistakes and build on the successes. We have comic publishing and book publishing to add to the mix these days.
You’ve been in the industry for more than 20 years, what do you consider Next Gen gaming?
Jason: Next gen is always the gen of computers that is not quite here yet, or has just landed. We are in that awkward linguistic place where the use of Next gen to describe them is still used, but probably wrong and everything has to shuffle down, to last gen and current gen, which seems weird for a while.
We are now in the 7th Generation of gaming, what do you think we can expect from the next generations?
Jason: No idea. Prediction is a risky strategy. What will almost certainly happen though is that computer processing speeds will increase, as will the options for games designers, and hopefully players. Development costs too will likely increase.
As the industry moves into digital distribution, how do you think this will affect a developer’s ability to self publish their games?
Jason: Self publishing is potentially very worth-while but it has aspects that are probably not too familiar to the average developer. Marketing and consumer support is a big part of the release of a title. Whilst it is fashionable to criticise big publishers they do have skill sets that are unfamiliar to developers, and those skill sets take some learning to acquire.
You graduated with a degree in Zoology at Oxford, as CEO run Rebellion, have acquired various Publishers (2000 AD, Solaris &Raven Stone), have a chair on the board of TIGA and still managed to become a Champion Jouster. Do you ever sleep?
Jason: Ha, but yes, when I can, and normally well, but after long-haul flights to the USA or China, badly for a few days whilst my body adjusts. Jet lag makes a bad partner to business decisions.
We’ve heard before about your influences in video games, but are there any companies or people that have or continue to influence you in the business world?
Jason: I try to forge my own path. I read both fiction and business books when I get time, often alternating them or adding a history book also to the mix. There are impressive business leaders out there, worth listening to, but listening with a critical ear, as some portion of everyone’s success is down to a bit of luck, and recognising as well as using that luck effectively is part of doing anything successfully.
For more insights into the video game industry you can follow Jason on Twitter @RebellionJason
and see Jason’s Linked in Profile here.
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Lots of work still to be done insists United manager Byfield
The Reds' Andi Thanoj climbs highest against Stratford Town. Picture by Marcus Mingins. 3517004MMR7.
Liam Moakes 31st Aug, 2017 Updated: 31st Aug, 2017
WE WON’T get carried away – that is the message from Redditch United manager Darren Byfield despite his side’s encouraging start to the Southern League Premier Division campaign.
The Reds produced a sparkling display to thump Dorchester Town 4-0 at the Trico Stadium on Saturday before battling to a goalless draw at an impressive Stratford Town on Monday.
The results stand Byfield’s men fifth in the table with ten points from five games and mean the struggles of the second half of the last campaign are a distant memory.
However, the boss is keen to keep the expectations of supporters realistic despite the positive signs.
“Saturday was our best performance of the season so far. We were very patient in our play against a Dorchester side who were waiting to hit us on the break and we defended and attacked very impressively,” said Byfield.
“We got the opening goal at the right time and played with a maturity that was not there last season. The lads’ attitude has been superb.
“However, this is a tough, tough league and we know that, if we even begin to think we’ve cracked things, that we’ll come unstuck instantly.”
After goals from Dior Angus, Vinny Mukendi and Spencer Weir-Daley (2) had secured an ultimately comfortable victory on Saturday, the Reds were given a stern examination by a confident Stratford side two days later and a draw was a fair result despite United striker Danico Johnson hitting the hosts’ bar two minutes from time.
Byfield continued: “It’s a case of learning as you go and there was evidence of that at Stratford. They are a good side and in many ways it was similar to the Kettering game, only this time we didn’t get beaten and almost snatched victory at the death.
“It was a game we’d have lost last season. The players showed great character and I’m pleased with our return of ten points from five matches, having scored 12 goals and conceded just two.
“My only disappointment so far is losing Vinny Mukendi to a knee injury. He was hurt after scoring on Saturday and we missed him at Stratford.
“He’s a powerful and creative player and I have my fingers crossed he isn’t out for too long. If he is, I will probably need to look at bringing in a replacement.”
The Reds now turn their attentions to attempting to halt their miserable FA Cup record when they visit Lincoln United in a first qualifying round tie on Saturday.
United have exited the world’s most famous cup competition at their first hurdle in six successive seasons and will be desperate to halt that sequence at their Northern League Division One South hosts.
“I am well aware of the FA Cup disappointments Redditch have suffered in recent years and we need to put it right,” added Byfield.
“I’ve watched Lincoln and they are a strong and organised side. However, if our attitude is right, we are more than capable of getting the job done.”
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A Celebration by the RLPO!
Posted on September 30, 2015 by Christine Lucas
I had been excited about attending this concert for some time. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor Vasily Petrenko had earlier in the week been wowing the audience at the Royal Albert Hall, London in the biannual Classic FM Live. Friday’s programme borrowed heavily from their earlier London performance, though sadly Petrenko did not return to Liverpool with his glittering sequinned jacket which he wore in celebration of Classic FM’s Make Some Noise charity.
Vasily Petrenko Picture: Ian West/PA
David and I were in the cheap seats in the upper circle. The auditorium filled up nicely, but was not a full house as Thursday’s performance of the same programme was. I was thankful for this and we enjoyed a unobstructed view of the orchestra!
View from our seats
After the National Anthem, the orchestra started the evening as they meant to go on with a Celebration Overture composed by Nigel Hess and commissioned for the Philharmonic’s 175th anniversary! It was a fun opening to the concert though I was more interested in what came next.
Ji Liu who had also graced the stage of the Royal Albert Hall with Petrenko and co on Tuesday, came to Liverpool to perform Rachmaninov’s ultimately romantic second Piano Concerto!
Ji Liu
It is undoubtedly my favourite piano concerto! I love the lyricism of the piece and the second movement (adagio sostenuto) is spine tingly good. Ji Liu cuts a very slender frame on the stage and at times during the performance the piano seemed too small for him, (if that make’s any sense)! He played the piece deftly and with skill.
During the opening movement (moderato), I found that the orchestra seemed to drown out the piano at times. I have noted this earlier in my review of Nobuyuki Tsujii‘s performance of Rachmaninov’s third piano concerto. Perhaps this was why the orchestra was surrounded by padding that adorned the walls? In part to rectify the change in acoustics due to the earlier renovations? Either way, the performance was exceptional.
While Ji Liu took the audience into the slow, second movement, made famous by David Lean’s Brief Encounter, I prepared myself to be swept away with romantic feeling. However the reality was that any sentimental musings were disrupted by some unfortunate, who coughed and retched about five minutes into this musical reverie. I imagined the poor stricken soul expiring in his chair. I gripped David’s arm hoping the gentleman would recover or graciously leave the auditorium. He thankfully recovered so we could all enjoy the remaining performance which culminated in Ji Liu coming onto the stage three times to raucous approval and then satisfying the appreciative crowd with his rendition of Skyfall.
After the interval, the Philharmonic continued their celebratory mood, with Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila, Vaughan William’s English Folk Song Suite and Verdi’s Aida march and ballet music. The concert was rounded off loudly with the much played 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. I would have loved this performance even more, if it were not for the recorded playback of cannons near the cymbal crashing culmination! To me it seemed a little forced. I was content with the wonderful playing of the percussion section whose bells sounded glorious!
Overall it was a fun concert to see and a great start to the Philharmonic’s new season. I look forward even more to Petrenko’s Mahler in November when the RLPO perform Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, a symphony very close to my heart!
© 2015 Christine Lucas
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Home Culture Halle Berry BLASTED by High School Classmates She Claimed Were “RACIST”
Halle Berry BLASTED by High School Classmates She Claimed Were “RACIST”
Halle Berry has been helping to push the liberal narrative about how all white America is racist in her latest victim story about being massively bullied by her classmates in high school where she was crowned prom queen.
In an interview with People Entertainment, Berry said she was bullied, “because of the color of my skin,” adding:
Because my mother was white and my father was black… we got called Oreos and names, and kids just didn’t understand, so we were different. We were the brunt of a lot of jokes. So, I think my need to please and my desire to achieve was because I was constantly trying to prove that I was as good as the other white students. I felt very ‘less than,’ and I thought, ‘If I can beat them at everything, then I can be as good as them.’
(Scroll down to watch the interview in the video below.)
The problem with Halle’s story is that dozens of her former classmates didn’t see it the way she did and they ripped into her on the Internet.
PJ Media reported:
Only that’s not the way her classmates remember it and they took to Facebook en masse to set the record straight. It all started when someone posted the People article on a private Facebook group called “You know you grew up in Bedford,” which is the city where Halle attended high school. Former students immediately jumped on her comments. (I’m not including the full names because these comments below are from a private Facebook group.)
“Oh please,” retorted Beverly C.
Jean M. said, “Never!”
“When did Bedford become (or was) all white???” asked Glenn R.?
After that, the comments started flying in, with dozens of her former classmates calling bull hockey on the Bedford High School graduate’s story. They were eager to vindicate their beloved alma mater in their comments. Here are a few of them (unedited):
Rachel W.: “Class of ’86 here…..I didn’t know Halle personally so while I certainly can’t speak to her individual experience I can speak to how I looked at her and how all of my friends looked at her in high school. My female friends (black and white) and I thought she was gorgeous and wanted to look like her while my male friends (black and white) had massive crushes on her and wanted to date her. Curious also that she left out the fact she was elected Prom Queen by the entire student body, black and white.”
Rob C.: “She’s crazy, Bedford wasn’t all white. I grew up in Bedford and Bedford heights 35 years, there are plenty of black folks then and still are.”
Shannon T: “I remember everyone always being in awww of Hallie. She was always gorgeous and everyone seemed to look up to her.”
James D.: “Bullsh*t, She was in my art class at Bedford HS, I talked to her everyday, she was a cheerleader too and treated like a queen! I always had respect for her until now!”
Jeff A.: “I remembered reading an article 10 or more years ago where she stated the same things.”
Cheryl M.: “She gave an interview on Lifetime about 20 years ago claiming all the same stuff”
Dawn T: “Halle is whining for attention. If she wanted to change the way things are she would be doing something, anything, for kids in her home town. She could easily afford to give a lot, but she doesn’t. What has she done in the last thirty years to help Bedford cheerleaders? Any scholarships for local disadvantaged girls? Has she built a playground? A shelter? Put any Oakwood kids through college? Seriously? What has she done for the biracial kids walking the path that was so tough for her?”
Erna B.: “She is not telling truth as she was Prom Queen voted by the entire class. Bedford schools have always been mix and everyone was happy was pretty friendly.”
Paul T.: “Class of 84. We were at least 40/60 and never heard anything other than how pretty she was. She was our prom queen in 84. Hollywood distorts things.”
Cindy K: “I know her very well. This is another ‘Hollywood’ story that makes for a good interview. She was NEVER picked on! She was popular and very outgoing… Years ago in another interview, she said she was beaten by a high school boyfriend and went deaf because of it, that never happened! On Oprah, she said she was accused of “stuffing” the ballot box because she won prom queen, that never happened! She tied with Vicki and won the coin toss! See the pattern here?”
Karen Z.: “I totally agree. She was popular. She was a cheerleader in the band as a flag girl I believe. Everyone likes her. It’s all a story to get people to feel sorry for her. So sad she has to act that way.”
Wendy P.: “This isn’t the first time she has LIED about Bedford- 10 years ago in a Cosmo article she talked about how she experienced racism- I gaduated in ’81 she graduated a couple years later w/my sister and my dad was her mailman- as previously stated she was super popular, all the guys wanted to date her, all the girls wanted to be her, I don’ t know why she continues to say this- maybe for attention but I hate that it makes Bedford look bad”
Debbie M.: “Bedford was 35% minority when she attended. Being the principals daughter, I was called every name in the book. I had one student, who only knew who I was because I was “bud’s daughter” call me bit*h every single day in the hallway. I had bottles and rocks thrown through my house windows. Bomb threats were called to my home. That’s discrimination. But I dealt with it and I’ve never boo-hooed about it all over the media/Facebook. My brother was one of her best friends. He will attest that she is exaggerating. She needs to find something new to try to regain the spotlight.”
Continue reading more here.
Making such an erroneous claim that there were only 3 black students out of 2500 in a school where there was clearly many, many more is truly sad.
I don’t know about you, but bringing up you were a victim of racism in high school over 30 years later over a couple of things some idiots said, but making it appear your whole school was racist while they crown you prom queen is really grasping to play the victim card.
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RVA Comics X-Change: Issue 10
Ash Griffith | January 8, 2019
Topics: comics, DC, Die, Heroes In Crisis, Image, Immortal Hulk, Marvel, Miles Morales, RVA Comics X-Change, Spider-Man, Stranger Things, third eye comics, Venom Unleashed, Web of Venom
Good afternoon, comics fans! Welcome to not only the first Comic X-Change issue of the new year, but the big whopper – Issue Number 10! For such a special issue, and to kick this brand new year off right, I decided to reach out to one of my very best comic friends and gurus, Kevin Smith of Third Eye Comics in Mechanicsville.
This issue, we’ve got some good hearty amuse-bouches for you to appetize your palate after the holidays. Kevin is bring us some big hitters to watch for in the lands of Marvel and DC, and then I’m going to close us out with the big topic my brain can’t shut up about – Stranger Things Season 3. Let’s get down to business, y’all.
“Miles Morales: Spider-Man #2” by Saladin Ahmed and Javier Garron
“Previously [Miles Morales] had taken over one of the Spider-Man books that Peter had started years ago, but now he has one all to himself.” said Smith.
“The Immortal Hulk #12” by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett
“[Bruce] Banner was killed about three years ago in Civil War II, and thought to have been gone for awhile, and had been brought back,” said Smith. “Marvel’s taking The Hulk back to his origins, the way he was back in the 60s when he was created, where Banner and Hulk are more of a Jekyll and Hyde creature now.”
“Web Of Venom: Venom Unleashed #1” by Ryan Stegman, Juan Gedeon, and Kyle Hotz
“I’m really enjoying this because [Venom writer Donny] Cates has decided to take Venom and, instead of just being one character, [write] the mythology and the history of the symbiotes,” said Smith. “[He’s] taking them back literally to the dawn of time.”
“Heroes in Crisis #5” by Tom King and Clay Mann
“DC has created this super secret place called Sanctuary,” said Smith. “Someone has gone into the Sanctuary, somebody has found the video files of the heroes where they take their masks off and confess what happened.”
“Die #2” by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
“This is something best described as the kids from Stranger Things, mixed with the kids from IT, mixed with Jumanji,” said Smith.
On January 1st, Stranger Things fans were gifted not one but two wonderful presents, and just as we thought the holidays were winding down to a close. Both the official release date poster artwork (above), and a new trailer that also confirmed the official release date, were released as we rung in the new year. We still have just under another six months to go before all of our questions are answered in eight new episodes, but let’s take a look at some things.
“One summer can change everything.” So the new season will take course over the course of the summer of 1985, which we kind of figured when the first teaser came out and showed Mother of the Year Steve Harrington working his new summer mall job. The final episode title is “The Battle of Starcourt,” so while it’s safe to assume that the mall is where the showdown with the big-bad is going to play, is it centered around July 4th? What specifically about July 4th is so crucial?
Also, why are four of the kids stoked for the fireworks, while El and Mike are the only ones wigging out?
Let’s also backtrack a little bit more and dig deeper into theory land. A month or two ago, David Harbour posted on his instagram about shaving his mustache. While this in and of itself is innocuous enough given that he has been filming Hellboy and probably has a new project to work on, something else feels weird. He did go into a long speech about how Hopper was the greatest role of his life…
Now granted, he could just be generally excited that filming is over, and ready to see how fans react to the new season. Or you could be me, dig much deeper, and question if Harbour just released a backdoor spoiler. Is it a possibility that beloved asshole sheriff Chief Jim Hopper dies this season?
Guess we’ll find out in another one hundred and seventy-seven days. But who’s counting?
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On Jewish Identity
As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are somehow incompatible with affirming a Jewish identity. Of course, I deny this. For me to be Jewish is, above all, to be preoccupied with overcoming injustice and thirsting for justice in the world, and that means being respectful toward other peoples regardless of their nationality or religion, and empathetic in the face of human suffering whoever and wherever victimization is encountered. With this orientation, I could, but will not, return the insult, and say that those who endorse the cruelties of Israel occupation policies are the real self-hating Jews as they have turned away from the moral clarity of Old Testament prophets, which is the shining light of the Old Testament overcoming the often bloody exploits of the ancient Israelites. So interpreted, the biblical mandate for just behavior extends to all of humanity. As the great Rabbi Hillel teaches, “[T]hat which is hateful to you do not do to another..the rest (of the Torah) is all commentary, now go study.” Not hateful only to another Jew, but clearly meant to encompass every human being.
But in a more fundamental respect my own evolution has always been suspicious of those who give priority to tribalist or sectarian identities. In other words, it is fine to affirm being Jewish, but it should not take precedence over being human or being open and receptive to the insight and wisdom of other traditions. We have reached a point in the political and cultural evolution that our future flourishing as a species vitally depends upon the spread of a more ecumenical ethos. We have expressed this embrace of otherness in relation to food, with the rise of ‘fusion’ cuisines, and with regard to popular culture, particularly music, where all kinds of borrowing and synthesis are perceived as exciting, authentic, valuable.
For me this rejection of tribalism takes two forms, one negative, the other positive. I do not feel exclusively Jewish. Also, even if I did, I would never claim the superiority of the Jewish religion over other religions. I have felt uncomfortable since childhood with biblical claims, often repeated in contemporary social settings, that Jews are ‘the chosen people’ of God even if this is understood benevolently and temporally as a special destiny associated with doing justice rather than as a matter of societal achievement via wealth and professional success. As soon as exclusivity or superiority is claimed for any ethnic or religious fraction of the human whole, there is implicitly posited a belief in the inferiority of ‘the other,’ which unconsciously and indirectly gives rise to the murderous mentality of warfare and gives a moral and religious edge to many forms of persecution, culminating in a variety of inquisitions.
And, of course, the historical climax of inverted exclusivity was the Holocaust, a process in which Jews (along with the Roma and others) were chosen for extermination. Claims of exclusivity often usually pretend to possess privileged access to truth that helps disguise monstrous intentions and behavior. To have such access, whether from a divine or secular source, treats all those outside the select circle as tainted by falsehood, the logic of which generates a societal license to kill, even to exterminate. Extreme tribalism is genocidal at its core given material scarcities and inequalities that exist in the world, which would otherwise be indefensible.
Besides, the disturbing historical record of exclusivist approaches to living together there is increasing confirmation of the artificiality of the ethnic foundations of the claims of distinct national identities, often at the expense of those exclusions. Benedict Anderson has seminally linked nationalist aspirations with distinct political projects in his Imagined Communities. More recently the Israeli historian, Shlomo Sand in The Invention of the Jewish People has shown the absence of a Jewish ethnos that might justify the claim of being a distinct people, and the degree to which in the Zionist embodiment of their conception of Jewishness in Israel, the Palestinian minority has been subjugated, a cruel ideological side effect of this type of ethnic nationalism. One of the achievements of European secularism and the move to modernity was to denationalize the state while asserting its sovereign control over people living within its bounded territory, which in effect disconnected juridical nationalism from ethnic and religious nationalism, and thus created the basis in law and morality for treating all people subject to the state as equal before the law. Of course, societal beliefs and traditions, along with class conflict and racism and religious prejudices persisted, but not with the blessings of the state. Toward the end of his book Sand poses the question that exposes the raw nerve of the Zionist insistence on Israel as a Jewish state, an insistence given great salience by the current leadership: “It is hard to know how much longer the Israeli Arabs, who represent 20% of the country’s inhabitants, will continue to tolerate being viewed as foreigners in their own homeland.” (p. 325) It should be borne in mind that even the initial purely colonialist encouragement of the Zionist project in the form of the Balfour Declaration in 1917 looked with favor only to a Jewish homeland, and only then if it did not encroach on the rights and prospect of the indigenous population then resident in historic Palestine.
Turning to the positive effects of rejecting tribalist and sectarian approaches to truth and spirituality, I would emphasize the fabulous opportunities at this stage of history to learn from and participate in diverse religious traditions, especially in a globalizing world. In my own case, I have drawn spiritual sustenance from the other great religions ever since my student days. Although celebrating the distinctive traditions of one’s own birth or chosen religion can be personally enriching, and is for most people, I have found that the quality of the sacred and divine can be experienced from many different points of entry with interactive and comparable benefits. In my case I have at various times been inspired and enlightened by the practices and wisdom of Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Taoist, and indigenous peoples. And in a more mundane sense, I think that the future of humanity will be greatly enhanced if these various religious and wisdom traditions are ecumenically and inclusively embraced by more and more people throughout the world, providing a thickening societal and civilizational fiber for human solidarity. I have always been skeptical of the rational case for global humanism that is quite prevalent in the West, an aspect of the Enlightenment legacy, which is also partly responsible for secular excesses relating to technology culminating in the development and normalization of nuclear weaponry. This exclusion of the spiritual is also responsible for those forms of materialism that underpin predatory capitalism that prevails in many parts of the world today. Beyond this, such homogenizing types of universalism, associated with both consumerism and its military twin, imperialism, tend to erode cultural differences, and do not touch the experience of most of the people living on the planet.
In my experience what is most appropriate in our historical circumstances is an ecumenical and inclusive spiritual identity, and associated ethical and political commitments. In effect, what would awaken the collective sensibilities of the peoples of the earth to the challenges confronting humanity is a movement of spiritual and ethical globalization that approaches the universal through an immersion in a variety of particularities. In this sense, I want to say, yes I am Jewish, and proud of it, but I am equally indigenous, Sufi, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and Christian to the extent that I allow myself to participate in their rituals, partake of their sacred texts, and seek and avail myself of the opportunity to sit at the feet of their masters. Many persons living deprived lives do not have or desire such ecumenical opportunities, and can best approach this universal ideal, by seeking out the inclusive potentialities of their own religious and cultural reality.
I want to give the last word to an early nineteenth century American spiritual seer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, although with some hesitation, given his patriarchal use of language. I was slightly tempted to substitute ‘humans are’ for ‘man is’ but then I decided to respect the integrity of Emerson’s speech within the historical setting of its original utterance (unlike the recent purging of ‘nigger’ from the American classic, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and the substitution of the historically misleading, yet culturally less offensive word ‘slave’). Here are Emerson’s words as written: “The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all members.”
Tags: Balfour Declaration, Benedict Anderson, Homeland for the Jewish people, Israel, Jews, Middle East, Old Testament, Palestine, Zionism
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173 Responses to “On Jewish Identity”
clementina van der walt January 16, 2011 at 12:34 pm #
Thank you for a most insightful posting.
Dena Bugel-Shunra January 16, 2011 at 7:34 pm #
In my constant struggle with the exclusivist religion I was born into and a deep consciousness of the basic equality of all humans, it is a great comfort to read your words. (And I think Phil Weiss for putting the link on his blog, too!)
Richard Falk January 16, 2011 at 11:23 pm #
I appreciate these words that express a strong affinity with what I tried to convey. Thanks for writing this comment.
Edithann January 16, 2011 at 8:12 pm #
Being ‘chosen’ has always been a ‘Declaration of War’ on all non Jews. There are no excuses or particular insights needed..it’s there!
The historical context has changed since the emergence of Israel. Not so long ago
Jews believed they were ‘chosen’ by God, but still were victimized in many parts of the world. They were in no position to declare ‘war.’
Edithann January 17, 2011 at 6:34 am #
January 16, 2011 at 11:22 pm #
A leopard doesn’t change it’s spots in only 60+ years. War is overt and covert as we’ve seen in the continual overt theft of Palestine and the covert attack on world finances and destabilization of governments. That’s war!
War on the ‘non-Jew’ did not arise out of Jewish victimization, it arose out of the Torah/Talmud first and foremost. The excuse for Jews has always been their victimization, just as it is against the Palestinians now. Until that is repudiated by all Jews world wide, nothing will change.
Here are Emerson’s words as written: “The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all members.”
You’re coming late to the table, but your effort laudable.
Richard Falk January 17, 2011 at 7:10 am #
You are right about what has been happening in recent decades, but even then historical causation is not so simple. Leadership of the Zionist movement responsible for the early period of Palestinian dispossession was generally anti-religious and not directly influenced by the Torah..
Renfro January 16, 2011 at 11:01 pm #
Refreshing, accurate.
Thanks for your affirming comment..
Mark E. Smith January 17, 2011 at 5:04 am #
I’m just posting so that I can be notified of site updates. This is a wonderful addition to the blogosphere.
edwin January 17, 2011 at 6:24 am #
Saw you in mondoweiss. Bookmarking your site. Thank you.
Norm Depalma January 17, 2011 at 6:49 am #
Actually, Richard, Jewish self hatred is usually a simple case of transference. A Jewish person who hates himself and is unable to process those sentiments will transfer those feelings to hating his ethnic/religious group instead.
I realize this is probably a harsh pill for you, an 80 year old man on the cusp of mortality, to swallow. To realize that an entire career of anti-Judaism (or as you wish Anti-Zionism) is a misplaced case of self-loathing would cripple a lesser man than you. But I do not fret; I am sure your careerist impulses will overcome any introspection. Remember, there is no quicker road to ‘academic’ acceptance than the path of ‘Jewish yet honest critic of the Jewish people/state.’
Perhaps, Norm, my experience is unusual, but ever since I expressed my views on the Israel/Palestine conflict I have paid a rather heavy career price. In my early career, say well beyond my 50th year, I was almost entirely focused on other foreign policy issues, especially Vietnam War.
Carmen January 17, 2011 at 9:14 am #
Inspirational and courageous; my profound thanks for this post. In its essentials, your outlook reaffirms my core life-guiding teachings absorbed from Catholic girlhood schooling of the 1950s. (The less enduring orthodoxies lost their legitimacy across the decades.)
How helpful in these later years to see reaffirmed the belief that love, truth, and justice are the birthright of all human beings. How strange that it should count as “courageous” to affirm that limited, instrumental groupings such as “Jew” or “Christian,” or “Muslim,” can never take precedence over “human being.”
Thank you, too, for mentioning the work of Shlomo Sand (whom I place with Hajo Meyer and Ilan Pappe for Olympic courage.) I’ll guide my friends to your blog.
Richard Falk January 17, 2011 at 10:02 am #
Thanks so much, Carmen, for these confirming and gracious words despite our different backgrounds. These convergences are for me the essence of what I would like to call ‘spiritual globalization.’ Let’s keep in contact.
Norm Depalma January 17, 2011 at 2:56 pm #
Richard, you replied to my post without publishing it. As an ‘academic’, do you not have a responsibility to publish not suppress opinions?
Sorry, it was a mistake. I did not mean to delete it. If you send the comment again it will be posted. i agree with you.
I was able to restore the comment after all; it is posted below.
It is now published. The failure to do so earlier was a digital mistake of mine that I am sorry about..
davit adom baeker January 18, 2011 at 9:24 pm #
Considering that jews have had to justify their existence as a nation for more than 60yrs I can see why they might get a little touchy when someone (a scholar) identifying themselves a ‘jewish’ attacks the fundamental foundation of the State of Israel as ‘illegitimate’ and based on the subjugation of others without much criticism of the opposing side which seems overtly dedicated to Israel’s permanent destruction and to promoting an image of world jewry not dissimilar to Nazi propaganda of the 30s
G. Ben-Nathan July 8, 2011 at 2:33 am #
Dear Norm Depalma,
Your insight is a 100% spot-on.
The question is WHAT does the self-hating Jew specifically hate about him or herself?
One answer maybe the fact that he or she has failed to father / mother a ‘next’ Jewish generation.
I have no idea whether this applies, or not, to Richard Falk
pamela July 8, 2011 at 7:05 pm #
What more clever, though irrational, semantic-propaganda attack exists than to accuse another man of self-hatred?
The entire premise of identity ‘self-hatred’ is yet another anti-human pedantic of ‘identity politics’ which globally continues to reek death, not life. Stay human,!!! We are all family, human family.
tom white January 17, 2011 at 8:04 am #
Dear Richard Falk:
Just found yr blog thanks to Phillip Weiss (marvelous man btw). I am 87 and just lately have begun to blog in some earnest at tomasblanco.blogspot.com. Have nothing like your power to write at some length. Keep ’em flying. Tom White
Dear Tom: I admire your fortitude, and will check out your blog later today. Thanks for the needed encouragement..
Eugene Hon January 17, 2011 at 8:34 am #
I was brought up in a very religious family in South Africa during apartheid. I was made to believe in Heaven and hell. That Born again Christians and coverted Jews were the only believers that will go to heaven (little Christ’s – the chosen few). The rest will spent eternal life in hell – Blacks were considered atheists and communists. These entrenched religious views and associated morals and values has found much favour amongst present day conservatives worldwide, irrespective of their religion – polarizing societies further. Fundamentalists and extremists are therefore fighting a renewed holy war as if their lives depended on it. They do so at a time when their conservative morals and values is being challenged/threatened in an ever changing democratic society. Almost twelve years on, here in SA, and our liberal constitution (work of the constitutional Court), continuos to provide a safe haven for all members of the community – no matter their religion and or political aspiration (race and or creed). How things have changed. I probably live in the safest place on the earth right now – from a humanitarian point of view. There is of course the crime rate.
Thanks, Eugene, for sharing this very relevant and inspiring account of South Africa’s transformation to
multiracial constitutionalism.
I was brought up in a very religious family in South Africa during apartheid. I was made to believe in Heaven and hell. That Born again Christians and coverted Jews were the only believers that will go to heaven (little Christ’s – the chosen few). The rest will spent eternal life in hell – Blacks were considered atheists and communists. These entrenched religious views and associated morals and values has found much favour amongst present day conservatives worldwide, irrespective of their religion – polarizing societies further. Fundamentalists and extremists are therefore fighting a renewed holy war as if their lives depended on it. They do so at a time when their conservative morals and values is being challenged/threatened in an ever changing democratic society. Almost twelve years on, here in SA, and our liberal constitution (work of the constitutional Court), continuos to provide a safe haven for all members of the community – no matter their religion, political aspiration and sexual orientation (sex, race and or creed). How things have changed. I probably live in the safest place on the earth right now – from a humanitarian point of view. There is of course the crime rate.
Thanks, Eugene, for this thoughtful comment. Your interpretation of the transition from apartheid in South Africa is one of the most instructive and inspiring narratives of our time.
Edithann January 17, 2011 at 10:27 am #
It’s very hard to throw off old beliefs that have proven themselves anti humanity so late in life and I certainly understand your plight. It must have been very difficult, and although I understand your plight and you have my sympathies, it is no excuse and never will be.
You are blaming Zionism. Zionism just found an overt and shameless outlet for the inbred hatred of the non-Jew. It all tapped into the original ‘chosen’. It was very easy and of course it worked and is still operational…
Don’t be so defensive of the ‘dogma’…It’s what created the mess in the first place..
Have you read Gilad Atzmon? He’s one Jew who makes no excuses..
Richard Falk January 17, 2011 at 4:15 pm #
Thanks for the reassuring comment. I think there is a greater willingness of Jews to confront
the tensions between their support for Israel and a commitment to law and justice.
Silke January 18, 2011 at 11:53 am #
what is this? a comment section where the author of the post comments on invisibles?
that’s all I needed another blog favoured by Mondoweiss-style swooners
and pray why that? Sounds like a pretty damning judgment on us non-belongers.
” I think there is a greater willingness of Jews to confront
I never met any people so obsessed with their own ‘identity’ as Jews..is it so fragile that it can be taken away from you without you being aware?
Are you all so needy and vulnerable to all that peer pressure? What has Judaism done to you that you can’t be full self actualizing people in your own right with the capacity to know ‘right from wrong’ as your conscience dictates?
Can’t you even visualize survival without your so called Jewish identity?
Ever think that breaking away from that identity might be your salvation into adulthood and finally emancipation to an identity all your own?
Is the ‘outside’ world still so threatening? If so, then you must answer ‘why’? And then you must start doing some serious soul searching…If you can’t come up with anything better then whining about your ‘identity’ and how other Jews label you ‘self hating’, then what’s it all about and what’s your purpose on the planet?
All dogmatic religions such as Judaism, Catholicism, Islam etc., etc., are political systems run for the preservation of the political elite. They are all to keep their followers obedient.
It’s not easy bucking the system..but it’s very ‘freeing’!
Come on now guys..Grow up!
Going around in circles doesn’t accomplish anything but wastes time and effort always finding yourself in the same starting place with the same complaints and certainly whines..
I have no patience with it as you’ve probably noticed.
I’m all American, never was a Jew and have no sympathies with their plight since ’48!
Silke: “I think there is a greater willingness of Jews to confront
If you really think that, you are naive!
Don’t be so quick to throw darts dear boy…I don’t read all the nonsense and whines. Most are redundant and boring..
However, you seem determined to ‘get’ Richard Falk why?
He seems conflicted as so many of the Jews who’ve answered. But that’s their problem and either they work if out for themselves in their own way and risk it all, or sit and continue to complain about the same old things!
It’s difficult to throw off tribal identities that have defined your very existence and assume something foreign, it take guts, more guts than you realize and especially after a certain age.
However, that brings me to another avenue for you to sink your teeth into. From what I see, you’re an expert on the Old and New Testaments and all that nonsense.
I suggest you put that ‘stuff’ down and read some Karen Armstrong, broaden your horizons to the wonders of ‘compassion’!
I could say more, but I wont!
YM January 26, 2011 at 1:42 pm #
Edithann, when Jewish people start quoting the prophets and expressing their support for the Palestinians by saying “I could, but will not, return the insult, and say that those who endorse the cruelties of Israel occupation policies are the real self-hating Jews as they have turned away from the moral clarity of Old Testament prophets, which is the shining light of the Old Testament…” it bothers me. If Mr. Falk wants to support the Palestinians, fine, but he doesn’t have to then start dragging in that he is doing this as a Jew, and misquoting the Torah in support of these opinions.
And frankly, insulting my religious beliefs and tribal affiliations doesn’t help the cause of peace, and shows you to be living in a dream world where we can “imagine no religion”, but (G-d) help us if we come to different conclusions than you do. If you want peace, you are going to have to deal with people like me, who support a two-state solution based on security council resolution 242 and believe that it is the Palestinians and Arabs who have prevented a solution based on 242 from being reached.
Well YM, with all the recent happenings I would have to say you’ve been supporting the wrong side after all. So how does it feel?
There are duplicitous and traitorous Palestinians, as there are disingenuous, cruel, lying and dishonest Israeli Jews.
And why shouldn’t Falk admit to being a Jew with a different opinion? There are many like you, in fact too many, who think they are doing something for the Palestinians, when as we’ve seen the real agenda was to steal more and lying about it all!
You just don’t want the duplicity of your position out there for the world to see…Falk has it all over you dear boy.
I don’t know about self-hating Jews, that’s your weapon. Seems Jews have to have labels or they wouldn’t know who anyone was or how loyal they were to the cause. I guess Jews all have to be on the same page. It’s either you’re with us or self hating. What a ‘crock’! Don’t you think that’s kind of juvenile? Why not just accept him as he is? He’s a Jew and considers himself a Jew..who are you to tell him what kind of Jew he is?.
I made myself quite clear when I said there was no moral aspects to Judaism once Jews accepted they were all CHOSEN! What was left for ‘us’ after that? Hahahah..you’re too funny..and that’s the funniest part of it all..
All your ‘prophets and moral clarity of Old Testament prophets’ is irrelevant and meaningless as that ‘Chosen’ nonsense has seen to it.
And the proof is 3000 years of the same whine..So how come only Jews could see that so called ‘moral clarity of the Old Testament’ when no one else could?
If you call that insulting, then you don’t know what insulting really is.
It is not the Arabs or the Palestinians who are to blame, as the recent ‘leaks’ have shown. The Palestinians were going to give you Jews ‘everything’! But as usual, it wasn’t enough, How could it be.
So you lied and kept on lying there were ‘no partners for peace’? That lying mantra lated years until the ‘leaks’!
Israel has no moral ground now or when they decided on the ‘GRAND THEFT OF PALESTINE’. Just as the US has no moral ground having supported Israels insane and endless lies about Palestine and Palestinians.
Israel was always a ‘land grab scheme’ cooked up by a bunch of rich Jews with influencial US support. It was never for a two state of anything.
I would like to see 242 also, along with reparations for all stolen and confiscated land. The ‘right of return’, and all settlements on Palestinian land paying property taxes to the Palestinian government, once they finally get their act together and they will.
So be ready for some hefty reparations bills coming your way.
I have been trying to publish it..and don’t understand why it does not appear on the site
I am sorry to have been slightly incoherent. I wanted to say ‘if you meant publish’ as a blog then I do not that for any comments.
Doug Tarnopol January 20, 2011 at 9:55 am #
And here we see, in Norm, the mirror image of Edith Ann.
And this is why the Israel-Palestine issue is so difficult. Whether more so than any other political issue, I wouldn’t know, but I/P is a gigantic screen for all kinds of projections.
Falk has been fighting for human rights and international law for decades. He’s courageous enough to be questioning, at age 80. Period: just questioning. If some of the others here showed the same courage, both in questioning the powers that be and oneself, we’d all be a lot further along, rather than hanging by our collective fingernails.
Not that Falk needs *my* defense, of course. I am just sick and tired of all the needless, self-indulgent, instantly self-refuting lunacy. It’s literally killing the species — literally.
If you ‘publish’ as a post, I do not do that for any comment, but the comments are available for
anyone to read, and I have received many messages outside the blog.
Elder of Lobby January 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm #
Well, as a Jew despising Israel, you certainly have a novel, creative and “anti-Zionist” interpretation for another one of Hillel the Elder’s cardinal sayings:
If I’m not for myself, who am I;
And if I’m but for myself what am I;
And if not now, when?
BTW, can you remind us when and where this Hillel lived? And how his teachings, as well as his colleagues’, teachers’, disciples’ made it to your venerable knowledge?
I look forward to more ridiculous distortions.
Eldad January 18, 2011 at 1:12 pm #
So if I am understanding you correctly, you are proud to be Jewish, but you can’t stand Judaism outside of your own bizarre interpretations that has nothing at all to do with the religion.
And you are proud to be Jewish but you really hate any Jews who do anything to perpetuate their existence as a people.
Wow…some pride!
iro January 18, 2011 at 2:19 pm #
Mr. Falk, your support for every kind of person to have an identity is granted to all except Jews. Muslims, transgendered people, the indigenous peoples have definitions which exclude everyone but themselves. Does that make them bigots? Certainly not! But you think it makes bigots of the Jews. You have a different standard for only one kind of person: Jews. YOU showed bigotry in this essay.
I think you misunderstand my intention. The whole point of my blog is to affirm Jewish identity, but not in the form of an exclusivist state that
discriminates against the non-included minority or dispossesses them. My whole point is to find ways to live together well on a planet with limited
land and resources
Elder of Lobby January 18, 2011 at 4:31 pm #
What exactly do you mean by “Jewish identity”?
A religious one? A national one? Both?
What are, in your opinion, the Jewish people’s rights?
These are difficult questions. For me, Jewish identity is cultural and spiritual, but for others it is also national, and I have no problem with that as long as it does not take the form of exclusivist nationalism carried out that the expense of another people, especially a people indigenous to the land. As Shlomo Sand demonstrates in his book almost all identities are constructed in some ways out of the vast reservoir of collective memories of social groups.
The question is not about your difficulties.
Any identity, personal or national, must be exclusivist: if it’s not, it does not identify anyone or anything. As for the constructed part of identity, Sand has not many news to tell, his thesis has been debunked by historians (and some genetic studies). If there’s something totally fabricated it’s the “Palestinian” identity and nation, as well as the myth of indigenousness. Most of them arrived (from e.g. Circassia, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Yemen) and settled in the Ottoman province during the 19th century.
What about the Jewish people’s rights?
Elder of Lobby
is a book not a bit more than a mere “collective memory”?
Elder of Lobby January 19, 2011 at 12:24 am #
It depends what book.
a book that has been kept alive, worked over, inspired/seeded other books and other arts, a book that is probably as alive today as it was when its first sentence was written, references to which are found all through how I express myself i.e. what in my areas is called the Old Testament.
for a comparison try to imagine how today’s Greeks would be seen, if Homer wouldn’t exist.
Agreed..
RM April 24, 2013 at 7:24 pm #
Well then how can you support the racist, supremist, homophobic, misogynistic, oppressive regimes of the Palestinians and all Arab countries. Holding Israel to a different standard than the Arabs is unjust. This is what you are doing and this is why you are called a self hating Jew. You complain about no countries other than Israel and the US. How do you explain that?
You misunderstood my intention. Of course, Jews are entitled to establish communities that affirm Jewish identity. My objection is to an exclusivist state
that discriminates or dispossesses those who are not Jews. I feel the same about Islamic states that are exclusivist, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and certainly no
one would claim that to escape persecution, transgendered people should have a state of their own.
this is commendable of you. the problem as I see it is the jewish people have tried to do this for millenia. they were not very successful and whethr you believe they were responsible for the hatred reigned down upon them or not it turns out that the jews who returned to THEIR INDIGENOUS LAND(as proven by DNA and historical records)do a pretty good job at running a state where these ‘others’ you speak of have the rights of citizenship despite the fact that its well known that these Israeli citizens are often hostile to the government as a whole or in principle
Doug Tarnopol January 18, 2011 at 3:19 pm #
Prof. Falk:
Well done! The piece speaks for itself. The negative comments on this page do as well. If “Jewish” — or any other of the categories Vonnegut would have called “granfalloons,” like having gone, say, to Cornell, or being a Red Sox fan, or being American, a Democrat, and so on, including, of course “Arab” and “Palestinian” — are held as irreplaceable struts for one’s self-definition, then conflict is inevitable. Given the state of the world and the spread of the technologies of death, we’ll either leave this excessive narcissism behind or lose what civilization we have, or perhaps even finally prove ourselves nonviable in the short run.
These differences should be variety — the spice of life — and a store of cultural richness, in cuisine, art, literature, music. Not ready excuses for hatred and, indeed, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
We’ll either get beyond it very soon or perish; it’s up to us.
I am sorry, I mixed my response to you with one to another comment. I agree completely with the drift of your comment,
and the final lines of my blog were trying to make the same essential point
Yes, I thought that part especially was well done.
No worries about the vagaries of WordPress and blogs! Keep up the great work.
— A fellow “self-hater” 🙂
sadly-i also agree with your drift even though I find the State of Israel to be as legitimate as any progressive western, eastern, or other free democracy is.I truly belive the problem is Islam will not now nor ever abide by a Jewish State in their midst that has political power. How and why they came to be this intolerant I can only speculate as I know the quran is laden, just as the bible is, with contradictions, truths and lies as well.
I suppose we have no choice but to live in the political world we are in even though your point is well taken that it will lead us down the road to endless conflict while we slowly and excruciatingly try and enlighten ourselves.
ketutar January 19, 2011 at 6:58 am #
I agree with you in most parts, but I would like to say a couple of things.
1) When the “Chosen People” was coined, Judaism was Henotheist, meaning that there were other Gods who chose other people, and the God of the Jews chose the Jewish people. In the passing of time the people got the idea of there being only one God, and therefore also the idea of a people being the Chosen Ones by the One God some sort of superiority idea.
2) I think it’s time to forget 1917 and 1958 and 1967 and start living the 21st century, and start not-labeling the people in Israel. There is a country called Israel in Palestine, what about stopping the dividing people into Jews and non-Jews, Palestinians, Arabs and what-nots, and expecting this from everyone, and looking at what is actually happening, done to and by each individual. Let’s not demonize Israelis nor Palestinians.
It’s really easy to be “tribal” when you are being targeted because of your “tribe” – as the Jews in Israel are today. Let’s not forget that either.
Thanks for your comment. I think providing a historical context for ‘chosen people’ is definitely helpful. I was trying to express how the idea has been internalized by Jews and Israelis in our contemporary world.
I am less in accord on your other comments about Israelis and Palestinians. It seems to suppose a condition of symmetry or equality. Palestinians have been living in intolerable conditions in refugee camps and under occupation for decades. In contrast, Israelis live under conditions of relative prosperity, freedom of movement, the rule of law, while Israeli settlements daily encroach upon the 22% of historic Palestine set aside after the 1967 War for an eventual Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Eldad January 19, 2011 at 10:18 am #
Have you ever publicly called for Arab countries and the PA to dismantle these camps and move their residents into normal housing? You do realize that it is not Israel that keeps anyone in camps, but their Arab hosts, do you not?
Would you say that Palestinian Arabs should have the right, if they choose, to become full citizens of their host Arab countries (Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc.) as any other Arabs can? If you do, have you ever publicly called for the Arab nations to rescind their laws, on the books today, that specifically discriminate against Palestinian Arabs in areas such as naturalization?
I have not, and do not know too much about the Arab discriminatory laws against Palestinian refugees that you mention. I have had a good deal of contact with the refugees themselves, and I can honestly say that I have yet to meet a Palestinian refugee that wants to resolve the issue via the Arab governments. At the same time I have in the past and will continue to criticize Arab governments for abuses toward refugees living within their territories.
Shira January 20, 2011 at 3:00 am #
Prof. Falk,
I don’t know how it’s possible for someone with your position not to know much about Arab discriminatory (apartheid) laws against Palestinian refugees (like in Lebanon), who are deliberately denied basic rights other Arabs have. Take the Balata refugee camp within the West Bank for example…
The PA does not allow children of Balata to go to local schools. It does not permit the refugees of Balata to build outside their one square kilometer. They are prevented from voting in local elections, and the PA provides none of the funds for the necessary infrastructure of the camp — including sewers and roads.
This is enforced misery, sir.
The PA, Lebanon, and other Arab regimes need to at least offer citizenship to those refugees who desire it. It’s not as though once they become citizens elsewhere that they lose their “refugee” status.
I am trying to get more information about the contentions made in your comment. My experience
and knowledge to the extent that exists has led me to believe that these kind of issues are exclusively
brought up by apologists of Israeli occupation policies, including settlement construction, but I am willing
to be convinced otherwise.
My UN role does not pertain to refugees, but in my role as an international law expert I
have been concerned with the plight of refugees, not just those who are Palestinian. I
am the co-chair of the Refugee Interest Group of the American Society of International Law,
and in that capacity will try to get a better grasp of the role of the Arab governments in
accentuating the plight of Palestinian refugees in their midst. Thanks for calling this issue
to my attention.
Zyx April 24, 2013 at 2:56 pm #
You dare calling this a “historical context”? And you are supposedly a scholar? What a farce.
Liza Dresner January 19, 2011 at 11:07 am #
This was a great read and as someone who has also been called a self-hating jew many times I feel in excellent company. It is more important than ever for people as eloquent as you to be heard and to argue on behalf of those of us who find it less easy to find the right words or who have less knowledge to be able to have so many excellent sources at our fingertips. Often the immense shame I feel on behalf of the State that claims to exist in my name gets in the way of rational argument and I just get angry or, even worse, cry. Thank you for speaking out.
Thanks, Liza, for this comment, and gracious words. I think we have to learn from one another while seeking balance on this tightrope that is weighted with identity concerns on one side and justice concerns on the other. It is important that we remain in solidarity..
Hello, Rita:
Not sure if this is kosher (shall we say) of me to do, but I thought I’d interject a comment.
I completely understand where you’re coming from, but would only make one small not-such-a-quibble. You are not responsible for what the Israeli state does. They may claim to be “your” homeland, or the homeland for people “like” you, but you don’t have to accept that. No need for shame, that is.
Reject the granfalloon and you’ll reject the shame. A little bit of responsibility insofar as silence by American Jews (assuming you’re American here) doesn’t help the Palestinians, but beyond that basic responsibility to do what we can in areas we can affect, your being Jewish doesn’t really add to your responsibility for Israel beyond that minor advantage you may have in critiquing it. But all Americans should critique it, and far more than that! As they should for all injustices over which they can have an effect — especially here at home, and on US foreign policy in general.
Best, Doug
steve bronfman February 16, 2011 at 4:06 am #
In other words, you are only interested in discrimination of Palestinians if it’s by Israelis. If it’s by anyone else you don’t care. This attitude proves that you are insincere and have an anti-Israel agenda rather than a genuine commitment to Palestinians or anyone else.
Richard Falk February 16, 2011 at 3:50 pm #
To clarify, that is not an accurate description of my views. I am concerned with victimization of the Palestinians,
and have criticized the Arab governments for their role on many occasions, but UN
role and the primary relationship is that associated with the Israeli occupation.
steve bronfman February 16, 2011 at 11:49 pm #
If Israeli lands were occupied by Arab countries would you care?
Do you care about Kurdistan, Western Sahara and Northern Cyprus occupied by various Muslim States?
Why is the Palestinian refugee issue the only one allowed to fester for 60 years by the UN when every other population exchange eg Pakistan and India has been resolved?
Nan Withington January 19, 2011 at 2:34 pm #
Were all members of the human family to reach the spiritual and ethical stature of Dr. Falk-no matter what their religion (or none), or ethnic or national affiliation-we would never fear annihilation by our own hands. We would see ourselves as part of Chief Seattle’s “Web of Life”, and preserve our miraculous earth home and be helpmates to each other.
Thanks, Nan, for such a movingly generous response. It is so easy to be misunderstood on this terrain, and so it is especially satisfying to have my intended meaning reflected in your comment.
Adrian January 19, 2011 at 5:28 pm #
This might seem dumb, but I’m having trouble to see why your ideas regarding Jewish identity might clash with Zionism. Yes they certainly clash with more extreme branches (e.g. Kahanism), but does your vision clash with the idea of the right of self-determination for the Jewish people (the most basic idea of Zionism)?
I’m also having trouble with your criticism regarding the status of Arabs in Israel. First, do you mean Israel proper? Or you might be including the West Bank as well? Because I think we can agree that Arabs with Israeli citizenship are treated much better than the Palestinians.
In fact, despite some racism prevalent in Israeli society and also some institutional racism prevalent in the Israeli government (which in my opinion is qualitatively similar to American or British institutional racism), I don’t really think they could be considered second class citizens, while the Palestinians are not even Israeli citizens to begin with (and the treatment they recieve could and should be compared with how occupiers have historically treated those who live under occupation, and who have actively resisted it).
This might seem dumb, but I’m having trouble to see why your ideas regarding Jewish identity might clash with Zionism. Yes they certainly clash with more extreme branches (e.g. Kahanism), but does your vision clash with the idea of Jewish self-determination (te most basic idea of Zionism)?
In fact, despite some racism prevalent in Israeli society and also some institutional racism prevalent in the Israeli government (which in my opinion is qualitatively similar to American or British institutional racism), I don’t really think they could be considered second class citizens, while the Palestinians are not even citizens to begin with (and the treatment they recieve could and should be compared with how occupiers have historically treated those who live under occupation).
Our understanding of these issues is just different. I do mean Arabs with Israeli citizenship, and
do agree that they are far better off than Palestinians in the occupied territories, but are nevertheless
victims of discrimination and abuses of human rights.
Would you share further details on the issue with me? Which human rights abuses are Israeli Arabs victims of? Are we talking about torture or extrajudicial executions? Legally enforced segregation like in Apartheid South Africa? Or perhaps the fact that the Israeli Government spends less on education, health and other public services on Arabs than Jews on a per capita basis, or that they have bigger trouble to get building permits than Jews do, or that Arab workers earn less than Jews for doing the same job, all of this being not so different from, for example, the well-established fact that Hispanic and African Americans have a bigger chance to be imprisoned than White Americans do or the banning of Burqa in some European countries?
Yes, there are complexities surrounding what are the rights of self-determination with respect to the Jewish people,
and what are limits imposed on those rights when they clash with the rights of another people.
I cannot respond adequately on the status of Palestinians within Israel proper, and does resemble the situation confronting
other minorities, but it still in my judgment challenges the viability of maintaining Israel as a Jewish state as distinct from a
state that offers Jews a homeland.
There is no contradiction in “maintaining” Israel as a Jewish state as stated in UN resolution 181 passed in 1947. There are numerous examples of democratic states that define themselves through the identity of a majority and where minorities are treated as equals; Romania, Finland, Belgium (with its German minority) and so on. And you pretend you are a law Professor.
You are a joke!
OH Doug..you are too, too funny. Especially the threat of being anti semitic. Do you really think that works anymore? Call me anything that makes you feel better, I’m sure I can survive it..hahahaha
My beginning response to R.Falk was: Torah/Talmud has been ‘A Declaration of War’ on all non-Jews from it’s inception and I stand by that with no excuses or exceptions! Being ‘CHOSEN’ has been fed and taught to all Jews from their fist days at school and with continual reinforcements over the years way into adulthood. You can’t deny it…There is nothing ‘COMPLEX’ about ‘right or wrong’ and knowing the difference.
What you’re saying is ‘yes, we’re bad’ but look at the Arabs, they’re worse! This argument isn’t about the Arabs..it’s about you Jews and don’t forget that point. Don’t use the Arabs as justification and an excuse, it just doesn’t work any more, at least with me it doesn’t…
Being ‘CHOSEN’ is what Narcissism is all about. The world has revolved around Israel now for over 60+ years costing millions of innocent lives and for what? Land that didn’t belong to them.
But has the Jewish whine ever abated as a result of that gift? Even with all the money and influence the unsuspecting American tax payer has shelled out for it’s survival, the proverbial whine can still be heard, and ‘what about the Arabs’!
Why is it any time something critical is said about Israel,the retort is always, ‘what about the Arabs’?
Well what about the Arabs and their Quran?
What about an international televised critique on every aspect of the Quran, Talmud, Muslim and Jew with the most learned Imams and Rabbis and finally get to the bottom of it all? Let it all ‘hang out’ once and for all!
Comparing yourselves to Arabs or any others as justification for you not behaving as you know you should, only shows the depth of your ‘childish narcissism’ and your inability and ‘refusal’ to ever get beyond the problem. That’s the temper tantrum ravings of ‘9’ year olds who can’t get their way.
Again, read Karn Armstrong’s new book on Compassion..She’s also done an in-depth critical study of Islam and the Quran. She goes rather lightly I think, on Jews, probably for publishing purposes.
I’m sure you know what I mean… hahaha..
She’s not Jewish but don’t discount what she says as she’s not that ‘complex’, anyway, give it a try!
There is no doubt that “anti-Semitism” has been polluted by the Foxman/Dershowitz types. Finkelstein and many others are right about that, of course. Just as “democracy” has been polluted by the Bush/Cheney (and others) types. Both words still have meaning, and both words still apply when applicable.
I didn’t mention a thing about Arabs or Muslims beyond Islamophobia and the common human propensity to overvalue cultural identities, but that won’t matter.
Once again: more evidence of how discussions about I/P are often, for some people at least, more about themselves, whether they know it or not, than about actual, real-world Israel and actual, real-world Palestine.
Doug:”Once again: more evidence of how discussions about I/P are often, for some people at least, more about themselves, whether they know it or not, than about actual, real-world Israel and actual, real-world Palestine”.
Hahaha is that all you have? Not very enlighening, but very typical.
Damn Foxman and Dershowitz, they screwed it all up for you.
Whatever Doug, when there is no way out, always go for the personal. ou can’t have an honest debate on a serious topic requiring accountablity, , go for the persoanl. But I think it’s good for you to hold onto it as it’s been so successful in making people change their minds. You just prove the point
As I said Doug, listening to the perpetual whines is always redundant and boring. Get a new shtick!
Eldad January 21, 2011 at 6:07 am #
EdithAnn, I can say without any fear of contradiction that you have proven yourself to be a bigot.
It would be nice if you didn’t get your ideas about the Talmud from lying Jew-haters who mistranslate and misquote Talmudic passages to justify their hate.
Or are you conversant in Mishnaic Hebrew and Aramaic?
But somehow I get the impression that your hate pre-dates your introduction to false Talmud quotes.
(And, yes, I do study the Talmud, and have for many decades now. Believe it or not, Falk quoted it in the article above, even though he hasn’t the foggiest notion of where it is.)
I also find it telling that Falk treats your outright bigotry with kid gloves while he likes to compare Israel to Nazis.
Dear Eldad:
I can say without any contradiction on my part, your assumption of my bigotry is more then amusing. Calling one a bigot seems to have taken the place of calling me anti Semitic. Wow, it must have hurt when you had to give A-S up, bigotry doesn’t have the same ominous ring!
I like it that your so sure I’ve misinterpreted the Torah/Talmud. Being ‘sure and Chosen’, confirms you must be right! Right?
I only wish I was that certain about such nonsense, but then I wasn’t born ‘Chosen’!
However, did you ever think the Quran might be misinterpreted too? Both documents have been edited over the centuries by people not any more intellectually superior then yourself and most likely far less.
That’s not my argument anyway. But when you are the only ‘Chosen’ what’s left for us poor unfortunates?
Eldad:”It would be nice if you didn’t get your ideas about the Talmud from lying Jew-haters who mistranslated and misquote Talmudic passages to justify their hate.”
That quote is an excuse, and I don’t accept excuses. It’s your dogma, own it and be responsible for it. If your not proud of it, then disown it, but you’ll have a problem with ‘identity’ again. hahahhah
Eldad: “I also find it telling that Falk treats your outright bigotry with kid gloves while he likes to compare Israel to Nazis.”
I don’t think Falk thinks of me at all..However I do agree Israel does compare to Nazis’. Nazis thought they were Chosen too, and it led to all sorts of world problems, or don’t you understand that?
I’m sympathetic to your plight, being ‘Chosen’ can be a cross..hahaha
YM January 21, 2011 at 10:01 am #
When the UN representative himself rejects the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine, there is a basic problem that cannot be overcome, as you stand opposed, in princple, to the basis of resolution 242.
Also, I wonder, how many years did you study in yeshiva? You speak as though you know at least “enough” about Judaism to speak authoritatively, but it takes years of study to really understand what the Creator requires of us as Jews. Sunday school or afternoon talmud torah attendance as a child does not make you qualified to speak authoritatively. I personally believe your understanding of the prophets is out of context; certainly, I know of no prominent Orthodox Jewish leader or sage who holds the view that you do.
My attitudes toward the nature of the state of Israel are irrelevant to my role as UN representative. I happen to believe in the implementation of SC Resolution 242, and believed for many years that this was the vehicle for achieving peace, but Israel’s settlement policies, wall, defiance of international law, annexation of Jerusalem made this impossible in my view.
As for Judaism, I only meant to convey my own experience of being Jewish, and did
not intend to offer any interpretation based on study or immersion. I have had none.
Ed January 27, 2011 at 8:48 am #
Prof, You are a great man with good heart. Just hope that few men in positions of authority in the UN & world would have the guts to speak the truth like you. GOD is with you brother. I am also a jew and believe in what you are saying.
Thanks so much, appreciate your words of support, especially while under high profile attack.
Good luck Prof.Falk.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-the-palestine-papers-and-us.html
“My attitudes toward the nature of the state of Israel are irrelevant to my role as UN representative”
Liar!
Arlyn Lichthardt January 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm #
Professor Falk:
Your post is a remarkable testimonial to the triumph of introspection over intransigence, of compassion over cupidity and humanitarianism over homicide. Moreover, I genuinely admire your incredible patience when responding to the ignorant and intolerant. You will always be a teacher.
Good girl Arlyn!
pamela January 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm #
Sir, I just wish to say thank you for your willingness to speak out on numerous important issues. I see you are 80 or so. Congratulations! Please live long, many need your wisdom and perspective. Please keep blogging daily. Now I have ‘found your mind’, I am intrigued to learn more from you. Blessings.
Silke January 26, 2011 at 3:53 pm #
UN Sec. General condemns Richard Falk for “truther” statements
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/01/un-sec-general-condemns-richard-falk.html
You specifically refer to Mr. Falk’s allegations of an “apparent cover-up” related to the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. The Secretary-General condemns these remarks. He has repeatedly stated his view that any such suggestion is preposterous — and an affront to the memory of the more than 3,000 people who died in the attack.
on the basis of this I’d say that further eulogizing of Mr. Falk is proof of Anti-American behaviour
Hey Silke…that’s all BS and you know it. Moon also said the settlements were illegal as well as the Gaza massacre..and he also came down on the Turkish Flotilla..along with Goldstone. But you ‘must’ believe the lies that make Israel the perpetual victim.
Oh yes, and then there’s the leaks of Israel giving their ‘all’ for peace with those terrible Palestinians whose lands you keep stealing… hahahahahaha
No one believes all your nonsense. That’s your problem, too many know the truth, we don’t need Moon to tell us what’s going on we see it everyday…
As I said, you are too, too funny…and you have no credibility what so ever Silke..You’re just another thieving Zionist, Israel is full of them.
It’s too bad there are Jews like you, who can’t understand the world of the Falk’s and Atzmon’s out there trying to educate you ignoramus’s.
Here Silke..try this…
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27346.htm
Edithann
stay on topic Ban Ki Moon chided Falk for being a 9/11 truther
that is the one nuttery that has nothing to do with Israel whatsoever except in the minds of truffers of course
I am on topic only you don’t have the flexabilty of mind to see there’s much more to all of it.
I don’t believe the lie about 9/11 being Arab inspired. Everyone on the planet knows it was all Israeli inspired…just another Mossad caper…just as the death of Harari was all Israel too and the UN has that one also..hahahahah..
Get off it…if there are deaths and destructions anywhere on the planet, always look to Israel first..like Mmubi in India..
How come there are no bombs ever hitting Israel? Only those silly bottle rockets from Gaza that just drives you mentally ill Israeli’s into killing rampages on caged Palestinians?
Ask Moon about that too while you’re at it!
congratulations Professor Falk with Edithann you sure got yourself an admirer to be proud of
LOL LOL LOL
next he is going to tell me about attack squirrels, programmed hawks, Mossad-device carrying vultures etc. etc.
I hear they have a breed of cockroaches in Israel that indulge in feeding on electric cords, maybe those are the real Stuxnetters …
What else can you say Silke, you’ve been bested. Now run along!
Here Silke..chew on this little one…hahahah.
http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/mubarak-s-son-family-fly-out-to-uk-reports-1.752378
Ray Joseph Cormier January 26, 2011 at 5:26 pm #
Now that the UN Secretary General has publicly singled you out, raising your profile, you are bound to have more supporters and detractors. I am a new supporter, and while I have read only a few of your writings Today, I’m thinking there should be a sequel to the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ on your outlook. This is an excellent read.
“For me to be Jewish is, above all, to be preoccupied with overcoming injustice and thirsting for justice in the world, and that means being respectful toward other peoples regardless of their nationality or religion, and empathetic in the face of human suffering whoever and wherever victimization is encountered.”
With that statement, you follow in the footsteps and teaching of the most famous Jew the world has ever known, Jesus of Nazareth.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And if you be Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:28-29 & Colossians 3:11
Even 2000 years later, people do not understand what the Common Era means.
Thanks for these thoughtful words of response, which carries my ideas a step further.
Silke January 27, 2011 at 3:00 am #
Bravo Prof. Falk you really let your ideas be taken further by the most reasonable sounding people there are. Shame on you!
https://richardfalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/on-jewish-identity/#comment-362
william barth January 28, 2011 at 8:08 pm #
Dr. Falk,
You have crafted an elequent essay, and you have articulated how many Jewry (including myself) throughout the world think about this situation.
But it strikes me as sad that you have to go to such lengths – and make such a defense. Somehow, these arguments should be the reverse. That is, the forces that oppose you should be defending their inhumanity as you have nothing to apologize for, nor justify since yours is the moral and just position to take.
I can’t help but think that the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.’s prescription would be useful to Jewry and Palestinians everywhere. That is, that our two peoples destiny are now inextricably bound up together, much in the manner that King believed that the fate of blacks and whites were bound. Neither of our two peoples, Jewry or Palestinians, will likely survive if we do not learn to live together as brothers and sisters, and in an atmostphere of mutual concern and respect.
The governmental format this idea takes does not much matter really. Bi national state or two state or multicultural civic state etc. The point is that form needs to follow function, namely, that the cultural identity of both groups need care, recognition, concern, and respect, particularly by each to the other.
You are doing great works.
Keep the faith.
William Barth: thanks for your encouraging words, which are much appreciated.
…many thanks for your kind response, and please let me know if I can ever be of help as I recently completed my thesis on the minority question:
Barth, William. On Cultural Rights: The Equality of Nations and the Minority Legal Tradition (Leiden,Martinus Nijhoff, 2008).
Why would anyone want to be a Jew?
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/dr-david-halpin-silence-is-complicity-the-methodical-shootin.html
pamela January 29, 2011 at 12:30 pm #
Reading some of the discourse herein points out the obvious: How little mankind has progressed in 3,000 years in the ‘Western world’, though the themes of rhetoric and its dissemination have expanded vastly.
It seems every faction has ‘fractions’ needing to exert individual and collective angst as a defense or offense, or both.
Our children are still indoctrinated and taught to kill for both ancient and now more recently conceived ideologies; leaders and followers (both)claiming ‘theirs’ is the rightful “God” or “Universal Truth” to assuage being slaughtered or slaughtering someone else in conflicts.
Unfortunately, it seems too often the largest scale wars are aggressions only to maintaining “modern economies” through ideological-illusions taught to the masses involved.
I can’t help ponder: are many of us so ‘individually lacking’ that as we cling tightly to our need for ‘unique-identities’ (racial, ethnic, political,religious,national,economic) some of us shall accomplish nothing but to contribute to collectively annihilating humanity so as to ensure our “identity”?
Only Women give birth and (mostly) Men kill the living. Altruism toward someone “different” than ourselves is now popularly described as ‘self-loathing’; which leaves no room for peace.
Our ‘inheritances’ of diverse identities may well be our downfall unless we consider ourselves mere mortals before all else.
Thanks, Pamela, for these perceptive words that carry the issues further, and in important, yet disturbing directions.
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Simon Kulberg February 10, 2011 at 12:09 pm #
The question of globalization is at the heart of human civilization as far as I can see. Whether it is to be done through enlightenment or imposition, through secularism or religious unification, the same thread runs through human history as far back as you`d care to trace it.
While I agree completely with your sceptical views on tribalism, there is also another side to nationalsim and religious affinity I think; it can act as self-defense against imperialism, which is why I personally believe there is a resurgence of nationalism and religion all over the world.
If you look at the first manifestation of the modern state it occurred in Milano in the 12th century, more or less explicitly as a defense against the French and German imperialist designs and against the Papal claim of Universality. The result was a splendidly prosperous society, which was able to defend itself until Napoleon conquered it in 1797. My point is that the word `tribalism`? has negative connotations that do not always apply to expressions of exceptionalism, especially if it regards a claim of jurisdiction and rights to self defense against imperial plunder, not entirely inappropriate today I would say.
There are great benefits to globalization, I agree, but the danger still remains that any such centralized power brings almost unimaginable temptation for abuse, and if it ever fell into the hands of totalitarians nationalism and relgion might quickly become the only viable means to defens ourselves, once again.
Keep up the good work though Richard, I appreciate reading your tects very much:)
Thanks, Simon, for interesting comment..
Rabbi Ira Youdovin February 10, 2011 at 2:13 pm #
Despite his annoying habit of calling Israelis Nazis, I have never accused Prof. Falk of being a self-hating Jew. While his animus toward Israel is apparent, I have no way of determining if it stems from an animus toward Judaism and the Jewish tradition, which is the defining characteristic of a “self-hating Jew,” of from something else. But now that he has revealed his thoughts about Jewish identity, I may have to revise my assessment.
Prof. Falk’s problem is not only with Judaism. He disdains faith communities per se, defaming them as “tribes,” whose doctrine “unconsciously and indirectly gives rise to the murderous mentality of warfare and gives a moral and religious edge to many forms of persecution, culminating in a variety of inquisitions.” Had he been born an Episcopalian, he might be beating up on the Archbishop of Canterbury. But as his essay is entitled On Jewish Identity, we must explore the evidence he brings in applying these sweeping generalizations to Judaism.
Astonishingly for a scholar of Prof. Falk’s stature and reputation, he cites precious little evidence. He mentions the “often bloody exploits of the ancient Israelites.” But those atrocities occurred in the ancient middle east, where
“bloody exploits” was standard operating procedure for almost everyone. This doesn’t excuse the atrocities reported in Scripture, but it does make them unexceptionable. Some balance is achieved through praise for the “moral clarity of Old Testament prophets,” and Rabbi Hillel’s version of the Golden Rule—a forerunner of Jesus’ more famous version. The historical screen then goes dark until we are propelled into Prof. Falk’s familiar riff on the evils of contemporary Israel.
In the process, he ignores a formative period of two millennia during which Judaism evolved from a temple-based sacrificial cult to a prayer and study-centered religion. If one wants to learn about Jewish identity, that’s where one has to look. But Prof. Falk doesn’t. Although I’m not an academician, I think that a student submitting a paper entitled “On Jewish Identity” with so little supporting material would, or should, receive a failing mark, even in this era of grade inflation.
My hunch is the omission of Jewish references stems from the inconvenient truth that Prof. Falk knows very little about his subject. Perhaps he doesn’t want to know. Even a cursory study of Jewish history discredits many of the sweeping generalizations he employs to dismiss and defame Jewish identity.
Exhibit A: Prof. Falk maintains that being committed to one faith precludes “being open and receptive to the insight and wisdom of other traditions.” In fact, Jewish history demonstrates precisely the opposite. Early biblical books, including Genesis, reflect the theology and symbolism of the Akkadians and other peoples of the ancient middle east. Later books, such as Ecclesiastes, are clearly influenced by Greek philosophy. The Mishna, which was completed around 225 CE, organizes biblical legislation into categories, a format learned from the Romans. Recent scholarship has discovered an on-going dialogue between the rabbis and church fathers covering several centuries. Both sides shared ideas which each adopted and built into its separate theology. Maimonides, perhaps the greatest of all rabbis, was an Aristotelian who sought to reconcile traditional Jewish teaching with wisdom he learned from Muslim scholars during the era of Convivencia in Medieval Spain. Reform Judaism is a product of the Enlightenment. Zionism was nurtured in the intellectual soil of Romanticism. Walk into many synagogues today and you’ll find classes and spiritual exercises in yoga, meditation and other practices taken from eastern religions. The list of things borrowed and things lent is endless.
Exhibit B: Prof. Falk dismisses as “benevolent and temporary” the Jewish self-understanding that being a Chosen People bestows no privileged status, but is a mandate to pursue social justice. The historical record refutes the “benevolent and temporary” caveat. Jews have always pursued social justice, following a commandment articulated in the Book of Deuteronomy. Here inAmerica, where Jews at long last have the opportunity to participate in the larger society as full citizens, we have been leaders and workers in the pursuit of equal rights and freedom for all. And Israel, despite its flaws, remains the one democracy in the Middle East, albeit an imperfect one.
To be sure, there are Jews in Israel, the United States and everywhere who are guilty as charged. They are especially visible in certain West Bank settlements where a desire to subjugate the Palestinians prevails. But they constitute a small minority. To extrapolate a community-wide character from their aberrant (and abhorrent) behavior is polemic, not scholarship.
A word must be said about Prof. Falk’s self-aggrandizement as one who has succeeded in putting his being human ahead of his being Jewish, so that unfettered by xenophobia, he is able to savor the rites, practices and wisdom of all religions. That’s gratifying, but during my forty years as a rabbi, which should make me a Super Xenophobe, I bet I’ve attended, witnessed and participated in more Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, et al worship services than Prof. Falk, along with a slew of interfaith worship experiences. I have marched, rallied and demonstrated alongside interfaith colleagues for a long list of causes. Several years ago, my partner and I joined with a group drawn from our synagogue and a local Methodist church to rebuild an African American church in rural Alabama that had been destroyed by arson. Contrary to what Prof. Falk believes possible, being a Jew enables me and many others to be better human beings. I can say the same thing about friends who are strongly committed members of other faith communities, but frequently enjoy one another’s rituals, practices and teachings.
Most disturbing is the flagrant disconnect between Prof. Falk’s claim to an “ecumenical and inclusive spiritual identity, and associated ethical and political commitments,” and his work for the United Nations. “Ecumenical” and “inclusive” strongly suggest a deep commitment to even-handedness in addressing ethical and political issues. But the mandate he accepted when becoming Special Rapporteur of the of outrageously misnamed United Nations Human Rights Council is to report only on perceived Israeli violations on the West Bank, while turning a blind eye on Palestinian suicide bombers and the like. That’s akin to refereeing a football game while calling penalties on one side only, especially when there’s no counterpart Rapporteur to monitor the Palestinians.
You read that correctly. In a conflict fraught with extraordinary complexities, where right and wrong exists on both sides, Prof. Falk choose to play an utterly one-sided, prejudicial and destructive role. On the one hand, he tars Judaism with the accusation that its doctrine “unconsciously and indirectly gives rise to the murderous mentality of warfare.” And on the other, he is indifferent to radical Islam as it drives Hamas and HIzbollah. I can’t believe that he’s unaware of this cruel absurdity. Somehow, he manages to live with it, and also with the knowledge that the UN’s interest in him is enhanced by his being Jewish.
As one who has argued frequently and fervently that criticism of Israel is not necessarily anti-Semitism, I am appalled by the damage Prof. Falk’s essay does to my case by alleging that perceived Israeli injustices are a natural, even inevitable consequence of what he condemns as an age-old Jewish religious tradition and identity. It’s a straw man on both sides of the equation, but red meat for those who delight in believing the worst about Jews. It’s no accident that the piece has been reprinted by the Intifada-Voice of Palestine website, as well by an e-screed called Foreign Policy Journal whose publisher, Jeremy R. Hammond, recently wrote a piece entitled “The Myth of the United Nations’ Creation of Israel. “
One final thought. Did anyone blanch at Prof. Falk’s proclamation that he is a proud Jew? Huh? Proud of what? Proud of belonging to a “tribe whose religious doctrine gives rise to the murderous mentality of warfare and gives a moral and religious edge to many forms of persecution, culminating in a variety of inquisitions?”
My question as a rabbi is not whether anybody else believes him, but whether he, himself, does. A little soul searching might help him appreciate the toxicity of the things he says about Jewish identity. These insights, in turn, might help him to recognize and understand the prejudice that fuels the toxicity of what he says about Israel.
Rabbi Ira Youdovin
Richard Falk February 15, 2011 at 11:11 am #
Dear Rabbi Ira Youdovin:
As you are probably aware, we have common friends here in Santa Barbara, making me particularly sad that you chose to insult me so intensely and unfairly. To begin with I have never equated Israelis with Nazis, and find the accusation odious. Further, I never purported to be doing more than express my sense of my own identity as a Jew in response to allegations that I was self-hating. Further still, I received several communications from rabbis that were much kinder than yours, and even supportive of what I was trying to express. And finally, on the substance of the Israel/Palestine conflict my effort and UN mandate is not to be ‘balanced’ but to be truthful; given the structure of the occupation this is what I have tried to do. Even Richard Goldstone, with lifetime Zionist credentials, fared no better than I have when he entered the no man’s land of responsible criticism of the Israeli occupation policies.
Again, I am disappointed that you did not see fit to attempt even a civil discourse on these matters of obviously deep personal concern to you.
hmm February 16, 2011 at 3:23 am #
You say “to begin with I have never equated Israelis with Nazis, and find the accusation odious.”
Can you please explain your words here http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html where you say “Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity”?
While you may not being saying outright “Israelis are Nazis” you are certainly saying “Israelis are acting like Nazis”. The equation is there so it’s not quite clear what you find so odious.
Dave123 February 16, 2011 at 2:25 pm #
Richard Falk 2007
“Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not.”
http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html
2008 Faulk defends his statement to the BBC
Danny February 17, 2011 at 7:16 am #
So far the only thing in this thread that has been insulted is your reader’s intelligence. As other below have documented, you are on record making the exact comparison. Given you regularly seem to have difficulty recollecting – and defending – making such “odious” comparisons, one is led to suspect that you are either going senile or, more likely, simply a pathological liar. The rabbi gave you a detailed commment on your piece and you resorted to lying about your past, including your mandate which you insisted should not only report solely on the Israel side but you actively insisted that Palestinian violations of human rights NOT be investigated which is weird given you claim to have such a concern for the Palestinians – as opposed to simply hating Israel.
Link for above:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-7FNPCL?OpenDocument
“He[Falk] respectfully asked the Council to consider expanding the mandate to also encompass inquiry into Palestinian violations of international humanitarian law, but ***not of alleged violations of human rights within the Palestinian territories***”.
Again I would think all Israelis would consider it a privilege that anti-Israelis like you feel Israel is so utterly blameless that you are compelled to resort to fabrication to attack her.
Supporting you point about Jewish identity with Shlomo Sand’s pathetic book shows what a clown you are. Shlomo Sand is no more qualified to give his opinion about ancient Middle Eastern history than you are to share your odd views about Jewish identity. The only pseudo-scientific evidence Sans uses to support his claim that the Jewish people does not exist is Koestler’s famous book :”the 13th tribe”. A book written by a journalist in the 30’s and that has been proven 100% wrong since then. You really are a joke. Truth is people like you have lost the ideological battle of the 20th century. Communism is dead and you take on Israel as a revenge.
John February 18, 2011 at 4:23 pm #
Ira Youdovin states ‘Zionism was nurtured in the intellectual soil of Romanticism.’
This is far too sweeping as a generalisation. Zionism dates from only 1891.
The first International Zionist Congress was held in 1987. These ideological extremists shared similar ideas with German nationalists (bearing in mind that modern Germany only dates from 1871).
The German and Zionist ideologues shared similar ideas with regard to blood and soil. They both came to share Nazi ideology with regard to lebensraum for their manufactured ethnic races.
During World War One, Zionists pursued their selfish interests by getting the war prolonged, to secure the Balfour Declaration by the British Government and to see Christian-Zionist General Allenby occupy former Ottoman Palestine.
The British Palestine Mandate provided the extremist Zionists with an opportunity to deposit and expand their settlements through the displacement of the pre-existing population of Palestinians, for whom their racist ideology cared nothing.
During World War Two, Zionists offered to fight alongside the Nazis against the British and their subsequent Russian and American allies.
In this, they shared similar sentiments with white supremacist Afrikaner nationalists in South Africa.
Where the Afrikaner apartheid regime in South Africa failed, the Zionist apartheid regime in Palestine has succeeded.
They have both pursued a Bantustan policy by dividing up into unfeasible areas those areas populated by native populations.
Ira Youdovin claims ‘Israel, despite its flaws, remains the one democracy in the Middle East, albeit an imperfect one.’
That depends upon how you choose to define ‘democracy’.
By creating Palestinian Bantustans across Palestine, this has made it impossible for all people in the Palestinian area to have a common vote.
By ensuring the Palestinian Diaspora remains disenfranchised, the Zionists have rigged pseudo-elections held in Palestine to suit themselves.
Ira Youdovin’s term ‘imperfect’ does not begin to describe the sham-democracy found today in Palestine.
I have always thought that the native South Africans were surprisingly forgiving towards the Afrikaners and other whites in South Africa, post-apartheid.
If only all the peoples in Palestine could show the same belief and confidence in one another, then I am sure it would work out there too.
They must all reject their extremist leaderships.
The essential problem on all sides is the poisonous nature of religion.
A new Palestine, based upon a secular constitution, is absolutely essential. This would guarantee people can hold any beliefs and pursue any rituals, if they so wish.
The clear understanding that Ira Youdovin and all other religionists need to grasp is that there is no God, Yahweh or Allah.
Put this religio-ideological nonsense aside and you might just be able to get all peoples in Palestine to live peacefully together.
You might then see the sort of intellectual flowering that people like Maimonides achieved under the tutelage of Saladin (Salah al-Din Yusuf Ibn Ayyub).
You might also see a true growth in all the peoples in that sorely afflicted part of the world.
Sorry – the first Zionist Cobgress was held in 1897, not 1987.
Thanks, John, for this illuminating and persuasive commentary..
Rabbi Ira Youdovin February 19, 2011 at 11:29 am #
Prof. Falk: I had written the following before reading your response to John: “Thanks, John, for this illuminating and persuasive commentary..”
Illuminating and persuasive??? John’s post is a diatribe of anti-Semitic international Jewish conspiracy venom, including this nugget: “During World War Two, Zionists offered to fight alongside the Nazis against the British and their subsequent Russian and American allies.”
Please tell me and your other bloggers that you were only being nice, or inadvertently hit the auto response button while you were distracted.
Now, on to my prepared response:
Dear Prof. Falk During World War Two, Zionists offered to fight alongside the Nazis against the British and their subsequent Russian and American allies.
Thank you for your response to my post. However, there are some items which demand additional attention:
1. You claim “I have never equated Israelis with Nazis, and find the accusation odious.” But sir, in a 2007 essay, “Slouching Toward a Palestinian Holocaust”, you write, “it is especially painful for me, as an American Jew, to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as ‘holocaust.” And later in the piece, “Is it an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity? I think not.”
Some months later, you declined an opportunity afforded by BBC reporter Tim Franks to withdraw or modify your accusation:
“Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza.
“He said he understood that it was a provocative thing to say, but at the time, last summer, he had wanted to shake the American public from its torpor.”
That last comment is especially troubling. If you don’t really believe that Israelis are behaving like Nazis, and are using the comparison only to draw attention, is this not like shouting “fire” in a crowded theater?
If the perception that you equate Israelis with Nazis is wrong, may I suggest that you publish an unambiguous clarification.
2. You respond to my judgment that you know very little about Judaism by writing : “I never purported to be doing more than express my sense of my own identity as a Jew in response to allegations that I was self-hating, and never pretended to be expert, or even knowledgeable about Jewish religious thought or doctrinal history.”
I’m sorry, Professor, that’s not what your post purports to be. Its title is not “My Jewish Identity,” which would label it as a personal statement, but “On Jewish Identity,” which suggests a scholarly, or at least informed piece. Moreover, the sweeping generalizations I noted in my critique are hardly the stuff of personal reflection.
3. Regarding your work for the U.N., you write. “ my effort and UN mandate is not to be balanced but to be truthful; given the structure of the occupation this is what I have tried to do.” I frankly don’t understand what you mean. But as I don’t want to further burden you by requesting that you write a more detailed clarification, I would welcome directions as to where I can something you have written previously.
And yes, I would welcome an opportunity to discuss this with you personally.
On that matter, I think it unfair of you to chastise me for electing to air my critique on your blog, instead of raising it in personal conversation. Blogging exists for the purpose of enabling people to exchange views in a public forum, inviting others to participate. Talking to you personally does not afford an opportunity to impact on others who read your blog, much less the many others who read e-magazines and websites which picked it up.
Ira Youdovin
Dear Prof. Falk
pamela February 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm #
To Rabbi Ira: In my very-American opinion no amount of the passing of years will ever make the quaint notion of founding a country based on ethno-religious centrism rightful. It is even more wrong, when others who are not of the same ethno-religious identity, are displaced to do so. I am an American senior citizen. Zionism, or any other ethno-religious centrist ideology being promoted or supported, by Americans to create a nation around such ideology, is antithetical to American secular anti-racist principles, always was and always will be. Every American President and Congressperson that supported Zionism in the past since the late 1800’s up to the present, or may in the future support and promote anything similar to an ethno-religious centrist nation being created again in the future (like Israel was) is no different than the President, Congress and Americans that supported the ideology of Manifest Destiny. I for one am tired of hearing the dishonest, trite argument where antisemitism is continually equated to being “anti-Israel” or “anti-Zionist”. It is intellectually dishonest rhetoric and if you are an American you need to hear this: Zionism is un-American!
Israel exists and Native-American Reservations exist. I think what was done to Native Americans is as appalling as what was done to remove people from the geography now known as Israel.
If tomorrow someone came and told me I had to move out of the state of Louisiana in the U.S. because Black Americans who are slave descendants (currently scattered throughout the U.S.) were going to be given the state (by a United Nations vote) because their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents were slaves in Louisiana in 1675, and were slaughtered by their slave master along with another 2,000 slaves that day in 1675; and because those Black Americans still practice their original-tribal religion from Africa and so desire to have their own country, I would be darn angry because it is wrong for me to pay the price for something done by someone else years ago, or even yesterday, be it was a Black holocaust done by French emigrant slave masters in 1675 or not.
My 14 grandchildren are of nearly every ethnic “identity”, White, Asian, Black African and Native American. I understand that certain Jewish people wish to not inter-marry, that’s their right, but I will never agree, that in the modern era of Enlightenment, American politicians who supported Zionism and the creating of Israel were acting as Americans. They were acting as Zionists.
The British used their imperialist power over the area now known as “Palestine/Israel” to promise what they did to an ethno-religious group of scattered people, who were no more nor less important then or now the scattered diaspora of African slave descendants who suffered centuries of abuses and death at the hands of white men. The Balfour letter to Rothschild was quid pro quo; and Americans in Congress who voted the Zionist Resolution in 1922 to endorse the Zionist ideology (with the signature of the US President) were all political hypocrites participating in an antithetical act as Americans.
Americans made their bed with Zionists, and we have to lay in it. I want a divorce American style, and with no more American tax-dollar alimony being paid to Israel.
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Bryan February 16, 2011 at 7:21 am #
The UN loves self-hating Jews, and Mr. Falk does not fail to oblige.
Thanks for clarifying, Mr. Falk: before I could only assume you had an irrational hatred of Israel, but now I know for sure that hatred is just a manifestation of your equally irrational self-hatred.
Maybe you should take a “Judaism 101” class. You probably wouldn’t hate Judaism so much if you actually knew anything about it.
Edithann February 16, 2011 at 5:00 pm #
Why does it have to be ‘hatred’ Bryan?…Why can’t it be a different viewpoint? Falk doesn’t ‘hate’ anyone. I don’t see any rage in any of his writings. So what’s hatred got to do with anything here? Hatred is a ‘killing emotion’…It is rage-filled, white hot and killing. Are Falks views making you ‘white hot’ with rage and ready to kill him?
Seems your tirade is ‘over the top’, and immature old man. However, I enjoyed your solution that Falk as you said; “go back to ‘maybe take a “Judaism 101″ class. You probably wouldn’t hate Judaism so much if you actually knew anything about it”.
Would Judaism #101 change my view of Jews and Judaism? I’ve watched Israeli behavior and excuses justifying their existence on Palestinian lands for the last 60+ years. Would Judaism 101 make me love and understand Israel any better?
You’re not angry about Falk’s views, you’re angry that he’s made them public. You’re angry that he forgot what he was taught as a mindless youth and needs a refresher course on secrecy and appreciation for the ‘chosen’ aspect that gives Jews certain ‘rights’ reserved only to Jews..
Where do I sign up for the course Bryan?
I love it..Falk is the Jew that ‘got away and blabbed the truth
‘. You are too funny Bryan..really too, too funny and so transparent..
Rabbi Ira Youdovin and the boys, please give us your critique on the following. Is it truthful, balanced or what?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/19/truth-in-stuttgart/
pamela February 19, 2011 at 6:46 pm #
Bryan: Israel’s existence is irrefutably based on ethno-religious centrism. Zionism is a racist, exclusionary, geo-political religious ideology manifested as a national government and no amount of pro-Israel propaganda can change that fact. The world is stuck with Israel, thanks to the British, Russians and Americans. As I said, as an American I want a divorce, and no more alimony to Israel.
Also, the continual name calling by Zionists (such as calling others “self-hating Jews”) is so infantile it is ridiculous. Zionism is what is irrational. Pour yourself some more Zionist kool-aid, Bryan. No matter what flavor being offered, more and more Americans are deciding not to drink it. It tastes racist and bitter.
Zionism is a national movement based on self-determination for Jews, no more or less “racist” or “exclusionary” than French or Armenian or Palestinian nationalism.
pamela February 20, 2011 at 9:05 am #
Bryan, The final form of Zionism (manifested by the State of Israel behaviours which lean more and more toward ‘facism by actions’ as decades go by) is antithetically un-American.
My country (the United States) should have never supported such an ethno-religious centrist and exclusionary, elitist “identity” concept from being forced upon the World as a nation.
As Judah Magnes pointed out in 1929 to Mr. Chaim Weizmann:
“I think that the time has come when the Jewish policy as to Palestine must be very clear, and that now only one of two policies is possible.
Either the logical policy outlined by Jabotinsky in a letter in the Times which came today, basing our Jewish life in Palestine on militarism and imperialism; or a pacific policy that treats as entirely secondary such things as a “Jewish State” or a Jewish majority, or even “The Jewish National Home,” and as primary the development of a Jewish spiritual, educational, moral and religious center in Palestine.
The first policy has to deal primarily with politics, governments, declarations, propaganda and bayonets, and only secondarily with the Jews, and last of all with the Arabs; whereas the pacific policy has to deal first of all with the Jews, and then with the Arabs, and only incidentally with governments and all the rest.
The imperialist, military and political policy is based upon mass immigration of Jews and the creation (forcible if necessary) of a Jewish majority, no matter how much this oppresses the Arabs meanwhile, or deprives them of their rights. In this kind of policy the end always justifies the means.
The policy, on the other hand, of developing a Jewish spiritual Center does not depend upon mass immigration, a Jewish majority, a Jewish State, or upon depriving the Arabs (or the Jews) of their political rights for a generation or a day; but on the contrary, is desirous of having Palestine become a country of two nations and three religions, all of them having equal rights and none of them having special privileges; a country where nationalism is but the basis of internationalism, where the population is pacifistic and disarmed—in short, the Holy Land.
The one policy may be termed that of militarist, imperialist, political Zionism; the other that of pacific, international, spiritual Zionism; and if some authorities will not choose to call the latter idea Zionism, then let it be called the Love of Zion, or the Return to Zion, or any other name that you will.
We have been toying with the words “Jewish State,” “majority,” “Jewish Palestine,” “politics,” “Balfour Declaration,” etc., long enough. It is time that we came down to realities. “
Typo (sorry)I wrote above: “My country (the United States) should have never supported such an ethno-religious centrist and exclusionary, elitist “identity” concept FORM (meant to type not “from”] being forced upon the World as a nation.”
Eldad February 20, 2011 at 9:26 am #
Practically every Arab country mentions, in their constitutions, that Islam is the state religion. All of them say that they are meant to be Arab states (to the exclusion of non-Arabs.) Most of them explicitly state that their legal system is based on Sharia law. This includes Egypt and even the Palestinian constitution.
Now, when are the people who complain about Israel’s system going to say the same things about every Arab country?
I’m not holding my breath, based on the rank hypocrisy that I see in message threads like these.
I need to spell check better. I obviously meant “Fascism” not “facism”. Fascists have been oft defined as: “believing that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.” Israel is giving new meaning to the term “fascism” in the modern era (post-World War II).
pamela February 20, 2011 at 10:23 am #
Eldad: What has Palestine or Arab countries “sharia” societies got to do with Israel’s Zionist origins and Israeli Zionist ideology? NOTHING!!!!!!
The point is that a post-World War II nation (Israel) was created on the premise of a “ethno-religious” centrist ideology, and that its creation immediately harmed other people by running them from homes where they had lived for a long time.
The United States government went along with this imperialist, and in my eyes immoral Zionist program. Zionism(Israeli-style)is as un-American as Communism was(Russian-style). Zionism took hold in the U.S. to the tune of billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, Communism did not because it was EXPOSED and rooted out.
U.S. COMPLICITY was tantamount to the establishment of “Israel” for a “singualar ethno-religious based” nation. The complicity was antithetical to American principles of a purportedly secular, anti-racist, melting-pot government/society like the United States.
The rank hypocrisy of U.S. involvement in the creation and maintaining of Israel is the point of my desire for my government (the United States) to divorce Israel and pay it no more US-taxpayer alimony.
Additionally, the sorry situation of “Palestinians” since 1947-48 was just as much created by the rank hypocrisy of the United States elected (Zionists in Congress & Zionist Presidents) as it was and is by Jewish Zionists.
What every American should be wondering is THE WHY & THE HOW of how did our government get wrapped up in such a ridiculous international scheme as Zionism and yet continues to drink the ethno-racist, non-secular kool-aid of Zionism as proven by the Un Security Council vote the other day. Zionist kool-aid has poisoned my Democracy.
In his latest posting, Ira Youdovin states ‘John’s post is a diatribe of anti-Semitic international Jewish conspiracy venom, including this nugget: “During World War Two, Zionists offered to fight alongside the Nazis against the British and their subsequent Russian and American allies.”
This ‘nugget’ is contained in a document entitled The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, which is published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East, P.O. Box 14561, Berkeley, CA, 94712.
See the section headed ‘Shamir proposes an alliance with the Nazis’, which reads:
“As late as 1941, the Zionist group LEHI, one of whose leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, was later to become a prime minister of Israel, approached the Nazis, using the name of its parent organization, the Irgun (NMO)..[The proposal stated:] ‘The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis and bound by a treaty with the German Reich would be in the interests of strengthening the future German position of power in the Near East….The NMO in Palestine offers to take an active part in the war on Germany’s side’…The Nazis rejected this proposal for an alliance because, it is reported, they considered LEHI’s military power ‘negligible.’ “Allan Brownfield in “The Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs”, July/August 1998.
They go on to quote the following:-
“In 1938 a thirty-one nation conference was held in Evian, France, on resettlement of the victims of Nazism. The World Zionist Organization refused to participate, fearing that resettlement of Jews in other states would reduce the number available for Palestine.” John Quigley, “Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice”
“It was summed up in the meeting [of the Jewish Agency’s Executive on June 26, 1938] that the Zionist thing to do ‘is belittle the [Evian] Conference as far as possible and to cause it to decide nothing…We are particularly worried that it would move Jewish organizations to collect large sums of money for aid to Jewish refugees, and these collections could interfere with our collection efforts’…Ben-Gurion’s statement at the same meeting: ‘No rationalization can turn the conference from a harmful to a useful one. What can and should be done is to limit the damage as far as possible.'” Israeli author Boas Evron, “Jewish State or Israeli Nation?”
“[Ben-Gurion stated] ‘If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, but only half of them by transporting them to Palestine, I would choose the second – because we face not only the reckoning of those children, but the historical reckoning of the Jewish people.’ In the wake of the Kristallnacht pogroms, Ben-Gurion commented that ‘the human conscience’ might bring various countries to open their doors to Jewish refugees from Germany. He saw this as a threat and warned: ‘Zionism is in danger.'” Israeli historian, Tom Segev, “The Seventh Million.”
“Even David Ben-Gurion’s sympathetic biographer acknowledges that Ben-Gurion did nothing practical for rescue, devoting his energies to post-war prospects. He delegated rescue work to Yitzak Gruenbaum, who [stated]…’They will say that I am anti-Semitic, that I don’t want to save the Exile, that I don’t have a varm Yiddish hartz…Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act.’ “Zionists in America…took the same position.
“The Zionist movement…interfered with and hindered other organizations, Jewish and non- Jewish, whenever it imagined that their activity, political or humanitarian, was at variance with Zionist aims or in competition with them, even when these might be helpful to Jews, even when it was a question of life and death…Beit Zvi documents the Zionist leadership’s indifference to saving Jews from the Nazi menace except in cases in which the Jews could be brought to Palestine…[e.g.] the readiness of the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo, to absorb one hundred thousand refugees and the sabotaging of this idea – as well as others, like proposals to settle the Jews in Alaska and the Philippines – by the Zionist movement…
“The obtuseness of the Zionist movement toward the fate of European Jewry did not prevent it, of course, from later hurling accusations against the whole world for its indifference toward the Jewish catastrophe or from pressing material, political, and moral demands on the world because of that indifference.” Israeli author Boas Evron, “Jewish State or Israeli Nation?”
What these quotations clearly tell us is that extremist Zionists cared only about those who were prepared freely to emigrate to Palestine in order to settle there under the control of Zionist organisations. ‘European’ or ‘assimilated’ Jews were of no interest to them.
The Zionists were clearly prepared to sacrifice the lives of millions of their fellow Jews, only subsequently seeing any value on their lives by way of creating a victimhood status, which they have exploited ruthlessly ever since.
As the USA vote at the United Nations demonstrates, the Zionists are still pulling the wool over the eyes of Christian-Zionists and the American administration even today, despite the fact that the Zionists colluded in the deaths and destruction of fellow Jews during World War Two. They have no shame whatsoever.
It may be possible that Ira Youdovin is a decent human being. If he is, he should cease trying to defend the indefensible. Racism – whether Zionist or any other type – is something that all decent people should condemn outright. He should join us.
william February 19, 2011 at 9:27 pm #
Just a brief further note.
It is silly to permit the radical, whacky right-wing in Israel (or the Tea Party here in the USA) to steal the flag of patriotism, or the Star of David for that matter. All of this is being done in the name of oppressive, and apartheid-like policies that do not comply with human rights norms.
Surely most Jewry reject such thinking, and we (most Jews) are firmly on the side of Dr Falk’s humanism. His having to answer the charge of being “self-hating” is ridiculous.
It is the policies of the radical-right, both here in the USA, as well as in Israel, that pose a real threat to the long-term interests of the Jewish peoples, as well as all oppressed peoples such as the Palestinians.
The interests of our two groups, both Jews and Palestinians, are inextricably bound together. We can only end the violence by restoring an equilibrium between our two peoples that is based upon simple justice. That is, self-determination for both our peoples within a political context of mutual concern and respect for one another.
Don’t let them turn you around Dr. Falk.
Richard Falk February 19, 2011 at 10:10 pm #
Thanks for the encouragement, and sense of solidarity..
I think you are firmly on the side of delusion. Exactly like “Prof.” Falk. Same thing. Communism is dead the only way to overcome your anger is to take on Israel.
igloo February 20, 2011 at 8:49 am #
There is a need to differentiate between Judaism – a religion and Zionism – a political movement
Yes, this is important, and I try to make it clear in everything I write. It is also
to distinguish Israel as a state from Zionism as a movement, body of ideas, and
an evolving political project.
Paul Freedman February 20, 2011 at 3:15 pm #
John, adopting Unitarian universalism and approving culturally specific norms governing Islamic or other indigenous ritual and law while condemning Jews for their own distinct cultures is arguably not “self-hating” only in the sense that your Jewish identity is non-existent, apart from an overgeneralized and meaningless pro-forma analogical bridge from your actual anti-Jewish agendas to a supposed proto-typical Jewish source.
You have become simply another garden variety anti-Semite, peddling fantastic tales of Jewish conspiracy and depredation, and condemning Jews for sources of culturally distinct pride (labelled false sense of superiority) that you would applaud in other cultures and peoples in the name of multi-cultural ethnicity.
For all the vaporous sermonizing and content-free Emersonian pop-corn masquerading as thought you have yet to explain your specific enabling of very particularist and history-bound demonized stereotypes of Jews, murderous violence against actual jews (organized in a sectarian, tribalist theocracy in Gaza supported by you anomalously as a Jeffersonian democratic culture) and enabling and promotion of obsessive conspiracies about the imaginary construct of Jews colonizing their psychologically bereft personalities–such as the 9/11 “truther” conspiracies or the ludicrous nonsense that Jews conspired to prolong and benefit from the First World War or the Nazi regime, ahistorical revision shared between you and your admirers here.
So no, you are not a “self-hating Jew”, you are a deracinated pseudo-intellectual whose ancestors were at one time Jewish, now shuffling anti-Jewish tropes without any concrete knowledge of what actual jewish history is or what it represents apart from the factoid nuggets and fabricated quote overflow from the shared semi-literate septic tank of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic bigots.
So don’t worry, you can’t be “self-hating” if the self has long since disappeared into au curant self-congratulatory escapism.
Edithann February 21, 2011 at 9:05 am #
Well Paul Freedman, it seems you prove Falks points, that ‘hate’ springs eternal in the hearts of Jews who cling to the old lies.
There is truth in all of Falks writings, from the Balfour conspiracies, to Zionist’s WW2 involvements, to all other Zionist ‘false flags’, 9/11, Iraq war etc., etc. All documented facts from many intellectual sources.
If you have counter arguments to those ‘facts’ please reveal them. Being personally insulting to Falk just makes you look childish and petulant. Facts, man, just the facts. Your personal facts aren’t relevant here at all..
From your obvious intellectual diatribe at Falk, you don’t sound too ‘smart’, just angry and ‘hate filled’.
I would imagine it’s because Israel is now sliding into oblivion.
I suggest you read the following carefully, it’s more contemporary and deals with relevant facts today..not old redundant garbage from the past.
Blame doesn’t solve problems or Israel and the Jews would have solved their centuries old problems with the rest of the world, centuries ago.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/02/why-the-u-s-cannot-do-something-about-palestine.html#respond
excuse me, that would be:
“enabling and promotion of obsessive conspiracies about the imaginary construct of Jews constructively colonizing conspiracy fabulators’ psychologically bereft personalities–such as the 9/11…”
By the way, on one specific illustrative example as you lack any historical appreciation for Zionist history, relying on over generalized jargon clotted content-free academic abstractions and maliciously distorted or invented factoids from anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic colleagues (again–you are not the “wicked son” of the Haggada because your “jewish” identity is a revenant wisp of false-consciousness so to speak):
This is not persuasive, it is anti-Semitic drivel, purporting to assert that Jews are so evil that they helped the Holocaust generally. Zionists fought the Nazis where they could–in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Russian Resistance, or in a British-sponsored Jewish Brigade approved by Winston Churchill after initial objections. Stern gang fighters had proposed to join the Nazis in an alliance against the British Empire but this was a fringe reaction, although Zionist interaction with the Nazis for the purpose of rescuing Jews from the Holocaust (as in the much maligned Kastner Train and the substantively successful Transfer Agreement) were approved by the Jewish yishuv in the Mandate.
Meanwhile the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem al-Husseini actively collaborated with the Nazis after finding refuge in Nazi Germany, organizing Waffen SS Muslim soldiers to kill Jews and Christians in the Bosnian theater (a picture is available online at http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/recruited.htm) and worked with the upper echelon of the SS to transfer gas chamber bureaucracies and equipment via Rommel’s army to a conquered British Mandate to exterminate all the Mandate’s Jewish citizens.
Rommel was defeated so Hitler’s promise to the Mufti to commit literal (not metaphorical) genocide on the Jewish inhabitants of the Mandate failed.
Again, as you are no longer Jewish in any concretely specifiable or meaningful way your sponsorship of ignorant and incredible anti-Jewish calumnies is not a failure of “self-hating” but the all too fashionable intellectual failures of conscience, mind, soul, and wit within the backwash of pseudo-intellectual dilettantism and poseur-ism home to our generation’s share of posterity’s anti-Jewish mediocrities.
Tiny fish in a stagnant pond.
John February 21, 2011 at 11:24 am #
Has Paul become inebriated by his own verbosity?
I agree about the Grand Mufti and the SS Muslim soldiers.
I am always happy to ackowledge facts.
Zionist ideology continues manifesting itself in the United States, poisoning our basic American principles of freedom. In one recent instance, the ideology again expressed itself against uncensored freedom of speech and the expression of political dissent in America. This was successful via instilling the the fear of Zionist violence against a public transportation system; a system which had already agreed to carry negative advertisements regarding Israeli government acts.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/february212011/seattle-bus-ads.php
In principle, there is nothing wrong with self-determination. It is a process in which we are all engaged, from the time of our birth to the moment of our death. During our waking lives and when we are asleep, this process continues.
Self-determination applies to all of us at an individual level and is combined with similar outlooks of others from a local level up to and including a global level. We can all be united by what we perceive as a common humanity at a planetary level.
Possibly, in time to come, we will share our ideas of self-determination with other planetary inhabitants, which will eventually come to embrace a truly Universal or cosmological appreciation of self-determination.
We all also engage in the political process of engaging in reconciliation and exchange to be able to live alongside others with different ideas of self-determination.
Where Zionism – like Nazism – is different is that it rejects the process of politics in attempting to achieve a situation where people with differences can live together. The fascistic outlook of Zionism means that only their self-determination is accorded any value.
The self-determination needs of others are sacrificed to the single-minded drive of Zionism to impose just their ideas and values on themselves and everyone else.
That is why there is conflict in Palestine. The only way it will be resolved is if the self-determination needs and aspirations of all peoples there are met – and this includes allowing an open border so that all wishing to go there and live there is allowed.
Rama Ananth April 3, 2011 at 4:34 am #
I dream of a time when, when people will rise against attrocities, and injustice like they did in Egypt, in a totally non violent way and threw their corrupt government with the corrupt and shameless leader, where even the army supported the people’s cause and never harmed them. It should be done by both the Palestinians and the Jews together, so that they can throw such ruthless people who run the government with the full support of the Americans. Chosen one my foot, to think they still keep uttering such nonsense, and doing everything horrible to the country which they have forcefully occupied, grabbing more and more and yet not satisfied, committing the same crimes committed by the Nazis.
If there is God I wonder, how can such things be allowed in this world by the creator.
People have lost all sense of goodness and decency.
I am somewhere in India, but such things bother me very much, what kind of God can allow the destruction of Afganistan, Iraq many such countries. I see the hand of US everywhere,not all the perfumes of Arabia can take the stink out of their hands When will they ever learn from their mistakes?
People are turning into terrorists, who is to blame?
Richard Falk April 3, 2011 at 8:19 am #
Thanks for your messages, and appreciative words. Yes, we must, wherever we are retain the hope and vision of a different, better, juster world than now seems possible, an attitude of mind that i describe as ‘necessary utopianism.’
Edithann April 3, 2011 at 8:31 am #
Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with your views..
The following is some insight as to what is really happening and why it’s so difficult for things to change..
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-inside-what-job-a-film-review.html
Thanks for this encouraging comment. It is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for these affirming and encouraging words. I hope that I can retain your confidence in the future.
Zalman November 18, 2013 at 10:10 pm #
Hi, As much as I disagree with much of what you do and say, I want you to know that I consider you a full Jew. I am what people call “Orthodox” and follow the Lubavitch Rebbe Philosophy of life. From him I learned never to judge a fellow person and to respect the uniqueness that we all have to offer to the world. I wish you only the best.
Richard Falk November 19, 2013 at 5:39 am #
Thanks for these sentiments, which I reciprocate, although not personally familiar
with the thought of Lubavitch Rebbe. I have taken seriously the analogous sentiment
of the poet W.H. Auden: “We must love one another or die.”
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What’s Wrong with CNN?
CNN presents itself as the most ‘trusted name in news’ available to the TV viewing public. Of course, this claim of integrity is to be greatly valued if the news channel lives up to such a standard when fairly scrutinized. Democracy, in the complex circumstances of modernity, depends on trust to remain viable. In an important sense CNN seems trustworthy. To the best of its ability it appears to search for and impart the truth with respect to its coverage. Unlike the American president, it does not lie or deliver ‘fake news.’ And for most issues it gives both sides of the story, and doesn’t keep shifting the goal posts to alter the narrative.
But is this record of honesty enough to make CNN trustworthy? I think not.
In recent months, and really ever since the 2016 presidential campaign, CNN, along with the rest of the mainstream media, has been Trump obsessed. At least, compared to Fox, CNN adopts a highly critical stance in evaluating the daily episodes in this ongoing cruel and dangerous Trump soap opera. Surely, such an irresponsible and unscrupulous leadership deserves probing criticism and extensive coverage, but not at the price of erasing the rest of the world as well as much of the news agenda on the home front. This is what CNN has done, at least on the coverage provided by its national channel. CNN International is more inclusive in its coverage, but for CNN in the United States, it has seemingly decided that this is ‘the Trump Century’ rather than ‘The American Century.’ Such an obsession is a travesty on the reality of our 21stcentury world, and a distorting service to its devoted watching audience.
It is quite astounding to tune into the nightly broadcasts on CNN featuring Anderson Cooper, Andrew Cuomo, and Don Lemon as successive anchors. They not only devote their entire coverage to the latest revelations of the Special Counsel regarding various aspects of the interaction between the Trump entourage and Russia, but they repeat one another, somewhat varying only the talking heads, most of whom are invited to make recurrent guest appearances. Not only this, but these news commentators seem in such an uncontainable self-congratulatory mood that they have initiated a new media trope. Instead of ending their program and proceeding to the next one, these familiar faces exchange lengthy and supportive comments with one another on the latest Trump maneuver, laughing with undisguised appreciation of each other’s ironic takes. I find this to be an increasingly tedious display of irrelevance. If this is what it means to be trusted, I might soon opt for some version of the untrustworthy. Indeed, allowing Trump to suck up all the oxygen is not so different over time than falling in line as Trumpsters would wish. This devotion to Trump may be the work of the market advisors that call the shots at CNN, which makes it both understandable, and in its way, even worse.
Erasure of all that is newsworthy but non-Trump is only part of the problem. Distortion and indoctrination are also present, especially when the Trump news touches on the Pentagon, CIA, Wall Street, and Israel. Here the celebrity anchors rely on experts who are loyalists of the ‘bipartisan consensus’ (what traditional Republicans and establishment Democrats agree about, except for tactical nuances) that has dominated American approach to the world ever since 1945. This has meant taking neoliberal post-Cold War capitalism, global militarism, and the special relationship with Israel off the table of responsible debate. Most of CNN’s experts are retirees from the upper echelons of the national security establishment, stalwarts of Washington think tanks, or senior advisors to recent presidents. Never do we hear from a single progressive voice, nor even from those that believe the crisis is structural, requiring thought and action outside the box. Alan Dershowitz is welcome to talk in defense of the Trump presidency or Israel, but never Noam Chomsky. It is this leaning to the right that most makes CNN untrustworthy in my eyes. It shuts out the light with respect to the most compelling issues facing the country and the world, and limits news coverage to fifty shades of gray.
In many respects, theNew York Timesshares this deference to this anarchronistic bipartisan consensus. It is more useful than CNN because it realizes that ‘all the news fit to print’ includes happenings in the world other than the Trump escapades. The Timeseven occasionally gives space sometimes to left-leaning critics, and its own opinion writers include Michelle Goldberg and Paul Krugman, both of whom are ready to challenge some of those fixed orthodoxies that have imposed their discipline on American policy regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans are in control of the White House. Of course, the right is also amply represented by the generally thoughtful conservative musings of David Brooks and the more abrasive forays of Bret Stephens. Yet when it comes to Brexit, Syria, Yemen, and Latin America the news coverage of the Times is invaluably comprehensive and generally reliable except if it touches on such no-go zones as Venezuela or the BDS Campaign.
Also, CNN in America is treated as the poster child of the mainstream media. MSNBC, its main supposedly liberal competitor, is only marginally better. MSNBC also drones on and on while doing its version of ‘the daily Trump show,’ and invites the same sort of dreary guests who make their living inside the Beltway, and hence burn few bridges to the portals of power in Washington. We might have hoped that dissident TV as provided by Vice or Al Jazeera would fill the void, but somehow they have not so far risen to the challenge of offering a different slant on what transpires day by day.
What is at stake goes beyond trust. It concerns what we need to know if we are to act responsibly and effectively as engaged citizens. What we need to know goes to the roots who we are collectively as a people, and what are the real threats to our security, and even our civilizational and biological survival. We should all know by now, or should know, that we live in a political system that is more accurately identified as a ‘plutocracy’ than a ‘democracy,’ especially when it comes to political parties and the electoral process. Many have long been aware that the TV and print media, along with publishing, is market driven, and corporatized. As a consequence, political discourse is limited to center/right dialogues.
The main trouble is that we need center/left thinking to challenge the bipartisan consensus that has always been center/right, incorporating market and ‘deep state’ bureaucratic forces. In part, the left has lost its voice after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which was persuasively (mis)interpreted in the West in ways that designed to wipe socialism off the political map of societal option. At present, climate change, global inequality, emerging technologies of war, artificial intelligence, robotics, genetic engineering, and nuclear weaponry are posing unprecedented challenges that are global in scope and bioethical in depth. In view of this there exists a need for an untethered political, moral, and cultural imagination as never before. We find imaginative innovative responses in pockets of resistance scattered around the country and the world. The recent midterm American elections produced a few women winners with radical messages, which suggests that the national body politic is not yet readied.
Yet until CNN listens, most of the rest of us will not hear or heed what needs to be known and done. At best, we will take refuge in struggling for feasible change unaware that what is necessary is not feasible within existing political and economic structures. At worst, we will be herded by demagogues into death camps or maybe stay alive by some mixture of escapism and denialism.
What we urgently need is a politics freed from the constraints of the feasible,and energized by an awareness of the necessaryand desirable.
Tags: CNN, CNN International, feasibility, Media Erasures, MSNBC, Plutocracy, Public Imagination, Trump obsession
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While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent seizures.
Nominated for the Best of Next! Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for the Golden Gate Award for Best New Director at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Winner of the Someone to Watch Award and nominated for Best First Feature at the Film Independent Spirit Awards.
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Rodeo Austin Ride for the Brand Cowboy Tournament™ Qualifying Rounds will take place March 16-27, 2019 and will spotlight 8 contestants each night in the bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing and bull riding events. $234,000 will be split between these 12 rounds. The top 16 athletes overall will advance on to the Playoff Rounds.
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8-second ride atop a bareback horse scored with points for rider and animal.
For eight long seconds, cowboys ride bareback, grasping the rigging with only one hand. Riders are judged on control, spurring technique and the horse’s performance. If the rider touches the horse, equipment or himself with his free hand, he’s disqualified.
The contestant and horse chase after a steer and wrestle him to the ground for the fastest time.
The objective of the steer wrestler, who is also known as a "bulldogger," is to use strength and technique to wrestle a steer to the ground as quickly as possible. The steer wrestler begins his chase after the steer has been given a head start. He’s assisted by a hazer, another cowboy who keeps the steer running in a straight line. When the steer wrestler's horse pulls even with the steer, he grasps the horns, digs his heels into the dirt and turns and lifts the steer to tip it over. After the catch, he must bring the steer to a stop or change the direction of its body. The clock stops when the steer is on its side with all four legs pointing in the same direction.
Aspiring young cowboys and cowgirls get six seconds of fame by busting out of the chutes aboard a sheep.
The crowd favorite, Mutton Bustin', is where aspiring young cowboys and cowgirls get six seconds of fame by busting out of the chute aboard a sheep. Participants are scored on their own performance and on the animal, just like the professionals. All kids receive a score, even if they don’t ride 'til the six second buzzer. Every participant in the Rodeo Arena receives a trophy and the overall winner each night wins a custom belt buckle.
Rodeo’s original event, an 8 second ride atop a saddled horse scored with points for rider and animal.
Saddle bronc riding is rodeo's classic event. A rider starts with his feet over the bronc’s shoulders, and then synchronizes his spurring action with the animal’s bucking for a high score. The cowboy’s control throughout the ride, the length of his spurring stroke and how hard the horse bucks also account for the final score. Disqualification results if, prior to the eight second buzzer, the rider touches the animal, himself or his equipment with his free hand; if either foot slips out of stirrup; if he drops the bronc rein; or if he fails to have his feet in the proper "mark out" position at the beginning of the ride.
The only team event in rodeo, contestants work together for the fastest time.
This is the only team event in the rodeo. The header charges out of the box on horseback, chasing down a steer and roping him around his horns. After making a catch, the heeler moves in and ropes the steer’s hind legs; catching one hind leg results in a five-second penalty. If the heeler tosses his loop before the header has changed direction of the steer and has the animal moving forward, the team is disqualified. The run is completed when the steer is secured and the team ropers' horses are facing each other on opposite sides of the steer.
The contestant lassoes a calf and then ties his legs for the fastest time.
Success in tie-down roping depends both on the teamwork between a cowboy and his horse and the luck of the draw: a feisty calf that runs fast or kicks hard can foil a roper's finest effort. After the calf is given a head start, horse and rider give chase. The contestant ropes the calf, then dismounts and runs to the animal. After catching and flanking the calf, the cowboy ties any three of the animal's legs together using a piggin' string. Like all timed events, a 10-second penalty is added if the calf roper breaks the barrier at the beginning of the run.
The only ladies event in rodeo, the cowgirl with the fastest run of a cloverleaf barrel pattern wins.
Ladies only! In barrel racing, the contestant enters the arena at full speed on a sprinting horse, riding in a cloverleaf pattern around the three barrels positioned in the arena, and sprints back out of the arena, stopping the clock as she leaves. The contestant can touch or even move the barrels, but receives a five-second penalty for each barrel that is overturned. With the margin of victory measured in hundredths of seconds, knocking over one barrel spells disaster for a barrel racing competitor.
8 seconds is the goal for the cowboys atop a raucous bull.
Bull riders ride against the clock, attempting to remain on a bucking bull for eight seconds. Judges watch for good body position and other factors, including use of the free area and spurring action. Half of the score in bull riding is determined by the contestant's performance and the other half is based on the animal's efforts. A bull rider will be disqualified for touching the animal, himself or his equipment with his free hand.
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The bullfighters and clowns are the rodeo lifesavers with the goal of helping the bull riders safely exit the arena.
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Outcomes of myringoplasty in Australian Aboriginal children and factors associated with success: A prospective case series
Donna B. Mak, University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow
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Max K. Bulsara, University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow
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Francis Lannigan, University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow
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Mak, D., MacKendrick, A., Bulsara, M., Coates, H., Lannigan, F., Lehmann, D., et al. (2004). Outcomes of myringoplasty in Australian Aboriginal children and factors associated with success: A prospective case series. Clinical Otolaryngology, 29(6), 606-611. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2004.00896.x
The objective of this study was to assess the outcomes of myringoplasties in Aboriginal children and to identify factors associated with a successful outcome with the use of prospective case series from primary health care clinics and hospitals in four rural and remote regions of Western Australia. All 58 Aboriginal children, aged 5–15 years, who underwent 78 myringoplasties between 1 January 2000 and 30 June 2001 were included in the study. Complete postoperative (post-op) follow-up was achieved following 78% of myringoplasties. The main outcome measures were (a) success, i.e. an intact tympanic membrane and normal hearing six or more months post-op in the operated ear, (b) closure of the perforation, (c) Post-op hearing improvement. Forty-nine per cent of myringoplasties were successful, 72% resulted in closure or reduction in the size of the perforation and 51% resulted in hearing improvement. After controlling for age, sex, clustering and number of previous myringoplasties, no association was observed between success or hearing improvement and perforation size, or the presence of serous aural discharge at the time of surgery. Myringoplasty resulted in hearing improvement and/or perforation closure in a significant proportion of children. Thus, primary school-aged Aboriginal children in whom conservative management of chronic suppurative otitis media has been unsuccessful should have access to myringoplasty because of the positive impact on their socialization, language and learning that results from improved hearing.
Australian Aborigines, myringoplasty, myringoplasty, evaluation, surgical outcomes
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Halloween: Our American LGBTQ holiday
In the words of the lesbian poet and scholar Judy Grahn, Halloween is "the great gay holiday."
And this weekend of lavish costumed theatricality will attract everyone, but especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) revelers.
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Andrew Polson, Principal Scientist, Genentech
Dr Andrew Polson is Principal Scientist (Technology), Translational Oncology at Genentech, USA where he has 14 years of experience. Dr Polson joined Genentech in 2002 after finishing his post-doctoral work in virology at UCSF. Dr Polson completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Utah in the year 1995.Since Joining Genentech he has been working on developing antibody-drug conjugates for the treatment of cancer. His lab works on the development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), cytotoxic drugs chemically linked to antibodies, for the treatment of cancer. Their goal is to provide a means to deliver chemotherapy by targeting the drug to neoplastic cells.
Dr Polson is a Biomedical research scientist with a diverse skill set and over twelve years of professional experience. He is a thought leader in the field of large-molecule biologics with a unique perspective on antibody drug conjugate (ADC) design and development. Dr Polson Initiated and led preclinical research programs for multiple ADCs; played a key role in filing two investigational new drug applications for novel ADCs with continued involvement with progress through clinical trials. He is also Project leader for multi-disciplinary teams tasked with the development of novel therapeutics.
Dr Polson plays a leadership role in external collaborations to develop new linker-drug technologies for antibody drug conjugate therapies.
He has extensive managerial experience with supervising research associates and Ph.D. scientists. He has successful record of contribution to scientific literature establishing key concepts in preclinical ADC development. He is an inventor on multiple ADC-related patents.
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E-beam Inspection Makes Inroads
Technology is being used to examine hard-to-find defects, but speed remains an issue.
January 18th, 2018 - By: Mark LaPedus
E-beam inspection is gaining traction in critical areas in fab production as it is becoming more difficult to find tiny defects with traditional methods at advanced nodes.
Applied Materials, ASML/HMI and others are developing new e-beam inspection tools and/or techniques to solve some of the more difficult defect issues in the fab. E-beam inspection is one of two ways to find defects on a wafer. Optical inspection is the other method. Not long ago, chipmakers mainly used optical tools for defect detection in production. E-beam inspection was only used in R&D, because it is too slow for production.
But as chipmakers move to 16nm/14nm and beyond, the processes have become more complex and the feature sizes are smaller. Moreover, the size of a detectable defect decreases at each node. And an inability to locate these killer defects can impact the yield of a design.
Today, optical inspection remains the workhorse detection tool in the fab, but the technology also is being stretched to the limit in some applications. So chipmakers are moving e-beam inspection into the in-line monitoring flow for some, but not all, applications at 16nm/14nm and beyond.
E-beam inspection is being used to accelerate the yield learning process. In this process, the idea is to find and eliminate one defect type after another until a device can be manufactured according to spec. “In the semiconductor manufacturing industry, the key to success is to complete this learning as rapidly as possible in a process called yield learning. One key strategy to shorten the yield learning cycle is to increase the adoption of in-line defect detection techniques, including e-beam inspection,” said Richard Hafer, senior member of the technical staff at GlobalFoundries, in a paper at the recent ASMC event. (Oliver Patterson, a distinguished member of the technical staff at GlobalFoundries, was the lead author of the paper.)
It’s unlikely that e-beam inspection will completely replace optical in a fab. Optical will remain the high-volume manufacturing (HVM) tool. E-beam is ideal for some defect types and it still has some limitations. Going forward, though, e-beam inspection will be used for more apps in the fab at advanced nodes.
“The e-beam inspection technique is increasingly utilized for the traditional voltage contrast mode (where the non-contact electrical-defect signal can dramatically reduce time to detect), but also for physical defect detection especially in leading-edge technology nodes (7nm, 5nm). It can also be utilized in older technologies (for example 90nm) for physical defects where traditional optical techniques have poor S/N ratios,” according to Hafer and Patterson.
To be sure, e-beam inspection is gaining steam. Here are some of the latest events in the industry:
• ASML/HMI recently introduced an e-beam inspection tool with faster throughputs.
• Applied Materials has developed a technique with an existing tool for cobalt metal lines at 7nm.
• GlobalFoundries and Samsung have separately developed techniques with existing tools that solve some vexing defect issues in finFETs.
• Several companies are developing multi-beam e-beam tools.
What is wafer inspection?
Inspection is the science of finding killer defects in structures. The market for this technology is growing. In 2018, the total patterned wafer inspection market is expected to reach about $1.65 billion, up from $1.43 billion in 2017, according to Bob Johnson, an analyst at Gartner. The figure includes both optical and e-beam.
Of that figure, “the e-beam inspection market was just under $200 million last year,” Johnson said. “It will be around $230 million this year.”
Generally, the two main tool technologies, e-beam and optical, are complementary. Each performs different functions in the inspection flow, and each has some tradeoffs.
An optical inspection tool uses a 193nm light source, advanced optics and sensors to detect defects on a wafer. Optical inspection is primarily used in production, because it is relatively fast. Generally, the throughputs for optical inspection range from one or two wafers an hour.
But optical inspection has some limits in terms of resolutions. The gray area for optical is somewhere between 20nm and 10nm, according to analysts, although vendors continue to push the technology much farther. For example, KLA-Tencor’s 193nm wafer inspection platform, internally called the Gen 5, is being used beyond the so-called grey area.
“Based on the results and customer’s feedback, we expect Gen 5 to continue to support customers in development of 7nm technology, and we see it playing an even larger role on the development and ramp of the 5nm node,” said Rick Wallace, president and chief executive of KLA-Tencor, in a recent conference call.
Unlike optical, which use photons, e-beam leverages the properties of electrons. In simple terms, electrons from an e-beam tool hit and penetrate the surface of a sample. Then, the electrons scatter and bounce back to a detector in the tool. The secondary electrons or backscattered electrons are used to help identify defects in devices.
Fig. 1: E-beam architecture. Source: Applied Materials
E-beam inspection is used to find the smallest defects, as the technology has sensitivities down to 1nm. As before, though, the problem with e-beam inspection is throughput.
Generally, e-beam inspection times are 1,000 times (or more) slower than optical. “E-beam is still orders of magnitude slower than optical inspection, and is not suitable for production monitoring in HVM,” Gartner’s Johnson said.
In operation, an optical tool scans the entire wafer and looks for defects. With e-beam it could take hours, if not days, to scan an entire wafer. But e-beam is ideal in terms of scanning small areas of a die and looking for specific and hard-to-find defects.
For this and other reasons, e-beam inspection was mainly used for engineering analysis in the R&D groups. But that’s beginning to change, at least to some degree.
Not long ago, chipmakers moved from planar devices at 28nm and above to finFETs at 22nm and 16nm/14nm. In finFETs, which are 3D-like structures, the control of the current is accomplished by implementing a gate on each of the three sides of a fin.
Fig. 2: FinFET vs. planar. Source: Lam Research
Detecting defects is challenging for finFETs. For example, defects can get rooted deep or buried into the finFET structures. Tiny bridge defects can occur in pFET structures.
Fig. 3: Difficult to detect small defects in structures. Source: Applied Materials
Then, at each node, the defect sizes become smaller and harder to find. Optical inspection can find many defects, but chipmakers are leaning more on e-beam inspection starting at 16nm/14nm.
“14nm finFET manufacturing technology is able to achieve the highest levels of efficiency, performance and productivity. However, with the constant shrinkage of device dimensions, the detectable defect size drops substantially and makes it extremely challenging to scan with traditional optical inspections due to the limiting factor of the wavelength of light, which is usually on the order of hundreds of nanometers,” said Xing Zhou, metrology application engineer at Samsung’s Austin Semiconductor group, in a presentation at the recent ASMC conference. “The comparative wavelength of e-beam is much smaller than traditional light wavelength, which in turn provides better resolution. Therefore, this technique has been widely used in 14nm in-line defect monitoring.”
E-beam has found a place in the MOL, back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) and other locations for logic. E-beam is also used for 3D NAND and DRAM.
It is not used everywhere in the fab, however. The technology is inserted on a case-by-case basis for select modules in the fab, and used for certain defect problems. “The major defect-of-interests detected by e-beam inspection are embedded defects (physical or electrical), gap defects or systematic patterning defects,” Zhou said.
Both e-beam and optical inspection are geared to find defects, but the two technologies tend to solve different problems. Generally, optical inspection is targeted to find physical defects, such as voids, protrusions and bridges.
E-beam inspection also is used to detect physical defects that are too small for optical. But e-beam is mainly used for electrical or voltage-contrast defect applications, such as electrical shorts and opens, as well as voids in interconnect structures.
In voltage contrast applications, an external bias is applied to a device. Then the e-beam analyzes the variations in the image contrast of the structure to determine if the device is working.
Regardless, e-beam inspection is making progress on several fronts. In 2016, ASML Holding entered the e-beam wafer inspection market by acquiring Hermes Microvision (HMI). At the time, HMI was the world’s largest supplier of e-beam wafer inspection tools.
Recently, ASML/HMI introduced their first jointly developed system. It combines HMI’s e-beam tool with ASML’s computational lithography engine.
With the computational engine, ASML is able to model and simulate the reticle features and how they would translate on the wafer. “If you do that, you would already start to identify which areas on the wafer are potentially having a challenge to show up as a hot spot,” said Henk Niesing, director of product management at ASML, in a recent interview. “Then we combine that with all of our sensor data that we have on a scanner. With that, we think we can compute and predict where the patterns will fail.”
The data then is fed into HMI’s e-beam inspection tool. “Basically, (the e-beam tool) will go to these areas on the wafer that already have been identified as potential failures in terms of patterns,” Niesing said. “You don’t have to measure the whole wafer. You can basically identify the areas where there is a potential risk.”
Only a small percentage of the wafer is measured. The rest is analyzed and the hot spots are predicted, thereby speeding up the e-beam inspection process. “It’s a great throughput gain,” he said.
Others are advancing the technology, as well. At the recent IEDM conference, Applied Materials presented a paper on a new application for its e-beam inspection tool. It has found a new way to detect cobalt trench embedded voids in the middle-of-line (MOL) at 7nm.
A chip consists of three parts—the transistor, contacts and interconnects. The transistor resides on the bottom of the structure and serves as a switch. The interconnects, which reside on the top of the transistor, consist of tiny copper wiring schemes that transfer electrical signals from one transistor to another. Those interconnects are becoming more compact at each node, causing an unwanted resistance-capacitance (RC) delay in chips.
Compounding the issues is a relativity new layer called the MOL. The MOL connects the separate transistor and interconnect pieces using a series of contact structures.
Fig. 4: Image of chip with front-end and backend. Source: Wikipedia
The tiny contacts are three-dimensional structures with a small gap. Using a deposition process, the gap within the contact is filled with a conductive tungsten material. This is called a tungsten plug.
At each node, the contact is becoming smaller, so the volume of the tungsten conductor material decreases at each node. That means a signal must flow through a smaller amount of conductive metal. This, in turn, causes a big problem—contact resistance.
To solve this issue, some chipmakers are moving from tungsten to cobalt materials for the plug at 10nm/7nm.
Fig. 5: Cobalt for the MOL at 7nm. Source: Applied Materials
Cobalt reduces the line resistance in chips, but there are some challenges in the cobalt gap-fill process. “The shrinking geometries, in turn, place elevated demands on the metallization process and typical yield-related fail modes include incomplete gap-fill or voiding,” said Nicolas Breil, director of technical projects at Applied Materials, in a recent presentation at IEDM.
So it is critical to conduct a series of inspection steps to verify whether the cobalt gap-fill process was successful or not. For this, defect analysis is sometimes conducted using electrical measurements and a transmission electron microscope (TEM). A TEM has high resolutions, but it is a slow and destructive process. Generally, a sample is cut and then examined in a TEM.
In response, Applied has devised a non-destructive technique using e-beam. But there are several challenges. “As voids in cobalt are usually smaller than the cobalt line width, the detection of voids as small as 5nm is critical,” Breil said. “A spot size smaller than 3nm is required to detect sub-10nm voids.”
To detect voids in cobalt, the electrons from the e-beam must penetrate deep enough in the trenches. In the study, Applied looked at the interactions of an electron beam with energies ranging from 0.5kV to 30kV and depths ranging from 35A to 3.1um.
With e-beam inspection, Applied demonstrated the ability to locate the voids using a mix of energy levels. “When the void is close to the surface (for example, buried under 20nm of cobalt), a relatively small energy gives the maximum contrast. However, when the void is deeper, a higher energy is required. For example, an energy of 20kV is required to generate the maximum contrast and detect voids buried 60nm below the surface. We found a weaker dependency of the size of voids. This means that in order to maximize the detection of voids in cobalt, we have to adapt the beam energy to the required void. Deeper voids require higher energies, while shallower voids favor lower energies,” Breil said.
Meanwhile, some are using e-beam inspection for finFETs. In a recent presentation, for example, Samsung developed a technique to detect shorts in 14nm finFETs.
E-beam can be used to find both open and shorts in devices. Opens are determined using dark voltage contrast (DVC) techniques, while shorts are found using bright voltage contrast (BVC), according to a recent paper from Samsung. DVC signals are easier to validate, but BVC signals are challenging, according to Samsung.
To solve the problem, Samsung devised a BVC technique that involves a separate detection and verification step. The e-beam inspection tool, which is located in the fab, is used for the first step. In simple terms, the e-beam is used to detect an electrical short. But it’s unclear if the signal will fail or not. Then, in the next step, Samsung uses a nano-probing technique, which is the verification step. A nano-probe is a separate failure analysis system that typically resides in a different location called a failure analysis lab.
In nano-probing, tiny tungsten wires are applied on the device to extract electrical parameters. “The leakage current was measured with nano-probing at the BVC (potential fail site) and compared with neighbor normal sites,” Samsung’s Zhou said. “This leakage current based criteria can be used to determine if the BVC signal is a real short or not.”
Then, at that point, a TEM is used to prove that there a short or not. All told, the technique provides “timely information of short fails and helps to accelerate the yield learning cycle,” Zhou said.
Fig. 6: E-beam images of BVC. Source: Samsung
In a separate effort, GlobalFoundries used a nano-probing technique to obtain BVC signals for specific defects in SOI-based finFETs. The goal is to find bright SRAM word-line defects, according to GlobalFoundries.
Fig. 7: Bright gate defect (circled in red) and corresponding FA verification. Three replicates of the same pattern are show in the left image to illustrate how those particular lines look without a short. Source: GlobalFoundries
Generally, nanoprobing is used after a standard TEM failure analysis technique doesn’t find an assignable cause for a group of e-beam inspection defects, according to GlobalFoundries.
In nanoprobing, the tiny probes determine the level of leakage causing the BVC. “Nanoprobing is to land multiple small (~1um diameter) probe tips on conductive nodes on a semiconductor wafer that has been partially or completely processed. Often, the conductive nodes are the drain, source and gate of a suspect transistor, so that its dynamics can be measured and compared to a reference transistor,” according to GlobalFoundries’ Hafer and Patterson. “Using this technique to check voltage contrast defects detected with EBI has become more useful for recent technology nodes because leakages in the nA range have become much more common due to shrinking process margins. Leakages in this range look exactly the same as hard shorts but may not cause hard failure. Understanding if an EBI VC defect is a hard short or leakage is very important for determining the corrective path. Which transistor to probe is determined by counting from a known reference point such as the corner of an SRAM block.”
Where is multi-beam?
While e-beam inspection is making inroads, the technology will never dominate the inspection landscape simply because it’s too slow. So in R&D, the industry has been working on multi-beam e-beam inspection. Using multiple beams, the technology could speed up the throughputs.
In multi-beam, though, the electrons tend to disturb each other, thereby impacting the performance of the tool. The inability to control the electrons is why multi-beam inspection is taking longer to commercialize.
Still, the industry is making progress. ASML, KLA-Tencor and others are developing new multi-beam e-beam inspection technologies for EUV mask inspection. In addition, Zeiss has developed a 91-beam scanning-electron microscope for EUV mask inspection/validation.
Mask inspection is a different application than wafer inspection. If the industry can master multi-beam for mask inspection, it could pave the way towards a similar technology for wafer inspection. Some believe multi-beam wafer inspection tools may appear by 2020. Most, if not all, want them sooner than later.
E-beam Vs. Optical Inspection
Searching For EUV Mask Defects
Overlay Challenges On The Rise
Variation Spreads At 10/7nm
Can We Measure Next-Gen FinFETs?
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Great in-depth article! Every time I came up with a question, the next paragraph answered it. Too bad all the inspection solutions are so slow!
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7 May 2015 / SF Restaurants, Food & Drink / Jay Barmann
Step Inside Belga, The New Belgian Brasserie In The Former Cafe Des Amis
We've been hearing news for a couple months now about Belga, the new Belgian concept coming to the grand former Cafe Des Amis space on Union Street, and now it's finally going to be making its debut on Tuesday, May 12. It's the dream of local restaurateur Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Starbelly, Delarosa, Lolinda, Super Duper), and perhaps his biggest project to date after Lolinda, and it will be one of only two Belgian spots in the city counting La Trappe in North Beach, but not counting Frjtz.
With the help of designer Hannah Collins, Paganini and his team have lightened the space from its Cafe Des Amis days, while keeping the Paris-inspired zinc-topped bar. And Collins found inspiration in European collage art and worked with local artist Melissa Wagner to create new custom artwork for the space. All told, there's a lot more light wood where there once was black paint.
The executive chef is Freedom Rains (that is indeed his name), and he's honed his skills in the kitchens of Boulevard, Flour + Water, RN74, and Incanto. In the menu at Belga he's had the challenge of combining the influences of Belgian cuisine, which are equal parts native Belgian, French, and German, with a modern California viewpoint. The full menu, which you can see below, is anchored by spins on the classic mussel dish most associated with Belgium (moule frites), as well a meaty selection of dishes from the wood oven including some house-made sausages, and an 18-oz. New York steak for two. There is not, however, a moule-frites combination on the opening menu per the team, for the sake of value, they've separated out the mussels dishes so that diners get more mussels on the plate, with the option of ordering frites on the side.
Cocktails are being overseen by Nora Furst and bar manager and Certified Cicerone Ryan Murphy, who joins the team after stints at Abbot's Cellar/Monk's Kettle and Pi Bar. The bar program is heavily beer-focused, with beers and ciders from both northern Europe and the US. Cocktails include things like the Rue du Moulin, a French twist on the Negroni using armagnac in place of gin; and the Oude Cobbler using aged genever, lemon, sugar, berries, and sherry.
Take a look at the photos of the remodeled space, which will be getting a test run for friends and family this weekend.
Photos by Declan McKerr
Belga - 2000 Union Street at Buchanan - Opening Tuesday, May 12
Photo: Declan McKerr/SFist
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Vincent Valentine Gets an Epic Looking Final Fantasy VII Static Arts Statue
By Johnny on September 24, 2016
Square Enix has announced a “Static Arts Gallery Final Fantasy VII Vincent Valentine” statue, coming in February 2017. The statue is priced at 35.99€ for a limited time on Square Enix’s official store.
Vincent Valentine is one of the key characters in the story of Final Fantasy and now forms the subject of this statue, depicting him as he appeared in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. Perched atop a pile of rubble, Vincent’s long hair and cape blow dramatically in the wind, while his stance, brandishing the custom tri-barrelled handgun Cerberus, hints at his awesome superhuman abilities and mysterious personality.
In addition to an overall design with a clever awareness of depth, the contrast between different areas is beautifully brought out through subtle colouring, coming together to create a masterful sculpture piece with an overwhelming sense of presence.
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Falk: Gaza offensive possible ‘war crime’
Al Jazeera, March 20, 2009
Falk said the Gaza border blocade trapping Gazans in a war zone may also be a crime against humanity
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories has said Israel’s military offensive on Gaza “would seem to constitute a war crime of the greatest magnitude under international law”.
Richard Falk calls the Israeli attacks a “massive assault on a densely populated urbanised setting”, with the civilian population subjected to “an inhumane form of warfare that kills, maims and inflicts mental harm”.
His findings were written in a report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday.
Islamic and African countries backed by China, Cuba and Russia have a majority in the 47-member forum.
Neither Israel nor US, its principal ally, are members.
Falk said the Geneva Convention required forces at war to be able to distinguish between military targets and civilians.
If that is not possible, then “launching the attacks is inherently unlawful”.
Israel launched its offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in December saying it aimed to stop rocket fire by Hamas into southern Israel.
A ceasefire was declared on January 18 after the offensive left 1,300 Palestinians dead, many of them women and children.
Three Israeli civilians and 10 soldiers were killed during the offensive.
Another crime
Falk said that the Gaza border blockade also was not legally justified and may represent a “crime against peace”, a principle established at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals.
Sealing the border, denying people the right to flee the war zone as refugees, may also be a crime against humanity, his report said.
Gaza family tells of Israeli shooting
Israeli soldiers say killing civilians ‘allowed’
He said Israel’s violations included alleged “targeting of schools, mosques and ambulances” during the offensive, and its use of weapons including white phosphorus, as well as Hamas firing rockets at civilian targets in southern Israel.Falk called for an independent experts group to investigate possible war crimes committed by both the Israeli military and Hamas.
He recommended witness testimonies as well as explanations from Israeli and Palestinian military commanders.
Falk gave the same death toll from Israel’s offensive in December and January – 1,434 Palestinians, 960 of those civilians – as the Palestinian Human Rights Centre.
Israel disputes the figures and accuses Hamas fighters in Gaza of using civilians as human shields.
Falk said Israel’s allegation should be investigated.
Criminal tribunal urged
Falk suggested the UN Security Council might set up an ad hoc criminal tribunal to establish accountability for war crimes in Gaza, noting Israel has not signed the Rome statutes establishing the International Criminal Court.
He was refused entry into Israel two weeks before the offensive started, preventing him from a planned mission to Gaza. In the report, he said the refusal had set an “unfortunate precedent” for treatment of a special rapporteur.
Israel dropped bombs on Gaza saying it wanted to halt rocket fire from Hamas [EPA]
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Santa Barbara, California, Falk said he is not optimistic that his report will lead to concrete action.”There is a lack of political will on the part of several major governments,” he said.
“There has all along been a pervasive double standard with respect to the implementation of international criminal law.
“It has been applied to non-Western countries in the south and has exempted actors associated with Europe, North America and, generally, the north.”
Falk’s criticism came as reports surfaced in the Israeli media suggesting that Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under what may have been lax rules of engagement during the Gaza offensive.
Property ransacked
Quoting Israeli soldiers who fought in the offensive, the Haaretz newspaper reported on Thursday that soldiers had ransacked and destroyed civilian property.
The soldiers’ testimony, made at a course at Oranim Academic College in Tivon, runs counter to the Israeli army’s claims that troops observed a high level of moral behaviour during the operation.
The testimonies include a description by an infantry squad leader in which he relates an incident where an Israeli sharpshooter shot a Palestinian mother and her two children, Haaretz reported.
If proved, the soldiers’ testimonies could contribute to war crimes charges against Israel.
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at Somerville, we believe it’s our role to realize and enhance the vision you have for your building
After all, no one knows your business and goals better than you do. Our job is to listen, to ask the right questions, to understand your challenges—and to respond with inspired ideas that exceed your highest expectations. Remembering our work will long outlive us, we approach our profession with reverence and dedication.
to be regarded by our clients as an integral partner in achieving success.
to establish long-term relationships with:
our clients – by setting the highest standards for the architecture and engineering professions.
our employees – through progressive management and generous rewards for performance and loyalty.
Without question, a building has the power to draw the eye and stir the soul. But a truly well-designed building can do so much more. It can solve challenges. It can open possibilities. It can improve the lives of all who enter it. A well-designed building doesn’t merely allow those inside it to do what they do. It helps them do what they do better. More efficiently. More effectively. These are the type of buildings that Somerville creates. We do this by asking the right questions, paying careful attention to the answers and responding with thoughtful solutions. We feel that buildings aren’t so much built with bricks, metal, and glass, but with listening, experience and imagination. We believe that a building’s true beauty lies in the thinking that goes into it. Every detail, every decision at every step along the way – it all counts in the final design. And if there’s one thing we know at Somerville, it’s that design matters.SM
The story of Somerville Architects and Engineers begins with a call to war, World War II, where John E. Somerville was put to task on war plant design and construction. His facility experience in both engineering and architectural disciplines spanned the United States. This and his pre-war experience with another local architectural firm led to the opening of his own practice at 230 E. Walnut St., Green Bay, Wisconsin in May of 1946. As Frankie Carle and his Orchestra played “Oh! What It Seemed to Be,” the new focus seemed to be on industry. And with that, Somerville started its project log with the Great Lakes Shoe Company of Oconto, Wisconsin.
Through the 1950s Somerville gained a foothold in the industrial market and was commissioned to design the Green Bay Box Company’s plant on Doblin St. and Paper Converting’s initial office and plant on South Ashland St. In 1955, Somerville was retained by the City of Green Bay to design City Stadium, now Lambeau Field. And by 1959 the Veteran’s Memorial Arena was added to their portfolio.
The ’60s started off with Elvis Presley and “It’s Now or Never” atop the billboard charts. Post World War II, the nation saw an increased need for domestic production capacity. This trend attributed to the firm’s share of industrial projects, at nearly 75% of the total workload. Some notable clients of the time were UW Oshkosh, Green Bay Tissue Mills, Bellin Memorial Hospital, and Green Bay Schools. This decade also saw the addition of John Somerville’s son, Jack, to the firm.
During the ’70s the client base doubled with the addition of new clients and continued loyalty from existing clients. January 1, 1973, the firm moved into the 2020 Riverside Drive building, which was one of Somerville’s own real estate developments. Twenty-two days later, US President Richard Nixon announced “peace with honour” in Vietnam. This decade also saw the introduction of a very noisy computer console in Somerville’s office which had a room of its own.
The early 1980s brought about a significant organizational change. Dick Griese became president and John E. Somerville became Chairman of the Board. The ’80s also saw the formation of the Mill Division which was established to serve Somerville’s growing list of industrial clients. The number of commissions in this decade was over 1,200 – compared to that of 355 in the ’60s and 725 in the ’70s. Overall Somerville’s practice had now become very broad, having a diverse portfolio designing many kinds of buildings. It was also during this time that Somerville adapted CADD and virtually all working drawings were CADD printouts by the end of the ’80s.
As Guns n’ “Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine” topped the charts entering the ’90s, it was then that John E. Somerville entered into retirement and his son, John “Jack” Somerville became president of the firm. The 1990s brought the sharpest growth in both commissions and staff in the firm’s history. This growth compelled Somerville’s leadership to seek larger quarters, and so the firm moved just a few hundred feet south of the 2020 location to our current office at 2100 Riverside Drive. Work through the ’90s remained strong in healthcare facilities and industrial design.
The events on September 11, 2001 shook our nation and the 2007/2008 recession brought difficult times for much of our industry. However, Somerville’s strong client relationships remained whole and the firm’s workload continued to grow. Our list of education clients and projects grew rapidly with a focus on public K-12 schools and technical college systems. Michael Kadow, an architect employed with the firm since 1985 became president of Somerville and Jack was appointed Chairman of the Board. In 2008, Somerville’s employees purchased the last remaining privately held shares of stock and became a 100% employee-owned firm.
In 2010, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) was gaining ground nationally and Somerville designed the Nation’s first primary school to achieve LEED Gold Certification. Somerville’s diverse portfolio of projects continued, designing a new private high school in Miami, Florida, a world-class Automobile Gallery in downtown Green Bay, as well as a full renovation of the stadium suites and pre-function spaces at Lambeau Field. Today, Somerville continues to work on many high-profile projects in our community. We pride ourselves on having a 94% repeat client rate and attribute that to our firm’s rich history and commitment to helping our clients achieve success in their business.
The early 1980s brought about a significant organizational change. Dick Griese became president and Joh. E. Somerville became Chairman of the Board. The ’80s also saw the formation of the Mill Division which was established to serve Somerville’s growing list of industrial clients. The number of commissions in this decade was over 1,200 – compared to that of 355 in the ’60s and 725 in the ’70s. Overall Somerville’s practice had now become very broad, having a diverse portfolio designing many kinds of buildings. It was also during this time that Somerville adapted CADD and virtually all working drawings were CADD printouts by the end of the ’80s.
The events on September 11, 2001 shook our nation and the 2007/2008 recession brought difficult times for much of our industry. However, Somerville’s strong client relationships remained whole and the firm’s workload continued to grow. Our list of education clients and projects grew rapidly with a focus on public K-12 schools and technical college system. Michael Kadow, an Architect employed with the firm since 1985 became president of Somerville and Jack was appointed Chairman of the Board. In 2008, Somerville’s employees purchased the last remaining privately held shares of stock and became a 100% employee-owned firm.
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Get to know the people behind the projects, as well as the pride and purpose behind our firm. Find out what makes Somerville a special place to work. Learn why our average employee tenure is over 13 years. Understand why our associates love to work within our generalist firm with abundant opportunities. And hear why we love to call Northeast Wisconsin home. See for yourself the passion that drives us forward and keeps us smiling along the way.
At Somerville, we believe that design matters, not only for building systems and structures, but also in the assembly of our team. Our innovative, engaging, and creative projects begin with our outstanding staff. The idea “design matters” starts with a strong employee foundation, and a belief that each employee you interact with matters to you and your project.
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Tag Archives: michael kors
July 24, 2014 by BothEyesShut
Shantay B releases new single ‘Michael Kors’
The singer and songwriter known as Shantay B has released her latest single, “Michael Kors.” The track features an appearance by popular independent recording artist, MC Moe Diamondz. It has been produced by Novaman and published on the Novamanmusic independent record label. Smooth, ultra-feminine and classy from head to toe, “Michael Kors” by Shantay B is a single built on both natural and polished talents, and one which fans of both R ‘n’ B and hip hop are sure to appreciate.
Shantay B cites as main artistic influences such legends as Whitney Houston, Beyonce, and Frank Ocean. The style of her own track, “Michael Kors,” bares resemblance to the songwriting style of Beyonce, while the crisp, clean quality of the vocal tracks are more akin to Whitney Houston. The end result is a display of sonic finery which matches the themes of the track very well.
Speaking of these topics, Shantay B collaborator and co-writer Pierre Lawson explains, “The single appeals to every individual that has a shopping fetish. The hip-hop culture is becoming more influential on high fashion in 2014 and this song is all about designers, hence, ‘Michael Kors.’”
Shantay B was born and raised in West Berlin, Germany. Her musical journey began at four years old, singing and playing piano. By the time she was a teenager, she had moved back to Louisville, KY with her family and begun operating as the music minister of the church where her father was a pastor. It wasn’t until she moved to Charlotte, NC, however, that Shantay B finally met producer, Novaman. The meeting would culminate in the writing, recording and publication of “Michael Kors.”
Her official artist’s bio relates their meeting and collaboration on the single: “This was a pivotal point in Shantay’s music career because she never worked with any producer that could convey her ideas and help to polish her writing abilities. One day, Novaman was inspired by Shantay’s normal fashion apparel, which is usually an array from designers including Christian Dior and Michael Kors. He was inspired to develop the ‘Michael Kors’ track and presented it. Shantay was highly impressed and immediately began inking her thoughts and emotions.
“The record was written and recorded the same day. To add more ‘girl power’ to the record, independent female recording artist MC Moe Diamondz provided her Harlem flow to finesse the urban side of the record.”
Shantay B is currently recording her new EP and has stated plans to impact the music industry in a positive way.
“Michael Kors” by Shantay B is available online worldwide.
“Michael Kors” by Shantay B. –
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Kors-feat-Diamondz-Explicit/dp/B00L2B419M
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HomepageCatalogueDrum Machines, Percussion SynthsDrum Machine, Percussion SynthesizerMFB TANZMAUS
MFB TANZMAUS
TANZMAUS was released in 2016, along with TANZBÄR LITE. The instrument served as a reboot of MFB 503 and 522. TANZMAUS, as well as its brother "LITE", was developed under euphoria brought by the legendary TR-808 and 909, but anyway there was some difference. Correlation is most noticeable when comparing drum kits and sounding, in particular with TR-909.
TANZMAUS has a library of 5 fully analog drums and 2 built-in samples. It includes: kick, snare, rimshot, clap and tom. For all percussion sounds pitch and decay knobs are provided. With the "Noise" and "Noise Decay" knobs, you can add kicks or snares. In general, the sound varies from humble to punchy, where there is an influence of "x0x". TANZMAUS has a metallic and harsh sound quality, which makes it special among all the others.
The control interface takes some time to get used to, since access to the main parameters of the sound is enabled by pressing the Shift button, which may seem somewhat inconvenient. However, a number of very useful functions were introduced there: automation can be assigned to all basic parameters of sound, in real time, or entered manually through a step sequencer. The instrument has "Last Step" and "Scale", which allows you to manipulate the length of the patterns and time, and the A/B function offers a double set of patterns (16 steps), independent or combined. The drum machine stores 4 banks of 16 patterns with pre-loaded rhythms. Moreover, there is a flame and shuffle mode for intricate rhythms.
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MFB TANZBÄR LITE Analog Drum Machine 450.00 U.S.Dollars
TANZBÄR LITE drum machine appeared on the shelves in the form of a next generation instrument that replaced MFB 522. The drum computer is inspired by the classic Roland TR-808 and TR-909, but it remains unique. Most of all, the identity between them is...
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‘Nowhere is safe’ in East Ghouta as bombings kill more than 100 in 48 hours
By Ammar Hamou, Tariq Adely
AMMAN: Pro-government airstrikes and artillery fire killed more than 100 people across the rebel-held eastern suburbs of Damascus in the past 48 hours alone, according to local Civil Defense personnel, one of whom described “catastrophic conditions” on Wednesday.
The latest East Ghouta bombings are reportedly the most severe since Syrian government forces intensified airstrikes and artillery fire on the besieged rebel enclave in late December.
“Nowhere is safe, and there is nowhere to run,” 35-year-old resident Mahr Abu Fadi, told Syria Direct on Wednesday, describing East Ghouta’s de facto capital of Douma.
The Outer Damascus branch of the Syrian Civil Defense reported more than 20 residents killed by air and artillery strikes on the besieged enclave on Wednesday via official social media pages. Bombings killed an additional 80 people on Tuesday, according to the latest Civil Defense statistics.
A Civil Defense member carries a child from site of an airstrike in Douma on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Syrian Civil Defense in Outer Damascus.
Among the scores of people killed on Tuesday was one of Mahr Abu Fadi’s relatives, who he says died in a government airstrike. On Wednesday, airstrikes reportedly killed 12 residents in Douma alone.
Local hospitals in the besieged enclave are struggling to treat hundreds of injured residents, some of them in critical condition, Civil Defense spokesman Siraj Mahmoud said in an online video statement on Tuesday night.
East Ghouta’s medical facilities are already facing severe shortages of supplies amidst an airtight government siege.
“Sadly, injured residents—among them women and children—are likely to join the numbers of the dead,” said Mahmoud.
Syria Direct contacted three volunteers for the Syrian Civil Defense in the East Ghouta suburbs on Wednesday. All three replied that they could not provide a detailed account as bombings and search-and-rescue operations were ongoing.
“We are under pressure...the conditions are catastrophic,” Firas al-Kahal, a Civil Defense member, told Syria Direct on Wednesday. “We can’t really say anything more right now."
Civil Defense officials reported airstrikes in at least eight cities and towns in the East Ghouta suburbs over the past 48 hours.
The Douma Local Council declared a “state of emergency” on Tuesday in the northern and western neighborhoods of city, the two areas closest to frontlines with Syrian government soldiers and allied forces.
“For these past two days, you can smell death everywhere,” Hamed Hassan, a 28-year-old Douma resident, told Syria Direct on Wednesday.
Douma city on Wednesday. Photo courtesy of Ghouta Media Center.
The East Ghouta suburbs, which the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied forces encircled in 2013, are home to an estimated 400,000 residents. The besieged enclave is one of four regions across the country included in a Russian- and Iran-brokered de-escalation deal, announced in May.
Despite the de-escalation deal, Syrian and Russian warplanes began an intensified air campaign on the besieged pocket on December 29 along with a near daily barrage of shelling. The bombings coincided with ground fighting between pro-government forces and rebel fighters on the ground at the northwest edge of the enclave.
Air and artillery strikes have killed more than 250 East Ghouta residents and injured more than one thousand others since December 29, according to statistics the Syrian Civil Defense sent to Syria Direct on Wednesday. Those numbers do not include people killed and injured since Tuesday morning.
Over the same period, at least three alleged chlorine gas attacks hit East Ghouta. The latest strike was on February 3 when three surface-to-surface missiles purportedly carrying chlorine gas hit Douma, injuring four residents, Syria Direct reported at the time.
Abdulrahman Tafour, a resident and citizen journalist from Saqba, six kilometers south of Douma, said his town was “at a complete standstill” on Wednesday.
Amid a flurry of air and artillery strikes in the area, Tafour and his neighbors are trying to protect themselves by waiting out the bombings in the basements of their homes. Residents without a basement to shelter themselves in, he says, “are at the mercy of God."
Douma resident Hassan briefly ventured out of his home on Wednesday to purchase supplies from what stores were open in the nearby market, he told Syria Direct. He took Douma’s back-roads to avoid bombings of major thoroughfares, but even so says “an artillery shell landed just meters away” from his motorcycle.
Paulo Pinheiro, the chair of the United Nations’ Independent Commission of Inquiry on Syria, called reports of deadly, pro-government bombings in East Ghouta and other opposition territories “extremely troubling” in a statement on Tuesday.
The attacks “make a mockery of the so-called ‘de-escalation zones’ intended to protect civilians from such bombardment,” added Pinheiro.
Douma resident Mahr Abu Fadi told Syria Direct on Wednesday that he finds it difficult to convey the conditions in his city. The mosque near his home is announcing the names of those killed by airstrikes and shelling, he says, over the loudspeaker typically used for the call to prayer.
“It’s impossible to really describe it,” he said.
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Daraa reconciliation agreements just ‘ink on paper’ for journalists, White Helmets awaiting results of closed-door negotiations
By Walid Al Nofal, Justin Clark
Members of the Daraa Civil Defense earlier this month. Photo courtesy of Daraa Civil Defense.
AMMAN: Hundreds of Syrian Civil Defense members and journalists along the Syrian-Jordanian border are uneasily awaiting the results of closed-door negotiations between the Syrian government and rebel representatives, amid conflicting reports about who will be permitted to reconcile with Damascus—or leave altogether.
As negotiators continue to sketch out details, several journalists and Civil Defense volunteers on the ground told Syria Direct they fear moving from town to town within Daraa province—worried that they may be detained at pro-government checkpoints gradually returning to the area.
“We’re waiting to hear our fate,” Hassan, a Civil Defense volunteer in Daraa province who requested that his full name be withheld for security reasons, told Syria Direct on Wednesday. “We hope it will be a kind one.”
Hassan is one of scores of Civil Defense volunteers—the group of first responders and medics often referred to as the White Helmets—who remain scattered across southwestern Syria despite an international rescue operation to evacuate hundreds of the group’s members and their relatives on Sunday.
Although Sunday’s international operation successfully evacuated 422 Civil Defense members and their families through the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights towards Jordan, hundreds of others were left behind, where they now fear government reprisals, Syria Direct reported.
With hopes fading for a second evacuation, options are limited for individuals likely wanted by the Syrian government.
A rebel negotiator told Syria Direct on Wednesday that Civil Defense members will not be permitted to reconcile their status with the Syrian government, which aims to apprehend its members and try them in court.
Syrian state-run media has frequently accused the Civil Defense of collaborating with “terrorist” groups, and President Bashar al-Assad referred to the group—which receives funding from Western states—as “a branch of al-Qaeda” in a 2017 interview with AFP.
Pro-opposition media outlets reported this week that government-run checkpoints across Daraa and neighboring Quneitra provinces are actively searching for members of the Civil Defense, medical personnel and media workers in a bid to apprehend them.
Increasingly, journalists in southern Syria also fear that they, too, could find themselves excluded from the ambiguous reconciliation process.
Syria Direct reached out to two opposition negotiators currently privy to ongoing talks with the Syrian government in Daraa province—but both gave conflicting assessments of the outcome of negotiations so far, as well as who would be eligible for reconciliation.
Syrians board government buses in Quneitra on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Nabaa Media.
Abu Bakr al-Hasan, a former rebel commander and current negotiator in the town of Jassim in the western Daraa countryside, told Syria Direct that everyone—with the exception of hardline Islamist fighters and the Civil Defense—will have the right to reconcile with the Syrian government.
However another rebel spokesman, who is close to ongoing negotiations in the eastern Daraa town of Busra a-Sham, claimed that all Syrians in Daraa and Quneitra—save for hardline Islamist fighters from the Islamic State and Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham—would be eligible for reconciliation.
“Everyone in Daraa, including the Civil Defense, is eligible for reconciliation,” the spokesman, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press about the matter, said on Thursday morning.
“What you’re hearing are rumors and lies,” he added.
‘Ink on paper’
For Syrians currently excluded from reconciliation, remaining in Daraa likely means being arrested and tried in court, negotiators told Syria Direct. Their only remaining option is relocating to Syria’s rebel-held northwestern reaches to avoid detention.
For Umm Muhammad, a former journalist in her early 20s currently residing in Daraa province, threatening statements in Syrian state media have pushed her and her husband—a journalist himself—to consider heading north.
“There’s incitement against journalists and the Civil Defense,” Umm Muhammad, who requested her real name be withheld for security reasons, told Syria Direct.
At the government-run checkpoints that now span many of the roads connecting the towns and villages of Daraa provinces, soldiers stop nearly every car passing through, Umm Muhammad said.
“If they don’t know you, they stop you,” she added. “There’s no freedom of movement.”
Earlier this week, buses transported hundreds of Syrians unwilling to reconcile with the government from Quneitra province to the country’s rebel-held northwest following an agreement between the Syrian government and rebel negotiators. The evacuation followed a similar operation in Daraa city that saw an undisclosed number of rebel fighters and their families relocated to northwestern Idlib province.
Neither Syrian government officials nor rebel representatives have announced if there will be further evacuations to Idlib.
Umm Muhammad worries that even if journalists are included in reconciliation in any future political settlement in Daraa, she and her husband may still be at risk.
“What is said is one thing, what actually happens is another,” she told Syria Direct.
“These agreements are just ink on paper.”
‘The checkpoints are closed’
Syrian pro-government forces managed to recapture almost the entirety of southwestern Syria within weeks after launching a major aerial and ground campaign on rebel positions in Daraa and Quneitra provinces on June 15.
Within weeks, the Syrian army and allied militias had captured wide swathes of the southwest by force before rebel groups gradually agreed to ambiguous reconciliation deals often town by town, city by city.
The result has been a complex patchwork of localized political settlements across Daraa and Quneitra provinces as closed-door negotiations continue.
A half dozen local activists, journalists and Civil Defense members told Syria Direct that checkpoints in Daraa province prevent those whose status remains uncertain from moving around, fearful they be arrested for their previous activities.
Abu Muhannad, a Civil Defense member in Daraa, told Syria Direct that he and dozens of his colleagues are “besieged” with their families, with checkpoints manned by pro-government forces preventing them from leaving the area.
“We had someone ask if we could pay a bribe just to get through the checkpoints,” Abu Muhannad told Syria Direct on Thursday. “But we haven’t heard back yet.”
With checkpoints closed, Abu Muhannad and his family are among the hundreds of White Helmets and their family members who were unable to escape through Daraa to reach an evacuation point beside the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday.
Rebel negotiator Abu Bakr dismissed Abu Muhannad and others’ claims in conversations with Syria Direct on Wednesday evening.
“How wasn’t he able to leave?” Abu Bakr said in a WhatsApp voice recording sent to Syria Direct. “The checkpoints don’t stop anyone—they don’t ask for IDs or search anyone.”
However, Abu Muhannad dismissed suggestions from rebel negotiators that stranded Civil Defense members were free to leave, adding that he and others have “been trying to get out for some time.”
“The checkpoints are closed.”
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Women to Lead Davos, The Future of Work in 2018 – Talent & Organization Weekly News Update
Posted on 6 December 2017 · By Accenture Talent and Organization for FS
Top Predictions for the Future of Work, Rise of the Freelance Workforce – Talent & Organization Weekly News Update
Top Stories of 2017 – Talent & Organization Weekly News Update
Davos 2018 to be chaired by women-only leadership
For the first time in the 47-year history of the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, the elite event will be chaired entirely by women, USA Today has reported. The seven co-chairs of the conference are as follows: International Monetary Fund’s managing director Christine Lagarde; IBM CEO Ginni Rometty; Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway; Sharan Burrow, general-secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation; Fabiola Gianotti, director-general, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Isabelle Kocher, CEO of ENGIE; and Chetna Sinha, founder of the Mann Deshi Bank, which provides microfinance to women in India. The gathering, which started in 1971, brings together more than 3,000 leaders in business, government and the media to discuss and solve the world’s most intractable problems. The theme for this year’s conference (set to begin Jan. 23) is “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.”
The power of workforce diversity
“Diversity in the workplace is increasing, which gives organizations greater access to talent. It also generates a more inclusive corporate culture that mirrors the society in which we live,” writes Meghan M. Biro in this TalentCulture blog post. Among the trends she identifies are how companies are recruiting with diversity in mind and how corporate policies are improving as a result of the hires. However, “an unfortunate exception to the diversity trend is occurring in C-level positions,” Biro notes. She provides four steps to create a corporate culture more conducive to workplace diversity: 1. Implement workplace diversity initiatives (i.e., mentoring, career development, supplier diversity). 2. Embrace other points of view (actively seek advice, opinions and ideas from all). 3. Create diversity-friendly policies (flex time, telecommuting, acknowledgment of cultural traditions and holidays). 4. Strive to change diversity in the C-suite (recruit with advancement potential in mind). “We still have a long way to go,” Biro writes.
The future of work in 2018
The future of work in 2018 and beyond will depend on “how we can integrate the variety of workforces that are spread over a milieu of virtual and video connections, while leveraging their collective intellectual property and agile capacity to win business and increase revenues,” argues Paul Dodd in this WilsonHCG opinion piece. He highlights the growing appetite for decentralized and flexible workforces: “remote workers comprise 18 percent of the U.S. workforce with this expected to rise to as high as 30 percent by 2025.” Dodd believes the new ways of working can ultimately lead to more collaboration, but “redesigning the way we work continues to be a top priority as companies strive to embrace Agile methodologies to compete in 2020 and beyond.” While Agile methodology has taught companies to move fast in small, self-organizing teams; make the decision-making process clear; hire great people; and push people to stretch themselves, Dodd cautions that “the downside of the expanded talent pool is a challenged culture which, combined with a plethora of contract workers, can dramatically impact what a company looks and feels like as we rush towards 2020.”
How to build a dream team
“Many of today’s organizations are built around cross-functional teams that involve people from a variety of specialties, and having three key characteristics will increase the likelihood of their success,” writes Alex Moore for ATD. Moore draws from the recent report from the Human Capital Institute titled, “The Three I’s in Effective Teams.” Intention calls for building teams by considering the diverse skills and abilities and implementing well-defined roles and responsibilities. Interaction requires cultivating team mindsets by modeling positive team dynamics through training. Influence means developing people who can set examples for positive team behaviors, both internally and externally. “Getting these teams to succeed can be difficult, though. When a team lacks a clear purpose, effective leadership, or individuals with strong people skills, its work often suffers,” Moore writes.
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My Exciting Baby News…
June 27, 2018 June 27, 2018 by Tania Zaetta
Tania Zaetta’s pregnant at 48 with twins: “My donor egg miracle!”
Who Dares Wins star Tania Zaetta shares her biggest victory of all – motherhood! – with Womans Day
JUN 11, 2018 7:00AM
Tania Zaetta made her name overseeing crazy, incredible challenges on TV as the host of Who Dares Wins.
But nothing prepared her for the shock discovery she had left it too late to have a baby naturally, when she and partner Chris Rogers decided to take the first step towards parenthood three years ago.
“I drove home in tears to Chris and he was just so beautiful and supportive,” remembers Tania, 48,
who wanted to tell her inspirational story in Woman’s Day to debunk “fertility myths” she feels cost some women their chance of motherhood.
Tania’s wants people to know that it’s never too late.
The only option
“It’s very confronting when you hear the number and quality of your eggs is quite low at 45. But there were so many woman claiming miracle babies at 45, I just thought it would happen quite easily.”
“But for lots of women it doesn’t. To be able to have an egg donor baby, that’s the miracle to me.”
Tania says she always knew she wanted to have children, but was also determined to wait to have babies when the time was right.
“I was always going to be a mum, but I was single for a long time, and I wanted to wait for the right man – and Chris was the right man,” she says.
Chris and Tania are overjoyed!
And it really was a case of love at first sight for Tania when she spotted Chris, who is 13 years her junior, during a girls pampering weekend at the famous Peninsula Hot Springs on the Mornington Peninsula almost seven years ago.”
“This gorgeous man walked by and we locked eyes and that was it,” she smiles, explaining that it was only a matter of three dates before she decided to move from the Gold Coast to the Mornington Peninsula to be with Chris.
“I came for a visit and never left!”
With “beautiful old soul” Chris happy to support any choice she made after Tania came to terms with her fertility heartache, the TV star spent the next two years considering her choices and researching options – in secret.
“I’m a very private person, so I just sat back and listened to everyone’s stories, and I had a lot of friends doing IVF, but not necessarily successfully,” she explains, adding that she eventually decided an egg donor was the only option.
Tania says she made the decision after reading about comedian Mary Coustas and TV star Sonia Kruger’s fertility challenges and their joy after giving birth to their daughters, at 49, with the help of donor eggs.
Tania became a household name back in the ’90s.
Exceptionally lucky
“That was a game changer for me and it helped with my decision,” says the star, who also made it big in Bollywood.
“I really resonated with Sonia’s story because, like me, she is very fit and healthy, yet she was very open with her story and in reminding women you’re only born with a certain amount of eggs – and they expire.”
Tania reserves her highest praise for leading fertility expert Dr Nick Lolatgis, who helped Mary Coustas conceive in 2014 with a donor egg.
“I call him the baby maker,” says Tania.
He told her from the outset very few women over 45 fall pregnant without a donor egg.
It worked for Tania!
With his support, Tania and Chris went to Greece five months ago after deciding she wanted an anonymous donor rather than a friend or relative.
There they were matched with a donor who resembled Tania.
“We didn’t tell anyone except my mum Heather because I didn’t want that extra pressure,” she says, adding she had two donor eggs implanted, hoping one may result in their longed-for baby.
“I was exceptionally lucky because it worked the first time with IVF.”
Tania supported her medical miracle with Chinese herbs, acupuncture and organic food, but also “willed this to happen with positive thinking”.
When she found she was pregnant two weeks after the procedure, she was blown away.
“I had tears of joy rolling down my face, and when the 12-week scan showed a second heartbeat, it was absolutely incredible. We haven’t found out the sex of the two babies yet or decided on names. We just call them Lefty and Righty!”
The incredible Melbourne doctor who helped me, maybe he can help you too…..
www.nicklolatgis.com.au
The Clinic in Athens he works with and where I went to see Dr Konstantinos Pantos is….
www.genesisathens.gr/en
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CONFLICT IN SYRIA
Diplomat vows to identify manufacturer of weapon that downed Russian jet in Syria
On February 3, the terrorists used a man-portable air defense system to down a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet, which was conducting a survey flight over Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
© Sergei Savostyanov/TASS
MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/. A test is underway to identify the manufacturer of the man-portable air defense system that was used to down Russia’s Sukhoi Su-25 jet in Syria, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Thursday.
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"A test is currently underway that will help figure out where the man-portable air defense system was made," she said.
Zakharova added that such weapons could not fall into the hands of terrorists "unless they had serious foreign support."
On February 3, members of the Jabhat al-Nusra terror group (outlawed in Russia) used a man-portable air defense system to down a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet, which was conducting a survey flight over Syria’s Idlib de-escalation zone. Pilot Roman Filipov managed to eject himself from the aircraft but later blew himself up with a hand grenade after having been surrounded by militants. Russian President Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded him the Hero of Russia title.
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Influx Raises $250,000 To Help Growing Startups Handle Customer Support Requests
Catherine Shu @catherineshu / 5 years
For startups just beginning to gain traction, the joy (and relief) of watching user numbers grow can vanish as soon as support requests start coming in. If customers don’t get their queries answered quickly, it can negatively impact a fledgling company’s reputation. But responding to questions in a timely fashion is difficult when a startup is still run chiefly by its founders.
Australian company Influx recently received $250,000 in seed funding from Mark Harbottle, a founder of SitePoint.com and 99designs, and Leni Mayo, an early investor in both sites, to help startups help their users.
Founder Mikey De Wildt wants the company to enable tech startups and other online businesses to provide quality customer support while they are scaling up. Influx’s services are currently available in Australia and it will use its seed funding to expand globally.
Many customer service support providers won’t work with startups because their customer enquiry volumes don’t yet meet their minimum requirement. Influx doesn’t require a minimum volume and offers its services for a flat fee starting from $199 a month, even when a startup gets more customer enquiries during a peak period. All of Influx’s customer service providers, who are currently based in Australia, speak English as a first language and have tech backgrounds. The company also provides weekly reports so startups can see what bugs customers are complaining about or which features they want added.
Founder Mikey De Wildt says that startups have several alternatives to customer service support providers, such as hiring a freelancer. But drawbacks include not being able to attract good candidates because you can only offer a few hours of work. While services like oDesk and Freelancer make it easy to find contract workers, many are only looking for short-term work and have to be trained in order to handle tech-specific customer questions.
“To address these issues faced by many developers and new project founders, Influx aims to disrupt the traditional structure of outsourcing customer support to bring all the benefits of outsourcing your customer support, whilst eliminating the disadvantages,” De Wildt told me in an email.
As Influx grows, it will start to hire more customer support staffers in key locations around the world. De Wildt says Monterrey, Mexico is one possibility because it has a strong startup scene and plenty of tech talent.
Influx’s core offering is an email-based customer support service that can scale with startups as they grow and it is already generating good revenue, says De Wildt. Influx will also start to offer additional features. Potential additions include authoring documentation so startups can ask the company to write a knowledge-base article for a one-time fee and live chat.
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Google Express becomes an all-new Google Shopping in big revamp
Google is giving its Shopping destination a revamp and introducing a universal cart across its platform of services, including Search, Shopping, Images and even YouTube. The search company announced today an entirely redesigned and now personalized Google Shopping experience, where shoppers can discover and compare products, then checkout instantly using their Google account.
As a result, the Google Express app will become the new Google Shopping app as the standalone “Express” brand is merged into the new set of Shopping products and features.
The changes appear to be a competitive move meant to rival all the new ways consumers shop and discover products online — such as browsing Pinterest, or being inspired by Instagram ads or shoppable posts, for instance. Meanwhile, Google knows that its network of sites are also often part of the shopping process, but it hasn’t always capitalized on this. People today use web searches, or look at pictures of products they want on Google Images. Sometimes they even watch YouTube videos where the products are unboxed, demonstrated and discussed.
Now it aims to leverage its various platforms and increase its ad revenue.
For starters, it’s introducing a new, personalized Google Shopping homepage where consumers can filter products by brands they love, or features they want, as well as read product reviews and watch videos. For example, explains Google, if you were in the market for a set of new headphones, you could filter for attributes like “wireless” or a brand like “Sony.”
Some items will also include a blue shopping cart button that, when clicked, will allow the consumer to add the item in question to a universal cart where the purchase is backed by a Google guarantee, plus customer service and easy returns.
This, says Google, represents a merging of Google Shopping with Google’s other checkout and delivery service, Google Express. Following the changes, the Google Express app will update and become Google Shopping. it will feature the all-new Google Shopping experience, which has the transactions built in and the universal shopping cart.
Brands that already participate in Shopping Actions for Google Assistant will be included in this new purchase experience, which is going live now across Google Shopping, Google.com and the Google Assistant.
Shopping Actions will expand to Google Images and YouTube later in the year.
In other cases, retailers may use ads, including the highly visual Showcase Shopping Ads, to drive traffic to their own websites instead. These ads were previously available on Google Shopping, and are now expanding to Google Images, the feed on Discover and soon, YouTube.
That means if you’re on Google’s app or watching YouTube videos for ideas, Google will now be able to capture that interest and turn it into clicks and conversions. These ads today appeal mostly to newcomers to a brand, as 80% of traffic to retailers’ websites from a Showcase Shopping ad is from someone who just discovered the brand, Google notes.
In addition, Shopping ads are being updated to drive in-store pickup traffic. That is, when consumers shop online and click through to buy from a Shopping ad, they will have an easier way to purchase items for in-store pickup. This beta feature requires merchant participation, however. The retailer will need to have product landing pages on their sites that show when in-store pickup is available, as well as a local inventory feed in the Merchant Center that shows which items are in stock, and optionally a list of items that can be quick-shipped to a local store.
Retailers will also now be able to optimize their Shopping ads not only by specific goals but by where the ads display, too. For example, they can choose whether ad campaigns appear on Google.com, Images Search, YouTube or elsewhere across the web. Brands can also work with their retailer partners to use the brand’s own budget in order to help promote top products in retailers’ shopping campaigns. Those interested in this Shopping campaign with partners beta program must sign up to participate.
Google has been moving toward this direction for some time. Google Express wasn’t really working, but Google knew that it had the traffic elsewhere across its platforms that could turn product discovery into ad dollars, clicks and conversions. In the past, it began testing new layouts for Images that looked just like Pinterest, and tried used its Image site to connect users to Pinterest-like interests, including recipes and products. On YouTube, it’s been rolling out Merch shelves under videos, as well, which allow creators to sell items — a feature that blazed a trail to make YouTube a more shoppable platform.
“We’re making the places where people come to browse and explore products on Google shoppable,” said Surojit Chatterjee, vice president of Product Management, Shopping, in an announcement. “These new shopping experiences let people shop and purchase frictionlessly right where they already turn to for research and inspiration: Search, Google Images, YouTube and a redesigned Google Shopping destination,” he noted.
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Brings Together Characters from Multiple Games
April 27th, 2012 by Shane McGlaun
Sony has announced that it’s working on a new video game called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. As the title suggests, this video game will have characters from some of the coolest and most popular games that have ever hit the PlayStation series of game consoles. The game is being developed for the PS3 and is a four-person fighter with online aspects.
The game will have characters such as Sweet Tooth, Kratos, Parappa, Fat Princess, Colonel Radec, and Sly Cooper. The game will also feature characters from games published by third-party developers. Each of the characters will have special attacks and stages along with music smashed up from various game titles.
The game will feature four player head-to-head battles, and will have multiple game modes. Those game modes will include team battles, practice modes, and the ability to fight online against friends and other players. Online multiple player tournaments, special event battles, and custom matches are among the online features. Sony isn’t offering a launch date for the game at this time.
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Global Tech Internet of Things Partner Insights
Why Twitter and eBay Rely on 100-year-old Pitney Bowes
By David Kirkpatrick | June 9, 2017, 3:21 PM | Techonomy Exclusive
Pitney Bowes, a powerhouse in the era when sending paper mail was the primary way businesses communicated with customers, is fully in the present today, quietly turning itself into a company that enhances digital relationships and helps define the future of e-commerce.
This company for many decades famously made postage meters, and sold and managed systems that made corporate mailrooms’ models of efficiency, especially for utilities or credit card companies that sent out millions of bills and other missives. But around a decade ago, still flush with cash from its great business that had been stuffing our mailboxes for decades, its leaders realized they had to change.
Back then it wasn’t entirely clear what would change, or how, but Pitney Bowes began buying startups and businesses that were establishing toeholds in the emerging digital economy. Today, the company is emerging as a lynchpin of the digital ecosystem, operating a back-end software and services infrastructure that enables Twitter to assign a location to a tweet, eBay’s customers to buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world, and all manner of other services. “This is not your father’s mail company,” says Mark Smith, CEO of Ventana Research, an Oregon-based market analysis and advisory company who has studied Pitney Bowes.
The company’s evolution sped up almost five years ago when Marc Lautenbach left IBM to join Pitney Bowes as CEO. He took what was already a promising set of assets and focused money and attention on the digital tools corporate customers were starting to need. He sold off old businesses, emphasized e-commerce, and worked to reinvigorate the company’s traditional hard-copy mail business. “We knew we had assets within our portfolio that solved problems for businesses and how they deal with their clients, but we had to bring that into the 21st century,” says Michael Monahan, who was previously CFO and is now executive vice president and chief operating officer.
“We already had, for example, software for location intelligence,” Monahan continues. “So we asked ourselves ‘How can we apply that today with crowdsourced and real-time data?'” Pitney Bowes had in 2007 bought a company called MapInfo, whose data helped numerous industries, including property and casualty insurers who needed location information about properties they covered. Mining companies also used it to aid in exploration and managing assets. A big reason Pitney Bowes back then wanted to own MapInfo was to accurately get mail to physical addresses. “But we realized that what an address is to physical mail, location is to a digital message,” Monahan says. “For the property and casualty insurers we work with, your house doesn’t move, of course. But that same precision of location they use to do underwriting can be applied in a real-time situation like a tweet, so long as you have accurate data.”
So today Pitney Bowes enables Twitter users to tell followers where they are—Twitter applies Pitney Bowes’s location intelligence technology to enable location sharing in tweets, if a user has opted in to the feature.
A more recent acquisition of the Lautenbach era, of a company called Borderfree in 2015, has expanded Pitney Bowes’s ability to connect buyers and sellers around the world. Pitney Bowes has long offered services for companies shipping globally. For example, in partnership with eBay, Pitney Bowes helps power eBay’s Global Shipping program that connects eBay sellers in the UK and U.S. to buyers in over 100 countries. The addition of Borderfree allows the company to provide end-to-end services for ecommerce retailers that sell to customers in over 220 countries and territories. When buyers around the world want to buy from sellers in the U.S., UK, or Australia, they can instantly get a reliable shipping quote and delivery date estimate, something the American seller in most cases wouldn’t be able to provide themselves. The seller gets paid in dollars or pounds and just ships the goods domestically, as usual.
The reason that’s possible is that Pitney Bowes combines a sophisticated, constantly-evolving database of information about shipping prices, addresses, taxes, tariffs, and local law with operation of big physical mail and reshipment facilities. All the seller does is ship to one of those hubs, and Pitney Bowes seamlessly re-routes and stamps the package for its trip to the eventual foreign destination. Says Ventana’s Smith: “The buyer understands when to expect delivery, but also might sometimes learn that this product can’t in fact be shipped to Saudi Arabia or wherever, or that the tariffs add so much to the cost that you don’t want to buy it. These are the kinds of digital signals that are critical for consumers to have a good experience.” Pitney Bowes offers the service to more than 260 global retailers, including Harrod’s in the UK and Neiman Marcus, enabling them to sell in many countries around the world.
“Oracle, Salesforce and SAP also do software and services for shopping carts,” continues Smith, “but Pitney Bowes is enabling personalized experiences all the way from shopping to delivery.”
Says Pitney Bowes’s Monahan: “It’s a great example of leveraging the 100 years of knowhow at Pitney Bowes into a contemporary application. Our traditional mail business is all about taking a complex set of rules and regulations around mailing and allowing our clients to manage those rules efficiently. We knew the letter business was contracting, but we saw an opportunity to apply that knowhow to global e-commerce.”
But it has by no means neglected its longtime expertise in physical mailroom systems, which it is now updating with its newfound digital savvy. Pitney Bowes still sells gigantic high-speed mailroom manufacturing equipment to clients like large insurance, telecom, or investment companies, so they can mail millions of bills or statements at a time. Speed and accuracy in this process is all-important. You certainly don’t want your 401k statement to go into someone else’s envelope.
So Pitney Bowes deployed an array of sensors throughout its facilities, and worked with General Electric to apply that company’s Predix Internet of Things system so it could digitally manage these vast systems. It was the first commercial application on the GE Predix platform. The Internet of Things—instrumenting all the systems so they could talk to one another and send data to central management software—turns out to be an ideal way to manage the productivity of a giant mail facility.
Says Ventana’s Smith: “Everybody’s talking about digital experience and digital transformation. It’s a growing challenge in every industry. But these guys have a unique set of technologies and services that have relevance to what customers need. Pitney Bowes hasn’t figured everything out yet, but they’re clearly on the right course.”
Tags: eBay, mailroom, Michael Monahan, Pitney Bowes, Twitter
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10 Best iPhone and iPad Apps This Week
Not often do we struggle to find ten to fifteen quality iOS apps, but this has been one such strange week. We had to dig really deep to curate ten of the best iPhone and iPad apps released over the past week. Luckily, we did manage to get a decent list of apps in our roundup.
For the week ending August 11th 2013, we have a couple of amazing games, a nice charting app, an awesome video player app, a nice app if you’re a Disney fan, and many more. Let’s get started!
MixBit (Free)
Can’t help but to start the intro to Mixbit as a new product from the original YouTube co-founders – Steve Chen and Andrew Hurley. It’s a new social video app which lets people collaborate with one another to create videos.The app lets you record, edit and publish videos as short as one second or as long as an hour, right from your mobile device. It has all the ingredients to be the next big thing after Instagram.
Viz ($1.99)
Viz is a brand new charting app for iOS which promises to be the quickest way to create simple and beautiful charts. You can choose anything from Bars, Pie, Cloud, Scrapers and Parliament as the type of chart. As been the norm these days, it comes with a neat option to share with your social circles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
GIF Chat (Free)
Messaging app network Pinger has introduced a new standalone app just for animated GIFs. It combines animated GIFs with texting. Quickly record videos, add captions and swap them privately with your friends. That’s like Snapchat, but with a twist!
Disney Animated ($13.99)
Ignore the whopping price tag, and you will find an app which digs deep into how the world’s most popular animation studio works. Browse a rich timeline of all 53 Disney animated feature films, and more. A real treat for Disney and animation movie fans. Sadly, the app is supported on iPad only.
Infuse ($4.99)
Ignite is a new and beautiful way to watch videos in as many as 14 formats on your iPhone or iPad. You don’t have to worry about the video formats and conversion. Infuse supports MP4, M4V, MOV, MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, OGM, OGV, ASF, 3GP, DVR-MS, WebM, and WTV. A great addition if you are a video junkie.
Google Adsense (Free)
Not sure why it took this long, but Google has finally released the official Adsense app for iOS. This follows the Android launch last week. The app runs relatively low on features as compared to some premium third party apps on the App store, but a decent enough option for a quick glance at your adsense account. You can track your key stats on the go including earnings, top custom and URL channels, payment alerts, ad units and site reports.
Mikey Hooks ($1.99)
Mikey Hooks is a sequel to the popular Mikey Shorts game which was released in 2012. Like its predecessor, the hero of the game, Mikey, runs, jumps and slides as he heads into six different environments to collect coins and earn achievements. Check out the video trailer below.
Fetch (Free)
The second game in our weekly list is a cute new game, Fetch which is about a boy and his dog. Follow the young boy on a sensational journey as he sets off to rescue his dog Bear from a mysterious fire hydrant that snatched the canine in the night. An immensely well done game from Big Fish Games.
Worms 3 ($4.99)
The latest entry to the Worms franchise, Worms 3 is an iOS exclusive. The sequel to the Worms 2: Armageddon game comes with an entertaining single-player mode and some excellent miltiplayer modes. A must download, if you’re a Worms fan.
Amateur Surgeon 3 (Free)
No, it’s not one of those serious science apps you’re looking to gift to your teenage kid. This is rather a comical game that sees you slicing up an array of characters with inappropriate tools like pizza cutter, stapler, car battery etc. In-app purchases will help you reduce the death count. So get playing!
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Casting and More: ABC’s New Pilot ‘Doomsday’
Ariana Bussio March 1st, 2017 - 10:45 PM
It is pilot season for networks like ABC. Doomsday is a new drama pilot set in the aftermath of 9/11, but it is more concerned with man-made disasters in general than acts of terror. Unlike Person of Interest, Doomsday‘s disasters are predictable not because of complex technology, but because they were created by a secret post 9/11 U.S. think tank, who must become responsible for the prevention of doomsday when their hypothetical disasters are stolen and put into action. The odd combination of group members, top in their fields of science and entertainment, will have to put their hypothetical creative solutions into action.
Dan Byrd was the first series regular to be cast in Doomsday according to Deadline Hollywood. Byrd will be taking his acting skills from Scandal and Cougar Town to play Nate Hensley: a wealthy analyst and founder of a website that predicts a variety of real-world event outcomes from politics to sports.
Earlier this month, Deadline Hollywood reported that Jack Davenport will be starring as Warren: a creative storyteller and writer who understands the hypothetical enemy – perhaps a bit too much. More recently, Deadline reported casting of co-star Rachelle Lefevre (of Under the Dome and Off The Map) as Faye, a Deputy Director of Homeland Security. She is an intelligent and shrewd leader of the Doomsday team and will star alongside Davenport.
Rachelle Lefevre as journalist Julia Shumway in ‘Under the Dome’
Today, Variety learned that Taye Diggs will also be joining the Doomsday cast. Last year Diggs joined Empire as Angelo Dubois, a recurring character in Season 3. In Empire Diggs plays a respectable and affluent city councilman who becomes Cookie’s love interest.
Taye Diggs also played Detective Terry English on series ‘Murder in the First’
Diggs will play Dr. Davis Albright in Doomsday. Albright is another young, handsome, confident, and successful character for Diggs to play. He is an engineer, and architect, and reliably well-dressed.
This new drama pilot by ABC is written by Mark Bianculli and VJ Boy, who will executive produce along with Carol Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz. Besides Doomsday, ABC is also in the process of casting other new pilots: Raised by Wolves, a comedy centered on a single mother; The Good Doctor, another medical drama; and Deception, a show of magic, scandal, and even crime solving.
However ridiculous losing the plans to world destruction may seem, it is clear that in Doomsday the characters played by Byrd, Davenport, Lefevre, and Diggs will have to work to save the human race from possibly the greatest threat it will ever face: itself.
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#WhatsAppDown Causes Confusion and Outrage Among Users
November 3, 2017The Campus LadyBusiness, International, News0
WhatsApp users worldwide have been thrown into turmoil this morning, as the messaging app suffered a major outage.
The service started experiencing issues at around 07:10 GMT, according to independent website DownDetector, which tracks major network outages.
According to a statement from the service provider, the system outage was due to an inexplicable problem.
“Our service is experiencing a problem right now. We are working on it and hope to restore the functionality shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience,” the statement from the Facebook-owned Mobile messaging App read.
Users in the Northern Europe, Africa, and Indonesia appear to be the worst affected, although problems were also reported elsewhere in the world.
Many of the thousands of users affected took to rival social network Twitter to complain about the lack of service.
However, at the time of publishing this article, the service had been restored to many parts of the world including Kenya.
It is still unclear as to what caused the system failure.
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The Mobile Revolution
Mobile featured heavily throughout the International Payments Summit and it is clear that mobile is not only important; it is imperative.
This was made loud and clear by a comment from Daniel Marovitz of Deutsche Bank that it used to be that online and offline worlds were separate because, to make an online payment, you had to go to a computer and hit enter on a keyboard. Now that’s all changed as the mobile allows you to make online payments immediately 24*7 through a device in the pocket. That’s new and radical, as it means the online world is now integrated with the offline.
Through the course of such exchanges about mobile, several things became clear to me.
First, mobile is lumped in as one area, but is actually about a hundred different things;
Second, banks are finding mobile challenging because it has merged the online and offline worlds;
Third, banks see mobile opportunities based upon partnerships and joint ventures with mobile carriers, but this is wrong;
Fourth, the underbanked and unbanked are the initial targets to be serviced through the mobile carriers;
Fifth, apps are incredibly disruptive; and
Finally and most importantly, mobile is a real game-changer.
Let’s start with the fact that mobile is not one thing.
There is mobile internet and mobile texting; mobile apps and mobile devices; mobility and wireless; SMS and NFC; SIM and EMV …
There is mobile payments and mobile banking; mobile bill pay (checkout Danske Bank for this one) and mobile bill deposit; mobile balance checks and mobile cheque deposits (USAA et al); mobile account opening (Jibun Bank and eBank) and mobile telephone calls to contact centres (!) …
There is mobile identification and mobile biometrics (Voice Commerce); mobile secure tracking and mobile proximity marketing; mobile as a payments device and mobile as a point of sale; mobile for texting money and mobile for reading QR codes …
There is such a rich variety and diversity of what is meant by mobile now, that it is plainly annoying to talk about mobile as though it is a single thing in banking.
I would suggest that talking about mobile is like talking about banking.
“Oh, I want to talk about mobile” is the equivalent of saying, “Oh, I want to talk about banking.”
What sort of banking do you want to talk about?
Retail, investment, commercial?
Brokerage, wholesale, branch?
International, domestic, regional?
FX, derivatives, exotics?
Online, offline, direct?
Get some context around mobile and start talking the specifics, not the generics.
Second, the merger of offline with online.
I’ve already mentioned this, and said it was a challenge.
It was already a challenge, when we talked about having customer contact 24*7.
When we moved into call centres and then the internet, it was a challenge as customers were suddenly making demands at 3:00 in the morning.
But we handled it.
Now customers are using mobile devices to use bank services 24*7 electronically.
And yes, we will handle it … but it’s slow.
Take the example of making a mobile payment,.
During the conference this week, David Birch of Consult Hyperion challenged any bank in the room to make a payment using a mobile directly from their bank account to any individual in the room.
No-one could.
Sure, you can use mobile to do bill pay, balance cheques, money transfers and more; but a simple exchange of £20 between me and you? Forget it.
The only way to do that is via PayPal!
So banks get mobile, but they’re getting it v e r y s l o w l y.
It reminded me of how Chip & PIN was born.
Chip & PIN was conceived in the year 2000, developed in the year 2003 and implemented in the year 2005.
Five years to get from an idea to the delivery of a new security system.
In that same timeframe, Facebook created over 600 million users and took over the planet.
When I asked the leadership for Chip & PIN why it took so long, he explained it has to be a cohesive and consensual process.
So ok, you move at the speed of the slowest.
When I asked him why they went for Chip & PIN rather than Mobile & PIN which, by 2005, would have made far more sense; he said it was because mobile was not advanced enough in 2000 to be used as a security device via SMS and OTP (One Time Passwords).
But it is now!!!!
So why banks still take five years to make a decision and implement it when it takes Zynga six weeks to release a social game and garner 100 million users is beyond me.
Third, banks think winning in mobile is through JVs and partnering but this is wrong.
Banks are not the best organisations at collaboration, except amongst themselves.
It is difficult to name a single successful bank and non-bank partnership, but easier to point to others that failed.
This is because bank business models are completely unique and different.
Banks deal in basis points – bps … who else deals in bps???
Banks are regulated for resilience, security and robustness, whilst mobile operators are regulated for agility, innovation and fees.
If a mobile call fails to connect it's irritiating but there's no problem; if a payment fails to get through, there's a problem.
That's why banks want to control everything which, in a partnership, is not a good thing.
The result is that for all their good intentions, banks find partnering tough.
I could point to 1,000 examples but the best is NTT DoCoMo.
NTT DoCoMo and their e-wallet Osaifu Keitai, is liberally pointed to everywhere as being the most advanced mobile service in the world.
Its financial usage as an ewallet, NFC device and more is second-to-none.
So when NTT DoCoMo wanted to get bank services on their mobile, what did they do?
They bought a credit card company.
Far easier than trying to partner with a bank that didn’t understand them or their business model.
The same can be said for several other carriers, such as easypaisa in Pakistan and, in the case of established mobile carriers like Vodafone’s Safaricom in Kenya who operate M-PESA, when a mobile carrier does partner with a bank it will be on their terms, not the banks.
Which brings me to my fourth point: the underbanked and unbanked are the target markets for mobile carriers.
Nokia Financial Services, Ericsson, Telecom Italia and others attended this week’s Summit and they all underlined the same view: it is the underserved that will use mobile first.
This is why mobile has succeeded in Africa, and is now crawling across other regions where markets are under-served.
Where people had no access to bank or payment services, being able to suddenly make and take a payment wirelessly via the mobile is nirvana.
You suddenly have a service that previously was only available by walking 100s of miles or having someone do that on your behalf for a massive fee.
You have a service that used to cost a bucketload, being commoditised into a cheap wireless activity.
For the unbanked and underbanked, mobile moves the world from high cost remittance services to low cost wireless services.
That’s a big deal.
It is the reason why the mobile carriers will go for the high volume, low value first.
Grab the customer base the banks don’t want.
Look after the microfinance and low profit pool.
It’s only just over three billion people.
If banks ignore three billion people, that’s ok.
Someone can make money out of that.
High volume, low value money, but money all the same.
And that’s the mobile carriers’ mission.
Intriguingly, that’s also a classic innovator’s dilemma approach, in the words of Clayton Christensen.
Start with the bottom-end, then upscale.
The fifth area is how apps are really disruptive.
I’ve already talked a bit about disruptive apps such as Angry Birds, a $0.99 mobile app that generated $75 million for its creators in a year.
Apps create micropayments and micromoney.
More importantly, apps deconstitute banks into components.
This was first demonstrated by BBVA who launched the tu cuentas service two years ago, but has built up a head of steam such that my vision of Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is finally here.
BaaS allows the user to mix and match apps to suit their financial lifestyle and build their own bank in the cloud.
That’s new and different, and is something unthinkable even a few years ago.
Which brings me to my final point: mobile is a game-changer.
When the online and offline worlds meld into a seamless service, the world has changed.
When everyone on the planet can be connected P2P, B2C, E2E, the world has changed.
When anything can be moved electronically and wirelessly 24*7, the world has changed.
When industries that were delineated are merged and integrated, the world has changed.
When you can balance check with an app or text your partner money at three in the morning, the world has changed.
When money can be transacted from an African village to an Indian paddyfield via a Chinese entrepreneur and an American taxi driver, the world has changed.
Have you?
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The Melvins’ live album, SUGAR DADDY LIVE, set for May 31st release via Ipecac Recordings
By theFIVE10.com on February 22, 2011
The Melvins‘ latest offering Sugar Daddy Live, a thirteen-track live recording, will see a May 31 release on Ipecac Recordings.
Recorded at The Busta-Guts Club in Downey, Calif. the album features fan favorites such as “Boris,” “A History of Bad Men” and “The Kicking Machine.”
The band recently completed a month-long residency at Los Angeles’ Spaceland and are currently in New Zealand with a forthcoming round of Australian dates as part of the Soundwave Festival. The Melvins were in Christchurch when the Feb. 21 earthquake struck but escaped unscathed and are due to resume their tour later this week.
Sugar Daddy Live track listing:
1. Nude with Boots
2. Dog Island
3. Dies Iraea
4. Civilized Worm
5. The Kicking Machine
6. Eye Flies
7. Tipping The Lion
8. Rat Faced Granny
9. The Hawk
10. You’ve Never Been Right
11. A History of Bad Men
12. Star Spangled Banner
13. Boris
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Foo Fighters post new song, “ROPE” on YouTube
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CAMERA KIDS
A lens on hope from Rwanda to Haiti
The "Camera Kids" walking through Kenscoff, Haiti . (Photo by Beth Murphy)
By Beth Murphy
@BethMurphyFilm
Mussa Uwitonze is standing on the patio outside the Worldwide Orphans office in Kenscoff, Haiti. Behind him, bamboo stalks point to the Chaîne de la Selle mountain range which rises into the mist. The winding journey from Port-au-Prince brought cooler temperatures and Mussa wraps his arms more tightly around his jean jacket. He closes his eyes and inhales deeply.
“It smells like Rwanda,” he says, exhaling. Rwanda is home.
Bizimana teaching photography with kids as they capture images that define their lives and community
(Photo by Kristen Ashburn)
Mussa is one of three GroundTruth Film Fellows in Haiti this week teaching photography to 20 children who are part of the Worldwide Orphans network. By his side are Bizimana Jean and Gadi Habumugisha. All three young men were orphaned by Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, and, after learning photography in the orphanage where they were raised, they became passionate about not only taking photos, but also about passing this skill on to other children who remind them of themselves — children who need someone to pay attention to the challenges they’re facing, the trauma they’ve experienced, and the losses they’ve endured.
A new generation of “camera kids”
(Photo credit by Beth Murphy)
And that’s what Mussa, Bizimana and Gadi are in Haiti to do. As project coordinators for Through the Eyes of Children, the organization that taught them photography as children, they are in Haiti paying it forward by teaching kids how to capture and tell their own stories and show others how the world looks through their eyes.
This month, their journey of hope and self-discovery from Rwanda to Haiti went through Boston where Mussa, Bizimana and Gadi visited our WGBH headquarters for journalist safety training, audio/podcast mentoring and drone flying class with our GroundTruth editors and other media professionals. Especially exciting was the chance to celebrate the work they’ve done to teach photography to foster children in Massachusetts — a collaboration with The Home for Little Wanderers that culminated in a photo exhibit and presentation at The Home’s annual gala last week.
All of this is being filmed for our feature documentary CAMERA KIDS. And as we’ve gone from Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, to Haiti, where it is said that beyond mountains, there are more mountains, Mussa explains why it’s much more than the landscape that makes Haiti feel like home.
“We’re orphans, and some of you are, too,” he told the group of 13- to 17-year-olds. “And for us, being here with you is like building a global family… we are all like one big family now.”
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BJP Observes Black Day Against Reported Killing Of Party Workers In West Bengal
Image Credit: The Samaja
The BJP is observing a black day across West Bengal and a 12-hour ‘bandh’ over the alleged killing of party workers at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on Monday (June 10, 2019). The state BJP workers sporting black badges took out rallies in several parts of the state.
Following the clash on Saturday, the state BJP unit announced that it would be observing a black day against deteriorating law and order situation in the state. During the clash, at least five BJP workers and three TMC worker have reportedly died and several workers are reported to be missing.
Rahul Sinha, BJP: Party has called a 12-hour 'bandh' in Basirhat and in entire West Bengal tomorrow, we will observe black day. BJP will move court over Police role. Remains of the deceased are being taken to their native places for funeral. #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/1Qe9LRgwfv
— ANI (@ANI) June 9, 2019
West Bengal Governor Keshari met Prime Minister
On Monday, West Bengal Governor Keshari met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and informed about the prevailing situation in the state.
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi: My visit to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister was a courtesy call. I just informed them of the general situation in the state. pic.twitter.com/UgH8crgelS
Earlier a press release from the governor’s office, expressing grief over the current situation, said, ”Governor Tripathi is very sad at the unfortunate loss of lives and properties of the citizens. He extends his heartfelt sympathy for the families and near and dear ones of the deceased. He appeals to all concerned to see to it that no violent incidents take place and peace and harmony prevail in the state.”
‘West Bengal Safe’: CM Mamata Banerjee
On Saturday, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs reportedly sought a report on instances of violence, from the state government.
The Central government’s advisory issued to the West Bengal government read that the violence in the state in past weeks appeared to be a failure on the part of the law enforcement machinery in maintaining law and order situation. It further requested the state government to take action against ‘officials found delinquent in the discharge of their duty’.
However, West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee rebuffed the charges as a “political controversy” and claimed that the situation in the state is safe.
The state government, in a letter to the centre, said that they are only “stray post-poll clashes” and appropriate actions in all such cases are being taken without any delay. “There have been a few stray post-poll clashes in the state perpetrated by some anti-social elements, the law enforcement authorities have been taking firm and appropriate actions in all such cases without any delay,” said State Chief Secretary Malay Kumar De, in a letter to the Union Home Ministry.
Post-Poll Violence
Since the Lok Sabha Elections, there have been several instances of post-poll violence in West Bengal.
On May 26, a BJP worker was shot dead in the Bhatpara area of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. On May 30, another BJP supporter was killed in a village in East Burdwan district. And again on June 4, a TMC leader was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Kolkata’s Nimta locality.
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Illiterate road to prison reform
Uppity Wisconsin:
Time was when politicians who wanted to show their anti-crime bona fides would rail about how prisoners were watching color television — or any television at all.
In Wisconsin these days they don’t even want prisoners to read books.
At the state level, the Dept. of Corrections has made it as difficult as possible for a well-intentioned Wisconsin Books to Prisoners project to function, banning any used books. Since the project relies largely on donations of used books, that has crippled its ability to fulfill the many requests it gets from Wisconsin prisoners. It sends books to prisoners in other states, almost all of which allow that. That struggle continues.
Now, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke closed the county jail library on Nov. 1 and will do the same at the House of Corrections on Dec. 31. Clarke offered no reason and caught the Benedict Center and librarians who operate the program by surprise.
I wondered aloud at Uppity Wisconsin whether the officials making such illogical decisions are illiterate themselves. If they have such little common sense and/or compassion to keep prisoners from reading you still think they might have read at least one report on the benefits of educational material for offenders.
Rainbow Book co-operative (co-founded by Ald. Marsha Rummel) details:
While some prisons accept hardcover and slightly used books, the best donations are new soft covers. Prisons will not accept books that contain any handwriting, margin notes, or highlighting.
Tags:Books to Prisoners, Corrections, prisons, Uppity Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Why Wisconsin needs a liquor tax hike
If there’s one thing this state does not need more of, it’s prisoners. But apparently that’s the price we’re willing to pay to send a strong message about drunk driving. Therefore, despite the overly-simplistic approach the legislature is taking to the issue, it is nevertheless good that the state took some kind of action, because according to the stats, the message was not being heard.
However, with the criminalization (it becomes a misdemeanor) of first offense OWI comes an increase in offenders serving time. Estimates put the cost at around $70 million. To pay for the expense Senate Democrats have proposed increasing the liquor tax from $0.86 per liter to $1.36 per liter. According to Wispolitics, Senate Dems also have tried to cut costs to the state by advocating more offenders be put in municipal jails instead of state prisons.
The two committee Republicans voted against the bill, with Rep. Randy Hopper releasing a blistering, factually-flawed response to the “tax increase” that the Democrats “snuck in.”
Frankly, I’m glad the Democrats snuck it in at the last minute. 2009 is the year when the state of Wisconsin starts taking responsibility for its gargantuan prison system, which means start paying its bills. Throwing somebody in prison is a radical step that a society inevitably pays for – in far too many ways to go into detail now. A tax on liquor is likely the most honest way to get citizens to realize this.
Ever since the 1980’s, Republicans have tried to have it both ways on prisons. Under the leadership of Tommy Thompson, Republicans successfully got crime bills exempt from the fiscal estimates that are required to accompany all other types of legislation (the policy has since changed). As costs ballooned, any politician who advocated decreasing prison costs was accused of selling out the state’s safety for a little money, and of course, anybody who advocated higher taxes to fund the prison hysteria was a…you know the company line.
The Democrats’ decision to transfer costs to local jails is not especially significant. Fiscally it simply shifts the burden from the state to localities, however, there are probably quite a few municipalities with more space in their jails than the state, which begun exporting prisoners to other states years ago, has in its own. Therefore it might be slightly better fiscally. Minnesota, which has 1/3 as many prisoners in its state system as Wisconsin, uses a de-centralized system.
Tags:liquor tax, prisons, Wisconsin
Crime and punishment in Wisconsin
Zach W from Blogging Blue, friend of the Sconz amidst the unforgiving world which is the Wisconsin blogosphere, will be featured today in a mini-special on corrections reform in the Badger State. Although I disagree with Zach deeply on this issue, he knows a lot about corrections so I thought it’d be useful to give him some space. Here goes:
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the provision contained within the most recent state budget, otherwise known as 2009 Wisconsin Act 28, that would make all but the most violent offenders and sex offenders potentially eligible for early release. At the time, I voiced my support for the measure, and I cited data from other states that seemed to support the contention that strong reentry programs, combined with a concerted effort to reduce prison sentences, seemed to be having a positive impact when it comes to reducing recidivism rates.
While I still believe in the merits of reducing sentences for some crimes while focusing on efforts to provide more support for individuals reentering the community after spending time in prison, I’ve come to the realization WI Act 28 may end up doing more harm than good when it comes to keeping communities safe. At the time I wrote my earlier entry, I was operating under the assumption the very worst of the Wisconsin prison system, including sex offenders and violent offenders, would be ineligible for early release from prison and early discharge from extended supervision (parole). However, having had the opportunity to have the practical application of WI Act 28 explained to me, it’s been made abundantly clear to me that the early release provisions of WI Act 28 were poorly thought out and seem to have no rhyme or reason.
Here’s a perfect example: under the new early release provisions, an individual convicted of aggravated battery to an unborn child is statutorily eligible to earn early release from prison as well as an early discharge from extended supervision once released from prison, while an individual convicted of a nonviolent offense such as misconduct in public office is not eligible for early release from prison or an early discharge from extended supervision. Now don’t get me wrong – I’m not arguing misconduct in public office – or any other felony, for that matter – aren’t serious offenses, but they’re certainly not as seriously assaultive as a crime like aggravated battery to an unborn child.
In fact, a quick look at the list of offenses that will be eligible for early release from prison and early discharge from extended supervision shows a good number of violent offenses, including:
Class F Felonies
Second degree reckless injury
First-degree recklessly endangering safety
Assault by prisoners
Causing great bodily harm by tampering with household products
Class G Felonies
Homicide by negligent handling of dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire
Homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle
Abuse of vulnerable adults
Felony intimidation of a victim
Felony intimidation of a witness
Second-degree recklessly endangering safety
Endangering safety (by discharging firearm into a vehicle or building or setting a spring gun)
Physical abuse of a child (recklessly causing great bodily harm)
Class H Felonies
Aggravated battery to an unborn child [statute 940.195(4)]
Aggravated battery [statute 940.19(4)]
Battery by prisoners
Battery to jurors
Battery to probation and parole agents and aftercare agents
Battery or threat to witnesses
Physical abuse of a child (intentionally causing bodily harm)
Keep in mind the lists compiled above are in no way inclusive of every offense that will be eligible for early prison release or early discharge from extended supervision; there are scores more crimes that I didn’t list, in the interest of keeping this from becoming too lengthy. However, that list includes some pretty violent offenses, and it seems to me individuals who commit the types of violent offenses I’ve listed are precisely the individuals who need to be held fully accountable for their actions, instead of being granted early release simply to save money and clear some bed space in the Wisconsin State Prison system.
Unless the provisions of Wisconsin Act 28 are coupled with a renewed effort to provide adequate post-release services for offenders – services such as alcohol & drug treatment, domestic violence treatment, mental health counseling, housing, and employment – offenders released under the provisions of Wisconsin Act 28 will only end up caught in a revolving door of incarceration while endangering communities across Wisconsin in the process.
Tags:Blogging Blue, Corrections, prisons, Wisconsin
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Gitmo prisoners in Wisconsin? Yes please!
Now that Republicans and Democrats have agreed that opium dealers from Afghanistan are infinitely more threatening than crack dealers from Kenosha, it’s nice to discover an analysis of the Guantanamo Bay dilemma that is free of the media gossip about what figure is going to turn up at your local Open Pantry.
You see, despite what the nattering nabobs of negativism say in D.C., terrorist suspects are more than welcome in small town prisons. So explains Eric J. Williams in the Capital Times:
Outside Washington, town after town, from Colorado to Montana to Tennessee, proposed bringing the enemy combatants to their communities.
The public’s surprise that small towns are vying for Guantanamo inmates just demonstrates how little urban and suburban Americans understand about rural America. For the rural communities, prisons and prisoners are about the promise of more jobs and more money.
One was Florence, Colo., where some of the current controversy is focused. It is the home to ADX Florence, the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” where the federal government houses its most disruptive inmates under supermax conditions. It is home to “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, among others. And the town of Florence actually raised money to pay the federal government for the privilege of housing these inmates.
In the past, the government bore the burden of convincing towns of the benefits of having a prison. Today, communities must show the government why they are the best location for a prison.
Too true. In Wisconsin rural communities got so prison-crazed that the state eliminated the requirement that prison legislation be accompanied by a cost estimate.
Yes, in Wisconsin every single piece of legislation is required to include a cost estimate – except crime bills. That way legislators can brag about how much they’re cracking down on bad guys, about the new prisons being built in their districts, but they don’t have to face up to the cost for the tax payer.
Tags:Corrections, Gitmo, prisons
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GoFundMe Refunding Over 20M To Donors After Border Wall Fundraiser Falls Apart For This Strange Reason! (Video)
by Tj Sotomayor January 12, 2019 0 comments
So What Will We Do Next?
By: Tommy “Tj” Sotomayor
Veteran’s border wall fundraiser falls apart as GoFundMe says $20M will be refundedoriginally appeared on abcnews.go.com
Turns out an Air Force veteran is having just as much trouble funding a border wallbetween the U.S. and Mexico as President Donald Trump.
GoFundMe said on Friday it will refund over $20 million in donations to a campaign started by veteran Brian Kolfage last year after he changed course on where the money would be donated. The campaign earned a massive amount of attention — and just as many donations.
Kolfage started the campaign on Dec. 16 and touted it as a way to raise money to build a wall along the southern border as Trump struggled to secure the necessary $5 billion he was targeting in a spending bill. The government has now been shut down for a record 22 days over the impasse between the president and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.
“Eight days before Christmas I started this GoFundMe campaign because I was tired of watching the U.S. government’s inability to secure our southern border,” Kolfage wrote on the campaign’s page Friday. “Like most Americans, I see the porous southern border as a national security threat and I refuse to allow our broken political system to leave my family and my country vulnerable to attack.”
PHOTO: In this Nov. 10, 2014, file photo, former U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Brian Kolfage, center, sits in a wheelchair next to his wife Ashley, right, during the National September 11 Memorial and Museum’s ‘Salute to Service’ tribute. (AP)
The campaign, titled “We The People Will Build the Wall,” had raised $20,240,198 as of early Saturday. Over 330,000 people had donated to the cause, with nine people giving over $10,000 and one person giving $50,000.
But Kolfage also announced on Friday he was suddenly stepping back from donating the money straight to the U.S. government — a promise it wasn’t exactly clear he could complete — and instead funneling the money to a new nonprofit he started called “We Build the Wall, Inc.”
(MORE: President Trump wants to declare a national emergency over the border. Can he do that?)
The switch broke GoFundMe’s donation rules and prompted the refund offer.
“There was a change in the use of funds,” Bobby Whithorne, director of North America Communications for GoFundMe, told ABC News in a statement. “When the campaign was created, the campaign organizer specifically stated on the campaign page, ‘If we don’t reach our goal or come significantly close we will refund every single penny.’ He also stated on the campaign page, ‘100% of your donations will go to the Trump Wall. If for ANY reason we don’t reach our goal we will refund your donation.’
However, that did not happen,” the statement continued. “This means all donors will receive a refund. If a donor does not want a refund, and they want their donation to go to the new organization, they must proactively elect to redirect their donation to that organization. If they do not take that step, they will automatically receive a full refund.”
PHOTO: In this May 31, 2006, file photo, a man climbs over the international border into Nogales, Ariz., from Nogales, Mexico. (AP)
Whithorne said all donors will be contacted via email about receiving their refund.
Kolfage, who was severely wounded in Iraq in 2004 and is a triple amputee, was still soliciting funds on Friday. He acknowledged the government would not be able to accept the donations “anytime soon,” and said his nonprofit was “better equipped than our own government to use the donated funds to build an actual wall on the southern border.”
The nonprofit’s board includes controversial former sheriff and regular Fox News guest David Clarke, private government security company Blackwater USA founder Erik Prince, and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who oversaw Trump’s dud voter fraud commission.
(MORE: Homeless man at the center of $400K GoFundMe scandal arrested: Report)
The border wall campaign is the second high-profile fundraiser to end in refunds in a matter of months. A homeless man and couple in Philadelphia were all arrested and charged in connection to creating a rouse to elicit over $400,000 in donations late last year.
The couple allegedly blew much of the money on vacations and gambling, and the scheme was exposed when the homeless man sued over not receiving the money.
ABC News’ Chris Francescani contributed to this report.
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UPDATE 5-Storm Barry cuts half U.S. Gulf Coast oil output, flooding fears close coastal refinery An intensifying tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday cut more than half the region's oil output, with energy companies evacuating staff from nearly 200 offshore facilities and a coastal refinery....
Short-lived Hurricane Barry weakens to tropical storm, risk of 'life-threatening' floods Barry became a hurricane before its landfall in Louisiana, then weakened. The risk now: floods. Earlier, officials staged an island helicopter rescue. ...
Barry becomes hurricane as it bears down on Louisiana: NHC Storm Barry was upgraded to hurricane status on Saturday as it moved onto Louisiana with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 km/h), and its center is expected to cross the coast during the next few hours, the National Hurricane Center said....
Now-Tropical Depression Barry Mostly Spares New Orleans, But Flood Risk Remains High Tropical Depression Barry has been downgraded to its current status after smashing into Louisiana as the first hurricane of the season on Saturday, and it mostly spared the city of New Orleans from a potentially devastating direct hit. But torrential...
Hurricane Barry makes landfall over Louisiana as some levees get overwhelmed Hurricane Barry made landfall west of New Orleans midday Saturday, bringing with it a high-risk flooding event that could last for days in southern Louisiana....
Tropical system could develop in Gulf of Mexico and Euro model predicts swing into Louisiana A tropical system could form in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week, a spark of activity in what has so far been a sleepy Atlantic hurricane season....
Hurricane watch issued in Louisiana as tropical system gains strength in Gulf of Mexico The second storm of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season is expected to form Wednesday or Thursday along the Gulf Coast. ...
More than 120 dogs, cats in path of Hurricane Barry in Louisiana are flown to safety _____ Ahead of Hurricane Barry’s making landfall along the Louisiana coast, more than 120 dogs and cats in the storm’s path were flown to safety. The animals were evacuated Friday from St. Landry Parish Animal Control and St. Martin Anima...
Louisiana's post-Katrina flood defenses put to test as Barry approaches As the National Hurricane Center expects a Category 1 hurricane as soon as late Friday, some experts emphasize that Louisiana's defense system for storm surges is vastly improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
Barry upgraded to Category 1 hurricane as it nears landfall off of Louisiana coastline Tropical Storm Barry was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane as it inched closer to the Louisiana coast on Saturday morning with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, officials said....
New tropical storm forms off southern Mexico A new tropical storm has formed far off Mexico’s southern coast, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it’s likely to reach hurricane strength, though without threatening land...
Flood gates closed, homes boarded up in New Orleans as Barry approaches Louisiana Tropical Storm Barry is making its final approach toward the Gulf Coast on Saturday morning. Residents in the region who weren't put under voluntary evacuation were told to shelter in place....
Rescue dogs flown out of Louisiana ahead of Barry to avoid euthanasia. Will be adoptable The animals escaping Barry's path were placed on a plane and were heading to rescue shelters in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey. ...
Tropical depression forecast to form along Gulf Coast this week, could strengthen into hurricane The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that there's an 80% chance a tropical depression will form this week in the Gulf of Mexico. ...
With Barry bearing down, Gulf Coast braces for up to 24 inches of rain As Barry strengthened Thursday and inched closer to shore, residents in the Gulf states were rushing to prepare ahead of the storm's expected landfall on Saturday....
Tropical storm threatens to flood US Deep South The first bands of rain from Tropical Storm Barry are beginning to hit land in the US Deep South, as officials warn of a life-threatening storm surge....
Gulf Coast Faces Flood and Tornado Risks Even As Barry Weakens NEW ORLEANS — Even though Tropical Depression Barry did not unleash catastrophic flooding in Louisiana, many across the Gulf Coast were urged to take heed of tornado and flash-flood warnings Monday as the storm moved north. Barry was downgraded...
Barry strengthens into category 1 hurricane; Gulf Coast braces for impact Tropical Storm Barry is making its final approach toward the Gulf Coast on Saturday morning. Residents in the region who weren't put under voluntary evacuation were told to shelter in place....
Tropical Storm Barbara forms; danger to Hawaii unknown Newly-formed Tropical Storm Barbara is set to become the next hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and take a track farther to the west than Alvin....
New Orleans Faces Catastrophic Flooding Ahead of Possible Tropical Storm Would-be Tropical Storm Barry is still a day or more away from forming, let alone making landfall. But the developing system’s impacts are already being felt on Wednesday morning in New Orleans.Read more......
Tropical Storm Barbara gathers force far off southern Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP) — A tropical storm far off Mexico’s southern coast is on the verge of growing into a hurricane, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it could become a big one in the coming days. But Tropical Storm Barbara is heading out...
Hurricane watch in Louisiana, mandatory evacuations issued as Barry expected to drop up to 20 inches of rain A brewing tropical weather system in the Gulf of Mexico forced mandatory evacuations in parts of Louisiana on Thursday, as a potential hurricane is expected to spark flash flooding in places like New Orleans still drying out from torrential rain....
Barry could cause up to $10B in storm damage, meteorologists predict Experts estimate that the total damage and economic loss caused by Tropical Storm Barry — which is set to deliver a punishing blow to the Gulf Coast this weekend, possibly as a hurricane — will be upwards of $10 billion. “It’s no Katrina,...
U.S. refiners in path of Storm Barry to keep running Most U.S. refiners whose plants are in the path of Tropical Storm Barry took steps on Friday to keep them running, even as forecasters warned that the second named storm of the season could become a hurricane just before landfall this weekend....
Storm Barry is heading towards New Orleans – how big is the risk? Almost 14 years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces possible disaster again, with huge rainfall and Tropical Storm Barry posing twin threats to the city...
Hurricane Barry rattles Gulf Coast fishermen already reeling from rough season Gulf Coast commercial fishermen have taken another hit this season after Hurricane Barry hit Louisiana’s and Mississippi’s Gulf Coasts. Heavy wind and rain from the category one storm forced fishermen to dock their commercial vessels for days....
One killed in Calcasieu River Ship Channel accident in Louisiana: Coast Guard One person was killed and another injured on Wednesday after a vessel collided with a dredge pipeline operating on the Calcasieu River Ship Channel near Hackberry, Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said....
Tropical Storm Expected to Form in Gulf as Rain Pounds New Orleans With the Mississippi already running high, the threat of a storm surge and more heavy rain has New Orleans bracing for flooding when the storm reaches land, expected over the weekend....
Oil flat as tropical storm limits output, glut forecasts weigh Oil prices were little changed on Friday as U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude output dropped by more than half from disruptions caused by a tropical storm, but concerns over a global crude surplus in the months ahead limited gains....
Storm Barry cuts 73% of U.S. offshore oil production: U.S. government Tropical Storm Barry has cut 73%, or 1.38 million barrels per day (bpd), of crude oil production in the U.S.-regulated areas of the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Sunday....
Factbox: Barry could be latest storm to batter New Orleans Tropical Storm Barry was headed toward New Orleans on Thursday, and forecast to gain strength and become this year's first Atlantic hurricane, the latest in a long line of storms to strike the city....
| Brace for Barry: New Orleans girds for 'extreme' storm Tropical Storm Barry gathered strength as it chugged toward water-logged New Orleans, which girded for heavy rains, storm surge and flooding that pose a threat reminiscent of 2005's deadly Hurricane Katrina....
Remnants of storm Barry dump more rain in the US southeast Barry, now downgraded to a tropical depression, still packed winds of up to 25 mph and could drop 5 inches or more of rain on a water-logged Louisiana....
Remnants of storm Barry dump more rain in the U.S. southeast The remnants of the once mighty storm Barry, the first hurricane of the 2019 season, dumped dangerous amounts of rain as it crawled north through the United States on Monday after coming ashore west of New Orleans at the weekend....
Most Louisiana refineries running as storm cuts 70% of offshore oil Tropical Storm Barry slowly moved on to the Louisiana coast and quickly weakened from hurricane strength on Saturday afternoon, leaving in its wake 70 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production shut in, the U.S. government said....
Gulf Coast faces life-threatening rains as Barry moves farther inland Tropical Storm Barry was moving slowly northward Sunday over west-central Louisiana, creating live-threatening rains as the primary threat after reaching landfall as a hurricane the day before....
Still Menaced by Flooding, Louisiana Dodges a Storm’s Worst Blows Tropical Storm Barry crept slowly northward on Sunday, soaking Louisiana with heavy rain, but fears of catastrophic flooding in the state’s biggest cities eased as the storm weakened....
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Storm Barry threatens to overwhelm New Orleans' century-old pump system The rain started pounding New Orleans about the time Jeff Carerras put on his morning pot of coffee. Before it was done brewing, floodwaters were lapping at the door of his bar, Tracey's....
Storm Barry bears down on New Orleans with 'extreme rain,' flooding risk Some residents and visitors prepared to flee New Orleans on Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry closed in and officials warned of "extreme rain" and flooding if the storm makes landfall by early Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019....
Storm Barry's threat to New Orleans heightened by climate change: scientists Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to flood New Orleans and threaten lives along the Mississippi River, is being fueled by warmth in the Gulf of Mexico that was likely exacerbated by climate change, scientists said on Friday....
Rain, flooding follow Storm Barry as it spins north from New Orleans Tropical Storm Barry trudged through northwestern Louisiana on Sunday, dropping up to 15 inches of rain in some places to create life-threatening flood conditions along the Mississippi River....
PBF, Valero do not plan to shut Louisiana refineries ahead of storm: sources PBF Energy and Valero Energy Corp do not plan to idle their refineries in Chalmette and Meraux, Louisiana, respectively ahead of a developing tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, sources familiar with plant operations said on Thursday morning....
Storm Barry moves inland from New Orleans, leaves rain and flooding in its wake Tropical Storm Barry trudged through northwestern Louisiana on Sunday, threatening tornadoes and dropping up to 15 inches of rain in some places to create life-threatening flood conditions along the Mississippi River....
New Orleans braces for flooding, Trump declares emergency ahead of Storm Barry New Orleans braced for severe flooding with residents told to hunker down as a growing tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico headed for landfall late on Friday or early on Saturday as the first Atlantic hurricane of 2019....
Volunteers rush to transport shelter animals threatened by Barry out of storm's path A multistate rescue effort helped secure and transport more than 120 cats and dogs to safety on Friday, removing them from shelters in Louisiana in anticipation of Tropical Storm Barry....
Hurricane Barbara strengthens into a Category 2 storm off coast of Mexico Hurricane Barbara began strengthening rapidly in the Pacific Ocean on Monday and meteorologists expect it become a major storm as it tracks in the general direction of Hawaii....
Intensifying storm cut half U.S. Gulf Coast oil output, closes coastal refinery An intensifying tropical storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Thursday cut more than half the region's oil output, with energy companies evacuating staff from nearly 200 offshore facilities and a coastal refinery....
Dangerous #VacuumChallenge Takes Internet by Storm After the Kiki challenge, the 'Bin bag challenge' or 'Vacuum challenge' has resurfaced on the Internet as a new craze among users on Twitter and Instagram....
Tropical depression forecast to form, could become 'dangerous' hurricane with 'damaging winds and deadly storm surge' The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that there's an 80% chance a tropical depression will form this week in the Gulf of Mexico. ...
Readers tell how their relationships have survived – or even been strengthened by – infidelity and deception Readers tell how their relationships have survived – or even been strengthened by – infidelity and deceptionFor 40-year-old Anne, the 10 years she has spent with her partner have been defined by betrayal. “A year into what I considered to be a near-p...
DR Congo: Strengthened effort against Ebola is paying off, but insecurity still major constraint – UN health agency Although the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to make headway thanks to the determination of health workers on the ground, insecurity is still hampering the response, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on T...
Haiti stands ‘at the crossroads’ between peacekeeping, development – Bachelet urges strengthened ‘human rights protection’ With the end of the UN’s peacekeeping presence in Haiti in sight, the UN’s human rights chief told the Security Council on Wednesday that the country now stands “at the crossroads between peacekeeping and development”, urging all concerned parties to...
Watch: Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo goes coast-to-coast for huge slam Milwaukee Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo rocked the rim with a coast-to-coast dunk against the Toronto Raptors in Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals....
Cyclone Vayu spares Indian west coast a direct hit, to skirt coast A powerful cyclone that threatened the western Indian state of Gujarat, has changed course and it is now expected to just brush past the coast, authorities said on Thursday, although ports and coastal airports remained shut....
Libya coast guard rescues 290 migrants off eastern coast of Tripoli Libya's coast guard rescued 290 migrants clinging to inflatable rafts on Friday in two operations near the capital Tripoli, a naval forces spokesman said....
Scheer says Canada needs coast-to-coast corridor for pipeline construction In a speech laying out his economic vision, the opposition leader says having one dedicated route would make it easier to approve major new energy projects....
Hurricane Barry: What to know about Barry's path, hurricane status, timeline and more Some 14 trillion gallons of rainwater are forecast to fall on Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas during Barry. Three million people may be impacted. ...
Clearing up confusion on payments: If a retailer takes Apple Pay it also takes Google Pay As New York City's MTA adopts contactless payments on some transit lines, people are still confused about who takes Apple, Google and Samsung Pay. ...
Ashwini Choubey Takes Charge Of Health Ministry; Takes Metro Ride To Work Ashwini Kumar Choubey Tuesday took charge as the Minister of State for Health. He took the metro from his residence to reach Udyog Bhawan station from where he walked down to his office -- Nirman......
These 5 tropical plants may 'provide anticancer benefits' New research examined several plants that people have used to treat cancer since ancient times. The study identified five plants with anticancer benefits....
Tropical depression likely to form in Gulf of Mexico: U.S. NHC A storm system in the Gulf of Mexico could develop into a tropical depression later on Thursday, likely bringing hurricane conditions across the north-central gulf coast over the next couple of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said....
Inside Kim and Kourtney Kardashian's Tropical Family Vacation Soaking up the sun! Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick enjoyed a family vacation with their kids this week. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians stars took a......
Man spends two years and $44K bringing tropical holiday to wife A devoted husband dedicated two years and $44,000 to transform his garden into a tropical paradise for his wife as he was unable to take her on holiday. Construction worker Chris Lodge, 44, and business owner Sharon Lodge, 45, are so busy with work a...
More mangroves? Economies recover faster after tropical cyclones Enlarge / Dark green mangroves along Senegal's Casamance River as it meets the sea. (credit: NASA Earth Observatory) Where humans have the money, we sometimes build storm defenses like seawalls to protect our coastal cities. But coastal development...
India evacuates 300,000 people ahead of Tropical Cyclone Vayu A month after powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani slammed into India's northeastern coastline, the country faces the threat of another strong storm, this time on its west coast....
A tropical depression is expected to form in the Gulf of Mexico later this week (WDSU/NBC News) New Orleans is bracing for heavy rains and wind as forecasters warn a possible tropical depression could form in the Gulf of Mexico later this week. City leaders are in constant communication with the National Weather Service and city...
Tennis and tropical plants: New French Open court is wild The French Open has a stunning new court, surrounded on all four sides by greenhouses filed with exotic plants ...
The Latest: Tennis mixes with tropical plants at French Open PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local): ___ 11:50 a.m. Tennis and tropical plants, an incongruous mix beautifully blended on the new Court Simonne Mathieu at Roland Garros. The airy, sunken arena with two tiers of seating and su...
Brewing tropical system in Gulf of Mexico may exacerbate flooding A brewing tropical system not only has the potential to become the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season but may also add to the severity and extent of flooding over the central United States this week....
Barry may cause gas prices to spike Gas prices may see a storm surge if Barry sticks to predictions. The states that line the Gulf of Mexico are home to more than 45 percent of the total petroleum refining capacity in the country, along with 51 percent of total US natural gas processin...
Oil exports are on the rise in Louisiana LAFOURCHE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is becoming a major world source of exported crude oil. The New Orleans Advocate reports the port, or LOOP, has more than doubled the number of oil tankers loaded for crude export in the first six...
Tropical downpours to unleash 12 inches over flood-weary south-central U.S. The combination of a slow-moving non-tropical storm and a weak tropical disturbance loaded with moisture will unleash torrential rain and raise new concerns for flooding over the south-central U.S. into this weekend....
Teen Mom's Briana DeJesus Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary With Tropical Getaway Happy anniversary to Briana DeJesus and John Rodriguez! The Teen Mom 2 star and her boyfriend are celebrating a year of dating with a tropical trip to Punta Cana. Briana took to Instagram......
U.S. National Hurricane Center says 30% chance of tropical cyclone over central Georgia A trough of low pressure located over central Georgia has a 30% chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Monday....
New Orleans residents stunned by severe flooding as tropical system strengthens The widespread flooding that inundated many parts of New Orleans on Wednesday astounded even longtime residents of a city that frequently withstands the brunt of hurricanes and tropical storms....
Hurricane Barry: What you need when disaster strikes Your smartphone can be your lifeline — with back-battery charger and life-saving apps. You also need some other gadgets. ...
Protesters oppose new Louisiana abortion law Not long after hundreds of demonstrators protested abortion bans outside the Louisiana State Capitol Building in Baton Rouge, the state’s Democratic governor signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy. (May 30) ...
Louisiana braces for possible weekend hurricane A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for southeast Louisiana - the possibility that a high Mississippi River will approach the tops of levees and a danger of flash floods. (July 11) ...
Two men killed while trying to ‘jump’ a drawbridge in Louisiana Two men were killed on Friday when they attempted to “jump” a drawbridge in Louisiana by speeding their car off the ramp, police said. Alejandro Cazares, 23, and Roberto Alejandro, 32, went “airborne” on the Black Bayou Bridge...
Why Louisiana is missing out on the Trump boom It’s morning in America again. After years of economic stagnation under former President Barack Obama, America is booming. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, the American economy is growing above 3% annually, wages are rising across the board, a...
Tropical depression forecast to form in Gulf of Mexico later this week, could strengthen into hurricane After several quiet weeks, a tropical system could form within the next few days in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said. ...
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Tropical depression likely to form in Gulf of Mexico, may bring heavy rainfall, forecasters say Just over a month into the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, a tropical threat may be brewing along the Gulf Coast that could bring heavy rain across portions of the Southeast....
Tropical depression forecast to form in Gulf of Mexico this week, could strengthen into hurricane After several quiet weeks, a tropical system could form within the next few days in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said. ...
Tropical threat in Gulf of Mexico may bring more misery to flood-ravaged central US Just days into the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, a tropical threat may be brewing in the Gulf of Mexico that could eventually bring more rain to parts of the U.S. that are already seeing record flooding....
Oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico restart after Barry US oil companies on Monday began restoring some of the more than nearly 74% production shut at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of Hurricane Barry, the US offshore drilling regulator said....
Louisiana Moves to Ban Abortions After a Heartbeat Is Detected The state’s Democratic governor said he planned to sign the so-called fetal heartbeat bill. Similar bans across the country have already been challenged — and blocked — in court....
Louisiana lawmakers pass strict abortion ban In a 79-23 vote, Louisiana house passed bill that would prohibit the procedure before some women even know they are pregnantLouisiana lawmakers on Wednesday passed a strict new abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure before some women even kno...
Deputies: Alligator bit off piece of patrol car in Louisiana MOORINGSPORT, La. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in Louisiana say an alligator took a bite out of one of their patrol cars. WBRZ-TV reports deputies were called Monday to Louisiana Highway 1 in Caddo Parish after someone spotted the gator in the mid...
Two dead after attempting to jump car over drawbridge in Louisiana LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Texas driver and his passenger are dead after they tried to jump the ramps on a closed drawbridge. Louisiana State Police say it happened shortly after 2 a.m. Friday at the Black Bayou Bridge about six miles (9.65 kilometer...
Louisiana’s Democratic governor signs abortion ban into law BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Democratic governor has signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, a move that has provoked anger from members of his own party. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the measure Thursday, making Lou...
Louisiana passes 'heartbeat' abortion bill Louisiana's legislature passed a bill Wednesday banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, joining a growing list of conservative states in a push to tighten restrictions on the procedure in recent week...
7 wounded as gunfire sprays Louisiana nightclub BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police continue to investigate a shooting incident at a Baton Rouge nightclub that left seven people injured. Local news outlets report gunfire strafed the inside and parking lot of the Stadium Ultralounge & Bar early Saturday...
1 dead amid flooding, possible tornadoes in Louisiana BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana mayor says one person has died as a result of severe weather there. Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced the fatality during a Thursday morning news conference. Fire Chief Ed Smith said the vi...
Britney Spears Is All Smiles in Bikini on Tropical Vacation: Inside Her Mother-Daughter Trip It's Britney beach! Britney Spears is looking happy and healthy as she enjoys some more R&R after months of personal turmoil. The 37-year-old pop star and her mom Lynne......
Paradise lost: 400 million pieces of trash discovered on beaches of remote tropical islands We know trash is everywhere on Earth, all the way from the top of Mount Everest to the very bottom of the ocean. Now, giant mounds of it are even washing up on the shores of otherwise pristine tropical islands in the Indian Ocean. &#...
Rick Barry: US should help veterans before it worries about illegal immigrants Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Barry said Sunday the U.S. should be helping out those who served the country first before spending “billions of dollars on people who aren’t even supposed to be in this country.”...
Barry Sanders Was The Coolest Football Player Who Ever Lived What would it take for a present-day football player to equal or surpass the sheer coolness of Barry Sanders, who turns 51 years old today? I’m not sure it’s even possible. Individual humans simply are not permitted to impose themselves on the sport’...
U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil, gas producers begin restarting after Barry U.S. oil companies on Monday began restoring some of the more than nearly 74% production shut at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of Hurricane Barry, the U.S. offshore drilling regulator said....
U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil, gas production begins restarting after Barry U.S. offshore oil producers restarted 4% of the production shut by Tropical Storm Barry last week, according to a report on Monday by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)....
Islanders’ Robin Lehner, Barry Trotz win big at NHL Awards Before this past season, not a lot of people expected Robin Lehner to be in Las Vegas this week for the NHL Awards ceremony. But that’s where the Islanders goalie was, winning the Masterton Trophy for the “player who best exemplifies the qualities of...
Louisiana city reevaluates ‘saggy pants’ law after man’s death Officials in a Louisiana city are reevaluating a 12-year-old ordinance banning “saggy pants” after a man wearing a pair died in a confrontation with police. Anthony Childs, 31, whom a cop tried to stop on Feb. 5 for wearing the droopy pants, died app...
Sheriff: 2 dead in small plane crash in Louisiana OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities have confirmed the deaths of two people in a small plane crash on a river levee in Louisiana. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz tells news outlets the single-engine plane crashed Wednesday beside the Atchafalay...
Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards signs abortion ban into law BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s Democratic governor signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy Thursday, a move that puts him squarely in line with the leaders of other conservative Southern states while provoking anger from mem...
Lil’ Buck Sinegal, Noted Louisiana Guitarist, Dies at 75 He worked with Allen Toussaint, Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Chenier and more. He has been called “the best guitar slinger South Louisiana has to offer.”...
Louisiana Latest US State To Ban Abortions, As Early As 6 Weeks The Louisiana House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to prohibit abortion after detection of an embryonic heartbeat, which can occur as early as six weeks from conception, often before a woman......
Hundreds protest Louisiana’s passage of ‘heartbeat’ bill BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators filed into the Louisiana State Capitol a day after lawmakers passed a strict new abortion ban that Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law. Many on Thursday wore bright pink T-shirts read...
Louisiana Man Killed 3 ‘Random Victims’ in Two Days, Authorities Say The man, Sean Barrette, 22, faces murder charges after three men were shot and killed in vehicles in Metairie, outside of New Orleans. He’s also a suspect in a killing in the city....
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signs 'heartbeat' abortion law Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bills into law, essentially banning the procedure after the sixth week of pregnancy....
Louisiana’s Democratic Governor Signs State’s Abortion Ban Into Law (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana’s Democratic governor signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy Thursday, a move that puts him squarely in line with the leaders of other conservative Southern states while provoking anger ...
Louisiana governor: Abortion ban decision wasn’t political BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, says he’s not concerned about losing support among his party’s voters because of a strict abortion ban he signed into law. The Louisiana govern...
Louisiana lawmakers send new abortion ban to governor’s desk BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have passed a strict new abortion ban prohibiting the procedure before some women even know they are pregnant. The bill bars abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as the sixth week of pr...
| Louisiana lawmakers pass foetal heartbeat abortion ban Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill banning abortions once a foetal heartbeat is detected, joining a string of other US states restricting the termination of pregnancies as early as six weeks....
New Lawsuit Calls Louisiana's Pipeline Protest Law 'Unconstitutional' In Louisiana, pipeline opponents are fighting a law they say hinders their ability to practice free speech. A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court Wednesday challenges an anti-protest law that could land a person behind bars for up to five years ...
Pipeline opponents challenge Louisiana law targeting protesters Environmental groups and demonstrators arrested near an Energy Transfer LP crude pipeline filed a lawsuit on Wednesday challenging a 2018 Louisiana state law that made trespassing near oil and gas pipelines a criminal offense....
Louisiana: Anti-abortion constitutional language nears OK BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers have taken another step in efforts to chip away at abortion rights, nearing final passage of a bill that would ask voters to rewrite the state constitution to ensure it offers no protections for the procedu...
The NHL can thank women’s hockey for molding its top prospect into Barry Sanders on skates The presumptive No. 1 pick in the NHL draft has a first-round pick as his older brother, a potential NHLer as his little brother and a title-winning coach as his father. But his mom’s influence is central to his tale....
UPDATE 4-U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil, gas producers begin restarting after Barry U.S. oil companies on Monday began restoring some of the nearly 74% of production that was shut at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of Hurricane Barry, the U.S. offshore drilling regulator said....
Barry may still pack a punch with heavy downpours, localized flooding Locally heavy, gusty storms associated in part with Barry at midweek will pose localized flash-flooding threats this week and then usher in the hottest weather of the summer of 2019 so far in the northeastern United States....
Barry Manilow gifts North Carolina high school $100,000 LAS VEGAS (AP) — Barry Manilow gifted $100,000 worth of new band gear to a North Carolina high school in an area still recovering from Hurricane Florence. News outlets report the band at East Duplin High School couldn’t afford new instruments a...
Barcelona beat PSG to sign 16-year-old English striker Barry "Barcelona have beaten Paris St Germain to the signing of one of England\u0027s brightest talents in 16-year-old striker Louie Barry from Championship side West Bromwich Albion."...
UPDATE 2-U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil, gas producers begin restarting after Barry U.S. oil companies on Monday began restoring some of the more than nearly 74% production shut at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms ahead of Hurricane Barry, the U.S. offshore drilling regulator said....
Cheniere to build Louisiana Sabine Pass 6 LNG export train U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Cheniere Energy Inc said on Monday it will build the sixth liquefaction train at its Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana....
Louisiana lawmakers pass bill to ban abortions as early as six weeks The Louisiana House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to prohibit abortion after detection of an embryonic heartbeat, which can occur as early as six weeks from conception, often before a woman even realizes she is pregnant....
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana face flood of 'historic magnitude' Thousands of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana residents braced for more flooding on Wednesday, and some evacuated their homes, as forecasts of further rain drove fears that decades-old levees girding the Arkansas River may not hold....
After shooting of black man, Louisiana city votes to end sagging pants law A law that allowed the police department to disproportionately target black men was abolished Tuesday months after an officer shot a black man. ...
Louisiana governor, a Democrat, poised to sign 'heartbeat' abortion ban into law Louisiana's state legislature on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a so-called "heartbeat" pro-life bill, becoming the latest in a slew of states to enact strict new restrictions on abortion that many conservatives have hoped will end with the Supreme ...
New Louisiana Law Allows Expert Testimony on the Flaws of Eyewitness Accounts of Crimes In 1971, when Wilbert Jones was just 19 years old, he was arrested and charged with kidnapping a nurse at gunpoint from the parking lot of a hospital in Baton Rouge, La., and raping her behind a building....
Police make arrest in killing of Louisiana postal worker SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Police in northern Louisiana say a man has been arrested for shooting and killing a postal worker. Shreveport police said Saturday that 32-year-old Michael Gentry is being held in the city jail on one count of second degree mur...
Louisiana woman posts about her own wanted photo: 'That picture ugly' A Louisiana woman wanted for second-degree murder was apparently not happy with the photo officials decided to use on social media to help bring her into custody – and she decided to vent to the very officers looking for her....
A sunken barge might have saved these Louisiana towns from major flooding While officials worked to restore power and remove fallen trees in Assumption Parish on Sunday, one hazard was notably absent in its towns as a major storm pushed north: flooding....
Postal worker gunned down while delivering mail in Louisiana, police say A mailman died Saturday after he was shot multiple times while on his mail route, the Shreveport Police Department confirmed. ...
Louisiana dry cleaner helps military museum unravel history Matthew Porche, a third-generation owner of Uneeda Dry Cleaners in Houma, La., is lending a hand to a southern Louisiana military museum in restoring the history of American soldiers who served in World War I and World War II....
Louisiana braces for latest turn of the screw on abortion rights The state legislature is to vote on a bill banning terminations after six weeks but so-called Trap laws have already severely restricted accessKathaleen Pittman still remembers the first time she had to turn away a patient because of new intrusive an...
Louisiana teen accepted into 139 colleges, awarded $8.7 million in scholarships Normandie Cormier, 18, had to narrow down her options after receiving more than 100 acceptance letters and millions in scholarships. ...
Louisiana asks public help with invasive Asian swamp eels BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An invasive species of swamp eel has been found in New Orleans, and a state biologist says it’s the first time this species has been found in the United States. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist Ro...
Police identify US postal worker shot to death in Louisiana SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A coroner’s office has identified the U.S. postal worker shot to death in Louisiana on Saturday morning. A release from the Caddo Parish Coroner’s Office says 52-year-old Antonio Williams was shot while making deliv...
Louisiana officer mauled by gator, jaws had to be pried open An alligator about five feet long clamped down on a Louisiana deputy's arm Monday, forcing other officers to pry the beast’s jaw open to free the deputy, reports said....
Louisiana DA seeks August execution date for child murderer LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana prosecutor is seeking an August execution date for a convicted child rapist and murderer in what would be the state’s first execution in almost 10 years. The American Press reports that the C...
Sempra Louisiana Cameron LNG export terminal ships first cargo Sempra Energy said on Friday that the Cameron liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana shipped its first cargo, making the plant the fourth big LNG export terminal to enter service in the lower 48 U.S. states....
Louisiana landowners sue Bayou Bridge pipeline for trespassing and damage Latest legal skirmish in a long battle between activists and the company building the pipeline, which is also behind Keystone XL Landowners in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin have filed suit against the company building the controversial Bayou Bridge p...
Barry spares New Orleans but Mississippi faces flash flood fears Storm briefly attains hurricane strength before weakeningLouisiana governor counsels continued cautionWeakened but still potent, Barry inundated the Gulf Coast but appeared unlikely to deluge New Orleans as it continued its slow advance. The storm di...
Poetry In Motion: Barry Jenkins to Direct Alvin Ailey Biopic Barry Jenkins has a new project in the works and I’m about to 8-count my coins and hand over my wallet so he can hurry up and take my money....
Barcelona sign England Under-16 striker Louie Barry from West Brom • Barry will be part of Barcelona’s Under-19 squad• West Brom receive £235,000 in compensationBarcelona have beaten Paris St-Germain to the signing from West Bromwich Albion of one of England’s brightest talents in the 16-year-old striker Louie Barry...
Baku boycott would solve Arsenal dilemma rather than leave a man behind | Barry Glendenning If Arsenal refused to contest Europa League showpiece they would generate headlines that may force Uefa into climbdownLeave no man behind. A code embraced by the US military, it refers to army policy of doing everything and anything possible to avoid...
Warriors legend Rick Barry baffled by Kevin Durant’s departure Rick Barry would like an explanation. Not because the Warriors legend is mad at Kevin Durant for leaving Golden State for the Brooklyn Nets, but because he’s confused as to why Durant would want to play anywhere else. “For whatever reason...
Bud Selig laments Barry Bonds' home run record chase in new book Former Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig recalls the “misery” he experienced watching former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds break the all-time home run record in 2007....
'They've been killing us for too long': Louisiana residents march in coalition against 'death alley' Five-day marathon to state capitol leaves Reserve, where chemical factory presents greatest risk of cancer to surrounding communityDemonstrators in Louisiana stepped off on a five-day march on Thursday, demanding environmental justice for a region be...
Legendary Louisiana-Lafayette baseball coach Tony Robichaux dies Tony Robichaux, who coached baseball at Louisiana-Lafayette for 25 seasons, took the school to the College World Series in 2000. ...
Founder of African American museum in Louisiana found dead in trunk of car East Baton Rouge Coroner Beau Clark released preliminary autopsy results that show Sadie Roberts-Joseph was suffocated before her body was found in the trunk of a car Friday....
Tellurian, Total finalize Louisiana Driftwood LNG export plant agreements U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) developer Tellurian Inc said on Wednesday that units of French oil major Total SA have agreed to buy LNG from the U.S. company's proposed $30 billion Driftwood export project in Louisiana....
New Orleans floods as danger posed to Louisiana by impending hurricane grows Coastal Louisiana is getting slammed by heavy rain and flooding as a tropical system develops over the Gulf of Mexico, leading to what could be a catastrophic few days for the Bayou State....
Another person has been arrested for allegedly licking Blue Bell Ice Cream in Louisiana Another apparent incident of someone licking ice cream at a store has surfaced. This time it's in Louisiana. ...
Louisiana police investigate slaying of civil rights activist-historian Police in Louisiana are investigating the presumed slaying of a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum whose body was found in the trunk of her car in the state capital, Baton Rouge, officials said on Sunday...
Louisiana civil rights activist found in car trunk was suffocated, coroner says A Louisiana civil rights activist and founder of an African-American museum was killed by "traumatic asphyxia" before her body was found in the trunk of her car in the state capital last week, according to a coroner's report released on Monday....
UPDATE 1-Cheniere to build Louisiana Sabine Pass 6 LNG export train U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Cheniere Energy Inc said on Monday it will build the sixth liquefaction train at its Sabine Pass LNG export terminal in Louisiana....
Louisiana woman arrested after allegedly stealing truck, leaving dog to die inside A woman was arrested in Louisiana on Monday after she allegedly stole a truck with a beloved pet dog inside — but instead of returning the dog to its owner when she abandoned the car, officials say she left the animal to die....
Andy Woodward: a 1970s murder and the shocking twist to my Barry Bennell story The footballer tells for the first time how a relative of Barry Bennell cast a grim shadow over his family, years before the paedophile coach began abusing him On the night before we were due to meet, Andy Woodward took himself away to spend some tim...
Barry's Anthony Carrigan to play most excellent villain in Bill & Ted Face The Music There are many wonderful things about Bill Hader’s Barry, but perhaps none more wonderful than unexpected breakout Anthony Carrigan. His eccentric NoHo Hank is a weirdly adorable and exceedingly lovable little criminal; charming is the word that come...
UPDATE 1-Sempra Energy's Louisiana Cameron LNG export terminal ships first cargo Sempra Energy said on Friday the $10 billion Cameron liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana had shipped its first cargo, making the plant the fourth big LNG export terminal to enter service in the United States....
Louisiana Deputy Fired, Arrested for Forcing Mother to Perform Oral Sex on Infant Son Ibervielle Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Shaderick Jones, 42, forced 26-year-old mother Iyeseha Todd to perform oral sex on her infant son while he recorded it, claiming the depraved act was his “fantasy.”...
Suspect in Louisiana Black Church Arsons Charged With Federal Hate Crimes Prosecutors in Louisiana have charged suspect Holden Matthews, 21, with federal hate crimes for allegedly burning several black churches in the St. Landry Parish region earlier this year, according to NBC....
Louisiana to release autopsy on dead civil rights activist found in car trunk A Louisiana medical examiner is set to release on Monday the results of the autopsy of a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum whose body was found in the trunk of her car in the state capital last week....
Louisiana weather: One dead amid flooding, heavy rains and reported tornadoes Severe weather moved through Louisiana Wednesday and Thursday, leaving flooding, reported tornadoes and at least one death in its wake. ...
Louisiana governor to sign 'heartbeat' ban, latest move to curb U.S. abortion rights Louisiana's Democratic governor said on Wednesday he would sign a bill passed earlier in the day to ban abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected, the latest legislation in a movement in mostly Southern and Midwest states to curb abortion rights....
Anti-abortion Democrats emerge as Louisiana governor prepares to sign six-week ban Louisiana Democrats are defying party orthodoxy by backing an effective ban on abortion in the state, a development that anti-abortion Democrats are hoping to leverage into greater influence within the party at the national level....
Louisiana man arrested after wife allegedly catches him raping 9-year-old girl: report A Louisiana man was reportedly arrested this week on first-degree rape charges after his wife allegedly walked in on him sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl left in his care....
Louisiana passes fetal heartbeat abortion ban, Democratic governor expected to sign Louisiana lawmakers passed an abortion ban on Wednesday that would prohibit women from terminating a pregnancy once a fetal heartbeat has been detected, NBC News reports....
Louisiana passed an abortion ban. Its Democratic governor plans to defy his party and sign it. The Louisiana bill, which bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, is the first of the drumbeat of bans this year to receive the imprimatur of prominent local Democrats....
Louisiana girl seeks World's Fittest Teen title one last time In her final year competing, Chloe Smith of Iota, Louisiana, looks to regain the title of World's Fittest Teen at the CrossFit Games. ...
Louisiana passes strict anti-abortion bill, Dem governor expected to sign Louisiana state lawmakers on Wednesday passed an anti-abortion bill that would make the procedure illegal after six weeks of pregnancy — and have no exception for rape or incest — and the state’s Democratic governor has said he’s prepared to sign it ...
Mississippi Gulf Coast food and fun Coastal Mississippi is a place to seek out fresh, local cuisine, dive into the region’s history and discover everyday magic in the local towns. ...
Turquoise Coast is the next seaside hotspot The clear waters and sandy beaches of the Turquoise Coast -- or the Turkish Riviera -- are a quieter and less expensive option to other Mediterranean destinations. From Bodrum to Antalaya, find out where to go and what to do....
Blast-hit tankers to be assessed off UAE coast The two oil tankers crippled in attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran are being assessed off the coast off the United Arab Emirates before their cargos are unloaded, the ships' operators said on Sunday....
Sea-Eye rescues 44 migrants off Libya's coast A German rescue boat has picked up 44 people that were stranded off the Libyan coast. The rescue comes a day after the same boat handed over 65 migrants to Malta....
Strong earthquake off coast of El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A strong earthquake hit off the coast of El Salvador early Thursday, sending frightened residents running out of their homes in the predawn hours. Authorities said a small tsunami was possible, but there were no immed...
Easy-listening legend Barry Manilow gives $100,000 to hurricane-ravaged high school band There just aren’t enough Barry Manilow news days, in our opinion. The just-turned 76-year-old easy-listening songwriting legend is still performing in Vegas, and also runs the Manilow Music Project, which is “keeping dreams alive one instrument at a ...
Man suspected of setting fires at Louisiana black churches charged with federal hate crimes The man suspected of setting fire to three churches in St. Landry Parish has been indicted on federal hate crime charges. ...
Louisiana's Democratic Governor Signs Bill Banning Abortion As Early As 6 Weeks Into Pregnancy Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, has signed one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country, one that bans abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy. The ban is similar to the laws restricting abortion recently passed in...
Louisiana man arrested after allegedly licking ice cream, placing it back on shelf in 'copycat' video A "copycat" ice cream licker was arrested in Louisiana on Saturday in the weeks after he was caught on video allegedly licking ice cream in a grocery store and putting it back in the fridge....
Louisiana deputy's son charged with federal hate crimes in connection with fires at black churches The suspect in a string of fires that destroyed three black churches in rural Louisiana earlier this year was indicted on federal hate crime charges in connection with the blazes, federal officials announced Wednesday....
Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, breaking with his own party BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, breaking with his own party. The post Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, ...
6 Russian planes intercepted by US off Alaska coast ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — U.S. military officials say four Russian bombers and two fighter jets were intercepted off Alaska’s western coast by U.S. aircraft but had not entered U.S. or Canadian air space. The North American Aerospace Defense Com...
Turkey draws EU ire over oil drilling off Cyprus' coast Turkey has sent a second ship to search for oil and natural gas in maritime waters that Cyprus claims as its own. The move is set to draw a sharp EU rebuke, though Cyprus has already acted against the first vessel....
More than 80 migrants feared drowned off Tunisia coast Dozens of African migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting of for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Thursday....
22 ancient amphoras found off Albanian coast TIRANA, Albania — A joint Albanian-American underwater archaeology project says it has found amphoras that are at least 2,500 years old off the Albanian coast, which might yield an ancient shipwreck. The research vessel Hercules of the RPM Nautical F...
| Ivory Coast on alert after Cup of Nations upsets Coach Ibrahim Kamara said his Ivory Coast side would be on their guard going into Monday's last-16 encounter with Mali after a string of surprise results at AFCON....
The Latest: Cyclone forecast to jog away from Indian coast VERAVAL, India (AP) — The Latest on Cyclone Vayu (all times local): ___ 12:30 p.m. Authorities say a very severe cyclone appears to have changed course and is less likely to touch India’s western coast than was previously forecast. The India Me...
Russian bombers fly near Alaska coast, US military says Four nuclear-capable Russian bombers and two Russian fighter jets were intercepted off the west coast of Alaska by U.S. aircraft, American military officials said Monday....
Great Brittany: exploring the Emerald Coast With its belle époque resorts, long empty beaches and medieval castles, the Emerald Coast is big on laid-back charm – and perfect for a family adventureWe’re sitting on an empty beach, a wide sweep of white sand overlooking the emerald sea, and we ca...
Jellyfish as big as a human seen off Cornwall coast – video A large barrel jellyfish has been spotted by the biologist and wildlife presenter Lizzie Daly, who came face to face with the sea creature while diving near Falmouth. Barrel jellyfish are the biggest species of jellyfish found in British waters Conti...
The Latest: Damaged oil tanker arrives off UAE coast DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf (all times local): 10:45 a.m. The Norwegian-owned oil tanker Front Altair, which caught fire after being apparently attacked last week in the Gulf of Oman, has arrived ...
Black Panther DP Rachel Morrison to make directorial debut with Barry Jenkins' Flint Strong After getting her start in short film and reality television—including a stint as director of photography for MTV’s The Hills—cinematographer Rachel Morrison has become a major name in the world of move-making of late, having brought her craft to eve...
Bud Selig was not happy when Barry Bonds passed Hank Aaron as home run king. His new book explains. In his new autobiography, "For The Good Of The Game," Bud Selig gives his side of the story on steroids and the many changes in baseball. ...
Alex Acosta redirects Jeffrey Epstein case criticism to Florida prosecutor Barry Krischer Labor Secretary Alex Acosta — drawing flak amid claims his office years ago fumbled the prosecution of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein — redirected fire Wednesday towards a Florida state prosecutor who reportedly pressured investigators to downgrad...
Newcastle fans hoping for high noon at Toon may not topple Mike Ashley | Barry Glendenning Supporters’ group fighting Ashley is calling for a St James’ Park boycott – but would not be first to find apathy in their wayA couple of hours after finishing what was intended to be the first and final draft of this column, I was forced into a rewr...
Gareth Bale bemoans lost joy of childhood and joins the outcasts with limited options | Barry Glendenning The Real Madrid winger’s dream has turned into a nightmare and he finds himself in the same boat as Özil and SánchezIn his documentary State of Play, an examination of the current wellbeing of football aired on BT Sport last week, Michael Calvin was ...
Louisiana lawmakers pass a strict ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, without rape or incest exceptions BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers pass a strict ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, without rape or incest exceptions. The post Louisiana lawmakers pass a strict ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy, without ra...
Morocco 1-0 Ivory Coast: Africa Cup of Nations – as it happened Hervé Renard;s side make it six points from two matches En-Nesyri’s goal crowns accomplished performance 7.53pm BST That was a terrific performance by Morocco, perhaps the best in the tournament so far. They take three points thanks to a wonderful go...
Ancient asteroid crater located off coast of Scotland Space object about a mile wide believed to have crashed into Earth around 1.2bn years agoThe location of an ancient impact crater made by the biggest asteroid ever to hit Britain has been traced to a spot under the sea between mainland Scotland and t...
At least two migrants die, 25 missing in boat accident off Libyan coast At least two migrants died and around 25 others were missing after their inflatable boat capsized off the western Libyan coast, a spokesman for the coastguard said on Sunday....
EU says Turkey's drilling off Cyprus coast of 'grave concern' The European Union on Monday said Turkey's plan to drill for oil and gas off Cyprus was of grave concern and an unacceptable escalation of tensions surrounding the Mediterranean island....
Frontline oil tanker struck by torpedo off UAE coast: Tradewinds An oil tanker owned by Norway's Frontline has been struck by a torpedo off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, shipping newspaper Tradewinds reported on Thursday, citing unnamed industry sources....
Blast-hit Japanese tanker anchors off UAE coast: operator One of two oil tankers crippled in attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran is now anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates with crew on board, the ship's operator said on Sunday....
Blast-hit Japanese tanker anchors off UAE coast - operator One of two oil tankers crippled in attacks in the Gulf of Oman last week that Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran is now anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates with crew on board, the ship's operator said on Sunday....
More than 260 dead dolphins found on Gulf Coast since February Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating why bottlenose dolphins are stranding themselves at an unusually high rate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico this year...
| Zaha strikes as Ivory Coast reach Cup of Nations last 16 Wilfried Zaha scored on his first start at this year's Africa Cup of Nations as Ivory Coast clinched a place in the last 16 with victory over Namibia....
Canada reapproves contentious Pacific coast pipeline Canada's federal government has once again approved the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that would nearly triple the flow of oil from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast....
The West Coast is running out of space to put dead whales PORTLAND, Ore. — So many gray whales are washing up on the U.S. West Coast that the federal agency that deals with the rotting carcasses is running out of places to put them while they decompose. NOAA Fisheries is asking those with private, isolated ...
Ancient asteroid crater found off the coast of Scotland The spot where an ancient asteroid hit the United Kingdom some 1.2 billion years ago has been tracked to a location under the sea between mainland Scotland and the Western Isles. ...
Boat carrying more than 70 migrants capsizes off Tunisian coast A boat carrying more than 70 migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting off for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent said....
At least 8 migrants dead after boat flips off Turkish coast At least eight people died when a boat carrying migrants capsized off Turkey's southwestern Aegean coast Monday, authorities said, adding that nearly three dozen were rescued....
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits California near Pacific Coast SCOTIA, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 5.5 earthquake has hit near the Pacific coast of Northern California. The agency says the earthquake struck at 8:53 p.m. at a spot 17.3 miles (27.9 kilometers) southwest of Scotia, a t...
At least 26 dead after fishing boat capsizes off Honduran coast At least 26 people died after a lobster-fishing boat capsized off the Atlantic coast of Honduras during poor weather conditions, an armed forces spokesman said on Wednesday, in one of the country's worst-ever accidents at sea....
Morocco progresses at African Cup after beating Ivory Coast Morocco beat Ivory Coast 1-0 to qualify for the last 16 from the African Cup of Nations’ so-called group of death, giving coach Herve Renard another victory over his former team on Friday. Youssef En-Nesyri slotted home for the only goal in the...
Snag $4.99 bus seats during the East Coast debut of FlixBus FlixBus will offer $4.99 seats during its East Coast debut with routes connecting New York City, Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Richmond. ...
Marlin jumps into boat, seriously injuring two men off NSW north coast 100kg fish lands in brothers’ five-metre vessel north of Coffs Harbour, slicing man’s arm openA large marlin weighing up to 100kg jumped into a small boat off the New South Wales coast, seriously injuring two brothers, with one of them suffering a fr...
‘Big Little Lies’ tourism is killing California’s pristine coast Big Sur has a big little problem. The dreamy coastal city set on a precarious cliffside has survived massive mudslides, heavy rains and fires, but it may not be able to overcome a deluge of Renattas, Bonnies, Madelines, Celestes and Janes. Fans of HB...
In Portugal, a man braves dangerous cliffs to clean-up the coast Every week, carrying a large bag to collect marine litter, sea-lover Miguel Lacerda climbs up and down dangerous 140-metre-high cliffs, dedicating himself to cleaning up Portugal's rocky coast....
Wreck of last slave ship from Africa ID’d off Alabama coast BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, historical officials said Wednesday. A statement by the Alab...
U.S. Coast Guard seized over $569 million in drugs from May to July Vice President Mike Pence called the seizure of more than 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana worth a combined $569 million by the U.S. Coast Guard "historic."...
Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates off Nigeria's coast Ten Turkish sailors were abducted from their ship by armed men off the coast of Nigeria on Monday, the co-partner of the shipping company, Ahmet Paksoy, told CNN on Tuesday....
Man swimming off Hawaii coast killed in shark attack A 65-year-old man swimming off the coast of Maui on Saturday morning is now dead after an encounter with a shark. Thomas Smiley, who CNN reports was from California, was approximately 60 yards from Kaanapali Beach at the time. He was brought back ash...
Coast Guard siezes alledged drug sub in Pacific The U.S. Coast Guard says a cutter interdicted a submarine suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean. A video shows Coast Guard officers boarding the submarine and ordering those inside to open the hatch. (June 18) &#...
‘Flip or Flop’ star goes solo in ‘Christina on the Coast’ Christina Anstead says she has “so much going on right now” — and that’s not an understatement. The “Flip or Flop” star, who announced in March that she’s expecting a child with her second husband, Ant Anstead (she’s due in September), has been filmi...
‘Iceberg alley’ photos along Canada’s coast are very cool Remarkable images show gigantic icebergs as they pass by Canada’s Cape Bonavista. The area off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is dubbed “iceberg alley” on account of the colossal bergs that float by every spring. “Our Cape Bonavista Lighthous...
‘A Magnificent Life’: Barry Jenkins Pays Tribute to If Beale Street Could Talk Hairstylist Kenneth Walker One of the visionaries who helped bring James Baldwin’s work to luminous life on the big screen has died. Earlier this month, the film industry lost veteran hairstylist Kenneth Walker, and on Wednesday, If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenki...
Libyan coast guard says it rescued 80 Europe-bound migrants Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted a boat carrying 80 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country's Mediterranean coast....
U.S. urges Turkey to halt drilling operations off Cyprus coast The U.S. State Department on Tuesday urged Turkish authorities to halt energy drilling operations off the Cypriot coast in the Mediterranean, a day after Cyprus protested a Turkish ship dropping anchor there....
| Ivory Coast 'babes' bank on sharpshooter Pepe against Bafana Ivory Coast coach Ibrahim Kamara sees Nicolas Pepe as one the young stars who can banish the memories of a disastrous Africa Cup of Nations title defence two years ago....
Shell, Chevron U.S. Gulf Coast refineries monitoring weather Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas coastal refineries operated by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Chevron Corp were monitoring a developing weather disturbance in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico that may produce heavy wind and rain later this week, company s...
India to evacuate thousands as cyclone nears west coast Indian authorities are preparing to evacuate 300,000 people along the western coast as a severe cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday morning in the state of Gujarat....
John Bolton to address US Coast Guard Academy graduates NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is scheduled to deliver the keynote address Wednesday at the United States Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony. Bolton has been President Donald Trump’s national security a...
Libyan coast guard intercepts some 140 Europe-bound migrants Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted two boats carrying around 140 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast...
Nearly 200 Europe-bound migrants intercepted at sea by Libya’s coast guard Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Saturday that five rubber boats carrying 199 migrants were intercepted over the past several days near the capital, Tripoli....
Gold Coast Titans sack coach Garth Brennan Brennan axed after just 12 wins from 40 matchesAssistants Craig Hodges and Luke Burt will take over as interim coachesGold Coast have sacked coach Garth Brennan, two days after a 24-2 defeat to Penrith left the club rooted to the bottom of the NRL la...
Libyan coast guard intercepts some 100 Europe-bound migrants BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted a boat carrying nearly 100 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Tuesday that the rubber ...
Cyprus says Turkish drill ship off its coast serious sovereignty breach Cyprus said on Monday it 'strongly condemns' what it said was an infringement of its sovereign rights by Turkey, after Ankara sent a drill ship off the island to explore for oil and gas....
Tunisia recovers 14 migrants' bodies after dozens drowned off coast Tunisia's Coast Guard recovered on Saturday the bodies of 14 African migrants who drowned when their boat carrying more than 80 people sank after setting off for Europe from neighboring Libya, the Tunisian Red Crescent said....
Whidbey Island, west coast answer to Martha's Vineyard Although Whidbey Island is only about 30 miles from Seattle, it feels much farther away. Find out the best things to do at this idyllic Washingston state escape....
Thousands of volunteers remove plastic from northern Spanish coast Thousands of volunteers plucked plastic and other waste products from the rocks and beaches along Spain's Basque coast on Saturday, while divers took to the sea to clear garbage from the water as part of World Oceans Day....
Second Turkish drillship arrives off Cyprus coast, Nicosia protests A second Turkish ship planning to drill for oil and gas off Cyprus arrived off the Mediterranean island's northeastern coast on Monday, triggering a strong protest from Nicosia of an infringement by Turkey of its sovereign rights....
Mississippi River closed at St. Louis due to flooding: U.S. Coast Guard The U.S. Coast Guard said it has closed the Mississippi River near St. Louis to boat and barge traffic on Thursday for the second time this month due to high water and strong currents on the major shipping waterway....
Mali 0-1 Ivory Coast: Africa Cup of Nations 2019 last 16 – as it happened Wilfried Zaha’s second-half goal was enough to earn an underwhelming Ivory Coast victory over Mali and a quarter-final against Algeria 7.23pm BST Related: Africa Cup of Nations: Wilfried Zaha fires Ivory Coast past wasteful Mali 7.07pm BST That’s a...
Italian coast guard brings ashore migrants on Lampedusa An Italian coast guard vessel has safely landed 55 migrants on the island of Lampdusa after rescuing them from nearby waters. However, Rome has also refused entry to a ship that rescued migrants in distress off Libya....
Wreck of last slave ship from Africa located off Alabama coast Researchers have located the remains of the last known ship to bring slaves to the U.S. from West Africa, Alabama historical officials announced Wednesday....
Evidence of a Gigantic Impact Crater Found Off Scottish Coast Some 1.2 billion years ago, an asteroid measuring over 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) wide smashed into northwest Scotland. Trouble is, scientists aren’t sure exactly where the meteorite struck, as traces of the crater are long gone. With new research, howe...
Canada's Trudeau to invest C$15.7 billion in coast guard overhaul Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said Canada would spend an estimated C$15.7 billion ($11.7 billion) to renew its coast guard fleet and that it would partner with a new shipyard to complete the project....
Coast Guard seizes 40,000 pounds of drugs on high seas CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded tons of cocaine and marijuana seized from boats and even a semi-submarine in the Pacific. Vice President Mike Pence was on hand Thursday as 39,000 pounds (17,690 kilograms) of cocaine and 933...
The US Coast Guard Caught This Cocaine-Smuggling Semi-Submersible The U.S. Coast Guard today announced that the Coast Guard Cutter Munro would offload thirty-nine thousand pounds of cocaine in San Diego with Vice President Pence presiding. The copious amounts of powdered narcotic had been taken in 14 separate seizu...
India’s west coast hunkers down as Cyclone Vayu approaches Authorities have evacuated nearly 300,000 people from India’s western coastline ahead of a very severe cyclone that’s expected to make landfall as the year’s second major storm...
Space Rockets Spark Property Boom on Florida Coast Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing to send people into outer space and eventually to the moon and Mars. They are already improving the fortunes of a coastal Florida city that is home to their budding space ambitions....
Joe Root Stars As England Coast To 8-Wicket Win Over West Indies Joe Root scored his second century of World Cup 2019 as England crushed the West Indies by eight wickets in Southampton on Friday with 16.5 overs to spare....
Hundreds of dolphins stranded, wash up dead along US Gulf Coast Hundreds of dolphins have washed up dead along the US Gulf Coast in recent months — an event so strange it’s been deemed an “unusual mortality event” by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. More than 261 bottlenose dolph...
Algeria beats Ivory Coast on penalties to make semis Algeria blew a 1-0 lead and a penalty in regulation time before squeezing past Ivory Coast in a shootout to make the semifinals at the African Cup of Nations ...
International judges give reasons for Ivory Coast acquittals Judges at the International Criminal Court have issued lengthy explanations for the decision to acquit Ivory Coast’s ex-president on crimes against humanity charges for post-election violence in 2010...
NOAA Investigates Surge in Dead Dolphins Along the Gulf Coast Since the beginning of February, over 260 bottlenose dolphin strandings have been documented along the northern Gulf Coast, prompting the declaration of an “unusual mortality event.” The reason for the strandings isn’t entirely clear, but indications...
2 found dead after migrant boat capsizes off Libyan coast: UN The International Organization for Migration said the boat was carrying over 95 migrants and floundered off the coast of the western town of Garaboli, 60 kilometres east of the capital, Tripoli....
Hundreds of dolphins have died along Gulf Coast since February, scientists say At least 279 animals have been stranded, triple the usual figure, and 98% have died, prompting investigationAt least 279 dolphins have become stranded across much of the US Gulf Coast since the start of February, triple the usual number, and about 98...
Coast Guard rescues man from cruise ship off North Carolina HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) — The Coast Guard has helped take a man from a cruise ship to the mainland for a medical problem. The Coast Guard’s Portsmouth, Virginia, command center received a call Friday morning that a passenger on the cruise ship was ...
US fighter jets intercept Russian bombers off Alaskan coast US warplanes intercepted four Russian bombers and two jet fighters in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Monday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement Tuesday. The Russian planes — Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and S...
Coast Guardsman jumps onto moving narco submarine and punches it In a video released by the U.S. Coast Guard, crew members belonging to the CG Cutter Munro tracked down a semi-submersible with drug runners in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and forced them to stop....
Researchers Discover Giant Freshwater Aquifer off U.S. East Coast In a welcome bit of news as water shortages hit major cities worldwide, scientists have discovered an enormous low-salinity aquifer off the U.S. East Coast. The researchers say it could indicate other such aquifers trapped beneath the salty seas in o...
20 people missing from migrant boat rescued off Spanish coast Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry rescued 27 people still aboard on Wednesday....
Police stop 4 kids who drove SUV 600 miles down Aussie coast Police say four children aged 10 to 14 packed fishing rods in a parent’s SUV, left a farewell note then drove 600 miles down the Australian east coast before they were stopped the next day...
Spend the summer at these secret East Coast beach towns See shells, not crowds. Every year from Memorial Day to Labor Day, countless New Yorkers flock to the Kiawahs and Kennebunkports of the Eastern seaboard. They diligently check these la-di-da locales off their list, curtsying to their inner prep schoo...
Rained Out by Hurricane Barry, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Turns Canceled Convention Day Into Major Food Donation As Hurricane Barry barreled through the Gulf Coast this weekend, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. scrambled to wrap up its biennial convention in New Orleans early....
Hawaii firm aims to mass produce edible seaweed off coast KAILUA, Hawaii — A Hawaii company hopes to build an underwater farm that can produce large quantities of edible seaweed. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday that Kampachi Farms LLC is working to establish a farm to grow limu more than a mile...
Massive explosion at largest gas refinery on the East Coast, triggering fire A fire broke out at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. The refinery located outside Philadelphia is the longest continuously operating refinery on the East Coast. Gasoline futures are moving upwards on the news....
Boat With Dozens of African Migrants Capsizes Off Tunisia Coast, Survivor Says Dozens of African migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia on Wednesday after setting off by boat for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent said....
Jamaican fishermen forcibly held and abused by US Coast Guard, lawsuit says Quartet say officers accused them of drug smuggling, stripped them naked, burned their boat, and shackled them in CaribbeanOn 13 September 2017, five Jamaican fisherman set out in the Jossette, a two-engine boat made of fiberglass and wood.Their dest...
Hundreds of dolphins stranded, wash up dead along US Gulf Coast, officials say Hundreds of dolphins have washed up dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast in recent months — an event so strange it's been deemed an "unusual mortality event" by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration....
Millions Of Jellyfish Headed To Israel's Coast, Lifeguards Warn Swimmers Millions of jellyfish are headed toward Israel's coast on their nearly annual pilgrimage, and thousands have clogged the filters of a southern power station. Locals and visitors are already reporting......
Watch The Biggest Oil Refinery on the East Coast Explode Into a Massive Fireball A Philadelphia oil refinery experienced a fire that caused at least three massive explosions in Southwest Philadelphia around 4 a.m. this morning, ABC 6 reports. Thankfully four employees only suffered minor injuries that were able to be treated on-s...
Pioneer Natural sees crude exports rising from U.S. Gulf Coast -CFO Pioneer Natural Resources Co is moving about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from the Permian basin to the U.S. Gulf Coast, with about 80 percent of that loaded on ships for export, Chief Financial Officer Rich Dealy said on Tuesday....
The U.S. Coast Guard heroically airlifts people stranded in flooded waters The U.S. Coast Guard said that a crew from Air Station New Orleans evacuated a number of people from flooded areas in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. ...
Heroin Worth 600 Crore Seized From Pak Fishing Vessel Off Gujarat Coast Heroin worth Rs 600 crore was seized from a Pakistani fishing vessel off the coast of Gujarat on Tuesday, the Indian Coast Guard said in a statement....
Ivory Coast accident kills Spanish woman, injures 10 girls MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Foreign Ministry says a Spanish woman has been killed and 10 Spanish girls have been injured in a traffic accident in the Ivory Coast. The ministry said Sunday that the accident occurred Saturday when the bus they were tra...
Africa Cup of Nations: Morocco's magic moment earns win over Ivory Coast Morocco 1-0 Ivory Coast (En-Nesyri 23)Tunisia 1-1 Mali (Khazri 70; Samessekou 60)Morocco reached the knockout stage of the Africa Cup of Nations, and served notice that they are one of the sides to beat, with a 1-0 win over Ivory Coast in Cairo.Youss...
'Buses with fins': giant basking sharks reappear off California coast The marine behemoths, which can weigh more than 10,000 pounds, are returning in numbers not seen in decadesGiant basking sharks have reappeared off the coast of southern California in numbers not seen in decades.“The sight just takes your breath away...
Africa Cup of Nations: Bony named in Ivory Coast's final squad Former Swansea and Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony is named in Ivory Coast's final 23-man squad for this month's Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt....
Ten Turkish sailors seized by pirates off Nigerian coast: shipping company Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates off the coast of Nigeria early on Tuesday, shipping company Kadioglu Denizcilik said, adding that another eight sailors were safely aboard the ship....
Near-record 'dead zone' forecast off U.S. Gulf coast, threatening fish A near record-sized "dead zone" of oxygen-starved water could form in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, threatening its huge stocks of marine life, researchers said....
Staggering drug bust shows traffickers turning to East Coast This week's staggering cocaine bust in Philadelphia is another sign that traffickers are turning to East Coast seaports as a result of increased law enforcement pressure along the country's southwest border....
Divers spot massive human-sized jellyfish off English coast It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie. A giant, human-sized jellyfish lurking in the waters off the English coast. The creature — which is all too frighteningly real — was captured on camera recently by ocean cinematographer Dan Abbott durin...
NOAA: 279 dolphins dead on Gulf Coast, triple usual number NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say at least 279 dolphins have stranded across the U.S. Gulf Coast since Feb. 1, triple the usual number. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say 98% died. They said during a teleconference Friday...
Mississippi River closed to shipping at St. Louis due to flooding: U.S. Coast Guard The U.S. Coast Guard said it has closed the Mississippi River near St. Louis to boat and barge traffic on Thursday due to high water and strong currents on the major shipping waterway....
'Forgotten coast': a Florida town fights to rebuild after Hurricane Michael Weeks before the 2019 hurricane season, Mexico Beach is still cleaning up debris from the strongest storm to hit the areaFive miles away from Mexico Beach, the carcasses of trees appear by the side of the road, still sprouting from the soil. Some ben...
Best Coast will be the house band on Fred Savage's aftershow parody What Just Happened??! This summer, Fox will be airing a weekly Talking Dead-style post-show discussion panel with host Fred Savage unpacking all of the biggest twists and turns from the most recent episode of hit sci-fi show The Flare (an adaptation of a hit sci-fi novel)...
Libyan coast guard intercepts Europe-bound migrant boat Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted a rubber boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country's Mediterranean coast....
Algeria beat Ivory Coast on penalties to reach the AFCON semis "Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final - Suez Stadium – Ivory Coast 1 (J. Kodjia 62\u0027) Algeria 1 (S. Feghouli 20\u0027) Algeria win 4-3 on penalties"...
Feds to investigate spike in gray whale deaths on West Coast SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. scientists will investigate why an unusual number of gray whales are washing up dead on West Coast beaches. About 70 whales have been stranded so far this year on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the most s...
Late Zaha goal sends Ivory Coast into African Cup quarters Wilfried Zaha's late goal put Ivory Coast into the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Mali ...
Incredible, technicolor shot of a giant jellyfish swarm off British coast Photographer Tommy May captured an incredible shot of 1,000 jellyfish off the coast of Devon, England, making for a fantastic, colorful spectacle. ...
Family: Louisiana-born musician Dr. John dies at 77; blended black and white musical styles with hoodoo-infused persona NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Family: Louisiana-born musician Dr. John dies at 77; blended black and white musical styles with hoodoo-infused persona. The post Family: Louisiana-born musician Dr. John dies at 77; blended black and white musical styles with hood...
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Cyclone Vayu: NDRF Rescues Pregnant Woman From Island Off Gujarat Coast NDRF and emergency medical services personnel sprang into action as Cyclone Vayu brought heavy rain and winds to Gujarat to rescue two pregnant women and ensure they delivered their children safely...
Ivory Coast rains make cocoa farmers hopeful for next main crop Above average rains in most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa growing regions last week should boost the next main crop in autumn, while the April to September mid-crop is tailing off, farmers said on Monday....
Washington the latest West Coast state to enact immigration sanctuary protections Under the new Washington state law, local law enforcement agencies are broadly prohibited from asking about immigration status or place of birth unless directly connected to a criminal investigation....
U.S. Navy names future destroyer after Coast Guard hero Quentin Walsh The U.S. Navy has named a future guided-missile destroyer in honor of Quentin Walsh, the first time an Arleigh Burke-class ship will honor a member of the Coast Guard....
Double whale breach off Australia coast thrills tourists 'within meters' of scene A group of whale watchers off Australia’s Gold Coast captured incredible video of two of the sea creatures “double breaching” within feet of their boat....
Damning report reveals rampant sexual harassment at US Coast Guard Academy Almost half of female cadets at the US Coast Guard Academy said they were sexually harassed, and about one in eight women reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact, according to a Pentagon survey released Wednesday....
Speeding, congestion and protest: the dark side of Scotland’s North Coast 500 route For locals, the phenomenal success of this driving route means blocked roads, a racetrack mentality and mess, rather than the promised benefits to businessAt Bettyhill General Merchants, a convenience store and post office in a remote village on Scot...
More than 260 dolphins found stranded along the Gulf Coast since February. Scientists aren't sure why. More than 260 bottle nose dolphins have been founded stranded along the Northern Gulf of Mexico since Feb. 1, 2019. ...
Monsoon rains to arrive on India's southern coast around June 8: weather office Monsoon rains are likely to enter India through the southern coast around June 8, the weather office said on Wednesday, marking the start of the four-month rainy season that is crucial for the country's farm-dependent economy....
Watch: Coast Guards Leap Onto "Narco-Sub", Seize Drugs Worth $232 Million Infamously elusive boats dubbed narco-submarines - cartel-funded ships built in the jungle to haul massive amounts of drugs - have bedeviled Coast Guardsmen tasked with stemming the flow of......
West Coast Residents Seriously Underestimate the Threat of a Catastrophic Earthquake, Survey Finds As last week’s major earthquakes in Southern California reminded us, we humans are still at the mercy of the geologically-active planet we live on. But despite the ever-present seismic threat, there’s a lot more West Coast cities could be doing to pr...
Shared ownership by the sea in Sussex: Shoreham flats for priced-out Londoners heading to the coast Prices start at £260k at The Waterfront, a new development of apartments and townhouses built in contemporary-style architecture in Shoreham, West Sussex....
Great white shark tracked in Long Island Sound off coast of Connecticut A great white shark was being tracked by an ocean data group while swimming in the Long Island Sound on Monday. The notorious fish, named Cabot, is 9 feet, 8 inches long and the first known great white spotted in the area off the coast of Connecticut...
US national security adviser Bolton says ships sabotaged off UAE coast were attacked ‘almost certainly by Iran’ ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — US national security adviser Bolton says ships sabotaged off UAE coast were attacked ‘almost certainly by Iran’ The post US national security adviser Bolton says ships sabotaged off UAE coast were at...
Coast Guard anticipates closing Port of New Orleans and lower Mississippi within several hours The United States Coast Guard expects to close the Port of New Orleans and the lower Mississippi River on Friday as Tropical Storm Barry approaches the Gulf Coast....
Coast guard fleet renewal plan unlikely to yield promised deals before the election While the process for initiating the new deals will begin shortly, none are expected to be finalized prior to the start of the federal election campaign....
Toxic algae that causes rashes, vomiting closes beaches along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast More than a dozen beaches in Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have been closed after the formation of a toxic algae bloom on the shoreline. Officials have also warned people to avoid eating seafood from affected areas....
Trudeau pledges billions for new coast guard fleet but mum on how he plans to circumvent delays Talks between the government and Quebec's Chantier Davie are slated to start on Thursday after pledge to open up shipbuilding contracts to a third supplier....
Human-sized jellyfish lurking off English coast stuns divers: 'It’s an experience we’ll never forget' Two divers off the coast of England had the experience of a lifetime when they came across — and swam alongside — a human-sized barrel jellyfish, scientifically known as a Rhizostoma Pulmo....
West Coast braces for heat wave, raising fears of wildfires in Northern California Near-record high temperatures are expected to roast the West Coast next week, with gusty winds raising the danger of fire in a region still coping with last year's deadly wildfires. ...
Coast Guard searching for Texas police chief knocked overboard by large wake A Texas police chief who served in the Army as a paratrooper was missing after being knocked off his fishing boar into Galveston Bay by the wake of a passing large vessel....
Africa Cup of Nations 2019: Late Zaha goal sends Ivory Coast through, Ghana out Wilfried Zaha scored a later winner as the Ivory Coast beat Mali to reach the quarterfinals, where they will face Tunisia. The Tunisians conceded a stoppage time equalizer by Ghana but recovered to win on penalties....
Africa Cup of Nations: Algeria beat Ivory Coast, Tunisia kill Madagascar’s dream • Ivory Coast 1-1 Algeria aet (3-4 on pens)• Madagascar 0-3 TunisiaThe Swansea striker Wilfried Bony missed from the spot as Algeria edged past Ivory Coast in a dramatic penalty shootout to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.Sofiane Feghouli...
2 more dead gray whales have been found in Alaska, bringing the year's toll to 75 along the US West Coast Two more gray whales were found dead this week in Alaska amid the mysterious surge of deaths within the species this year along the US West Coast, CNN affiliate KTUU reports....
Coast Guard seizes estimated $569 million worth of cocaine, marijuana on high seas Vice President Mike Pence was on hand as 39,000 pounds of cocaine and 933 pounds of marijuana were seized. ...
Mississippi Gulf Coast fishermen struggling as flooding disaster wipes out marine life The Mississippi Gulf coast is now bearing the affects of the record rain and snowmelt that has caused major flooding throughout the Midwest this year. The influx of water that has drained into the Mississippi River and is now being diverted into the ...
Africa Cup of Nations: Wilfried Zaha fires Ivory Coast past wasteful Mali Wilfried Zaha struck in the 76th minute to give Ivory Coast a smash-and-grab win over Mali in their Africa Cup of Nations last 16 match in Suez on Monday. Related: Mali 0-1 Ivory Coast: Africa Cup of Nations 2019 last 16 – as it happened Continue re...
Sportwatch: wins for West Coast and Broncos, while Rebels romp and Waratahs slump – as it happened AFL: Roos beat Bulldogs, Eagles beat CrowsNRL: Broncos beat Warriors, Souths beat TigersRugby: Rebels beat Sunwolves, Jaguares beat WaratahsNetball: Lightning beat Giants 12.49pm BST Well that’s it from me tonight – what an exciting evening it’s been...
Coast Guard Academy experiences rise in sexual assault, highest rate in a decade Nearly half of female cadets at the academy said they were sexually harassed, while one in eight women experienced unwanted sexual contact. ...
All Mississippi beaches close as toxic algae bloom blankets state's coast On Sunday the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced the final two state beaches that were open for swimming. ...
Louisiana becomes latest US state to pass strict 'heartbeat' abortion ban Louisiana has become the latest US state to pass a strict new abortion ban that would prohibit the procedure before some women even know they are pregnant....
Midweek Storm Threat The flash flood watch is extended through Thursday evening- we’re capping off days of torrential rain with a chance for a few strong to severe storms late Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Damaging wind, hail and heavy rain will be possibl...
REFILE- Canadian crude Gulf Coast exports rise as Venezuelan gap is filled -trade sources Heavy crudes have poured into the United States this spring, offsetting the loss of Venezuelan oil and producing a mini-surplus, with Canadian heavy crude this month being exported from the U.S. Gulf Coast....
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CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Ivory Coast, Ghana add 'living income' cocoa premium to fight poverty Top global cocoa producers Ivory Coast and Ghana have imposed a fixed "living income differential" of $400 a tonne on all cocoa contracts sold by either country for the 2020/21 season, an official letter seen by Reuters shows....
Carnival crew member overboard 30 miles northwest of Cuba; Coast Guard search is underway The Coast Guard is searching for a 37-year-old crew member who fell overboard from the cruise ship Carnival Victory northwest of Cuba. ...
'Sexual assault crisis': Unwanted contact reports hit all-time high at Coast Guard Academy Reports of unwanted sexual contact by cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a survey released Wednesday by the academy....
Abundant rains offer good prospects for main Ivory Coast cocoa crop: farmers Above-average rainfall mixed with sunshine in Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions last week could boost the forthcoming October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday....
Coast Guard suspends search for missing Carnival Victory crew member in waters off Cuba On Sunday, the Coast Guard suspended its search for a missing Carnival Victory crew member who reportedly went overboard July 4 off the coast of Cuba. ...
Carnival crew member overboard 30 miles northwest of Cuba; Coast Guard search underway The Coast Guard is searching for a 37-year-old crew member who fell overboard from the cruise ship Carnival Victory northwest of Cuba. ...
Forget Griezmann and Neymar! Barcelona sign Louie Barry, 16, 'one of the best young English players' Barcelona are currently lining up deals for the likes of Antoine Griezmann and Neymar, but the Spanish champions have added another forward to their ranks today - and he comes from Birmingham....
U.S. NHC says subtropical storm forms in the Atlantic A low-pressure system located several hundred miles southwest of Bermuda has become a subtropical storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday....
Fortnite's new weapon is a storm in a bottle One of the great things about battle royale games like Fortnite is that no two matches are different. Random generation ensures that lobbies include different players, varying weapons spawn in known locations and -- perhaps most importantly -- the st...
After the tornado: storm damage in the US – in pictures There has been a spate of tornadoes in the US over the last two weeks as a volatile mix of warm, moist air from the south-east and persistent cold from the Rocky Mountains clashes over the midwest Continue reading......
Storm's Sue Bird needs surgery, will be out indefinitely Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird needs arthroscopic surgery on her left knee and will be out indefinitely, another big blow for the defending WNBA champs....
Storm beat Lynx 84-77 despite 20 turnovers EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Jewell Loyd scored 19 points, Jordin Canada had a career-high 17 points and seven assists and the Seattle Storm beat the Minnesota Lynx 84-77 on Tuesday night. Alysha Clark added 16 points and Natasha Howard 12 for Seattle (3-2)...
The Gathering Storm Over How Hurricanes Are Measured Call anything a Category 5 storm, disaster or crisis and immediately it sounds awful. The label owes much of its weight to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which is cited routinely (if rarely by its full name) during the Atlantic hurricane se...
Howard, Storm overpower Dream Natasha Howard racked up 19 points, 14 rebounds, four assists and three blocked shots, and the visiting Seattle Storm rolled to an 82-66 win over the Atlanta Dream on Friday....
DJI unveils STORM cinematography drone, but you can't buy it Drone manufacturer DJI may have spread itself across a number of different sectors of late, most recently with its GoPro-trouncing Osmo Action camera, but it has always retained its drone footing with consumer-, professional- and even industrial-leve...
660,000 Sign Up to Take Area 51 By Storm and ‘See Them Aliens’ As of today, there are almost 660,000 people who’ve signed up to attend a Facebook event on September 20. What’s all the fuss about? ...
Everybody Sleeping on the Geo Storm Hatchback was a Mistake For 1990, General Motors introduced the world to the Isuzu-based Geo Storm. It was a deligtful economically minded lightweight sporty coupe, which was pretty well removed from anything else GM was doing in 1990. Of GM’s two youth-oriented sporty-ish ...
Quigley, Vandersloot give Sky win over Storm Allie Quigley scored 25 points, Diamond DeShields added 21 and the Chicago Sky beat the defending champion Seattle Storm 83-79 ...
Oil steadies as U.S. supply ramps up after storm Oil prices steadied on Tuesday, paring gains as U.S. offshore crude production resumed after Hurricane Barry and tensions between the U.S. and Iran were seen easing....
Toxic algae bloom forces Gulf Coast beach closures ahead of 4th of July holiday weekend More than a dozen beaches in Mississippi’s Gulf Coast have been closed ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend after the formation of a toxic algae bloom on the shore line....
Mayor: New Orleans can't pump its way out of storm The mayor of New Orleans says the city's water pumps are "working at optimal capacity" as Tropical Storm Barry moves toward the state's Gulf coast. (July 11) ...
Dan Hughes set to resume coaching Seattle Storm NEW YORK (AP) — Seattle Storm coach Dan Hughes is back as the head coach of the team after stepping away for the first month of the season because of cancer. Hughes first game will be Friday against Los Angeles. Seattle plays eight of its next nine g...
Days after storm, clean up continues in Dallas DALLAS (AP) — Two days after a storm barreled through Dallas, whole trees can still be seen where they fell, hundreds of traffic signals remain out and the work to restore power to thousands of people is ongoing. Near downtown, a fallen crane that ki...
Several tourists die as freak storm strikes Greece Seven people, including six tourists, were killed and dozens more injured in a freak storm Wednesday that tore through north Greece, officials said. The storm slammed the tourist destination of Halkidiki, where gale-force winds, heavy rain and hail b...
Storm's Bird out indefinitely with injured knee Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm will undergo arthroscopic surgery to remove a loose body in her left knee and is out indefinitely, the team announced. Bird has been part of all three Storm championship teams....
Storm's Sue Bird needs surgery, will be out indefinitely Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird needs arthroscopic surgery on her left knee and will be out indefinitely, another big blow for the defending WNBA champs ...
Strong Storm And Heavy Rain Potential Severe Storm Risk After the dry Friday we’re watching thunderstorms to the northwest that will arrive for parts of the area later this evening and into tomorrow. Heavy rain along with the threat for severe storms is there, especially south and ...
Aprilia Storm 125 Launched In India, Priced At Rs. 65,000 Piaggio Group today launched the new Aprilia Storm 125 cc scooter in India, priced at Rs. 65,000 (ex-showroom, Delhi). First, showcased at the 2018 Auto Expo, the new Aprilia Storm 125 is now the most......
Cyclone kicks up dust storm in India Cyclone Vayu, the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, has taken a sharp turn to the west and will spare the western Indian state of Gujarat from the most destructive wind and torrential rain....
Sims and Fowles help Lynx beat Storm 72-61 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Odyssey Sims had 15 points, Sylvia Fowles grabbed 13 rebounds and the Minnesota Lynx beat the defending champion Seattle Storm 72-61 on Wednesday night. The teams have combined to win six of the last nine WNBA titles, but the marqu...
Hedge funds chart course through 'IMO 2020' storm Shipping companies, refineries, freight derivatives or diesel cracks? Investment funds are placing their bets as the shipping sector prepares for new rules limiting sulfur emissions from ocean-going vessels....
Linda Fairstein, Once Cheered, Faces Storm After ‘When They See Us’ A Netflix series about the Central Park jogger case has led to intense criticism of the famous prosecutor-turned-novelist who oversaw the investigation....
Americans Storm the Gates of Royal Ascot The U.S. trainer Wesley Ward has won 10 times, and more of his countrymen are now competing. All 14 starters from outside Europe came from the U.S. in 2017...
Bonner, Griner lead Mercury over Storm 69-67 SEATTLE (AP) — DeWanna Bonner and Brittney Griner each scored 20 points to help the Phoenix Mercury beat Seattle 69-67 on Sunday, handing the Storm their first home loss of the season. The Mercury (5-5) took the lead for good at 57-56 on Griner’...
Thiem rides the storm to knock out Djokovic Austrian Dominic Thiem crushed Novak Djokovic's French Open hopes as he survived a weather-ravaged semi-final spanning 24 hours to complete a 6-2 3-6 7-5 5-7 7-5 victory on Saturday and set up a repeat of last year's showdown with Rafael Nadal....
Storm trauma: new disasters trigger old memories (WVLA/NBC News) As the Gulf Coast braces for the arrival of Tropical Storm Barry, experts warn the experience could trigger Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among survivors of past natural disasters. The Greater Baton Rouge area experienced devastating...
Aprilia Storm 125 Launch Details Revealed Piaggio India is all set to launch the Aprilia Storm 125 on 30th May, 2019. The Aprilia Storm 125 was first showcased at the 2018 Auto Expo and is a more affordable version of the regular Aprilia SR......
Crane collapses during storm and 'slices through' apartments A construction crane, apparently toppled by high winds, collapsed onto a five-storey apartment block in downtown Dallas, killing at least one person and injuring six others....
This is what caused the freak Guadalajara hail storm Soaring temperatures, high elevation and a slew of other ingredients all collided to create the freak hail storm that hit Guadalajara, experts said on Monday. Residents of Mexico’s second-largest city woke up in shock Sunday to find that nearly...
Tracking Monday Severe Storm Threat We have one more round inbound! After a morning batch of showers & a few storms weakens our severe storm threat ramps back up mid/late Monday afternoon pushing into eastern counties into the early evening. Watch for damaging wind, hail and heavy rain...
ADOT creates dust storm playlist TUCSON- The Arizona Department of Transportation created a music playlist to help people have the appropriate tunes when there are dust storms. The dust storms will be here soon enough. Make sure you have the appropriate tunes. https://t.co/AqH0vCNZ...
Google Is at the Center of a Storm Brewing Over Big Tech Support for an antitrust investigation into the company is coming from across the political spectrum. For Google, any case would be a major distraction, or worse....
U.S. producers cut a third of Gulf of Mexico production as storm approaches Crude production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday was cut by nearly a third, or 602,715 barrels per day (bpd), as a storm threatened offshore oil production, according to figures released by a U.S. regulator....
Aid preparations gear up as Mozambique braces for second massive storm Emergency measures are being stepped up by the UN and partners in northern Mozambique, amid fears that another devastating tropical storm could batter coastal areas on Thursday evening, weeks after Cyclone Idai claimed hundreds of lives and flooded v...
Options are few for storm-ravaged homes with insufficient insurance While government programs can offer assistance following a hurricane or other major weather event, it's not guaranteed and it's not all free....
1.3 million people have signed up to storm Area 51. What could go wrong? Please don’t attempt the Internet’s joke du jour, the US Air Force will not be amusedUrban legend has it that Area 51 is a weird place. Yet even if the conspiracy theories are true and the Nevada Air Force facility harbors extraterrestrial technology...
Gulf of Mexico U.S. oil output cut by 53% ahead of storm - U.S. govt Energy companies have cut crude oil production in the U.S.-regulated areas of the Gulf of Mexico by 53.39%, or 1 million barrels per day (bpd), ahead of Tropical Storm Barry, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Thur...
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NG Live!: John Wesley Powell: From the Depths of the Grand Canyon
A true hero of the American West, John Wesley Powell made the first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. A National Geographic… more
A true hero of the American West, John Wesley Powell made the first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. A National Geographic founding member who gave the Society's first lecture on February 13, 1888, this larger-than-life explorer is brought to the stage by Clay Jenkinson.
A brief history of Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon Adventure: The 800-Mile Hike That Nearly Killed Us (Part 3)
Epic Grand Canyon Hike: A 650-Mile Challenge (Part 1)
Epic Grand Canyon Hike: Frozen Shoes and Low on Food (Part 2)
Epic Grand Canyon Hike: Thirst and Threats in the Godscape (Part 3)
Experience the Grand Canyon, From Rim to River
NG Live!: Osvel Hinojosa Huerta: Bringing Water Back to the River
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Loch Ness Monster Hoax
The Reel Story: Matthew Henson
NG Live!: The Power of Photography to Prove
Giant Amoebas Filmed in Pacific's Deepest Region
Gorgeous Video: Rock Climbing in Oman
Great Barrier Reef Blue Hole Filmed For First Time Ever
NG Live!: The Power of Photography to Witness
How Did the 'Unsinkable' Titanic End Up at the Bottom of the Ocean?
Ballard 'Titanic' Discovery NGLive!
See a Gigantic Sinkhole on New Zealand’s North Island
Mount Vesuvius Victims
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A blog full of all-natural, gluten-free pish and mince.
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THE WORLD CUP OF METAL 2015 (RUGBY EDITION) GAMES 9/10/11
Today’s games sees 3 teams opening their World Cup campaign (Scotland, the Aussies and Romania), 2 teams hoping to have a 100% record after two games (France and Japan) and one team looking to get their first points of the tournament (hello Fiji!)
GAME 9: SCOTLAND vs JAPAN
ADABROC vs QUEST FOR BLOOD
Regular readers of these post type things will realise that I have a soft spot for one-man atmospheric black metal acts and Adabroc (from the Isle of Lewis) has wormed his way into the soft spot of my heart with his use of the flute in his atmospheric Drudkh inspired numbers. Great riffs, drumming and songwriting showcases Dómhnall Alasdair MacIlleMhuire’s prodigious talents and is definitely a name to look out for in atmospheric BM circles.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Adabroc/3540359490
https://adabroc.bandcamp.com/
If the use of the flute in Adabroc is used to make his songs sound folk-tinged, then the flautist in Japan’s Quest For Blood (great movie title by the way!) is channeling Iain Anderson, Napolean Murphy Brock and Jimi Hendrix giving this black/folk/progressive metal band an edge not too often seen or heard in metal circles. Jazz, metal, prog, improv and just plain weirdness makes Quest For Blood and interesting and worthwhile listen too. To paraphrase Frank Zappa: “Good God, give the flautist some!”
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Quest_for_Blood/3540257824
PREDICTION:
Scotland faced Japan at the 1991 and 2003 World Cups, winning each game by more than 20 points and Scotland have lost just one of their opening World Cup games (W5 D1), losing their 1999 opener against South Africa. Both of Scotland’s RWC games against Japan were tournament openers for both sides, though this time around it is Japan’s second game.
The Scots have failed to cross the try line in five of their last seven Rugby World Cup matches and last scored a World Cup try in their 2011 opener against Romania, overall Scotland have won all four of their matches against Japan, all by 20+ points. Japan became the first non Tier One nation to beat South Africa in a Test match last weekend, and only the fourth side at all to beat them at the Rugby World Cup (England, NZ and Australia). Whilst it’ll be a tricky game for the Six Nations wooden spoon winners, I can see Scotland getting past this potential banana skin and getting their first points of the tournament.
Musically it’s going to be a tie. Adabroc’s atmospheric BM is beautiful and spectacular but Quest For Blood’s sheer insanity and flute skills are more than a match for the Scot. Everybody’s ears are the winners!
GAME 10: AUSTRALIA vs FIJI
WHEN DAY DESCENDS vs BOLIVAR COLA
When Day Descends are an instrumental progressive rock/metal/post rock/metal act from Australia and from that description you can guess what their music sounds like: all chiming, ethereal guitars, complex time signatures, searing guitar solos and just general loveliness and you’d be correct. Nothing to put this act head and shoulders above similar artists but good stuff nonetheless.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/When_Day_Descends/43342
https://whendaydescends.bandcamp.com/
It seems the flute is more metal than it first appears! Stoner/doom metal act Bolivar Cola incorporate it to pretty nifty effect (along with the jew’s harp) adding a little something different to the standard female-fronted stoner doom.
https://bolivarcola.bandcamp.com/album/the-beast
Australia faced Fiji at the 2007 edition of this tournament, running out 55-12 winners; both teams went on to qualify for the quarter-finals. Australia have won six of their seven opening games at World Cups, including the last four in a row and Australia have limited the Fijians to single figures in five of their last eight meetings. Based on this information, and the fact only a fool bets against the Aussies, I’ll be predicting a comfortable Australian victory.
Musically it’s another draw, and yes I do have splinter from sitting on this damn fence so often! Whilst When Day Descends have a bigger catalogue, I’m kinda excited about hearing more from Russia’s Bolivar Cola
GAME 11: FRANCE vs ROMANIA
BARUS vs GOD
French progressive death metal, anyone? If you raised your hand then you should be checking out Barús as soon as inhumanely possible. Meshuggah and Gojira combined plus a dash of something other-worldly about the proceedings make Barús quite an exciting listen.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Bar%C3%BAs/3540393658
https://barus.bandcamp.com/releases
And now for something completely blasphemous,, or not depending on your outlook. From Romania come GOD The Barbarian Horde, an atmospheric/melodic death/doom/folk/kitchen sink band who sing in their native language and make no excuses for it. The later material is more folk-infused metal and it’s a pretty interesting listen. Check it our for yourself.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/God/14687
https://godthehorde.bandcamp.com/album/zal-mox
These two sides met in the 1987 and 1991 World Cups, with the two matches producing 100 points in total, France won each of those matches by over 25 points and by a combined margin of 70 points. However, the Oaks remained in the game at half-time in both those fixtures, going in level and trailing by just six points in ’87 and ’91 respectively. France have won three Tests in a row, their best run since 2012, Romania however have won three of their last four Tests and have won six of nine in 2015 overall. Despite all that I will go with Les Bleues to get their second win of the tournament. Musically despite the interesting Romanian-folk metal stylings (and awesome name) of GOD The Barbarian Horde I’m giving the win to new guys Barús.
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The Value of Belief Systems
Beware of “missing the forest for the trees”.
December 18, 2018 November 30, 2018 Emily
I love YouTube’s transcript feature. It makes grabbing interesting quotes from speakers so much easier. Here is a transcript of the interview between Brett Weinstein and Rebel Wisdom about the recent Weinstein v. Dawkins debate in Chicago, with a quote from Brett that I found particularly interesting.
When you get to the transcript below, I think it’s really interesting to see how the spoken word flows. It’s actually hard to read because it’s a “stream of conciousness”. The quote I pulled from the video is not a literal word-for-word quote. I formatted it a bit so that it would be easier to read, but I am confident that I preserved the meaning.
Source video:
Favorite Quote from the Interview:
Starting about 6:44
New Atheism began in a productive direction. However, it became so focused in doing battle on behalf of an idea, it lost its way. … It’s one thing to point out that religious traditions are not literal. It’s another thing to argue that they are error—because that’s not what they are. They’re much more than error.
My argument has been that religions are compendiums of wisdom, but the wisdom is non-literal. For example, if we evaluate the content of a biblical text and ask, “Did these events occur?” Then we’d dismiss it. If we ask, “What would the effect of believing that these events had occurred have on an individual?” From the point of view of their genetic fitness, the effect would be positive. How well they are able to serve their genetic interests would be enhanced by believing in these structures. For example, if one behaves in such a way as to make it more likely that one will go to heaven, and make it less likely that one will end up in hell—it just so happens that behaving in that honorable way will cause your descendants to be well positioned in society. They will be well thought and treated well. Whereas, if you betray people and act like a jerk—it’s very likely that your descendants will experience a cost for your untrustworthiness.
I am arguing that behaving so as to get you into heaven does not actually get you into a place called heaven. It does get you into an analogous place in which your descendants are better off after your death. It’s a kind of life after death but it’s not literal. Guys like Dawkins are unable to see the pragmatic value of these belief systems because they are too caught up in evaluating the claims in the texts. In effect, they’re “missing the forest for the trees” because the falseness of the literal claim obscures the value of belief in that claim.
—Brett Weinstein
I’ve just come back from doing a whole set of interviews with Brett and with Heather and one of the things we talked about was the Dawkins debate so in a minute I’m gonna play the whole of that interview with Brett but I just wanted to frame it first because I know for Brett in particular the point of difference the disagreement that they had is something he thinks has held up evolution since about the 1970s my argument would be Dawkins self-esteem was a triumph it really would have a hard time having been better from the point of view of the amount of contribution in one small volume but it did uh sure in a broken assumption that because we never fixed it has become the obstacle that I think my entire generation now faces in the study of human evolution at least and it’s about time we fixed it and I thought this little interaction right at the beginning of the debate said a lot about the different perspectives that Brett and Richard Dawkins are taking into it I’m gonna play it quickly now The Selfish Gene you wrote in 1976 am I correct about that you were 35 years old so Richard wrote that book as a young gun and I find it shocking that I have to say this but I think that that book is still cutting-edge and so one of the things we may end up talking about tonight is why it is that there has not been more progress after the huge burst of activity that we saw in the late 60s and early 70s why my era has been much quieter with respect to important discoveries about evolution that we all agree are true you have anything to add yes I I don’t quite know why you find it knocking I mean of course we all pay lip service to the idea that progress is good and we should be changing all the time but what if we’re right and so it does it doesn’t necessarily follow that that what people thought in the nineteen sixties and seventies is still largely believed is a bad thing maybe it is actually right so I’m going to play the whole interview with Brett now but why I think this is really important is that this goes really to the heart of a lot of the key questions particularly the utility of religion therefore the new atheist framework that Dawkins is coming from I’m going to let Brett examine it explore it and describe in his own words and play the whole interview now recently you had a very high profile conversation with Richard Dawkins in Chicago how did it go I think it went very well it’s a conversation I had been waiting to have literally for decades in particular I’ve been very interested to know what he would respond if a careful articulation of the idea that religion has to be an adaptation that we should view the religious beliefs of populations that have held beliefs for thousands of years we should look at the more or less as we look at an eye or a wing or any other phenomenon that has the hallmarks of adaptation rather than looking at them as a mind virus the way Dawkins has famously dismissed them it has always seemed to me that if the proper argument was laid in front of him that Dawkins being a famously honest broker as an intellectual would have to acknowledge some reality to it and I think we got closer to that than many people imagined would be possible it was clear on stage that Dawkins was in tension with himself over his his beliefs and on the one hand when I pointed out that mind virus suggests that these belief systems are pathological to the people who hold them and that that is not only on unproductive way to approach people but that it is at odds with the elegance of the way selection tends to work he initially argued that people had over interpreted the question of mind virus and that really every gene in the genome could be portrayed in such a light which is an argument I certainly understand it’s not the connotation people get when you say mind virus I him and I said that the connotations when you say mind virus are that these people are mentally ill and he protested he said well they are mentally ill so you know on the one hand he was being you know the careful dawkins that we remember from you know the mid-seventies and on the other hand he was being the strident older dawkins that gets himself into such trouble over religion and both things were evident within you know a couple of sentences of each other because this this question is right at the heart of New Atheism effectively on stage I told Dawkins that religion cannot be a mind virus on stage I told Dawkins that religions that have existed for thousands of years cannot be mind viruses but that New Atheism can and I really believe this new atheism is novel it has not stood the test of time and in fact it creates a problem for many of us who might otherwise be willing to be called atheists because it has taken on an ideological fervor rather than being a an argument that there is no supernatural explanation for the phenomena that we find within the universe it has become a a challenge to people who view the universe otherwise and that desire to challenge people rather than Challenge ideas is not helpful even if New Atheism began in a productive direction it became so focused in doing battle on behalf of an idea that I think it just lost its way and it ceased to be able to see that it had gone too far that in fact it is one thing to point out that religious traditions are not literal it is another thing to argue that they are error because that’s not what they are there they are much more than error what’s your definition of the moment I’ve heard you say before that they are metaphorically true but literally literally false my argument has been that religions are compendiums of a kind of wisdom but that that wisdom is non literal so that when we evaluate the content of let’s say a biblical text we if we look at it with respect to did these events occur then we will dismiss it if we say what would the effect on an individual be of believing that these events had occurred the effect would be positive from the point of view of their genetic fitness that is to say how well they are able to serve their genetic interests would be enhanced by believing in these structures so for example if one behaves in life in such a way as to make it more likely that one will go to heaven and make it less likely that one will end up in hell it just so happens that behaving in that honorable way will cause your descendants to be well positioned in society to be well thought of to be treated well whereas if you betray people and act like a jerk it’s very likely that your descendants will experience a cost for your untrustworthiness so it is no accident I am arguing that behaving so is to get you into heaven does not actually get you into a place called heaven but it does get you into an analogous place in which your descendants are better off after your death their life is better after your death it’s a kind of life after death but it’s not literal so guys like Dawkins are unable to see this kind of value that is to say a pragmatic value of these belief systems because they are too caught up in evaluating the claims that are tied up in in these texts so in effect they’re missing the forest for the trees because the falseness of the literal claim obscures the value of belief in that claim what effect has that had on evolutionary biology for example evolutionary biology has been stuck in my opinion it has been stuck since about 1976 which is the year that Dawkins published The Selfish Gene as a 35 year old young gun the reason that has been stuck especially with respect to understanding human beings is that although Dawkins made a quantum leap in that book in the direction of a proper theory of human evolution he also made an error that has gone unrepaired in the entire intervening period when he introduced the concept of memes thereby providing a mechanism for discussing cultural evolution in rigorous terms by analogy to genes he argued that memes evolve as if in a new primeval soup he uses that phrase and were that the case it basically suggests an independence of memetic products and the genetic underpinnings of our physical nature if those two things are independent then you could get things like religions that evolved to further their own interests at the expense of the creatures on whose minds they are running that would make sense given his his argument if it is not correct that memes exist in a new primeval soup then it is likely and I argued on stage that in fact cultural traits are obligated to serve genetic interests so in such a context a religion as mind virus makes no sense because what we can infer is that as much as people may believe things that are literally false they are believing them for reasons that are apparently in the interests of their genomes and that is where a proper theory of human evolution would have to go so in essence tied up in this one very small error is the entire branch of the tree that we should be exploring in order to understand ourselves as products of adaptive evolution and more often than not in complex systems when we get stuck it is it is something of this nature where the tiniest alteration of an assumption has giant cascading effects and very frequently because of the way we pass on the tradition of studying these things one generation creates an assumption that isn’t quite right it hands it off to the next generation who doesn’t even realize that it’s making an assumption at all it takes on that assumption so early and you know the graduate study that nobody thinks to question it and by the time that generation matures into to teaching their own intellectual descendants it just has become part of the landscape therefore the solution to fixing stuck fields very frequently involves doing exactly the opposite of what the mythology of science suggests fallacy of science suggests you’re sort of moving out on the frontier looking farther but when you’re stuck looking out on the frontier you may be on a artificially short branch you know looking for leaves where there aren’t any when you what you really need to do is go down the trunk of the tree and find the branching point the place where you lost track of the argument and then follow another branch up so going down the broken assumption and then traveling up another branch is the key to success and my argument would be Dakin ‘less Selfish Gene was a triumph it really would have a hard time having been better from the point of view of the amount of contribution in one small volume but it did uh sure in a broken assumption that because we never fixed it has become the obstacle that I think my entire generation now faces in the study of human evolution at least and it’s about time we fixed it and if we did fix it what would the effect be well the effect would be spectacular and I think quite jarring to many people because what we tend to think when we think about ourselves as products of evolution is that somehow we have stepped off the end of the evolutionary tape that we are Pleistocene hunter-gatherers living in modern world it doesn’t look anything like the savannahs of Africa but that’s not in fact the case the fact is evolution has been with us every step of the way and while we are not adapted to the modern world there’s not been enough time with social media for example for us to have traditions that make any sense in that context that is not true for things that are several hundred years old so were we to understand just how much our culture and tradition has been serving our genomes we would a start to recognize that the study of evolution is much more central to understanding ourselves than we have given it credit for and B this is the part I’m really hoping we can get to very quickly be we would realize that we are programmed we are culturally programmed for something that cannot be defended something we must resist and that’s a very jarring discovery but from my perspective the clock is ticking we need to figure that out very quickly so that we can get on to reauthorize towards objectives that actually match the values we think we hold our conscious minds need to reauthorize purpose so that we can not simply be the the the slaves of an evolutionary purpose that is not honorable and will lead to our extinction can you make that a bit more explicit what is that genetic program our genetic program is very simple it has given us the identical purpose of every other evolved creature and that identical purpose involves spreading our genetic Spelling’s people who believe in evolution will all resonate with that what we don’t typically say is that our genomes will spread our particular Spelling’s to the exclusion of other spellings even when the other Spelling’s are better so if for example I have a gene for a particular respiratory enzyme and someone else has a gene that’s 20% more efficient well that gene is better but my respiratory gene will seek to displace to drive to extinction that superior gene so that it may spread that should give us a clue that something about this landscape is not simply about progress it is about progress in a very narrow sense that is quite dangerous in the larger case individuals will advance their own genetic spellings by displacing individuals that are less likely to have them that is to say murder genocide warfare these are all evolutionary processes and we are wired to deploy them when we detect certain features of the landscape and so we exist at this strange nexus we are the most remarkable structures in the known universe the computing power that we have between our ears and more importantly the computing power that we can muster when we team up is absolutely immense and we are capable of breathtaking feats of insight and beauty but all of these things evolved for this simple mind-numbing purpose that is no different from the purpose of a malaria propagule it’s no different from the purpose of a liver fluke or a maple tree it’s all one purpose to have this marvelous machinery set to such a uninteresting objective an uninteresting objective that in the human context results in all kinds of horror the worst atrocities that humans are engaged in our evolutionary in their nature for us to be wired for that objective is an appalling waste of our potential we could and in fact I believe we must commandeer our own machinery and take it away from evolutions purpose and apply to it a purpose that makes sense for example we could architect mindful I’m speaking as somebody who thinks utopianism as the worst idea humans ever had but we could architect a world in which we had an abundant steady state in which people’s needs were met and they were free to engage in the production of meaning and beauty it would not be a landscape perfectly free of competition in fact competition would be at the heart of such a landscape but the competition would be towards something that actually produced benefits for people as a regular consequence should we be doing that rather than figuring out which people are unable to defend them and making up excuses to displace them from the earth I think we should but whether others will recognize in the elucidation of our evolutionary purpose this obligation that remains to be seen and how does that repurposing all that broader perspective relate to the disagreement with Richard Dawkins on stage Dawkins expressed extreme reluctance about applying evolutionary theory to human beings he was very uncomfortable with the idea of analyzing genocide warfare really history in an evolutionary context this shocked me Dawkins is the iconic evolutionary thinker I would have said fearless but to see him actually frightened that we would apply this logic in that context really made me think now I do not share all of his trepidations I share some of them I know that bad Darwinism results in atrocities but good Darwinism would be the cure for those atrocities recognizing that you are programmed for things that you the conscious entity do not believe you should be involved in leaves open the possibility of controlling those impulses seeing them coming is a far better protection than pretending they aren’t there so I’m not arguing that it is safe Dawkins is right that it is dangerous but it is not as dangerous as leaving these things unexplored if we’re going to move forward in history the way we’re going to do it is by understanding the deeper lessons and learning to protect ourselves from the patterns that otherwise re-emerge and catch us by surprise I just want to pick up on something that Brett said at the end there which really reminds me of Jordan Peterson’s concept of the shadow the bread is saying if we’re not aware that we have programs we’re not aware that we’re monstrous then we are doomed to play that out very similar to what Petersen says about the shadow if we don’t realize that we’re monsters then we’re much more likely to act that out in the world and that also connects with something that Brett said a few times which is that Altru Maps must align which I find really really interesting like the kind of Jungian psychology of Peterson which is an archetypal mythological system can align with the evolutionary biology in the way that Brett’s framing there so next up Brett may have another public debate coming up with another biologist called David Sloan Wilson if Twitter is anything to go by and he and I recorded another short film about that trying to contextualize and explain why that’s important which you can see if you go to Brett’s YouTube channel now I put the link below this video here’s a quick clip of that there’s an awful lot riding on the question of whether or not evolution takes place at the level of the group this is dogged evolutionary biology since Darwin so we also recorded another few pieces including Brett’s take on the Jordan Peterson sam Harris debates which is also really fascinating we’ll be trying to get that up 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From frogs that give birth through their mouths to crabs with 6-foot legs, these animals are some of the strangest you’ll hopefully never have to see.
10 Yeti Crab
Besides just looking strange, these crabs are exposed to some pretty extreme environments. Discovered in 2010, the yeti crab (Kiwa hirsuta) lives in thermal vents near Antarctica that reach temperatures of up to 720 °F (380 °C). Their white coloring and strange hair patterns are thought to be adaptations to these extreme environments. The thermal vents, while ridiculously hot inside, are surrounded by freezing waters. This forces all the yeti crabs to cram themselves into a small area. (One marine biologist found 600 of these crabs in one vent!) Females, however, must venture into the dangerously cold waters to brood, as the thermal vents are too high in sulfur content for the crabs’ eggs to survive. The mother yeti crab rarely survives the cold water, usually dying of starvation after her children hatch. As for those hairy arms, they are a garden of sorts, growing bacteria that the crab then feeds on.
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9 Velvet Ant
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This insect may be only ¼ of an inch long, but do not be deceived: it packs quite a terrifying punch. The velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis), despite its name, is actually a species of wasp. Because of high levels of sexual dimorphism, males have wings but females do not, giving the females an antlike appearance. Velvet ants can be found in the hotter portions of the Western Hemisphere. As if the existence of crawling wasps weren’t enough to warrant night terrors, these freakishly fuzzy insects can deliver enough poison in one sting to subdue a cow—which weighs about 2,000 pounds, equivalent to 13 average-sized humans. Not only are the adult velvet ants terrifying, but even as larvae these bugs are nightmarish. When laying eggs, females seek out nests of other ground-dwelling insects. When the eggs hatch, the newborn velvet ants feed on the other insects’ larvae. Yikes!
8 Red-Lipped Batfish
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Red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) are by no means dangerous, but they are clearly a product of an evolutionary nightmare. This aptly named sea creature is found on ocean floors 3–76 meters deep and is known best for its bright red lips and the difficulty it has when swimming. Yes, you read that right—a fish that has difficulty swimming. Its fins serve as “legs,” of sorts, on which the fish walks across the ocean floor. This striking red-lipped femme fatale of a fish is actually most likely a male—those red lips are thought to attract mates. I guess everyone has a type.
7 Gastric-Brooding Frog
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Okay, this frog might not look all that grotesque, but it gives birth through its mouth. After the eggs are externally fertilized by a male, the female swallows her eggs. The eggs hatch as tadpoles in her stomach and grow until they become full-size frogs—and then mom regurgitates them up (ew!) over the span of a week. Unfortunately (or fortunately), these frogs went extinct in the 1980s. Scientists, however, are attempting to bring them back to life using a method of cloning called somatic cell nuclear transfer, because who doesn’t love the idea of mouth-birthing Frankenstein frogs.
6 Blobfish
If you haven’t had nightmares about this guy already, you definitely will now. Named the “World’s Ugliest Animal” of 2013, the blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) has made quite a splash (or maybe a flop) in the scientific and pop-cultural communities since its discovery in 2003. The blobfish is a gelatinous mass that floats above the ocean floor at depths of 600–1,200 meters. They have bones, but, because of the intense pressure they are exposed to at such depths, the bones are very soft and malleable. Since blobfish lack any substantial muscle, they feed only on crustaceans and other edible materials that happen to swim in front of their strange, strange mouths. Although these guys are absolutely ghastly looking on land and in observatories, their low-density flesh has led scientists to the understanding that they aren’t as, well, “blobby” when deep underwater. Their amorphous tendencies may fascinate scientists, but to laypeople the blobfish is just unsettling. Talk about a face only a mother could love.
5 Japanese Spider Crab
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These massive creatures are absolutely spine-chilling…or, in their case, exoskeleton-chilling. The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) has a leg span of 10–12 feet. (That’s twice the height of an average human!) Clearly deserving of their name, these arthropods resemble giant underwater spiders (yikes!) and feed on smaller crustaceans as well as plants. Japanese spider crabs were discovered in 1836 and are found mainly in waters surrounding the southern coast of Japan. They hang out at depths of 150–300 meters and are currently a subject of conservation efforts because of overfishing. They are actually considered a delicacy in many parts of Japan. Can you imagine ordering crab legs and being served one that’s six feet long?
4 Philippine Tarsier
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Philippine tarsiers (Carlito syrichta), or really just tarsiers in general, are some of the strangest looking extant mammals on Earth. With eyes that take up half of their head, tarsiers grow only to be the size of a human fist. Their heads can rotate 180 degrees—an evolutionary trait that surfaced in response to the fixation of their eyes in their head. They have powerful hind legs that allow them to jump up to three feet at a time. As suggested by the size of their optics, they have fantastic night vision—which at times results in their pupils covering the entirety of their eyes. There have been problems involving these fellows being illegally sold as pets. There’s a market for everything—even scary-looking mini-mammals.
3 Shoebill
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At first glance, this bird might not seem all that terrifying, but it is a giant carnivore, four feet tall (some have been recorded as reaching five feet tall), that is known to eat turtles, fish, and young crocodiles. The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) has long thin legs as well as a disproportionately large head and bill. It lives in the swamps of eastern Africa and has been found to decapitate its prey before consuming it. When shoebills have offspring, they focus their attention on only the eldest. Should two eggs hatch, the parents reject the younger hatchling, and in some cases the elder attempts siblicide (killing of a sibling). The younger offspring is theorized to function as a backup in case something happens to the elder. This is thought to be a form of energy conservation, but it seems just plain evil. Look at that nightmarish grin.
2 Gavial
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These crocodiles may appear to be just funny-looking cousins of the terrifying crocs we are more familiar with. However, their disproportionately long jaws are lined with 110 razor-sharp teeth. That’s 30 more than the typical crocodile, and their teeth are much sharper. Gavials (Gavialis gangeticus) can grow to be 20 feet long and can weigh up to 350 pounds. They are found in India and Nepal, specifically in major northern river systems. Males exhibit a sexually dimorphic trait atop the end of their snout called a gahra (after a type of Indian pottery), from which the crocodile gets its name. These massive creatures don’t attack humans but will feed on corpses set afloat during funeral ceremonies.
1 Star-Nosed Mole
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We’ll finish this unnerving list with what might be the most underrated nightmare-dwelling animal alive. The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) can be found in wet low areas, typically in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Its main claim to fame is its strange pink fleshy ring around the snout, called the star. The star is jam-packed with nerve fibers and functions similar to our eyes: it paints a picture of the mole’s surroundings by using its keen sense of touch. The giant claws are used for digging tunnels beneath swamps—the mole’s primary habitat. The star-nosed mole is also considered the fastest eating mammal on Earth, consuming insects in less than 0.2 second. These guys are pretty interesting, but they still look like hairy aliens.
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The Good Wife: “The Next Week”
Sonia Saraiya
The Good WifeSeason 5
"The Next Week"
I’ve gotten to the point where I think every minute of The Good Wife is sublime, so maybe I’m not the best pinch-hitter for David Sims tonight. But “The Next Week” is a lovely, sharp episode of the series, combining the show’s signature patience with plotting with its equally signature bluntness. There isn’t a lot of tolerance for beating around the bush with anyone’s interpersonal relationships, and Alicia Florrick’s cluelessness about her own feelings doesn’t mean that other people can’t see right through them.
I’m always happy to see Owen, but I was especially happy to see him this week, bumping into Will on-campus during a case and then providing an unexpected vector of truth for Will. It interests me that Will even tells Owen that Alicia’s left the firm; there’s no need to share that information, because he’s got the information from Owen he needs. But Will’s still nursing his sense of betrayal, and though he is emotionally impulsive, he’s primarily emotional. He wants to talk it out. As brutal and honestly vicious as Will can be, he’s easy to love because he does feel so strongly.
And that’s Owen’s point, anyway: Alicia was afraid of falling in love with Will, so she moved against him. Which is exactly what we saw in last season’s finale. Alicia’s logic is twisted, and she keeps herself in the dark as much as anyone else. Her manipulation and plotting might go against David Lee or Diane Lockhart, but at the end of the day, she somehow just manages to stymie herself.
The case this week is a little complicated. For one thing, there are two. First, the Gopniks, the prospective adoptive parents from “A Precious Commodity,” return through their lawyer, played by the handsome Christian Borle. Someone at Lockhart Gardner tried to bribe the Chippewa nation into making the adoption go forward, and Alicia’s called in to testify. There’s a lot of complication around the mechanics of who exactly did what, but the case mostly serves to make the internecine politics of the firms come into a harsh and unflattering light. In the climax, one of the partners at Florrick/Agos frames Alicia with the suit, leaving her liable for $6 million and sending the fledgling firm into a panic. Anthony, meanwhile (that’s the guy who did the lying), saunters into a partnership at Lockhart/Gardner. It’s despicable, but to be honest, everyone’s pretty despicable in this episode. Alicia essentially asks for a bribe before she’ll testify, and David Lee is poisonous and slimy in all things.
The second features guest-star Hunter Parrish, and interestingly, it doesn’t resolve. Jeffrey is charged with a murder he swears up and down he never did; Kalinda and Will go to work on it, but nothing comes up. He rejects a plea bargain, and Geneva Pine is on hand to make sure Will feels really bad about that. I like Pine, and I like Jeffrey, and I like that Will cares about someone he’s working with. But as yet, the rest of this story remains to be seen.
The rest of this episode is truly about the look on Alicia’s face as she walks back into Lockhart/Gardner, surveying the physical affront she seems to create in people, watching them recoil from her presence as their faces contort to something like fear. Alicia is enjoying it. I wasn’t expecting that. She doesn’t like facing Will, and their moment of eye contact is perfect in its meaningful, heavy silence—but everyone else? She doesn’t really care. Alicia’s comfortable when she’s scrapping with everyone at this point. She doesn’t really understand what it means to be on anyone’s team. She has left behind the ability to trust anyone else besides her children—every relationship in her life is now a power struggle. Peter took that from her, I think. The Good Wife now endeavors to show us how this haunts her, the unspoken betrayal that still looms in her mind.
The last time I wrote about this show was in last season’s “Red Team, Blue Team,” which in many ways anticipated what would happen in this season, by pitting Will and Diane against Alicia and Cary. That ended with Alicia becoming manipulative and calculating, and it didn’t look good. Diane asks her, in “The Next Week,” if Alicia’s always been this way and Diane never noticed. I think Alicia has always been this way, but to be fair, this is also the only way she’s learned to survive. She has to play an ambitious game to save the most important commodity—her heart.
This episode is aces. This season is aces. The Good Wife is aces. That’s it.
I do find it funny that Robert and Michelle King are always pulling out a tech subplot to amuse us with. This week: “ratting,” as done by Zach and Grace’s classmate, Stiles. There is punching. I was very proud of Zach, getting into a fight and winning. And Grace is maturing into a girl who can handle these things on her own, which is interesting to watch.
Not enough Kalinda doing stuff for Kalinda plotlines. After her failed marriage plot, the show has kept her doing strictly procedural things, but she is wasted. This little exchange? “Who are you?” [enigmatic smile] “Kalinda.” As if that explains everything. Of course, it does explain everything.
“Can we get started, or did you both want to play cards?” David Lee, I love you and hate you.
Nathan Lane returns! Yes!!
Thanks again to Sims for letting me take this one. It’s always fun to drop in on this fantastic show.
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New axe throwing adventure launched for thrill-seekers in South Wales
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Bushcraft Adventures
Over 20 thrill-seekers joined Bridgend-based Bushcraft Adventures last weekend for the launch of its unique axe throwing activity.
Bushcraft Adventures, Bridgend. Credit: Huw John
Based near Laleston, the adventure company which already offers archery and bushcraft activities, is giving the people of South Wales the opportunity to get back to their Celtic roots and immerse themselves in one of the hottest growing trends in group activities. From children’s parties (11+), hen/stag activities, social get-togethers and taster events, to team away days, axe throwing is certainly a ‘different’ way to have some fun and try something new by taking a step back in time and celebrating a sport of old.
Founder of Bushcraft Adventures, Stephanie Thompson said: “We are thrilled to be able to share this new activity with the people of South Wales. As the only venue that currently offers it in the area, we can’t wait to enlighten people on the joys of axe throwing, sharing in their experiences and helping to make memorable moments, not to mention awesome social media profile pictures.”
“Axe throwing has really grown in popularity over the past few years. As with all of our activities, safety is paramount and it’s a safe sport as long as our instructions are followed. And of course, our other focus is about having FUN!”
20 thrill-seekers joined Bridgend-based Bushcraft Adventures last weekend. Credit. Huw John
Axe throwing is a growing sport across the UK. TV Shows like Vikings showcasing it and Game of Thrones star, Jason Momoa’s YouTube demonstration which has had over 5.5 million hits (to date) have helped nurture interest in it.
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The aim of the activity is to throw an axe toward a wooden target, hitting the bullseye. It’s not an aggressive sport, the goal is to concentrate on focus, not force. It’s a great mindfulness activity or there’s plenty of scoring games to try for the more competitive! Either way, it’s an incredibly satisfying feeling hearing the “thunk” of the axe sticking on the target.
Speaking at the axe throwing launch event, guest John Bachelor said: “My friend found the event when he was looking through Eventbrite for something a little bit different for us to do as a group and it sounded like great fun.
“I’ve been to outdoor events like this before where there’s been a large group of people to one instructor, meaning you get very little time to actually do the activity, but Bushcraft Adventures wasn’t like that at all. We had the time to do the activity, practice it with the help of the instructors and we could feel ourselves getting better throughout the day which made the experience very laid back and fun. I already know that a few of our friends would love to give this a go and I’d definitely recommend it.”
Fellow axe thrower, Tasha Evans from South Wales, added: “I’d never done anything like this before, and it sounded great to throw axes at targets – not in a menacing way, obviously! But the event was super fun and I’d definitely come back again.”
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FROM THE GUEST EDITORS • Introduction to this Special Issue on Strata Formation on European Margins: A Tribute to EU-NA Cooperation in Marine Geology
James P.M. Syvitski , Philip P.E. Weaver, Serge Berné, Charles A. Nittrouer, Fabio Trincardi , Miquel Canals
@article{article, author = {James P.M. Syvitski | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and Philip P.E. Weaver | Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom and Serge Berné | Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), Plouzané Cedex, France and Charles A. Nittrouer | School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Fabio Trincardi | Istituto di Scienze Marine-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR), Bologna, Italy and Miquel Canals | GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain}, title = {Introduction to this Special Issue on Strata Formation on European Margins: A Tribute to EU-NA Cooperation in Marine Geology}, journal = {Oceanography}, year = {2004}, month = {December}, note = {}, volume = {17}, url = {https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.18}, }
TY - JOUR AU - James P.M. Syvitski | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA and Philip P.E. Weaver | Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom and Serge Berné | Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), Plouzané Cedex, France and Charles A. Nittrouer | School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Fabio Trincardi | Istituto di Scienze Marine-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR), Bologna, Italy and Miquel Canals | GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain PY - 2004 TI - Introduction to this Special Issue on Strata Formation on European Margins: A Tribute to EU-NA Cooperation in Marine Geology JO - Oceanography VL - 17 UR - https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.18 ER -
In the early fall of 1998, we sat gazing over the coastal ocean that surrounds Sicily. Scientists from around the world had gathered to participate in a SEPM-IAS (Society for Sedimentary Geology-International Association of Sedimentologists) research conference called “Strata and Sequences on Shelves and Slopes” otherwise known as STRATACON ‘98. Our hosts, Michael Field (U.S. Geological Survey) and Albina Colella (University di Catania), did all that they could to foster scientific exchange among the participants. The spirit led to a break-through side meeting of those representing the interests of the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and those representing the European Commission (EC). The unfortunate drift away from coordinated research between European Union (EU) and North American (NA) agencies was duly noted. Subsequent coordination meetings over the next three years led to the birth of the EuroSTRATAFORM cluster and related projects. EuroSTRATAFORM had five goals:
To evaluate the influences on continental-margin sediment flux, including the characteristics of sediment sources and their temporal variability due to climatic evolution and human impacts.
To understand the oceanic processes that erode, transport and deposit sediment in the margin system, including short-term (i.e., hours to weeks) processes that produce event beds and the longer-term variability (e.g., seasonal, interannual) of those processes.
To quantify the physical and biological processes responsible for post-depositional modification of strata.
To understand the creation of the preserved stratigraphic architecture and sedimentary facies on continental margins as the product of processes acting with spatial and temporal heterogeneities.
To explore the nested expression of sedimentary successions, including the geologic identities of seismic properties, sequence boundaries, and intervening sequences.
Syvitski, J.P.M., P.P.E. Weaver, S. Berné, C.A. Nittrouer, F. Trincardi, and M. Canals. 2004. From the Guest Editors: Introduction to this special issue on strata formation on European margins—A tribute to EU-NA cooperation in marine geology. Oceanography 17(4):14–15, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.18.
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US Consumer Sentiment At Nearly 13-Year High
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 98.2 in December 2016 compared to a preliminary figure of 98 and a final 93.8 in November. It was the highest reading since January 2004, as consumers expected a favorable impact of Trump's policies on the economy.
The gauge of current economic conditions came in at 111.9 from a preliminary reaing of 112.1 and a final of 107.3 in November; and the barometer of future expectations rose to 89.5 from 88.9 in the preliminary estimate and 85.2 the previous month.
Americans expect the inflation rate to be 2.2 percent next year, compared with 2.4 percent in November; and 2.3 percent over the next 5 years, down from 2.6 percent the previous month.
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The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the US jumped to 102 in March from 99.7 in February, beating expectations of 99.3. It is the strongest reading since January 2004 as the assessment of current economic conditions reached a record high.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Slightly Down
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised down to 99.7 in February of 2018 from an initial estimate of 99.9. Still, it was higher than 95.7 in January and market expectations of 99.5. It is the second strongest reading since 2004, with consumers basing their optimism on favorable assessments of jobs, wages, and higher after-tax pay.
US Consumer Sentiment Remains Strong
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States increased to 99.9 in February of 2018, above 95.7 in January and better than market expectations of 95.5. It is the second strongest reading since 2004, preliminary estimates showed. Both current economic conditions and future expectations improved despite lower and much more volatile stock prices.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Sharply Higher
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised sharply higher to 95.7 in January of 2018 from a preliminary of 94.4, beating market expectations of 95. It compares with 95.9 in December. Future expectations increased more than anticipated amid higher confidence in future job security and growth in wages as well as financial assets.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 94.4 in January of 2018 from 95.9 in December and below expectations of 97, according to preliminary figures. It was the lowest reading in six months, as consumers evaluated current economic conditions less favorably amid uncertainties about the delayed impact of the tax reforms.
US December Consumer Sentiment Weaker than Estimated
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 95.9 in December of 2017 from 98.5 in November and below the preliminary estimate of 96.8. It was the lowest reading in three months, mainly due to a decline in consumer expectations.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 96.8 in December of 2017 from 98.5 in November, well below market expectations of 99, preliminary estimates showed. It is the lowest reading in three months as consumer expectations fell and inflation expectations went up.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised up to 98.5 in November of 2017 from a preliminary of 97.8. Still, it was lower than 100.7 in October which was the strongest since January 2004. Expected economic conditions deteriorated compared to the previous month although less than initially estimated.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls From 14-Year High
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 97.8 in November of 2017 from 100.7 in the previous month which was the strongest since January 2004, preliminary estimates showed. The reading came below expectations of 100.7, as current and expected economic conditions deteriorated and consumers expect the inflation to rise in the next year.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised down to 100.7 in October of 2017 from 101.1 in the preliminary estimate and lower than market expectations of 100.9. Yet, it is still the strongest number since January 2004 amid more favorable consumers' assessments of current economic conditions as well as expected economic prospects.
US Consumer Sentiment Jumps to Near 14-Year High
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 101.1 in October 2017 from 95.1 in September, way above market expectations of 95. It was the highest level since January 2004.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down in September
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 95.1 in September of 2017 from 96.8 in August. It was also lower than a preliminary reading of 95.3. Future expectations and current financial conditions of households declined mainly due to the impact of hurricanes.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 95.3 in September of 2017 from 96.8 in August but slightly above market expectations of 95.1. It is the lowest reading in three months, as hurricanes Irma and Harvey heavy impacted gauge if consumer expectations.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down in August
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States stood at 96.8 in August of 2017, below the preliminary estimate of 97.6 and compared with July's final reading of 93.4. Both future expectations and current conditions sub-indices came in lower than previously estimated.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 97.6 in August of 2017 from 93.4 in July, beating market estimates of 94, preliminary estimates showed. It is the strongest reading since January, due to a more positive outlook for the overall economy and more favorable personal financial prospects.
US Consumer Sentiment Remains At 9 Month Low
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised up to 93.4 from a preliminary of 93.1 in July of 2017 and compared to 95.1 in June. Still, it is the lowest reading since October of 2016 although future expectations declined less than expected and current conditions rose further.
US Consumer Sentiment Below Estimates In July
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 93.1 in July of 2017 from 95.1 in June, well below market estimates of 95, preliminary estimates showed. It is the lowest reading since October of 2016, mainly due to a fall in future expectations.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up In June
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was revised higher to 95.1 in June of 2017 from a preliminary reading of 94.5 as current conditions were assessed more positive. However, it is the lowest reading in seven months, on lower future expectations, final figures showed.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls To 7-Month Low
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States went down to 94.5 in June of 2017 from 97.1 in May and well below market expectations of 97. It is the lowest reading in seven months as both present and future expectations declined, preliminary estimates showed. The recent erosion of confidence was due to more negative perceptions of the proposed economic policies among Democrats and the reduced likelihood of passage of these policies among Republicans.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down In May
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was at 97.1 in May of 2017, only slightly up from 97 in April and below initial estimates of 97.7. Both current and future expectations were revised down, final figures showed. Yet, it is still the highest reading in four months.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 97.7 in May of 2017 from 97 in the previous month, according to preliminary estimates. Figures beat market forecasts of 97, boosted by an improvement in future expectations.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down In April
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 97 in April 2017 compared with a preliminary reading of 98 but slightly higher than 96.9 in March, a final estimate showed. The gauge of future expectations increased slightly while the barometer for current economic conditions fell.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 98 in April of 2017 from 96.9 in the previous month, according to preliminary estimates. Figures beat market forecasts of 96.5, boosted by an improvement in current financial and economic situation.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down In March
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 96.9 in March of 2017 from a preliminary reading of 97.6 but was higher than 96.3 in February. Both current conditions and futures expectations were revised slightly down.
US Consumer Sentiment Remains Near 13 Year High
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 97.6 in March of 2017 from 96.3 in the previous month and beating market forecasts of 97.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up In February
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 96.3 in February 2017 compared to a preliminary figure of 95.7 and a final 98.5 in January. It was the weakest reading in three months, due to a drop in future expectations.
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 95.7 in February of 2017 from a 13-year high of 98.5 in the previous month and lower than market forecasts of 97.9. Future expectations declined and current conditions edged down.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up To 13-Year High
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 98.5 in January of 2017 compared to a preliminary figure of 98.1 and 98.2 in December. It is the highest reading since January of 2004, due to a more optimistic outlook for the economy and job growth during the year ahead as well as more favorable economic prospects over the next five years.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls Slightly In January
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States edged down to 98.1 in January of 2017 from a 13-year high of 98.2 in the previous month and lower than market forecasts of 98.5. Future expectations declined and inflationary pressures jumped.
US Consumer Sentiment Rises To Nearly 2-Year High
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States increased to 98 in December 2016 from a final reading of 93.8 in November. It was the highest reading since January 2015, as consumers expected a positive impact of new economic policies following Donald Trump’s election.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up to 6-Month High
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States rose to 93.8 in November 2016 compared to a preliminary figure of 91.6 and a final 87.2 in October. It was the strongest reading since May this year, as consumers' expectations regarding their personal finances and prospects for the national economy improved sharply.
US Consumer Sentiment Up to 5-Month High
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States increased to 91.6 in November of 2016 from a final reading of 87.2 in October. It is the highest reading since June as consumers were more confident about future and present conditions and inflation expectations increased.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down in October
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States decreased to 87.2 in October of 2016 from a preliminary reading of 87.9 and a final of 91.2 in September. It is the lowest reading since September of 2015 due to less favorable prospects for the national economy, with half of all consumers anticipating an economic downturn sometime in the next five years.
US Consumer Sentiment at 13-Month Low
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States fell to 87.9 in October of 2016 from 91.2 in September. It is the lowest figure since September last year and well below market expectations of 91.9, hurt by a fall in future expectations.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up in September
The final reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States increased to 91.2 in September of 2016 from a preliminary reading of 89.8 and a final of 89.8 in the previous month. It is the highest reading in three months and better than market expectations of 90. Consumers were more confident about the future and less pessimistic over current conditions than initially anticipated.
US Consumer Sentiment Flat at 89.8 in September
The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States was unchanged at 89.8 in September of 2016 from 89.8 in the previous month. Figures came below market expectations of 90.8, mainly due to less favorable current conditions while future expectations regarding the overall economy improved.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 89.8 in August 2016, compared to a preliminary reading of 90.4 and below 90 in July. It was the lowest reading since April, mainly due to less favorable current conditions while future expectations regarding the overall economy improved slightly, final figures showed. Meanwhile, long term inflation expectations fell to the lowest level ever recorded.
US Consumer Sentiment Improves Slightly in August
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 90.4 in August 2016 from 90 in July but well below market expectations of 91.5, preliminary figures showed. Consumer expectations improved firmly while current conditions deteriorated.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Slightly Up
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 90 in July 2016, slightly up from a preliminary reading of 89.5 but well below 93.5 in June. It is the lowest reading since April as both current conditions and future expectations worsened, final figures showed.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 89.5 in July 2016, down from 93.5 in June and well below market expectations of 93.5. It is the lowest reading since April as current conditions worsened, the future outlook reached the lowest since September of 2014 and inflation expectations rose, preliminary figures showed.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down to 93.5 in June
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 93.5 in June 2016, down from a preliminary reading of 94.3 and a final of 94.7 in the previous month. Consumers were less optimistic about current conditions and future economic prospects.
US Consumer Sentiment Beats Expectations
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 94.3 in June 2016, down from 94.7 in the previous month, but beating market expectations of 94. Consumers were less optimistic due to increased concerns about future economic prospects, while assessments of current economic conditions improved to its highest level since July 2005, preliminary estimates showed.
The final University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 94.7 in May of 2016, down from 95.8 in the preliminary release but higher than 89 in the previous month. Future expectations decreased while the current conditions index rose to its highest since January 2007.
US Consumer Sentiment Jumps to 11-Month High
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 95.8 in May of 2016, up from 89 in the previous month and above market expectations. It is the highest reading since June last year, as both future expectations and current conditions improved, preliminary estimates showed, suggesting a strength in consumer spending.
The final University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 89 in April of 2016, down from 91.0 in the previous month and lower than preliminary estimates of 89.7. It is the smallest reading since September as future expectations decreased to its lowest since September of 2014 and inflation rate for the next year is seen at a 7-month high.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 89.7 in April of 2016 from 91 in the previous month and below market expectations of 92. It is the lowest reading since September of 2015, as both future expectations and current conditions deteriorated, preliminary estimates showed.
US Consumer Sentiment Better Than Estimated
The final University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 91 in March of 2016, down from 91.7 in the previous month but better than a preliminary estimate of 90. Still, it was the lowest reading in five months, as both current and future expectations decreased while the 5 to 10 years inflation outlook went up.
US Consumer Sentiment Drops to 5-Month Low
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 90 in March of 2016 from 91.7 in the previous month and hitting its lowest reading since October 2015, as both future expectations and current conditions deteriorated sharply. Markets were expecting the index to rise to 92.2.
The final University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 91.7 in February of 2016, down from 92 in the previous month but better than a preliminary estimate of 90.7. Both current and future expectations decreased and the 5 to 10 years inflation outlook eased.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment fell to 90.7 in February of 2016 from 92 in January, much lower than market expectations of 92. It is the weakest figure in four months, due to lower current and future expectations and lower inflation outlook.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Sharply Down in January
The final University of Michigan's consumer sentiment for the United States came in at 92 in January of 2016, much lower than a preliminary estimate of 93.3 and below 92.6 in December. Both current and future expectations decreased and the 1 year inflation outlook eased.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment increased to 93.3 in January of 2016 from 92.6 in December of 2015, above market expectations. It is the highest figure since June, driven by improved future expectations, preliminary estimates showed.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Up to Highest Since July
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 92.6 in December of 2015, higher than a first reading of 91.8 and hitting its highest level since July this year. Consumers were more optimistic over their current conditions due to lower inflation, which bolstered real incomes, while they felt less confident about their future situation. Meanwhile, inflation expectations for the next year decreased slightly.
US Consumer Sentiment Rises in December
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment increased to 91.8 in December from 91.3 in November of 2015 but slightly below market expectations. Current conditions improved but consumers are less optimistic over the future, preliminary figures showed.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down in November
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 91.3 in November of 2015, lower than a first reading of 93.1 but higher than a final reading of 90 in October. Although consumers were more optimistic over their current conditions and their future economic situation, markets were expecting a stronger sentiment in line with preliminary estimates. Meanwhile, inflation expectations for the next 5 to 10 years increased.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment increased to 93.1 in November from 90 in October of 2015, beating market expectations, preliminary figures showed. It is the highest value since June as consumers are more optimistic over current and future conditions.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Down
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 90 in October of 2015, lower than a preliminary reading of 92.1 and below market expectations. Consumers were less confident over future and current conditions and inflation expectations for the next 5 to 10 years decreased. Still, the consumer confidence index increased from a final reading of 87.2 in September.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment increased to 92.1 in October from 87.2 in September of 2015, beating market expectations, preliminary figures showed. It is the highest value since July as consumers are more optimistic over current and future conditions.
US Consumer Sentiment Revised Sharply Up
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 87.2 in September, better than a preliminary reading of 85.7, but down from a final 91.9 in September. Still, It is the lowest figure in eleven months.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment declined to 85.7 in September from 91.9 in August, the largest one-month decline since the end of 2012. The preliminary index came below market consensus as current and future expectations worsened due to volatile financial markets and global slowdown.
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 91.9 in August, lower than a preliminary reading of 92.9 and a final 93.1 in July.
US Consumer Sentiment Lowest in 8-Months
The University of Michigan’s preliminary index of sentiment decreased to 92.9 in August from 93.1 in July, the lowest level since November.
US Consumer Sentiment At 93.1 in July
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 93.1 in July, lower than a preliminary reading of 93.3 and a final 96.1 in June.
US Consumer Sentiment Falls in July
The University of Michigan's preliminary reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 93.3 in July, down from 96.1 in June and well below market expectations as concerns over the Greek crisis and the Chinese slowdown drove current and future expectations down.
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 96.1 in June, higher than a preliminary reading of 94.6 and a final 90.7 in May. It is the highest figure since January, beating market expectations.
US Consumer Sentiment Rises More than Expected
The University of Michigan's preliminary reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 94.6 in June, up from 90.7 in May and well above market expectations. Both current and future expectations went up while the inflation outlook slowed.
US Consumer Sentiment Above Estimates
The University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 90.7 in May, higher than a preliminary reading of 88.6 but below 95.9 reported in April. Yet, it is the lowest figure in six months.
The University of Michigan's preliminary reading on the overall index of consumer sentiment came in at 88.6 in May, down from 95.9 in April and well below market expectations. Both current and future expectations declined while the inflation outlook rose.
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Te Puia (The Crafts), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
When we visited Te Puia, we had a chance to visit the schools of Carving and Weaving. As the Māori did not have a written language until the 19th century, carvings were used to record and preserve the history and culture of their people. Ornate Māori carvings can be found on meeting houses, canoes, weapons and jewelry, with superior carvings seen as a sign of prestige. Māori carvings are a record of tribal affairs and pay deep respect to ancestors, history and the people for whom they are prepared – although they cannot be read or interpreted in a Western sense. The isolation from the rest of Polynesia means Māori wood carving differs significantly from other Pacific styles, although the basic patterns are believed to originate from their ancestral homeland of Hawaiki (Hawaii). The name ‘Te Rito’ is based on the baby shoot at the heart of the flax. Students are taught never to disturb the inner shoots when cutting flax as the baby along with its mother and father on each side is a family unit that should not be broken. Like the Carving School, Te Rito has been involved in a range of projects to develop cultural heritage assets for Māori.
Collection of Stone Carving Tools. Te Puia Carving School, Maāori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Collection of Stone Tools. Te Puia Carving School, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Stone Adze (Toki), Drill (Tūwiri) and Sanding Block. Te Puia Carving School, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Māori Stone Drill (Tūwiri). Photo credit : Pounamu by Russel Beck with Maika Mason & Andre Apse
When the ancestors of the Māori first arrived in New Zealand from East Polynesia, around 1250 to 1300 AD, they found a wide variety of rock types suitable for making tools, ornaments and other items. They were familiar with some materials like basalt and chert (or flint) but not with others, such as pounamu (New Zealand jade, greenstone – nephrite or bowenite). The most important tools were adzes (toki) and chisels (whao). Stone adze heads were lashed to a wooden handle and used in working wood, including canoe building. Chisels were primarily used for finer carving. Making a stone adze was a skilled job. Boulders or blocks were broken up using other boulders. Selected pieces were then worked into the desired shape (termed a roughout) by striking flakes off the edges with hammer stones, which were also used to smooth rough surfaces by ‘pecking’ or ‘bruising’. The final step was to polish the adze and sharpen the cutting edge by rubbing it back and forth on a wet grinding stone (hōanga) – a time-consuming task. Rocks with a pointed tip were used as drills (tūwiri). Tūwiri (drills) had two cords. The tip was a hard, sharp stone. Sand and water were used as an abrasive during drilling.
Māori Jade Chisel (Whao), Adze (Toki) and Stone Knife. Te Puia Carving School, Maori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
This set of tools must have been made for a prestigious woodworker, made from New Zealand jade. These tools are reminiscent of the tools in Māori mythology concerning the construction of the Arawa. Arawa was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled Aotearoa (New Zealand). The men who turned this log into a beautifully decorated canoe were Rata, Wahieroa, Ngaahue and Parata. “Hauhau-te-rangi” and “Tuutauru” (made from New Zealand greenstone brought back by Ngaahue) were the adzes they used for this time-consuming and intensive work. Upon completion, the waka was given the name Ngaa raakau kotahi puu a Atua Matua (also known as Ngaa raakau maatahi puu a Atua Matua).
Te Puia Carving School, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Waka Kererū (Pigeon Trough). Te Puia (Carving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
The Flip-Top Head of the Kererū Enables it to Swallow Quite a Mouthful! Of Miro Berry (Photo: K Raw)
Waka Kererū (Pigeon Trough)
Waka kererū (pigeon trough) were filled with water and set out to catch kererū when the miro berries were in season. The berries made the birds very thirsty and they were attracted to the troughs of water. If they put their head through a noose, it tightened when the bird attempted to fly away.
Pātaka Commissioned for the United Nations. Te Puia (Carving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Today Māori craftsmen and students use steel tools and are renowned for the quality of their creations. As this is a national school, students are carefully selected so that different iwi (tribes) throughout the country are represented. After working towards a three year diploma, students can take an optional fourth year to complete further honors. The pātaka seen above was being created as a commission for the United Nations.
Tekoteko. Te Puia (Carving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
The tekoteko is a stylized representation of the main progenitor of a tribe, and is the most focal point of the whare whakairo (carved tribal meeting house). They can be found – on traditional meeting houses – either at the highest point at the front apex of the roof or at the front central post. They can also be found at the base of the poutokomanawa (the main central ridge support post) of the house.
Harakeke. Te Puia, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
New Zealand Flax Flower (Phormium tenax). Te Puia, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
New Zealand Flax, Phormium Tenax. Te Puia, Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Keikei Vine Plant
Pingao Grass. Photo by Craig Mckenzie (Flickr)
Mambo Spike Sedge (kuta, kutakuta, kūkuta, ngāwhā, paopao). Photo by Colin Meurk (inaturalist)
When the ancestors of Māori arrived in New Zealand, they found that aute – the plant used to make cloth on Pacific islands – did not thrive in the cooler climate. They used harakeke (New Zealand flax) as the main substitute. Leaves were cut carefully to preserve the centre shoot, and were stripped to extract muka (fibre). This was washed and beaten with a stone pounder, then hand-rolled into thread. Threads were dyed yellow, red-brown or black using tree bark or mud. Other plants such as pīngao, kiekie and kākaho (toetoe stems) were also used for weaving. As Captain Cook wrote: “Of the leaves of these plants, with very little preparation, they (the Māori) make all their common apparel; and of these they make also their strings, lines and cordage …”. They also made baskets, mats, and fishing nets from the undressed flax. Cook found the clothing fibers so soft he called it flax even though it is biologically unrelated to flax. Māori recognize nearly 60 varieties of flax, and carefully propagate their own flax nurseries and plantations. Leaves were cut near the base of the plant using a sharp mussel shell or specially shaped rocks, more often than not greenstone (jade, or pounamu). The green fleshy substance of the leaf was stripped off, again using a mussel shell, right through to the fiber which went through several processes of washing, bleaching, fixing, softening, dyeing and drying. The flax fiber, called muka, is laboriously washed, pounded and hand wrung to make it soft for the skin.
Kākahu (cloak weaving). Te Puia (Weaving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Raranga Basketry. Te Puia (Weaving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Turapa (woven panels). Te Puia (Weaving School), Māori Arts and Crafts Institute. Rotorura, New Zealand
Weaving encompasses a number of specialist techniques passed down through generations. Within weaving there are disciplines such as Whatu Kākahu (cloak weaving), Raranga (basketry and mat weaving), tāniko and others. The Polynesian settlers who arrived in Aotearoa/NewZealand adapted their weaving techniques to suit their new conditions. It was colder here so they created warmer garments and as harakeke (NZ flax) and other resources were especially plentiful in this new land, they found many ingenious ways to use it. Today the weavers at Te Puia use a variety of natural materials and draw from a huge repertoire of customary techniques and craft high quality items of traditional and contemporary design.
Te Puia: http://www.tepuia.com/new-zealand/home/
Maori Stone Tools: http:www.teara.govt.nz/en/kohatu-maori-use-of-stone/page-1
Making a Stone Adze: http://www.teara.govt.nz/mi/video/8884/te-hanga-toki
Stone Drill (Tūwiri): http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/object/8881/stone-drills
Jade Tools: http://www.mountainjade.co.nz/blog/maori-carving-techniques-used-making-jade-necklaces/
Miro Berries: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/blogs/in-our-nature/7996014/Kereru-comeback
Traditional Uses of Flax: http://hvhsawhina.blogspot.com/2008/08/student-resources.html
Flaxweaving Blog: https://flaxweaving.wordpress.com/
Maori Weaving Plants: http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/science/plants-animals-fungi/plants/ethnobotany/weaving-plants
Rangahau Research Site: http://www.rangahau.co.nz/
Online Store For Te Puai Products: http://www.ahua-nzmaoriart.com
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Sue Minter did worse than I thought
This week’s certification of the state election results brought a popular headline: Bernie Sanders drew more than 18,000 write-in votes for president.
On the one hand, impressive. On the other, that and a buck-fifty will buy you a cup of coffee. It provided some warm fee-fees to Bernie loyalists, and in Vermont it was a no-risk move since there was no way Hillary Clinton was going to lose Vermont. (As for those who voted for Bernie or Jill Stein or Vermin Supreme in the states that were close, well, thanks for helping elect President Trump.)
But there is one significant implication of Bernie’s write-in total, and it has to do with the gubernatorial candidacy of Sue Minter.
In the immediate aftermath of the election, I theorized that the long, expensive campaign had had little impact — that Phil Scott entered as the favorite and exited the same.
Now, I’m seriously rethinking that notion.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, Matt Dunne, Sue Minter and tagged Anthony Pollina, Con Hogan, David Kelley, Gaye Symington, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Jill Stein, Peter Clavelle, Ruth Dwyer, Scudder Parker, Thomas Morse on November 17, 2016 by John S. Walters.
Bernie’s gift to the Trumpers
In the campaign of 2016, Bernie Sanders offered a progressive critique of our economic/political system that resonated with a broad swath of the electorate. He articulated things that many of us had been thinking for a long time, and did it in a way that cut through the white noise of political discourse.
He did a lot of things right. There’s one thing he got wrong — well, let’s say he got it partly right — and as it turned out, that one thing may have made a crucial difference for Donald Trump.
Bernie’s analysis of trade and domestic job losses focused mainly on one element: international trade agreements.
He’s about one-fourth right. We’ll get to the other three-fourths in a bit.
His simplified message proved very powerful in his fight for the Democratic nomination, and was a core argument in his case against Hillary Clinton. But afterward, it became a potent weapon in the Trump arsenal. One could argue it won him the election, since his extremely narrow victories in Rust Belt states were due to economic anxiety focused on those evil trade deals.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders and tagged Chet Greenwood, Donald Trump, Ethan Allen Furniture, Hillary Clinton, NAFTA, Northeast Kingdom, Seven Days, trade policy, VTDigger on November 16, 2016 by John S. Walters.
Would Bernie have won?
A lot of Bernie backers are reacting to Donald Trump’s victory by blaming the victim — Hillary Clinton — and asserting that Bernie Sanders would have won this thing.
Which, first of all, is absolutely unknowable.
Second, the odds would have been longer for Bernie.
There are a couple of layers to this. First, the belief that if the DNC hadn’t had its thumb on the scale, Bernie would have won the primary. And second, as the nominee he would have been a more effective opponent to Trump.
Let’s take the first. Bernieacs are fond of blaming the superdelegates for Clinton’s victory. But the fact is, Hillary clinched the nomination without the superdelegates. Throughout the primary season, she ran ahead of Bernie. Slightly ahead, but ahead.
Bernie never showed that his progressive agenda could attract voters beyond his core support. He racked up a lot of his victories in caucus states, where a small but enthusiastic base could carry a candidate. He was never able to consistently beat Clinton in actual primaries.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders and tagged Democratic National Committee, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Rust Belt on November 13, 2016 by John S. Walters.
Governor Scott and the Political Class
What was it I said? Oh, yeah…
I think Sue Minter is our next governor.
Yup, that’s it.
In my partial defense, I got just about everything else right: the breakdown of the new Legislature, the failure of the Republican ticket below the top line. But my prediction on the biggest race in the state couldn’t have been more wrong. I went further than most in predicting a Sue Minter victory, but I don’t think anybody — not even Republicans — saw a near-double-digit win for Scott. Heck, Vermont Pundit Emeritus Eric Davis said it was “too close to call.”
I warned you I wasn’t very good at predictions. I hope I’m a little better at analysis. Here goes.
After an epic-length campaign lasting a year and a half… after the spending of insane amounts of money by Vermont standards… after a unified Democratic homestretch with a healthy assist from Bernie Sanders… after a tsunami of outside money and endless TV ads and mailers… we might as well have had no campaign at all. The fundamentals going in — Phil Scott’s personal popularity, fatigue with the Shumlin administration, and Vermonters’ clear pattern of switching parties when there’s a vacancy in the corner office — were the deciding factors at the end.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, Peter Shumlin, Phil Scott, Sue Minter, theVPO and tagged cracked crystal balls, Donald Trump, errant predictions, Hillary Clinton, Randy Brock, the political observer class on November 9, 2016 by John S. Walters.
The Progs’ irony trap
I just realized that it’s been a long time since I’d given any thought to the Progressive Party as a force in state politics.
What reminded me was Terri Hallenbeck’s piece about the Stanaks, “a family divided over a Vermont election.” It’s the story of a stalwart progressive (and Progressive) family that’s gone in different directions this cycle. Paterfamilias Ed Stanak, motivated by opposition to ridgeline wind, is backing Phil Scott. Daughter Lluvia Stanak is working on the Sue Minter campaign. Her sister Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, chair of the Vermont Progressive Party, is officially neutral.
That’s because the Progs opted to sit out the gubernatorial race, failing to field a candidate of their own and refusing to endorse anyone else. I vaguely recall knowing that at some earlier point, but I’d managed to completely forget it until now.
The non-endorsement kinda made sense at the time. Sue Minter looked like an offshoot of the Shumlin administration, which had burned the Progs twice over by snagging their endorsement in 2010 and 2012 and then bailing on their number-one issue, single-payer health care. The Progs were, understandably, twice bitten and thrice shy.
It looks a lot worse now, what with Prog stalwart David Zuckerman fully on board with the Democratic ticket and Bernie Sanders going all-out to boost the Minter campaign. Indeed, the Progressive Party looks out of touch and almost irrelevant.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, Sue Minter, Vermont Progressive Party and tagged David Zuckeman, Ed Stanak, Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, Lluvia Stanak, Seven Days, Terri Hallenbeck on November 8, 2016 by John S. Walters.
Bernie FTW (Update: Also Pat)
Bernie Sanders is definitely in it to win it, on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Sue Minter. He spent three days last weekend appearing at campaign rallies for the Democratic ticket, and now he’s doing the same this weekend. (Schedule below.) Plus, earlier this week, he sent out a fundraising email blast to his millions of supporters, asking them to donate to the Minter campaign.
He may have waited a long time to endorse Minter and other Vermont Dems, but he’s doing everything he can to make up for lost time.
The Bernie/Dem relationship has always been a bit of an eggshell walk, neither side completely trusting the other. Generally speaking, the Dems don’t assume he will help; anything he offers is considered a bonus. The Dems may have been less hopeful than usual this year because Governor Shumlin and Senator Leahy came out early for Hillary Clinton.
So Bernie’s dive into the deep end of the pool is a welcome development. The rallies are driving media coverage and enthusiasm in the Dem/Prog base. And the fundraising?
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, Sue Minter and tagged Chris Pearson, Hillary Clinton, Molly Ritner on October 27, 2016 by John S. Walters.
Bad days for the VTGOP
You could excuse Phil Scott for feeling down in the dumps these days. There was the ice-bath shock of the VPR Poll, showing a dead heat in the race for governor. Then came a huge weekend of high-energy unity rallies for the Democratic ticket featuring Bernie Sanders, Pat Leahy, and Peter Welch thumping the tub for Sue Minter ad company, plus President Obama cutting a radio spot for her.
And now comes an ABC News poll showing Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by 12 percentage points.
The growing gap is bad enough, but the worse news for Scott is deeper in the poll results.
The previous ABC/Post poll found a sharp 12-point decline in enthusiasm for Trump among his supporters, almost exclusively among those who’d preferred a different GOP nominee. Intended participation now has followed: The share of registered Republicans who are likely to vote is down 7 points since mid-October.
That’s a tangible sign that Trump is becoming a dead weight on down-ballot Republicans. And more evidence that Phil Scott has his work cut out for him, in what was once thought to be a cakewalk for the VTGOP’s King-in-Waiting.
This entry was posted in 2016 election, Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy, Peter Welch, Phil Scott, Sue Minter and tagged ABC News, Brattleboro Community TV, Chris Lenois, Deb Bucknam, Donald Trump, Green Mountain Mornings, Republican disaffection, VPR Poll, WKVT on October 24, 2016 by John S. Walters.
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The Best TV for Video Games
Chris Heinonen
After performing over 100 hours of testing on this year’s TVs, we’re confident that the best TV for video gaming is the Samsung NU8000. Its input lag is as low as we’ve tested in any TV, peaking at 18 ms and dropping down to 6 ms in some cases. And it’s smart enough to automatically enable game mode when paired with newer consoles, which means less futzing with menus and more playing games. The TV even has respectable image quality.
Samsung NU8000
With support for automatic low latency mode and adaptive frame rate along with low input lag and good picture quality, the Samsung NU8000 is the best TV for video games.
$1,400 from Walmart
The Samsung NU8000 supports two key new features of HDMI 2.1: automatic low latency mode and adaptive frame rate. These let you get the best gaming performance and the best image performance possible with this TV with no extra work. The NU8000 also supports a gaming-specific frame interpolation mode for smoother action. We like that its built-in smart TV platform lets you control your game console with the TV remote. Plus, it’s available in screen sizes from 49 to 82 inches.
Samsung Q8F
The best combination of image quality and gaming performance
The Samsung Q8F supports automatic low latency mode and adaptive frame rate, and it features full-array local dimming and the best anti-reflection screen filter we have seen.
If you want the same gaming features but even better image quality, the Samsung Q8F moves from edge-lit local dimming to the superior full-array local dimming and has the best anti-reflective filter we’ve seen on a TV—so if enemies are hiding in the shadows, some sunlight won’t keep you from seeing them. The Q8F’s gaming performance is just as good as the NU8000’s, and it will deliver even better performance with HDR and SDR content—but it carries a premium price tag.
The Best PS4 Headset
The HyperX Cloud Alpha has a clear microphone, solid build quality, and includes a four-foot removable cable perfect for the DualShock 4’s headset jack.
The Best TVs
We’ve spent hundreds of hours researching and testing TVs to find the best for any budget. We think the TCL 5-Series TVs are the best that you can buy.
How we tested
Our pick: Samsung NU8000
Upgrade pick: Samsung Q8F
I’ve been reviewing TVs and home theater equipment since 2008. I am an ISF Level II–Certified Calibrator, so I am aware of what makes for a good TV image and how to get those things out of a TV. I have all the necessary test equipment and software to provide objective measurements to back up my subjective opinions. Additionally, I enlisted my non-videophile neighbors to take a look at our finalists to make sure our priorities were in line with what normal people look for in a TV.
If you are most concerned with how well your TV handles video games and having the lowest input lag for the best gaming performance, these TVs are for you. Other TVs might offer a superior movie, TV, or sports-viewing experience, but these TVs offer the best performance you can get for video gaming. The differences in performance might be small, but in competitive gaming, every little bit counts.
During our testing of TVs for our main TV guides, we also tested and evaluated for their performance with video game systems. We especially looked for TVs that promised support for HDMI 2.1 features in the future, as HDMI 2.1 includes some features that are specifically good for video gaming.
For video gaming, two criteria are more important than they might be for standard TV or movie viewing: input lag and motion response. Input lag is how long it takes an image from the gaming system to appear on the screen after the TV has finished processing it. Most TVs offer a game mode that lowers input lag at the expense of image quality, but the mode can make a huge difference in how responsive the games are to your inputs. On some TVs, the input lag can jump from 15 milliseconds inside of game mode to 120 to 160 ms when game mode isn’t enabled. For quick-twitch games like first-person shooters, this can make the difference between hitting your shot and getting shot yourself.
The other main feature is how fluid and responsive the motion of the games is. Games run at 30 or 60 frames per second, while movies run at only 24 fps. (Sports also run at 60 fps.) Many of today’s TVs have a 120 Hz frame rate and allow you to use motion interpolation to improve the clarity of movies and sports. However, using motion interpolation typically adds input lag, making it ineffective for gaming. That means that a TV can have great motion for sports but worse motion for video games. We looked for TVs that were especially well-suited to produce smoother motion with video games.
To measure lag, we used a Leo Bodnar lag tester along with an HD Fury Integral and HD Fury Vertex to transform the 1080p signal into a 4K HDR signal while adding minimal lag (2-3 ms is our estimate). Motion quality was evaluated by playing games, using test patterns, and watching sports on the TVs.
The best TV for video gaming is the Samsung NU8000. It offers low input lag, can automatically switch into game mode with newer consoles, supports adaptive frame rate, and has frame interpolation to produce smoother motion for gaming. It also offers good picture quality, which makes it a great all-around choice for the person who desires premium gaming performance.
The Samsung NU8000 has very low input lag when you use its game mode. The input lag has a peak of 18 ms and can drop as low as 6 ms in certain cases. When you play a game at 60 frames per second, each frame is displayed for around 17 ms on the screen, so the time from the game signal being received by the TV’s input to being displayed on screen can be a single frame. With games that run at 30 frames per second, the response would be essentially instantaneous. This input lag is as low as you can hope for in a gaming TV, and the performance holds true for the 1080p, 4K, and HDR gaming modes.
Game Motion Plus uses frame interpolation to produce clear motion without adding extra lag. Photo: Kyle Fitzgerald
Samsung is the only company with TVs that support an automatic game mode this year. Photo: Kyle Fitzgerald
Samsung is the first TV manufacturer to introduce TVs that support the new HDMI 2.1 gaming features like automatic low latency mode switching and adaptive frame rate. With gaming consoles that support it (currently, the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro), automatic low latency mode lets the TV automatically switch into game mode when the console tells it that you are playing a game. Even if you are using your gaming system to watch a movie on Netflix or TV on Hulu, the TV knows the difference and only switches when necessary. This enables you to use a higher-quality picture mode, like Movie or Cinema, when watching movies, TV shows, or sports through the console and not have to manually switch to the game mode every time you want to play a game. It gives you the best of both worlds and prevents you from forgetting to switch back and forth.
The supplied remote has a minimalist button design. It features voice control and does not require line of sight with the TV. Photo: Kyle Fitzgerald
The NU8000 also supports the adaptive frame rate feature on newer gaming consoles. Even the best consoles available today have problems running 4K games at the full 60 frames per second. Adaptive frame rate lets the TV adjust how many frames it displays to match the console. Instead of being stuck at 60 frames per second, where drops in frame rate result in poor-looking judder, the TV can operate at a lower speed to match the console. This also causes the image to be displayed as soon as it is received, leading to lower input lag and a better-looking image. You might have seen this feature before called Freesync or G-Sync on some PCs, but with HDMI 2.1, it is now available on TVs and gaming consoles.
Samsung has also added a frame interpolation mode just for video gaming. Enabling Game Motion Plus lets the TV display 30 fps content at 60 fps, resulting in a smoother-looking image on the screen. It does add around 6 to 8 ms of input lag when enabled, but typically this feature on other TVs would add 50 to 100 ms of input lag. Some people won’t want to enable this feature, as it can cause motion artifacts, but these Samsung TVs are the only ones we tested where you have the option to use frame interpolation and still enjoy good gaming performance.
Connection options include four HDMI inputs, two USB ports, and an RF input to utilize the internal TV tuner. Photo: Kyle Fitzgerald
The NU8000 uses Samsung’s Tizen smart TV system, which has improved over time and integrates very well with devices over HDMI while also supporting most of the popular streaming services.
The overall image quality on the Samsung NU8000 is also quite good. In the preset movie mode, the image is fairly accurate, which allows movies and TV shows to look like they are intended to look. This TV uses edge-lit LED lighting with local dimming, and its black-level performance is good but falls behind LCD TVs like the Q8F that use full-array local dimming. It tone maps HDR content in such a way that you keep highlight details and color saturation, making it a good choice for HDR video gaming. While we might have picked other TVs that have better overall image quality with movie and TV content for our Best TV guides, the NU8000 still offers a good-looking image that you will enjoy watching.
Right now you cannot use both automatic low latency mode (ALLM) and adaptive frame rate at the same time on the Samsung NU8000. If you enable adaptive frame rate, ALLM no longer works and you’ll have to switch between the TV’s game mode and movie mode manually.
Most gaming systems don’t support ALLM or adaptive frame rate right now. The Xbox One X and PS4 Pro do, but that’s it at the moment. Also, if you use an AV receiver or soundbar for your HDMI switching, most of them cannot pass the HDMI 2.1 information for these features—so the features might not work, even if you have the correct console and TV.
While the NU8000’s HDR tone mapping preserves the highlight details quite well, it does this at the expense of overall HDR brightness. Other TVs that measure the same amount of light output with test patterns have much brighter real-world HDR highlights than this Samsung and will offer more impactful HDR in many cases.
Photo: Samsung
The Samsung Q8F supports all the same gaming features as the Samsung NU8000, but it uses a full-array LED backlight instead of an edge-lit backlight to provide a superior image. If you’re a gamer who also wants superior performance when watching movies and TV, the Samsung Q8F delivers better HDR, superior contrast ratios, deeper blacks, and the best anti-reflective filter on the screen surface—which improves image contrast in a brighter viewing environment.
When watching HDR content, the Q8F can show highlights that are 50 percent brighter (or more) than the NU8000 while still having deeper blacks. While bright-colored highlights can begin to wash out on the NU8000, they retain their color and brightness on the Q8F. The Q8F also offers superior motion, thanks to a backlight that that runs at a higher frequency to avoid flicker and other artifacts.
In 2019, more TVs should offer support for the HDMI 2.1 gaming features, but models that came out later in 2018—like the Sony Master Series or Vizio PQ—don’t support them yet. We expect to get more details on the 2019 TVs at CES in January, but those TVs most likely won’t be available until at least April or May of 2019.
Sony X900F: It offers low input lag in the 4K and HDR modes plus very good motion, but the input lag with 1080p is over 40 ms—well behind most of the competition.
Vizio P-Series F1: The updated Vizio P-Series for 2018 offers low input lag in game mode for both HDR and SDR, but it lacks the HDMI 2.1 gaming features that Samsung offers. If you are willing to switch in and out of game mode manually and can live without adaptive frame rate, it does a great job with gaming. It also has a black-frame insertion mode for improved motion quality that doesn’t dim the screen.
Vizio PQ Series: Performance for gaming is essentially identical to that of the Vizio P-Series F1, with low input lag but no HDMI 2.1 features. As long as you remember to enable game mode, you’ll get good performance, but it’s not as easy to use for gaming as our picks.
TCL 6-Series: The TCL 6-Series also has low input lag for HDR and SDR content, but it can’t switch into game mode automatically and is only a 60 Hz panel. When using black-frame insertion for improved motion, the image dims noticeably compared with other displays.
LG C8 OLED: It offers low input lag for 1080p and 4K content (although not as low as the Samsung) and the best motion quality, thanks to the absence of motion blur. However, it does not support ALLM or adaptive frame rate. If you are able to do 3D cube calibration, you can also get the most accurate colors in game mode without adding extra input lag. While we don’t typically worry about burn-in on an OLED TV, if you’re specifically using the C8 OLED for video games and the same image might be onscreen for many hours a day, know that that is one use case where the potential for burn-in would exist.
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Home Business News City Council Approves Yates Pizza For Old Generous George’s Spot
City Council Approves Yates Pizza For Old Generous George’s Spot
The restaurant will include valet service and outdoor dining, and will be open from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m.
James Cullum
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Many Alexandrians were brought down when Generous George’s Positive Pizza and Pasta Place closed after decades in business in 2009. Now, after three years in development, a plan to reopen the property as Yates Pizza was unanimously approved by the Alexandria City Council on Saturday.
The multimillion dollar renovation of Yates Pizza, which takes up nearly 17,000 total square feet at four lots – 3000, 3006, 3012 and 3012A Duke Street – was designed by Ritter Norton Architects, which also designed Stomping Ground and Del Ray Pizzeria.
The restaurant will include valet service and outdoor dining, and will be open from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. The restaurant interior is 13,000 square feet, and will offer 448 seats and a rooftop terrace. The restaurant will also have live music, large screen televisions and offer pizza delivery service.
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Category Archives: constitutional amendments
Sirisena and Ranil birched — Admiral Kumaresan, Lt Col Anil Amarasekera and DIG HMGBM Kotakadeniya
ONE = Retd Air Vice Marshal Arun Kumaresan: “Easter Sunday bombing: Questions to Minister of Defence, Law and Order: Cost of manipulating higher defence management – National Security Council” in Daily FT, 24 April 2019, http://www.ft.lk/opinion/Easter-Sunday-bombing–Questions-to-Minister-of-Defence–Law-and-Order/14-676888
It was a sad and horrific day for all humans not only Sri Lankans nor Christians. Tentacles of religious fundamentalism and extremism have consumed many innocent lives on the day they were celebrating the resurrection of Christ. But as the reports indicate there had been a pre warning; not general but specific to violent acts targeting the Christians.
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February 5, 2019 · 10:11 am
Universal Suffrage in Ceylon and Lanka from 1931-81
Kingsley M de Silva’s edited collection of articles on Universal Suffrage … has been a neglected work . As Sri Lanka struggles today and as many cast reviews on the island’s history perhaps this event in 1831 and its repercussions should receive more incisive attention from analysts. Apart from KM de Silva himself, the authors include RA Ariayaratne, CR De Silva, Tilaka Metthananda, Vijaya Samaraweera, SWR de Samarasinghe, Neelan Tiruchelvam and AJ Wilson …. by and large a Peradeniya University consortium.
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No Surprises with Sirisena. Challenging Mike Roberts
An Introductory Note from Michael Roberts
Gerald Peiris and I were undergraduates at Ramanathan Hall Peradeniya in the late 1950s and met on occasions when we were pursuing postgrad studies in UK and I visited Cambridge. Thereafter we were colleagues in the Arts Faculty at Peradeniya University from 1966 to 1975. Quite vitally, we were active members of the Ceylon Studies Seminar. During those seminars and at times in private tête-à-tête over drinks the two of us occasionally engaged in discussions, sometimes with sharp disagreements on specific issues.
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A Rajapaksa Cloud looming over Lanka’s Democracy
Sam Samarasinghe aka SWR de A Samarasinghe of Tulane University, in Sunday Observer, 27 January 2019, where the title is “Gotabaya’s alternative vision challenges Sri Lanka’s democracy” …. with highlighting emphases in different colurs imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently announced at a meeting of Viyath Maga, of which he is president that he was ready to contest the next Presidential Election that must be held this year.In his speech to the assembled professionals and business people he asserted that Sri Lanka must have national unity (jaathikathwaya) and rejected sectarian division (jaathiwaadaya). The Viyath Maga website makes all the right statements on good governance such as “steer the country in the correct path with accountability; inculcate democratic values…”, and so on. Rajapaksa also stressed the importance of solving ‘social problems’ focusing on poverty reduction. All of the above are desirable political goals for the country. They are also not new. The UNF in 2015, and earlier leaders, made similar promises that were largely ignored once in office.
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How Washington nurtured Maithripala Sirisena in 2013-15 to serve Its Ends
Daya Gamage of USA [i]… with highlighting emphasis being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi
As you have noted in your email[ii] that Chandrika and Ven. Sobhitha[iii] were instrumental in identifying and cultivating Maithripala Sirisena to take the field against Rajapaksa at the 2015 Presidential Election, let me emphasize that Washington also had a firm covert hand in the selection.
Way back in 2013 Washington identified Sirisena as a possible candidate against Mahinda Rajapaksa. The first step was when, as Rajapaksa’s Health Minister, Sirisena received the Harvard Health Leadership Award 2013 from Harvard University Dean Dr. Julio Frenk and Harvard Professor (International Affairs) William Clark for minimizing the consumption of alcohol and smoking and adopting a National Drug Policy in Sri Lanka.
Health Minister Maitripala Sirisena receiving Harvard Leadership Award 2013 From Harvard University Dean Dr. Julio Frenk and Harvard Professor International Affairs William Clark
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The Political Struggle in Sri Lanka: Three Pugilists … Hattotuwa … Chandraprema … Philips
ONE. Sanjana Hattotuwa: “Musical Chairs,” Island, 12 January 2019
The appointment of a new Army Chief of Staff. A fresh denial around the use of chemical weapons. The denunciation of a civil society protest against mainstream media supportive of the constitutional coup, not by members of the SLPP, but by those in the UNP and government. A photograph of a former President, the incumbent and the Prime Minister, comfortably seated next to each other, enjoying or at least at a musical show. Newspaper headlines and reports framing dire warnings by the former President, who true to form, relies on the capture of emotions over fact or principle. In just the second week of January, we are presented with the template for what the year ahead holds. It is not looking good, but despite the obvious anxiety, I continue to maintain, is counter-intuitively rather beneficial. The greatest contribution of the constitutional coup to conversations around the grasp of Sri Lanka’s democratic potential was to place in the open and very clearly, who stood for what and where. This endures.
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Lakshman Gunasekara’s Reflections on the Political Turmoil in Late 2018: Three Essays
Lakshman Gunasekera
ONE. Lakshman Gunasekara: “Politics vs Constitutionalism,” in Horizons, 9 December 2018 …
When the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH, what a mouthful) began hosting conferences in those old-fashioned 1970s, we, the ordinary citizens hadn’t a hope of freely strolling into its premises (let alone its halls). One needed a conference invitation to enter the gates and some ‘delegate’ or ‘media’ tag to enter the main hall or ‘committee rooms’ (as they were quaintly termed then). Today, in our lower-middle-income country comfort zone, people are constantly streaming in and out of the BMICH, for weddings, exhibitions, conferences, convocations, concerts and seminars, all at the same time (and I am sure there is romance in those verdant gardens). Continue reading →
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Alabama Practice Report 10/5: Tide Begins Arkansas Prep
Following its sizeable road victory at Georgia, Alabama was back on the practice field Monday in preparation for Arkansas, its homecoming game, this weekend at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Alabama practiced outside on the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields on an overcast day in Tuscaloosa...
Alabama Practice Report 9/30: Scarbrough Works at H-Back
Alabama practiced outside on the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields Wednesday, the media’s last glimpse of the team before Saturday’s game at No. 8 Georgia. The Crimson Tide wore full pads.
- Running back Bo Scarbrough, who coach Nick Saban said Monday may have a role against Georgia now that h…
Alabama Practice Report 9/23: Ragland Practices With OLBs
Alabama practiced for the second time this week Wednesday, two days after taking Monday’s practice off. The Crimson Tide practiced outside on the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields in full pads.
Regarding Monday’s day off, it is not uncommon for coach Nick Saban to do that du…
Alabama Position-By-Position Breakdown: Defensive Line
It’s only spring, but it’s never too early to look ahead to the fall. In the sixth installment of a position-by-position breakdown of the Crimson Tide’s 2015 roster heading into spring practice, Tide 99.1 looks at the defensive line...
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Civic Issues
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Environment clearance for Shalukkhali port stalled
This story is from June 4, 2014
Jayanta Gupta | TNN | Updated: Jun 4, 2014, 21:46 IST
KOLKATA: The Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for projects related to Infrastructure Development and Coastal Regulation Zone has stalled Kolkata Port Trust's efforts to obtain an environment clearance for the proposed port facility at Shalukkhali (better known as Haldia Dock - II) as the documents provided aren't up to date. The decision was taken by the committee in Delhi at a meeting convened on April 21-22 this year. Clearance hasn't been granted to the proposed port facility at Diamond Harbour either for the same reason. KoPT will now have to apply afresh for clearance. Two separate port facilities are to be created at Shalukkhali at a cost of nearly Rs 1,707.5 crore. One of these, Haldia Dock - II (North), is to be created by a consortium of Concast Infratech Ltd and Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co Ltd at an estimated cost of Rs 821.4 crore.
The consortium has till August this year to get all clearances and start work. In an attempt to expedite the process, KoPT decided to try and obtain environment clearance for the project. Clearance was sought for both Haldia Dock - II (North) and Haldia Dock - II (South). These two facilities are to have four jetties - two mechanized and two multipurpose - and will have capacity to handle 23.4 million tonnes of cargo per year. The jetties will have associated infrastructure like hardstanded stack yard, pipelines, cargo handling equipment, mechanized wagon loaders, conveyor systems, railway sidings, fire fighting facilities and internal roads, it was stated in the proposal submitted by KoPT.
It was also stated in the proposal that the project will be set up on vacant government land measuring about 160 acres which is beyond the Coastal Regulation Zone (ZRZ) limit as per the approved Coastal Zone Management Program (CZMP) of the Government of West Bengal. The river draft at this site is likely to be around 9 metres, allowing larger vessels to berth at the jetties. The Kolkata port also provided all details regarding use of water, consumption of power and disposal of waste.
After going through the details, the committee referred to the letter dated February 7, 2011, by the Institute of Environmental Studies and Wetland Management, Government of West Bengal. "This letter was issued on the basis of CZMP of West Bengal for the year 1996. However, the CRZ limit should have been decided based on the salinity criteria mentioned in the notification for the year 2002 and the CRZ notification of 2011. The committee is of the view that the letter dated February 7, 2011, is not acceptable and the proponent has to submit the approved 1:4000 CRZ map from the recognized agency along with the recommendation from Coastal Zone Management Authority (CZMA)," the committee noted.
The KoPT management in Kolkata, however, denied that the clearance has been stalled. "It is not true that the EAC has stalled clearance. They asked for clearance from the State Coastal Zonal Management Authority (SCZMA) though project is outside CRZ. The issue was not mentioned by EAC in Terms of Reference (ToR) clearance. Nevertheless, we are now preparing requisite maps for approaching SCZMA. . We propose to move EAC with SCZMA's recommendation in July," KoPT chairman RPS Kahlon said.
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Future is Today : Re-imagining manufacturing
TA News Bureau
Global competition is getting tougher, and the industry needs to continually increase productivity and press down cost. Over the years industrial evolution and revolution have been steadily contributing to manufacturing growth.
Since the beginning of the first industrial revolution during 1700s and early 1800s, which was brought about by the steam engine, we have progressed to reach the early stages of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, described as Industry 4.0. In place of steam, the driving power now is digital technology.
Intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (AI) using digital tools have started to gain momentum in the manufacturing sector. These are facilitating the effective management of all kinds of data leading to improvements of 30% or more in cost savings and quality. It is now possible to drive growth, profitability and efficiency as never before.
Through digitalization and disruptive technologies such as AI, robotics, machine learning and sensors, the manufacturing processes are being improved to gain competitiveness. Innovation is in the fast lane because of information technology (IT) deployment in a rapidly evolving ecosystem where 3-D printing is making dramatic impact.
It is noted that manufacturing has experienced a decade of productivity stagnation and demand fragmentation. A recent Gartner report has said that more than one-third of manufacturing executives have said that growth is their top priority. Yet manufacturing is still focused on the present. Obviously these need to be corrected and changed.
Now, enterprises are studying how they should deal with the expected technological disruptions in the coming years. Gartner has developed four scenarios for manufacturers in 2023. These are all influenced by customer requirements and the internal intention to change, including the strategy of the corporate leadership.
The CEOs should be willing to guide the transitioning to Industry 4.0 norms through innovation powered by digitalization. Such disruptive changes will be shaped by data and analytics that would impact R&D and advanced manufacturing. Production will be based on convergence of 3D printing, AI, Internet of Things and next-generation robotics which will enable intelligent, flexible, customer-oriented production systems and new business models.
Let us imagine how the factories of tomorrow will look like. There are no simple ways Industry 4.0 norms can shape manufacturing under technology deployment.
Helena Leurent, Head of the Shaping the Future of Production System Initiative at the World Economic Forum, says “lighthouse factories are found in companies large and small, in all industries and regions.” Rather than replacing operators with machines, lighthouse factories are transforming work to make it less repetitive, more interesting, diversified and productive.
Lighthouses factories are those enterprises that have taken Industry 4.0 technology and practices from the pilot stage to integration at scale enabling such firms to improve bottom lines and add improved efficiency.
Scaling up innovation
After scanning more than 1,000 leading manufacturers, Leurent has reported that her team has found that lighthouses have managed to adapt new operations in several key areas of manufacturing. Industry 4.0 is found to be essential to breaking out of the productivity stagnation.
There is an emerging feeling that innovation is long overdue across industries. It is reported that those enterprises that have scaled up innovation beyond the pilot phase have reported unprecedented increase in efficiency with minimal displacement of workers.
What is disconcerting is that most C-suite leaders are nervous to go the full hog in implementing digital strategies, including AI and robotics, across the plant level. Leurent thinks if governments and enterprises collaborate, it would hasten Industry 4.0. It would lead to sizeable increase in global wealth production, benefitting people throughout the society.
There is no doubt that big data and algorithms would ensure more efficiency and productivity. It is not worth waiting for cheaper or better technology to come along. CEOs should encourage industry-academia interaction to push ahead with Industry 4.0 as there are limitations to expect innovation to stem from in-house efforts alone.
If the CEOs seek to turn the organisations agile in order to be at the head of the competition, they should go for manufacturing flexibility that driven by the convergence of AI, 3D-printing, virtual and augmented reality, Internet of Things and robotics that are programmed to be flexible and customer-oriented production systems.
It is inevitable that that the manufacturing practices have reached an inflection point where established business models are undergoing transformation driven by disruptive innovation.
It is forecast that Industry 4.0 is projected to create up to $3.7 trillion in value by 2025. This will be due to an enabling cyber-physical systems that would allow companies to produce what exactly the consumer demands. Adding to the progress is the emergence of a dynamic global supply chain.
The CEOs who will be directing the Industry 4.0 changes should have certain management qualities, besides being tech-savvy. They should be able to lead a hybrid workforce of people and robots.
The leader should have skills such as empathy for he workforce who may feel threatened by automation as they set to develop a data-driven manufacturing entity whose focus will be on lean and green ecosystem.
The advantages of manufacturing under Industry 4.0 paradigm will include automated material handing, reduced waste, absence of human errors, consistent quality and leaner staff deployment.
Data-fed robots
With the continuing drop in the prices of robots, which are assuming the ability to perform complex manufacturing processes, the chances of the enterprise earning decent profits are high. Thanks to continuous upgrading of software, simulation packages, 3-D printing innovations and cheaper robot maintenance costs, modern manufacturing processes would become more competitive.
R&D breakthroughs in sensors and machine learning have enabled robots to be programmed for specific tasks for the manufacture of products based on continuous collection of data that are automatically used for further improving production and maintenance. Such robots would be technically more competent and economically more affordable.
Reports say that currently precision industrial robots are capable of controlling their movement to within 0.10 millimetres with some models achieving repeatable access of 0.02 millimetres. What is more, modern robots can seamlessly work side-by-side with humans delivering maximum output at minimum cost per unit.
Another attraction of modern robots is their sophistication to be programmed to switch seamlessly between product types without the need to stop the line to change programs or reconfigure tooling.
Instead of incremental advances in implementing Industry 4.0 practices, CEOs should go for greater investment in R&D and develop disruptive innovation that is aimed at radical transformative advances in manufacturing.
Developing smart factories should be the aim of CEOs who should use latest digital technology tools to build products and processes that would increase profitability and better returns on investment. They should not hesitate to use cutting-edge technologies in analysing the Big Data wherein lies hidden patterns that could determine business success.
By analysing complex data through digital tools, virtualisation, hyper connectivity, predictive tools, statistical processing and artificial neural networks, the CEO can further improve machine-to-robot connection to deliver a sustainable eco-friendly manufacturing regime that will ensure profitability in operations.
Whether it is blue-chip companies or small manufacturing enterprises, embracing Industry 4.0 can put them in the fast lane to drive the next engine of economic growth.
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As Some Airline Seats Get Bigger, Experts Caution Against ‘Fat Shaming And Bias’
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By Vikki Ortiz Chicago Tribune
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) United airlines will buy 29 new regional aircraft, most of which will offer seats an inch wider, with economy seats also getting more legroom.
With passengers on some United Airlines flights poised to get more seating room, health experts caution against shaming people for their size, as obesity continues to be chronic health condition for much of the U.S. population.
"While we're ... working on solving this crisis, we need to accommodate the people that are living with it every day and not discriminate and marginalize them," said Wendy Scinta, president of the Obesity Medicine Association based in Denver.
Scinta, who leads the organization of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other health care providers, praised United Airlines for its announcement this week that the company will buy 29 new regional aircraft, most of which will offer seats an inch wider, with economy seats also getting more legroom.
"It saddens me that we haven't gotten our arms around this (obesity) epidemic yet," Scinta said. "But on the other hand, it delights me that we are trying to avoid the fat shaming and bias that we see."
In the U.S., 75 percent of adults and 35 percent of children are considered overweight. And while the U.S. has made progress in addressing obesity in recent years, it will require continual efforts, including educating the public, insisting on healthier products from manufacturers, and using a humane approach to acknowledging obesity, such as adapting seats for more space on airplanes _ to end the problem, Scinta said.
"They're starting to have some compassion for the disease," said Scinta, whose organization offers resources for addressing obesity on its website, www.obesitymedicine.org.
United Airlines isn't the first transportation company to acknowledge Americans' need for space.
Metra last year reported that when updating seats, it would widen aisles in response to complaints that they were too narrow, according to its website. Seats on CTA buses and trains range between 17 and 18 inches wide, a large space that has become standard across the transit industry, according to CTA spokesman Jon Kaplan.
The U.S. had the highest obesity rate in the world in 2017, according to Michele Cecchini, head of public health for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a global nonprofit that has compiled reports on worldwide obesity since the 1970s.
Americans have led the world in obesity since the study began, a distinction attributed to factors including higher caloric intake, lower rates of exercise and more frequent driving, said Cecchini, whose organization works to promote policies that improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
Cecchini said larger seats demonstrate how varied the costs are of obesity.
Not only is being overweight a risk to a person's well-being and a strain on the health care system, it trickles down to private businesses, such as airlines, which invest in new equipment and pass along the expense to consumers, Cecchini said.
Cecchini said his organization's research has identified several ways to address the obesity problem, from reformulating foods for more nutritional content to less confusing package labeling, which would allow more people to make healthier choices quickly.
"There are other lessons that the U.S. can learn from other countries," he said.
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The Elixir of Love
The Charisma of the Shaykh's Sayings
The Style of Writing
Beyond a Commemorative Volume
Authenticity of the Sources
Stations of the People possessing Divine Knowledge
The Human Beings who cannot be perceived
Part 1: Traits
The Shaykh's House
The Shaykh's Clothing
The Shaykh's Food
Perseverance in his Work
Equity in Receiving Wages
A Reward for Equity
Equity Toward People and Meeting with Hazrat Wali 'Asr (aj)
Imam al- 'Asr (aj) in the Blacksmiths' Bazaar
The Equity of the Old Locksmith
I will Visit him!
Self -Sacrifice
Self-Sacrifice toward other People's Children
Self-Sacrifice toward a Bankrupt Neighbor
Self-Sacrifice on the New Year's Eve
Acts of Selfless Devotion
Taqlid
Dedicating the Work for God
Refuting un-Islamic Mortification
First Payoff Your Khums
Humbleness
Profound Reverence for the Sayyids
Respect for All People
Indifference to the Worldly Positions
Awaiting the Faraj (Second Coming of Imam al-'Asr (aj))
The Shaykh's Significant Demand
How the Ant Strived to Reach the Beloved
"Give my Regards to that Holiness (aj)"
The Second Coming of some of the People Awaiting Imam Mahdi (aj)
A Cobbler in Shahr-i Ray
Reciting (singing) Poetry in a Delightful Voice
A Poem by the Shaykh and Reminiscence
Two Political Predictions
The Future of the Islamic Revolution
Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar in the Purgatory World
Praising the Tyrannical Monarch
Cooperation with the American Military Attaches
Part 2: A Leap Forward
Divine Training
The Shaykh's Masters
A Story Similar to that of the Prophet Yusuf (a)
How he Received Divine Training
The Eyes and Ears of the Heart
Help from the Unseen World
Penalty of a Disapproved Thought
"You are Satiated and your Neighbor is Hungry?!"
The Veil of Eating Food beyond Need!
Spiritual Perfections
Absorbed in Monotheism
The Station of Fana (Annihilation)
The Greatest Status
Finding Way into all Worlds
The Shaykh at the Age of Sixty
The great Difference Between our Knowledge and his
Helping out the Hard-Working Laborer
"You Lose Temper too quickly!"
"I See the Hair on his Head and Face is Growing Grey!"
Contact with the Souls of Dr. Farzam's Parents
How a Relation was established between Dr. Shaykh and Shaykh Rajab Ali
"The Automobile is All Right, Move on!"
Your Request is granted
The Effect of Humility toward People for God's Sake
Talking to Plants
The Reward for the Inventor of Electric Fan
Conditional Fulfillment of Supplication
Helping the One Who Had Lost his Properties
The Scent of Red Apples
The Reward for Abstaining from Unlawful Look
The Fire within the Unlawful Property
How the Gramophone Stopped Working
The Appeal by the Youth in Love
"Do not get Furious!"
"His Beard is of no Concern to You!"
Responding Satan's Temptation
Part 3: Self-Building
The Ways of Self-Building
"For Sixty Years I Treaded the Wrong Path"
Self-Building by One's Manners
1. Public Sessions
Emphasis on Obeying God and Refraining from Carnal Desires
Recognition of Internal States
Putting the Shaykh to Test
The Presence of an Informer
"First Please your Father!"
2. Special Guidelines
The Importance of a Perfect Instructor
Sins and Calamities in Life
"We Sell on Credit even to you!"
Annoying the Child
Annoying the Wife
Annoying the Husband
The Displeased Sister
Unkindness toward the Sister
The Displeased Mother
The Broken-Hearted Aunt
Annoying the Employer's Son
Annoying the Employee
Usurping the Old Woman's Right
Offending others (with foul language)
The Basis of Self-Building
Cleansing of Polytheism
Traveling for the Purpose of Telling a Point
"Ask Allah's Forgiveness a Thousand Times!"
Personality Cult and Polytheism
"Your Father should not turn into an Idol for you!"
How to Reach the Reality of Monotheism
The Elixir of Self-Building
The Real Elixir
The Shaykh's Greatest Art
Shirin and Farhad
"Write for the Love of the Beloved!"
"God Has no Clients!"
"Teach Lessons of Love!"
Fundamentals of Love of God
Attaining Intuitive Knowledge
The Pitfall of Love toward God
The Inward Aspects of the Worldly-Minded People
The God-Displaying Heart
"What have you Done?"
"What Do I see in you?!"
Men who had turned into Women!
"What's that Table?"
Attaining Divine Mysteries
The Status of the Intellect and that of the Soul
Worship Based on Affection
Everything for Oneself, even God!
The Highest Levels of Piety
The School of Love
Opening up the Heart's Eye
The Inward Aspect of Heart
The Heart to which Everything is Present
The Man who Performs Godly Acts
The Way to Love God
Sincerity of Friends of God
All Deeds for God's Sake
Eating and Taking Rest for God's Sake!
Stitch for God's Sake!
Come Over for God's sake!
Blow into Fire for God's Sake!
Love them for the Sake of God!
What have you done for God's Sake?
Woe to me! Woe to me!
To Become Good for God's Sake
Go on a Pilgrimage for the Sake of God!
Fruits of Sincerity
The Fragrance of God in Deeds
Overpowering the Satan
Opening up of the Heart's Eye
Material and Spiritual Blessings
I taught them for God's Sake
God Tackled our Problem!
The Dhikr of the Friends of God
Perpetual Presence
How to Liberate from Carnal Soul and the Satan
Take your Hands Off me!
Remembrance of God in Sleep
On Overcoming Carnal Desires
Suppressing the Satanic Temptations when Encountering Women other than our Next of Kin
For the Love of God
For Attaining the Honor of Meeting Wali 'Asr (aj)
2. How a Shopkeeper found this Honor
For Solving Problems and Curing Illnesses
For Averting Heat and Cold
Supplications of the Friends of God
Supplications of the Shaykh
His Regular Supplication
"Find a Pretext to Seek 'Him'!"
The Value of Weeping and Whispered Prayer
A Penny in Response to "Ya Allah!"
The Way to Proximity to God
What should we implore from God?
What Does a Lover Want from the Beloved?
"Complain of being Forlorn!"
The Real Reason for Appealing to the Ahl al-Bayt (a)
The Ziyarat of 'Ashura
The Condition for Getting Answers to Supplications
"First, Pay for the Salt!"
The Capacity of the Worshipper
Courtesy of the Worshipper
Benevolence of the Friends of God
The Mystery of Creation
Giving Alms while in Poverty
"Fast and Give Alms!"
Benevolence to a Jobless Person Encumbered by a Large Family
Benevolence to the Sister
The Shaykh and Rendering Service to People
Recompense to the Prayer Leader as Ordered by Wali al-'Asr (aj)
Recommendation for Serving Meals
"God Willing, it will be Sufficient!"
The Blessings of Rendering Service to People
The Blessing of the Taxi Driver's Service
Assisting the Blind Man and the Luminosity of the Heart
Giving Meals to Forty People and the Healing of the Patient
Rain in a Drought
Giving Victuals by the Father to Beget a Child
The Blessing of Feeding a Hungry Animal
Benevolence Based on Love of God
Words of Imam Khomeini (ra) on rendering Service to People
Prayers of the Friends of God
1. Love
2. Courtesy
3. Presence of Heart
4. Perseverance in Performing Prayers at their Due Time
"A Servant of Imam Husayn (a) would not put off his Prayers to Such Late Hours"
Anger, the Bane of Prayers
The Hajj of the Friends of God
Recommendations of the Shaykh to the Hajj Pilgrims
1. Endeavor to Visit Hazrat Wali 'Asr (aj)
3. Complete Orientation towards God While Circumambulating Ka'bah
5. Killing the Carnal Soul in Mina
The only Place where they Displayed Affection!
The Banquet for Returning from Hajj
The Mysteries of Hajj in the Sayings of Imam Khomeini (ra)
The Secret of Circumambulation
Allegiance to God
Friends of God's Fear
The Meaning of Fear of God
"Do not Fear God!"
Fear of Separation
Fear of not being accepted by the Beloved
Part 4: Passing Away
The Passing Away of Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat
The Day before his Heavenly Departure
A Dream by One of his Disciples
The Shaykh on his Deathbed
Welcome my Dear Master!
The First Night after the Burial
The Passing Away of Ayatollah Hujjat
House Repair
"I am About to Die!"
"O God! I did what I was Obligated to Do!"
"My Death will be at Noon"
Resorting to the Holy Qur'an
"Agha Ali, Please Come in!"
Water Mixed with Turba (Soil from Imam Husayn (a)'s Place of Martyrdom)
"Without an Intermediary?!"
The Passing Away of Haj Akhund Turbati
One Week before his Heavenly Departure
"Salutation to you O Rasulallah (s)"
"Rest in Peace, Mother!"
"Do not Tease me Husayn Ali!"
There is a renowned hadith that the experts call "hadith-i qurb-i nawafil" (the hadith of proximity in supererogation).
Both Shi'a and Sunni scholars of hadith quoted, with a slight difference, the Holy Prophet (s) as saying:1
"قال الله عز وجل: ... ما تقرب إلي عبد بشيء أحب الي مما افترضت عليه، وانه ليتقرب الي بالنافلة حتى أحبه، فاذا أحببته كنت سمعه الذي يسمع به، وبصره الذي يبصر به، ولسانه الذي ينطق به، ويده التي يبطش بها، ان دعاني أجبته، وإن سألني أعطيته"
"The Almighty Allah said: No servant is drawn nigh to Me except by means of what is more favorable to Me than what I have made obligatory to them. Verily, he approaches to Me by nafila (supererogatory prayers) to the extent that I get to love him; in that case, I will become his ears to hear with, his eyes to see with and his tongue to speak with, and his hand to strike with. If he calls Me, I will answer him and if he makes a request from Me I will grant him"2
What is meant by "nafila" in the ahadith-i qurb-i nawafil, which follow the obligatory prayers, consist of good and righteous deeds, which expedite man's flight toward absolute perfection and the Sublime Destination of humanity.
One can, accordingly, through performance of good deeds for God's sake get closer and closer to absolute perfection; and at the peak of servitude, his eyes would not see except for the sake of God, his ears would not hear except for the sake of God, his tongue would not talk except for the sake of God, and his heart would not yearn except for the sake of God.
In other words, by submerging your will in the Will of Allah (swt)--as put in the ahadith-i qurb-i nawafil--God will become your eyes, ears, tongue and heart; and you will eventually attain the essence of servitude and Divinity.
According to the reverend Shaykh:
"If the eye works for God, it becomes Eye of Allah, if the ear works for God it becomes Ear of Allah, if the hand works for God, it becomes Hand of Allah, and so forth to the heart of man, which is God's place; as narrated:
"قلب المؤمن من عرش الرحمن"
"The heart of a believer is the Throne of Allah, the compassionate.3"
And as Imam Husayn (a) says:
"جعلتَ قلوبَ أوليائكَ مسكناً لمشيتك"
"O Lord! You made Your lover's hearts the station of Your Will and Providence.4"
Accurate and fair probing into the Shaykh's spiritual states indicates that, after the enormous leap he made in his youth as a result of rejecting the lustful temptation; and as an outcome of Divine training and the inspirations and assistance granted to him from the Unseen, he achieved such high levels of spiritual virtues. Perhaps, this was the secret of his great interest in the following poems which he frequently whispered:
"In the school of Eternity, it was Your Beauty that guided me; Your Grace aided me to be trapped in your (Divine) Snare."
"My vile carnal soul yearned for any falsehood; Your Gracious Emanation liberated me from its grips."
One of the Shaykh's close disciples who had been associating with him for about thirty years said: 'On the recommendation of the Shaykh I went to visit Ayatollah Kuhistani?5
The late Ayatollah Kuhistani once said about the Shaykh: 'Whatever the late Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat was granted (spiritually), was due to his fine monotheism; he was absorbed in monotheism.
Dr. Hamid Farzam who has enjoyed the reverend Shaykh's sessions, described him as follows: 'His reverence Shaykh Rajab Ali Nikuguyan (May God's Mercy be upon him) was a detached ascetic who had achieved union with God. He had, out of purification of nafs and inward purity, attained the status of fana fi Allah, and baqa bi Allah (subsistence in Allah); and by means of acting according to legal ordinances and spiritual path-faring through stations and states of spiritual discipiine, he joined the origin of Truth, graced with the Blessing from Almighty God.'
Another of the Shaykh's disciples had the following description about him: 'The late Shaykh was from among those whose beings are captivated by God. He was literally unable to see anything except God; whatever he saw was God; whatever he said was about God. His first and last word was God, for he was in love with God. He was in love both with God and Ahl al-Bayt (a); whatever he said was about them. Being sacred is apart from being a lover. Shaykh Rajab 'Ali was a lover. His art was the Love of God and work for God. Those who are Divinely in love; their eyes display that love; his eyes were not like ordinary ones, he seemed to see nothing but God.'
The reverend Shaykh considered as sinful taking pleasure in anything except in God. Once in a very hot summer day, the Shaykh blew (some air onto his face with) a manual straw fan to cool off a little. As soon as he felt cool, he said at once:
"وأستغفرك من كل لذة بغيرك ذِكرك ومن كل راحة بغير أنسك ومن كل سرور بغير قربك ومن كل شغل بغير طاعتك."
"O God! I pray forgiveness from Thee for every pleasure but remembering Thee, every ease but proximity with Thee, every happiness but nearness to Thee every occupation but obeying Thee!6"
Another of his disciples, described the Shaykh's love of God as follows: 'The Shaykh was so enamored of God that in his presence nothing but talking about his beloved would be allowed to come up, except of course for some necessary subjects of daily matters. Sometimes he referred to the story of Layli and Majnun, in which Majnun was never interested to hear anything but about Layli. It was related that someone asked Majnun: Is Ali (a) rightful or 'Umar?
To which he answered: ' Layli is rightful! , He (the Shaykh) would say:
"Even if this story is not real, it may be fitting to drive home the (latent) reality in it."
The young tailor, in his intense love of God and perfection of sincerity, was granted the Supreme Status and the Sublime Destiny. Thus, as asserted by the Ahl al-Bayt (a), he achieved the virtues and stations of people of cognition (those endowed with Divine Knowledge) through a way other than the common ways. Imam al-Sadiq (a) is quoted as saying:
"ان أولي الألباب الذين عملوا بالفكرة حتى ورثوا منه حب الله – الى ان قال – فاذا بلغ هذه المنزلة جعل شهوته ومحبته في خالقه، فاذا فعل ذلك نزل المنزلة الكبرى فعاين ربه في قلبه، وورث الحكمة بغير ما ورثه الحكماء، وورث العلم بغير ما ورثه العلماء، وورث الصدق بغير ما ورثه الصديقون. ان الحكماء ورثوا الحكمة بالصمت، وان العلماء ورثوا العلم بالطلب، وان الصديقين ورثوا الصدق بالخشوع وطول العبادة"
"The wise people are those who put their thought in work by means of which to acquire Love of God. When they reach this status--the holy Imam (a) went on to say--they set their desire and love toward their Creator, and thereby they reach the highest status, find their Lord in their hearts, and obtain wisdom not through the way the sages obtained, and find knowledge not through the way the scholars found, and achieve Sidq (sincerity) not through the way the pious achieved. The sages found sagacity by silence, the scholars found knowledge by seeking, and the pious attained piety and sincerity through humility and long-term worship.7
One of the Shaykh's devotees who had been closely asociating with him for so many years wrote about the Shaykh's spiritual achievements: 'As a result of his great love in Almighty God and the Ahl al-Bayt (a), there remained no veil between him and God. He had access to all "worlds". He would talk to all the souls residing in Barzakh (Purgatory World) since the beginning of creation up to the present. He would "see", by his own will, whatever anyone had done in their whole life and would tell the signs,8 and would reveal what he willed and would be allowed to.
Visiting the Malakut (the Celestial Kingdom)!
Visiting the Malakut of the heavens and the earth with the eye of the heart is a prologue to attaining the high status of intuition of certitude.
وكذلك نري ابراهيم ملكوت السموت والأرض وليكون من الموقنين))
(So also We show Abraham the power and the laws of the heavens and the earth, that he might (with understanding) have certitude.) (Al An'am: 75)
The Holy Prophet (s) is quoted as saying:
"لولا ان الشياطين يحومون على قلوب بني آدم لنظروا الى الملكوت"
"If it were not that devils are dominant over the hearts of human beings, they would be witnessing the Malakut.9"
All those who have been delivered from the snares of nafs and Satan, by tearing apart the heart's veils, are able to observe the Malakut of the heavens and the earth, and to bear witness to the Oneness of the Sacred Essence of God.
(شهد الله أنه لآ اله الا هو والملئكة وأولوا العلم)
(There is no God but He: That is the witness of Allah, His angels, and those endowed with knowledge...) (Ale Imran: 18)
One of the Shaykh's disciples related: 'I asked the late Haj Muqaddas10 whether the following hadith attributed to the Holy Prophet (s) is correct:
"If it were not that devils are dominant over the hearts of human beings, they would be witnessing the Malakut."
He answered: 'Yes.'
I asked: 'Do you see the Malakut of the heavens and the earth?
'No, but Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat does!' He replied.
It is related by the late Shaykh ' Abdul Karim Hamid that the Shaykh (Rajab Ali) was in such a state of mind at the age of sixty that whenever he willed he would understand what he wished to.11
Dr. Hamid Farzam said: 'I usually visited the reverend Shaykh on Thursday evenings and attended his public sessions for prayers and supplications. Until I found I had questions that I needed to put to him privately, so it crossed my mind to have audience with him in the middle of the week.
A Monday afternoon I went to see him to ask some questions. It was a very nice day, as the late Hujj. Dr. Muhammad Muhaqqiqi, a university professor and the representative to Ayatollah Burujirdi was also present in his session. He was a brilliant figure whom I had not met or known till then. Anyway, I asked for permission, sat down, and enjoyed a lot the scholarly discussions of those two noble characters. Earlier in the evening at the end of the session, Dr. Muhaqqiqi said goodbye and left and I bid farewell too and followed him out of the house. In the alley, I said to him that I liked to get more acquainted with him. He said: "I am (Mr.) Muhaqqiqi and I am a teacher." I said I came to see the Shaykh to benefit from his presence (and knowledge), and I see you are, thanks God, very learned--intending to see what he had to say. He said: "No, sir. My knowledge is of the bookish kind and all memorized. You should see for yourself what a high position the Shaykh has attained; he sees many things and knows many things that are incomparable to what I know." I asked: 'How come?' He said:
"The first time I had an audience with him, the first thing he asked me after greetings was about my job. I said: I am a teacher. He asked: "Apart from teaching?" I replied: "I am a university professor and teach." He said: "No, I see you deal with a global object!" I was shocked to hear that and answered: "Yes, I do make geographical globes for livelihood and nobody knows about that."
Confirming Dr. Muhaqqiq's views, Dr. Farzam goes on with his memories about the reverend Shaykh: 'There are lots of things to say that if I were to count it would come to many volumes. The reverend Shaykh, due to his purified soul and inner sincerity, would simply see things and would plainly state them without needing-as the Sufis put it-"to be emerged in the sea of revelations", so that he has often said explicitly in the presence of his disciples:
"Friends! God has graced me with the blessing of seeing the Barzakhi (of intermediate world) body of people."
I have some other memories of the same nature to tell:
A) There was an industrious and honest worker named Ali Qudati from Azerbaijan who used to work for the neighbors and sometimes worked in our house as well and got paid for it. Both in summer and winter he would wear a long military coat. Having not ever seen him, the Shaykh once told me unprecedentedly:
"That tall man who wears military coat and comes to your house sometimes to help, is poor and has a large family, you should help him more!"
B) One Thursday morning I left home sulkily. In the evening, I went to the Shaykh's house for evening Prayer; all the friends were gathered waiting for the adhan (call to prayer) and the Shaykh was sitting in a corner. As soon as he saw me, he faced me and said: "You lose temper too quickly!" Then, shaking his head in contempt and surprise, recited the following couplet by Hafiz:
'Under His sword of sorrow, you ought to go on dancing (cheerfully)!
For the one who was killed by Him, would be granted a happy ending'
And I immediately found out my own fault!
C) About forty years ago I had some heart trouble and I got somewhat scared. I told Dr. Goya that my heart was not in a good condition and would possibly. ...
It seemed that he told the reverend Shaykh about my heart condition and he had commented:
"He should not be worried, I see the hair on his head and face is growing white."
And he had apparently proceeded to say:
"He will live on well through his seventies."
Now, thanks God, I am over seventy years old. Such accounts are too many to bring up here; however, I further point out very briefly some accounts that rate much higher than intuitive vision of state of affairs:
D) It was around 1958, i. e., later in the blessed life of the Shaykh, and I was appointed to go to Punjab University in Lahore Pakistan to teach Persian language and literature. One afternoon I went to see him for consultation. Speaking by conjecture, I said: Your reverence! I have come to you to consult with you whether to go to Pakistan; and request you, if possible, to consult my parents in this respect, too.
The reverend Shaykh said: "Send Three Salawat!"
Then he began talking to them, and at the end, he was driven to tears. Getting upset, I said: ' If I had known you would get disturbed and wept, I would not have asked you to contact my parents.
"No sir! I asked them about the reappearance of Hazrat Hujjat Imam Mahdi (aj), and my weeping was in that relation."
Then he gave me some evidence of my father's countenance and went on to say:
"Your mother was wearing a chador (Islamic modest covering) and was talking in Kermani dialect some of which I did not understand."
I confirmed: 'that's right your reverence! If they speak in Kermani accent, some of their words cannot be recognized by you.'
The Shaykh said:
"All in all, their last word was that you should not go to Pakistan; and why should you go anyway?!"
And, of course, I did not happen to go; their words and those of the reverend Shaykh came true.'
The reverend Shaykh's son quoted the late Dr. Abul Hasan Shaykh12 talking about his first acquaintance with the reverend Shaykh as follows: 'The reason for my getting familiar with the late Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat was the event of my wife having gotten lost for a couple of months. The more we looked for her the less we found a sign of her; we even visited some spiritualists, but to no effect. In our utmost despair, someone gave me the Shaykh's home address, and that was the first time that I had an audience with him. When he saw me, he pondered for a while and then said:
"Your wife is in America and she will return in two weeks do not worry."
He was quite right. My wife was in America and returned in due time.
After this event, most of the days after work at the university; I would call on the Shaykh, and then went home
The late Dr Shaykh said in an interview made with him on August 2, 1996 concerning (compilation of) this volume 'Once we went to "Pass Qal'a" in his company We had hired a donkey for him to ride on and I was walking in front leading the donkey I was thinking to myself 'What do I want professorship of university for? If I want to become a full Professor all I need is to walk in his shadow (follow him) to become like him When I went to Karbala with him, we had gone to a bathhouse with him and I rubbed his back with a Turkish rubbing glove How pleasurable it was to be with him!'
Dr Thubati said 'One day the reverend Shaykh together with Mr. Mirza Sayyid ' Ali and Agha Akrami were waiting in the bus station to go to mount "Bibi Shahrbanu13" There were too many passengers waiting there. The first bus arrived and the reverend Shaykh said:
"We are not destined to get on this one"
The bus filled up and left. The second bus came and the Shaykh said the same again. The passengers rushed to the bus and got on, but the Shaykh and his friends were left behind. The third bus arrived, but this time too the crowd rushed on and the Shaykh and his companions did not happen to get on. The bus driver tried to get the bus started up, but whatever he tried the bus failed to start! Finally, the driver told the passengers to get off as the bus had stalled; and they did so.
The reverend Shaykh said to his companions: "Get on the bus now!" And they got on the bus; the driver said: 'The bus is stalled and it does not get started sir!'
"Nothing is wrong with it let's set off."
The driver sat behind the wheel, started and the bus got started up. At this moment, the other passengers got on and we set off. On the way the bus conductor began collecting the fares and when he reached us, he refused to get fare from us three, but we disagreed. At last the conductor said: ' I will not get fare from that one-pointing to the Shaykh!'
Agha Haj Sayyid Ibrahim Musawi Zanjani14 said: 'In February 1956, I traveled to Baghdad together with my family, on a mission as the Deputy of the Iranian Passport Office. Two days before the coup d'etat in Iraq my family and I returned to Iran but my mother and son stayed on in Kazmayn. Two days later, the news about the coup d'etat in Iraq spread around and the borders were closed, making me extremely upset about my mother and son who were left behind in Iraq. I frequented the Iraqi Embassy to get the latest news, while applying for a visa to go back to Iraq. There were many others who were in the same situation as I was, and would refer to the embassy but to no effect.
Hearing the bothering news (about the situation in Iraq) made me more deeply tense and worried. Those days coincided with the month of Muharram; so I went to Qum for Ziyarat. It was already dark when I got into the Holy shrine of Hadrat Ma'suma (a). I went right to the upper part of the zarih and began to supplicate importunately and lament while reciting the "Special Salawat" dedicated to Holy Imam Musa bin Ja'far (a) and entreating that noble Imam (a) to help my getting visa. I returned to Tehran two days later. One of my colleagues, the late Ahmad Fayd Mahdawi, wanted to make an arrangement for his cousin named (the late) Hujj. Haj Agha Ziya'uddin Fayd Mahdawi to meet with the reverend Shaykh. Together with him (Haj Agha Ziya'uddin), we went to the Shaykh's house. When we got there, we were guided into a room that was half carpeted and was very simply furnished. The Shaykh asked us to recite the Sura of Tawhid seven times. He believed in the number seven very strongly. Then, he started to speak; and while busy giving guidance and advising, suddenly and unprecedentedly he faced me and said:
"You had a very good pilgrimage and your request had been granted; the effects are evident. Pray for me too!!"
I asked the Shaykh which pilgrimage he was talking about. He said: "The pilgrimage to Qum." And then went on with his advice.
Cursing Causes Darkness (of the Heart)
In the meantime, he said to the late Haj Agha Ziya'uddin Fayd Mahdawi:
"Do not curse so much! Cursing so much causes darkness; pray, instead!!"
And the latter replied: 'Obeyed!'
This admonition, obviously irrelevant to the discussion going on, was ambiguous to me. The next day, I brought up the subject with my colleague, Agha Ahmad Fayd Mahdawi, and asked him: 'What was the story of the cursing by Haj Agha Ziya'uddin?'
He explained: 'My cousin, i.e., Haj Agha Ziya'uddin, has a son who has got atheistic ideas; and he curses him (his son) after every prayer!'
As for my request having been granted as mentioned by the Shaykh, when I referred to the Iraqi Embassy two days later, as soon as the related officer saw me he said: Give me your passport to stamp it for a visa! Then he stamped my passport with a stamp having old Royal logo on it and then crossed out the word "Malik" (Imperial) and wrote "Jumhuri" (Republic) above it. This sounded very surprising to the other clients who where applying for a visa too.
Having received the visa, I left for Baghdad; and later on it turned out that before me only an American journalist had been admitted into Baghdad.
One of the Shaykh's disciples related (quoting a friend): The late Agha Murtada Zahid was being laid in his grave pit, the reverend Shaykh said:
"The Nakirayn (the two angels interrogating the dead persons in their tombs) were immediately addressed by God Almighty: Leave that servant (of Mine) to Me; do not bother him... He has all his life been humble with people for My sake; he did not feel any vanity."
One of the Shaykh's disciples quoted him as saying:
"The plants are alive too and they talk. I speak to them and they tell me about their properties."
"Once a small electric fan was brought to me as a gift; I saw (intuitively) there was a fan placed before its inventor in the Hell-- (actually he meant) Barzakh."
This intuition is confined by the hadith that suggests that although the unbelievers do not go to paradise, but if they had done good things they would be rewarded. In a hadith by the Holy Prophet (s) we read:
"ما أحسن محسن من مسلم ولا كافر الا أثابه الله. قيل: ما إثابة الكافر؟ قال: ان كان قد وصل رحماً، او تصدق بصدقة، او عمل حسنة، أثابه الله تعالى المال والولد والصحة وأشباه ذلك. قيل: وما إثابته في الآخرة؟ قال: عذاب دون العذاب، وقرأ: (أدخلوا ءال فرعون أشد العذاب)"
"Whoever does good, whether a Muslim or an unbeliever, God will reward him." His Holiness (s) was asked: 'What is rewarding an unbeliever like?' The Holy Prophet (s) replied: "If they have had regard for kinship or given alms or done any good, God Almighty would grant them wealth, children, and health in reward to their good deeds.15 " He was (further) asked: 'How will they be rewarded in the Hereafter?' The Holy Prophet (s) replied: "They will receive less severe punishment. Then he recited this verse from the Holy Qur'an: (Cast the people of Pharaoh into the severest burning fire!) (Al Nur: 46)
One of the Shaykh's friends related: 'A disciple of the Shaykh could not have children. Whatever he did was to no effect, until in a session-in which I was present too-he asked the Shaykh for a solution, saying: 'I want a child to bequeath from me after my death.
The Shaykh responded:
"I will reply to you later on"
Some time elapsed and I was not informed of what answer the Shaykh gave to him. Until one day he invited me to a banquet. I asked him the occasion for the banquet. He replied that he had been granted a daughter. Recalling that session with the Shaykh, I asked him: 'Was the Shaykh's prayer answered?' He said: 'On some condition of course.' I asked: 'How come?' He explained: 'He (the Saykh) made me commit myself to take a calf to the village "Imam Zadeh Hasan" - a village near Shahr-i Ray -on the birthday of my daughter and slaughter it (as a sacrifice) to be distributed among the people there. And now is the first year of that commitment.
This continued for seven years. In the eighth year, however, the father was abroad and he could not fulfill his commitment. The same year the child died.
After this event, he was very frustrated. I intended to go to the Shaykh's house and asked him if he would like to go there too. He agreed, and I went a little earlier and told the Shaykh that such and such is upset for the death of his daughter. The Shaykh said:
"What shall I do? Is not the fulfillment of commitment one of the first conditions for being a Muslim? He did not fulfill his commitment."
Then our friend arrived, and the Shaykh made a little joking with him, saying:
"Do not be sad! God has granted you several palaces in paradise, instead; just be careful not to ruin them!"
After the Shaykh's death, someone related to one of his sons: 'I had sold my house and planned to deposit the money in the bank, but it was closed. So I took the money home, and it was stolen in the nighttime. I pursued the matter at the Crime Investigation Department, but they could not help me there. I pleaded with Imam al ' Asr (aj). On the fortieth night of my pleading, I was given in a dream the address to the Shaykh's house. I went to the Shaykh's house early in the morning and told him my problem. He said:
"I am not a soothsayer or a fortune teller; you have been wrongly informed!"
I said: I swear to my forefather (meaning a Holy Imam (a), for he was a Sayyid) that I will not leave you. The Shaykh hesitated for a while, took me inside his house, and then said: "Go to Varamin (a city near Tehran), to such-and-such a village in such-and-such a house in which there are two rooms. Your money, wrapped intact in a red silk handkerchief, is placed beside an oven. Take the money and leave the house. They (i.e., the people in the house) will offer you to have tea, but (do not accept and) rush back immediately!"
I went to the same address--which was that of my own servant--the landlord assumed that I was accompanied by an agent from the C.I.D. I went right into the room and took the money from exactly where the Shaykh had described to me. When I was leaving, the landlord offered me tea, but I shouted at him and left the house.
The money was a sum of one hundred tomans in all. I took half of that money to the Shaykh and placed it with much gratitude before him, imploring him to accept it as my gift. He did not accept it. After my insistence and to my greatest pleasure, he agreed to pick twenty tomans, but not for himself; rather, he gave it back to me and said:
"I introduce to you some poor family whose daughters are in need of dowries; you should not leave it to anybody else but yourself do it. Go ahead and buy whatever they require and deliver them to their houses."
He did not take even a penny for himself!
One of the Shaykh's friends gave the following account: 'Together with the Shaykh we went to Kashan. The Shaykh had the habit that wherever he traveled, he would visit the cemetery of that place. As we entered the cemetery in Kashan, he said:
"Assalamu ' Alayk ya 'Aba 'Abd Allah (a)" ("Salutations be on you O Imam Husayn (a)") We walked a few steps further on, and then he said:
"Do you not smell anything?"
'No, what smell?' We asked. Then he asked:
"The smell (scent) of red apples?"
Our answer was 'no' again. We went further on and met the man in charge of the cemetery
The Shaykh asked him:
"Has anyone been buried here today?"
The man answered: ' Just before you arrived someone was buried', and then he took us to a newly covered tomb. There it was! We all smelled the scent of red apples. We asked the Shaykh about the scent, to which he answered:
"When this person was buried here, His Holiness Hadrat Sayyid al- Shuhada Imam Husayn (a) came here and for the sake of this person (and by the blessed visit of Sayyid al-Shuhada (a)) the punishment was removed from those buried in this cemetery."
Another disciple said: 'I was driving a taxi down the (newly named) Sipah Square, when I saw a tall, good-looking lady in a chador who was standing along the street waiting for a taxi. I pulled up and let her get in, while keeping my look away from her and asking God for forgiveness, and drove her to her destination.
The next day when I had an audience with the Shaykh, he said- as if he had witnessed the event in person:
"Who was that tall lady you looked at and turned away your look from and asked God for forgiveness? The Almighty and Exalted God has reserved a palace in the Paradise for you as well as a houri similar to that…….."
In a session, someone was practicing witchcraft and the Shaykh's son was also present. He stated: 'I tried to hamper him, so whatever he did ended in failure. At last, he found out that I was interfering in his business and implored me not to "cut off his daily bread". Then, he gave me a precious rug as a gift. I took the rug home. As soon as my father saw it he said:
"Who has given this rug to you? (I see) fire and smoke is rising out of it! Take it back to its owner right away!"
And I did so.'
One of the Shaykh's sons said: 'My father and I went to a wedding ceremony of one of our relatives. When the host noticed the Shaykh's arrival, he asked the young men around to turn off the gramophone. As we entered, the young men came over to see who is coming that because of him they should not listen to music. When the Shaykh was shown to them, they said: 'Come on! Shall we turn off the gramophone for him?!' And went back and turned it on again.
I had eaten half of my ice cream when my father patted on my arm beckoning to leave. Not knowing what the matter was, I said:' I have not finished eating my ice cream yet. He said: "That's all right, let's go!"
I heard (later on) that as soon as we left, the gramophone broke down. They had to bring in another one, and that one burned up too. This event made the host to that ceremony turn into a devotee of the Shaykh.
One of the Shaykh's friends said: 'I went on a trip to Mashhad with the Shaykh. In the Holy Shrine of Imam al-Reza (a), we saw a young man beside the steel window in Sahn-i Inqilab crying and lamenting bitterly and swearing the Holy Imam (a) to his mother.
The reverend Shaykh said to me:
"Go and tell him it got heard, and tell him to leave."
I went ahead and told it to the young man; he thanked and left. I asked the Shaykh what it was all about.
He explained:
"This young man is in love with a girl and wants to get married to her, but they (her parents) do not agree; he has come here to entreat Imam al-Reza (a) to help him. His Holiness (a) said: It got answered, he may go."
One of the Shaykh's students said: 'One day I was discussing in the market with a person about the religious matters. He would not accept any of the evidence I brought up. I got a little angry. An hour later, I went to visit the Shaykh. As soon as he saw me, he said:
"Did you have a row with someone?"
I told him what happened. He said:
"In such situations do not get angry, follow the way of the Holy Ahl al-Bayt (a); if you see they do not accept, discontinue the argument.
One of the Shaykh's disciples is quoted as saying: 'One evening I arrived in the session and I was a little late, as the Shaykh was already reciting the munajat (whispering prayer). When I looked at the audience, I saw someone with a shaved beard. I got upset in my heart and felt sorry why this person had shaved. The reverend Shaykh who was standing behind me and facing the qibla, stopped his praying all of a sudden and said:
"His beard is of no concern to you! See what his deeds are like; he may have some good in him which you are lacking."
The Shaykh's son related: 'Once I was going somewhere with my father, I saw two women with made up faces and without hijab were each walking on either side of my father. Each one of them was holding a top in her hand and spinning it. They said to my father: 'Hey fellow! Look! Which of our tops is spinning prettier?'
I was too little to say anything, and my father was ignoring them while he was holding his head down and smiling. They came along with us a few steps and suddenly disappeared! I asked my father who they were. He answered: "They were both Satan."
1. See Mizan al- Hikmah, X, 4856: 3330.
2. Al-Kafi, II, 352: 7; Mizan al-Hikmah, X, 4858: 16627.
3. Bihar al-Anwar, LVIII, 39.
4. Muhaj al-Da'wat, 68; Bihar al- Anwar, LXXXV, 214.
5. One of the eminent scholars that the Shaykh frequently visited was Ayatollah Kuhistani about whom the Shaykh said: "From Agha Kuhistani a light is emitted that rises into the heaven." In one of the visits, the late Ayatollah Kuhistani accompanied the Shaykh to the side of the road --about a kilometer away from his residence --in order to see him off. Some years later when the Shaykh's words about Ayatollah Kuhistani was related to him, he humbly said: Those days we had (various kinds of) dhikrs (remembrances of God). It is worthwhile here to read a miraculous act about Ayatollah Kuhistani. Hujjat al-Islam. Agha Sayyid Qasim Shuja'i, an eloquent preacher, told me (the author): 'Agha Sadra'i Ishkiwari, a preacher in Rasht, was afflicted with a heart disease. He was transferred from Rasht to Tehran and hospitalized in Aban Hospital. One day the late Agha Falsafi called me and asked me to visit him together in the hospital. When we got there and after greeting, Agha Falsafi asked him:
'What is your (financial) condition like?'
"The bounty from Sayyid al-Shuhada Imam Husayn (a) is running us (providing for our livelihood)." He answered.
'We all enjoy Sayyid al-Shuhada's bestowal', said Agha Falsafi. To which Agha Sadra'i replied: 'Ours is a different account!' Mr. Falsafi curiously inquired more. Agha Sadra'i explained: 'I have got a piece of tea growing garden bestowed on me by Sayyid al-Shuhada and the yield provide for my old age and retirement.' Agha Falsafi asked: 'How do you know it is bestowed on you by Sayyid al-Shuhada?' He answered: 'I had made a preliminary agreement to sell this garden. Two days later I paid a visit to Ayatollah Kuhistani.
When I entered he said: 'Sadra'i! Why are you selling the 'atiyyeh Mulukaneh (regal bestowal)?' I said to him: 'Agha I have nothing to do with the Shah! 'He said: 'I do not mean that, I am talking about our Imam Sayyid al-Shuhada; these (dynasty of Pahlavi) have stolen the term ('atiyye Mulukaneh). Do you remember when as a youth you visited the holy shrine of Sayyid al-Shuhada and whispered to him through the grits of his Zarih, saying: 'O Imam Sayyid al Shuhada! Do me a favor so that at my retirement I'll be living on your bestowal'? This garden is the answer to that request, why did you deal it?"
I kissed his (Ayatollah Kuhistani's) hand, got out of his house, took a car back to Rasht, and tore up the document of preliminary agreement; and my livelihood has been sustained with by this garden up until the present.'
I (Shuja'i) got deeply impressed (by that account). I decided to meet with him (but I didn't manage). It was time for Hajj and I was appointed as the clergyman of the Hajj caravan. There was a doctor in our caravan named Dr. Tahmasbi. I told him how I had in mind visiting Agha Kuhistani but I could not until then. He said that he was his physician. I got very glad and asked him to promise to take me to him as soon as we get back to Iran. He said when we left Iran he (Ayatollah Kuhistani) had been seriously ill. I was very worried until we went from Makka to' Arafat, where I began to quietly recite the supplication of 'Arafa, pondering on the content and the meanings. When I reached the phrase, "'amiat 'aynun la tarak" (may the eye that does not see You be blind!), my heart broke and tears rolled down my cheeks. I said: 'O God! I know I have nothing of value to offer, but one thmg I sure have and that is my siyadat (being a Sayyid). I leave it to you in pledge: I swear You to the rights and dignity of our forefathers to grace this servant of Yours--Ayatollah Kuhistani-- with healing.
When we returned to Iran, I didn't happen to visit Ayatollah Kuhistani. I went to Mashhad. It was 11: 30 p.m. when in Dar al-Siyada (porch of the holy shrine of Imam al-Reza (a)) I saw an old man coming in being supported by two other men holding him by his arms. I asked who he was, and they said: 'Agha Kuhistani." I had not seen him before. I approached him, greeted him, and bowed to kiss his hand. As I bowed down, he laid his hand on my right shoulder and said: "Shuja'i, may God grant you a blessed long life! Your supplication in' Arafat reached (saved) me!" I broke out in a sweat just as I heard that. I sat down right there.
My wife asked: 'What happened? I said: Nothing just let me sit down for a while. And I sat for about half on hour. Agha Ray Shahri! Only God was witnessing in Arafat and nobody else was there when I prayed to God for him. This was a miraculous act I remember from him. I prayed for him in ' Arafat in total solitude as a drop of tear rolled down my face on the book I was holding in my hand, and he said to me in the Holy shrine of Imam al-Reza (a) that he received my du'a (that I made for him) in Arafat. It was a strange memory in my life.
6. Mafatih al-Jinan, Munajat al-Dhakirin, Munajat No.15. English translation adopted from: The Psalms of Islam (al-Sahifah al-Sajjadiyya), The Whispered Prayer of the Remembers, part XIII, 256.
7. Mizan al-Hikmah, II, 960: 3159.
8. An example of such accounts is related to my (the narrator's) first trip to the Holy City of Makkah. See "The Only Place Where they Displayed Affection to You", chapter Nine, Part 3.
9. Mizan al-Hikmah, X, 4988: 16945.
10. One of the famous preachers in Tehran who was rightfully a man of piety and sanctity.
11. The author of "Two Treatises on the Recent History of the Mysticism in Iran" (Du risalih Dar tarikh Jadid tasawwuf-i Iran), (Manuchehr Saduqi) writes on page 103 under the title "A Note": The compiler said pertinently: 'I heard from Mr. Mudarrisi saying that earlier in his studying at faculty of science (of Tehran University) he and several of the professors there sometimes attended the weekly sessions of the late Shaykh Rajab Ali Khayyat (ra). He (Mr. Mudarrisi) would ask him some difficult questions on physics such as magnetic field, etc., and the Shaykh would say: "I will ask and answer (you)." Then he would lower his head in deliberation and a while later would raise his head and give the right answer to his questions.
12. He is known as "The Father of Chemistry in Iran."
13. A mountain near Shahr-i Ray,
14. Son-in-law to the late Ayatollah Sayyid Mahmud, Friday prayer leader of Zanjan.
15. Mizan al-Hikmah, II, 662: 2213.
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Four hospitalized after vehicle crashes into City Treasurer’s Office in Virginia Beach
Posted 5:32 pm, June 4, 2019, by CNN Wire, Updated at 05:33PM, June 4, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA (WTKR) — Four people are in the hospital after a vehicle crashed into the City Treasurer’s Office in the Fairfield Shopping Center in the Kempsville section of Virginia Beach Tuesday afternoon.
Police told News 3 reporter Nana-Séntuo Bonsu the woman who was driving the vehicle hit the gas and crashed into the building.
While the office recently announced a two-week delay for personal property and real estate taxes in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, authorities said there were still people completing transactions at the time of the crash.
The location will be temporarily closed as a result of the incident, police say.
Citizens wishing to pay any bills may visit the main City Treasurer’s Office in City Hall (Building 1) located at 2401 Courthouse Drive or the satellite locations at Pembroke (281 Independence Blvd., Suite 102) and the Oceanfront (420 Birdneck Circle).
Please note that there is construction at the Pembroke location and the drop box has moved to the opposite side of the Pembroke 1 building. Parking is limited.
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How to Construct a Fairytale – Lecture performance by Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács
6 December at Foam
On Thursday evening 6 December, the artists will guide you through their artistic practices, using their new work Forest on Location as a demonstration. With live performances by Shahram Yazdani.
Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács create works built on illusions. Their video works stimulate our fantasy, but at the same time the artists reveal how their images are constructed. At Foam’s request, the duo developed a new three-part installation of sculptures and projections in which Europe’s only remaining primeval forest, Białowieża Forest, is analysed and dissected as a construct of the human imagination. In Forest on Location, the avatar of the Iranian opera singer Shahram Yazdani walks through a virtual forest – in fact a digital copy of the Białowieża Forest – while singing a song about how an old tree once addressed him.
During the event, the avatar will step out of his digital world, and Yazdani will give a performance in physical form. Many in the audience will recognise the melody of the song as Nat King Cole’s 1948 hit song, Nature Boy, written by Eden Ahbez. The song fits with how Broersen and Lukács use nature as a case study to investigate our visual culture; but then the melody also turns out to have been composed by Herman Yablokoff, a Yiddish composer who was in fact from the area of Białowieża Forest. Besides Yazdani’s Persian reinterpretation he will also perform Nat King Cole’s famous song.
In this lecture performance, the artists will offer an insider’s view of the background to and creation of Forest on Location. Using this video work as an example, Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács will discuss the role of film music, photography, cinematography, the process of image consumption, and how they reflect on the construction of today’s visual culture in their own artistic practice.
7pm singing performance
7.10pm introduction by Foam curator Mirjam Kooiman
7.20pm viewing videoworks and Artist Talk
8.20pm closing singing performance
Image: Forest On Location (Video Still), 2018 © Broersen & Lukács / Courtesy of AKINCI
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Giveaway: Seagate Ironwolf 110 SSD (480GB)
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Trump Prepares to Lose
Recent polls may have the nominee considering his own political mortality.
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The Clinton campaign had a response to the news that Donald Trump is trying to mainstream Alex Jones-ism by worrying publicly that the November election may be stolen from him.
Even for a reflexive conspiracy theorist like Trump, this is pathetic. It's dangerous, too.https://t.co/hcd4kQ4VS9
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 2, 2016
Personally, I prefer Greg Sargent’s take on it:
Is it possible that Donald Trump has begun to contemplate his own political mortality? Is it possible that Trump, who had previously boasted to GOP primary audiences that he would beat Hillary Clinton “easily” — has begun to contemplate the possibility that he might lose the presidential election?
It is perhaps not a coincidence that Trump has suddenly stopped tweeting about polls (which are now showing Clinton taking a meaningful lead) at precisely the moment that he is escalating his efforts to cast doubt, in advance, on the legitimacy of the general election’s outcome.
Earlier today there was some confusion about a poll showing Clinton up by one point in Utah (the poll doesn’t exist), but as far back as mid-July Clinton’s chief strategist, Joel Benenson was listing Utah as a target state:
BENENSON: Ohio is going to be close. I wouldn’t call it a redrawing. Here’s what I think about the map. It’s going to be a close race. But there isn’t any state in the battleground universe where Donald Trump will force us to play defense.
But there are other states where it becomes very problematic for Republicans. A state like North Carolina — in 2004, Republicans probably felt pretty comfortable there. They don’t now. States like Arizona and Utah, if we can make them play defense there, which is very plausible because of the kind of divisive candidate Donald Trump is, it puts more pressure on them.
Those comments were made prior to the two parties’ conventions, but they still look solid. The last three polls out of North Carolina show Clinton in the lead, including the latest by NBC/WSJ/Marist that shows her up by six. Arizona has been lightly polled, but Huffington Post has Clinton up by one tenth of a percent in their aggregator. And, while there’s no new poll out of Utah, there have been two this year showing Clinton tied there and all but one poll has shown Trump polling below forty percent.
I’d like to add to this that the most recent poll out of Missouri (by Mason-Dixon) has Clinton up by a point there, and that a Republican pollster released a survey yesterday showing the race tied in Georgia.
That’s a lot of defense that Trump is already having to play, which is one reason why I questioned his decision to campaign in Colorado. Mike Pence is scheduled to be in Denver and Colorado Springs tomorrow. Hopefully, he won’t get stuck in any elevators and need the assistance of any fire marshals.
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Stephen, Why Global Warming is not a problem
Andy May / July 21, 2018
By Andy May
The following is a quote from my book Climate Catastrophe! Science or Science Fiction?
“99.9 percent of the Earth’s surface heat capacity is in the oceans and less than 0.1 percent is in the atmosphere. Further, CO2 is only 0.04 percent of the atmosphere. It beggars belief that a trace gas (CO2), in an atmosphere that itself contains only a trace amount of the total thermal energy on the surface of the Earth, can control the climate of the Earth. This is not the tail wagging the dog, this is a flea on the tail of the dog wagging the dog.”
One would think that this is clear, but to some it clearly is not. A commenter on Amazon.com named “Stephen” thinks it is “Scientific gibberish” and explains as follows:
“Apparently, May believes that the way CO2 acts to heat the earth is by getting hot. Then, the CO2 transfers its heat to the rest of the earth. Since the heat capacity of the CO2 is negligible, the earth’s temperature cannot rise.
This represents a profound misunderstanding of how the greenhouse effect works. The amount of heat contained in the CO2 has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2‘s effect on temperature. CO2‘s effect is to prevent radiative heat transfer from the earth [sic] to space. That is, it keeps the heat in.
Here is a way to think about this. Imagine that you have a pot of hot water sitting on the counter. If the pot is open to the air, it will cool quickly. If the pot is covered, it will cool more slowly. It doesn’t matter if the cover is made out of Saran wrap, which has no heat capacity–it will still keep the water hot. This analogy isn’t perfect since the water may be losing heat mostly by convective heat transfer. But the point is that CO2 is acting by keeping the heat in; it doesn’t actually heat the earth.”
He obviously did not read the book and misses the significance of the large difference between the heat capacity of the oceans and the atmosphere. He also misses the significance of “… control the climate of the Earth.” OMG! I’ve been quoted out of context, that never happens! But, since Stephen does seem to understand a little of the science, I did respond. The version below is edited a bit for this post, the actual answer is on Amazon.com.
What does this quote mean?
As you will see when you read my book, the IPCC AR5 Physical Science Basis report (2013) states on page 667 that “CO2 is the main anthropogenic control knob on climate.” This is also in the title of a paper by Lacis, et al. (2010) cited in the IPCC report. Both works acknowledge that the infrared active CO2 alone does not have enough of an effect to cause problems. But, if the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases, due to burning fossil fuels, the IPCC authors claim the lower atmosphere will warm due to the resulting additional delay in the radiative transfer of thermal energy to space. This warming will cause the amount of water vapor to increase in the lower atmosphere. Water vapor is a much stronger “greenhouse gas” and this will cause the problem they espouse.
In addition, the same IPCC report states on page 7 that they present “clear and robust conclusions … that the science now shows with 95 percent certainty that human activity is the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century.” Of course, the human effect on climate has never been measured, so the “95%” confidence is based solely upon computer models and “expert” opinion.
There are several problems with these ideas. Most heat transfer in the lower atmosphere, where there is a lot of water vapor, occurs via convection. Water vapor (and water) have a high heat capacity and carry a lot of latent heat, they transport most of the thermal energy near the surface in the so-called atmospheric “boundary layer.” CO2 has a low heat capacity. It is infrared active and absorbs and emits IR radiation, with a small delay, whereas latent heat can be carried by water vapor for weeks before it condenses as rain and emits it as radiant energy. At high altitudes, where there is little water vapor, it is responsible for emitting most of the IR to space as thermal radiation. But, near the surface water vapor does most of the cooling.
The oceans are very cool, with an average temperature of about 4 degrees C. As stated in the quote, they contain 1,000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere and provide a huge buffer that limits the Earth’s surface temperature. Most of the solar thermal energy that reaches the surface is absorbed by the oceans. The warmest part of the ocean is the surface of the tropical Pacific. Here evaporation limits the temperature to a maximum of 30 degrees C (86 degrees F) according to many sources, but Newell and Dopplick (1978, J. of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 18, page 822) and Newell, Navato and Hsiung (1978 in Pure Applied Geophysics, Vol 116, page 351) are the original sources. In isolated shallow seas, for example the Red Sea or the Caribbean, or close to land in unusual meteorological conditions, sea-surface temperatures may reach as much as 34 degrees. But, in the open ocean the limit is generally 30 degrees. This is the temperature where the thermal energy lost to evaporation is about the same as the energy received from the Sun.
This energy is transmitted all over the world, mostly by ocean currents, but also by wind. It is emitted to space, mostly by CO2, in net emitting areas like the poles and the Sahara, and from the upper atmosphere. Thunderstorms are a main mechanism for transporting thermal energy to the upper atmosphere where it is easily emitted to space. Thus, the point of the quote is that the atmosphere (and thus CO2, a trace gas in the atmosphere) cannot “control” the climate if oceans exist. The oceans are the main control. If they were to completely disappear somehow (unlikely) then CO2 may play a role in long-term climate. But, if they exist, the maximum ocean surface temperature is 30 degrees. Since the oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, this limits the maximum surface temperature.
One last point, in the first quote I state that 99.9% of the heat capacity is in the oceans and 0.1% is in the atmosphere. I ignored the heat capacity of the land because temperature measurements on land are made in the air above the land. Normally at about 2 meters altitude.
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329 thoughts on “Stephen, Why Global Warming is not a problem”
Joel O'Bryan says:
“Here evaporation limits the temperature to a maximum of 30 degrees C (86 degrees F)…”
Be careful with absolutes.
One does see tropical SST’s in the 31-33 C range, the Caribbean Sea (north of Venezuela), Gulf of Mexico (late August), Western Pacific around the Solomon Islands, east of Philippines. When this occurs a stable high pressure system usually exists to limit/suppress convective formation of clouds. These areas are usually ripe for tropical cyclone development/strengthening if they pass across these very warm waters..
Chimp says:
Also the Red Sea, which in summer can reach 34 degrees C off Sudan and Eritrea, without damage to coral reefs there.
Ditto the shallow Persian Gulf, most of which is dry land during glacial phases.
ThomasJK says:
…..And contains The Garden of Eden, now underwater, maybe?
The Garden is mythological, but presumably the author of the second creation story in Genesis imagined it to lie somewhere in Mesopotamia.
However, if Earth were indeed made only some 6022 years ago, as per Bishop Ussher’s chronology, then the Persian Gulf would already have been inundated to about its present level. Or possibly a bit higher, since that date is probably during the Egyptian Warm Period.
Andy May says:
Perhaps, I could have worded it better. Something like the limit in the open ocean is 30 degrees C. I can see how isolated portions of the ocean like the Caribbean or the Red Sea could get above 30 degrees for short periods of time. Or in unusual meteorological conditions that suppress cloud formation, but outside of these temporary conditions 30 degrees should not be exceeded for any length of time.
The average annual SST in the southern Red Sea is 30 °C, and about 28 °C in winter. Thus in summer, it averages 32 °C, and is above 30 °C for some six months of the year.
At the moment, it’s 33 °C off the coast of Chiapas and in the Sea of Cortez, and over 31°C off SW Cuba and in the Florida Strait:
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/contour/equatpac.fc.gif
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/contour/gulfmex.fc.gif
And of course SSTs were often even hotter during the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Eras.
Latitude says:
“and over 31°C off SW Cuba and in the Florida Strait:”
No…that’s not in the Florida Strait…..that’s Florida Bay
…and the warm water at Cuba is the Gulf of Batabano
both of them shallow water bays
Wait until August.
“At the moment”….so what 88 is not hot
Sure it is. It’s a degree C hotter than the general limit for seawater.
And it’ll get hotter. More of the Gulf of Mexico will be over the limit next month, if it’s a normal August. Lat year, it was 34 degrees C in the Gulf Stream between FL and the Bahamas, as well as in the Gulf and Caribbean. The Florida Strait was over 30 and much of the Caribbean as well.
https://www.esl.lsu.edu/static/pics/viirs/gulf_of_mexico/sst/2017-08/170830.1900.sst.npp.png
Chimp, I live here…I’m looking at it right now out my window…..don’t tell me it’s 31 right now when it’s not…don’t tell me 88 is hot and then say it’s going to get hotter
of course it can get hotter…it does it all the time….I won’t even get in it until it’s at least 88
…it’s no big deal
How it feels to a human bather isn’t the point. The relevant climatic and meteorological issue is the SST relative to the rest of the ocean.
I don’t live in SW FL but I fish the Gulf and the Stream in your AO every year and used to live part time on Key West until it got taken over by the Homintern.
But coming from the Pacific NW, where surfers wear wet suits, 88 F is warm enough for me.
For people that live here…our season just started….if 88 wasn’t normal for here right now…and if it didn’t get warmer…no one here would ever get in it..we would have no season..of course we keep up with what the temp is, every year
88 is normal for right now….and warmer in the next two months is perfectly normal too
I don’t live in SW FL…I’m almost exactly Lat 25
Islamorada or thereabouts?
..on the rock out in the ocean
Nice. Except for the odd hurricane.
LOL…they can get you in Canada
True. Or Mexico. Or Bermuda. Or even Britain.
Or Hawaii, Australia, the Philippines or Japan.
The Allies were lucky that Japan surrendered after two A-bombs and the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Otherwise the terrible typhoon of October 1945 would have wrecked much of our invasion fleet, in yet another Divine Wind event.
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/p/pacific-typhoon-october-1945.html
Hardly safe anywhere. Our precious atmosphere sometimes turns on us.
JohnB says:
Funny how history can turn on blind luck, isn’t it? If the fleet had been destroyed it would have been a year before the next attempt.
Pop Piasa says:
Chimp, my dad would have been in that invasion fleet (he later found out at age 88) having made it from Normandy to Paris. Circumstances probably saved his life.
Chimp, what you wrote also makes one ponder how much radioactive dust from the nuclear bombs was washed into the watershed during the typhoon, lessening the local concentrations. Could it have been a ‘godsend’ to the innocent victims of their own leaders’ imperialism ?
Pop Piasa and Chimp :
Those ATOMIC BOMBS were a “God-send” and probably saved
millions of allied and enemies lives !
Conventional bombing and shelling would have strung the war
out for many more years !
Besides which……like North and South Korea…….there is still
only a TRUCE in the fighting between Japan and Russia as they
still have a territorial dispute over Kurile and Sakhalin Islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–Russia_relations
Alan Tomalty says:
So what you should have said is the maximum sustained temperature in the oceans is around 34C.
Maybe a more universal limit is 34 degrees, it avoids argument. But, I think Newell and Dopplick’s analysis is good and it suggests 303K (30C). But, obviously there are conditions where locally the SST can get higher for a brief period of time. I suspect these areas where SST’s get higher are all close to land, in shallow water and with unusual meteorological conditions. It’s hard to separate weather and climate. I need to think about wording this so it is both correct and accurate.
SST gets hot even above the Philippine Trench:
http://slcharts01.cdn-surfline.com/charts/philippines/philippines/regionalsst/philippines_large_1_C.png
Chimp, If I’m reading the contours correctly, the maximum contour is 30 and close to land. Is that correct?
While lacking contour lines, IMO the dark splotches are 31-32 degrees C.
Ozonebust says:
The only period that we have had reasonably accurate SST is the satellite era, and that coincided with a warm phase. We do not know the limit. What we know is limited to that period.
Ocean temperature or the cooling of it is limited at all times to the carrying capacity of the atmosphere above it. There have been a number of studies measuring energy in and energy out , these have significant accuracy limitations.
From my observations, during an extended warm period (a period of increased evaporation) the atmospheric carrying capacity chokes with a lot of the heat falling back into the oceans as warm rain. The current belief is that once the vapour is in the air all of the heat that it contains will be lost to space. No, that is an susumption.
There is no analysis of the annual heat removing efficiency. That is, water vapor that results in snow will dissipate more heat than warm tropical rain falling back into the oceans.
The current habit is to assign this heat removal delay or retained heat to CO2. Big mistake.
Nice post by the way, easy to read. I look forward to more .
You are correct. Not all the latent heat is lost upon condensation because if that were true, there wouldn’t be any latent heat left to lose upon the water freezing. And we definitely know that when water freezes there is latent heat lost.
Thanks for this. Obviously, the vapor pressure of water has to equal the saturated partial pressure at some point around 30 degrees, but at exactly what temperature is still unknown. Other factors like barometric pressure are important also. The discussion here seems to suggest that some areas can get to over 32 degrees, which is strange, but we don’t know everything, that’s for sure.
Today’s max recorded SST was at Abu Dhabi, ie 33.3 degrees C:
https://www.seatemperature.org/
Menicholas says:
I think the environmental lapse rate is what is the determining factor.
Where the air above the sea surface is unstable or conditionally instable, thunderstorms form. These limit and even reverse surface heating via several mechanisms.
Where currents can move surface water away relatively quickly, and a given parcel of water is not sitting in the same place for an extended period, this tends to even out the SST temperature regime and prevent hotspots.
Large areas of the Gulf of Mexico are extremely shallow, and the water flowing into the Gulf comes from a very long fetch over tropical regions, and the outflow from the Gulf is very restricted. As a result, even the parts of the Gulf that are not shallow can get very warm.
And the Gulf spans latitudes that are under semi-permanent high pressure, so it is common for long periods of time to be very sunny and to have descending air, thus inhibiting convective activity.
I do not think any of the examples given, of temps far in excess of 30 on a regular basis are contradicted by the observation that 30 degrees is something of a limit over the open oceans.
But it seems not to be a hard limit, and there should be a qualifier that this is what is observed under the current climate regime of the Earth.
It may or may not be true at other times.
Alasdair says:
Andy:
My steam Tables tell me that at 30C , give or take a smidge or two, Water Vapour Pressure equals Saturated Partial Pressure. It explains why generally the oceans rarely go much above this 30C level. Obviously as with all natural events, other factors come into play such as wind speeds, barometric pressure, ph values and even local gravity anomaly. But there it is written in the Steam Tables and known for many years.
This is why, as an engineer privy to arts of steam I am confident that so long as the kettle in my kitchen never boils above 100C and there is plenty of water around ,
the planet will never overheat; for the physics of water provides a very efficient global thermostat.
It’s just good old honest science.
Perhaps some of you can help me with a question for which I have been trying to dig up an answer: “What percentage of the total solar irradiance that reaches the surface of this planet is absorbed into the oceans?”
goldminor says:
Here is a good example in real time of what you are saying. About 48 hours ago most of the Gulf of Mexico had risen to around 31+C. That happened fairly fast. It has gradually lost top level heat since then as it can now be seen that less than half is still in the higher range. …https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-109.40,17.98,672/loc=-92.977,24.413
joelobryan, alan tomalty and chimp,
I made a couple of changes to make the argument tighter. Take a look and let me know what you think. I allowed for higher temperatures in shallow isolated seas and changed the phrasing of solar energy absorbed by the oceans, so it is limited to the energy reaching the surface.
You might allow for over 30 degrees C in the open ocean during summer, too. The Indian Ocean can also get toasty, as shown by the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, the hottest oceanic waters of long duration of which I know.
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/ophi/color_sst_IND_ophi0.png
Parts of the southern Red Sea, unlike the Gulf, are actually pretty deep, its being a sunken rift valley.
It’s probably safe to say that over most of the ocean, most of the time, around 30 degrees C is a limit.
Joel O’Bryan says:
The Red Sea and Persian Gulf have very limited circulation with the Indian Ocean.
THe Arabian Gulf temps are a better scoring of how warm the open waters of the Indian ocean can get.
Agree with respect to Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Maldives, etc. But the Red Sea and Persian Gulf are arms of the IO.
Some toasty spots today:
Some other, more open ocean areas, do get hot, hot, hot.
Wim Röst says:
The fact that the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf are connected to the Indian Ocean does not say that they are comparable to the Indian Ocean nor that they form an integrated part of the Indian Ocean. That is why they are called ‘Sea’ and ‘Gulf’. Temperature and salinity are quite different from the Indian Ocean.
The Sea of Cortez or Gulf of California is an arm of the Pacific Ocean, same as the Red Sea and Persian Gulf are of the IO.
But beyond that, there are parts of the open IO which reach comparable temperatures.
Comment showed up as I was writing about its delay in moderation.
Patience, grasshopper.
Chimp, points well taken, thanks.
prjindigo says:
Its egotistical to ignore the fact that Gravity controls climate.
Gravity determines the maximum pressure at sea level, increases in energy per cubic meter necessarily reduce density.
The “models” the warmists use don’t allow for changes in density per cubic meter. This produces a margin of error far in excess of any of their claims over time.
joelobryan :
WOW !!! 31 to 33 C !!
That’s a SEARING , SCALDING 4 C BELOW BODY TEMPERATURE !!!
Sounds pretty good to me ! Just remove the sharks and irukandji first though !
getitright says:
What part of
“In isolated shallow seas, for example the Red Sea or the Caribbean, or close to land in unusual meteorological conditions, sea-surface temperatures may reach as much as 34 degrees. ”
did you miss?
Be careful with critiques of already illustrated exceptions!
commieBob says:
It’s way complicated. Although most of the heat is stored in the oceans, the vast majority of the heat moves to the arctic via the atmosphere. link All the planet’s heat arrives and leaves through or via the atmosphere (except for geothermal).
All the energy budget graphs I have seen give about 48% of the solar hitting the ocean and land surface.
Alan, that sounds about right. 341 Wm^2 in, 79 (23%) reflected by clouds and the atmosphere. 78 (23%) absorbed by the atmosphere. 23(6%) reflected by the surface. So 48% is absorbed by the surface. The Oceans are 70% of the surface, so they would absorb 70% of the remaining 48% or 113 W/m^2.
Especially the tropical oceans are very effective net absorbers:
https://www.fondriest.com/environmental-measurements/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/par_solar-irradiance.jpg
The amount of radiation received by the Earth varies, and much of it is reflected back into the atmosphere. This map shows net absorbed solar radiation. (Image courtesy Dennis Hartmann, University of Washington via NASA).
I agree that most of the thermal energy leaves and arrives through the atmosphere. And, on a yearly basis, probably most of the energy that is transported to the Arctic is transported via the atmosphere. The Arctic ice cap acts as a cap after all. But, the point I was making was that most of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the oceans and transmitted around the world via ocean currents. I still think that is correct. This makes sense due to the very high heat capacity of the oceans. Short term weather is controlled by atmospheric heat (thermal energy) transport, but longer term it is the oceans. I suspect most thermal energy makes its way to the Southern Ocean through ocean currents as well.
R. Shearer says:
Do you have an estimates for the percentages of energy transfer from ocean currents?
You would think it would be lots. Consider the effect that the Gulf Stream is said to have on the climate of Europe.
It’s complicated, my brain hurts.
John F. Hultquist says:
Maybe this will make it hurt more:
The Source of Europe’s Mild Climate
The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth
by Richard Seager
Or, take a pain killer and ignore it.
If not the North Atlantic Drift, what IYO accounts for the stark difference between the two seaside settlements of Barrow, AK and North Cape, Norway, which lie at practically the same Arctic latitude, ie ~71 N?
Average February low for Barrow is -22 degrees C, while at North Cape, it’s -2.
R. Shearer, I don’t know of any data. Perhaps someone has worked up an estimate using the Argo data, but that only goes down to 2000 meters and a large percentage of the ocean water is below that depth. It has to be huge though, it is also slow moving. The deeper water takes over a thousand years to go through the whole circuit.
Stephen Skinner says:
I see, so when I get a coffee and instead of putting a solid impermeable lid on top that fits tight I’m given a sort of lid that has 0.04% the mass of a solid lid. I might look like a mime artist trying to put this impression of a lid on the coffee and I would imagine theoretically it would keep in 0.04% of the heat but more likely it would have a negligible effect. The example of a pot of water being covered cannot be compared in any way to CO2 acting as a ‘lid’. A solid barrier doesn’t have to have heat trapping properties, it just has to physically prevent the heat from mixing and dissipating with the wider atmosphere.
rbabcock says:
The lid on your coffee cup is impermeable. CO2 in the atmosphere is not.
Robert Kernodle says:
This represents a profound misunderstanding of how the greenhouse effect works.
No, it represents a profound commitment to dislodging erroneous thinking about a so called greenhouse effect.
The amount of heat contained in the CO2 has nothing whatsoever to do with CO2‘s effect on temperature. CO2‘s effect is to prevent radiative heat transfer from the earth [sic] to space. That is, it keeps the heat in.
So, 0.06% of the atmosphere (by mass), “keeps heat in” for the rest of the 99.94% of atmospheric mass. What is the other 99.94% of atmospheric mass doing, if not “keeping in heat”? And how can 0.06% of atmospheric mass “keep heat in”, without itself being heated, while 99.94% of atmospheric mass is heated by CO2 that itself is NOT heated ? CO2 heats the main mass of the atmosphere without heating itself, by just forcing the bulk of the atmosphere to hold heat that it otherwise would not “keep in” by itself ?
One molecule per 2400 other molecules forces another 100 molecules (water) of the 2300 to force those 2300 molecules to “keep heat in” ? Where is the heat being kept ? If the other 2300 are heated, then the heat must be within those, and so those are “keeping heat in” too, but somehow CO2 is NOT heating itself, yet causes another 100 molecules to really heat up, which causes the other 2300 somehow to heat up.
CO2 must be acting like some kind of solid stuff to do all that, but it is NOT solid — it’s gas. The conclusion that it “keeps heat in” is absurd.
So, we replace one really bad analogy — a greenhouse — with another really bad analogy — a pot of hot water — in order to profoundly understand how the first really bad analogy can be perpetuated. If the absurdity of explaining any affect that CO2 might have by referencing a green house fails, then change the absurdity to a pot of hot water. Great !
I think I understand better now — NOT how the greenhouse effect works, but how people who explain the greenhouse effect have really f___ed up their minds.
John Shotsky says:
I’d like to point out that the 95% of CO2 that is natural is not the problem. It is that 5% OF the .06% of the atmosphere that is CO2 that is blamed for global warming. Not CO2 itself, but the MAN MADE percentage which is responsible for ALL of those things attributed to global warming. My brain wants to explode any time people attribute man-made CO2 for ANYTHING.
By the way, the 99.9% of the atmosphere that is inert is heated by the earth every single day. Non radiative gases cannot emit radiation, yet those gases are cooled every day. Ever wonder how? Heat rises, it doesn’t sink. The surface cools the surface air at night, but not at altitude. How does it get cooled? Answer: Radiative gases radiate energy, cool, and then absorb energy from inert gases by conduction – collisions. Then that cycle repeats. If there were NO radiative gases in the atmosphere, the only way energy from convected sources could cool is via contact with the surface (and each other). Earth would thus be warmer with no gh gases, perhaps the most badly named scientific term in existence. It would be warmer because the RATE of radiation would have to increase to force the surface to return all sun’s energy to space. The only way to increase the rate of radiation is for earth to warm.
“I’d like to point out that the 95% of CO2 that is natural is not the problem. It is that 5% OF the .06% of the atmosphere that is CO2 that is blamed for global warming. Not CO2 itself, but the MAN MADE percentage which is responsible for ALL of those things attributed to global warming.”
CO2 is CO2. Man made emissions of CO2 have altered the amount of CO2 in the carbon cycle, leading to more in the atmosphere and more in the oceans. The only CO2 humans can control is by adjusting the consumption of fossil fuels, or doing sequestration. There are CO2 removal systems, they act on any CO2, but those are only in the testing phases.
R Hall says:
CO2 removal systems? You mean plants? And algae? The most efficient CO2 removal systems known to nature?
Cyanobacteria, the ancestors of chloroplasts in algae and green plants. CO2 is like mothers’ milk to them. To make sugar, just add water and sunlight.
Blooms of which photosynthetic bacteria in lakes however can be dangerous.
JOHN S CHISM says:
“CO2 is CO2. Man made emissions of CO2 have altered the amount of CO2 in the carbon cycle, leading to more in the atmosphere and more in the oceans. The only CO2 humans can control is by adjusting the consumption of fossil fuels, or doing sequestration.”
I don’t know why I bother bringing this up again and again… Bio-Mass is everything living or has lived and died. Not just Living Flora that people think of when talking about sequestration as carbon sinks. We know that the Earth has become greener with all the added carbon dioxide attributed to our use of fossil fuels, but also from all the other flora that died and rotted or burned up, volcanic activities, soil respiration from decaying and animal waste. Studies and pictures from space proves it. All the lumber used as building materials are also sequestered carbon, that were carbon dioxide sinks when they were alive. You yourself are the results of Sequestered carbon that came from eating flora and the fauna you ate got its carbon from eating flora and/or fauna. When the “Last Ice Age” started warming some 11,500 years ago and CO2 was at the starvation point for most Flora a mass extinctions occurred – by whatever hypothesis you chose to go by. The point is that Earth was left with only a fraction of the flora and fauna that existed before the “Last Ice Age” and only some 800,000 humans existed by the high count of studied. Today humans are about to surpass 7.2 billion. Bovines were scaras and now they are around 1.4 billion and that doesn’t count that about 1/3rds are eaten daily. there are some 19 billion chickens or 3 per person, and that’s just about a third eaten daily and doesn’t count the millions of eggs eaten each day. Those are just examples Secondary Stage of Carbon Sequestration that get their carbon from mostly Flora that are First Stage Sequestration.
In other words…. Nearly all the Man Made Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuels is being Sequestrated along with nearly all the natural Carbon Dioxide in all the Exponentially Increasing Flora and Fauna from single cell organisms to massive redwoods and blue whales on land/air and in the water 24/7/365.
“There are CO2 removal systems, they act on any CO2, but those are only in the testing phases.”
Why would anyone want to remove Carbon Dioxide from our atmosphere when all of the Bio-Mass on Earth is already sequestering it?
johchi7, because atmospheric CO2 levels are rising, which means the there is not sufficient sequestration happening naturally to keep CO2 levels at pre industrial levels.
Rich Davis says:
Yes, Chris, that seems to be a logical deduction but, it is much more complex than you have been led to believe.
The fundamental question is whether CO2 concentration in the atmosphere controls earth’s temperature or earth’s temperature controls CO2 concentration with a little boost from human activity.
There is vastly more CO2 in the oceans than in the atmosphere. The amount in the atmosphere is fundamentally driven by the solubility of CO2 in the ocean. The solubility of CO2 in water is temperature-dependent. (Think about a warm bottle of Coke). The temperature of the oceans varies from about -1C to +34C. The temperature of the ocean in any given place is dependent on currents driving warm surface waters toward the poles necessitating deep cold water flows from the poles back to the tropics. There is a massive dynamic system acting as a heat pump to expel heat from the poles. Heat from the sun drives that engine. Key word is dynamic. Nothing in this system is static or “at equilibrium”. Things change preventing it from ever reaching equilibrium. In general, the heat pump runs faster and expels more heat when there is more heat entering the system, and vice versa.
The fact that CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is rising is not only due to burning fossil fuel. It is also due to warming ocean temperatures. CO2 was rising for millenia prior to the industrial age. Why? Because the oceans have been warming since the end of the last ice age. It would be illogical to argue that warming prior to human civilization was not a natural phenomenon.
The amount of carbon in the carbon cycle has been depleting naturally for eons. The trend over geological history is a steep decline. It has recently (last few millennia) made a slight rebound, but without our intervention in releasing sequestered carbon, life on earth was poised for mass extinctions.
There is nothing special about the CO2 level in 1850 or 1700. Why not be concerned about the rise since 8000 BC?
Reversing the natural sequestration of carbon through the burning of fossil fuels and production of cement, is just one perturbation of the dynamic system among many preventing the ocean-atmosphere system from reaching equilibrium. Apparently we are generating CO2 a bit faster than the oceans can absorb it, and faster than photosynthesizing life can expand to re-sequester it.
So the question that matters is this: does atmospheric CO2 control earth’s temperature or does the earth’s temperature control atmospheric CO2 (with a little recent boost from human activity)?
The skeptical position is the latter. It is not a denial that CO2 has the ability to hold in some heat. It is, in effect, a denial that this retention of heat is significant due to emergent phenomena that maintain homeostasis.
Climate politicians (some calling themselves scientists) are the science deniers who reject paleoclimatology. The proxy evidence shows that CO2 lags temperature. They have cause and effect backwards.
Chris, let me give you an abbreviated history lesson. This is long, but important.
CO2 was increasing since the “Last Ice Age” warmed and melted the majority of the mountain and polar glaciers, and warmed the oceans and all other surface water that had sequestered the majority of the CO2, releasing it back into the atmosphere. Over this 11,000 years of a Stalled 15 degrees Celsius Mean. That was just around 240 ppm prior to the warming and after the hottest global temperatures of the first part of the Holocene Climate Optimum 8,000 to 6,000 years ago rose to 260 ppm by the Medieval Global Warming and in the middle(1645 – 1715) of the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1870) when it started warming slowly the CO2 rose to 280 ppm – this is still considered a starvation amount of free CO2 in the atmosphere for the majority of flora- at its end around 1870 AD when the human population was just 1.22 billion globally. The Industrial Revolution started around 1760 to 1820 or 1840 depending upon the person writing about it.
Fuels of Wood were the dominant source of heat during the Industrial Revolution and Coal/Coke was used for smelting ores for their metals and metalworking forges to shape it. (This is what people are wanting us to revert back to, that is just past being in the stone age.) Steam Power was invented in 1736 but it was 1781 that Thomas Newcomen invented the Watt Steam Engine, but it rarely saw any use, but really kicked off the Industrial Revolution when better designs started appearing. Both Bio-Fuel wood and Fossil Fuel Coal were the primary heat source for creating steam. The added CO2 had no effect on the warming of the Little Ice Age. And at that time the volcanic activities were pumping more CO2 along with aerosols into the environment than humans did.
It wasn’t just the CO2 that was being put into the air, as much as it was the water vapor when the steam cooled in the atmosphere as a primary GHG being pumped out. But both H2O and CO2 helped to support more Bio-Mass of Flora around those localized areas. And the more Flora there is to support more Fauna exponentially, the more CO2 being created exponentially increases Flora, and the cycle exponentially repeats. That by the end of the Little Ice Age and Oil being used as a heat source as Kerosene in 1846 for the first time. Although gasoline was discovered around that time it, wasn’t used it was burnt off as a byproduct of kerosene, until a patent for refining gasoline came in 1913.
During all this time, more people were surviving harsh cold weather because better housing and heating systems were created. The Population started growing in the Industrialized Countries. Better farming techniques were being discovered, by learning more about what not to do, as much as what to do. Animal Husbantry also increased all livestock. But none of that would have happened without there being more Carbon Dioxide and Monoxide in the environment as well as atmospheric water increasing to grow the Flora that Fauna needed to live and Fauna increasing the CO2 the Flora needed to live on, in a exponentially increasing Cycle of Life. The population of all Flora and Fauna Exponentially increased because of the Exponentially Increasing Carbon Dioxide in our environment from Fossil Fuels.
To slow that process or reduce Carbon Dioxide is a death sentence to life as we know it. If an equilibrium was met, it would cascade into a deficit of CO2 in the environment because all flora would return to a worse starvation than they are still in now at 400+ ppm. Because as more of our CO2 is sequestered in Flora, they will slowly start dying when CO2 is lowered from what they are accustomed to having. It is the same thing that happens naturally when the climate cools in winter. Carbon Dioxide increases in the atmosphere because flora becomes dormant in the Northern Hemisphere. When the Spring Warming comes that Carbon Dioxide starts to be used as the Flora awaken. If we reduce the CO2 those Flora will not have what they require to build new cellular materials in as abundance they had before. Which is why people study live and fossilized tree rings and can tell what the past was like. This is how we know what it was like in the Last Interglacial Period that was 6 degrees Celsius (72 degrees F) hotter than the Earth is now and the Carbon Dioxide was much higher (averaged about 1,500 ppm) but it never followed the Global Temperatures.
About a million years ago at 15 degrees Celsius the CO2 was around 1,000 ppm and the Global Temperature was an average of 22 degrees Celsius, for something around 800,000 years. Here we are today still living in the Ice Age that only started about 500,000 years ago after the Global Cooling plunged to an average of 12 degrees Celsius of Glacial Periods that warmed to an average of 15 degrees Celsius, in other words we hit a Global Stall over the last 11,000 years with an average Global Temperature of 15 degrees Celsius (56.7 degrees F) with an average of +/- 1.0 degrees Celsius (1.8 degrees F) variation and the Earth History Global Mean between Glacial and Interglacial Periods is 17 degrees Celsius (63 degrees F). This is why I always put parentheses when writing the “End of the Last Ice Age” or the “Last Ice Age” because it has never gotten above that 17 degrees Celsius Mean. The Average Carbon Dioxide for the past 3.5 Billion years is around 1,200 ppm that started between the Devonian and the Carboniferous Period, when most of Earth’s life forms began.
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John That is an interesting explanation. Only 1 problem. The amount of radiative gases is too small in the polar regions( not much H2O especially in South Pole) to absorb any amount of significant heat from the N2 and O2.
On another note Lightbulbs went off in my mind as to why the vast difference in the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere versus other planets. It has to be because of the oceans.
John S,
While we generally come to the same practical conclusions, how we arrive at those conclusions is different. I have one major disagreement and a couple of nitpicks.
I think that you have a misconception about greenhouse gases vs. non-greenhouse gases. CO2 and other so-called GHGs are able to absorb and emit infrared photons and capture energy from them. It’s true that nitrogen, oxygen, and argon in our atmosphere cannot do that. But all matter radiates energy in proportion to its temperature, whether it is solid, liquid, gas, or plasma, and all matter absorbs radiated energy coming from other matter. The relative temperatures determine the direction of the net heat transfer.
Nit #1
Arguing that human-generated CO2 is a small fraction of total CO2 misses the point. It’s like arguing that a drop of nerve agent can’t possibly harm you because it is such a small fraction of your body mass. Natural sources of CO2 exist in balance with natural sinks. These natural sources and sinks are cyclical, driven by seasonal temperature variation and effects on vegetation. CO2 concentration in water is temperature-dependent with warmer water less able to hold CO2 and colder water more able to do so. Plants absorb less CO2 in the winter than in the summer. The warmista argument is that human activity allows CO2 in the atmosphere to exceed the amount that would be there at equilibrium for a given ocean temperature (they call this forcing) and they believe (fallaciously) that any minor excursion above the equilibrium concentration will create runaway positive feedbacks due to the small increase in heat reflected back to the surface, which in turn is supposed to cause more evaporation to add more H2O vapor which is a much more powerful GHG than CO2. It’s best to address the error of their claims by pointing out that the H2O vapor increase is not empirically observed to any significant extent.
The common saying that “heat rises” is a practical rule of thumb in the limited case where you are talking about hot air convection on earth. I grant you it’s a nitpick because that’s the context you were talking about, but it is sloppy science and loses sight of the real mechanisms that are often important. Heat itself neither rises nor sinks. By conduction, heat moves from hot to cold–up, down, or sideways. By radiative transfer, heat radiates in all directions and the net amount radiated vs absorbed results in heat moving from hot to cold. The sun radiates heat down to the earth surface (and the earth radiates to the sun, but the net is much more toward the earth), a fireplace radiates heat sideways to you when you sit next to it. Convection driven by the buoyancy effect is a consequence of gravity. It causes denser cold fluid (gas or liquid) to sink and displace less dense warmer fluid which must go somewhere, so it floats up. The mass transfer carries the heat up. In the absence of gravity as in space, there is no convection because the denser cold fluid is not acted on by gravity to make it sink and displace the less dense fluid. Practically speaking, on earth we always have gravity, but another more relevant case where heat does not rise is when highly salty warm water sinks into less salty, less dense cold water (the surface water becomes more concentrated in salt due to evaporation). The cold water “wells up” in this case and the mass transfer carries the heat down. Another relevant case is when cold fresh meltwater floats on top of warmer but saltier, thus denser water. In reality, unless things are getting hotter or cooler, it has to be the case that heat sinks exactly as much as it rises (up and down heat flows must be in balance). Recently heat has been sinking just a little bit more than it has been rising, so we have “global warming”. Is all of that caused by humans? I doubt it. Considering that paleoclimatology shows us many examples of much more extreme natural variation when humans were not around, my bet is that we have very little to do with it.
[Nitpicking the Nitpick]
Arguing that human-generated CO2 is a small fraction of total CO2 misses the point. It’s like arguing that a drop of nerve agent can’t possibly harm you because it is such a small fraction of your body mass.
Arguing thus does NOT miss the point — it makes a good point in the relevant CONTEXT. Comparing a drop of nerve agent to the mass of the human body is an implied simile (or “semi-LIE”, as I like to call it), namely, “CO2 within Earth’s atmospheric mass is like a nerve agent within the human body”. This just replaces a false greenhouse simile (i.e., “Earth’s atmosphere is like a greenhouse”) with a false human-body simile (i.e., “Earth’s atmosphere is like the human body), which ignores: (1) the contexts of the comparisons, (2) the differences in the systems in the comparisons, and (3) the vastly different mechanisms of causation in two DIFFERENT systems involving a small quantity .
More directly, the implied simile is this: “Carbon dioxide is like a nerve agent, simply because it is a small quantity in relation to a large quantity.” The logic is that the only thing that determines the validity of the argument is the relationship ALONE between quantities. It justifies negating the argument for no other reason than the SIMPLE relationship between a small quantity and a large quantity does not hold for ALL SYSTEMS.
Red apples taste good, and so red moth balls should taste good. Why, because they are both red and red determines taste. Same kind of logic. Small quantity of nerve agent has a great effect on the human body, and so small quantity of CO2 has a great effect on Earth’s atmosphere. This is the argument implied by the above bolded claim.
Further, a nerve agent does NOT coexist ordinarily with the mass in question, namely the human body. Rather, it is something totally foreign, introduced abnormally. CO2, on the other hand is something that coexists normally with all other atmospheric gases as PART of the ordinary mass. A more correct analogy would choose something already a part of the human body and claim that a small portion of it controls the larger part of it, say vitamin C. But now we are faced with the vast differences between the mechanisms of how the body treats vitamin C and how the atmosphere treats CO2.
The complexity of the chemistry is TOTALLY different, and so the analogy is wrong.
Atmospheric gas dynamics nowhere near compares to physio-chemistry dynamics of the human body. So, again, the analogy is false and arguing from this analogy is faulty.
CO2 is 0.06% of an atmospheric mass within which it normally coexists. The mechanism of CO2 is NOT like the mechanism of a nerve agent. The mechanism of CO2 is NOT like the mechanism of vitamin C. Given what the mechanism of CO2 … IS, a small fraction of CO2 cannot have the claimed effects on the larger mass within which it ordinarily coexists.
tom0mason says:
Just a couple of items to note —
Total atmosphere weighs approximately 5.3 million Gigatonnes.
Total CO2 at 0.04% by volume of the atmosphere weighs aproximately 0.003 million Gigatonnes.
Human produced CO2 is estimated (alleged) to by 4% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere and weighs 0.000012 million Gigatonnes.
[A gigatonne equals 1,000,000,000,000 tonnes.]
Atmospheric residence time (i.e. lifetime, turnover time, etc.) of CO2 , based mainly on the compilation by Sundquist (1985; for references in brackets).
Based on natural carbon-14
Craig [1957]________________ 7 +/- 3 years
Revelle & Suess [1957] ______7 years
Arnold & Anderson [1957] ____10 years
including living and dead biosphere
(Siegenthaler, 1989) ________4-9 years
Craig [1958] ________________7 +/- 5 years
Bolin & Eriksson [1959] _____5 years
Broecker [1963], recalc.
by Broecker & Peng [1974] ___8 years
Craig [1963] ________________5-15 years
Keeling [1973b] _____________7 years
Broecker [1974] _____________9.2 years
Oeschger et al. [1975] ______6-9 years
Keeling [1979] ______________7.53 years
Peng et al. [1979] __________7.6 (5.5-9.4) years
Siegenthaler et al. [1980] __7.5 years
Lal & Suess [1983] __________3-25 years
Siegenthaler [1983] _________7.9-10.6 years
Kratz et al. [1983] _________6.7 years
Based on Suess Effect
Ferguson [1958] _____________2 (1-8) years
Bacastow & Keeling [1973] ___6.3-7.0 years
Based on bomb carbon-14
Bien & Suess [1967] ________>10 years
Münnich & Roether [1967] ____5.4 years
Nydal [1968] ________________5-10 years
Young & Fairhall [1968] _____4-6 years
Rafter & O’Brian [1970] _____12 years
Machta (1972) _______________2 years
Broecker et al. [1980a] _____6.2-8.8 years
Stuiver [1980] ______________6.8 years
Quay & Stuiver [1980] _______7.5 years
Delibrias [1980] ____________6.0 years
Druffel & Suess [1983] ______12.5 years
Siegenthaler [1983] _________6.99-7.54 years
Based on radon-222
Broecker & Peng [1974] ______8 years
Peng et al. [1979] __________7.8-13.2 years
Peng et al. [1983] __________8.4 years
Based on solubility data
Murray (1992) _______________5.4 years
Based on carbon-13/carbon-12 mass balance
Segalstad (1992) ____________5.4 years
Modeled
UN-IPCC estimation __________<100 years!
ted getzel says:
Typo alert—a gigaton equals a billion tons not trillion
Believing in a religion makes them dumber
Hans Erren says:
Just look at the 15 micron window from the outside of the earth, increasing co2 will increase the emission beight, which is colder and a less effective IR radiator. That’s all it really is.
Double CO2 molecules at elevations from where there is a net emission to space are able to receive double (!) as much kinetic energy from the same number of non-emitting (O2, N2) molecules. Resulting in a potentially double net emission direction space.
The more CO2 there is, the more cooling above net-emission height there will be.
(CO2 is rather evenly dispersed over elevations up to 80 km, unlike H2O)
But it doesn’t as it is lapse rate dependent. CO2 can only emit local temperature. You can try yourself with online modtran.
I am arguing that radiation is not only lapse rate dependent, but also dependent on the quantity of emitting molecules. No emitting molecules above ‘net emission height’, no emission. Double as much molecules above net emission height, double emission.
Gordon Lehman says:
The CERES data begs to differ from MODTRAN.
https://geosciencebigpicture.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/ceres-vs-modtran.png
CERES shows no decrease in LW to space, but rather a decrese in SW to space. Read increased SW absorption.
The lapse rate inverts at the tropopause ~17 km tropical clear sky according to MODTRAN, and radiation takes place at a higher rather than a lower temperature with increasing altitude. Energy of radiation increases to the fourth power of increasing temperature.
Thanks for the graph, what you see here is the effect of Miskolczi in action, i.e. water vapour counter acting co2. Atmospheric circulation does not penetrate the tropopause, so this should be the layer of outgoing radiation, not an arbitrary 20 km level. Also check that the stratosphere is not cooling since pinatubo.
About the stratosphere: using nasa data for 25 Mb and plotting the full years 2003, 2004 and 2016, 2017, the last years are cooler by more than a half degree C:
https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/amsutemps/amsutemps.pl
Tom Dayton says:
Wim Rost: Yes, the stratosphere is cooling in accord with greenhouse effect explanation. Two main causes: (1) CO2 below the stratosphere is preventing energy from reaching the stratosphere, similar to the outside of an insulating blanket placed on your body being cooler than your skin was before the blanket was placed. (2) CO2 at that great height has few CO2 molecules above it to intercept the IR that is radiated by that high layer.
And what is your explanation for what you see happening, Gymnosperm?
CERES planners made the practical but essentially arbitrary decision to call 20 km the top of the atmosphere. You can read about it in the EBAF apology at the CERES site. 20km is barely above the tropical tropopause on average and even below it when the stratospheric inversion is dented by strong convective activity.
https://geosciencebigpicture.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/giss-anomaly-by-altitude-and-lblrtm-cooling.png
This ugly graphic which I’m unable to fix is based on Clough but shows the relationship to the lapse rate. Basically the surface warms the most, the rate declines through the troposphere, the tropopause is flat, and the middle stratosphere is cooling sharply.
20km is in the zone of flat to slight cooling, thus the CERES result. CERES would show more LW to space if it were set to the middle stratosphere, and more yet if it were set to Nimbus altitude of 70km.
https://geosciencebigpicture.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/gordon-on-clough-1995.png
CO2 shows .4K/day/wavenumber cooling at 48km in the 667/15micron CO2 fundamental bend. Ozone also cools strongly, despite an overall warming lapse rate.
Perhaps stratospheric cooling to offset surface warming is the reason CO2 does not correlate to temperature at any paleo time scale. The stratosphere is part of the planet too.
Very interesting graphics. Indeed, by the chosen altitude of the satellite the large stratospheric cooling by CO2 and ozone normally stays out of sight. A huge cooling by CO2 and ozone at 48 km, typically at the altitude where stratospheric temperatures are highest. And spaceward emission will be highest.
https://scied.ucar.edu/sites/default/files/images/large_image_for_image_content/atmosphere_layers_diagram_720x440.jpg
The dark brown line in the upper graphic, representing the lower stratosphere, shows cooler 2000’s than 80’s and 90’s. This cooling down has to result in a stronger vertical temperature gradient for the 2000’s. Condensation level must go down / must have gone down, because of lower temperatures in the upper regions of the troposphere /lower stratosphere, enabling more spaceward radiation because the ‘water vapor blocking’ of outward radiation ended at lower altitudes.
The cooling mechanism of the Earth? CO2: (initially) warming at the surface, strongly cooling from the stratosphere?
http://clivebest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/smoothed-CO2-emissionheight1.png
https://geosciencebigpicture.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/modtran-lapse.png
Roger Taguchi says:
Yes, CO2 comprises only 400 ppmv (0.04%) of dry air, but it absorbs 667 cm^-1 IR photons emitted from the solid and liquid surface of the Earth, forming vibrationally excited CO2 molecules. These excited molecules can then re-emit 667 cm^-1 radiation, but then there would be no net warming of the atmosphere. However, the literature mostly misses the quenching of excited molecules during non-radiative collisions, in which the energy of excitation ends up as increased translational and rotational energies of the departing molecules (most likely N2, O2 and Ar). N2, O2 and Ar cannot and do not re-emit any significant amount of IR because they are non-polar molecules (do not have permanent electric dipole moments). The increased average translational and rotational energy corresponds to a warming of the troposphere (the greenhouse effect). The heat capacity at constant pressure of linear molecules N2, O2, and CO2 is 7k/2 per molecule, where k is Boltzmann’s constant so the amount of heat stored in N2 and O2 is about 2500 times that stored in CO2; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_capacity . The heat capacity at constant pressure of monatomic Ar is only 5k/2 per molecule because there is no energy of rotation, but as Ar is only 1% of the troposphere, this difference is insignificant.
Yes, the heat capacity of the liquid water in the oceans is huge, but because of the temperature/density gradient, we are wrong in assuming the entire bulk of the oceans must heat up by the same temperature. The rocks/soil of the continents have low thermal conductivity, so desert animals can live quite comfortably in burrows a few cm or dm below the scorching surface. This means only a thin skin of the continents need be warmed up on average during global warming, so the main increase in enthalpy (heat content) in global warming is in the troposphere.
Having said this, when the 62% of the Earth’s surface that is covered by clouds is considered, the equilibrium climate sensitivity is about 0.6-0.7 K, a factor of 4 or 5 smaller than the literature value of 3 K. [The value of 3 K was based on 1 K for a cloudless troposphere plus 2 K from positive feedback from water vapor; however, clouds absorb and re-emit essentially all IR frequencies so doubling CO2 has no effect below the cloud tops. Then considering the lower temperature of the emitting cloud tops (compared to the 288 K surface), the smaller number of CO2 molecules in the path length to 10 km, and the smaller number of CO2 molecules in the v=1 first excited state that actually do the extra absorption, the climate sensitivity before feedbacks is about 0.6 K. Water vapor feedback is about 33%, which would raise this to 0.8 K, but a reasonable estimate for increased negative cloud feedback (which is not made in the literature) reduces this to 0.6-0.7 K. So crippling the economies of the First World to keep warming to 2 K is unnecessary, wasteful, and foolish.
Good discussion, but you give “climate science” too much credit. The central value of 3 K was based upon the two primitive model WAGs by Manabe (2 K) and Hansen (4 K) relied upon by Charney in 1979. He averaged them to derive the “canonical” 3 K, plus added an arbitrary MoE fudge factor of 0.5 K on each end.
Voila! The unchanged to this day ECS range of 1.5 to 4.5 K.
I agree with your estimate of ECS, because net feedback effects are likely to be negative, hence not 1.1-1.2 K, but 0.6-0.7. The GIGO models “parameterize” clouds and other water vapor feedbacks, ie make their effects up, since computer gamers can’t realistically model them.
ripshin says:
Thanks Roger. Very clear elaboration of the concepts.
One question the keeps bugging me is why we don’t also consider the quenching of H2O by N2, O2, AR and etc? This is where it seems to me that the trace nature of CO2, combined with its narrow absorption band, is relevant. Given that the vast majority of LW is absorbed by the much more prevalent H2O, isn’t it reasonable to conclude that the non-GH gases are being thermalized primarily by H2O?
surly says:
Although I don’t think the warmists have made or will ever make the case that CO2 is the “lid” that Stephen describes, such that more of it creates more “lidiness”, I’m afraid I have to agree with him that the passage he quotes from your book mischaracterizes the global warming argument as I have always understood it. Furthermore, arguing that a small component of some whole allows us to dismiss its importance isn’t very convincing: many elements make up even less of the human body, but their absence or over-abundance would be fatal. It might have been better to have written that the Greenhouse Effect postulates exactly what Stephen says it does, then to talk about oceans and atmosphere and whether more CO2 does what models claim it does, IMHO.
In short, I think he’s got you there.
No he doesnt A gas that makes up .04% by volume or .06% by mass cannot possibly heat up the other 99.96% by volume or 99.94% by mass to any significant degree. Since water vapour is 20 to 50 times more prevalent than CO2 in any locality except the poles, the change in water vapour in any locality in 1 day (as much or more than 500%) except the poles , vastly outnumbers the small overall change in CO2 of 0.5 % per year. And furthermore, N2 and O2 have 4000 times the heat capacity of CO2. Further to that almost all the IR that CO2 absorbs is lost to collisions with N2 and O2 within picoseconds of being absorbed. It is then carried to the upper atmosphere by convection. If convection wasnt important, the earth would have had runaway global warming 3.8- 4.2 billion years ago when the oceans first formed. The reason is that the latent heat in the H2O vapour from evaporation has to go somewhere when the H2O vapour condenses. Not all of the latent heat condenses out but most of it and this amount ; now sensible heat, has to go somewhere. Convection carries it to the upper atmosphere because it is actual heat (not IR). If it didnt go to the upper atmosphere and then to space, then the troposphere would have heated like a greenhouse 3.8- 4.2 billion years ago. Evaporation and convection are the control knobs of temperature; NOT CO2.
All great points, but this Stephen guy was saying that Andy was attacking a straw man. In the tiny quoted passage, I agree.
Alan Tomalty: “If convection wasnt important, the earth would have had runaway global warming 3.8- 4.2 billion years ago when the oceans first formed”
WR: And there would be a runaway global warming every time an El Nino is heating up the Earth’s atmosphere. But there isn’t: as soon as the atmosphere is heated up, extra cooling is activated. That is how it works. No matter the reason for the initial (!) heating.
Wim,
This is a great point, and provides us with the clearest counter example to the postulated water vapor feedback effect. I mean, alarmists point to models since we can’t run experiments on the global atmosphere. But events like el nino provide us with the necessary “experimental” data to test the hypothesis.
As you point out, the hypothesis fails.
Michael Hammer says:
I am extremely sceptical of CAGW but in this case I must agree with the criticism. Your argument is that the amount of CO2 is so small it cannot make a difference. Consider, 0.01% of potassium permanganate in water, it changes the water from clear to deep purple, so intense it is more or less opaque. Shine a strong light through a beaker of plain water and one with the 0.01% KMnO4, the latter will get warmer because it absorbs more of the energy from the light.
GHG’s work by blocking radiation to space form the surface (at the GHG wavelengths) and replacing it with radiation to space from the top of the GHG column – typically around the tropopause. If we increase CO2 concentration the absorption lines broaden (that’s why the response if logarithmic) so a slightly larger wavelength range of the surface energy becomes blocked and replaced with radiation from the top of the GHG column. It has absolutely nothing to do with the heat content of the CO2. Nor does it have anything to do with delaying the heat egress. You could also use the example of a poly house for growing plants. Such a structure is not warmer because of the heat content of the polythene film it is because the film prevents convection. The impact of GHG’s is real, the question is how significant is it?
Most environmental scares are based on a kernel of sound science which is then exaggerated massively to create a crisis where none exists. That is exactly the case here. The direct impact of doubling CO is likely to be less than 1C. Warmists claim massive positive feedback in the climate system raising the impact to 3C or more. This is despite the fact that virtually all natural systems display negative feedback. They claim positive feedback due to rising water vapour but they ignore cloud impacts. Clouds cause cooling by raising earth’s albedo. Since cloud cover is nowhere near saturation its impact is likely to be close to linear whereas the impact of water vapour (like all GHG’s) is logarthmic. Logarthimic warming, linear cooling is a formula for establishing a setpoint for Earth’s climate which is maintained by negative feedback. At VERY low concentration GHG warming dominates and the planet warms (+ve feedback) but as concentration rises the incremental impact of more GHG diminishes while the incremental impact of more clouds increases and becomes dominant causing the net incremental cooling. This is a classic example of how a linear plus non linear effect work together to create a stable setpoint. Its well known in engineering.
GHG’s work by blocking radiation to space form the surface (at the GHG wavelengths) and replacing it with radiation to space from the top of the GHG column – typically around the tropopause.
I have serious doubts about that assessment. Can somebody explain why I might be right to have such doubts ? Thanks.
M.W.Plia. says:
surly, re the “global warming argument”, it would be interesting to hear your explanation of how you “have always understood it”
I was simply saying that I’ve never heard any warmist argue that the thermal energy of the CO2 itself is regulating the earth’s temperature.
To me it appears that Andy May’s response to Stephen is basically what you suggest, in a point, counter-point manner.
I prefer Lindzen’s more apt analogy of putting another coat of white paint on an already white wall.
After the first 200 ppm of CO2, adding more has a negligible effect. ECS surely isn’t anywhere near Charney’s central guess of 3.0 degrees C per doubling, let alone his high end of 4.5 degrees C. It’s probably more like his low end of 1.5 degrees C, or even less, ie about the same as the zero net feedback figure of 1.1-1.2 degrees C.
Chimp, The Lindzen analogy seems far more appropriate compared to the human body, nerve agent or potassium permanganate in water analogies. The human body analogy would be adding 0.04% of something naturally in the body and then assuming it would have some catastrophic effect. The nerve agent analogy seems to start by assuming CO2 is a terribly evil gas. Adding a nerve agent to the body is adding some totally alien. It is similar to the potassium permanganate in water.
While one could say that our weather is driven by our climate continually seeking some level of equilibrium it has and will never reach equilibrium. The AGW crowd obviously believe that our climate was in equilibrium in the past and we should be strive to “force” it into some state of equilibrium now. They ignore reality.
Joe Born says:
I’m not sure “he’s got you there,” but I must confess I’ve never found passages like the quoted one very compelling.
My own preference would be that skeptics (among whom I count myself) lose the CO2-heat-capacity argument, since that heat capacity is largely irrelevant to the mechanism by which CO2 retards outward radiation.
Nonetheless, Mr. May’s focus on convection is persuasive, particularly since it involves “tunneling” through part of CO2’s optical depth.
Walter Sobchak says:
“heat capacity is largely irrelevant to the mechanism by which CO2 retards outward radiation.”
It can’t be. If CO2 is in thermal equilibrium with the rest of the atmosphere, it cannot warm it. Further, CO2 cannot hold energy without being warm. Anything that receives energy can only hold by undergoing a change of position or state. It CO2 absorbs energy it must move either in space or in vibration. Those movements are registered as heat.
I see I was being obscure.
Of course the CO2 absorbs energy, so there is some heat capacity.
What I meant, though, was that the ratio of its heat capacity to that of the rest of the system isn’t what’s important to its supposed effect on equilibrium temperature; what’s important is the atmosphere’s resultant optical depth (for relevant wavelengths).
If for the sake of simplicity we could ignore convection and conduction and assume an effective total optical depth tau, then at equilibrium the ratio of surface radiation to the radiation emitted to space would, if my math is right, be (tau + 2) / 2: it wouldn’t depend on how how great the ratio is of the carbon dioxide’s (or the atmosphere’s) heat capacity to the land and ocean’s.
You can’t forget convection. Much of the heat is carried upward by convection of warm moist air. In case of concentrations large enough to produce thunder storms to altitudes of 14 Km. There it is released by condensation and radiated away above much of the rest of the atmosphere.
Walter Sobchak:
Of course you can’t forget convection; that’s what principally drives the lapse rate and thus emission to space, and the lapse rate is much different from what it would be in an atmosphere at rest in which all energy transfer occurs only by radiation. More to the point, convection enables latent heat to “tunnel” through the optical resistance that the CO2 presents: it counteracts CO2’s retardant effect. And Mr. May was correct later to point that out.
But the effect that convection counteracts has little to do with the relative heat capacities of the carbon dioxide and the other terrestrial constituents. As I said, if there were no convection or conduction, the ratio of surface radiation to radiation in would be if there were enough CO2 to make the atmosphere’s optical depth . This effect depends only on optical depth, not on relative heat capacities.
That’s why I don’t think discussing relative heat capacities is very persuasive in this context.
Also jhborn forgets about the role of collisions between N2,O2 and CO2. These are happening in pico seconds. I would think that CO2 is so bothered by N2 and O2 that even when it does absorb IR it then collides with N2 or O2 to release energy.
A thermal effect in the atmosphere (99% O2 and N2) can only be measured if the (by H2O, CO2) absorbed energy has been transmitted to O2, N2, enhancing their kinetic energy.
Re-emission would need an uptake (!) of energy by the emitting molecule, taken from O2, N2 and diminishing their kinetic energy. And in doing so: cooling the atmosphere.
If ‘absorption = warming’, then ’emission = cooling’.
I didn’t forget about collisions. But they’re largely irrelevant to equilibrium temperatures.
Sure, energy that a CO2 molecule acquires by radiation will most likely be lost by conduction to nitrogen or oxygen. But the CO2 molecule will in turn acquire that higher energy back from the nitrogen or oxygen by conduction before the energy ultimately acquired by solar radiation can be returned by radiation to space.
So for the purposes of retarding radiation loss you can forget the intermediate conduction.
Tim Groves says:
CO2 retards
Everybody knows one.
David Middleton says:
surly, I have little to add to what the others have already said. But, I would like to point out that my main point was CO2 is not the “control knob” and cannot be the control knob. This is because all atmospheric changes, the “weather,” are at the mercy of the oceans and the power of evaporation in the tropical oceans and convection.
But, but, ..ummm….Don’t call me Shirley ? (or late for dinner) !
I”m ordering from Dominos tonight. They’re never late.
Sure, but they’re convinced that CO2 is the window that lets just the right amount of heat out. Too thick of a window will fry us all. And not just unsophisticated lay people believe this. So do scientists with fancy degrees and clever computer programs. It’s such a simple concept, but as you no doubt point out in your book at great length, deceptively simple and wrong.
Anyway, all I was saying was that in the quoted passage Stephen was able to do a jiu-jitsu move on you because what you said about CO2 isn’t the sainted greenhouse effect.
surly, I think the jiu-jitsu move may have been possible because Stephen (as well as you and Nick) assumed I was discussing the so-called greenhouse effect (GHE) as defined by the IPCC and only looked at the quote in that context. This may all have been a point-of-view problem.
What I tried to do in the quote, was step back from the GHE, and look at the larger picture of recent warming. I don’t care if the GHE contributed to it or not or even how much. I just wanted to show that any effect of CO2 is small in the context of the oceans. All of the retained thermal energy for the past 50 or 60 years, at most, has increased the Southern Ocean temperature less than 0.2 degrees! And this is the ocean where all oceans meet.
Some of recent warming is natural and some is probably due to the CO2 GHE, the warming is due to additional thermal energy being retained, obviously. I’m just saying it doesn’t matter. Were it all due to CO2 GHE and the effect lasted another 200 years, the Southern Ocean would warm a whopping 0.6 degrees, whoopee!
Percy Jackson says:
A question for you then? If all of the non-condensing greenhouse gases were removed from the atmosphere what would be the final temperature?
Steven Fraser says:
Percy: Removed all at once, or never there to begin with?
Andy.
Agreed, your point has been made.
Further to my notes above. If you look at sea surface temperatures presented on tropical tidbits or similar. The west coast of Africa (the fat bit at the top) there are always blue anomalies some distance out to sea, due to the warm dry air coming from the continent. Ideal evaporation conditions but saturated a comparatively short distance from the shore.
During August to October when high NH latitude cooling progresses a greater percentage of atmosphere travels down across the Atlantic from western Europe, by the time it gets to the tropics it is well saturated. From there it crosses into the equatorial Pacific, if there is El nino it has limited vapor holding capacity.
Where the predominant portion of the wind comes from determines ocean heat release efficiency. The wind patterns during the current warmer phase are very similar.
Super El Nino occur due to regurgitated heat not removed first time around. Has there ever been a series of El Nino where the first one was a super El Nino. It takes a few years to catch up, and we should be thankful for that.
I see an equally ineffective argument in equating all small-concentration effects. We have to look at the context, in order to realize when it is ridiculous to adhere to this sweeping view that a small quantity can have a great effect.
CO2, for example, does not change the color of the other 99.94% of Earth’s atmospheric mass, so comparing CO2 to the chemical (I forgot what it was) that changes water’s color in minute concentrations, to make it darker, to make it absorb more radiation, to heat up more, … is a faulty comparison. The mechanism of that chemical is not the proposed mechanism of CO2, and so CO2 is nothing like that chemical in the context of a gaseous component of a gaseous atmosphere that is colorless.
Neither is CO2 like poison. Poison’s mechanism is different too in its own CONTEXT.
Mercury is a liquid. The human body is mostly liquid. The liquidity of mercury is like the liquidity of the human body. No, it isn’t. Just because something is liquid does not mean it is like the human body. Just because something in a small quantity can have an large effect in its own context does not mean that something DIFFERENT in a small quantity in a DIFFERENT context can have a large effect too, just because we can site another instance of small-quantity/large-effect, as if this categorical relationship sets the rule for all situations — it does NOT.
In the context of a discussion about gases — intermingled gases that coexist in the same time and space flow — the assertion that a 0.06% portion of this intermingled gaseous mass controls the other 99.96% of the gaseous mass thermodynamically is absurd.
“CO2 has a low heat capacity. It is infrared active and absorbs and emits IR radiation, with a small delay”
How much. Based on the temperature drops in Dessert areas, I suspect it is on the order of minutes.
Also, wouldn’t random collisions with other atmospheric components (N2, O2, Ar) drain away CO2 energy fairly quickly as well. Half of the atmosphere is in darkness every 11+ hrs. (less than 12 because of twilight).
The sun only warms the atmosphere for half of the day. More than 70% of its energy warms the atmosphere, water, and land within 22.5° of the ecliptic. The atmosphere is fairly transparent, so most of the energy that is absorbed goes into the oceans that cover 70% of the Earth’s surface. That is where the energy that powers the weather comes from.
Keep in mind that CO2 radiates in ALL directions, not just towards the Earth !
So a bit more than half of the CO2 radiation leaves the atmosphere. The question is the half life. My guess is that it is in on the order of minutes. By midnight, the CO2 is the same temperature as the rest of the atmosphere. and it is not holding any heat above equilibrium, which is to say that it cannot heat anything.
I agree 100%, but the Leftist “EcoNuts” seem to think it all radiates DOWN to Earth, which is illogical !
Walter Sobchak, All good points. I’m not sure anyone knows how quickly a CO2 molecule re-emits absorbed thermal energy. But, the delay is certainly long enough to allow for the energy to be lost in a collision.
teerhuis says:
Average time between two collisions of a molecule in the air is ~140 picoseconds, time between absorption and emission of a photon is in microseconds. The free path of a 15 micrometer photon is ~1 meter. The surface of the Earth emits IR photons. The CO2 in the atmosphere acts as a reflector for the photons in the 15 micrometer band (same way how a mirror reflects visible light, free path in the mirror’s metal of ~1 micrometer). Increasing CO2 levels broadens the CO2 15 micrometer band.
Alastair Brickell says:
Teerhuis thanks for the information.
Could you please explain in simple terms how increased CO2 broadens the 15 micron band…is it through increased pressure thus some sort of pressure broadening? So more CO2 increases the overall reflectivity of heat being directed back to the Earth? Is this how more CO2 causes more global heating even though it is only a trace gas? Also how does CO2’s effect at 15 microns compare with the H2O scattering at the same wavelength, especially given that there’s so much H2O?
Phil. says:
The 15 µm band is made up of a very dense series of lines, at low pressure these lines are very narrow whereas at increased pressure the lines are broadened and become more effective at absorbing IR. That is why CO2 on Earth is more effective a GHG compared to Mars. At current conditions in the lower atmosphere this broadening leads to a logarithmic dependence on pCO2. Basically the center of the band becomes saturated and it is the outerparts of the band that contribute to the increase. As far as CO2 being a trace gas it is the dominant permanent gas as far as absorbing IR is concerned, the major gases N2, O2 and Argon don’t do so. In the absorption band CO2 has many lines which dominate over the far fewer H2O lines, 76,000 vs 1900.
In the lower atmosphere collisional transfer of energy to neighboring molecules dominates over emission by CO2.
Alastair,
At low atmospheric pressure the 15 µm band dissolves in its distinct spectral lines, this occurs at ~15 km height, there CO₂ can radiate to space. Enhancing CO₂ has the effect (at the surface) that due to pressure broadening more lines are included in the 15µm band. Also the emission height increases.
The green house effect of the 15µm band is proportional to its width and to the difference of the temperature at the surface and at the emission height. The amount of water vapor determines how much radiation is available as it absorbs in this region. Generally water vapor on its own accounts for ~90% absorption, CO₂ on its own for ~25%, there is overlap.
Enhancing CO₂ results predominantly in broadening the 15 µm band. A larger emission height has less effect because it resides close to the tropopause.
With MODTRAN you can vary CO₂ levels and compare its effects.
http://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/modtran/
P.S. At Antarctica the mentioned temperature difference is negative, there CO₂ enhances radiation to space.
rocketscientist says:
23.5 ° if my memory serves (unless there is some radiative obliquity factor which reduces the tropics by a degree)
2*22.5°=45° COS 45°= 0.70710678118
Gamecock says:
‘“99.9 percent of the Earth’s surface heat capacity is in the oceans and less than 0.1 percent is in the atmosphere.’
This cannot possibly be true. 30% of the Earth’s surface is . . . dirt. It has to be involved. See: sea breeze.
bwegher says:
The heat capacity of the global ocean is calculated at about 1000 times the heat capacity of the global atmosphere. That’s just a starting point for energy transfers between ocean and atmosphere. This might be appropriate in developing a simple model.
If you want to be more accurate, add the land/atmosphere interaction. Most of the land is covered with plant biology, trees, tropical rain forest, boreal forest, grasslands, etc.
Then include the boundry layer effect due to the vegetation, it gets complicated to try to describe the boundry layer interaction quantitatively, say if you wanted to add to your model.
Sure, the Saharan desert is mostly sand, add that into the mix. Note that the measured highest temperature differentials are in dry desert regions. How deep does the heat exchange in the desert sand on a daily basis? A centimeter, a meter? What about over a season? How much of the solar energy is stored in the surface layer of a sand desert?
vukcevic says:
……. or simply look at what the Earth’s magnetic field is doing, only good for 9 years ahead (else tea leaves or chicken bones)
Salvatore Del Prete says:
Do you agree vuk that when the solar and geo magnetic field are in sync (like they are now both weakening) that they compliment one another. Such as causing galactic cosmic rays to increase which in turn could cause more cloud coverage(lower sea surface temperature) and more major explosive volcanic activity.
Land neither moves nor evaporates. It does not hold very much heat. Its specific heat is less than one (water is 4.2, air is 1, sand is 0.28). The only way land can heat air is by contact or radiation. Water evaporates, and that is the major method of heating the atmosphere and is what drives the weather.
Gamecock, Good point, I ignored the land surface in the calculation. The idea being that surface temperature measurements on land are taken about 2 meters above the surface in the atmosphere. In the oceans the measurement is taken just below the ocean surface. I should have stated that. I’ll make the change.
rishrac says:
I’d like to see how Stephen explains 126 ppm/v co2 increase from pre industrial rimes and less than a 1 C rise today ? The world temp is a staggering 0.2 C warmer over 165 years of co2 input? Some lid on the pot… non existent.
Maybe someone should explain to little Stevie that a lid covers 100% of the pot, while CO2 covers 0.04% of the atmospheric “pot” !!
Can a conclusion be about half-assed correct while the rationale that is applied to reach the conclusion is just half-assed?
If you are a liberal….Yes !
Wiliam Haas says:
If CO2 really affected climate by enhancing the thermal insulation characteristics of the atmosphere then one would expect that the increase in CO2 over the past 30 years would have caused at least a measurable increase in the dry lapse rate in the troposphere but that has not happened. The AGW conjecture depends upon the existence of a radiant greenhouse effect caused by trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Such a radiant greenhouse effect has not been observed in a real greenhouse, in the Earth’s atmosphere, or anywhere else in the solar system for that matter. The radiant greenhouse effect is science fiction so hence the AGW conjecture is science fiction as well.
They are very small chances of the formation of a hurricane in the Atlantic.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/mdrssta.png
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/satlssta.png
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=atl&product=wv-mid
Pressure balance between the hemispheres is balanced, and just below mean. I am favouring an East Pacific bias to ACE over Atlantic.
Also weak Antarctic Blozone hole if the status remains. 2012 to 2017 range. Low atmosphere volume via water vapor.
South Eastern Pacific is cool. Regards.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino12.png
Nick Stokes says:
Andy, Stephen is right. Your quote is gibberish. In quantitative terms, it is an argument from incredulity, which gets you nowhere, even if you keep upping the amount of incredulity that you can express.
Heat capacity is irrelevant here. It just determines the time it takes to heat things, not how hot they get. A blanket has far less heat capacity than your body, but that is irrelevant to its function. The best insulator, as in a Dewar flask, is a vacuum, which has no heat capacity at all.
And the old thing of, it’s just 0.04%, is just tiresome. Outgoing radiation has to pass through ten tons of material per sq m. It is a miracle that the main gases are so transparent that that is possible. The CO2 part of that is about 6kg. As a solid, which is easier to visualise, 6 kg/sq m is a feww mm thick. It is very easy to envisage such a layer being totally opaque. And it is equally so if the molecules are spread through the air, rather than concentrated.
If you put a few grams of permanganate in your pool, you won’t be able to see the bottom. That will be a lot less than 0.04%.
Nick, I think your argument is refuted in the responses to “surely’s” comment above. Heat capacity is very relevant to the “dangers of man-made climate change.” Atmospheric heat flow is only relevant to short term (a few weeks or so) weather events. The key, mentioned in the quote from my book, is “control.” Is man-made or total CO2 the “control knob” for climate? Clearly not, because the atmosphere itself contains so little thermal energy and because evaporation from the oceans limits SST, whether it limits it to 30 or 34 degrees, it still limits it. Thus, between convection and the huge heat capacity of the oceans, CO2 is irrelevant (at least below 1500 ppm or so). The atmosphere is a tool used by the oceans to make weather. Now if the oceans were gone, it would be another story. I think you and Stephen are incorrect.
Nick No one is saying that CO2 isnt absorbing IR. However any CO2 that is in the troposphere for any short period of time will have absorbed its maximum amount IR in the 13-18 micron band. Since there is only a net increase of 0.5% of CO2 every year, where is the CO2 available (or coming from) to absorb all this new IR 163 J/M^2 per second that hits the surface(ocean and land)? If you say that the oceans and atmosphere continously recycle the CO2; you are correct, but the CO2 that then leaves the troposphere cant heat it anymore cause its gone. So the mathematics just arent there. The only possible way is that before the CO2 leaves the troposphere to go back to the oceans, it collides with the N2 or O2 and thus transfers its energy that way. However we skeptics are saying that exact thing. After it collides with them ; convection carries the heat energy to the upper atmosphere and then to space. After the collision, if instead the O2 and N2 increased energy radiated back down, we would have had runaway global warming a long time ago.
Alan,
“However any CO2 that is in the troposphere for any short period of time will have absorbed its maximum amount IR in the 13-18 micron band. “
No, the CO2 molecules don’t just absorb the energy and keep it. They absorb energy from a photon, and almost immediately pass it on to other molecules through collision interactions. A point is that that transfer is faster than the alternative process of re-emission. The molecules do emit, but mostly in response to acquiring surplus energy by collision, not earlier photon absorption.
Nick you quoted me out of context. Of course the IR gets transferred to the N2 and O2 via collisions. My quoted statement had nothing to do about keeping the energy.
However I will eat humble pie on the math. Based on the math, I have concluded that there is lots of molecules of CO2 to eat the photons coming from the earth.
One source gave me ~10^44 number of molecules in the atmosphere. That means there ~10^40 CO2 molecules.
Since 163 J/sec/m^2 hits the earth surface there will be ~10^9 joules hitting in a year
However 1 photon at 15nm = 1.3243 X 10^-17 joules (taking the 15nm length to represent the average energy level of each photon)
therefore 10^26 photons are being absorbed /reemitted by surface in a year. Even though CO2 only increases net of 0.5% per year and if assume that only 10% of the reemitted photons of the surface actually get trapped by CO2 that would mean ~ 10^25 photons in a year are getting trapped by 10^40 CO2 molecules. So Nick I apologize for my assumption that the math wasnt there. So it seems there is indeed enough CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb all of those IR photons.
However that is only 1/2 the story. The rest of it is; the energy gets carried away by collisions with the N2 and O2 which because they are now hotter ; then rise to the top of the atmosphere . After these collisions the energy isn’t going back to the surface because any hot air effectively rises. So even though I was wrong about the math I cant see how the IR energy that is transferred to the N2 and O2 will make its way back to the surface. If it did there would be runaway global warming already and there couldnt be equilibrium.
PJF says:
“As a solid, which is easier to visualise, 6 kg/sq m is a feww mm thick. It is very easy to envisage such a layer being totally opaque.”
6 kg/sq m of solid CO2 would be a few millimetres thick and might be totally opaque (to IR). However it would have to be below -78.5C on the surface to remain in that state, at which point these arguments about global warming would be largely academic.
I’m sorry, was someone talking about a snipped quote being gibberish?
Yes, Andy May’s quote – taken in isolation – does not demonstrate a full understanding of the effects of CO2 on climate. But then Stephen’s counter doesn’t either (CO2 does not prevent radiative heat transfer from Earth to space).
“However it would have to be below -78.5C on the surface to remain in that state”
Note that I said
“It is very easy to envisage such a layer being totally opaque. And it is equally so if the molecules are spread through the air, rather than concentrated.”
The point is that, as a matter of geometry, the molecules stand equally between ground and space, whether as a solid layer or dispersed in the air.
Yes Nick, but I didn’t quote that bit. I isolated a part of what you said to show, via a joke, that isolated quotes aren’t necessarily the best way to highlight someone’s view.
You didn’t see the forest for the molecules.
OK, But it was Andy who isolated the quote, not I.
It was “Stephen” who focussed on that quote (which is one paragraph from Andy’s link). Andy is saying (above) that he is quoted out of context.
It was Andy who highlighted and validated the quote:
“One would think that this is clear, but to some it clearly is not”
Nick…I’m interested in your “few mm thick” layer. If this is totally opaque (or near to it) what is the effect of a doubling of CO2? Would that be like adding the famous second coat of white paint that is often referred to? Or is 12kg of CO2 much more reflective that 6kg and if so how does that work, ie. what is the mechanism?
No, it isn’t totally opaque. Partly, there is flexibility of pressure broadening, leaving fringes of the absorption lines. But there is also this effect. Although the spread out modecules are just as opaque, they are at different temperatures, and this is important for emission. Upwards, at TOA, that means that more GHG means emission from higher and colder layers. That means less amplitude, which then has to be made up by more emission in wavelengths that can bring IR from further below, and that requires warming. Or a related effect – near the surface, the down IR depends on the emission temperature also – ie how near surface did it originate. More GHG means closer to surface. Both of these effects would operate even if the atmosphere as a whole were totally opaque.
Nick, thanks, but I’m still unsure of how this all works. Can you explain in simple terms as I’m probably thicker than the CO2.
“Upwards, at TOA, that means that more GHG means emission from higher and colder layers”….(OK, I get that as I guess more CO2 means this applies at all altitudes including TOA)….”That means less amplitude, (What does this mean…amplitude of what?) which then has to be made up by more emission in wavelengths that can bring IR from further below (Why? & What wavelengths and what is their source?), and that requires warming. ”
Also, what role does the much more abundant H2O play?
“amplitude of what?”
Amplitude (magnitude) of upward IR.
You can see this best with a real spectrum from Grant Petty’s textbook (click to biglify):
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.moyhu.org/2010/05/PettyFig8-2.jpg
Barrow Alaska over a thawing icefield. Looking down, you see, above about 770 cm^-1, high radiance, as if from 268K. And from 600 to 700, a dip, as if from about 225 K. The dip is where GHG radiation is obscured from surface, and emitted from TOA. Now the total radiation globally that has to exit is fixed. So if the CO2 region expands and deepens, less IR gets out there, and the other part has to grow to keep the total (area under) constant. That means the surface has to warm.
At the surface, it’s the opposite. 600_700 radiation is coming from near surface, near 268 K. And with more GHG, that block will get wider and warmer.
Water vapor is in various ranges, a lot below 600 cm^-1, that they find hard to measure in these circumstances.
So this is process that causes a change from glacial to interglacial?
Ozonebust: The change from glacial to interglacial is the reverse of the change from interglacial to glacial. Small and gradual increase in solar energy hitting the Northern Hemisphere causes gradual speed of reduction of snow and ice cover, which reduces reflection of solar radiation by ice and snow, which in turn increases warming, which further reduces snow and ice cover, and so on. Simultaneously, that warming causes the oceans to sequester less CO2, which increases greenhouse effect. One of many explanations is a short one by NOAA.
The water bands below 600 are hard to measure at 20km because they aren’t there. At Barrow all the vapor is at the surface (under an inversion shown by the higher intensity 15 micron CO2 spike looking up). The window bands from 750 to 1250 (except for the ozone bite) radiate at the surface Planck curve looking down and at the tropopause Planck curve looking up. Notice that the ozone bands show mirror opposite intensities looking up and down and do not follow the Planck curves, unlike CO2
+42 for “biglify”.
Nick: “Upwards, at TOA, that means that more GHG means emission from higher and colder layers.” You conclude: “(….) that requires warming”
WR: am I right that is assumed (!) that more CO2 means a less effective activity of CO2 in the upper air? If so, are the following processes taken into account?
1. In the upper air there is less de-activation of excited CO2 molecules because there are less collisions with de-activating O2/N2 molecules. High in the atmosphere the density of the air is magnitudes lower, which means less molecules are able to collide with the excited molecules. They also move slower because of their lower kinetic energy because of the low temperatures at higher elevations: resulting in even less collisions. All together resulting in less uptake of energy from excited CO2 molecules. More direct re-emission by still excite CO2 molecules is the consequence = a more effective radiation (at that height: net space ward)
2. A doubling of CO2 doubles CO2 collisions with non-emitting O2/N2 molecules. The possibility of energy uptake (of kinetic energy) by CO2 from O2/N2 doubles (!), normally resulting in a doubling of CO2 emissions.
Because of 1 and 2, I suppose that the assumption that more CO2 results in less emission at the higher altitudes space ward is not correct. I suppose there will be more emissions (net: space ward) which will result in cooling, not warming.
A cooling higher atmosphere enhances the temperature gradient with the surface, resulting in more effective cooling processes that start at the surface and that are cooling the lower atmosphere. In that case, more CO2 might even result in more cooling at the surface.
Is there evidence that I am wrong?
What you are talking about is the departure from local thermodynamic equilibrium in rarefied air. Collisional transfer is slower, but the question is how slow does it have to be to make a real difference. CO2 is a real test; here is a reference that discusses upper air LTE. It seems you have to go to about 50 km before it really matters. The effective radiation level is generally reckoned to be below tropopause.
Your point 2 is right, to a point, although I’m not sure of the final doubling of emissions. But the main thing is the level at which the effective emission occurs just moves up, so the density of CO2 at that higher point is the same as before.
You say there will be more emission at the same altitude. But there is also more CO2 above to block. Basically the same emission arrangements at all high levels are just moved up, but otherwise occur as before.
Do I understand well that only from 50 km there is direct re-emission by CO2? Without any (!) intervention from colliding O2/N2? I would expect a sliding scale that starts from the effective emission height.
Prof. Robert G. Brown talks about net emission already from 8-9 km altitude: “The atmosphere is basically totally opaque in the CO_2 absorptive bands from sea level up to maybe 8 or 9 km. Somewhere up there, where the air is much colder, the molecules get far enough apart that LWIR emitted from the colder air have a good chance of escaping without being reabsorbed.“
Source: https://sealevel.info/Happer_UNC_2014-09-08/Another_question.html
Net emission has to do with ‘a lack of absorbing molecules up ward’: an unhindered emission spaceward will be possible. Again: following a sliding scale.
CO2 should be equally dispersed in the atmosphere till around 80 km altitude. If density of CO2 doubles down at the surface, it will double up to 80 km.
https://scienceofdoom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/co2-h2o-atmospheric-concentration.png
I suppose, most energy leading to emission at effective emission height comes from kinetic energy. Absorption near the surface is transmitted into kinetic energy. Resulting in a warmer atmosphere, causing enhanced cooling.
Convection and latent heat transport result in a higher energy level of molecules at higher altitudes. We don’t need any radiation for that (although radiation will play some role). The kinetic energy is brought to levels above emission height. That kinetic energy is radiated to space, after collisions with radiating molecules like CO2. That means that more radiation by more CO2 is not (!) [fully] blocked by more CO2, simply because emission happens above the effective emission level where there is a net emission.
As professor Brown also says, absorption of surface radiation takes place very near to the surface: “Either way, CO_2 doesn’t “scatter” LWIR radiation, it absorbs it (typically within a few meters, the mean free path at atmospheric concentrations) and the energy is almost instantly transferred to the surrounding air.”
After that, the energy is transmitted to O2/N2. After warming, cooling processes like convection and transport of latent heat are activated: the kinetic energy is transported upwards. Kinetic energy might / must be the main source of the above effective emission height emitted energy .
Above in the atmosphere there might be more CO2 to block, but not enough to block all [nearly] double emitted energy. Simply because emission takes place above effective emission height. And that effect of extra emission by extra CO2 could be much more important than a partial moving up of emission height. (Besides that: a low temperature is not a problem for an effective emission, as the poles show. Water vapor is the real blocker).
Any warming effect in the lower atmosphere results in stronger cooling processes. Stronger cooling processes bring up the kinetic energy higher than before: visible in the tropics where we find the tropopause at a much higher level than at the poles. Not only the effective emission height is rising, kinetic energy is rising higher as well. The warmer, the higher the kinetic energy is brought by turbulent (cooling) processes.
https://d2ufo47lrtsv5s.cloudfront.net/content/sci/276/5315/1079/F1.large.jpg
So my question about the net effect of all processes remains. My guess is that the extra upward rise of kinetic energy and the effect of a higher emission above effective emission height by the extra CO2 will result in a net cooling effect. CO2 might be a cooler.
“Do I understand well that only from 50 km there is direct re-emission by CO2?”
It would be a gradual change with height. And there is some direct re-emission at any level. I remember seeing once (this is unreliable) that overall, about 5% of absorptions result in direct re-emission, which must happen before the next collision. That fraction would increase with rarefaction.
RGB’s comment does not relate to direct re-emission, but just to the chance of a photon emitted from whatever cause escaping to space without further absorption.
“CO2 might be a cooler.”
No, it can’t be. Any absorption of energy, balanced locally by emission, is a hindrance. In terms of that spectrum above, it takes radiation that was emitted as if from a warm place (eg ground) and replaces it with emission as if from a colder place, with loss of radiance.
With all this, I find it useful to think of seeing the Earth from above, with IR-sensitive eyes. It glows. If you filter frequencies, it looks like the glow is strong in >700 cm^-1 frequencies, duller in 600-700. That duller color would seem to be coming from TOA as you move around above the atmosphere. With more GHG, you still see the same thing, but the 600-700 range is just a bit higher (and cooler). You can no longer see so well (in that color) the previously emitting level; that radiation is being absorbed by the increased GHG and replaced in your view by radiation from that increase.
Hmm, overall 5% direct re-emissions seems to be a lot when energy absorbing collisions happen in picoseconds.
I agree with you Nick that any absorption causes warming. There is a delay in heat loss and warming is the result. And if all energy transport through the atmosphere would be by radiation I could fully agree with you.
But when most energy transport is by latent heat, conduction, convection, then the spaceward transport of energy needs a final station that emits kinetic energy to space. That must be somewhere above effective emission height where there is a net emission direction space.
Two CO2 molecules above effective emission height can emit more kinetic energy to space than one, simply because two molecules receive more kinetic energy (by more collisions) than one molecule. So in regard to the uptake of kinetic energy (!) double CO2 has to cool more high in the atmosphere than single CO2. As far as the uptake of kinetic energy is concerned.
If not so, please explain me where I am going wrong.
Wim Rost: Why “above effective emission height”? The definition of effective emission height is the average location from which IR escapes to space.
You are correct that more CO2 molecules at the same given height can radiate more than just one molecule. That is part of the reason that the stratosphere is cooling: The extra CO2 way up there radiates more by dint of the extra molecules, and at that great height a large portion of that radiation escapes to space. But those extra molecules, like the ones originally there at that great height, radiate less than do CO2 molecules at lower heights. Those CO2 molecules at lower heights have most of their additional radiation toward space intercepted by other CO2 molecules above them, which transfer most of that energy to molecules of all types by collision to molecules 360 degrees around them, and when they do radiate only a portion even goes in the direction of space, and most of that is intercepted by even higher CO2 molecules.
Tom and Nick, thanks for the comments, below my reaction.
Tom, you ask me: “Why “above effective emission height”? The reason is that I wanted to be sure that radiation is effective in the way that at least ‘some’ is reaching space. Only then CO2 has a cooling effect on the atmosphere. As absorption warms the atmosphere, radiation is effectively cooling the atmosphere (it takes kinetic energy from other molecules when it uses kinetic energy and is not directly re-radiating a photon).
As Nick writes: “2xCO2 emits more, but also obstructs more“. Above emission height I was sure that (when kinetic energy of other non-emitting molecules is used to come to radiation), there is a net cooling effect.
You pointed at the fact that always (!) some of the radiation escapes to space. The atmospheric window. You are correct, I had forgotten that for a while.
You write, Tom, “That is part of the reason that the stratosphere is cooling: The extra CO2 way up there radiates more by dint of the extra molecules, and at that great height a large portion of that radiation escapes to space.”.
Indeed. If radiation from the stratosphere would only be a matter of re-radiation (!) there would be no net cooling effect: photon absorbed = warming, photon re-emitted = cooling: net temperature effect: zero. A net cooling effect is only visible when kinetic energy from not emitting molecules is used to emit.
That brings me to the main point: isn’t most of the energy up in the atmosphere brought by non-radiative processes? By latent heat, at height by condensation transmitted to kinetic energy? And by conduction, convection?
We are that focused on radiative energy that we forget the importance of all natural (standard) atmospheric processes. Processes ending up in kinetic energy, somewhere upwards. And that kinetic energy is used by CO2 (and extra CO2 molecules) to be able to emit to space. Having a cooling effect.
It is that cooling that brings down the condensation level. And that bringing down of the condensation level removes the blocking water vapor from the higher layers in the atmosphere. By doing so, the level that is cooled / becomes deprived of water vapor. Deprived of water vapor, radiation from this level will be more effective in reaching space. And so this process may compensate or even over-compensate for the rise in effective emission height / emission level by extra CO2.
Nick writes: “Even if there is more emission by some layer, it cannot much increase the amount of heat that is brought to it by latent heat, conduction and convection. So all that could happen is that the emitting region would cool until the amount radiated would match the flux available.”
My take: any warming enhances non-radiative cooling processes at the surface. Evaporation, conduction, convection. And when 2xCO2 emits more at the higher levels, there will be more cooling as well, resulting in a loss of water vapor, resulting in a more effective spaceward radiation. Bringing down emission level.
So far, I never read about this cooling / water vapor removing effect which could (over-)compensate the rise in effective emission height. No one seems to think about the effects of cooling by taking extra kinetic energy by 2xCO2 from non-radiating O2/N2 molecules, 99% of the atmosphere.
(Professor Bill Gray pointed at the fact that in case of warming an enhanced cooling by stronger convection would dry more air at high altitudes. As we see in deserts, dry air enables more surface radiation to escape, cooling the earth. A warming compensating cooling mechanism)
“double CO2 has to cool more high in the atmosphere than single CO2”
1. 2xCO2 emits more, but also obstructs more. That is why the emission level simply rises, so something like the former emitting configuration (with approx 1x former emitting CO2) still exists, but at a higher level. Self-similarity.
2. Even if there is more emission by some layer, it cannot much increase the amount of heat that is brought to it by latent heat, conduction and convection. So all that could happen is that the emitting region would cool until the amount radiated would match the flux available.
The second point illustrates something that is important here. There is a whole pathway from ground to space, and the total impedance is what matters. What happens at the top is a symptom. There is a dual way of reasoning about the bottom layer. More GHG causes the down IR to be emitted from lower, warmer levels. So there is more of it at the surface, and that is the direct cause of surface warming. These are linked effects, not independent arguments, and reflect the higher total impedance of the GHGs.
If the impedance is increasing, why does CERES show increasing LW intensity to space?
“why does CERES show increasing LW intensity to space”
It doesn’t. What your graph shows is (slightly, maybe)increasing clear sky LW. And if you look carefully at the green plot, it fairly closely mimics the surface temperature. Check peaks at 2010 and 2016, though they don’t seem to be calendar years. That is what you would expect, through the atmospheric window, strongly reflecting the surface. But with clouds, the AW doesn’t work, so we don’t know about total LW. Your source seems to have data for cloudt ending about 2009, and hard to interpret at that.
The atmosphere is totally opaque at 667.4/15micron. Nary a photon in this band has escaped from the surface directly to space since before 280ppm. Pressure broadening and remaining unsaturated bands give a couple watts according to radiative transfer programs, but CERES (20km) data shows flat or increasing LW radiation to space.
Michael Moon says:
An awful lot of misunderstood physics here. First, the entire atmosphere radiates to space, not just CO2. Second, the effect of increased CO2 is to raise the altitude at which the entire atmosphere radiates freely to space. CO2 at some concentration is opaque to outgoing 15-micron IR, corresponding to -80 C, about the temp at the Top of Atmosphere.
So, CO2 is a significant factor to the overall amount of heat in the atmosphere. The only problem is, there is no way to calculate the effect of increased CO2 at the TOA. All the handwaving about ECS and TCS involves very unscientific assumptions that all the temperature change since 1880, or some year, is caused by increased CO2. Quite an assumption, when used as an attempt to justify the destruction of prosperity for us all.
Alley says:
OK, so why is the earth warming? Certainly not the sun, as we all know. Certainly not the oceans, which move heat around.
Successive decades are warmer, and it’s not the sun. It’s not that oceans suddenly absorb more heat. Besides, the fingerprints of CO2 are many.
Sunsettommy says:
Again and again you ignore the well proven fact that the warming trend is ALWAYS BELOW the IPPC’s per decade warming rate, and in every decade since 1990 too.
The “fingerprint” of CO2 is very small and you know it since you keep ignoring the evidence.
Warming trend was above center-line for a few years. Why do you continue to ignore that simple fact?
And you admit the earth is warming, and offer no explanation.
Fingerprint, according to scientists, is very strong. Not sure why you’re simply saying things and hoping they are true. Certainly not the sun because of how the atmosphere is warming/cooling.
If there be a discernible human fingerprint, it’s from cleaning the air over the old industrial heartlands of the world. However India and China are muddying those waters now, so to speak, to mix phase metaphors.
Let us wait for the new July figure from the only temperature data that both sides trust, the UAH satellite temp of the troposphere. The figure will be out in 2 weeks.
Yes, that should be important, since there is such a stark divergence of opinion on the immediate future. Some see a new, although not super, El Nino in the offing, while others expect the cooling since the end of the 2016 Super El Nino to continue.
Why not be more like a scientist, and observe that each decade is warmer than the previous? Why not note that several warm records have been set in the past few years? Looking at one month is a bit silly. Looking back at decades shows us that it’s CO2.
I note that the 1930s were warmer than now. I note that, despite rising CO2, the 1950s were cooler than the 1940s, the 1960s colder still and 1970s coldest of all, before the PDO flip of 1977.
I note that Arctic sea ice has been higher every year since 2012, and that the average of 2007-12 was lower than for 2013-17. I note that last year was the first time since dedicated satellite observations began in 1979 that a new, lower low was not made within five years.
The worm has turned, as skeptics who understood that climate deals with multiple decades, centuries, millennia and longer intervals, have always known.
Not Chicken Little says:
So what does looking back thousands of years to the beginning of the end of the last Ice Age tell us?
Tom Abbott says:
“Why not be more like a scientist, and observe that each decade is warmer than the previous?”
Because that’s not true.
Why not be even more like a scientist, and observe that each millennium has been cooler than the previous one ever since the end of the Holocene optimum?
Of course it’s the sun.
The Current Warm Period has enjoyed record high solar activity. That’s now declining, but it will take decades, at least, to blow off the heat built up in the oceans by the solar maxima of the late 19th and most of the 20th centuries.
The LIA, by contrast, suffered repeated solar minima, most famously the Maunder Minimum in the depths of the cool period, ie middle 17th to earliest 18th centuries. That’s when alpine villages were threatened by glacial advances.
The preceding Medieval WP was also blessed with high solar activity and a dearth of minima. The Dark Ages CP before it, like the LIA, was hit with low solar activity. The Roman WP, high. Greek Dark Ages CP, low. Minoan WP, high. Etc, back to the sunny Holocene Climatic Optimum.
Chimp but overall sea surface temperatures are already in a significant decline now only around +.15 c above 1981-2010 means in contrast to around +.34c a year ago.
I expect the decline to continue as we move forward from here.
I am thinking enough time is in now and we are starting to see a down turn in the climate .
I too expect cooling to continue until the next series of solar maxima, but can’t predict how long it’ll take for ocean cooling to bottom out.
You clearly know nothing of physics, read a book, why are you here?
“Successive decades are warmer,”
Only according to the Hockey Stick charts. Unbastardized temperature charts from around the world show it was as hot or hotter in the 1930’s as it is today. Nothing unprecedented to see here.
Could you please elaborate on how increased CO2 raises the altitude of the radiation? Also, at what concentration of CO2 do you think the atmosphere would be opaque to outgoing 15u IR? Would increased water content have the same effect?
CO2 absorbs 15 micron radiation. If there is enough CO2, it absorbs all of this radiation, re-radiates half of it downward, preventing this heat from escaping to space.
No one can calculate the concentration of CO2 which is opaque at altitudes higher and higher. My engineering professors taught me, at length, never to write down a number which could not be calculated from first principles.
Seriously, no one knows, despite GCM models and super-computers. Ask Stokes. He claims to know much, but he does not know this. If anyone could calculate this, would have been done a long time ago, this argument would be over long since.
The Science Is Not Settled!!!
That the science isn’t settled is to say the least.
Climatology is still in its infancy, in large part because of three decades wasted on CACA. And the billions squandered on worse than worthless GIGO computer games, trillions thrown away on “renewables” and untold millions of excess human fatalities from energy starvation and billions of birds and bats clubbed to death.
Clough et al did this over 20 years ago.
Alastair Brickell: Science of Doom has a short explanation but it is technical. Tom Curtis wrote a less technical explanation. There are tons of other explanations, for example in basic climatology textbooks such as Schmittner’s free online textbook.
Harry Twinotter says:
“All the handwaving about ECS and TCS involves very unscientific assumptions that all the temperature change since 1880, or some year, is caused by increased CO2”
Handwaving? You are categorizing all that climate science research as handwaving?
It’s not an “assumption”. Attribution analysis gives estimates of the warming and cooling that has happened since preindustrial.
“Quite an assumption, when used as an attempt to justify the destruction of prosperity for us all.”
Now THAT is a good example of an unscientific assumption.
Bill Treuren says:
I think the analogy is rather poor and should just be left to die.
Analogies are tricky because they need to be different and socially understood to work and that limits their capability.
Ultimately the sea does get a little warmer than the 30C barrier however the partial pressure of water starts to take off about there and the next thing you know you have an iris effect, thunderstorms, TC’s, convection etc.
The science tells us that at sea level the temperature at which the vapour pressure of water equals the saturated partial pressure is around 30C. I say around as it can vary with barometric pressure, wind conditions , leads and lags and other factors.
At that temperature incoming radiation then tends to result in lifting the water up through the atmosphere rather than increasing the temperature, thus transferring large energies up through the atmosphere to dissipate on the way and into space.
The water then all comes back again for recycling. A brilliant and efficient global Thermostat. Engineers call it the Rankine Cycle.
All done irrespective of CO2 levels.
CO2 can not raise the temperature.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=122.90,97.04,342/loc=-136.799,72.993
A dry winter in Australia.
https://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00968/bpz1qssy7dom.png
What controls the energy input the oceans receive ? The answer is the sun especially in the UV light range and Near UV light ranges.
UV light in this current solar minimum period of time is off over 6% while overall TSI is off .1% from the 2012-2014 maximum. This means less energy from the sun is being imparted to the oceans which is why overall surface oceanic temperatures are now in a cooling trend which should continue.
It is the surface oceanic temperatures that matter when it comes to the climate.
As far as OLR , it seems most data shows very little change overall which puts a dent in their premise that as CO2 increases the amounts of OLR radiation escaping to space will decrease there by warming the planet.
I say very weak solar will lead to global cooling due to the albedo increasing slightly and overall sea surface temperatures falling.
Moderated by the geo magnetic field.
Comparison of UV solar activity in the three most recent solar cycles (SC) 22-24. The thick curves show the Mg II index timeseries twice smoothed with a 55-day boxcar. Dates of minima of solar cycles (YYYYMMDD) were determined from the smoothed Mg II index.
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/gome/solar/mgii_composite_2.png
Salvatore, is there any number available about how much less energy will be absorbed by the oceans when UV is 6% off? How much cooling of the ocean surface (let’s say: upper 100 meter) will be the result, all other things remaining the same?
That is such a good question. I do not have the answer but would love to know.
Ren do you know the answer?
Glenn Morton says:
I think people are missing one very important thing in the warming debate. When we have an energy intensive lifestyle, we produce a lot of waste heat. That heat heats everything. and most of our thermometers are in the cities where the energy consumption density is the highest. The earth is not going to cool during this solar low period in my opinion because our energy consumption continues to rise. This is not an argument for getting off fossil fuels because I don’t want to spend my days holding a plow looking at the south end of a north bound mule.
The surface of the Sun is over 11,000 degrees F. The Sun overwhelms any possible effects of our energy consumption. Most combustion is around 4,000 degrees, in utility boilers and engines, and, since it costs money, is done with the greatest possible efficiency. Cooking is usually around 400 degrees F or less.
Suffice it to say, trivial effects.
I do not know of such data.
thanks . I wish there was some.
If the oceans cool, is there a possibility that the CO2 will drop due to absorption, or does that process take hundreds of years?
CO2 will decrease due to increased absorption by algae.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/equirectangular
The reponse time of the surface layer of the ocean is about one year.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/esrl-co2/from:1958/mean:12/scale:0.25/isolate:60/plot/hadcrut3gl/from:1958/mean:12/isolate:60
In this WFT plot the two peaks are from the 1973 and 1998 El Niños.
Since the UV referred to is E-UV which has a wavelength of ~30nm, when it’s reduced by 6% I’d expect no change in the UV absorbed by the ocean since those wavelengths are absorbed way up in the atmosphere and don’t make it to the ocean.
UV is largely absorbed by the ozone layer as you know. What are you up to here?
The highest energy UV is absorbed in making and breaking ozone. But the lower energy UV light survives to penetrate the lower atmosphere and enter the seas, where its photons dive deep.
glen martin says:
After the CO2 absorbs radiation it can transfer the energy to another molecule (N2 or O2) in a collision. This makes the small heat capacity implied by its low percent of the atmosphere less relevant.
Yes, it is heat conduction. Some of the warming caused by CO2 is transfered to the atmosphere. Some of the warming is also transferred to the land surface and ocean by heat radiation.
The temperature of the atmosphere is what is measured by surface thermometers.
Clay Sanborn says:
Very good Andy!
Restating something obvious that readers of this great site well know, CAGW is not about Climate and it is not about science (as horrible as Climate Science pretty much brings all science into question; I’ve taken to cringing when someone starts a conversation with, “A new study shows…”. Screw studies…). CAGW is some kind of political tool to accomplish something else, something evil. Mankind cannot warm Earth if we wanted to, we don’t have the capacity.
As to all the CO2 from coal, crude oil, natural gas, and plant bio, it came from Earth (God put it there for our benefit). Mankind didn’t make it! It is all naturally occurring, and it a natural progression for mankind to utilize it. To the folks that are hell bent on beating up on mankind, I say, take a chill pill, everything is going to be fine. Come on!
Yes very good point. It’s time we stopped worrying about this nonsense and concentrated on real problems. Like famine, lack of water wells in Africa, malaria control, etc. That’s where the research and funding should be directed…not a beneficial trace gas.
Im not going to get into the what is the sst debate, but I worked with Andy for several years and I have read over the criticisms posted here of what he said. Andy and I had our differences, but he was one of the finest physicists I ever had the chance to work with. One of the comments about how heat spreads through the atmosphere show that that author does not to understand physics at all. It is also true that almost none of the people understand the extreme natural variability both for air and water temperature throughout geologic time. We are as a society who is panicked over what is normal.
Thanks Glenn, I hope all is well. Atmospheric physics is a tough one and defies all elegant simple solutions. The politics doesn’t help, for sure. But, it is fun, none-the-less.
Thanks Andy. I got a lot of serious health problems that are not going to go away. We absolutely agree on the nuttery of climate change. Good luck with your book. I spent my time in the trenches trying to convince those who will not be convinced. I now have better things to do with the time left.
If Anthony wants to give you, and you alone, my email address, I am ok with that
markx says:
There you have it. We may well be in a bit of a warm uptick right now, but mathematically and naturally smoothed proxy thermometers looking back thousands of years give a false impression of a significant uptick.
I’d love to understand the stats behind error bars spanning only +/- 0.3 degrees with the multiple proxies cobbled together in those datasets. You couldn’t even claim that if we had mercury thermometer records all the way back.
I doubt that the critic will either understand or appreciate your comment to him on Amazon.
I warned there would be dumb questions…
If CO2 acts like a ‘lid’ trapping heat in, how would record cold temperatures be possible at all? Wouldn’t the heat go up fairly evenly and lessen the differences between highs and lows, including at night? Basically I don’t understand how heat retention can cause extremes of cold as well as extremes of heat.
“Wouldn’t the heat go up fairly evenly and lessen the differences between highs and lows”
Yes. That is why warm records outpace cold one by more than a 2:1 ratio. Cold records will always be possible of course. We all know this.
I still don’t understand. You’ve pointed to the global ratio between hot and cold; I’m talking about the difference in temperatures in the same locations. How are cold records possible at all if the earth is warming overall? If the oceans have warmed, that should moderate the heat differences globally, surely? How do you explain the current state of affairs, where record cold temperatures are exceeding the number of record high temperatures? Even if warm temperatures do outpace cold, there is no reason to assume that CO2 is causing that, if CO2 is a ‘blanket’ trapping in the heat, which is how it is described to most people at school.
During last warm cycle of the Current Warm Period, the ratio of highs to lows was far more pronounced, without benefit of more vital plant food in the air.
As you know, that cycle was indistinguishable from the late 20th century warm cycle, separated from the previous one by the dramatic cooling cycle from the 1940s until 1977, when the PDO flipped. And during those over 30 years, CO2 increased.
So basically the CO2 theory of AGW is bollocks and other factors are the primary drivers of warming/cooling. Seems fairly obvious and elementary to me.
Yup. So it appears.
“Wouldn’t the heat go up fairly evenly and lessen the differences between highs and lows, including at night?”
That is exactly what happens. The highs become a little warmer and the lows become a little warmer so the average temperature rises – this is what Global Warming is. The problem is the estimate show the average global temperature may increase by around 3C by midcentury – no longer “little” but huge!
Chaamjamal says:
The data show a strong relationship between atmosCO2 conc and surface temp and also between cumulative emissions and surface temp. (if you don’t object to spurious correlations)
https://chaamjamal.wordpress.com/2018/05/27/spurious-correlations-in-climate-science-2/
Kristi Silber says:
(Note – this comment addresses AGW theory, not its consequences. Although the title of the article is about whether GW is a “problem,” it seems that Andy is debating the point that CO2 is a significant driver of the Earth’s energy budget)
If greenhouse gases play no role in keeping heat within the Earth’s atmosphere, what is doing so? Water vapor plays a role, but it doesn’t absorb radiation at all wavelengths, leaving a “window” open through which radiation can escape to space.
“The most important of these ‘water vapor windows’ is for thermal infrared with wavelengths centered around 10 micrometers. (The maximum transparency occurs at 10 micrometers, but partial transparency occurs for wavelengths between about 8 and about 14 micrometers.)
“Carbon dioxide is a very strong absorber of thermal infrared energy with wavelengths longer than 12-13 micrometers, which means that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide partially ‘close’ the atmospheric window. In other words, wavelengths of outgoing thermal infrared energy that our atmosphere’s most abundant greenhouse gas—water vapor—would have let escape to space are instead absorbed by carbon dioxide.” Peak radiation from the Earth’s surface is around 12.5 micrometers. (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/EnergyBalance/page5.php and …page7.php).
IPCC AR5 Physical Science Basis report (2013) states on page 667 that
“Currently, water vapour has the largest greenhouse effect in the Earth’s atmosphere. However, other greenhouse gases, primarily CO2, are necessary to sustain the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere.” I don’t understand how Andy can draw from this that “the infrared active CO2 alone does not have enough of an effect to cause problems.” No one argues that CO2 alone is heating the Earth – it is the sun’s energy that is doing so. Any increase in water vapor is a product of increased temperature, not ultimate the cause of it. Andy’s arguments about evaporation, convection and the oceans are largely irrelevant to the general picture of the Earth’s energy budget, and therefore to the theory of AGW; they only address the outcome.
Perhaps the most important argument is one that he did not discuss: that increased evaporation might lead to increased cloud cover, reflecting more sunlight back to space. As many here know, the relative strength of the positive and negative effects of water vapor is one of the main sources of debate and uncertainty in climate model projections, partly because clouds are so variable and hard to model at current resolutions. Still, this doesn’t change the fact that increased CO2 is the ultimate driver of these effects, and (this is strictly speculation on my part) it seems unlikely that clouds would tend to *stay* in the atmosphere longer or become qualitatively different, reflecting energy enough to compensate for increased GHG effects (unless perhaps if there is for some reason a long-term increase in aerosols).
On page 4 in the above link, there is this preface:
“Determining exact values for energy flows in the Earth system is an area of ongoing climate research. Different estimates exist, and all estimates have some uncertainty. Estimates come from satellite observations, ground-based observations, and numerical weather models. The numbers in this article rely most heavily on direct satellite observations of reflected sunlight and thermal infrared energy radiated by the atmosphere and the surface.”
In other words, the energy balance is not just theoretical or the product of models, it has been measured. True, there is uncertainty to these measurements, and one could argue that “the human effect on climate has never been measured” DIRECTLY, but there are many observations in science that can only be measured indirectly. Who would argue that the distance of stars from Earth cannot be known because we can only measure it indirectly? (For that matter, even temperature is measured [or, in reality, estimated] indirectly, through the use of instruments.) Given a measured imbalance in the energy budget and the fact that it can be accounted for by an increase in the CO2 in the atmosphere that has come from the burning of fossil fuels (and that can be established by isotope ratios), I don’t quite understand how that can be dismissed.
Even if ALL the extra heat were being soaked up by the oceans, that is no argument against AGW, nor does that mean that it’s not a concern.
There are those who accept that the Earth is warming, but attribute it to different causes, such as solar variability or El Nino events. Why is there not a single hypothesis that skeptics can all agree on after all this time unless none of them is good enough to explain the observations? It weakens the argument that mainstream climate scientists should have by now come up with all the answers, and models should be both accurate and precise. Climate is complex and the understanding of it takes time.
It seems to me that in order to reject AGW once and for all, the basic physics of role of atmospheric CO2 in the system would have to be refuted, and no one has done that – if they had, it would be huge news, of the kind that no journal editor in his right mind would try to suppress. Merely asserting that a small increase in atmospheric CO2 would make no difference is not enough. This is why most reputable contrarian climate scientists now focus their skepticism on the long-term effects of global warming rather than its cause.
Most skeptics point out that the effect on temperature of more CO2 is trivial, not that it has no effect. OTOH, the effect of more plant food in the air has demonstrably, significantly benefited terrestrial life.
Compare the pressure of carbon dioxide in the air and the human body.
https://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00968/44j8ufyowq87.png
The alveolar oxygen partial pressure is lower than the atmospheric O2 partial pressure for two reasons.
Firstly, as the air enters the lungs, it is humidified by the upper airway and thus the partial pressure of water vapour (47 mmHg) reduces the oxygen partial pressure to about 150 mmHg.
The rest of the difference is due to the continual uptake of oxygen by the pulmonary capillaries, and the continual diffusion of CO2 out of the capillaries into the alveoli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_gas_pressures
Read a book.
Apparently you Kristi Silber have no fundamental understanding of the physics of these questions. I used to work with people who hoped to learn the physics of carbon fiber by reading magazines about bicycles. If you have not passed University exams concerning the fundamental properties of energy, radiation, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and in particular if you cannot identify the difference between a dipole moment and an induced dipole moment, you should read several books. Huge in the physics here, check it out…
I got an A- in college physics.
Kristy Silber,
You write
“Still, this doesn’t change the fact that increased CO2 is the ultimate driver of these effects”
How do you know this? This is an assumption, from computer models, there are no observations that support it.
Very few people believe that adding additional CO2 to the atmosphere will have no effect at all. I think it probably has some warming effect, by itself. But, we have no idea of the net effect of all of the possible feedbacks, nor do we know how much effect the additional CO2 (by itself) has. Most will accept, that all things equal (which they never are) the impact of doubling CO2 would result in ~1C of warming. This is not dangerous.
I am of the opinion that energy flow diagrams are interesting, but not very helpful. The error in measuring the energy flows on and above the Earth is larger than any CO2 effect. CO2 is about 2 W/m^2, the error in measuring the energy flows is of the order of several W/m^2. They have been used to “detect” changes in incoming energy and outgoing energy, but the errors in the measurements are so large and the time periods so short that the measurements become meaningless.
Most skeptics, including myself, think the climate varies naturally and that we are observing natural changes, with, perhaps, a small overprint of fossil fuel CO2. We do not believe CO2 “controls” the climate. There is simply no proof of that, certainly no measurements of the effect. Over the last 20 years CO2 has gone up significantly, but average temperature has hardly risen at all. Certainly, the observed rise is much less than predicted. Natural change is the default position, the CO2 hypothesis is what requires proof.
“Natural change is the default position, the CO2 hypothesis is what requires proof”
I disagree. Natural change doesn’t just happen without a physical explanation, and for the position that the changes are mostly natural to be credible it must explain the changes we are seeing. Scientists don’t argue that that natural change isn’t part of it, but rather that increased anthropogenic CO2 overlays natural phenomena like volcanic eruptions and ENSO events, as well as other human effects like increased aerosols and land use changes.
You talk a lot about oceans and water vapor, but for a change in the water cycle to occur there has to be something accounting for it. What are the natural triggers for change in climate trends? One of them is the strength of solar radiation. Others are those agents that control the amount of solar radiation penetrating and remaining within the Earth’s atmosphere. Natural agents would be meteorites striking earth, resulting in a large increase in atmospheric aerosols, another is volcanic eruptions, increasing aerosols and gases. Then there is ice cover increasing albedo to such an extent that reflection of solar radiation off the Earth’s surface overwhelms the greenhouse effect until the solar cycle reaches a point where its radiation becomes strong enough to reverse the effect of albedo.
But what natural variation accounts for the trend we have seen in the last 100 years, one that has raised not only surface temps, but oceanic ones? Since CO2 levels make sense theoretically and empirically, it is up to those who argue that it’s mainly natural to come up with an explanation strong enough to garner the support of the scientific community. “Natural variation” is an answer, but not an explanation.
“Most will accept, that all things equal (which they never are) the impact of doubling CO2 would result in ~1C of warming.”
And how do you know this? Why do you accept this figure and not a higher one? A 70% increase in CO2 has led to about 0.8-0.9 C rise in surface temperature, and that does not count the rise in temps of the oceans, which, as you point out, have a far greater capacity as a heat sink than the atmosphere.
“Of course, the human effect on climate has never been measured, so the ‘95%’ confidence is based solely upon computer models and ‘expert’ opinion”
In this case it is not a matter of using models to project future changes, but to examine the past contributions to observed climate change. The fact that they are performed by computers is not relevant – all statistical models these days use computers apart from the ones done by hand as part of courses in statistics. The models incorporating solar effects are not able to account for observed changes without taking CO2 into consideration, and in this way the effect can be estimated. How do you explain the fact that the great majority of models come up with a higher ECS than 1 C? What is wrong with them, but right with the model showing an ECS of 1 degree? Is that estimate independent of computer modeling and expert opinion? What is it based on, a graph?
Even if it is only one degree, why is that not a concern? Do you suppose that once the atmospheric CO2 reaches 560 ppm, it will simply stop rising? What if it turns out that the water cycle will become the positive feedback that some predict?
There is still a lot of uncertainty associated with outcomes. We are experiencing something never seen before in recorded history. We can do nothing and hope everything works out for coming generations. We can go ape about it and spend trillions based on worst-case scenarios. Or we can settle on a middle ground, doing what we are able to do without endangering people and economies.. This means things like increased energy efficiency and conservation, helping people in developing countries become more resilient to climate extremes (whether caused by AGW or not) and diversifying our energy sources, even if only to make the cheap energy we have last longer. There are likely to be costs whatever we do. Do we start to change now, or leave it to others to pay the price for our waste?
(PS There is no “proof” in science.)
It has been shown through the historical climatic record that CO2 follows the temperature therefore it has no impact.
How much clearer can it be.
Crispin in Waterloo says:
There is an essential part of the explanation missing. The heat convected to the atmosphere at the surface is caused by the direct surface heating from solar insolation. The amount is given by Trenberth 2009 as 168 Wattts/m2. Another approximately 168 W that would reach and be absorbed by the surface is intercepted by clouds and GHG’s before it reaches the ground.
Without water vapour and non-condensing GHG’s the direct heating of the air by the surface, from solar insolation, would be at least double what it is now. The air temperature near the surface would be much higher because it would have no radiative cooling mechanism.
Thus the net effect of adding the first few ppm of GHG’s is strong cooling of the air. As the bands become saturated, the cooling effect drops away. For the same reason, and in the opposite direction, GHG’s warm the surface with back radiation.
Those holding that CO2 warms the surface are technically correct but ignore to mention the additional cooling also provided. There is a lot wrong with the usual analysis.
During the winter at high latitudes, stratospheric polar vortex acts to which man has no influence.
https://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00968/9wiljs7zrrnu.gif
In fact, the winter polar vortex develops between the mesosphere and the stratosphere.
https://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00968/t3p9uekcut69.gif
It seems that the temperature above the 80th parallel has reached its maximum this year.
https://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00968/5lnaw79um1vt.png
El Niño does not develop.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/ocean/nino3.png
I think that could be correct.
ferd berple says:
88 F is warm enough for me.
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Without technology human beings die of exposure at 86 F or lower. 88 F is almost fatal to any human being immersed in water for any significant length of time.
philsalmon says:
“Ocean warming dominates the total energy change inventory, accounting for roughly 93% on average from 1971 to 2010 (high confidence). The upper ocean (0-700 m) accounts for about 64% of the total energy change inventory. Melting ice (including Arctic sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers) accounts for 3% of the total, and warming of the continents 3%. Warming of the atmosphere makes up the remaining 1%.”
IPCC, 2013.
philsalmon, Thanks for posting this. It is on page 265 of the Physical Science Basis. The Earth has been warming, at least since 1970. They also say “The ocean dominates the change in [retained] energy because of its large mass and high heat capacity.” They also say the Southrn Ocean (where all the oceans meet) warmed at a rate of 0.03 degrees C per decade from 1992 to 2005.
How one can cite those statistics and be worried about “dangerous global warming” is beyond me.
Phil Salmon says:
Andy, Indeed – I found the IPCC quote in a recent post at Pierre Gosselin’s “No Tricks Zone” which reports a new paper by Wunsch putting recent warming firmly in perspective:
http://notrickszone.com/2018/07/20/false-alarm-new-study-finds-global-ocean-warmed-by-0-02c-from-1994-2013-with-cooling-below-3600m/
An interesting observation is that recent total ocean warming – a barely detectable 0.02 degrees in 10 years – is slower than ocean warming earlier in the Holocene, seriously questioning whether it is unprecedented or alarming.
philsalmon, I posted this above, but it is relevant to your quote and might be seen by more people here:
surly, I think the comment from “Stephen” (as well as you and Nick) assumed I was discussing the so-called greenhouse effect (GHE) as defined by the IPCC and only looked at the quote in that context. This may all have been a point-of-view problem.
Some of recent warming is natural and some is probably due to the CO2 GHE, the warming is obviously due to additional thermal energy being retained. I’m just saying it doesn’t matter. Were it all due to CO2 GHE and the effect lasted another 200 years, the Southern Ocean would warm a whopping 0.6 degrees, whoopee!
None of it is due to CO2.
The mass of the atmosphere is one millionth of the total mass of the Earth. So the atmosphere plays no part in the climate of the Earth. The heat coming from the Earth volcanoes the Sun all play a bigger role in shaping the climate of Earth.
Without the atmosphere, there would be no weather, hence no climate. Without the atmosphere, the oceans would freeze or evaporate.
Of course the surface, both land and sea, play a role, as does internal heat of the planet. But the main influences on the atmosphere are tectonics, the oceans and the sun and Earth’s orientation towards it.
Nic Lewis (in his devastating critique of Andrew Dessler’s critique of the latest Lewis and Curry study on climate sensitivity to doubling of CO2) points up a devastating admission by the climate scientists on their derivation of forcing.
“Indeed, the authors admit, in the second paper,(Dessler, A.E.,P.M. Forster, 2018. An estimate of equilibrium climate sensitivity from interannual variability.) that a key ratio they uses to convert 500-hPa tropical temperature interannual feedback strength into long term forced-response feedback strength “comes from climate model simulations; we have no way to observationally validate it, nor any theory to guide us”.
So what that statement means; is, the whole theory of forcing is built on climate models which we know is a House of cards just waiting for the correct wind to blow it down. To base a key linchpin (positive forcing of more H2O) of global warming on the conclusions of climate models which have always been wrong in projections and to then apply trillions of dollars in carbon trading and carbon taxes on those results is nothing short of MADNESS.
co2isnotevil says:
“That is, it keeps the heat in.”
This represents a profound misunderstanding of how the greenhouse effect works. CO2 does not trap heat preventing it from escaping, but simply slows down the rate of cooling. Heat is never trapped, except for a short time by the water in clouds. Take away the Sun and the Earth will cool to about 65K in a few months regardless of how much CO2 is in the atmosphere (65K is from the approximately 1 W/m^2 of internal heat reaching the surface). The energy of any photon absorbed by a GHG molecule will be returned to the surface or emitted into space in roughly equal proportions after no more than a few seconds, except water, which because of its condensing nature may take as long as days before the energy of an absorbed photon reaches its final destination.
Joz Jonlin says:
I posted this on Anthony’s last open thread, but it gained zero traction. It seems appropriate for this conversation, as well.
Four years ago, MIT released a news piece about findings from the Ceres Instrument on NASA’s Aqua Satellite. From the piece.
http://news.mit.edu/2014/global-warming-increased-solar-radiation-1110
“In computer modeling of Earth’s climate under elevating CO2 concentrations, the greenhouse gas effect does indeed lead to global warming. Yet something puzzling happens: While one would expect the longwave radiation that escapes into space to decline with increasing CO2, the amount actually begins to rise. At the same time, the atmosphere absorbs more and more incoming solar radiation; it’s this enhanced shortwave absorption that ultimately sustains global warming.
“The finding was a curiosity, conflicting with the basic understanding of global warming,” says lead author Aaron Donohoe, a former MIT postdoc who is now a research associate at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory. “It made us think that there must be something really weird going in the models in the years after CO2 was added. We wanted to resolve the paradox that climate models show warming via enhanced shortwave radiation, not decreased longwave radiation.””
This seems to run counter to everything we’ve been led to believe about the greenhouse effect. There was something here on WUWT about it a long time ago, but it didn’t address this particular aspect of MIT’s piece.
Anyone have any relevant thoughts on the science?
Ad Joz Jonlin:
Just modeling, but still interesting. Reminded me to the graph of Gymnosperm above: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/21/stephen-why-global-warming-is-not-a-problem/#comment-2410783
From above: “While one would expect the longwave radiation that escapes into space to decline with increasing CO2, the amount actually begins to rise”.
WR: Warming will (finally) lead to an enhanced radiation, simply because warm objects radiate more. But the mentioned extra absorption of shortwave by enhanced water vapor (which also could result from temporary less ice cover) is interesting.
While one would expect the longwave radiation that escapes into space to decline with increasing CO2, the amount actually begins to rise.
I certainly wouldn’t expect that, I’d expect it to stay the same.
Note that they’re talking about their modeling results.
” At the same time, the atmosphere absorbs more and more incoming solar radiation; it’s this enhanced shortwave absorption that ultimately sustains global warming.”
This is the broken talking point claiming that massive positive feedback from water vapor nearly triples the sensitivity from about 0.3C per W/m^2 up to about 0.8C per W/m^2.
Increased absorption of solar energy by the atmosphere is not supported by the data as this would require increased clouds as only the water in clouds can absorb any significant amount of solar energy. The data actually shows a slight decrease in cloud cover which would lead to less solar energy absorbed by clouds and more surface emissions reaching space.
Anthony Banton says:
“Increased absorption of solar energy by the atmosphere is not supported by the data as this would require increased clouds as only the water in clouds can absorb any significant amount of solar energy. ”
No , it is the decreased albedo from feedback that leads to increased SW absorption.
And there is no “data” on that yet – it’s what models come up with and what one would expect intuitively.
From the article…
“Meanwhile, like any physical body experiencing warming, Earth sheds longwave radiation more effectively, canceling out the longwave-trapping effects of CO2. However, a darker Earth now absorbs more sunlight, tipping the scales to net warming from shortwave radiation.”
Decreased albedo increases absorption by the surface, not the atmosphere which is nearly completely transparent (except for clouds) to incoming solar energy. BTW, please look at the quote I was responding to which specifically stated an increase SW absorption by the atmosphere, not the surface.
The ISCCP cloud data shows a small decrease in average cloud coverage over the last 3 decades, but as I said, it could just be noise.
Also, a darker Earth is also more transparent to LWIR emissions by the surface as it’s clouds that make the planet brighter. There is about 40-50% more LWIR emitted into space above clear skies, then above clouds. This is why we can use satellites to measure far colder cloud top temperatures than on the surface below.
“It beggars belief that a trace gas (CO2), in an atmosphere that itself contains only a trace amount of the total thermal energy on the surface of the Earth, can control the climate of the Earth.”
The fact that the author does not believe it does not make it untrue. CO2 being a trace gas is irrelevant to the warming effect of CO2, it is the amount of CO2 that is relevant.
BigWaveDave says:
If it was the amount of CO2, Mars should be much warmer than it is.
I don’t know how you come to that conclusion. Anyway conditions on Mars is irrelevant, it is challenging enough to work out all the forcings on earth, let alone another planet.
Mars has far more CO2 in its atmosphere than Earth. The atmospheric pressure is about 0.6% of Earths and consists of mostly CO2. If 0.6% of Earth’s atmosphere was CO2, it’s concentration would be about 6000 ppm.
But it is the “0.6% of Earths” pressure that is relevant here.
Just not enough molecules in the way of exiting LWIR photons to give a sig GE.
“Mars has a very thin atmosphere composed mostly of the tiny amount of remaining carbon dioxide (95.3%) plus nitrogen (2.7%), argon (1.6%) and traces of oxygen (0.15%) and water (0.03%). The average pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of Earth’s), but it varies greatly with altitude from almost 9 millibars in the deepest basins to about 1 millibar at the top of Olympus Mons. But it is thick enough to support very strong winds and vast dust storms that on occasion engulf the entire planet for months. Mars’ thin atmosphere produces a greenhouse effect but it is only enough to raise the surface temperature by 5 degrees (K); much less than what we see on Venus and Earth.”
http://nineplanets.org/mars.html
Except that O2, N2 and Ar are completely transparent to both incident solar energy and LWIR emissions by the surface and nearly all of the increase in Earth’s atmospheric pressure comes from these molecules. They are definitely not in the way of escaping LWIR from the surface. The lack of water on Mars is a factor, but based on 3C per doubling as claimed by the IPCC, the 4 doubling between 400 ppm and 6000 ppm should result in a temperature 12C warmer, which is a larger effect that the water on Earth has.
BTW, the point I was making in response to Harry’s comment:
“it is the amount of CO2 that is relevant”
On a molecular basis, there are at least 10 times as many CO2 molecules between the Mars surface and space, then between Earth’s surface and space.
Except that O2, N2 and Ar are completely transparent to both incident solar energy and LWIR emissions by the surface and nearly all of the increase in Earth’s atmospheric pressure comes from these molecules.
However they substantially contribute to the broadening of the CO2 spectral lines which increases the absorption by the CO2 on earth.
Collisional broadening is a finite, but not very large, influence at atmospheric temperatures and pressures. However; what this actually does is increase the probability of absorption in the wings as it decreases the probability of absorption at the center.
The broadening of the spectrum is what is responsible for the log dependence of the CO2, at significantly higher concentration it would be a square root dependence.
“but based on 3C per doubling as claimed by the IPCC”
That’s for earth only, and the IPCC do not claim it.
I don’t usually bother replying to your comments because you make stuff up. But that statement was particularly bad.
When anyone refers to the “climate science consensus”, they’re referring to climate science as summarized in IPCC reports. The authority alarmists appeal to, whether they know it or not, is the IPCC.
The IPCC claims that the nominal effect from doubling CO2 is 3C. They have more recently buried the wide uncertainty in the presumed sensitivity factor into the various RCP scenarios, centered around 3C per doubling. Look under the hood and the claim is 3C +/- 1.5C per 3.7 W/m^2 of EQUIVALENT forcing from doubling CO2 which translates into a presumed sensitivity factor of 0.8C +/- 0.4C per W/m^2 boosting the next W/m^2 of incident forcing into 4.3 +/- 2.2 W/m^2 of surface emissions.
The usual claim is that impossibly large positive feedback from water vapor ‘amplifies’ a tiny effect from CO2 into a massive climate catastrophe. The feedback fubar initiated by Hansen was crucial to the formation of the IPCC providing it with an absolutely wrong, yet plausible, theoretical foundation.
The fact is that the water related ‘amplification’ on Earth includes the widely ignored cooling by the reflection of ice and clouds which offsets most of it’s GHG warming effects. The amount of amplification needed to support even the bottom of the IPCC’s presumed range just isn’t available or even possible from water.
You also failed to point out that 3C is only for the first doubling, as even the IPCC recognizes that the effect is linear to the optical depth which is proportional to the log of the concentration.
Co2isnotevil,
Atmospheric pressure on Mars’ surface is 636 Pa, surface gravity is 3.71 m/s², CO₂ content in the atmosphere (by weight) 97 %.
That results in 166 kg CO₂ per m².
On Earth there is 6 kg/m² for 400 ppm.
Using the mass per area (in stead of pressure) the amount of CO₂ on Mars would result on Earth to ~11000 ppm.
See “Estimating the Power of Mars’ Greenhouse Effect” (Haberle, 2013).
It’s good to see people are agreeing CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The article is incorrect.
JERRY HENSON says:
Good job, Andy. I enjoyed reading it.
Matty Oh says:
“Stephen”‘s argument disintegrates after the realization that this planet is warmed from without. The earth does not sit upon a stove top.
Johann Wundersamer says:
Andy, to make your picture. A picture.
https://www.google.at/search?q=co2+percentage+in+atmosphere&oq=co2+percent&aqs=chrome.
I think I may have figured out where the misunderstanding happened that led to Stephen’s comment. He assumed I was discussing the so-called and misnamed greenhouse effect (GHE) as defined by the IPCC and only looked at the quote through that lens. This may all have been largely a point-of-view problem.
A greenhouse warms by restricting circulation and convection, somewhat like your pot with a lid. Adding CO2 to the atmosphere can warm the Earth’s surface by some unknown amount by slowing the cooling of the surface of the Earth, since it absorbs IR emitted by the surface and before it re-emits the absorbed energy it is excited and collides with neighboring molecules “warming” them. The magnitude of this effect is unknown, and it has not been measured, only modeled.
What I tried to do in the quote, was step back from the GHE, and look at the larger picture of recent warming. GHE is not climate and climate is not GHE, it is much more complicated than that regardless of what the warmists want us to believe. In the quote, I don’t care if the GHE contributed to current warming or not or even by how much. I just wanted to show that any effect of CO2 is small in the context of the oceans. The Earth is warming; thus, it is retaining some thermal energy, and as the IPCC says in AR5 (The Physical Science Basis, page 265) the oceans have retained 64% of the energy. All the retained thermal energy for the past 50 or 60 years, at most, has increased the Southern Ocean temperature less than 0.2 degrees (see Wunsch, 2018, Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, vol. 70, issue 1)! And this is the ocean where all oceans meet, the deep oceans have cooled since 1990 (Wunsch and Heimbach, 2014, American Meteorological Society Journal, August 2014).
Some of recent warming is natural and some is probably due to the CO2 GHE, the warming is obviously due to additional thermal energy being retained. I’m just saying it doesn’t matter. Were it all due to CO2 GHE and the effect lasted another 200 years, the Southern Ocean would warm a whopping 0.6 degrees, at most, since the effect of CO2 diminishes as more is added. The warming, regardless of the cause is not important or a problem due to the high heat capacity of the oceans. That is the point of the quote.
Nice summary, Andy.
A suggestion. ‘Green House Effect’ and ‘Greenhouse Gas’ pollutes the mind. Wrong images about the climate pollute the minds of people. We should replace them consequently by other words, other images. Instead of ‘Green House Effect’ we could use ‘Absorption Effect’ because that is what happens. And instead of ‘Greenhouse Gas’ we could use ‘Absorbing Gas’. We would leave the idea of a ‘closed system’ a real greenhouse is, a system that we cannot escape.
(I worked in a greenhouse, I know the feeling when it gets hot and the windows are not yet opened. Fortunately the Earth has an ‘open weather and climate system’ that can adapt and mitigate. We should emphasize that open adaptable system, also by our own vocabulary. Like the Warmists did, we must create our own ‘climate world images’. Images that are conform reality: a mitigating system, not scaring)
Second, if the oceans can only warm a 0.6 degrees Celsius in a 200 years, surface temperatures could double, but not far from that maximum. Whether the trend should continue, I have got my doubts: possibly the oceans will correct themselves by creating more clouds, or more winds could develop turning and mixing the layers of the ocean which only can result in cooling, given the high cooling capacity of the ice cold deep oceans and the subsurface layers.
I don’t think it will warm 0.6 degrees in the next 200 years, that is just a linear extrapolation of the highest estimate I’ve seen of ocean warming over the past 60 years. More likely the ocean warming from 1994 to 2013 is a total of 0.02 degrees as estimated here:
Which would mean the warming over 200 years is less than 0.2 degrees by a dumb linear extrapolation, and probably much less than that. Point being, nothing to worry about.
As you say, warming oceans should increase cloudiness, resulting in cooling anyway. I agree with your comments on the greenhouse effect. I think we have allowed the warmists to equate climate with the GHE in the mind of the public, which is a shame.
Surface overall oceanic temperatures are what matters when it comes to the climate and they are off .2c since last summer and the trend is going to continue to go lower as long as solar stays in the tank.
Overall surface oceanic sea surface temperatures around +.35c above 1981-2010 means last summer now +.14c above 1981-2010 means.
“… collides with neighboring molecules “warming” them. The magnitude of this effect is unknown …”
The way this is claimed to happen is by transferring small portions of vibrational energy into much lower energy rotational states, which as a degree of freedom should be shared by collisions based on the equipartition of energy principle.
We can observe the transfer of energy into lower energy rotational states as the fine structure on either side of the primary vibrational resonances. Fine structure on either side means that while vibrational state energy can be converted into rotational state energy, rotational state energy can be converted into vibrational state energy and the net transfer from vibrational to rotational is close to, if not exactly, zero.
The only possible ‘thermalization’ occurs in clouds when an energized CO2 molecule is dissolved into a droplet of water or when energized H2O molecules condense within it. This is observed in the emitted spectrum of the planet where CO2 and H2O absorption is largest between about 13u and 16u. The energy measured in that band at TOA is somewhat less than the predicted half of what it would be based on the Planck distribution of energy emitted by the surface. The other half is returned to the surface as the GHG effect.
Note that the absorption of energized molecules by the water in clouds converts the absorbed narrow band GHG energy into broad band Planck emissions by that water in the cloud.
co2isnotevil: “The other half is returned to the surface as the GHG effect.”
WR: Whether any radiation is able to return to the surface depends on the free path of a photon downward. Is there any evidence that photons departing from clouds can reach the surface? In upward direction they are supposed to reach only some meters:
Prof. Robert G. Brown: “CO_2 doesn’t “scatter” LWIR radiation, it absorbs it
(typically within a few meters, the mean free path at atmospheric
concentrations) and the energy is almost instantly transferred to the
surrounding air.”
“Is there any evidence that photons departing from clouds can reach the surface? “
They don’t have to. The key is Kirchhoff’s law, which says that in any frequency band, emissivity equals absorptivity. IOW, if these are wavelengths where CO2 is strongly absorbing, it is strongly emitting. So photons will be absorbed, emitted etc. Eventually, in highly absorptive frequencies, there will be strong emission coming from a few metres above ground.
This leads to a diffusion like propagation, called after Rosseland. The diffusivity decreases with increasing absorptivity.
Nick, I try to understand this very technical matter.
I understand, emissivity equals absorptivity under the same (!) circumstances. So when radiation is emitted at 25 C (surface) and is absorbed at 10 C (up in the atmosphere), how will that re-emission be: like at 25 C or at 10 C? My guess: like at 10 C, which will be a diminished emission because of the lower temperature. Going downward, emitted photons will be absorbed by ever denser concentrations of absorbing gases (H2O, CO2), suggesting that the downward path of a photon is shorter than the upward path. As a consequence, radiation will always be more successfully moving upward than downward, resulting in a net upward movement of radiation.
That net upward movement of radiative energy has to be so, because the surface of the Earth has to get rid of the energy it daily receives from the Sun. Which implies that in practice (!) consequent (‘second round’) radiation will be different from the original surface radiation and even from absorption. As earlier discussed, temporarily excited absorbing molecules are influenced by the rapid collisions with non emitting molecules that take energy away from the absorbing molecules. The uptake of energy by the non-emitting molecules must influence any consequent emission in a diminishing way. The uptake of energy by the colliding non-emitting molecules can only (later) be replenished by collissions of emitting molecules with lower energy non-emitting molecules.
As a consequence, on Earth any ‘second round emission’ can’t be seen as ‘a simple equal re-emission of ‘first round’ radiated/absorbed energy’ like in the laboratory. As I understand it.
Wm,
Yes, photons in the saturated absorption bands of CO2 and H2O are absorbed by a GHG molecule within meters. That energy is subsequently re-emitted in a random direction within a tiny fraction of a second, often after either absorbing another photon or upon a collision and sometimes at either a slightly higher or lower energy. However; about 23% of the photon energy emitted by the surface pass straight through the atmosphere and into space at the speed of light.
As far as the fraction that doesn’t pass through and gets absorbed by GHG’s and clouds, this energy must either be emitted into space or returned to the surface. Otherwise, the air and clouds will heat without bound. This energy can only be sent into space as radiation and whether this is returned to the surface as radiation or collisions with air molecules is irrelevant, although since the temperature of non GHG molecules of air does not contribute to the radiative balance and arises from physical contact with the surface, those molecules are precluded from further heating the surface, although then can redistribute heat across short intervals of time moderating high and low peak temperatures between day and night.
Brown is irreconcilably wrong about absorbed energy being instantly transferred to the surrounding air unless he means by the re-emission of another photon. There are no relevant mechanisms in Quantum Mechanics that can wholly and directly convert vibrational state energy into the translational kinetic energy of molecules in motion, which is the primary manifestation of temperature by non GHG molecules.
Small amounts can be converted into rotational states of the GHG molecule, which by equipartition, will be ‘shared’. However; that conversion must be accompanied with the emission or absorption of a photon at either a higher or lower energy. The fine structure in the absorption/emission spectrum of GHG molecules tells us that this conversion goes both ways and that the net conversion from one to another is approximately, if not exactly, zero.
The evidence of this is in the HITRAN absorption/emission line data and the observed LWIR spectrum of the planet. If what Brown claims is true, the average energy seen in the absorption bands at TOA would be attenuated by factors of thousands to millions over the average intensity emitted by the surface. Instead, we see a net attenuation factor of only about 2. In the most saturated lines of CO2 and H2O, we see a slightly higher attenuation factor and this is the only evidence of ‘thermalization’ from GHG absorption. This occurs when an energized CO2 molecule is dissolved into cloud water or when energized H2O molecules condense within clouds. These are the only possible mechanisms in the atmosphere that can convert the narrow band energy of GHG absorption into another form.
WR: co2isnotevil, thanks for the reaction. Below my remarks (sorry, a bit lengthy).
co2isnotevil: “Yes, photons in the saturated absorption bands of CO2 and H2O are absorbed by a GHG molecule within meters. That energy is subsequently re-emitted in a random direction within a tiny fraction of a second, often after either absorbing another photon or upon a collision and sometimes at either a slightly higher or lower energy.”
WR: If I understand this discussion well, https://sealevel.info/Happer_UNC_2014-09-08/Another_question.html , no re-emission of absorbed energy will take place. To re-emit, the absorbing molecule must stay long enough in the excited state to be able to re-emit. But by tenths, hundreds or thousands of collisions before emission could take place the ‘absorbed energy’ is taken away by colliding molecules. Only the ‘temperature effect’ (measurable) in the air will stay and any emission will only happen according to the circumstances (temperature and density of emitting molecules) at that location.
If in all cases re-emission would have taken place, no temperature effect would have been measurable. Because emission takes energy away.
co2isnotevil: “As far as the fraction that doesn’t pass through and gets absorbed by GHG’s and clouds, this energy must either be emitted into space or returned to the surface”.
WR: Probably nearly no emission from clouds will return to the surface. The reasons:
1. Most radiation is not space ward or surface ward, but side ward.
https://bobfjones.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/spherical-radiation-with-ball.jpg
Source: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/26/does-the-trenberth-et-al-earths-energy-budget-diagram-contain-a-paradox/
2. After each sideward emission, consequent emissions will direct more emission up ward than downward.
3. The path length for a photon emitted from clouds is too short to reach the surface, because absorption takes place within meters, or, at higher elevations within 10-100 meter or so. Most radiation of every ‘next emission round’ will again go sideward.
4. Given the short path length many re-emissions will have to take place to reach space. On the average every re-emission in the atmosphere has a net upward effect.
5. Most absorption will take place in high moisture air. High moisture air (on the average) goes upward (because of her light weight). Transporting energy upward.
6. There is always a net energy transport upward, to get rid of the daily added sun energy. All cooling mechanisms show an upward transport. Radiation is one of those cooling mechanisms. In the end all energy has to be radiated to space. Upward transport of radiated energy must (!) outnumber downward radiated transport by far.
7. At lower levels in the atmosphere there is a higher number of absorbing molecules than up in the colder and thinner air: less molecules, less H2O. It is easier for any radiation to go ten meter upward than ten meter downward. Every next emission round is transporting energy upward.
8. Every emission from higher (colder) levels is less effective/intense than emission from the (warmer) surface. Again: up is easier than down.
9. The higher an altitude is reached, the higher percentages of emissions are reaching space. And the less is reaching the surface.
10. As stated in my first comment, it is not very probable that direct re-emission takes place. With lowering temperatures at higher altitudes every emission of radiated energy according to the temperature of that level will be less than the radiation originally sent from surface level.
I cannot conclude else, than that after first absorption most ‘cooling work’ in the atmosphere must be done by non-radiative means of cooling: by latent heat, conduction, convection. Until, somewhere up, the lack of the main absorbing gas H2O does not prohibit unhindered emission to space and spaceward emssion will take place in ever growing percentages. Probably CO2 will emit most energy to space.
co2isnotevil: “There are no relevant mechanisms in Quantum Mechanics that can wholly and directly convert vibrational state energy into the translational kinetic energy of molecules in motion, which is the primary manifestation of temperature by non GHG molecules.”
WR: Excited molecules don’t transmit energy to non-excited molecules? Their high energy state doesn’t enhance the kinetic energy of colliding molecules? How does air that absorbs photons (by the small quantity of absorbing gases present) and consists of more than 99% of O2/N2 molecules get a higher temperature as a whole? Transmittance of energy has to have happened to warm air as a whole.
“Their high energy state doesn’t enhance the kinetic energy of colliding molecules? ”
Not in any way that affects the averages. Quantum mechanics requires any transformation to be all or nothing state change and the entire bundle of state energy would need to be converted into the kinetic energy of translational motion, or other forms, in a single event. You can’t convert a little now, a little later and so on and so forth until there’s nothing left, moreover; the energy of a 15u photon is about the same as the translational kinetic energy of an atmospheric gas molecule at STP. Sure, there’s a finite, but tiny probability that such a transformation could happen upon a collision (Quantum Mechanics is funny like that …), but the probability doesn’t start to increase significantly until the kinetic energy of motion becomes much larger than the energy of a state change and those conditions just aren’t present in our atmosphere.
To the extent that any state energy can be converted into translational kinetic energy by a collision, the inverse must be true in equal and opposite amounts. Any net transfer will necessarily be zero, or at least close to zero. Symmetry is another important attribute of Quantum Mechanics.
You’re focused on only half of what’s can potentially happen and it’s shielding you from seeing the reverse conversion. You may claim that the reverse will not likely occur under current energy conditions. You would be right and for the same reason that your presumed transformation is also not very likely. Both are equally likely.
The N2/O2 and Ar in the atmosphere is heated by collisions with the surface as all of these molecules are transparent to the SW and LWIR involved with the transmission of energy through the atmosphere as photons. The average kinetic temperature decreases linearly with altitude based on a lapse rate dictated by gravity acting on the PVT profile of the atmosphere and then starts to increase significantly as the gases becomes rarefied and interact with high energy incident radiation only to decrease again towards TOA. The radiation temperature, that is the temperature equivalent to the average LWIR photon flux passing up decreases monotonically with altitude starting at about 390 W/m^2 (290K) at the surface and ending at about 239 W/m^2 (255K) at TOA. Your explanation would have this start at 390 W/m^2, drop to about 90 W/m^2 (200K) a few meters off the ground only to increase to 239 W/m^2 (255K) at TOA.
Your position that emissions higher up in the atmosphere have an easier time reaching space, which I agree with, is inconsistent with your conjecture that GHG absorption is quickly converted into the translational kinetic energy of air molecules. O2/N2 and Ar do not emit photons in the absorption bands of atmospheric GHG’s.
What’s the source of all of these emissions that are having an easier time getting through? The only possible place they can be coming from are the emissions bands of the GHG molecules themselves which means that either the reverse transformation converting translational kinetic energy into photons is a very high probability event, or the transformation converting photon energy into translational kinetic energy is a very low probability event. The energies involved precludes the former, thus the later must be true.
co2isnotevil (did I write your name well?), not only the surface but also the atmosphere is absorbing a lot of energy straight from the sun. Warming/activating all (!) molecules in the air: kinetic energy. If not to continue the heating up of all molecules in the air (by more sun energy), a transmission of ‘first day’ energy has to take place, just to get rid of that ‘first day energy’. Transmission of energy to radiating molecules has to take place. Or other cooling processes.
If processes are mutual: up in the air CO2 radiates to space, using kinetic energy from non-emitting molecules, cooling all of the air (bringing down the kinetic energy of all molecules). The reverse needs to happen as well. Absorbing molecules must be transmitting energy to non-radiating molecules and vice versa.
Atmospheric gases absorb little solar energy. Most of the solar energy absorbed by the atmosphere is absorbed by the liquid and solid water in clouds. This water may re-emit photons in the absorption bands, but like those originating from the surface, these are absorbed within a few meters of the cloud tops as there are still significant GHG’s between cloud tops and space.
My question is still unanswered.
What is the origin of the absorption band photons observed at TOA which even in the most saturated lines approaches half the flux there would be in the absence of any absorption at all? I contend that the only possible source of these photons are GHG molecules, as HITRAN data describes both the absorption and emission spectra, which are the same.
You are being too loosey-goosey about arbitrarily conflating different forms of energy without accounting for the very specific mechanisms for converting between them. It an over-generalization of equipartition. In fact, state energy is really not even one of the degrees of freedom generalized equipartition applies to, except as to equalize energized states among the population of GHG molecules.
the energy of a 15u photon is about the same as the translational kinetic energy of an atmospheric gas molecule at STP.
Not true only a few percent of the molecules at STP have the energy of a 15µm photon (0.0827eV)
(kT=0.0258eV at 300K)
See Boltzmann distribution below:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTa7f7LaDXUrbXLli7QtgP4OjMbaQ4MgRuG881cp3zNFrWfSs85
A 15u photon has an energy given by E = hc/y = 6.626E-34 * 3E8 / 15E-6 = 1.33 E-20 Joules.
A CO2 molecule travels at approximately 500 m/sec and weigh 48AU or about 7.7E-26 kg. Energy = 1/2 mv^2 = .5 * 7.7E-26 * 500^2 = 9.6 E-21 Joules.
Yes, a 15u photon has slightly more energy than a moving CO2 molecule which only makes my case stronger about the lack of direct ‘thermalization’ as the required condition is that the kinetic energy of motion needs to be significantly larger than the energy of a state change.
A CO2 molecule travels at approximately 500 m/sec and weigh 48AU
A CO2 molecule has a mass of 44 AU and its Vrms is about 400m/s at 300K (most probable ~340 m/s). However the most likely collision partner is N2 which has a mass of 28 AU and has a Vrms of ~500 m/s. As I pointed out kT is 0.028eV or about one third of the energy of a 15µm photon so the average energy of the collision partner is ~3x less than the vibrational energy of an excited CO2 molecule. In a collision with a vibrationally excited CO2 molecule which reduced the CO2 to its ground state the velocity of the N2 molecule would increase by about 1.7x or three times its kinetic energy which it would quickly share with its neighbors (~10 collisions/nsec).
The reverse process is not so simple since only a few % of the N2 molecules have enough energy to excite a CO2 molecule to its vibrational excited state and the collision would have to occur at just the right orientation to transfer to the vibrational mode.
The reverse process is not so simple…
I suppose the reverse proces must be equally likely at equilibrium (Boltzmann temperature equals Planck temperature).
Otherwise the Boltzmann temperature would be ~1.7 × 300 = 510 K and almost independent of the Planck temperature.
I certainly agree that few if any N2 molecules has enough energy to excite a vibrational state in a ground state CO2 molecule and that only the same few have enough energy to initiate the return of an energized CO2 molecule to the ground state. What makes you think either direction is easier than the other? If this was the case, the system would not be in a steady state equilibrium.
My point is that whatever possibilities of exchange might exist, there’s little to no NET exchange in either direction.
The critical question is still unanswered, which is what is the origin of the significant photon energy at TOA in the absorption bands of GHG’s. Emissions in those bands are absorbed within a meter or so of the surface and no more than dozens of meters from clouds. The only possible source of these photons are GHG molecules high up in the atmosphere whose emissions have an easier time exiting TOA without being intercepted by another GHG molecule. This requires energized states to propagate up the atmosphere in order to get high enough to emit another photon that isn’t intercepted. This also means that energy must be retained along the way so there’s enough to keep energizing other GHG molecules.
To the extent that any energy is lost to translational energy, this can only contribute to the half of the surface energy absorbed by GHG’s and that’s required to be returned to the surface. Theory requires half of the absorbed energy to be returned, but doesn’t specify whether the energy is returned as radiation, by contact with warmed air, warmed rain, wind or weather. Of course, theory also requires all of the latent heat and other non radiative energy entering the atmosphere to be returned to the surface, again without specifying in what form this energy is returned. This is because only radiant energy can leave the planet.
While not necessary, it’s exceedingly likely that non radiant energy absorbed by the atmosphere is returned to the surface by non radiant means and the radiant energy absorbed by the atmosphere and returned to the surface is by radiant means.
I’ll make another testable prediction of my hypothesis, although unlike the test of the spectrum at TOA, I don’t know where the appropriate data for this test might be. Directional measurements pointing up will show LWIR in absorption bands returning to the surface. In the clear sky, most of the returning LWIR will be in absorption bands. Under cloudy skies, there will be significant LWIR outside of the absorption bands and that originated from the water in clouds.
If you want to refute my argument that there’s little conversion of GHG absorbed energy into translational energy, you need to have a testable answer to the above critical question. My answer is testable and testing it has been done by examining the emitted spectrum of the planet at TOA and I’ve offered other tests.
I certainly agree that few if any N2 molecules has enough energy to excite a vibrational state in a ground state CO2 molecule and that only the same few have enough energy to initiate the return of an energized CO2 molecule to the ground state.
Why “the same few”? Any of the collision partners has the ability to increase its translational energy by colliding with the vibrating CO2 molecule. They don’t need ‘enough energy’ to remove the vibrational energy they just need to be accelerated by the appropriate amount. Near the surface an excited CO2 molecule will undergo ~10,000 collisions in its first microsecond of existence, plenty of opportunity to be deactivated.
What makes you think either direction is easier than the other? If this was the case, the system would not be in a steady state equilibrium.
While molecules with enough kinetic energy to excite the CO2 molecule to the first vibrational level exist, as stated above they represent a small fraction of the total. Also such a collision is more likely to transfer translational energy to the CO2, only collisions with a particular orientation would excite the vibrational mode.
Regarding equilibrium the primary means of vibrational excitation is by absorption of radiation, in the lower atmosphere the primary means of deactivation is collisional, the net collisional exchange is from the excited state to the surrounding molecules.
“Also such a collision is more likely to transfer translational energy to the CO2”
All collisions exchange translational energy. An energized CO2 molecule colliding with a ground state CO2 molecule may exchange state energy in additional to sharing translational energy. This can not happen when energized GHG’s collide with non GHG gases.
“in the lower atmosphere the primary means of deactivation is collisional”
Except that when the combined kinetic energy of 2 colliding particles is less than it takes to excite a vibrational state, the probability of converting this into translational energy is zero. Rotational modes are much lower energy and can be excited, but again, this is symmetric adding to and removing from translational kinetic energy and the net exchange is close to zero, if not exactly zero. Evidence of this symmetry is seen in the fine structure of the absorption spectra.
I certainly agree that collisions are a significant mode of deactivation, although a bigger one is absorption of a second photon which starts to dramatically increase the probability of spontaneous emissions. Moreover; deactivation means emitting a photon, not converting vibrational state energy into linear kinetic energy.
You still haven’t addresses the elephant in the room, which is if as you claim, all photons emitted by the surface and clouds in GHG absorption bands are captured and converted into translational energy within a meter or of emissions, WHAT’S THE ORIGIN OF THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF POWER SEEN IN ABSORPTION BANDS AT TOA?
When I say significant, I mean about 1/2 the power that would be seen at TOA in those bands without any absorption at all. The only substance between the surface and space under clear skies or between clouds and space that can emit photons in absorption bands are the GHG molecules themselves. N2, O2 and Ar do not emit photons in these bands.
Nonsense, if that were true CO2 lasers would not work as well as they do. In the laser the non-GHG, helium, is used to collisionally deactivate CO2 from exactly the same vibrational state (010) via V-T transfer.
Moreover; deactivation means emitting a photon, not converting vibrational state energy into linear kinetic energy.
Vibrational deactivation refers to the non-radiative transfer of energy to the medium via collisions, it does not involve emitting a photon.
If this is your definition of vibrational deactivation, then it’s not occurring in the atmosphere to any significant extent.
In a laser, the HE deactivates by causing energized CO2 to emit a photon and it’s these photons that comprise the output of the laser.
https://www.quora.com/Role-of-helium-in-CO2-laser
Once more you have failed to address the question whose answer falsifies your hypothesis. Science doesn’t work by ignoring falsification, it advances by acknowledging falsification. If the hypothesis doesn’t fit the data., you need to adjust your hypothesis.
I will restate the question.
What’s the origin of the photons in absorption bands that are observed at TOA? To be clear, the attenuation based on what the surface emits is only about 3 db (1/2), yet the surface is absorbing 100% of these photons. O2, N2 and Ar don’t emit photons in the relevant bands, so where are they coming from?
You continue to show your ignorance of the phys-chem involved in this process.
For a start the 010 level decays to the ground state so it can’t possibly emit a laser wavelength because it’s not possible to maintain an inversion.
The energy levels involved in the CO2 laser are shown below:
https://pe2bz.philpem.me.uk/Lights/-%20Laser/Info-902-LaserCourse/c03-08/FIG7.JPG
The excitation is by collision with electronically excited N2 which transfers vibrational energy to the 001 state of the CO2 which then lases to either the 100 or 020 levels with the emission of either a 10.6 or 9.6 photon. The 100 or 020 levels are collisionally deactivated to the 010 level which is then collisionally deactivated to the ground state. In order to improve performance of the laser the decay from these lower levels is enhanced by adding helium. The 010 level is the one involved in the atmospheric greenhouse effect.
Did you read the paper I pointed you to? It explicitly said that He collisions deactivate CO2 by causing a photon to be emitted. Where do you think the photons coming out of a CO2 laser are coming from? If He collisions turns this state energy into heat, then the efficiency of the laser would be reduced, not increased.
I’ve never said that excitation or deactivation can not be achieved by collisions, in fact I’ve said the exact opposite. All that I’ve said is that at the energy levels found in the atmosphere, this will not occur to any appreciable extent, if at all. Just because something can happen doesn’t mean the conditions for it to actually happen are present.
The energy levels found in a CO2 laser are many orders of magnitude larger than found in the atmosphere. Even photon emissions of atmospheric GHG’s arising from collisions with N2 or O2 (as He does in a CO2 laser) are rare and the primary cause of emitting a photon is the absorption of another absorption band photon which dramatically increases the probability of spontaneous emission.
In order to have enough energy to result in vibrational excitation upon a collision, the velocity of the colliding molecules will need to be reduced to near zero, or even less than zero, which is impossible. This is why the kinetic energy must be significantly larger than the excitation energy in order to excite or deactivate a GHG molecule upon collisions.
You still haven’t answered my question about the origin of photons seen at TOA in the absorption bands of atmospheric GHG’s. Please address the question. If you can’t explain the origin of the massive flux of photons in absorption bands seen at TOA, you have no choice but to accept my assertion that the predominate deactivation mode of energized GHG molecules is the emission of a photon.
Yes I did, it’s not a paper it’s someone’s answer on a website and it’s wrong.
I showed you where the photons come from in the energy diagram I posted. A laser works via a 3 or 4 level system to promote a population inversion. The depopulation of the lower level by Helium collision maintains that inversion and improves the efficiency of the laser. The helium also improves the transfer of that heat to the coolant medium.
Since you clearly don’t understand the Phys-chem behind lasers here’s something for you to read.
https://www.rp-photonics.com/co2_lasers.html
Note what they say about Helium:
“Helium serves to depopulate the lower laser level and to remove the heat.”
Note that the lower level of CO2 that is being collisionally depopulated in the laser is the same energy level that is involved in the greenhouse effect in our atmosphere.
The energy levels found in a CO2 laser are many orders of magnitude larger than found in the atmosphere.
They certainly are not, the upper level from which the laser emissions occur is at 0.3eV, that’s in the IR range, a wavelength equivalent is ~4microns.
Even photon emissions of atmospheric GHG’s arising from collisions with N2 or O2 (as He does in a CO2 laser) are rare and the primary cause of emitting a photon is the absorption of another absorption band photon which dramatically increases the probability of spontaneous emission.
It’s clear you don’t understand the Phys-chem involved, I suggest you do some reading.
The second most significant range of wavelengths absorbed by CO2 is around 4.3u and is distinct from the 1band at 15u. CO2 lasers generally emit photons as the difference in energy between these two states, somewhere around 10u. Where do you think these photons originate from, if not the CO2 molecules?
In any event, how a CO2 laser operates is in no way an analogy for how the GHG effect works in the atmosphere. The required energies are far in excess of what exists. Quantum mechanics is more about probabilities, than possibilities and the probabilities just aren’t there.
Why do you keep deflecting the question at hand? Do you fear what the answer will tell you?
Your hypothesis that the predominate deactivation mode of an atmospheric GHG molecule is by ‘thermalization’ with N2/O2 within meters of being emitted predicts that the emission spectrum seen from space would have no energy whatsoever in absorption bands and extra energy in the other bands, since once absorption is accounted for,’ about 150 W/m^2 of emissions by the planet must come from the atmosphere, accounting for half of what was absorbed, which is even more than the 90 W/m^2 on average that initially passed through the transparent regions in the atmosphere’s absorption spectrum.
Trenberth assumes even more absorption, but when asked where his value comes from, he has no answer other than is was a guess. Mine comes from simulations based on HITRAN data combined with cloud data reported in the ISCCP data set and averaged over 3 decades. Interestingly enough, if the atmosphere absorbed as much as Trenberth claims, the fraction of absorbed energy returned to the surface would need to be less than half and more than half would be required to make up for the planets emissions above and beyond what was not absorbed.
The results of measuring the emitted spectrum falsifies your hypothesis. Even with clear skies between the surface and space, the energy measured in absorption bands at TOA is about half of what it would have been with no absorption at all, even as the atmosphere absorbs 100% of what was emitted in those bands. The only possible source for these photons are emissions from GHG molecules, which means that their can be no net ‘thermalization’ of absorbed energy as enough energy would not be available to be emitted as a photon high enough up in the atmosphere to avoid being absorbed by another GHG molecule on its way out. This is a repeatable test and I urge you to do it for yourself.
At one time, I thought what you do, as this is what is taught and it’s even codified in Perry’s book, although somewhat ambiguously. The guiding principle for any scientist should be that if you limit your understanding to what you are taught, you will never learn, which is where the scientific method comes in. When I applied this simple test, I was somewhat surprised (I was suspicious anyway, hence the test) that the answer wasn’t what it needed to be to conform to what I was taught. I tried to come up with a way for the O2/N2 to emit photons, but the required energies just weren’t there. Like any competent scientist, I modified the hypothesis.
WR: As far as I understand longwave radiation, the following must happen in the atmosphere.
There is full absorption of radiation very near the surface, mainly by H2O, even within some meters (except for the open window part that goes straight into space). Nearly all absorbed energy is transmitted to quickly colliding O2/N2 molecules.
‘Second round’ emission takes place (in the lowest atmosphere) after the uptake of collision energy (mainly from N2/O2) by an emitting molecule. But this ‘second round radiation is mainly ‘side radiation’ and will be absorbed in more or less the same ‘layer’ of the atmosphere. Again some radiation disappears into space using the ‘open window’.
‘Conventional processes’ as evaporation, conduction and convection will transport most of the energy of the by absorption warmed surface air upwards.
As soon as ‘net emission height’ is reached, Outgoing Longwave Radiation (other than ‘open window radiation’) starts to perform.
Just above the ‘net emission height’, only a very small percentage (let’s say 1%) of the emitted energy in the absorbing bands will reach the satellite’s measuring point, the other 99% will be absorbed. At higher elevations (near the satellite) 99% of the locally emitted radiation in the absorbing bands will reach the satellite, because at that altitude there are but a few absorbing molecules left in the thin and cold atmosphere above the emitting molecule (there is hardly no absorbing H2O left). The average non absorbed radiation as measured by satellites in the absorption bands will be: 1% + 99% divided by 2 = 50%.
Given the short attenuation path of photons near the surface, given the accepted existence of a ‘net emission layer’ somewhere halfway the troposphere and given the 50% of expected radiation in absorption bands as measured at TOA (as I read in the comment of co2isnotevil above) this seems to be what happens in the atmosphere.
If I am right, the consequence is that evaporation, conduction and convection do the main work in the spaceward transport of energy in the lowest part of the atmosphere. Above the net emission layer the Earth will effectively cool by radiation by mainly CO2 because H2O molecules (by reason of the very low temperatures at that elevation) mostly disappeared from the air. Up to 80 km altitude CO2 is nearly evenly distributed and well able to emit the by collisions with O2/N2 received energy.
Because of the overwhelming abundance of the other absorbing gas H2O in the lowest atmosphere, some extra CO2 will only slightly affect local temperatures in an upward direction. The high temporary variations in local H2O might easily outnumber any rise in CO2 near the surface.
More CO2 in the atmosphere (also above net emission height) would increase the number of CO2 collisions with non-emitting upper air molecules in the upper air, what will result in a higher net emission from that altitude into space. Cooling stronger the stratosphere and cooling the Earth stronger than would have been the case at lower CO2 levels.
I’ve already shown you in the diagram I attached above.
In any event, how a CO2 laser operates is in no way an analogy for how the GHG effect works in the atmosphere. The required energies are far in excess of what exists.
No they are not! As I pointed out in a previous post the energy required to drive the laser is equivalent to a wavelength of about 4microns.
I’m first trying to correct your misunderstandings about the processes involved, why do you keep making the same mistakes?
Colder is Colder says:
The story that the atmosphere heats the planet is the claim that a cold turbulent nitroxy bath, many degrees colder than the light warmed rock it’s chilling, is actually a heater.
And that the light blocking refrigerants in the heater stopping 22% of total energy from entering calculation of Atmospheric temperature are the heart of this fake ”cold nitrogen atmosphere that’s actually a heater,”
first taking 22% of total sunlight out of Earth temperature calculations when sunlight top of atmosphere vs at sea level is separated and only what makes it to the surface counts as warming it.
Then spontaneously generating that 22% of the sun’s energy – out of nothing,
then, spontaneously generating so much energy the entire cold nitroxy bath and planet are warmed 33 degrees.
This by people who can’t even calculate the temperature of the atmosphere and match the International Standard Atmosphere’s known-good temperature for the planet. We calibrate our aircraft, spacecraft, and heat/pressure instruments against that known-good calculated temperature.
The entire proposition of any bath of cold fluids warming something is as ludicrous as the peoples’ reasons for believing it might be possible. Cold nitrogen baths are never heaters, people who can’t calculate Earth temperature and match the known good global atmospheric temperature aren’t scientists.
Ben Wouters says:
@Andy May
The warmest part of the ocean is the surface of the tropical Pacific. Here evaporation limits the temperature to a maximum of 30 degrees C (86 degrees F) according to many sources
To me the reason for the current “maximum” SSTs is that the sun can only increase the temperature/heat content of the upper oceans a certain amount above the temperature of the deep oceans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocline#/media/File:ThermoclineSeasonDepth.png
Let’s assume solar energy is responsible for all heat content above the 2C line.
Solar input apparently balances against energy loss via the atmosphere to space.
Given much higher deep ocean ocean temperatures like eg in the Cretaceous (possibly 15-18K higher than today) the SSTs will be correspondingly higher.
So imo we have at least 3 variables regulating SSTs:
– temperature of the deep oceans
– amount of solar energy entering the oceans
– energy loss of the oceans to space (via the atmosphere)
Exactly Ben.
If we accept that solar only increases the heat content of the upper oceans a few degrees above the “base” temperature set by the deep ocean temperature, do you also agree that the heat content of the deep oceans must have come completely from geothermal energy?
This includes the early oceans sitting on almost “bare” magma, the small geothermal flux through the crust and all kinds of magma eruptions, including large ones like the Ontong Java event (~100 x 10^6 cubic kilometer magma).
If yes, we have an answer to the question why the temperature on Earth is so much higher than solar energy alone could explain, and at the same time the role of the atmosphere is reduced to slowing the energy loss to space, no additional heating required as eg. Lacis et all 2010 claim.
To add: ‘Wind’, as the big ‘mixer of the oceans’. A very variable factor.
Ben, the temperature of the deep water is important, of course. But, the reason the SST cannot get much above 30 degrees is that the heat of water vaporization (also called the enthalpy of vaporization, that is the latent heat taken away from the ocean), at that temperature, equals the thermal energy received by the ocean surface from the Sun. Near land, which can get much warmer than 30 degrees, warm wind can blow off of the land and get the ocean surface a little warmer than 30 before sufficient evaporation can take place to lower the temperature to 30, but this is a temporary phenomenon, evaporation soon catches up.
A good day of sunshine delivers some 20 Mj / m^2 to the oceans. This only slightly increases the temperature of the upper 5-10 m.
https://scienceofdoom.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/ocean-temp-profiles-2-kawai-wada-2007.png
After the night this energy is lost again to space (via the atmosphere).
Whether this energy loss is by evaporation, radiation or conduction is less important imo.
We have seen much higher SST’s than 30C in he distant past, like 36-42C in the Cretaceous.
Imo the reason simply being that the deep oceans were much warmer, perhaps 20C for the deepest oceans.
Young oceans were 40C or (much) warmer, obviously not caused by solar energy (Faint Young Sun)
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/ancient-sea-temperature-111109.html
Ben Wouters: “We have seen much higher SST’s than 30C in he distant past, like 36-42C in the Cretaceous.
WR: the right deep ocean temperatures must have been close to the brown line in the Bill Illis graphic below.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bill_illis_graphic.png
And maximum surface temperatures in the past must have been close to present maxima, because of the cooling by evaporation. See Andy’s comment just above: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/21/stephen-why-global-warming-is-not-a-problem/#comment-2412464
Ben Wouters,
Your reference refers to sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) in the PreCambrian. This was a very different world and Sun.
In the Phanerozoic, there is no evidence that I know of that SSTs have ever been over 30 degrees, except perhaps at the very beginning 500 million years ago. See Christopher Scotese’s Paleomap reconstruction in his monograph “Some thoughts on Global Climate Change” (pages 19 to 22). Look especially at figure 13. The highest equatorial temperature is about 32 degrees 500 million years ago. 30 degrees was reached 400 million years ago and 240 million years ago. But, generally, the temperatures are around 28. Today, the temperature is 25. Equatorial temperatures don’t change much over time, polar temperatures change a lot.
At the equator today, at 30 degrees, the average clear day solar radiation striking the ocean at mid-day is the same as the amount carried away by evaporation as latent heat in the newly created water vapor. The temperature at which deep convection starts (thunderstorms) is about 28-29 degrees. These storms carry huge amounts of thermal energy high into the atmosphere where the energy can be radiated away into space, then the cooler air dives down to the surface to cool it. At higher latitudes thunderstorms can occur at lower temperatures since there is less solar energy striking the surface.
As the power of the Sun changes, these temperatures change over time, but today the effective limit is about 30 degrees. Close to land this can be higher, since land can get warmer than that and drains it’s heat into the ocean and it can do this faster than evaporation can occur. The same applies in the local summer in seas (like the Caribbean and the Red Sea), but these are temporary local phenomena and we are talking climate here. Reference (Sud, Walker and Lau, Geophysical Research Letters, vol 26 #8, page 1019) and Newell and Dopplick, 1978 cited in the post.
@Andy May July 24, 2018 12:39 pm
The referenced article is about rock formation on the ocean floor, being an indication for the deep ocean temperatures. Given the Faint Young Sun (70% of current output?) imo the only explanation for those very high ocean temperatures can be geothermal energy. Since that time the temperature of the deep oceans must have been a balance between warming at the ocean floor (geothermal flux and magma erupting) and cooling at (very) high latitudes.
Realize that water warmed at the ocean floor can’t reach or conduct to the surface where the sun maintains a (much) warmer surface layer.
Cretaceous SST’s :
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Rose_Petrizzo/publication/263205991/figure/fig2/AS:300153429872658@1448573562468/Comparison-of-key-Late-Cretaceous-bottom-water-and-sea-surface-temperature-records.png
from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-key-Late-Cretaceous-bottom-water-and-sea-surface-temperature-records_fig2_263205991
https://phys.org/news/2006-02-warmer-hot-tub-atlantic-ocean.html
I’m trying to convey the idea that deep ocean heat content comes solely from geothermal energy.
Solar directly warms the upper 5-10 meters, and by conduction and mixing the upper 200-300m. All that energy leaves again at the surface during surface cooling in autumn and winter.
Once we accept that the deep oceans heat content is governed by geothermal, it is possible to explain how the sun can increase the temperature of the surface layer to the observed values. Atmosphere only reduces energy loss to space, NO surface warming as eg Lacis et al claim.
Thanks for the article Ben, I also found another Tex86 reconstruction with similar results. O’Brien, et al., 2017, Earth-Science Reviews. Generally the Cretaceous was warm, it was a hot-house period. There were no ice sheets on the poles then and the pole to equator gradient was low. If the Sun was hotter then, areas close to land in the low latitudes could have gotten up to 36 degrees. Today, in the summer, areas close to land get to 34, so with a hotter Sun I can see it. It is unlikely any areas in the open ocean got that hot. Also, remember that Tex86 is a new technique and not very accurate. Further, the values they are reporting are outside the Tex86 calibration dataset and extrapolated. In fact the authors in O’Brien, et al. (2017) admit that the Cretaceous SST highest values vary from 18.8 to 44.5 degrees depending upon which calibration method they choose because a significant portion of the data exceed the highest Tex86 value in the calibration datasets. All we can really say is the high values reported are possible.
Andy May July 25, 2018 4:16 am
Andy, first thanks for the reference to the Scotese article. Very relevant to my ideas. Do you know whether the section II has been written or is available? Couldn’t find it.
Generally the Cretaceous was warm, it was a hot-house period. There were no ice sheets on the poles then and the pole to equator gradient was low. If the Sun was hotter then, areas close to land in the low latitudes could have gotten up to 36 degrees.
The sun is supposed to have an increasing output since it started up. I understand ~10% more output every 1 billion years. So in the Cretaceous the output would have been ~1% lower than today.
To me the reason for the hot climate then are some large under sea magma eruptions, totaling > 130 x 10^6 km^3 magma in the period before the peak temperature around 90 mya.
(1 x 10^6 km^3 magma carries enough energy to warm ALL ocean water 1K)
Benthic foraminiforal reconstructions show ocean floor temperatures ~10K-20K higher than today, to me the most plausible explanation for the high temperatures AND the low equator > pole gradient.
see https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2011JC007255
especially figure 9.
Tex86 is a very unreliable proxy. You can produce any wanted temperature (warming) using a proxy like Tex86 – which is not corresponding with a warm sea like the Red Sea.
At the equator today, at 30 degrees, the average clear day solar radiation striking the ocean at mid-day is the same as the amount carried away by evaporation as latent heat in the newly created water vapor.
With some wind and wave action the SST’s are close to constant over a 24 hr period.
see eg https://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/JO/pdf/6305/63050721.pdf
Most solar warming of the oceans is below the surface.
The temperature at which deep convection starts (thunderstorms) is about 28-29 degrees. These storms carry huge amounts of thermal energy high into the atmosphere where the energy can be radiated away into space, then the cooler air dives down to the surface to cool it. At higher latitudes thunderstorms can occur at lower temperatures since there is less solar energy striking the surface.
Thunderstorms can start at (almost) any temperature. The deciding factor is the temperature profile of the atmosphere (CAPE) and the amount of latent heat the air contains. With high surface temperatures the air above it CAN contain more water vapor, so if that air rises condensation can maintain the ascent to higher altitudes.
But in eg the high pressure areas in the subtropics convection has little chance of developing or reaching considerable altitudes.
Ben, Thanks for the article. But, it shows that diurnal SST variation is larger than previously thought and can reach 5 degrees. I think in excess of 2 degrees is common. More info on Tex86, it has an error of at least 2.5 degrees. Degradation of Tex86 with time can also cause errors of up to 6 degrees. I agree with most of what you say about thunderstorms, I see no contradiction with the quote you included from my previous comment. In high pressure areas, thunderstorms do not reach as high an altitude as in lower pressure areas for sure, but in low pressure areas thunderstorms in the sub-tropics and higher latitudes do reach very high altitudes (the tropopause) on occasion.
it shows that diurnal SST variation is larger than previously thought and can reach 5 degrees. I think in excess of 2 degrees is common.
I read the article differently. The diurnal SST variations were considered negligible (0,1 -0,6K)
Satelite observations showed that in exceptional situations (little wind or waves) higher values are possible, when the thin skin layer warms without mixing to deeper waters. Then the 5k value can occur.
I reacted on your 28-29C number for deep convection to occur.
This is more like the temperature required for hurricanes to develop.
Stephen Harris says:
Your discussion about greenhouse gas effects is not valid.
There are only 3 ways that a body (the earth) can lose heat: conduction, convection, and radiation. Let’s consider each one. (Your discussion of evaporation, turbulence, etc. is not relevant here, since they do not remove heat from the earth.)
Conduction. Can the earth lose heat by conduction to outer space? No. Conduction would require molecules from the earth transferring energy via collision to the molecules in outer space. Since there are (practically) no molecules in outer space, there can be no conductive cooling of the earth.
Convection. Can the earth lose heat by convection? No. Convection would mean that warm earth molecules are “blown away,” just as heat is convected away from hot soup when you blow on it, by removing the hot air/soup molecules from the vicinity of your spoon. But there is no wind that blows earth molecules away into outer space, so there can be no convective cooling of the earth.
Radiation. Can the earth lose heat by radiation? Yes. The earth emits mainly between 8 and 30 microns in the IR. Water and some other molecules absorb practically all the emission above 14 microns. So the only way for the earth to lose heat is by radiating in the window from around 8-14 microns, which happens to be right where CO2 absorbs. (Ozone absorbs at 9 microns)
Now, at equilibrium, the earth is losing heat at the same rate as it is gaining heat, so we have a balance between heating by radiation from the sun and cooling by radiation, mainly between 8 and 14 microns.
In order to demonstrate that your analysis is not correct, consider the following hypothetical extreme example. Suppose that we put into the air a component (“greenhouse gas”) that absorbs all of the radiation from the earth. What will the temperature of the earth be at equilibrium? Well, if all radiation is absorbed, then the rate of heat loss is zero, and if the earth is receiving a kilowatt/m2 of solar energy, the earth never gets to equilibrium –it just keeps getting hotter and hotter. If our hypothetical greenhouse gas blocks only IR radiation, then the temperature of the earth will rise until visible light is emitted, so the earth would be able to cool that way. Unfortunately, in order for the earth to start emitting significant amounts of visible light it would have to be red hot, say, 700 degrees C.
Stephen Harris July 29, 2018 10:27 pm, it is not clear to whom you are referring to. And to which comment.
It is clear that the Earth loses its energy in the way it receives energy: by radiation. The key question is: where (where at the surface or where exactly in the atmosphere) does the Earth emit effectively to space?
And what are the exact circumstances needed for effective emission? Are there other ‘effective emission’ prohibiting factors than the density of absorbing molecules between the emitting molecule and space?
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Creating and editing road segments
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This article covers creating and editing road segments. Be sure to read this whole article to ensure you fully understand all aspects of how segments operate in Waze before you start to create and edit roads on the map.
1 Creating a new road
1.1 Drawing the road
1.2 Confirm the road by updating details
1.3 Set Road Type, Direction, and Elevation
1.4 Set allowed turns (connections)
1.5 Save
2 Editing existing roads
2.1 Adjusting road geometry (nodes)
2.2 Fix the end-node on culs-de-sac and dead-ends
2.3 Junctions
2.3.1 Moving junctions
2.3.1.1 Moving one junction onto another junction
2.3.2 Removing junctions with only two segments
2.3.2.1 Delete key or trash can icon
2.3.2.2 Bridge segments
2.3.3 Cut a segment to create a new junction
2.3.4 Allow/Disallow connections
2.4 (Re)Moving a road from a junction
2.5 Updating road details
2.5.1 Address Properties
2.5.1.1 Alternate street names
2.5.2 Road Properties
2.5.2.1 Road Type
2.5.2.2 Special Properties
2.5.2.3 Road Direction
2.5.2.4 Speed limit
2.5.2.5 Road elevation
2.5.2.6 Road lock
2.5.2.7 House numbers
2.5.3 Locked Box
2.5.4 Changing turn restrictions
2.5.5 Separator line (disabled)
3 Roundabouts
Creating a new road
If you find a road missing from the Waze map, such as a recent suburban development, follow the screenshots and instructions to add a road to Waze. The example is from Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and we will add the missing roads in the highlighted area:
Zoom the map display so you can see the entire area where you need to add the road, if possible. Setting the zoom level appropriately allows you to follow the curves of the road as you draw it.
There are five essential steps to add roads to the Waze map:
Draw the road.
Set or confirm the road properties.
Connect the road with junctions to existing segment(s) or another newly created segment(s).
Set allowed turns at junctions.
View a step-by-step video on how to add a road from an existing intersection
For more detail on creating road segments, see Create a Road.
Drawing the road
Hover the cursor over the curved road with a cross/plus sign icon at the top of the screen in the toolbar and click Road. You can also use the keyboard shortcut, which is the letter i, for Insert. Move the cursor to the location you want to start drawing the road. This can be an empty location, or it can be on an existing segment where you want the intersection with this new road. The cursor has a small blue circle to indicate it is in drawing mode.
When you hover over an existing segment, it highlights showing that if you click there, a junction is automatically added.
Move your mouse along the path of the road, following the aerial view or GPS points for the new road. Every time you click, a geometry node is added, aligning your new road with your cursor movement. When you reach the end location for the new road, double-click the mouse. You exit drawing mode, and the new road displays in orange to signify that it is unsaved. Don't worry if you made a mistake in drawing the shape of the road. Just click on the segment again and you can add, remove or reposition geometry nodes. If you want to remove the road just drawn, you can press the ESC key on the keyboard before you exit drawing mode.
In our example, there is another road in this same view which is missing. We can add another road to the map without saving the first one. The next image shows the second road already added, and auto-junctioned to the first segment we just created.
At this point, you can save the newly added roads if you wish. However, the process of properly adding the roads is not complete. All new roads are set as 1-way, with no associated city and no street name. Adding these details to the road is required before they show up in the Waze client app.
Note: When creating special roads like roundabouts and loops, be sure to follow the special considerations for those roads in those linked sections.
Confirm the road by updating details
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New road segment created via the app's "Pave road" function are not immediately displayed on the Waze app. They must first have city and street names confirmed, meaning that an editor adds that information. The editor will also have to connect them to the road network to make them usable.
In the map editor, roads are outlined in red when city and street name properties have not been set (known as red roads or unconfirmed roads). An editor should set the country; state (US only); city; street name; road type; and direction.
Paved roads do not appear until being "touched" in the editor. This does not apply to roads created in the editor; when created in WME, roads can appear on the Waze app even if they are missing key properties.
To confirm a road, select one or more segments with the mouse. You can add only one name at a time, but you can add it to multiple segments at the same time. Because of that, it is efficient to first select multiple segments that will share the same name, and then apply the name to them together. Notice below that for the first road there are now two one-way segments. This is because the second road we added has cut the original road into two segments.
To edit the address details of the selected segment(s), find the phrase Unnamed segment in the upper left corner of the editor. There is a pencil icon next to it. Click the pencil icon. Make sure the Country and State values are correct. Next, enter the city and street name information. Sometimes, a segment is outside a municipality, or the municipality cannot be determined or is not relevant. If that is the case, then check the None box next to City. Similarly, some streets may not need a name, such as ramps, private roads, and parking lot roads. For those segments, use the None check box next to Street.
Most roundabouts also must not have a street name. Use the None box for them. This permits proper navigation instructions for the roundabout.
For segments that exist only to connect two one-way roads (At-grade connectors), do not name the segment. The city name is fine if the segment is clearly inside the city limits.
Important: When complete, click the Apply button. If you do not click the Apply button, your changes will be discarded by WME without warning when you save or click another object in the editor. Please click the Apply button as soon as you finish entering information, so you do not lose your data.
Set Road Type, Direction, and Elevation
Set each of the fields Road Type, Direction, and Elevation. For neighborhood streets in these examples, Street is appropriate, they are 2-way streets and they have no roads above or below them, so elevation Ground is correct.
Review the article determining one-way streets for more information on directionality.
Please be aware the the directionality type 'Unknown' does not prevent Waze from routing onto a road. 'Unknown' really means 'Undefined'. When the direction is set to 'Unknown', Waze automatically adjust the directionality of the road as Wazers drive it. This is the initial directionality of all roads after a base map import. In addition, locking the segment does not prevent the directionality from changing on 'Unknown' roads as Wazers drive it.
You may choose to save now, but there is one more step before we can call this process complete: setting the allowed turns.
Set allowed turns (connections)
We've added our roads and confirmed them, but we haven't set the legal directions to and from this segment. In the real world, there are barriers and signs which prevent travel in a certain direction, even though the roads connect to each other. In our suburban neighborhood example, none of these blockages exist, but our screenshot shows red arrows, meaning that Waze generally won't navigate that direction from the selected segment. Click on the red arrows to turn them green, and permit navigation in that direction. This needs to be done for each segment that is added to the map, as the default setting after connecting a new segment is to disallow all turns to the new segment.
In situations where not all turns are allowed, click on the arrow to turn it red for the disallowed direction from that segment.
If all turns are allowed at a junction, the fastest way to enable all turns is by selecting the junction and not the individual segments. Select the junction and it changes from a small black circle to a blue circle with a white border. Note that if you have already selected a segment connected to that junction, click elsewhere on the map, or hit the ESC key to deselect that segment before you can select the junction.
The Properties drawer shows action links for the selected junction. Depending on the current state of the junction, one or both of the links Allow all turns or Disallow all turns links appear. For example, if all turns are currently allowed, then only the Disallow all turns link appears.
To enable all turns at an intersection, click the Allow all turns link for the junction. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut w to allow all turns and the shortcut q to disallow all connections. A best practice when allowing all turns on a junction is to disallow all turns first, as it cleans up some legacy problems with the map.
Other helpful turn arrow keyboard shortcuts are:
Shift+Z - Toggles between: 1) showing the enabled and restricted turn arrows for the selected segment, and 2) showing all restricted turns (red arrows only) for every junction on the visible map (up to zoom level 4 or 500 ft in the lower left map legend).
a - Toggles between making the turn restriction arrows directly selectable (opaque) or transparent. Transparency enables selecting objects below the arrow on the map.
s - Toggles between separating turn arrows so they don't overlap or leaving them overlapping. This can also be used to refresh the screen when you have toggled visibility for all restricted turns, and you are modifying turn restrictions.
To see all keyboard shortcuts, press the ? on the keyboard.
When turns or parts of a road are restricted certain times of day or days of the week, you can use the scheduled restrictions feature.
As the roads connecting to each other usually allow for all turn connection / direction, it is saves a lot of time for the editor to enable “draw new roads with all turns allowed” under the left pane “settings” tab during editing process.
See the section turn restrictions for more information on all turn arrows.
If you have saved your progress or not, click the Save button (or use the Ctrl + s keyboard shortcut) to send all of your updates to the Waze servers for processing. After the save is complete, and if there are no errors, you are presented with a view of the final product of this process:
It is a good practice to save your changes often, and certainly when you get more than 10 unsaved changes pending. Sometimes you may run into a save error that you cannot determine what is wrong, and you have to undo many prior edits. Sometimes you have to undo all the way back to your first edit. Saving regularly limits chances of lost work in case of unresolvable errors.
Editing existing roads
Editing an existing road segment is not very different from creating a new road. Once a road is drawn from scratch, before it is saved, all of the editing functions described here work.
Adjusting road geometry (nodes)
Adjusting road geometry is changing the shape or appearance of a road segment. Real-world roads may be realigned, or mapped roads may be in the wrong place because the data from the basemap import was wrong. Sometimes we need to realign roads to improve navigation or spoken instructions in the Waze mobile app.
The instructions here, while written for an existing road segment, also apply to a new road segment you just created, but have not yet saved. The editor treats them the same.
To start adjusting the geometry of a segment, click on it. When you hover over the highlighted segment, geometry nodes (black squares white circles) and inter-geometry nodes (white dots circled in blue) display along the segment. Both of these are draggable so that you can reposition them wherever you need. When you drag an inter-geometry nodes from its default position half-way between two geometry nodes, it turns into a node.
To delete a node, hover the cursor over a node and hit the d key on the keyboard. This only works with nodes, not inter-geometry nodes.
Tip: Straighten segments quickly If you have a segment that you need to clear all the geometry node quickly, select the segment and hold down the d key. Then move the mouse pointer near the geometry nodes you want to remove. With the d key held down it will automatically delete the node when the mouse hovers over it. To stop deleting nodes, stop pressing the d key.
When you have a long, straight stretch of road, and there are geometry nodes located along its length, delete these nodes, unless the node is there to change a speed limit. It simplifies the road segment if you have to adjust it later, lightens the load on the database, and makes it easier to display on the Waze client app.
When your moves are complete, save, and the segment appears in the map with the new geometry. To see these operations in action, you can watch a video of adjusting segment geometry.
Fix the end-node on culs-de-sac and dead-ends
NOTE: The information shown in this section is only valid for segments which were paved from the Waze application. While they do NOT show in the editor when present, any segment drawn in the WME will have a junction node at its terminus.
In order for the Waze Application to properly route from a location on a cul-de-sac or dead-end road, the end of the last segment must have an end-node. Without this end-node, Waze gives the instruction Proceed to the highlighted route. In the image to the right you can see a small blue diamond at the end of the long court, and no blue diamond at the end of the short court. The short court is missing an end-node at the end of the segment.
When you select each segment, putting them into an edit mode, you can see the difference between the two roads. The long court has the end-node (small white circle) and the short court has a geometry node (large black square) at the end of the segment.
To add an end-node to the short court, a temporary road segment must be added to the current road. Start by not having the road selected (make sure it is white by clicking elsewhere on the map). Hover the cursor over the large + icon at the top of the screen in the toolbar and click Road. You can also use the keyboard shortcut which is the letter i, for Insert. Position the cursor so the blue circle appears at the end of the segment and Left-click the mouse to start the road.
Click some distance away from the end of the current road and double click to end road creation. Select the newly created segment and press the Delete key or the Trash Can icon from the toolbar.
Save the changes and the result shows the small court now has the proper end-node as a small blue diamond (when not being edited or selected).
Note that most cul-de-sac should not terminate in a roundabout or loop, but as a dead end as drawn here.
Junctions
Before making any change to a junction, be sure to review the Junction Style Guide for information on the best practices for creating junctions. There are many times when a junction may be drawn in a way that does not seem logical, but it is very important to the navigation engine in Waze.
Moving junctions
Moving a junction is as simple as dragging the junction to another location, however there are geometry nodes (the white circles seen when editing a segment) that might need to be moved or removed.
First use the mouse to select the intersection of the road segments. This puts a red dot, circled in white, on the junction. This indicates you are moving all the segments connected to this junction. Note that if the red dot appears transparent, it means that one of the attached road segments is locked above your editing rank, and the junction cannot be moved by you. Release the mouse button and move the mouse away until the cursor appears as a 4-way crossed arrow .
With the cursor as a crossed arrow, select the junction again and drag it to the desired location. The harsh angles in the segments in this example are caused by the geometry nodes and need to be adjusted. It is important to position the junction in a location that is not on top of a segment. This makes it difficult to adjust the geometry nodes, and in some cases tells the editor to merge junctions if one is present below the junction you are moving.
The black geometry nodes can be moved, removed, or added as explained in detail above. Adjust them to align with the aerial views or the GPS tracks.
Moving one junction onto another junction
If two junctions are disconnected from each other, but should be joined into one junction, then dragging one of the junction nodes until it "snaps" to and connects to the other junction node will bring them together. Warning! Only use this technique if the two junctions are disconnected from each other. If there is a segment connecting the two, you could accidentally delete the segment in the process. This would also delete any traffic data and house numbers associated with the deleted segment.
Removing junctions with only two segments
There are times when only two segments are joined at a junction. In general this is not a problem, but it can slow down editing and it may be the source of incorrect turn restrictions and bad routing. So the best practice is to delete these junctions when found. However, it is very important to study the two segments before merging, to ensure the junction is not there for a purpose.
Legitimate Reasons for Two-segment Junctions
Loop roads. A single segment cannot loop back upon itself, so a junction is required to create two separate segments. It does not matter where the junction is located, so long as each segment meets the minimum segment length. Some roads have two separate segments that share the same start and end junctions creating two alternate paths between them. These configurations cause routing problems and require one of the two segments to have a 2-segment junction. More details are covered in Junction Style Guide on Loops.
Ramp or freeway splits. There are cases where a freeway may split into two separate freeways. In order to provide navigation to drivers, it may be necessary to create short segments on the freeway to show the two different road names at the split. Under certain situations it may be best to make the segments as short as possible, so long as each segment meets the minimum segment length. This is covered in detail in the Junction Style Guide.
Long segments. Segments are best kept under a certain distance. See the article segment length for more information.
Segment Property Change. When a segment property changes between intersections, a two-segment junction may be required:
Road, city, or state name change. When the road, city, or state name changes between intersections, add a junction so the segments on either side may have a different name.
Elevation Change. When elevation changes at complex interchanges, a junction can be added to introduce an elevation change.
Speed Limit Change. When the speed limit changes between intersections, add a junction so the segments on either side may have a different speed limit.
Once you are certain there is no reason to have the extra junction, there are two methods to remove it. One method highlights the junction and deletes it and the second highlights the two segments and bridges them together.
Delete key or trash can icon
This method is the preferred method, because it enables the WME to alert you when there are legitimate differences between the segments. With the mouse select the junction point between the two segments. Look for the trash can icon at the upper right corner of the WME screen. If it appears press it to remove the junction. Alternatively, the Delete or Del key (not Backspace) removes the junction.
Deletion of a node automatically places a geometry node at that point. If you need to remove the point, you can do so by highlighting the segment and hovering the mouse over the point of the prior junction. The WME displays the point and you can press the d key to remove it.
If the trash can icon does not appear, something about those two segments is different, possibly the city name, street name, road type, or direction of travel.
Bridge segments
Generally do not use this method because it has two additional side effects that are not generally desired.
It increases the elevation of the resulting single segment by one.
It disconnects any other segments at that junction point, but leaves it directly below the geometry node potentially causing automated map problems if not moved.
With the mouse, select one of the segments. Then, while holding down the multi-select key (Control for Windows/Linux and Command for Mac) select the second segment. If the two segments have the same properties including direction, a small bridge icon appears above the junction. Click the bridge to merge the two segments, eliminating the junction between them. A geometry node is placed where the junction was previously located. To remove the node (if necessary), select the segment and hover the mouse near the old junction. The geometry node should be displayed. Then, press the d key to remove the unwanted node. When the segments are different, the bridge icon does not appear at the junction.
Cut a segment to create a new junction
If it is necessary to change road information in the middle of a segment (road name, direction, city, type, or other information changes at that point), you need to create a junction at that point. One way to do this is to create a new road connected to the previous road. Begin or end the new road on the previous road to create a new junction. Then delete the new road -- the junction remains, and the previous road segment has been cut at the point where you created and deleted the road.
Allow/Disallow connections
Changing the allowed and disallowed turns in a junction follows the same procedure for controlling them when updating a road segment described above.
(Re)Moving a road from a junction
Updating road details
The details of a road can be entered as discussed with regard to confirming the details of a new road above. The procedure is the same for updating the details of an existing road segment.
To update details, first, select the segment(s) you need to update. Click on the segment and the segment turns blue.
Multiple segments may be selected by holding down the modifier key and clicking additional segments. The modifier key for Mac is the command key, for Windows the control key and for Linux the control key. Each selected segment turns blue.
Once selected, if the General tab is visible on the left side of the editor.
Address Properties
At the top of the properties toolbox are the address fields. The address fields include the street name, city name, State (currently only in the United States) and country. To edit the address details, click the Edit button (or press the 'e' shortcut key). This enables editing of fields above it.
The Country (and State) fields may be updated by selecting a different country (or state) from the dropdown selections. Selections are provided only for countries (or states) that are present on other nearby road segments.
The city and street names may be updated by typing a new name. See the naming guidelines for guidance on choosing the correct street name. As a name is typed, Waze provides a list of similar names. These similar entries can be selected by clicking them. If the segment is in a location outside a city, the "None" check box should be selected and the city name left blank. If the road does not have a name, the "None" check box should be selected and street name left blank. Entries must be present for each address property. To eliminate a city name or street name the appropriate "None" boxes must be checked. When complete, click the Apply button. If no changes are to be made, click the Cancel button.
If the above Address Properties are not set for a segment, the road displays as a red line in the editing map only and does not appear in the Waze client app after the next update. This process is part of the road verification process. When the Waze client app uses the pave option, the road is created in the edited Waze map only. That Wazer or another Wazer who is editing the map in that area must set these properties in this section in order for the road to be seen in the client.
Alternate street names
The subsection Alternate street names: lists the other names associated with all currently highlighted segments. It does not isolate individual alternate names for each segment, so if you want to be sure all the highlighted segments have a specific alternate name add it all the segments. For any segments that already have the alternate name, it will not be duplicated.
The hyperlink titled Add alternate name brings up two selection boxes for the City name and Street name. If the City name is not applicable, select the None check box. Enter the street name and press Apply or hit the Enter key on the keyboard. This adds that name to the currently highlighted segments.
To delete an alternate street name, click the next to the alternate name to be deleted. This deletes the alternate name for the highlighted segments.
A future version of the Waze Map Editor is being considered to include road shields as part of the alternate street name field.
Road Properties
It is important to follow the guidelines for setting road properties established by your country or region.
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Creating and editing road segments #Set Road Type, Direction, and Elevation
The road segment properties are below the address properties on the General Tab.
The road type is changed by selecting the appropriate road type from the drop down box.
See the Road types and names page for your country for further guidance on selecting the correct road type.
Toll roads - Select the box for toll road if the segment meets the guidelines
Tunnel - Select the box for tunnel if the segment meets the guidelines.
Road Direction
The direction of the road is changed by selecting the appropriate direction from the drop down box.
If traffic may travel both ways on the road, select "Two way." If traffic may travel only one-way on the road in the direction from the toward the select "One way (A→B)." If traffic may travel only one-way on the road in the direction from the toward the select "One way (B→A)."
After the road properties are saved, the direction is indicated by black arrows on the road.
Base mapped roads are originally assigned the direction of unknown. When the direction is set to "Unknown", Waze automatically adjusts the directionality of the road as Wazers drive it. When editing, make every effort to determine the correct direction of the road and choose either "Two-way" or the appropriate "One-way" direction.
See the article determining one-way streets for more information on determining the direction of a road as being one way or two way.
Speed limit
The speed limit fields are shown for the segment. These fields should be updated with the official speed limit as shown on speed limit signs. The speed limit is shown in either km (Km/h) or miles (mp/h), depending on which unit type is selected in the settings tab.
In some locations Waze has run a program to predict speed limits and assign the assumption to segments. When a segment has an assumed speed limit, the limit will be ignored by the app until an editor verifies it. WME displays a Verified check box next to the speed limit field. If you can verify that the speed limit shown is correct, check the Verified box. If you find it to be incorrect, replace the Waze-supplied speed limit with the correct speed limit (there is no need to check the Verified box). Either way, once you save, WME will stop displaying the Verified check box, since it is only needed until verified or corrected.
Pay attention to the units type displayed next to the speed input field (mph/kph) and be sure to adjust your settings if needed to enter the correct speed.
NOTE: The "Verified" check box will not display when multiple segments are selected, even if they have unverified speed limits.
For more details on speed limits policies and how to enter them, see the Speed limits article.
Road elevation
The Road Elevation should be changed where one road passes over another. By default, the Elevation of a segment is Ground (zero). When two segments overlap but do not actually connect in the real world, the value of Elevation for each segment must be different. This ensures that the Waze problem detection system doesn't flag the spot where two segments overlap as a location where a junction might be needed.
The visual representation of the relative Road Elevation is different when viewed in the Waze Map Editor (WME) and the Client application.
1. The Client App displays segment elevation based on the road type only, meaning Freeways are always on top, Major Highways are next, followed by Minor Highways, Ramps next, Primary Streets below all those, and finally Streets are at the bottom. This is the same order seen when setting the road type in the editor.
2. The WME uses the Road Elevation setting to display the relative elevation of the road. It displays the road with the highest "elevation" number at the top of the visual stack and works its way down as would be expected.
Although the client application does not benefit from the Road Elevation setting, it is recommended to set the Road Elevation relative to the physical mapping in the real world to enable possible future Client application updates to show the same visual representation as the WME.
3. Elevation -5 is used for non-drivable roads to help ensure that the routing engine does not try to connect or route drivers from roads onto non-roads by mistake. It acts to prevent false system reporting that the roads should be connected.
See Bridges for more information on elevation.
Road lock
The road lock menu displays locking levels available to each individual user. In the example to the right, the level 4 editor can assign a lock level of 1, 2, 3, or 4. Once the lock level is saved, an editor of an lower level will not be able to make changes to the segment.
See Locking segments for information.
The house numbers is used to create and edit house numbers for named road segments.
See House numbers for more information.
Locked Box
The segment is locked by checking the locked check box which is associated with the segments lock rank. For information on the effect of checking the locked box see Locked Roads.
Changing turn restrictions
Each intersection of two or more segments keeps track of the allowed directions you can turn from one segment to another. Changing these turn restrictions follows the same procedure as outlined above in the section on Set allowed turns.
Separator line (disabled)
The original map editor before the Waze Map Editor had the ability to add a black separator line down the middle of a road segment. It caused difficulty with map editing and was removed as a feature from the updated WME. There was a time when the line appeared in the WME, but could not be removed. It has since been disabled and no longer appears.
See Roundabouts/USA for guidance on roundabouts or traffic circles.
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AVON, CT – (Marketwire - March 15, 2011) – Bearingstar Insurance Agency (www.bearingstar.com), a member of the Arbella Insurance Group, was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Connecticut 2011. A project of the Hartford Business Journal and Best Companies Group, the awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Connecticut, benefiting the state's economy, its workforce and businesses.
A local agency with 11 offices across Connecticut, Bearingstar specializes in risk identification and protection to meet the needs of individuals, families and businesses. The agency offers a full range of personal and commercial insurance products.
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This young man is working hard to earn his Eagle Scout rank -- the highest rank and honor within the Boy Scouts. Nicholas Branding, 12, of Granite City and Troop 1046 recently earned his Life Scout rank and stands one badge away from earning Eagle Scout. He will achieve the rank by completing his Eagle Scout-Service Project, which Anderson Hospital is the beneficiary. Nicholas’ project involves installation of lighting and refreshing landscaping around Anderson Hospital’s Angel of Hope Monument.
The monument, unveiled in 2016, is a solemn place that offers anyone facing grief a place of comfort and solace. The Share Group, a support group for those whose lives have been touched by the tragic death of a baby through pregnancy loss, stillbirth, or in the first few months of life, helped raise funds for the monument and holds events there each year.
Nicholas’ project is very personal. His sister, Natalie, was stillborn at Anderson Hospital when he was just 3 years old. Since then his family has been involved with the Share Group and continues to visit the monument where a brick paver memorializes Natalie. “This is my way to honor my sister,” said Nicholas. His project will allow the monument to shine even in the darkest of nights.
Earning merit badges is no small feat. The rank of Eagle Scout requires 21 badges with 13 specific to the rank. Most Scouts approach the Eagle Scout rank well into their teens. At the young age of 12 (almost 13) Nicholas has earned 40 merit badges! One of the Boy Scout laws is, “A Boy Scout must be reverent.” As “reverence is an attitude of honoring life,” Nicholas is doing just that.
Nicholas plans to work on the project over the summer with hopes to unveil the finished project before the October 5 Day of Remembrance event.
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Fabietti, Belleri and AC Delco a happy partnership
ANDRA > Newsroom > Latest News > ANDRA Drag Racing Series > Fabietti, Belleri and AC Delco a happy partnership
The SA Summer Nationals will be the first glimpse Adelaide fans have of the beautifully turned out AC Delco Holden Monaro Top Doorslammer of Maurice Fabietti and his driver Mark Belleri on December 3-4.
It’s part of a concerted effort to increase awareness of the brand and potentially reward dedicated fans with a ride in one of the fastest Doorslammers in the country.
“AC Delco is a fantastic brand from the US,” said Fabietti.
“Holden always had it as a by-product of their line here. They’ve decided to start pushing it a bit more in this country so they are using our vehicle as a benchmark to get it out there in the public’s eyes.
“We’re working with Holden on some new ideas on how to market the product and get it out there more so keep your eyes on the website ACDelco.com.au.
“Hopefully we’ll have some exciting competitions by buying products from your AC Delco dealer through Holden and win a prize to have a ride in the car.”
Returning to Adelaide International Raceway for Round 3 of the ANDRA Drag Racing Series, the team currently sit in third place on 131 points, 53 points behind leader John Zappia.
But with over 100 points up for grabs at each race, the deficit can quickly evaporate and Fabietti has every confidence in his driver Belleri.
“Mark is a fantastic driver, he’s young, he’s keen, it gives me more time to tune and concentrate on getting the car down the track.
“Just lately we’ve received a lot of good accolades from people, good results and I couldn’t be much happier.”
Fabietti previously piloted and tuned the car for over 30 years but since hanging up his helmet, he has come to terms with life out of the seat and enjoys watching Belleri grow into a dynamic racer.
“I’m 55 now, I’m not getting any younger and sooner or later you gotta say enough is enough and I want the best for Holden and AC Delco so it’s all just fallen in our hands.
“We’ve got a fantastic car, we’ve got a good driver – his reaction times have just been unbelievable, it’s really got the other competitors worried. The car has been consistent, it’s been fast and Mark very rarely mucks up on the run.”
The SA Summer Nationals hits Adelaide International Raceway December 3-4 featuring the ANDRA Drag Racing Series and Summit Racing Equipment Sportsman Series.
Gates open from 9am. Qualifying begins from 10am on Saturday and racing from 11am on Sunday. Adults tickets $35 / Concession $20 / Kinds under 15 FREE / Weekend Passes $50.
The Garmin VIRB ANDRA Drag Racing Live Stream will be available on Sunday December 4 and is free for ANDRA members using their member number as a coupon code. ANDRA membership is available from $55 at www.andrashop.com.au
Non-members can access the Garmin VIRB ANDRA Drag Racing Live Stream for $7.99. Visit Motorsports TV to sign up.
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Emu Downs Solar Farm Official Opening
The Honourable Ben Wyatt, WA Minister for Energy,
and Mick McCormack, CEO and Managing Director of APA Group.
APA Group, Australia’s leading energy infrastructure business, today celebrated the official opening of its newly completed 20-megawatt Emu Downs Solar Farm, approximately 200 kilometres north of Perth.
The $50 million project consists of 75,168 solar panels on approximately 70 hectares. It is co-located with APA’s 80-megawatt Emu Downs Wind Farm and will provide a substantial boost to WA’s renewable energy capacity.
APA Managing Director and CEO Mick McCormack said, ‘Today represents an exciting milestone for APA Group as this is the first renewable project we have delivered from scratch, from concept design to construction and now delivery.
‘With the Emu Downs Solar Farm and adjacent Wind Farm, and the Badgingarra Wind Farm under construction across the road, APA is building a renewables hub in this region with the potential to power 176,000 Western Australian homes.
‘This project is a testament to what can be achieved when industry, governments and local communities work together to help deliver a clean and reliable energy source for Australians.
‘We thank all of the partners who have helped to make this ambitious project a reality, including ARENA, the Western Australian Government and its agencies and of course our supply customer Synergy.’
APA has entered into a power purchase agreement to sell electricity and generation certificates generated by the Solar Farm to energy provider Synergy, to 2030.
The Honourable Ben Wyatt, Western Australian Treasurer and Energy Minister officiated at the opening of the Emu Downs Solar Farm. Mr Wyatt said, ‘As one of three projects which will help Synergy meet its renewable energy target, the Emu Downs solar farm represents an important piece in the renewable energy future of WA. We are delighted to work with APA to deliver a project which will be seen as an exciting example of what the future holds,’
The Emu Downs Solar Farm will utilise the existing transmission connection infrastructure associated with the co-located Wind Farm, with only minor upgrades required to the substation.
In his address to event guests who toured the Solar Farm, Mr McCormack also acknowledged the contribution of APA’s project team, construction partner and the local community.
‘Just as important as delivering a great project is doing it safely. I’m pleased to report that we built the Emu Downs Solar Farm without a single ‘lost time injury’ recorded despite over 70,000 man hours that went into the construction. Congratulations are in order for our employees and construction partner UGL for that achievement.
‘I also want to thank the Shire of Dandaragan for its ongoing support of the work APA is doing to develop a world-class renewable energy precinct. Working collaboratively with the communities that are home to APA assets is fundamental to how we go about our business, and a large project like this cannot succeed without the support and goodwill of the people in the region providing services and welcoming us into the community.’
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2018 Triumph Tiger 1200 XCx review, test ride
13th Jun 2018 12:10 pm
We ride Triumph’s off-road flag-bearer exactly where it’s meant to go.
Ruman Devmane Author
Make : Triumph
Model : Tiger 1200
We rode the biggest of the Tiger siblings not long ago and discovered that Triumph has stepped up its flagship by a fair extent. But that ride happened in a mildly chilly part of Spain, governed only by a 140kph speed limit on the highway and by how courageous one felt off the road, with an ambulance and refreshments on standby. In India, we had no such luxuries at our disposal – just man and machine, and somewhere to go. This is the more realistic review, then.
Let’s start with stating the obvious – this is a very large motorcycle. The XCX is the only variant of the Tiger 1200 you can buy in India (the range-topper is the XCA) and it can dwarf a decently sized motorcycle such as a Royal Enfield Thunderbird with nonchalance. At first impression, it looks like a motorcycle you’d rather admire, parked. But there is a reason why it looks the way it does; this is Triumph’s version of a two-wheeled passport. On it, you can cross continents and not even realise it. It’s a sophisticated touring motorcycle with enduro capabilities, which makes it a rare and extremely desirable breed.
So, with the riding mode set to ‘sport’ and the windscreen lowered (electronically, via a toggle switch on the LHS control pod), I set off, only to be instantly swamped by a sea of crawling traffic. Understandably, this isn’t the best place to reacquaint oneself with a motorcycle, especially not with one this humongous, but it didn’t seem as difficult as I had thought either. The wide handlebar, set at a comfortable height, offered terrific leverage even at walking speeds and the commanding riding geometry meant I felt in control, with a great view (of tail-lamps, mostly) to boot.
Once you come to terms with the dimensions (the width, as much as the height) of the Tiger 1200, the 265kg weight isn’t a hindrance on the go. Despite being seated 835mm off the ground, at which point you are at eye-level with SUV drivers, it’s quite easy to manage the Tiger through traffic. The brakes are on point as well, with a (305mm) twin-disc setup at the front and a (282mm) single disc at the rear. Thanks to the Triumph Semi Active Suspension (TSAS), I didn’t have to bother with any suspension settings once I’d picked the riding mode of my choice (out of six in all – Road, Rain, Sport, Off-road, Off-road Pro and the fully-customisable Rider). Ride quality is great once the suspension gets used to a particular road surface, but transitioning surfaces can take it by surprise occasionally and it responds with a firm feel. All things combined, the Tiger 1200 XCX felt natural in traffic, although to say it stood out a fair bit and made jaws drop would be an understatement.
About half an hour later, all was not so well. As I painfully discovered, the 1200’s fuel tank (particularly the bit towards the rider’s seat, which you are meant to grip) gets unbearably hot in not much time. This happens primarily in city traffic and also out on the highway, and it’s not something you can afford to overlook if you intend to be a regular user. A week of everyday use (over a mixed cycle) later, I have heat scars to show (although I doubt that’s something you want to see) and that’s not among the nicest things done to me by a motorcycle. It didn’t get worse than that, which is a small mercy, but it was uncomfortable enough to demand pulling over, which is not what you want from a motorcycle you are meant to ride around the world.
Thankfully, the Tiger 1200 XCX has other qualities that help you move on. Primary among them is the enormously powerful powerplant – a 1,215cc, four-valves-per-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine that produces 141hp at 9,350rpm and 122Nm of torque at 7,600rpm. Transmission is via a six-speed unit and the gearshift pedal is well-suited to even motocross-grade boots (although it was a tight fit for me, given that I wear size 12s; riders with smaller feet shouldn’t face any issues). The motor, at its perkiest in Sport mode, is amply equipped to provide big-bike thrills on the road. Aggressive riding presents you with easily controllable wheelies and the triple emits a distinct roar, courtesy of the factory-option Arrow exhaust system. Tractability, too, is absolutely brilliant, with the 1200 being able to potter around in sixth gear at even unrealistically low speeds such as 40 kph. Best of all, it makes light work of munching highway miles, coming across as supremely comfortable at sustained high speeds. The downside is that this motor isn’t quite as refined as the Tiger 800 and there are minor vibrations that creep in at both low and high revs, but the mid-range stays smooth throughout.
The tyres – a 19-/17-inch (front/rear) combination – sit on wire-spoke wheels with aluminium rims, and feature an off-road-biased tread, which thankfully doesn’t take too much away from the Tiger’s road-holding abilities. In isolation, it suffices as the only kind of bike you’ll ever need, although its peers do have a few aces up their sleeves too. The Ducati Multistrada 1200 (the 1260 is due for an Indian launch soon) is far racier on the road, while the BMW R1200GS is contrastingly (but gorgeously) refined; the Tiger ventures near neither extreme, in comparison.
Off the road is where the Tiger 1200 XCX really shines. The day I’d picked for venturing into a fast but tricky trail turned out to be a rainy one. With precarious patches of slush lining the road, it wasn’t most ideal for what is the antithesis of a light, flickable dirt bike. Drawing from my earlier experience with the Tiger 1200, I switched to Off-road Pro mode, which disengages traction control and rear-wheel ABS, among other finer adjustments. In this mode, it’s closest to being a pure enduro machine and its transformation is almost unbelievable. You can stand up on the pegs and ride it at very low speeds as you scan the terrain, or blast through undulations without a care in the world – the Tiger 1200 takes everything in its stride, leaving you to concentrate on the basic controls. It’s stupendously supple off the road – although the Honda Africa Twin (though not exactly comparable) is untouchable in this aspect – and there is good feedback from every element, just as you’d need. As long as you can manage to not get the front tyre caked with slush (a bad thing on any motorcycle), or if you aren’t tackling a treacherous slow-speed rock bed (you need one leg on the ground and strong forearms), the Tiger is as easy to ride off-road as it is on the open highway.
The 1200 XCX is also very feature rich, which means you can show off with it even if you’re just out for a short spin in the city. The lights at either end are LED units and it (along with the XCA) also gets adaptive cornering lights, an adjustable full-colour TFT screen, illuminated switchgear, cornering ABS, keyless ignition, cruise control, heated grips and a heated seat as well. It doesn’t, however, get Hill Hold Control (XCA only), Integrated Braking System (XRT, XCA). Shift Assist, which is Triumph’s take on the quickshifter is available as an accessory on the XCX but is standard only on the XRT and the XCA. In addition, it also gets a two-position seat height adjustment (835/855mm), USB and 12V power sockets. The only thing Triumph has left out for understandable reasons is the kitchen sink, and you shouldn’t be complaining about it. The Tiger 1200 uses an IMU to aid its electronic assists, but the traction control system still needs improvement and isn’t as smooth and clever as we’d like.
Is this genuinely an expedition motorcycle like it says on the cover? Yes, it is, down to every detail. Is it one you should buy, however? Look at it this way – it’s not as potent off the road as an Africa Twin, not as sporty as a Multistrada and certainly not as legendary and ice-cool as the R1200 GS, quite literally when you consider the tank’s tendency to heat up. On the good side, the Tiger 1200 is backed up by Triumph India’s relatively strong sales and service network, offers easy-to-meticulously-tailored rider assists and is a motorcycle that’s guaranteed to turn heads in most scenarios south of the Dakar rally. At Rs 17 lakh, the Tiger 1200 XCX is the cheapest of its kind, although it has the iconic BMW R1200 GS Adventure (Standard variant) breathing down its neck at a close Rs 17.10 lakh (both prices, ex-showroom, India).
And then, you have another strong competitor to consider before you sign on the dotted line – the Tiger 800! In the real world, the 800 is as capable, if not more (it is more nimble off the road, for one), and is a smoother, more refined machine overall. It’s also far more affordable, with the most expensive of the Indian range, XCX costing Rs 13.76 lakh (ex-showroom, India). The only reason you’ll really want a 1200 over an 800 is for its electronic suspension and its ability to average higher speeds on the highway, the last of which matters in the west, but less so on Indian highways. All things considered, you stand to win either way – just ensure you’ve got enough blank pages left in your passport!
Petrol AT
Diesel AT
Cubic Capacity (cc) 1215cc
Cooling System Liquid-cooled
Bore/Stroke (mm) 85/71.4mm
Valves per cylinder 4 valves, DOHC
Max Power (hp @ rpm) 141hp at 9350rpm
Max Torque (nm @ rpm) 122Nm at 7600rpm
No of Gears 6
Clutch Type Wet, multi-plate hydraulically operated, torque assist
Weight (kg) 251kg (dry)
Wheel base (mm) 1520mm
Seat height(mm) 835-855mm
Fuel Tank capacity (lts) 20 litres
Front Brake Type Twin floating discs
Front Brake Size (mm) 305mm
Rear Brake Type Single disc
Rear Brake Size (mm) 282mm
Front Suspension WP 48 mm upside down forks, electronically adjustable damping
Front Suspension Travel (mm) 190mm
Rear Suspension WP monoshock, electronically adjustable semi active damping with automatic preload adjustment
Rear Suspension Travel (mm) 193mm
Front wheel (inch) 19-inch
Front Tyre 120/70 R19
Rear wheel (inch) 17-inch
Rear Tyre 170/60 R17
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When a player is transfered, a certain percentage of the transfer fee goes to his "agents". The agent fee is at its maximum just after the player is transfered, and is gradually reduced until it reaches 2% or the player is transfered again. It takes exactly one season (16 weeks) for the agent fees to reach 2%. The "agents" serve no other purpose than to collect their fees, in order to discourage [[day trading]].
When a [[player]] is [[transfer]]ed, a certain percentage of the transfer fee goes to his "agents". The '''agent fee''' is at its maximum just after the player is transfered, and is gradually reduced until it reaches 2% or the player is transfered again. It takes exactly one [[season]] (16 weeks) for the agent fees to reach 2%. The "agents" serve no other purpose than to collect their fees, in order to discourage [[day trading]].
In addition to agent fees, there are [[mother club fees]] and [[previous club fees]] when a player is sold that has previously belonged to other clubs.
When a player is transfered, a certain percentage of the transfer fee goes to his "agents". The agent fee is at its maximum just after the player is transfered, and is gradually reduced until it reaches 2% or the player is transfered again. It takes exactly one season (16 weeks) for the agent fees to reach 2%. The "agents" serve no other purpose than to collect their fees, in order to discourage day trading.
In addition to agent fees, there are mother club fees and previous club fees when a player is sold that has previously belonged to other clubs.
Time at club
Agent fee
0 days 12%
1 day 10,45%
2 days 9,95%
4 days 9,3%
1 week 8,62%
2 weeks 7,55%
10 weeks 3,52%
14 weeks 2,3%
16 weeks 2%
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Chapter II: Panel Selection
Reinsurance agreements often require parties to resolve disputes by a Panel of two arbitrators and a third “umpire” appointed with both arbitrators’ input. The establishment of a knowledgeable and experienced Panel is the single most important factor in ensuring the smooth, fair, and efficient resolution of privately arbitrated disputes. This chapter provides an overview of contract terms concerning Panel selection and discusses recommended best practices for Panel selection. In addition, parties are advised to be sensitive to the umpire selection and arbitrator qualification rules in certain jurisdictions, as those rules may apply if the arbitration clause and the Federal Arbitration Act are silent on a given point. See, e.g.,C.G.S.A. §§ 50-a-101 et seq. (Connecticut’s version of UNCITRAL, establishing guidelines for umpire selection absent party agreement on a procedure, and providing that a party may challenge an arbitrator for lack of “partiality and independence”); Cal. Code of Civil Procedure § 1297.111 et seq. (setting forth umpire selection procedures if the parties have not agreed on a procedure).
2.1 SAMPLE ARBITRATION CLAUSE LANGUAGE FOR PANEL FORMATION:
Each party shall appoint one arbitrator, and the two arbitrators so appointed shall then appoint a neutral Umpire before proceeding. If either party fails to appoint an arbitrator within thirty (30) days after it receives a written request by the other party to do so, the other party may appoint an arbitrator for it. Should the two arbitrators fail to choose an Umpire within thirty (30) days of the appointment of the second arbitrator, each arbitrator shall propose three names, of whom the other shall strike two, and the decision shall be made from the remaining two by drawing lots. The arbitrators and Umpire shall be either present or former executives or officers of insurance or reinsurance companies, or arbitrators certified by ARIAS•U.S. The arbitrators and the Umpire shall not be under the control of either party, and shall have no financial interest in the outcome of the arbitration.
COMMENT A:
The sample clause incorporates a common procedure to appoint the Panel: each party selects an arbitrator, and the two arbitrators then select an umpire. Key provisions are the time limits to select the arbitrators and umpire, and the procedure to resolve deadlocks between umpire candidates. Some clauses do not expressly provide for a method to appoint an umpire if the arbitrators do not agree on an umpire. In those instances, the default mechanism would be to petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint the umpire.
COMMENT B:
Since the umpire may decide the arbitration, the deadlock resolution mechanism is critical. The sample incorporates the common “lot selection” method, which has the advantage of simplicity but the disadvantage that parties may propose a slate of prospective umpires with a known or highly predictable predisposition. If this occurs, the court system may be the parties’ only recourse, although as a practical matter, most courts have difficulty evaluating claims of “predisposition.” Absent tangible evidence of bias, which is rare, a court is likely to remit the parties to their contractual “lot selection” remedy. For these reasons, many practitioners dislike the lot selection method; some suggested alternatives appear in paragraph 2.2, below.
COMMENT C:
When parties or their counsel communicate with prospective arbitrators, they should disclose the fact (but not the content) of such communications to the other party(ies) and the other Panel members once the Panel is constituted. Parties should not ask candidates how they will rule on the specific issue(s) before the Panel. Parties also should not provide arbitrator candidates with any documents that the parties do not intend (e.g., for reasons of privilege) to produce in discovery or enter into evidence in the arbitration. See ARIAS•U.S. Guidelines for Arbitrator Conduct, Canon V, Comment 2.
COMMENT D:
To the extent practical or feasible, any communications with prospective umpire candidates (e.g., to determine their availability to serve as umpire) should be made either jointly by counsel for both parties or jointly by both arbitrators.
2.2 ALTERNATIVES FOR UMPIRE SELECTION:
Means of resolving a deadlock in umpire selection, other than “lot selection,” are as follows:
1. Use of the ARIAS•U.S. Umpire Appointment Procedure. Briefly, this Procedure, primarily administered by the parties, has two parts: (a) an initial random selection from either the ARIAS•U.S. Umpire List or the ARIAS•U.S. Certified Arbitrator List, (b) followed by questionnaire responses and a selection and ranking procedure conducted by the parties. A summary of the steps is set forth here on the website.
2. Use of the umpire selection method set forth in Section 6 of the Procedures for the Resolution of U.S. Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes (September 1999). Briefly, if the arbitrators fail to agree upon an umpire, the parties conduct a selection and ranking procedure which uses a list of arbitrators (e.g., AAA or ARIAS•U.S.) designated in the arbitration clause.
3. Application to an identified “appointer” or “appointing authority,” such as the Superintendent of Insurance in the state in which the arbitration is to be held, the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, the American Arbitration Association, or the International Commerce Commission (Paris);
4. Application to another official designated by the arbitrators; or
5. Application to a specified court.
While no default mechanism for umpire selection is perfect for all occasions, ARIAS•U.S. believes that its Umpire Appointment Procedure has certain attributes that parties should consider in crafting their arbitration clause: (1) both the ARIAS•U.S. Umpire List and Certified Arbitrator List contain a core group of highly qualified arbitrators; (2) those arbitrators are listed because they meet published, objective criteria (not because of a private, subjective selection process); (3) the Umpire Appointment Procedure combines initial random selection (which prevents skewing) with party-controlled ranking; and (4) many practitioners believe that this type of default mechanism increases the parties’ willingness to mutually agree on an umpire without using the default mechanism itself.
If the contract designates an appointer, he/she/it may decline to appoint an umpire, or the office may no longer exist. In such situations, contracts should propose an alternative means of selection. Absent an agreed alternative selection method, the parties must resort to a court of competent jurisdiction.
2.3 “DISINTERESTED” ARBITRATORS:
The parties and Panel should interpret arbitration clauses requiring “disinterested” arbitrators to mean that arbitrators may have no financial interest in the arbitration outcome and are not under any party’s control.
When the arbitration clause requires that all arbitrators be “disinterested,” there is a lack of consensus over whether or to what extent party-appointed arbitrators can be partisan. Some believe the “disinterested arbitrator” requirement give parties a contractual right to a partisan arbitrator. Others believe such arbitrators should be non-partisan in the decision-making process. Absent specific contractual language to the contrary, it is generally understood in the industry that party-appointed arbitrators can be initially predisposed but must remain open-minded and render decisions fairly. Regardless of specific contract language, however, it is accepted practice that all arbitrators should be financially disinterested and not under any party’s control, and that the umpire should be neutral. Examples of a “financial interest” include contingent fee arrangements, bonuses tied to a result, employment by another reinsurer or cedent on the same risk at issue, or a financial investment in a company that may be materially affected by the outcome of the proceedings. An arbitrator is “under the control” of a party when he or she is an employee, officer or director of that party or receives a consulting fee or other remuneration or compensation from that party other than as an arbitrator or umpire. ARIAS•U.S. believes that all Panel members must decide the issues before them on the merits of the case presented without regard to the party who appointed them. Panel members should avoid reaching a final judgment until both parties have had a full and fair opportunity to present their respective cases and the Panel has fully deliberated on the issues.
Unless the arbitration clause specifically provides otherwise (e.g., by requiring that all Panel members be “neutral”), it is accepted practice for a party to speak with a prospective arbitrator before appointment to discuss the case as long as that conversation complies with the ARIAS•U.S. Guidelines for Arbitrator Conduct. See ARIAS•U.S. Guidelines for Arbitrator Conduct, Canons II, V.
It is accepted practice that the parties will not meet with, or discuss anticipated issues with, umpire candidates prior to nomination or appointment. If the parties desire to determine whether umpire nominees have potential conflicts before selecting an umpire, the parties should consider circulating a questionnaire such as Sample Form 2.1., the ARIAS•U.S. Umpire Questionnaire.
2.4 DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS:
The foundation for broad industry support of arbitration is confidence in the arbitrators’ competence and fairness. Panel members owe a duty to the parties, the industry, and themselves. SeeARIAS•U.S. Guidelines for Arbitrator Conduct, Canon I. Panel members and candidates should fully disclose all conflicts of interest, real, potential, or apparent. Panel members and candidates should disclose any interest or relationship likely to affect their judgment, including any facts that might appear to give them a financial interest in the arbitration’s outcome. Any doubt should be resolved in favor of disclosure. See id., Canon IV. The obligation to disclose all past and present interests or relationships continues throughout the proceeding. If any previously undisclosed interests or relationships arise or are recalled during the arbitration, they should be disclosed promptly to all parties and the other Panel members. Id.
It is common practice for nominated Panel members to disclose their contacts with the parties (and their counsel and any known witnesses) in the business world and in prior arbitrations, and with the particular contracts involved in the dispute. A proposed disclosure form is Sample Form 2.1., the ARIAS•U.S.Arbitrator and Umpire Disclosure Questionnaire. The proposed form includes a variety of questions that may or may not serve as a basis to disqualify a Panel member. ARIAS•U.S. believes it is appropriate for parties to seek general background information in addition to information that may serve as a basis for disqualification. ARIAS•U.S. does not recommend that parties be allowed to question proposed umpires about how they will rule in the particular case, though questioning candidates about pre-existing positions, for example concerning repetitive issues, may be warranted in some instances. See Sample Form 2.1., the ARIAS•U.S. Arbitrator and Umpire Disclosure Questionnaire, Questions 6.D and 8. Sample Form 2.1., the ARIAS•U.S.Arbitrator and Umpire Disclosure Questionnaire was originally designed for umpire candidates, but now has been tailored to apply to arbitrators, as well.
Disclosures allow parties to pursue or preserve their challenges to the Panel under applicable law. In limited instances, that information may enable a party to bring a successful pre-hearing challenge to a Panel member’s qualifications. Courts applying the Federal Arbitration Act usually defer challenges for arbitrator bias until after the Panel issues its award.
Early and full disclosure raises confidence in the Panel’s fair-mindedness and makes the arbitration process more efficient. Although ARIAS•U.S. does not propose the use of a form in every case, arbitrators should make such disclosures before the parties accept the Panel as duly constituted. It is routine and appropriate for such disclosures to be made at or prior to the Organizational Meeting. See paragraph 3.6, infra.
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Baby Duck Gets Raised By An Owl And The Photos Are Adorable
Recently, artist and photographer Laurie Wolf was in her backyard in Jupiter, Florida, inspecting all the different birdhouses (also known as nesting boxes) she and her family have put together. To her surprise, Laurie noticed a mother wood duck moving her egg.
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“The mother duck removed the egg from one of our nesting boxes and flew toward this other box with it in her bill,” Laurie said. “We believe that the duck moved the egg because that nest had been raided – there were eggshells at the bottom of the pine tree where the box is.”
“A day or so after we saw that, a screech owl moved into that box.”
A month later, the ducking appeared in the box with the owl. “Seeing the owl with the duckling was honestly the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life! It’s still hard to believe.”
“I’m sure the owl hatched the duck egg because she was in the box with it for a whole month,” Laurie said.
The woman got concerned that the predatory owl might eat the duck chick, so she contacted a bird expert. It turned out, Laurie was right to be fearful. One wildlife sanctuary in her area agreed to look after the duckling if Laure caught it. However, just as she attempted to capture the bird, it jumped out of the nest box and ran away to a nearby pond.
“A bit later, the baby duck was in the hole by itself, calling for the parents,” Laurie shared the update on Facebook. “We believe they heard each other because it suddenly left the box and made a beeline for the back fence and our neighbor’s pond where the woodies have been hanging out.
“Also, we had seen a female wood duck – about three or four weeks ago, remove a duck egg from a box that had been raided by something, and fly off toward this box with it.”
“We lost it in the trees and didn’t want to disturb it. But we believe she put it in this box and the owl hatched it.”
Laurie and her family haven’t seen the duckling ever since. “The pond nearby is on our neighbor’s property and is very hidden.”
According to National Geographic, wood ducks have been recorded living with eastern screech owls in the past as well. “It’s not commonly documented, but it certainly happens,” said Christian Artuso, the Manitoba director of Bird Studies Canada, who made a similar observation back in 2005 while he was studying eastern screech owls for his Ph.D.
Wood ducks are known to practice brood parasitism. This means that parent ducks will sometimes lay an egg or two in someone else’s nest. For example, another wood duck or some other closely related species. “You could think of it as not keeping all your eggs in one basket,” Artuso continued. “If you spread your eggs out, then your chances of passing on your genes are increased slightly, especially if you lose your own eggs to a predator.”
“We know this occurs, but we really don’t know the frequency,” the scientist concluded. “So I was happy to see another example of this.”
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Impressive Risk-Taking: The Ideal City at the Valencia Biennial 2003
Author & Artist: Paul Greenaway
Rich & Strange
Issue 23:3 | September 2003
While the Venice Biennale remains the pre-eminent visual arts event on the international calendar there are now over 40 similar events that claim to be truly international. One of the newest is held in Spain and its second addition in 2003 gave us a tightly curated, human-scale celebration of ideas with some outstanding exhibitions. Developed expediently over the last five years, taking the community with them, the government is changing face and mindset of what was only ten years ago a city in the grip of chronic decay. Paul Greenaway reports.
While the Venice Biennale remains the pre-eminent visual arts event on the international calendar, there are now over 40 similar events that claim to be truly international. One of the newest is held in Spain and opens just days before Venice. For the cognoscenti it is good to be able to tick off several events in one trip; you can 'do' Valencia, Venice and Basel as a group. This year the trifecta provided a good cross-section of approaches to contemporary practice and to curating. For the stamp collectors who want big names and small domestic works Basel was a treasure trove; when more is never enough and quality is not so important, Venice fitted the bill. Although there was some good work there this year, Venice did reflect the uncertainty that the world has experienced in the last two years and mirrored this back to us. The Second Biennial of Valencia gives us a tightly curated, human-scale celebration of ideas, with some outstanding exhibitions and a policy that was not only sympathetic to the artists but financially and morally supportive. New works commissioned by a Biennial, later owned by the artists!
The State Government of South Australia recently held a one-day Arts Summit, in which it asked the 300 delegates representing all the art forms where they saw the city of Adelaide and the state in the year 2013. We were asked for Visions and Strategies, bearing in mind the government priorities for the future direction of the arts and cultural sector: Economic Development, the Renewal of Adelaide and Social Inclusion.
Adelaide is a city of just over a million people, the State of SA less than two million. Valencia also is a city of just over a million people in a Province of less than two. The Valencia Biennial cost close to AUD$6m this year, 65% privately funded with the provincial government guaranteeing the other 35%. Although this biennial has a theatre component and three small projects 'The world saved by Children', 'Ephemeral Architectures' and 'Socioples - Habitat for Solidarity', the Visual Arts projects constituted 80% of the total budget.
'The Valencia Biennial, whose second edition has as its theme The Ideal City, is more than simply an exhibition of plastic arts. It is a social event of the greatest importance. Through an extensive programme of attractive projects, the Generalitat Valenciana's [Valencian Regional Government's] firm policy of converting Valencia into a city of international importance in the realms of contemporary art is renewed and consolidated.'
Jose Luis Olivas - President of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The Secretary for Cultural promotion Consuelo Ciscar Casaban added 'Valencia can through the arts represent the original model for the city of our dreams, a city that is livable, harmonious, welcoming and conciliatory...[demonstrating] in these times through which humanity is passing, that art, culture and community spirit and economy are not hermetic capsules protected by their own sterility'
Now that's Vision and Strategy! Developed expediently over the last five years, taking the community with them, government is changing face and mindset of what was only ten years ago a city in the grip of chronic decay. I am not suggesting Adelaide (Brisbane or Perth) need to copy another European model, hey, we have enough imagination to come up with our own strategies, I hope.
Director Luigi Settembrini in his curatorial notes acknowledges the precise strategy of cultural investment undertaken by the city of Valencia. Teasing and provoking its audience to think about their 'home' and what they want he says:
'Where is society heading at the beginning of this third millennium? What's the brave new world really going to be like? Whether expectant or terrified, these are the questions we are asking ourselves.
'What does city mean anymore? What does home mean? What are the things that make up a city? What are the thoughts, doubts, fears, certainties, reflections that come to meet us face-to-face as we head towards these material and immaterial territories where we live?
The Valencia Biennial through a group of works and projects conceived especially for Valencia will help us to question the power and potential of the city, of The Ideal City, understood as a prismatic place capable of symbolically ordering and accommodating difference and differences without smothering them.'
So the question must be asked: just how successful was this experiment? There was certainly a buzz in the city and around every corner there could be found another piece of art, some installation, a converted house made into a museum or a convent made into a futuristic department store. The concept and ideas were great, the public was fully engaged, but sometimes the art was no more than a decorative panel hung on the outside of a building, like well known British artists Gilbert and George whose large photographic piece Gum City was hung so high so that it became more a pimple on a pumpkin than the monumentality that was suggested in the catalogue.
There were thirteen major exhibitions in this Biennial with a surprisingly small number of Spanish artists represented. While there were a couple of Japanese, Korean and Chinese artists, the vast majority of artists came from Europe and to a lesser extent America. There were no Australian artists.
Three of the most interesting exhibitions in this Biennial are profiled below.
Solares - On Optimism
Curator: Lóránd Hegyi
The solares are abandoned urban spaces which create sun pockets (hence the name). They are often old bomb sites from the Spanish Civil War, irregular empty plots delineated by surrounding walls still containing remains of stairs, tiled kitchen walls or bricked-up windows; the aesthetic of the sites suggests the continuous transformation of culture and the anarchical creativity of urban transformation, showing the scars of forms, uses of buildings, spaces and organizations, communities and other vital processes. In this way they invite us to enter a private, personal and hidden sphere where intimacies may be revealed, turning every observer into a voyeur.
Some 32 artists from all over the world came several times to Valencia (some made five visits) and were invited to carry out site-specific installations engaging the idea of human utopias.
Standout works included Matthew McCaslin's Seed, perhaps the least interventionist piece. With a gestural use of draped cables, fluorescent tubes, an old electric clock and a kitchen sink he addresses the inherent beauty of entropy and structures in decline. Then there was the bold concrete poetry in neon of Maurizio Nannucci, the slightly frightening formal beauty in Bertrand Lavier's Be Lighter and Eugenio Cano's Vigilancia Iluminada or the intense experience of watching a large scale video work by Marina Abramovic. We smile with Polly Apfelbaum's work For Alice; Gloria Friedmann's La vie en rosa and the absurdity of Oleg Kulik's superlarge light box of a bulldog.
By making these fragile and negative spaces positive Solares becomes a true metaphor of the Ideal City.
micro-UTOPIAS
Curators: Francisco Jarauta and Jean Louis Maubant
Approaching and before even entering the Maritime Museum the immediate impression was the boldness of this project. The street had been partly closed and a flotilla of wooden boats spilled out and down the street to greet you. The artist Tadashi Kawamata had collected old, discarded boats over a six month period from nearby docks, private wharves and scrap-heaps. Inside the museum the show was no less impressive from the historically important model of 'Spatiovore'1959 by Constant Nieuwenhuys to the massive Areana 1999 by Rita McBride. Stellar names Frank Gehry, Mike Kelley (sp?) or Vito Acconci also showed impressive works.
Micro-UTOPIAS seemed to be primarily exploring the partly new, partly subtle, intermediary territory halfway between Utopia (of global systems) and Reality (of narratives, soliloquies and narcissistic pleasures). The exponents included radical architects of the sixties as well as contemporary artists prepared to abandon practices focused on the rhetoric of art in order to communicate their concerns about life, the public environment and social phenomena. In this way they have recovered the capacity to establish a dialogue with their public. This is a must-see show which I would love to see come to Australia.
A & M: department of proper behaviour
Curators: Will Alsop & Bruce McLean
In a large internal courtyard of a mid-city convent the artists created five long rooms, open and airy for the most part, to house A & M: department of proper behaviour - a 'shop of experience' where items can be purchased, but which more importantly becomes a part of the day, a place to spend time, where you can sit down and talk; a place that celebrates the artisan as well as the artist, a place of proper service.
It is a place where everything is unique and most importantly a place where ideas, objects and behaviours can be tested, and if necessary can fail with dignity. As the curators said, 'Our shop is nothing to do with the phrases Shop till you Drop or Born to Shop, it is not concerned with mediocrity or price, it is a place to furnish dreams.'
Thinking Big: Spatial Conception in the Art of Dorothy Napangardi
Christine Nicholls
The Warlpiri artist Dorothy Napangardi was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s in the bush near Mina Mina, northwest of Alice Springs at a time when colonisation meant that whites were increasingly encroaching on Walpiri land. Although Napangardi did not begin painting until much later, her childhood spent in the bush gathering the plentiful bush tucker and watching family members catch animals for food has had a critical influence on her artistic work. Because Napangardi did not live in a house in her formative years, the ability to view the landscape in its full 360 degrees enabled a different kind of eye which plays out extensively in her visual scapes. It is in this sense that Nicholls looks at the spatial conceptions of the work of Napangardi.
Vernon Ah Kee, Jewel MacKenzie, Kim Demuth, Annie Hogan
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
12 June - 12 July 2003
Shaun Gladwell
Joanna Mendelssohn
Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Tweak, Tweak, Let's Surf
David Lehmann
Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
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Inaugural year 2002 - 2003
The Meaning of Aboriginal Art
This essay is not about interpreting Aboriginal art rather it is about the wider issues raised by Aboriginal art, issues that tear through the discrete context of contemporary art and connect it to history, to the everyday, to politics and to the future.
The Rodney Gooch Collection: A Major Survey of the Art-making of the Utopia Artists from the Late 1970s to 1998
Janet Maughan
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
If All We Have is Each Other, That's OK
Natalie King
Darren Sylvester
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne
Why Correggio Jones is not The Hero of the 2004 Biennale of Sydney
The title of the 2004 Sydney Biennale was Biennale Of Reason and Emotion, the curator was Isabel Carlos, a Portuguese woman who will stress her cultural links with the New World, but in her case it is South America rather than North. One of the ideas she wished to explore through the Biennale was the concept of south in a world dominated by the culture of the north. As she states "what I really want is to create a Biennale that works on the borders of the perception and on artworks that change our way of seeing the world around us ."
Habitat: Callum Morton
Contemporary Projects Gallery
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
31 May - 17 August 2003
Grant Stevens
Peers Project: Lucy Griggs, Chris Handran, Gia Mitchell, Sebastian Moody and Martin Smith
Studio 11, at Metro Arts, Brisbane
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Three Days In The Costa Rican Rainy Season
Andrea Gourgy
VITAL INFORMATION
Population 4,200,000
Languages spokenSpanish
CurrencyCosta Rican Colon (CRC); 1 USD = 508 CRC
Average temperature57°F -75°F in December; 63°F -81°F in May (San José)
High seasonDecember to April (dry season)
Although Costa Ricans speak Spanish along with their Central-American counterparts, they have their own unique language when it comes to describing the country’s frequent rain. Pelo de gato — literally meaning cat’s fur — refers to a misty rain, an aguacero indicates a fierce downpour, and a temporal describes a continuous, light rain caused by a passing storm.
The rainy season is in full swing in Central America, and for Costa Rica, that translates into six straight months of precipitation every year from May through October. So it’s not surprising that Costa Ricans have developed countless words and expressions to convey all the subtleties of rain.
But even in the rainy season, there is still plenty to see and do in Costa Rica. In fact, the rainy season brings with it certain advantages that the dry season doesn’t have, like cheaper prices, shorter queues and some very unique attractions. So if you’re planning a trip to Costa Rica over the next few months, here is a taste of what the rich coast has to offer in the upcoming rainy season.
Day 1: In the capital
San José is not like any North American city you know. Ancient buses spout thick exhaust fumes and the bustling downtown is lined with numerous armerias (weapons stores) — all of this, of course, simply adds to the city’s charm.
But even though San José is the hub of the country, the city itself is still set up like a small town. One main street, aptly called Avenida Central (Central Avenue), runs through the entire city from west to east, making getting around fairly straightforward. You can walk through most of downtown by foot, but do be prepared to get wet. When it rains here, the streets become virtually flooded, and you might find yourself walking through large pools of water.
Start your day at the busy Mercado Central (Central Market), located downtown on the Avenida Central between streets 6 and 8. Grab a typical Costa Rican breakfast of gallo pinto (rice and beans), or browse through the market’s variety of fruit, spices, clothing, bags, local works of art, and souvenirs.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Texts Jennifer Lopez In James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke'
© Rich Polk/Getty Images for Turner
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Ian Lang
I manned up and texted her and she rejected me. What to do now?
Because there's no such thing as a magic bullet.
As part of his popular "Carpool Karaoke" series, Late Late Show host James Corden featured actress and singer Jennifer Lopez. He chose Leonardo DiCaprio from her list of contacts to text, and his response was kind of hilarious.
Long Story
To imagine yourself as Leonardo DiCaprio means, probably, at any moment you're on a yacht off the coast of Dubai using the hollowed-out base of your recently won Oscar as a champagne coup. Unexpectedly, your phone vibrates with a text from one of the many, many beautiful and famous women in your contacts list. She's looking for fun — but what do you say? As we learned from Jennifer Lopez's appearance on Late Late Show host James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke," the answer is "something pretty thirsty sounding."
Like most Carpool Karaoke segments, Corden drives around with a musician or other celebrity while the two talk candidly and sing along to popular songs (note — JLo can actually sing). This episode wasn't much different, until Corden became so enamored of JLo's A-list contacts that he begged her to let him text one of them on her behalf. He settled on Leo, and sent the following:
"Hey baby, I'm kind of feeling like I need to cut loose. Any suggestions, let me know. J. Lo (you know, from the block)."
Leo, who apparently has his phone glued to his hand (stars — they're just like us!), responded almost immediately with:
"You mean tonight, boo boo? Club wise?"
Yes, when Oscar-winner and supermodel-slayer Leonardo DiCaprio gets a text from one of the most famous and (still) desired women in the world, his response is to call her "boo boo" and immediately suggest getting turnt. Not a bad idea! It's not an overtly aggressive text, but the pet name implies some familiarity, and the tone suggests that while he's not explicitly asking, he's open to accompanying her to said club if she's down for it. I give it a 7/10.
Then again, because he's Leo, he probably could have responded with "¯\_(ã)_/¯" and the resulting panty moisture in the immediate area would still have a profound effect on the global climate.
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To be fair, if JLo texted me I would probably immediately drop my phone and break it.
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Discussion in 'Blu-ray & DVD Players & Recorders' started by peterweg, Dec 20, 2006.
peterweg, Dec 20, 2006
peterweg
This just in from our Tokyo bureau: according to an interview conducted by Japan's Impress, Sony's Ken Kutaragi has gone on record with a "promise" for what he's calling an 3. In other words, audio and video capabilities first, gaming second (if at all), in a device built around the Cell-processor platform. Ken says that the device would certainly be more expensive, reflecting the prices and margins expected on high-end consumer electronic devices such as TVs, Blu-ray personal video recorders, etc. -- not the relatively cheap, but powerful gaming rigs sold at a loss under Sony's Computer Entertainment division. Impress speculates that the device could cost as much as ¥300,000 or about $2,500. The new Sony-branded living room box would, in Ken's (translated) words, "be a standard AV component sized box with a more powerful, power supply unit, anti-shake insulator, twice the main memory, and 2x HDMI to split sound and video output." More Cell-processor devices in the living room? We say bring it, Sony.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/20/ken-kutaragi-sez-i-promise-an-av-centric-ps3/
:us: PS3, Panasonic AE1000, Panasonic AE100, :us: Xbox, :uk: Xbox, Tivo, Denon AVR 3802, Kef, Homechoice.
StooMonster, Dec 20, 2006
StooMonster
This is being discussed over in this thread: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=443038
Too many games, movies, musics, books, parties and not enough time.
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Seasiders stun Largs to end run
Troon coaching team delighted with win against Largs Thistle
COACHING TEAM: Manager Jim Kirkwood (left) and assistant Matt Maley.
FREE-scoring Largs Thistle were out to the sword by Troon at Saturday, with their display earning great praise from Seasiders assistant boss Matt Maley.
Theesel had bagged SIXTEEN goals in their previous three games but the hosts ended the visitors’ three-match winning run and racked up their third victory in succession, winning 1-0 at Portland Park.
Veteran Dean Keenan sealed the win with one of his trademark free-kicks.
Maley was hugely impressed with their efforts and said: “Largs had been on a great run and they are a really good team. But I felt we started really well and Dean Keenan score with a great free-kick which is what he does best. I would say we dominated the first half and sat in for the second half. It was a really good win for us and that’s us three games unbeaten. Our aim is to make sure we stay in this league and hopefully we can achieve that.”
Saturday sees an Irvine Meadow side who registered their first league win, defeating Kilwinning Rangers 1-0, visiting Portland Park for an important game.
Maley said: “This is our local derby as Meadow are the team nearest us and I’m sure they will bring a big support along. Meadow had a good win against Buffs who are a good side on Saturday. But we want to keep up the momentum we have been building up in the last few weeks and take the three points, hopefully we can do that."
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Q City 9-Ball Tour Stop
Spartanburg (SC, USA) - August 25 - 26, 2018
Brown goes undefeated to win $1,500-added Viking Cues' Q City 9-Ball event
Skip Maloney
Junior National Champion Tate wins nine on the loss side to finish as runner-up
When Jason Brown (known as Jaybird) finished in the tie for 7th place at a March 2004 stop on the Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour, and entered the AZBilliards database for the first time, the player he faced in the finals of the August 25-26 stop on the 2018 Viking Cues’ Q City 9-Ball Tour hadn’t been born yet. Brown went undefeated through a field of 82, on-hand for the $1,500-added event, hosted by Steakhorse Restaurant & Billiards in Spartanburg, SC. His opponent in the finals was 13-year-old, two-time BEF Junior National Champion, and member of this year’s Atlantic Cup Challenge team, Joey Tate, who’d lost a match in the third round of play and won nine on the loss side to earn a shot against him in the finals. Tate was one of six juniors who competed in the event.
As Tate was toiling away on the loss side, Brown advanced to a winners’ side semifinal against Marcio Smith. Trey Frank and Tyler Mayfield squared off in the other winners’ side semifinal. Brown got into the hot seat match with an 11-3 victory over Smith, and was joined by Frank, who’d sent Mayfield to the loss side 6-4. Brown claimed the hot seat 11-3 over Frank, and waited on the return of the reigning 14 & Under Junior National Champion.
Tate, in the meantime, was mowing ‘em down on the loss side. Four matches into his loss-side winning streak, he defeated Scott Roberts, and then, Jeff Jordan, both 6-3, to draw Smith. Mayfield picked up Jeff Jordan’s brother, Randy, who’d recently defeated Dustin Brown and Matt Lucas, both 10-1.
Tate and Smith battled to double hill before Tate advanced to the quarterfinals (6-6; Smith racing to 7). He was joined by Randy Jordan, who’d eliminated Mayfield 10-3. Tate had allowed Randy’s brother, Jeff, three racks in their earlier matchup, but shut brother Randy out to advance to the semifinals.
In a straight-up race to 6 in those semifinals, Tate completed his loss-side run 6-2 for a shot at Brown in the hot seat. Tate would have needed to defeat Brown twice in the finals to claim the title, but Brown completed his undefeated run with an 11-4 victory over Tate, who presumably went home to prepare for school the next morning.
Tour directors Herman and Angela Parker thanked Dayne Miller and his staff at Steakhorse Billiards for their hospitality, along with title sponsor Viking Cues, Delta 13 Racks, AZ Billiards and Professor Q-Ball. The next stop on the Viking Cues’ Q City 9-Ball Tour, scheduled for this weekend (Sept. 1-2), will be a $500-added event, hosted by Speak Eazy Billiards in Sanford, NC.
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Douglas Friedman is Cultured
We know that in its purest form, art is about communication. But the adept artist can do so much more. Each piece of work is the beginning of a moment with the audience, a captive moment, and it's up to the artist to use that time well. To communicate the ideas of the project is the base goal, but the artist can go further and construct an entire emotional story in that still moment (or moments in the case of living media or motion). In this way, every moment with an artist can become part of an infinite exhibition, engaging the audience without end, challenging them, provoking them, even teaching them.
For the cover of the latest issue of Cultured Magazine, Douglas Friedman photographed artist Dustin Yellin. Dustin is best known for his gigantic sculptures that dance through enclosed space. First he applies thousands of paper cut outs onto pieces of glass constructing a sort of slice of the final piece. Then he layers them together creating a full three dimensional work. This kind of work requires a vast amount of workspace, something that Yellin has secured for himself, and immediately adjacent to that he’s created an exhibition space, the Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. “It’s an incredible creative complex he’s built out in Red Hook,” Douglas says. “Besides the fact that his studio space is such an incredible creative factory, he is such a fascinating subject to work with.” That fascination made some exciting images.
“I did not ask him to drop his trousers” Douglas announced, without cue. But that doesn’t mean it was uninvited. Must of Douglas’ work features his subjects revealing something that they normally don’t show, and this is by design. Douglas explains: “There’s so much imagery that’s created these days so to kind of encourage a little bit of a wink. That little something extra is what makes the picture that much more interesting to look out. You can see how much more exciting the picture becomes when he does something unexpected.”
To get the cover image, Douglas worked with Yellin’s assistants to provide the feeling of Yellin’s work spreading into his own space. They applied a dozen or so elements onto Yellin’s glasses, and for Douglas it was an initiation into Yellin’s process. “The amount of work that goes into one of those pieces… The time and the effort and the energy and the thought is overwhelming to me,” says Douglas. His own work as an interior photographer employs a similar discipline, moving pieces in his composition, sometimes by the half inch, to ensure they create the image that displays exactly what he’s going for. In many ways they operate in the same process, to similar ends, but at different magnification. “It becomes a bit of a meditation,” Douglas explains. “What a wonderful opportunity to lose yourself in that process to the point where you’re not aware of your phone or the noise that we’re constantly bombarded with on a day to day basis.”
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Secret Agent Man
How to Submit Yourself to an Agency
By Secret Agent Man | Jan. 09, 2017, 02:00 PM
Photo Source: Spencer Alexander
The new year has arrived, and I am doubling down on my efforts to provide you with the kind of inside information that might make all the difference in your career. There are so many advice books for actors, and most of them are written by people who have no business giving advice to anyone. At least here, you know you’re getting the straight dope from the real deal.
Now, I’m sure you made a list of resolutions last week, and maybe finding an agent was at the top of that list. Or maybe finding a new agent was your goal. Either way, I’d like to kick off 2017 with some basic guidance on how to send out a submission to someone like me.
My office, along with the rest of the industry, was closed for the last two weeks. But you know what? During that time, I received 72 email submissions and 12 hard-copy submissions. I’m not sure what the logic behind them was, but I deleted and threw out every single one. I would never want to represent a person who can’t enjoy the holidays without focusing on representation.
But now that I’m back at work, I will look at every submission that comes my way because it’s been my experience that every now and then, there’s a nugget of gold inside that mountain of mediocrity. And signing that nugget is a big part of my job. So here are a few tips on how to make yours shine.
The subject heading in your email should be simple but enticing. “Actor seeking representation” is a bore. “Just got great reviews!” is better. “Referred to you by [insert casting director’s name]” is best.
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You can also have a little fun. I received one submission right before the holidays that said, “Did you see ‘Manchester by the Sea’?” When I opened it, the actor explained how moved he was by the film and how he aspired to be that good.
The attachments should also be simple. I’ve had actors send me as many as 10 headshots. What is that about? Limit it to three. And a PDF of your résumé is fine.
As for the email itself, please don’t send me your life story. I receive gargantuan emails all the time that seem to go on forever. Trust me. You’re not that interesting. One or two paragraphs are plenty.
Mentioning a referral is always a good idea, but here’s the thing: You could be lying. I have no way of knowing. So the referral isn’t really worth much unless the person in question gets in touch with me directly.
And if you’re sending me an old-school hard-copy submission, please don’t include a flash drive with your reel on it. There’s no way in hell I’m going to plug that thing into my computer. I don’t know you, and the drive could have a worm or a virus or some other digital disease.
Yes, this is basic stuff, but you’d be surprised by how many actors get it wrong. And one more thing: Always put yourself on the receiving end and consider what kind of submission you’d like to get. That way of thinking, along with my advice, should help your submission stand out from the avalanche of need I receive on a daily basis.
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Someones Somebody
Wanna Know Love
A lot of artists got their starts on YouTube. Some artists so big, we tend to forget where they came from, like Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, The Weeknd, and the list goes on. That model teen discovered on YouTube trained to become pop star has become fairly commonplace since artists like Biebs got their big break. However, few YouTube discoveries excite us as much as English singer Jasmine Thompson. The 16 year old singer began posting videos at the age of 10 and reached Atlantic Studios just two years later. In 2014, she reached the charts after being featured on Robin Schulz's "Sun Goes Down." She has since released a number of charting singles and continues to develop her voice by posting new covers. Just last week, Thompson and fellow teen singer Sabrina Carpenter covered Harry Styles' "Sign of the Times."
Jasmine recently found herself stateside in support of her recent Wonderland EP. The Atlantic Records release dropped earlier this year and features some high-profile writers and producers. Most importantly, it features Thompson's signature sound, her restrained yet powerful voice accompanied by her tenderly played piano. We were lucky enough to meet up with Jasmine at Atlantic Studios, where we captured a live performance and spoke to her personally. In the interview, she discusses the power of YouTube, the joy of being discovered, and the perks of working for a major label.
Hi, I'm Jasmine Thompson, and we're here at the Atlantic Studios doing a session for Baeble.
I've played in this studio a couple of times before, like, I haven't been here for a year or so.
And the first time I came here was when I was 12, which is like four years ago.
But yeah, I've been here like quite a few times.
Like I love playing with bands, and I love playing with other musicians.
There's something really special about collaborating with other people.
But it's really special when you can accompany yourself even if it's just like singing acapella.
But when you're alone, and when you just play the piano and sing at the same time, that's when you truly go into your own little bubble, because you're not focusing on anyone else.
You're just focusing on you and the piano and how you want to express your emotions through your fingers and like playing a couple of keys, makes these noises that just like, mean something.
So yeah, it's like my favorite thing to do when I'm alone.
People who matter don't mind They don't need all of my time
Somebody told me to light up every room Make them remember you
But nobody here knows what I'm going through
No they never do I miss my old friends
They know when I need them the most Made some new friends
and they're cool friends But they don't know
What I do, what I got, who I am and who I'm not
I miss my old friends
I miss the good times we had Now I don't know who's got my back
And somebody told me to light up every room
Make them remember you But nobody here knows
what I'm going through No, they never do
I miss my old friends 'Cause they know when I
need them the most
Made some new friends and they're cool friends
But they don't know What I do, what I got, who I am
and who I'm not I miss my old friends
Hey now, hey now I know everybody changes
Hey now, hey now And I just want familiar faces
Hey now, hey now Growing up can be amazing
But it can even break your heart
I miss my old friends When I need them the most
I miss my old friends I miss my old friends
'Cause they know when I need them the most
I made some new friends and they're cool friends
But they don't know What I do and what I got
who I am and who I'm not
Because I really enjoyed music like even before I was eight I was just always singing in the car, listening to music all the time.
And I was like, "Oh, I want to learn how to play instruments and how to use my voice properly.
And then when I was 10, I started posting videos of me singing on YouTube.
What I love about YouTube is like it's a really friendly sort of space.
You can be in like a little bedroom in London and then people all the way in Germany or Indonesia and America, it's like a worldwide platform.
So people anywhere can find you and, like, listen to what you have to say, what you have sing what you have to do on your channel.
And it's just like, it's a really friendly creative community, like, there were other covers like La La La by Naughty Boy.
And it got onto the radio in London, and it was just like, my little cover of it.
And I was like, I cannot believe I've done a cover of a song and it's on the radio in London.
Like, it was just so weird.
I remember, like, my dad was with me, and it was playing on the radio.
And my whole family was just like, "Oh my God.
" Yeah, honestly, I was just like, "Why is this happening?" I was so happy.
Can't control you Even though I want to
And you know it's torture 'Cause you brought someone new
And I can't ignore you Even though I'm trying to
I might need a doctor So nervous next to you
Hell and hello Yeah, those two words
Are oh so close Oh baby, can you tell?
That I feel pain I can't let go
Won't let you be someone's somebody Can't see you with no one else
No, nobody, hmm Someone's somebody
Should tell you that you can't leave this party
With her
Hmm, hmm Hmm
And I got some feelings While you're holding hands right now
Know that I was healing 'Til you both came around
Don't you call her baby Boy, you better watch your mouth
'Cause it's too soon, way too soon to say it
And I'll bet you don't know how it feels to be me right now
And I bet you don't know what it's like to be talked about
Here trying to get me some closure, have composure and be poised
But it's hard to watch you leave 'cause I can't let you be
Someone's somebody Can't see you with no one else
No, nobody but me Someone's somebody
Should tell you that you can't leave this party With her
Ah-ah No, no, hmm,
Hmm, hmm Hmm, hmm, hmm
So I have an EP coming out called Wonderland and it's a very personal EP to me.
I've been working on it for like the past year or so with a bunch of different writers from L.
and I've just had so much fun, like, working on it.
And it's my little baby.
Like, I definitely feel like it's more personal and more truthful.
I got to work with Justin Tranter, and Julia Michaels BloodPop, who've literally been like smashing the U.
charts recently.
Like, they've written songs for Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Gwen Stefani.
Like they've spent so much time on my project, like, they honestly treated me like their little baby.
So when I went into the studio for the first time with them, I was like, "Oh my God I can't believe how lovely they are.
" Because it's easy to be, like, kind of scared when working with sort of like top people, especially because I'm quite young, and I'm quite like inexperienced in the music industry.
Like, from them I learnt that music is really just about that natural kind of instinct.
It's not about trying to be anything, or trying to prove anything.
It's literally just like trying to be yourself.
And what I loved about them is, like, everything was so simple and nothing was overthinking.
It was literally just like the basic melodies, the things that felt right, the words that you would say in a sentence.
Nothing overcomplicated or trying to be special.
It was just, like, people would want to hear what is natural to you.
So I loved, like, being in touch with them and just feeling really comfortable.
You keep promising me That you're, you're gonna try
That things are gonna change But when, babe, I'm on the edge of this
Don't make me jump, I wish You'd give me more than this
But you don't And I'm so tired
Of asking you for Attention
I need more Than you're giving
So give it to me
I wanna know love Wanna know what it feels like
Wanna hold it in my hands 'Til I truly understand
I wanna know love Wanna know what it tastes like
Something bigger than I am We'll make it something tangible
Love, love I wanna know love, love
If I wanted to leave Would you come running after me?
Or would you let me leave? Come on, babe
Would your perception change Or will it stay the same?
Maybe you should do it Maybe you should try it
Maybe I'll like it
And I'm so tired Of asking you for
Attention I need more
Than you're giving So give it to me
Love, love I wanna know love,
Maybe I'll like it And maybe you should do it
Maybe you should try it Maybe I'll like it
Maybe I'll like it So give it to me
And I wanna know love Wanna know what it feels like
I wanna know love, love Wanna know what it tastes like
Something bigger than I am
I wanna know love, Ooh, I wanna know love
I wanna know love Ooh, I wanna know love, love
I mean we could use vocabulary To spell out everything that we feel
I mean we could use a dictionary To define a feeling we know is real
But there's no words needed
If you ate pie and mash in central London last year theres a chance your waitress was an internationally-recognized singer songwriter with millions of monthly listeners and YouTube subscribers, half a million Instagram followers, platinum discs in a box at home, and a string of viral hits to her name. That name would have been Jasmine, and if youd got chatting with her pretty likely, because she likes a chat shed have told you her story: YouTubing at 10, in the Top 40 by 13, signed to a major label at 14. Shed have told you all about those dizzying highs.
And then shed have told you about how, when she was 16 years old, she quit the whole lot.
When I was younger music used to be the thing that made me happy, she explains today. But a couple of years ago everything changed. I became angry towards music, and towards myself. I didnt play piano for six months. I couldnt even listen to music. Everything turned upside down and I wanted to hit reset.
You might already have guessed that theres a happy ending to all this: a collection of new tracks that show this extraordinarily gifted vocalist and songwriter growing into her own talents under the collaborative stewardship of legendary tunesmith Eg White, whose flair for pop has impacted artists like Sam Smith, Adele, and Florence + The Machine. Under Whites mentorship Jasmines delivered a gutsy, emotional and totally honest raft of new material that complements the intensity of the songs that kickstarted her career back in the day but adds a whole new level of emotion and perceptiveness.
Still only 18 but wise beyond her years, Jasmines now in the creative and mental position to make good on her early promise, with no half measures. There was a time not so long ago when Jasmine would look in the mirror and see, staring back, someone who knew she wanted to do music, but had no idea what she was doing. Now I see someone independent, she says. I see someone more okay with whats going on. Someone trying to deal with their shit, and whos a work in progress but accepting of that.
Jasmine grew up in central London where her family four of them in a modest two bedroom flat lived in a spartan housing block from whose windows they could see, on the other side of the road, huge four-story townhouses where the areas wealthier inhabitants lived. After her parents divorced when Jasmine was seven she saw her mother working as many as four jobs at a time but always prioritizing her kids creative development. (Perhaps no surprise this was a mum who one day, apropos of nothing, bought a second hand green screen, just so she could mess around with video special effects at home.) Unsurprisingly, then, when Jasmine started using an old iPod to record videos of herself singing, they ended up on YouTube.
Jasmines first upload was a cover of Bruno Mars The Lazy Song, and of course Jasmine was one of thousands of kids doing exactly the same thing, but something about Jasmines videos clicked. More followed, and Jasmine quickly zoomed past her first thousand subscribers. (Today, that figure stands at over three million.) Id get comments on my channel, she remembers, and it was people going: why is this girl always singing sad songs? Shes twelve! Actually, she says now, the videos were showing a young talent coming to terms with a family life that hadnt always been easy, and she was finding her voice through music. Mine wasnt always the perfect family and I think that affected me subconsciously even more than I realized, she adds. When I was younger, music was a way to dive into my sadness.
In any case, Jasmines music continued to make waves. A cover of Naughty Boys La La La ended up on Radio 1; her self-released version of Chaka Khans Aint Nobody (Loves Me Better) charted in the UK Top 40 after it appeared on a massive TV ad campaign. Jasmine released two independent albums; an Aint Nobody remix by Felix Jaehn became an unexpected smash in 2015, going platinum around the world, when Jasmine was still just 14 years old. Signing to Atlantic Records, Jasmine had the chance to work with talents like Meghan Trainor, Steve Mac and Jake Gosling on music that eventually became the Wonderland EP. And it was great, until it wasnt. In 2017, while on the Asia leg of a world promo tour, a switch flicked. A simple delayed flight prompted a meltdown. I was being the biggest diva Id ever been, Jasmine grimaces. I was like, were going straight home as soon as possible. Thats it. It shocked her team, and it shocked Jasmine. I didnt want to do it anymore, she remembers.
These days she knows that many of the problems lay in the lack of connection she felt with her music she hadnt written most of the songs on the Wonderland EP. Weirdly, she felt less connected to that music than she did to the straight-up covers shed been making on YouTube. She felt as if she was being dishonest with her fans, and that something had to change. The first step required Jasmine to grab the situation with both hands and thats when, quite by chance, she ended up in a Carnaby Street pie and mash shop with her mates. She got chatting with the owner, attempted to compliment the food and accidentally applied for a job. I said, 'Id work here just so I could eat the food every day, Jasmine laughs. [The restaurants manager] went: 'Are you serious? Jasmine was asked for her waitressing experience: none. Her CV: non-existent. Her age? Well, she was 16, but shed be 17 in a week. She got the job.
Occasionally her record label would check in to see how she was doing. Sometimes her manager would email with news of big gig offers, which would be turned down. Then one day Jasmines creaky old laptop looked like it was about to die, so she started moving all her stuff onto an external hard drive, and she found a folder of songs she hadnt finished. With fresh ears she could hear that among the songs with which she felt no connection it felt like listening to a younger person I wasnt attached to any more was a handful of unfinished music that stood out. All the songs were with Eg White. I called my manager, Jasmine says. And I said: 'Do you think we could do one last session with Eg? Well, one last session became several months of sessions. Eventually, as a body of work started to take shape and Jasmine felt herself being pulled back into music, she gave up the waitressing.
Flashforward to 2019 and Jasmine Thompsons ready to release music with total clarity. In Loyal, she sings of the relationship that had ended just before she was reunited with Eg White. When theyd started writing it a year earlier, Loyal was a song about trust issues within that same relationship. We didnt trust each other, Jasmine reports, and as it turned out, we both had good reason. Also, he owes me 600. Loyal, in the end, became something rather pensive: Im still loyal to the person I met at the beginning, who made me really excited and gave me butterflies, Jasmine notes. But Im not loyal to a guy who was a total dick.
Another standout track, Colour (Amen), is principally written about issues that have plagued Jasmines fathers life for as long as Jasmine can remember. But from the outside, its easy to wonder if it applies to the last few years of Jasmines life. Its about being in a sad space, then finally being able to get out of it and seeing things other than the sadness in front of you, Jasmine explains. Its about getting to a stage where somehow youve come out the other end and you actually feel positive again, and you feel good about something. Its saying: even though Ive waited a long time to feel happy, Im secure in myself.
Jasmines favorite book, shell tell you, is The Alchemist a mythology-ish tale of a kid who has a dream, believes hell find treasure, embarks on a massive journey, and endures endless conflicting advice from everyone he meets. Life doesnt go in a straight line, is Jasmines reading of the tale sometimes its a zig-zag.
Despite Jasmines own sense of direction being be so disastrous that shes literally got 'LEFT and 'RIGHT tattooed on her wrists, theres no doubt shes heading in the right direction now, and as she prepares to release her strongest material to date, she might already have found her own treasure. Oh, and if you fancy pie and mash at any point, you might be in luck. Jasmine loved her time at the restaurant so much that she still helps them out with cover shifts.
POST | SONG OF THE DAY: 'Words' by Jasmine Thompson
Just yesterday, English singer Jasmine Thompson released her new video for "Words," the latest single off of her EP Wonderland....
POST | NOW PLAYING: Into Wonderland with Jasmine Thompson
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PC Games > Adventure Games > Azada ®
Azada ®
Trapped in a haunted room by his great-uncle, the adventurous Titus has asked you to help release him from the magical spell. To do this, you must solve the most mysterious puzzles of Azada. Crack the series of puzzles and fill in the missing pages of the enchanted book to free Titus from his prison.
Over 40 unique puzzles
5 master-level puzzles
Hidden clues unlock levels!
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8
Azada: Ancient Magic
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Azada ® is rated 4.4 out of 5 by 76.
Rated 5 out of 5 by SusanHunt from Azada I really enjoyed this game very much!!
Rated 5 out of 5 by AdrianaIP from Great collection of puzzles Azada is just puzzles and puzzles, some easier than others, and skipping is not an option (you are given only a limited amount of skips, so save them for REALLY tough games - I used mine to get out of the Simon Says puzzles as I am no good at those). Nice variety of puzzles, some wich can be done quickly, and some tougher. The HOS scenes were the toughest as you had to find some itmes and THEN figure out what to do with them, and whehter or not to combine them. I really sweated when I had to get the crystal out of aquarium... Great way to entertain yourself on a rainy afternoon.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tasha77ns from fun Fun Hidden Object Game, super...the best
Rated 5 out of 5 by rheashard2 from Revenge of the books. This is an oldie but goodie game. I purchased it awhile ago. Then recently replayed it. It was as much fun this time around as the the first. This time however I managed to complete it. I liked the fact that many mini challenges changed with each chapter restart. I enjoyed the timed mode the best. It motivated me most to finish the harder challenges. At the start of each chapter you'd get the storyline ongoing. I enjoyed the fact that it was revenge of the book that got the main character in trouble in the first place. For me it was easy to find the hidden objects but hard as heck to figure out how to use them.
Rated 5 out of 5 by zeldaqn from Puzzlers Dream Only puzzles and none of the nonsense to get to them. I am going to go get the rest of them now. There were a couple that made no logical sense to me, but that's what the magic orbs are for :).
Rated 5 out of 5 by SugarMax from Quite a Puzzling Adventure I tried to play this game on a tablet and struggled mightily. Tried again on my PC and just loved it. The story is not strong but the puzzles are continuous and challenging. Some of the puzzles do repeat, but they get harder as the game progesses. There is a timed element which adds to the experience. Graphics are outstanding. I also liked that the game could be played in small segments, as I had time, without losing focus.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Wandakal1 from Mind puzzle arcade! Even w/o standard hos this is a great game and one you should try. Pretty sure you'll purchase after trying.
Rated 5 out of 5 by cbilbo from Geez! It's butterflies! I bought this game not realizing it was all puzzles. This is a totally different genre than what I normally play. By the time the game was over, I was pulling my hair out. This game is extremely challenging. Each level gets more challenging as you advance. I found that I was watching the timer more than anything. Twice I had to start all over, because of stupid mistakes I made. I can't say more without giving away the game. If you want a great game that frustrates you to no end, then this is it!
Rated 5 out of 5 by palomino69 from Excellent game! My favourite of all the Bigfish Games I own I love the fact that this game is timed, it adds to the excitement. The chapters, and games within each, get more difficult as you proceed. If you fail a chapter, you get another go and by doing so gain better knowledge and understanding of what is required. Very clever and well thought out game, with great graphics and good music. I love the fact, that once completed, you can then play each of your favourite puzzles within each level. We played it each weekend as a family, with each family member, completing the puzzle they preferred. We didn't need to skip, ask for a hint or use any walk through and had so much fun. Fabulous game! Thank you Bigfish. Please continue making more complex puzzle games like this.
Rated 5 out of 5 by nwyn125 from Love this game!!! Okay this game review is long overdue. This was the first video game I actually downloaded from Big Fish Games. I loved the puzzles and brainteasers. I liked how each page had a mini-challenge. The graphics and the music was amazing. I also liked the challenge. The storyline was also good. For those who have played the newer Azada games should definitely play this one to find out why it was one of the most popular and successful game on this site that spawned Azada Ancient Magic and others.
Rated 5 out of 5 by SEBEKA1023 from CHALLENGING PUZZLES If you like a game that is different and challenging, this is it. With most games I can watch TV at the same time - this had to have my full attention - I call that the best type of game.
Rated 5 out of 5 by cclearwater from Puzzles, puzzles, puzzles I have played over 120 HOG's just for the love of puzzles. Took me that long to find this pure puzzle game because it is an older game. Hurrah. No more slogging through HO scenes and running to and fro picking up stuff just to get to the puzzles. Developers -- there is an audience for pure puzzle games! More like this please!!!!
Rated 5 out of 5 by poustetine from Relaxed and atmospheric puzzle game The 1st and, to me, the best of the Azada serie! I'm less convinced by the 2 sequels, which are more hidden object orientated. The plus in this first version of azada: Once you have completed the story, you have a complete access to all the puzzle to play again at will.
Rated 5 out of 5 by emynnky from Great variety in one game Love the puzzles in this one. I wish the sequels would have been this good. I would love to see more games like this with interesting mini-game/puzzles and less hidden object scenes.
Rated 5 out of 5 by natashaet from An All Time Favorite!!! I just love, love, love this game! I've recommended it to countless friends and family. Thinking games are my cup of tea, and most all of the puzzles are get to your head! SO MUCH FUN!
Rated 5 out of 5 by clkleinhans from Many different puzzels! This is one of my favorite puzzle games, because of the variety.
Rated 5 out of 5 by sudsysuzy from Unexpected joy If a puzzle has a timer, it is normally a no-buy. I am really glad I took a chance on this game. It is just a wonderful fit with my expectations of a good puzzle game. I even found the timer a plus as it forced me to think before I played. If you enjoy the mini-games in HO games, welcome to Azada.
Rated 5 out of 5 by riley41608 from FUN FUN FUN!!! I HATE THAT IT ENDED!! Game is so fun and just challenging enough! Loved it! Can't wait for more!
Rated 5 out of 5 by kazkins38 from really fun it keeps me and my kids entertained for ages
Rated 5 out of 5 by CanadianMae from Loved it but... ...didn't love how it was timed. Even if I was able to bank my time after each chapter, it wouldn't have been so bad. I also found that the "tamper-proof" book could be a little touchy when I tried to place something in my inventory. I'd hear that noise and see my time slip away. With that all said, it was a unique and enchanting game. I love various puzzles and I was able to note where my strengths and weaknesses were. Once the game is completed, you can play all the puzzles in relaxed mode. I love the music, it's very appropriate for the story. And the story kept me hooked right until the end!
Rated 5 out of 5 by HappyGrandma38 from A lot of diiferent puzzles Of all the games I have, this is the one I played most. But I still have some problems with the robot and the matches. Maybe next tim it will be better.
Rated 5 out of 5 by felth from azada ancient mystery Very good I enjoyed it. After playing the first azada I had an idea what to do to continue the books, but without that knowledge I think I would have been stumped, brilliant game, this is what I like. Many thanks and can't wait for the next one which I really hope there will be.
Rated 5 out of 5 by lilpsychic79 from loved the game love the game cant wait for more to come
Rated 5 out of 5 by baba247 from This is one of the best games of all I just realized that I hadn't given a review on this one and I refer to it often when I give reviews to other games. So here is my review I think that this is such a great challenge game, it will keep you on your toes if that is what your looking for . This game has many games in it and each one is unique but there are some that may seem to repeat just in a bit of a different way. The picture, sound, and color are great, there is magic and there is suspence. Threw out the whole game you will be lead threw many different games and you will need to really think threw some and I had to keep a paper and a pen close to write down once in a while for a couple of the games, anyway I have and will continue to say this is my favorite game, until I find one that can out beat this one but it will have to be pretty amazing . Good Luck Awsome game.
Rated 5 out of 5 by towanda123 from Excellent puzzle game This game was great!! Challenging . I am working on the second installment which does not measure up to this original! The puzzles are great and I am hopeful another of this caliber comes out soon. Developers..Go with what worked in this first of Azada!!!
Rated 5 out of 5 by BellaMorte from A Good Challenge Awesome graphics, puzzles and storyline. A nice challenge that isn't too impossible to solve. One or two mini games gave me the pips but all fun just the same.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Rebr2009 from Awesome !!! Several different games and so much to do, ..it is impossible to stop playing until it finishes. Great graphics ! Great story.
Rated 5 out of 5 by OldLady12 from This is an awesome game! We purchased this game a while ago, so had to replay to see what it was about. There is minimal story line, but a wide variety of games to play. All are awesome! Yes, there is a timer, but it is 35 minutes for each chapter and some games can be completed in less than a minute. You can also select which page (mini game) to play in the chapter so you can get all the easy ones done first and take time on the harder ones. Also, skip points accumulate for games not to your liking and after the first chapter, you have the option of playing mini games over & over again, so you can practice on all of them. There is the option to have many different players, so we start and play for an hour at a time as each of our characters to compete against each other. I highly recommend this game if you love all varieties of mini games of easy to sometimes hard challenges.
Rated 5 out of 5 by VENICELOVER from Really game me a run for my money It's taken me months to finish this game. Since it was timed & consisted of puzzles I needed to be fresh when I played it. If you really want a challenge this is the game for you! Once you get the hang of it the puzzles go a bit faster, but they do get harder towards the end. I also tried Azada, Ancient Magic. Sorry excuse for a sequel and I don't recommend it. For a 2nd game in a series it was way too easy!
Rated 5 out of 5 by marg6043 from The best of Azada This one was my first Azada game I purchase back in 08, I love it, the puzzles were good, the challenge was OK, just enough to keep you interested.
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What is Azada ™? Uncover the secret in the missing pages of an enchanted book and break free from a magical puzzle prison.
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In Session With A Silent Film
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Where Snowbirds Have Flown
There are big things happening on A Silent Film's new, self-titled album. It's a vibrant and dramatic collection of pop-rock anthems, not unlike the arena-honed craft of contemporaries like Coldplay and The Killers. In celebration of its release, The Oxford UK outfit recently swung by our Brooklyn pad for a stunning session.
In conversation, Spencer Walker describes the band's music as sounding like, "If you were in a dry riverbed and then from the mountain came down a giant stream of paint and it just hit you in the face." Which is exactly why we wanted to get the band in our studio after premiering their interactive video for their single, "Lightning Strike" last month.
In session, the band dials back some of those expansive sonic properties on record into an acute, acoustic formation, allowing both the power and the diverse color of their songwriting to cut straight to the surface. "Lightening Strike" is here, along with inspirational album opener "Something To Believe In".
But there's probably no more powerful moment than when singer Robert Stevenson sits down alone at our 1928 Steinway and belts out the delicate, yet emotionally devastating closing track, "Where Snowbirds Have Flown". When Walker mentioned A Silent Film's music hits you right in the face, he failed to touch on the impact it has on the heart. This is emotionally compelling music of the first degree. Give it a spin in our incredible new session.
11.6.2015 A Silent Film at Baeble HQ
about our first trip to New York was definitely that we actually heard our song on the radio while sort of driving into New York.
So with that skyline and sort of that feeling when you're coming from such a long way when you admire a city so much, the feeling of knowing that you deserve to be there, that you're almost being invited to be in this important city is just amazing.
remember that our manager at the time booked us into the Holiday Inn just across from Manhattan.
- Jersey side.
It was like "We're going to New York!" and then we never actually made it to New York.
Don't you leave me all undone
But don't you leave me in a foolish heap
on the floor.
Don't you leave me with the light on
Got a hunger that I need your attention for
You've been getting me fired up
Then you ignore me while you're fooling around with your friends
Don't you leave me on the back seat
And don't you leave me with my engine running again
Are you ready for a big show?
I've been waiting for it all of my life I see a storm on the horizon
Are you ready for lightning to strike?
Don't you leave me in the morning
Don't you leave me with this half-drunk bottle of wine
It's not a metaphor for what we have
Or a metaphor for what we could be leaving behind
I'm a stranger you befriended
on a night when you needed some warmth in your veins
Are you ready to be needed?
Are you ready for the hurricane that's heading our way
Are you going to make your own choice?
Are you going to light 'em up tonight?
Cause you're the storm on my horizon
And I am ready for the lightning to strike
Are you ready for lightning?
I'm reaching out for you
I don't believe this is an ending
I don't believe it with it with you standing in the pouring rain
You wouldn't dare to set the cliche.
You wouldn't stop me when I just got up the courage to say
that I'm ready for a big show
I've been waiting for it all of my life
Don't treat your heart like a broken bottle
You can't make it with a love that's not right
Are you calling out in your own voice?
Don't turn your back on me tonight
Cause I'm the storm on your horizon
and are you ready for lightning to strike?
Are you ready for, are you ready for, are you ready for lightning to strike?
- I like the idea that it's as Lightning Strike and as you sort of see the song at face value could be about a one night stand.
But if you read deep into the lyric, it's clearly about something more than that and there's a longer term story there which I like.
I love imagining there's a sort of John Cusack character with the ghetto blaster over his head, in my head, when I'm singing and thinking about that song.
And that to me I just enjoy that.
That's really cool.
- It was really when the single came out in America that it sort of just escalated a little bit.
We were just really fortunate on that first single.
I think someone very wise told us at that point that the best thing we could do, is if you want to actually take advantage of it is to, I think his words were, "Tour your asses off.
" - I think the touring life has definitely always been, it's almost like we were being held back by something up until... So I have no problem with the hardships that come with touring.
- There's nothing you could do-- - No substitute.
- No substitute for getting in front of an audience and cutting your teeth, there's no, there's just no... - You always have to be open to the fact that there's always more to learn and just when you think you've probably covered every situation that could possibly happen on tour, the next day something happens and you're like that's so weird.
How do we deal with this? I'm a flickering flame without your touch
You give me something to believe in
And deep where the concrete meets the rush
I need something to believe in I'm not waiting any longer
You give me something, something to believe in
I can't shout it any louder.
So give me something, something to believe in
I am floating on a wave in the atmosphere
Give me some other reason
Spiraling out there's no doubt it'll all disappear
So give me something to believe in. And I'm not waiting any longer
I can't shout it any louder
You give me something, something to believe...
Tomorrow is another day.
Tomorrow is another day
I'm not waiting any longer.
Give me something, something to believe in
- I think that we work very well as a pair because we have a lot of complimentary skills.
- We met at school, principally.
We were both in different bands, very competitive.
We were actually competitive drummers.
- The band's based in Oxford in England and we live sort of around there.
- But right now we hang our hats in the back of our van.
- It's a van hat wearing time.
- It sounds like if you were in a dry riverbed and then from the mountain came down like a giant stream of paint and then it just like hit you in the face.
That image is what I think the record probably sounds like.
That's the closest we could probably say.
So I think we were excited to do this record and just not hold back.
And if we felt like a song had to go in a certain direction, we took it as far as it would go in that direction.
It's just positive and it's optimistic and it's hopeful but it's still got the emotional sort of draw that we're really...like that's just a big part of what we do.
- We hope that our music has meaning to people.
That's certainly something we set out to do.
We don't want to be part of fad or just a band that is cool to like.
We want to be a band that actually means something to people.
And I think that's what we achieve, certainly on stage, with the stage show and that's at the very core of what we're trying to do, I guess that's what's important to us.
Where the snowbirds flew one by one
to the farthest point from the sun
Over evergreens and fjords like lightning strikes in the living rock
Oh where daybreak meets the dusk with a warm embrace
and our shadows stretched like rubber bands
I will meet you where your white skin and the snowbirds have flown
And I will meet you where your white skin and the snowbirds belong
We must leave this place where regrets are bricks
and we're building these walls with alarming pace
Will you go with me where animals sleep
through ferocious echoes from underground
And where love rolls through your body like thunder and I am the storm cloud
Well don't you, you belong.
You belong. You belong
We'll go where you belong.
A Silent Film are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consists of Robert Stevenson, Karl Bareham, Ali Hussain and Spencer Walker.
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Arrest Made in Goucher College Racial Graffiti Cases
Dec 04, 2018 1:46:00 PM EST
Posted by: jpeach@baltimorecountymd.gov
UPDATE (December 4, 2018 1:46 p.m.):
After consulting with the State's Attorney's Office for Baltimore County, four additional charges have been sought against Fynn Arthur in the form of a court issued summons:
Two counts of bias instigated destruction of property
Two counts of animosity instigated harassment/destruction of property
UPDATE (November 30, 2018 3:46 p.m.):
Fynn Arthur was released on his own recognizance following a bail review hearing this afternoon.
This case will be forwarded to the State's Attorney's Office for Baltimore County for further review and determination of whether criteria exists for prosecution as a hate related crime.
Original Release (November 30, 2018 1:10 p.m.):
Police have arrested and charged a man in two recent incidents of bias-based graffiti discovered in dormitory bathrooms at Goucher College.
Fynn Ajani Arthur (21) of the unit block of Spring Street in Brunswick, Maine, a student and resident at Goucher College, was arrested and charged last night with two counts of Malicious Destruction of Property.
The first incident was reported on November 14 when a student found racially charged graffiti written in permanent black marker in a first floor bathroom stall around 4:30 a.m., including a swastika symbol, a racially motivated threat, and three dormitory room numbers which were occupied by black male students. The students in those rooms were interviewed at the time and none could provide any suspect information or motive for the graffiti. One of those students was Arthur.
Yesterday, around 2 a.m., a student reported more racially charged graffiti in a second floor bathroom stall in the same building, including swastikas and "KKK," and appeared to include the last names of four black students, including Arthur.
Working with Goucher College Public Safety, Baltimore County Police partnered with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Baltimore Field Office yesterday to further the investigation into both of these incidents. The conclusion was that both incidents involved the same suspect, and evidence uncovered during yesterday's investigation indicated that Arthur was that suspect. He was located on campus and arrested around 6 p.m.
Arthur is currently being held on denied bail status at the Baltimore County Detention Center pending a bail review hearing.
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Tyco's Revenge
Updated May 10, 2004 12:01 am ET / Original July 16, 2019 8:23 pm ET
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BY ALL MEASURES, the quarter ended March 31 was a blowout for the once notorious conglomerate Tyco International . And the good news could keep coming for some time.
CEO Edward Breen appears to be achieving all the efficiencies that his predecessor, the disgraced L. Dennis Kozlowski, claimed to be fostering but never instituted. Says Merrill Lynch analyst John Inch: "Koz knew how to acquire businesses but not how to run them -- Breen is really starting to deliver."
The stock is poised to deliver, too. Five months ago we predicted that the shares would jump at least 20% in the near future ("The New Tyco," Dec. 15, 2003). That goal was easily achieved in March, when Tyco briefly rose above 30; it was around 25 at the time of our story. It currently is changing hands around 28.
That's still a long way from Tyco's all-time high of above 60, touched briefly in late 2001 before the scandal erupted. But Inch and Prudential Equity Group's Nicholas Heymann -- both prescient bulls in our last piece -- now see the stock hitting 35 within 12 months, up another 25%.
In reporting last week on its second fiscal quarter, Tyco said it had made $782.4 million, or 37 cents a share, compared with the year ago period's profit after a flurry of special charges of $124.3 million, or six cents a share. This year's per-share number beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share. But the real margin of outperformance was actually five cents a share; the latest number included four cents of divestiture and restructuring charges that were excluded from consensus forecasts.
Business was particularly strong in Tyco's health-care-products operations, which include everything from sutures and syringes to bed pans, pharmaceuticals and gauze pads. Tyco's electronics business (a major factor in connectors and cable assemblies) enjoyed strong revenue growth from a recovering global economy, though restructuring charges and higher copper and gold prices caused a modest drop in operating income. Picking up the slack in operating income were Tyco's fire and security operations, dominated by the ADT monitoring service, and the Engineered Products and Services unit.
Tyco also boosted its earning per-share target for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 from $1.52 to $1.58 a share, and said it expects to generate some $4 billion in free cash flow for the year.
Our earlier story lauded the changes being wrought by Breen, who had parachuted into Tyco in July 2002, shortly after Kozlowski had resigned. Kozlowski and former Tyco Chief Financial Officer Mark Swartz have since stood trial, accused of looting Tyco of some $600 million, but the proceedings ended in a mistrial. The pair will be retried shortly.
We detailed how Breen was generating cash to pare Tyco's burdensome debt, integrating far-flung business operations and cutting costs through economies of scale. Breen was doing a nice job of chopping redundant costs while still judiciously spending on new products.
Heymann of Prudential was positively ebullient about the company in a report he put out after last week's earnings release. "Every once in a while, things seem to come together so well for companies that you find it hard to believe," he wrote. He compared the turnaround of Tyco to a film of Humpty Dumpty seen in reverse, where all the pieces come rapidly together as Humpty levitates from the ground back to his perch.
-- Jonathan R. Laing
Printing Money
Lexmark gets lift from Dell
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL WAS one of the few technology companies that managed to prosper in the industry's downturn -- and there's little reason to think it will let up now that tech is poised to recover. At a recent 92, the printer maker's stock has surged 40%, or more than double the gain of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, since we profiled the company a year and a half ago (Nov. 18, 2002).
There is little that's sexy about the Kentucky-based maker of laser printers, ink-jet printers and supplies; that's what made it an appealing pick then, and that's what makes it an appealing pick now. The former unit of IBM -- it was once best known for cranking out electric typewriters -- recently posted an impressive first quarter and gave the impression that it planned to keep the heat on its rivals. Fueled by surprising double-digit revenue growth, to $1.26 billion, first-quarter profits rose 28% from a year earlier to $121 million, or 91 cents a share. The Street was expecting 87 cents.
While the company serves both consumers and businesses, consumers have been carrying the load, happily printing up school reports, letters and digital photos -- and replacing cartridges as often as necessary. "I believe that the business customer continues to lag," CEO Paul Curlander told Barron's.
But that hasn't quelled his optimism. Although known for extreme caution, the CEO has suggested that next quarter's sales should remain quite high -- "high-single-digit growth to low-double-digit growth." It has been more than two years since the last time Lexmark told analysts that sales could exceed single digits.
What's behind the surge? For starters, a new partnership formed with Dell -- the computer giant slaps its name on Lexmark printers and sells them -- has yielded better-than-expected results, says analyst Laura Conigliaro of Goldman Sachs. While business with Dell accounts for only 6% of Lexmark's total revenue, it may have contributed as much as 40% to the increase in first-quarter revenues, she says.
Curlander downplays the closely watched deal with Dell. "We tell the investment community not to count on [the Dell relationship] for growth," he says. But growth from the deal may soon be impossible ignore.
Several hardware analysts already have been bumping up their earnings estimates. Conigliaro has increased her 2004 estimate to $4.05 a share from $3.85, suggesting that shares could hit 105.
In addition to the fruits of the Dell deal, she points to the introduction of new printers and rosy expectations for the high-margin ink-jet supplies business as the economy continues gathering strength.
The stock isn't cheap. It trades at 23 times the consensus estimate for '04 earnings, versus 18 times for Canon and 14 times for Hewlett-Packard . But the revenues and earnings growth could well justify that.
So go ahead, hit the Print key. Certainly, Lexmark's stock chart from the past two years is inspiring enough to print out and keep.
-- Mark Veverka
Lawn Order
Briggs & Stratton powers up
THERE'S MORE TO SUBURBAN living than mowing the lawn. There's also washing the deck and preparing the house for emergencies like blackouts. Briggs & Stratton is starting to cover all the angles -- and shareholders are reaping the rewards.
Long the world's largest producer of gasoline engines for lawn mowers, the Milwaukee-based company is pushing with great success into pressure-washers for decks, portable generators and even small outboard engines (all diligent homeowners deserve a little fun on the lake).
Investors have clearly taken notice, sending the stock up by nearly 50%, to a recent 73, since we profiled the company last year ("Splendor in the Grass," June 9, 2003). That was far above the 13% gain of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
Michael Schneider, an analyst at brokerage firm Baird who follows the company closely, figures it will continue to grab market share in pressure-washers, generators and other new businesses while retaining its leadership in mower engines. Add in continued cost controls and the stock should head to 84, he says.
Certainly, the new businesses more than pulled their weight in the quarter ended March 31, the company's third fiscal quarter. Sales from these lines shot up 32%, to $125 million. That helped power a 17% gain in total sales, to $655 million, and a 60% jump in earnings per share, to $2.88 -- well ahead of analysts' expectations.
Even after the past year's run-up, the stock trades at a reasonable 13 times Schneider's '04 earnings estimates. And thanks to sensible balance-sheet management, there could be a stock buyback in store: Briggs & Stratton should have more than $400 million in cash, or $16 a share, by June, Schneider reckons.
There's money in them thar lawns.
-- Harlan S. Byrne
Its shares could rise another 20% as the new era unfolds. Take that, Koz!
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Ned Garver’s Son Talks Autographs
October 27, 2016 March 10, 2014 by Tom Owens
A good pitcher and great storyteller.
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Typical childhood? Imagine watching your dad mobbed by pen-wielding strangers. Consider seeing your dad shuffling more letters and envelopes than 10 secretaries.
Such was life for young Don Garver and his much-adored pitching dad Ned. I’m grateful for Don, who was willing to give the hobby a look back at life with a high-profile parent.
Q: How old were you when your Dad played?
A: I was born in 1944 so I was on the scene for most of his playing days. I remember very little about his time at St. Louis. I was 8 years old when he was traded to Detroit and I have a lot of memories of the years in Detroit. The players and families did a lot of things together on off days during the season and during spring training. Lots of days at the beach and a lot of good eating. His years with Kansas City were my favorites. I was old enough to be batboy each year during spring training. What an experience! I never got out to Los Angeles.
Q: It’s obvious that your Dad carefully reads all his letters from fans and collectors. What was his method for handling the mail so well over the years? (After all, he had coaching in baseball, not in being his own secretary! And, on www.sportscollectors.net, I saw that collectors who recorded their attempts tracked Ned Garver at a perfect 415-for-415 in replies!).
A: He read and answered all of his fan mail just as he does today. He looked at fan mail as his duty to the fans. He never asked for help and nobody read his fan mail but him. I never heard him complain about having to deal with fan mail.
Q: You knew him as a dad. How did it feel seeing fans clamor for an autograph from Ned, from people who saw him in a very different way?
A: When eating out it was normal to have our table visited by autograph seekers. We didn’t think anything of it. And I never saw him turn them away. After the games it was normal to be approached by a large group of autograph seekers as we stepped out of the clubhouse door. I was always with him in the clubhouse after the games. I had a uniform in Kansas City and spent most games watching from the bullpen. When we walked out of the clubhouse I would walk over to the exit gate where my Mother would be waiting. She never missed a ballgame unless one of us was sick. There were a few players that walked right through the crowd and never signed anything, but most of them were like Dad. They signed until they were all gone. I knew that was the way it was going to be every night. And I was smart enough not to complain about it.
Q: Your dad’s letter was very humble, replying about his continuing devotion to signing autographs being “It’s always been my policy.” I pointed out that the majority of people writing him today may not have been born when he pitched. Why do you think he’s still so devoted to pleasing fans and collectors, when others from his era might hang up their pens and say ‘I’ve done enough.’?
A: I believe he will continue to try to please fans and collectors as long as the majority of them are respectful and sincere in their request for autographs. There are quite a few people who try to take advantage of him by asking for things that are just unreasonable. Some examples: Sign a dozen baseballs with stats – no postage, no tip, no thank-you, no please. Some people want him to write a few pages telling his most memorable events in the big leagues. That is why he wrote the books. To tell them about his baseball life.
Players of today don’t sign autographs. Maybe they don’t get paid enough! So, fans of today can’t get anything from the players of today but they still like to collect autographs, baseball cards, signed baseballs, etc. In an attempt to get some autographs they started contacting players of my Dad’s era and found that a lot of them not only gave them what they wanted but provided them with addresses of other old-time players that were glad to help them out.
Q: Based on the recent letters you’ve seen your dad receive for autograph requests, would you have any tips for writing former players in their 80s (besides sending the SASE)?
A: Be respectful, always make the return mail process as easy as possible. Everything is worth more if it is signed. So if they sign something for you send them a few bucks to show your appreciation. Don’t overdo it on the signing. Asking them to sign 5 baseball cards is enough. Use your head! Be kind!
You want to thank Don and Ned for their devotion to the hobby? Order Ned’s new book (autographed, of course) for only $25 postpaid from:
Don Garver (Ned’s son)
113 Avalon Drive
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Thanks for posting about this. My request for Ned’s new book goes out tomorrow!
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Hampshire & Isle of Wight selected
'I think more girls should do karate' Jump to media player Carla Rudkin-Guillen is taking on the world and has Olympic ambitions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-43373527/hampshire-11-year-old-wins-international-karate-gold
Meet Britain's world champion karate kid Jump to media player Great Britain's karate world champion Jordan Thomas is dreaming of success at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/38275957
Mini MBAs - would you enrol your child? Jump to media player A firm in Singapore is offering a mini MBA for nine-year-olds, but how many extra activities should a child do?
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Arena attack survivor returns to karate Jump to media player Eight-year-old Lily Harrison has recovered from her blast injuries and rejoined her club.
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Ban new diesel lorry sales by 2040, urges NIC
The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) is calling on the government to ban the sale of new diesel lorries by 2040.
The call comes in a new report published on 23rd April 2019, which says the development of hydrogen and battery-powered heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) “is already well advanced”, with the cleaner alternatives expected to be commercially available in the early 2020s.
The NIC, which provides the government with impartial and expert advice on major long-term infrastructure challenges, believes the move is necessary to ease “worsening congestion” and help make UK freight carbon-free by 2050.
It is urging the government to set the trajectory for a clean freight system within the next two years, outlining long term objectives to enable the industry to become zero emission, helping tackle air pollution and deliver on the nation’s climate targets.
The UK’s freight system moves around 1.6 tonnes of goods a year, with the final delivery in vans and HGVs making a significant contribution to congestion in busy towns and cities.
Road and rail freight account for 6% of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and NIC says this could increase to 20% by 2050 if no action is taken.
The NIC recommends ministers to establish a new Freight Leadership Council, bringing together government and industry for accelerated progress on long term issues.
It adds the government should introduce new planning guidance for local authorities by 2020 so they can incorporate effective policies and schemes for freight as part of their local transport plans
City authorities should incorporate plans for freight as part of their long-term infrastructure strategies, covering transport, employment opportunities and new homes
The government should develop a framework for minimum standards of freight data collection to support the development of the freight policies that form part of these long-term infrastructure plans.
NIC Chair Sir John Armitt said: “Whether it’s retailers, manufacturers or each of us as consumers, we all rely heavily on our freight industry. As one of the most efficient in the world, it rarely fails to deliver. But we are paying the price for this miracle of modern service through the impact on our environment and air quality and through congestion on our roads. The government must act to help businesses tackle these issues.
“Today’s report says we need to set out bold plans to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel HGVs, bring emissions from freight on both road and rail to zero and give the industry greater visibility in Whitehall and town halls.”
Government response
A government spokesman said: “We are investing record amounts in our transport network to move goods and people around the country quickly, easily and cleanly. Tackling the issue of pollution and investing in green technologies is a priority, which is why we have a £3.5 billion plan to improve air quality and reduce harmful emissions.
“We are taking action now to incentivise freight companies to move to cleaner HGV fleets, including through investment in research and development for greener vehicles and by introducing higher charges for the dirtiest lorries using our roads.”
The government previously pledged to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040.
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Alex Verus Books In Order
Publication Order of Alex Verus Books
Fated (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Cursed (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Taken (2012) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Chosen (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Hidden (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Veiled (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Burned (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Bound (2017) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Marked (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Fallen (2019) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Benedict Jacka is a renowned author of fiction and real time books. Alex Verus series of books has been the latest and is proceeding to the future. The storyline is unique with very dramatic and interesting happenings. Jacka adopted the modern real happenings in the story, which makes it a favorite for many. The books have a modern base covering all circles of a society.
Urban life has many weird and extra ordinary lifestyles. Alexis Verus ventures in the business of extra ordinary in the busy town of London. He runs a shop where he trades magic for a few bucks. Of course we all love magic and that is why the shop is quite popular. Since he describes his work as not dark magic, many people believe in his powers.
Verus specialization is divinity of the future happenings. He seems very talented in predictions that always come true. He unveils most of the later occasions in the storyline. Although he uses the principle of possibilities, his magical powers have no one else in the town. The legacy of true future probabilities is entirely to him and that makes him the centre of all other characters.
However, we are not talented in everything and the story proves so. Regardless of the inbuilt magical powers, he has a force weakness. With this limitation, he creates a lot of drama as mages try to overthrow him and take his magical powers. On his side, he fights for the good of the people since the mages have no good intention on access of the powers.
The storyline
Fated is the first episode of Alex Verus that was publishes in 2012. His super powers are intact right from the beginning where he takes the fate of the society. One time, he has a tough decision to make on a relic that would cost the whole society. He foresees the curses carried by the package but on the other hand, the mages are at his neck. It is a life decision that will determine his future.
Alex’s problems do not end there as the foes follow him to the Cursed episode. Deleo and Cinder are after some woman’s secret and Verus has the task of rescuing her. This time, his life is in danger as the Belthas (mages Council), wants him dead. Again, he has to decide on whom to defend between his life and that of the woman. Victory for the woman would mean victory against his foes.
Predicting someone’s future is not always easy, especially when his or her future is not that good. In his endeavor to search for an apprentice, he trusts no one. Anyone who gets too close and learns some skill from him disappears mysteriously. This creates worry in the magician as he feels that he might be the next to disappear. If only he had evidence that the mages are tracing him, he would feel safer.
If you can see what is going to happen in the future, you are sure to escape evil. This is the case with Alex Verus and he is protecting the good too. However, his spirit of helping turns against him and he finds himself answering dark magic accusations. His past is not very straight and his master is coming. What kind of reputation will he get and is he worth the people’s wrath?
Not everyone wants Alex Verus’s help, in as much as he or she requires it. With this kind of situation, Verus has a tough time convincing Anne, his friend, about some trouble that will befall her. The dark power image on him makes him loose some trust form the people he has served for so long. The good is mostly returned with evil,…
The rumored master is in town now and Alex requires support from his friends. His predictions of the future will not help him detect the most trusted friends. He finds himself working with Caldera who leads him in a death row for possession of property of the Council. This makes his need for reliable friends mandatory, before it is too late. How will he determine when everyone seems a foe?
The death mission against Alex strengthens by day given the law enforcement powers from the council. With an execution already on him, he has the guts to stop his friends from protecting. Him being the centre of everything, he has to fight his life and that of anyone at risk. However, he will have to convince his master why he needs to save his life. He is at risk of losing his magical soul.
With this dramatic story, the future edition will define what happens to his execution case. Will his master be kind enough to allow him save his life? What if he has to undergo execution, what will be the future of magic and what will the Council gain in return? All this will be in the next episode of Alexis Verus series.
The basis in Faded and Cursed
Alex Verus is a diviner whose aim is helping the society through foreseeing the future. He shop is very successful and the London people love him. However, being too good makes people create doubts against him. His past life was not very straight and he has a master who rules his soul and magical powers. He is entitled to his orders and wrath if need be.
Not everything goes as planned since the curse from Faded gets access to the same people he fights to protect. This is the source of future encounters deals with. Later in the episodes, he has to pay the price with his own friends and his own life. They add up to the reason why the master will not adhere to his mission to defend self in the execution case.
Alex Verus series scope
The author, Benedict Jacka, creates scope of how the urban society behaves. The main character, Alex Verus magic is meant to protect people from future evil. His weakness of brute forces ends up making him a victim of the same society. Some people focus on his past mistakes to execute him, forgetting the wrath he saved them.
The eighth episode is necessary read to see the rolling out of Alex Verus events. We might have a new star in the series.
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