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. ‘Drug Dealer, M.D.’: Misunderstandings And Good Intentions Fueled Opioid Epidemic
‘Drug Dealer, M.D.’: Misunderstandings And Good Intentions F I see a lot of patients with mysterious chronic pain syndromes, and many of them are young people who otherwise have no evidence of disease, but are completely debilitated and nonfunctional by their mysterious chronic pain syndromes. What ends up happening to these patients often is they get “medicalized,” and by that I mean they end up seeing four or five or 10 different specialists. Everybody has a different diagnosis. They get poked and prodded and “surgerized,” and by the end of it they come out five or 10 years later with real bona fide physical problems because they’ve had so many surgeries and so many interventions. And by then they’re also on very high-dose opiates.
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Battling Opioid Epidemic In North Carolina
President Obama signed legislation this week allocating $1 billion dollars to address the nation’s worsening opioid crisis. Overdose deaths are on the rise, and current policies are inadequate in addressing the issues. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Louise Vincent, a recovering addict, who lost her child, Selena, to a drug overdose. He also speaks with officer Donnie Varnell about how the law enforcement community is trying to address the problem. The North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition offers information and resources for those seeking assistance.
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Long-Term Opioid Use Linked To This Mental Health Problem
People who take prescription opioids, which are used for treating pain, for longer than a month may have an increased risk of developing depression, according to a new study. Pain itself can also lead to depression, but in the study, the link between depression and opioid use held even when the researchers accounted for the potential contribution of pain to depression, according to the study. Therefore, if people who are taking opioids for pain notice they have been feeling depressed, both they and their doctors should be aware that the use of the drugs, and not just the pain, may be a potential source of the depressed mood, the researchers said.
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Have you been lucky enough to visit Puerto Rico? If you haven't, you're missing out, and if you have, isn't it time to return? Let's show Puerto Rico the love during this important time of rebuilding. Much of this beautiful Caribbean island is open and ready for business. There’s never been a better time to cruise from San Juan.
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This Southern Caribbean itinerary maximizes your island time. You'll spend only one day at sea while visiting eight consecutive ports of call. It's an unbelievable cruise vacation value. Besides taking in the ABC islands — Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao — you'll sail along to St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Kitts, St. Maarten, and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. You'll have abundant opportunities to explore the Southern Caribbean the way you want. Beach it one day and go four-wheel driving the next. It's all about you: That's the Norwegian Cruise Line Freestyle Cruising Experience where you choose what you want when you want.
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Would you rather stuff another turkey or stuff your toes into a white sand beach? It could be time to create a new family tradition where the holiday season is all about fun — no hassles, no cooking, no deadlines, just fun. Wouldn't that be life changing? You'll be pampered to no end on an exotic Southern Caribbean cruise where you'll visit an array of different islands with only one day at sea. Go ahead and skip the horrible Black Friday lineups and head to Grenada and Barbados instead. You know you want to.
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Recently refurbished in 2016, Norwegian Dawn offers the quintessential Southern Caribbean cruise experience. Check out The Cellars – A Michael Mondavi Family Wine Bar and enjoy a meal at the brand-new Los Lobos Cantina serving upscale Mexican cuisine. Guest favorites include the stylish Sugarcane Mojito Bar and the 24-hour, Irish-themed O'Sheehan's Bar & Grill. Additional ship updating extends to the Mandara Spa and the Stardust Theater, as well as to Norwegian Dawn's staterooms. These updates include the spacious three-bedroom Garden Villa suites, which come complete with floor-to-ceiling windows as well as certified butler and concierge service.
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Built in 2010, the beautiful Norwegian Epic was recently refurbished in 2015. This popular ship is so popular that it's been awarded Best Ship Entertainment by Frommer's — now that designation is impressive. Norwegian Epic is offering the new Broadway-style show Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical based on the hit movie. You can see the all-new, awe-inspiring Cirque Dreams Epicurean and the wildly popular Latin-themed Burn the Floor. Norwegian Epic also offers The Haven, home to Norwegian Cruise Line's most luxurious accommodations, allowing you to cruise the Southern Caribbean in sumptuous style.
To truly show Puerto Rico the love, why not book a pre- or post-cruise stay in San Juan? Stay in charming Old San Juan or venture to the Condado beachfront where you'll find plenty of upscale dining, entertainment, and casinos. Meander along some of the cobblestone streets in Old San Juan and marvel at the Spanish Colonial architecture as you make your way to the 16th-century Castillo San Felipe del Morro, where you'll find quaint cafes, galleries, and shops along the way. You can go on a Puerto Rican cuisine tasting tour or learn about the history of rum — yes, the samples are included.
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Founded by the Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, St. Petersburg has for centuries been the cultural centre of Russia, with its spectacular architecture, Tchaikovsky operas and the famous Kirov ballet. It has undergone many changes over the decades, but "The Venice of the North" remains a dazzling cruise destination, a Russian city with a European flair, a city with more than 200 museums, and one of the largest English gardens in Europe!
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Sat, 22 Oct 2016
Best of West Berkshire recognised at business awards
Companies from across district awarded at glittering black-tie gala dinner
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THE biggest night in the West Berkshire business calendar didn’t disappoint as companies from across the district were recognised at a black-tie gala dinner at Newbury Racecourse last week.
Hungerford’s Cobbs Farm Shop & Kitchen was the star of the show, taking home not one, but two West Berkshire Business Awards (WBBA), including the prestigious Newbury Weekly News business of the year.
The popular farm shop – which has a butcher, fishmonger, an award-winning delicatessen vineyard, café, florist and a brand new play barn – also went home with the Newbury Racecourse Rural Award.
Shop manager Esther Wheble said: “I think we were all just shocked when we won the biggest award.
“We were surprised to win one, let alone two. It is just amazing and I really want to thank all of our staff and loyal customers. We are so pleased and excited.
“When our category came up my heart was beating so fast. The atmosphere was amazing and we are all still buzzing.”
The awards, which were this year sponsored by the NWN, recognise and celebrate the success of the local business community.
The evening, hosted by Special Auction Services (SAS) director Thomas Plant, kicked off with a drinks reception, before harpist Rosie Oliver entertained the guests and Darryl Rose supplied his own unique style of magic.
There were nine individual categories for companies to enter, covering all aspects of business and charity.
For a full list of all the winners, plus more reaction and pictures, pick up a copy of this week's Newbury Weekly News.
Picture by Dan Newberry Photography.
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BOMB Magazine - Summer 2017
Issue Number: Number 140
Published Date: Summer 2017
Publication Cycle: Quarterly
Review by: Cheryl Wollner
BOMB puts artists in conversation with each other. In the Summer 2017 issue, art is broadly defined and equally celebrated: poets and directors and architects, all are welcome at the table to open up the discussion on art, its legacy, history, and future. Particularly through reviews and interviews, BOMB lays bare artists’ inspiration, where creators and their creations speak to each other across time.
Clinton Krute reviews Albert Serra’s film The Death of Louis XIV, beginning the dialogue on how art is built on a legacy. Krute balances the plot of the film (King Louis XIV is dying) with the director’s choices and enough context on French film history to understand why this film matters today. Krute may use terms such as “French New Wave cinema,” but never fails to provide context. We don’t need the details on what French New Wave is to understand Krute’s film criticism that links “the decadence of an eighteenth-century court and the decline of the generation that has dominated post-war twentieth-century culture and politics.” For readers without a background in academic film studies, Krute provides a simple overview of the film that generates a viewer’s interest to see the work for themselves.
When Frank Gesualdi interviews Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee—of the architectural firm Johnston Marklee—the three address the necessity of history to inform the architecture of the present. The interview highlights Johnston Marklee’s current projects, including the Chicago Architecture Biennial which they’ve titled: Make New History. As Lee explains, they chose this title because “progress is related to an engagement with history [ . . . ] we wish architecture could be less cyclical, less revolutionary and more continuous in its evolution.” For Johnston and Lee, it is both more radical and more effective to build upon the work of their predecessors, instead of rejecting that legacy. Readers will not need a background in architecture to be drawn to Johnston Marklee’s approach and the stunning accompanying photographs of their work.
The strength of BOMB’s interviews come from the rapport between the interviewer and the subject. In the case of Porochista Khakpour interviewing Lidia Yuknavitch, the two are friends. Khakpour interviews Yuknavitch about her most recent novel The Book of Joan, a futuristic speculative fiction novel on Joan of Arc. Yuknavitch relays the importance of uncovering the “female badasses” of history and as the interview progresses, a female writing legacy emerges through Yuknavitch’s words. She says, “we are walking body stories: our own as well as stories that came before us and stories that will come after.” The power of this interview is in how Khakpour and Yuknavitch take us on a literary journey through Yuknavitch’s body of work and the stories of other female speculative fiction authors. From this interview alone, you’ll have a dozen books to put on your reading list.
The centerpiece of this issue is dedicated to the poet and activist John Giorno. Spanning Giorno’s career from The American Book of the Dead (1964) up through the present, BOMB returns to Giorno throughout this issue with an interview, two of his poems, and a curation of photographs and fliers from the John Giorno archive. Verne Dawson’s interview establishes Giorno in the history of poetry. As a performing poet, Giorno speaks about his poetic inspirations T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas, but how “[i]n the 1940s, there was no such thing as a poetry reading.” Dawson’s interview becomes a history of Giorno’s relationship with the art and poetics scene of New York in the 1960s. It’s this same sense of time and culture, that leads to Giorno’s most-recent poem “Wish-Fulfilling Jewels & the Poet.” He traced his father’s lineage back to Italy in the late thirteenth century where his relative, Donus Pane et Vitum, was a priest. This poem that crosses time and space where Giorno utilizes modern language with fluidity and grace, “We are 13th-century cross-dressing priests, / drag queens.” With fantasy elements, Donus knows of Giorno, knows of the past and the future, further linking history and the present. Giorno’s poem bridges the gap between history and today through storytelling.
BOMB is a conversation between artists, and this issue reveals the legacies each artist inherits. No one creates in a vacuum. Every piece published is inspiration for future artists to create, to add to this legacy, and build upon the continuous history of art and artists. Let BOMB start your conversation.
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Review Posted on September 19, 2017
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Zwane on dairy farm: 'I just played an oversight role'
Sarel van der Walt, Netwerk24
Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane. (Pic: Gallo Images)
Magashule: No secret my son works for Guptas
ANC secretary general Ace Magashule on Monday said it was no secret that his son worked for the controversial Gupta family, but insisted that he is not involved in the Vrede dairy farm debacle. WATCH
Magashule avoids questions on his role in failed Vrede dairy farm
Magashule: No secret my son works for Guptaswatch
PP report into Vrede diary farm project delayed because of ANC conference - Maimane
Pretoria – "Remember, you are not guilty before you are convicted in court." This is what Mosebenzi Zwane, the beleaguered Minister of Mineral Resources, said in an interview on Friday with eNCA.
Zwane said at the Swartklip Platinum Mine, near Northam, in the North West, that he wouldn't allow his name to be "unnecessarily dragged through the mud".
He said he supported an investigation by the Hawks into a Gupta-linked Vrede dairy farm and would cooperate if required to, but that as far as he knows, he has done nothing wrong.
When the former Free State MEC for agriculture was asked about his involvement in the Vrede dairy project, he said he was only involved as MEC in an oversight role.
Zwane's former office at the Free State's department of agriculture was one of the locations that were searched during raids by the Hawks on Friday, Netwerk24 reported.
The office of Free State Premier Ace Magashule was also raided.
Two specialised units of the Hawks were searching for specific documents and electronic data linked to the case, spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi confirmed to News24.
The Free State government said in a statement, just after midday, that it would cooperate fully with all investigations into the alleged impropriety at the farm.
The National Prosecuting Authority is investigating allegations that the provincial government paid R220m to the Guptas in what the Asset Forfeiture Unit labelled "a scheme designed to defraud and steal monies from the department".
READ: 'Let the Hawks do their job' - ANC on Magashule raids
Zwane was accompanied by North West premier Supra Mahumapelo. Both of them are allies of President Jacob Zuma and supported Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's presidential campaign last year. Mahumapelo, who stood next to Zwane during the interview, defended him, describing him as a soldier in the fight against poverty.
"It is opportunistic, it is wrong of people to ask for the removal of the secretary-general of the ANC (Magashule) because of what is happening today. Only once someone is found guilty must they vacate their post. Mahumapelo earlier said during his speech at the mine: "Zwane must stay focused and fearlessly implement the ANC's national democratic revolution."
The law must take its course, but state institutions must not be used to settle political disputes, he said.
At the ANC's 54th national conference in Johannesburg last month, a resolution was passed that anyone suspected of being involved in fraud or corruption must appear before the party's integrity committee and vacate their post in the ANC and government.
When eNCA's Samkelo Maseko asked Zwane if he was a corrupt politician, Zwane said he has been a supporter of the ANC's fight against corruption.
"I am also one of the people who supported the idea that someone was not guilty until they are found guilty in a court." He said that if he is found guilty or implicated, he will be a loyal cadre of the ANC and "do the right thing".
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Buchanan County officials are monitoring the potential this week for high water from flash floods to cause travel problems for motorists on East Mitchell Road, where a gate can be closed to prevent vehicles from proceeding eastward out of the St. Joseph city limits in the vicinity of the One Hundred and Two and Platte rivers.
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More flooding maybe ahead
City, county keeping eye on rising waters
By Ray Scherer News-Press Now
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Continued bouts of heavy rain Tuesday are causing city and county crews to stay on guard for the potential for roads to be inundated by water.
Buchanan County Emergency Management Director Bill Brinton told News-Press Now he had no new word as of mid-afternoon on roads being closed due to high water. Brinton said he had personally checked the levels of both the One Hundred and Two and Platte rivers just east of St. Joseph.
“Rivers aren’t out yet,” said Brinton.
Although the county had been teetering on the edge of inclusion in a flash flood watch earlier in the day, the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill later revised the map to include the county.
Many of the county’s most flood-prone roads are located in the southern and eastern portions, with the Eastern District consisting of about 15 of the most susceptible roads.
The county has a plan in place for its roadways in case of heavy rains. For example, ditches along East Mitchell Road have been designed to alleviate high water flowing out of the Platte.
“We’ll be monitoring the Platte River,” said Brinton. “Our crews go out and look at the river.”
Otherwise, for the county, all roads that were closed due to the Missouri River flooding in March have since reopened, with no reports of any standing water.
Brinton said no appreciable changes are anticipated in the Missouri River levels. The Platte River at Agency, Missouri, measured at 10.82 feet and was expected to rise to 19 feet later this week. Minor flooding occurs at 20 feet.
City of St. Joseph spokeswoman Mary Robertson said street crews automatically monitor areas that flood. She cited the 3200 block of Faraon Street as just one such example.
Motorists are notified via the Nixle alert system of the city’s decision to close streets to traffic due to high water, said Robertson.
The National Weather Service says low-water crossings are at the greatest risk for flash flooding.
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Recruiting, Retaining Officials Challenges State Associations
By Tim Leighton on April 05, 2017 hst
Long odds stare at an official before he or she even takes that first step onto a court, field or sheet of ice. New officials face a journey filled with criticism and angst that, ultimately, lead most to quickly and defiantly blow the final whistle on the avocation.
The rewards of officiating aren’t immediately realized in the face of sportsmanship issues that have created an exodus of officials that is at an alarming rate.
National surveys reveal an average of about only two out of every 10 officials return for their third year of officiating. The low return rate is paving the way to a nationwide shortage of officials that has high school administrators scrambling to cover games. It is also prompting high school associations across the country to formulate creative ways to retain the officials they have rostered.
“Year 3 is when we cross our fingers,” said Mark Uyl, an assistant director with the Michigan High School Athletic Association. “It is like the freshman year in college. It is a make-or-break kind of year. Every state association in the country is feeling the effects of an officials’ shortage. It is getting harder and harder, not only to recruit new officials, but to retain them for years to come. That is the challenge that confronts us.”
Solutions can’t come soon enough for Matt Percival, the activities director at Eastview High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota, in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul. With game-time looming, it is common for Percival to be scrambling, moving quickly to fill officiating vacancies, primarily at the sub-varsity levels.
Percival said moving games to different days of the week has been implemented, and this travel may continue to ensure that games will be staffed with officials.
“The problem isn’t new,” he said. “It’s gotten progressively worse over the years. One of the most stressful things for an AD is when officials aren’t assigned or don’t show up. When that happens, no one benefits.”
Programs to combat the challenges of recruiting and retaining officials are popping up throughout the country by state associations.
The Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) has offered discounted registration fees to new officials, as well as reduced rates when they return for their second and third seasons of officiating. In 2015, the MSHSL launched a “Thank A Ref” campaign encouraging its member schools to show support for officials.
Schools responded with public-address announcements during games, news releases to newspapers and on-court recognitions. Establishing and strengthening existing mentorship programs with Minnesota officials’ associations is ongoing.
The MHSAA website is dotted with photos of officials posing with mentees and sharing their purpose statements.
The South Dakota High School Activities Association advertises the need for officials with a classified adstype section on its website, identifying games that need officials.
“We are losing officials because of sportsmanship issues from participants, coaches and fans,” said Pete Vrieze, commissioner of the Middle Border Conference in northwestern Wisconsin. “We certainly lose officials to other things as well, but for the most part, on-court issues are driving newer and younger officials away. They say ‘the heck with it’ and aren’t interested in spending their free time in oftentimes volatile situations.”
Veteran officials and officiating administrators agree that establishing strong mentorship programs are vital to helping new and younger officials cope with negative on-court situations. Those relationships
help provide stability to a new or younger official and provide a sounding board to help get through troublesome times.
“When things go south for an official, you’ve got to have that sounding board, someone that knows and understands what they are going through,” Uyl said. “The biggest thing you do as a mentor is listen and then reinforce all of the positives of officiating. Ninety- to 95-percent of the officiating avocation is a great, great thing.”
Vrieze oversees the mentorship program as the director of basketball operations for the Minneapolis Officials Association, a pioneer organization in Minnesota that for decades has provided football and basketball officials for the MSHSL.
“As officials, if we don’t get a pat on the back once in awhile, it can be a discouraging thing,” Vrieze said. “We need mentors with passion, someone that wants to help others. We aren’t interested in veteran officials that are worried about losing their assignments to new and younger officials. We need officials to have the mentality that I need to train officials not to replace me, but to work with me.”
Not advancing through the officiating ranks quickly enough is also contributing to the avocation’s struggles to maintain a strong roster of officials.
“We are in the ‘I’ generation and them asking why I wasn’t there yesterday,” said Harry Kitts, a retired Minnesota educator who officiated and was an assignor for more than four decades.
Kitts officiated for four years in Iowa before beginning his officiating journey in Minnesota in the 1969-70 school year. Most of the officials in that era were educators who would work games following the school day. If officials weren’t available, coaches would be recruited to work games.
Working a doubleheader was commonplace, too. There was no such thing as just a varsity assignment as is the case now. If you were a varsity-caliber official, you were also required to work the B-squad game prior. Kitts said officials accepted all and any assignments given to them, unlike today when officials present specific criteria of the games they will work to their assignor.
Despite his experience in Iowa, Kitts was not assigned a varsity game in his first season in Minnesota. His first varsity game would not come until his second season. He credits working with a veteran official who gave him his chance to show his skills. Kitts would move on to work 20 MSHSL state tournaments.
“Officials are too anxious these days to sprint right to the top and to do a state championship game right away,” Kitts said. “Officials need training. They must learn and work their way up, just like anything else. When officials don’t feel like they are climbing the ladder quickly enough, they often quit out of frustration.”
State association administrators remain focused and diligent that the campaigns to recruit and retain officials will be a success.
“Our success and experience in officiating give us the confidence moving forward,” Uyl said.
Tim Leighton
Tim Leighton is the communications coordinator for the Minnesota State High School League and a member of the NFHS High School Today Publications Committee.
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Nov. 9, 2016, 2:24 p.m.
The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse
Segregated social universes, an industry moving from red states to the coasts, and mass media’s revenue decline: The disconnect between two realities shows no sign of abating.
By Joshua Benton @jbenton Nov. 9, 2016, 2:24 p.m.
One way to think of the job journalism does is telling a community about itself, and on those terms the American media failed spectacularly this election cycle. That Donald Trump’s victory came as such a surprise — a systemic shock, really — to both journalists and so many who read or watch them is a marker of just how bad a job we did. American political discourse in 2016 seemed to be running on two self-contained, never-overlapping sets of information. It took the Venn diagram finally meeting at the ballot box to make it clear how separate the two solitudes really are.
The troubling morning-after realization is that the structures of today’s media ecosystem encourage that separation, and do so a little bit more each day. The decline of the mass media’s business models; the continued rise of personalized social feeds and the content that spreads easily within them; the hollowing-out of reporting jobs away from the coasts: These are, like the expansion of the universe, pushing us farther apart in all directions.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the list of actors has to start with Facebook. And for all its wonders — reaching nearly 2 billion people each month, driving more traffic and attention to news than anything else on earth — it’s also become a single point of failure for civic information. Our democracy has a lot of problems, but there are few things that could impact it for the better more than Facebook starting to care — really care — about the truthfulness of the news that its users share and take in.
As BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman has documented repeatedly — and as anyone who has spent much time on their relatives’ profile pages can probably attest — Facebook has become a sewer of misinformation. Some of it is driven by ideology, but a lot is driven purely by the economic incentive structure Facebook has created: The fake stuff, when it connects with a Facebook user’s preconceived notions or sense of identity, spreads like wildfire. (And it’s a lot cheaper to make than real news.)
One example: I’m from a small town in south Louisiana. The day before the election, I looked at the Facebook page of the current mayor. Among the items he posted there in the final 48 hours of the campaign: Hillary Clinton Calling for Civil War If Trump Is Elected. Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump for President. Barack Obama Admits He Was Born in Kenya. FBI Agent Who Was Suspected Of Leaking Hillary’s Corruption Is Dead.
These are not legit anti-Hillary stories. (There were plenty of those, to be sure, both on his page and in this election cycle.) These are imaginary, made up, frauds. And yet Facebook has built a platform for the active dispersal of these lies — in part because these lies travel really, really well. (The pope’s “endorsement” has over 868,000 Facebook shares. The Snopes piece noting the story is fake has but 33,000.)
In a column just before the election, The New York Times’ Jim Rutenberg argued that “the cure for fake journalism is an overwhelming dose of good journalism.” I wish that were true, but I think the evidence shows that it’s not. There was an enormous amount of good journalism done on Trump and this entire election cycle, from both old-line giants like the Times and The Washington Post and digital natives like BuzzFeed and The Daily Beast. (There were plenty of good broadcast reporters on the beat as well, though what appeared on air left a lot to be desired.) For anyone who wanted to take it in, the pickings were rich.
The problem is that not enough people sought it out. And of those who did, not enough of them trusted it to inform their political decisions. And even for many of those, the good journalism was crowded out by the fragmentary glimpses of nonsense.
I used to be something of a skeptic when it came to claims of “filter bubbles” — the sort of epistemic closure that comes from only seeing material you agree with on social platforms. People tend to click links that align with their existing opinions, sure — but isn’t that just an online analog to the fact that our friends and family tend to share our opinions in the real world too? I ate up studies (from Facebook and others) that argued the site actually encouraged a certain kind of information diversity, because your Facebook friends are likely drawn from a wider group of people (the guy you went to middle school with, your mom’s neighbor, that rando you met that weekend at the beach) than the people you discuss news with in real life.
But I’ve come to think that the rise of fake news — and of the cheap-to-run, ideologically driven aggregator sites that are only a few steps up from fake — has weaponized those filter bubbles. There were just too many people voting in this election because they were infuriated by made-up things they read online.
(Speaking of filter bubbles: Even now, right after the election, my Facebook News Feed is filled with sad posts from my liberal friends from college or media. There are also happy posts from my relatives and friends in the South — but I have to hunt those out because Facebook’s algorithm isn’t putting them in my feed.)
What can Facebook do to fix this problem? There are ideas out there, many of them problematic in their own ways. One simple one would be to hire editors to manage what shows up in its Trending section — one major way misinformation gets spread. Facebook canned its Trending editors after it got pushback from conservatives; that was an act of cowardice, and since then, fake news stories have been algorithmically pushed out to millions with alarming frequency.
Another idea would be to hire a team of journalists and charge them with separating at least the worst of the fake news from the stream. Not the polemics (from either side) that sometimes twist facts like balloon animals — I’m talking about the outright fakery. Stories known to be false could be downweighted in Facebook’s algorithm, and users trying to share them could get a notice telling them that the story is fake. Sites that publish too much fraudulent material could be downweighted further or kicked out entirely.
Would this or other ideas raise freedom of speech or other thorny issues? Sure. This would be easy to screw up — which is I’m sure why Facebook threw up its hands at the pushback to a human-edited Trending section and why it positions itself a neutral connector of its users to content it thinks they will find pleasing. I don’t know what the right solution would be — but I know that getting Mark Zuckerberg to care about the problem is absolutely key to the health of our information ecosystem.
Here are a few other questions about the American media’s future that this election cycle raised for me.
A community backbone in need of repair
One thread running through the countless profiles of Trump voters this cycle was the loss of community institutions. The factories shut down; the church pews were emptier than they used to be; the braided fabric of their towns had unraveled. Don’t forget that, particularly in smaller communities, the local newspaper was one of those key institutions — the daily or weekly package of stories that connected you to your neighbors.
The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts
Everyone knows that the business struggles of newspapers have stripped those institutions bare. But those struggles have not been evenly dispersed. As I’ve written about before, the shift from print to digital has concentrated the news business more than ever in New York, Washington, and a few other cities with oceanfront views. Of all the messages embedded in Trump’s rise, few are clearer than his voters’ belief that coastal elites are not serving their interests.
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The rate of newspapers’ decline seems to be accelerating, not slowing, and the news potential of a Trump presidency will no doubt continue the shift in interest from local to national news. What sort of news organizations can become a new kind of community backbone? There are some local news sites that play that role, but they’re also unevenly distributed — more common in college towns and well-off suburbs than in Trump country — and still small. Will the surviving national outlets think it worth their while to disperse their journalists over a larger geographic area? Will someone like Jeff Bezos — with a solid anchor at the Post, business relationships with hundreds of newspapers through subscription swaps, and a keen interest in local retail and delivery from his day job at Amazon — see an opportunity to build locally?
A split country, a split media
Will a Trump presidency push some top news organizations in the direction of a more Guardian-style openness about a liberal perspective? Just as 20th-century norms around newspaper objectivity were in part a response to business conditions — the desire to create mass local audiences — will the increased clarity about the divides in this country encourage a more targeted product for affluent, coastal, progressive audiences? And will reporters and editors at these outlets — who, it is fair to assume, did not vote for Trump in large numbers — begin to see themselves are more explicitly oppositional?
The New York Times’ Dean Baquet on calling out lies, embracing video, and building a more digital newsroom
Times executive editor Dean Baquet said last month that a Trump candidacy had given the paper “courage, if you will. I think he made us — forced us, because he does it so often, to get comfortable with saying something is false.” Will a Trump presidency push that further?
A related question: What happens to the millennial-driven sites (BuzzFeed, Mic, Fusion, et al.) who have built their content strategies, to varying degrees, around embracing what they see as the progressive views of their target audience? Do they double-down on identity-driven stories embracing the values of diversity and multiculturalism? Or — at a time when many are under their own revenue strains and chasing scale — do any of them see a market opportunity in the Trump voter?
“How we got this completely wrong, in 17 charts”
How does the market for explanatory and data journalism respond to the fact that a year and a half of explanations have been shown to be wrong? On election morning, The Huffington Post told its readers Clinton had a 98 percent chance of being elected; the Times put it at 85 percent. And let’s not forget all the Here’s-why-Trump-can’t-possibly-win explainers.
Before poll-aggregation models, social media, and podcasts, a reporter’s confidence about an election outcome was probably known mostly to the people he had a beer with after work. This time, though, the confidence (or arrogance) was visible for all to see. As MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki pointed out, Media Twitter seemed to reflexively view every Trump move as dumb on its face: “There was almost a social pressure to go with the ‘Oh my god, this makes no sense!’ interpretation instead of trying to understand what the logic might be…overwhelmingly, the media reaction was: snark.”
Any journalist critical of the Facebook filter bubble they saw Trump voters caught in needs to look closely at the Twitter filter bubble where they spend a lot of their work day.
It’s been said that we get the media we deserve: that the journalism we see is a reflection of business structures and audience decisions, not the result of an elite’s decisions to shape public opinion. There’s a lot of truth to that. But the information we produce and consume is generated by human beings, not systems, and those human beings have just gotten the shock of their professional lives. If we’re going to build a better environment for news, we need to think about these issues in a much bigger context than one election night. And it’ll take everyone — journalists, readers, tech companies, and more — to make it happen.
POSTED Nov. 9, 2016, 2:24 p.m.
Benton, Joshua. "The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 9 Nov. 2016. Web. 19 Jul. 2019.
Benton, J. (2016, Nov. 9). The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 19, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/
Benton, Joshua. "The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 9, 2016. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/.
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The Round Table at the Algonquin Hotel
Contemporary American
For over 100 years, The Algonquin Hotel has served the world’s most prolific writers and celebrities of the stage and screen. This yearit celebrates the original gathering of New York’s famous wits, authors and critics who in June 1919 organized a first lunch together at the hotel, for what would become known as The Round Table. Their daily lunches lasted for 10 years. The tone they set during these daily meetings set the literary style of the 1920s.
While society columns of the time referred to them as The Algonquin Round Table, they called themselves The Vicious Circle. Most notable members were Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott and Harold Ross, who founded The New Yorker here.
It’s time for a celebration. The Round Table restaurant features a special “10-Year-Lunch” prix fixe menu all summer long, for $19.19 per person* as well as a full à la carte menu for lunch and dinner.
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Scott Hendricks · Baritone
Texan Scott Hendricks has emerged as one of today's most compelling and versatile baritones. From Puccini to Schreker, Verdi to Britten and Debussy to modern-day composers, Hendricks has always maintained a diverse operatic diary.
An esteemed interpreter of both Puccini and Verdi, his roles include Sharpless/Madama Butterfly, Scarpia/Tosca, Michele/Il tabarro and title role Gianni Schicchi, Renato/Un ballo in maschera, Conte di Luna/Il trovatore, the title role of Macbeth, Amonasro/Aida, Germont/La traviata, the title role of Rigoletto, Iago/Otello, Posa/Don Carlos.
Scott Hendricks has sung at major opera houses and festivals around the world, including Metropolitan Opera New, Washington National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, York, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona (title role Król Roger), Bayerische Staatsoper München, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Theater an der Wien (Vladislav/Dalibor), Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie, Dutch National Opera, and De Vlaamse Opera, where he received international critical acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in the world première of Giorgio Battistelli's Richard III under the direction of Robert Carsen, Opera Zurich (Hamlet III in Rihm’s Die Hamletmaschine), Opéra National du Rhin (Forester/The Cunning Little Vixen), Teatro Massimo Palermo (Tamare/Die Gezeichneten), Teatro La Fenice (Traveler/Death in Venice), Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg, Welsh National Opera, Israeli Opera, as well as the Saito Kinen Festival (Yeletsky/Pique Dame), Bregenz Festival (Escamillo/Carmen).
Highlights of the 2017/18 season and the recent past include i.a. Barnaba/La Gioconda, his role debut as Tonio/I Pagliacci, and the role of Victor Frankenstein in the world premiere of Mark Grey’s Frankenstein at La Monnaie, the title role in the world premiere of M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder at Komische Oper Berlin, Scarpia/Tosca at San Francisco Opera, Jack Rance/La Fanciulla del West in Zurich, as well as Ruprecht/The Fiery Angel in Warsaw and on the occasion of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
At this year's Bregenz Festival, he will take on the title role in Philipp Stölzl's production of Rigoletto under the baton of Enrique Mazzola.
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Upcoming engagements include, among others, Janácek‘s The Makropulos Affaire/Jaroslav Prus under Jakub Hrůša at Opera Zurich, Il trovatore (staged by Dmitri Tcherniakov) at Opera Cologne, as well as Il trovatore at Opéra National du Rhin and Ruprecht/The Fiery Angel in Warsaw.n progress.
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"Mention spéciale pour le baryton Scott Hendricks, voix mordante et excellent acteur"
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"confident and versatile baritone"
Nixon in China / Houston Grand Opera / 30.01.17 / operanews.com
"Hendricks's Nixon clearly and satisfyingly reflected a close study of the President's distinctive movements [...] and expressions [...], and his soaring baritone captured Nixon's intellectuable brilliance dogged by persistent insecurity"
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Metastorm Brings Workflow Modeling to the Cloud
By Joab Jackson
Enterprise software provider Metastorm has launched an online workflow modeling service, called Metastorm M3, the company announced on Tuesday.
The service, which is hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform, can be used to model a variety of different enterprise concerns, such as goals, systems, workflows, rules and projects. The service provides 23 modeling objects from which models can be built.
"Our goal was to put the most popular modeling types up into the cloud in a much simpler environment, so organizations can involve more people in the modeling process," said Metastorm Vice President Laura Mooney. It is a subset of all the enterprise modeling perspectives the company offers in its standalone software.
The company has also redesigned its modeling interface for this new service, using Microsoft Silverlight. It includes built-in help guides for those new to enterprise modeling. The output from this service can be integrated with Metastorm's enterprise architecture, business process automation and business process management software.
Metastorm has not settled on how much to charge users for the service, or how the pricing will work. It will be offered as a free service until the end of the year, however.
In addition to Metastorm M3, the company has also released a new software package, called Metastorm Smart Business Workspace, that allows an organization to set up a browser-based workspace for its workers. A single page holds a dashboard, chat software, links to reports and various widgets. The software allows users to fuse data from different applications.
The package also includes a component, called the Metastorm Widget Designer, that can create small applications, called widgets, that draw data from Metastorm applications. "This allows people to mash up different capabilities of our software and different views into our software," Mooney said.
For instance, one pre-built widget allows users of the company's modeling software to peruse all the models in a collection, using small thumbnails. "It's almost like iTunes, where you flip through your albums using the album covers," Mooney said. "It's an efficient way for architects to flip through their model libraries."
Metastorm Smart Business Workspace will be available for no charge to all current users of Metastorm software and will be packaged with the company's software going forward.
With this new interface, Metastorm has become one of a growing number of BPM providers that have added collaboration capabilities to their software. Tibco has been offering a beta version of a Twitter-like messaging service called Tibbr. Oracle has also added social media capabilities to its Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11G.
"Collaboration allows people to work together as a team across departments or geographic locations," Mooney said. "We're trying to make it much more efficient for people to engage with one another by taking advantage of social-networking capabilities."
Joab Jackson covers enterpise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's e-mail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com
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Longzhe County was located in the eastern region of the Grand Southern Prefecture, next to Trinity. It was also a land full of ancient ruins. Many experts traveled here and left their marks behind.
There were many green mountain ranges with white clouds washing the tall peaks. Birds played around the mountains and left their prints on the steep cliffs.
Feiyun rode the wind forward. Along the way, he saw waves of disciples from the Seventh Hall. Their hands were stained with blood. Many children from the Feng have been killed in these desolate region. Their body was ravaged and eaten by the beasts.
The once glorious Feng Clan, a top ranking sect in the southern region, has suffered this disaster due to the Nine Doves Gown. It wasn’t only the heretical experts. Even the other top clans here secretly colluded against them to steal their mines, resources, and cities.
As the saying goes, possessing a jade ring becomes a crime. Survival of the fittest was an unchanging law in this world.
The Feng had several ancestral grounds. One of them was located right here on top of a spirit vein with the name, Celestial Paradise. It was where the first clan master of the Feng was born and where he comprehended the dao.
After the Evil Woman came out, many descendants from the clan had died to the evil corpses. The majority of the survivors ran back to Longzhe. The Celestial Paradise became their stronghold.
The place itself was situated within ninety-nine peaks. It had many perilous locations on top of a celestial formation erected by the first clan master himself. Even several Giants attacking at the same time couldn’t break through in a short time.
Once Feiyun made it to the Celestial Paradise, the experts from the Seventh Hall have been attacking for seven days. There were cracks on the formation now.
The ninety-nine peaks shot out ninety-nine bright pillars towards the sky. They were carrying a gigantic, floating formation to withstand the attacks of more than ten thousand heretics.
It was an amazing battle between two great powers. The blinding lights from techniques engulfed the sky with different colors.
So many cultivators in black cloak were hovering above. Some were riding spirit deer while others had four-winged birds. They surrounded the entire area and continued to attack while finding a weak spot.
It was only a matter of time before the formation would break.
Feiyun watched carefully while standing on a far hill. There were really too many heretics here in every nooks and corner. He simply couldn’t sneak in.
“This is why the Senluo Temple used to be the strongest heretical sect. Just the Seventh Hall alone is this powerful, using six Giants just to destroy the Feng.” Feiyun thought to himself. Six Giants were quite formidable since not a single sect in the southern region could have so many.
The Feng was already a top power here but after one thousand years of accumulation, it only had three ancestors at the Giant level. Two of them were too old so their battle prowess has weakened.
One Giant could support a first-rate sect but any heretical hall could take them down easily.
More than ten thousand troops were here to attack the Celestial paradise. However, Feiyun knew that this was only a small portion. The other troops were massacring the Feng descendants in the other cities.
The heretical schools have never shown mercy; nothing was too evil for them. This was the reason why the world feared the heretics.
Nightfall came again and the heretical side finally halted. The barricade remained outside with the entire area lit up by thirty-six pillars with a lamp on top.
The fire made the ninety-nine peaks look pink. The heretics meditated in order to recover the energy expended during the day in preparation for the next attack in the morning.
At this time, two rays of light rushed out from the ancestral ground. These were two senior cultivators from the Feng Clan with gray hair and a hunchback. They wanted to use this opportunity to run away.
“Whoosh!” A snow-white palace descended from above like a star. A stern voice came from inside: “Feng Jingyan, Feng Ping, you think you can escape?”
A gigantic black palm came from within with clouds surrounding it. It directly pushed the two escaping cultivators to the ground.
“No… I don’t want to die!”
“All of you are too ruthless!”
“Boom! Boom!” These two Feng seniors were crushed to a pulp. Their flesh and blood dug into the soil.
Feiyun stood in the cold wind and felt sorry for them: “These two are the second and fifth elder of the Feng. If they are running away now, it looks like the clan is in disarray even before the heretics make their way in.”
More than one hundred descendants tried to run out from the paradise for a successful escape. All of them were killed by the heretics. Their corpses were tied around the pillars and being burnt to a crisp.
More clan members surrendered. They became slaves and were toyed and humiliated for a while before being killed.
The stench of blood by the brightly-lit pillars was truly nauseating.
Wan Xiangcen, the Seventh Lord, descended into the area while accompanied by a rain of flowers. Towering pillars stood to both sides with raging flames.
She was also the prettiest in the Seventh Hall with an enchanting fragrance. It smelled like an immortal honey wafting in the air for many miles.
She had a white cloak on her sexy figure and hair draping down to her buttocks. This was a woman resembling both a pure fairy and a seductive demoness.
Four girls in black cloak stood behind her. All were pretty with the same ponytail hairstyle and below twenty of age. Their hair was tied with a black lotus pin.
Wan Xiangcen revealed a smile that would rob the stars of their light. She happily said: “Bring them here.”
A team of heretics brought a group of Feng prisoners before her. There were a total of forty-six talents. They had countless whip marks and wounds on their body and were forcefully pushed down on the ground.
“Kneel!”
“Bastard, get down on your knees!”
These young clan members had their dantian sealed so they didn’t have a single strand of spirit energy left. Their knees got broken so they dropped to the ground.
Wan Xiangcen smiled with her apricot eyes: “Seniors from the Feng Clan, I know you are watching from the inside. I know you don’t want to see these prodigies die like this. Open the Celestial Formation and I’ll give them back to you?”
A cold voice came from inside: “Little demoness, your trick can’t fool us. Once we open the formation, you will slaughter all of us and that will be the end of our clan.”
The voice was very old. It must be a great character from the Feng. This person could see the scene right now without showing up.
Wan Xiangcen smiled amorously: “You’re too smart, senior.”
She gave an order by gently raising her beautiful finger.
The three heretics behind her have been waiting for a long time. They smirked and swung their blade at the same time.
“Pluff! Pluff! Pluff!” The head of three young prodigies went flying and rolled away like balls.
“Demoness, you…”
“You’re insane!”
“You’re pushing us too far!”
The experts hiding inside the ancestral ground clamored furiously but no one dared to come out.
Xiangcen was still smiling. She touched her chin and said: “The ones killing them are you all, not me. If you don’t open the formation, all of these prodigies will die! Haha!”
Feiyun held his breath watching the kneeling prodigies as well as the direction of the ancestral ground.
There was no response from inside.
Xiangcen stretched leisurely. Her breasts, waist, and buttocks all showed off their sexy curves. She happily said again: “Kill all of them.”
With the command, the heretics cried out the word “kill” in unison.
“Pluff…” One head fell down after another as the living turned into cold corpses. The future hope of the Feng Clan had all fallen.
The experts and ancestors inside the paradise could only watch helplessly.
This was the tragedy of the weak where the winner takes all.
Xiangcen chuckled and gestured: “If seniors don’t care for the young, that’s fine. We’ll play something even more exciting. Bring them here.”
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The blinding blue ray in the sky acted like a resplendent moon. This fourth-ranked spirit treasure was hidden in thick layers of mist so one could only sense its formidable power, not its appearance.
Someone wanted to hide this incredible weapon from prying eyes. It was certainly a great power secretly helping Beauty's Smile.
Eight Giants worked at the same time to increase the power of this fourth-ranked spirit treasure so they were able to push back a ninth-level Giant like Ning Fengxian. Even his lightning failed to stop it.
"All of these Dominating Armaments are very famous. I just need to see its shape to know who is helping Beauty's Smile." A cultivator gazed inside the blue light but it blinded him. Blood dripped down his cheeks as he screamed.
"Boom!" The weapon flashed again and released a rain of light. So many soldiers were crushed to a pulp along with their armor.
Two Divine Commanders at fifth-level Heaven's Mandate held their spear as if they were holding a dragon. They were still ready to fight against the incoming attack. Alas, the flashing light turned them into bloody specks.
This power was simply unstoppable. Even a regular spirit treasure would be broken instantly.
"Again." Ning Fengxian and Buddha Maitreya glanced at each other before going again.
This daoist and monk were unfathomable after cultivating for many years. They had plenty of exquisite methods belonging to the two doctrines.
"Sacred Dao Art!" Fengxian's body was covered with daoist laws and an immortal river flowing beneath him. A holy flower gathered on top of his head and unleashed a sacred technique. Billowing clouds surrounded the weapon instantly.
"Unaging Scripture!" The child-like monk sat in the meditative pose in the sky and placed his palms together. He began to chant Buddhist scriptures as golden words spewed out of his mouth. They turned into a golden river and smashed into the sky.
The two of them combined were still having a hard time stopping this weapon. The two arts were quickly subdued.
The weapon continued to grow stronger as the eight masters in the distance continued to pour in their power.
"They have Super Giants controlling this weapon so it can exert its full power." The monk and daoist were pushed back repeatedly. They were certainly stronger than the enemies but the weapon disparity was too great.
The army was at risk of being routed and the heretical experts hiding in Beauty's Smile would be able to escape.
"Bi Ningshuai, let me borrow your Blood-being Exalted Pot!" Feiyun shouted and made Ningshuai fly out of one of the palaces.
This palace was naturally the treasury of Beauty's Smile. This damned thief has taken more than half of it for his own so now, as he was flying out to answer Feiyun's call, spirit stones kept dropping out of his robe.
He quickly picked up these stones and said: "It can't see the light or the Yang World's King will come to the capital and peel off my skin."
"If you don't take it out right now, I'll be the one peeling off your skin." Feiyun threatened by grabbing the thief by the neck.
Feiyun had the spirit vessel which was a holy artifact, countless times more frightening than a fourth-ranked spirit treasure. However, his low cultivation made it impossible for him to use it to its strongest extent.
Only when he reached the Enlightened Being level would he barely be able to use it. Thus, lending it to Ning Fengxian was impossible as well since the guy wasn't capable of waking the vessel up.
The light in the sky gathered into a boundless ocean. It wanted to rush out of the Sacred Dao Art and Unaging Scripture. The monk and daoist have tried their best but it was useless.
"The pot got taken by Honglian, it's not on me right now." Ningshuai said emotionally: "We're good friends so I would help you if I could. Hey, hey, let go of me now, my spirit stones are still on the ground."
"Men, capture this thief and throw him into the capital's prison for me." Feng Feiyun called two soldiers over. They directly put a fetter around his neck and wanted to take him away.
"No! Fine, I'll let you borrow it then." Ningshuai cried and took out the pot for Feiyun.
"Thanks." Feiyun smirked.
The pot was the Yang King's best spirit treasure. It was full of evil energy and looked just like a skull with blood gushing out like a faint ocean. Just holding it gave a shuddering sensation.
Feng Mo said that Yama's skull was taken by the Yang King. Perhaps he used it to refine the skull into this particular weapon.
Feiyun didn't think too much and jumped into the sky, intending of handing it to Ning Fengxian.
Meanwhile, a raging battle was tearing the sky apart. Everyone felt suffocated as if the sky was falling down.
Both Fengxian and Maitreya retreated with wounds on their body. This was due to their great cultivation and pure vitality. If it was a different Giant, just the light of the weapon would turn them to ashes.
"Senior, you can borrow this Dominating Armament." Feiyun threw out the exalted pot.
He wasn't worried about Fengxian taking it away because everyone knew that it belonged to the Yang King. Who would want to provoke such a monstrous existence by stealing it?
Fengxian took it and could feel its power. He said with surprise: "Exalted pot! I see, with this armament, I'll take down several Giants today then."
A majestic power erupted from Fengxian. His robe turned into a firmament as he empowered the pot. It exuded its own power and made the sky tremble.
This was the real power of the pot, countless times stronger than the previous attempt when Feiyun and Ningshuai were using it.
A ninth-level Giant was quite a powerful master in this world. Now, he also had a Dominating Firmament. The guy went up to the sky and fought against the blue ocean. Sparks went flying and even the fabric of space was being torn apart.
Feiyun pulled Xiaoxiang dozens of miles away. The pressure remained so he took out his ring and Thunderfire Jewel in order to stop the shockwaves.
"The capital is the center of the Jin dynasty with numerous great powers, but not more than five can possess a Dominating Armament. It has to be the Beiming." Feiyun's eyes turned cold.
That clan's Nether Ice Grinder is a Dominating Firmament, very similar to the blue expanse in the sky right now.
Another monstrous wave came from a different direction. The martial army was sieging the depth of the pavilion.
"Boom!" A yellow ray shot to the sky and broke the spatial barrier. It seemed to be traveling in to the sea of stars above.
This power of an Enlightened Being was even more monstrous than a Dominating Armament. Numerous soldiers from the army were turned into bloody mists.
"Shit! There's an Enlightened Being hiding in Beauty's Smile?!"
"That's definitely the power of an Enlightened Being, so damn strong!"
Feiyun also felt this aura. If there was really an Enlightened Being in beauty's Smile, the entire army could be routed despite having the number advantage.
"It's just a soul, I'll take you on!" Battler declared with a golden glow around his body, making it look just like bronze.
Feiyun heaved a sigh of relief: 'There aren't that many Enlightened Beings around, even Mount Potala only has one on the other side of the dynasty. There's no way that this person would be here at the capital right now.'
Nevertheless, this soul was still quite powerful. Only someone at Battler's level could take it on. Others would lose after the first exchange.
The casualty was great for the heretical experts hiding in the pavilion; many were from the last generation. Today would definitely go down in history.
They began to retreat and followed Wan Huazhu deeper inside.
"There's something else lurking in Beauty's Smile?" Feiyun became curious.
"I know! There must be a treasury there. They want to take the treasures and run." Ningshuai's eyes lit up with only treasures in his mind. Despite the looming dangers in that location, he still wanted to run over.
Xiaoxiang hesitated for a moment before speaking: "I… I heard that in that far location is an imprisoned millennium spirit beast. Every month or so, Earth's End would send many slaves there to feed the beast."
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No Room at the Top
High-mountain species are particularly susceptible to global warming--and North America's cold-loving pikas may be the most vulnerable of all
Paul Tolmé
BIOLOGIST CHRIS RAY felt something tug at her shoe as she sat in a steep boulder field at 10,000 feet in Montana's Gallatin Range waiting for a female pika to emerge from the rocks. Pikas are fuzzy, potato-sized herbivores that inhabit the tops of Western mountains. Frantic workers, they collect large piles of wildflowers and grasses during summer--a process called haying--to eat during winter.
Ray, who has studied pikas in the rugged mountains outside Bozeman for 16 years, looked down to see a pika nibbling at her sneaker. "It was trying to hay my laces," she says, laughing at the recollection. They also like backpack straps, the more colorful the better."
With round bodies, prominent ears, no visible tail and weighing just 5 ounces, pikas are unmercifully cute. But despite their cuddly appearance, American pikas, the smallest members of the rabbit family, are among North America's toughest animals--and they have to be. Pikas are one of the few mammals in the lower 48 states that can survive their entire lives in alpine terrain, the windswept no-man's-land above tree line.
But biologists like Ray now fear that these hearty creatures may not survive global warming. Unlike many wildlife species that are shifting their ranges north or to higher altitudes in response to changing climate, pikas and other alpine animals have nowhere else to go. In some locations, entire pika populations already have disappeared. Scientists say the animal's decline, like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, may presage problems for other species, from butterflies and birds to large mammals.
Windswept, treeless and frigid, the alpine zone, like frosting atop a cake, covers less than 5 percent of the planet's surface. In a book about the Colorado Rockies, Song of the Alpine, author Joyce Gellhorn describes these isolated mountaintop ecosystems as "islands in the sky."
Over the past century, the interior West, which includes the lion?s share of the country's high-mountain habitats, has warmed about 1 degree F. Computer models show the region heating up an additional 4.5 to 14.4 degrees F during the next 100 years. As the alpine warms, scientists expect snowpack to shrink, a phenomenon already observed in the Pacific Northwest, the Southern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. Reduced moisture would dry alpine soils, spur the invasion of lower-elevation conifers and grasses, and crowd out native species.
In Rocky Mountain National Park, which has more than 100 square miles of alpine habitat, Colorado State University researchers estimate the tree line would rise 1,200 feet--eliminating half the park's tundra--if temperatures warm by 5 degrees F. Trees are already on the move. A paper published in the July 2005 Western North American Naturalist shows that the low-elevation distribution of Engelmann spruce, which thrives in the subalpine zone, moved 575 to 650 feet upslope in three of four watersheds studied in Nevada's Great Basin National Park between 1992 and 2001.
Trapped at the top, alpine wildlife is vulnerable to several of global warming's damaging effects, including vegetation changes, the invasion of new predators and pests, reduced winter snowpack and increases in extreme weather events. For pikas, one serious problem is heat itself. To survive in summer, they must descend into the cool, moist talus--rock piles at the base of mountain slopes--on hot afternoons.
As temperatures rise, researchers say pikas will abandon lower-elevation talus slopes and migrate higher into the mountains until they can go no farther--much like living on the highest point of a sinking island. "All other mammal species in continental North America have greater heat tolerances," says Colorado College alpine mammalogist Barry Rosenbaum, who is studying pikas on Colorado's Niwot Ridge.
In the Great Basin--the arid region between the Rocky Mountains and California's Sierra Nevada--pikas already are disappearing. According to Nat-ional Park Service biologist Erik Beever, the mammals have recently disappeared from 8 of 25 mountainous locations where they were documented in the early 1900s. Beever, who published his discovery in the Journal of Mammalogy, says the die-off indicates that suitable habitat is shrinking. Notably, the most recent pika losses occurred at the warmer, southern end of the animals' range. 'This is what you would expect from rising temperatures--a loss at the margins of their distribution,' says Beever. The finding represents 'one of the first contemporary examples of a North American mammal exhibiting a rapid shift in distribution due to climate.'
According to Ray, pikas also have disappeared from some talus slopes in Montana's Bridger Range over the past 30 to 40 years. While fossils show that pikas have been lost from several western mountain ranges over the past 10,000 years "the speed at which they are disappearing now is more rapid than ever before," she says.
Animals that, like pikas, depend on mountaintop ecosystems are called "alpine obligates." Another obligate is the white-tailed ptarmigan. These chicken-sized birds are difficult to spot because of camouflage--white in winter and speckled gray in summer--that disguises the birds from predators. During winter ptarmigan keep warm by roosting in snow caves. To feed, they use accumulating snowpack as a ladder to reach higher branches of willow shrubs. "If there is not a reliable supply of snow, they will come into spring in poor body condition and may breed later, with smaller clutch sizes," says Kathy Martin, a biologist at the University of British Columbia who specializes in alpine birds. Studies show that ptarmigan already suffer population declines during warmer winters with less snow.
Other birds, including American pipits, horned larks and rosy finches, are considered ?alpine specialists? because they breed atop mountains but migrate to warmer climates during winter. If predictions are true that global warming will cause more weather variability and extreme events, these species could also face breeding challenges.
Horned larks, for example, feed every 20 minutes. Exposed to freak storms or heat, they have trouble both incubating eggs and finding food. "Keeping eggs at a constant temperature is a huge challenge," Martin says. Because of the short breeding season, alpine species generally have fewer offspring each summer, which means reproductive failures can dramatically impact populations. "It?s always a disadvantage," Martin says, "to breed in the alpine."
Some animals, however, could benefit from an increase in mountain temperatures--at least at first. According to a Colorado State University study, elk numbers may double in Rocky Mountain National Park as the mammals forage higher and winters decrease in severity. Endangered greenback cutthroat trout populations could also increase as fewer lakes fill with ice, notes the same study.
Bighorn and Dall sheep may also benefit initially from increased vegetation, but over time "conifer encroachment" would harm their populations, says Neil Thagard of the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep. Bighorns can adapt to hotter temperatures-- desert bighorns, for example, inhabit arid canyon lands of the interior West. But Vic Coggins, an Oregon state wildlife biologist who studies bighorns in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains, says "they will not tolerate forested areas. There's nothing on the ground to eat in conifer stands, and they create a haven for predators." Meanwhile, predators themselves--including foxes, coyotes, lynx and weasels--could benefit from increased hunting opportunities as alpine summers lengthen, at least in the short term.
Unfortunately, predictions are difficult to make because relatively little is known about the life histories of many alpine animals, particularly small species such as shrews, pocket gophers, voles and mice. "There's a reason they are not well studied," Martin says. "It's challenging to get a good safe study area in the alpine."
At her study site in Montana's Gallatin Range, Ray returns to the talus zone near Hyalite Peak every August. She spends her days trapping, tagging and monitoring the roughly 300 pikas that inhabit her two-square-mile research area. Pikas make good subjects because they are easy to observe, and unlike many other species, biologists can get close to them. "If you sit quietly, you can watch them go about their business," says Ray. In addition to tugging scientists' shoelaces, pikas sometimes lick sweaty sneakers for salt.
In future years, Ray plans to compare her data on population fluctuations with temperature changes in the region. She suspects decreasing snowpack is at least part of the problem. Snow that covers talus slopes in winter insulates pikas from subfreezing temperatures. "If they are shivering through winter, that certainly would affect their fitness," says Ray. Ironically, global warming could be causing some pikas to freeze.
In the past, pikas could disperse between mountain ranges. But warmer temperatures make that journey a death march now. "If an isolated population blinks out today," Ray says, "it's nearly impossible for that habitat to become recolonized."
Asked if pikas could be the first mammal to disappear from the Lower 48 because of climate change, Ray hesitates. "That's a reasonable hypothesis", she says. "When you see a systematic decline in pikas, that tells you dramatic changes are taking place in the alpine."
Colorado writer Paul Tolmé wrote about efforts to protect endangered native plants in the June/July issue.
Pika Primer: Survival at the Top
Pikas, which once lived across North America, have been retreating upslope over the past 12,000 years. The species is believed to have evolved from Siberian ancestors that crossed the former land bridge between Asia and Alaska.
American pikas are found in Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, California and New Mexico as well as western Canada. Their thick fur and round bodies conserve heat, and furry paws provide traction on snow. Though most pikas in the Lower 48 inhabit alpine ecosystems exclusively, some survive at lower altitudes where deep, cool caves are available, such as the ice tubes in California?s Lava Beds National Monument.
Telltale signs of pika territory are the hay piles the animals amass in summer to eat during the winter. The piles, which can encompass a bushel of vegetation, resemble dried flower arrangements. In addition to nutritional plants, hay piles often contain scat from other species, particularly marmots.
Like their rabbit relatives, pikas are prolific: Females can deliver two or three litters of as many as five pups per season. Gestation lasts three weeks. Fast growers, pika pups reach adult size in just three months--if a predator does not eat them first.
The most common pika predators are weasels, which primarily hunt juveniles. To protect their offspring, adults will climb up to lookout rocks and emit distinctive ?weasel calls? when they spot the predator. Pikas also produce alarm calls for avian predators such as ravens and for coyotes.
Initially, juveniles attempt to establish territories close to their parents but are soon chased away. Fiercely territorial, pikas squeak at invaders. "They will come out and yell at you if you get too close," says pika researcher Chris Ray.
Alpine Summer: Short but Sweet
Snow-covered eight months of the year, alpine habitat bursts to life in summer with colors to rival a coral reef. Wildflowers of violet, pink, yellow and blue burst forth between patches of dwindling snow. To cope with the short growing season, most plants are perennials that clone rather than disperse seeds. Low-lying cushion plants like moss campion and alpine forget-me-nots have deep taproots that allow them to grow on gravely, wind-scoured ridges. Magenta and scarlet Indian paintbrushes and yellow alpine avens flourish in sheltered meadows.
NWF Priority: Fighting Global Warming
Beyond its effects on high-altitude habitats, global warming is expected to wreak havoc with virtually all of the world?s ecosystems and their wildlife inhabitants--undermining decades of conservation achievements.
Combating this problem is one of NWF's top priorities. The federation's activities include supporting House and Senate bills to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, publishing an ongoing series of studies on global warming and its effects on wildlife, and working with state affiliates to address local global warming issues.
To learn more about these and other related programs, go to NWF's global warming program.
Tropics Feel the Heat
Close to the North Pole, it is easy to see the dramatic consequences of global warming: Melting polar icecaps and disappearing permafrost are hard to ignore. But a new study warns that the worst effects of rising global temperatures may be felt thousands of miles from the icy Arctic--in the Tropics.
"We're not by any means suggesting that there won't be large impacts at polar and temperate regions," says University of Washington researcher Joshua Tewksbury. "There are lots of responses at northern latitudes, and the projected change in temperature is two to three times greater in high latitudes."
But Tewksbury and his colleagues believe that even a small change in temperature close to the equator could devastate tropical wildlife. Unlike the Tropics, northern temperate regions experience a wide variation in temperature each year; their summers are significantly warmer than their winters. Tewksbury says that animals living in areas with more defined seasons are better suited to adapt to long-term temperature changes. Tropical animals, unaccustomed to changes greater than a few degrees, may have a harder time adapting to even a small, long-term rise in temperatures.
Tewksbury has looked at decades' worth of data on tropical ectotherms--cold-blooded animals like frogs and lizards--to determine the maximum temperature at which those animals can survive. He then calculates the difference between that temperature and the temperature at which they normally live. Not surprisingly, that difference is fairly small, which means that the animals are likely to be highly sensitive to even slight temperature fluctuations.
"We need to be examining this phenomenon," says Tewksbury. "We need to look at both the temperature change in the region and the sensitivity of the animals that live there." --Hannah Schardt
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Will Smith says he’s contemplating a future in politics
By Ethan Sacks
Dec 11, 2015 | 6:27 PM
Will Smith tells CBS' Tracy Smith he might try his hand at politics. (CBS News)
Rapper turned actor Will Smith is considering getting jiggy wit a presidential campaign run.
Without name-checking GOP candidate Donald Trump, the star of the upcoming drama, "Concussion," reveals in an interview airing on "CBS Sunday Morning" this weekend that the current political discourse has him thinking he could do better.
"If people… keep saying all the crazy kind of stuff they've been saying on the news lately about walls and Muslims," Smith says in an excerpt of Sunday's interview released early.
Will Smith performs "Fiesta" with Bomba Estereo during the 2015 Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas in November. (MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS)
Will Smith attends a screening Of Columbia Pictures' "Concussion" at Regency Village Theatre last month in California. (Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
"They're going to force me into the political arena."
Trump's increasingly incendiary rhetoric on a potential travel ban for Muslims and a vow to build a wall along the Mexican border to keep out illegal immigrants have earned backlash from the former "Apprentice" host's detractors.
But Smith seems to have been contemplating politics since before Trump threw his hair into the ring.
"I realized that the dream (of just being a celebrity) was too small," Smith told CBS News' Tracy Smith. "You know, I realized that there was no way that I was put here just to be a movie star."
It may become a crowded field: Rapper Kanye West declared during a rambling acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in August that he's going to make his own run for the presidency in 2020.
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EXCLUSIVE: Sammy Gravano’s daughter wants father's pal Trump for President, hopes GOP front-runner gives mob rat pardon
By Oliver Coleman and Denis Slattery
Mar 09, 2016 | 4:00 AM
The daughter of mob rat Sammy (Sammy Bull) Gravano hopes Donald Trump becomes President and makes her dad an offer he wouldn’t refuse.
The daughter of mob rat Sammy (Sammy Bull) Gravano hopes Donald Trump ends up in the White House and makes her dad an offer he certainly wouldn't refuse.
Karen Gravano, talking about the GOP front-runner's alleged ties to organized crime, said Tuesday her father would be happy to see Trump call 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. home.
"All I can say is maybe he can give his old friend Sammy a f---in' pardon," the VH1 "Mob Wives" star told the Daily News.
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Karen Gravano says Donald Trump is an "old friend" of her father, Sammy Gravano. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Gravano's 70-year-old dad is serving a 20-year term for running an Ecstasy ring in Arizona while in the Witness Protection Program.
The one-time Gambino underboss turned FBI snitch, who got off on 19 murder charges, helped jail dozens of his former Mafia associates, including boss John Gotti.
He is due to be released in 2019.
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Trump, who has long faced allegations of connections to mob bosses running the construction racket in the city, denied knowing Gravano.
"I don't know Sammy Gravano and to my knowledge I have never met him," Trump said in a statement.
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But Gravano's reality star daughter said the two may have crossed paths in the past.
"Listen, at the end of the day, he was in construction in New York and the mob ran construction," she said. "I'm sure at a certain point and time he had to have some sort of interactions with people who were in that lifestyle."
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Sammy Gravano is serving a 20-year term for running an Ecstasy ring in Arizona. He is due to be released in 2019. (AP)
Gravano said she didn't want to overstate Trump's possible involvement in gangland, but said facetime with her father would have been unavoidable in the 1980s.
"That doesn't make him a made man or connected," Gravano said. "But I'm sure if you're in the construction industry in New York City and that you're involved in building, you come across certain people in your life."
Trump's Republican rivals have seized on his possible link to unscrupulous underworld bosses.
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"There have been multiple media reports about Donald's business dealings with the mob," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said on NBC's "Meet the Press" last month. "Maybe his taxes show those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported."
Trump's construction and casino interests raised eyebrows regarding his alleged ties to organized crime long before he launched his White House bid, including his relationship with Felix Sater — who pleaded guilty in 1998 to racketeering in a scheme involving the Genovese and Bonanno crime families.
REVEREND WHO SPOKE AT TRUMP RALLY IS A SANDY HOOK TRUTHER
Trump, who has long faced allegations of connections to mob bosses running the construction racket in the city, denied knowing Gravano. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
Sater played a role in a number of high-profile Trump projects and carried a Trump Organization business card with the title "Senior Advisor to Donald Trump."
Video obtained by ABC News in December showed Trump denying his relationship with the Russian émigré under oath.
Author Wayne Barrett explored the real estate magnate's shady schmoozing with crime bosses in his 1992 book "Trump: The Deals and the Downfall."
The book alleges numerous dealings that Trump had with the likes of Gravano, Sater and others in charge of mob-controlled concrete firms, construction companies and unions.
Trump issued a statement at the time of the book's release calling Barrett "a second-rate writer who has had numerous literary failures."
"The book is another example of Mr. Barrett's personal prejudice and animosity towards me," Trump said in the statement. "The book is boring, nonfactual and highly inaccurate."
But Gravano himself insinuated a relationship with Trump during a 1997 interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer.
"I literally marvel at the sight of Manhattan when I see it, because I controlled it," Gravano said. "I literally controlled Manhattan. When I see it at night — those lights and everything about it — I think of Donald Trump and Tishman and everybody else who couldn't build a building if I didn't want them to build it. That got me off. Plus, I made a lot of money with it."
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Yankees not interested in one-year deal with Alex Cobb: sources
By Peter Botte and Mike Mazzeo
Mar 12, 2018 | 10:16 PM
TAMPA – Despite a rapidly falling free-agent market — which now has landed Neil Walker in the Bronx — the Yankees aren't interested in a one-year deal with Alex Cobb, GM Brian Cashman said before Monday's 2-1 loss to Minnesota.
While the Bombers could add Cobb and still stay under the $197 million luxury-tax threshold, they aren't interested in sacrificing draft picks in order to sign him. The 30-year-old righty also has an injury history, having undergone Tommy John surgery in 2016, though he did manage to go 12-10 with a 3.66 ERA last season with Tampa.
Alex Cobb won't be headed to the Yankees. (Gail Burton/AP)
The Yanks had early interest in Cobb, but it quickly dissipated when they saw the way the market was going. Cobb could land in Milwaukee or Baltimore, though the Orioles have been reticent to surrender draft compensation given their barren farm system.
The Bombers are satisfied with their rotation for now. And with a surplus of top prospects they can be in play for almost any available starter via trade between now and the deadline.
OCTOBER FALL
Yankees special advisor Reggie Jackson suffered a right knee injury after taking a fall and will undergo surgery on Tuesday.
Mr. October was taking a walk on Monday morning when he "slipped or tripped," according to Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo.
Jackson, who will turn 72 in May, was treated by the team's training and medical staff and "is in good spirits and in good hands," Zillo added.
THERE GOES MY ’HIRO
Masahiro Tanaka. (Kim Klement/USA TODAY Sports)
Masahiro Tanaka allowed a two-run homer and struck out six over four innings (60 pitches).
''My mechanics are still a little bit off here and there but overall I think things are starting to come together," Tanaka said through an interpreter.
Tyler Austin hit his third homer this spring and Tyler Wade added two hits for the Yanks.
To make room for Walker's signing, the Yanks waived infielder Danny Espinosa and designated outfielder Jake Cave for assignment. They also reassigned infielder Kyle Holder to minor-league camp.
DAILY MEDS
Aaron Boone offered no update on Clint Frazier (concussion), calling the outfielder's situation "status quo." Boone added that Jacoby Ellsbury (oblique) should play in preseason games soon, but acknowledged the reserve outfielder may not be ready for Opening Day. "We're probably getting into that range where we're butting up against it," Boone said.
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Proceed to the entrance of Hill Top parking area. Facing down the road providing access to the parking area, look to the left and locate Fit Trail exercise station 20 (where an overhead workout ladder is installed). Examine the trail post here. In addition to pointing the direction of the Ridge Walk trail, it also points out the direction of the Fit Trail, paralleling the road. Follow the Fit Trail for about 500 feet to a junction where a trail splits off at an angle to the right. Another trail post shows the direction of the Fit Trail (forward) and the Ridge Walk trail (reverse). Continue ahead, and the trail begins to turn to the left. After 400 feet, arrive at an offset four-way intersection at Fit Trail station 26 (look for a workout vault bar). Continue forward through this intersection, ignoring the left and right trail options. The trail now descends gradually, curving to the right, with water bars installed to minimize erosion.
Near the bottom of the hill is a junction with a trail post. The post displays a white arrow on a blue background pointing the direction of the Ridge Walk trail (right). Ignore the arrow and make a left instead, moving uphill through a pine grove. The trail curves to the left and heads along the side of a ridge for 500 feet or so before reaching a four-way intersection. Make a right here, travel downhill, curving to the right for about 200 feet before encountering a puncheon bridge crossing a tiny, muddy stream. Possibly due to the presence of the puncheon, the flow of water, not much more than trickle, follows the route of the trail. After maneuvering another 100 feet downhill, the trail curves to the left, reaching a wooden bridge with railings crossing a running stream.
On the other side of the bridge is a triple fork, with options to go left, ahead, or right. Take the left fork, which immediately begins an uphill climb for about 850 feet. At the end of the uphill section is a T-intersection. A post points the direction of the parking area (left) and a blue trail (right). To the left, there is also a concrete square on the ground with a white and orange placard labeled “11 K.” Turn right, and begin walking down a trail running along the spine of a forested ridge. After approximately 300 feet, a trail breaks off to the left at another ground-level concrete marker labeled “6 R.” (Marker is about 15 feet to the left of the main trail.) Ignore this trail and continue forward. Over the next 350 feet or so, the trail makes an S-curve as it leads downhill to reach a T-intersection behind Holmdel Park’s Activity Center.
The T-intersection features a ground-level marker labeled “12 W.” To the right is a picnic area. To the left, the trail almost immediately comes to a fork. Turn left, then bear left at the fork and descend rather steeply along the side of the hill, with wooden steps placed to aid in the descent. Towards the bottom of the slope, the trail goes around a switchback, and ferns become the dominant ground cover. The trail turns left at the base of the slope and continues for about 100 feet before reaching a T-intersection along the edge of a sluggish stream bounding a marsh.
Make a right and travel parallel to the stream. On the right will be a steep embankment. In about 150 feet, a trail which descends the embankment joins from the right. Bear left here, and after about 100 feet, make a left onto a bridge crossing the stagnant stream. The trail continues on a plank walkway and soon reaches a T-intersection. Turn left and follow another 200-foot section of plank walkway, crossing boggy terrain. At the end of the plank walkway, the trail curves to the right, paralleling the same sluggish stream from earlier. This trail section features many exposed tree roots, with abundant skunk cabbage on both sides.
Ahead is a T-intersection with a ground-level marker labeled “1 B.” Make a right and travel a short distance, reaching a plank walkway. The boardwalk makes a slight turn to the left, passing through a boggy forest with an understory of skunk cabbage and ferns. About 250 feet ahead on the right is a side walkway which immediately leads to a loop in the midst of what can be described as a sea of skunk cabbage. Beyond the loop, in another 175 feet or so, the plank walkway reaches a slope and cuts right. Another ground-level marker here is labeled “2 X.”
After cutting right, the pathway again changes back to dirt. It wraps to the left for a short distance and then makes an abrupt right, crossing a bridge and coming to an intersection with a trail on the left. A post indicates this is the High Point Trail.
Ignore the High Point Trail and continue ahead for about 250 feet, passing over a low hill. The trail then turns left and begins paralleling a branch of Hop Brook. The brook has carved a four to five foot deep trench into the lower Red Bank Formation, a local geologic layer deposited along the ancient coastline of New Jersey near the end of Cretaceous Era about 68 million years ago. While the cliff-like banks of the stream have a seemingly clayey composition, the streambed is gravelly to rocky. This is because the rocks, mostly cemented sands and chunks of ironstone, are left behind as surrounding softer material is washed away.
Continue parallel to the brook for about 600 feet until reaching a tributary stream which comes in from the left. The trail turns left here, and the sound of falling water is evident. Just before the small tributary joins the brook, there is a small double waterfall; the second drop is about two feet high. A close inspection reveals its origin. As the stream cuts down through the lower Red Bank Formation, it appears to encounter a very thin layer of slightly harder, reddish soil resistant to the stream’s erosive force. The result is this unexpected little fall line.
Making a gradual ascent, the trail follows the smaller stream for about 150 feet, reaching an intersection with another trail coming down the side of a hill on the left. Continue straight for another 600 feet, passing a high bridge on the right. Note that the stream is gradually deepening into a ravine. At the end of a wooden rail fence approximately 300 feet ahead, the trail reaches a fork. Take the right fork, which continues to parallel the stream. As the trail begins a gradual turn to the left, a section of it has been shored up, apparently due to a previous collapse of the pathway into the stream.
Over the next 250 feet beyond the shored-up section, the trail climbs a set of wooden steps. The trail then comes to a T-intersection. Make a right, and continue uphill for a short distance where the trail slowly levels out and makes an S-curve. At the end of the S-curve, the trail emerges into a grassy field behind a set of tennis courts.
Look slightly to the left and locate the walkway along the side of the tennis courts. Go straight, and connect with the walkway, following it for 250 feet to the far corner of the tennis courts before making a right turn. Follow the walkway to the right for about 375 feet, heading towards the parking lot. The trail ends back at the beginning of the hike, just a dozen feet or so from Fit Trail exercise station 20.
Turn By Turn Description:
1. ~500 ft: From Fit Trail exercise station 20, at entrance of parking area, begin following trail downhill as it parallels the road. The trail will encounter a junction with a path breaking off to the right.
2. ~400 ft: Continue ahead at trail junction and reach 4-way intersection at exercise station 26.
3. ~500 ft: Continue forward and travel downhill, reaching a junction with a trail marker.
4. ~500 ft: Turn left, passing through a pine grove and then traveling along the side of a hill before reaching a 4-way intersection.
5. ~200 ft: Turn right and follow trail until reaching a small puncheon bridge.
6. ~100 ft: Continue ahead, crossing a small brook. The trail then encounter s a triple fork, with options to go left, straight, and right.
7. ~850 ft: Take the left fork and travel uphill, reaching a T-intersection at the top of the ridge.
8. ~300 ft: Turn right and follow trail along ridgeline until reaching junction with trail breaking off to left.
9. ~350 ft: Go straight through junction as trail slowly descends until reaching T-intersection behind Activity Center.
10. 8 ft: Make a left at the T-intersection, and then travel a few steps to stand in front of an immediate fork. Make a left here.
11. ~200 ft: Follow the trail as it snakes down the side of the hill. When it reaches the bottom, it meanders a short distance over level terrain before reaching a T-intersection.
12. ~150 ft: Turn right, following stream on left. The trail will reach a skewed intersection with a trail merging in from the right.
13. ~100 ft: Bear left and continue paralleling stream until reaching a bridge on the left.
14. ~50 ft: Turn left at bridge and follow trail as it converts to a plank walkway and reaches a 4-way intersection.
15. ~200 ft: Turn left and follow plank walkway as it goes straight and then hooks left.
16. ~125 ft: Follow trail as it hooks right, converting back to dirt
17. ~250 ft: Turn right at T-intersection and follow trail as it switches from dirt path back to plank walkway. A side trail will appear on the right leading into a small loop surrounded by skunk cabbage.
18. ~175 ft: Continue forward and reach a slope where trail makes a sharp right.
19. ~50 ft: Follow trail as it wraps to left and then turns right to cross a bridge. A junction with the High Point Trail (left) occurs after the bridge.
20. ~250 ft: Continue straight ahead, crossing over small hill. The trail then comes to a stream, turning left.
21. ~600 ft: Follow trail as its parallels the stream. The trail then turns left as it encounters a tributary merging with the stream from the left.
22. ~150 ft: The trail makes a gradual ascent, paralleling the stream. It then reaches a junction with a trail coming in from the left.
23. ~600 ft: Continue straight through junction and reach a high bridge on the right.
24. ~300 ft: Pass the bridge and keep moving forward until encountering a fork in the trail.
25. ~275 ft: Take the right fork and follow it to a section of trail that has been shored up to prevent collapse into ravine on right.
26. ~250 ft: Follow trail as it ascends a hill, curving to the left. The trail reaches a T-intersection near the top of the hill.
27. ~100 ft: Turn right and follow trail until it comes to an open field with tennis courts.
28. ~250 ft: Look slightly to the left and locate walkway traveling behind tennis courts. Go straight, and follow the walkway to the far corner of tennis courts where it makes a right.
29. ~375 ft: Follow trail until it reaches entrance of parking lot, a dozen feet or so from Fit Trail exercise station 20.
Trail maps can be obtained from the Monmouth County Park System’s website. Maps are also available for viewing at an information board in the Pond View parking area, which is the first parking lot on the left after entering the park. Monmouth County Park System trails are identified by level of difficulty, not unique blaze markings.
Date of Hike: 4/30/2011
Publication: Submitted by Dan Ciarletta on 06/17/2011
Over the Ridge and Through the Marsh Loop
Holmdel Park
Forested hills, lush marshes, and steep ravines make for diverse terrain that feels interestingly out of place in the generally flat Coastal Plain.
Proceed to the entrance of Hill Top parking area. Facing down the road providing access to the parking area, look to the left and locate Fit Trail exercise station 20 (where an overhead workout ladder is installed). Examine the trail post here. In addition to pointing the direction of the Ridge Walk trail, it also points out the direction of the Fit Trail, paralleling the road. Follow the...
Monmouth Co., NJ
Web Map: Holmdel trail map
From the Garden State Parkway, take Exit 114. If coming from the north, make a right onto Red Hill Road. If coming from the south, make a left. After about 0.5 mile make a right on Crawfords Corner Road. Follow Crawfords Corner Road for 1.1 miles, and then make a left at Roberts Road. Continue on Roberts Road for 0.8 mile, and make a right at Longstreet Road. Travel 0.1 mile on Longstreet Road and then make a left into Holmdel Park. Continue along the park driveway for 0.6 mile, past other parking areas, to reach Hill Top parking lot.
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Archives|Bridge; Delighted to Come in No. 2
Bridge; Delighted to Come in No. 2
By ALAN TRUSCOTT APRIL 16, 1998
It is hard to imagine circumstances in which a player is happier on finishing second in a national championship than he would have been if he had won, but it happened last month at the Spring Nationals in Reno, Nev. George Rosenkranz of Mexico City was a runner-up in the Open Swiss Teams, which ended the tournament, heading a highly experienced group: Henri Leufkens and Berry Westra of the Netherlands, Jon Baldursson and Magnus Magnusson of Iceland and Eddie Wold of Houston. The first three are former world champions.
A Rosenkranz victory would have set a record for the highest age, 81, for a national victory, but he was delighted by the result. The title went to his wife, Edith, along with Ralph Cohen of Memphis; Ron Smith of San Francisco; Bob Etter of Sacramento, Calif., and Bob Morris of Houston. She became the first woman winner of this title: until 1990 it was the Men's Swiss Teams.
Rosenkranz solved a difficult single-suit problem on the diagramed deal from the event, and it's one that seems to be overlooked in the literature. He reached four hearts and received a club lead. East took the ace, rightly fearing quick discards on dummy's spades, and returned the spade 10. This was a good play, guarding against a possible J x x x in the West hand, but it made no difference.
Everything now hinged on the trump suit. At most other tables, the declarer cashed the ace and went down to defeat, losing three tricks to West. Rosenkranz did better. He overtook the spade jack with the queen and led the three from the dummy. He intended to finesse the nine, but naturally played the jack when the 10 appeared.
This lost to the king, and a spade was returned. He ruffed in his hand, led the heart six, and played low from dummy when the two appeared.
When this won the trick it was an easy matter to cash the heart ace and lead winners. He would of course have played the ace if West had shown out on the second round, but that was most unlikely.
This play gained against a singleton 10 with East, but would have lost if West had had that holding. All plays were due to win if the suit divided three-two, or if West held either a small singleton or a singleton king or queen. All plays would lose if East held a small singleton.
That leaves two combinations in which the Rosenkranz play gains. When East has a singleton king or queen, he will win the first trick, but South will later run the six, much as he did with the actual combination, holding his losses to two tricks.
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A version of this article appears in print on April 16, 1998, on Page E00010 of the National edition with the headline: Bridge; Delighted to Come in No. 2. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Television|‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 6: A New World Order
‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 6: A New World Order
A scene from “Narcos.”CreditCreditJuan Pablo Gutierrez/Netflix
By Scott Tobias
Season 2, Episode 6: ‘Los Pepes’
A tale of two scenes:
1. The streets are running red with blood since the arrival of Los Pepes (a close enough acronym for “People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar”), a mysterious assassination squad that’s been making ghoulish displays out of murdered Escobar associates. When word circulates that the Castaño brothers are involved in the killings, Colonel Martínez briefs President Gaviria about the dangers of the far-right paramilitary group blasting its way through the streets of Medellín. Martínez, a military veteran, had firsthand knowledge of the Castaño brothers’ vigilante tactics and advises Gaviria to take action.
2. Claudia Messina, who’s starting to assert herself as Murphy and Peña’s D.E.A. boss in Colombia, sits down in the U.S. ambassador’s office and reports a bombing at a Cali cartel wedding. Only Escobar would have the audacity to do such a thing, Messina correctly surmises, and she asks to shift some resources to Cali to get a better handle on the escalating war between the two cartels. With Escobar out of the way, the Cali cartel’s operation stands to expand beyond its already enormous scope.
In both cases, the official answer is an emphatic “no.” President Gaviria and the U.S. ambassador are focused on the short-term goal of capturing Pablo Escobar, no matter the long-term headache of other criminal organizations gaining footing as a result. Neither of them is going as far as Agent Peña, who’s actively feeding tips to Los Pepes before Search Bloc has the chance to pursue them, but they share an understanding that whatever unsavory forces have gathered to kill Escobar, they are doing service to their cause. It doesn’t matter anymore that Escobar be brought to justice through legal means. And it doesn’t matter what happens to the narco business after he’s gone. He is everyone’s target at present.
“Los Pepes” finds “Narcos” sharing the teensiest of melancholy with Escobar over his situation. It opens in more carefree times, with Escobar and his crew speeding customized racecars around his own private track and yukking it up over beers like overgrown children. Then it smash cuts to the present, when all the racecars have been burned to blackened frames, with men burned alive in the trunks. It cannot be said that Escobar wasn’t reaping what he sowed, but amid the smoke, he can also whiff the hypocrisy and opportunism of Judy Moncada and the Cali cartel, who are ruthless in running businesses that are poised to grow with him out of the picture. That Los Pepes acronym, too, is mostly a lie, feigning persecution as a cover for acts of abhorrent torture and violence.
Though the show has yet to speculate about the lasting effect Escobar’s death would have over the ordinary citizens of Medellín, this episode happens to take place over Christmas, a holiday that’s celebrated with a defiant vigor every year. (Adjectives like “faith,” “optimism” and “stubbornness” pepper Murphy’s description of it in the voice-over.) Escobar has visited many horrors upon Medellín, but the gruesome tableau of dead bodies strung up around Nativity scenes is an obscenity that wouldn’t be in his character to stage. His philanthropic efforts on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised may be dismissed as a political strategy to protect his business, but deliberately terrorizing residents on a sacred holiday was never his modus operandi. It not only signals the violence to come, but it also suggests how much the complexion of Medellín might change once Escobar is gone and other cartels take over.
The Christmas theme extends meaningfully to the Escobar family, which is trying to eke out a sense of normalcy in a situation that’s increasingly dangerous and isolating. Escobar’s mother, Hermilda, always a thorn in the side, wants to attend Christmas mass over everyone’s objections and winds up going anyway, leading his enemies right to the compound. His children are concerned about Santa Claus coming to town, too, despite his gentle reassurances. Escobar’s desperate attempts to shield his children from the crisis at hand take on — dare I say — a poignancy that should tug at all parents who shield their kids from the harshness of the real world.
“Daddy, will Santa know how to find us?,” his daughter asks when they’re shuffled off to a safe house in the middle of the night. Escobar puzzles over the question, because now he has to scramble for basic supplies like food and dry wood and can’t give his children anything of a normal Christmas. “Santa will always find your good and kind heart,” he tells her, “no matter where you are in this world.”
In this topsy-turvy world, Escobar is cast as vulnerable, even sympathetic, as he comes to recognize the unholy unions forged between adversaries for the sole purpose of bringing him down. And while no sad trombone will bleat over the unjust persecution of Pablo Escobar, the show finds some harmony between his fury over the empowerment of lawless death squads and common concern about the implications for Colombia’s future. For authority figures in Colombia and the United States, looking the other way while one narco-terrorist organization tries to stamp out another has dire portents for the rule of law.
Parting Shots
• After “Los Pepes,” Hermilda has secured her place in the bad mother-in-law Hall of Fame. After frustrating and undermining Tata at every opportunity this season, Hermilda needles her about the family’s lack of spiritual well-being and defies strict orders not to attend public mass. The shootout that follows on the Escobar compound spares all the key players except one: Tata’s brother, Carlos.
• The Cali cartel has been depicted as a bourgeois answer to Escobar’s man-of-the-people routine, which effectively masks their own venality in the guise of legitimate businessman. But after Escobar bombs the Cali wedding, even their cool calculation goes out the window. The mood of anger and nihilism has consumed everyone.
• “Whoever did this will never get near us again,” Escobar assures Tata. She knows that’s a promise he won’t be able to keep, but she’s made her peace with being the wife of Pablo Escobar.
• The final shot, of Escobar burning piles of cash to keep his family warm, is a tad loaded symbolically, but it’s a reminder of how he’s burned through money over the years. In better times, he had so much cash that he had to bury millions of dollars and create treasure maps to remember where to find it. Now he’s throwing the last few logs on a dying fire.
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Sonny Bill Williams says he'll fight Paul Gallen eventually: 'The macho talk is just rubbish'
9 Sep, 2018 7:51am
Sonny Bill Williams. Photograph by Nick Reed
Sonny Bill Williams is urging NRL rival Paul Gallen to be patient, as talk of a much anticipated fight between the two gathers momentum.
The All Blacks star will step into the ring for the first time in three years on December 1 in Sydney against a yet-to-be-announced opponent.
Gallen has expressed frustration at being overlooked as Williams' next opponent, claiming the All Blacks star is dodging him. But SBW said the latest opportunity - which will raise funds for the homeless via the Exodus Foundation in Australia and the Auckland City Mission in New Zealand - was too good to pass up.
Gallen himself has made it clear that he wants to fight Williams, calling him out on numerous occasions in the past.
Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herarld though, Williams said he's unfazed by the Cronulla Sharks captain's antics, telling him to be patient.
"Tell my good friend Paul, he can just relax and we will get there eventually," SBW told the Sydney Morning Herald. "He keeps calling me out by attacking me and questioning my manhood. That kind of talk, I'm past that stage in my life.
"I've been involved in sports for long enough to understand that the bravado, the macho talk is just rubbish. That's just water off a duck's back to me, so to speak. That's what I'd say about that situation brother."
Pressed on whether he intended to take on the veteran Sharks forward - who is now eyeing off a fight with John Hopoate - Williams replied: "Yeah, of course. When it comes to my good friend Paul, he probably needs to relax a bit.
"If it happens, it happens. This great opportunity came up for such a great cause. Big Paul had to take a back seat, so to speak."
Williams' opponent, in what will be a sanctioned world title fight, will be named at a news conference in Auckland on September 18. Other sports stars will participate on the undercard.
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Rob Page Looking Forward To First Derby As Manager
Boss Speaks To Valiant Player Ahead Of Crewe Clash
The Valiants host Crewe Alexandra this weekend at Vale Park.
The game marks Rob Page's first local derby as a manager.
The 40-year-old says he is really looking forward to the experience.
Port Vale boss Rob Page is looking forward to his first derby day experience as a manager when his side hosts Crewe Alexandra this weekend.
The Valiants welcome Steve Davis’ side to Vale Park on Saturday afternoon, kick-off 3pm, knowing a win could take them into the play-off places.
But the Railwaymen have won three of their last five Sky Bet League one matches and Page knows his players are in for a tough battle.
Speaking exclusively to Valiant Player, the 40-year-old admitted he is excited for his first game in the dugout as manager against Vale’s local rivals.
“I’ve played in a few derbies myself and it is a great day, not just for you as a player, coach or manager but the supporters and everybody associated with the club,” he said.
“With it being my first managerial derby, I’m looking forward to it.”
to watch the full and exclusive interview with Vale boss Rob Page as he prepares his side to face Crewe on Saturday afternoon. Or watch a short clip of the interview in the Youtube video below.hereClick
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Industry Mapping
Kognitive Marketing Increases Revenue and Profitability with Guidance from Interim CFO
When Kognitive Marketing was introduced to Odgers Interim, the small business had become a victim of its own success. It had been named the fastest-growing marketing company in Canada in 2014 and ranked in the top 10 of the PROFIT 500 list, but it was also experiencing significant growing pains.
“We were doing really well but we needed help taking our business to the next level,” says Josh Singer, president of Kognitive Marketing. The payroll was still being processed manually and commissions and core operations were managed using spreadsheets, a system that made sense for a small start-up but not for a company with 500 employees. The Kognitive team was looking for senior financial guidance to help match systems and processes to the new scale of operations, but a full-time Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was not in the budget.
Some of the company’s advisory board members suggested hiring an interim CFO. “The idea was to recruit someone at the CFO level to do the strategic work on a part-time basis,” explains Josh, “so we were not paying a full time salary.”
Understanding Client Needs
With most of its employees under 30, Kognitive has a high-energy, youthful culture. The team wanted someone who could work effectively within that environment to help them get to the next level, and turned to two search firms before hiring Odgers Interim: “We had four people presented to us. The top two we chose were from Odgers.”
Josh praises Jason Peetsma, Managing Director at Odgers Interim, for steering a swift and focused selection process that found the right fit at the right budget. “Jason really understood our needs. He delivered quickly and delivered the right people. He was bang on, and made the process much quicker than if we had done our own internal search.”
With Jason’s help, Kognitive hired Joe Prodan, a proven CFO who had already worked with three high-profile and rapidly expanding start-ups including Bell ExpressVu, Sirius Radio, and Mobilicity. His experience of helping companies through the sometimes painful transition to success gave him the insight to guide Kognitive along a similar path. Joe joined the Kognitive team working three to four days a week for four months.
Delivering Rapid and Impressive Results
As an interim hire, Joe worked on compressed timelines to identify technology solutions that would allow the business to grow further, such as a new payroll system and a redesigned commission engine. “After only three days on the job, he knew at a high level all the things we had to get done.”“After only three days on the job, he knew at a high level all the things we had to get done.”
Josh credits Joe’s strategy with helping the company to significantly increase its revenues and profitability. Joe continues to act as an advisor, so the Kognitive team can tap into his senior-level expertise as needed. Using his intimate knowledge of Kognitive and subject matter expertise, Joe helped shortlist a CFO candidate who could carry out the company strategy over the long haul.
“We would have never found Joe without Odgers,” says Josh. Having seen the benefits first hand, he now urges smaller businesses that can’t afford a full-time CFO to consider an interim high-level hire who will position them for future growth. “Always hire amazing talent. It will pay for itself.”
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Three Three Peaks thirds, then first first
By Jeff Cheshire
Hamish Elliott atop Mount Cargill yesterday during his Three Peaks Mountain Race win. Inset: Sharon Lequeux. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH
Third time might not have been so lucky for Sharon Lequeux - but fourth time certainly was.
After finishing third in each of the past three years, the 29-year-old finally conquered Dunedin's hills yesterday.
She claimed the Three Peaks Mountain Race women's title, finishing the 26km course in 2hr 44min 10sec.
Ailsa Rollinson and Orlaith Heron put up a strong fight, both remaining in touch at 2min and 3min back, respectively.
Lequeux led from start to finish, her time 2min faster than her previous best.
Alongside claiming the overall win, she also claimed the Queen of the Mountain prize, being the first to climb Swampy Summit.
"It's nice to come something other than third, for once," she said with a laugh.
"I just tried to push up the hills, the tough bit was going up Mount Cargill.
"It was a beautiful day, it's easy to stay motivated when the conditions are good.
"These two [Rollinson and Heron] were right behind me, so that was good motivation, too."
Sharon Lequeux and her daughter, Poppy. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON
An electron microscopist, Lequeux fits much of her training in running to and from work while pushing her daughter in a pram.
That was good strength training, and a lot of her focus had been on road running and trying to get faster.
She had only done two trail runs in the past two months.
Her next big race would be the Christchurch marathon.
Meanwhile, Hamish Elliott claimed the men's title in his first time competing in the race.
The 24-year-old held on to the fast-paced leading pack through the first half, before opening a gap.
His time of 2hr 06min 21sec was the fastest since Stafford Thompson's 2015 time.
That left him four and a half minutes ahead of second-placed Tim Bolter.
He was "really surprised" to claim the win over some strong runners.
An Oamaru dairy farmer, he was primarily a multisport athlete, although running was his strong suit.
He had come down as he looked to find races in the weekends, and said this was not dissimilar to others he had done.
"It was really good actually, really similar.
"I've competed in the Coast to Coast and it's quite a similar grunt, a lot of climbing and a lot of off-road terrain.
"I do try to do a lot of off-road running and a lot of multisport.
"It was a really good training run as well, so I could take that out of it."
He had not quite been able to claim the King of the Mountain prize, however.
That had gone to Jonah Smith, who topped Swampy Summit marginally before Elliott and Alex Gorrie.
Next weekend Elliott will trade his running shoes for the bike, as he contests the Hawea Epic mountain bike race.
The Three Peaks race follows a 26km course in which runners ascend Flagstaff, Swampy Summit and Mount Cargill, finishing at Chingford Park.
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Access to Health Care Shouldn’t Depend on Your Zip Code
By Jacqueline Murphy | June 11, 2013, 1:53 p.m.
Category: Attacks on Planned Parenthood, State Attacks
What just happened in North Dakota shows how far some politicians will go to take away women’s access to safe and legal abortion. On Tuesday, Governor Jack Dalrymple signed a six-week abortion ban, which effectively outlaws abortion in the state. The law is plainly unconstitutional, but that doesn’t seem to deter our opponents from trying to erode women’s access to health care services. At all.
In fact the six-week abortion ban wasn’t the only bill Governor Dalrymple signed. He also signed a ban on abortion for the purposes of sex selection, and a bill requiring any doctor who performs abortion in ND to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, (which one ND GOP lawmaker and surgeon testified would not make women “any safer”). The bottom line is that each of the measures seeks to make abortion access as difficult as possible for the women of North Dakota.
In his signing statement, Governor Dalrymple said,
Although the likelihood of this measure surviving a court challenge remains in question, this bill is nevertheless a legitimate attempt by a state legislature to discover the boundaries of Roe vs. Wade.
The fact that 70 percent of Americans support Roe v. Wade means little to politicians like the ones in North Dakota that pushed this legislation through.
This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. Republican State Representative Kathy Hawken led 10 Republican state legislators in opposition to the bills.
Hawken noted that
North Dakota hasn’t even passed a primary seatbelt law, but we have the most invasive attack on women’s health anywhere.
Misplaced priorities.
Sadly, North Dakota isn’t the only state engaging in a full-scale attack on women.
In states across the country, we are seeing new levels of extremism on women’s health and rights. The extraordinary number of bills shows a complete disregard for women and doctors — who see the effects of these misguided policies firsthand and are speaking out against these political attacks.
North Dakota’s six-week abortion ban is just one of 300 outrageous bills in 42 states that would ban or severely limit access to abortion, make it harder for women to get birth control, or cut women off from cancer screenings.
We stand with North Dakota women because access to care shouldn’t be determined by your zip code. We refuse to leave a single woman behind. Join us and other Planned Parenthood supporters: add your name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America petition!
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2019 PSU Cleantech Challenge: Team Meals by the Day
Technology for Curbing Food Waste
“Passion and effort can result in something that can make a lasting impact.”
Team members: Sreyrith Seng, MBA candidate; Roat Seng, PSU alum and software engineer.
1. Where did you get the inspiration for your Cleantech Challenge invention idea?
Our concept for Meals by the Day started because our sister loves to cook but didn’t like the process of meal planning for her family — she was doing it in Excel and didn’t like the apps that were available. A lot of the food she was buying was also going unused and had to be thrown away after a while. To our surprise, a lot of the existing apps didn’t cater to the way that she plans meals and cooks. We realized that there was a need that wasn’t being fulfilled in what the users wanted and what the existing apps were providing.
2. As you prepare to pitch your idea and show off your prototype at TechFest NW in April, what are you most excited about?
We are excited to get the app into the App store so we can reach an even wider audience!
3. Who are your Cleantech Heroes? Who do you look to for inspiration?
Nat Parker, who is the CEO of moovel North America, is a big inspiration for us. He spoke at Techfest NW last year on the work they are doing to create mobility solutions to make smarter transportation systems and smarter cities. We learned a great lesson from Nat: that passion and effort can result in something that can make a lasting impact.
4. Tell us about your team: How did you meet each other and how do you work together?
We are a two member team. Working together towards a shared purpose has really given us the opportunity to learn more about one another. We have different strengths that complement well.
5. What’s the one thing you want the Cleantech Challenge judges to understand about your innovation (that will ensure your team will win the competition)?
A lot of hard work went into creating this app, and there is a lot more work to be done. Regardless of the outcome, we are grateful to be able to participate in the competition and will continue to work to improve the app.
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Keys to Good Cooking
A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes
By Harold McGee
Category: Cooking Methods
Oct 31, 2012 | 576 Pages
Ebook $13.99
About Keys to Good Cooking
The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary classic On Food and Cooking
Harold McGee is our foremost expert on the science of cooking, advising professional chefs worldwide. Now he offers the same authoritative advice for food lovers everywhere in Keys to Good Cooking. A companion volume to recipe books, a touchstone for spotting flawed recipes and making the best of them, Keys to Good Cooking is a welcome aid for cooks of all types—translating the modern science of cooking into immediately useful information. Taking home cooks from market to table–and teaching them the best way to select, prepare, and present an amazing array of food–Keys to Good Cooking is an invaluable resource for anyone who prepares food and wants to do it well.
The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary bible On Food and Cooking.
From our foremost expert on the science of cooking, Harold McGee, Keys to Good Cooking is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of ingredients, recipes, food safety, and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish.
A work of astounding scholarship and originality, Keys to Good Cooking directly addresses the cook at work in the kitchen and in need of quick and reliable guidance. Cookbooks past and present frequently contradict one another about the best ways to prepare foods, and many contain erroneous information and advice.
Keys to Good Cooking distills the modern scientific understanding of cooking and translates it into immediately useful information. Looking at ingredients from the mundane to the exotic, McGee takes you from market to table, teaching, for example, how to spot the most delectable asparagus (choose thick spears); how to best prepare the vegetable (peel, don’t snap, the fibrous ends; broiling is one effective cooking method for asparagus and other flat-lying vegetables); and how to present it (coat with butter or oil after cooking to avoid a wrinkled surface). This book will be a requisite countertop resource for all home chefs, as McGee’s insights on kitchen safety in particular-reboil refrigerated meat or fish stocks every few days. (They’re so perishable that they can spoil even in the refrigerator.); Don’t put ice cubes or frozen gel packs on a burn. (Extreme cold can cause additional skin damage)-will save even the most knowledgeable home chefs from culinary disaster.
A companion volume to recipe books, a touchstone that helps cooks spot flawed recipes and make the best of them, Keys to Good Cooking will be of use to cooks of all kinds: to beginners who want to learn the basics, to weekend cooks who want a quick refresher in the basics, and to accomplished cooks who want to rethink a dish from the bottom up. With Keys to Good Cooking McGee has created an essential guide for food lovers everywhere.
About Harold McGee
HAROLD MCGEE is a world-renowned authority on the chemistry of foods and cooking. He studied science and literature at Caltech and Yale, and has written two prize-winning books, On Food and Cooking and The Curious Cook, as well as many… More about Harold McGee
Oct 31, 2012 | 576 Pages | 7-3/8 x 9-1/8 | ISBN 9780143122319
Hardcover | $35.00
Published by Penguin Press
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Ebook | $13.99
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“Mr. McGee might have called this encyclopedic work "The Kitchen Home Companion," since it offers indispensable information on how to make the most of any recipe—a user’s manual that enables home cooks to achieve maximum results… the enjoyment it affords will be found on the table.” — Wall Street Journal
"If you want to know virtually anything about the "why" of cooking, read Harold McGee. Along the way, he’ll teach you the "how." — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
“McGee’s writing is broad, yet detailed at the same time, scientific, but comprehensible.”
— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
“A great addition to any cookbook library. It picks up where many cookbooks leave off. The "How’s" and "Why’s" of a dish’s success – or failure – are often a mystery, but McGee sheds light on many of those mysteries to make us more informed in the kitchen and ultimately, better cooks.” — SEATTLE WEEKLY
“McGee will banish any romantic notions about cooking with his fast-draw expertise… With an eminently pragmatic approach to cooking and a user-friendly précis of a lifetime’s devotion to the kitchen, this is an invaluable addition to food literature.”
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News magazines hit by big drop in ad pages
By Katerina Eva Matsa
In a difficult advertising environment for the magazine industry overall, newly-released numbers from the Association of Magazine Media (MPA) show the nation’s news magazines being hit particularly hard.
Total consumer magazine ad pages dropped 4.9% compared with the first half of 2012, according to MPA data for the first six months of 2013, released July 9. But the drop in ad pages for five major news magazines—Time, The Economist, The Atlantic, The Week and The New Yorker—was far steeper, a combined 18% in the first half of 2013 compared with the same period a year earlier. In one indicator of the difficulties facing news magazines, Newsweek—which saw ad pages decline by 60% from 2002 to 2012—discontinued its print edition at the end of 2012. (Read more on the status of Newsweek here).
Ad pages are considered a more reliable indicator of the financial health of a magazine than ad dollars because the dollar figures are based on rate card pricing that often does not reflect what an advertiser really pays.
The steep decline in magazine ad pages began as the recession struck. From 2008 through 2012, ad pages were down an average of 32% in the magazine industry overall and 27% among the news magazines, not including Newsweek. Numbers for the first half of 2013 suggest more hard times for the news magazines.
In the new figures, the Economist took the biggest tumble among news magazines in the first half of 2013, suffering a 24% drop in ad pages. The Week was close behind with a 23% drop in ad pages. Declines at Time and The Atlantic, while less severe, still reached double digits, at 17% and 10% respectively. Only The New Yorker managed to keep its ad page losses to single digits, with a drop of 9%.
While these numbers highlight a difficult print advertising climate, they don’t tell the whole story. MPA President Mary Berner says magazines are increasingly generating digital revenue. Initial industry monitoring of iPad ad units (the rough equivalent of print ad pages) for some magazine versions found that sales increased about 25% in the first half of 2013. Berner called those gains “encouraging” and added that later this year, about 100 magazines will be reporting some iPad ad unit results. In addition, some news magazines, most notably The Economist and The Atlantic, have begun diversifying revenue streams with such initiatives as events, conferences and creation of niche content.
Looking over the past decade, from 2003 through 2012, the overall ad pages for news magazines (excluding Newsweek) dropped by 36%, from 7,848 to 5,008. But within that time frame were several shifts in trajectory. A major drop-off in ad pages occurred from 2008 to 2009 (17%.) Ad pages stabilized from 2009 to 2011, growing at a modest 1%. But then another downturn occurred as ad pages in 2012 dropped 13% from the previous year, followed by the 18% decline in the first half of 2013.
Correction: This post has been updated to reflect the fact that the magazine industry is monitoring the sale of iPad ad units rather than actual digital ad revenue.
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Birdsville- a mysterious magnet
February 19, 2013 Vicki Fraser Activities & Things to Do, Places to Go and Stay, Uncategorized 0
What is it about Birsdville that the very name conjures up all sorts of images.. Isolation, loneliness, Birdsville races, the Birdsville track, the outback, the Birdsville Pub, the Simpson Desert….It draws us like a magnet to experience what some people believe is the most isolated place on the continent. A regular stream of 4WD adventurers, all determined to travel the 500 km of the Birdsville track, pass through the town. And for some it’s home.
Charles Sturt was the first European explorer to come across the area and thus the Sturt Stony Desert was named after him. Birdsville was originally named Diamantina Crossing. The town was renamed Birdsville by the owner of Pandie Pandie Station who was amazed by the diversity of birdlife which inhabited the area. Who would expect to find seagulls in the salt lakes which exist in the area?
European settlers moved into the area in the 1870s, looking for minerals and grazing land for cattle. In the 1880s Birdsville was established as a centre for stock routes for the cattle country and as a Customs collection point. In the days before federation in 1901, a toll was payable on all stock and supplies entering South Australia from Queensland.
Birdsville supported a population of over 300 at the turn of the century. The town boasted 3 hotels, a cordial factory, blacksmith store, market gardens, police and customs facilities. However following Federation in 1901 the customs depot was closed and the population slowly dwindled to approximately 50 throughout the 1950s.
Livestock trade has kept the region alive and in recent times tourism has joined cattle as the major industry in the area. Birdsville also offers today’s traveller a modern community with a sporting complex, gymnasium, two galleries, a bakery, air services, motel, hotel, caravan park and cabins, coffee shops and restaurants, general store, post office, medical clinic, fuel and auto services, and a police station.
Things to see and do:
1. Wirrarri Visitor Information Centre
Situated on Billabong Boulevard, the modern centre offers advice on travelling in this remote region of Australia. A good thing to be up to date on. Apart from the usual displays of things to see and do around the area the theatre offers regular screenings of “Back of Beyond” about Tom Kruse, the last mail man of the Birdsville Track.
2. The old Australian Inland Mission Hospital
It was constructed in 1882 as the Royal Hotel, one of the town’s first two pubs. It was bought by the AIM in 1923 and used as a hospital base for the Royal Flying Doctor until 1937, after which it was leased as a private residence for many years. Materials for the conversion from a hotel to a hospital, were brought to Birdsville on a string of 75 camels. It was from this building that Birdsville’s first pedal wireless broadcast occurred in 1929. Since 1978 the property has been listed for preservation and restoration with the Register of National Estate.
3. Have a Drink at the Birdsville Pub
Birdsville’s second pub was built in 1884-5. A simple, stone, single-storey building it is now listed by the National Trust. It has become something of a mandatory stopover point in the town.
4. Big Red
Big Red, recognised as the challenge for every 4 wheel-drive enthusiasts, is located 35 kilometres west of Birdsville. Big Red is the first and highest of 1,100 dunes in the Simpson Desert. A favourite pastime for locals and visitors alike is watching the magical sunrise or sunset over the vast plains of the Simpson Desert from the top of Big Red.
5. Simpson Desert National Park
65 km to the west of Birdsville is the vast Simpson Desert National Park covering approximately 505 000 hectares and characterised by huge sand dunes which run parallel to each other at distances of anything from 200 to 600 metres. The average height of the dunes is 30 metres. Significantly there is no major river system in the park. This is classic arid desert terrain and vegetation. The dead heart of Australia.
6. Birdsville Track
A word of warning: about 100 km down the Birdsville Track is a simple memorial to the Page family who in 1963, after their car had broken down on the road, tried to walk out. All five members of the family died. This is not an area for risk taking.
7. Waddi Trees
Waddis are a rare and ancient species, representing relict populations of Australian desert flora. Its timber is so hard it has caused damage to axes and saws and when dry is almost impossible to drill. Waddi wood fence posts have been found showing little sign of decay after nearly a century. There are only a handful of Waddi Wood groves located in Australia, with one being located 12 kilometres north of Birdsville. Waddi trees have new been listed as a protected species on the Register of National Estate.
8. Birdsville Cemetery
Visitors are welcome to take a stroll around the historic cemetary in Birdsville. The cemetery houses many old gravesites of our early pioneers and is testament to the hardships they endured.
9. Birdsville Star Show
Do a bit of star gazing. What better place could you find than the desert sky. With an informative and entertaining guide, you can view the wonders of the desert sky through an 11 inch Celestron telescope. Look at different objects from planets, moon, coloured stars, nebulas, galaxies to constellations and much more.
10. Birdsville Races (first Friday and Saturday of September) 6th and 7th September 2013
The first race meeting was held in 1882 as an event for hack and stock horses with a few local spectators. The carnival now includes a 13-race program and prize money in excess of $140 000. The XXXX Gold Birdsville Cup is a much sought after trophy and is famous throughout the world. . Birdsville is one of four tracks in Queensland that run anti-clockwise. Crowds of over 6000 racegoers celebrate the carnival each year enjoying two days of quality outback racing and three great nights of live entertainment. For more information check out www.birdsvilleraces.com
11. Diamantina Lakes National Park
Formerly a pastrol holding it was dedicated as a national park in 1992 and conserves over 500,000ha of diverse Channel Country. While visiting the Diamantina Lakes National Park you can experience the arid zone by taking scenic drives. The ranger can direct you to the tourist drive, which passes a number of waterholes and places of interest. The Diamantina National Park also offers great fishing spots and is home to 180 species of birds.
1. Birdsville Bakery-wow fresh bread at Birdsville! The bakery includes a café and an art gallery featuring work by Lightning Ridge artist John Murrary.
2. The Billabong Café and internet Cafe situated at the Birdsville Caravan Park.
3. Birdsville Hotel where you can have counter meals in the historic ‘Green Lizard Bar’.
1. Birdsville Hotel/Motel
2. Birdsville Caravan Park
Please note that these venues are not available during race week.
Skytrans flies Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday to both Bedourie and Birdsville.
In addition West Wing Aviation conduct the Channel Mail run, flying between Port Augusta and Birdsville.
The Diamantina Shire Council has created a Disability Access Facilitation Plan for both the Bedourie and Birdsville Airports.
The Diamantina Shire prides itself in providing the community with an accessible road network. When driving on outback roads be sure to drive to road conditions and watch out for wandering stock and wildlife.
For more information www.diamantina.qld.gov.au
Birdsville Tourist Information Office
Wirrari Centre, Billabong Boulevard
Birdsville QLD 4482
Facsimile: (07) 4656 3302
Email: wirrari@hotmail.com
Thanks to Karen Brook for her photograph of the Birdsville Races.
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Vicki Fraser – Accounts Admin and Contributor Vicki is Rob’s sister. She has travelled extensively throughout Australia and Overseas. She has been on 6 or 7 extended touring holidays around various parts of Australia, either towing a caravan or camping, sometimes for several months at a time. Whilst Vicki runs her own very successful business in education she is an avid travel enthusiast and writes for us when she can. Oh yes she, also does all the accounts and admin, because Rob is way too slack to do it.
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ROGER DUFFY
Duffy, Roger Thomas
Born: 7/16/1967 Pittsburgh, PA
High School: Central Catholic (Canton, OH)
College: Penn State [1986 1987L 1988L 1989L] ?
Draft: 8th round (196th overall) 1990 New York Jets
1990 New York Jets (NFL) 62 C 16 2
1991 New York Jets (NFL) 62 C-TE 12 0
1992 New York Jets (NFL) 62 OG-C 16 6
1994 New York Jets (NFL) 62 LOG 16 14
1996 New York Jets (NFL) 62 C 16 16
1998 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 62 OG 15 4
1999 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 62 C 16 11
2000 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 62 C-OG 13 7
2001 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 62 OG 8 0
12 Years (NFL) 175 92
1990 New York Jets (NFL) 1 0 8 8.0 8 0 0 0 0
Career Totals (NFL) 2 0 15 7.5 8 0 0 0 0
1992 New York Jets (NFL) 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
1997 New York Jets (NFL) 2 1 0 1 -22 0
2000 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1 0 0 0 0 -10 0
Career Totals (NFL) 3 0 6 0 6 -32 0
1999 Pittsburgh Steelers (NFL) 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
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The First One!
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We have a lot of projects in the pipeline, from launching the play (and everything that goes with it!), to our first full readthrough at Theatre Delicatessen next weekend (More information to follow!) We've got our cast of actors hard at work and we are looking forward to bringing everyone together for what promises to be an interesting and exciting day to workshop and review the new script in more detail.
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Watch brands, there are almost like the sand of the sea-really good this filter is often difficult. In this context the term watchmaker appears too often, to differentiate (supposedly) very high-quality brands of others. But what is even a watch manufacturer and watchmaker which watch manufacturer may call themselves?
In this article I show why the high-flown term “Watch manufacturer” should be not on the gold scales and what you should consider when purchasing a watch.
What is a watch?
You type in Google “Watchmaker”, you arrive quite quickly at all possible collections of all superior brands in Glashütte, Germany, and the Switzerland.
By definition, a manufactory (from the Latin manus “Hand” and facere “manufacture”) is especially characterized by steps that are done with much hand work by using tools. So are all watches by luxury manufacturers such as Breitling & co. so expensive, because it’s manufacturers with much hand work? Of course, some production steps these producers are not to do hand work:
However, This historical definition is less true with glance on the watch industry-established producers of luxury watches such as Rolex, whose models you can hardly see the price of a small car, there is highly automated processes using by coating equipment, machine tools (E.g. milling machines), test equipment, etc.
Nomos puts it relatively sober glass works on his website:
Traditional craft here, high-tech production methods because:
Both together make individual pieces of precision our watches.
Here are a few impressions from the production of Rolex, TAG Heuer and Breitling:
The watchmaker term of the Swiss Watch Industry FH
The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH (Fédération Horlogère) has an old definition from the year 1961 ready:
In the Swiss watch industry refers to those factories, which almost make the whole watch, in contrast to the completion operations, which get only the set up, make fine, show replacing and bowls a so.
Interesting in this context: from January 2017 applies to at least 60% of the production costs in the Switzerland must apply, baptize a product of Swiss made – that is in the Swiss trademark law held.
For watches made in Glashütte is regulating rather imprecise in the so-called of Glassworks rule . This States that
the vast majority of which must be added value in Glashütte.
Only cock fight of two Glashütte manufacturer to the denomination of origin made in glass works shows that this vague, unwritten Glashütte rule allows for quite a lot of room for interpretation and has therefore even the courts.
Every clock manufacturer who meets the requirements for Swiss made or made in Glashütte is a watch? If you look at the criteria to meet not -, rather is the value creation ratio that must be satisfied in the Switzerland / glass works as a prerequisite for this, so a manufacturer at all at some point to a real watchmaker can mutate.
All in all shows that it is not much further comes with official terms and definitions.
However, the term “accounting” is important to watchmakers from different manufacturers to differentiate. Anatomy is company – often in the lower price segment – who buy the watch movements of established manufacturer “off the rack” and in the “shells”. Here, the body, hands, dials etc often come from far eastern production.
In contrast to often by watchmaker spoken, if the movement a watch is a personal creation of the manufacturer (so-called calibre)…
Watch manufacturers: Properties, advantages and disadvantages of manufacture calibres
In itself it is not objectionable to buy a business Watch: the default automatic works by ETA, Sellita & co. like E.g. the millions produced ETA 7750 are proven, relatively inexpensive and can be serviced by nearly every watchmaker. Also in quartz watches very often used the battery works the company Ronda example based on rock-solid technique, you should have little trouble with.
The sticking point is often a psychological: even if the inside a watch the Otto-normal citizens of generally even less interested as the brand itself, hardcore watches fans often argue that a movement that is turned on simply the special or that something is missing – considering the investment of often several thousand euros in a watch quite comprehensible.
A calibre creates an added value usually (in comparison to standard works), E.g. by a higher power reserve, better durability, less maintenance and better accuracy. A good example is the Co-axial escapement by Omega, which is used in the 8500er manufacture calibres. Would this calibre added value is missing, the plant would have no raison d ‘ être when compared to a standard factory (modified). But equal more.
Often, the added value created by a calibre is optical nature but also less technical, but more likely. Glashütte original Senator chronometer for example has
typical three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripes, screwed gold chatons, a Swan-neck fine adjustment and a hand-engraved balance cock. Much handmade in Germany so what can explain also the price of 27,200 euro.
My personal opinion: of course chic looks when you takes time off the clock and look into the Interior of the watch through the glass floor. The purpose of why they should pay a surcharge in the triple-digit for such optical gadgetry but not really me opens up.
The value added by manufacture calibres has so or so its price, whether they are primarily optical or technical nature: watches with calibre are most often (much) more expensive than comparable models. The model of Black Bay Tudor Rolex daughter for example has a modified ETA 2824 aboard and is €2900 (EIA) on a leather strap. The price for the 2016er new edition with MT5602 (“Mouvement TUDOR”) Manufakturwerk is €3140 (EIA) on a leather strap. A surcharge of less than 10%, which is more than fair, if you look at the project page:
Power reserve 38 hours at the old version almost doubled with 70 hours to
A bridge span it warrants additional robustness.
The movement was officially certified by the Swiss Testing Institute Contrôle officiel Suisse of the Chronomètres (COSC).This guarantees a high precision of the tested works.
Otherwise it at Omega looks: the MSRP for the latest Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 42 mm with stainless steel bracelet and 8500er Manufakturwerk is €5000, while the old 2500er variant with modified ETA movement at just under €3000. This corresponds to a surcharge of almost 70%. In fairness, but must say that not only the inner workings of the model has been improved: so the dial of the new model is more complex (numbers sewn-on and the Omega logo instead of prints) and the bezel is made of scratch-resistant ceramic instead of aluminium. The bottom line, Omega is still handsomely pay the calibre.
In addition, calibre can be usually only official manufacturer from waited alone due to the procurement of spare parts. This is usually much more expensive than E.g. the revision of a standard of ETA by the watchmaker around the corner.
Tricky: Many standard works such as the ETA 7750 are used not only by brand in the lower price segment, but also by companies that are generally regarded as luxury watch manufacturers.
For example, The two chronograph TAG Heuer Carrera day-date CAL. 16 and that Hamilton Khaki X-wind use both versions of the popular ETA 7750 of automatic movement.
EIA of TAG Heuer: €4.650
EIA of Hamilton: €1.345
Of course you should the value for money a clock not only on the inner limit. Also in case processing, with the bracelet etc., there are of course differences in quality. The stainless steel bracelet of the TAG Heuer Carrera day date is for example excellent workmanship – as the Hamilton can’t keep (logically at the price difference).
Yet nasty: Camouflage manufacturers Turned on standard works often with own labels such as TAG Heuercalibre 16 day-date automatic movement. The description on the website of TAG Heuer is sober:
TAG Heuer calibre 16 Swiss made.
Automatic movement.
Diameter: 30.4 mm (13 ¼ “‘)-25 jewels.
Rapid date and day of the week correction.
The balance frequency: 28.800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz).
Power reserve: approximately 42 hours.
No reference to the origin of the work – in the case of the Swatch Group, the ETA 7750. For a rather uninformed customer not a beautiful situation, even if it comes with some Google search quickly behind the used base works.
Automatic watches with display back the origin of the work usually does not at first glance is also evident: the flywheel, which draws an automatic watch, is almost always individually fitted with the brand name:
In addition, the devil is in the detail: the automatic works by ETA & co. is available in different levels of quality, the prices vary greatly. As the three levels of Elaboré, top, and Chronometè are at the ETA 7750. The purchase prices for standard Swiss automatic movements will likely be partially in quantities in the four-digit range according to my research at well below €100 per piece – depending on the quality level. A press release concerning a legal dispute between the Nomos and mill States Glashütte:
In the movement, which (this is equivalent to 43 percent) finished buys mill [glassworks] for 22.95 euro in the Switzerland, working for 30,45 EUR (57%) will be added according to the opinion. However, is above all costs for vehicles and accounting, management, so the so called “administrative overhead”-put more than 17 euros. Services are all 8.39 Euro-only 15.7 per cent-according to this site on the clock, so Glashutte manufacturing costs incurred in the processing.
Here it is again clear that standard works “off the rack” often farther from the manufacturers be modified, such as the work that in the Hamilton Khaki X-wind is used: under the name H-21, Hamilton has modified the plant to ensure power reserve 60 hours. This is considerably more than on the DAY, although the TAG Heuer is significantly more expensive Heuer Carrera day-date-and that. The example shows that a value can be created also with a standard work-for a calibre is not necessary…
Watchmakers and calibre: The most important manufacturers and conclusion
Eventually introduces the concept watch manufacturer like marketing communications departments, to lift its own brand in the Olympus of the top watch manufacturers-liability he has none. Bluntly, almost any “more upscale” watchmaker can write the term watchmaker to the flag – the sticking point is the credibility of communication this very stretchable concept rather.
Put it another way: the term watchmaker, it behaves as with non-protected job titles which can be misconstrued as official designations are anything but official nature (E.g. Financial Advisor, coach, translator).
What is left, is to a watchmaker by tuck a company at least a little to differentiate the production of his own works and a significantly higher depth of production than for Swiss made or made in Glashütte is at least necessary.
A “hard” criterion, there is no order to entitle a watchmaker as such anyway.
Are on the basis of my research, E.g. Patek Philippe and Glashütte original in the “select” group of watchmakers to settle, i.e. here very much value added with hand work is carried out and the works are produced in-house. The look in the price list shows this manufacturer but also very clear that these also vigorously to pay their handiwork can be.
Other manufacturers should care to be just as a buyer, what really hides behind the lofty term watchmaker-you should make no mistake and assume that each watch beyond the X-thousand was automatically created euro with a lot of manual work.
If you value for money a watch would like to estimate, is it so, for example, also recommended to investigate, whether in the clock a calibre or a (modified) standard work is installed.
I personally can befriend me with standard works as well as manufacture calibres-as long as the prices of the watches in the right proportion. Of course, it may have a certain charm, if works are decorated with hand work, the technical aspect is but more important to me personally. And technical improvements are achieved in many cases also of modified standard works which demonstrates the above Hamilton sample.
What The Watchmaker Has To Offer
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July 9, 2019 / 8:43 PM / in 9 days
U.S. Democratic lawmakers declare climate emergency
Valerie Volcovici
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic lawmakers, including six presidential candidates, on Tuesday unveiled a Congressional resolution declaring a climate change emergency to spur “sweeping reforms” to stem a dangerous rise in global temperatures.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on contempt votes on whether to find Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for withholding Census documents on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The non-binding resolution, introduced by Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Earl Blumenauer and Senator Bernie Sanders, “demands a national, social, industrial and economic mobilization” to “halt, reverse, mitigate and prepare for the consequences of the climate emergency and to restore the climate for future generations.”
It responds to a projection by the United Nations Integovernmental Panel on Climate that the earth could warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in less than 12 years, causing “irreversible, catastrophic changes” to the planet.
“To address the climate crisis, we must tell the truth about the nature of this threat,” said Blumenauer.
“This is a political crisis of inaction. “It is going to take political will, political courage to treat this as an issue with the urgency that...it needs,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters on Tuesday.
Sanders, as well as Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gilibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren also back the emergency declaration.
A day earlier, President Donald Trump made a speech touting his administration’s environmental record. His speech did not mention climate change, and it criticized the Green New Deal platform, co-sponsored by Ocasio-Cortez and embraced by many Democrats, which calls for rapid restructuring of the fossil-fuel dependent U.S. economy.
Sixteen of the 20 leading Democratic contenders have endorsed or co-sponsored the Green New Deal.
No vote has yet been scheduled on the resolution, which has 12 sponsors in the House and six in the Senate. Climate activists globally have been pushing governments to recognize climate change as an emergency.
In May, Britain’s parliament declared a symbolic climate change emergency, backing a call by opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for “rapid and dramatic action” to protect the environment after nearly weeks of protests by the Extinction Rebellion climate movement.
Over 740 local governments in 16 countries have also declared a climate emergency, according to the Climate Mobilization group.
Congressional Republicans have brushed off plans like the Green New Deal but are beginning to offer proposals for “market-based” approaches to protect the environment.
On Wednesday, Republican House and Senate members including Senators Lindsey Graham and Lisa Murkowski will form the Roosevelt Conservation Caucus that will introduce measures to encourage market-based clean energy solutions, expand exports of cleaner energy sources and open public access to federal lands.
Reporting by Valerie Volcovici; Editing by David Gregorio
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Alexandra is a make up artist who has says she's read a lot of anthropology books about love
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Alexandra Cane, 27, admits her mind is “frazzled” when it comes to her thoughts on monogamy, and claims to have read a lot of anthropology books on love. “I don’t really know as humans if we are meant to be monogamous,” she says.
Apt, then, that she likes the look of a couple of boys in the villa: Josh and Dr Alex. “I’d love to meet someone, she says. “I’m setting my sights on Josh. He is so my type looks-wise.
“I feel like Dr Alex could be a good match for me. I feel like we’d have some really in depth conversations, I’m knowledgeable, he is knowledgeable. Hopefully I can bring out his personality a bit. I’d like to get to know him.”
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Series of storms could bring 5-10 inches of rain to Inland valleys, mountains
By Ali Tadayon | atadayon@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
A series of strong storms expected to roll through Southern California starting Wednesday night has the potential to bring dangerous amounts of rainfall and cause flooding, debris flows, travel disruptions and other hazards, meteorologists say.
Preliminary predictions are that, between Wednesday night and Monday, the four back-to-back storms could bring a total of 3 to 5 inches of rain to the valleys, 2 to 4 inches along the coast, 5 to 10 inches to the mountains below the snowline, 1 to 3 inches in the high deserts and 1 to 2 inches to the lower deserts, said National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Harrison in a video message Monday afternoon.
Above elevations of 5,000 feet, the mountains could get heavy snowfall, and “very heavy” snowfall is expected at the 6,000 foot level.
There will be little relief between storms, which are the result of an incoming jet stream. After the second one, the soil “will likely have little capacity to absorb much rain,” forecasters wrote in an outlook message, noting this will be the first storm since 2010 with the potential for this much runoff.
Flash flooding is possible, especially in and below burn scars and in poorly-drained urban areas, the outlook says. Rivers that could flood include the San Diego, Santa Margarita, Whitewater and Tijuana and San Luis Rey rivers.
Debris flows, mudslides and wind gusts strong enough to knock down trees and power lines could occur, Harrison also noted.
After a sunny start to the week, the first storm is expected to hit late Wednesday, bringing “widespread precipitation” through Thursday afternoon, Harrison said.
The second storm is expected to start Thursday night, bringing “potentially heavy rains” throughout the day Friday. A third storm is expected to last throughout the day Saturday.
The final – and strongest – storm will occur late Sunday through Monday, Harrison said.
In addition to the rain, damaging winds are in the forecast for late Friday through Saturday, Harrison said.
Temperatures will be in the 60s Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meteorologists predict that the weather will disrupt travel. Snow could accumulate as low as the 4,000-foot level in the Cajon Pass, Harrison said. Dense fog is also expected in the mountains, and the strong winds could make it hazardous to drive high-profile vehicles.
Staff writer Anne Millerbernd contributed to this report.
Ali Tadayon
Ali Tadayon primarily covers crime in western Riverside County for the Southern California News Group. Tadayon joined the Press-Enterprise breaking news team in 2015, after working as the cops and courts reporter for the Post-Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho. A Southern California native, Tadayon spends his free time surfing, hiking, and hanging out with his blue heeler. Tadayon graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2013 with a Journalism degree.
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Jennifer Lawrence On Feud Rumors
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Jennifer Lawrence Clears Up Rumors Of Director Feud
Erin Donnelly
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Jennifer Lawrence has been an outspoken opponent of social media in the past, but even she couldn't resist going online to set the record straight about recent media reports.
On Friday Page Six's Richard Johnson reported that the actress "had a meltdown" while filming Joy in Boston on Tuesday. Joy is her third film with director David O. Russell, with whom she worked on Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. A source told Johnson that Russell and his leading lady were caught arguing on the film's set.
"He was screaming at her," the source said. "She was screaming at him. It was loud."
Though Russell does have a reputation for having a temper, a publicist for the film dismissed the dispute.
“There was no fight," the publicist explained to Johnson. "David is very passionate. He yells lines back at actors. He gets right in the scene with them. This scene was a big argument. Jennifer had a crying baby in her arms. There was a lot of screaming and yelling.”
Lawrence herself took to her official Facebook page to play down the rumors.
Post by Jennifer Lawrence.
In other words, things are cool. Maybe tempers flared, but it's all part of the process. Just because the film's called Joy doesn't mean it's going to be all fun and games.
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Lotus F1 Team creates 'Mad Max' Inspired F1 Car using Roland DG Technology
Lotus F1 Team, in co-operation with Warner Bros. Pictures, has created a new F1 racing machine suitable for a post-apocalyptic future. The new car — the Lotus F1 Team Mad Max Hybrid — was created to coincide with the May 15th launch of the 2015 epic action adventure Mad Max: Fury Road, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures.
The rat-look Lotus Hybrid was fitted with a new skin printed on a Roland DG's SOLJET PRO 4 XR-640 using a 3M Wrap Film 1080-M230 Matte Grey Aluminum, an unlaminated metallic film from 3M. The printed film was then applied to the vehicle, transforming the vehicle from gleaming supercar to something at home in the Australian wasteland.
Joe McNamara, Lotus F1 Team Graphics commented "With a project like this, with such tight deadlines, and zero margin for error, our Roland DG printer was invaluable. We rely on the speed and reliability of the SOLJET PRO 4 XR-640 to ensure these products are realized in the time limits we have. The print was run overnight, unattended, automatically rolled onto the take-up unit and applied to the car the next day — before being loaded and driven to Barcelona for the reveal. The winning combination of the speed of the Roland DG SOLJET PRO 4 XR-640 and the user friendly application characteristics of the 3M 1080 matt metallic wrap film made this job not only possible, but far more straightforward."
Fitted with special accessories and heavy modifications designed for a world gone mad, the Lotus F1 Team Mad Max Hybrid was unveiled at the Barcelona International Motor Show at the Montjuïc Exhibition Centre on 8 May, along with two custom, drivable vehicles designed and created for the film itself; Nux's car and the iconic Mad Max Interceptor.
Says Brett Newman, Managing Director, Roland DG UK: "Once again Roland DG has proven that we have the speed and stamina to keep up with any industry, and to produce versatile products worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster. We are very proud of the role Roland DG's technology has played in producing one of the most unique vehicle wraps on the planet. We are sure that the combination of our SOLJET PRO 4 XR-640 and 3M's Graphite Matt Metallic film will prove a winning formula for the Lotus F1 Mad Max Hybrid team and Warner Bros."
Con Gornell, executive vice president of European marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures:
"Powerful cars and high speeds are in the DNA of Mad Max, and the Lotus F1 Team Mad Max Hybrid is emblematic of that spirit. We're delighted to work with Lotus F1 Team to bring a little of the Wasteland to the Spanish Grand Prix."
More than a decade in the making, Mad Max: Fury Road is filmmaking mastermind George Miller's keenly anticipated return to the post-apocalyptic world he created more than 30 years ago with the seminal Mad Max trilogy.
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IceHogs' Peters doesn’t dread losing players to recall
Reed Schreck
With Patrick sharp out of the Blackhawks’ lineup for an extended time, is IceHogs coach Bill Peters concerned that Chicago might grab one of his precious producers on offense?
“I hope they do,” he said. “We want our guys to get called up. That’s what we’re here to do. I hope Sharpy’s not injured long-term, but I hope somebody gets the opportunity to go up, and when he goes up, to dress and play.”
Rockford has lost former NHL defenseman Doug Janik to recall by Dallas. Rookie D-man Joe Charlebois might make his pro debut tonight in Peoria.
An offer for Obama
I heard on TV last week that President Barack Obama — shame, shame — never has been to a hockey game.
I’d like to change that.
If he wants to watch a team from his state, come down to the MetroCentre to see the Rockford IceHogs. I’ll buy his ticket.
All I’d want in return is a one-minute interview afterward to get his reaction.
In this tough economy, how can he refuse a free ticket for one minute of his time? Now that’s a stimulus package.
Speaking of offers …
Ideally, the IceHogs would be better off trading for offensive machines like Sidney Crosby or Alex Ovechkin. Now that we’ve all had a good laugh, how about landing the rights to defenseman Doug Janik instead?
That would be doable, as he just played four games for Rockford on a conditioning assignment. He hardly had been playing for the Dallas Stars, and he’s comfortable with the Blackhawks and IceHogs. He’s a steady influence who could help Rockford secure a playoff spot and possibly extend the postseason.
And the cost would not be prohibitive.
Rockford’s record remains
The IceHogs, in their first year in the AHL last season, grabbed part of an impressive record. That was for most consecutive road games gaining at least one standings point. They did so in 15 games, a total only matched by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in 2005.
It became relevant because, going into last weekend, Manitoba stood 12-0-0-2 in its last 14 road dates. But the Moose were tripped up by Grand Rapids on Friday.
Mark Bernard, the IceHogs president/general manager, has his house up for sale.
That would be in Virginia Beach.
“As soon as we sell that house, we’ll buy one here,” he said. “We’re hoping that being only four blocks from the (Atlantic) ocean will help us sell there.”
Legace’s legacy
Peoria Rivermen coach Davis Payne said goalie Manny Legace had the right attitude when he was sent down by the St. Louis Blues.
“He could have gone one of two ways,” Payne said. “He’s had a great attitude, a great work ethic and great focus. He’s taken the right steps to make a statement that he wants to return to the NHL.”
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Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol at Drake's Place Restaurant, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, in Florrissant, Mo. Holder arrived in Missouri on Wednesday, as a small group of protesters gathered outside the building where a grand jury could begin hearing evidence to determine whether a Ferguson police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown should be charged in his death. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)
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1. OFFICIALS: RESCUE MISSION FAILED
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2. SOCIAL MEDIA PUSHING BACK AT MILITANT PROPAGANDA
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4. NAVY BOOTS 34 FOR CHEATING
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5. WHERE HIGH COURT IS DELAYING GAY MARRIAGE
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7. BIG BANK AGREES TO BIG SETTLEMENT
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8. WHAT FARMER'S ALMANAC SAYS IS IN STORE
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9. CRITICS PREDICT EMMY WINNERS
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10. WHO'S STARTING AT QB FOR CLEVELAND
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San Francisco, CA | Mon, Jun 5 - Sat, Jun 10, 2017
Alissa Torres
Twitter: @sibertor
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alissatorres
Alissa Torres is an explorer at heart. Uncovering the full story of an attacker's exploits requires digging into known and unknown forensic artifacts, and this excavation is exactly what intrigues her. With more than 15 years of experience in computer and network security spanning government, academic, and corporate environments, Alissa has the deep experience and technical savvy to take on even the most difficult computer forensics challenges that come her way. Her current role as an Incident Response Manager at Cargill provides daily challenges "in the trenches" and demands constant technical growth. Alissa is also founder of her own firm, Sibertor Forensics, and has taught internationally in more than 10 countries.
Memory forensics is a bleeding-edge field of Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR), and Alissa is the lead author as well as an instructor of FOR526: Memory Forensics In-Depth and co-author of the SANS Memory Forensics Poster. She also teaches FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis; FOR508: Advanced Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting; and SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling.
Alissa was introduced to digital forensics during her four years of service in the U.S. Marine Corps. She moved on to various technical roles at KEYW Corporation, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, and as part of Mandiant's computer incident response team (MCIRT). Alissa has worked as an instructor at the U.S. Cyber Challenge Camps and at the Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA), delivering incident response and network basics to security professionals entering the forensics community. She is passionate about sharing knowledge, presenting annually at regional and national industry conferences and encouraging women's participation in science, technology, engineering, and math through regional outreach programs.
As both an investigator and instructor, Alissa has a constant and infectious desire to always learn more and question everything, an ethos embodied in the SANS DFIR classes. "Our curriculum ensures students gain an understanding of why an artifact matters and how the tools interpret the data." Alissa explains. An inquisitive nature can be the determining factor in investigative success, as Alissa learned when she identified a critical error in one of her team's web proxy timeline procedures. This discovery allowed for the correction of contractual fraud investigations involving the U.S. government. Sharing personal success stories like this one gives students real-world applications for the material they are learning and inspires them to evaluate and optimize their own investigative processes, whether in incident response, digital forensic investigations, or internal offensive reconnaissance.
As attackers learn how forensic investigators work, they become increasingly more sophisticated at leaving fewer traces behind. "We are in an arms race where the key difference is training," says Alissa. Toward that end, she encourages her students to ask more questions, grow the common body of knowledge, and make a difference in the digital forensics community. Her teaching style is best described as a type of "exposure therapy" that introduces concepts but then pushes students to get behind the keyboard and apply these concepts themselves.
Alissa's true passion is memory forensics, a rapidly evolving area of expertise for both attackers and defenders. As malware strives for a minimal footprint on the host, the battlefield exists in system memory. Alissa's students take the skills taught in FOR526 and move their investigations forward, in some cases even uncovering new details in their cases before the week-long class ends.
Alissa has a B.S from the University of Virginia and a M.S. in information technology from the University of Maryland. She is a GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), and holds the GCFE, GCIH, GSEC, CISSP, and EnCE certifications. Alissa has served as a member of the GIAC Advisory Board since 2013 and was recognized by SC Magazine as one of its "2016 Women to Watch." Needless to say, she stays pretty busy. When not enmeshed in metadata and memory structures, Alissa catches every soccer game she can, cheering at her kids' games and scheming to attend matches of her favorite team, Everton. In what time she has left from constant cybersecurity vigilance, Alissa enjoys hiking in the Puerto Rican rain forest and scaling rocks at Big Sur.
Qualifications Summary
More than 15 years of experience in computer and network security
Lead author of SANS FOR526: Memory Forensics In-Depth
GIAC Advisory Board Member since January 2013
Co-author of the Windows Memory Forensics Poster
Listen to Alissa?s webcast at: Know Normal, Find Evil Windows 10 Memory Forensics Overview.
Read Alissa's white papers on the SANS IR Survey and Building a World Class SOC
GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC), June 2015
GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), June 2014
GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM), July 2013
GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), January 2013
Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE), December 2012
GIAC Certified Penetration Tester (GPEN), July 2012
GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), November 2011
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), December 2010
EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), July 2010 - July 2019
Here is What Students Say About Alissa Torres:
"I love the energy of Alissa Torres' presentation style." - Scott S., US Govt.
"Alissa kept it interesting by pulling from her past experience and demonstrated great passion for the subject." - Matt Leach
"Alissa's teaching skills are remarkable - she is great." - Serge Tumba, GE Capital
"Fantastic- Energetic- Knowledgeable" - Dennis Mooney, Vanguard
"I highly recommend Alissa and SANS computer forensics courses. In April 2015 I attended the SANS Forensics 508: Advanced Digital Forensics and Incident Response (FOR508) course. I had high expectations for the course based on my team lead's recommendation. Alissa and the course exceeded my expectations. Alissa is an outstanding instructor, and SANS FOR508 was the best information security course I have attended. She mixed energy, knowledge, and experience to keep the content productive, relevant, and interesting. I look forward to attending more SANS courses instructed by Alissa." - Chad Rager, Computer Forensic Engineer at ManTech
"This course is known throughout the industry as THE advanced IR and Threat Hunting course. This combined with Alissa's awesome teaching style makes it worth every penny! Alissa's subject matter expertise, enthusiasm, and insights are second to none! Her personalized attention to simulcast viewers was particularly nice because it felt like we were part of the class." - Will Harmon, Trustwave
"Instructors like Alissa are why people keep coming back to SANS. Awesomeness and non-stop energy. She is one of my favorite instructors I've had from SANS, right up there with the likes of Ed Skoudis, John Strand, and Eric Cole. A brilliant presenter who keeps it fun, informative, and turns what other people could make sleep inducing, into non-stop engaging." - Eric Donaldson, Discover Financial Services
Alissa Torres Will Be Teaching the Following Course:
FOR500: Windows Forensic Analysis GCFE
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- Josh Carlson, Nelnet
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School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions > About > Diversity and inclusion
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion
Ever since Ezra Cornell and A. D. White joined forces to "found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study," Cornell has been at the forefront of higher education in embracing a community that is diverse and inclusive.
The School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions (SCE) proudly reaffirms the values that underlie the vision of Cornell's founders. We are dedicated to pursuing a welcoming and inclusive environment, a diverse student body, and an open learning environment that is free from bigotry and bias. We do not tolerate prejudice in any form or discrimination on any basis.
Thousands of traditional and non-traditional students from around the world participate in SCE programs each year, from college and high school students to executives, retirees, area residents, youth, and Cornell faculty, staff, and alumni. SCE programs take place on campus, online, and around the world in a variety of formats and lengths to serve the needs of our diverse students.
What SCE expects from students
All members of the Cornell community are expected to be aware of and to comport themselves in accordance with Cornell University Policy 6.4, "Prohibited Bias, Discrimination, Harassment, and Sexual and Related Misconduct." (For more information about SCE policies, see General policies and important disclaimers, or contact the SCE office at 607.255.4987 or cusce@cornell.edu.)
To report incidents of bias, harassment, or discrimination, complete this form or send e-mail to report_bias@cornell.edu. Please see the resources below for additional assistance, support, connection, intervention, reporting, and advocacy.
We encourage students to participate in the Intergroup Dialogue Project (IDP), a social justice education program that helps students develop intergroup relations skills, thereby preparing them to live and work in an increasingly diverse world. IDP's courses are specially designed to empower students to communicate and collaborate across social, cultural, and power differences and to promote equity and democracy in their communities.
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Within the university's Toward New Destinations diversity framework, SCE has undertaken a number of initiatives to support and encourage full participation by all members of our community. Our recent focus has been:
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Our Culture and Diversity: Building a Culture of Respect
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Drink amongst the clouds at these sky-high Bay Area bars
The View Lounge
The 39th floor at 780 Mission St. in SoMa
Atop the Marriott Marquis hotel in San Francisco's SoMa district sits one of the most beautiful vistas in the city, at the aptly named View Lounge. Scenery visible from the bar includes the bay, downtown buildings, and naturally, your drink. The cocktails skew pricy — the cheapest picks are $14 — but chances are, if you're going there, it's not just for the alcohol anyway.
Atop the Marriott Marquis hotel in San Francisco's SoMa district sits one of the most beautiful vistas in the city, at the aptly named View Lounge.
Photo: John Storey, Special To The Chronicle
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The "Van Ness Press" cocktail with the Mezzo plate at the View Lounge in the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco.
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Starlight Room
The 21st floor at 450 Powell St. in Union Square
Even if you've never been there, you may at least recognize the name from seeing it lit up on the exterior wall of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in Union Square. If you have, you know The Starlight Room, the self-styled "Grande Dame of San Francisco nightlife" is still a city classic, with velvet red curtains, chandeliers, and a strict dress code. It doesn't take itself too seriously, though; for brunch on Sundays, the windows are blacked out for drag performances.
Even if you've never been there, you may at least recognize the name from seeing it lit up on the exterior wall of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in
Photo: Liz Hafalia, Sfc
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A "Cable Car" at Harry Denton's Starlight Room in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.
Photo: Liz Hafalia
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Top of the Mark
The 19th floor at 999 California St. in Nob Hill
Top of the Mark may in fact be one of the tallest bars in San Francisco, due to its location high up in Nob Hill. It's also one of the more expensive and fancy bars in the sky, but to some locals, it's a rite of passage to at least try the champagne brunch at some point in your life. That will set you back around $60 per person, but if you go later on in the evening, you can grab just a nightcap and watch the sun go down from the 19th floor.
Top of the Mark may in fact be one of the tallest bars in San Francisco, due to its location high up in Nob Hill. It's also one of the more
Photo: The Chronicle
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The Transamerica Pyramid is seen from the Top of the Mark restaurant on September 6, 2013 in the Nob Hill area of San Francisco, Calif.
Photo: Pete Kiehart, The Chronicle
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El Techo de Lolinda
The fifth floor at 2516 Mission St. in the Mission
If your nightlife vibe runs a bit more casual than a swanky hotel lounge, El Techo, five floors high above Lolinda restaurant in the Mission may be your best bet for city vistas. Serving Latin American street food and offering a happy hour, it's on the more affordable side, too. Sip Latin American-inspired drinks made from mezcal, rum, and tequila, and enjoy the sunny Mission warmth on the outdoor patio.
If your nightlife vibe runs a bit more casual than a swanky hotel lounge, El Techo, five floors high above Lolinda restaurant in the Mission
Photo: Jason Henry, Special To The Chronicle
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Guests drink at El Techo de Lolinda rooftop bar on a sunny day.
Photo: Jessica Christian, Staff Photographer / The Chronicle
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Dirty Habit
The fifth floor at 12 4th St. in SoMa
Although Dirty Habit doesn't offer quite the view that some other bars on this list do, it makes up for it in ambience. Utilizing film noir-inspired decor, the five-story-high restaurant has been lauded for its sultry aesthetic. Even more than that, it's also a favored bar in the downtown area for having one of the only outdoor seating areas in the neighborhood. Something of a hideaway bar between Mission and Market Streets, it offers high-end cuisine and "rare brown spirit"-focused cocktails, enjoyable on a sunny patio.
Although Dirty Habit doesn't offer quite the view that some other bars on this list do, it makes up for it in ambience. Utilizing film noir-inspired decor, the
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Outdoor patio at Dirty Habit.
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The eighth floor at 251 Geary St. in Union Square
Let's not sugarcoat this one: it's not easy to get a seat at the Cheesecake Factory, let alone one on the balcony overlooking Union Square (and even then, you still may not like the fare). If you can nab a seat though, you can watch the bustling square from high above as shoppers, ice skaters, and photo-snapping tourists enjoy San Francisco.
Let's not sugarcoat this one: it's not easy to get a seat at the Cheesecake Factory, let alone one on the balcony overlooking Union Square
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Portions, such as this "Tons of Fun" hamburger, are large at the Cheesecake Factory on Union Square.
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Cityscape Lounge
The 46th floor at 333 O'Farrell St. in the Tenderloin
Cityscape may be the newest bar on this list, but it's already aiming to be the best. With insane 360-degree views, a seafood-heavy menu of small plates, 17 beers on tap, and a bunch of cocktail options, this bar has something for most, even if it is a bit pricy.
Cityscape may be the newest bar on this list, but it's already aiming to be the best. With insane 360-degree views, a seafood-heavy menu of
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The bar of the Cityscape Lounge, located at the Hilton Hotel near Union Square.
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The best bars around SAP Center, according to Yelp
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Here’s How The Indian Cricket Jersey Has Evolved Over The Past 30 Years
by Akarsh Mehrotra
The Indian cricket team has been in coloured clothing for almost 30 years now. Every few years, the jersey has changed or been modified. From ridiculous fashion disasters to stylish designs, the cricketers have donned the colours with pride and honour. Let's have a look at how India's ODI jersey has evolved over the years:
1. The late 1980s
Back when things were plain and simple. No team name, no sponsors and no brand. Just the colours!
Source: ibnlive
The Indian team switched to dark blue for the 1992 World Cup with the team name in the front and the player's name on the back.
Source: thehindu
India suddenly switched to yellow with a band of blue running in front with the team name. The track pants, however, were light blue.
Source: indiascanner
The yellow continued for a while. But the light blue colour became more dominant on the jersey.
Source: sportalink
During this World Cup, every country had a similar jersey. Each country had its own colour but there was a colourful band across the chest and back, signifying the participation of the other teams at the tournament.
Source: icc-cricket
As the BCCI grew stronger, so did the presence of its logo on the Indian jersey. The 1997 jersey has a very prominent BCCI logo from the left to the center in dark blue.
Source: imtiaz
This jersey was completely blue apart from the team name in yellow. The jersey had the BCCI logo as a watermark all over it.
In 1998, India changed its jersey yet again. This time, it was blue with a band of the tricolour on the shoulders and wings.
Source: blogspot
There was yet another change in the jersey that year. This time it was entirely dark blue with 'India' written in a lighter tone.
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The yellow collar was back and the yellow corner of the emblem hugely enlarged across the chest and arms. India donned this jersey for the 1999 World Cup in England.
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The collar changed back to navy blue and the emblem was placed exactly at the centre of the jersey in navy blue as well. The general tone of the jersey was light blue.
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This was one of the last jerseys that had no sponsor across the front. The general tone was light blue with India written vertically on the right side in dark blue.
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13. 2000-01
This jersey was used for a while before Sahara took over. It had a yellow curve and stripes below it, accompanied by a dark blue collar. The jersey was light blue.
Source: mugup
Sahara had become the official sponsor and was printed across the front with yellow stripes below it.
The jersey was completely light blue with the tricolour stroked in a paintbrush style from the bottom to the centre of the shirt.
Source: cricketcountry
India wore this one to the 2003 World Cup. It was pretty similar to the previous one apart from the dark blue stripe on the sides.
Source: ndtv
This jersey came in after a while. The change was a stripe of the tricolour going up the right side of the jersey in a swirl. This was also used at the 2007 World Cup.
Source: hindustantimes
This one was similar to the previous one except that the colour had changed from light blue to navy blue.
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Another World Cup had arrived and this one proved to be lucky as India won the cup. The jersey was somewhere between dark and light blue with tricolour stripes on either side. Sahara as the sponsor was again on the left sleeve.
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The tricolour had been shifted to the left shoulder with the emblem seemingly at the centre of it. Sahara, this time, was back again across the chest.
Source: i-times
The sponsorship had been handed over to Star this time and the jersey changed significantly. The tricolour was now shifted to the shoulders in a triangular shape.
Source: india.com
The jersey has been modified again in time for the latest World Cup. There is no tricolour anywhere. It is plain blue with the sponsor and team name in the front. The pocket lining of the track pants is also orange.
Source: bcci.tv
So which of these is your favourite Team India jersey?
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EU threat to impose further cutbacks must raise alarm bells for Irish people – Morgan
Speaking today in reaction to the EU Economics Commissioner Olli Rehn’s warning that he may seek further cutbacks from the Government this year as the European authorities take new steps to clamp down on a massive rise in public debt in the euro zone, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Finance Arthur Morgan said Ireland’s economic future is now being decided by events far beyond our borders.
Deputy Morgan said:
“Mr Rehn’s admission that he was examining whether the Government should adopt new austerity measures should be raising alarm bells for the people of this State, especially in the wake of the crippling austerity package that the Commission and the IMF are inflicting upon the Greek people.
“Ireland’s economic future is now being decided by events far beyond our borders. The policies and interventions of the Commission are insensitive to their social impact. Structural readjustment will fall disproportionately upon those who depend on social and public services. In a State where we are fast approaching half of million people unemployed, can we afford to let the most vulnerable people bear the brunt of Commission’s interference?
“The neo-liberal free market agenda has failed the people of Ireland and the people of the European Union. We have seen in the last two years that what the people need is investment, stimulus and innovation, not harsh cuts in public services and social welfare.
“Why should we socialise the losses of the financial sector? Why should we inflict pain on our people for the failings of capitalism and liberal markets? The European Commission and Ollie Rehn, need to take a hard look at how European economic governance has worked so far; in fact they need to look at how it has failed the people of Europe abysmally, rather than instructing the Minister for Finance to inflict another crippling Budget on the Irish people.” ENDS
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Tragically predictable - politics as usual with passing of Finance Bill – Doherty
26 January, 2011 - by Pearse Doherty TD
Commenting after today’s vote on the Finance Bill, Sinn Féin’s Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty said, tragically it was politics as usual as evidenced by the Independent’s guessing game of which way the would vote, and the eventual passing of the Finance Bill.
“Fine Gael and Labour side-stepped and double talked and confused even themselves – trying to pass off their support for the Finance Bill as a protest vote.
“Then the Independents joined the fray – shadow boxing with tough talk and veiled threats - and getting the high media coverage they craved.
“The passing of the Finance Bill is not in the national interest - the bill is in the interest of the IMF and EU who have come to Ireland and are dictating our sovereign fiscal matters. The loan which the bill is tied to is not to pay public servants’ wages as the Labour party falsely claims - it is to pay out to international bank bondholders, bondholders who took a risk in our risky banks and now, to the incredulity of the whole world, are receiving a full bail out with the aid of the EU/IMF, the Irish taxpayers, FF, FG, the Greens and the Labour party, rather than taking their market losses.
“It is bank debt, not sovereign debt. Eamonn Gilmore in facilitating the passage of the Finance Bill is guilty of the very thing he accuses the Taoiseach of - economic treason.
“It is outrageous how the pantomime involving three TDs and the question of which way they would vote was played out. This kind of charade of politics has become so tragically predictable.
“A cosy last minute talk with the Finance Minister, Brian Lennihan saved the day - in the ‘national interest’, of course. But the Irish people know the real reason for their acquiescence. It’s all about saving their seats. Politics as usual.” ENDS
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LINES IN THE SAND
THROUGH THE STORM
OLD WOUNDS
HURRICANE BREEDING GROUNDS
PIRATES OF THE PACIFIC
A MONTH IN THE PACIFIC
Stephen O'Shea
In preparing for our journey, Pirates were a threat we failed to take seriously. By the time Taylor and I reached South America, we expected to look more haggard and pirate-esque than the “pirates” awaiting us. Besides, we were young, we were men, and all we owned was a banged-up sailboat. We weren’t in a million-dollar catamaran, and we weren’t cruising in a cargo ship down the coast of Somalia – we were going to Ecuador, Chile, Brazil. So at our farewell dinner, when my aunt (a Colombian native) asked, “But what about pirates?!” Taylor and I had to stifle our laughter.
We answered the question earnestly, though. I explained how we had a flare gun and radios, and how we could alert the local armadas with our Garmin. I also detailed a few strategies for thwarting pirates that Taylor had picked up from his Coast Guard buddies, which we would implement if we found ourselves in a sticky situation. “And I’ll be packing my Glock,” Taylor said.
None of that satisfied my aunt—she grew up in Cartagena and would’ve had a stronger grasp of South American poverty than either of us—but we had to move on to other topics. There were more likely threats, like what we would do if the boat capsized during a storm, or what would happen if we ran out of water a hundred miles offshore.
I’ve thought of that moment a lot since our cruise along the coastline of Colombia. Especially after a night shift about 60 miles north of Buenaventura. Because pirates are never more real than when you can see their spotlights sweeping the waterline off of your bow, or when you can hear their outboards roaring over the rush of the surf, hunting for you in the black of the night.
A week before we embarked for Colombia, Taylor and I found ourselves sharing a beer with a couple of San Diegans in a Yacht Club near Panama City. Our restaurant overlooked the mouth of the Panama Canal. The Bridge of Americas glowed in the dusklight, with the silhouette of mountains behind, and the Taboga Islands beyond. The San Diegans were telling us to sail straight for Ecuador, to go out and around Colombia.
“It’s dangerous, you know,” said Cindy. “And not just because of pirates. The charts are way off. Rocks jut out of the water, sometimes five miles off the coast. And the current…”
“You don’t want to battle that current,” said Jeremy. “Nobody goes toe-to-toe with the Humbolt and comes out happy.”
Jeremy and Cindy were your classic California couple. Tan, full of life, and fifty-two years old, Jeremy still spoke with the drawl of a SoCal surfer. They’d retired on a sailboat in Costa Rica, leaving every three months only to return and renew their tourist visas. But they were salty. They’d seen their share of big seas.
“Those waters aren’t for novice sailors,” said Jeremy. “We’re talking intermediate to expert level. We’re talking the big leagues.”
Before we left, I promised to consider avoiding Colombia. But what Jeremy didn’t realize was that he and Cindy might as well have been selling it to us. We were hardly novice sailors at this point – having weathered a hurricane and two tropical storms, along with a frozen engine in the middle of Caribbean doldrums. We’d seen some shit. But the very premise of our expedition was to go against the grain. We wanted to sail the waters that no one else would - that mark on the map that read “HERE BE DRAGONS.” After two months in Central America, we were desperate for uncharted waters, for bays where the rivers didn’t run with trash, for untarnished coast and a culture uncorrupted by western influence.
A week later, we set a b-line for the Pacific coast of Colombia. Our transmission had been rebuilt, we’d spent our last dollar on provisions for a month, and we hoisted the sails for the first time in what felt like a century. It was everything that you dream sailing to be. The sun strong enough to heat your skin, with just enough wind to cool it. We cruised five knots at a 20-degree lean through calm seas, and when the wind lulled at dusk or dawn we’d turn on the engine and motor-sail until it picked up again. We anchored off Las Perlas one night, and in an uninhabited cove off the coast of Colombia the next.
Jungle-laden mountains dropped straight into the Pacific Ocean, with waterfalls spilling from their pores. Thatched huts of fishermen scattered the narrow shore below. No road led to these villages—the thickness of the jungle and the steepness of the Andes fortified them from the mainland. Their only connection to the outer world was a canoe and the odd fishing skiff.
Children and young men paddled out from the shore toward our anchorage for a closer look. Expressions of joy and awe lit up their faces when we’d surface, or when we shouted back in Spanish. They kept a comfortable distance, though, and never lingered. They didn’t ask for money or food. Instead, they shouted “Bienvenidos!” and “Hola!” and waved frantically when we’d laugh or show them the slightest acknowledgement. On Christmas Day, off the coast of a fishing village near Bahia Solano, a lone fisherman came out and invited us to join his family for dinner.
Here, Taylor and I were aliens. Here was an untarnished world. We'd found our haven – everything we'd wanted to find this far south of the USA. Here was an original culture—a third dynamic to the eastern and western dichotomy that divided globalized politics—here was Latin America.
They came in the night.
It wasn’t our first encounter. We’d had run-ins by day – fishing skiffs without a lick of fishing equipment on board, stalking us by day. Taylor and I would trade off going below deck, only to resurface in different clothes and hats. Thinking there were four or five men on board, the skiffs would veer off. But at night, exposed by the moonlight, there was no counter-strategy.
We were on a stretch of sail just north of Buenaventura. Nikki Wynn, a friend we’d met in Panama City, had given us a guide to the Pacific coast of Colombia. It was a PDF she’d downloaded off the internet, written by a Colombian native who wanted to encourage sailing the Pacific Coast of Colombia in the wake of the Cartel’s dismantlement. It was titled “The Forgotten Coast,” and after a resurgence of drug trafficking in the 1990s, it was similarly forgotten.
The guide had helpful tips, though. We’d use GPS coordinates for when the Garmin charts were off-base (they were often errant by more than two miles), and descriptions of coves and cities to choose from for our sailing route. It was an optimistic and encouraging guide, but even its author warned cruisers to avoid Buenaventura at all costs. “Especially the mangroves to the north.” This wasn’t Narco country, and there were no career pirates operating in this area since it was low in commercial traffic. It was simply impoverished.
What we should’ve known is that desperation breeds the most dangerous pirate. The reckless and inexperienced kind. The kind with nothing to lose.
“The Forgotten Coast” suggested we sail at least twenty miles offshore, starting a hundred miles north of Buenaventura. Because of the current, we were flirting with a distance closer to five miles. Twenty miles just wasn’t an option.
Taylor had Googled the Humbolt Current before we set sail from Panama. The online forum we found claimed that the current averaged 2 knots and occasionally ran backwards (north to south) during the months of January and February. This sounded reasonable enough, and for the first few days out of Panama City there was no current to speak of. We only started noticing the resistance after we’d begun working our way down the Colombian coast. But even then, we had no way of knowing what lay ahead of us.
We raised anchor in a cove outside of Bahia Solano, and sailed for a point that jutted out of the coast before cutting dramatically to the south. Coming around the bend, our GPS heading started to veer west of our compass heading. Our boat was pointed south, but our GPS course curved west. The further offshore we sailed, the stronger the current became. Currents weren’t new to us, by this point – but this current was pushing us north faster than we were sailing south. At one point, our GPS heading was almost 50 degrees off – so while we were pointed southwest, we were actually moving northwest.
The wind shifted at sundown and we were able to cut dead south. With sails full, our hull heeled to the side, we were going one knot – backwards. Surfing down the back of choppy swells, our boat crashing through waves like we were flying forward, we were barely breaking even. Watching the water rush past us, the way our bow rose and plowed into the swells, you would’ve thought we were breaking speed records.
Then the wind died. We didn’t want to risk wrecking our new transmission by fighting through that current, so we lowered the sails and watched our course accelerate northward. “We’re going to drift back to Panama at this rate,” said Taylor. And he was right. The GPS had us cruising north at six knots – our top speed on a good day.
In the morning, the wind rose from the west and we were able to cut a course back to land – but not before drifting thirty miles backward. We spent that entire day fighting our way to Bahia Solano, where we’d set off from the day before. When we arrived, almost two full days had passed. We’d covered a distance of over 150 miles, only to come full circle. We hadn’t slept. We’d hardly eaten. We dropped anchor an hour after sunset.
It was Christmas Eve.
After losing our battle with the Humbolt, we wanted to avoid sailing offshore at all costs. So when the mangroves appeared a hundred miles north of Buenaventura, we flirted with that murky line in the water where the coastal tide met the current. It was about five miles offshore. Close enough for us to see that faint line of the coast – a lush jungle desaturated by haze to a faint grey – but far enough for us to feel invisible beyond.
It wasn’t far enough, though. And when the sun fell and the dark rose, the bowlight of their mothership glowed to our starboard. We were caught between the pirates and the coast.
The weather along the coast of Colombia had been fairly predictable up to that point. At dawn, the sky was clear as the water. It remained sunny throughout the day, but clouds would begin forming over the jungle with the morning heat. By afternoon, there was a thick haze over the whole coast. Then the sun would set, and the clouds that had formed above the jungle would roll over the ocean and dump a heavy rain onto the water.
It was a clockwork schedule that Taylor and I could set a watch to. Rain would begin around 9pm, and it always ended before 2am. It was a nuisance because the winds would shift on a dime, and the downpour of rain would leave us wet and miserable. But it was much calmer than the storms we’d encountered in the Gulf and Caribbean. All the same, that first shift at night was our least favourite, and we’d often hand over the helm with a quip like, “Enjoy your bath” or “Keep dry!”
There were no words exchanged that night, though. We’d been sailing nonstop for five days straight, and we didn’t want to risk anchoring off the mangroves to be ambushed by pirates. But we also couldn’t afford sailing out to sea and getting swept off by the Humbolt again. The current and headwinds already held us to about forty nautical miles a day—a pace that wouldn’t put us in Ecuador for another two weeks—and we hadn’t the gas or provisions to spend an extra week at sea. We were tired. So when I crawled into the cockpit at 6pm to start my shift, Taylor didn’t even wait for me to grab the helm. He moved past me into the companionway and collapsed onto his bed below.
Dusk settled and the glow of violet was replaced by the trance of a full moon. I drank stale coffee with clumped-up creamer, and would take a caffeine pill before the night was over. There was a six-hour shift ahead of me. Six hours per night (so the other could sleep); four hours by day.
I saw their bow light well before they could see us. We were operating in darkness by this point, without even the light of our GPS in the cockpit. We also didn’t run the engine at night, for fear that the sound—amplified over the water—might draw unwanted attention. So with my pupils fully dilated, I caught the dim of their light from miles away. It flickered on the horizon, rising and falling behind distant swells, so that—at first—I thought it might be a lighthouse off the point of Buenaventura. As we moved closer though, it began to shift to starboard – west of the point. We were caught between their boat and the mangroves. With the wind and the current, our only hope was to slip between them and the coastline.
They were a mile out, perhaps, when the second light appeared. It flipped on like another bow light, except brighter. Then I saw a beam sweeping the waterline. It was a spotlight. They were searching for something. It was only then that I looked up at our sails. With the moon nearly 90 degrees to starboard, they were glowing. Our sails were white. They were catching the moonlight and reflecting it back like a beacon.
The beam of their spotlight swept over us just once before settling. And when it did, our sails went up in flame. They caught that spotlight and magnifying it, channeling it across the water. The spotlight held for five, maybe ten seconds, then it switched it off. Their bow light went dark immediately afterward, and as I sat there, holding my breath, I hard the distant croak of an outboard engine roaring to life.
There was no time to hesitate. With the moon was still lighting up our sails, they had more than just a mark on us: they had our heading. So I did the only thing I could think to do in that moment. I tacked. I angled our bow into the moon, so that its light deflected off the length of our sails. We were far from invisible, but our sails weren’t catching the moon like they had before, and they weren’t reflecting that light toward the boat. However, we were now sailing straight for the mother ship.
I thought about waking up Taylor, of course—even in my delirious state, it was pretty clear that these weren’t curious locals or fishermen—but I knew how deep in sleep he’d be, and you have to understand how important sleep was to us at that point. I also knew that there was only one way I’d be able to bring him up from below deck.
We’d discussed a code word upon entering the mangrove coast. If pirates were ever approaching or attempting to board our ship, I would say “Pineapple,” and Taylor would rise with his Glock in hand. After our recent close encounters, I knew more than ever that there could be no false alarms. If I screamed “Pineapple” now, it might not only give away our position, it might bring Taylor on deck with guns blazing.
I decided to wait until the last possible moment to call Taylor up. I held my course southwest at a full lean, cruising as fast as I could with our engine off. I was no match for their skiff and its 60 horsepower engine, though. The roar of their outboard approached at full speed. It grew louder and louder until it sounded like a jet engine hovering above us. Then, right as their outline appeared on the horizon—a glint of moonlight refracting off metal—the sky went dark. A wall of clouds had swept over the moon.
I tacked immediately. Lines and wenches moved faster than I’d ever worked them before, so quickly that the sails came across the bow in a single pop before locking in place. A moment passed, and another. The noise of their engine was deafening as it approached. And then, suddenly, it receded. They had zipped behind our stern in a b-line for where we’d been. I even felt waves from their wake slap against our beam. But we weren’t out of it, yet.
Their outboard revved behind us in the dark, their spotlight flickered to life, and I watched them begin spiraling in a search pattern. This is a common search technique, and it wouldn’t be long before they came racing up on our beam. The light was right off our stern at first—so it wouldn’t catch us broadside, like before—but it was only a matter of time before they would lock in. With the night as black as it was, our sails would be like a beacon in the night.
There was nothing I could do. The spotlight grew nearer and nearer. It swept over us once, then twice. Then...
A drop of rain.
I held out my hand, and another splattered onto my palm. Then the sky fell.
It rained heavier that night than it had rained our entire trip. The heavens opened up before us. The floodgates fell. Condensation from the jungle, which dumped onto the Pacific like clockwork every single night, had come just in the nick of time. I’d never been so happy to be caught in the middle of a storm in my entire life, and I almost yelped with excitement.
The roar of their outboard engine was replaced by the hammering of rain, and I called up Taylor immediately in the wake of it. Together we started the engine, and with the wind picking up we were soon cruising along at six, then seven knots. We shot the gap between their mother ship and the coast within minutes, but the rain carried on well past midnight, and the wind carried us a good measure south. When the clouds finally dissipated around morning, we were well clear of Buenaventura.
Two days later, we limped into Tumaco Harbor under the sheltered escort of the Colombian armada. I hadn’t slept more than a few consecutive hours in almost two weeks. In total, we’d had four, almost five, encounters with would-be pirates (the last thwarted only by a radio call from the Tumaco Guardacosta). But what we found in Tumaco made the entire journey worth the risk.
The Colombian Armada rafted us alongside one of their patrol boats so that we could have access to their dock, and then they let us wander their naval base at our leisure. When we went into town, they gave us personal escorts. And on January first, the day after we arrived, they took us to the beach to see how the locals celebrate the New Year.
Tumaco beach was filled to the brim. The waterline was so crowded with children and families swimming that it would’ve been difficult to dip our feet, much less fully submerge. Tents and blankets rolled off the beach in layers, and everywhere we went the locals stopped and stared.
“My friend,” called a man, early after our arrival. “My friend, where are you from?”
He was speaking English and stumbling after us. I almost ignored him because he opened the way that most solicitors did in Central America. But when I turned to find a small man smiling and genuine, with no spread of items for sale, I stopped. He was clean-shaven and wore swim trunks with a tanktop.
“Estados Unidos,” I responded, but he responded in English.
“An American!” he said, as if to confirm his suspicions. “How do you like my country?”
I kept my answers short, but polite. We talked about the beauty of the people, the culture and the scenery. A crowd began to gather around us, and Taylor getting anxious beside me.
“Well, we’re going to walk around a bit,” I said. Then to the crowd, “Vamos a caminar.”
They giggled and a few of the girls blushed. But when the man reached out to shake our hands, he held on.
“Thank you,” he said. “Thank you for visiting my country.”
We turned and walked down to the beach. Looking around, I saw no “gringos”. In fact, the only caucasians we’d seen since Panama were a pair of middle-aged Europeans, dressed in African safari gear, sitting outside of a hotel directly across from of the airstrip in Bahia Solano. Tumaco, however, was a larger city, with roads to the major cities and a link to Ecuador. So I asked Nestor, our Guardacosta friend, “Do a lot of foreigners come here?”
“No,” he said. “Only ten boats all year.”
“Ten boats?” I said. “Only ten boats came here last year?”
He paused, as if second-guessing himself, and said – “Ten, including you.”
The west coast of Colombia was untamed. In certain “resort cities” like Bahia Solano and Nuquí, the dirt roads and downtown strips were reminiscent of the wild west (minus the smartphones everyone carried around). Still, never in my life had I been to a place so beautiful with people so genuinely happy to host.
South America is a world of extremes. Knowing what we know now, if asked whether we should’ve sailed around Colombia to get to Ecuador—saving time and energy; skirting pirates; avoiding uncharted rocks that stuck out of the sea like spines; sleeping without stress; and arriving without the frustration of having sailed backward as often as forward—I’d say no. In fact, I might even do it again. Only, this time, I’d sail in the direction of the current, from south to north, with the wind at our back.
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Caddo Parish School employee directs managers to vote 'yes'
A secretary at Caddo Parish Schools emailed managers in the Child Nutrition Programs urging them to vote yes to a Caddo Parish School tax proposal, a violation of state law.
Caddo Parish School employee directs managers to vote 'yes' A secretary at Caddo Parish Schools emailed managers in the Child Nutrition Programs urging them to vote yes to a Caddo Parish School tax proposal, a violation of state law. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2019/05/02/caddo-parish-school-employee-directs-managers-vote-yes/3651861002/
Sara MacNeil, Shreveport Times Published 12:04 p.m. CT May 2, 2019 | Updated 7:22 p.m. CT May 2, 2019
A secretary at Caddo Parish Schools emailed school board employees, in violation of state law, urging them to vote yes Saturday to a Caddo Parish School tax proposal.
The email was sent to cafeteria managers in the Child Nutrition Program. Each school has a cafeteria manager. There are 62 operational Caddo Parish schools.
The election would re-purpose $88.3 million tax dollars for Caddo Parish School upgrades. Caddo Parish Communication Director Mary Nash-Wood said a reminder was sent to staff from a district account saying early voting was open and the tax proposal was on the ballot. She said staff was never urged how to vote.
Early voting reminder sent out to Caddo School staff (Photo: courtesy of Caddo Schools)
“At no time was it coercing or persuading to move forward with how to vote. It was just making them aware that it was on the ballot,” Nash-Wood said Wednesday, before an anonymous person leaked an email showing an employee told staff to vote yes to the proposal.
Michelle E. Holmes, Secretary III to the Director of the Child Nutrition Program at Caddo Schools, sent an email to managers telling them to vote yes for the tax proposal in the Saturday special election.
Email sent to Caddo employees by shreveporttimes on Scribd
“Managers May 4, 2019 is a very important day for Caddo and its students. Vote 'YES' for the millage proposal on Saturday, May 4, 2019," Holmes wrote. "Tell your staff and family to vote 'YES.' Managers please print out this announcement and have your staff individually sign and scan back to CNP by Friday May 3, 2019.”
Michelle Shopin, a supervisor of the Child Nutrition Program, said she did not direct Holmes to send that email. She said there's a CNP manager working in each school.
“I don’t know if Mrs. Holmes was supposed to do that. Maybe Mrs. Holmes doesn’t know she wasn’t supposed to do that,” Shopin said.
Director of the Child Nutrition Progam Kaye Lynch did not respond to requests for comments.
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Communications Director of Caddo Parish Schools Mary Nash-Wood sent out a statement Thursday: "The Caddo Parish School district leadership has been consistent in reiterating state law which calls on staff members to provide factual information to community members to make an informed decision in their right to vote," the press statement said.
“It has come to our attention an unapproved, unauthorized email from a clerical staff member was sent to a small group of individuals on Wednesday afternoon which was not in alignment with our policies or guidelines,” Nash-Wood wrote in an email Thursday. “This email was not direct by Dr. (Lamar) Goree or his leadership team and was never seen by leadership prior to being sent.”
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Nash-Wood said Caddo Parish Schools has taken internal action to correct the issue and has once again called upon staff members to only provide information and at no time ask individuals to vote for or against any ballot measure.
"We are currently investigating how this occurred and will continue to work to ensure all staff members only provide factual information regarding the millage," Nash-Wood wrote.
This story will be updated as new information comes.
Opinion: Did you know there's a Caddo Parish Schools tax renewal on Saturday's ballot?
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Reference intervals were established across genders, and approximately equal numbers of males and females were included. Reference intervals for infants (1 month–23 months), children (2–12 years), and adolescents (13–20 years) for the thyroid hormones were established according to CLSI guideline C28-A3c.1
Samples from healthy euthyroid individuals were considered normal if they met the strict inclusion criteria. All patients were screened for the presence of thyroid autoantibodies and risk factors for thyroid disorders. For each assay tested, the lower and upper reference limits were estimated as the 2.5 and the 97.5 percentiles of the distribution of test results for each of the two older subgroups. For the infant subgroup, a robust measure of location and spread, as developed by Horn and Pesce, was used for obtaining reference intervals.2 Close to 400 pediatric subjects were included in the final analysis of the combined study.** As a result of the stringent study design, you can be assured of the accuracy and robustness of these reference intervals.
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O2 Ireland’s ARPU falls in Q1
14 May 200869 Views
Mobile operator O2 said this morning that monthly blended average revenue per user (ARPU) – combining voice and data revenue – fell from €45.2 in the fourth quarter to €44.2 in the first quarter of 2008.
The company said that service revenue in the first three months of this year fell by 0.7pc to €222m.
This is despite the company’s customer base growing by 1.8pc to 1.663 million users – the highest level it achieved so far. This equates to 16,805 net new customers added during the quarter.
During Q1, some 439 million text messages were sent – up 10pc on Q4.
Average monthly ARPU for post-pay customers was €75.5, down from €78.8 in Q4, while average ARPU for prepay customers was €26.7, down from €29 in Q4.
O2’s 3G broadband services, the company said, continues to exceed expectations with over 50,000 subscribers to date. Rumours are still circulating that O2 is the leading bidder likely to buy fixed line operator Smart Telecom.
Smart is understood to be seeking offers up to €100m and other companies including Carphone Warehouse, BT and 3 Ireland have been tipped as rival bidders to O2.
Data revenue as a percentage of overall services revenues at O2 Ireland amounted to 26.8pc, up from 26pc a year ago.
Financial officer Paul Whelan said that the decline in ARPU was being driven as a result of better value for money for the company’s customers.
“With almost 17,000 net new customers added, however, O2 achieved its highest ever subscriber base of 1.663 million customers in the quarter,” Whelan added.
“Data revenue also continues to grow year-on-year, and is indicative of the take-up of new data services such as O2 Broadband, now with over 50,000 subscribers.”
During the quarter, O2 became the main distributor in Ireland for Apple’s iPhone, alongside Carphone Warehouse.
A spokesman said the company would not be revealing how many of the devices have been sold locally to date, except that sales had been “going well.”
A week ago, it emerged that the company dropped the price of the 8GB version of the iPhone by €100 to €299 as part of a promotional plan that will run until 25 May.
Asked if there was any information regarding the potential arrival of a 3G version of the iPhone, the spokesman said that he had no comment to make.
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Job opportunities to rise 26pc year-on-year in February
7 Mar 201159 Views
New job opportunities for professionals in Ireland decreased slightly by 2pc from 7,250 in January 11 to 7,100 in February 2011. This was however, a 26pc increase on the February 2010 figure of 5,633, the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor report shows.
The report also revealed a decline in professionals beginning their job searches in February this year, decreasing 3pc from 6,595 to 6,380 month-on-month, in comparison to February of 2010, when 15,060 professionals entered the jobs market demonstrating a 58pc decrease.
"This highlights the shortage of skilled workers in specific sectors, for example, demand for multilingual professionals significantly outstrips supply nationwide. In addition, the inflow of international job seekers has slowed, which may have contributed to this decrease," Karen O’Flaherty, CEO of Premier Group Ireland said in relation to this decrease.
O’Flaherty also commented, “Professional job opportunities saw a small month-on-month decline in February 2011. However, the 26pc year-on-year increase in job vacancies suggests that business confidence, which we have seen return in certain niche areas over the past year, is now starting to improve across all sectors in the professional jobs market.
“This increase comes from companies that had essentially frozen hiring since the downturn which are starting to recruit again, albeit modestly. For example, legal, marketing and HR roles are once again coming onto the market from indigenous companies, as anticipated last month. After an extremely challenging few years, we are also seeing a revival in hiring from SMEs. The formation of the new coalition Government will signify a new start for many of these companies, and will hopefully lead to a more stable and visible business landscape.
“February 2011 also marked the ‘return of the counter offer’, another indicator that specific talent is in high demand. There were increasing instances of companies using remuneration offers to outbid each other to retain or attract key professionals. This trend was particularly noticeable in the IT and technical hiring markets, where skills shortages are being felt most acutely."
She also discussed the demand for IT professionals, remarking that professionals with experience in design and development are in high demand over the last 12 months, with continual skills deficits in the areas of Java and .Net.
The Employment Monitor recorded a 35pc increase in IT job vacancies from Q3 10 to Q4 10. "In response to this demand, we have launched a new IT division in our Limerick office. Drawing on the experience of our established IT teams in Cork and Dublin, this specialist division will service the Limerick, Galway and Mid-West areas. We are delighted to be ‘on the ground’ in Limerick in what is a very dynamic time for IT recruitment,” O’Flaherty concluded.
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Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph placed on 15-day DL with ‘testicular injury’
| June 1, 2016
Baltimore Orioles catcher Caleb Joseph was placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday after undergoing a surgical procedure related to suffering a “testicular injury” in Monday’s 7-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
The cringe-worthy injury occurred during the eighth inning when a check swing by Travis Shaw drastically changed the trajectory of an Ashur Tolliver pitch straight into Joseph’s gonads.
Prayers for Caleb Joseph https://t.co/V6ui6qVXNy
— Banks (@BarstoolBanks) May 30, 2016
Miraculously, Joseph remained in the game, but Orioles skipper Buck Showalter later determined it was a good idea for an expert to have a look-see, sending Joseph to the hospital, although he did stop short of getting into any uncomfortable details concerning the presumably painful aftermath of the injury.
“Decided to take him down and get checked out,” Showalter said, via MASN. “The urologist didn’t like some things and they went in and what they did. I’m not going to get into all the details, but definitely DL. I’d be guessing about length of time. There’s not a whole lot of history that, if you have this done and you’re a catcher, when will you be able to catch again? So obviously not in those 15 days.”
Showalter then addressed the elephant in the room, what with how the nature of an injury like the one Joseph suffered can elicit sophomoric responses.
“Everybody tends to initially, let’s face it, kind of snicker some when that happens,” Showalter told MASN. “But anybody who’s had it happen, it’s very serious and we always treat it that way.”
Teammate Matt Wieters spoke for pretty much every man when making the following observation.
“I knew Caleb was tough,” he said. “That’s a tough one. Whether it’s as bad as Caleb got hit or not quite as severe, it still doesn’t feel good. I think you don’t quite know how bad it is. Unfortunately for Caleb, it was a little worse than the usual shot off the cup, but the doctors took care of everything they needed to take care of and he’ll be back soon.
“I think every man can probably sympathize with Caleb a little bit. I’m sure he’s pretty sore today, but talking to him this morning, everything went as well as it could have last night. So to be able to kind of rest a little bit and then get him back here at full strength will be good.”
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Home » Golf » WGC Match Play – 6 Picks for Outright Winner
WGC Match Play – 6 Picks for Outright Winner
The WGC-Dell Match Play tournament (official site) is one of my favourite tournaments to watch each year. It’s great seeing the top players in a different format than strokes play and pitted head to head against some of their rivals. I also find it’s a good tournament for betting because there is a certain strategy to match play golf, which some players excel at while others, who may be great in regular tournaments, can struggle with.
My strategy this week will be looking for golfers with long odds in groups that I think they can win. If the golfers are able to pull off a win in their group then you can hedge later on to guarantee yourself a profit (or let it ride if that suits you). It’s been big names winning the last three years (Day x2 and Rory), but this is not always the case with Kuchar and Mahan who were ranked in the 20’s winning the two previous years and players ranked between 18th and 52nd finishing runner up in each of the past four years. Obviously the top players have an advantage, but it’s definitely possible to find some good value bets in the long odds range.
I will be referring to the match play records of players often throughout this article. Here’s a full list of each player in the fields match play records.
Below I’ll provide my 6 top outright winner picks for the week. I’ll be using the best odds available from any of our top rated sportsbooks which you can see in the table below.
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Jason Day 17/1 @ Bet365.com
I did say I was going to be targeting players with long odds, but I’m making an exception for Jason Day. His form is off, but he has 3 of 4 decent rounds last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and that blow up round in each of his last three starts seems to be why he hasn’t finished as well as we expect from him of late.
That said, some match play golf may be just what the doctor ordered for Jason Day’s game. The head to head nature of the tournament puts Day right in his element of trying to outdo his opponents. I expect it to result in a more confident approach for Day because he’s attempting to win holes rather than win a golf tournament, which can give you a fresh start if you do happen to put up a big number. Day has won this tournament in two of the past three years and is in a very winnable group 3 with Leishman (3-4-1), Westwood (15-18) and Perez (1-2). Each of these players have losing record at past WGC Match Play events, while Day has a record of 21-6 lifetime at this event.
If Day gets out of his group having found his game I think he could become the favourite in the sweet sixteen so for odds of 17/1 I really like him as a value play at the top.
Rafa Cabrera Bello 60/1 @ 5Dimes.eu
Cabrera-Bello is another golfer with a great record at this event and match play in general. Cabrero-Bello is 6-3-1 at WGC Match Play events and 11-4-1 in match play in his career. Tyrell Hatton is his big competition in group 10, but I think the experience of playing match play on this course will give the edge to Cabrera-Bello. Wang is another player in this group who will be making his first appearance in this event and Charles Howell III is the fourth player in the group and he has a record of 5-8 in this tournament.
Caberero-Bello has been playing solid golf coming top 40 in each of his last 9 starts in touranments around the globe and I don’t think he will be a significant underdog regardless of who he plays later in the tournament.
Bill Haas 104/1 @ SportsInteraction.com
Haas has found himself in a group with players who are not currently in form. Russel Knox is the groups favourite to move on, but he’s been cut in 4 of his last 5 events and he finished +12 at the no-cut WGC-Mexico Championship in that span. Danny Willett is another guy who is far from his top form with plenty of missed cuts and high scores in his recent finishes. The other player in the group is K.T. Kim who is 0-2 at this event and really shouldn’t be much of a threat.
Over 100/1 for a guy I think has the best chance of advancing from his group is a no brainer to me.
Thongchai Jaidee 235/1 @ 5Dimes.eu
Jaidee is a golfer with long odds who I think is in a very winnable group. Jaidee is up against Molinari, Noren and Wiesberger in his grouping and I think it’s really anyone’s group for advancement to the sweet 16. Molinari is in the best form of these golfers, but his 2-7 record at this event in the past leaves a lot to be desired. Noren (1-2) and Wiesberger (1-5-1) have also struggled in the past.
Jaidee is 5-6-1 at WGC Match Play events, but comes into this tournament in decent form having finished T15 and T12 in his last two tourneys on the Euro Tour. If he gets out of this grouping he will be a great player to hedge against and guarantee solid profits moving later into the tournament.
William McGirt 290/1 @ 5Dimes.eu
McGirt at 200/1 is a great flyer bet in my opinion because I think his grouping with Snedker, Grace and Sullivan is really anyone’s to win. None of Snedeker (5-7-1), Grace (4-5) and Sullivan (3-3) have great record at this event and Snedeker is the only one of that three that’s really coming in with decent form.
McGirt is new to match play, but at this price I think he’s worth a look.
K.T. Kim 315/1 @ 5Dimes.eu
See my rant about his groups recent quality under my Bill Haas pick above. Haas is only 5-7 at this event, so I don’t think it’s out of the question that Kim could get out of that grouping considering how poorly both Willett and Knox have been playing of late. This pick is purely a fade on that group and I would look to hedge off of Kim later in the tournament if he does manage to earn a spot in the sweet sixteen, but at these odds I think he’s worth a flyer.
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Sage Harrington
BORN: free, as free as the wind blows
RESIDES: Albuquerque, NM
PLAYING SINCE: they told us to stop
folk. indie. fun. Sing them songs!
Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band is a band of whimsy and unbridled glandulosity. It’s a band that will make you reconsider how grossed out you are about the endocrine system. Sage plays ukulele. Jared plays upright bass. Their glistening songs of mundanity, desecration, celebration, and perspiration appear on their CD, Flooded Away, which the lovely Mel Minter reviewed for its Oct 2013 release:
The premiere release from Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band, Flooded Away, may be the most charmingly peculiar—or maybe that’s peculiarly charming—album I’ve heard since Jared Putnam’s Brontosaurus on Pluto nearly three years ago. It’s certainly the most seriously silly and whimsical.
Sage is folkgrass singer/songwriter Sage Harrington, and Jared is, as you’ve probably guessed, the aforementioned Putnam, best known as the bassist and sometime vocalist/songwriter in the astonishing gypsy jazz band Le Chat Lunatique. (How it is that Le Chat is not yet a household name from coast to coast, at least, remains one of the mysteries and inequities of the music business.)
SAJHGB describe themselves as “a band of unbridled glandulosity. It’s a band that will make you reconsider how grossed out you are about the endocrine system.” They want to make your glands happy, and they are pretty good at it. Harrington plays ukulele, Putnam plays bass, both of them sing, sometimes extravagantly. Percussion, kazoo, whistling, and clarinet also make appearances, and without the liner notes at hand—Jared, you silly man, you never got back to me, and God knows I tried—I’m not sure who should get credit for those. The only evidence I’ve turned up is a You Tube video that shows Putnam simultaneously playing bass and percussion, scratching a drummer’s brush on a board mounted on the face of his standup bass. Pretty imaginative.
In fact, the whole enterprise is pretty imaginative, starting with the hand-made masthead on the website, where, by the way, you can learn or probably mislearn that “the ancient Sumerians were the first to wash their dogs.” Then, there are the literate, clever, wacky lyrics (“prehensile tales of vestigial whales” on “Boiling Black Oceans,” a phantasmagoric recounting of evolutionary developments), and perfectly odd rhymes that require a very special poetic license, available only from a secret corner of a parallel universe (quandary/laundry and dishes/kis(h)ses on “I Want You All the Time,” a title that accurately describes the song’s feverishly PG content).
The songs cover a lot of territory. There’s the Western swing of “DIE! DIE! DIE!” which is simultaneously gross and cute as only Putnam could manage. Without credits—really, Jared, pick up the phone—I’m only guessing here, but I’d bet a bundle that he gets the major credit for that one. We’ve got the folksy “Soap Floats,” and given that Harrington invites you to “revel in the mundane” with her solo release, Maybe, I’ve got to believe this one’s hers. Then, there’s “ZANZIBAR!” which belongs in a bizarro version of a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road flick (“she took all my cash and left me with a rash in Zanzibar”)—Putnam again, I’m educationally guessing. “Stroke My Ego”—my bet: another Putnam special—is in the mold of the ’30s American songbook, wrapping an upbeat form around an ironic glimpse into darkish corners of the psyche.
Harrington’s wordless and theatrical vocal on that one is truly inspired, taking the song into an eerie neighborhood. Speaking of Harrington’s voice, this lady’s got quite the range, a solid midrange, and a spooky falsetto. She can inject a ’20s quality into her vocalizing at will. I think she might have yodeled at birth. (Come to think of it, Putnam has the same antiquing talent.) Harrington occasionally overloads the mic, and there are other imperfections on the album that might keep it from a Grammy nomination, but perfection isn’t the point. Fun is the point.
There are a couple of short, sweet ukulele instrumentals honoring the Harrington/Putnam doggies: “Daphne’s Dance” and “George Michael’s Dream.” I’ll give the provisional writing credit to Harrington on those two.
Back to lyrics, and in “Walking,” we’ve got this perfectly icky silliness:
“I’m a littleshy and spittlealways seems tofly from my mouth.
“I’m a littleshy and spittlealways seems tomake things go south.”
“While the Wind Blows” is a singularly tender and whimsical love song. Harrington’s, I think.
If the album’s songs and the online videos are any indication, Harrington and Putnam inhabit a childlike bubble of boundless make-believe. Like children playing at fantastic worlds of their own imagining, they display a single-minded commitment uncontaminated by self- consciousness, and they appear to be having a hell of a time doing it.
Me, I like silly, and when it’s combined with clever, my hormones find just the right, sunny balance. My glands are much better. Thanks for asking.
UPDATE: The devilishly busy Jared Putnam finally found an unclaimed moment in his overstuffed calendar and got back to me regarding the album credits, so let me make a few corrections and additions.
Let me correct the mistakes and fill in the holes on the writing credits: “Daphne’s Dance” and “George Michael’s Dream” are Putnam confections, not Harrington sweets. Harrington penned “Walking.” “Boiling Black Oceans” comes from Putnam’s fevered imagination, and “I Want You All the Time” could only have come from Harrington’s tender heart.
Instrumentally, here is the lineup:
Harrington sings and whistles and plays soprano ukulele, concert ukulele, tenor ukulele, banjolele, kazoo, and fiddle.
Putnam sings and whistles and plays bass, resonator guitar, clarinet, ukulele (on the two ukulele instrumentals), and glockenspiel.
I Am Gonna Put Some Pants On
by Sage Harrington
This is a very deep song about the existential angst and dread one feels as one wakes up in the morning and ponders one's purpose in life, getting over that, and just putting some fuckin' pants on. It's the little things, you know.
DIE! DIE! DIE!
This one of Jared's Putnam's signature sweet and tender love songs. Doesn't get any sweeter or tenderer than this.
While the Wind Blows
This song is called "While the Wind Blows." It's about the wind blowing.
Wouldn't it be funny if I introduced every song that way?
When I’m With You – Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band
“You Are A Terrible Person” by Sage and Jared’s Happy Gland Band
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One Star Review—Our song for the Supper Truck
Sage: Meredith Wilder from Widlewood! Oh, wait! That's actually happening! Jared: Hot Club of Cowtown
Sage: The sheng. Jared: Electric guitar, of course.
Sage: James Taylor! I was a wee babe at my mother's breast who cooed and got us kicked out into the lobby. Jared: Michael Jackson's 1984 Victory Tour
Sage: Well, I'm always up for some good roadkill. I'd scrape up a nice racoon from the pavement if it's a freshie. Deer's the best. But you know what's also nice? A nice fat greasy vulture. Jared: Road food, Sage, food. That place in Hatch. With the burge
Sage: To stop looking at the sheet music. Jared: To say "thank you" when someone pays you a compliment.
Jared: George Michael. Sage: Do you mean my chihuahua or the pop icon or the Arrested Development character?
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Alistair Darling promises stability
In an interview today with the Financial Times Alistair Darling responded to calls for change in the tax treatment of private equity firms. He said that he would "always strive in making change to try and make the [tax] system simpler" but would not make populist changes to capital gains or individual taxation which risked serious unintended consequences. The comparison to Sarbanes-Oxley that he draws is apt. Overly onerous regulation can do serious harm to a nation's competitiveness and the UK should not return the favour the US did in forcing financial services firms to relocate to the City.
He also made some moves to make the appointments system for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee more transparent. Essentially, the system will be the same as before but it will, at least, be reviewed by the Treasury Select Committee which should make it more likely serious weaknesses are spotted before a candidate is approved.
What Darling hasn't yet addressed is whether he will recognise the case for tax cuts. Sir Digby Jones, the new minister for trade and investment, added his voice to the growing numbers calling for reductions in corporate taxation:
"Sir Digby, the outspoken former CBI director-general who is to take a
seat in the House of Lords, stopped short of explicitly calling for a
cut in corporation tax, but indicated Britain's system needs to compete
with rival nations on the total amount of tax companies pay."
Personal taxation also needs attention. While we should welcome Darling's refusal to bow to demands for private equity to be taxed into exile, continuing with the policies of the Brown era would be deeply unwise. Both the economy and ordinary people whose wage increases are dissapearing in rising tax bills deserve better.
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Lewis Baker explains why he had to end Leeds loan to join Reading
Date published: Thursday 10th January 2019 12:51
Lewis Baker has come clean on why he had to leave Leeds and move to Championship rivals Reading.
The former England U21 midfielder joined the Whites on a season-long loan deal over the summer, but a clause in the contract allowed both parent club Chelsea and the player to revoke the arrangement in January if neither were happy.
And while Baker featured in every one of Leeds’ 26 matchday squads in the Championship so far this season, he did only start twice – and in both those games he was withdrawn at half-time.
After confirming his loan to Reading, Baker told the Royals’ official website: “It’s the right time for me to come here, to get as much game time as possible.
“I think that’s what I need at the moment.
“If anyone knows me personally and knows how much I love football they know I just want to play.”
Chelsea invoked a similar clause in cutting short Kasey Palmer’s time at Blackburn and sending the player to Bristol City, while they seemingly tried to do similar with Aston Villa loanee Tammy Abraham and in trying to move the striker on to Wolves.
Speaking to the media on Wednesday ahead of Friday’s Championship match against Derby, Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa said: “It was something in the contract. Obviously Chelsea and Baker chose to use this article to go back.”
Asked if he will miss the player, Bielsa continued: “He was always inside the group, even if he didn’t play a lot. Maybe he felt that we didn’t value him at the right level. The only time I talked to him about it, not only did I tell him I wanted him to stay for the next six months but even next year.”
However, a sympathetic Bielsa continued: “He had legitimate expectancy to play more and the last game he played in the FA Cup, for me he had a positive performance. It was a starting point for his development inside the team. But I can understand that he took a different decision.”
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How River Dell Regional School District Prepared for Windows Upgrade
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Are your old Windows servers holding you back from providing the kinds of user experiences your district is demanding?
The tech leaders in River Dell Regional School District were in that exact position. Nearing the end of life of their WS2003 servers, they had serious compatibility issues between hardware and software that resulted in server downtime and the need to reboot almost daily.
They knew two things – they were nearing the end of support from Microsoft and they needed to virtualize as much of their infrastructure as possible.
Join us to hear how they handled their migration away from WS2003 and moved to freshly built virtual machines with a newer OS.
Mike Dunphy
A SysAdmin with 20+ years of experience, Mike is a Technology Specialist at River Dell Regional Schools in New Jersey. He has been instrumental in the growth of educational technology into all areas of the facilities and the educational process there. Today nearly every person in the district has one or more connected devices and Mike is able to engineer solutions that allow end users to do what they want, when they want.
Marc Wachter
Marc Wachter has had a life-long interest in technology, from disassembling home electronics as a child to building a complex networking and software deployment infrastructure. He has been involved in implementing technology in K-12 education and instrumental in the growth of a one-to-one program as System Administrator at River Dell Regional Schools in Oradell, NJ. Outside of his technical roles, Marc is an avid outdoorsman and musician, playing the occasional show in NJ and places like BB King’s in NYC.
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Share of snacks consumed by respondents in the last month United Kingdom (UK) 2015
Share of snacks consumed by respondents in the last month in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015
by Statista Research Department, last edited Apr 6, 2016
This statistic shows the results of a survey in which respondents were asked what they have been snacking on in the last month in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015. A majority of 61 percent of respondents snack on fresh fruit, followed by chocolate at 59 percent.
Volume of potato chips available for consumption per person in Canada 2010-2018
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What a Military Recruiter Won't Tell You About the Commissary
Pay & Finances
Pay and Benefits Benefits
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By Rod Powers
Shopping at the base commissary and the base exchange is among the benefits available to military families and retirees, but civilians tend to have an exaggerated idea about just how big a benefit those institutions offer.
To put it bluntly, no, you can't buy a suit at the commissary for $20, and you won't find T-bone steak for 49 cents per pound.
While the commissary and base exchange each offer good prices, they do not offer the gigantic savings that many civilians think they do.
How Commissaries Run
Formally called Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) Commissaries, these stores have Congressional approval to use taxpayer dollars for their construction and operation. There are nearly 240 such stores around the world.
Commissaries are required to sell their products for the price they paid for them, plus a five percent surcharge that helps pay operating costs.
That surcharge covers most of the commissary workers, like cashiers and stockers. An exception is the baggers, who work for tips. It's customary to tip baggers $1 to $5, depending upon the total amount of the purchase.
How Much You Save
DeCA claims to provide overall savings to the customer of more than 30 percent. That means a family of four shopping regularly can save about $3,000 per year, and a single person can save about $1,000 per year.
However, actual savings vary from one area to another, depending upon whether or not the local civilian food stores charge a sales tax, and what grocery stores are available.
In a direct comparison test, a grocery order purchased for $103.57 at a Walmart Super Store would have cost $89.79, including the 5 percent surcharge, at Patrick Air Force Base in Brevard County, Florida. That's a decent savings, but the 30 percent discount claimed by DeCA would have put the bill at a little over $70.
The Cigarette Exception
While DeCA is required by law to resell items at cost plus 5 percent, it is allowed to cheat a little. A few years ago, DeCA unilaterally decided to increase the price of cigarettes sold in the commissaries. To get around the law, DeCA started buying its tobacco products from military exchanges, which sell tobacco items at prices comparable to the local civilian economy prices.
Nonsmokers may applaud this move to improve the general health of the military and military retiree population. Others may see it as an ominous precedent. Will sugary snacks be next on the hit list?
Military Exchanges
Unlike commissaries, military exchanges are permitted to earn a profit. A portion of those profits goes toward local and service-wide causes, called Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) projects.
The exchanges are operated by three separate agencies: The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM), and the Marine Corps Exchange.
As with the commissaries, no sales tax is charged at the exchanges, and this can add up to significant savings over time or when you are buying expensive items.
The only government dollars spent on the three exchange service stores are for utilities, transportation of merchandise to overseas exchanges, and military salaries. The exchange services fund 98 percent of their operating budgets from the sale of merchandise, food, and services to customers.
AAFES Price Matching
It is not difficult to find a similar or even an exact item in civilian stores that is priced lower than the one stocked in a military exchange. For those occasions, the exchanges have a price-matching policy.
Some military families complain about the selection available in the military exchanges. Certainly, high-priced designer goods are rarely in stock. Most younger enlisted families couldn't afford them even at a discount.
That said, many bargain-wise shoppers are thrilled at the selection and prices.
Other Base Discounts
AAFES is also responsible for the operation of on-base service stations, liquor stores, theaters, and even food franchises such as Burger King.
Don't expect super-savings from those places. To establish gas and liquor prices, the exchange services periodically survey prices in the local area and try to keep their own prices slightly below the off-base average.
It's not difficult to find off-base service stations that are selling gas cheaper, and cheaper liquor is even easier to find.
AAFES Employment
The exchanges are a big source of employment for family members of military members. About 25 percent of the 52,400 AAFES associates are military family members. Many have worked for years at different stores as they've transferred with their families from one installation to the next. Three percent of associates are active military members who work part-time during their off-duty hours.
The exchanges and commissaries provide important benefits and millions of dollars each year toward the service's MWR programs. The monetary savings are good, just not as good as you may have thought.
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Developing New Space Weather Tools: Transitioning fundamental science to operational prediction systems
2 Data presentation
3 Analysis of ...
4 SWIF’s empirical ...
5 Performance evaluation ...
6 Summary and discussion
A new short-term forecasting model for the total electron content storm time disturbances
Ioanna Tsagouri*, Konstantinos Koutroumbas and Panagiotis Elias
National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Metaxa and Vas. Pavlou, Penteli 15236, Greece
* Corresponding author: tsagouri@noa.gr
Accepted: 4 April 2018
This paper aims to introduce a new model for the short-term forecast of the vertical Total Electron Content (vTEC). The basic idea of the proposed model lies on the concept of the Solar Wind driven autoregressive model for Ionospheric short-term Forecast (SWIF). In its original version, the model is operationally implemented in the DIAS system (http://dias.space.noa.gr) and provides alerts and warnings for upcoming ionospheric disturbances, as well as single site and regional forecasts of the foF2 critical frequency over Europe up to 24 h in advance. The forecasts are driven by the real time assessment of the solar wind conditions at ACE location. The comparative analysis of the variations in foF2 and vTEC during eleven geomagnetic storm events that occurred in the present solar cycle 24 reveals similarities but also differences in the storm-time response of the two characteristics with respect to the local time and the latitude of the observation point. Since the aforementioned dependences drive the storm-time forecasts of the SWIF model, the results obtained here support the upgrade of the SWIF’s modeling technique in forecasting the storm-time vTEC variation from its onset to full development and recovery. According to the proposed approach, the vTEC storm-time response can be forecasted from 1 to 12–13 h before its onset, depending on the local time of the observation point at storm onset at L1. Preliminary results on the assessment of the performance of the proposed model and further considerations on its potential implementation in operational mode are also discussed.
Key words: ionosphere (mid latitude) / total electron content (TEC) / modelling / forecasting / space weather
© I. Tsagouri et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2018
As the societal aspirations for a technologically sophisticated future are increasingly influenced by Earth's near-space environment, the modern society depends more and more on the accurate prediction of the space weather impact on it. In this context, the forecasting of the conditions in the Earth’s upper atmosphere receives special attention. This area plays an important role in ground-based and satellite radio communication and navigation and its density determines the orbit and the lifetime of low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites. Two parameters of special interest are the peak F region electron density (NmF2) or the critical frequency (foF2) and the total electron content (TEC). The NmF2/foF2 is related to the maximum usable frequency (MUF) for oblique propagation of radio waves, while TEC is a significant parameter for phase delay effects on the ground-to-satellite navigation signals (Fuller-Rowell et al., 2000).
A key challenge in forecasting the ionospheric behaviour concerns the ionospheric response to geomagnetic storm events. During periods of enhanced geomagnetic activity, the highly variable solar wind and the magnetospheric energy inputs to the Earth's upper atmosphere in the high latitudes activate a variety of mechanisms. These mechanisms include photochemical and chemical reactions, as well as dynamical and electrodynamical processes that drive exchange and transportation of mass, momentum and energy between the elements of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere system. Moreover, the interconnection between southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) and the Earth's magnetic field leads to prompt penetration of zonal electric fields in the equatorial latitudes (Kelley et al., 2003) that cause redistribution of the ionospheric plasma upward and poleward (Tsurutani et al., 2004). As a result of the combined impact, the ionospheric structure is substantially altered at global scale to compose a complex sequence of ionospheric disturbances. Among others, large-scale increases and decreases in the peak electron density, the so called positive and negative storm effects respectively that appear with strong seasonal, latitudinal and local time dependence hold a critical role (see for example the review articles presented by Rishbeth, 1991; Prölss, 1995; Buonsanto, 1999 and Mendillo, 2006).
Despite the complexity, the operational requirements pushed forward the development of relevant ionospheric forecasting models and algorithms. Significant progress within operational environments has been achieved mainly through empirical approaches (e.g., Tsagouri et al., 2013). In Europe, TEC forecasting products and services are made available by the Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) of German Aerospace Center (DLR, http://impc.dlr.de/), which is the successor of the Space Weather Application Center − Ionosphere (SWACI) service. These include regional and global TEC forecasting maps provided one hour in advance. The forecast is calculated as a sum of the actual European TEC map and a weighted sum of the temporal TEC gradient of the previous hour and the temporal gradient of the previous day at the same time. The IMPC services are also integrated with ESA/SSA Space Weather Service Network (SWE) (http://swe.ssa.esa.int/). On the other hand, a full range of regional foF2 forecasting products and services up to 24 h in advance are routinely provided by the European Digital Upper Atmosphere Server (DIAS, http://dias.space.noa.gr). These are supported by the implementation of the Solar Wind driven autoregression model for Ionospheric Forecast (SWIF − Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2006, 2008; Tsagouri et al., 2009; Tsagouri, 2011; Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2015) and include: warnings for upcoming storm-time ionospheric disturbances, single site forecasts for all DIAS locations and regional forecasting maps for the European area. DIAS forecasting services are also integrated with ESA/SSA/SWE to provide ionospheric forecasts over whole Europe for HF propagation users (http://swe.ssa.esa.int/web/guest/dias-federated), as part of the European Ionosonde Service (EIS).
The SWIF’s concept relies on the combination of two distinct algorithms available for ionospheric storm and non-storm conditions, respectively. The storm time component is based on the empirical Storm Time Ionospheric Model (STIM, Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2006, 2008), which assumes the IMF disturbances observed at the L1 point by ACE spacecraft as drivers for upcoming ionospheric foF2 storm-time disturbances. The forecasting efficiency of the model has been assessed in several occasions and particularly successful performance has been identified under the occurrence of ionospheric disturbances associated to interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) detected at L1 point (see Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2015 for a comprehensive description of the SWIF model and the performance tests).
In its present formulation, SWIF has been designed and implemented to serve foF2 forecasting applications. In this paper, we explore SWIF’s capabilities, particularly the STIM component, in forecasting the TEC storm-time variations. This investigation is driven by: (i) the argument that most models of F region disturbances concentrate on the peak density are fully relevant to TEC (Mendillo, 2006); (ii) recent results that support potentially improved predictions of TEC deviations during space weather events based on solar wind measurements (Borries et al., 2015); (iii) promising evidence on the efficiency of the SWIF’s alert criteria in predicting TEC storm-time disturbances in long term investigations (Bergeot et al., 2013). To meet the goal, the ionospheric disturbances are comparatively analysed in conjunction to the solar wind conditions at L1 point as they are monitored by the ACE spacecraft. The ionospheric disturbances are determined through the comparison between actual observations of the foF2 critical frequency and GNSS-TEC estimates obtained over European locations with their corresponding median values during eleven storm events (see Data presentation in Section 2 for a detailed description of the datasets used here). The results reveal similarities and differences in the response of the two ionospheric characteristics with respect to the local time and the latitude of the observation point, driving the upgrade of the SWIF’s modeling technique in forecasting the storm-time TEC variation several hours in advance. This part of the analysis is discussed in Section 3. Preliminary considerations of the SWIF’s upgraded formulation and results on the evaluation of the model's efficiency in TEC prediction are presented in Sections 4 and 5, respectively. A comprehensive summary/discussion of the results and conclusive notes are provided in Sections 6 and 7, respectively.
This investigation exploits foF2 and hmF2 records of hourly resolution obtained by ground-based Digisondes and GNSS-derived TEC estimates, also of hourly resolution. The Digisonde observations were retrieved from the Global Ionosphere Radio Observatory (GIRO − http://giro.uml.edu/) data repository (Reinisch and Galkin, 2011) and they mainly come as the result of automatically scaled ionograms. TEC estimates used here are based on data from GNSS receivers located close to the Digisondes. In particular, at each station vertical TEC (vTEC) values are calculated from data extracted from Receiver Independent Exchange Format (RINEX) files with 30 s sampling, using the single station solution proposed by Ciraolo (2005) and Ciraolo et al. (2007). Dual-frequency carrier-phase and code-delay GNSS observations are combined to obtain ionospheric observables related to the slant total electron content (sTEC) along the satellite-receiver line-of-sight. Only data files received from GNSS satellites with elevation larger than 70° are considered in this analysis. The sTEC has been converted to vTEC at Ionosphere Pierce Point (IPP) by applying the ionospheric thin shell model. The conversion can be done using the relation given by where χ is the zenith angle of a GNSS satellite at IPP.
The ionospheric disturbances are determined through the comparison between observed and monthly median values that are obtained from actual observations recorded within each calendar month. The monthly medians were estimated for each hour/month/year.
The present analysis is carried out for the middle latitude European region with data obtained over the ionospheric locations that are listed in Table 1 (also mapped in Fig. 1). It applies to all intense storm events (min Dst ≤ −100 nT) occurred in the present solar cycle 24 that are associated with CME-related solar wind flows (e.g., sheath fields or the ejecta itself) in the near-Earth solar wind. The distinction is based on the entries of the ICMEs catalogue that is available at http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/level/icmetable2.htm (Richardson and Cane, 2010). The storm events analysed here are listed in Table 2.
The coordinates of Digisondes and GNSS stations used for this analysis.
A European map indicating the locations of the observational points listed in Table 1. The locations of the Digisondes and the GNSS receivers are noted with red and blue circles, respectively.
The geomagnetic storm events analysed here. The min Dst is denoted as an indicator of the storm intensity. The last column provides the storm onset time for each of the storm events as it was determined by the DIAS system.
3 Analysis of the TEC storm-time response with respect to the SWIF’s concept
Of central importance within the SWIF’s concept is the determination of the storm onset time at L1 point. To this effect, SWIF exploits the STIM’s alert detection algorithm (ADA) that is able to identify storm (alert) conditions and therefore to activate the storm-time algorithm i.e., the STIM. Storm (alert) conditions are identified by applying quantitative criteria to IMF-total magnitude Bmag, its rate of change, dBmag/dt and the IMF-Bz component. The criteria were derived mainly through superposed epoch analysis that was carried out over several intense storm events occurred in solar cycle 23. The set of the criteria were initially introduced by Tsagouri & Belehaki (2008) and include: (i) an increase in the IMF–Bmag: time derivative values greater than 3.8 nT/h or absolute values greater than 13 nT, and (ii) a southward turning of the IMF–Bz component (Bz < −10 nT) for at least 3 h.
In this context, we investigate the interplanetary conditions for the specific set of storm events analyzed here as the first step in testing the validity of the SWIF’s concept in forecasting the vTEC storm-time response. In Figure 2, we present the results of the superposed epoch analysis that was applied again to the IMF-total magnitude, its rate of change and the Bz-component. The Dst index is also included to verify geomagnetic storm conditions. The results demonstrate that the SWIF’s criteria are still fully applicable.
The next key issue for SWIF is the dependence of the ionospheric response on the latitude and the local time (LT) of the observation point at the storm onset. Following the determination of the storm onset at L1 point, STIM algorithm determines the ionospheric storm onset and quantifies/formulates the storm-time disturbances over single locations. To this effect, the model exploits empirical expressions that take into account the latitude of the observation point and its LT at the storm onset. The model considers two latitudinal zones, one for latitudes greater than 45° N (middle-to-high, MtH) and one for latitudes between 30° and 45° N (middle-to-low, MtL), and four LT sectors: morning (0300–0600 in LT), prenoon (0700–1200 in LT), afternoon (1300–1800 in LT) and evening (1900–0200 in LT).
The validity of STIM's background assumptions are further explored below for vTEC forecasting purposes (see Figs. 3–6), through superposed epoch analysis that is applied to the vTEC storm-time variation for the set of the storm events presented in Table 2. Each of Figs. 3–6 includes the results for one LT sector (i.e., morning, prenoon, afternoon or evening) and both latitudinal zones (MtH and MtL in the top and bottom panel, respectively). For comparison purposes, we also include in the plots the corresponding variation of the foF2 for the same set of events and the empirical formulation of the storm-time response that the original SWIF’s expressions can provide. In this part of the analysis, the ionospheric response was investigated over all ionospheric locations reported in Table 1 except for Dourbes and San Vito. These two stations were kept out in order to serve model validation experiments described later as test stations. The ionospheric response is expressed by the ratios foF2/foF2median and vTEC/vTECmedian for foF2 and vTEC, respectively following the SWIF’s original formulation that is designed to provide a correction factor to the normal ionosphere.
The results verify significant disturbances in ionospheric plasma properties that are apparent in both foF2 and vTEC. According to the obtained trends one may argue that:
Concerning the LT dependence, the ionospheric storm-time response starts almost simultaneously in foF2 and vTEC. Moreover, the vTEC tends to follow qualitatively the trends present in the foF2 pattern. More precisely, positive storm effects tend to predominate in the daytime response of both foF2 and vTEC (see the trends in Figs. 3 and 4), while negative storm effects characterize the nighttime response in all cases. However, there are noticeable differences in the quantitative characteristics of the disturbances in each case. The most important one applies in the intensity of positive storm effects that appears significantly greater in the vTEC case. It is also interesting to note that positive storm effects at higher latitudes in case the observation point at storm onset time is located in the morning sector are present only for vTEC. The vTEC positive phase is more intense in the lower latitudes especially in the afternoon hours (see Figs. 3 and 4).
Concerning the SWIF’s prediction efficiency: the model in its original version is able to reproduce satisfactorily the intensity and the duration of significant negative storm effects in foF2 in all cases. With respect to vTEC, it fails to reproduce the significant negative response that follows the positive phase in the morning sector (see. Fig. 3), which is apparent only in the vTEC variation. With respect to positive effects, although it tends to underestimate daytime ionization increases observed in lower latitudes, the model seems to work satisfactorily well for foF2. Nevertheless, some adjustments should be anticipated in the vTEC formulation (see also point i above).
The results of superposed epoch analysis applied to the IMF-total magnitude (Bmag), its rate of change (dBmag/dt) and the Bz-component. The Dst index is also included to verify geomagnetic storm conditions. The vertical red line indicates the storm onset time (0 h).
The results of the superposed epoch analysis for the vTEC and foF2 storm-time response in case the observation point is located in the morning LT sector at the storm onset, for MtH (top panel) and MtL (bottom panel) locations. The predictions that the original SWIF’s expressions can provide is also included (green line). Error bars represent standard deviations. The vertical black line at 0 hrs indicates the storm onset time.
Same as Figure 3 in case the observation point is located in the prenoon LT sector at the storm onset.
Same as Figure 3 in case the observation point is located in the afternoon LT sector at the storm onset.
Same as Figure 3 in case the observation point is located in the evening LT sector at the storm onset.
4 SWIF’s empirical formulation for the vTEC forecast
Following the findings of the previous sections, and with the focus on the forecast of the vTEC, we propose the adjustment of the SWIF’s empirical formulation as below.
Since the SWIF’s alert criteria are still valid (see Fig. 2), we keep SWIF’s original settings for the determination of the storm onset at L1 point (see Sect. 3 for the description of the alert criteria).
For the prediction of the vTEC storm-time response, we exploit the results of the superposed epoch analysis obtained in the previous section that are reproduced in Figure 7 for reasons of clearness. As in case of foF2, the model idea is to apply the determined variations to the normal ionosphere that can be expressed e.g., by monthly medians in order to predict vTEC values.
The vTEC response depends on the local time and the latitude of the observation point. It may be important to note that the vTEC variations in Figure 7 include also the time delay in the ionospheric storm onset in each local time sector (see x-axis that counts the time from the storm onset at L1 point). This approach is slightly different than the original version of the model that includes more detailed formulations for the local time dependence of the foF2 storm-time response in each latitudinal zone (Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2008). This simplification is made here for practical reasons, since the number of storm events with the onset in a specific local time sector is rather small to support a detailed analysis, which remains subject for future improvements in the proposed model. Nevertheless, the reader should note that the overall trends in the time difference between the storm onset at L1 point and the ionospheric storm onset at middle latitudes are still comparable in the two versions of the model (see Fig. 4 in Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2008). This was expected since the ionospheric storm-time response starts almost simultaneously in foF2 and vTEC: positive storm effects appear within 1–3 h after the storm onset, while the time difference for the appearance of negative storm effects ranges from about 2–3 h up to 12–13 h. The minimum is recorded when the observation point is located in the afternoon and evening sectors at the storm onset, while the maximum time delay is recorder when the observation point is located in the morning and prenoon sectors at the storm onset.
In principle, the model is designed to predict the storm-time response from the onset to full development and recovery. The results given in Figure 7 represent the model predictions for a storm event with one single onset. However, in practice the geomagnetic activity may be evolved through successive intensifications that can prolong both the geomagnetic and ionospheric activity for many days. In such cases, the model's predictions are superposed to anticipate all detected onsets. This is how SWIF operates in case of the foF2 in DIAS (see also the example presented in Fig. 9).
SWIF’s empirical formulation for the vTEC storm time response taking into account the latitudinal zone (i.e., MtH and MtL) and the local time sector of the observation point at the storm onset (i.e., morning, prenoon, afternoon, evening).
5 Performance evaluation tests for the proposed model
In this section, we attempt an assessment of the proposed model's prediction capabilities. The assessment tests described below are carried out on the same set of storm events listed in Table 2. This compromise results from the limitations in the vTEC data availability (see Sect. 6 for more explanation) and in this respect, the validation plan may not be considered as fully independent. Nevertheless, one may argue that the results can still provide useful input regarding the achieved prediction efficiency.
As the SWIF’s (ADA) alert criteria remain the same in the new version of the model, we exploit the results of the DIAS automated algorithm for the determination of the storm onset time. To some extent, one may argue that this input serves the assessment of key components of the proposed model in operational mode. The storm onset time for each of the storm events analyzed here is presented in Table 2 and is also available through DIAS (at http://dias.space.noa.gr, under Alerts' Archive list after registration). Multiple onsets are detected for several of the storm events analyzed here. It should be noted that only one of the storm events, the one occurred in the time interval 16–20 March 2013, was “missed” by SWIF’s ADA (see Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2015 for the evaluation of the results of the SWIF’s ADA).
The accuracy of the upgraded SWIF’s performance in forecasting the vTEC response was then tested over two GNSS locations: DOUR, which is close to Dourbes in Belgium and USAL, which is close to San Vito in Italy. As mentioned above, these two stations were not included in the analysis for the determination of the model's empirical formulation to help, in the maximum possible extent, an unbiased evaluation of model's capabilities. For comparison purposes, in this part of the analysis we also include the vTEC output of the IRI (International Reference Ionosphere) model. In particular, we use the output of the IRI2012 version of the model (e.g. Bilitza et al., 2014), available for on line calculations at https://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/vitmo/iri2012_vitmo.html. Key input parameters for the model include: Upper limit for Electron content = 2000 km; F peak model = CCIR; Ne Topside = IRI01-corr; foF2 Storm model = on; Bottomside Thickness = ABT-2009; F1 occurrence probability = Scotto-1997 no L; foE Storm model = on; D-Region Ne = IRI-95; Auroral boundary = off.
As indicative examples of the capabilities of the proposed SWIF’s vTEC version, we present in Figures 8 and 9 the model's predictions obtained for the time intervals 23–26 April 2012 and 21–25 June 2015, respectively. The corresponding GNSS-derived vTEC estimates, monthly medians and IRI2012 output are also included for comparison purposes. The results demonstrate the models efficiency in capturing the ionospheric storm onset and the ionospheric variation on the main storm day. The IRI2012 tends to reproduce only the median variation in the first case, while in the second event it tends to underestimate the observations with no clear sensitivity to the storm effects.
For a more comprehensive overview of the performance of the proposed model, in Figure 10, we present the scatter plots between vTEC modeled and estimated values obtained over the two test locations for all the events analyzed here. The results demonstrate satisfactory agreement between model’s predictions and GNSS-derived estimates. This agreement is also verified by the findings of Figure 11, which provides the distributions of modeled and estimated values for both test locations in a boxplot format. The distributions of the monthly median values are also included in each case for comparison purposes. The model's predictions reproduce successfully the distributions of the GNSS-derived estimates in both test locations and more effectively than the median values, indicating that the model can efficiently capture the observed storm-time disturbances. In Table 3, the performance of the proposed model is assessed through the estimation of several metric parameters: the Mean Error (ME), the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the Mean Relative Error (MRE) and the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and the relative improvement over climatology. The latter is calculated by using the following formula (see for example Araujo-Pradere & Fuller-Rowell, 2002; Tsagouri, 2011; Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2015):
Based on the results presented there, one may argue that the model's predictions do not suffer by significant biases (see the ME over both locations), while the MRE is really small in all cases. In overall, the performance of the model tends to be more successful for DOUR. In this case, the model's error in terms of both MAE and RMSE is comparable to 3 TECu that in turn, is comparable to the TEC measurement error at middle latitudes (e.g. Zhang et al., 2010 and references therein). Significant improvement (>10%) over climatology is recorded in both cases. The same tests were also performed for IRI2012 for comparison purposes. The corresponding results are also included in Table 3. The calculated improvement over climatology demonstrates that the IRI2012 predictions are comparable to the climatological estimates (i.e., medians).
SWIF’s predictions for the vTEC storm time response during the time interval 23–26 April 2012 for DOUR and USAL locations. The corresponding GNSS-derived vTEC estimates, monthly medians and IRI2012 output are also included for comparison purposes. The storm onset time was determined in the afternoon sector (23/04/2012, 14:00 UT), so that the vTEC response was forecasted 4 and 6 h before its onset at DOUR and USAL, respectively. In this example, the IRI2012 tends to reproduce only the median variation.
Same as Fig. 8 for the time interval 21–25 June 2015. This was a storm event with multiple onsets determined in the afternoon, evening and morning sectors (22/06/2015 18:00 UT; 22/06/2015 23:00 UT; 23/06/2015 04:00 UT). The vTEC response was forecasted 6 and 8 h before the first storm onset at DOUR and USAL, respectively. The IRI2012 tends to underestimate the observations with no clear sensitivity to the storm effects.
The scatter plots between vTEC modeled and estimated values obtained over the DOUR (top panel) and USAL (bottom panel) locations for all the events listed in Table 2. The linear regression is also plotted with the red line in both cases.
Boxplots representing the distributions of vTEC estimates, modeled and median values for DOUR (top panel) and USAL (bottom panel) locations. The box has lines at the lower quartile, median (red line) and upper quartile values. Whiskers extend from each end of the box to the adjacent values in the data; in our case to the most extreme values within 1.5 times the interquartile range from the ends of the box. Outliers (e.g., data with values beyond the ends of the whiskers) are displayed with red crosses.
Metrics-based assessment of the SWIF_TEC performance.
In this paper, we attempt the expansion of the capabilities of the SWIF model, particularly its storm component in forecasting the vTEC storm-time variation. The SWIF model runs in the DIAS system since 2009 and provides ionospheric forecasting products and services with respect to the foF2 critical frequency for the DIAS and ESA/SSA/SWE users. The model is driven by solar wind disturbances detected at L1 point through the analysis of the ACE real-time measurements. The present work was motivated by recent results that indicated potentially improved predictions of TEC disturbances during space weather events based on solar wind measurements (Borries et al., 2015), but also by the findings received through the exploitation of the SWIF’s output in the investigation of the space weather impact on TEC variation in long-term perspective. More precisely, Bergeot et al. (2013) demonstrated that the temporal and spatial evolution of TEC disturbances detected in solar cycle 23 and specified by SWIF’s storm onset conditions were consistent with well established phenomenological models. These findings provided a first indication of the potential efficiency of the SWIF model in predicting TEC storm-time deviations.
The expansion of the model's forecasting capabilities was based on the comparative analysis of foF2 and vTEC storm-time disturbances during eleven storm events occurred in the present solar cycle 24. Since there are some evidence available today that indicate dependence of the ionospheric response on the solar wind drivers of the storms (e.g. Tsagouri et al., 2017) and moreover, the performance of the SWIF model had been proved to be particularly successful in forecasting the impact of intense CME-related events (Tsagouri & Belehaki, 2015), the focus in the present analysis was given in this type of storm events in order to build progress on a solid and clear basis. The distinction of the interplanetary drivers of the storms is compatible with the list of the ICMEs that is available at http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/DATA/level3/icmetable2.htm (Richardson & Cane, 2010).
The ionospheric disturbances were determined through the comparison between observed and monthly median values that were obtained from actual observations recorded within each calendar month. The vTEC estimates used here are based on data from GNSS receivers located close to the Digisondes' locations to ensure fair comparison between foF2 and vTEC disturbances. At each station, vTEC values were calculated using the single station solution proposed by Ciraolo (2005) and Ciraolo et al. (2007). This method assumes that the ionosphere is a thin layer around 300 km. The overall distributions of the hmF2 observations obtained in the Digisonde locations during the storm events analyzed here show that in the majority of the cases, the height of the peak density lies within the assumed range in all reference and test locations (see Fig. 12). This may be considered as a rough indication of the reliability of the vTEC estimates that were used here. Further, one may argue that the exploitation of results provided by a single site solution assigns a significant advantage to this work, since these results could be considered as more representative for local vTEC estimates, being free of extra interpolation errors that could be introduced by any mapping technique.
The vTEC storm-time disturbances were found to be compatible with SWIF’s specifications for the determination of the storm onset at L1 point, indicating that the SWIF’s ADA and the alert it can provide could be considered reliable tools in forecasting the vTEC storm-time variation. This variation was further investigated through superposed epoch analysis in combination with foF2 storm-time disturbances that evolve simultaneously, taking into account the latitude and the local time of the observation point at storm onset. The results revealed similarities and differences in the response of the two characteristics. As a first outcome, the evidence indicate that in principle the morphology of the ionospheric storm effects is maintained in both foF2 and vertical TEC. This is rather expected since the physical causes for NmF2/foF2 and vertical TEC storm-time variations are the same (Mendillo, 2006). Nevertheless, there are quantitative and qualitative differences in their response. Most probably, these differences reflect the ability of each parameter to characterize the ionosphere during storms (Mendillo, 2006), but also the relative importance of the background mechanisms with altitude. One has to keep in mind that vertical TEC represents the integral over the entire ionospheric electron density. Such an integral has its maximum contribution from the F2 layer, with approximately 2/3 of the total electron content coming from regions above the altitude of the peak density, hmF2 (e.g., Mendillo, 2006; Belehaki & Tsagouri, 2002).
Today, there are several mechanisms proposed in the literature for the explanation of the observed storm-time effects. According to the Prölss phenomenological model for the dependence of the F-layer disturbances on local time (e.g., Prölss, 1995, 2011), positive storm effects are attributed to travelling atmospheric disturbances (TADs) and meridional winds, while negative storm effects are attributed to changes in the neutral gas composition that follow the injection of solar wind energy to the polar upper atmosphere. Any new intensification in the solar wind energy input results in a new intensification of the ionospheric activity (Tsagouri et al., 2000). In this scenario, positive storm effects in the middle latitudes are expected to be observed in the daytime ionosphere shortly after the storm onset (i.e. within 1–3 h) following the propagation of the TADs from the auroral to lower latitudes and the imposed changes to the wind circulation. On the other hand, neutral composition changes are evolved in different time scale and are mainly detected in the post-midnight hours. As a result, the negative storm effects are observed when the observation point is located (or rotated) into the nighttime hemisphere that conditionally can provide further delays in the ionospheric response. This scenario may explain the differences in the time lag of the ionospheric response in different LT sectors that are evident in Figure 7.
More generally, the proposed mechanisms include upwelling/downwelling of the gas due to storm-induced thermospheric circulation, penetration of electric fields of magnetospheric or interplanetary origin into the ionosphere (e.g. the super-fountain mechanism proposed by Tsurutani et al., 2008) and plasma fluxes from the plasmasphere (Danilov, 2013). Presently, it is believed that the electron concentration at heights around the F2 layer maximum tends to be more sensitive to changes in neutral composition, thermospheric gas temperature and horizontal winds, whereas electrodynamics (i.e., penetrating electric fields and plasma fluxes from the plasmasphere) is more important at higher altitudes (400–800 km) (Danilov, 2013). Taking into account that the electrodynamical processes reported above result mainly in ionization increases, this argument may explain the detected differences in the occurrence and the intensity of positive storm effects: they appear more frequently and significantly greater in the vTEC case, maybe due to the greater contribution from the topside ionosphere in the estimation of vTEC; they are more intense in the lower latitudes, which is especially true in the afternoon hours (the so-called “dusk effect”) as a result of the combined effect of penetrated electric fields in the equatorial latitudes and downward plasma fluxes from the plasmasphere (Mendillo, 2006).
Although the ADA remains in place for the forecasting of vTEC, the identified differences between foF2 and vTEC response made it clear that one should look for a new empirical formulation in case of the vTEC response. This task was driven here by the results of the superposed epoch analysis. According to the new formulation, the vTEC storm-time response depends also on the latitude and the local time of the observation point at the storm onset time at L1 point and can be predicted from 1 to 12–13 h in advance (see Fig. 7), depending on the local time of the observation point at storm onset at L1.
The upgraded version of SWIF was also preliminary evaluated in performance during the storm events under study over two GNSS test locations: DOUR in Belgium and USAL in Italy. Although the validation tests that were carried out here may not be considered as totally independent and such an approach remains a strong requirement for any future developments, we believe that our findings provide indicative results regarding the forecasting capabilities of the proposed model. In particular, the performance of the model has been proven to be more successful in the higher latitudes, giving a prediction error that is comparable to 3 TECu, which in turn is comparable to the TEC measurement error at middle latitudes. Moreover, the results demonstrate significantly improved performance with respect to standard prediction approaches such as the median estimates. Concerning the RMSE, the improvement was 17% and 37% for USAL and DOUR, respectively. More successful performance was also determined in comparison to the standard IRI2012 model: while the proposed model was able to capture the ionospheric disturbances during the main storm day, IRI2012 provided predictions that were rather comparable to the median estimates. At this point, one may note that the upper limit for the estimation of the total electron content by IRI is only 2000 km. This limitation may partially explain some of the discrepancies. Nevertheless, taking into account that the maximum contribution in the vTEC estimate comes from the F2 layer, the results obtained here may still be considered as indicative of the general trends.
As a shortcoming of the present work, one may indicate the relatively small number of the storm events analyzed for the development of the new model, but in this respect, one should also consider the limitations that are imposed by the availability of vTEC data. The selected set of the events include all storm events that occurred in the present solar cycle 24 and meet the requirements of the present analysis (i.e., they are intense and CME-driven events). As it was pointed out previously, here we used GNSS-vTEC estimates that were provided by a single station solution as most appropriate for the analysis of storm effects in local perspective. However, the extraction of these results is not a straightforward task, since the code execution is heavily time consuming. On the other hand, GNSS-vTEC estimates provided by regional or global maps come with significant discrepancies as they depend strongly on their calculation method. In addition, they usually provide a smoothed representation of the ionospheric conditions through the background interpolation that could not effectively support the analysis of storm-time effects. In any case, the further we go back in time, the less dense is the network of the available receivers and the lower is the quality of the data and the accuracy of the GNSS-vTEC estimates.
Further on the previous point, the availability of the vTEC data is also a big challenge for the operational implementation for the proposed storm-time model. As it requires reliable GNSS-vTEC estimates available in real time to provide an estimation of the background ionosphere (e.g. by running medians as in case of foF2), key future plans apply to the adjustment of the algorithm used here towards its real time exploitation.
Another point of further consideration regarding the potential implementation of the proposed model in operational mode may be the availability of real-time solar wind measurements at L1 point. Following the settings of the SWIF’s operational version for foF2, the present analysis was based also on the analysis of IMF observations from ACE spacecraft that is still able to provide valuable input. Future upgrades may include the adjustment of the model's settings to new monitoring capabilities at L1, such as the NOAA's DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory), which comes as the operational replacement for the real-time solar wind instruments on the ACE satellite (Knipp & Biesecker 2015; Constable, 2016).
Future plans include also the upgrade of the SWIF’s non-storm component for forecasting vTEC during quiet ionospheric conditions. This may be possible through the implementation of autoregressive technique, following the philosophy of the TSAR (Time Series AutoRegressive) algorithm (Koutroumbas et al., 2008) that presently supports SWIF’s forecasts provided by DIAS for the foF2 in non-alert conditions at middle latitudes. For the forecast of vTEC, the time series that will be used are sampled every 30 s and the methodology relies on the use of autoregressive (AR) modeling. In the sequel, we describe briefly the proposed general forecasting strategy and then we discuss the way it can be utilized in the framework of vTEC forecasting problem. Assuming that the process that generates an observed time series {x(n), n = 0,1,…} is described by an AR model, the estimation of the value of the time series s steps ahead, x(n+s), based on the M measurements before the current time step is expressed as follows where M is the order of the AR model, w = [w0,w1,...,wM]T is its parameter vector (see e.g., Kalouptsidis, 1997) and xn = [x(n), x(n-1),..., x(n−M)]T. For fixed M, the best w results from the solution of a linear system of equations (for more details, see Kalouptsidis, 1997; Koutroumbas et al., 2008). Note that both M and w are crucial for the complete determination of an AR model. Based on a time series
of length l, with l >> M, the estimation of the order of the model, M, as well as the parameter vector w, can be carried out in the following two candidate ways: (a) estimate first the best (in the mean square error sense) M and then, for the best M, determine the corresponding parameter vector w and (b) estimate M and w simultaneously, employing the concept of sparsity (Themelis et al., 2012). Let us describe the above methodologies in a little more detail. First, we split Y into the following two sets, i.e., X1 = {x(0), x(1), …, x(l/2)} and X2 = {x(l/2 + 1),…, x(l)}1. According to the first methodology, we apply for a range of values of M, [Mmin, Mmax], the following procedure: we determine the parameter vector w, based on the set X1 and then we measure the associated mean square error, MSEi, i = Mmin,…,Mmax, based on the set X2. Then, among all the MSEi's, we select the minimum one and adopt the corresponding parameter vector w.
According to the second methodology, we consider a parameter vector w, of relatively large size and we estimate it based on the set X1, adopting specific algorithms (e.g., Themelis et al., 2012) that impose sparsity on the entries of w; that is, they push several values of w to zero. Clearly, this is an implicit way of determining the order of the model. In addition, in contrast to the previous case, the entries of w that are pushed to zero need not be consecutive.
Taking into account that ionosphere changes dynamically, the above methodology is modified as follows, in order to cope with the vTEC forecasting. The order M and the parameter vector w of the AR model are re-estimated (with either of the two methodologies) at the beginning of each calendar month, taking into account the vTEC values of the previous couple of months.
The distributions of the hmF2 values that were recorded in the Digisonde locations included in Table 1 during the storm events analyzed here.
In this paper, a new model for the short-term forecasting of the vTEC parameter was proposed, with the focus in the forecast of the storm-time effects. The development of the new model was based on the concept of the SWIF model, which is operationally implemented in the DIAS system and provides a full set of ionospheric forecasting products and services over Europe in terms of the foF2 critical frequency. The model is triggered by detected CME-related disturbances in the solar wind at L1 point and estimates the ionospheric storm-time response 1–13 h in advance, expanding significantly current forecasting capabilities for vertical TEC. The predictions are based on empirical formulations that take into account the latitude and the local time of the observation point at the storm onset (at L1). The performance of the model was preliminary evaluated over European locations in comparison to GNSS-vTEC estimates, to climatological estimates (i.e., monthly medians) and to IRI2012 predictions. The results are encouraging, demonstrating significant improvement over climatology and relatively small prediction error, especially in the higher latitudes, where the improvement was found up to 37% and the error was found comparable to 3 TECu. Future improvements are mainly considered towards the operational implementation of the proposed model. Key challenges include the availability of vertical GNSS-TEC estimates over single locations in real time and the development of an algorithm for the vTEC forecast during quiet conditions in support of the storm-time model. Improvements in the availability of the GNSS-vTEC data would also help the analysis and the evaluation of the model's performance in more storm events in support of future developments.
The Dst index are provided by the World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto (http://wdc.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dstdir/). Special acknowledgements are due to Luigi Ciraolo for providing the source code for the calculation of TEC values from RINEX files. RINEX files from the European IGS stations have been downloaded from the IGS ftp archive. The authors thank the ACE MAG instrument teams and the ACE Science Center for providing the ACE data. This investigation uses ionospheric data from Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO, http://spase.info/SMWG/Observatory/GIRO). The authors are grateful to Anna Belehaki for many useful discussions. This work is supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security project #984894 and partly by the European Commission Horizon 2020 project #776011 TechTIDE “Warning and Mitigation Technologies of Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances Effects”. I.T. was in part supported by ESA SSA Contract 4000113184/15/D/MRP. The editor thanks two anonymous referees for their assistance in evaluating this paper.
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Neutron monitor count rate increase as a proxy for dose rate assessment at aviation altitudes during GLEs
Alexander Mishev1,2*, Sasu Tuohino3 and Ilya Usoskin1,2
1 Space Climate Research Unit, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland
2 Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland
3 Faculty of Science, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland
* Corresponding author: alex_mishev@yahoo.com
Received: 14 December 2017
Radiation exposure due to cosmic rays, specifically at cruising aviation altitudes, is an important topic in the field of space weather. While the effect of galactic cosmic rays can be easily assessed on the basis of recent models, estimate of the dose rate during strong solar particle events is rather complicated and time consuming. Here we compute the maximum effective dose rates at a typical commercial flight altitude of 35 kft (≈11 000 m above sea level) during ground level enhancement events, where the necessary information, namely derived energy/rigidity spectra of solar energetic particles, is available. The computations are carried out using different reconstructions of the solar proton spectra, available in bibliographic sources, leading to multiple results for some events. The computations were performed employing a recent model for effective dose and/or ambient dose equivalent due to cosmic ray particles. A conservative approach for the computation was assumed. A highly significant correlation between the maximum effective dose rate and peak NM count rate increase during ground level enhancement events is derived. Hence, we propose to use the peak NM count rate increase as a proxy in order to assess the peak effective dose rate at flight altitude during strong solar particle events using the real time records of the worldwide global neutron monitor network.
Key words: Solar energetic particles / GLE events / Neutron monitor network / Radiation environment
© A. Mishev et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2018
According to the generally accepted definition, space weather concerns dynamic conditions on the Sun and solar wind resulting in changes in the Earth’s radiation environment, magnetosphere and ionosphere, which eventually can compromise the performance of spacecraft and ground-based systems and can endanger human health (e.g. Baker, 1998; Lilensten & Bornarel, 2009).
Active processes on the Sun, such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), solar flares and high-speed solar wind streams may lead to sequence(s) of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere and atmosphere, occasionally even impacting the ground level as geomagnetic storms and enhancements of relativistic electron populations in outer radiation belts. Trapped protons and ions can damage satellites. An important part of space weather effects is related to the variable and highly dynamic radiation environment in the near-Earth space and Earth’s atmosphere (e.g. Vainio et al., 2009, and references therein). Sporadically, following such solar eruptive processes as solar flares and CMEs Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) can be produced (e.g. Reames, 1999; Cliver et al., 2004; Reames, 2013; Desai & Giacalone, 2016; Klein & Dalla, 2017, and references therein). SEP events are distinct enhancements of particle fluxes originating from Sun.
In this work we focus on solar energetic protons. Their energy is usually of the order of a few tens of MeV/nucleon, but can occasionally reach about hundred MeV/nucleon or even above a GeV/nucleon. While less energetic SEPs are fully absorbed in the atmosphere, more energetic ones can initiate an atmospheric cascade, similarly to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs), whose secondaries eventually reach the ground, leading to an enhancement of count rates of ground based detectors, in particular Neutron Monitors (NMs). This special class of SEP events is known as Ground Level Enhancements (GLEs). Their occurrence rate is about 10–12 per solar cycle with a higher probability during maximum and decline phase of the solar activity cycle (Shea & Smart, 1990; Stoker, 1995). The high energy SEPs can dramatically change the Earth’s radiation environment (Matthiä et al., 2009a; Vainio et al., 2009; Sato et al., 2014). Therefore, strong SEP events form a potential space weather hazard, specifically at aviation altitudes.
The increased intensity of secondary cosmic rays at flight altitudes, specifically during SEP events, is an important space weather issue (e.g. Mewaldt, 2006; Pulkkinen, 2007; Shea & Smart, 2012, and references therein). Aircrews are exposed to an additional complex radiation field, particularly during intercontinental flights over the sub-polar and polar regions, where the magnetospheric shielding is marginal. Recently it was advised to consider the exposure to cosmic radiation of aircrew as occupational (ICRP, 2007). Accordingly, a health monitoring and assessment of the individual accumulated doses of the flight personnel was suggested in the EU (EURATOM, 2013).
The radiation environment, accordingly aircrew exposure depends on geographic position, altitude and solar activity (Spurny et al., 1996, 2003; Shea & Smart, 2000) and is mainly defined by GCRs, which originate from the Galaxy and consist mostly of protons and α-particles with small abundance of heavier nuclei (e.g. Grieder, 2001; Gaisser & Stanev, 2010, and references therein). The GCR flux, specifically the low-energy part, is modulated by the solar magnetic field in the Heliosphere inversely following the 11-year solar cycle (e.g. Dorman, 2006; Potgieter, 2013, and references therein). When cosmic ray particles penetrate into the atmosphere, they induce a complicated nuclear-electromagnetic-muon cascade that ionizes the ambient air (Bazilevskaya et al., 2008; Usoskin et al., 2009) and results in enhancement of radiation exposure compared to the sea level (Shea & Smart, 2000; Vainio et al., 2009).
The complex radiation environment at flight altitudes is governed by GCRs. It is determined by different types and energy ranges of the produced secondary particles. On the other hand, high energy SEP events may enhance the radiation exposure in the atmosphere at commercial flight altitudes, specifically in the polar regions (e.g. Shea & Smart, 2000; Spurny et al., 2003). During strong GLE events the radiation exposure is a superposition of the GCRs and SEPs contributions. In addition, the characteristics of SEPs, which determine the radiation environment during GLEs: spectra, angular distribution and duration, differ from event to event (Gopalswamy et al., 2012; Moraal & McCracken, 2012). Therefore, the radiation exposure during GLE events is usually assessed retrospectively using reconstructed spectra from ground based and/or space-borne instruments, individually for each event.
Several space weather issues can be addressed using space-borne measurements and thorough modelling using improved models of solar activity, interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere and models of the radiation belts (e.g. Eastwood et al., 2017; Ganushkina et al., 2017; Koskinen et al., 2017, and references therein). However, assessments of the radiation hazard, specifically during strong SEPs events, are really challenging since it requires detailed information of SEP spectral and anisotropy characteristics. The low energy part of SEP characteristics can be estimated using space-borne particle measurements (e.g. Aguilar et al., 2010; Adriani et al., 2016), accordingly the higher energy part, namely GLE particles, can be studied by NMs (e.g. Dorman, 2004, and references therein). Unfortunately, estimates of the GLE spectral and angular characteristics using measurements from the global NM network require accurate modelling of their propagation through the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetosphere, which is time consuming (e.g. Shea & Smart, 1982; Humble et al., 1991; Cramp et al., 1997; Mishev & Usoskin, 2013). Besides, possible systematic errors of the retrieved spectral and angular characteristics of SEPs can lead to significant uncertainties of the estimated radiation exposure (Bütikofer & Flückiger, 2013, 2015).
In this work, we perform a statistical analysis of 34 GLEs out of 72 registered, where the information about the spectral characteristics is available (e.g. Tuohino et al., 2018). For several events there exist different reconstructions of the solar proton spectra. Therefore, for those events we employ various spectra leading to several results for one event. We compute conservatively the maximal effective dose rate during those evens employing a recently proposed model and the derived GLE spectra. As a result we propose a convenient proxy for the maximum effective dose rate due to SEPs at commercial aviation altitudes during GLEs, which is suitable for operational purposes.
2 Global neutron monitor network
Neutron monitors are the main detectors for continuous recording of CR intensity variations (e.g. Moraal, 1976; Debrunner et al., 1988; Lockwood et al., 1990b; Gil et al., 2015; Kudela, 2016). Besides, NMs records are also used to derive the spectral and angular characteristics of GLE and high-energy SEP particles (e.g. Shea & Smart, 1982; Cramp et al., 1997; Bombardieri et al., 2006; Vashenyuk et al., 2006; Mishev et al., 2014b, 2017). The NM was invented for the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958 as the IGY neutron monitor (Simpson et al., 1953; Simpson, 1957). Its design was improved leading to the standard detector known as NM64 (Carmichael, 1968; Hatton, 1971; Stoker et al., 2000). The global NM network presently consists of about 50 stations spread over the world (Fig. 1) (Moraal et al., 2000; Mavromichalaki et al., 2011).
Current status of the global neutron monitor network. Blue circles depict the NM stations. Bigger circles denote the two high-altitude polar NM stations at Dome C (75° S, 123° E) and South Pole (90° S).
The sensitivity of NMs to primary CR is governed by both geomagnetic and atmospheric shielding, leading to the effective cut-off, which is determined by the geomagnetic location and the altitude above sea level. The latter determines the thickness of atmospheric layer above the monitor, since the primary CR must possess a minimum energy necessary to induce an atmospheric shower (≈430 MeV/n at the sea level), which can reach the ground (e.g. Grieder, 2001; Dorman, 2004). The geomagnetic cut-off rigidity is marginal in the polar regions, where the atmospheric cut-off dominates the shielding. Therefore, polar NMs, particularly high-altitude ones such as SOPO/SOPB and DOMC/DOMB (Fig. 1 and Table 1) are more sensitive to primary CR, specifically SEPs, than mid and high-cut-off rigidity NMs. In addition, polar NMs possess a better angular resolution, which is important for the GLE analysis (Bieber & Evenson, 1995). An illustration of the asymptotic directions at quiet magnetospheric conditions for several low cut-off rigidity NMs is shown in Figure 2. The asymptotic directions are plotted in the range of maximal response of NMs to GLE particles.
Asymptotic directions of polar NMs computed for the epoch 2015 at quiet magnetospheriC conditions. The abbreviations are given in Table 1. The color lines depict asymptotic directions plotted in the rigidity range 1–5 GV, for DOMC and SOPO from 0.7 to 5 GV respectively.
Low-rigidity and polar neutron monitors with the corresponding geomagnetic cut-off rigidities vs. 2015 and altitudes above sea level.
For the computations of the NM cut-off rigidity and asymptotic directions we employed the MAGNETOCOSMICS code (Desorgher et al., 2005). We used a combination of the internal geomagnetic model IGRF (epoch 2015) (Macmillan et al., 2003) and the external Tsyganenko-89 model (Tsyganenko, 1989), which offers a good balance between simplicity and precision (Kudela & Usoskin, 2004; Nevalainen et al., 2013).
3 Model for dose rate computation at flight altitude
In order to estimate the radiation exposure at flight altitudes one needs precise information of the spectral and angular parameters of energetic particles and to posses a precise model for their propagation in the atmosphere. A convenient way to compute the radiation exposure at a typical flight altitude is based on a Monte Carlo simulation of CR particles propagation and interaction in the Earth’s atmosphere (e.g. Ferrari et al., 2001; Roesler et al., 2002). Over the years several models of this kind and/or based on other methods were proposed (Schraube et al., 2000; Ferrari et al., 2001; Roesler et al., 2002; Lewis et al., 2005; Takada et al., 2007; Matthiä et al., 2008; Sato et al., 2008; Latocha et al., 2009; Mertens et al., 2013; Matthiä et al., 2014; Mishev et al., 2014a; Wilson et al., 2014; Copeland, 2017), and a reasonable agreement between several models was achieved (Bottollier-Depois et al., 2009). While the models agree well between each other, it was recently shown that differences in input spectral and angular characteristics of SEPs can lead to significant, up to an order of magnitude, differences of the computed radiation exposure(s) (for details see Bütikofer & Flückiger, 2013, 2015).
Herein, we employed a recent numerical model for computation of the effective and/or ambient dose equivalent at flight altitudes. The model is based on pre-computed yield functions (see details in Mishev & Usoskin, 2015). The yield function represents the effective dose produced by a monoenergetic unit flux of primary CR particle, which enters in the atmosphere. It is obtained on the basis of high-statistics Monte Carlo simulations. The effective dose rate at a given atmospheric depth h induced by a primary CR particle is computed by convolution of the yield function with a corresponding primary CR particle spectrum: (1)where J i (T) is the differential energy spectrum of the primary CR arriving at the top of the atmosphere for i-th component (proton or α-particle) and Y i is the effective dose yield function for this type of particles. The integration is over the kinetic energy T above Tcut (Pc), which is defined by the local cut-off rigidity P c for a nuclei of type i , where E0 = 0.938 GeV/c2 is the proton’s rest mass.
Accordingly, the effective dose yield function Yi is defined as: (2)where C j (T∗) is the coefficient converting the fluence of secondary particles of type j (neutron, proton, γ, e −, e + , μ −, μ + π −, π + )with energy T∗ to the effective dose, F i,j (h, T, T∗, θ, φ) is the fluence of secondary particles of type j, produced by a primary particle of type i (proton or α-particle) with a given primary energy T arriving at the top of the atmosphere from zenith angle θ and azimuth angle φ. The conversion coefficients C j (T∗) are considered according to Pelliccioni (2000); Petoussi-Henss et al. (2010). Similar expressions are used for the ambient dose equivalent, the details and look-up tables are given in Mishev & Usoskin (2015).
Herein, for computations of the ambient dose equivalent (Fig. 3) or effective dose we employ the force field model of GCR spectrum (Gleeson & Axford, 1968; Caballero-Lopez & Moraal, 2004; Usoskin et al., 2005), where the solar modulation parameter was considered according to Usoskin et al. (2011, 2017). We consider a realistic mass composition of GCRs with the nucleonic ratio of heavier particles including α-particles to protons in the interstellar medium as 0.3 similarly to (Mishev & Velinov, 2011; Kovaltsov et al., 2012). The local interstellar spectrum was taken according to Burger et al. (2000).
Ambient dose equivalent H∗(10) due to GCR at two geographic locations (panel a South Norway; panel b South Germany) at various altitudes computed with Oulu model compared with recent measurements and two models. The cut-off rigidity and date are given on the top of the figure. The measurements with HAWK environmental radiation monitoring system are adopted from (Meier et al., 2016), the estimations with PANDOCA model are interpolated from (Matthiä et al., 2014). Note that the EPCARD results are in effective dose.
Applied for computation of the radiation exposure due to GCR, the model demonstrated a very good agreement with the reference data (Menzel, 2010) and other model (Mertens et al., 2013), the details are given elsewhere by Mishev & Usoskin (2015). In this study, the model is compared with recent measurements and two other widely used models at two different locations and three altitudes (Fig. 3) (Schraube et al., 2000; Matthiä et al., 2014; Meier et al., 2016). One can see the good agreement, specifically between Oulu and PANDOCA models, with recent experimental data. Note, that the EPCARD model provides effective dose rate, while the other models are applied here for ambient dose equivalent computation for the given altitude and location. However, a good agreement is observed, which is consistent with (Mertens et al., 2013; Mishev & Usoskin, 2015) results.
4 Assessment of effective dose at flight altitude
Assessment of the effective dose at a flight altitude during GLE events is challenging, since events possess different features, viz. energy spectrum, duration and time evolution (Gopalswamy et al., 2012; Moraal & McCracken, 2012) and also because of the large diversity of secondaries at the flight altitude (e.g. Spurny et al., 1996). Therefore it is necessary to study each GLE event individually. For correct computations, it is necessary to derive precise spectral and angular characteristics of GLE particles in order to compute the effective dose rate (Eq. (1)). In general, this is possible using the NM data, but it requires such time consuming operations as computations of asymptotic cones, modelling of the NM response and fulfilling an optimization (e.g. Shea & Smart, 1982; Humble et al., 1991; Cramp et al., 1997; Bombardieri et al., 2006; Vashenyuk et al., 2006; Mishev & Usoskin, 2016; Mishev et al., 2017). Moreover, different sets of the derived spectra result in considerably different assessments of the dose rate (Bütikofer & Flückiger, 2013, 2015).
Here we computed the effective dose rate at the altitude of 35 kft (≈11 km a.s.l.) during GLE events, using rigidity spectra derived from the NM data (Debrunner et al., 1984; Lockwood et al., 1990a; Humble et al., 1991; Smart et al., 1993; Cramp et al., 1997b; Lovell et al., 1998; Deeley et al., 2002; Bombardieri et al., 2006, 2007, 2008; Bütikofer et al., 2009; Matthiä et al., 2009b; Vashenyuk et al., 2011; Bieber et al., 2013; Mishev et al., 2014b, 2017; Plainaki et al., 2014; Kravtsova & Sdobnov, 2016; Mishev & Usoskin, 2016; Kocharov et al., 2017; Mishev et al., 2018).
We conservatively assumed an isotropic distribution of the GLE particles similarly to Copeland et al. (2008) in order to assess the maximum radiation exposure. An important anisotropy is observed in most of GLE events, particularly during the event onset and initial phase (e.g. Cramp et al., 1997; Bombardieri et al., 2008; Bütikofer et al., 2009). The anisotropy reveals nonsymmetric solar proton flux over the globe. Therefore, the anisotropy effects are important specifically during the event onset and lead to non-uniform distribution of the exposure (e.g. Bütikofer et al., 2008; Matthiä et al., 2009a, b; Velinov et al., 2013; Mishev & Velinov, 2015, 2018). The explicit consideration of the anisotropy would result on underestimation of the effective dose rate compared to an isotropic distribution. In addition, the effective dose rate rapidly decreases at regions with higher cut-off rigidity because of considerably softer spectrum of SEPs compared to GCRs. Therefore, in order to provide a conservative approach, we performed all the computations in a region with the geomagnetic cut-off rigidity P c < 1 GV, where the expected exposure is maximal.
Hence, we computed the maximum effective dose rate due to GLE particles, as shown in Table 2. In cases when several spectral reconstructions of GLE particles are available for a given event, resulting in considerably different effective dose estimates (more than 30–40%), we presented an effective dose range (e.g., for GLEs 30, 42, 45, 69). In this study we considered only the maximum radiation exposure in order to provide a conservative approach. Therefore, mainly the prompt hard component of the GLE particles was taken into account, since it results in the maximum radiation exposure, while the soft component will be studied in a separate work.
Assessed maximum effective dose rates at the altitude of 35 kft a.s.l. in a region with P c < 1 GV during GLE events. The columns depict: 1 – GLE number; 2 – GLE date; 3 – maximum effective dose rate due to solar protons; 4 – maximum NM increase with corresponding NM station; 5 – maximum NM increase at the sea level with the corresponding NM station. The station abbreviations and characteristics are given in Table 3. The footnotes in column 1 depict the corresponding bibliographic sources of the derived SEP spectra.
NM stations with maximum increase during GLE events used for analysis in this study. Cross (null) in the last column depict NMs active station (closed).
The computed peak effective dose rate due to energetic solar protons during 34 GLEs out of 72 registered, yields 47 different sets of exposure assessments. In general, the effective dose rate varies from several μSv h−1, which is comparable with the background GCR contribution (e.g., GLE 19, GLE 25, GLE 51) to tens or hundreds μSv h−1 (e.g. GLE 39, GLE 44, GLE 45). For the two strongest GLE events (GLE 5 and GLE 69), the dose appears in the range 1–2.5 mSv h−1. Subsequently, we compared the derived maximum effective dose rates with the maximum NM count rate increases for the corresponding event, i.e. constructing a distribution: maximum effective dose rate – peak NM increase during the event. We found a highly significant correlation (the Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient of about 0.84, with high significance level, namely p − value ≪ 0.01), between the maximum effective dose rate and peak NM count rate increase (Fig. 4). One can see that the proposed fit (Eq. (3)) encompasses, within the 95% confidence level, most of the data points.
The effective dose rate due to GLE particles, computed by the Oulu model, versus the maximum NM increase, along with the best-fit power-law functions (solid line) and its 95% confidence level (dashed lines).
NM count rate increase can be used as a convenient proxy for an assessment of the maximum effective dose at a flight altitude during a GLE event due to high energy SEPs.
A comparison of computed effective dose rates during several GLEs using Oulu Mishev & Usoskin (2015) and PANDOCA (Matthiä et al., 2014) models is performed (see for details Table 4). Note, that here we assume the same GLE spectra (Matthiä et al., 2009a, b) in order to minimize the differences and avoid discrepancy due to different spectral reconstruction (e.g. Bütikofer & Flückiger, 2013, 2015). One can see that an agreement within about 10% is achieved, the small difference is most likely due to anisotropy effects, GCR parametrization and/or model features as discussed in (Bottollier-Depois et al., 2009).
Comparison of computed effective dose rates during several GLEs using Oulu and PANDOCA models. Columns 1 and 2 depict the GLE number and data, columns 3 and 4 depict the peak effective dose rate computed with Oulu and PANDOCA model, respectively, column 5 the relative difference between the models.
About 65% of the maximum NM increases are registered by low rigidity high-altitude stations (Table 2). However, several of those stations are not active (MTWS, SLPM and VSTK). Thus, only SOPO/B and DOMC/B, both stations located in South hemisphere, are low rigidity high-altitude NMs (Fig. 1). In order to provide convenient and effective proxy suitable for operational purposes and to avoid usage of a single NM, which may lead to a bias in a case of highly anisotropic events (Fig. 2), we performed a similar study but for sea level NMs (Table 2). We derived similar correlation as in the previous case, with the same quality. However, considering only sea level NMs, the fit of the distribution leads to more conservative assessment of the effective dose during GLEs (see below). Considering only the sea level NMs, the assessed effective dose is about 50% greater than the previous case i.e. a more conservative approach is proposed. In addition, it is more convenient for operational purposes, due to the large number of sea level uniformly distributed stations.
The distribution shown in Fig. 4 was fitted by the equation: (3)where E(x) is the maximum effective dose rate at the altitude of 35 kft a.s.l. due to SEPs, x corresponds to peak NM count increase in % during the event, a and b are the fitted parameters, the details are given in Table 5. Note, that the GCR contribution to the exposure is routinely computed with model(s), explicitly considering the solar activity, and shall be superposed with Equation (3) calculations.
Parameters of the best fit (Eq. (3)) of the distribution of the computed maximum effective rate due to GLE particles at the altitude of 35 kft a.s.l with the maximum NM increase during major GLEs (Table 2). Columns 3 and 4 depict the 95% confidence level of the parameters.
In this work a number of GLE events have been studied, where the necessary information was available. On the basis of the SEP rigidity spectra derived from NM records, the maximum effective dose rates at the aviation altitude of 35 kft during these events was calculated using a recently proposed model. A highly significant correlation between the maximum effective dose rate due to solar protons and the peak NM count rate increase was found. We propose to use the NM count rate increase as a proxy to assess the effective dose at a flight altitude. This makes it possible to obtain a quick estimate of the effective dose rate due to SEPs during GLE events on the basis of records from the global NM network, specifically the low cut-off rigidity stations (see Table 1 and Fig. 2).
Note, that in most cases, the GLE effective dose rate profile, consists of rapid rising at the event onset at initial phase, followed by a decay. Therefore, the peak effective dose rate is due mostly to the hard – prompt component. In addition, the most energetic solar protons from the prompt component arrive in the vicinity of Earth before the bulk of SEPs. Therefore, approximations of the dose rates for operational purposes can be achieved instantly (cf. Latocha et al., 2009). Hence, the global NM network can be used to assess an important space weather effect, namely the radiation exposure of aircrew due to high energy particles of solar origin.
This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (project 272157, Center of Excellence ReSoLVE) and VarSITI/SCOSTEP project. The authors are warmly thankful to Askar Ibragimov for the GLE database support. The authors acknowledge all the researchers, NM station managers and colleagues who collected the GLE records and performed data analysis. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that have contributed to improve this paper. The editor thanks Kyle Copeland and two anonymous referees for their assistance in evaluating this paper.
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Assessment of spectral and angular characteristics of sub-GLE events using the global neutron monitor network
Numerical model for computation of effective and ambient dose equivalent at flight altitudes — Application for dose assessment during GLEs
Retrospective analysis of GLEs and estimates of radiation risks
Preface to measurement, specification and forecasting of the Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) environment and Ground Level Enhancements (GLEs)
J. Space Weather Space Clim. 2019, 9, E1
The solar flare of the 14th of July 2000 (L3+C detector results)
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A Passover Question That Keeps Us Up All Night
Parashat Tzav
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
We can chart the last half century by the kinds of seder we have had. Fifty years ago, we celebrated an old-country model brought here by grandparents who davened it through in Hebrew from the Maxwell House Haggadah. Some of us remember it nostalgically, but in fact, we rarely got through it all. Attention lagged half way through. Color it in warm pastels of memory.
The next generation inherited the Seder without the old-country davening know-how. Unable to replicate the seder of their youth, and looking for something modern, the second-generation hosts bought new Haggadahs with up-to-date translations and explanations below the lines. They would go around the table inviting a different participant to read each paragraph of the English. This was even harder to sustain all the way through. After an hour, people quit and ate. Color it staid – and eventually, boring.
The most recent seder comes with fun and games: paper frogs and insects that get hurled around the table to elucidate the plagues, kiddy-style songs that confuse Passover for Purim, whatever it takes to appeal to the kids. Color it pediatric.
Baseball maivins this time of year will remember “Tinker to Evers to Chance,” the infielder combination for the Chicago Cubs who are credited with inventing the double play — guaranteed to end the opposing side’s chances for winning the game. The parallel double play in Jewish life is “nostalgia to boring to pediatric.” It will end our own chances for winning a game more important than baseball: the game of meaningful Judaism in America. Nostalgia, boredom and pediatrics have no staying power.
I am intrigued, therefore, by the seder that the Haggadah itself describes: rabbis so engrossed in the story of the Exodus that their students must interrupt them to say that morning has arrived. By the 1950s, so “ho-hum” had the seder become, that no one believed the account. Scholars suggested, therefore, that what kept them awake until dawn was clandestine planning for the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome. The idea appealed to a post-war generation that had successfully fought Arab armies to produce the State of Israel.
But the theory is sheer nonsense; not a shred of evidence supports it; and elsewhere in rabbinic literature, we have a parallel story of other rabbis, long before the revolt, staying awake all night to discuss matters relevant to Passover. Once upon a time, then, the seder was a time that mattered. Kol hamarbeh bi’tsiyat mitsrayim harei zeh m’shubach. “Discussing the Exodus from Egypt extensively is praiseworthy,” goes the Rabbis’ sage advice – not because of a rebellion in the making, but because there has to be something better than nostalgia, boredom and pediatric Judaism.
Is there still anything relevant to Passover that might keep us up all night in animated conversation? Obvious candidates are things like world poverty and health care for the poor, but I have in mind a prior stage of conversation: just the elementary question of whether there is a question! And there I go back to the four questions that have been similarly watered down from the seder’s original intent. Originally, there were no set questions that children memorized and parroted back. Instead, someone, not necessarily a child, would offer a single meritorious question that would fascinate enough to galvanize discussion. It would be invented on the spot, created out of the existential and historical moment. My question is, Why is there no such question any more?
In part, the problem is that our questions have grown too large to tackle. What more can we say about world poverty? Never mind health care, which even Congress cannot discuss without incivility setting in. No one wants to dedicate the seder to perennial quandaries that have no solution, especially when they come with political land mines planted underfoot.
But Passover is not for solving problems, so much as raising ideas. Whatever the Exodus was historically, it later became an idea, the idea that God wants freedom in politics, history, society, and our own internal psyches. Surely everyone around the table has something worth saying about that.
This week’s portion, tzav, falls on Shabbat Hagadol, just before the seder. It instructs us about the tamid, the regular daily sacrifice, which was necessary, says the commentator Matnot Or, to atone for the sin of d’varim batelim, “wasteful conversation.”
This year, let’s move beyond wasteful seder conversation dedicated solely to nostalgia, boredom and pediatrics. Let’s go around the table and ask, “What question might keep us up in productive conversation all night long, if necessary?” We’d better have one; we no longer have a tamid to atone for us, if we don’t.
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May 2 House Solo
Anyone I can find who will speak to me about this seems fairly sure that we only got a new Starwars movie yesterday. I remember liking it? The fact that we can experience and share this thing of ours again - for the first time - is a constant source of wonder. And now we get to run the Kessel with our favourite scoundrel in what’s suddenly become a matter of weeks.
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my dad turned the TV on after lunch and I was swept into a snowstorm on Hoth
Only this time, that scruffy lookin' nerf herder is even more baby faced. I’m not even complaining and have precisely no cares over how many parsecs it takes us. The fact that there may and must be three is only the gift that might keep on giving.
My most vivid memory - drawing only from back when my existence approximated eight full circuits of our sun - is that of a Sunday afternoon, lying on the living room carpet as my dad turned the TV on after lunch and I was swept into a snowstorm on Hoth: The guy was in trouble, there were weird ships and a space yeti and the sword - that was made of light, I should mention - jumped. into. his fucking. hand.
Mum walked in and (I am in no way paraphrasing and have total recall of this exact moment in time) said, “Oh, it’s Starwars. Aren’t there more of these?” And that was that.
Fun was had for time with that horde and I’m keenly aware of the trove’s continued existence somewhere in their attic.
I know every Starwars fan - every fan of every fannable thing ever - has their own version of this. Their own origin story. I also remember the day that we picked up a second hand (because I wish I was that old) bucket of Kenner’s ESB action figures, complete with a whole set of unknowables and a Mattel ROTJ ewok village. I can smell that school gymnasium now, where the ‘carboot’ sale occured. I can see the grey carpet, fold-away climbing bars and pommel horse. The worn crash mats still smell blue. I can feel the mystique and adventure that particular bucket promised. Fun was had for time with that horde and I’m keenly aware of the trove’s continued existence somewhere in their attic. I’ll climb into the rafters one of these days and you shall know where to find my bones.
The prop design in Starwars has always been a big thing for me. I have well and truly lost count of the hours I’ve spent ‘window shopping’ on Etsy for a DL-44. Luke or Han’s, I can’t decide and it may be even more iconic for me personally than The Falcon. And I have that tattooed on my god damned arm. There’s something about the whole thing - props, creatures, costume and set - that makes it feel very real for a part of my brain that has always desperately wanted it to be. I know I’m on well-trod ground here but it’s my thing too, as well as Rian’s and I can only be eternally grateful for that. He’s headed into a trio of tantalising, untouched territory and that shall have to be enough.
It feels lived in, slightly broken and very real. We immerse our bodies, minds and hearts and escape.
It must be to do with the permission to suspend disbelief. It feels lived in, slightly broken and very real. We immerse our bodies, minds and hearts and escape. We can examine ourselves in a context that - though fiction, where we are safe from harm or offence - feels real enough to throw our lives and interactions with one another into relief, whereby we might hold them at distance and know our nature, without fear of breaking the mirror.
Needless to say, ‘Empire’ was and remains today, my Joseph and his coat of multiple colours. It’s just the right amount of dark and Ford shines from within. The thing almost certainly didn’t write itself but, at times, feels thoroughly alive. I know, I know.
I would go to Dagobah and beyond to make you feel my love.
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Recent Alchemy..
Mama's Brownies
Andy was in the shop for a while not long ago, on his knees as though in twisted prayer, head firmly wedged behind the Rosita. Upon parting, he gifted me with this, the most sturdy of vintage box cameras. I’m not sure why I have inherited it but can only assume I have entered into some kind of pact with his unquiet god. That being the case, I see no reason to not source film for the thing and capture some souls.
He Who Does Bass made the initial introduction between myself and the band officially known as Savages. Their first album, ‘Silence Yourself’ is that kind of loud and originates from a corresponding layer of the Common Era. Jehnny Beth is a formidable lyrical and vocal driving force and the band’s general assertion that the record is to be played loud in the foreground is terribly good advice.
Altar o' The Fae
Lizard Rising
We should definitely talk about Johnny Marr. It should pretty evident to anyone who saw that set on Saturday, that Marr is the performer we all deserve and he behaves like it too, which is nice. Bullshit is not a compulsory component for ‘This Charming Man’ and it wasn’t present at Glastonbury.
Eclectic Omens
‘Electric Ladyland’ is a record that commands a certain respect from anyone who’s laid ears on it, which should be everyone but I continue to be surprised and delighted whenever I find a body that ain’t familiar with Hendrix’ wild and weird freakout of an album. It is also true that I am never sure what fucking speed this thing runs at and I could be correct at 33 or we could be in some really strange Jimi & The Chipmunks territory at 45.
An Elton Summer
People seem to be deeply in love with the new Toy Story and I am absolutely one of them. I did laugh, I may even have cried and I certainly felt as though my pennies were well spent and you should go and see this fucking film. Pixar are seminal wizards of the heart, they will get you in your feel place and as far as these characters go, I could not be more invested. Also, Keanu Reeves. Again!
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Oct 9 OddTube
Jan 31 AMST
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Three Movies, One Sunday
The Wellington leg of the New Zealand Film Festival 2016 ended last weekend so I was determined to suck up the last of film festival goodness. On Sunday, I saw three very different films to waive it off in true movie buff style.
From an American documentary about malicious cyber weapons at 11am to a Italian drama-dy at 6:15pm and then to a languid 'No Country for Old Men' style French flick at 8:30pm, these films - and the New Zealand International Film Festival 2016 - were one hell of a ride.
I am so excited I have been able to bring reviews to readers of this blog - Let me know if you have found these helpful in the comments below. You can read my other reviews here, here and here. You can also read my interview with two Wellington film-makers about their film Chronesthesia which was selected as part of the festival here.
I would like to be able to tell you that I did vigorous exercise in between movies. But I didn't - I might have lain in bed and watched House of Cards. Ahhh - modern life eh?
1. Zero Days
Summary: A zero-day (also known as zero-hour or 0-day) vulnerability is an undisclosed computer-software vulnerability that hackers can exploit to adversely affect computer programs, data, additional computers or a network. It is known as a "zero-day" because once the flaw becomes known, the software's author has zero days in which to plan and advise any mitigation against its exploitation (for example, by advising workarounds or by issuing patches).
This movie is about a particular malicious computer virus that was released onto the world by the US government to attack the Iranian nuclear program. It asks: Do we need to talk about Cyber Weapons? Why is everyone silent?
Overall rating : 3.5/5
How did I feel when I arrived? I had high expectations for this film after seeing director Alex Gibney's film in the festival last year 'Going Clear' (about Scientology). I was very excited to see this film, particularly because lately I've been enjoying lots of films about the internet, such as 'We are Legion'.
How long did it take to lose myself in the film? I found some of the film hard to follow because it is REALLY dense on some of the tech stuff. I would prefer it be explained rather than be glossed over but it is truly complicated shizzle.
What did I like/favourite scene? The first third of the film is harder going, but then the second and third section pick up the pace when the tech stuff is applied to real world.
What’s the takeaway? We need to talk about Cyber Weapons y'all.
Anything I didn’t like? Sometimes the film suffered from its own crux - no one is talking. It means sometimes the film can chase its tail somewhat. When on one is talking properly, it is hard to find a sense of closure about what should be done.
How did I feel when I left? A bit frustrated to be honest. I didn't LOVE this movie the way I did with 'Going Clear'. 'Going Clear' also was driven by interesting people, whereas this film sometimes felt a bit grey - like the public servants talking. While I found the film enjoyable, and would watch it again, it didn't feel like a complete picture - just pieces of code that didn't completely add up.
Ten words or less? Geek out on Government bringing Cyber Weapons to the party.
2. Perfect Strangers
Summary: Seven friends come together for a dinner party. They decide to play a game where they place their cell phones on the table throughout the entire meal to prove they have nothing to hide.
Overall rating? 5/5
How did I feel when I arrived? I had heard good things about this film so I was expecting a good watch. I was also stoked to see the same dashingly mature lead Italian actor from 'God Willing' in another role as a surgeon. Type-casting eh.
How long did it take to lose myself in the film? I was quickly immersed in the characters and their quirks. This film has enough twists and turns to keep you gripped from beginning to end, despite it all taking place in real time over the course of an evening. The result was an audience that laughed out loud and cringed openly with our amici Italiani.
What did I like/favourite scene? I don't want to answer this one because it will give the film away - and this is one film where it is best enjoyed like an Italian pasta dish - fresh, flavoursome and sensually.
What’s the takeaway? Keep your enemies close, keep your friends closer.
Anything I didn’t like? Someone complained about the ending but it didn't bother me at all. A flawless film in my eyes.
How did I feel when I left? Excited and talking quickly about the film.
Ten words or less? Don't try this at home.
3. The First, The Last
Summary: Two French Bounty Hunters are looking for a couple on the run with a cell phone. Along the way, the hunter becomes the hunted. Slow, stylish and with a strong flavour of High Noon country western.
How did I feel when I arrived? Still jazzy from 'Perfect Strangers' and it's quick, witty pace.
How long did it take to lose myself in the film? Quite a while - this film is a slow, long picture that doesn't really tell you very much about its key protagonists, or anyone really. Watch it if you like long, lingering action and a 'Waiting for Godot' like vibe.
What did I like/favourite scene? I loved the wide shots of the barren French countryside. I also enjoyed the ending of the movie. It had a satisfying conclusion, unlike 'Zero Days' (that's fiction for you though, 'innit).
What’s the takeaway? We're all getting old - but life can be embraced at any age.
Anything I didn’t like? Sometimes overly slow. You need to be comfortable about this film's languid pace. Not one to take a fidgeter to.
How did I feel when I left? Fine - nothing to write home about. Matt did not enjoy this film at all - he made it know. I was neither here nor there overall but admitted it would have been nice to have a bit more from the characters and a slightly more voluptuous plotline. I know, however, this was not the point of this movie.
Ten words or less? French Bounty Hunter's can be boring but stay awake - it pays off.
What was your favourite New Zealand International Film Festival Film? Let me know in the comments below.
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TORTURE IN THE OUTBACK
Aussie farmer chained up and raped Belgium backpacker in filthy pig pen after luring her with Gumtree ad
The British-born Aussie farmer who chained and raped a Belgium backpacker in his outback pig pen now faces deportation to the UK
By Samantha Lock
Updated: 2 May 2019, 14:43
AN Australian cattle farmer kidnapped and raped a European backpacker by chaining her to an old pig pen just metres from his family home.
Gene Charles Bristow, a 54-year-old father of four, lured the young woman to his outback farm by promising her temporary farm work over a Gumtree ad in February 2017.
Gene Charles Bristow is due to be sentenced for the horrific attackCredit: 7 News
He kept his victim chained up inside this filthy old pig penCredit: 7 News
Pictured are the chains he used to enslave herCredit: SA Police
He also threatened the woman with a gunCredit: SA Police
Bristow, who was born and raised in the UK before moving to Australia in the early 2000s, was due to be sentenced on Thursday but was hospitalised over a medical condition, forcing a court to delay his sentencing.
His lawyer has now claimed he could even be deported back to Britain after serving his sentence.
His 24-year-old victim, reportedly from Belgium, returned to Australia to give evidence against her attacker during his trial in March this year.
A South Australia District Court heard she was picked up from a bus stop and driven by Bristow to a farm in Meningie, 90 miles southeast of Adelaide.
It was here where she was chained and raped inside an old pig shed, just several hundred metres and out of sight of the home he shared with his family.
'HE TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME'
A victim impact statement read: "I was locked in chains, held against my will and had to endure things that nobody should have to endure.”
"He took everything from me.
"Not only did he take my clothes and belongings, but also my freedom, my mind, my family and my friends."
The unidentified woman told the court she managed to break free at one point and use her laptop to send messages to relatives and police.
Police then swarmed the area, alarming Bristow and leading to her release the following day.
In March this year, a jury found him guilty of six charges including aggravated kidnapping, indecent assault and rape.
Photos released by South Australia Police show the chains and ties Bristow used to shackle and detain the woman during her two-day ordeal.
BOUND AND TORTURED
Prosecutor Michael Foundas alleged that Bristow threatened to shoot the woman if she tried to escape, telling her he was involved in a kidnapping ring, the Adelaide Advertiser reported.
He told the court: "Her hands were cable tied at the back, she was chained at the legs, she was naked and he had a gun.
"He held her there, captive, chained up, naked in an old, dirty pig shed on a remote property in the middle of nowhere.
"The plan was to lure young female backpackers to his farm where the unlucky victim would be held against their will and sexually abused by him."
Following an investigation, police found cable ties, including one containing the DNA of Bristow and the victim, in a wheelie bin.
Bristow was convicted of one count of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of rape, two counts of indecent assault and one count of attempted rape.
During a pre-sentencing hearing on Thursday, defence lawyer Chris Weir said that although his client was born in the UK and had permanent Australian residency, he was not an Australian citizen.
BONES RIDDLE
Body parts found in septic tank at home of farmer whose wife vanished in 1982
Mr Weir said: "What is likely to happen at the end of this man's non-parole period is that he will be taken into the custody of immigration and then likely to be ultimately deported back to the United Kingdom."
Judge Geraldine Davison adjourned the hearing until May 14.
Pictured is the filthy bed where she was kept captiveCredit: SA Police
Her ordeal only ended when cops swarmed the area and he panicked and released herCredit: SA Police
The woman was lured to the farm under the promise of workCredit: SA Police
The British-born farmer could yet be deported to the UKCredit: SA Police
The rapist moved to Australia in the early 2000sCredit: SA Police
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Exeter battle past Saracens to extend lead at the top
Exeter 24 Saracens 12
March 4 2018, 6:00pm, The Sunday Times
Dollman went over in the first half to put Exeter en route to victoryDavid Rogers/Getty Images
Exeter go further ahead at the top then. It was no classic, but nobody ever expected it to be, given that neither side has been in vintage form of late and Saracens in particular were shorn of some 18 players.
But it was still an impressive and hugely valuable victory for the Chiefs, for whom hooker Luke Cowan-Dickie was magnificent up front, 21-year-old Joe Simmonds was a revelation in only his second start at fly half, while his brother Sam produced a neat cameo at the end. Henry Slade was all class and Nic White all control at scrum-half.
Saracens won the toss and elected to play into the wind. And they found themselves 9-0 down thanks to three penalties from Simmonds, the fly half,…
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
University Lecturer
colonial warfare
counter-insurgency
peace operations
war studies
Dr. T.W. Brocades Zaalberg
t.w.brocades@hum.leidenuniv.nl
As a military historian I teach and write on colonial warfare, counter-insurgency and peace operations. Currently I am coordinating a theme group at the Netherlands Insitute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) that compares extreme violence during the wars of decolonization. I have studied at the University of Groningen and Trinity College Dublin and earned my PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2005. Before joining Leiden University I worked at Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) in The Hague. My other half-time position is as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda.
More information about Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
My research concentrates on the nexus between the military and civil authorities in crisis and conflict. On this topic I have authored Soldiers and Civil Power and co-authored A Gentle Occupation: Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005. As an editor and author I also contribute to the volumes on overseas military operations in the NIMH-series The Military History of the Netherlands. Another book I co-authored is American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies: US Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949.
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Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2017), The Snake Oil of Stabilisation? Explaining the Rise and Demise of the Comprehensive Approach. In: Winning Without Killing. The Strategic and Operational Utility of Non-Kinetic Capabilities in Crises. Netherlands annual review of military studies no. 2017 The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press. 67-89.book chapter
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2013), The Pitfalls of Cross-National Comparison in Conflict Research, Journal of Strategic Studies 36(6): 907-912.article in journal
Knaap G., Heijer H. den, Jong M. (Authors), Brocades Zaalberg T.W. & Groen P. (Eds.) (2015), Oorlogen Overzee. Militair Optreden door Compagnie en Staat buiten Europa 1595-1814. Amsterdam: Boom.editorship of book
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2015), The Use and Abuse of the ‘Dutch Approach’ to Counter-Insurgency, Journal of Strategic Studies 36(6): 867-897.article in journal
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. & Cate A.B. ten (2014), A Gentle Occupation. Dutch Military Operations in Iraq, 2003-2005. Leiden: Leiden University Press.book
Chiari B., Labanca N., Brocades Zaalberg T.W. & Schoenmaker B. (Eds.) (2014), From Venus to Mars? Provincial Reconstruction Teams and the European Military Experience in Afghanistan, 2001–2014. Freiburg i.Br., Berlin and Vienna: Rombach Verlag.editorship of book
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2014), In de Oost. In: Schoenmaker B. (Ed.) Tweehonderd jaar Koninklijke Landmacht, 1814-2014. Amsterdam: Boom. 138-159.book chapter
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2013), The Civil and Military Dimensions of Dutch Counter-Insurgency on Java, 1947-1949, British Journal for Military History 1(2): 67-83.article in journal
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. & Cate A. ten (2012), A Gentle Occupation. Unravelling the Dutch approach in Iraq, 2003-2005, Small Wars and Insurgencies 23(1): 117-143.article in journal
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2012), Counter-Insurgency and Peace Operations. In: Rich P.B., Duyvesteyn I. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency. Routledge Handbooks Oxford and New York. 80-98.book chapter
Brocades Zaalbert T.W. (2010), De nasleep van Somalië, Rwanda en Srebrenica: overeenkomsten en verschillen, BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 125(1): 39-47.article in journal
Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2005), Soldiers and Civil Power: Supporting and Substituting Civil Authorities in Modern Peace Operations. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.book
Gouda F. & Brocades Zaalberg T.W. (2002), American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies / Indonesia: U.S. Foreign Policy and Indonesian Nationalism, 1920-1949. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.book
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Colonial and Global History 1200-present
Colonial and Global History (MA)
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Joe Jonas Throws a Whole Cake Into a Concertgoer’s Face Because He Can
By Erin Crabtree
Joe Jonas attends AOL Build Series at AOL HQ on November 18, 2016 in New York City. Jenny Anderson/WireImage
Cake isn’t always by the ocean! Joe Jonas, popularizer of putting the beloved dessert in places it would not typically be found, threw an entire sheet cake in a concertgoer’s face just for fun.
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The “Cake by the Ocean” singer, 29, tossed the massive pastry at a man who was ready and waiting with his mouth open at the front of the stage. The cake made perfect contact, slamming into his face with extreme precision.
🎂 🎂 🎂 thank you @steveaoki for showing me how it’s really done! @DaveGrutman legendary night. pic.twitter.com/dS1jSd4hZ3
— J O E J O N A S (@joejonas) March 28, 2019
“Thank you @steveaoki for showing me how it’s really done!” Jonas captioned a Twitter video of the incident on Thursday, March 28. “@DaveGrutman legendary night.”
The Jonas Brothers — including Kevin and Nick — have been in Miami with Sophie Turner and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The recently reunited band were “shooting something” in Florida, the 26-year-old “Jealous” crooner revealed via Twitter on Sunday, March 24. Some speculated that the siblings were filming a new music video.
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The group was spotted in beach gear while lounging poolside and cuddling with their significant others. Kevin’s wife, Danielle Jonas, and the couple’s two daughters, Alena, 5, and Valentina, 2, were noticeably absent from the family vacation.
Turner, 23, and Chopra Jonas, 36, later hung out with the brothers during a day off in Miami. The actresses rode Jet Skis and danced along to the band’s highly successful comeback single, “Sucker.”
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In addition, the Game of Thrones star and fiancé Joe, who got engaged in October 2017, flirted with each other on Instagram on Wednesday, March 27. “Apparently it’s #JoeDay so here’s my favorite Joe of them all. My Joe,” she captioned a sweet Instagram Story photo of the DNCE member on a yacht.
Joe quickly gave her an equally sentimental shout-out, writing on his Instagram Story: “Checking u out tho.”
Us Weekly reported in November 2018 that the couple are set to wed in France this summer.
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Cubs Collude to Luck?
The big story for MLB off-seasons the last few years has been a possible owner/GM collusion to drive down the prices of some of the top free agents. Money has still been thrown around but it takes quite awhile for the bank to open up. Chicago ‘benefited’ a few years ago by getting Yu Darvish at a reduced price. (benefited is in quotes because Darvish has been a mixed bag even if it’s at a cheaper price)
After Mr. Ricketts came out and very simply said there was no money to add to a team that fell flat to end the season, the message to the team and fans had to be mixed. There were definitely tons of injuries so a bounce back was fair to expect but Maddon is still a lame duck and nothing was really done to improve a bullpen that the skipper clearly didn’t trust.
Brandon Morrow injured, Carl Edwards Jr. having to change his mechanics, who knows with Tyler Chatwood, management didn’t seem to be sending the message they were all in like the team nad fans were. In an age were power pens have been built by World Series champion after World Series champion to shorten the game Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer seemed to be sending the message to Maddon 'You figure it out.'Some times it’s better to be lucky than good and Epstein lucked out in a big way when Craig Kimbrel didn’t sign with another team until the draft pick compen
sation tied to him expired. Another round of free agency collusion? Kimbrel is well on his way to a Hall of Fame career as one of the best closers to ever do it, and the Cubs got him.
Reports have surfaced that the third year of the three year 43 million dollar deal scared off some potential suitors because of the second half stats for Kimbrel last year, not to mention how wild he was in the post season. Still he was the closer for a World Series champion and the track record and stuff speak for itself. Kimbrel still had a 2.74 ERA, 42 saves with 96 strikeouts in 62.1 innings last season.The one true weakness the Cubs had was the bull pen and they addressed that in a big way. Morrow is supposed to be back at some point and now will slide in to
the eighth inning to extend the Cubs pen. After fans were scratching their heads a little bit after being told let’s just run this back and see what happens. Chicago didn’t have the farm system to compete with other contenders when it came to the bullpen market, so if this team was serious about competing with a championship then this needed to happen.
This was a necessary move but the front office still gets credit for going after Kimbrel and making it happen. When it’s just money then the decision for a team competing for a World Series should almost be a no brainer, especially at that reduced of a price for a 30-year-old Hall of Fame closer. Was it some form of collusion or luck? Either way it’ll be nice to see 24 in the ninth.
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News Old - DO NOT USE - The Coast News Rancho Santa Fe
New salon raising funds for animals and foster teens
by Bianca Kaplanek December 3, 2009 July 20, 2015 030
SOLANA BEACH — Combine a wash, cut and blow dry with foster teens and animals in need and the result is the grand opening of Benten Salon at 107 S. Cedros Ave. in Solana Beach.
The fundraising event, set for Dec. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m., will feature live music, refreshments and a raffle with prizes donated by Belly Up, Wild Note Cafe, Oh My Goddess Boutique, Pluta Movement Therapy and Oxygen Medical Spa.
Proceeds from the raffle will benefit San Pasqual Academy and the San Diego Humane Society. The goal of the grand opening is to raise awareness of both organizations.
Donna Herrick, co-founder of San Pasqual, is a client of owner and stylist Kyoko Mori. “Through (Donna) I’ve learned so much about the organization,” Mori said. “I wanted to do something to help. And everyone who knows me knows how much I care about animals.”
San Pasqual Academy, which opened in 2001, is a first-in-the-nation residential education campus designed for foster teens. Located in Escondido, it provides foster teens with a stable, caring home, individualized education and the skills needed for independent living.
The 238-acre campus features individual family-style homes, an accredited high school, a computer for each youth in the homes, a cafeteria, a technology and career information center, recreation fields and a swimming pool. Teens live and learn at the academy as they prepare for college and a career path. More information is available at sanpasqualacademy.org.
Serving the county since 1880, the San Diego Humane Society provides services such as animal sheltering and adoption, adult and youth education programs and positive reinforcement behavior training. The organization also investigates animal cruelty and neglect, rescues animals in emergency situations and provides sharing animals through pet-assisted therapy.
Visit sdhumane.org for more information.
Anyone attending the grand opening may bring items from the Humane Society’s Toys for Pups wish list posted at sdhumane.org/ site/PageServer?pagename=don_WishList. The salon will continue collecting wish-list items until Dec. 15.
Call Benten at (858) 720-0220 for more information about the salon.
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Creativity, Cultural Development, Events, Fashion, Society & Style, Historic Costume, Social History May 31, 2019
Mary Quant – Lights, Camera, Action, Mini Skirts are Back!
By Carolyn McDowall
Mini Skirts are Back, is the message sent; Londoners are celebrating the fashionable style of one of their own rock star sixties designers Mary Quant at the V&A
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The Last Knight: The Art, Armor and Ambition of Maximilian 1
An exhibition focusing on the critical role armor played in the life & ambitions of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519), will open at The Met in October
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Rocketman: Surmounting Complexities & Contradictions of Life
ROCKETMAN is irresistible more than a foot stomping musical fantasy it is about those events which challenge every particle of our being when the chips are down
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Animated by the ‘spirit of the age, 50 Australian and International dealers and retailers will offer their wares at The Sydney Fair, May 30 – June 2 at Randwick
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Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift: Haute Couture at NGV
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The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated at The Met
Written c1000 at the imperial court in Japan by the Lady Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji has had a profound effect on the evolution of literature and romance
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Tapestry: Thousands of Threads Weaving the Story of Life
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Fashion: Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Garment Gift – On Show NGV
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Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams – V & A Museum, London
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams the exhibition will present a collection of 500 objects+ when it goes on display at V&A Museum, London, Feb 2 – July 14, 2019
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The Favourite – A Witty, Wicked, Wondrous, Very Naughty Romp
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Outlander: Series 4, Episode 2 – Freedom Comes at a Price
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Outlander, Series 4 – America, a Land of Hope and Promise?
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Melbourne Cup Australia – The Horse In Flight, Art and Life
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Jewelry: The Body Transformed – The Met New York
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NIDA: 60th Anniversary 2019, Passion for Art of Performance
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AA&ADA Antique Fair, Sydney, 2018 – Art, Design and Living
Members of the Australian Antique & Art Dealers Association August 16 – 19 in Sydney will present a wondrous array of art, antiques, design & jewellery for sale
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nightlife Sept. 6, 2016
Drake’s New Nightclub Will Objectify Women But Like, Lovingly
By Anna Silman
Photo: Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images
Drake, a very nice boy who really loves strip clubs, announced Monday that he is opening a Houston nightclub called “the Ballet,” which will “celebrate the culture of dancing” in Houston. But even though it sounds an awful lot like a strip club, please don’t call it a strip club.
“There’s a culture out there of dancing and it’s not about no strip-club shit,” Drake explained in a video. “It’s about these amazing women that we’ve got in one spot, the music that we’ve got, and the Houston culture that we got. I just wanna let you know that I’m going to bring it to you in the most honest and genuine way possible.”
In an Instagram post, Drake again reiterated that the Ballet would be a “different take” on Houston nightlife, “where the women are on a pedestal, and the surroundings are unforgettable.”
Tonight is a different take on how it should be done in Houston. Treat yourself don't cheat yourself. Where the women are on a pedestal and the surroundings are unforgettable. The Ballet pop up tonight for HAW. Grand opening early 2017. 😇 #HelloWorld
A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Sep 5, 2016 at 9:06pm PDT
Date night is going to be lit.
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Spring Chinook Salmon. Photo courtesy Michael Humling, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Fisheries Department announces chinook fishing restrictions in B.C.
Urgent protection measures include the closure of a commercial fishery involving seven endangered stock
The federal government has announced commercial and recreational fishing restrictions in British Columbia as a way to conserve chinook salmon returning to the Fraser River this season.
The Fisheries Department’s regional director general Rebecca Reid says urgent protection measures include the closure of a commercial fishery involving seven endangered stocks.
Reid says an independent committee of wildlife experts and scientists conducted an assessment last November and determined seven chinook populations on the Fraser River are endangered, four are threatened and one is of special concern.
One area salmon was considered not at risk while three others were not assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
Reid says harvest management measures alone won’t deal with declining numbers of chinook in recent years due to multiple factors including warming waters because of climate change and destruction of habitat that must be rebuilt.
She says last year’s catch reduction by one-third to limit pressure on the stocks was not enough and the decrease in chinook also affects southern resident killer whales that depend on the salmon as their preferred prey.
Reid told reporters during a conference call on Tuesday that Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a five-year plan to manage chinook and is committed to working with the B.C. government.
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“Collaboration with the B.C. government, Indigenous groups and stakeholders is a cornerstone of the implementation plan,” she says, adding the department will also consult with the province on land and water-use policies that impact critical habitat.
“Community advisers and DFO work alongside the stewardship community, building partnerships with the community to support salmon and salmon protection and education activities at the local level across British Columbia.”
Regional resource manager Jeff Grout says protection measures for the commercial sector in the northern community of Haida Gwaii mean no retention of chinook until August 20, a delay of about two months from the normal start of that fishery.
Nicole Gallant, chief of enforcement operations for the department’s Pacific region, says 140 fisheries officers will be conducting patrols by land, air and water in order to monitor compliance.
She urges the public to report poachers.
The department says it will work with recreational and fish harvesters to look for additional fishing opportunities for stocks such as coho and halibut.
Other limitations include:
On the west coast of Vancouver Island, the troll fishery that typically starts in May has been closed until August 1 to allow stocks of high concern to migrate there.
A small fishery that harvests chinook for sale in Kamloops Lake has been closed for the season.
A mix of management measures in the recreational sector on the west coast of Vancouver Island mean chinook can be retained starting this week and until July 14, after which there will be a return to the normal limit of two chinook a day.
In the southern Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, measures to protect chinook stocks of concern will include no retention of the salmon until July 31 before one chinook a day will be allowed in August, followed by an increase to two chinook daily.
For the recreational fishery in the Fraser River, no fishing for chinook will be allowed until late August and then no chinook can be retained for the season.
No new measures have been announced for the northern B.C. recreational sector, where the normal limit is two chinook per day.
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Unite asks barrister to examine worker blacklisting collusion claims
Union chief Len McCluskey instructs barrister to compile report on claims that officials passed information to blacklisters
Rob Evans
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Tue 29 Aug 2017 07.17 EDT Last modified on Fri 23 Mar 2018 11.39 EDT
The move by Len McCluskey follows calls by blacklisted workers to set up an independent inquiry into the alleged collusion. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters
Britain’s biggest trade union has commissioned a barrister to examine allegations that union officials colluded with a covert blacklisting operation financed by major firms to prevent certain workers from being employed.
The move has been ordered by the head of Unite, Len McCluskey, and follows calls by blacklisted workers to set up an independent inquiry into the claims of collusion, which is alleged to have spanned at least 20 years to 2009.
The barrister is to scrutinise documents that were disclosed in a high court lawsuit that led to construction firms apologising and paying compensation amounting to around £75m to 771 blacklisted workers.
Some documents appeared to show that trade union officials had passed information to the blacklisters, including private warnings not to hire specific workers they deemed to be politically awkward. Individual workers were labelled “militant” or a “troublemaker” by union officials, according to the files.
In signed statements, managers who ran the blacklist alleged that union officials wanted to prevent disruption on industrial sites and helped to deny jobs to some of their own members.
In an internal letter to colleagues, McCluskey, Unite’s general secretary, said: “There have recently been calls for us to consider all documents in the high court litigation to see if there is any evidence of officer collusion in blacklisting. I have committed to undertaking that review.”
Union officials face allegations of collusion over blacklisted workers
He added that he had instructed an unnamed barrister from Doughty Street Chambers, a London firm specialising in human rights, to review the documents and compile a report. “If there is any evidence arising from the documents, it will be acted upon,” he said.
The documents disclosed during the high court case detail how more than 40 construction firms stored confidential files on more than 3,200 workers, recording their political and employment histories.
Managers consulted the files and denied work to individuals, often for long periods, whom they considered to be active trade unionists or troublemakers. The workers, some of whom campaigned for improved health and safety on construction sites, were not told why they had been refused work.
Man behind illegal blacklist snooped on workers for 30 years
The blacklisting operation, which drew on files going back to the 1970s, was declared to be unlawful following a raid in 2009 by a watchdog, the information commissioner.
More than 40 blacklisted workers have pressed for an inquiry as they believe the allegations amount to a “running sore” for the trade union movement.
Dave Smith, their spokesman, said: ”This announcement is a welcome first step at the beginning of the process. I have already seen many of the documents and the report will undoubtedly find that there is some evidence of potential collusion.”
“The question is how much weight you give to the documentary evidence, which is precisely why we will need an independent investigation, which hears from both the officials and the blacklisted union members.”
Alan Wainwright, a former construction industry manager who helped blow the whistle on the blacklisting, has been highlighting the alleged collusion for more than a decade. “I have been ignored. This latest step goes absolutely nowhere near enough for what needs to happen,” he said.
In the legal documents, Dudley Barratt, a manager involved in running the blacklist, said officials in a number of trade unions would “occasionally tell me names of individuals who they thought should not be employed on sites” as they might undermine the firm and the official trade union activities.
Another manager, Daniel O’Sullivan, said union officials passed on information about individuals as they were “concerned to prevent unnecessary disruption on site”. Some of the allegations relate to previous trade unions that have been absorbed into Unite.
Many of the blacklisted workers won compensation last year after their legal action was funded by Unite and other unions. Unite is currently backing 70 more workers who are taking legal action.
A Unite spokesperson said: “Arrangements are being made for an inquiry, but we are not in a position to go into its detail as we do not wish to undermine its integrity or prejudice its outcome.”
Len McCluskey
Unite to investigate claims of collusion with construction blacklist
Allegations focus on union officials passing information to bosses about potential ‘troublemakers’
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Out of court settlement means construction companies have paid out £35m to 1,200 workers
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Union launches new legal action over blacklisting of builders
Unite case names four men who chaired organisation that monitored construction workers and follows £10m payout last year
MPs condemn award of Big Ben contract to firm that blacklisted workers
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Observer TV reviews
Rewind TV: Mayday; Broadchurch; Parks and Recreation – review
Just about everyone was a prime suspect in the BBC's inventive five-part whodunnit Mayday
Phil Hogan
Sat 9 Mar 2013 17.45 EST First published on Sat 9 Mar 2013 17.45 EST
Aidan Gillen, right, and Max Fowler in Mayday: 'Love and betrayal were more viscerally felt than revenge or justice.' Photograph: Colin Hutton/BBC
Mayday (BBC1) | iPlayer
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Lovers of TV crime drama rarely have to wait long for a child killing set in a small, inbred community of ordinary people with secrets up their sleeves, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised when two come at once. We were the more generously served by Mayday, which the BBC ran over five successive nights, partly in deference to binge-watching trends, but also, perhaps, because they felt they had something to flaunt. And maybe they did. It was engaging in a British (ie non-Scandinavian) way, pulling us into the darker currents of the story by way of some light humour over an obese dog. Why was he so fat? More exercise, suggested the vet. Lesley Manville was wonderful as the dog's owner, Gail, half-indignant, half-bewildered (her default setting for the next five nights), eyes narrowing as her mind widened to admit the possibility that her husband, Malcolm (Peter Firth), was lying about the purpose of his two-hour walks in the woods of an evening.
It would have mattered less had a 14-year-old girl not gone missing on her bike that bright morning, floating along in the familiar slow motion of the doomed – a fair Queen of the May in her floral crown and ribbons and diaphanous skirts a-blowing. And wasn't this the same Hattie whose protest group had scuppered Malcolm's plan to dig up the village green for an upscale housing estate and left him malicious, drinking too much and brooding over a scale model of the aborted project, complete with its tiny effigy of a girl hanging from a tree?
Clearly something was bothering him (Peter Firth has surely never smiled less, even in his 10 years of Spooks). Perhaps he had ambushed Hattie and buried her beneath his birdwatcher's hide in the woods (Malcolm was that rare creature, a ruthless despoiler of the environment with a fondness for wildlife).
Gail was worried. And she wasn't the only one. Alternative suspects started to pile up who were likewise richly garlanded with damning clues and ambiguous personal histories. Here was Alan, a police officer caught by his wife (Sophie Okonedo) acting suspiciously in a shower having arrived back from his shift spattered with blood; here an unhappy teenager, Linus (the impressive Max Fowler), finding his weird, sneering, video game-addicted father struggling to cram a body-shaped bag into the cupboard; Steve, a man with a self-administered haircut and history of aggression, was meanwhile going bonkers at his deranged brother Seth, who not only worshipped trees but was dressed like one when the girl was last glimpsed alive, screaming through the woods not far from the May Day parade with its ancestral jingling and prancing men and vacant willow throne.
This was the drama's selling point, a multiplicity of suspects as seen through the anxious eyes of their loved ones. In a sense, it eluded the conventions of a generic crime story (you could safely describe the police presence as largely ceremonial), its emotional centre shifting, rather, with the workings of vexatious marriages, friendships and parental relations. Love and betrayal were more viscerally felt than revenge or justice (despite the noise of vigilantes in the street), leaving the girl as little more than a whodunnit to be fathomed by Thursday. It gave us invention and flair and good acting throughout, but the denouement – which looked like a warning against last-minute packing, with stuff forgotten and bits of plot still sticking out of the sides – relied too much on pagan whimsy to satisfy those expecting a more orthodox arrangement of punishment and reward.
ITV's eight-part drama Broadchurch kicked off on a less fanciful note, with an 11-year-old boy found strangled at the foot of a cliff overlooking the sea. He was the son of Mark, who was the town's most popular plumber, judging by the number of people greeting him as he joshed his way down the high street in an unwitting homage to An American in Paris. Was he going to burst into song? He settled for tears – and authentic-looking ones – when he finally got the bad news (and even then he stopped to sign a petition to save the hospital), but could you trust him? He'd been out until the small hours the night before (when his son had vanished) – "on a job", as he tersely explained to his wife, as if no further explanation were necessary, because obviously plumbing is almost like being in the fire service.
The police were on top of things with the arrival of outsider David Tennant as charmless crosspatch DI Alec Hardy, who had something to prove, having recently buggered up his last murder case (though, oddly, it hadn't stopped him getting promotion at the expense of local favourite DS Ellie Miller (the splendid Olivia Colman), who of course also now had something to prove herself. But she was buggering up too, getting in a flap on account of being friends with the dead boy's family and then inadvertently tipping the wink to a local junior reporter (her nephew – yes, yes, it's a small town!), who also had something to prove, having just that morning been turned down for a job by the Daily Mail. It wasn't long before his tweet reached the ears of a Fleet Street hack (Vicky McClure), who duly turned up to sniff the air. Did she have something to prove? Perhaps just that journalists are wily and unscrupulous. She was soon sprouting horns. It's probably worth tuning in this week to see what sullen-looking Pauline Quirke was doing drinking tea near a caravan. I have a feeling she knows something.
BBC4 finally decided to buy the hit sitcom Parks and Recreation just five seasons after it started in the US. Amy Poehler is a gem as Leslie Knope, an enthusiastic local government officer who promises to get a park built on the site of a vacant lot (as they call holes in the ground over there) after someone broke their legs falling in. The show resembles The Office (it was made by the creators of the American version) insofar as it is filmed "mockumentary" style and has a deluded Gareth-like character (Tom) who thinks he can talk to women. It wasn't quite hilarious, but apparently there are format adjustments ahead that make it more so. As Leslie says: "Just dream with me for a second…"
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Democrat withdraws concession in North Carolina House race possibly tainted by election fraud
Democrat Dan McCready is withdrawing his concession in a North Carolina congressional race where investigators are probing allegations of election fraud.
McCready got 905 fewer votes than Republican Mark Harris in the 9th District race. But the state elections board has refused to certify the results as it investigates potential misconduct with absentee ballots, making it the last undecided House contest in the country. The board could ultimately order another election.
McCready had previously conceded the race to Harris, but withdrew that concession Thursday.
"I didn't serve overseas in the Marines to come home to NC and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people's very right to vote," McCready tweeted. "Today I withdraw my concession and call on Mark Harris to end his silence and tell us exactly what he knew, and when."
His reversal comes as the state elections board, as well as local and state prosecutors, investigate whether Leslie McCrae Dowless, a veteran operative in Bladen County who was hired by a consulting firm the Harris campaign paid $400,000, altered absentee ballots or collected them from voters but never turned them in.
Dowless earned more than $23,000 working on six campaigns dating back to 2010, and in most of those races, Dowless' candidates received a disproportionately higher percentage of absentee votes in Bladen County.
Dowless has not returned CNN's requests for comment. He has denied any wrongdoing to The Charlotte Observer.
Earlier Thursday, North Carolina Republican Party executive director Dallas Woodhouse told CNN he would support a new election if the elections board proves allegations of fraud are true and impacted the outcome of the race.
"We are not ready to call for a new election yet," Woodhouse said. "I think we have to let the board of elections come show their hand if they can show that this conceivably could have flipped the race in that neighborhood, we will absolutely support a new election."
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Indonesian students place in Asia-Pacific water rocket competition
Jakarta / Wed, November 16, 2016 / 05:40 pm
Indonesian state junior high and vocational school students win trophies at an Asia-Pacific water rocket competition in Los Banos, the Philippines, on Monday. (Shutterstock/File)
Two Indonesian students brought home trophies from an Asia-Pacific water rocket competition in Los Banos, the Philippines, on Sunday. The competition is part of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) or the 23rd assembly of institutes of aeronautics and space.
Bayu Dwi Tjahyono, a student of SMPN 5 state junior high school in Kebumen in Central Java, was awarded second place in the competition. Meanwhile, Alfian Pebriansyah from SMKN 4 state vocational school in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, placed third.
According to the official website of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), both students had previously won the water rocket competition at the regional and national level. Prior to going to the Philippines, they had received training on basic principles of creating water rockets by the institute's Rocket Technology Center Team (Pustekroket).
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Alfian Pebriansyah (center) from SMKN 4 state vocational school in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, who placed third at an Asia-Pacific water rocket competition receives an award at the competition's ceremony.(LAPAN/File)
“The winner of this year’s competition comes from Malaysia, while the [fan's] favorite winner is from Vietnam,” LAPAN spokesperson Mega Mardita told Antara news agency, adding that the institute hoped the competition would encourage Indonesian children to learn more about science, aeronautics and space.
The Asia-Pacific water rocket competition was established in 2005 for 12 to 16-year-old students. This year’s contest saw 54 students from 13 countries participating, which included Thailand, Japan, Singapore and Cambodia. The rockets were basically made from carbonated water bottles filled with water and were launched by enabling the right pressure and angle. (wir/kes)
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BLG’s summer of leave
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Chloe Hatzitolios - Oct 24
A man cited Trump’s ‘Access Hollywood’ tape as an excuse for groping a sleeping woman
Apparently ‘The Trump Defence’ is something we get to hear now.
It was only a matter of time until Donald Trump‘s disparaging comments about women were interpreted as a federal endorsement for treating women as lesser humans and sex objects. A Florida man used the president’s exact words as a defense this week for groping a sleeping woman on an airplane. According to police, the suspect told them, “the president of the United States says it’s OK to grab women by their private parts.”
Turns out the FBI will arrest you for groping a woman on an airplane even if you tell them that “the President of the United States says it’s ok to grab women by their private parts.” https://t.co/sVxK8eAdl7 pic.twitter.com/GumxAuIKQT
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) October 23, 2018
A woman told authorities Sunday that a man sitting behind her on a flight from Houston to Albuquerque touched her twice inappropriately. In a statement taken by police, the woman said she fell asleep about 20 minutes into the flight, but was awoken when she felt the man, identified as Bruce Alexander, reaching around her seat and touching her breast. She initially though the touch was accidental, but it continued even after she moved around in her seat, indicating to her it was “attentive.” She told the man she didn’t know why he thought that would be okay, and then asked to change seats.
Alexander was charged with abusive sexual contact, though in his written statement, he only admitted to remembering the woman speaking to him briefly before switching seats. It was in the car after being arrested by law enforcement that he brought up the words of the president from the infamous Access Hollywood tape.
You’ll recall the audio recording from the filming of an Access Hollywood featurette during which Trump told host Billy Bush that he likes to “just start kissing” women because “when you’re a star, they let you do it,” culminating in the much-quoted line, “Grab ’em by the p—y.”
This new “Trump Defense” has people talking about the importance of morality leadership.
the president of the United States. Leads like a thug. Not an example for children to aspire to emulate. How very sad. Children for the past 240 years looked at the president as an example of fine character. Now we have a president that Rapists admire. Welcome to Trumpian times
— vicki schmidtwallace (@SchmidtVicki) October 23, 2018
Nope. It was not okay for President Clinton to abuse his position either. This is not an either/or. Both are wrong.
— Chelsea Mellon (@ChelseaMellon1) October 23, 2018
No excuse for that kind of behaviour, and the guy should be convicted of the offense, but it does seem unfair to be held to a higher standard than the U.S. President.
Anna North: “Man accused of groping woman on airplane argues that Trump says it’s okay” https://t.co/W5xH4BiCws
— Ben Atkinson (@BenAtkinsonPhD) October 24, 2018
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Pilot Stops Flight to Allow Deported Refugees to Remain in Russia
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One of the two asylum seekers was contacted by refugee charity Civil Assistance as they boarded the plane at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, the Deutsche Welle news outlet reported Thursday.
A translator for the group told the cabin crew via telephone that the men wanted to leave the plane and would be in danger in their native country.
"Our translator told the stewardess there was real danger waiting for these men in Yemen,” Civic Assistance employee Yelena Burtin told Deutsche Welle. “She reported it to the pilot. Since there are rules against transporting people onboard against their will, the Yemenis were allowed to leave the plane and return to the airport," she said.
The refugee in question had filed an asylum application on Jan. 12. The man's request was denied on Jan. 16, but his lawyer claims that he was not informed of the decision. He now has the right to appeal the refusal.
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Air pollution is the new tobacco killing 7m people a year, warns WHO head
Air pollution is the 'new tobacco', the head of the World Health Organization has warned, saying the simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more.
Over 90% of the world’s population suffers toxic air and research is increasingly revealing the profound impacts on the health of people, especially children.
“The world has turned the corner on tobacco. Now it must do the same for the ‘new tobacco’ – the toxic air that billions breathe every day,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general.
“No one, rich or poor, can escape air pollution. It is a silent public health emergency.”
“Despite this epidemic of needless, preventable deaths and disability, a smog of complacency pervades the planet,” Tedros said, in an article published in The Guardian.
“This is a defining moment and we must scale up action to urgently respond to this challenge.”
The WHO is hosting its first global conference on air pollution and health in Geneva next week, including a high-level action day at which nations and cities are expected to make new commitments to cut air pollution.
Children and babies’ developing bodies are most at risk from toxic air, said Dr Maria Neira, WHO director for public health and the environment, with 300 million living in places where toxic fumes are six times above international guidelines.
“Air pollution is affecting all of us but children are the most vulnerable of all,” she said, noting the alarm among child health experts about the links between toxic air and respiratory diseases, cancer and damaged intelligence.
“We have to ask what are we doing to our children, and the answer I am afraid is shockingly clear: we are polluting their future, and this is very worrying for all us.”
Tedros said: “A clean and healthy environment is the single most important precondition for ensuring good health. By cleaning up the air we breathe, we can prevent or at least reduce some of the greatest health risks.”
The WHO is working with health professionals not only to help their patients, but also to give them the skills and evidence to advocate for health in policy decisions such as moving away from fossil-fuel-powered energy and transport.
“No person, group, city, country or region can solve the problem alone,” he said.
“We need strong commitments and actions from everyone.”
Globally, with smoking on the decline, air pollution now causes more deaths annually than tobacco.
However, researchers think the harm known to be caused by air pollution, such as heart attacks and lung disease, is only “the tip of the iceberg”.
The figure of 7 million early deaths is certain to be an underestimate, as it only includes particle pollution and the five most firmly linked causes of death.
Early estimates using improved models indicate a total figure of 9 million from particle pollution.
Picture taken while Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a press conference in 2017. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP
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Fast Current Changes Grass Game on Tennessee River
TVA lakes are known for their aquatic weeds — a.k.a. grass — a real attraction for bass and those who are out to catch them. Thanks to winter's rushing waters, the growth patterns have changed this year, leveling the playing field for amateurs and pros.
JUNE 19, 2019 — There’s a reason why the Tennessee River is a seasoned host of the Bassmaster Classic—it’s home to some of the nation’s top-ranked lakes. Chickamauga, Guntersville and Pickwick are legendary fishing ponds, arguably the best of the 49 reservoirs managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federal entity that controls current and lake levels to prevent flooding and promote recreation.
As summertime bass fishing heats up, professional and amateur anglers alike look to capitalize on unprecedented weather trends that have affected the river chain’s 11,000 miles of shoreline and 650,000-acre fishery. Bass are chasing the grass, vacating traditional feeding grounds and congregating in areas of new growth.
“This spring we did a lot of scouting and noticed a lot of the traditional aquatic plant beds were gone. This is not necessarily bad, just a change,” says TVA’s aquatic plant biologist, Stephen Turner. “For each bed we couldn’t find, there are likely two or three new ones that formed around fresh vegetation.”
TVA Reveals Secret Behind Vanishing Grass
The shakeup was caused by months of record-breaking rain that drenched the Southeast throughout the winter and spring months. To prevent flooding that would have decimated cities and communities across the region, TVA stored over 3.5 trillion gallons of water behind its dams, averting an estimated $1.6 billion in flood damages. This amount of water would have been enough to supply drinking water to New York City for 10 years!
“Heavy currents uprooted a lot of grass on the channel throughout the winter months,” Turner says. “When you’re pulling that much current, the turbulence scours layers of river sediment and causes long-established plant beds to be swept away.”
According to Turner, the Tennessee River churned from Thanksgiving to Easter, looking like chocolate milk in a blender. The extended period of low water clarity delayed this year’s sprout by thwarting light penetration to new and established grass.
If you’re playing patterns, make a note. Muddy waters have put the grass game about three weeks behind normal.
Evasive Grass Ignites Herbicide Conspiracy
Most every spring there is a magical bass fishing window on the Tennessee River where the playing field is leveled. High-grade electronics and the latest bass-fishing technology give way to a few days of tradition, when a battery of Texas rigs are flipped into the yellow-top weeds, littered with wall-hangers.
Amateurs, professionals and weekend warriors plunder the shallows, looking to catch a stringer full of fat spawners. From Granny’s flat-bottom rivet leaker, to state-of-the-art fiberglass and all-welds, it’s a season when all vessels—or at least the opportunities—are created equal.
With one short cast after another, it’s about repetition and nature’s timing.
And when that repetitive, year-after-year dance between sprouting weeds and spawning bass doesn’t align due to a three-week delay, skunked anglers sometimes trump Mother Nature’s truths with sexier myths—TVA killed all the grass with herbicide!
“Anytime we have big changes on our reservoirs that involve aquatic weeds, conspiracy theorists on social media get a little excited,” says David Brewster, TVA Natural Resources manager. “I like reading a good whopper as much as anyone, but the fellow who saw his first bowfishing rig takes the cake. He claimed it was a TVA airboat using high-intensity light to secretly spray Agent Orange at night.”
According to Brewster, TVA only manages aquatic vegetation around developed public recreation areas, swim beaches and boat ramps. Boats treating weeds in other locations are hired by private homeowners—not TVA. The only exception is on Guntersville reservoir, where TVA is involved in a short-term special project with the Guntersville Stakeholder Group to manage shorelines fronting private and commercial properties. The various states in the Tennessee Valley handle permits, monitoring and oversight.
“I would compare the areas of nuisance aquatic plants we manage to a postage-stamp-size spot on a football field,” Brewster says. “We limit treatment to these small pockets to allow everyone easy access to our reservoirs.
“Aquatic plant management is not a do-it-yourself project,” emphasizes Brewster. “It is illegal in the state of Tennessee to apply aquatic plant herbicides unless it’s done by a licensed and certified applicator. While each state’s laws are different, we can all agree that we only want people who know what they’re doing to manage these plants. This protects the environment and all of us.”
Brewster believes aquatic weeds are what makes the Tennessee River chain one of the best fisheries in the nation, generating $12 billion in recreation annually while supporting over 130,000 jobs.
“Millions of people depend on this river, and wiping out major revenue streams for the folks and local economies we serve would be self-defeating,” Brewster says. “Bottom line: there is no conspiracy to kill weeds on the Tennessee River. This year’s grass changeup is all about the weather.”
In other words, find the new growth on the summer ambush points, and you’ll find the fish. It’s that simple.
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5 reasons why the last few uncomfortable weeks of pregnancy are worth it
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Ready to post an eviction notice? Here's what your baby is doing in there during weeks 37 to 40 (and beyond!) of your pregnancy.
By Bonnie Schiedel | May 19, 2017
Cheryl Madden knows a thing or two about those last few frustrating ready-to-pop weeks of pregnancy. Her first two kids, daughter Addison (now six) and son Paxton (now four), were content to stay where they were for a full 10 or 11 days past their due dates. While Madden didn’t love the late-term heartburn, she was pretty philosophical about it all. “My attitude was they were where they needed to be, and they would come out when they were ready,” says the Winnipeg mom.
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Madden’s take is the popular one. “There is a body of evidence and literature that shows there is very important development, particularly brain development, that happens in the last few weeks of pregnancy, and it happens better in the uterus than outside,” says George Carson, an OB/GYN in Regina. “When I’m talking to my patients, I say pregnancy is like baking: You don’t want to take the baby out until he or she is done.” He adds that although Canadian guidelines are less clear-cut than those in the US, in practice, “done” or full-term is considered to be 39 weeks or beyond, assuming a normal pregnancy in which both the mom and the baby are safe and healthy. (The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists changed its definition of a full-term baby from 37 weeks to 39 in 2013.) If your labour starts naturally at 37 or 38 weeks, don’t fret: In a typical pregnancy, it just means your baby is ready to be born. (If you have a condition like pre-eclampsia or significant bleeding during pregnancy, an induction or C-section could happen before 39 weeks.)
To help keep you motivated while you wait, here are five amazing things your baby is doing late in your pregnancy.
1. Growing a bigger brain
A baby’sbrain almost doubles in size between 35 and 39 weeks. During the final stages of pregnancy, your baby is forming brain connections and pathways that are important for learning, movement and coordination after she’s born.
2. Developing better lungs
“The thinking used to be that lungs were fully developed by 37 weeks, but now there’s research to show this development is still continuing until birth and beyond,” says Shâdé Chatrath, a registered midwife in Toronto. Between weeks 24 and 28, your baby produces a substance called surfactant, which prevents the air sacs in his lungs from sticking together once he takes that first gulp of air. A University of Buffalo study of 30,000 births found that babies born at 37 to 38 weeks were twice as likely to need help breathing through ventilation and a dose of surfactant compared with babies born at 39 to 41 weeks. (Babies born before 37 weeks are usually given surfactant through a ventilator to get it to their lungs.)
3. Fine-tuning the liver
Like the lungs and the brain, the liver develops up to 39 weeks. One of the liver’s big jobs is to filter out a substance called bilirubin (pigment from red blood cells) from the baby’s bloodstream. Babies born before 38 weeks may not be able to process bilirubin as quickly as full-term babies, putting them at higher risk for jaundice after birth.
4. Losing body hair and making poop
The fine, downy hair that covers babies in utero is called lanugo, and it helps vernix (a creamy or waxy white substance) stick, keeping them warm and protecting their skin from amniotic fluid while they’re inside. Many babies shed much of the hair into the amniotic fluid shortly before birth. And yes, your baby is constantly swallowing that fluid, which also contains bile, waste products and cells that have been shed. Those many gulps end up in his intestines, where it becomes meconium, a newborn’s dark, tar-like first bowel movement.
5. Plumping up
At week 35, your baby gains about half a pound a week. This layer of fat helps him keep warm after he’s born. His chest becomes more formed and prominent, and in boys, testicles continue to descend.
If Chatrath’s clients are feeling “over it” in the final weeks of pregnancy, she reminds them to trust their bodies and why it’s important for the baby to cook a little longer. The happy result: “Women feel more empowered and confident in their bodies’ abilities to grow and deliver babies safely.”
A 2015 study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation conducted by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre in Texas suggests that as a baby’s lungs develop, they release two proteins into the amniotic fluid. These proteins trigger an inflammatory response in the uterus that kicks off labour. That’s right: In a lot of deliveries, baby likely does decide when it’s go time.
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Sonos Play:5: Sound Centerpiece
Who needs a stereo? With great sound and an easy-to-use app, the Sonos Play:5 makes a strong case for being the center of your home audio universe.
By Michael Gowan 2016-01-25T19:34:02Z Sonos
Well-balanced bass and treble
Room-filling sound
Supports multiroom audio through additional Sonos speakers
Works with most streaming services
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Proprietary system — can only use with other Sonos speakers
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Finding a wireless replacement for your good old stereo system is harder than it seems, because few wireless options can match the features and sound quality of a receiver plus wired speakers. Of the many that have tried, Sonos is one of the few that has produced a system that is both easy to use and a pleasure to listen to. Its latest model, the $500 Play:5, is the best of the Sonos lineup for listening to music, and is loud enough to fill a large room. If you’re looking to replace your wired sound system, here's where to start.
For a speaker that produces big sound, the 14 x 8 x 6-inch Play:5 doesn't take up much space. Inside, Sonos packed three tweeters and three mid-woofers, each with its own amplifier. By comparison, Denon's 18.9 x 8 x 6.5-inch Heos 7 — its largest in the Heos multiroom line — features five active drivers and five amplifiers, and the 16.6 x 6.1 x 4.25 Wren V5US, which supports Play-Fi (a multiroom audio technology developed by DTS), has two tweeters and three woofers.
Available in black or white, the Play:5 is a minimalist’s dream on the outside. On top, three touch-sensitive buttons control playback: swipe right to advance to the next song, swipe left to go back. Tap the play button to pause or resume. I found these basic functions useful to have on the speaker, as I didn't have to take my phone out to briefly pause a song. These controls are especially handy if you're playing music that's stored on a computer in another room.
On the back, the Play:5 includes a 3.5mm wired input and a button to initiate the connection to your Wi-Fi network. There's an Ethernet port if you prefer wired connectivity — which could come in handy if you're streaming large, CD-quality files or have weak Wi-Fi.
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The Play:5 delivers the best all-around performance of any wireless speaker in its price range. It produces a well-balanced sound, composed of crisp treble, rich bass and full vocals.
On David Bowie's "Blackstar," the Sonos translated the deep bass with excellent detail, and the snare drum popped crisply. Adele's voice resonated fully on "Hello," neither too bright nor too bassy.
The sound profile works well for all genres of music. Jimmy Page's distorted guitar riff on Led Zeppelin's "Custard Pie" didn't overpower John Paul Jones' bass line or John Bonham's drum beat. Miles Davis' muted trumpet on "Blue in Green" was clear but not too bright, while the piano and bass had a balance in the mix that many wireless speakers can't manage.
The Play:5's design is a minimalist’s dream.
The Play:5 packs enough power to be heard throughout a large room. At max volume, I measured 94 decibels, though it started to sound distorted above 90 dbs — still plenty loud.
Since Sonos uses Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth for wireless, I never ran into any range issues — the connection remained strong no matter where I was in my house, even on different floors. Wi-Fi also lets you stream higher-quality files, making the songs sound that much better.
Multiroom capabilities
The Play:5 can be used on its own, but it really shines when paired with other Sonos units. The Sonos app can group together with other Sonos speakers so you can play the same song on speakers throughout the house (or different songs, if you choose). Several companies have tried multiroom systems, but none have mastered it to the level that Sonos has. The app makes it easy to group speakers — just select the ones you want to play together, then choose music to play.
The Play:5 can be used on its own, but it really shines when paired with other Sonos units.
You can also use your Sonos speakers to create a true 5.1 home theater setup, though the Play:5 is an awkward fit in that setup. You need to use the Sonos Playbar ($699) as the center, left and right channels, which means you would use two Play:5s as the surround channels. But that would be overkill. Play:1s ($199) or Play:3s ($299) would work just fine for most people in that role.
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Setup and Software
While some multiroom wireless speakers can be a pain to set up, Sonos makes it easy. You'll need to download the free app for iOS or Android, or use its free software for Mac or Windows. I used the iOS app.
When you first launch the app, choose "Setup New System"; if you have a Sonos and are adding an additional unit, go into Settings and tap "Add a Player or SUB." The app walks you through a few steps. I added the Play:5 in a few seconds.
The Sonos app offers a number of functions that aren't common among wireless speakers, and that can improve the sound quality. TruePlay uses your phone's microphone to adapt the sound to your room's settings, similar to the way many current audio-video receivers will. I didn't notice a significant difference after using the tool, however. The app also features an EQ to boost bass and treble.
All music playback is handled through the Sonos app. It can play any music on your phone or computer, as well as stream from almost every music service -- including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pandora. The Sonos app will also search all your music sources at once: A search for David Bowie showed options in Spotify and Apple Music. You can also integrate music from a streaming service with your own library by creating a queue that includes songs from both. This helps overcome gaps in a streaming catalog.
The Play:5 can easily replace most wired stereo systems, and comes with the option of adding additional Sonos speakers for multiroom sound. It's easy to use and produces balanced and detailed sound for all music genres.
There are a few shortcomings worth considering: It works with most music services, but if yours isn't supported, there's no Bluetooth option. And if you want multiroom, you have to buy another Sonos speaker — unlike speakers that support PlayFi, such as ones from Definitive and Polk.
If you're looking to get into high-quality wireless sound, the Play:5 is a great place to start. And if you already have a Sonos setup, it will only improve on what you hear now.
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History, Society & Culture
Student-created “G-spot of Europe” campaign attracts curiosity towards Vilnius
10 August 2018 , by Juuso Järviniemi
View of the front page of the campaign website, vilniusgspot.com. Image used with permission from Go Vilnius.
“Nobody knows where it is, but when you find it - it’s amazing.” Thanks to one clever pun and a striking image, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius has become the G-spot of Europe. The campaign, conceived by students at an advertising school, has already brought delight to Internet users across the world, but like any novel idea, it has also provoked opposition.
The lead image of the campaign features a young woman lying on sheets that draw a map of Europe, grabbing Lithuania in apparent ecstasy. On YouTube, three campaign videos have been released to illustrate the pleasures that Vilnius’ gorgeous architecture can bring to a true connoisseur.
The campaign website, vilniusgspot.com, is also focused on the ‘pleasures’ of the city. One can either “skip the foreplay”, or build a personal Vilnius pleasure map by responding to statements such as “There is no such thing as too much tongue”, and “The right accessories can enhance any experience”.
On the Twitter hashtag #vilniusgspot, the feedback is largely positive. The daring strategy has got the world talking about the city. Criticism, on the other hand, has focused on the fact that the campaign was launched just before Pope Francis’s September visit to the Lithuanian capital. Indeed, the Lithuanian government had called for the campaign to be postponed, but Vilnius decided to press ahead. While Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis called the marketing strategy “strange”, he said that “it does not cross the line in a democratic country”.
In the end, if more people come enjoy what Vilnius has to offer, the campaign will have to be deemed a success. Already now, many will have thought of Vilnius in an entirely new way.
Juuso Järviniemi
Editor-in-Chief of The New Federalist. Opinions presented in articles represent author’s personal views rather than a common view held by The New Federalist.
Originally from Finland, Juuso Järviniemi studies International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. He was the President of the British JEF section in 2017/18, and has been a member of JEF-Europe’s Federal Committee since 2017. In 2018/19, Juuso is on an Erasmus exchange at Sciences Po Paris.
Juuso’s interests include the democratic structures of the EU, the UK’s place in the European project, and European identity.
Twitter : @juusojarviniemi
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“The Enemy Within” – TOS 1X4
This is one of the big episodes we discussed in our recent episode of All Things Trek on men and masculinity in Star Trek, because it’s about the qualities that make a man a leader.
In a transporter accident at the beginning of “The Enemy Within”, Kirk gets split into two, in the vein of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The overall message of the episode is that Kirk needs both sides – his more moral side and his darker side – in order to be a good leader.
For the purposes of this review, I won’t be referring to the two sides as “Good Kirk” and “Evil Kirk”, since I don’t think that’d be totally accurate (more on that later).
Instead, meet “Dry Kirk”:
And “Sweaty Kirk”:
Before I tell you a little more about them and what they say about stereotypes of men and masculinity, I need to note this is also the episode that brought us possibly my personal favourite strange and unfathomable TOS alien lifeform: the unicorn dog:
And I feel like the creators were really, really proud of the unicorn dog, because it’s in a boatload of scenes. I think it probably gets more screentime than Sulu. I made this collage so you can appreciate it too.
Ok, now onto more serious matters.
There are two Kirks loose on the ship, but initially nobody notices because the transporter room is empty when Sweaty Kirk materializes, looking maniacal, a few minutes after Dry Kirk has already gone.
Dry Kirk is feeling a bit woozy so he goes back to his quarters, where he finds Rand waiting with some data chips. Meanwhile, Sweaty Kirk heads to Sickbay, where McCoy is treating a crew member who was injured on the planet.
Sweaty Kirk demands saurian brandy and practically throttles McCoy to get it, but he’s probably just having a bad day. Spock should probably just check and make sure he’s ok.
Spock finds Dry Kirk towelling off, and he tells him McCoy must be playing a prank on him; he certainly wasn’t in Sickbay demanding brandy. So so far, here’s what we know: Sweaty Kirk = a violent drunk; Dry Kirk = honest (and sexy).
Scotty lets (Dry) Kirk know about a strange event – the unicorn dog has a duplicate that materialized after it. And it’s actually more an opposite than a duplicate: savage and ferocious. And you think that this would be enough info, with the report from Dr. McCoy, for them to start figuring shit out, but apparently not.
[Trigger Warning: attempted rape]
The next scene is truly disturbing, as Sweaty Kirk – actually I’m cool calling him Evil Kirk at this point – attempts to rape Janice Rand. When she lets him into her quarters, she of course doesn’t know it’s not normal Kirk.
Kirk: You’re too beautiful to ignore. Too much woman. We’ve both been pretending too long. (grabs her) Stop pretending. Let’s stop pretending. Come here, Janice. Don’t fight me. Don’t fight me, Janice. (kisses her)
Rand: Captain!
Kirk: Just a minute, Janice. Just a minute!
Kirk forces Janice to the ground and she scratches his face and runs for the door, with Kirk trying to grab her from behind. She sees a crewman in the corridor and shouts for him to get Mr. Spock. Evil Kirk flees.
So here’s the scene that mainly explains why I don’t think “Good Kirk” is accurate. When Dry Kirk hears he’s accused of attacking Rand, he totally disbelieves it and goes to Sickbay to question her. And Spock and McCoy let him, even though it’s totally inappropriate. Not believing her is bad enough, but when the crewman, Fisher, corroborates her story, Kirk gets angry at him.
Grace Lee Whitney does a fabulous job acting in this second really disturbing scene where Rand is clearly traumatized and conflicted.
Kirk: Yeoman. I was in my room. It wasn’t me.
Rand: Sir, Fisher saw you, too.
Kirk: Fisher saw?
Rand: If it hadn’t been. I can understand. I don’t want to get you into trouble. I wouldn’t have even mentioned it!
Kirk: It wasn’t me!
Fisher: It was you, sir.
Kirk: Do you know what you’re saying?
Fisher: Yes, I know what I’m saying.
Spock is the one who realizes there’s an impostor aboard, but he doesn’t say anything until he’s sent Janice back to her quarters, because that seems smart to just send her home without even someone to be close by if she needs help.
At this point we know: Sweaty Kirk = violent, drunkard, rapist; Dry Kirk = self-centred, kind of a jerk.
Spock and Kirk go to talk to Scotty about the situation and decide to send out search parties for the impostor Kirk. Dry Kirk is starting to get a bit indecisive and Spock exhorts him to not tell the crew the truth about the situation lest he be perceived as weak.
Spock: Captain, no disrespect intended, but you must surely realize you can’t announce the full truth to the crew. You’re the Captain of this ship. You haven’t the right to be vulnerable in the eyes of the crew. You can’t afford the luxury of being anything less than perfect. If you do, they lose faith, and you lose command.
It’s time to look at the three really bad messages in this episode:
Spock’s comment says leaders aren’t allowed to show weakness, and it plays into a damaging narrative that “real men” don’t show “weakness” (often meaning not allowed to express normal emotion or admit they need help, as Dry Kirk clearly does).
The other really problematic thing this episode says is the dark side of Kirk is the side that keeps him strong, that helps him make decisions, that gets him respect – that makes him a good masculine leader. From this point in the episode, Dry Kirk gets more and more indecisive (he’s supposed to be figuring out how to rescue the others left on the quickly freezing planet) and it’s made clear both sides need to be reintegrated to be a good leader.
It’s a disturbing message, because you just showed that same dark side trying to rape his female subordinate, and the side that’s supposedly more moral being more concerned about himself than her after she’s attacked.
A bit later, after Sweaty Kirk is captured and they’re trying to figure out how to reintegrate the two, Spock expostulates more on this idea that the negative side is necessary. In his comments, it’s also implied that the traits we’ve seen in Sweaty Kirk (including his desire to rape, which Spock refers to as “lust”) – that Kirk’s “negative side traits” are natural for human men.
Spock: We have here an unusual opportunity to appraise the human mind, or to examine, in Earth terms, the roles of good and evil in a man. His negative side, which you call hostility, lust, violence, and his positive side, which Earth people express as compassion, love, tenderness…and what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see indications that it’s his negative side which makes him strong, that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you.
McCoy hits the point home further when he adds: “Jim, you’re no different than anyone else. We all have our darker side. We need it! It’s half of what we are. It’s not really ugly, it’s human.” This plays into the idea that “boys will be boys” – that men have less responsibility to respect women as equals because there’s a natural part of them that will always be thinking about sex. This underestimates men and undermines women.
As Dry Kirk is dithering (and McCoy and Spock remain totally committed to letting him kill the guys on the planet rather than exposing his secret), Sweaty Kirk attacks him and tries to take over the ship, but not before he runs into Janice (who is back at work ridiculously quickly) and tells her he wants to explain. He say his “animal side” took over and he’d like to come to her quarters later to talk about it.
But Sweaty Kirk only takes control of the bridge briefly before Dry Kirk, Spock and McCoy come and force him down to the transporter room, where the two Kirks are reintegrated.
The last scene, though, actually makes the whole Kirk/Rand situation worse. First, they have her try to apologize to Kirk (for?): “The impostor told me what happened, who he really was, and I’d just like to say that. Well, sir, what I’d like is…”
And then Spock insinuates that she was secretly into the Kirk that tried to rape her: “The, er, impostor had some interesting qualities, wouldn’t you say, Yeoman?”
It’s almost like they were going for that as a joke, and it’s just awful.
I think you could make a case that “The Enemy Within” is one of the worst-handled depictions of sexual assault in Trek (see my review of “Fusion” for more on how stories about rape can be handled better). Rand is attacked, disbelieved, sent back to work with no concern for her potential recovery needs, and then she’s the one who ends up apologizing and being told she secretly wanted it.
And clearly the messages about masculinity aren’t great, either.
Bechdel-Wallace Test: Fail
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12 Ways Meghan Markle Is Modernizing the Monarchy
Prince Harry's future wife is putting her own spin on royalty.
By Maggie Maloney | MAR 7, 2018
As Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's May wedding date draws near, it's clear that Markle is embracing royal life on her own terms. From her whirlwind romance with Prince Harry to the unique flair she has already added to her royal appearances, Markle is a breath of fresh air for the British monarchy. And as her royal responsibilities grow, Markle modernizing influence will only grow.
Here's how the future royal is breaking with tradition and creating her own set of royal rules:
1. Meghan's background is unlike most royal fiancées.
The American-born Markle has a refreshingly different background from most royals. While she is well-educated (having graduated from Northwestern University), successful (she starred on Suits for seven seasons), and a longtime humanitarian and activist, Markle differs from the royals in a few ways. First and foremost: she's American and she's biracial—and has spoken candidly about her experience as a mixed race woman. She's also an entrepreneur, having founded her now-defunct lifestyle site, The Tig, in 2014. And, Markle is a divorcée: she split from her first husband, Trevor Engelson, in August 2013.
2. She doesn't shy away from hot-topic issues.
Members of the royal family are strongly discouraged from making political statements, which means they rarely comment on social movements. This can be a difficult stricture for even experienced royals to navigate: Duchess Kate faced backlash after she chose not to wear black to this year's BAFTA Awards, where most attendees stuck to an all-black dress code in support of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements. But Markle, a longtime activist who has championed women's causes in the past, recently spoke in support of women at the Royal Foundation Forum. It was a candid and refreshing moment for those who have longed for the royals to use their platform—and as many pointed out, supporting women's empowerment is hardly a radical political stance.
3. Meghan and Harry are not afraid of PDA.
Since their first appearance together at the Invictus Games, Harry and Meghan have not been afraid of showing their affection for each other. The couple is often photographed holding hands or hugging. Will and Kate typically refrain from showing PDA, keeping their appearances as representatives of the monarchy strictly professional. As the future King of England, Will may have to adhere to a different set of expectation; Harry, on the other hand, can be a bit looser with his public persona—particularly when it comes to his future wife.
4. Meghan is adding her personal touch to the royal wedding.
While there are many wedding traditions Markle is reportedly embracing for her upcoming nuptials, she is also adding her personal touch to the big day. One break from tradition is that Markle is planning on making a speech at her wedding reception. The couple have also reportedly requested a wedding cake made of bananas, which would be the first royal wedding cake to be made of the fruit.
5. Meghan has spoken about her relationship in the press.
In Vanity Fair's October cover story, @MeghanMarkle opens up about living in the spotlight, starring on @Suits_USA, and her whirlwind royal romance: "I think it’s really simple. We're two people who are really happy and in love." Photograph by @therealpeterlindbergh.
A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Sep 5, 2017 at 4:00am PDT
Markle shared details about her relationship with Harry on the October cover of Vanity Fair. While it's not surprising for a royal to appear on a magazine cover (who could forget Harry's T&C cover in 2017!), the story itself was revealing and intimate. Royals tend to make public statements about their personal lives only through the Palace, and with this magazine cover, Markle made it clear she was discussing her relationship on her terms.
6. She was welcomed into the royal family before her wedding.
Just a month after announcing her engagement to Prince Harry, Markle spent her very first Christmas with the royal family. Her attendance alone broke royal protocol—fiancées are typically not invited, and even Duchess Kate did not attend Christmas with the royals until she and William were married in 2011. But Markle was quickly included in the royal holiday festivities: she joined a bevy of royals at the Queen's annual Christmas lunch and was seen curtsying to the Queen at Christmas mass in Sandringham.
7. Markle is relaxed with crowds of royal well-wishes—and interacts with them happily.
Markle's career as an actress may have prepared her for the crowds, fans, and attention the royal family receives, so she doesn't shy away from well-wishers. On one visit to Cardiff, Wales, Markle wrote a sweet note to a young girl in the crowd, leading many to believe that she was signing an autograph. Giving autographs is strictly against royal protocol, since there's a risk of signatures being copied or forged. But Markle swiftly found a way to make the little girl's day without breaking protocol: she wrote "Hi Kaitlin" with a heart.
8. Meghan frequently hugs people she meets at royal events.
Protocol dictates that a royal will often offer a handshake to greet people, but Markle has proven to be even more casual and approachable when greeting others. While visiting a cafe in Scotland, Markle greeted an employee with a hug. But she's in good company with her friendly greeting: Harry, Will, and Kate, have all been seen embracing people at various times. It's also a rule Princess Diana famously broke often—one of the many sweet ways Markle echoes her late mother-in-law.
9. Meghan's hair isn't always perfectly coiffed.
Exhibit A: Markle's now-infamous messy bun. The entire internet seemed to have an opinion on the up do. And while team T&C is partial to the sophisticated-yet-casual style, critics were quick to point out that the hairstyle defied royal protocol. As Kate's signature blowouts or formal chignons indicate, royal tradition typically dictates sleek, neat hairstyles for women, People reports. Protocol aside, Markle's hairstyle ethos is relatable, authentic, and effortlessly chic.
10. Meghan's fashion choices are nontraditional.
Markle's fashion choices are sometimes seen as unconventional in the world of royal ensembles. The sheer Ralph & Russo gown she wore for her engagement portraits was more revealing than the standard cocktail dresses that royal brides usually choose. Markle also wore a non-traditional outfit for her first formal event with Harry: a black pantsuit by Alexander McQueen. Many expected Markle to wear a gown but Markle knows the power of a good suit—and we'd guess she's saving her first big gown moment for a weekend in May.
11. And she wore an all-black ensemble.
Yet another fashion-related royal rule: royals don't typically wear all-black outfits unless they're attending a somber event, like a funeral, Hello! reports. But Markle chose an all-black ensemble for her first visit to Wales with Prince Harry, adding a green handbag for a muted pop of color. While it may have not been in line with etiquette, it was undeniably stylish.
12. Meghan's chic purse collection sets her apart from other royals.
Royals have a history of using their purses for more than just stashing backup mascara. The Queen sends secret signals to her staff with her signature Launer purse, while Princess Diana used clutches to cover her chest in photographs. Royal etiquette dictates that a clutch or bag with a small handle are both appropriate options so royals can avoid shaking hands with certain people, Harper's BAZAAR reports. Markle has worn handbags outside those constraints—she favors crossbody bags that leave her hands free.
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*This story originally appeared on Townandcountrymag.com
*Minor edits have been made by the Townandcountry.ph editors
Maggie Maloney
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New Technology, Same Tactic
By Kelsi Douglas
It was 1929 and the American Tobacco Company had a marketing problem: women were not buying cigarettes! It was “ill-mannered” for a lady to smoke in public, but if the Company could get them smoking both indoors and outdoors, it could double their female market.
So what did the American Tobacco Company do about it? Leave it to public relations legend Edward L. Bernays to turn smoking into a movement of power for women.
With deft orchestration and collaboration with his secretary — who became for the day a women’s right influencer and leader of the charge — fashionable women of the era were called to march down the streets of New York City during the Easter Day Parade puffing cigarettes as “an act of emancipation” from tired social norms. Cigarettes would now become their “feminist torches of freedom.”
And it worked. And the coverage by U.S. newspapers of this event was extraordinary.
This was the start of a new tactic in marketing: product integration.
Fast-forward nearly 100 years to today, and you will see that product integration is everywhere!
From TV shows, movies, and music videos. Take Netflix. Most recently, the company received wide media coverage for its product integration strategy throughout its shows and movies.
For example, its popular show Stranger Things has roughly 75 brands that want in. From ice cream to clothing, brand products are being integrated into its next season.
By now, product integration is such a popular tactic that companies feel no need to be coy about it, even though some may say that the awe of this tactic is normally the draw. Regardless, Netflix is able to keep its “commercial free” service while still having advertisements.
One of those products being advertised is New Coke — a product of the 1980s that stayed in the 80s after lackluster sales. Now, though, it’s buying screen time on Stranger Things and taking advantage of the show’s seamless 1980s pop culture references so New Coke can have its big moment again. At the same time, it is being relaunched as a limited-time, get-it-while-you-can product. Only 500,000 cans will be available for us to purchase either through Coca-Cola's website or select vending machines.
From the crowds in a 1929 Easter Day Parade to millions of viewers streaming in from their screens, the means of product integration keep evolving while staying true to its core: when used skillfully to the right audience, it can be a powerful tactic to share your story and grow your brand.
Kelsi Douglas
Kelsi knows that passion is what keeps life interesting and fulfilling. Her passion lies within learning new things, and drinking tea while doing it. She’s a world traveler based in New York and working in a career she loves: digital marketing. Her specialty is research and discovering missed niches for her clients’ brands to open up to and grow.
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History of the Trans-Canada across Newfoundland, from Grand-Falls-Windsor to Clarenville
From Grand-Falls-Windsor, the highway heads in a northeast direction to Norris Arm, with its ocean access, before heading southeast toward Gander, Gambo, Terra Nova National Park, and Clarenville.
Just east of Grand Falls, as the highway follows the Exlpoits River into the Bay of Exploits, you can see rock cuts exposing walls of volcanic basalt, also known as black granite. East of Rattling Brook on Norris Arm, the flat land has few rock outcrops and is covered by a mixture of spruce, larch and fir forests. The landscape is broken up by streams and ponds, and the untreed areas covered by quilts of green sedgy fen and sphagnum moss bogs.
At Bishop's Falls is a power dam across the Exploits River. This 10 metre dam was built in 1980 to power a mill adjacent to the river. The mill's pulp output was piped 20 km south to Grand Falls to another mill which made it into paper. Since the 1970s the mill at Bishop's Falls has been closed down. A kilometre wouth of the dam is a railway trestle bridge over the Exploits River now used by the T'railway recreation path that is part of the Trans-Canada Trail
At Rattling Brook, you pass a 11. megawatt hydropower generating station (to the west, closer to the shore), taking advantage of a 100 metre drop from Amy's Lake just to the east of the highway
As of August 2008, there are no gas stations along the highway between the towns of Gander and Bishop's Falls. This dam and generating station was built in 1958, and was upgraded by 3 MW in 2009. The salmon that used to run this river were transferfed to Great Rattling Brook, southeast of Grand Falls-Winsdor.
Bay d'Espoir
The Bay d'Espoir region, known for its dramatic glacially-carved fjords, can be accessed via the Bay D'Espoir highway near Botwood. Botwood, Point Leamington, and Leading Tickles can be accessed via Route 350 (the Botwood Highway), at an interchange at Bishop's Falls, just west of the Bridge over the Exploits River. This area was featured in Farley Mowat's autobiography, "Bay of Spirits", published in 2006.
Notre Dame Region
The Isles of Notre Dame region of the province, which includes Fogo, the Twillingate Islands, New World Island, and surrounding areas. This area was once inhabited by Archaic and Paleo-Eskimo peoples, and you may see herds of whales cavorting within sight of shore. These communities can be accessed via Route 340 at the Notre Dame Junction interchange to Lewisporte.
As the highway approaches Gander, you see hills of fir, birch and spruce forests covering gentle valleys of lakes, ponds, rivers and bogs. The area has undergone a century of logging and you will also see signs of some long-ago forest fires. There was a great fire in 1904, when a third the island was ablaze, and in 1961 when 270 fires destroyed a million acres of forest in the province.
Gander Lake is a thousand feet deep (300 metress), and is a cold lake and not very productive for fishing. The lakeshore holds the promise of hard rugged granite cliffs, watersculptured soft sedimentary promentaries and lonely 'oine-tree ' islands.
For aviation buffs there is the North Atlantic Aviation Musem in town, covering the history of transatlantic aviation, from the 1930s through 9/11. Gander became famous during the Second World War as the jumping off point for ferrying bombers from North America to Europe, and again on 9/11 when the World trade Centre attacks grounded all aviation in and to-from North America. 10,000 people landed at Gander that day and were accommodated for several days until flying was deemed more secure. This episode is now celebrated in the Broadway musical "Come from Away". The Gander Airport is to the east of town.
Gambo
Square Pond (which isn't actually square) is the habitat of the largest land-locked Arctic char in the Island, with the best char fishing from ice break-up in May until late June . The lake also has brook trout, sea-run Atlantic salmon, and the spirited Ouananiche (land-locked Atlantic salmon) to make any fishermen happy.
Gambo is the hometown of Joey Smallwood, the province's first premier, and the person who brought Newfoundland into Confederation in 1948. There is a museum in town, on Route 320.
On the hill coming down to Gambo, there is Joey's Lookout, on the west-bound side of the highway. At 50 metres above sea level, you are standing on a kame deposit laid down by streams which flowed from the side of the Ice Age glaciers from 10,000 years ago . To the north, you see Freshwater Bay with its shorelines, slowly rising from the sea since the glacier retreat.
Just east of the 320 junction, is the 20 foot deep Gambo bog and the rock studded Gambo River, which carved this valley. The Gambo river drops 10 metres a very short distance to the ocean, form the 15 kilometre long Gambo Pond. Route 320 takes you north from Gambo to Wesleyville, and the homes of past great sealing captains -the Keans, the Winsors and the Blackwoods .
The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the main roads leading into this treasure trove of natural beauty. However, with sections of the road in serious disrepair, the province made upgrades a priority and took advantage of $1.2 million in funding through the Major Infrastructure Component of the federal Building Canada Fund.
Work was completed in good time to fix rutting problems, renew the asphalt, and replace culverts. Lanes and the roadbed were also widened to make turning easier at an intersection next to the park's boundary.
Gloverton
Near Gloverton, astride the Terra Nova River is a rare pasture 9for Newfoundland). This was until very recently, an acid peat bog, which was densely covered by knee-high goowiddy of sheep laurel and Labrador tea. Perhaps you can see parallel ditches constructed to drain the bog. The land is now producing carrots and many other vegetable crops.
Terra Nova National Park
Park admission is not required to use Route 1, but you do need a national park pass to stop inside the National Park (in 2017 this requirement is waived)
Terra Nova National Park features rugged topography built on ancient (600 million years old) Precambrian rock, covered with a dense, dark boreal forest, and ocassionally broken by fen or bog filled hollows. The forests extend to the edges of steep-sided fjords and rounded salt-water bays. Rising back after the glaciers receded, and then being filled by rising ocean levels, the valleys like Newman Sound and Clode Sound extend out many miles beneath the ocean, and have sharp sided cliffs plunging to 900 feet. . The park offers opportunities to explore an unspoiled coast line with its marine environments knitted into boreal forest.
To the north of the park is the Terra Nova Migratory Bird Sanctuary, which encompasses two tidal inlets. Around 30 species are recorded regularly within Newman Sound and Southwest Arm
In the park, take time for a visit to Ochre Hill, a fire tower just northeast of the highway. You can see the advances and retreats of the great ice masses, which shaped the park. There are vividly illustrated in displays on the hill, and you can take a short self-guided tour, following a glacier trail to see striated and polished rock and thin lichen vegetation. Along the roadside near the turnoff to Ochre Hill, you may notice silver reflectors on green poles, designed to reflect headlights and discourage moose from being on the highway.
The Bonavista Peninsula is featured in the song, "This Land is Your Land" in the line, "From Bonavita to Vancouver Island". Route 230 extends about 90kilometres to the town of Bonavista at the end of the peninsula. In 2014, Newfoundland resurfaced and improved part of Route 230, including improved drainage, new culverts and guardrails, upgraded shoulders and fresh paving.
Cormack's Trail
On Route 320 to the east of Georges Brook, you can go to Smith's Sound, the starting point of Cormack's Trail, which follows the cross-Island trek of William Epps Cormack and his Micmac guide, Sylvester that began on September 5 , 1822. Though he was trying make contact with the vanishing Beothuk natives, he provided the first detailed descriptions of the unknown interior, and named many landmarks.
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